Chapter 732: Cleveland II

Cleveland is a city in Ohio, USA, located in the east-central part of the United States, with Pittsburgh to the south and Lake Erie, one of the five great lakes in North America, to the north.

Cleveland had a population of more than 900,000 in the '50s, but in the decades that followed, Cleveland lost its population.

Since the beginning of the new century, Cleveland's population has been declining, and in 00, the census showed that Cleveland had a population of only 480,000, and last year's census, it was only 430,000.

The city of Cleveland is located in the central part of the United States, in the western part of Ohio.

The gently flowing Kuyahoga River runs through the city center and divides the city into two cities, East and West. The city has a temperate continental humid climate, with a lot of green space in the urban area, and about 7,500 hectares of parks, accounting for about one-third of the urban area. Therefore, the geographical environment here is known as the "city of forests".

Even in the survey report, Cleveland, like Pittsburgh, is the best city to live in.

Cavaliers fans jokingly refer to Cleveland as "Gram Village," which shows the extent of the city's decline.

But the Cleveland Cavaliers welcomed their third overall No. 1 pick and the most successful and promising talent - LeBron James.

This is James' fourth year, and like his good brother Wade last year, he took the team to the Finals.

met Yang Di, who defeated Wade last year to win the championship, and was also a draft pick in the 03 session, and later sprung up and strongly suppressed their group of Yang Di, who was a high-pick pick in the first round.

Cleveland suffered two losses in San Francisco, and now the Cavaliers are back at home.

Cleveland fans have long been ready to prepare some warm hospitality for the visiting Warriors.

Despite its small population and economic backwardness, Cleveland has a fanatical fan base that sees the Cavaliers as a local pride.

So when Yang Di and others checked into the hotel in Cleveland, off-the-counter tricks such as water and electricity cuts, firecrackers, gongs and drums, and the sound of the biker party appeared reasonably.

"Our fans haven't done these things before, have they?"

In the early morning of the next day, Ray Allen had two panda eyes on his head, and he looked like he had not slept enough last night.

"I don't know about that, anyway, we're all going back to our own homes, and I don't know what's going on outside." Yang Di shrugged his shoulders, he was woken up twice in the middle of the night, but after he put on the earmuffs, he was able to continue sleeping, he was just a little in his early twenties, and the quality of sleep was obviously much better than that of people in their thirties.

"I'm cursing the Cavaliers for not scoring a single three-pointer today." Ray Allen said viciously, obviously a little angry.

Yang Di laughed, "No way, the Cavaliers fans are too nervous, it looks like it's going to be a G3 battle, if the Cavaliers lose a game at home, we can get the match point and have the absolute initiative." ”

"Beat them up tonight and win match point."

Ray Allen took a bite of a hot dog and couldn't wait to shoot ten three-pointers right away.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Warriors came to the training hall of the Quick Loan Center.

This time it was pre-war training, because the Warriors have already won two games, and in fact the pressure is much less than that of the Cavaliers, Montgomery wants the Warriors to continue to maintain the hot outside touch and defeat the Cavaliers in one fell swoop.

After some light shooting drills, the players went straight back to the locker room to change their jerseys.

Then come to the home arena of the Quick Loan Center for a pre-game warm-up training.

Fans began to enter the arena one after another, with the Cavaliers and Warriors each taking one side to practice.

The fans of the Cavaliers made a lot of props, including Yang Di's big head and some crying expressions, especially to interfere with stars such as Yang Di and Ray Allen.

There were so many fans that it took a long time to line up to get into the stadium.

Then the players returned to the bench, the lights dimmed, and the DJ began to introduce the players of both teams.

First of all, the Warriors players, Yang Di and Ray Allen came out, the boos reached the peak, and it seemed that the city was also trying to resist Yang Di.

On the other side, the Cavaliers, who are back at home, are in high spirits.

"Didn't you just lose two games first? In the last round against the Pistons, we also lost two games first, and in the end, we didn't win four games in a row, and our Cavaliers are habitually slow to heat up. ”

The fans cheered on the team, cheering endlessly.

The noise of the finals felt significantly higher than usual by many decibels. In the Oracle Arena before, the fans were cheering for the Warriors, but they didn't feel it, but today at the Quick Loan Center, the boos in the stadium rushed straight to themselves, and they suddenly had a deep experience.

At six o'clock, the game started on time.

In the east, it starts a little earlier than in the west, but even then there is no shortage of spectators.

It's just that even with such a great spectator bonus, the big Z jump ball still didn't win against Tyson Chandler, Tyson dialed the ball back to the half, and Fisher controlled the ball and attacked the first leg.

"Knock out the Golden State Warriors!"

The fans chanted slogans, and the DJ drove the atmosphere to a very hot level.

The Cavaliers players are also completely different, Larry Hughes is close to defend Fisher, even if Fisher does not have a major offensive mission, Larry Hughes does not want to let him go easily.

Fisher had a tough dribble, but Ray Allen came over to pick it up, and Fisher passed the ball to Ray Allen at 45 degrees on the flank.

Yang Di asked for the ball in a low position, and did not choose to block and dismantle in the first attack.

Ray Allen dropped the ball to Yang Di, who was a little out of the paint area, got the ball, immediately dribbled to the ground, and leaned his back against Drew Gooden.

Gooden was hit by Yang Di and leaned back, Yang Di turned over, raised his arm high, and shot lightly.

"Huh!"

turned out to be hollow into the net, and Gooden jumped up and didn't cover it at all.

At this time, James's help defense package was just in place, and the Cavaliers adopted an unswerving package strategy for Yang Di in the low post.

When the first ball hit, Yang Di clenched his fist and shouted, boosting the team's morale, and high-fived his teammates such as Ray Allen and Tyson in the half.

The voice that originally booed him at the scene suddenly weakened, but at this time, the Cavaliers attacked on their own, and they seamlessly switched to cheering for the Cavaliers, and the momentum was huge, not weaker than the Bay Area fans at Oracle Arena at all.

James's heart is stirring, this is his home stadium, these are the fans cheering him on.

He dribbled over half the court, and Big Z immediately came out actively to block and dismantle for him, James dribbled at the top of the arc, pretending to go to the left to pass through the cover of Big Z, and suddenly pressed down with his left wrist, his body turned, his steps were wrong, his right foot strode to the right, and the whole person broke through to the right instead.

Danny Granger, who was halfway through, couldn't react and tried to intercept James, pulling his clothes.

"Toot ~"

The whistle blew and immediately gave Danny Granger a foul.