156. The first battle
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"Against the Cavaliers?"
The moment Hirberdou stepped off the plane and stepped onto Cleveland soil with his Chicago Bulls team, he was surrounded by enthusiastic reporters. Dwight. Howard's aftermath of joining the Cavaliers has not dissipated, and people are still looking forward to how much energy the combination of Wu Dawei and Howard can produce on the court, naturally, the Cavaliers' first opponent in the second half of the season, the Chicago Bulls, has become the best guinea pig!
First, the Chicago Bulls are a league powerhouse, and their reach to the Eastern Conference finals last season has proven their quality, and this season they are third in the Eastern Conference; Second, in the first meeting of the season, the Chicago Bulls crushed the Cavaliers at their own home Union Center!
Such an opponent is undoubtedly the best benchmark to test the Cavaliers' new lineup. Whether the Cavaliers can beat them and how to beat them has become the focus of attention nowadays. Although Dwight. Howard has been with the Cavaliers for a day or two, and many eyes are still on Cleveland.
In the face of the onlookers watching him, the best coach of last season was a little helpless, he spread his hands and said: "To be honest, I do have some bottomless hearts!" The Cavaliers themselves are among the best teams in the league, and now they've added Dwight. Howard, when I heard the news, I only had one feeling, oh my God, is this true?! ”
Hiberdou's joke made the reporters around him laugh, and most of them had the same expressions on their faces when they first heard the news. No one thought that Wu Dawei and Dwight. Howard actually teamed up!
"And what are you going to do with them? The Cavaliers now have two top-five superstars in the league, are you going to sit back and wait or ......"
When asked by a reporter, Hiberdu immediately turned straight and said: "When the heat is to die and struggle!" ”
Everyone laughed again, maybe no one thought of this always serious coach. There will be such a funny side, too. However, anyone can see that this is forced by the form, the Cavaliers have just acquired Howard, and no one knows how they will play.
Naturally, as the first team to play against this new pairing, the Bulls are like some form of an up-and-coming bird, and could become a real thing.
Although the Cavaliers now have David Wu and Dwight . Howard, they're strong, there's no doubt about that, but we're not going to be tied up in this game! We're going to fight hard to win this game! ”
After the joke. Anyway, Hiberdou made his position clear. As the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, Hiberdou still has plenty of self-confidence in his team!
Interview with Dwight before. Howard's reporters who joined the Cavaliers didn't leave Cleveland at this time, because everyone was waiting for Dwight. Howard's first game with the Cleveland Cavaliers is finally coming, and it can't help but get everyone excited again.
Howard, who came to Cleveland, was settling down on his home at the moment. He didn't need Wu Dawei's help at this point, because his agent would help him do a good job.
And Wu Dawei, who returned to Cleveland from Orlando, also re-engaged in intense preparations. Although the Cleveland Cavaliers had a near-perfect first half of the season. But they can't let their guard down. After all, the footsteps of the pursuers behind them are also getting closer and closer.
Although he spent a few days in Orlando, Wu did not get up early to train. But that doesn't change the biological clock he's used to back in Cleveland. Wu Dawei still insists on getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning every day to train.
Of course, he was trained with Danny. Green. The team still didn't trade him away or drop him, but kept him with the Cavaliers. That's what makes Danny. Green always had hope, and he continued to train very hard.
And his diligent three-point shooting has already yielded some results. Wu Dawei also had to be impressed by this classmate of the same level as himself.
But at the moment, for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the most important thing is still the new signing of the team, Dwight. Howard.
It's a deal that has satisfied countless people. Especially inside the Cavaliers. Because of Dwight. Howard's arrival, whether he fits into the team or not, at least he can immediately change the status quo, and that is to strengthen the Cavaliers' interior line, which has been relatively weak this season.
After Howard joined, even if it was another game against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Cleveland Cavaliers would have the confidence. Because what the Grizzlies rely on most is undoubtedly their strong interior combination, and now, when Vallejo and Howard form the Cavaliers' interior line, they are obviously not much weaker than them.
And Howard holds the title of the league's No. 1 center today, whether it's against Mark Brown. Gasol or Zach. Randolph is an absolute dominant counterpoint!
So for the Cavaliers, the top priority is to get Dwight . Howard did his best to fit into the Cleveland Cavaliers. That's what Scott, the current head coach of the Cavaliers, needs to do his best to solve.
Howard had already met with his new teammates after attending the team's induction ceremony for him. And in the past few days, everyone is also practicing new tactics, that is, to fight a game with Wu Dawei as the core and Dwight. Howard as the axis of the new tactics.
This is also different from the Cavaliers' tactics last season, although last season the Cavaliers were in Chris. After Carman joined, he also tailored tactics for Carman, but obviously, Carman could not compete with Dwight. Howard is on a par.
Howard's on-court influence and interior containment are also unlikely to be comparable to Carman's. Naturally, the Cavaliers had to tailor a new set of tactics for him.
Wu Dawei is the current top star of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Scott naturally can't be lazy, not to mention that Wu Dawei is Scott's most relied on player, and I don't know how many times this season, Wu Dawei saved the team from danger at a critical moment.
So even if there is a new superstar on the team, Scott does not dare to snub Wu Dawei. Although Howard is currently the top star in the league, Wu Dawei already has the momentum of being the first person in the league!
