Chapter 82: A Farce
How welcoming James is in New York is unknown to the average person.
The New York Knicks have been chasing James since his first season in the league, and with James quickly becoming a superstar in the league, the New York Knicks have simply coveted James to the point of outrageousness.
Every time James has a good performance, newspapers such as the New York Times have to brag about it, and after the boast, they will add a sentence: such a superstar can only be deserved by New York.
Superstar with big city, it's very reasonable, there's nothing wrong with it.
The Knicks' owners and uniform crew have also repeatedly expressed their affection and admiration for James in public, and would rather accept the league's fine for it.
What's even more bizarre is that a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in New York said that if James came to the New York Knicks, he could eat at the restaurant for free for life, even if he brought friends.
Some say it's a restaurant for fame and gimmicks.
But...... There aren't many three-Michelin-starred restaurants in New York, so there's no need to make such a gimmick for a basketball superstar.
It shows how welcoming James is in New York.
Now James has made horrific stats again, and it is in the Knicks, and the Knicks boss and uniform crew finally can't stand it anymore.
The most obvious was the next day when the American weekly carried out a series of reports:
"The Knicks boss is courting James, he should be here."
"The Knicks head coach said James can decide where everybody of the Knicks goes."
"Demonstrations erupted in Cleveland, expressing outrage and dissatisfaction with the New York Knicks' poaching."
The game is very exciting, and the plot after the game is even more attractive. The people who eat melons are watching with relish. The media in New York and Cleveland, as well as fans on both sides, were not at all ambiguous.
In fact, this is not an exaggeration at all.
For Cleveland, James is the city's calling card, face and icon.
Cleveland is America's joke, a place of outcasts and mockery, and the only one to be proud of is James. According to media analysis, if James runs for mayor of Cleveland now, there is no doubt that he will be elected with a jaw-dropping number of votes.
This kind of farce is like a single dog who finally marries a wife who is like a flower, and as a result, a diamond king keeps wanting to hook up with his wife. Can Cleveland be a single dog?
No.
But this has nothing to do with Qin Yang.
Originally, Qin Yang thought that it would take him two or three seasons to gain a firm foothold in the league, but now that a season was coming to an end, Qin Yang found that his strength did not seem to be weak.
Compared to absolute explosiveness, strength and offensive skills, Qin Yang is not the top in the league.
But Qin Yang's three-point shot, passing, and ability to control the game have been improved to a jaw-dropping level, and even the defense is presentable.
Therefore, Qin Yang's ambitions are also getting bigger and bigger.
After the game, Qin Yang trained harder and harder, wanting to improve his offensive ability with the ball.
After playing the Knicks on the road, the Cavaliers returned to Cleveland.
After a two-day break, the Cavaliers played the Lakers at home.
The last time against the Lakers, the Cavaliers lost quite badly, and this time with the momentum of the big win over the New York Knicks, the Cavaliers want to pull back a game at home.
Quick Loan Center, the game has begun.
This game is not easy to play in Qin Yang's opinion, because the Cavaliers' defensive core Delonte West is injured and cannot play, so there will be a weakness when facing the Lakers.
Fortunately, this weakness is not obvious, because the strongest point of the Lakers is the interior.
As soon as the game began, the two sides were locked in a stalemate.
The Cavaliers have been brutal this season, in other words, they have worked both the defensive and offensive ends, and almost every player has worked the defensive end.
Qin Yang just entered the Cavaliers and didn't get a chance to play, not only because the defense was not good, but more importantly, he didn't adapt to the defensive style of the Cavaliers.
You can defend badly, but you can't fight hard.
Everyone else is working the pitch and you are alone and it will have a huge impact on the team.
This style is partly due to coach McBron, and partly because James learned from the Pistons after two years of abuse.
On the first ball, after the Lakers jumped the ball, Kobe Bryant shot directly into the iron.
James grabbed the rebound and handed it to Mo Williams, after halftime, James held the ball, Big Z blocked and dismantled in the high position, and after the high block, James did not rush to break through, but passed the ball to Big Z, and he spared a circle of slipping the bottom line, Big Z passed the ball hand-to-hand, and James picked up the basket to score.
This cooperation is very tacit, and it is not a common routine, which confused the Lakers all of a sudden.
The Quick Loan Center was cheering.
Qin Yang can see clearly off the field, although this ball is very beautiful, but fundamentally speaking, it is not practical, Bynum was stunned, otherwise this ball is likely to be a mistake.
Such an attack can be done once, but it cannot be used as a common tactic.
The Cavaliers scored first, and the Lakers also returned the color, and Pau Gasol shook the big Z slightly from the middle range, and then accelerated to a trowel basket.
The big Z speed is too slow to keep up at all.
The ball started and the two sides started to get on track.
The Cavaliers James began to open, shooting 2 of 5 in the first quarter, scoring 4 points, 5 assists and 2 rebounds, showing a very versatile performance, Kobe Bryant shot 4 of 7, scored 11 points, 3 of 3 free throws, and the shooting rate was quite high, but the Cavaliers led by 2 points in the first quarter.
In the first quarter, both sides scored well.
In the second quarter, Qin Yang played.
But the best performer in this section was Mo Williams.
Qin Yang attracted the defense, and in the first quarter, Mo Williams, who played against Kobe, finally began to play against Fisher and Vujacic, and Mo Williams didn't play too happily.
Mo Williams was 4-of-8 from the field and scored 11 points, which is efficient, but definitely not efficient.
Qin Yang scored six points on 2-of-3 three-pointers from the perimeter to help the team further extend its advantage, and James went off for a three-minute break, but the Cavaliers led 30-21 in the quarter.
After two quarters, the Cavaliers led by 11 points.
That's a big difference.
The Cavaliers are very likely to win this game.
But in the third quarter, the Lakers broke out first.
Pau Gasol was in average shape in this game and did not have a high shooting percentage, but Odom exploded in the third quarter, leaving the Cavaliers helpless.
In the single quarter, Odom was 7 of 8, 1 of 1 free throws, and frantically scored 15 points and 10 rebounds, and the Cavaliers, who were almost playing on their own, had no power to fight back.
Qin Yang made 0 of 2 three-pointers in this quarter, pitting his teammates, and the three-point shot was not stable enough at the critical moment, and it still didn't work. Especially in the case of Kobeka's rhythm and blindfolding, Qin Yang's hit rate dropped significantly.
Fortunately, Kobe Bryant's shooting rate is 1 of 4, which is also very pit, not much better than Qin Yang in the opposite position.
In the third quarter, the Cavaliers fell behind 16-31 and were overtaken by four points in the overall score.
Four points is not a big point difference, but in the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers were tragic.