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207. Barkley's mouth cannon

After the day of the game against the Bucks, the Cavaliers took a day off in Cleveland and caught the plane to Miami in the hopeful eyes of Cleveland fans.

In Miami, the Cavaliers will have another round of fierce battle with the Heat, which they have defeated this season. But obviously, the current situation is a little different from the last time the two sides faced each other. After half a season of adjustment, the Miami Heat is no longer the Heat that was defeated by the Cavaliers.

Now, they rank second in the East with a record of 33 wins and 15 losses, becoming a truly giant team; and the Cavaliers are no longer the Cavaliers at that time. After experiencing big deals, they still seem to be in a period of pain.

Fortunately, the Cavaliers' weaknesses in core point guards that have been magnified in recent games will not suffer much loss when fighting with the Miami Heat. Because the Miami people don't have any good skills in the No. 1 position, the young Mushroom Man Mario Chalmos has not performed very well this season.

Although it seems that this is just a competition between the second place in the East and the eighth place in the East, due to the grudges between LeBron James and the Cavaliers and the relationship between Wu Dawei, who has recently become popular, this game was officially arranged by the league to be broadcast nationwide.

tn.t will broadcast this game live. Of course, this game that has attracted such a lot of attention will also send their ace commentary combination, Charles Barkley, and his ace partners Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson, to make a comeback.

Before the game, the attention of this game was hyped up by various media and so-called bricks. The reason is very simple. It is not just that the Cavaliers were LeBron and James who played for seven years. At the same time, in the first encounter between the two sides this season, the Cavaliers also defeated the Miami Heat at home with a beautiful dunk after a defensive counterattack.

Although the Miami Heat were not as good as they are now at that time, such a result was undoubtedly unacceptable. Because the Heat's total salary this season is about 90 million US dollars, and the Cavaliers are even less than two-thirds of theirs!

So in people's opinion, it should be natural for the Heat to defeat the Cavaliers. But it was this natural thing that the Heat actually missed the front in the Quick Loan Center. Moreover, in that game, Wu Dawei walked out of the constant doubts, and proved everything to himself with a stunning finale after intercepting the ball. He broke all the ridicule and doubt. It was from that time that Wu Dawei slowly became a core player who is now and is the unrivaled core player in the Cavaliers.

So before the game, in addition to the grudges between LeBron James and his old club Cavaliers, everyone also had the relationship between LeBron James and Wu Dawei. In the last game, Wu Dawei defeated LeBron James at the last moment, and whether James can succeed in this game.

And anyone can see that the Cavaliers have been in trouble and dilemma recently. The Cavaliers have not yet solved the problems left by Morris Williams in the No. 1 position after he left Los Angeles.

If the Miami people want to choose a chance to take revenge, then undoubtedly now is the best time! Although Chris Caman and Rasu Butler, who have newly joined the Cavaliers, both have good performances, especially as an inside attacker, Kaman will have great lethality for the Heat, which has empty inside.

But as a team with fast and excellent offense and defense rhythm, as long as the Miami people can control the rhythm and make the game run, then undoubtedly, Kaman, as a big center, will be reduced in the inside line accordingly!

Moreover, although the Heat are also weak in the No. 1 position, most of the Heat's organizational rights are in the hands of LeBron James, Mario Chalmos is still relatively competent as a targeted shooter; and for the Cavaliers, Ramon Sessions, who temporarily replaced the No. 1 position, his performance in recent times has indeed been unsatisfactory. Even in the games won by the Cavaliers, Sessions' role as a far less powerful person than his previous role in leading the Cavaliers from the bench.

So undoubtedly, in the absence of a core point guard who can drive the rhythm, the Heat with an experienced and outstanding forward organization will be able to master the game more easily.

Although the arrival of Carman liberated the Brazilian Valaijo and allowed him to return to the fourth position to play Chris Bosh. Although Valaijo's defense is good, if Bosh goes wild, Valaijo will still be helpless. Moreover, in the Heat's lineup, there is also an outside superstar Dwayne Wade and Anthony Parker, although he is also a defensive player in the Cavaliers' team, it is still a bit difficult to rely on him to strangle Wade.

Therefore, the Cavaliers face the Miami Heat in their current state, which can be said to have some disadvantages in all positions. Even if Chris Carman can beat the Miami people's cheap center, their disadvantages in several other positions are still very precarious.

In this case, the Cavaliers can only rely on their current core player Wu Dawei. As a player who shined in the last match between the two sides, Wu Dawei's performance in this game is undoubtedly the most important.

Because Wu Dawei not only has to continue to show up against LeBron and James on the defensive end, his increasing scoring also means that he must bear more responsibilities. But James' defense is also not bad. Although perhaps not as aggressive as Wu Dawei, it is indeed an outstanding existence in the league's defensive ability.

The match was held on February 16, local time in Miami, at the American Airlines Center Arena. The game started at 7:30, but the American Airlines Center was already overcrowded at 6 o'clock.

From this point of view, some clues can be seen more or less. Miami people who have always been lazy usually have the attitude of not entering the game until the game starts. It is rare to be able to come to the stadium so early tonight.

And more importantly, in the home game of such a team with three super stars, there were actually some fans wearing Wu Dawei's jerseys in the audience. Of course, they were all yellow-skinned and dark-haired without exception. This was some of the local university students that Wu Dawei made during his rookie season in Miami.

