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289. Dark Horse

After defeating the visiting New York Knicks and Miami Heat one after another, the Cavaliers' record has reached 33 wins and 32 losses. On the same night, the Philadelphia 76ers, who were behind the Cavaliers, unexpectedly lost the game.

In this way, the Cavaliers widened the gap with the Philadelphia 76ers, which ranked ninth behind them, and the New York Knicks, who were previously ranked ahead of the Cavaliers, lost the game before. In this way, the New Yorkers also lost 32, but their winning game was one more game than the Cavaliers, which made them still ranked seventh in the East.

However, their current position is in danger. The Cavaliers have won all three previous matches this season. Therefore, only if they need to maintain the same record as the New Yorkers, the Cavaliers can overtake their opponents and become seventh in the East again.

Although Wu Dawei's performance was not very good in the match against the Miami Heat, his 24-point performance in the game was undoubtedly a few ranks compared to LeBron James' 41 points, but Wu Dawei's highlight performance in the last 11 seconds of the game was enough to make up for the 17-point gap.

After all, that two points and the subsequent block really had a critical impact on the final victory or defeat of the entire game.

The Miami Heat, which formed the Big Three, lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third time this season last summer, is undoubtedly unimaginable; while the Cleveland Cavaliers, which almost fell apart last summer, were still ranked eighth in the East District at the end of the game, and even just a short distance from the seventh in the East District, which is also shocking; but compared with all this, it is completely impossible to be as shocking as Wu Dawei, who has risen this season!

After the game, Wu Dawei met with Miami Heat president Pat Riley again. However, this meeting was not an agreed in advance, but an accidental encounter in the player channel.

However, this time the two did not have a dizzy chat like they did when they were in the cafe last time. After all, Pat Riley is the president of the Miami Heat, while Wu Dawei is a player of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The mood of the losing side tonight and the winning side is naturally inconsistent.

The Cavaliers finally made an understanding of their bad February with one wave of two consecutive victories, and the value of the two consecutive victories is pretty good. The Miami Heat and the New York Knicks are currently both top eight teams in the East District League, which undoubtedly adds a little more confidence to the Cavaliers in the playoffs.

As February ended, the league officially entered the final battle for playoff qualifications in March.

The Cavaliers are currently ranked eighth in the East with 33 wins and 32 losses, and they still have opponents in 17 games left. Less than half of the teams ranked in the top eight in the East and West areas. There are only 8 teams.

This schedule is relatively easy, at least it is not difficult compared to the Philadelphia 76ers, which are currently ranked behind the Cavaliers and the New York Knicks, which are ranked before the Cavaliers.

And among these eight opponents ranked in the top eight in the East and West leagues, three of them were defeated by the Cavaliers, namely the New York Knicks, the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder.

And there are some of the matches that have been defeated more than once, which will undoubtedly have a huge advantage in the heart for the Cavaliers.

It is precisely because of this that after entering March, the outside world has begun to become very optimistic about the current prospects of the Cleveland Cavaliers entering this year's playoffs.

Among the two TV stations, ESPN and TNT, more than half of their surveys on the station's commentators and basketball critics believe that the Cleveland Cavaliers will most likely be among the top eight in the East this year.

Of course, most people's views basically come from the collaboration between Wu Dawei and Chauncey Billups, and the recent situation is Chris Kaman, which has made many people feel very confident about this team.

Although Chauncey Billups' current form has not reached a peak, and is not even as good as he did when he was at the Denver Nuggets at the beginning of this season, everyone agreed that when the playoffs come, Chauncey Billups will definitely be able to play his huge advantage in experience.

In addition, Wu Dawei, who has made people feel constantly surprised this season, so people think they have reason to believe that such a Cavaliers team is still worth their expectations.

Although the American sports circle in March is a vibrant NCAA, this month is equally important as the last full term of the NBA regular season.

There are only more than ten games left in the regular season, and it can be said that they are basically coming to an end and are about to enter the end. In addition to feeling interested in who can finally enter the playoffs, people will also start to speculate on the duels.

The playoff mode of NBA will easily make the higher-ranking teams have the greater advantage in the playoffs. First place is the eighth place, second place is the seventh place, third place is the sixth place, fourth place is the fifth place.

Such a first-round match ranking will make the suspense of the four groups of duels, but everything will be exceptions. There are many examples of Black Eight in the long history of the league in the 50s.

Although the most fierce battle in the first round of the playoffs will be the showdown between the fourth and fifth places, as long as there are Black Eight or Black Eight, everyone's attention will obviously be attracted. After all, unexpected events such as Black Eight and Black Eight will make people's emotions more likely to rise.

The instability, unexpected surprises, and impact on traditional concepts are enough to make the following more exciting.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, which surprised people this season, undoubtedly have such potential in people's eyes. Wu Dawei's rise, Chris Carman and Chauncey Billups' joining have all made this team not favored by people at the beginning of the season, and have a place in the Eastern Conference, which is relatively weaker than the West.

Although their current ranking is only eighth in the East District, the Cavaliers' performance against strong teams this season has made many people feel fresh in memory. The Bulls, Heat, Magic, Celtics, and at least the top four in the East District are currently the Cavaliers have made them lose.

