Chapter 170: The Two Powers Compete for Hegemony

The Cavaliers, who got off to a good start with ease, also won the next few games.

On October 28, the Cavaliers faced the Toronto Raptors away and won 101-94.

On October 29, he played at home against the Orlando Magic and won three in a row 99-112.

On November 1, he won again against the Houston Rockets at home 128-120.

On Nov. 3, the Cavaliers won 131-123 at home against the Boston Celtics.

Started with a five-game winning streak, which is the Cavaliers' best record at the start of the regular season in recent years!

Such a result made all the Cavaliers fans excited, and the Cavaliers under the new lineup really showed strong combat effectiveness.

In these five wins, James is undoubtedly the best one, averaging 25 points, 9.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game, as efficient and stable as ever.

Below James, there are Owen and Wang Feng.

The former averaged 23.4 points, 3 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game in five games.

The latter had 20.8 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.2 steals.

Statistically, the two are almost comparable, with Irving slightly better.

However, if you look at other aspects of the data, you can clearly distinguish the gap.

Irving is averaging nearly 17 shots per game, which is the same as James and tied for the most on the team, but he is slightly lower than James in scoring, shooting only about 44 percent.

Although Wang Feng averaged 2.6 points per game lower than Irving, he only made 12 shots per game, which is lower than Lefou, who currently averages 17 points per game!

That's right, in these 5 games, Wang Feng, who averaged 12 shots per game, could hit 8 balls, with a shooting rate of 66.7%, the highest in the team!

Not only that, Wang Feng can hit at least 4 three-pointers in every game, and the three-point shooting rate can be maintained at about 50%, which is completely comparable to Curry at the peak of last year, with amazing efficiency!

In the first few games, many times the game fell into a stalemate, and the Cavaliers relied on Wang Feng's three points to break the situation, so as to establish an advantage and win the final victory.

Although the regular season has just begun, Wang Feng has already proved to everyone with his performance that the Cavaliers will definitely pay for it at the expense of signing him.

The Cavaliers fans were happy, the management was happy, James was happy, and it seemed like everyone was happy.

However, this is not a reason for the Cavaliers to beat the Warriors, because on the other hand, the Golden State Warriors also performed well after the opening game, except for the opening game against the San Antonio Spurs, the Warriors also won all the next four games easily, with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss.

Moreover, although the Cavaliers have been winning, it is not without problems.

On Nov. 5, the Cavaliers won 110-102 away from home over the Philadelphia 76ers to snap a six-game winning streak.

But three days later when they faced the Atlanta Hawks on their home court, the Cavaliers lost the game and ended their winning streak.

In recent years the Eagles have been a disciple of Popovich Mike. Under Budenholzer's leadership, the record is quite good, and in the 14-15 season, he won the regular season in the East with a 60-win record.

The Hawks' roster is relatively civilian, and there are no particularly outstanding stars. Millsap, Ayr. Although Horford and other players have been selected as All-Stars, they are significantly worse than several of the Cavaliers, and there are no players on the team who have averaged more than 20 points per game in recent years.

However, a civilian team usually has the advantage of spreading out the scoring points so that they can score from any position on the field.

The Cavaliers lost this game on the bench.

In the whole game, the Hawks bench scored a total of 42 points, accounting for nearly 40% of the team's scores.

On the other hand, on the Cavaliers' side, the bench scored only 8 points in total. Frye 5 points, Richard. Jefferson 3 points.

In this case, although James scored 27 points, Irving 21 points, Wang Feng 19 points, Lefu 15 points, and the four main players combined for 90 points, but the other starter Jr. Smith's 7 points and 8 points from the bench are included, and it is only 97 points.

The Hawks scored 110 points as a team, handing the Cavaliers their first loss of the season.

The poor bench lineup is the biggest weakness of the Cavaliers, who are at the top of the league in salary space.

Not only that, but in the course of the game, the Cavaliers also exposed another problem, that is, the lack of rim protection ability.

Although Lefu is an excellent interior player, he is obviously not particularly suitable for the center position, at least in the first half of the regular season, he has struggled to adapt to the center position.

Against Howard, who switched from the Rockets to the Hawks, Love was beaten up all the way, and although Howard only scored 12 points, he grabbed a full 19 rebounds, including seven offensive rebounds in the frontcourt.

Trade away Tristan. Thompson weakened the Cavaliers' rebounding protection ability a lot, relying on Love and James alone, and the rebounding was at an absolute disadvantage when facing most teams in the league.

Of course, all of the above are some minor flaws, and there has never been a truly perfect roster in the league, even during the invincible Bulls dynasty, or the 74-win Warriors and two consecutive championships, there were also various weaknesses.

For the Cavaliers, compared to the problems they are facing at this time, the arrival of Wang Feng brings the outside range and strong defense to the Cavaliers is obviously of higher value!

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Throughout the second half of November, the Cavaliers maintained a fairly high winning percentage, winning 16-3, a whopping 84% winning rate, and the second-highest record in the league, behind the 17-2 Warriors.

As most people guess, the new season is a two-strong battle between the Warriors and the Cavaliers, and even the Spurs are slightly inferior, let alone other teams.

At this time, the entire league is extremely curious, which of these two super strong teams is stronger?

The Warriors are still favored to occupy more of the part, after all, Curry and Durant, the two regular season MVP partners, look too fierce.

At the end of the game, Curry and Durant both averaged 25 points per game, and the two almost coexisted perfectly, and there was no problem with the ball at all, which was directly related to the fact that both could play without the ball.

And Klay, who is the best off the ball in the Warriors. Thompson's stats have not been seriously affected by Durant's arrival, averaging 22.3 points per game even slightly higher than last season.

If nothing else, in terms of the scoring of the three outside players, the Warriors are clearly more dominant.

But without a real showdown, no one knows what the outcome will be.

The first matchup between these two teams in the new season was directly scheduled by the league on December 25, which is the NBA's traditional arts, Christmas War.

The league, which has mastered the traffic password, knows that the two teams that have been stumbling in the finals for two consecutive years are definitely the focus of everyone's attention.

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