Chapter 324: The Young Cleveland Cavaliers
The snow in New York has finally stopped, and today is the Nets' last home court of 2012, and in the last month, the Nets have surprised Brooklyn fans to see their team rise firsthand, and the Nets have quickly taken root in this new city with their outstanding performances.
More and more people have joined the Nets family, and the attendance at home is a good illustration of the fans' love for the team, even yesterday's Bobcats who faced a 16-game losing streak, the Nets' home court is still full, not to mention today's game, a large number of Nets die-hard fans came to the Barclays Center early.
The Nets' opponent in this game is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers are not in good shape at the moment, in fact, after the league's number one star LeBron James left Miami, the Cavaliers' record has plummeted, but fortunately, the lucky Cavaliers have won the top pick again and used it to select Kyrie? Andrew? Owen - Another talented player.
And the biggest attraction of this game is the direct collision between the core of the Cavaliers Irving and the Nets ace Tall and Strong.
Carey? Irving, the top pick of the last year, is a pure point guard with the qualities to command and control the team on the court, he is extremely fast, which makes it difficult for opponents who defend him to completely limit him in one-on-one situations, and his ball handling skills are very good, he can break through with both left and right hands, and there are almost no shooting shortcomings.
The Cleveland Cavaliers' "No. 1 Pick" Kyrie Irving immediately showed his talent when he entered the league, during last season. Irving leads the rookie list in points per game (18.1), second in assists (4.9 per game) and (51.1 percent) and third in 3-point shooting (41.1 percent).
On May 15, 2012, the NBA officially announced that Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving won the 2011-12 Rookie of the Season award, and out of all 120 first-place votes, he received 117 votes, and was elected without suspense, and then entered the United States national team training list.
Last week, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost 102-103 to the New York Knicks. Cavaliers core Kyrie Irving has been extremely good. He scored a career-high 41 points, 17 of which came in the fourth quarter.
In this year's All-Star vote, Irving is also among the top three in the Eastern backcourt and is very likely to be selected for the All-Star Game for the first time. Become an All-Star,
Kyrie Irving's style of play is quite gorgeous. Very much like the "Smiling Assassin" Isaiah Thomas of the year. As a point guard, Irving combines the best skills, speed, and awareness at the No. 1 position.
This season, Kyrie Irving has 22.5 points, 5.9 assists and 1.5 steals in 34.7 minutes. He shot 45.2 percent from the field and had a player efficiency value of 21.51, ranking fourth among point guards, behind Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook and Tony Parker.
The general manager of the Cavaliers once said very happily: "Fortunately, Irving is here, he can make up for the vacancy of LeBron's departure", but such a near-perfect young player - the top pick, the best rookie, the representative of the new generation of point guards, a member of the U.S. national team, and a quasi-All-Star player...... is actually on the underdog side in today's comparison.
Because he is facing the tall and strong Brooklyn Nets, the most popular rookie in the league at present, and he is known as the strongest rookie since LeBron James in 03.
Unlike Irving, Tall and Strong surprisingly entered the NBA as a "scout", but Tall and Strong quickly dumbfounded the Pelicans, Bobcats, and Wizards who had the top three draft picks, and made the Rockets who traded him a little restless.
After being traded to Brooklyn, Tall and Strong ushered in a continuous explosion, and no rookie had ever played dominant in his debut season, but Tall and Strong did it, and from the current point of view, at least in his rookie season, Tall and Strong performed better than Irving, who was the pride of the sky, and it is not impossible to even surpass LeBron.
In the first two months of the season, Gao Da Zhuang firmly locked the best rookie spot, and the people behind him, including the champion and the leader, could hardly pose a threat to him, and the other rookies could only compete for the second place.
When Irving scored a career-high 41 points in his second season, he scored a career-high 50 points in two consecutive games, becoming the youngest player to score 50 points in NBA history, and his average of 26 points per game made him the league's top scorer and the most promising No. 2 player in three months.
In the All-Star vote, Gao Dazhuang is in the position of the vote king, if Irving is very promising to become an All-Star, and Gao Dazhuang has almost locked a position in the Eastern backcourt in advance.
Before the game, many experts also pointed out that Tall and Strong's style of play and even technical movements are extremely similar, but Tall and Strong is more like an enhanced version of Irving, and he is better in projection ability and ball control.
But the biggest gap between the two is in the ability to lead the team, the current Cavaliers with a 7-25 record in the league ranked second-to-last, only higher than the 4-24 Washington Wizards, and even the Bobcats, who suffered a 17-game losing streak, are in front of the Cavaliers with 7 wins and 24 losses.
Since being traded to the Nets, Gao Dazhuang has quickly become a well-deserved cornerstone player of the team with an average of nearly 40 points per game, and has led the team to nine consecutive wins.
The Nets' 19-10 record dwarfs the Cavaliers' 7-24, and some people may say that the Cavaliers are currently playing with a bunch of young players and lack experience, but if you take a closer look at the Nets' current roster, the most reliable helpers are Wallace and Starkerhouse, two veterans, so in terms of teammates, the Nets will not give more support to the Cavaliers than the Cavaliers give Irving.
"Hey, Carey? Andrew? Two of the best "youngsters" in the Irving league bumped into each other as they jumped the ball. The tall and strong took the initiative to greet Owen.
This is the second time Gao Dazhuang has seen Irving, and the first time Gao Dazhuang has met Irving at the World Junior Championships, and successfully copied his skills, and thus started his own path in the NBA.
"You've been doing a good job lately" For the "young man" from the East in front of him, Owen is really not proud, not only younger than himself, but also has achieved better results than himself.
