Chapter 202: Summer League

With the Cavaliers retaining almost their entire roster from last season, there is little chance that the players who will play for the Cavaliers will have little chance of staying, and the only players who will represent the Cavaliers are a few young players who have little playing time and a group of players who can't get training camp contracts from other teams and want to try their luck here. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In a team that aims to win a championship, the advantage of a newcomer is that they may be able to enjoy the championship in advance, but the disadvantage is that they have almost nothing to do with the championship, and they cannot get a good training opportunity and enough playing time.

In this case, using the summer league to train and improve themselves has also become the goal of these players to participate in the competition.

Shooting guard John Holland, forward swingman Joe Dankray, and 1.75-meter-tall small point guard Cayfield formed the core of the Cavaliers team.

Against such a team, the Celtics did not miss a chance to win in the first game, and after correcting the shortcomings of the first game in a targeted manner, the Celtics won a 95-70 victory in the second game.

In this 25-point victory, Ye Hai did not perform outstandingly, only 5 shots, hit 4 goals, all 2-pointers, no free throws, only 8 points, but sent 5 assists, showing his passing talent, one of which won the applause of the players and the audience on the court!

Blanton Rush, who was still starting, still got a number of opportunities to shoot in the second game, and his shooting percentage was greatly improved compared to the first game, shooting 8 of 12, including 3 of 3 three-pointers and 1 of 1 free throws, from the first two games, showing a good 3-point shooting strength, and finally scored 20 points and 5 rebounds.

The Celtics, who won 1-1, continued to play back-to-back games on the second day of the game against the Cavaliers, against the Celtics' arch-rival - the Los Angeles Lakers.

Although the Lakers only finished last in the West in the NBA last season, because the Lakers are full of young players, almost half of the players on the team are eligible to participate in the summer league, and these ambitious young people also rushed to participate in this competition.

Third-year power forward Julius Randle, second-year point guard D'Angelo Russell, and first-year small forward Brandon Ingram form the core lineup of this Lakers team, plus forward Larynan Jr., guard Marcelo Hurtas, small forward Anthony Brown, 2.16-meter-tall center Ivy Kazubak, and guard Zoron Ball, who is ranked first in the draft at the point guard position this year, the Lakers team composed of more than half of the regular lineup is considered the favorite to win the summer league.

And this game has also become a game for the Celtics coaching staff to focus on observing players. The duel between the two top stars is particularly eye-catching, with Ingram, who is 2.06 meters tall and known as "Little Durant", facing Ye Hai, the ace of the Chinese youth team with strong scoring ability.

The Lakers' Randle, Russell and Ingram were the team's main players in the NBA league last year, so they have far surpassed Ye Hai and others in terms of court experience in terms of tacit understanding, although Ye Hai is still the scoring core, and has scored continuously for the team under Ingram's defense with his personal ability for a period of time, but at the end of the first half, the Lakers still led by a narrow margin of 42-38.

Contrary to the score, Ye Hai's performance in the first half completely overwhelmed Ingram, Ye Hai scored 13 points in the first half, shooting 3 of 6, but got 8 free throw opportunities, hit 7 of them, caused great damage to the Lakers' defense, and also forced Ingram to get 4 fouls in the first half, although the summer league foul limit is 10, but as the NBA's last show, Ingram, who knew his identity, took the initiative to get off the court in the first half and did not appear again, Only 3 points and 2 rebounds were recorded.

In the second half, Stevens rarely continued to arrange for Ye Hai to start the game, and Ye Hai did not disappoint the coach, continued to play brilliantly in the first half, and even completed a one-handed dunk after a breakthrough against Randle in 1v1!

Ingram didn't re-enter until halfway through the second half, but quickly received his fifth foul when defending Ye Hai, and the angry Ingram finally found a chance to dunk in an offense, but was slapped out of the sideline by Ye Hai who flew out from behind, and injured his finger by this block, and had to go off the court for treatment, and did not return to the court after that.

While Ye Hai played, Blanton Rush played the most efficient game in the first three games, shooting 6-of-7, including 5-of-5 3-pointers, and scored 16 points on only 7 shots, and he also became the three-point leader of the team and the Las Vegas Summer League after three games.

With the excellent performance of Yahai and Brandon Rush, the Celtics surprisingly defeated the youth team that participated in half of the regular lineup, achieving a 2-1 record.

From the beginning of this game, with Ye Hai and Brandon Rush as the offensive core, Perry Jones and Ben Bentil as the defensive core, and Marcus Smart as the organizational core, the Celtics coach Stevens quickly pinched the team participating in the summer league into a whole, showing good coaching ability!

In the next five games, the Celtics continued to win in a row, so that after the loss in the first game, the shameful and courageous Celtics relied on the joint efforts of the coach and players to achieve a wave of seven consecutive wins, and entered the summer league finals with the Lakers with the same result with a 7-1 record. The Lakers' only defeat was to the Celtics, and this game was also a turning point for the Celtics in the summer league.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers did suppress the Celtics on the court, once taking a 15-point lead, but under the efforts of Ye Hai and Brandon Rush, who has championship experience, the Celtics filled the 15-point hole in the first half.

Although the Lakers are determined to win this game, the Lakers just can't prevent Ye Hai, who breaks through sharply and still has an advantage in the physical confrontation with Ingram, and Rush, who finds his touch outside the three-point line in the summer league, and the common instability problem of young players happened to the Lakers players in the second half, and in the second half, with the Lakers' shooting rate dropping, Ye Hai used his personal ability to attack the Lakers' basket three times and hit, plus Rush's two three-pointers in 30 secondsThe Celtics went on a 10-0 run in the second half and held the lead until the end, with the final score being 90-84, and the Celtics had a thrilling victory over arch-rival Lakers in the Summer League final.

Ingram's performance in this game was significantly better than the statistics in the first game against the Celtics, with 21 points and 6 rebounds, but Ye Hai's data was even more dazzling, 27 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, the all-round Ye Hai completely became the core of the team and led the team to victory, while Rush hit 5 three-pointers again in the finals and only used 7 shots, and the three-point shooting rate of the entire summer league reached 58.4%.

With his ultra-high shooting percentage and stability outside the three-point line, Blanton Rush won the MVP of the Las Vegas League, and Ye Hai, who led the team to victory against Ingram in the finals and also defeated his opponent in individual performance, won more praise than Rush, who made 5 three-pointers, and won the MVP of the final.

After the team worked hard together and won the Summer League, Happy Head Coach Stevens, after getting the approval of Danny Angie, announced that the team would take a day off to fully enjoy all that Las Vegas has to offer! Naturally, the players cheered and discussed where they would be playing tomorrow. (To be continued.) )