Pat Riley eventually agreed to a bet with Barkley, but the two had completely different bets. Barkley is betting that Wu's performance will continue to be good, while Pat Riley is the Heat's record will be even better than last season after trading Wu away.

"Isn't that!" Charles Barkley scoffed at Pat Riley's bet, "If the Miami Heat can't even make it to the Eastern Conference semifinals, then they're going to play in the WNBA." ”

Putting aside the bet between Pat Riley and Charles Barkley, when people's crazy praise for Wu Dawei slowly waned over time, Wu Dawei found that he still could not escape the fate of being questioned.

Due to the war of words provoked by the media before, Wu Dawei was hated by many James fans, so there are not many people who hack him. Of course, most of the people who question and hate him now are LeBron James fans.

For most basketball fans, Wu Dawei's performance in the game between the Cavaliers and the Heat was a complete surprise. Among them, many people don't think that Wu Dawei, who can play well in the face of James who is good at both offensive and defensive ends, just ate dumplings once during the holidays. Is that really all there is to it when it comes to covering James' three shots in a game?

Soon, Wu Dawei gave the answer.

After a home game against the Miami Heat, the Clevelands took a three-day break to welcome their next home rival, the Atlanta Hawks.

A team that is truly gifted and talented but has always lacked a good point guard to integrate them. This is also an important reason why the Atlanta Hawks have been high and low since their rise. Everyone knows that their top brass is keen to select forwards with childish potential and stingy with giving a high draft pick to a point guard.

If they had drafted Chris Paul instead of Marvin Williams, then think about what a team with Horford, Josh Smith, and Joe Johnson would have become in the East!

At the Dec. 4 game, the Clevelanders in attendance still filled the Quicken Loan Center. Wu's stellar performance in the last game and led the team to a victory over LeBron James and his Miami Heat allowed the Clevelanders to maintain their focus on basketball in their spare time.

The moment Wu Dawei ran out of the players' tunnel, the cheers of the mountains and tsunamis were deafening, and although the team's current offensive tactical core is Maurice Williams, Wu Dawei has gradually become the team's most popular player.

The match starts at 9 p.m. local time.

The Cavaliers' lineup is still the same as their previous roster; On the Hawks' side, center Al Horford, power forward Josh Smith, small forward Marvin Williams, and two guards are Joe Johnson and Jeff Teague.

In fact, Cavaliers coach Byron Scott took this game very seriously. After winning the game against the Miami Heat, the Cavaliers currently have a 13-11 record and are seventh in the Eastern Conference; The Atlanta Hawks, on the other hand, squeezed out the Magic yesterday and finished second in the Eastern Conference with a 17-8 record.

That said, if the season ends now, then the Atlanta Hawks will be the Cavaliers' opponent in the playoffs.

Therefore, Byron Scott's attention to this game is not inferior to the previous game. He's ready to study this talented team up front.

"We're going to slow down! Atlantans are good at attacking fast, and Jeff Teague is a very fast guard, which you should pay special attention to Morris. But their positional battle was a mess, and Jeff Teague wasn't a good playmaker. So, we're going to fight them in a positional war! But we can't lose our counter-attack, that's our strength. I want everyone to focus on the defensive end and not let the Atlantans score lightly, they are currently in the top three in the league in offensive efficiency, but I don't want that to be a post-game excuse! We are no worse than them! ”…,

That's manager Byron Scott's strategy for this game. Although Maurice Williams has not been in good form in recent times, Williams can still cope with such a rookie as Jeff Teague.

The Cavaliers controlled the tempo from the opening game, and the naïve Teague was completely unable to organize an effective offense on the offensive end, so the Atlantans could only rely on the individual ability of their forward players.

Wu was named by head coach Scott to defend Atalantan's attacking arrow, Joe Johnson, in this game.

Clearly, he continued his good form from the previous game, and Joe Johnson must have watched that game and has some knowledge of Wu's defensive ability. In the first quarter, Wu Dawei only allowed the super scorer, who averaged more than 25 points per game, to score 2 points. And he has 5 points in his account.

This kind of watch made the Cleveland fans who came to the scene to cheer very happy, because it at least proved that Wu Dawei's performance in the last game was not accidental.

The Cavaliers also played a wonderful offensive and defensive performance in the first quarter, 25:14, and they established an 11-point lead in the first quarter. That advantage made the Clevelands more comfortable in the second quarter, and they continued to extend their lead at home.

By the end of the second quarter, the Cavaliers, who were sitting at home, had already led their opponents by 13 points at 48:35! Wu Dawei still firmly limited Joe Johnson's play on the defensive end, and at halftime, the Eagles scored only five points, while Wu Dawei himself had already scored nine points at halftime.

The Hawks fought back in the third quarter. Josh Smith scored six straight points on the offensive end at the start of the third quarter to reduce the margin to single digits in an instant.

On the defensive end, the aging Antoine Jamison couldn't contain the energetic dunk king, so head coach Byron Scott called a timeout and let David Wu defend Smith. Joe Johnson, who was originally defended by David Wu, was handed over to Anthony Parker, the team's No. 2 position.

Wu Dawei once again reassured the Cleveland fans at the scene. After the timeout, Wu Dawei staged steals on the defensive end one after another, not only helping the team create several opportunities for defensive counterattacks to open up the difference, but also successfully defended Josh Smith's momentum that seemed to be about to explode.

It was a game that was destined to be a footnote to Wu's brilliant defensive show from the start, and Wu's defense of the Atlanta Hawks' two offensive arrowheads throughout the court was the key to the Cavaliers' victory.

It also coincided with Scott's pre-game tactics. When the Cavaliers coach watched the game video alone after the game, he suddenly noticed that Wu Dawei seemed to be slowly moving closer to his tactical core.

The most exciting part of a successful defensive counterattack tactic is the moment of counterattack, but the core content is the successful defense before the counterattack!