The Cleveland Cavaliers relied on Wu Dawei's continuous scoring at the beginning and established a leading advantage on the offensive end. However, the Cavaliers did not do well tonight on the defensive end, but this is also inseparable from the Orlando Magic's outstanding performance outside the three-point line.

Although the Cavaliers only took the lead from the opening, the Magic also followed the Cleveland Cavaliers closely. The Orlando people's perseverance really made people feel a little breathless.

Here is the advantage of the Orlando Magic's home court Amway Center. With the cheers of fans, the Orlando Magic's is still behind in the game, but their momentum has never been destroyed by the Cavaliers.

This is the advantage that the home atmosphere brings to the home team. The cheering of fans has always allowed Orlando Magic players to maintain hope for victory in this game.

And not only Dwight Howard in the Cavaliers' team is eager to win this game, but Chris Carman also hopes to help the Orlando Magic win this game to prove his value to the former team.

So this set the tone of the intense process of this game.

After the score was scored 9:8, the Cavaliers still scored a goal in the next offense. Wu Dawei relied on his current momentum of 9 points in a row to attract the Orlando Magic's defense, and passed it to Dwight Howard, who dunked in the paint area!

This is Howard's first score in this game, helping the Cavaliers widen the gap again, becoming 11:8, and there is still a three-point gap, but this is obviously nothing to the Orlando Magic tonight.

They actually hit a three-pointer in the next attack, and their third three-pointer in this game!

In the first quarter, less than half a quarter of the start of the first quarter, the Orlando Magic's hands were hot outside the three-point line! This also helped them not to be able to open the score by the Cleveland Cavaliers in such an excellent condition.

The score instantly turned into a draw of 11:11. The Magic's three-pointers made them easily catch up, and the advantages that the Cavaliers have worked hard to build were easily resolved.

This situation made the Cavaliers head coach Byron Scott feel quite bad, so the Cavaliers asked for a timeout.

"Expand your outside defense! Don't give Orlando too many opportunities to shoot three-pointers, especially those opportunities to shoot easily. If you don't show 100% of your strength tonight, then we will really be a joke in others' mouths! Do you want to be someone else's joke after dinner? I don't want to! If you don't want to, actively change defense and run actively. Do everything you can on the court! They are not scary. As long as they defend their three-pointers, we will win this game tonight!"

Three three-pointers not only allowed the Orlando Magic to tie the score, but also made the Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott look quite angry. He didn't expect the team to score so many three-pointers for the Orlando people at the beginning!

Otherwise, his team would have gained a huge lead in this noisy game. So this is one of the reasons why Scott was very angry. The team's positioning is to counterattack, and where can defense come from without defense?

"We have to keep our advantage. Keep looking for opportunities on the outside, and just have a little chance, shoot! We need three-pointers, not just because it helps us equalize the score. This is not our goal, what we need is to win this game! To beat the proud Clevelanders, just tonight!"

Stan Van Gundy shouted passionately at the players that the previous game had already given him a glimmer of hope of winning. Although before this game started, all Orlando seemed to be confident that they could win the game, but as the head coach, Stan Van Gundy was still very clear about the strength gap between the two sides.

So at this time, I really saw that there was hope of winning the game. Naturally, Stan Van Gundy would only ask the players to do their best. The reason why the Magic had been able to catch up with the points gap was because of their outstanding performance outside the three-point line that they were able to force the Cavaliers coach Byron Scott to request a timeout angrily.

Naturally, Stan Van Gundy certainly needs to make use of this.

After the timeout, although the Cleveland Cavaliers strengthened their defensive strength on the outside, they did not completely destroy the Orlando Magic's shooting outside the three-point line.

After all, sometimes when the feel comes, it’s something that can’t be stopped.

However, for the Cleveland Cavaliers, this timeout is still helpful to them, at least they always stand on the lead in the following first quarter.

Although the Orlando Magic made 5 of 6 shots from outside the three-point line in the first quarter, the Cavaliers still led by 2 points and entered the second quarter with 25:23.

Both sides began to send their second team one after another. Rasu Butler, a veteran in the Cavaliers, also represented the Orlando Magic on the court at this time; however, compared with Chris Caman, Rasu Butler did not hate the Cleveland Cavaliers so much.

Maybe it's on the verge of the end of his career, so Butler has looked at it a little less. Although it's a competition in the second team, the Cleveland Cavaliers still have star players this season.

As the No. 1 pick last year and the winner of this season's rookie tournament, Kyrie Irving is currently ranked first in the league's rookie rankings, and is also quite popular. Average of 14+6 per game makes Kyrie Irving a major player in the Cleveland Cavaliers' team.

In addition, the Cavaliers' second team also has veteran Antoine Jamison, a veteran whose huge annual salary is about to expire after this season, can contribute 10 points per game to the Cavaliers this season.

The two of them joined forces to give Orlando a warning at the beginning of the second quarter. This is one of the reasons why the Cleveland Cavaliers have been able to stand out in their record this season.

When the main lineup was fully rested, the second team was able to play exciting games, helping the Cavaliers stabilize the situation on the court.

Looking at the championship teams in the history of the league, it is not difficult to find the very excellent sixth man in their lineup; for example, Ginobili of the Spurs, Jason Terry of the Mavericks, and Lamar Odom of the Lakers, are all core players in the second team.

Obviously, the Cavaliers are training Kyrie Irving to be the next Ginobili or Jason Terry in the starting linebacker with Chauncey Billups.

Although doing this is a waste of Kyrie Irving's own talent, it is indeed a very good choice for the Cavaliers.

In the second quarter, the Cavaliers continued to gain a leading advantage, and even the combination of Kyrie Irving and Antoine Jamison once widened the gap, but the Orlando people stubbornly used their outstanding touch outside the three-point line tonight to save their lives repeatedly.

This is also the most troublesome thing about Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Byron Scott tonight. If the Orlando people were allowed to throw like this, although the Cavaliers still take the initiative on the court at the moment, no one would know what would change in the last moment of the game.

If there is a shocking reversal, it will be something no one can tell.

Scott's concerns are not unreasonable, because the Cavaliers then encountered trouble on the court. The Cavaliers once widened the score difference to 6 points in the second quarter, but the Magic suddenly exerted force on the offensive end and caught the Cavaliers off guard. Then they used three-pointers one after another to narrow the score difference to within 1 point.

This situation suddenly made the Cleveland Cavaliers frivolous. Byron Scott didn't dare to be careless, so he hurriedly replaced Wu Dawei on the court. But when Wu Dawei was still waiting on the sidelines to get on the court, the Cavaliers' offensive mistake gave the Magic hope to overtake the score.

The Magic started the counterattack that the Cavaliers were best at, and then they hit another three-pointer in the frontcourt amid the cheers of the exhausted Orlando fans tonight!

The score instantly turned into 34:36. The Orlando Magic, who played at home, led the Cleveland Cavaliers by two points after 4 minutes in the second quarter!

This is their first lead in this game!

There was a huge cheer immediately in the Amway Center, and at this moment, Wu Dawei finally found a chance to play, replacing Jason Capono, the "three-point king" who was still not performing well tonight, and re-emerged onto the stadium.

Jason Capono walked off the court in frustration. He played for 6 minutes before, but both shots outside the three-point line were missed. I don't know how many times he missed the shot.

Head coach Byron Scott was also very disappointed with this, because Capono's introduction last summer was to allow him to enhance the team's strength outside the three-point line, but now, it has no effect at all. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!