194. Countdown to the regular season
Five consecutive victories are still not the end for the Cleveland Cavaliers. They are now in a state of thrilling. After defeating five opponents at home, they are heading for the away game and continuing their journey in March.
However, the Cavaliers did not continue to win games after game. After all, Dwight Howard has not been a long time for joining this team, and Danny Green could not maintain a very high level outside the three-point line every night.
Humans are not machines. Even if they practice accurately and diligently, they cannot maintain an excellent state every night. Danny Green is not good, and the Cavaliers are not good either. Perhaps so far, only Wu Dawei can do this. He has basically not performed poorly this season. He has not even passed the game below 20 points this season, even so far, which makes him one of the few players in the league who can score more than 20 points in dozens of games!
Of course, this is just an exception. The Cavaliers finally won a six-game winning streak as a sign that they proved to the world that their state is refreshed. However, this is obviously a little different from the Miami Heat's still in a winning streak. Their winning streak was ended in the battle with the New Jersey Nets. Deron Williams, who has been newly promoted to the Nets, has rarely performed extremely well in this game. It is precisely because of the performance of De Xiaopang that the Nets pointed to the momentum of the Cavaliers' victory.
After six games, the Cleveland Cavaliers were baptized again. This was the opportunity that countless people were dormant in the dark and waiting for. Almost the day after the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Nets away, the reports of the Cleveland Cavaliers who had disappeared and criticized the Cleveland Cavaliers once again emerged on the surface.
If the Cleveland Cavaliers' excellent performance in the first half of the season made many people very jealous; then when they introduced Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic in the second half of the season, they were transformed into the Miami Heat, who just formed the Big Three last season!
They have almost become public enemies of the entire league, the main tank that attracts hatred firepower the most. If there is any disturbance, the Cleveland Cavaliers will become the target of public criticism. Just because they are formed, the fans are excited and the other teams in the league feel the combination of Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard.
When this combination was just born, it had a huge wave and shock. Many people were shocked by this, but more people were indignant about it. Because they felt that this was definitely a transaction under internal operations, especially the Los Angeles media that had hoped to get Howard from Orlando before. They even chewed their tongues for this and vowed to expose the inside story of this transaction.
But the Los Angeles didn't think about it before that. When talking about insider trading, when the Lakers got Paul Gasol from the Grizzlies in 2008, they paid a slight price. Marc Gasol, who was still playing in the Spanish League, did not lose money now. But who would know whether the four first-round draft picks paid by the Cavaliers to the Magic will bring the Orlando Magic the next Dwight Howard or LeBron James, Kevin Durant...
These reports that were unfavorable to the Cavaliers never left them from the beginning to the end. It was just that when the Cavaliers had excellent record, they hid, and when the Cavaliers fell into a trough or a shadow of failure, they couldn't wait to jump out!
"The state of the favorite team to win the championship is so unstable. This can't make people feel that the Cleveland Cavaliers will be the one standing on the stage in June. They are more like the Miami Heat last season. Speaking of group formation, the Miami people are the ancestor of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Maybe Daniel Gilbert was a little earlier. I think maybe he would contact James first, and then ask him about his experience on how to get together, and then teach him to Dawei Wu and Dwight Howard... Of course, the premise is that LeBron James is willing to share all this. But I think, with James' guilt towards the Cavaliers, he must be willing to share all this. Because he feels so proud of it!"
"Oh~ Speaking of Miami. Although I am reluctant to admit it, I think the current Miami Heat can be called a truly popular team to win the championship. Their explosion in the second half of the season allows them to lead the entire league now. Perhaps James' dream of winning the championship will be realized today! At this point, the Cleveland Cavaliers should still learn more with their big brother! Because in my opinion, although the Cavaliers defeated the Heat in the playoffs last season, they will not make a breakthrough in the East this season. They will either fall in the hands of the Miami people or at the feet of the Chicago people!"
Adebayo, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, couldn't help but tease after the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the unknown New Jersey Nets. After the Cleveland Cavaliers got Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic, they became the public enemy of the entire league and the enemy of Los Angeles.
Because the Los Angeles Lakers were the biggest favorite team to get Dwight Howard, but in the end they were useless. So, all this, the Los Angeles blamed all the blame on the Cleveland Cavaliers.
They also have reason to do this, because their biggest bargaining chip was the young Andrew Bynum, and Bynum was injured during the Lakers' game against the Cavaliers. Andrew Bynum's injury completely broke the deal between the Lakers and the Magic, which made the Cleveland Cavaliers able to get Howard's deal from the Magic at such a "low" price.
Therefore, the Los Angeles people are "hate to the core" of the Cleveland Cavaliers! In addition, they were unable to bring Wu Dawei into the team from the Cleveland Cavaliers last summer. New and old hatreds have come to their hearts, so it is no surprise that Los Angeles people grit their teeth.