Even facing the Miami Heat, the hottest team last season, the Cavaliers have won all three games so far!

The past of the team of Luke is the basis for most people who think that the Cavaliers have the strength to go further in the playoffs. Moreover, the joining of Chauncey Billups makes people who hold this view think that as long as the Cavaliers get well in the running-in, they may really have some achievements in the playoffs.

In addition to discussing the possible prospects of each team in the playoffs, the most discussed other issues are undoubtedly the issue of the ownership of major individual awards after the end of the season.

The most popular individual award is undoubtedly the issue of the MVP's ownership in the regular season. Currently, the Bulls' core point guard Derek Ross is very popular. However, with the Miami Heat's recovery in record performance, LeBron James has also shown some signs of recovery in the MVP rankings.

Although the Cavaliers only ranked eighth in the East, Wu Dawei is also on the MVP rankings thanks to his amazing and comprehensive performance this season.

But the ranking was really a little lower, ranking 15th.

In addition to having Wu Dawei's name on the MVP list, people will naturally put Wu Dawei's name on the candidate list in other awards. And compared with MVP, Wu Dawei on these lists has made a breakthrough like a great leap forward!

As the top spot on the list of steals and blocks so far this season, Wu Dawei ranked first in the ranking of DPOY, the best defensive player in the league! He beat Dwight Howard, the best defensive player in the league last season, and became the biggest favorite.

Of course, Wu Dawei became the top spot on this list, not only because he was able to contribute wonderful blocks and unexpected steals in the game every night. These data are naturally one of the references, but more so, Wu Dawei did a good job in limiting his opponents!

The data given by the NBA official is that so far the players who have played against Wu Dawei have averaged only 40% of the game, which is 4 percentage points higher than Dwight Howard!

Although Wu Dawei has some advantages as an outside defender, even so. The advantage of 4 percentage points is enough to make Wu Dawei the biggest favorite of the best defensive player of the season.

Of course, people think that the award Wu Dawei can win this season is definitely not just the Best Defensive Player Award!

As a compatriot of Wu Dawei, Wu Dawei's performance this season has long made him a top-level and historical superstar in China who surpassed Kobe to fight James! Especially when Wu Dawei broke the league's dusty history in one fell swoop in one fell swoop in one fell swoop, domestic fans were even more excited~

Although the regular season has not yet ended, speculations about the major awards that have begun to be popular in the United States have quickly spread to the country on the other side of the ocean.

Naturally, Chinese fans began to list a bunch of awards that Wu Dawei would most likely win this season.

Except for the Best Defensive Player Award, everyone agreed that Wu Dawei will most likely win the fastest-progressive Player Award this season! So far this season, Wu Dawei averaged 18.8 points, 10.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 3.5 blocks and 3.2 steals per game, all the data far exceeds last year's performance.

In addition to the fastest-progress player award, many people believe that Wu Dawei will occupy a place in the NBA's best team this season. Even if the best team cannot be entered, at least he can enter the second team and the third team.

Although the second and third teams are not even matched by one, it is a great honor. You should know that many once glorious superstars have not won the honor of the best team several times until the end of their careers~

Of course, in addition to the best team, there is also the best defensive team. At this point, there is no doubt that everyone will think that Wu Dawei will definitely enter the ranks of the best defensive first team.

The biggest favorite of a defensive player of the season will naturally be a strong contender for the best first team.

Of course, in addition to the above awards, there are also false names such as the King of Gods and the King of Stealers. In short, it can be said that Wu Dawei's name has been repeatedly mentioned when people speculate on major league awards this season.

From this we can also see that even in February, when he struggled most in both his personal performance and team record this season, Wu Dawei is still so popular.

"If you want to talk about the dark horses of this season, it is definitely Wu Dawei and his Cleveland Cavaliers! Look at the dilemma they faced before the start of this season, and look at their current performance, you may even think that this is not the Cleveland Cavaliers you wanted to laugh at at the beginning!"

"Wu Dawei's performance this season is amazing and incredible! Perhaps when we are still feeling incredible for his performance, he has become the most successful player in his personal performance this season! If it weren't for the Cavaliers' record that dragged him down, I think even MVP would be the treasure of this Chinese player!"

"It's hard to deny his performance, especially when he has created so many amazing and records this season, you will definitely be impressed by his performance! Because I can't even find a player similar to him in the long history of the league! He is unique!"

"Wu Dawei must be the most impressive dark horse this season, especially when the Cavaliers are currently ranked eighth in the East. And do you know that Wu Dawei's salary this season is only 700,000 US dollars! It's 700,000! Man, I mean, can you find another such a great contract in the league? No wonder Gilbert always smiles recently. If I were the boss, I would be so happy that I would want to go crazy if I had such a good thing!"

On countless programs that speculate about major individual awards at the playoffs and at the end of the season, Wu Dawei became the most mentioned name among the show host, guest, and critics. Even LeBron James could only retreat at this time.

Everyone is praising Wu Dawei's performance this season. Although the praises are different, one of them uses very neat words. That is the "dark horse"!

They are right, Wu Dawei is indeed a surprising big dark horse this season. But everyone knows that he is a dark horse, but they don’t know where this dark horse can end this season!
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