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As the referee's whistle sounded, the game officially began.

In the jump ball session, Whiteside's amazing jumping ability is best demonstrated.

Even though he was close to Gasol in height, Whiteside moved the basketball to his side first and jumped half a head higher than Gasol.

Cavaliers attack.

Irving dribbled the ball quickly across half court. Facing Curry's defense, he subconsciously wanted to hold the ball and go it alone. Then he remembered that the Cavaliers were no longer his team, and couldn't help but turn to look at Wang Chong on one side.

What he saw was Wang Chong waving his hand towards him, indicating that he could do it by himself.

Irving was relieved, lowered his center of gravity, and looked at Curry in front of him.

Curry's offensive ability is indeed the top level among point guards in the league. Not only is his shooting from beyond the three-point line extremely accurate, he is also very good at breaking through with the ball.

But on the defensive end, Curry has always been one of the Bulls' weaknesses and is often singled out for military training.

But there's nothing that can be done about it. During Wang Chong's era, only Curry, the point guard, defended half of the five positions on the Bulls team. The rest were all defensive heroes who could be selected for the All-Defensive Team. No one was easy to bully.

Facing Curry's defense, Irving chose to use a fancy change of direction to deceive Curry's center of gravity, and then ran straight towards the Bulls penalty area with the ball.

Bulls insider Gasol took the initiative to help defend, but Irving was not afraid of such cumbersome big players at all. Playing small against big players is also one of his unique skills.

Instead of advancing, Irving retreated, took the initiative to get close to Gasol, and followed the opponent's body to take off and pull the lever for a layup.

The basketball lightly hit the backboard and then rebounded into the basket. At the same time, the referee's whistle sounded. Gasol committed a defensive foul and added a free throw.

Irving scored 2+1, causing all the fans to cheer.

Irving stepped to the free throw line and made a steady free throw, 3:0.

The Bulls attacked. After Curry held the ball through half court, he looked around at his teammates on the court, and then chose to sling the ball to Gasol inside.

After Wang Chong left the team, Gasol became the second-ranked figure in the Bulls and the core of the interior offense.

Before this game, the Bulls had already analyzed the characteristics of the Cavaliers' lineup.

Although the height of the Cavaliers' starting lineup is quite astonishing. All three of them, including small forward Wang Chong, are over 2 meters tall. After all, starting center Whiteside is an absolute bench player that even the NBA could not match before. Even if The performance in the preseason was pretty good, but that was all.

At least the Bulls and Gasol didn't take Whiteside seriously. Although the two are similar in height, their weight is quite different. Gasol, as a traditional heavy center, weighs close to 120 kilograms, while Whiteside Said is less than 110 kilograms.

Gasol received the ball in the paint and faced Whiteside with his back to the basket. He squeezed under the basket and turned around to shoot a hook shot, but Whiteside jumped as high as he could and the height was completely beyond Gasol's expectation. Even though it was a hook shot that was difficult to block, it was still slightly touched by Whiteside's fingertips, and immediately deviated from its original trajectory, hitting the back edge of the basket and bouncing out of the rim.

Whiteside relies on his bounce and wingspan. At his peak, he averaged 3.7 blocks per game, not to mention that he was still completely underestimated by Gasol.

After completing the block, Whiteside immediately turned around and jumped continuously, grabbing the defensive rebound in front of Gasol.

Cavaliers attack.

Wang Chong still did not attack. The offensive basketball in this round was handed over to Pau Gasol. Everyone knows the principle of hitting the snake seven inches. The Bulls can let Gasol go to the Cavaliers to watch. Of course, the Cavaliers can do the same with Whiteside, who is the best to bully.

Among the five matchups on the court, the matchup between power forward Pau Gasol and Luol Deng is the one with the biggest gap.

Although Luol Deng is 2 meters tall, he is fully qualified for the power forward position in terms of height.

But inside and outside are completely different concepts after all. Luol Deng has always played as a small forward, and his weight of less than 100 kilograms is not competitive in the inside.

Perhaps in three to five years' time, when small-ball tactics become more prevalent and the inside height and weight continue to decrease, Luol Deng will be able to play the power forward position, but it is obviously not enough at this stage.

Pau Gasol followed suit, squeezing into the basket with his back like his younger brother Gasol, and then half-turned and shot a hook.

