The Cavaliers actively compete with the Pacers for defense. This choice has many complaints, but for them, there is nothing wrong with them.

Barnes and Ariza do not have the ability to control the overall situation, but they both have distinct characteristics, defense and three-pointers.

Barnes' three-pointer was not obvious. In order to gain playing time in the fiercely competitive Cavaliers, Ariza tried to practice a three-pointer.

With three points, Wade's breakthrough space will be broadened.

If you insist on defending, Barnes and Ariza and Wade's power will definitely be stronger than Iverson's combination with Wade and Pitrus.

Wade's own defense is the strength that the Cavaliers rely on. In addition, the two wings who can make positive achievements without dragging their backs, the Cavaliers have the ability to compete with the Pacers at once.

The Cavaliers' back and wings are no longer weak, and the inside defense is still insufficient, but the Pacers replaced the broken back league at the beginning, and Tim Thomas and Foster have no advantage over Big Z and Boozer.

As soon as the game started, Wade and Boozer paid the price for the pick-and-roll attack.

Immediately, the Cavaliers' offensive firepower was fully activated and they increased their horsepower to defend their position. The Pacers were defended for two consecutive rounds until they barely took action in the last few seconds.

From being unable to seize opportunities to not having opportunities, the Cavaliers' defense has undergone qualitative changes.

"It seems a bit ironic. Isn't the current lineup of the Cavaliers the one that failed in the past confrontation with the Pacers?" Bobby Leonard sighed. "They can still fight the Pacers with this lineup. If Dwyne continues to join forces with Ai, there will be no chance of winning."

Because of repeated defeats, the Cavaliers, like the Knicks, were unwilling to sit and wait for death and continued to make changes, allowing the whole world to see their enterprising spirit, but the effect was not good.

Although Iverson is a world-class general, he is no longer at his peak. Even if he is at his peak, compatibility with Wade will have problems.

Moreover, to match Wade and Iverson, Frenchman Pitrus must be put on the stage.

Including Larry Hughes, the Cavaliers' four major wings, Pitrus is the most accurate of three-pointers, but he has never been a starter. Hughes, who was the most valuable and was selected for the first defense of the year, is the Cavaliers' starting player. Hughes replaced Iverson, and he and Wade started at the same time. Anyone could see that this pair of backcourt combinations would become a breakthrough point for tens of thousands of people to poke, and they were not very good at shooting three-pointers, and they had no defense and no space. How to play? It is inevitable that Pitrus would raise the starting player.

Pitrus' defense is not enough to fill Iverson's gap, but he has a three-pointer to create shooting opportunities as much as possible, which is what the Cavaliers want to see.

Several encounters with the Pacers prove that this starting lineup lacks some skills and is difficult to defeat the opponent.

Now, if you switch back to the original lineup and fight against the Pacers to defend, you will gain the upper hand?

So Leonard said it was a bit sarcastic, and after going around, he returned to the starting point.

The Cavaliers made several attacks, and the Pacers' tactics were out of touch and lost their effect. Tim Thomas' three-pointer was strictly guarded and lost his accuracy. Foster's offensive ability was useless. His biggest advantage was that he could not exert all his strength in such a suffocating atmosphere.

A few minutes passed, and the walker could not get a single minute.

The Cavaliers' offensive efficiency is not high, and the Pacers maintained the defensive intensity in the first quarter.

Ariza made a three-pointer, and Wade seized the opportunity to counterattack and scored a total of 5 points.

19 to 22

In the fourth minute of the second quarter, both sides still maintained a slow-paced attack.

"If they continue to fight like this, the President will have a headache."

Xie Hou only scored 6 points now, which is too low compared to his usual level.

Not only is his fans not used to it, but he himself is not used to it. Since his teammates can't be opened, he will attack.

With this idea in mind, he saw Wade missed a jump shot from a sudden stop, Foster protected the defensive rebound and found him to pass the ball. Then, he and his teammates looked forward.

The offensive signal was not in his hands or in his mouth. No one knew what he wanted to do. His opponent made the correct judgment through his expression.

"He's going to do it," Wade shouted.

The Flash's call brought clear information to the two wingers in the team.

The person who is the main defense of Xiehou is Barnes. His physical fitness is not as good as Pitrus, and his defensive skills are not as good as Ariza. He relies on his omnipotence.

There are no shortage of single defense, assistant defense, supplementary defense, small moves, trash talk, and the courage to fight with stars.

The Knights' flanks are the most experienced in the match between him and Xie Hou. They have been beaten up many times and have never produced any shadows. Letting him defend alone is not to let him defend against Xie Hou, but to let him withstand the pressure and pay attention to the linkage with others. It is impossible for a person to defend against Xie Hou.

"You have all fallen to this point, don't you still want to win the championship, right?"

Barnes spoke rudely and intended to interfere with Xie Hou's mood.

Xie Hou glanced at him gently, but did not respond to the other party's trash words on the spot.

Xie Hou did not respond. It was Barnes who was guilty. He and Xie Hou had played many games, but the results were not very good.

