Jordan: I thought he was there to help me!

Chapter 1095 A completely different fighting style! A completely opposite route!

What is double standards?

Durant's trash talk is a textbook example of double standards.

When Anthony criticized him, this guy kept talking about the team, saying that basketball is a team sport, and then he would try to teach Anthony the true meaning of basketball.

But now that he's scored, he immediately launches a tirade against Anthony, as if everything he just said was nonsense, a joke, or just his own rambling.

It can only be said that none of the people who learned trash talk from Lin Tian have any shame.

Just open your mouth and start spewing!

Unwittingly, Kobe has moved further away from Lin Tian and Durant.

He was afraid of being infected.

He felt that he cared quite a bit about saving face.

Immediately afterwards, Anthony successfully got his revenge, dribbling to the basket and scoring, which could be considered as retaliating against Durant. However, Durant immediately changed his expression when he saw Anthony's reaction.

"Melo, basketball is a team sport! One person's scoring can't save the team or make it better."

"Screw you!" Anthony exploded. "You black bastard, shut up! Shameless! Did you even go to school? Do you even know what the bottom line of humanity is?"

"Lin taught me all of this! He said that's how he taught you back then." Durant chuckled, betraying Lin Tian without hesitation.

"Nonsense! He never taught me that!" Anthony immediately retorted. "I won't learn it!"

"Lin, he looks down on you. He said he won't learn what you taught him!" It has to be said that Durant is born to do this. It would be a waste to only use his talent to argue with people online.

It needs to be brought into reality, its power needs to be known by everyone, and its latent trolling potential needs to be fully unleashed to benefit humanity.

Lin Tian watched as this guy quickly got into the zone and even learned how to sow discord. Instead of telling him to stop or back down, he gave him a thumbs up and said, "Keep attacking Kevin! Well done, keep it up."

Having received Lin Tian's approval, Durant revealed a sinister grin, much like a villain in a movie: "You're finished, Melo!"

Anthony helplessly spread his hands. What could he say? What could he do?

He could only regret not learning more from Lin Tian when he was with the Knicks...

It's too late!

The two exchanged insults while keeping their feet moving. Durant kept running around, while Anthony did everything he could to chase him down, not giving Durant any chance to receive the ball. In the pivotal Game 5 of the series, Anthony finally showed the defensive attitude that everyone had been hoping for.

But the Lakers clearly don't care if Anthony temporarily shuts down one player; the Lakers have no shortage of offensive options.

This time, the Lakers suddenly changed their strategy and played a high-low post game.

And it was Bynum who received the pass at the free-throw line, then spun inside and passed the ball to Murphy, who cut to the basket instead of cutting outside. Murphy then took the ball and launched a very smooth floater.

Although Murphy is an inside player and he is on the edge of the three-second zone, he is like a germaphobe who just won't enter the three-second zone and won't make any physical contact with his opponent.

A guard-like floater was thrown out, successfully evading Big Z's defense, and fell directly into the basket.

The Lakers' mismatch strategy drew gasps and exclamations of admiration from the commentators.

Although it was just a very simple high-low post play, the Lakers had Bynum, who usually goes to the low post, facilitate from the high post, and Murphy, who usually shoots from beyond the three-point line, finish at the rim. This creativity and courage are truly commendable!

After Lakers' Murphy made that floater, both teams suddenly went into a scoring drought again, going more than a minute without anyone scoring until Wade found another opportunity, driving into the paint and throwing himself into the air, drawing a foul on Durant who was helping on defense and earning two free throws, which brought points back to both teams.

In the following minutes, the players from both sides went back and forth, neither giving an inch, and the score went back and forth, with neither side letting up. The match was a clash of titans, incredibly exciting and entertaining.

With one minute left in the first quarter, both coaches had already begun rotating their players. Lin Tian was leading the Lakers, while Wade was leading the Cavaliers. Most of the remaining starters had already gone to the bench to rest.

