182. Alliance situation

After defeating the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves, the Cavaliers improved their record to 22 wins and 19 losses, not only consolidating their seventh position in the East, but temporarily widening the gap with the New York Knicks behind them, but also gradually narrowing the position with the Pacers ranked sixth in the East...

At present, as the season is gradually approaching half of the season, the sector situation of the East and West Leagues has gradually become clearer.

In the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs, which had previously suffered a crushing defeat in the Cavaliers, are firmly ranked first, and they are currently leading the league with 33 wins and 7 losses. Behind them are the giant team from Los Angeles, the Purple and Gold Legion Lakers. Although the defending champions are not as good as the previous two seasons in the championship, their core lineup consisting of Kobe and Gasol is still not to be underestimated.

The Lakers are currently ranked second in the West with a record of 29 wins and 9 losses. More than a month ago, the Cavaliers challenged the Lakers at Stamps. At that time, they lost without any suspense. Kobe is still the omnipotent Kobe on the offensive end. But time has changed, and now many people want to see whether Wu Dawei, who has almost defended all the top three players in the league, can defend against Black Mamba, who may be the strongest fighting spirit in the league.

Of course, the next fight between the two sides will have to wait for a while.

The Dallas Mavericks are following the Lakers. This season, the Mavericks have played unparalleled dominance on the offensive end. Although their record and ranking are not as good as they did a few years ago, everyone still believes that this chariot with the German driver's posture is still a favorite to win the championship!

Behind the Mavericks is the upstart in the league, the Oklahoma City Thunder! This team consists entirely of young people, has exploded with this terrifying combat power this season. The whole team is extremely young and talented, and is also very united.

The Thunder do not have many problems like other young teams. Even if they are not disciplined, they can be regarded as a group of good kids. Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, and the Thunder three young masters have had extremely outstanding performance this season, which makes everyone have high expectations for this thriving team.

Everyone believes that from now on, this team will be a young force that cannot be ignored in the league from now on. Perhaps in the near future, they will dominate the league.

Later, there is the fifth place in the West, the Denver Nuggets, who just experienced a big deal. Perhaps this was a result that no one expected. After the transaction, the Nuggets directly won a four-game winning streak! Without Cameron Anthony's Denver people, they seemed to be living a more comfortable life.

In fact, the young people who came to Denver from New York did make Denver fans quickly forget the departure of Melon. It is precisely because of their outstanding performance that the Nuggets can beat the Hornets led by Chris Paul, ranked fifth in the East and may rush to fourth place at any time.

After the Hornets ranked sixth in the West, the Trail Blazers and the Grizzlies ranked seventh and eighth in the West respectively. Although there are differences in rankings, at present, the gap between fourth and eighth in the West is very small.

The fourth-place Thunder even only leads 4 wins over the eighth-place Grizzlies. Such an advantage is obviously negligible compared to the Eastern Conference.

The rankings in the East are much brighter than those in the West.

The Bulls, which suddenly rose this season, ranked first in the East with 30 wins and 10 losses; following them is the gradually recovering Miami Heat. As the Big Three improves and cooperates more harmoniously, the Heat's record is also rising, with 26 wins and 12 losses, and the Heat are slowly approaching the Bulls in the front.

The Celtics are ranked third, older every year, and the Orlando Magic led by Dwight Howard. These two teams are currently old-fashioned teams in the East District, and they continue to play the East District championship contenders.

The fifth is the Atlanta Hawks, a team that has been wasting talent. They are currently ranked fifth in the East with 22 wins and 14 losses; while the sixth-place Pacers have 23 wins and 17 losses.

The Cavaliers currently ranked seventh in the East, with a record of 22 wins and 19 losses, so they can sit firmly in this position without having to worry too much, because the New York Knicks behind them are currently in a bad dilemma.

The New Yorkers with 21 wins and 23 losses are still running into their superstar lineup. If we look at Miami's running-in time, then New York will not cause any trouble for the Cavaliers in a while.

Naturally, the Clevelanders began to look at the Pacers above. Although they lost a game at the opponent's home court not long ago, the current ratio between the two sides is only 1:1. As competitors in the central region, the two sides still have two games to confront this season.

