465. A good start
As it became closer to 4 o'clock in the afternoon on April 20, players from both sides began to step onto the court one after another. Before the start of this game, the score between the two sides was 0:0, which naturally made it easier for both sides to be very confident in winning this game.
Because before this game begins, both sides are standing on the same starting line, so for them, whoever wins the game will have an advantage.
Although they are not favored by people, Brooklyn Nets players must work hard to win the game in today's game. If they can defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers who are playing at home, then they will not only be able to make themselves proud, but also gain the lead in the series!
For the Brooklyn Nets, this is a perfect ending. Of course, the premise is that they can win the game in this game tonight!
If there is no way to win the game at the Quick Loan Center, the situation for the Brooklyn Nets will immediately become more difficult.
Because after this game, the next game between the two sides will still be held at the Quick Loan Center. By then, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have already won a game, will undoubtedly gain more advantages in the next game!
In this way, the situation for the Brooklyn Nets will certainly become worse! So if the Brooklyn Nets still have many fantasies about this round of series, then they must start to hurry up now!
The win of this game will make them take the lead. Even if they lose the next game, they can still return to Brooklyn with a draw of 1:1 in the total score.
And when the Brooklyn Nets can return to their homes and play two more games, they will definitely be more confident and of course there will definitely be more opportunities!
There is no doubt about this!
If you want to win one of the two home games that the Cleveland Cavaliers took the lead, of course it is the easiest time for both sides to balance the situation in the first game!
So in this game that started at 4 pm on April 20, the Brooklyn Nets were also very eager to win the game. Players from both sides walked onto the court one after another, and the game was about to officially start.
Whether for the Cleveland Cavaliers who play at home or the Brooklyn Nets who play away, both sides are very eager to win the game.
But in terms of confidence, the Cleveland Cavaliers will obviously be better. No matter what, they are the higher-ranking side. So in terms of confidence, although the Brooklyn Nets may be united in winning this game, the Cleveland Cavaliers are definitely very confident.
When the two teams started to this evening's game one after another, this game meant that the curtain was about to officially begin.
Dwight Howard stood in the center circle and prepared to compete with Brooklyn Nets' big center Brook Lopez for the opening jump ball. For Dwight Howard, this was definitely a very relaxing thing.
Because Brooke Lopez has never been a bouncer. His strong attack power on the offensive end is more based on his personal proficient attack skills! Although Brooke Lopez is indeed unable to compare with Dwight Howard in terms of physical talent, Brooke Lopez is confident that he can get rid of Dwight Howard's streets with more!
Otherwise, why could Brooke Lopez become the All-Star Center in the Eastern Conference this season?
It’s just that obviously any attacking skills are in vain at this time. After all, what the two sides are competing for now is jumping balls, and in this regard, Brooke Lopez is completely at a disadvantage.
For him, how could he have always fought for Dwight Howard, who had jumped three feet high?
When the referee of Crawford, who was in law enforcement this afternoon, threw the ball into the sky, Brooke Lopez didn't even jump. He just stood there, then looked up at Dwight Howard jumped three feet high and then transferred the ball to the half of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Brooklyn Nets had no idea of competing for the first ball in the opening game, because whether it was the starting center Brook Lopez or power forward Humphries, who wanted to compete for the jump ball with Dwight Howard, a terrifying basket monster like Dwight Howard, was undoubtedly seeking death.
So the Brooklyns simply gave the opening ball to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The moment they jumped at Dwight Howard, they retreated from defense at all. This would prevent the Cleveland Cavaliers from launching a counterattack fast break after winning the ball, and caught the Brooklyn Nets off guard.
This is the conclusion made by the Brooklyn Nets after the research made by the Cleveland Cavaliers before the game. For them, the Cleveland Cavaliers do have such potential. Especially when they have now played the strategy of being a senior and a junior, such potential has been fully utilized!
Both Wu Dawei and Michael Beasley can run fast attacks, not to mention Kyrie Irving and Danny Green on the back line. Even their center player Dwight Howard is the master who can follow the team to take fast attacks!
So from this point, we can see that the Brooklyn Nets did study the Cleveland Cavaliers before the game! Otherwise, they would not have understood it so carefully!
So in this way, the Cleveland Cavaliers have no chance of fast breaks at all. Their current lineup, one-to-one, four-small, was originally intended to be able to achieve a faster offensive and defensive conversion rhythm.
Now the Brooklyn Nets retreated from defense at the beginning, so it was naturally difficult for the Cleveland Cavaliers to find a chance to speed up. Kyrie Irving got the ball that was transferred by Dwight Howard in the backcourt, and then he dribbled the ball through the frontcourt.
Since then, the first game of the first round of the 2012-2013 season between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Brooklyn Nets' 2012-2013 season officially kicked off at this time. In the entire Quick Loan Center Arena, amid the cheers of Cleveland Cavaliers fans, the Cleveland Cavaliers dribbled the ball through halftime and immediately launched an attack on the Brooklyn Nets' position!
For them, although the Brooklyn Nets are not the kind of vulnerable opponent, their strength is indeed not as strong as the Cleveland Cavaliers' eyes.
After all, the Cleveland Cavaliers are going to compete with teams such as the Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder for the league's championship this season. Of course, although the Brooklyn Nets' lineup, which has been invested a lot last summer, looks very luxurious, they are still just a team away from the edge of the Eastern Conference playoffs!
If it weren't for the fact that the overall strength of the Eastern Conference was too weak, even the results achieved by the Brooklyn Nets in the regular season this season, they would not be able to enter the final playoffs.
So from this point of view, the Brooklyn Nets are indeed not a very strong opponent. This was reflected from the beginning. After Kyrie Irving dribbled the ball through halftime, he chose to hand the ball to Wu Dawei first.
Since Wu Dawei plays the fourth position in the current Cleveland Cavaliers lineup, the person who faces him becomes Humphries. Although Humphries is also moving at a good speed, his advantage in front of Wu Dawei is gone.
Although he has good power, he immediately fell into a disadvantage when comparing the speed of Wu Dawei, who was born in the third position!
After Wu Dawei received Kyrie Irving's pass from the 45-degree angle of the three-point line on the wing, he did not choose to hand the ball to Dwight Howard, and Dwight Howard did not take the position in the inside. He mentioned the high position to make a pick-and-roll for Wu Dawei, and then Wu Dawei used the pick-and-roll to almost instantly shook off Humphries who was guarding himself!
Brooke Lopez is an inside player who moves at a slower speed, so at this time, when he saw his teammate Humphries being blocked, he really wanted to come up to make up for the defense, but he had no choice but to move slowly. When he came to Wu Dawei, Wu Dawei had already completed his jump shot...
The ball flew over Brooke Lopez's head, and then, with a flash, it crawled into the basket!
It was very relaxed that the Cleveland Cavaliers scored immediately at the beginning! No matter how much the Brooklyn Nets wanted to clear their name in today's game, the Cleveland Cavaliers are still more powerful than theirs!
After getting the opening ball rights, the Cleveland Cavaliers immediately gained the lead!
The 2:0 start is a great thing for the Cleveland Cavaliers! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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