Chapter 724: Re-entry Final Four
ESPN compared James and Yang Di and found that both contributed high to the team's victory.
Yang Diqiang is strong, he is an inside player, Yang Dishan grabs rebounds, and he has to contribute about 5 rebounds in the front court alone in a game, which adds 5 more shots to the Warriors for no reason.
The game confrontation between the two is a highlight of the Finals, and it is also the focus of direct publicity by the NBA.
After all, they are all leaders of their respective teams.
The Warriors also have Ray Allen as the All-Star team, and the Cavaliers don't have any players other than James to make the All-NBA Team or All-Defensive Team, and the Cavaliers are the undisputed one-core team.
Combined with the role player comparison, in terms of overall strength, the Warriors are significantly better than the Cavaliers.
After the opening, sure enough, the Warriors took the lead, and then the Cavaliers unexpectedly hit a three-point shot and colored, the Warriors hit a layup by Yang Di, leading 4-3, the Cavaliers offense was off, the Warriors led a few times from the outside, gave Chandler to the inside, and the hook shot was also off.
In the finals, the players were nervous, especially the Cavaliers, who played the finals for the first time, and their bodies were even stiffer.
Montgomery also knew this, so he chose the offensive interior line at the beginning, and waited for the players to be physically active and the blood continued to boil, and then slowly chose the Warriors' traditional inside and outside flowering.
Judging from the experience of the competition, such a small skill can only be understood by veteran coaches who have participated in the finals.
Montgomery also learned from Pat Riley last year.
The Warriors pursued stability, and the defensive end meticulously executed the zone defense that was arranged during the training phase, mainly against the destructive James.
James only felt that the Warriors' defense was layered and that he couldn't easily get inside.
After a defense, there was immediately another outside defense to oppose him, and after the change of defense, it should theoretically be misplaced, the Warriors are good, and they can't wait to use Yang Di to defend James, but it is more in line with their hearts.
Yang Di's outside blocking is skillful, and when he only stuck in position and didn't steal, James played extremely hard.
It was as if I was back at last summer's World Championships, the feeling of being given space but interfering with it at the last minute.
James didn't have too many good opportunities to concentrate on making wedding dresses for his teammates.
It's just a pity that Larry Hughes hit the first three-pointer and never made a single shot after that.
The shooting rate on the Warriors' side is not too high, Yang Di resisted a defense of Big Z, shot off, and at 5 minutes, the feint shook Gooden, and then got up and shot back.
Yang Di scored 4 points.
James made a steal to launch a fast break in the middle of the first quarter, when Ray Allen made a pass error, and hit a mid-range jumper while the Warriors player was unstable on the ground.
Yang Di came off the court early in the first quarter, leaving nearly 4 minutes of playing time for Biedrins, and as usual, at least after the first quarter, Biedrins played.
"It's a lot of physical exertion, he's playing against LeBron, and I want him to focus better on offense in the second quarter."
Montgomery explained to Ron Adams that he couldn't close the score when he saw that the defense was so good, and Montgomery immediately made a small adjustment.
Without Yang Di changing defenses, James suddenly changed his hair, taking advantage of the gap of blocking and dismantling cover, leaned over and hit the inside, knocked away the thin inside Beedlins, and made a layup with a low hand.
After that, the Cavaliers also made substitutions, and Daniel Gibson, a rookie who played superbly in the G6 game of the Eastern Conference finals, came on the court.
"Pay attention to the outside defense, expand the outside defense!"
Montgomery shouted twice to alert the team.
At the same time, players such as Trevor Ariza and Monta Ellis played, Daniel Gibson is only 1.88 meters tall, and the Warriors can only use Monta Ellis to defend, and the rest of the wing players are tall and large wing defenders who are more than 2 meters tall, and they will suffer in flexibility and agility.
That's why the Warriors chose Shannon Brown last year, with the goal of building a defensive player on the defensive line, but unfortunately, Shannon Brown hasn't met the requirements of a head coach, except for being very physical, shooting and defense are a mess.
Daniel Gibson was really in hot form, and when he came up, he changed direction in front of his body, directly shook off Monta Ellis, broke through to the inside, and then hit a one-step jumper collectively.
The audience at the bluffing scene was stunned, and people who didn't know thought Iverson had joined the Cavaliers?
"Why is this young player so powerful?"
The commentator at the scene commented for a while, it turned out that Daniel Gibson had also been a substitute in the Cavaliers' bench before, playing the Pistons in the East, and only made his first playoff appearance in Game 3, this time he seized the opportunity, hit 2 3-pointers to score 9 points, and also stealed Prince at a critical moment in the fourth quarter.
Everyone knows what happened after that, the G6 battle slashed 31 points and became famous.
By now, he had fully earned the trust of coach Mike Brown and was on the pitch before the first quarter was over.
"Stop!"
Monta Ellis's paper-like defense made Montgomery look painful, and Montgomery has brought up the problem of defense with Monta Ellis more than once, and as a result, Monta-Ellis is not even as good as Shannon Brown, who is a little more physical, except for gambling steals.
If Monta Ellis had been a little better defensively, even if he didn't have the playmaking skills, Montgomery would have started him long ago.
The final two minutes of the bench were played, and the first quarter ended with the Warriors leading the Cavaliers by two points at 22-20.
Although the tempo changed, the two teams didn't actually score much, and the shooting percentages of both sides were low in the first quarter, which made the game even more unpredictable and unpredictable.
Yang Di came on at the start of the second quarter, while Ray Allen was off the pitch.
The two Warriors stars are taking turns to lead the team and make sure there is a superstar on the court.
Monta Ellis likes to play blocking and dismantling with Yang Di the most, as soon as Yang Di comes on the court, he immediately blocks and dismantles with him in the high position, Yang Di takes away the defense of the two Cavaliers, and Monta Ellis makes a quick stop jump shot.
Medium-range hits.
"Good shot!"
In the Warriors, in addition to Yang Di, Monta Ellis shoots the second-most mid-range, even more than Ray Allen.
Daniel Gibson of the Cavaliers, who is also a scumbag defensively, looks like the two are brushing each other's stats.
Two rounds later, Yang Di received Ariza's ball in the low post, and singled the Cavaliers' substitute power forward Tangyer Marshall, Marshall is a veteran who is almost 35 years old, Yang Di pretended to turn his back, but actually turned head-on, stepped over, and turned directly to shoot.
Marshall couldn't interfere and watched Yang Di hit the shot.
At this time, the Warriors led the Cavaliers by 6 points 31-24, Mike Brown called a timeout, and the Cavaliers were beaten by the Warriors for the first time in the game.