Chapter 149 Willing to be cut in pieces, dare to pull the emperor off his horse

James hesitated and found Mike Brown:

"Mike, let me play early, I don't want to drag this game to the end."

Mike Brown said with some puzzlement:

"LeBron, it's just a regular season..."

"This game, I have to win." James interrupted.

Mike Brown could only nod:

"Okay, you will rest for 4 minutes... 3 minutes, tomorrow we have to go to Washington to play a game, don't consume too much energy."

Seeing James' uneasy expression, he immediately explained.

After the Cavaliers beat the Warriors, there will be another back-to-back game. He has to minimize James' physical consumption.

James wanted to play after a 2-minute break, but Mike Brown was right, he could only agree.

After the start of the fourth quarter, both Curry and James rested off the court, and the substitutes of the two teams began to show their power.

Azubuike, who sat off the court for most of the third quarter, was physically fit. Facing the Cavaliers' weak back line, he showed a very comprehensive scoring method and scored consecutively after playing.

Although Monta Ellis was the starter, James started full power mode today, and he didn't take many shots. Mike Brown replaced him in the middle of the third quarter, and let him and Mo Williams lead the bench.

Facing his old club that traded him away, he had a particularly strong desire to attack. He would not let go of the ball while holding the ball. He regarded Mo Williams as nothing and was obsessed with singles.

Zhang Yu quickly noticed that Monta Ellis was not in the right state of mind. He decisively instructed his players to double-team Monta Ellis and successfully disrupted two Cavaliers offenses. The Warriors took the opportunity to fight back.

In the 9th minute, when James took advantage of the dead ball to play, the score was 89:88, and the Warriors went ahead by 1 point.

James came to Monta Ellis, instead of blaming him, he comforted him:

"Monta, calm down, our goal is to win."

"I'm sorry, I was impulsive." Monta Ellis apologized quickly, recalling his lone wolf playing style just now.

When he was in the Warriors, he had unlimited firepower. He usually has James on the line, and he can still control himself, but when he is only on the court, he has no teammates in his eyes.

James smiled with satisfaction, and changed the subject:

"Later, you pay attention to cutting from the bottom line..."

When the two were communicating, Reggie Williams made the second free throw and the Cavaliers had the ball.

James holds the ball, drives easily to the Warriors inside, attracts the help defense and passes the ball to Monta Ellis who cuts along the baseline, who drives up and scores.

89: 90.

Zhang Yu watched from the sidelines and shook his head. James came in too easily, and the Warriors' perimeter defense seemed to be paper.

Reggie Williams seems to be strong, but his confrontation ability is far worse than Butler's, and he can't stand James at all.

Do you want to call a timeout and replace the starter?

An idea came to Zhang Yu's mind, but then he fell into hesitation.

The league's schedule is relatively fair. Not only will the Cavaliers play back-to-back tomorrow, but the Warriors will also play back-to-back, and they will still challenge the Celtics' Big Three.

If too much physical energy is consumed today, it will be very difficult for the Warriors to play against the Celtics tomorrow.

While Zhang Yu was still weighing, in the next round, James swipe his card to help defend, steal Azubuike and push for a counterattack. Although the Warriors returned to the defense very quickly, they still did not block James. He rushed inside and made a layup. .

89:92

Yang Yi sighed:

"This is the strength of a superstar. James returned to the court for less than a minute and helped the Cavaliers get the score back. The Warriors' defense is like paper in front of him."

Zhang Yu looked at James's heroic operation to kill the Quartet, no longer hesitated, called a timeout decisively, replaced all the starters, and sounded the horn of the decisive battle in advance.

He figured it out, the Warriors challenged the two giants back to back, and it was profitable to win a game.

Zhang Yu completely put aside the match between the Warriors and the Celtics and tried his best to pull the little emperor down.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to use up a precious time-out opportunity, which greatly reduced his room for adjustment.

After the timeout ended, the Warriors returned with all their starters, while the Cavaliers were still playing with James and Monta Ellis leading the bench.

Zhang Weiping said in surprise:

"Hey, it's only 8 minutes into the fourth quarter, and the Warriors are going to go all out. They have a game against the Celtics tomorrow. If they do this, the players' physical fitness won't be able to keep up."

Yang Yi said:

"I think Zhang Yu wanted to keep this game without losing, and gave up tomorrow's game against the Celtics. It's not easy for the Warriors to stalemate with the Cavaliers until the fourth quarter. If I were the head coach of the Warriors, I couldn't just sit and watch Let James close the game. Tomorrow everyone will have back-to-back, who is afraid of whom, this is called being willing to cut the emperor down!"