Fortunately, the Cleveland Cavaliers did not give outside public opinion. There were too many opportunities to criticize them. Shortly after losing to the New Jersey Nets, they immediately won a victory to wipe out the shadow of their previous defeat.
The Cleveland Cavaliers did not experience a losing streak in their home wins. However, in the remaining three games in March, the Cavaliers achieved a record of two wins and one loss, which prevented them from winning streak. Ending this month was somewhat awful for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
40 wins and 12 losses. When the game ended in March, the Cleveland Cavaliers achieved such a result. Compared with last season, such a result has definitely made a great progress for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Relying on such a result, the Cleveland Cavaliers ranked third in the East Division at the end of March, only behind the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls. Such a result is enough to make them look down on most teams in the league.
However, despite such an outstanding record, the Clevelanders still seemed a little dissatisfied with it. Because they still failed to return to the top of the league, behind LeBron James' Miami Heat. This is the most dissatisfied with Cleveland fans.
So for the Cleveland Cavaliers, they must continue to work hard!
After all March games ended, the league also announced the East and West Player of the Month in March. Although the Cleveland Cavaliers recovered in the second half of March, this was still not enough to make Wu Dawei the best Eastern Conference player of the month.
In the end, he was nominated for the Eastern Conference Player of the Month this month, the Eastern Conference Player of the March was won by LeBron James of the Miami Heat.
The Heat's outstanding record in March and James's personal outstanding performance helped him win the greatest honor of the month.
Such news undoubtedly disappoints Cleveland fans, but it also makes them more eager to try. Because the next fight between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Miami Heat, the last fight this season, is getting closer and closer.
When the Miami Heat and LeBron James were most proud, beating them was enough to make fans in Cleveland feel extremely excited!
However, before playing against the Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers need to play a few games around the United States first, and then it is the Miami Heat's turn.
In April, the playoffs are about to start, the regular season phase of the Cleveland Cavaliers has entered the countdown. They will head to New York to play another game with the New York Knicks.
Dwight Howard, among the Cleveland Cavaliers, has been waiting for a long time. When he just joined the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New Yorker was the one who mocked him the most. Spike Lee even mocked Dwight Howard and the Cavaliers in public several times, admitting that even if they combine, they cannot be the last holder of the championship.
This made Dwight Howard feel angry because the reason he chose to join the Cleveland Cavaliers was so anxious to win the championship as soon as possible, or even more times!
But Spike Lee's dismantling his stage made Dwight Howard feel provoked. Especially when the Cleveland Cavaliers suffered heavy blows one after another, the New Yorkers' ridicule never stopped. Naturally, at this time, Dwight Howard was eager to take revenge!
Not only Dwight Howard, the Cleveland Cavaliers were already in a row with the New York Knicks. Wu Dawei has become opponents with Spike Lee for a long time. Almost every time, the two of them always have to quarrel after meeting.
When the Cleveland Cavaliers flew to the airport in New York on a special plane, New York also set off a wave of discussions on this game. Especially for those loyal New York Knicks, this is a game that they cannot lose!
This is not only because of the hatred between the New York Knicks and Wu Dawei, but also the century-old honor of the New York Knicks! As we all know, the New Jersey Nets will soon move to New York in the next season and become the second NBA team in this bustling Big Apple City. This means that in this place, the Knicks will no longer dominate.
Especially when the Nets have a wealthy Russian boss background, the Knicks fans are frightened all day long. They are afraid that one day the Knicks will no longer be the focus of New York, and the Nets will replace them as a new symbol of the city.
So not long ago, after the Nets defeated the Cavaliers, for the Knicks fans, the Knicks also had to defeat the Cavaliers to show that they were still the only one in the city. Even if the Nets moved to New York, they were just an outsider! Even if they had a newer, bigger and more beautiful team, they could not match the Knicks' century-old arena, Madison Discourse Square, known as the "Basketball Mecca"!
But the Cleveland Cavaliers would not know what New York fans think, and it would be even more impossible to know that there is such a relationship between them and the Nets who are about to move to New York.
Therefore, for this game, the Cleveland Cavaliers have only one goal, that is, to win. With only the last 12 games left in the regular season, the Cleveland Cavaliers don't have much time to catch up with the Miami Heat, which is currently ranked first in the East District League.
They can only win as much as possible and finally wait for the decision of God. So in these last twelve games, the Cleveland Cavaliers can win one game. As long as they are unwilling to be in the current ranking, they will try their best to win the game!
So, when they came to New York and New York reporters repeatedly hinted whether there would be any possible results other than victory, the team's core Wu Dawei answered that we only want to win; and Dwight Howard said with confidence: "Apart from victory, we will not accept any other results!"
This answer is the tough performance of the Cleveland Cavaliers, but in the eyes of more New Yorkers, it is a provocation to the New York Knicks! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please read it.)
Chapter completed!