NBA: Since James left the Cavaliers

Long Rui originally wanted to hand the ball to Curry, but he immediately gave up the idea when he glanced over.

Curry is not much better than him, receiving special care from 'The Flash' Wade.

Moreover, Wade's defensive personality is particularly strong, not to mention letting Curry organize, even receiving the ball has become a problem.

The Heat's sudden increase in defense made Long Rui feel uneasy. Now he must find a way to continue scoring, otherwise he may be pulled away by the Heat.

Since the outside line was not good, he simply turned his idea to the inside line.

After Long Rui asked for a screen, he handed the ball to Yi Jianlian.

Before the timeout, James had always defended against Yi Jianlian, but after the timeout, it was replaced by Jones.

For Yi Jianlian, this is undoubtedly a happy thing.

Although Jones is about the same height as James, he is much weaker in terms of strength. It will be very difficult to defend Yi Jianlian.

At this time, Long Rui quickly pulled away towards the weak side, pulling James away completely, and giving Yi Jianlian a good space for singles.

Jones was firmly behind Yi Jianlian, but he was still unstoppable.

After Yi Jianlian sat on his back, he used his absolute advantage in height and weight to continuously crush him inward.

Immediately one step inside the free throw line, he suddenly turned around and shot a jumper.

Even though Jones tried his best to interfere with the jump, the basketball fell steadily into the basket.

The Heat's offense is still unsolvable, and the Big Three are fully fired.

But the Cavaliers also have countermeasures. Even if Long Rui and Curry can't get easy scoring opportunities, they have always maintained a high-efficiency offense with Yi Jianlian's misplaced singles.

This trend continued for more than two minutes, until after a dead ball, coach Spoelstra chose to make a substitution, replacing the old captain Haslem, who would defend Yi Jianlian.

Although Haslem's height is still not as good as Yi Jianlian, but compared to Jones, his defensive ability is much better, and his physical confrontation is also tougher than Jones.

Sure enough, in the first round after he played, he used his defensive experience to complete a successful defense.

Also after this round, the Cavaliers began to fall into a scoring drought.

James' defense made Long Rui very uncomfortable. Even if he successfully broke through, Bosh inside would make up at any time. He would rather let Varejao short than let Long Rui score.

It has to be said that Coach Spoelstra's defensive deployment is very effective.

You know, Long Rui is the absolute core of this Cavaliers team, and even the soul of the team.

When he is limited to scoring, the Cavaliers' morale is bound to take a hit.

With the last 13 seconds left in the first quarter, the Cavaliers had the last chance to attack.

At this time, the score between the two sides has a tendency to widen.

32:24
The Heat already hold an eight-point lead.

In the last attack of the Cavaliers, Long Rui once again signaled his teammates to pull away.

He has only one obsession in his heart, which is to score this goal no matter what, and stop the decline for the team.

Seeing this, Chalmers on the side planned to attack Long Rui with James, but James refused. He wanted to defend Long Rui one-on-one.

"Give you a fair chance."

James said seriously.

"I'm going to make this shot, right in front of you."

Long Rui also responded immediately.

This is a duel between the two MVPs, and the Cavaliers fans at home also stood up.

In the eyes of these fans, the duel between the two is also the best way to settle their grievances.

"Kill him! Kill him!"

The sound of killing James sounded throughout the venue.

This kind of invisible pressure outside the court also made James completely angry. He has been working hard for the Cavaliers all these years and has never been sorry for the team.

Just because he failed to fulfill the promise of the championship, he suffered endless anger, which made him extremely chilling.

And now what he wants to do is to personally defeat Long Rui in front of these Cavaliers fans, making them feel desperate.

Hearing this voice, James chose to take the initiative to attack. He began to increase his defensive aggressiveness, but interfered with Long Rui's movements.

The attack time is running out, and Long Rui has only the last 5 seconds left.

But under James' strong defense, Long Rui couldn't find a chance to attack at all.

"Long Rui, pay attention to the time!"

Yi Jianlian also hurriedly reminded him.

In the last 3 seconds, Long Rui suddenly had an idea.

When James stretched out his hand again to steal, Long Rui instantly joined the ball, and at the same time raised his arm, just touching James' palm.

"Dudu!"

The sideline referee blew his whistle, and James made a foul for shooting!
Because this is outside the three-point line, Long Rui will get three free throws.

LeBron James frowned suddenly, he spread his hands and questioned the referee: "Is this considered a foul?"

"Obviously, you touched his arm, it was a shooting foul."

The referee explained.

"No, he sent it up by himself. Even if I fouled, it shouldn't be a shooting foul..."

James still wants to explain, but such penalties generally will not change.

"I said yes, it's a shooting foul."

The referee spoke again.

James was also full of helplessness, he could only watch Long Rui go to the free throw line.

After Long Rui made all three free throws and the first quarter ended, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

In the last attack just now, James made the defense to the extreme. If he was not too aggressive, Long Rui would not be able to find a way to attack.

The last foul is actually using the rules to "touch porcelain", which will be used to the extreme by a bearded player in the future.

Long Rui himself doesn't like this way of playing. Although this approach is very clever, he still likes to score by shaking his opponent away.

After the first quarter, the Cavaliers trailed by five points, which is within an acceptable range.

"George, it's up to you in the second quarter."

On the bench, Long Rui patted Paul George on the shoulder.

At this moment, Paul George also felt the extremely heavy burden on his shoulders.

As Long Rui said, they are a team, and now he will shoulder the responsibility of leading the team.

"I'll do my best."

Paul George also solemnly responded.

The strong strength shown by the Heat made the players of the Cavaliers feel unprecedented pressure.

The Heat in the playoffs are stronger than in the regular season.

Their performance in the first quarter was actually very good, but the Heat were still able to overwhelm them. This is the gap in absolute strength!