NBA: Since James left the Cavaliers

A day later, the second game of the Eastern Conference Finals will start tonight.

After the next day's rest, the players on both sides have recovered to their best physical condition.

Today's game is still being played at the Quicken Loans Arena, the home court of the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers, who have made a good start to the series, are high-spirited and vow to make another victory and continue to expand their advantages.

The Celtics, who lost in the first game, also really want to win this game. They really want to tie the big score before returning to Boston, so that they will occupy a weak initiative in the series.

Because after this game, the next two games will be held at the North Shore Garden Arena, home of the Celtics, and they will have home court advantage.

After some warm-up, the game officially started. The two teams did not make any adjustments in the starting lineup, and still used the starting lineup of the first game.

A moment later, the opening whistle blew, the two sides jumped the ball in the middle circle, and the Celtics won the first wave of offense.

Today's Celtics have a very tough attitude towards the game. When the game started, they played very aggressively on the offensive end.

Stadium 'commander' Rondo played his excellent guiding ability, constantly threading the needle for the team.

The Big Three worked even harder, and with mutual cooperation, frequently threw the ball into the basket.

On the other hand, the Cavaliers, although they sit at home, fell into a passive situation.

Although the players had high morale, after the start of the game, they seemed a bit slow.

Whether it is on the offensive or defensive end, he seems a little lazy, his running position is not active, and his defense is not in place.

This allowed the experienced Celtics to seize the opportunity immediately. While the Cavaliers were still 'sleepwalking', they quickly established a wave of nearly double-digit advantages.

Seeing that the first quarter of the game was halfway through, the first official timeout of the game was also ushered in.

In 6 minutes, the Cavaliers only scored 9 points, of which 3 points came from Long Rui, and the remaining [-] points were obtained through free throws.

In other words, except for Long Rui, the other four Cavaliers starters did not score a single sports game.

For them, this kind of performance is simply terrible. You must know that the Cavaliers are the top three teams in the entire league in terms of points per game.

Normally, after half a game, their scoring has already surpassed double digits, but today's performance is too abnormal.

Cavaliers coach Byron Scott took advantage of the timeout to reprimand these people severely.

Looking at the Celtics again, with the cooperation of the team, they have already scored 17 points, leading the Cavaliers by 8 points. As long as they score a goal, they will open the point difference to double digits. For the Cavaliers, it was a lot of pressure.

After all, based on the experience of the Celtics, once they establish an advantage in the early stage, the opponent will fall into a very passive situation.

After they have fully risen, trying to suppress them is a very difficult thing.

After the timeout, the two sides returned to the field.

Fortunately, through this timeout adjustment, the Cavaliers began to gradually find the state of the game.

On the first attack after returning from a timeout, Stephen Curry opened up from beyond the three-point line.

This goal seemed to have opened up the Cavaliers' "Second Line of Ren and Governor". In the next few rounds, they began to play the momentum of a strong team, and the game returned to the right track. The two sides played back and forth.

The first quarter is over.

29:25
The Celtics took a 4-point lead.

After a short intersection break, the two sides immediately entered the second quarter.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the two teams entered the rotation time normally.

In order to ensure the firepower output on the court, the Celtics coach Doug Rivers still used their rotation method in the first game, keeping Rondo and Pierce on the court.

The Cavaliers still retain Long Rui, and at the same time replace the bench bandit Paul George.

In the rotation stage, the Celtics' scoring success rate began to decline, and Paul Pierce failed to maintain the excellent state of the first game.

Fortunately, their defense is tough enough. After losing a lot of opportunities on the offensive end, they used their strong defense to limit the Cavaliers' offense.

For a while, the two sides were still playing hard to distinguish. It was not until Long Rui and Paul George cooperated that the Cavaliers gradually broke the deadlock.

The personal offensive ability of these two people is really too powerful. Under the reasonable impact of the two, the solid defense line of the Celtics began to gradually collapse.

After Long Rui made a fallback jumper from the free throw line, the Cavaliers have already overtaken by 1 point.

Seeing that the situation is not good, Coach Rivers can only replace the main force again, but only takes Pierce off the court to rest, but Rondo still stays on the court.

For them, Rondo is the lifeblood, and Rivers already has plans to let him play the whole game.

After switching back to the three main players, the Celtics' situation immediately improved.

In the middle of the second quarter, Ray Allen and Garnett showed their giant demeanor. The two scored the ball, one inside and one outside, and temporarily stabilized the situation.

When there were 3 minutes left in the second quarter, the Cavaliers also replaced all the main players. At the same time, Paul Pierce also appeared again, and the two teams entered the final battle of the first half.

For a full 3 minutes, in order to gain the half-time lead, everyone went all out to fight to the point where the bayonet was red!
Under the fierce physical confrontation, the entire Quicken Loans Center Arena seemed to be filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

The fans are very addicted to seeing such a duel. They stare intently at what is happening on the court, and they are not even willing to blink, for fear that they will miss a wonderful scene in the blink of an eye.

After Long Rui's ultra-long three-pointer came out of the frame, the first half of the game was over.

56:58
Relying on the excellent performance of the rotation lineup, the Cavaliers moved back to the disadvantage and completed the lead in the score!
A quarter of an hour later, the second half of the game started on time.

After adjustments during the intermission, the Celtics made another effort at the beginning of the third quarter.

The victory of this game is extremely important to them, and they even want to fight for victory at all costs.

The Big Three took turns on the offensive end, and in less than 2 minutes, they once again completed the overtake.

But the Cavaliers are not good at it, and the Celtics' tough performance fully inspired their fighting spirit.

Long Rui began to take the initiative to strengthen his personal offense, and once again showed his excellent personal ability, scoring three goals in a row!
His performance at the moment can't help but reminiscent of his performance at the critical moment of the fourth quarter in the first game.

In order to restrain Long Rui, the Celtics even resorted to double-team tactics. They would rather give others a chance than allow Long Rui to continue scoring.