And the next game is not far away.

After defeating the Timberwolves, the Cavaliers need to play two away games first before returning to their home court to face their rivals in the district.

On January 23, the Cavaliers rushed to Atlanta to challenge the Hawks. There is no doubt that although the Hawks always fail to reach the level of top teams, their talent does have the potential to reach that level.

In the first match between the two sides this season, the Cavaliers beat the opponent once at home, but this time they came to the opponent's home court, they failed to continue the victory. A shameful defeat made people feel a little regretful.

The second defeat that followed was really a bit depressing. After the game at Atlanta, the Cavaliers rushed to Milwaukee that night. Their away challenge to the Bucks was the second away game back-to-back game.

Status and fatigue are obviously important reasons for the failure of this game. The great intensity of the NBA game and the intensive schedule, especially the away back-to-back games, have always been a great challenge to the players' physical fitness.

Few teams can escape from back-to-back away, no matter how weak the opponent is. People always have limits, and back-to-back away easily makes this limit reach its peak.

Therefore, the Cavaliers had no choice but to accept the two consecutive losses and return to Cleveland.

However, the record of 22 wins and 21 losses did not make their seventh position dangerous all of a sudden, because the Knicks' record was not satisfactory. During the Cavaliers' two consecutive losses, the Knicks only turned their record into 22 wins and 24 losses, which was still the advantage of the Cavaliers leading them by one victory.

So, what the Cavaliers have to worry about next is their battle with the Pacers. As a youth army formed by Larry Bird over the years, the Pacers began to play their strength this season.

The young Roy Hibert supported the team's inside line and became another super inside line that was hoped for. The collaboration between Granger and Collison also gave the Pacers a reliable outside team.

This team has almost everything, and the east wind that they owe is nothing more than experience.

Although the young men of the Pacers still lack some experience in playing in the playoffs, they do not lack experience in playing against the Cavaliers at all.

Because the two sides have fought twice this season. And the last time is only more than a week since now. The young men of the Pacers have some confidence in the Cavaliers, a team that they defeated a week ago.

Although this time, they came to the home court of the Cleveland Cavaliers again. But obviously, the last victory made them forget their last loss at the Quick Loan Center.

This is the confidence of young people.

On January 27, the Cavaliers, who returned to Cleveland for 3 days, will face the Indianaians at home Speed ​​Loan Center. Like the Indiana who is full of confidence, the Cavaliers are also confident in this game.

It comes from the fact that they once defeated this team at home a month ago. Moreover, the Cavaliers' home record this season is also very good. Of their 22 wins so far, 15 of them have won at home.

So at home, the Cavaliers' confidence has always been much higher than in away games.

Even though they are going to face a team that beat them a week ago and is still above them, the Cavaliers are still not too nervous at home.

Cleveland fans still packed the Quick Loan Center that night. Such a lively atmosphere also made the Pacers players who came to Cleveland feel a little envious. They are not also a famous big city in the United States, but Cleveland obviously has a better market compared to Indiana!

No player would like to play in the empty earth hall every night. If possible, who doesn’t want tens of thousands of people to cheer for themselves every night?

Of course, there are tens of thousands of fans watching the Indiana Pacers game tonight, but these people are not here to cheer for them as the visiting team, but to hostile them...

It is not easy to get support from fans away, so the Indiana Pacers players are just a little envious of the Cavaliers' packed home court.

All that remains is the excited thought of defeating the Cavaliers in front of so many people!

The visiting visiting team wanted to defeat him, and the Cleveland player who was at home advantage also thought so. Especially Wu Dawei was a little worried about the loss in the last game. Because in his opinion, if it weren't for Darren Collison and Hibert's teaming up to perform exceptionally well, the Indiana would have no way to win that game at all.

Wu Dawei didn't know what the result would be tonight, but he knew that he would definitely be able to overwhelm the star No. 3 player Danny Granger on the court, because in the past two games where the two sides fought, Wu Dawei did not feel too much pressure from Granger.

On the contrary, Roy Hibert and Darren Collison, who were in the inside, made him a little worried. After all, Valaijo is not an authentic center, he looks more like a large power forward player. (To be continued.
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