The era of point forwards in the NBA

Chapter 271 James

At the beginning of the second quarter, after switching to the substitute lineup, the defensive actions of the two teams were much smaller.

Continuing to fight will also consume a lot of physical energy for the players. After all, not everyone has the physical fitness of James. Properly reducing the intensity of confrontation and preserving physical strength is the normal way of playing.

Lin Yue also started his scoring performance according to common sense.

The player defending him in this quarter was Lin Yue's old opponent in college, Danny Green from North Carolina.

Danny Green was selected by the Cavaliers with the 46th overall pick in this round and almost missed joining the NBA.

The Cavaliers selected him because of his positioning three-pointers and defensive focus. After joining the Cavaliers, Danny Green has always been a marginal figure.

He is different from Lin Yue. When he came to the championship team, he did not have the opportunity to be trained. What the Cavaliers need is immediate combat power. They can give up everything for the championship.

Danny Green doubles his training every day just to win a chance to play. He hopes that the coach can see his efforts and give him a chance to prove his strength.

Watching his former opponent shine in the NBA, but he can only sit on the cold bench and empathize with the water dispenser, the days are getting more and more difficult. In this environment, Danny Green doesn't know what to do except train hard.

If it weren't for the team's sudden wave of injuries, he would never have thought that he would have the opportunity to play, and this time he seized his fate.

In 9 minutes as a substitute, he made 3 of 3 three-pointers, scored 9 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steals, which was recognized by James, and he also won playing time for himself.

In this game, he served as the main force in the bench lineup, the starting point in the second quarter, and Lin Yue rematch in the NBA.

At this time, he was no longer the North Carolina Five Tigers, and Lin Yue was not the yellow man who was looked down upon by others.

A second-round pick and a second-best pick, the identities of the two are very different, and they formed an exchange with the university.

This time the challenger is Danny Green.

Lin Yue dribbled the ball continuously under the crotch, and finally stepped back to open his body, and ended the attack with his good fadeaway jumper.

Help the Thunder get the first point of the second quarter.

Danny Green was surprised by the opponent's progress. He was also a rookie, but Lin Yue gave people the feeling of being extremely confident, daring to make moves and ending the attack by himself.

The temperament of the two has also changed. Green knows that he is just a fixed-point three-point shooter in the Cavaliers, a defensive player who does dirty work, and is abused by fans if he does not play well.

The days after entering the NBA were not as easy as originally imagined.

But hard work will eventually pay off, at least he has a chance to stand on the court, which is enough to make people enviable.

Danny Green used the cover of his teammates to get open, and before Lin Yue followed up, he shot the ball from beyond the three-point line.

"Shh!"

The basketball went into the net hollow, and a smile appeared on the corner of Danny Green's mouth.

"I'm not a genius, but I can compete with geniuses, and that's enough."

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When Durant and Lin Yue returned to the court, the Cavaliers now lead by 5 points.

The overall lineup of the Cavaliers is indeed much stronger than that of the Thunder. This is a championship-level team. Of course, if you only compare offensive firepower, the Thunder's starting lineup will not lose to any team in the league.

With the Thunder's possession, Lin Yue passed the ball to Durant and signaled his teammates to pull away. At the same time, it was LeBron James who had just returned from the bench to defend Durant.

The leaders of the two teams always have to collide head-on. In the first quarter, Durant didn't score a goal when he faced James head-on. He relied on this defensive counterattack and misplacement to beat others to score.

Now he's going to try and score the ball one-on-one.

James spreads his legs and lowers his center of gravity so that he can better counter Durant.

And Durant didn't evade, he just wanted to score the ball against the confrontation, Du Xiaoshuai would never admit defeat at this time.

After consecutive crotch dribbles, his ball protector had a physical confrontation with James. Naturally, it was impossible for him to use the confrontation to squeeze James away to gain space for the shot.

However, Durant's wingspan is long, and he is taller than James, so he can shoot the ball directly against the defense.

Therefore, he changed direction and pulled back and directly pulled out the shot. James' defense quickly caught up. In the past two years, James' personal single defense has also greatly increased his awareness after consulting celebrities.

To put it bluntly, defense is to read the mind of the attacker. James is sure that Durant will not fight him physically, so he has been waiting for the opponent to take a shot.

Isn't this just waiting for him? If it weren't for Durant's high shot height, James would have given him a positive hot pot.

At this time, James' hand also covered Durant's sight. Durant couldn't see the basket, and it was a blind shot when he shot at the highest point.

The ball bounced off the rim a few times before falling into the net.

This ball is pure luck.

After seeing the goal, Durant smiled and shook his head back to defend. He also knew that this time it was not a victory over James' defense.

The basketball is round, and this thing still has a bit of luck.

James' style of play is simple and rough, and he can directly force anyone on the outside of the Thunder.

Xiao Mo lobbed the ball directly to James with his back to catch the ball.

James held the ball firmly, turned around directly, dribbled twice under his crotch, and then started to accelerate.

Durant could keep up with the lateral speed, but he didn't stop James from breaking through.

The latter made a three-step layup, like a runaway wild horse. Sefolosha's supplementary defense failed to pull him down, and he scored the ball behind his back. What kind of monster-level impact is this.

Lin Yue felt that if he collided head-on with him in the air, he might get sick.

The physical fitness of Chinese players is completely incomparable to that of James. This is the real pride of heaven, and his body is enough to play rugby.

2+1, the audience at the scene burst into loud screams, and James Sefoloza, who was hanging up the defense, scored the ball. This shot is estimated to be recorded in the history of the league.

Sefolosha also looked incredible. He just wanted to prevent the opponent from laying up the ball. He made a foul and might not score a free throw. How did it become a 2+1? This kind of unbalanced posture can also score the ball?
Horror!
Fortunately, James' penalty was missed, which prevented Sefolosha's foul from causing trouble.

This time the ball came to Curry, it is more efficient to rely on three-pointers to recover the point difference.

Lin Yue stepped forward to cover Curry, James immediately stepped forward to defend, and then it became a one-on-one between James and Curry.

Curry tried to get inside, but James was moving so fast that he dribbled beyond the three-point line after several changes of direction and failed to shake him off.

With a sudden shot, even James had no time to defend.

Curry's three-point shot did not have any warning, the shot was fast, and it was two steps away from the three-point line, but that was it, he still chose to shoot.

The point is, the ball hit the bullseye, and Curry beat James to restore the momentum for the Thunder.

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