NBA: Fusion of two talents to dominate the entire league

After leaving Toronto, the Nets players felt that spring was everywhere.

They flew to Cleveland overnight, dragged their tired bodies and slept until noon the next day before gradually getting up.

After lunch in the afternoon, they took a break. In the evening, the team took a bus to the Gund Arena, the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The evening in Cleveland was chilly.

At this time, the Cavaliers' home court was still the old one.

Until after this season, when Cavaliers owner Gilbert took control of the team from Gund,

The Cavaliers will also move to the new stadium at the Quicken Loans Center.

The Gund Arena looks very old and obviously does not meet the public's aesthetic standards.

The dilapidated scene in the locker room is seriously inconsistent with the hundreds of millions of dollars in tickets each year.

Maybe This is also one of the reasons why the Cavaliers' home court still failed to overcome the downturn in the market even after welcoming the proud son of heaven LeBron James.

This year is the second year of James' joining the NBA, and he has grown into one of the forces that cannot be ignored in the league.

According to my memory, Roy James and his Cavaliers will continue to miss the playoffs this season.

It was Roy's New Jersey Nets who squeezed the Cavaliers out of the playoffs in the last life.

What is fate? Maybe this is fate.

At the beginning of the season, the Cavaliers' record was pretty good, with a record of 13 wins and 6 losses, ranking fourth in the East, and it seemed that they had a bright future.

Especially in the past 10 games, the Cavaliers' record is 8 wins and 2 losses, second only to the Nets in the East.

This is also James' biggest confidence.

As a second-year rookie, the little emperor who compared his career to Jordan is now full of confidence and high spirits.

Only Roy knows that all this is an illusion. When the Cavaliers' performance plummeted in the middle and late stages of the season,

You know, the Cavaliers now have All-Star center Big Z Ilgauskas, Anderson Varejao and Drew Gooden standing on the front line, two inside blue-collars and an All-Star.

This configuration is not bad at all.

But the team's performance has been hovering on the edge of the playoffs. Maybe in addition to Ilgauskas, it lacks a comprehensive star or two other giants.

You know, without these configurations, it is not considered a single leader.

It is still the James 1.0 era. In his second year, he does not have as many thoughts and ideas as later generations.

His movements on the basketball court still conform to the laws of sports and basketball. His unique martial arts such as Lingbo Weibu and sweeping kicks have not yet been fully developed.

Relying on his historical physical talent, he can score an exaggerated data of 27+7+7. You should know that 20+5+5 is already the threshold for an All-Star.

As the only player in the league who can achieve this data, this is his capital of pride.

He even shouted in his first year as a rookie:

"I will never leave Cleveland. There is no team more suitable for me than this team. I love the fans here, I love my teammates here, I love everything here. I will bring a championship to Cleveland. I will not leave until this goal is achieved. "

Until 2010, he decisively betrayed his previous oath and made that difficult decision: "I want to bring my talent to Miami"

Although he returned to the Cavaliers and did bring a championship,

But the oath and promise he made when joining the Miami Heat: "I will bring 7 championships to Miami!" I am afraid it will never be realized.

GOAT is like this, making the most poisonous oath and suffering the most poisonous beating.

Unlike the deputy GOAT, he will only retire hastily after two three-peat championships, leaving nothing but a few championships.

He has had extraordinary plans for his career since he was a child, and has a mental expectation for every step of his career goal.

Obviously, the little emperor is quite satisfied with the season that has just begun.

This year, facing the Nets who came from afar and played back-to-back games at home, the little emperor feels that it is not difficult to dethrone the first in the East.

As for Roy, who has become famous recently, both of them are athletes under Nike.

However, Roy is only the third pick in the draft, but he got a more generous contract than himself, the super platinum first pick of the All-American Son.

This made him have a deep sense of crisis. With Roy's outstanding performance. His shoe sales also soared.

You should know that before, James had already squeezed into the top two of Nike's shoe sales, second only to Kobe Bryant, one of the current league leaders.

Roy's rising fame and outstanding data not only led him in All-Star voting, but also kept pace with him in shoe sales and even showed signs of surpassing him.

This is unacceptable for positioning himself as a goat-level player like Jordan.

This time at homeFacing the New Jersey Nets is a great opportunity to prove themselves.

You have to know that the resources of the league and Nike are limited.

They will only provide resources to the most outstanding athletes to build them into the top players of the league, and then they will naturally gain both fame and fortune.

Look at this year's hottest star Kobe, who has already received so many endorsements.

For the second-year James, it is natural that he is extremely jealous.

So tonight, here, I want to focus all the spotlights in the world on myself, because I am the future king of the league!

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The two teams provided the starting lineups,

Cavaliers: Eric Snow, Jeff McGuinness, LeBron James, Drew Gooden, Ilgauskas

Nets: Kidd, Carter, Jefferson, Roy, Tyson Chandler.

Richard Jefferson is responsible for defending James today.

This season, his task is very heavy. Almost all the main shooting guards and small forwards of the team need him to defend alone.

Eric Snow of the Cavaliers, once Allen Iverson's favorite open position, is now spending the last years of his career with the Cavaliers, which is called retirement.

As a former super player, Snow knows how to make such a scorer play comfortably.

Jeff McGinnis of the Cavaliers and Chuck McGinnis of the Nets have one thing in common: they are both called McGinnis.

It's a pity that McGinnis of the Nets is not on the starting list, otherwise that idiot would fight to see who is the strongest McGinnis.

Ilgauskas won the game against Chandler in the scramble for the ball.

This was Chandler's first loss in a jump ball in 12 consecutive games.

The Cavaliers coach arranged a simple job for Snow. After half court, give the ball to King James, and wait for open shots at other times.

Simple but not effective, because Snow can only achieve half of it, then dribble across half court. His shooting percentage is really touching, and his career three-point shooting percentage is as high as 20%.

In his 13-year career, he made a total of 55 three-pointers. It is conceivable that his threat opportunity outside the open three-point line is zero.

Fortunately, he has good defense and his organizational ability is also above average in the league.

This season, he is asked to assist young James to teach James to adapt to the rhythm of the league as soon as possible as a half-coach.

James got the ball in the first half. At this time, he was not as flashy as he was in later generations.

The young James in the 1.0 era relied on his physical talent to crush the defenders and carry the explosive pack to lead the team to victory.

As expected, James followed the prescription at the beginning.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Jefferson is already a small forward with relatively strong physical fitness.

After contacting James at high speed in the first round, he was directly bounced away.

With huge impact, he rushed directly to the penalty area. The play style also had two options: passing the ball or going up by himself.

Obviously, James planned to go up by himself for the first ball.

The assist in the penalty area had slowed down his speed. After using his body to carry Chandler away,

James made a layup in the air.

Roy, who rushed over, directly gave the first block to last year's No. 1 pick.

James was very dissatisfied and signaled to the referee that Roy interfered with the ball.

Fortunately, the replay on the big screen proved Roy's innocence.

A clean block.