On May 4th, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Cleveland Cavaliers went to challenge the Orlando Magic away from home! The Cavaliers narrowly defeated the Magic by one point in the battle of Tianwang Mountain, won the series match point, and occupied the initiative in the series! G6 came up, the two teams were full of offense and defense, and the score took the lead alternately. The Magic pulled away in the rotation at one point, but the Cavaliers quickly erased the deficit with two guns. After the break, the Cavaliers played a wave of 13-2 small surge to turn the situation on the court, however, the Magic team was not vegetarian, Suggs led the team to return a wave of three-point rain, and the two teams returned to the same running line, once again in a tug-of-war. This situation was maintained until the decisive moment, Mitchell carried the offensive banner alone, and the Magic team gathered firewood and flames, and sealed the victory with a wave of 14-5 offense! In the end, the Cavaliers lost to the Magic 96-103!
The Magic team has a fight against the odds, and if they lose, they have to go home. In the face of the menacing Cavaliers, the Magic team was young and fearless, and in the case of the injury of Allen, the starting center of the Cavaliers, the Magic team dominated the rebounding, defeating the Cavaliers 48-38 in rebounding, and 15-7 in the frontcourt rebounding to the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers lost the commanding heights of the interior, and the backcourt could only carry explosives bags to impact the interior, and the team scored 66-38 inside to blow up the Magic. It's just that the Cavaliers' style of play is too tiring, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, while the Magic team punished the Cavaliers' backcourt defense with a simpler three-point shot, especially Suggs, 6 three-pointers are like a god; in contrast, the Cavaliers only scored a total of 7 three-pointers in the whole game! This is the era of small ball, without the escort of three-point shots, it is too difficult to win.
The Magic team saved the first match point, Banchero, Wagner Jr., Suggs, Carter Jr. and other young people made a move, everyone for me and I for everyone! Among them, Banchero scored 27 points + 8 rebounds + 4 assists, Wagner Jr. scored 26 points + 5 rebounds + 2 assists, Suggs scored 22 points + 6 rebounds + 4 assists + 6 three-pointers, and Carter Jr. scored 11 points + 9 rebounds. On the Cavaliers' side, Garland and Mitchell were isolated in the backcourt, Garland scored 21 points + 7 rebounds + 5 assists, and the 8-second violation at the critical moment in the final quarter directly "killed the game". However, Mitchell really did his best! He played 41 minutes, shooting 22-of-36 (3-of-9 three-pointers) and 3-of-6 free throws, and blasted 50 points + 4 rebounds + 4 assists. Especially in the final quarter of the game, Mitchell scored all the 18 points of the whole team, tragic! At the same time, Mitchell broke a number of NBA records!
According to statistics from the NBA's official website, 50 points are a new high for Mitchell's Cavaliers career playoffs, and the last Cavaliers player to complete this achievement was James. At the same time, this is the third time in Mitchell's playoff career that he has scored 50+, tying Iverson for the third place in NBA history, and Mitchell is also the only active player in the NBA league to score 50+ at least three times in the playoffs; in contrast, in addition to Mitchell, only Lillard, Tatum and Murray have scored 50+ in the playoffs more than once (all 2 times)! In another statistic, Mitchell is the second player in NBA history to score 50+ in the playoffs multiple timesThe first player who lost was Jordan! I have to say, Mitchell is too difficult!
The Cavaliers failed to end the series on the road, and the score of the two sides came to 3-3, and they will play a tie-break at 1 a.m. on May 6, which is also the first group of tie-breaks in the playoffs this season! The young Magic team has won respect, but the situation of the Cavaliers is not optimistic, Allen's rib injury is on the daily watch list, and Mitchell has been playing with a knee injury, which invisibly affects the offensive and defensive strength of the Cavaliers! Regardless of whether the Cavaliers or the Magic can make it past the first round, the Green Army will reap the benefits, and they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait for the rest of the work, so as to win more recovery time for the Boshen! Fans and friends, what do you think about this?