basketball dreams

Chapter 51
The game is about to start!The starting lineups of the two sides at this time have come out.

The Cavaliers' lineup remains unchanged, and they are still familiar starters.

For the Suns, the starting lineup is as follows: PG Brandon Knight, SG Devin Booker, SFTJ Warren, PF Tyson Chandler, C DeAndre Ayton.

On the sidelines at this time, Yun Chen was sitting on the bench observing the situation on the field.

Not far behind him, in the audience seat, was Lu Qingyan sitting.She held a camera in her hand and kept taking pictures.

But it seems... She didn't shoot on the set, but all the shots showed Yun Chen's back.

"Beep!" At this moment, the referee blew his whistle, and the game officially started!
Both sides jump the ball in the middle circle, Deandre Ayton vs. Tristan Thompson!

Anton is 2 meters tall, completely suppressing Thompson, and because he is young, his jumping ability is not comparable to Thompson, so there is no suspense, the first wave of ball rights was won by the Suns.

Brandon Knight received the pass, slowly held the ball across the frontcourt and began to organize the first attack.

Knight, Yun Chen is actually quite familiar with this player.Because he was once very famous and twice became the background board of other stars.

First, he was knocked down by Jordan's "death button" and became a joke in the entire league, and then he was directly shaken by Kyrie Irving in the All-Star Rookie Challenge...

It can be said that the early days of his career were extremely unsatisfactory.

Fortunately, he was not overwhelmed by the outside world's remarks, and he still worked very hard.Although he has played many teams in his career, his performance has always been outstanding.

He is characterized by excellent physical condition, strong agility and speed, strong offensive finishing ability, and likes to break through.

So as soon as he came up, he didn't even intend to pass the ball at all, and he didn't even borrow a cover, piercing straight into the Cavaliers' defense like a sharp sword.

breakthrough!The speed was extremely fast, and Hill barely kept up with his footsteps and defended beside him, but he was half out of position.

"Shua" Immediately, Knight scored against the defense who tricked Ke Hill into a layup with a change of hands! 2-0.

From the very beginning, the Suns seemed to want to head start.

Yun Chen off the court couldn't help frowning at this moment.Before this game, he only paid attention to Ayton, but he really didn't pay attention to other Suns players.

Devin Booker and Knight, and even Warren, these three people are actually not easy to handle.

The game continues, the Cavaliers have the ball.Hill held the ball across the half to organize the offense.

As soon as it came up, because Knight's ball was very tough, the Cavaliers unconsciously felt that they had also increased their intensity.

Hill passed to Osman to organize the offense, and then he and JR began to cross positions to attract defense. This is a tactic they used.

The Suns' defense within the three-point line changed with the Cavaliers' running positions, but they did not lose their positions, but Ayton and Chandler were attracted slightly away from the penalty area.

This is exactly what the Cavaliers want to see.

Osman did not hesitate to pass the ball to the inside with precise guidance, Love received the ball, faced Warren's defense mercilessly, turned around and faked his opponent to wipe the board and scored! 2-2.

Conversion, the Suns attacked, this time Knight no longer played alone, but handed it over to the core of the team, Devin Booker, to complete the offense.

Booker averaged 24.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.7 assists in the regular season last season. He has grown into a major killer in the league. It can be said that after James Harden, he will definitely become the strongest shooting guard in the league!
Therefore, in the face of his offense, JR's weak defense obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm, and he didn't even have any tactics at all. Booker relied on his personal ability to directly pretend to break through and then retreat, and shot a three-pointer very quickly!
"Shua" is unreasonable!scored! 5-2.

JR looked a little annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. In the face of pure personal ability, he could only admit defeat.

For the Cavaliers to attack, it was still Hill who pushed forward and handed it over to Osman to organize the attack.

If the Suns are relying on their personal ability to carry the team forward, then the Cavaliers are obviously playing with their brains to implement tactics!
In this round, the Cavaliers focused on the perimeter. Osman held the ball and advanced into the middle distance, and Love followed suit. Fearing Love's strong mid-range ability, the Suns had to shrink to the middle distance to guard the two.

In this way, there are some gaps on the outside line, JR and Hill run spiritually again, Osman sees the opportunity and passes directly to JR, JR catches the ball and shoots!