Luol Deng also jumped up trying to block the shot, but obviously he didn't have Whiteside's height and wingspan, and he didn't even have the same bounce as Whiteside. How could he stop Gasol's hook?

"Shh!"

The basketball swipes the net into the basket.

5: 0.

The Cavaliers suppressed the Bulls with excellent offensive ability from the beginning, and Wang Chong has not made a move so far.

Many media reporters who were waiting to see the Cavaliers' jokes were a little unable to laugh.

Why does this seem to be a bit of a disadvantage to the Cavaliers?

The game continued. After the Warriors failed in the first two attacks, they played a lot more cautiously. They used the pick-and-roll cooperation between Curry and Luol Deng to successfully score a goal and did not let the score continue to widen.

Both teams are full of offensive firepower, and their offense is quite fierce. In the first quarter of the game alone, the two teams scored 34 and 31 points respectively.

The Bulls relied on Curry's fire from beyond the three-point line to close the original 5-point difference to 3 points, but the team was uneasy.

The reason is simple. In the entire first quarter, Wang Chong basically did not make any moves. On the offensive end, he only took 3 tentative shots and hit 2 goals, including a three-pointer. He scored 5 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

This is completely different from Wang Chong who used to score like chopping melons and vegetables.

But the Bulls know Wang Chong very well. They know very well that Wang Chong is definitely not feeling bad or out of shape. I'm afraid he wants to let other Cavaliers players start to feel better. After all, this is a team that was just formed in the summer. Nothing like tacit understanding is enough.

Wang Chong often did this kind of thing when he was with the Bulls. He stopped playing in the first half of the game and mainly waited and watched the situation. He waited until the game entered the second half before starting to exert force and take away the game in one wave.

The same plot has been played out countless times during the Bulls era, and now that Wang Chong has arrived in the Cavaliers, he has done the same thing. How can the Bulls players not feel threatened?

Just as they thought, Wang Chong had indeed been watching the Cavaliers' situation in the first half of the game.

Although the Cavaliers' offense has no tactics at all and basically revolves around Irving and Gasol's one-on-one play with the ball, what tactics are needed when points can be scored solely by the personal abilities of the stars?

A heavy sword has no edge, and a heavy sword has no skill.

Wang Chong has always believed in this. When the personal abilities of the team's stars have surpassed the effect of tactical play, then the team's tactics do not actually need to exist.

In the first half of the game, Irving and Gasol were jointly responsible for the offense. In the second half, it was Wang Chong's turn to exert his strength.

Butler, who was responsible for defending Wang Chong, immediately felt the familiar terrifying pressure at the beginning of the second half.

He couldn't help but feel shocked, knowing that Wang Chong was coming!

In the past few seasons with the Bulls, in order to train Butler's defensive ability, Wang Chong often had 1v1 bullfighting matches with the opponent. Although almost every time it ended with Wang Chong winning, it also allowed Butler to accumulate a lot of defensive skills. Wang Chong’s experience.

Although he knows that he cannot guard Wang Chong, Butler will still try his best to limit the opponent.

Wang Chong stood outside the arc with the ball in hand, while Butler stayed close to Wang Chong, not giving him any space to shoot.

This is also one of Butler's experiences in defending Wang Chong. Although Wang Chong breaks through very quickly with the ball, he still has to defend as closely as possible, because letting Wang Chong fire from the outside poses a greater threat. It is better to let Wang Chong Entering the penalty area, Wang Chong's biggest trump card is the mid-range.

While Butler knew Wang Chong, Wang Chong also knew Butler very well.

Knowing what the opponent was thinking, Wang Chong did not change his playing style and chose to directly accelerate and break through with the ball towards the basket.

After discovering that Wang Chong broke through with the ball as he expected, Butler's nerves became completely tense and he stared at Wang Chong. As long as the opponent showed a tendency to stop the ball and shoot, he would immediately raise the knife and drop the target. Referring to the basketball in Wang Chong's hand, trying to poke the basketball away from his hand to destroy the shot.

But Butler's every move was also in Wang Chong's eyes.

After rushing to the left and right of the free throw line, Wang Chong stopped suddenly and made movements with both hands to join the ball. Butler immediately went straight to the basketball in Wang Chong's hand without thinking.

But this was just Wang Chong's fake move. His hand that was about to complete the ball suddenly slapped hard, and the basketball hit the ground with force. Wang Chong also followed the trend and changed the direction of the rhythm, passed Butler again, and shot with one hand. scored.

