229. Don't give up easily
The fifteen minutes of the halftime break were quickly spent in this situation. For the Cleveland fans on the sidelines, they were already a little impatient, because Wu Dawei, who had been waiting for them for a long time, had a good performance in the second quarter, which naturally made Cleveland fans have more expectations for the upcoming second half game.
Because Wu Dawei is their hope, although the Cleveland Cavaliers started the season with a bad start, they only had 23 wins and 27 servers in total, and they only ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference.
It seems that the situation of the defending champion is not optimistic, but everyone knows why the Cleveland Cavaliers have such a big gap in performance this season as the champion of last season.
The reason is that they encountered extremely serious injuries at the beginning of the season. If it weren't for the injury, no one would have believed that the Cleveland Cavaliers would be in such an embarrassing situation now.
Moreover, even though the Cleveland Cavaliers were not in good condition at this time, they were just in danger of being able to enter the more dangerous position in the playoffs in the Eastern Conference, but Wu Dawei's comeback brought vitality and hope to the team at once!
Even this game that was not originally a national live broadcast, after the live broadcaster learned that Wu Dawei made a comeback in this game tonight, he immediately changed the game to a national live broadcast!
From this we can see how huge Wu Dawei's influence is! Moreover, judging by Wu Dawei's performance in the second quarter, Cleveland fans can also have reason to believe that as long as Wu Dawei exists, the hope of the Cleveland Cavaliers regaining the defending championship will increase greatly.
Although Wu Dawei's performance in the first quarter of the game tonight was not satisfactory, and even a little bad, he soon completed the redemption in the second quarter!
Cleveland fans believe that as long as Wu Dawei can have his level in the second quarter, the Cleveland Cavaliers, with Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard as the core, will still become the most unneglected championship-winning force in the league!
Even if they can't win a good ranking in the regular season, they no longer care about it by that time. Because Cleveland fans believe that as long as the team can restore their strength last year, no matter where the final ranking is, they can easily defeat their opponents to complete the promotion!
Didn’t the Houston Rockets, who won the final championship in the 1990s, just ranked sixth in the West in one year!?
So the fans of Cleveland now have the same confidence! For them, external influence is difficult to affect the current prospects of this team. For this Cleveland Cavaliers, their biggest opponent is themselves!
They just need to be confident and re-join their lineup. Not just Cleveland fans. Most people will believe that they can sweep the four-way again by that time!
So when the second half of the game was about to begin again and the players of the Cleveland Cavaliers came out of the player channel one after another, the Cleveland fans on the sidelines gave the hottest cheers to the players of the home team!
Especially when Wu Dawei appeared, the Cleveland fans on the sidelines presented the most fanatical screams and cheers. As the most important core member of the Cleveland Cavaliers lineup, Wu Dawei's position in the hearts of Cleveland fans can be said to be supreme!
Especially after successfully leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the first championship in team history last year, Wu Dawei's position in the hearts of Cleveland fans was different. When Wu Dawei performed at last year's Olympics, he became more special than just the hearts of Cleveland fans. Many fans became very special.
So even though Wu Dawei was absent due to injury later, the senior executives of the Cleveland Cavaliers were still preparing to renew Wu Dawei's contract. This is what Wu Dawei showed enough to make people feel convinced in terms of strength.
So Cleveland fans believe that as long as Wu Dawei can restore his form, the Cleveland Cavaliers will have great hope to win the championship this season. Wu Dawei's performance in the second quarter made people see such hope.
So at this time, the fans of Cleveland naturally wanted to give Wu Dawei the most fanatical cheers! After hearing such cheers, Wu Dawei, who walked out of the player passage, couldn't help but wave to the sidelines to cheer and applause for himself.
Back to the long-lost basketball court, Wu Dawei was in a good mood. Especially in the previous second quarter, he had such an outstanding performance, and now he was even more happy. He was looking forward to the upcoming game in the second half as Cleveland fans on the sidelines.
For him, beating the Los Angeles Clippers has no choice but to go back. He wants to have a good start for his comeback battle in this game tonight, and he will be somewhat superstitious.
Wu Dawei on this side is in a good mood, so as the opponent of the Cleveland Cavaliers in this game tonight, the Los Angeles Clippers' power forward Blake Griffin will definitely not be in a good mood.
Because his team is now a backward side, and from a good start to a backward side, this situation will certainly make him feel angry. Originally, Blake Griffin was very dissatisfied with Wu Dawei. The current situation is that when Wu Dawei relied on his outstanding performance in the second quarter to help the Cleveland Cavaliers gain an advantage, Blake Griffin would of course be even more dissatisfied, or to say that Wu Dawei became increasingly unhappy.
Sometimes it doesn’t take too much reason to see a person being unhappy, not to mention that two people are a little bit of affair, but now it’s just a little bit of a displeasure that makes such unhappiness a little more deepened.
For Blake Griffin, he naturally wanted to help the team catch up with the score difference that was originally lagging in the second half! And Blake Griffin was of course very dissatisfied with his match against Wu Dawei in the first half, so he also wanted to get such a disadvantage back in the second half!
As a player who is very dissatisfied with Wu Dawei and even dissatisfied with him, Blake Griffin certainly could not tolerate Wu Dawei acting arrogantly on his head. So in the second half, of course, he wanted to regain the situation he had lost on Wu Dawei before...
During the halftime break, the team's head coach Nigro's scolding of the team also further inspired Blake Griffin's fighting spirit in the second half. For him, he only had two goals in the second half, one was to lead the team to turn defeat into victory, and the other was to defeat Wu Dawei!
He still has the same belief, which is to prove from Wu Dawei to everyone that he is not worse than Wu Dawei!
When the players of both sides come out of the player channel, this naturally means that the second half of the game will begin again. Neither side changed their starting lineup in the second half of the game.
Although Michael Beasley and Chauncey Billups performed very well in the second quarter, the team's head coach Byron Scott still used the team's starting lineup at the beginning of the game.
The Los Angeles Clippers head coach Nigro did not change his starting lineup. Although he was not satisfied with the team's performance in the first quarter, the current lineup is the best lineup of his team after all.
Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, he still has to use such a core lineup member to win this game in the next game. So it is impossible for Negro to replace them easily!
After fifteen minutes of rest, Nigro was still confident in the team's performance in the second half. Although the team's performance in the first half was undoubtedly disappointing, after all, this was a team trained by Nigro. Moreover, there is only a five-point gap at present, how could Nigro easily lose confidence in this game tonight!?
So at least until the end of this game, Negro will work hard to win this game with the team.
Although the Cleveland Cavaliers played an excellent game in the second quarter, they also had their time to get abnormal, just like the first quarter. They couldn't guarantee that they could play as well as the second quarter in the next two quarters.
So although the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are currently playing at home, are not completely out of the way, as the visiting team, the Los Angeles Clippers!
The seven-game winning streak is tempting the team to continue moving forward, so naturally the Los Angeles people cannot surrender so easily!
Although the second half of the game was kicked off by the Cleveland Cavaliers first, the players of the Los Angeles Clippers are already ready to defend! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!