"Come on, Lin!" Wade faced Lin Tian charging towards him, arms outstretched, earnestly challenging him to a fight!

"No way!" Lin Tian pouted at Wade like a child, then suddenly made a long bounce pass. The basketball flew straight to the bottom of the basket again. Rookie Parsons, who had just come on, caught the basketball, turned sideways, and made a reverse layup to avoid the block and put the basketball into the basket.

"Is this interesting?" Wade was exasperated. Lin Tian really was something else; he always managed to put on an unexpected performance and always played in ways no one could have imagined.

Just when you think he's going to do it himself, he'll pass the ball. Just when you think he's about to give up, he'll suddenly have a highlight-reel moment and turn the game around. Just when you think it's a good opportunity to pass the ball, he'll suddenly unleash a super long-range three-pointer.

Unpredictable! Absolutely unpredictable!

This is Wade's evaluation of Lin Tian.

But no matter how unpredictable it is, even if I can't defend against you at all, I will never give up like this!

Wade dribbled to the frontcourt, waved for a high double screen, and then accelerated aggressively, using the screens from his two interior partners, driving into the paint without looking back.

Under the Lakers' basket, McRoberts raised his hands and jumped with all his might. His timing was impeccable, and his defensive posture was admirable. Even the most blatant referee who wanted to call a foul on him would have had a hard time finding an opportunity to call a foul on him in this play.

McRoberts also performed exceptionally well, providing a near-perfect defensive option.

Unfortunately, Wade also played exceptionally well!

With his vision blocked, all his shooting angles prevented, and he unable to even see the basket, Wade used a side hook shot, relying on his instincts, to throw the basketball in the direction he remembered the basket was going to be.

"Whoosh!"

After the crisp sound, Wade also scored a crucial 2 points, responding to the Lakers.

"You're just too scared to play one-on-one with me, aren't you? Ever since you were too scared to ask that boy you liked to the prom in your senior year of high school, have you been too afraid to play one-on-one with anyone, little girl?"

"Remember the nickname I gave you back then, 'Screwman'? I think you really loved that nickname."

"Because you're a spineless coward, a complete coward, a weakling, a pathetic loser!"

"I'm sure Kevin's trash talk was taught by you." Wade shook his head helplessly, indicating that he had figured out the core elements of the trash talk passed down in your lineage.

Double standard!

The two of them are both shameless and hypocritical.

"Unfortunately, you found out too late! It's too late!" Lin Tian was not shocked when Wade exposed him. Instead, he smiled slightly, indicating that everything was under control.

What's going on? Wade was completely bewildered.

What does this mean? What do you mean it's too late? What do you mean it's too late? There are still tens of seconds left in the first quarter, and the two sides are almost evenly matched. How can it be too late? How can it be unsuccessful?

Lin Tian quickly showed Wade what it meant to be too late with his actions.

After you paused for a moment, it was too late for your defense.

You can't catch me!

Lin Tian suddenly accelerated past Wade, then drove all the way to the basket and laid it off for two points!

"Now you know what 'too late' means!" After scoring, Lin Tian looked at Wade triumphantly and said, "Too late for defense."

Wade said he already knew, but he was just too lazy to say it.

Moreover, is it really okay for him to just say something like that?

Completely speechless after being annoyed by Lin Tian, ​​Wade was too lazy to argue with him anymore. He just glanced at the timer; there were 15 seconds left.

Wade dribbled the ball to the three-point line in the frontcourt.

Facing Lin Tian's close defense, Wade carefully controlled the basketball to prevent Lin Tian from making a sneak attack, while calmly watching the time and waiting for it to pass.

It would be best if we could score on this possession, but more important than that is that we must not give the Lakers any time at all. We must take the shot at the buzzer and not give the Lakers any chance!

With five seconds left, Wade made a near-limit-limit start!

Generally speaking, players will start their last offensive play at the end of the quarter when the clock is down to about 8 seconds. They are also worried that their initial tactics will not be executed, so they need to leave themselves some room for error.

