After this battle, the Warriors were completely deflated, although it can't be judged by one game, but after this battle, the momentum they had accumulated in the offseason was instantly lost. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The opening game of the Warriors also showed the competitiveness of this Lakers team, who have performed well on both offensive and defensive ends, and will definitely be more competitive in the offseason.

In the first month of the season, the Lakers showed stronger strength than last season, they won many games this month, successively defeated the Spurs, Pacers and Celtics, if you count the previous Warriors, it can be regarded as winning all the strong teams in the league, they have averaged more than 20 points per game, and finally won 14 consecutive games in this month.

At the end of the first month, Tang Shuai and Billups were re-elected Player of the Month and Coach of the Month, and the defending champions started the tournament on a hot start.

This time, no one is questioning the defending champions, and their focus has become whether the Lakers can continue last season's start to the season with another 18-game winning streak.

December is the busiest month for Americans, and everyone is looking forward to it because of Christmas.

The Lakers continued to be in excellent form in December, winning the first three games of the month and easily extending their winning streak to 17 games.

However, at this time, the Lakers welcomed their strongest opponent, and arguably the most threatening team in the league, the Cavaliers.

The first meeting of the season between the two teams took place at the Quickloan Arena.

Compared with the opening game against the Warriors, the attention of this game is only high, not low, last season was eliminated by the robbery seven, this season James formed a super team to make a comeback, definitely to avenge the "revenge of the Finals".

Like the Lakers, the Cavaliers have shown to be super competitive this season, and while not as exaggerated as the Lakers, their 15-1 record so far is actually about the same.

On December 3, U.S. time, the two teams had the most direct collision at the Quickloan Arena.

James, Wade, Anthony and Paul are close friends, they are nicknamed the Four Heroes by some fans in China, and now the three of the Four Heroes are gathered in Cleveland, plus Irving and Bosh, both strength and tacit understanding are top-notch.

This was evident in the opening kick-offs between the two sides.

The Cavaliers' first offense, Anthony suddenly gave the ball to Wade, Wade shook a shot and burst in again, without any tactical gestures, James had already cut to the basket, he didn't even look at it, and threw his hand directly into the air.

"Bang!"

James jumped high to score a dunk, and Janway connected again at the Quickloan Arena.

There was an empty catch at the beginning, and it was against the Lakers, and the atmosphere of the fans was ignited in an instant.

That's not all, in the defensive round, Cousins hit his back in the low post, Anthony suddenly stepped back after a few hits, Wade borrowed James's body, coldly shot out from the oblique side, cut off the ball in his hand, and after the steal, the Cavaliers launched a fast break, James reciprocated, and a hit to Wade, who scored an easy layup.

At the beginning, the Cavaliers gave the Lakers a dismissal, and it also brought the emotions of the audience to a climax.

Billups saw that the momentum was not right on the sidelines, and hurriedly made tactical gestures to Tang Shuai to ask him to change the team's attacking style.

Tang Shuai understood, and after holding the ball to the front court, he did not let Cousins and Westbrook run like before, but beckoned Ibaka to come out to block and dismantle, and the others pulled away.

The Cavaliers played seven games with the Lakers in the finals last season, and they are naturally very familiar with the Lakers' offensive routines.

They were caught in the instant after the blocking, but it turned out that they still underestimated Tang Shuai.

At the moment when they started, Tang Shuai had already accelerated through the gap between the two in advance, accelerated to the basket, and forcibly pressed Thompson to score a layup.

This attack also caused an uproar in the audience, Tang Shuai's strength was even more terrifying than in the finals.

"Position, hold your place!" After scoring, Tang Shuai shouted loudly to his teammates in the retreat.

His encouragement quickly had an effect, the Cavaliers' offense, James and Wade played a pass and cut to cooperate, but this time Ibaka guarded Wade's offensive basket early, sealing his offensive angle, Wade finally chose to turn around and step back to shoot a jumper, and the shot finally lacked a trace of luck and failed to hit again.

The rebound was pocketed by Cousins, and the Lakers launched a counterattack.

Tang Shuai advanced to the front court with the ball, handed the ball to Westbrook, ran to the low position, pressed Wade and directly chose to reach for the ball.

Westbrook handed the ball to Tang Shuai, who leaned on it, a feint to turn in, and then a quick backward shot.

After combining the back punch and turn into a handsome guy's back punch back bag, he definitely had a qualitative improvement in the consistency of this action, Wade only had time to stretch out his hand to signal, and he could only watch Tang Shuai shoot.

"Huh!"

With a crisp sound, Tang Shuai's shot hit steadily.

After the Cavaliers gave the Lakers a dismissal, Tang Shuai scored 4 points in a row to bring the momentum back.

In the previous winning streak, although Tang Shuai won the best of the month, because of the big wins, his desire to score was not high, and the highest score was only 36 points, which was only when he increased the number of shots when his teammates couldn't open it against the Celtics.

To put it bluntly, because of the overall strength of the team, he only needs to step up and score when needed.

Now against the Cavaliers, his desire to play is also quickly activated.

The Cavaliers' offense, James forced the basket and prepared to beat Huashan, but it was very similar to the scene in the finals last year, Tang Shuai came out of the diagonal side, stopped him like a mountain, and seized the opportunity to cut off the ball in his hand.

Offensive and defensive integration, with two exclusive skill packs of the Bus Power Pack and the Death Wrap Pack, Tang Shuai is still the top on the defensive end.

Tang Shuai was pulled by James after breaking the ball, and he was also sent to the free throw line.

Seeing that the team couldn't open on the offensive end, Lue turned around and called Bosh up from the bench.

Bosh was previously ruled out of NBA-level games by the Heat the year before because of a blood clot in his lungs, and he ended up recuperating at home for a season.

However, Bosh didn't think that his career was over after a year of hard work and continuous treatment, and finally obtained medical clearance to play, and finally chose to sign with the Cavaliers, and he started his career again.

And it turns out that Bosh's strength is still there, after 16 games, he played 26.2 minutes off the bench, handing over a shooting rate of 52%, 12.6 points and 6.7 rebounds.

His presence also means that the Cavaliers have put on their strongest lineup. (To be continued.) )