He has been an old fry who has been playing against the NBA for six years. He has always been cannon fodder to contradict star players. He has a good idea to defend those stars who are covered by the spotlight. Those people value their own identities and will not care about small people like him. But he just wants to challenge the bottom line of these people. If they can anger them, their defense will be half successful.

There are indeed many people who fight better and better when they are angry, but Barnes knows more clearly that when the opponent launches the first wave of attacks in anger, if he can stop him, his anger will turn into negative energy, thus doing things that are unfavorable to his team.

Barnes once used similar techniques to make many stars perform poorly. Although they were beaten more often, they basically faced the opponent's arrow. It is already a rare performance to be able to make them miserably in limited games.

Only Xie Hou - only Xie Hou has never lost control under his teasing.

He had a smile on his face, ignoring his provocation, and when he performed to the extreme, he might say a few trash words that made people feel heartbroken.

When Xie Hou easily shook his defense away and retreated to the outside of the three-point line and made a three-pointer, Barnes understood that his kick hit the iron plate again.

Swish!

25 to 19

"After knowing each other for so long, you wouldn't think your defense is of use to me, right?" Xie Hou embezzled Barnes's sentence and responded with a trash talk.

Barnes's mood sank into the valley, Xie Hou was not affected, and he clearly felt the other party's fighting spirit.

Next, he will start a massacre.

The teammate who did not face Xie Hou came to comfort him and said, "It's okay, keep on guarding, it's good!"

Good? Barnes's mouth smiled bitterly like a lemon. He didn't think his defense was good. He wanted to make the opponent angry and then lose control.

Instead of flirting with him, and then letting him have the idea of ​​"It seems that if you don't take me as a number if I'm not serious."

In all aspects, Barnes' defense failed.

The Knights' offense was also strictly guarded, and they were locked for 23 seconds.

In the last second, Wade scored three points without any hope.

Enter.

22 to 25

"Arthur, have you seen our fighting spirit?" Wade shouted to Xie Hou.

Barnes continued to frown. It turned out that it wasn't him defending Xie Hou. He was already worried enough. This guy was still clamoring?

Barnes's worries were reasonable. Xie Hou then fought one-on-one on the top of the arc, and continued to move backwards and shake his center of gravity away. He did not completely lose his position, and his position still had room for response to Xie Hou's attack, but all he wanted was to shake it away.

The space he came out was enough for him to do a lot of things.

Xie Hou closed the ball and took action, stopped in the middle distance, and then stepped in again.

27 to 22

His hand felt so hot that Wade lost the ball in response, and Xie Hou took the long rebound and took the lead in counterattacking.

Barnes wanted to commit a foul but was removed by Xie Houchang.

Ariza also had the chance to foul. Xie Hou's counterattack was too fierce. He was determined but not brave. He was afraid that the foul would not be able to get 21, so he watched him score a counterattack.

29 to 22

Xie Hou scored 7 points in a row, and the score that the Cavaliers lost and recovered within four minutes of the game was beaten back by Xie Hou alone within two minutes.

The difference between 7 points, the Cavaliers called a timeout, Xie Hou shook his shoulders gently, and shouted at Barnes: "Welcome to continue to guard against me."

Barnes was frightened, and his face and mouth were not shown: "Okay, wait!"

Unfortunately, Mike Brown didn't give him this opportunity.

The Cavaliers have abundant wings and have choices. Brown replaced Barnes and made a better shot when he replaced him with a slightly inferior defense but his athletic ability was enough to put Pitrus on the court.

"Michael, don't talk trash to him, and don't listen to his trash. No matter what he says to you, no matter how he hits you, you just need to be yourself!" Brown's speech puzzled Pitrus.

He and Xie Hou have been fighting for a while, but he has never heard any trash words on the other party’s mouth.

He will listen no matter what the coach says, but it is not a bad thing anyway.

The Cavaliers dispatched troops, and the Pacers retained Xie Hou from the first quarter to the present, got off Papalucas, and went to Danny Granger to enhance the firepower point on the outside.

The smell of gunpowder continues to rise.

What Barnes can't do, Pitrus can't do.

Moreover, his skin is not as thick as Barnes.

Barnes was afraid of Xie Hou, and he had no confidence in defending people from the beginning, but he really started playing, and he should try his best, fight against each other, and spray trash when he sprayed trash. There was no one in the scene. Being beaten was inferior to others, so he didn't say anything. Petrus lacked this mentality. Three minutes before the end of the half, Xie Hou scored 11 points in a row, which blew up his confidence. His defense was cut into a big hole, and he missed the open ball on the offensive end, allowing Xie Hou to assist Wade in succession.

48 to 39

After halftime, the Cavaliers fell behind more.

Xie Hou scored 19 points in the second quarter and scored 25 points in the half. On the offensive end, he cast half of the team's firepower, and on the defensive end he also had 3 blocks and 2 steals. The offensive and defense covered the overall situation, causing big trouble for the Cavaliers.

Espn actually summarized the first half of the Cavs and Kings Mountain in this way: "Arthur   oh   The entire Cavaliers team."
Chapter completed!