NBA: Since James left the Cavaliers

Moments later, the second quarter started, and the Heat sent the baseline ball.

'The Flash' Wade took the lead, with the help of his teammates, he successfully broke into the inside and went straight to Varejao.

This scene was quite familiar to Varejao. When he saw Wade rushing up at full speed, he subconsciously moved to the side to avoid it, and watched Wade easily pick the ball in.

This evasive action made Byron Scott on the sidelines very dissatisfied, and he immediately reprimanded Varejao.

"What are you doing? Go defend!"

As everyone knows, it's not that Varejao doesn't want to defend, but that he will have a shadow in his heart when he sees Wade.

Because in a game between the Cavaliers and the Heat, Wade tore through the defense all the way to the basket.

At that time, Varejao stood up and tried to stop Wade's attack, but then happened a scene that he will never forget.

Wade didn't have the slightest fear in the face of his supplementary defense, but jumped up directly, and there was a dunk across Varejao.

Under the impact of the two bodies, Varejao, who is the center, was directly knocked out of the bottom line.

Since then, Varejao has always been afraid of Wade, so this led to the subconscious avoidance just now.

When Wade successfully scored this goal, he completely turned on the runaway mode.

In the next two rounds, he first made an emergency stop and made a mid-range hit, and then made a breakthrough to score 2+1.

Less than 2 minutes into the opening of the second quarter, Wade completely dominated the game. He scored 7 points in a row and helped the Heat expand the point difference to 9 points.

But Paul George failed to respond well during this period, and even lost himself a bit when he was beaten.

Seeing that the point difference continued to widen, Coach Scott finally couldn't sit still. He hurriedly called a timeout and replaced Long Rui on the field again.

"This is the right choice. In fact, coach Scott should have brought Long Rui up."

"After all, this stage is the easiest to widen the point difference. Paul George's performance at critical moments and his ability to handle the ball are not stable enough. The only person in the Cavaliers who can stabilize the situation is Long Rui."

When Zhang Weiping saw Long Rui coming back, Zhang Weiping immediately regained his spirits. In his opinion, it is most reasonable for the Cavaliers to hit the ball into Long Rui's hands now!
Sure enough, when Long Rui came back, the Cavaliers immediately stopped their decline.

They are no longer chaotic on the offensive end and have regained their rhythm.

Outside the three-point line, Long Rui kept instructing his teammates to run. After several penetrations, Paul George finally ran out of the opportunity.

With quick eyes and quick hands, Long Rui immediately passed the ball and assisted George to score two points!

The Cavaliers seemed to have a backbone all of a sudden, and they began to show their edge on both offense and defense.

The momentum of the Heat has gradually dropped, and Wade can no longer score as wantonly as before.

When Wade was restricted, the offensive firepower of the Heat's second team immediately weakened, and even fell into frequent iron strikes.

The Cavaliers took advantage of this opportunity to steadily chase points, and Long Rui also used his ability to score two goals in a row.

The counter flashes.

43:38
The Cavaliers recovered the point difference to 5 points.

The game in the second quarter has been going on for more than four minutes. Under the next dead ball, the two sides have made a second personnel adjustment.

For the Heat, James, Bosh and others were replaced, and Wade was replaced for a rest.

The Cavaliers also replaced George, and Curry, Yi Jianlian and others reappeared.

The duel of the starting lineup starts again!

James, who re-entered the court, went all out. He was like a tiger on the court, unstoppable at all.

Jimmy Butler, who is in charge of defending him, has suffered a lot. Even though he has first-class defensive ability, when James is completely serious, he can't do anything.

All kinds of unreasonable breakthroughs shattered the Cavaliers' defensive impact.

Fortunately, Long Rui also started his own scoring mode. James' offense was unstoppable, and his offense also made opponents helpless.

Compared with James' explosive style of play, Long Rui's style is more elegant. From the perspective of viewing, Long Rui's way of playing is more beautiful.

You scored a goal for these two, and I returned a goal. They refused to give in to each other. There was a fierce battle between dragons and tigers, which made countless fans enjoy watching it!
This situation lasted for a full 3 minutes. This kind of superstar confrontation scene can often stimulate the visual nerves of the fans the most.

But this way of playing is rare in the game, after all, this is a team competition.

What's more, this way of playing consumes a lot of physical energy, which only occurs under special circumstances, most of which are when the team is in a stalemate.

Just now, James was eager to help the team quickly open the score, while Long Rui hoped to level the gap as soon as possible, so this formed a situation where the two faced each other.

But after this crazy 3 minutes, the score between the two teams remained at five points, and the two did not compete.

"It looks like the momentum is about to stop."

"It's rare to have such a wonderful confrontation, I really want to watch it for a while longer."

Su Qun said in retrospect.

"Since the start of this season, in my impression, this should be the most exciting moment!"

"The performance of James and Long Rui is really a feast for the eyes!"

Zhang Weiping also sighed in admiration.

Although the "performance" of the two did not last, they each used their own actions to fully stimulate the morale of the team.

It can be seen that in every attack and defense since then, the confrontation between the two sides has been extremely fierce, almost to the point where the bayonet is red.

Before you know it, the second quarter of the game is coming to an end.

After Long Rui's ultra-long-distance buzzer missed, the first half of the game ended.

58:54
With the outstanding performance of the Big Three, the Heat have always suppressed the Cavaliers.

During halftime, the Cavaliers' locker room.

"These guys are tougher than you think."

Curry gritted his braces and said solemnly.

"Damn, it feels a lot better than last season."

Paul George couldn't help but swear.

The Cavaliers did well in all aspects today, whether it was offense or defense, they hardly made any major mistakes.

When they played like this in the game, they should have established an early lead.

But today they not only failed to gain an advantage, but also fell behind their opponents in the first half, which is the most depressing.

"Hurry up, take a good rest, there is still half a game to play."

Long Rui said calmly, but he seemed relatively calm.

"Long Rui, are you not in a hurry at all?"

Curry frowned and asked.

"Worried? Is it useful?"

"The field is changing rapidly. Who knows what will happen in the second half?"