When the Cleveland Cavaliers' game against the Oklahoma City Thunder ended, the Clevelanders, who have been extremely busy in recent times, finally ushered in a rare holiday.

This is certainly a great holiday for the Cleveland players who have been working hard in the past few weeks. Especially after a 13-game winning streak, the current Cleveland Cavaliers players do need to relax.

After all, they have been very tired in the previous games. The successive games and the back-to-back and away trips they have encountered have made the players' physical and mental fatigue!

So at this time, such a rare rest vacation is also very important for the Cleveland Cavaliers. At least this will of course be of great help to their last five games of the next regular season!

Because after the rest, they can face the last five games with more concentration and recovering physical fitness. At this stage, such a very important situation is to compete with the Indiana Pacers for third place in the Eastern Conference, there is no doubt that this rest can make Cleveland players feel more relaxed.

And while the Cleveland Cavaliers rested, their most direct rival in the playoff rank battle, the Indiana Pacers will embark on a difficult journey, back-to-back with the Milwaukee Bucks, which may determine their fate in the regular season of the season.

If they lose one of these two games, the Indiana Pacers will hand over their current third-place ranking in the East to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

This is certainly not something the Indiana Pacers, who have been in the top three positions in the East for most of the season, would like to see, but their current situation is indeed not very good.

Because they need to compete with the Milwaukee Bucks at home first, and then the next day, both sides have to go to the Milwaukee Bucks to play another game.

Two consecutive games were played when the regular season was about to end. There is no doubt that this would be a relatively difficult challenge for the Indiana Pacers, because not only the schedule is very compact, but also, when the Milwaukee Bucks faced the Indiana Pacers this season, their record was not at a disadvantage!

The two previous matches ended with a 1:1 draw, so although the Milwaukee Bucks are currently incomparable to the Indiana Pacers in terms of record ranking, they are not afraid of such a team.

While the Indiana Pacers were busy playing against the Milwaukee Bucks, Wu Dawei and his Cleveland Cavaliers teammates were resting in their comfortably home.

Of course, the Cleveland Cavaliers players will also pay attention to this match between the Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks. Although neither of the two sides of this game has any intersection with them at the moment. However, the results of the two games are related to the Cleveland Cavaliers' ranking, so they will pay attention to it.

Of course, for the Cleveland Cavaliers, they will certainly hope that the Milwaukee Bucks can win the game against the Indiana Pacers, because only if the Milwaukee Bucks win the game, the Cleveland Cavaliers can use this to tie the Indiana in terms of record. In this way, they can rely on their advantage in fighting each other and then become the third place in the Eastern Conference!

For the Cleveland Cavaliers, this is what they most hope to see now. So at this time, they will naturally have great hope that the Milwaukee Bucks can win the game.

Of course, Wu Dawei would definitely pay attention to such a game, but he would definitely not watch the game on site. He would closely monitor the situation of these two games at his own home.

With the current state of the Cleveland Cavaliers, they are not particularly afraid of which team they will encounter in the playoffs. However, if they can meet the Miami Heat the later they can run out of the Eastern Conference, the better.

Although the Cleveland Cavaliers are not afraid of the Miami Heat, after all, in the previous two seasons of the playoffs, the parties who failed to fight were all Miami people. Logically speaking, the people who are afraid should be Miami talents, but Wu Dawei must still admit that the Miami Heat has indeed made progress compared to the past this season.

They have become much more tacit understanding than before, which will naturally cause great trouble for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Among the four regular season matches between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Miami Heat this season, the Cleveland Cavaliers only achieved a record of 1 win and 3 losses...

Such a record is a big loss. Of course, there are also the reasons for the injury of Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard. However, even in the second half of the season, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who once played a 14-game winning streak, still lost to the Miami Heat at home by 10 points!

And even the game the Cleveland Cavaliers once won was very difficult to win. If they had not relied on Wu Dawei's outstanding performance at the last moment of the game, they might have been swept away by the Miami people in the regular season of this season!

This has undoubtedly been an unimaginable thing in the past two seasons! So, for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat will undoubtedly be their biggest opponent to break out of the Eastern Conference this season!

So if you can meet such an opponent later, it will undoubtedly be a better thing for the Cleveland Cavaliers! If the Miami Heat are the first and the Cleveland Cavaliers climb to third, then if the Cleveland Cavaliers want to meet the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference playoffs, at least they have to wait until the Eastern Conference finals.

If the Cleveland Cavaliers themselves go all the way to the Eastern Conference finals, then no one can say that the Miami Heat can also enter the Eastern Conference finals again!

Because if the Cleveland Cavaliers can climb to third place, the Indiana Pacers will inevitably become fourth place. And if the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat successfully pass the first round, they will meet in the second round!

Judging from the regular season match records, it is obvious that the Indiana Pacers performed well enough when they played against the Miami Heat, and it is really hard to say who wins and who loses!

So for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it would definitely be a great thing for them if they could climb to third place before the regular season!

Although if the Cleveland Cavaliers want to avoid the Miami Heat, they will basically be in the playoffs to play against the New York Knicks, which has completely risen this season.

However, obviously compared to the Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers are less afraid of the New York Knicks! Not to mention the current momentum and condition of the New York Knicks, they are no longer as wild and unrestrained as they were at the beginning of the season. The Cleveland Cavaliers even had a record with the New Yorkers in the first half of the season, so they were not afraid of this team.

Although they have a lot of good players in the team, the Cleveland Cavaliers are in better shape than they did in the past!

Moreover, since the start of the second half of the season and after Wu Dawei's comeback, the Cleveland Cavaliers have never failed in the match against the New York Knicks! This alone is enough to make the Cleveland Cavaliers strive to rank third in the Eastern Conference at this time!

The Cleveland Cavaliers want to rank third in the Eastern Conference, and the Indiana Pacers, currently the direct competitor to the Cleveland Cavaliers, are also very eager to continue to stay in the third in the Eastern Conference.

So for them, the next two games against the Milwaukee Bucks will be a must-win match! If they can't win these two games, then they will lose their third place position! Of course, this will not be what the Indiana people want to see...

Therefore, the Indiana people also attach great importance to the next two games with the Milwaukee Bucks. The team's head coach Vogel also no longer intends to let the team rest in these two games. They must do their best to win the two games, and the Milwaukee people are not a good bone.

At least for the Indiana people, they once lost a game in Milwaukee's home court in the first half of the season, so such a back-to-back game made them more cautious.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are chasing behind the Indiana Pacers, which also makes them feel a very strong sense of urgency! They know that there is no place to make any mistakes now, because if they make mistakes, the Indiana Pacers will easily bury the great situation they created in the first half of this season.

Because judging from the Cleveland Cavaliers' state in the second half of the season, it is obviously difficult for them to lose the game...
Chapter completed!