The Cavaliers, after all, are a team that has only been formed for a few months, and the players are not very familiar with each other, and they have only run in the lineup through a few preseason games and daily training before, and they are far from being comparable to the Wizards in terms of partner cooperation and tacit understanding.

Both Irving and Love were previously players who mainly played offense with the ball, and when James returned to the Cavaliers and took over possession of the ball as a matter of course, the two had to start playing more time off the ball, which is certainly not something that can be adapted to in a short period of time.

Especially Irving, Wang Xiao attaches great importance to this super-skilled Uncle Drew, after all, this is the most stable scoring point on the outside of the Cavaliers, so Klay. Thompson was on the lookout almost the entire time.

As a result, the situation on the court has basically become a mode of James playing alone and single-handedly taking on all members of the Wizards.

At this moment, James was confused and broken.

What's going on here? Why is it that no matter how many waves I change teammates, I play with the Wizards like I don't have teammates?

This really can't be blamed on James, but only for Wang Xiao being too shameless.

The Wizards currently have three Defensive Players of the Year alone, and six players have been selected to the All-Defensive Team, which is an unprecedented lineup.

Although James's teammates are all excellent, they have not reached the top level, and Wade may be counted as one at the peak of the Heat, but Irving, who has just played for two seasons, is obviously not counted, and neither can Love and Howard, who have passed their prime.

Surrounded by this group of defensive giants, unless they are in excellent form, ordinary players are bound to be seriously disturbed.

In the entire Cavaliers, James is the only one who can score steadily under such a purgatory-level defensive lineup.

This can also be seen from the other corner of James's horror, Wang Xiao is completely unimaginable, in Leonard, George, Green, Jimmy. Surrounded by Butler and others, this guy can still score as consistently as always, and his shooting percentage has not even fallen below 50%, which is simply a monster.

But even if it is a monster, under the net of the Wizards, it can only roar with grief and helplessness, watching the team's score difference be widened little by little.

At the end of the first quarter, James scored 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting, but apart from him, the other Cavaliers starters had a terrible performance.

Howard shot 2 of 6, Irving shot 1 of 5, and Love shot 1 of 3, and the three of them combined only contributed 10 points to free throws, and as for JR Smith, who was regarded as an outside fixed-point battery, he didn't even make a shot in the first quarter.

In the first quarter of the game, the Cavaliers scored 22 points as a team, which is not a high score if it is a normal team, but it is barely enough.

But this is a game against the Wizards, who have the fastest offensive tempo and rotation speed in the league, and the Wizards have averaged around 115 points per game in previous seasons, averaging close to 29 points per quarter.

And the first quarter of this game was no exception, with the Wizards scoring a full 30 points in the entire quarter.

At 30:22, the Wizards trailed by 8 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the situation did not improve in the slightest, and Irving, Howard and Love began to gradually adapt to the rhythm of the game and regain some touch.

But the offensive tempo on the Wizards' side won't stop there.

In the second quarter of the game, the Wizards scored 33 points again, while the Cavaliers scored 27 points.

At half-time, the margin did not narrow, but further widened to more than double digits.

Without any waves, the game fell into the rhythm that the Wizards are most accustomed to.

The bench duel also ended with the Wizards winning without any suspense.

Although Jamison is retired, Caron. Butler has also suffered from injuries and age, but the Wizards' bench line has fully grown.

Isaiah. Thomas, Jimmy. Butler & Chandler. Parsons formed the trident of the Wizards' bench line, and when the three were on the court at the same time, the Wizards' offensive efficiency was even more terrifying than when the main starters were on the floor.

Of course, this is not to say that the strength of the three has surpassed the Wizards' starting forces, but the Cavaliers' bench strength is really different from the starters.

The score difference came to more than 20 points under the power of the trident.

David. The gentle smile on Blatter's face was gone, replaced by a dignified and iron-clad face.

Purely from the point of view of strength on paper, the Cavaliers are fully capable of fighting the Wizards, but the result is a one-sided team with no suspense at all, and none of the Big Four except James has shown the strength they should have.

And the Wizards fans were already cheering loudly with joy.

Different opponents, the same rhythm of three quarters and waves, no matter who stands in front of them, the result will not change anything!

The Heat during the Big Three can't stop the Wizards, and neither can the Cavaliers during the Big Four, they are the strongest team in the league!

……

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Cavaliers only symbolically resisted for a while, and then switched to the bench to surrender.

In the end, the score of the two sides was 124:99 at the end of the game.

In the opening game of the regular season, the Wizards used a 25-point win at home to tell the whole league that even the Big Four were not enough for them to play!

James recorded a quasi-triple-double of 34 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists in the game, and the data was eye-catching, but his teammates were once again the target of criticism.

Irving shot 6-of-17 from the field and relied on free throws to score 18 points and 4 assists.

Lefu shot 6 of 12, and although he ensured a 50% shooting rate, he only had 14 points and 6 rebounds.

As for the team's second biggest giant, Howard, who was highly hoped, only handed over a 3-of-10 shooting, 9 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks data.

If you compare it with Gobert, who is opposite him, this statistic is not bad, because Gobert only had 5 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks in the whole game, and also received 5 fouls, basically all of which were eaten against Howard.

But as the league's No. 1 center, compared to a first-year rookie? It's too shameful.

Gobert's stats aren't great, but his defensive ability on the court has left many people feeling like they're in the air.

In Howard's physical confrontation, although Gobert was at the disadvantage, he was never afraid of confrontation, and every time he tried his best to interfere, Howard's scoring efficiency on the inside was greatly reduced.

Excellent height and amazing arm span make Gobert's defensive range extremely large, if he has been honed in the league for a while longer, he will develop NBA-level defensive awareness and skills, and he will be another interior defensive giant!