Chapter 108: The First Battle Knight
The defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, the Knicks' opponent in the opening game, held a championship ring presentation ceremony before the game began, and distributed championship rings to players who won the championship last season. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
As the opponent of last season's Eastern Conference Finals, the Knicks once again acted as a background wall, which is not a happy thing for Wang Zhuo and the Knicks' players.
"If you feel aggrieved, put in 12 percent effort, mess up the Knights' ceremony, turn the situation around, and let LeBron be a supporting actor in our performance."
In the period from the end of the preseason to the start of the regular season, this sentence has stayed on the tactical board in the locker room, and Wang Zhuo wants to use this sentence to motivate the players.
In Wang Zhuo's view, in addition to avoiding acting as a background again, the opening game is more important to enhance the player's self-confidence, the Knicks want to succeed, step into the finals, and even win the championship, the Cavaliers are a mountain that must be climbed, although last season's Eastern Conference Finals were fierce to seven games, but the Knicks players were not confident enough when facing the Cavaliers.
The only way to overcome this psychological disadvantage is to win, to beat your opponent in the most jubilant moment, and the moment to claim the championship ring is undoubtedly the best time, so this game must be won.
In the past, most of the situation was that the Knicks took the lead and suppressed the opponent strongly until they won the game, but this one is completely different, the time, the Cavaliers' championship ceremony, the location, the Cavaliers' home speed loan arena, people, and the cheers of 20,000 fans in Cleveland, it comes down to three factors, the Knicks are on the absolute disadvantage side in this game.
In addition to external factors, the strength of the Cavaliers is second to none, so this game is destined to be a tough battle, Wang Zhuo is not afraid of a hard battle, because a hard battle can sharpen the will of the players and stimulate the real strength of the team.
At 7 o'clock in the evening on October 25, 2016, the Cleveland Cavaliers' home fast loan arena was pitch black, and suddenly, a bright light shone on the center of the arena floor from top to bottom, and the golden O'Brien Cup stood in the center of the table, and around the O'Brien Cup were densely packed rings, about dozens.
Live music played and the league's chief executive, Adam Sival, stood in the center of the arena, holding a microphone and loudly announcing the official start of the championship ring presentation ceremony to the 20,000 fans in the arena.
As the Cavaliers flag slowly raised, Shyval began to read out the names of the people who received the rings one by one, starting with Cavaliers owner Daniel Gilbert, then general manager David Griffin, then head coach Tyronn Lue, and finally the Cavaliers players led by James.
The ring ceremony lasted about 15 minutes, and the music in the arena changed two or three songs, the only constant was the surging cheers of the fans in the stadium, and at this moment, the entire Cavaliers enjoyed the most glorious and glorious moment in the history of the team.
At the end of the ceremony, the music stopped, the lights came on, and the Quickloan Center arena suddenly shone brightly, and the Cavaliers and Knicks players entered the game through the player tunnel one after another.
Before the start of the game, James faced the home fans, stretched his arms, stood with his back to the sky, and threw magnesium powder domineeringly, as a necessary ceremony before the game, which instantly detonated the high emotions of the home fans.
In fact, after James returned to the Cavaliers from the Heat, it seems that he rarely throws magnesium powder before the start of the game, but this game is of special significance, James can't suppress the excitement in his heart, and at the instigation of 20,000 fans, he resumed the ritual of sprinkling magnesium powder, so that fans can see the domineering little emperor again.
The on-site commentators of this game are TNT's live treasure partners O'Neill and Barkley, and since the end of the ring ceremony, the two have been fighting non-stop, and from time to time they look up to the sky and laugh a few times, as if the two of them have endless jokes when they sit together.
As the countdown began, Ross Barkley and O'Neal announced their starting lineups, with Anthony, Porzingis, Rose, Noah and Grant for the Knicks and James, Irving, Love, Tristan Thompson and Shambaugh for the Cavaliers.
"Dear Charles, when I see Cameron, it's like I see you sitting next to me."
After announcing the starting lineups of both sides, O'Neal and Barkley played the pre-game condiments on time, and O'Neal was the first to speak, making fun of Barkley.
"Why?"
Barkley was dazed.
"Because when I see LeBron, it's like I'm seeing myself."
O'Neill continued to play dumb riddles, staring at Barkley with a smiling expression, obviously playing tricks.
"Shaq, I think you must have been exchanging feelings with Little Tiger all night last night, so much so that I don't understand what you're talking about now."
Barkley vaguely guessed what O'Neill wanted to say, and retorted mercilessly.
PS: O'Neill's pet is a tiger, it is said that there is more than one, I don't know if O'Neill will be arrested for keeping tigers in China.
"Charles, don't run away, everyone knows that you are just like Cameron, you are famous, but you don't have a ring, as for me and LeBron, hey, forget it, in order to take care of your fragile heart, don't talk about it."
O'Neill folded his arms, tilted his head sideways, squinted at Bacchus, and sneered in a nonchalant tone, then sighed with a sympathetic look.
In fact, O'Neal wants to say that James, like him, not only has fame and rings, but more importantly, he is extremely dominant, and once ruled an era, while Barkley has been pressed by Jordan and has no future.
"Hmph, I thought you wanted to say that Cameron looks the same level as me, and LeBron is on the same level as you! Haha......"
Barkley pursed his lips and snorted coldly, with a look of disdain, but Barkley is not a fuel-efficient lamp, a pair of big eyes purred, and immediately came up with the idea of countering O'Neal, and after speaking, he couldn't help but grin wildly.
After the joke before the two men finished the game, the game officially began, the referee threw the ball high in the center circle, and Noah and Thompson jumped up at the same time, fighting hard.
Thompson bounced higher, the Cavaliers took the lead, Irving controlled the ball, slowly walked through the halfcourt, and stayed at the top of the circle, James moved from the left side to respond, Irving dribbled two steps, had no chance, and passed the ball to James.
Anthony stepped forward closely, one-on-one, James jumped and dribbled, easily shook off Anthony, and burst into the restricted area, but James suddenly found that the Knicks' defense was layer after layer, getting rid of Anthony, and there was Porzingis in front, and after flashing Porzingis sideways, there was still Noah under the basket.
In the end, James forced a basket under heavy interception and was interfered with by Noah, the ball hit the side edge of the basket and popped up, and Porzingis shot out from behind James and grabbed the defensive rebound.