169. Preseason
With the arrival of October, the new season is getting closer and closer for the entire league. All teams in the league are also starting to make final preparations. For the new season, each team must do their best.
Whether it is the bottom of the fish or the strong team, at this time everyone is standing on the agreed starting line, and everyone is looking forward to a miracle. All teams are ready to go, but the current situation facing each team is good and bad.
For the Miami Heat, which got Ray Allen joined this summer, it is obvious that the current situation of the entire team is very good. For new players, everyone in the team gives a thumbs up.
Ray Allen can bring more than just shooting from the outside, he can open up more and more space for the team, and in this way, he can also create more opportunities for LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and even Chris Bosh to cut into the basket.
Because Ray Allen has to take into account, the pressure on the opponent to these superstars when going online will definitely be reduced, and the three of them happen to like to launch an offensive from going online. This combination can be said to be complementary.
So in this way, Miami Heat fans can have reason to believe that after getting Ray Allen's joining, Miami Heat will definitely have a higher level of strength.
And when their only East rival, the Cleveland Cavaliers, suffered massive injuries, obviously, this gave the Miami Heat more and better opportunities.
Although it has proved in the playoff Eastern Conference finals last season that home court advantage is sometimes not as powerful as imagined. At least, although the Miami Heat had a home court advantage, they were still defeated by the Cleveland Cavaliers without mercy.
Moreover, this happened not only once. In the first round of the playoffs last season, the Cleveland Cavaliers also had no home court advantage, and completed the Miracle of Black Seven with a score of 4:1.
So home advantage actually doesn't seem that important. At least when playing against the Cleveland Cavaliers led by Wu Dawei, it obviously did not generate the energy it deserves.
But even so, no one will not compete for the home advantage of the playoffs. Even the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers are willing to play in their homes rather than going to a strange environment.
So when the Eastern Conference is almost the only competitor, the Cleveland Cavaliers, is in such a bad situation, the Miami Heat have a lot of opportunities. As long as they seize the current opportunity, they will try to widen the gap between the two sides while Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard are both absent due to injuries. Then even if Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard return to the basketball court, it will be difficult for the Cleveland Cavaliers to regain the first place in the East.
And now the Cleveland Cavaliers have not only suffered large-scale injuries. At the same time, their signings in the summer transfer trading market have not been successful. Until now, they have just picked up garbage and got a player they even wanted to resign from the Minnesota Timberwolves, Michael Beasley.
To this end, a local Miami reporter also wrote a report hysterically to ridicule the Cleveland Cavaliers' deal, calling it a stupid behavior.
Although judging from the news reported from Cleveland media later, Michael Beasley is actually not as unbearable as what the outside media said. At least when he came to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Michael Beasley left a good impression on the Cleveland people in the first training class.
The performance of conscientiousness and diligence has greatly improved people's impression of him.
But this will not have any impact on the Miami Heat. In their opinion, what if Michael Beasley becomes honest? He is not a player who can take on the big responsibility, otherwise the Miami Heat would not have given him almost for nothing to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and now the Minnesota Timberwolves are almost for nothing to the Cleveland Cavaliers...
You can see some of the process in between. How unpopular Michael Beasley is now in the league.
The reason why the Cleveland Cavaliers dared to ask for him was not because they were mixed with such a relationship between Wu Dawei. If it weren't for Wu Dawei, then perhaps Michael Beasley had already been ruthlessly revoked by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
This is not only speculated by outsiders. Michael Beasley, who is the person involved, also felt very clear about this. If it weren't for Wu Dawei, then he would probably not have been attracted by a defending champion like the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It is even more impossible to have a place in this team. When Michael Beasley came to the Cleveland Cavaliers, his teammates had a harmonious relationship with him, although Michael Beasley knew that it was because of his enthusiasm, and the second reason was because Wu Dawei was the undisputed core and boss of this team.
So Michael Beasley is more grateful to his good friend for Dawei Wu, because he believes that if it weren't for Dawei Wu, he wouldn't have been the starter of the team in his first game on behalf of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
When the NBA preseason kicked off in October, Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott finally listened to the advice given to him by his favorite player Wu Dawei and gave Michael Beasley a chance.
In the first NBA preseason game against the Boston Celtics in early October, Michael Beasley was allowed to play as a starting player.
Although the resentment between the two teams is not as deep as that of the Miami Heat and the Cavaliers, the Cleveland Cavaliers have also defeated the Boston Celtics in the playoffs.
So although this is just a preseason game, both sides will still play sparks. Although neither team has sent their strongest lineup, Wu Dawei, Dwight Howard and others have not even come to Boston, the game is very fierce.
Because it is a preseason, we basically don’t play the main players, and at this time, it is often the opportunity for marginal players. If we can seize the opportunity to perform well in the preseason, it will be of great help to them in the new season.
Because preseasons are often used to find the state for each team, if they can play in the preseason, it will definitely be of great help to the new season that will be about to kick off!
So this summer, Michael Beasley, who vowed to make a comeback because he was looked down upon by Miami reporters, would never be able to be careless in his first starting game for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He performed very positively. In preseason-level games, Michael Beasley was able to perform very well because in terms of offense and defense intensity, preseason-level and regular season are far inferior.
Both sides will be relatively lazy, and some defenses will not be too strict. After all, the new season will begin after the preseason, so no one will hope that they will be injured in the preseason.
Michael Beasley performed very well. In his first game of competition for the Cleveland Cavaliers, he scored 27 points and 8 rebounds alone, while dominating the offensive end, and also helped the Cleveland Cavaliers win the first game in the preseason.
Wu Dawei did not follow the team to Boston in the preseason, mainly because of injuries. Although the league also stipulates that the injured need to follow the team to go away, this is only a preseason, so there is no such a dead rule.
Wu Dawei stayed in Cleveland and began to sort out his affairs in Cleveland. After all, due to injuries, he could not return to the basketball court so quickly, but he still had to insist on resuming training. However, when others were playing, it felt bad to stay in the empty training hall.
Fortunately, the situation changed quickly, because Wu Dawei immediately had a companion. Dwight Howard, who also had surgery in Los Angeles, was finally allowed to go to the ground by the doctor after resting for more than a month, so he immediately completed a flight back to Cleveland and began to undergo restorative training with Wu Dawei.
Although Dwight Howard also fulfilled his championship dream last season, the problem is that when you complete a height, you will soon hope to go further.
Just like Wu Dawei now, Dwight Howard is also very interested in completing the feat of defending the title in the new season. If he wants to successfully defend the title, it is naturally impossible to rely on the current lineup of the Cleveland Cavaliers. So Dwight Howard and Wu Dawei are in the same mood, hoping to return to the basketball court as soon as possible.
For him, the reason for his efforts is not just that, but also because this year is Dwight Howard's contract year, and in some ways, it should also belong to Wu Dawei's contract year. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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