The Nets' starters for this game are: center Humphries, power forward Gerard Wallace, small forward Keith Bogans, shooting guard Tall Strong, point guard Marshawn Brooks.
Today, the Nets made another minor tweak, with Humphries returning to the main lineup and another veteran, Bogans, replacing Starkerhouse as the starter.
The Cavaliers' starting lineup is: center Tyler Zeller, power forward Tristan Thompson, small forward Alonzo Gee, shooting guard Dion Waiters, and point guard Kyrie Irving.
Another highlight of this game is the Cavaliers' Waiters and Zeller, who are both rookies this year along with Tall Strong. And both have made it to the top 10 of the rookie list. Unlike the other rookies, the two of them gradually gained starting spots in the underdog Cavaliers.
Zeller is currently eighth in the rookie rankings, and Vitesse was even third before falling out of the top 10 with an ankle injury. But more recently, after recovering from an ankle injury. In his last four games, he has averaged 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game. It's just that in these 4 games, Vitesse's three-point shot of 0 out of 12 is a bit unreasonable.
But as soon as today's game began, Dion Vitesse took the lead for the Cavaliers. After receiving a pass from Irving, Witesse hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner to end his embarrassing streak of four consecutive three-point misses.
However, the Nets, led by Gao Dazhuang and Wallace, directly exploded an 11-4 attack wave and quickly took the lead.
Irving and Zeller both scored for the Cavaliers, but the Cavaliers went three and a half minutes late in the first quarter to score a pointless.
The Nets went berserk again, leading the team to a 10-0 offensive wave, and the Nets led the Cavaliers 30-22 in the first quarter.
Humphries opened the scoring lead for the Nets at the start of the second quarter, but the Cavaliers hit a 9-2 attack wave led by backup quarterback C.J. Myers to close the gap.
Gao Dazhuang and Wallace are still the most consistent scoring points for the Nets, while the Cavaliers Irving and Vitesse also scored, and the score of the two sides has been deadlocked.
However, in the final moments, Myers hit consecutive three-pointers, and Irving completed a one-stop dunk after stealing Brooks, and at halftime, the Cavaliers only trailed the Nets by three points at 58-61.
At halftime, Coach Johnson held the tactical board and kept gesturing to the players, and it could be felt from his excited words that the coach was not satisfied with the team's performance in the first half.
Although he led the opponent by 3 points and scored 61 points at halftime, the 58 points conceded at half time was also a new high in recent games.
Obviously, this is not the rhythm that the Nets are used to, but after Coach Johnson sent Stackhouse in a row, the slightly "old" Nets are still playing against the "young" Cavaliers.
Stackhouse '74, Bogans '80 and Wallace '82 played "run and shoot" on the court with Irving '92, '91 Witters and Thompson, and '90 Zeller, which is obviously his own shortcomings against the enemy's strengths, so Coach Johnson has been emphasizing rhythm and rhythm.
However, at this moment, Tall and Strong is a little out of the way, Kyrie Irving attracted the attention of Tall Strong, and Tall Strong took the technical statistics table from the assistant coach: in the first two quarters, Tall and Strong shot 6 of 13 and 4 of 4 free throws, scored 17 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, while Irving shot 5 of 9 and 5 of 6 free throws, and scored 16 points, 1 rebound and 5 assists.
The statistics of the two are in between, but Irving's several singles in the first half still left a "stunning" impression on Gao Dazhuang.
Irving has both left and right hands with offensive ability, and his outside ability is above the average level of the average guard, Irving often chooses to pull up the jump shot in the first half, which is one of his efficient offensive weapons, and what is even more commendable is that Irving's shooting is accurate anywhere on the court.
His other weapon is the fast break, and he does a very good job of shooting himself or choosing to pass to his teammates at the right time.
Irving is arguably one of the best players in the league at playing singles, with 1.03 points per round according to the stats, which is better than 91% of players in the league.
Taking advantage of Coach Johnson's tactics for Wallace, Humphries and other insiders, the tall and strong quietly came to the seat near the Cavaliers, took out the second-hand mobile phone with the "Basketball Miracle" game, and quietly pointed the mobile phone at Irving.
Of course, before this, Gao Dazhuang had a series of cover actions, which led to the TV director at the scene only being regarded as Gao Dazhuang filming the lively scene of the scene with his mobile phone.
"Drop", when the copy box in the game is against Owen, a set of numbers appeared in front of the tall and strong, "3624"!
"Oh" to be honest, this value is not surprising to be tall and strong, although this is much higher than Irving's value in the World Youth Championships, but the ability values of Harden, Curry and others are also between 3600-3900, and it is reasonable that Irving, as a representative of the new generation of players, has a value of 3600+.
"Do you want to update your character's target skills?" The cold sound of the machine reminds the tall and strong.
"Update" Gao Dazhuang of course will not miss any opportunity to improve his strength, Gao Dazhuang still did not hesitate to press the update button.
"Update points consumed: 2712 points, are you sure?" The system prompts again.
"Oh?" Despite knowing that it would cost double the points, this value still surprised Gao Dazhuang, who subconsciously looked at his total points, but fortunately, after 9 consecutive wins, Gao Dazhuang's points in the game reached 3000 points.
"Sure" turned out to have enough points, Gao Dazhuang didn't have any reason to hesitate, "Update completed" A cold machine sound sounded in Gao Dazhuang's ears.
After strengthening Lillard's skills, the tall man strengthened Irving's skills again, and now he can't wait for the second half to come. (To be continued......)
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