247. Dismounting
The league leader and referee for the game tonight was already on the basketball court with the ball at this time, which means that the game will officially start.
The two players standing in the center circle jumping are center Dwight Howard of the Cleveland Cavaliers and center Brooke Lopez of the New Jersey Nets. Although Lopez is also a huge inside player, jumping ball is not his strength.
Although Brooke Lopez has made rapid progress in recent years, his shortcomings have never been solved. That is, as a traditional center player, Brooke Lopez's average rebounding number is so low!
It is also a common thing to grab 4 rebounds in one game... This doesn't seem like the data a center player should have. However, it happens often in Blake Lopez...
He is not a player who likes to fight in the inside, but a skilled insider. For Dwight Howard, such a player is what he likes.
However, as the league still has the number one center player so far, Dwight Howard will not be afraid of any type of inside player!
Although Dwight Howard has been affected by back injuries this season, he is still able to make a comeback this season and contribute well to the Cleveland Cavaliers!
Average of 18 points and 12 rebounds and nearly 2 blocks per game!
Such performance is enough to occupy half of the sky in this era of in-house decay! For the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dwight Howard is enough to support the inside of a championship team for them.
In this game, it was fully demonstrated from the beginning. Although Dwight Howard was still injured in the opening jump, he still easily beat the inside player Brooke Lopez, who was almost floor-flowing.
This is really not Lopez's strength, and his teammates at the New Jersey Nets are now feeling very calm and calm about it. If Lopez can beat his opponent in the jumping stage, it will really make him feel extremely surprised!
So it was easy, in this tense game at the beginning, the Cleveland Cavaliers got the opening ball right. This seemed to be a good sign, but the reality was not the case.
The Cleveland Cavaliers won the opening jump ball. As the starting point guard of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kyrie Irving quickly got the ball, and then he dribbled the ball through the half. This was just the first attack of the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight. Kyrie Irving was intercepted by the opponent when facing Deron Williams' single defense!
This is a very unexpected thing! Kyrie Irving dribbled the ball through halftime and did not rush to attack, because the team's first attack after the opening game always started from Dwight Howard in the inside!
So when Kyrie Irving dribbled after halftime, the first thing he thought about was not his own attack. Instead, he was preparing to go directly outside the 45-horned three-point line on the right, because near the paint area, Dwight Howard had already resisted Brooke Lopez behind him and was reaching out to ask Kyrie Irving for the ball!
Kyrie Irving dribbled over and was about to pass the ball into the inside line, and he suddenly saw Deron Williams in front of him suddenly snatched it up!
This was a very unexpected move, and no one responded. Because the Cleveland Cavaliers players did not expect the New Jersey Nets to play so aggressively at the beginning!
This is something that no one expected, because after all, the game has just begun. Everything in the game is still very vague. As the defensive side, if you are too rash at this time, it is very likely that you will directly lose the ball.
However, Deron Williams was very aggressive in this defense! Facing Kyrie Irving's move to dribble to the three-point line to prepare for passing the ball, Deron Williams not only did not retreat and retained enough safe distance, but instead rushed up at the moment when Kyrie Irving had the intention and action of passing the ball!
This was an absolutely unexpected enough behavior, because Kyrie Irving did not react at all until the ball was interrupted by Deron Williams! In this way, when Deron Williams intercepted the ball and ran to the frontcourt quickly, there was no one around him!
No Cleveland Cavaliers player can catch up with him. In recent times, Deron Williams, who has been controversial in his performance since he transferred to the New Jersey Nets, gave the Cleveland Cavaliers a warning at the beginning of this gunpowder-filled game!
He rushed through the half and then finished the score with a wonderful and violent one-handed dunk amid the cheers of all the New Jersey Nets fans!
0:2!
This mistake directly made the Cleveland Cavaliers become a side behind away. Although they got the first chance to get the ball at the beginning, they obviously did not seize such an opportunity well.
While they let such an opportunity slip away, they also let their opponents take the lead in this game! In this way, there is no doubt that they become passive.
And the core point guard of the team, Kyrie Irving, who was most directly responsible for the goal conceding this time, was extremely shocked and depressed by this... Obviously, he did not expect that Deron Williams would be so aggressive at the beginning! And on the defensive end, although his defense has always been good, he is not as aggressive as the previous steal!
So this undoubtedly surprised the Cleveland Cavaliers players, and several players on the New Jersey Nets on the court were extremely excited about this!
Especially for Gerald Wallace, who is going to face Wu Dawei directly in this game tonight, he is so happy that Delon Williams played so proactively and aggressively at the beginning!
He felt extremely excited about this. Even when Deron Williams finished the dunk, he clenched his fists and shouted, "Beautiful!"
Wu Dawei was also surprised by this. Of course, it was not because of this active defense of the New Jersey Nets, but because of Gerald Wallace's excitement now. However, when Wu Dawei turned his attention to the small forward who wanted to play against him for the whole game, he was the rolling eyes of the opponent...
The other party seems to be extremely dissatisfied with him...
Wu Dawei was still surprised by this. If it was Delon Williams who treated him like this, it would be understandable. After all, Delon Williams had expressed his dissatisfaction with the comments of this game and the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland media before the game.
Could it be that Gerald Wallace is just sharing the same hatred of the enemy?
Wu Dawei thought about it but didn't understand it, so he stopped thinking about it, because for him, the most important thing next was how to play this game well. After Delon Williams gave Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers such a vicious attack, there was no doubt that the prospects of the Cleveland Cavaliers in this game would naturally become worse than before!
Because Delon Williams's one-stop dunk from interception has completely mobilized the emotions of the New Jersey Nets fans in the Continental Aviation Center Arena!
Everyone was in high spirits, obviously because Deron Williams's interception and dunk at the opening game really stimulated the fans' senses!
For the Cleveland Cavaliers, the opponent's atmosphere from the beginning is of course a very unfavorable thing for them. Because this means that they have to face an opponent with completely high morale.
Even if the Cleveland Cavaliers disdain for their opponent's strength, there is no so-called weak team in the NBA league. Once a certain team starts to be angry, it is an unstoppable existence!
So for the Cleveland Cavaliers, even if they are very confident about winning this game before the game, they don’t want any accidents to happen! And the New Jersey Nets are now playing the atmosphere all at once, which is the accident that Clevelanders don’t want to see the least!
There is no doubt that Deron Williams' statement in front of the media is not just a saying, he really did it! While giving the Cleveland Cavaliers a warning, it also helped the team gain a substantial lead on the basketball court.
Although only the two points at the opening, these two points were enough to boost their morale and make the Cleveland Cavaliers more cautious. At least Kyrie Irving would definitely be more cautious when facing Deron Williams' defense than before.
From this point of view, it was like being bound by the opponent! Seeing Kyrie Irving's careful dribbling through the half-court action, Wu Dawei hurriedly raised the high position and reached out to ask Irving for the ball in his hand. (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 go to m. Read.)
Chapter completed!