This Forward is Not Serious

The Nets' dressing room.

Sloan emphasized some points that need attention in the third quarter.

In summary, it is aimed at Irving and Harden in the backcourt.

Irving is good at attacking but not good at spreading, resolutely flanking;

Harden can make sudden shots, depending on the situation;

The base has no range at all, and the outside line is empty;

And, the offensive end consumes more for Irving and Harden.

As I said before, Sloan is not sitting idle off the court, he has already observed what he needs to do, and he has done what he needs to do.

"This is the playoffs, and I hope to see everyone show the attitude they should have in the playoffs in the third quarter."

Even in the end, Sloan specifically emphasized it again.

After returning from the halftime break, the fans on the scene remained undiminished, and even became more and more high-pitched.

Others don't know, but they know very well that the third quarter is Brooklyn time!

And as in the past, the Nets took the initiative to adjust the starting in the third quarter, Jimmy Butler replaced Johnson as the starting shooting guard.

"beep!"

The sideline whistle sounded and the second half of the game officially started.

Come up to the Cavaliers for the ball.

As at the beginning of the first half, Irving's offensive with the ball came up.

The person who defended him changed from Deron to Butler.

He tried to break through but failed.

Butler is now a minute size, outstanding defensive awareness and speed is not at a loss, of course, the most important thing is almost fanatical defensive enthusiasm.

Irving couldn't jump over, and reached out to greet Thompson on the pick-and-roll.

But what he didn't expect was that the Nets' defensive strategy was completely different from the first half.

He did not get another chance to play Yi Jianlian in the wrong position, but was directly attacked by Yi Jianlian and Butler.

His passing shortcomings are exposed, because there is no advance preparation, and the vision is disturbed, this time he can't pass the ball at all!

"Snapped!"

When he leaned forward to observe the position of his teammates, Butler broke the ball with lightning!

Butler also showed his improvement in holding the ball, all the way to the frontcourt to avoid Harden's block.

"Boom!"

Dunk with both hands to score.

The cheers of the fans aroused instantaneously.

Here comes the familiar third quarter!

Irving continued to hold the ball. This time he did not call a pick and roll, but tried to break Butler with more changes.

This time he used Sam Gold and successfully passed Butler.

But at the moment he shot, a figure appeared in front of him.

"boom!"

Lin Ying assisted in blocking shots, and directly flew Owen's shot fan out of the field!

There were cheers and whistles everywhere.

"Young Carey, you should know what you are facing now!"

On the commentator side, Cole said the same thing for the third time.

It was broken once and blocked once, which was nothing compared to the first half!

Defensive strength is a tool to distinguish between super giants and all-stars!

The ball was sent again, and Owen forced a difficult shot against Butler.

"when!"

The iron is over!

The camera was given to Owen again, his face no longer had the handsome smile of the first half, and even his expression was a little stunned.

Because the Nets adjusted their style of play at almost the All-Stars, he didn't have time to experience it in the regular season. This time, he went directly to the playoffs to experience the plus version. The jump is a bit big!

Chandler protected the rebound, and the Nets quickly counterattacked defensively.

The Cavaliers retreat fast enough, but the Nets' fast break has a sense of hierarchy.

The fast break team of Deron and Butler was blocked, and Lin Ying's follow-up came immediately.

Deron gave the ball, Lin Ying jumped sideways after receiving the ball, and then leaped into the air to buckle with one hand.

Harden at the basket looked dazed and used it as the background board.

44 to 55!

The score difference reached double digits in a blink of an eye!

This shot was given to the Cavaliers bench.

Standing on the sidelines with his hands crossed on his chest, Scott frowned, he couldn't tell whether he felt the current situation is severe or because he was dissatisfied with the player's performance.

Of course, like the first half, he didn't do anything.

Irving gave the ball to Harden after halftime.

After three consecutive failed attempts, he has felt the Nets' defensive goal against him.

Thompson pulled to the high position for Harden's pick-and-roll, Harden misplaced Yi Jianlian, attracted Lin Ying's flanking attack and assigned it to the base of the corner.

Ke... still didn't vote.

This time it's not that he wants to break through the basket, but the Nets' defensive rotation speed is obviously not the same level as the first half!

Lin Ying helped defend Harden, and Deron quickly made up for him!

He just hesitated for a while and lost his shot.

Moreover, Deron gave a lot of defensive pressure, and he made consecutive steals. He hid in order to protect the ball, and then was blown and stepped on the line.