But Wade only started his attack with just 5 seconds left, clearly leaving himself no room for error.

He was determined that even if he missed the shot or even made a mistake, he would absolutely not give the Lakers any chance to counterattack or make a final blow.

I might not score, but you'll definitely never get another chance to shoot. That's Wade's plan.

A choice that is both bold and cautious.

Faced with Wade's sudden burst of speed, Lin Tian moved his legs rapidly, constantly shifting sideways, keeping himself in front of Wade and maintaining his defensive position.

"You're dribbling too high! The range of motion is too wide, it's pointless! Who told you that a wide dribbling range guarantees you'll get past someone? It has to be just right! Not getting better the more you dribble!" Lin Tian was sticking to Wade's defense while constantly trash-talking him to disrupt his offense.

Wade kept his head down, constantly looking for an opportunity, but Lin Tian's defense was so tight that he didn't get any comfortable chance to shoot.

What's worse is that if it were any other top-tier shooting guard, they would at least have a height advantage when facing Lin Tian, ​​as he could forcefully jump up and throw a shot using his height.

However, Wade is only 193 cm tall, and his height has always been a disadvantage for the shooting guard position. Although Lin Tian on the other side is shorter than him, his 2 cm height advantage is really negligible compared to Lin Tian's 191 cm height.

He couldn't force a shot, and a forced breakthrough didn't yield any opportunities or openings. The five seconds were ticking away, and Wade couldn't even get close to the three-second zone.

Seeing that Lin Tian had forced him into a corner with no chance left, Wade, who was one step away from the free-throw line, had no choice but to suddenly gather the ball, hold it in his arms, and take a huge, reckless leap towards the inside, slamming himself like a bomb into the edge of the three-second zone, an area where he was more adept at scoring.

Then Wade jumped as far back as possible, leaning his upper body backward as much as possible.

As it turned out, his move was incredibly clever.

Because Lin Tian was not shaken off by Wade's brute force attack, which lacked any skill, Lin Tian immediately followed and jumped up with Wade. His long arms covered the sky and blocked Wade's view, making it impossible for Wade to even see the basket.

Even with Wade anticipating Lin Tian's defense and using a fadeaway jump to avoid it, if Wade had jumped forward with a normal motion, he might have ended up like Chalmers, getting a brutal block from Lin Tian.

Faced with Lin Tian's almost impenetrable defense, all Wade could do was lean back as much as possible, barely managing to dodge Lin Tian's block, and then flick his wrist to release the basketball.

Wade gave it his all, but all he could do was wait for luck to smile upon him.

He had absolutely no confidence in this shot.

With a contorted posture, an awkward shot, an unseen rim, and a slightly weak jump after the contact, Wade even closed his eyes, hoping that fate would smile upon him.

Even just once?

"Buzz!"

Almost simultaneously, the whistle blew to end the first quarter, and the basketball clearly changed direction as it flew toward the basket.

"Monster! Lin managed to block that? He's practically a Martian!" Miller's shooting instincts made him immediately notice the change in the basketball's trajectory; Lin Tian's finger had indeed slightly poked the bottom of the ball.

Although it had a negligible impact on the basketball, it was definitely a block.

If Wade had shot that ball with normal form and touch, that one touch would have been enough to make the basketball miss the rim and bounce out.

But Wade threw it haphazardly this time.

So, after Lin Tian touched the basketball, it hit the back edge of the rim perfectly, bounced once, then once more, and circled the rim a full time. After holding everyone's breath, the basketball seemed to finally tire of the suspense.

"Whoosh!"

With a crisp sound, the basketball reluctantly fell into the hoop!

At the end of the first quarter, Wade hit a powerful yet lucky floater at the buzzer!

At the same time, after this shot was scored, the first quarter ended in a tie!

28: 28!

The two sides were evenly matched in the first quarter!

