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Chapter 47: Watching the Joint Center

In Chicago on May 10, the Cavaliers' fourth game against the Bulls, as a team that is determined to win the championship, they lost Kevin Love among their Big Three in the first round, which is difficult for their offense.

Kevin Love's three-pointer occupies an important position in the offensive end of this Cavaliers. James and Irving are both two players who rely heavily on breaking through space. Without Love's presence, the offensive space on the Cavaliers' court has become extremely narrow. Facing the Bulls, one of the three best-ranked teams, the entire court press, even the two All-Stars, James and Irving, are still very difficult to play. Moreover, Irving's knee injury is injured, so he dare not make any moves in terms of breakthroughs.

The first three games of the game were 1:2, and the Cavaliers were one game behind. It was not uncommon for the Eastern Conference to fall second behind third in the Eastern Conference. Judging from the number of wins, the gap is only a slight difference, but this team in the Eastern Conference is the second. He is the Cavaliers, with two consecutive MVP James, and the Cavaliers who have two consecutive MVPs from James, plus Irving, who has 11-year No. 1 pick, has two pairs of monsters Love from the Timberwolves. This team should not be behind the Bulls.

Everyone knows that when Ross stood up from that operation again, he was no longer the youngest MVP in history. He had no way to do anything on the offensive end. The Bulls could only rely on defense, but what everyone could not imagine was that Ross in the last game used his worst offensive method to score a three-pointer in the last 3 seconds to complete the final kill. 99:96 The Bulls had already beaten the Cavaliers of this Big Three to 2:1.

This made Chicago fans very happy. Ross' appearance made them feel that they could recreate the glory of the 1990s. Instead of treating Ross as the next Jordan, they regarded him as the only Ross, who brought them the same happiness in a completely different style from Jordan. However, this happiness was very short-lived, and Ross' injury forced them to fall into a long wait. This year, the Bulls, who had regained the defense and the more team, seemed to give them hope. Ross seemed to have become the Bulls' invincible outside sharp knife again in the last game.

In the first half of the game, the Cavaliers played a small lineup with the Bulls. James served in the team's fourth position, and Mozkov and Thompson took turns to serve, but this was not very friendly to this small forward who may be the strongest in history. In the past, when James was in the Heat, coach Spoel would deliberately let Bosh play 5. In this way, the inside line was extremely friendly to James's face-frame number four position. But without Love, Mozkov was stuck inside, which was not comfortable for James in the fourth position.

Lin Sen can clearly see the weakness of the Cavaliers on the inside bench after the star giant was injured, so naturally Thibodeau could not see it. He is a very outstanding defensive coach, and they can beat the Cavaliers' outside offense very fiercely. The Cavaliers can only score in the inside, and the Bulls have Noah, the best defensive player of last season, and the Cavaliers' offense is quite difficult.

Similarly, the Bulls' offense is the same. They have the top defense in the league, but the offense is at most among the 30 teams in the league. Their offense is also stagnant. The best support point in this team may be Noah, you know the reason. Their offense also relies on the abilities of the two stars Ross and Butler.

49:42, the Bulls led by 7 points again. Irving in the first half was not sure whether it was due to injury or his poor touch. He made 1 of 7 three-pointers from the outside and only broke through to the inside. It can be said that this Cavaliers relied entirely on James' attack alone, which made people feel like they were back at the Cavaliers 1.0.

James strengthened his breakthrough and playing time in the second half. He almost didn't get any rest opportunities in the entire second half. The biggest rest opportunity might be the two timeouts that Coach Blatt called for him.

The game was extremely fierce among the shouts of Bulls fans. The Bulls also made a 100% determination to win this game. The bodies of both sides collided very fiercely on the court, which made Lin Sen feel scared. At the beginning, he didn't feel much about his physical confrontation. Seeing the Cavaliers and Bulls in the first row of the scene, he probably had half his life left after the first half!

The score in the first half was still very low, but the offenses of the two teams in the second half were still not rising, and the offense in each round was very difficult. James's more playing time in the second half also allowed the Cavaliers to finally recover the score in the second half.

With 35 seconds left in the game, the Cavaliers have already led by 5 points with 84:79, which is a relatively safe score advantage. Not every game has McGrady and Miller. At this time, the Bulls are almost difficult to turn the tables, but there are Rose and Butler among their teams.

First, Butler made a three-pointer with a difficult three-pointer against James, which set off a sound in the United Center. This three-pointer ignited hope for all Bulls fans, but only this three-pointer is not enough.

Then, in less than one round of the game, the Bulls did not make a foul at the first time, but instead used double-teams to cause James' offensive foul.

Looking back, Ross once again showed the style of the MVP that year. He dribbled the ball without slowing down and directly rushed to the inside line, pressing James' defense to complete a layup that tied the score.

The 191cm small defender faced 206cm and averaged 1 block per game in his career. James, the second best defensive player in 2013, completed a goal to tie the score. He seemed to be back to the youngest MVP in 2011, unstoppable.

84:84, there are 8.4 seconds left for the Cavaliers. At this time, the Cavaliers did not stop and made a free throw in the backcourt. James rushed to the penalty area with Butler's defense. However, Noah's defense was inside the penalty area, and this layup was not successful. Noah's block block prevented James from a critical blow.

"Beautiful, you are the best, Qiao Jin, you are the patron saint of our penalty area."

"Let them go back to Cleveland with failure, the place called Chicago, and LeBron will never surpass Michael."
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