The Cavaliers' mistakes!

Harden saw that the man was numb, and while retiring, he looked at his bench and the handsome man standing on the sidelines.

[Sportsman: a posing man]

The team is not without people who can shoot, there are also players on the bench who are better suited to start this round of the series.

CJ Miles.

He is even Sloan's former subordinate, who has played for as long as Deron under Sloan, and has a good knowledge of Sloan's tactical system.

But Scott neither arranged for Miles to start, nor did he intend to replace him.

The good news is that the Cavaliers finally no longer have to face the Nets' fast break this round.

He could feel that the Nets' changes in the third quarter came more from the defensive end, but also from positional defense.

If they can prevent the Nets from attacking their position, counter-play the Nets' fast break, and use their own way to rule their bodies, it may be the way to break the game.

The Nets played a duo in the frontcourt.

It was still Lin Ying's pick and roll for Deron.

The Cavaliers suffered from Deron's misplaced base loss in the first half, and Harden chose to go directly to Deron at this time.

Delong was taken aback, as if he thought it was a dream.

However, his hand did not stop, he had already hit the ground and hung the ball from the air to Lin Ying.

Lin Ying catches the ball unguarded, breaks to the basket in three steps, jumps up a light two-handed dunk.

After dunking, he was happy himself.

This is probably his easiest chance to score tonight.

"when!"

Harden's forward shots still hit the ball!

This ball is too difficult!

Yi Jianlian took off the defensive rebound, the Nets continued to break fast, and Deron made a fast break to the frontcourt to make a layup.

44 to 59!

The point difference has come to 15 points!

And the more cruel thing about the score difference is that for almost five minutes in the second half, the Cavaliers didn't even score!

The Cavaliers' double shots in the backcourt in the first half gave the Cavaliers fans infinite reverie. You can see that they can even compete with the league's first!

Then in the second half, it was like the anchor turned off the beauty and scared the top brother to run away overnight with buckets!

Throughout the third quarter, the Cavaliers only scored 8 points, but the Nets scored 31 points!

31 to 8!

The Nets beat the Cavaliers by 23 points in a single quarter!

There is no such thing as tempo, just relying on defense to push offense, and spread the difference in one quarter!

At the end of three quarters, 52 to 82.

At the end of the third quarter, G1 was over.

The score between the two sides was finally fixed at 69 to 110.

Before the final whistle, the on-site photographer gave the Cavaliers bench shots.

Harden's expression has not changed much from the beginning.

But Irving's expression was numb, and he looked at the court blankly as if lost.

The young Carey has the enthusiasm and vision that young people should have, but suffered a huge blow in the first playoffs of his career.

It's no longer clear whether going to the playoffs is a good thing or a bad thing.

...

The Nets won 41 points in the opener of the playoffs.

Although this is the eighth in the first hit, although the opponent is a naive Cavaliers, but this is already too much.

Even because of this, the next-door Pacers' 93-73 victory over the Bulls is not worth mentioning.

Social media after the game is also quite lively.

"The Nets' defense is too suffocating. Jimmy Butler deserves a defensive spot this year. Deron's defense is also very aggressive. In addition, Lin and Chandler are both defensive. This defense can match The Pistons of the year are better than ever!"

"I've discovered this since before the All-Star Game.'Death in the third quarter.' You know they want to defend, but you just can't score!"

"Not every coach dares to let Johnson go to the bench, Sloan's level is definitely the best coach level!"

"There is no harm if there is no comparison. Look at the opposite Scott, who is also the best coach. Is he reluctant to call a timeout or forget that there are still people on the bench?"

"Obviously, Kidd and Paul have raised the evaluation of him from the outside world. He is an excellent point guard mentor (Owen and Harden have both entered the All-Star under his tune this season), but he is by no means a Good coach!"

...

Two days later, the Nets went back 101 to 81, leading 2 to 0.

This result is expected.

The Nets feel stable this season, which is also the characteristic of Sloan's coaching team.

It is very difficult to beat them upset.

The Cavaliers fans felt aggrieved.

This is the first time they have returned to the playoffs after James left.

Although you know that there is a gap in strength, you can accept the loss, but the average loss of the two games is 30 points, which is unacceptable!

Emotions have to find a place to vent, Harden is their vent.

In the two games, Irving averaged 18.5 points and 2.5 assists per game and hit 45% of three-pointers.

