Chapter 143 One Step Away

After the victory over the Chicago Bulls, the Cavaliers won two more games and made it two wins in a row. However, the Cavaliers' winning streak was quickly ended when they met the Suns, and the Cavaliers lost, moreover, by 21 points.

After losing to the Suns, in the second game of a back-to-back, the Cavaliers encountered the Mavericks, and the players were physically unsustainable, and the Cavaliers lost again.

Although the Cavaliers lost these two games, LeBron performed extremely well, averaging 26.5 points, 6 assists and 2 rebounds in two games to consolidate his rookie weekly position again, and he was also elected as the rookie of the month in November.

On the contrary, Cao Jian's two performances were not amazing.

In fact, Cao Jian's performance is not bad, he can also average 20.5 points, 8 assists and 2 steals per game in these two games, but there are many mistakes in the game, physical fitness is always his defect, lack of strength, although the offense is okay, but the defense is too bad. Coupled with Cao Jian's two games, because of the defensive intensity and physical fitness, the shooting rate is not very high.

Another extremely important point is that Cao Jian's previous performance was too amazing, which also led to the fans demanding more from him, Cao Jian was unable to show a more amazing performance, and obviously could not meet the requirements of the fans.

The Cavaliers' successive losses also made the media wonder if the Cavaliers made the right decision to drop Ricky Davis.

In the two games when the Cavaliers lost, Ricky Davis was guarding the water cooler and had extremely limited playing time, and Paul Silas originally didn't plan to let him play, not giving a minute.

However, the Cavaliers management disagreed, and they didn't give Ricky Davis such a high salary, not to let him come here to eat bento, although the abandonment of Ricky Davis was a foregone conclusion, but the Cavaliers still wanted to use him to make more money.

Based on the current situation of the Cavaliers, Ricky Davis directly said in public: Without his Cavaliers, they are nothing, and they deserve to lose.

Ricky Davis' departure from the Cavaliers was a foregone conclusion, but he was still reluctant to leave like this, and he did not forget to spray before leaving. It's no wonder that so many players in the Cavaliers are unhappy with him.

Although it is very unpleasant to lose, life still has to be passed.

After losing to the Mavericks, the Cavaliers also ended all their road trips and returned home to face the Los Angeles Lakers.

Cao Jian is also very much looking forward to this game, in addition to being able to play against the hot OK combination in the league, one of the most important reasons is that this game is the last game of Cao Jian's 20+ consecutive games, just one step away, Cao Jian can complete this task and get the system reward.

Compared with the former, Cao Jian is more concerned about the latter.

The success of this mission is inevitably related to the final game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Success is rewarded in hand, failure, Cao Jian's efforts for more than half a month have been in vain, and his gains and losses are completely tied to this game.

After this task, Cao Jian also felt more and more that his strength was his lifeline, and he urgently needed to improve, and the feeling of being frequently eaten, singled, and called a defensive hole was really bad, not good at all, especially in the game against the Phoenix Suns, who was frequently eaten by Stephen Marbury.

In that game, although Cao Jian scored quite high, scoring 21 points, it was still not worth mentioning compared to Stephen Marbury's 38 points.

After the game, Cao Jian was called the culprit of the loss by the media.

Although, the Cavaliers teammates also came to comfort him that he was fine, Stephen's style was too smooth, and you couldn't help it, but Cao Jian was still extremely uncomfortable in his heart, although he couldn't be blamed for the loss, but Cao Jian still thought that all the responsibility for the loss was on him.

It was because he lacked strength to defend Stephen Marbury and was often singled.

This also made him extremely guilty, and Cao Jian's desire to improve his strength was also unprecedentedly strong, which was unprecedented.

He wants to improve, to increase his strength.

Therefore, this task must be completed, and if it is not completed, it must be completed, Cao Jian has no second choice, even if Cao Jian faces the Los Angeles Lakers who have assembled the Big Four in the next game, and faces Gary Payton, the master who taught him defense, Cao Jian must do this.

There was nothing he could do.

For this game, Cao Jian also made enough preparations, coming back from Dallas, Cao Jian did not go home, but went directly to the gym to practice strength, although he knew that this was not of much use, but Cao Jian did not want to be like this, sitting and waiting for the game to come.

In fact, Cao Jian is so restless, which also shows that he has doubts about whether he can score 20 points against the Los Angeles Lakers under the defense of Gary Payton.

Cao Jian is understandably unsure, his defender is not a cat or a dog, but Gary Payton, even if he is old now, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.

How awesome Gary Payton is, when Cao Jian was in the system, he had already learned it, even if he didn't understand it, the statistics alone are enough to tell the problem, 8 consecutive defensive first teams, the only player to win the best defensive player as PG, steal king, limit MJ's average minimum points per game in the Finals, and the famous nickname - glove.

It's all a testament to how good his defense is, and to put it mildly, it's safe to say that the GP's defense is textbook for every PG.

This is especially true under the premise that you have a great life.

Sweating like rain in the gym, Cao Jian was tired, which also made him forget his troubles for the time being.

Take a taxi home and return to the residence, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, Wen Yuhan was still watching TV downstairs, and when he saw Cao Jian, who was sweating profusely, he was overjoyed, and smiled at Cao Jian: "Are you back?" ”

Cao Jian was already very tired, he reluctantly squeezed out a smile, nodded, and mumbled, he was already tired, and he didn't want to say anything more now.

After speaking, seeing that Wen Yuhan didn't speak, Cao Jian went straight upstairs.

Looking at Cao Jian who walked upstairs, Wen Yuhan wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything in the end, looking at Cao Jian's back thoughtfully.

(The first more is sent, kneeling and begging for a recommendation ticket.) Kneel and beg for collections. The pirates found that the recommendations were missing for two weeks, and the people who used to read the book ran away? Should be. It took a few seconds to reflect on it, and I realized that I was really procrastinating, very procrastinating, so, speed up the pace, speed up the pace, this is really impatient, really too ink, I found that this is a shortcoming, and it must be changed. Otherwise, everyone is finished, and this book will not need to be written. ）