One Guard

It takes a genius to remember the address of this website in one second: [Aidou Reading] The fastest update! No ads!

In the second quarter of the game, when James saw Yiyang playing again, he was already nervous. He played all 12 minutes in the first quarter. But Yiyang was not much better than him. The guy played for 11 minutes before being replaced.

The only difference is that Yiyang's consumption is not as great as that of James, because Yiyang does not have to fight with guys like Tony Allen and Iguodala. But even so, where can Yiyang go easily?

Irving was also surprised. Didn't this guy even take a break? He defended himself at the beginning of the first quarter and was pestered by Dellavedova later. But it seems that Yiyang is not tired at all. Only genius knows whether this guy feels "tired" at all.

After James left the game, Shumpert replaced him at the three position, and J.R. played the two position. In other words, the Cavaliers' only stable offensive point on the field is Irving.

If Owen cannot open up the situation under Yiyang's defense and others continue to do nothing. Then David Blatt must replace James who has not yet rested to continue the Cavaliers' offense!

I have to say that Carlisle made a tough move. But whether this move can be successful depends entirely on whether Yiyang can guard against it. If Irving can open up the situation, then a series of follow-up plans will be ruined.

Irving's defense is indeed average, but his offense is not so easy to contain. During the regular season, Irving and Yiyang didn't actually play against each other very well, because Irving also missed time due to injury during the regular season. Occasionally, the data from one or two games cannot explain everything.

But Carlisle is confident. After all, a week ago, Stephen Curry, who was known to have no solution for offense, just died under Yiyang's defense.

In the second half of the game, the Cavaliers took the lead. Kelly Irving reached the finals in his first playoff appearance, but his performance was much better than people expected. During the entire playoffs, Irving shot 43.5% from the field and averaged 19 points per game. He can be said to be a very qualified second-in-command.

In Yiyang's view, Irving has superb one-on-one singles ability. In Yiyang's opinion, few defenders in the league can compare with this guy's ability to combine man and ball.

In the first attack after the second quarter, Irving decided to play singles with the ball. Mozgov stepped forward to cover, and Yiyang was very experienced in retreating directly to bypass the pick-and-roll. Sure enough, Irving chose to break through, and Yiyang successfully blocked it!

Irving's three-point shooting percentage is certainly not bad, reaching a terrifying 45.0% during the playoffs! But fortunately for Yiyang, his desire to shoot three-pointers is not as high as Curry's. If the ball just came from Curry, if Yiyang chose to retreat, he would definitely be shot through by the opponent.

Irving is more willing to break through than make three-pointers. Through the game videos and data analysis these days, Yiyang already knows "Uncle Drew" well.

Seeing Yiyang blocking the way, Owen did not stop, but used crossover continuously and continued to break through!

Yiyang had to admit that Owen's fake movements were very realistic. At that moment, he had already lost his center of gravity. Fortunately, Yiyang immediately adjusted and quickly stuck to Owen as he passed by him.

While Yiyang stayed close, his hand kept picking up the ball, disrupting Irving's dribbling rhythm. Irving did not go deeper because Gobert was already waiting under the basket with his teeth bared.

After secretly pushing Yiyang, Owen took a step back and shot a jumper.

But Yiyang's enthusiasm obviously exceeded Owen's expectations. He almost didn't give an inch and pressed forward. Owen was seriously disturbed and the shot was cast!

"Yeah, it's like it's stuck to Owen."

"This is a master-level defense. If it were anyone else, they might have been stunned!"

ESPN's two commentators praised Yiyang's defense. There was nothing wrong with Irving's offense just now.

The only problem is that his opponent is named Yiyang.

Seeing Irving locked up as soon as he came on the court, James was a little anxious. If the Cavaliers don't continue to score, the Mavericks can easily widen the point difference. After all, defense is not the Cavaliers' forte.

Sure enough, just as James finished thinking about it, Yiyang assisted Gobert in a wonderful alley-oop.

Facing Mozgov's slow pace, Gobert quickly cut inside after covering the ball, and got rid of the Russian in two big steps. What Yiyang had to do after that was easy, he just had to throw the ball into the air at will. You never have to worry that Gobert won't catch the ball.

To a certain extent, the defense of the Cavaliers' lineup is not as good as the Warriors' death five.

The Cavaliers continued to counterattack, but James was already restless off the court. This time, Irving broke through and passed the ball, sending the opportunity to J.R. Smith.

But Tony Allen quickly made up for it, and J.R. took another shot during interference. The basketball hit the front edge of the basket and bounced high. After falling for the second time, it bounced to the right side of the basket and missed!

J.R. was very upset, why it was always just a little bit worse!

After grabbing the rebound, Yiyang did not make a fast break, but slowly walked through the half court and raised his hands to organize. The Mavericks are not in a hurry now, the Cavaliers should be.

The Mavericks continue to run the pick-and-roll because that's a weakness on Irving's defense. To be precise, it is the shortcomings of the entire Cavaliers team.

