594. Battle of Guan Jian
The Cleveland Cavaliers were not able to end this round of the series at home in the New York Knicks, which is indeed somewhat surprising.
Because in most people's eyes, it is not difficult for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who come with the remnant power of three consecutive victories, to win this game.
Because the New York Knicks lost three games in a row, their morale was low and they suffered from all kinds of troubles, and this alone was enough to win the Cleveland Cavaliers in the series.
But when the game really started, people found that even though the New York Knicks were behind the Cleveland Cavaliers with a total score of 1:3, they obviously did not intend to give up this round of the series.
They still hope to win this round of the series, even if their hopes are already very slim. But they will still try their best to win the game.
Just like the final result of this game, the Cleveland Cavaliers were not able to return to Cleveland with the victory of this game as people expected and expected, while officially ending this round of series!
When the New York Knicks finally won the series with a score of 102:95 at their own home court, the total score became 3:2. Although the Cleveland Cavaliers are still the leading side, the New York Knicks still have hope of advancing.
Moreover, in this game, the victory of the New York Knicks at their home court did surprise many people. Not only the outside world, but as the opponent of the New York Knicks, the Cleveland Cavaliers were actually ready to end this round of series in New York as the outside world said.
But no one could imagine that the New York Knicks would still play such a tenacious performance at their home court. Perhaps the past four days have indeed left them with a lot of rest time. Therefore, the New York Knicks players were able to play such tenacious and dreamy performance in the game that night.
Indeed, compared with the past three games, the performance of the New York Knicks on the night of May 12 is indeed enough to be dreamy. At least they are no longer blindly behind the Cleveland Cavaliers. In this game, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks can be said to be the leader alternately.
Neither side can say that they will definitely be ahead of each other. Both sides are offensive and defensive, and neither can completely suppress each other. This has changed a lot from the past three games. At least in the past three games, the Cleveland Cavaliers have almost always overwhelmed the New York Knicks one-sidedly.
On the night of May 12, the New York Knicks played a completely different performance from the previous three games, and such performance also brought huge rewards to the New Yorkers!
In the fifth game, they finally got back 10%! In this way, the total score became 3:2, and the life of the Eastern Conference semi-finals was continued. The next sixth game will be played back in Cleveland.
Wu Dawei was also surprised by the momentum that the New York Knicks had in this game, as the core of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
"Yes. The New York Knicks played very hard, they were completely different from the past three games! Cameron Anthony, Tyson Chandler and others all played dominant performances! This is the key to their ability to win. They no longer played confidence like they did in the past few games, and New York fans also gave them great support. Overall, their performance deserves the victory of this game."
After the end of this game, Wu Dawei, who scored 27 points, 7 assists and 11 rebounds, gave a high evaluation of the performance of the New York Knicks in this night's game.
In his opinion, the New Yorker's performance in the game that night was indeed enough to lose the victory of this game. However, when the reporter asked him about what interesting reversal would take place in the next game, Wu Dawei was still ambitious about the prospect of the Cleveland Cavaliers in this round of the series.
"The defeat in this game really surprised us." When facing the reporters' questions, Wu Dawei continued: "Although the total score has become 3:2 now, it will indeed put some pressure on us. But we still have the confidence to end the battle in the next game! You know, when we return to the home court, we will become a completely different team! Although it cannot be said that it is a win every battle, we are indeed very confident!"
Regarding the reporters' interview, Wu Dawei did not say anything vague, but gave the reporters a clear answer clearly. That is, he and his team will definitely play their own rhythm again in the next sixth game between the two sides.
Although he unexpectedly lost the fifth game, the Cleveland Cavaliers are still very confident that they can win the sixth game.
But no matter what, the Cleveland Cavaliers finally lost the fifth game of the series in New York. After losing this game, the whole team was still in a relatively low mood.
The total score became 3:2 after this game. Although the Cleveland Cavaliers will still be the leading side, as Wu Dawei said in an interview with the media, when the total score becomes 3:2 after five games, of course they will still feel some pressure.
Although the next game will be back to the Quick Loan Center in Cleveland for the next game, the Cleveland Cavaliers will have more than 20,000 Cleveland fans cheering for them at home.
But this will not relieve the team's psychological pressure at that time, because if the Cleveland Cavaliers continue to lose in that game, they will be tied by the New Yorkers to the total score. At the same time, the final seventh game will be moved to Madison Garden Plaza, the home court of the New York Knicks.
If that time really comes, no one can predict the result. After all, the New York Knicks are not a team that is completely incompetent. Although they are indeed not as strong as the Cleveland Cavaliers in terms of strength, the gap between the two sides is not as big as imagined.
So if the game is really dragged into the final battle of Game 7, then by that time, everyone will really not be able to guess who can truly stand out from this round of series.
Although people are still quite confident that the Cleveland Cavaliers will win this round of series and become the final winner. However, if the Cleveland Cavaliers cannot win the next game, then by that time, people will no longer be able to support the Cleveland Cavaliers as they are now.
After all, the New York Knicks are not vegetarian anymore. If the game is really dragged into the final battle of Game 7, then in the eyes of most people, the winning rate will be 55!
So after losing Game 5, for the Cleveland Cavaliers, all their next work focus is how to return to their own rhythm in the upcoming Game 6.
No Clevelander would be willing to lose another game in this round of series. They already hold the match point, so naturally they would not want to be dragged into the tiebreak by their opponents.
After all, at the end of Game 4, the New York Knicks were almost the fish on the pallet of the Cleveland Cavaliers and they were left to slaughter.
However, the "accident" of the fifth game caused all this to change subtly. For such changes, the Clevelanders would definitely not want to be taken to the sixth game.
Because they don't want to go through tiebreaks, and they don't want to see the loss in their home speed loan center.
In the last round of the series, they just eliminated a team from New York with a 4-0 clean qualifying match. Naturally, the Clevelanders would not expect to be eliminated by another team from New York in the second round!
So when the fifth game ended, the Cleveland Cavaliers returned to Cleveland that night. After the fifth game of this round of series, all the focus of attention was also focused on the sixth game between the two sides!
Whether it is for the Cleveland Cavaliers or the New York Knicks, the next sixth game will be the most important turning point in this round of the series!
If the Cleveland Cavaliers can win Game 6, they will successfully end this round of series; and if the New York Knicks win this game, they can completely reverse the decline, and may even win three consecutive victories like the previous Cleveland Cavaliers, and then eliminate the Cleveland Cavaliers. This is also possible!
Chapter completed!