In fact, it is a new tactic, and it has not changed much. After all, it's the middle of the season. It's impossible for a manager to change the tactics that have been used for most of the season just to make a superstar happy.
Because then it may not only be difficult to create chemistry between the new players and the team, but it can also easily cause the team to completely mess up. Scott just added a tactic around Howard to the Cavaliers' original strategy.
In fact, it is not much different from Howard's tactics during his time with the Magic. Howard still needs to take on the team's interior defense, while also needing to use the high post from time to time to block the guards.
The only slight difference is that Scott guarantees that Howard will get more than enough shots; At the same time, originally on the Magic, Howard's pick-and-roll was meant to create space for outside ball carriers to shoot, while on the Cavaliers. Howard's pick-and-roll is more about allowing him to have more flexible positions. One pick-and-roll is for the guard, and the other is for himself.
That's the difference, and the original Dwight. Isn't Howard's biggest grievance on the Magic team because he doesn't feel respected......
In early March, the Cavaliers will be at home for their first game since the All-Star break. It can be said that the time between this is very tight, from Howard joining the Cavaliers to ushering in the first game, there is only a day or two between it.
That's for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have just experienced a tumultuous roster. It's certainly not a completely good thing; Not only is it the opposite, but because of this, the Chicago Bulls have a better chance of winning.
Although the combination of two superstars is indeed terrifying. But now everyone knows very well. Superstars in team sports are not simple arithmetic problems, 1+1=2 is the answer that even yellow-mouthed children can calculate, but not so on the basketball court. It's like the Miami Heat, which formed the Big Three last season, and the three superstars lead the team alone. They have also made the playoffs, but now they have formed a team, but they still failed in the first round of the playoffs last season!
So. Hardware can determine the lower limit, and software can contribute to the upper limit!
The run-in between the players is undoubtedly software, and for the Cavaliers, in such a short period of time, no one knows what kind of tacit understanding Howard and the Cavaliers can have.
Naturally, the Bulls have a chance.
Although on paper, the Cavaliers are absolutely unassailable. On the inside there is Dwight. Howard is in charge, and Wu Dawei is stubborn on the outside, and their strength on the defensive end is the second in the league, and no team dares to call it the first; On the offensive end, Wu Dawei is the current league's leading scorer, while Dwight. Howard is the top scorer at the No. 5 position, plus a veteran Chauncey. Billups, the Cavaliers can be described as well-balanced and excellent offensively and defensively!
In the case that the duo of Wu Dawei and Howard has not played a game, the Chicago Bulls have no reference to investigate, so they can only pin their hopes on the run-in of the Cavaliers and the performance of the Bulls themselves.
March 2 is the day the Cleveland Cavaliers play the Chicago Bulls. As the most watched game at the start of the second half of the season, this game has attracted countless eyes.
And the league is also glad that they arranged this game to be broadcast live in the United States before the start of this season, and I believe that the ratings of this game are also rising!
The game will be played at 8 p.m. local time in Cleveland, and the players will enter the Quick Loan Center in the morning and afternoon for field adaptation training. When Dwight. When Howard showed up on the court with the Cleveland Cavaliers for field acclimatization, the reporters who came to the arena with the team got up.
Especially the Cleveland reporters at the door and the Cleveland fans who came to the stadium, everyone had an extremely excited expression on their faces, which also satisfied Dwight at once. Howard's vanity.
However, the Cavaliers' acclimatization is completely closed, perhaps due to concerns about opening up practice, and with the Cleveland Cavaliers being in such a spotlight right now, it's likely that reporters will make this training session a press conference......
Not only the whole United States is paying attention to this game, but on the other side of the ocean, for the first game of Wu Dawei and Howard's team, there are also many domestic fans who are looking forward to it through the live webcast!
Everybody wants to take a look, David Wu and Dwight. Will Howard's team-up take the Cleveland Cavaliers to the next level and become a truly invincible team!
In addition to the fans, of course, there are many players who are also following the game. After all, this is closely related to their lives, and if the Cleveland Cavaliers are dominant, then they will undoubtedly become the public enemy of all league players except for the Cleveland Cavaliers players!
LeBron. Although James did not say anything about this trade, he is certainly very concerned about this game. The Cleveland Cavaliers are currently at the top of the Miami Heat, and if the Heat want to break out of the East, they must pass the Cavaliers first.
When James left Cleveland, he must not have imagined that his former parent team would become the biggest obstacle on his way to winning the championship!
The game started at 8 p.m., and by 6 p.m., the players had already entered the locker rooms of the Quick Loan Center. Not only is the outside world looking forward to this game, but the Cavaliers are also looking forward to this game.
When I first heard that Dwight. The news of Howard's joining the team is very exciting. The addition of such a super center is undoubtedly a great help for the Cavaliers!
Everyone's scoring will become easier, and the inside line will no longer be the opponent's back garden, which is a qiē that lifts the spirit of the whole team. For tonight's game, although the opponent is a strong team, everyone's spirit is still full.
The victory over the Chicago Bulls seemed to be the only thought on the minds of all Cavaliers players tonight. And they took it for granted, because we had David Wu and Dwight. Howard's team!
And what does the Bulls have? They beat themselves in their last game because of their interior strength, but now, Dwight. Howard is here, and the Bulls' interior line has no advantage at all! (To be continued......)