Because of the Nets' play style, it is difficult to score points in the third quarter, and there is no need to play in the fourth quarter.

So you can think of this as a halftime performance, which is already very good.

In contrast, Harden's performance is a lot of hip pull.

Although averaging 15 points and 7 assists per game, the data is far behind the regular season.

And his field goal percentage is only 40%, and his three-pointer is less than 30%.

Such performance is obviously unqualified.

And this is not the main reason why fans spray him.

The point that made all this break out was that some fans photographed Harden going to a nightclub to get drunk after the G1 game.

A picture of him holding a fat-butt girl in his left and right hands spread across the Internet at once.

"Gilbert is paying for Harden's girl", "Harden strengthens ball possession and press training in New York", "Have you seen New York at four o'clock in the morning?"...

The fans’ **** comments are one after another.

Before the Cavaliers traded Harden, they immediately offered a five-year maximum salary renewal contract of 87.5 million.

And this contract will not officially come into effect until next season.

In other words, it does not meet the requirements of the "amnesty clause" in the new labor agreement.

If the Cavaliers don't want Harden, they can only choose to trade or buy out.

And now Harden's behavior, in the eyes of the fans, is the next player who gets lost after getting a big contract.

Regardless of the reason, the incident itself is nothing.

The big score is defeated and the mood is low. It's normal to find a nightclub to vent, and this is New York, not Cleveland, and there are top fat buttocks that Cleveland doesn't have.

But for competitive sports, cooking is the original sin.

At this point, Jordan is a classic counterexample.

He loved gambling at his peak, and he is probably the only one who can go to gamble during the finals.

But if he can win, even if someone questioned it, it would be small.

More people will think he is cool.

To bet before the game and win after the game, then it is like the feeling of killing a woman while hugging a woman in a western cowboy martial arts novel.

...

The G3 teams of the series will move to Cleveland.

The Cavaliers returned to Cleveland after the end of G2.

It feels good to be home.

Especially when they experienced two such big defeats.

Just like a leopard going out hunting, encountering a tiger with bruises all over his body, he can lick his wounds when he comes home, and he has a greater sense of security.

Harden, training, sweating like rain.

He likes fat buttocks, just like other people who like to buy luxury cars, it's just a hobby.

That doesn't affect his training.

In fact, every one who can be famous in the NBA has to train hard.

And those training freaks are not hard work, they are crazy.

Just like Lin Ying and Durant back then, they basically didn't do anything other than training.

Harden is not at that level, he still has his own hobbies, but his training intensity is not low.

Ten minutes on stage, ten years of work off stage, his progress year by year is not based on magic.

And those outside sounds obviously stimulated him.

For the first time, he experienced the magnifying glass of the media and what is called a one-sided report.

Durant told him about those things when he was in Oklahoma, and he thought Durant was a bit exaggerated.

But this is the case in real life, it is difficult to empathize with many things without experiencing them again.

He felt it, and wanted to prove himself even more.

After a while, Owen came in.

"You are here, James."

Irving was a little surprised to see Harden ~www.NovelMTL.com~ but only said a little, and then sat on the stool against the wall.

Unlike Harden, consecutive defeats gave him a strong sense of frustration.

Their current mood has been reversed just before the start of the series.

Harden stopped training, then went to sit down next to Irving.

"Kerry, I have an idea."

Turning his head to look at Owen's low mood, Harden spoke seriously.

"Ok?"

Owen looked at Harden suspiciously, not knowing what he was referring to.

"I noticed a detail. The Nets may have enough physical strength to play high-pressure defense in the third quarter. They didn't invest much in the first half. If we can open the score in the first half, then Does it mean that we have a chance to play with them at the decisive moment?"

Harden made an assumption.

He not only has a high ball quotient, but also a high IQ. In addition to training, he also likes to research things.

"The question is can we do it?"

Irving quickly understood what Harden was saying, but couldn't help but doubt it.

If Harden said this before the start of the series, he believed it.

But after the two games, he knew that the gap between the two teams was much larger than expected.

"We have a chance, Coach Scott said, we are the best backcourt combination he has ever seen."

Harden repeated what Irving had said before.

Owen laughed mockingly, he wanted to take back that sentence now.

But Harden's subsequent words led him to another topic.

"So if we make suggestions to him at the same time, he should accept it."

"What proposal?"

"Let CJ start."

Harden replied.

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