243. Team situation
Before the start of the Cleveland Cavaliers' game with the New Jersey Nets, this game was watched by many people. After all, Wu Dawei is now in a popular fashion with his Cleveland Cavaliers and is attracting much attention.
Especially after Wu Dawei's comeback and the Cleveland Cavaliers achieved a three-game winning streak, people's expectations for this team skyrocketed!
Because Wu Dawei's performance since his comeback is simply surprising! Although people had great expectations for Wu Dawei before his comeback, no one expected that this super star who had been waiting for them for a long time would be able to perform at the MVP level in his first game of his comeback after resting for more than half a year!
This is definitely a shocking performance! Wu Dawei played a quasi-triple-double performance in the first game. Although he was not as exciting as the first game in the second game, the double-double data plus 7 assists can still be regarded as a quasi-triple-double performance.
In two consecutive games, Wu Dawei performed extremely comprehensively. Such performance is amazing! It also makes many people feel that their expectations for Wu Dawei in the past may even be too low!
Because Wu Dawei immediately played at the MVP level after his comeback, and people's previous expectations for Wu Dawei's performance in the first two games of his comeback were just average! However, Wu Dawei's performance in the first game of his comeback made everyone stunned!
And his performance in the second game, although his performance in the game against the Toronto Raptors was not as good as his performance in the game against the Los Angeles Clippers, he was still above the level!
In two games, Wu Dawei can contribute 23.5 points to the Cleveland Cavaliers average, and also has 9.5 rebounds and 9 assists. On the defensive end, Wu Dawei is still as explosive as before! He can contribute 4.5 blocks and 3 steals per game to the Cleveland Cavaliers average!
If it weren't for Wu Dawei who only played two games so far this season, then with his current average data, his scoring can rank eighth in the league, his rebounding can rank in the top 25, his assists can rank in the third place, and his blocks and steals will still be the top of the league again!
This is an unparalleled terrifying number. No other player can rank 25th in the league in these five statistics this season; not to mention that Wu Dawei ranks in the top ten in the league in addition to a slightly lower rebounding game!
I dare not say that these performances are unprecedented, but although some people may have done so before, all of them are super stars like Wilt Chamberlain!
Although this is the fourth year that Wu Dawei has entered this league, the series of achievements Wu Dawei has achieved are no longer comparable to those of today's stars, but are about to get a slight slight match with those ancient beasts!
This is what Wu Dawei is outstanding, and it is also why the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Byron Scott, would wait for Wu Dawei for half a year so willingly, and immediately chose to send him to the starting lineup as soon as Wu Dawei returned! He even did not hesitate to destroy the team's previous chemistry, because he was Wu Dawei! A Spanish men's basketball team who could even help weak Chinese men's basketball team defeat the Spanish men's basketball team, which ranks second in the world's basketball strength just by relying on his own!
This is why even when Wu Dawei was injured at that time, the senior executives of the Cleveland Cavaliers were still planning how to complete the contract renewal with Wu Dawei!
They even asked Wu Dawei about contract renewal after Wu Dawei's surgery. Now it seems that all this is definitely worth it!
Just from Wu Dawei's performance in the past two days, we can see how valuable he is! How many players in the league can perform like Wu Dawei when they come back to play such an advertisement!?
Obviously there will not be too many people! It can even be said that there are almost few people!
So now there is no doubt that Wu Dawei will be the most unstoppable ace in the Cleveland Cavaliers!
However, for the Cleveland Cavaliers, after Wu Dawei's comeback, it will have relatively some impact on the entire team. After all, when Wu Dawei comes back, the team's head coach Byron Scott can be said to have completely abandoned the strategy played by the Cleveland Cavaliers when Wu Dawei was not there before.
In this way, of course, someone will be affected accordingly. In people's opinion, the person who is most affected should be the small forward Michael Beasley who was introduced by the Cleveland Cavaliers from the Minnesota Timberwolves last summer.
Before Wu Dawei's return, Michael Beasley had already secured the team's starting position in the third position. He averaged 13 points and nearly 7 rebounds per game to the Cleveland Cavaliers!
Moreover, he also scored some shooting percentage, with an average shooting percentage of 47%, a 3-point shooting percentage as usual was only 25%, and a free throw shooting percentage of 80%!
However, people were wrong. In the two games Wu Dawei's return, Michael Beasley's data did not drop much. Although he was directly reused by the team's head coach Byron Scott from the starting lineup in the first game Wu Dawei's return, that is, the Cleveland Cavaliers' home game against the Los Angeles Clippers, the team's head coach Byron Scott got the bench from the starting lineup, but Michael Beasley was still reused.
Byron Scott discovered that Michael Beasley was always able to produce unexpected results when he partnered with Wu Dawei in the forward team. So in the last two games, although Michael Beasley came on as a substitute, the average playing time in both games reached 30 minutes!
Wu Dawei played 35 minutes in these two games! From this, you can tell that although Michael Beasley was not actually compressed, and he also compressed the team's starting power forward Andre Varaccio's playing time, Varaccio's average playing time in the last two games has only 24 minutes.
Moreover, Michael Beasley can contribute 15 points and 5 rebounds per game to the team in these two games! Although rebounds have declined, the score has increased, and his shooting percentage has also improved. His average shooting percentage has reached 55% in these two games!
It can be said that Michael Beasley has made a qualitative leap in terms of hit rate! Of course, there is a reason for all this, that is, when Michael Beasley and Wu Dawei are on the court at the same time, the opponent's attention must be more on Wu Dawei. Michael Beasley has also benefited a lot from Wu Dawei's performance of 9 assists in the last two games!
He got more open shots and cut opportunities than before, so his scoring efficiency naturally improved! So, after Wu Dawei's comeback, the person who was most affected in the team was not Michael Beasley!
Of course, it is not the team's starting power forward Andre Varaccio. Although Varaccio's playing time has been compressed in these two games, he can still average 6 points and 7 rebounds in these two games!
Although it is slightly lower than his average number this season, it is only slightly lower!
In fact, in the two games Wu Dawei's comeback, the person who was most affected was the team's backcourt star Kyrie Irving! As the All-Star starting guard this season, Kyrie Irving's average data averaged only 16 points and 7 assists after Wu Dawei's comeback!
This is far lower than his average number of games this season, and his playing time has also dropped sharply. He averaged only 31 minutes per game in two games, while the data was 39 minutes before Wu Dawei came back!
Although Wu Dawei is said to be able to run without the ball, he can only exert more power by holding the ball, so when Wu Dawei returns, his ball-holding time is greatly compressed. In this way, it is not surprising that Kyrie Irving's data has dropped, and his playing time is also compressed because the defender who matches Wu Dawei is the team's veteran Changxi Billups.
Although Billups' competitive state this season has declined significantly due to age and injuries, he and Wu Dawei have a very tacit understanding! Moreover, he has the ability to shoot at one hand, and the more critical the shooting is, the more unambiguous it is. All of this is the reason why he and Wu Dawei match each other.
He can choose to hand over the ball to Wu Dawei after halftime, and then run to the bottom line to wait for the opportunity to throw an open three-pointer! This way, he can always make a very efficient attack, because if a team has too many ball-holders, it is not necessarily a good thing.
With Wu Dawei's position among the Cleveland Cavaliers, he is obviously the one who will not be able to change his style of play. Although Kyrie Irving is the All-Star Starting Guard this season, it is obvious that in the eyes of the Cleveland Cavaliers, he is difficult to compete with Wu Dawei!
There is no doubt about this. As long as Wu Dawei keeps his form well, the Cleveland Cavaliers will use him as the only team core in the next ten years to build a lineup! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!