As Yang Yi said, the Warriors players were very excited after they came on the court. Curry scored a three-pointer as soon as he came up, and the touch was still hot.

When the Cavaliers attacked, James held the ball, and although Butler was ravaged the whole game, he still confronted James without fear and did not flinch at all.

He kept in mind what Zhang Yu said during the timeout—"No. God; if you lose, you will practice more!"

Butler doesn't care whether he has a holiday or not, and he is not afraid of extra training, but he knows that if the boss wants to win this game, he must go all out!

boom!

James sank his shoulders and pressed against Butler's chest, making a heavy muffled sound.

Butler's expression changed, and he felt a sledgehammer hit him, but he roared in his heart, abruptly withstood James' impact, and did not give him a breakthrough route.

James was a little surprised, he didn't expect this rookie to be able to withstand this.

He then used a somewhat stiff movement in front of his body to change direction, handed the ball to his left hand, and made another push with his right shoulder.

boom!

Under the impact, Butler finally couldn't stand it anymore, and staggered back a small step.

James took advantage of this little space, strode forward, and squeezed arbitrarily. Butler was pushed away by him with great force and lost his position, but he still managed to keep up, half a body behind, and entangled with James.

With Butler hanging on James, he rushed to the basket, in front of Biedrins who was defending.

James subconsciously wants to split the ball, but Hickson's consciousness is no better than O'Neal's. He didn't withdraw to the space on the other side of the penalty area, but was right behind Biedrins, and James couldn't pass the ball to him.

In desperation, James can only slow down, trying to bypass Biedrins.

But Butler had sharp eyes and quick hands. The moment he slowed down, he slapped hard, and slapped the basketball in James' hand to the ground!

James, who was about to start, felt that his hands were empty. Looking down, the basketball hit his feet and rolled to the ground.

He didn't even think about it, and bent down to pick it up, but Butler kicked his feet on the ground, leaped out, threw himself on the ground, and held the ball with his right hand.

Seeing this, James also rushed out without thinking, put his hands on the basketball, and pressed it on Butler.Butler was heavily pressed and yelled in pain, but his right hand held the basketball firmly and did not let go, and he wrestled fiercely with James. Both of them hugged a part of the basketball, grabbed it hard, and became a mess on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Biedrins and Hickson were the closest to them, and without thinking, they joined the ranks of fighting. Eight big hands fought for each other in a small space, and the action was very fierce.

"Di-"

At this moment, the referee finally ran over, blew his whistle, and then shouted:

"Stop, all stop!"

Biedrins and Hickson were pulled away by the referee and the linesman, while the bodies of James and Butler were still entangled, but the movement stopped.

The referee asked them to get up, but both of them pressed their four big hands firmly on the basketball, showing no intention of getting up.

The referee frowned, and stretched out his hand to signal the other players to come over and pull the two of them up. Then they got up slowly, but they all looked at each other with unfriendly eyes, and there seemed to be a smell of gunpowder in the air.

Because the actions of the two were too intense, the referee did not see clearly. The three referees came to the technical stage, reviewed the video repeatedly, and awarded a scrimmage.

Both Butler and James were not very satisfied with this result, but the referee made a decision and they could only accept it.

James rubbed his wrist, and looked at Butler with some dissatisfaction:

"Boy, your moves are out of bounds. Didn't Coach Z tell you to respect your seniors?"

Butler grinned:

"Hehe, the referee didn't even call me a foul, so it's your turn to teach me a lesson?"

James was taken aback, and said in disbelief:

"Do you know who you're talking to?"

Butler walked past him and replied:

"I don't care who you are, if you're on the field, don't play if you can't afford it!"

James was taken aback again, and chuckled:

"Oh, interesting..."

He shook his hands vigorously, straightened his hair tie, and his eyes became much more serious.

Afterwards, James won the jump ball with Butler without any suspense. This time, he didn't care anymore. He used enough strength to block Butler, rushed into the inside, dodged Biedrins's help defense, and succeeded in a layup.

When James returned to defense, he gave Butler a cold look:

"Correct your identity, boy, show some respect to those you can't guard against!"

Butler clenched his fists tightly, but he didn't respond in humiliation. He just ran to the front court silently, but the smell of gunpowder in the court was much stronger.

Curry heard this sentence next to him, and immediately responded:

"Really? Then you guard me!"

He seems to have a humble personality, but he loves to stand out for his teammates, and Butler has the best relationship with him, and Curry will never turn a blind eye.

James also lost his previous big brother demeanor, sneered and said:

"Do you dare to challenge me one-on-one?"

"Did you think it was a field game in Akron?"

The two sprayed a few trash words to each other, and Curry took the serve from his teammate and came to the frontcourt.