Chapter Seventy-Four: The Lost Game
After a while, Qin Yang secretly dated Lily again.
A pair of young friends are always inevitably tired of being together.
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The next day, the Cavaliers take on the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers are one of the greatest teams of the century, and they have a lot of popularity.
When you enter Staples Arena, you can feel the prosperity, sophistication and atmosphere here. Unlike the Quick Loan Center, it is really spacious and can accommodate more fans.
Americans went to Cleveland, and there was hardly much to visit other than the Quick Loan Center, because Cleveland was so miserable.
That's not the case in Los Angeles, where there are many places to go, but Staples Arena is undoubtedly one of the places not to be missed.
Before the game even started, one movie and song superstar after another appeared in the front row of Staples Arena.
Fans cheered for the sight of movie stars and singers, commentators were in high spirits, and the players became famous, well, Jessica Alba was a Kobe Bryant fan.
It was a lavish event where all parties came to power.
Especially at the moment when the Cavaliers are coming, the matchup of the century between James and Kobe Bryant, 23vs24, is one of the highlights of the league.
Before the game started, James looked serious and blackened his face.
Of course, James' face has always been dark.
The Cavaliers are still the starting five, except that Vallejo has replaced Big Z.
Big Z suffered a seizure and rested again.
The Lakers started Kobe, Pau Gasol, Bynum, skier Rademanovic, and old fish Fisher.
At the start of the game, Bynum jumped the ball first.
Now Bynum is still a good teenager who is hard-working, except for a little brain-dead, it is not a big problem. The rim protection is good, and the offense is barely okay.
The Lakers attacked, Kobe Bryant gave Fisher in the half, Fisher shot directly and hit the iron, Pau Gasol got the rebound, and scored with a hook hand under the basket.
It has a very soft feel and is easy to use as a scoring method.
No matter how hearty Vallejo is, he can't do anything in the face of Pau Gasol, who has already been stuck in the position.
The Cavaliers attacked, James attacked the basket, and in this game James had a strong desire to perform, and taking the ball was to force a breakthrough and attack the basket.
How could the skier be James's opponent, he was crushed in a flash.
But......
When it comes to the basket, James is difficult to play, Pau Gasol is soft, but defense does not mean weak, at least Pau Gasol's defense is still very timely, and when it comes to the basket near the frame, Bynum will not be polite, two people under the basket defend, James is very anxious.
LeBron James attacked, had a low shooting percentage, passed the ball, and his teammates kept hitting the iron.
In the first quarter, James was 3 of 7, got 7 points and 2 rebounds, and had no assists.
The Cavaliers played a scumbag in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Qin Yang came on the court and took the lead from the beginning, playing a wave of 7-0.
Fisher defended Qin Yang, and Qin Yang hit a three-point shot directly without hesitation.
Lao Yu's defense is slow, his speed is slow, and his height is short, Qin Yang can find a hundred ways to blow up Lao Yu, of course, the easiest and most effective is the three-point shot.
In the second ball, Qin Yang broke through, Kobe Bryant assisted in defense, but Qin Yang passed to Mo Williams and hit directly from mid-distance.
In the third ball, James stealed, Qin Yang attacked quickly, and scored a layup after pretending to pass.
A wave opened, and the Lakers made substitutions.
The skier came off the field and replaced Lamar Odom, and the old fish Fisher came off the field and replaced Vujacic.
With this substitution, the Cavaliers will be difficult to play.
Originally, the Lakers' lineup was terrifying, but after such a substitution, the four-high lineup on the court was too strong defensively. Odom, Pau Gasol and Bynum, these four people are strong defensively and not weak offensively, and the Cavaliers will be very uncomfortable against each other, and James will not be able to play an advantage in the face of such a defense.
Odom's single defense against James is good, no matter how strong the defense under the basket is, James' play is suppressed.
On the other side, others don't play well.
With the exception of James, everyone else leans towards the projection type.
Vujacic is two meters tall, and Kobe Bryant is also close to two meters, such a height has caused a lot of trouble for the Cavaliers, no matter who is in the position, it can form a good interference.
The Cavaliers lost their shooting rhythm.
Qin Yang tried hard to equalize the score, but the three-point shot could only continue slowly, and he couldn't do anything when the Cavaliers were weak as a whole.
James also tried his best, but it wasn't very efficient.
The Cavaliers rebounded and fell into the bottom line.
The only good news is that the Lakers Kobe Bryant is also very hard.
Well, in the face of the Cavaliers' defensive offense, Kobe Bryant's scoring efficiency was the lowest among all the Lakers' players, and he made 22 crazy shots, helping the Cavaliers survive until the final quarter.
By the final five minutes, the Cavaliers were trailing by 11 points. There was still a chance in the game, but then Pau Gasol was 3 of 3, Tieza Ariza received Pau Gasol's pass twice, scored a layup, and the Lakers were in a wave, and the difference expanded to more than 20 points.
The Cavaliers hit one iron after another and lost the game.
Qin Yang, who lost this game, was very uncomfortable.
James was 9 of 25 and 1 of 5 three-pointers, although he had 25 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, but the overall performance was weak.
Everyone didn't perform well, Qin Yang made repeated three-point shots, although he also hit, but it didn't matter the overall situation. Qin Yang, who made 4 of 9 three-pointers and scored 16 points, was not able to turn the tide.
It's not terrible to lose, what is terrible is that Qin Yang can clearly feel the gap between the two sides.
The Lakers did not cooperate tacitly, or there was an obvious imbalance in the distribution of the ball, Bynum wanted to play alone many times, Odom also felt that he had fewer shots, Pau Gasol was the team's most efficient and highest-scoring player, 11 of 13, with 22 points and 13 rebounds, but the number of shots was very small, and there was only 1 assist.
The Lakers aren't in the right shape either.
Even if the Lakers are not in the right state, they still wiped out the Cavaliers.
Throughout the game, Qin Yang kept struggling, but he couldn't do anything. This feeling of powerlessness is Qin Yang's most helpless thing this season.
Vallejo is not Pau Gasol's opponent, Bynum is stronger than Ben Wallace, Odom is all-round offensive and defensive, and Kobe Bryant is very unique, but it is definitely difficult to deal with.
The Cavaliers' only advantage is James.
Qin Yang has a slight advantage in the position, but it is not as big as imagined. In front of the Lakers' defensive tactics, Qin Yang's only choice is to shoot three points, which will be focused on by the Lakers.
Lily watched the game from the sidelines, Qin Yang wanted to perform well, but couldn't do anything.
After the game, Qin Yang left the court with his head down, not caring that this was a national live broadcast.