"Good luck." Turning around and seeing the basketball go into the hoop, Lin Tiandao shrugged and said nonchalantly, "But luck can't always be on your side. Lady Luck is notoriously fickle."

"Luck is also a part of skill," Wade said matter-of-factly. "When the skill levels are evenly matched, the side with better luck is more likely to win."

"But first and foremost, we really have to be evenly matched, right?" Lin Tian shrugged, saying nonchalantly, "Don't overestimate yourself, or you'll suffer a terrible fate!"

After Lin Tian finished speaking, he turned and left first, heading towards the Lakers' bench. Jackson would need to give instructions for the second quarter.

"Both sides played at a very fast pace tonight, with excellent offensive efficiency and player form. However, upon closer inspection, their playing styles are completely different, almost like polar opposites." Van Gundy's voice rang out again as the game entered the break.

"A simple statistic can clearly illustrate this point: the two teams were tied in the first quarter, but for the Cavaliers, Wade scored 11 points and Anthony scored 10 points, with the two core players combining for 21 points, while all the other players combined for only 7 points."

"And those 7 points came from Gasol and Chalmers, which means that only 4 players on the Cavaliers scored in the first quarter."

"And for the Lakers? Lin led the scoring with 7 points, followed by Kobe with 5 points. All five starters scored, and Terry and Barnes, who came off the bench, each added 2 points."

"In the first quarter, seven Lakers players scored."

"Looking at the stats alone, it seems like a perfect team battle against a star team with top-tier players," Miller said with a smile. "But if you look at the rosters, you'll find that the Lakers have better and more stars, while the Cavaliers are the team that plays as a cohesive unit."

"Both sides are playing the way the other is best at and should be using, which is really interesting."

Jackson added, "Now I'm curious, did both sides play their all? If you say they played their all, they used a style of play that was theoretically better suited to their opponent. If you say they didn't play their all, the first quarter was so exciting that you couldn't blink."

"And another question: if they change their playing style again to the style they are best at, who will be the first to give in? Because for both sides, they now have a common advantage: I haven't even used my ultimate move yet, and I've already tied you."

"What if I pull out my ultimate move?"

"Unpredictable!" Van Gundy stated his assessment simply and directly: "I have absolutely no way of predicting how this match will unfold, but I believe that both sides will continue to deliver an exciting and intense game until the very end!"

「28：28！对于球迷来说，没有比这更让人兴奋的比分了，我相信球迷们会期盼着比赛就这幺一路平，一路往48：48、68：68、108：108去的。」

"That's not necessarily true," Miller said. "At least Lakers and Cavaliers supporters definitely want their teams to win by a large margin!"

"This is the finals, the battle for supremacy! Winning is the most important thing, and winning the championship easily is more important than anything else."

The break between games was quite short. After a few commentators cracked jokes and made some predictions and analyses, the game officially started, and the players from both sides began to walk onto the field.

At this stage, both sides fielded a mixed lineup of starters and substitutes.

However, just by looking at the lineups of both teams, the differences between the two teams can be seen once again.

Jackson on the Lakers' side was clearly bolder in his player selection, and the lineup he fielded on the court was Murphy, McRoberts, Durant, Kobe, and Thomas.

Although the Lakers had three starters, the other two were players who rarely got playing time. With Terry and Barnes, who had already played for a while in the first quarter, the Lakers already had nine players on the court at the very beginning of the second quarter!

Judging from Jackson's expression, he's going to test out the lineup tonight to see who's in good form and who can handle the pressure.

The Cavaliers, on the other hand, were much more cautious in their personnel choices. Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Varejao partnered in the frontcourt, while the three perimeter players were Carmelo Anthony, Anthony Parker, and Sessions.

In terms of personnel, the Cavaliers currently have three substitutes on the court, and eight players have already played in games.

However, Varejao, Parker, and Sessions all entered the game at the end of the first quarter, and they are still on the court. Given Brown's personnel habits and style, the Cavaliers might be using this eight-man rotation tonight. (End of Chapter)