Chapter 131: The Post-James Era
The game between the Lakers and the Cavaliers did not have the influence of the previous games, and now whether it is in China or the United States, the broadcast rate is relatively low, and the number of followers is not too large.
Of course, Chinese fans are still very concerned about this game.
After all, Chen Yu, his own child, still participated in this game.
After Chen Yu came to Cleveland, he could clearly feel the difference between this city and Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the United States, and it's full of lights. Cleveland is really a small place compared to that over there, so it's no wonder it's called "Cowland."
Through this very intuitive feeling, Chen Yu can understand at once why many players want to run to the big city all day long.
The goal of many stars is to join the big city team and become the number one in it!
Chen Yu is now in the city, and the starting point is really high.
Usually go out to play all day long, a group of teammates with different ways of playing in different cities, I haven't heard much about going to play this day, Chen Yu himself spent a relatively peaceful night, and he spent this night in the process of analyzing the video of the Cavaliers before going to bed.
The core of the Cavaliers is of course Irving, although it is said that under Irving's leadership, the Cavaliers' achievements are very limited, but Irving is indeed a very good player.
In fact, the current Cavaliers are gradually losing their aggressiveness, and they are in a safe corner in the post-James era, and they don't have much ambition.
Although when James defected to Miami, the team owner still had ambitions to say that the Cavaliers must win the championship before James, but everyone knows that this is just self-deception.
In the game with the Cavaliers, there were not many fans who came to the scene, probably an average and a little lower, but most of them have become Irving fans, and after James, Irving has become everyone's hope, and the arena is full of fans wearing No. 2 jerseys.
In fact, Chen Yu is still quite envious of people like Owen.
is also a point guard, Irving is a little younger than himself, but he is the champion when he enters the league, he is the pride of the sky, and his subsequent performance can also match his own value, and now he is also growing steadily, and the whole team will revolve around him.
Thinking about himself again, Chen Yu does have a lot to improve now.
And in this game, Irving is also the focus of Cleveland fans.
Having said that, in fact, Chen Yu is not afraid of Owen in his heart, although he may not be able to prevent Owen, but Chen Yu is also very confident in breaking through Owen's defense to jump shots and the like.
Owen is actually a technical stream, and when it comes to his physical fitness, it's not as impressive as he appears.
When he usually plays, it's hard to get past defenders like Walros, and he often needs to hit the basket with flashy dribbling and then shoot with more flashy layups. If they really have overwhelming physicality, who wants to test defenders with all sorts of moves all the time, find a little chance and then kill them with one shot?
If you can get through it in one step, no one wants to go through multiple changes.
Irving's defense is indeed not particularly good, which also gives Chen Yu more hope.
But the development of the game was not the same as Chen Yu imagined, because after the start of the game, Chen Yu never had a chance to play, and when it came to the second quarter, the Cavaliers made a bad move: let Livingston defend Chen Yu!
Livingston just came to the Cavaliers from the Wizards, and that's a guy worth talking about.
He is 2.01 meters tall, but the position is point guard!
Back then, he suffered a big injury that was enough to ruin his career, and that injury was really scary to watch from the video, and although he barely recovered a little after that, he also stopped well, and it was not completely good. After that, he began to wander through many teams, with a particularly stable mid-range shot.
I have to say that a player like Livingston is really too restrained Chen Yu.
His speed is not very slow, he can barely keep up with Chen Yu, and his basic skills are solid, the most important thing is that this guy's height is too high, so that Chen Yu's three-point shot is almost impossible to shoot, and in the second quarter, Chen Yu only relied on blocking and dismantling to shoot two three-pointers, but he was seriously interfered with and did not score.
So, Chen Yu played for 5 minutes in the entire second quarter, but only got 3 assists and did not score, and then Chen Yu also returned to the bench.
Today, Howard was out of action because of a back injury, Kobe Bryant entered the god-killing mode very early, and after Chen Yu got off the court, the Cavaliers played Irving again, and Irving played well in front of his idol Kobe, and the two went back and forth, each with their own teams playing.
In this way, with 3 minutes left in the third quarter, the score of the two sides was 69 draw.
Chen Yu is also very depressed on the bench, sometimes, it is not those prestigious people in the league who can make you deflated, in fact, whether a person can make you deflated depends more on the degree of restraint between the two and the defensive intensity of the other party.
However, after all, this is the second game after his return, and Chen Yu also knows that he can't play badly no matter what, he has to think of a way.
At this time, the timeout ended, but D'Antoni signaled Chen Yu first and let Chen Yu play.
Chen Yucai felt that at least D'Antoni would not completely abandon himself because of his performance in the second quarter, but speaking of which, although he did not score in the second quarter, he also contributed assists.
When Chen Yu stepped back on the court, the people on the court were finally not Livingston, but the main lineup led by Owen.
Although facing the current boss of the Cavaliers, Irving, Chen Yu knows that at least in terms of offense, he will not be completely unable to deal with Irving.
The Lakers kicked off first.
Chen Yu controlled the ball over half the court, and then handed the basketball to Kobe, Kobe broke through and passed the basketball back, after Chen Yu made a jump shot feint, one accelerated into the inside, although Owen followed, but was deceived by another feint by Chen Yu, and then, Chen Yu pretended to throw directly, but actually passed the basketball to Artest on the other side, and Artest hit a mid-range shot.
After Chen Yu played, he first scored an assist, and the score became 69-71.
The biggest impression that this ball gave Chen Yu was that although Owen was much faster than Livingston, on the whole, his defense was indeed not as much as Livingston's defensive pressure.