The Cavaliers' lack of decisiveness in defense changes and insufficient experience make the Cavaliers' ability to defend pick-and-rolls very poor.

This time, Yiyang was about to break through Dirk's cover, but in the end he changed hands in a wide arc and passed through the deceived Irving.

Irving has no way of judging these fake screens.

After Yiyang broke through, he still hit the basket despite Mozgov's interference. To be honest, it seems a bit inappropriate for Mozgov's ability to start in the Cavaliers. His ability to protect the frame is completely not up to the level of the finals.

Leading by four points, Yiyang retreated and looked at James sitting on the bench. If he doesn't play, the Cavaliers will be in crisis.

Irving also wanted to share the pressure on James, but when Yiyang was concentrating on locking someone down, it was difficult for even Irving to make a difference.

This time, Owen used cover and shaking to finally get past Yiyang! Mike Breen opened his mouth wide. This seemed to be the first time since the start of the playoffs that someone was able to deceive Yiyang with a simple shake. From this we can see how terrifying Owen's abilities are!

It's a pity that the Mavericks players are not only strong in individual defense, but also in assist defense. Gobert raised his arms and rushed toward Irving. Seeing this, Irving passed the ball to Mozgov, who was dropped by Gobert!

Mozgov was about to dunk with both hands, but Gobert turned around, jumped, and knocked the basketball out of the Russian's hand!

"With a keen sense of smell, Rudy can always do a good job defensively in the three-second zone!"

In addition to Gobert's excellent defense in this goal, Mozgov's mediocre ability is also one of the reasons why he was unable to score. If it were Green, he wouldn't have committed a foul on Gobert.

Wade received the basketball and immediately passed the ball to Yiyang who was running in front with a diagonal pass.

Yiyang leaned on Irving and reached a 45° position in the middle distance on the right side. There, Yiyang suddenly stopped and then raised the basketball with one hand and stretched out his arm.

"Alley-oop!?" Owen subconsciously took a step back and raised his hand. But nothing happened. Yiyang's fingers never relaxed when grabbing the ball with one hand. This was just a fake shot!

With his arm retracted, the basketball was still "sticky" to Yiyang's hand, but Owen had been deceived into losing his best defensive position. Yiyang easily succeeded in the mid-range shot, and Irving was completely toyed with by Yiyang on the defensive end.

"A fake pass to catch the ball with one hand! Gentlemen, is it my imagination!? I seem to see the shadow of Michael Jordan in Yi!" Mike Brin couldn't believe it. Yiyang really had a few tricks just now. Share Jordan's charm.

At that time, Jordan also relied on various fake passes after catching the ball with one hand, making his opponents confused. Yiyang actually did not deliberately imitate, but sometimes great players are always very similar.

The Mavericks scored six points in a row, but the Cavaliers were still unable to open up their scoring drought. Irving has to face not just Yiyang, but the entire Mavericks system. Because the current Cavaliers, J.R. and Shumpert don't seem to have a good handle. Tristan Thompson and Mozgov's two inside scoring methods are limited to "eating the pie" and "picking up the slack", so the Mavericks are fully targeting Irving, which is equivalent to targeting the Cavaliers' offense.

"David, I'm going to play!" James shouted, and before David Blatt could nod, he stood up on his own.

In James' team, the coach is often not the supreme commander in charge of everything, James is.

Although Yiyang is also a leader-type player, he will not contradict Carlisle, let alone deny Carlisle's arrangements. Even if Carlisle arranged for some "weird" people to shoot the winning shot, Yiyang would not have any objection. Unless, Carlisle's arrangement is very stupid in Yiyang's opinion. Of course, this never happened.

But James is different. Before he left the Cavaliers, James had more than one "overstepping" behavior.

In Game 4 of this season's Western Conference semifinals, James directly wiped out Blatt's tactics at the last moment of the game, and then told everyone: Just give me the ball.

So, James defeated the Bulls in that game. And David Blatt became the laughing stock of the media.

It seems that James still does not intend to give Brat, the "rookie coach" any face. Before Blatter could react, James had already gone to the technical table to prepare.

Blatter's face turned red and purple. This coach who had achieved great success in Europe felt that his lungs were about to explode!

Seeing James preparing on the technical stage, Carlisle clapped his hands and winked at Iguodala. Iguodala stepped onto the court and also took off his training clothes.

When James saw Iguodala coming, he couldn't help but lower his proud head slightly. what's the situation? Tony Allen has only played for a few minutes.

"Do you want to replace Tony and increase the offensive firepower? Indeed, you have already put in too much energy on the defensive end." Armstrong did not understand what Carlisle meant and expressed his guess.

"No, later you go to the sidelines and shout, let Andre replace Dirk, we will play one senior and four juniors!" Carlisle patted his assistant on the shoulder and smiled mischievously.

Everything is under the control of Carlisle and Yiyang.