"Shua!" Likewise, it was a perfect parabola! 5-5.

As soon as they came up, the two sides seemed to have entered the stage of confrontation, and both felt hot!

In the third round, the Suns were still looking for personal offensive opportunities, but the Cavaliers adopted a man-to-man defensive tactic this time, which made the Suns a little uncomfortable.

Booker received the ball from the outside, and it was still JR's defense.

After a dazzling dribble trying to break through, Booker showed a strong dribbling ability, and finally passed JR and came to the middle distance.

But with the two giants Love and Thompson in the middle distance, Booker didn't dare to make a shot, and found a chance to pass it to Ayton, who was in the important position.

Ayton caught the ball for the first time in the game and hit Thompson on the back.

Because of the disadvantage in height, Thompson can only keep stretching his hands to prevent being forced by the high position.

But Ayton is not only taller than ordinary people, his physical agility is also surprising.

"Shua!" Thompson made a turn so fast that he couldn't keep up, broke through near the bottom line, and took off after only one step.

"Bang!" The deduction was successful!
He really deserves to be the No. [-] pick this year. It is no exaggeration to say that he will definitely have a place among the top insiders in the league in the future!
Off the field, the audience has already let out exclamations because of this dunk.

"Hmm... It's harder than I imagined..." At this moment, on the Cavaliers' bench, Tyronn Lue rubbed his chin and frowned.

It is the consensus of everyone that the Suns are not strong, but judging from the few goals in the opening game today, they are unexpectedly strong, and their personal abilities are almost incomprehensible.

Especially Booker and Ayton, eating the opponent alone is like playing.

The game continued, and in the next few rounds, the hit rate of both sides was still terribly high.

The Cavaliers' offense relied on tactics to hit several open shots, while the Suns still relied on their personal ability to dominate.

Booker singled out JR and scored two goals, and Ayton also scored two goals against Thompson.

Soon, with about 8 minutes left in the first quarter, the game entered an official timeout.At this point the score was 14-11, with the Suns leading by three points.

The hands on both sides are very hot, so the suspension of Tyronn Lue this time only emphasized the continuation of the tactics assigned, and did not say much about the others.

There were no substitutions on either side and the game continued.

Back from the timeout, the Suns' style of play seems to have undergone some changes.

Instead of relying on individual ability to attack without any tactics, they began to play screens and create offensive opportunities for one person.

Booker, their core.

There were five people on the field, but almost four of them were covering for Booker. Knight finished blocking Warren, and Warren finished blocking Chandler.

With three consecutive screens, Booker got an offensive opportunity without even exerting much energy to dribble.

"Shua!" A three-point shot, hit!This is his second three-pointer of the game! 11-17.

Tyronn Lue frowned again off the court, he didn't quite understand the Suns' tactics.

Generally speaking, of course, the more space a player has on the field, the better, because in this way they can have the opportunity to find more open shots.

But the sun did the opposite. Four or even five people crowded together, and then deliberately attracted the Cavaliers defenders together, thus creating opportunities for Booker alone!
This style of play is very unscientific, but it has received miraculous effects. Booker is like a divine help. In this tactic, his personal ability has been brought into full play to the greatest extent.

Although they can't prevent the Cavaliers' offense, it is definitely not good for the Cavaliers to continue in this stalemate, because they will consume too much energy on the defensive end.

"Shua!" Booker seemed to be on the hook, scoring goals one after another, mid-range, three-pointers, breakthroughs, and even an unbelievable fairy ball thrown from behind!
With 5 minutes left in the first quarter, Tyronn Lue was finally forced to call a timeout.

At this time the score has come to 21-16, the Suns lead by 5 points.

Booker scored 12 points alone, and his fiery state made people feel horrible.

The Cavaliers must make changes immediately. They must find a way to limit Booker, otherwise they will be thrown out of the state by him, and there may be a second 70 points.

After all, he's done it before!

Naturally, personnel adjustments were made during this timeout. Yun Chen took off his outer clothes, moved his hands and feet, and prepared to go on stage.

"Huh..." Taking a deep breath, Yun Chen turned around and extended a thumbs up to the auditorium.

There, Lu Qingyan was looking at him.

"Come on, let your prophecy come true!"

(End of this chapter)