Owen, who was not far away, couldn't help but light up when he saw this.

So silky smooth and quick to stop and start! Wang Chong's rhythm changes have simply reached the level of a master. It's no wonder Butler was fooled.

Irving himself is a rhythm master, and he can also use moves like Wang Chong's, but he thinks that even when he is in the best condition, his movements can only be as smooth as this.

Wang Chong, a big player with a height of over 2 meters, can actually use this kind of action flexibly and smoothly, which makes Irving very incredible.

Wang Chong has never shown his full strength in front of his teammates before, whether in pre-season games or training matches. In fact, now he only needs to use one move to lean back and score easily, without too much effort at all. Lots of fancy moves.

The reason why he showed off his skills in front of Butler today was that he was playing against his old club. Wang Chong was also a little excited. On the other hand, he also wanted to give a final education to the Bulls brats including Butler. One lesson, there are people outside the world, even if he is gone, he can still teach them how to play ball.

This ball seemed to turn on a switch on Wang Chong. In the next few rounds, Wang Chong continued to attack with the ball, scoring 8 points in a row with sudden shots, which directly caused the Bulls to call a timeout.

Butler tried his best to defend him every time he attacked several times, but this striker, who was selected to the All-Defensive Second Team last season, was as vulnerable as a child in front of Wang Chong.

After returning from the timeout, the Bulls made a passing error and was intercepted by Wiggins. The Cavaliers made a fast break. Wang Chong received a pass from his teammate from the outside and fired from the three-point line. He scored the 11th point of the third quarter and also allowed The point difference between the two teams quickly expanded to more than double digits.

In the Cavaliers auditorium, every time Wang Chong scored a goal, the fans cheered. As the goals increased, the cheers became louder and louder. The Cavaliers fans watched Wang Chong excitedly as if he was a god descending to earth. The defense of the defending champion Bulls, his old club, was completely defeated.

At this time, if someone tells them that it is impossible for the Cavaliers to win the championship this season, they will definitely spit on that guy's face.

However, the timeout did allow the Bulls to stabilize their somewhat flustered rhythm. After all, it was the team that Wang Chong led to win six championships. Even if the opponent was Wang Chong, they would not have no ability to withstand pressure at all.

Not long after Wang Chong hit a three-pointer, Curry used his teammates' pick-and-roll cover to hit a three-pointer from outside the three-point line to help the Bulls stabilize the situation.

Today, Curry has really grown into a star who can stand on his own, and he will show no mercy when it's time to take action.

In the remaining game time of the third quarter, the game scene turned into a scoring battle between Wang Chong and Curry.

Wang Chong made a mid-range shot, and Curry took the ball and drove to the basket, causing Whiteside to make 2 free throws for a defensive foul.

Wang Chong broke through with the ball and scored with a one-arm tomahawk dunk. Curry faced Irving's defense from the outside and made a long three-pointer. For a while, the two were evenly matched.

Even Wang Chong had to sigh that Ku Ritian was really powerful when he was ruthless.

At the end of the third quarter, the score difference between the two teams was 9 points. With Curry's activity, the score difference did not widen to more than double digits.

However, it is obvious that the situation has clearly favored the Cavaliers.

After playing the entire game, Wang Chong remained calm and calm. With his current physical strength, there would be no problem even if he played the entire game.

But it was different for Curry. In order to compete with Wang Chong in scoring in the third quarter, Curry tried his best. By the end of the third quarter, his whole body was wet with sweat and he was out of breath. The rest time slowed down a bit, but it was obvious that I was exhausted.

Sure enough, in the fourth quarter of the game, Curry failed to hit two shots from the outside. On the Cavaliers' side, Wang Chong and Irving each scored a goal, which widened the point difference to more than double digits.

Under the fierce offensive of the Cavaliers, the Bulls finally began to be unable to support themselves and could only watch the game time run out.

126: 112.

In the end, the Cavaliers won a good start at home with a 14-point advantage, defeating the defending champion and getting a good start to the new season.

This game also allowed the entire league to see with their own eyes how strong this new Cavaliers team is.

The Bulls are actually not weak. Even if Wang Chong is replaced by Luol Deng, the team's basics are still there and they are definitely one of the strong teams in the East. However, they still lost to the Cavaliers very simply, and it was still in the first half. Wang Chong released the water without taking it seriously.

From this point of view, the Cavaliers have a good chance of winning the championship this season!