260. Switch
Wu Dawei's sudden slap made the originally boiling Continental Airlines Center Stadium quiet!
Last second, Delon Williams' performance was still as omnipotent as God in the eyes of New Jersey fans; but the next second, when all New Jersey people were trapped in a series of superb personal outstanding performances for Delon Williams, Wu Dawei emerged from nowhere and broke all the tranquility!
He became the last barrier for the Cleveland Cavaliers at this time, and Deron Williams, who should have been very outstanding and even perfect offensive performance, eventually turned into a wedding dress for others. And this person is naturally Wu Dawei who appeared at the last moment!
No matter how wonderful Deron Williams' shaking was before, he finally failed in this attack. Wu Dawei's sudden blocking made his previous efforts was wasted, and he also took all the limelight!
This situation is unacceptable, but at this time Deron Williams and other New Jersey fans had to accept such a reality. Because things had already happened, Deron Williams' last blow to the wonderful breakthrough was slapped out by Wu Dawei!
The ball that was blown away by Wu Dawei did not fly out of bounds. The Cleveland Cavaliers' shooting guard Danny Green grabbed the ball, so the Cleveland Cavaliers turned from defense to offense, and they launched the fastest and fast attack!
Before all the New Jerseys could react, the Cleveland Cavaliers had already narrowed the 4-point gap that was originally behind to the last 2-point goal in the New Jersey Nets' half!
62:64!
After Danny Green got the ball that was blown away by Wu Dawei from the outside, he took the ball and ran towards the front court! He rode away and sent the ball into the net before the New Jersey could react.
In this way, in just four minutes of the second half, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who played away, were approaching the point difference! Suddenly, the situation of the New Jersey Nets immediately became precarious!
They only have the last two points left. Such an advantage cannot be considered an advantage in the opinion of New Jersey Nets coach Avery Johnson. Because as long as they make another mistake, they will be tied by their opponents...
In other words, they have no room for buffering. As long as they make mistakes, the advantages they have accumulated through hard work in the first half will be gone.
Such results and situations will make New Jerseys feel unacceptable. After all, they have spent a lot of effort to finally achieve their goal in order to gain an advantage in this game.
But now it's just the fourth minute of the second half, and they're already facing such a difficult scene. The Cleveland Cavaliers' catch-up has already caught the New Jerseys completely off guard.
Of course they wanted to curb this situation, so when the Cleveland Cavaliers finished this fast break, New Jersey Nets coach Avery Johnson asked for a timeout without hesitation!
He had to make timely adjustments, so Avery Johnson thought he could not continue to wait like this. Because he was afraid that if he continued to wait like this, the result would be that he would feel unbearable.
So he wants to stop the game before the situation continues to deteriorate. He needs to re-arrange some tactics and give the players of the New Jersey Nets who are under great pressure on the court a chance to rest and breathe.
After the start of the second half of the game, Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard obviously brought great pressure to the New Jersey Nets. They now urgently need to break such a bottleneck. For the New Jersey Nets, they would not be so willing to give up the advantage of leading the majority of the game.
This is a bit tragic. For the New Jersey Nets, this game must be won. It is not just because of the arrogant remarks of the Cleveland media before the game, but also a ranking battle between the seventh and sixth teams in the Eastern Conference.
After the season entered the second half of the season, every game is very important to the team, especially in this game, both sides are still the most direct competitors in the current ranking!
This alone is enough to make New Jerseyers do their best!
But obviously, New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson still has many things to worry about now, because their team is facing too many difficulties now, and it cannot be solved in a short time!
However, the team facing problems is not just the New Jersey Nets, which plays at home. The Cleveland Cavaliers, who have played a good momentum before, are also facing considerable difficulties.
Although they relied on the strength and performance of Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard in previous games, they could be said to be chasing the New Jersey Nets on the court. However, the Cleveland Cavaliers still had their own problems in the third quarter, that is, they could not curb Deron Williams' performance!
This is the most headache for them. Deron Williams's performance on the offensive end always makes the Cleveland Cavaliers feel very embarrassed. They can never defend him well, and Deron Williams has already scored 28 points at this time!
After only a little over four minutes in the third quarter, he was almost scoring a high score of 30 points! Such performance is enough to make people scared. If it weren't for Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard being strong enough on the offensive end, and Wu Dawei could also make extremely outstanding contributions on the defensive end from time to time. It would be even more difficult for the Cleveland Cavaliers to catch up with the lagging score difference!
When New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson narrowed the gap to 2 points when the Cleveland Cavaliers completed a fast break, he couldn't wait to request a timeout, which was exactly the same as the Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Byron Scott.
Although the team continued to catch up with the score on the basketball court after the second half, Byron Scott was not very happy and excited.
Because he looked at Kyrie Irving as he was at a disadvantage step by step in the confrontation with Deron Williams, he really couldn't be happy. He knew that this was a problem he urgently needed to solve in this game, because if Deron Williams continued to fight according to this situation, then he would definitely go wild.
The ultimate question is how much he will go wild and whether it will really affect the result of this game in the end. This is something that no one knows or dares to be sure. After all, although Deron Williams has always performed poorly since he transferred from the Utah Jazz to the New Jersey Nets, he is still a superstar and he is definitely not to underestimate him!
So at this time, he also knew that he could not continue to let Kyrie Irving go against Deron Williams. Not to mention what kind of game Williams will play under Kyrie Irving's defense, Kyrie Irving himself will collapse.
He had to find another solution to this problem, so Avery Johnson's suspension was very timely for him! It was precisely because he requested the suspension in time that he also gave Byron Scott the opportunity to solve the problem immediately.
The Cleveland Cavaliers never have to worry on the offensive end because there are too many players with excellent offensive attacks in their team; and at the same time, they never have to worry too much on the defensive end, because there are two players Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard who have won the Best Defensive Player Award twice in a row, the Cavaliers' defense is also above the league level.
So of course, Byron Scott had already thought about this issue. However, he was not sure that he would execute it like this before, but now, he knows that he can only solve it like this.
Because besides Wu Dawei, he has no other good candidates to defend Deron Williams. Although Wu Dawei is much bigger than Deron Williams in tonnage and height, this will affect his movement speed when facing Deron Williams outside the three-point line, which is a disadvantage.
But at the same time, Wu Dawei's tonnage is also an advantage. In Byron Scott's observation, Deron Williams' match with Kyrie Irving in this game tonight was completed after taking advantage of physical contact.
On this point, Wu Dawei was not at all at a loss! Moreover, Wu Dawei has not been defending the opponent's core number one player. In the past playoffs, Byron Scott also used Wu Dawei to defend Drucker Rose, the core point guard of the Chicago Bulls!
Moreover, the defense effect is very good! This alone is enough to support Byron Scott at this time, let Wu Dawei be responsible for defending Deron Williams' determination. Moreover, the New Jersey Nets always deliberately avoid Wu Dawei's defense when attacking this game. When Wu Dawei comes to defend Deron Williams, they must have no way to avoid it!
Because Deron Williams is the core of the New Jersey Nets' offensive and their most reliable player! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!