When time came on December 17, the Cleveland Cavaliers finally finished their five difficult and dangerous away games! For the Cleveland Cavaliers, this was tantamount to a hellish journey, full of difficulties and obstacles, which really made them feel exhausted.

But the only good thing is that the result is still acceptable to the entire Cleveland Cavaliers.

The record of 2 wins and 3 losses has allowed the Cleveland Cavaliers to achieve a record of 9 wins and 16 losses after these 5 games.

They still maintained their original position before the expedition, and were still ninth in the Eastern Conference. This is not a good situation and certainly not a very bad result. At least so far, they still retain a lot of hope of rushing into the top eight of the Eastern Conference.

Moreover, with the end of this five-game series away game, the Cleveland Cavaliers are getting closer and closer to the team's inside core Dwight Howard's return.

This is of course one of the few good news for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the past two months, but before this good news comes, the Cleveland Cavaliers actually have another "good news".

That is, they will become one of the few participants in the NBA League's Christmas Battle this year. The league arranged for them to reenact the finals with their opponents in the finals last season on December 25th.

This should have been a beautiful imagination, but as Dwight Howard and Wu Dawei confirmed that they would not participate, the game was completely useless. And the league could not change the schedule at this time, after all, it would be a big deal to move the whole body.

But the problem is that it is because the schedule cannot be changed. However, the Cleveland Cavaliers have encountered such a key injury and blow, they still have to fight against their opponents in the Ford Center of Grave Arena, the home court of the Oklahoma City Thunder!

The players of the Cleveland Cavaliers are not afraid of losing. After all, they have only played more than 20 games since the beginning of this season. They have now lost 16 of them. They are already a little used to losing games.

It’s just that the Christmas battle means live broadcast across the United States and will lose the game in front of the people of the United States. Of course, this will not make the Cleveland Cavaliers players feel better. No one will like to lose in front of fans across the country. Of course, the fewer people know the better.

However, the Christmas battle will not come so soon. Before playing this Christmas battle, the Cleveland has a few games to be played first. For them now, winning all possible games is the most critical thing. As for the Christmas battle, looking at the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Cleveland Cavaliers are a little unwilling to fight...

If your opponent is too strong, it means that the game will be more difficult, and even if you put in great effort, you may not be able to win this game. After all, your opponent's strength is indeed too much higher than the current Cleveland Cavaliers.

So although it is not far from Christmas, December 25, the Cavaliers do not take this game too seriously, because in the current situation where the strength gap between the two sides is too large, they will of course be more willing to focus on the games before this Christmas game.

The team's head coach Byron Scott also thinks so. He did not pay too much attention to the upcoming national live broadcast on December 25, but instead paid more attention to the next few games.

Because the opponents the Cleveland Cavaliers meet in the next game are far inferior to the Oklahoma City Thunder, which is now the top level in the league. Before the Christmas game comes, the Cleveland Cavaliers have three games to play, namely, playing against the Toronto Raptors at home, challenging the Minnesota Timberwolves away, and returning to home to play against the New Orleans Hornets!

Obviously, the opponents the Cleveland Cavaliers encountered in these three games are far less powerful than the Oklahoma City Thunder, so naturally. These three teams are the more realistic goals of the Cleveland Cavaliers at the moment.

None of these three teams has entered the top eight rankings in the East and West League leagues, and they have not even entered the top ten, and their strength can be said to be very weak.

Such an opponent is definitely the best prey to improve their record for the Cleveland Cavaliers today. What is more valuable is that these three teams are crowded together to face off against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

This gives the Cleveland Cavaliers a chance to win a row!

They have never achieved a three-game winning streak this season, and in the next three games, they have a great chance to get such an opportunity. So for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the next three games are what they feel most concerned about.

After all, compared to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Cleveland Cavaliers still think it is more reliable to win the Raptors, Hornets and Timberwolves.

Their first opponent on December 18 was the Toronto Raptors, which also came from the Eastern Conference, a team that has fallen to the bottom since Chris Bosh left.

In fact, the Toronto Raptors can be said to have the same illness as the Cleveland Cavaliers at that time. They were also the injured person who successfully formed the Big Three of the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat took LeBron James away from the Cleveland Cavaliers and also got Chris Bosh from the Toronto Raptors.

The core players of the two teams were pried away at once, and the strength of these two teams was immediately greatly damaged. Fortunately, the Cavaliers directly added Wu Dawei and escaped, but the Toronto Raptors were not so lucky.

Although they got the hope star Demar DeRozan during this period, DeRozan was really unable to support the Raptors, which led to the team being only a bottom-ranked team in the Eastern Conference after two years.

Moreover, judging from their decadent appearance, the situation is difficult to improve in a short period of time... So of course the Cleveland Cavaliers are quite confident in this game, although they still haven't welcomed Dwight, Howard, and Wu Dawei still have to watch it. However, for this game against the Toronto Raptors at home, Cleveland has no reason to retreat.

When the game really kicked off, Cleveland Cavaliers did quickly gain an advantage. Although their performance this season was poor, when they faced such a team with less powerful strength, the Cleveland Cavaliers could still gain a stable advantage.

Especially when the Toronto Raptors are experiencing a four-game losing streak recently, they are not very good now in terms of their condition and fighting spirit, and this is a good opportunity for the Cleveland Cavaliers to win.

The Cleveland fans who came to the Speed ​​Loan Center that night were also very confident about this game, and the team did not disappoint the fans in this game.

The Cavaliers successfully defeated their opponents in the first half, making this game a hearty big victory. 88:107, a victory of almost 20 points can be said to be a long-lost.

It also allowed the Cleveland Cavaliers to successfully win their tenth game of the season. With 10 wins and 16 losses, they are getting closer and closer to the eighth-place team in the East.

For the Cleveland Cavaliers, their situation is indeed getting better. After playing against the Toronto Raptors, the Cleveland Cavaliers will go away to challenge the Minnesota Timberwolves, which is Michael Beasley's old club.

Although Beasley has no complaints about the Timberwolves trading him to the Cleveland Cavaliers this summer, he still remembers the unpleasantness he had with the Minnesota Timberwolves before this.

So in this away game challenging the Timberwolves, Michael Beasley, whose performance has been heating up recently, has ushered in a big explosion in this game!

Beasley played 31 minutes in the game and scored 21 points and 10 rebounds for the team! He completely disrupted the Minnesota Timberwolves' hands and feet on the offensive end, causing the opponent to lose everything, which made the Cleveland Cavaliers naturally win their two consecutive victories!

This is the second two-game winning streak this season, which obviously makes the team's situation continue to improve. After this game, the Cleveland Cavaliers have achieved a record of 11 wins and 16 losses, almost tied with the New Jersey Nets, which is currently ranked eighth in the East.

The Nets' current record is 12 wins and 17 losses, playing two more games than the Cleveland Cavaliers, winning one more game and losing one more game. This means that the Cleveland Cavaliers only need to win the next game against the New Orleans Hornets at home, so they can get a record of 12 wins and 16 losses. While the winning game is tied, they can squeeze into the top eight in the East with the advantage of winning rate!

Isn't this what the Cleveland Cavaliers have been looking for recently? Returning to the top eight in the East, regardless of their current ranking, at least they can maintain a place in the playoffs. This is the most important thing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, because if they want to defend the championship, they must first qualify for the playoffs before they can talk about what's ahead. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!