Although he transferred to Cleveland, Wu Dawei still had some connection with these compatriots. After Wu Dawei rose this season and performed well in several games, Wu Dawei received congratulatory text messages from his friends who were studying in Miami.

"Wow~ Charles. Have you noticed that there are so many people in the American Airlines Center tonight."

Before the players from both sides entered the court to warm up, the tn.t's commentary trio had already arrived at the scene and began to warm up the game. Even Kenny Smith was amazed that the American Airlines Center was so full tonight so early.

"Maybe the Miami people are afraid of missing the opening. They are waiting and ready to cheer for Wu Dawei stealing LeBron James at the opening."

Charles Barkley had not had dinner when he arrived at the scene, so he was sitting in front of the commentator's seat, answering his partner Smith's question while gnawing on the mezzanine hamburger in his hand.

His teasing caused huge booing from Miami people at the scene. But Barkley didn't care about this. He was still sitting in his chair and chewing the hamburger with sniffy, "Well~ Ernie. This hamburger is well made! It seems that it's time for me to consider opening a McDonald's!"

Barkley's turn a blind eye to the booing made the Miami people who came to the scene even more unhappy. The reason why they came to the American Airlines Center so early tonight was to cheer for the Heat and James; the other was to see Wu Dawei, who once sat on the bench for a season in Miami, was as powerful as the TV said.

Although almost everyone now believes that Wu Dawei will be the future superstar, Miami people still want to see him as a truth. Perhaps Wu Dawei is just a false reputation. Undoubtedly, Miami people have such thoughts.

But if you think from their perspective, a top player who was traded by the team can now be as good as LeBron James and Miami people, if the hearts of the Miami people are not sore, that would be abnormal.

"Wow~ Charles, don't forget whose home court this is. I don't want to be unable to get out of this stadium tonight!"

Kenny Smith sang and reconciled with Barkley in panic, but the booing in the American Airlines Center is indeed a bit loud. Obviously, Miami people want to see Charles Barkley apologize because of fear.

But obviously, Sir Barkley, who has always been fearless, turned a blind eye to these booings and the unfriendly attitudes of many Miami people behind him. He stretched his neck and looked around and said, "Oh, Kenny, I remembered it after you said this!"

"What did you think of?" Smith asked.

"I think Pat Riley is not an amnesia. He should still remember the bet he had made with me!" Barkley smiled a little. Then he grabbed DJ's microphone from the side and shouted, "Hey, Mr. Riley, is the bet still valid? If it works, are your sexy lips ready?"

The voice of Charles Barkley suddenly sounded in the crowded stadium, and almost every corner of the audience could clearly hear what he shouted. Everyone knew that Barkley had a war of words with Pat Riley a few months ago. At this time, when Barkley called out, the camera on the scene suddenly found Riley's expressionless look sitting in the audience.

"Oh, hey! Mr. Riley is here!" Barkley looked up and saw Riley appearing on the big screen, and then waved to the screen. Such a move was undoubtedly a huge provocation to the Miami fans who came to the scene.

So the booing became even louder. But Barkley still seemed to care about it, but everyone knew that since Miami formed the Big Three, Barkley had been extremely disliked by this team.

"Hey, Charles, look around, you're about to turn us into public enemies of Miami!" Kenny Johnson said with a red face while singing along the side.

"Aha, Miami is already the public enemy of the entire league~" Barkley waved his hand and said, "Maybe we should interview Mr. Pat Riley, the president of the Miami Heat."

After Barkley said that, a reporter from TN.t was already sitting next to Riley. Although he looked serious when he appeared on the big screen before, when Pat Riley was interviewed, he did not look angry at Barkley's remarks at all. Instead, he teased Barkley, saying:

"Oh, yes. Although I am a little older than Charles, my figure is much more handsome than him. Of course, I remember the agreement with him, because Charles always likes to support some weak teams wishfully. Maybe it's because he always prefers to play heroes to defeat the strong with weak. Maybe this makes him feel very happy, but I think this is why he has never won the championship! Charles, stop escaping, strength is there, it can't be overcome by defeating the strong with weak games! Otherwise, why is the Cavaliers now ranked eighth in the East and the Heat second in the East?"

Riley's words made the four centers cheer before, and Barkley was speechless. He laughed dryly because the championship had always been Fatty Ba's heart disease. So although his face was still full of smiles, in his heart, Fatty Ba had already turned out and scolded Pat Riley's ancestors for 18 generations...

With such an opening to adjust the atmosphere, when the players of the two teams appeared in the stadium for the first time to warm up tonight, the atmosphere in the stadium reached a strange balance. Whenever the scene of LeBron, James or other Heat players appeared on the big screen, cheers would be kept in the stadium; and when the big screen switched to Wu Dawei, they immediately became booed.

Obviously, Barkley had just experienced his verbal addiction, which made Miami people bother Wu Dawei to hate him. After all, as an enemy, even if Wu Dawei once belonged to Miami, this relationship was very fragile.

What's more, when Wu Dawei was in Miami, he never made any contribution to the team; instead, he shined after being traded to Cleveland. In this way, after being damaged by Barkley, Miami fans would feel that Wu Dawei was not kind enough.

The performance of the previous year and the next year was so far in contrast, which inevitably made Miami people feel that Wu Dawei did not give his all while in the Heat.

In this way, the beautiful side of Wu Dawei in Miami people's impression will disappear. Fans are all emotional groups. At this time, they will not think about the reason why there is such a big gap is because the Heat have never given Wu Dawei a good opportunity to show themselves.
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