Build a Dream Dynasty

On November 12, the Nets visited Cleveland to challenge the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers continued to strengthen their lineup this season. The team first selected the historically talented Andrew Wiggins with the No. physical condition. In the summer transfer market, the Cavaliers used a three-year 45 million contract to poach Fernandez from the Nets. The Nets' No. 2 scorer in the Finals has excellent off-ball movement, excellent physical condition, good shooting, and not bad defense. Although the 15 million contract is a bit big, but considering that the Cavaliers themselves have a lot of salary space, there are not many suitable candidates on the market, and the city of Cleveland itself is not attractive to better players, so it has to be accepted. contract.

The improvement of the lineup has improved the combat effectiveness of the Cavaliers, but the losing culture formed over the years has a great negative impact on the team. The Cavaliers recruited Blatter, who has rich coaching experience in Europe, to take charge of the team, and introduced championship players to improve the team's culture, but Irving, Waiters, Thompson and others have had too many bad habits over the years It is not so easy to change. Moreover, Waiters is deeply dissatisfied with Fernandez's deprivation of his main position. The team's performance in the opening stage is only 2 wins and 5 losses, which is relatively average.

The Nets have decided to hide Curry in the next away game against the Grizzlies, so this game is naturally for Curry to strike hard. In this game, the team's starting center Lopez got a chance to rest. After all, against the black and white duo, the team still relies on the top defense provided by Lopez inside.

Porzingis got the opportunity to replace Lopez as the starting center. He was very excited when he got the opportunity to perform. The jump ball directly hit McCollum, and then the ball was handed over to Curry. Start to attack.

The main attack point of the Nets at the beginning of the game was on Leonard. Wiggins does have a good talent, such a "thin" body has a strong core strength, and the cost of talent is really good. But in the face of absolute power, no matter how good the core strength is, it can't stand it. And under the guidance of Stevens and Hill, Leonard's singles ability has improved very obviously. Hard to eat Wiggins, Leonard made 3 of 3 shots in the opening game, helping the team take the initiative at the beginning.

It doesn't matter that Leonard can't hold Leonard at all on the defensive end. In this game, Wiggins' performance on the offensive end was also disappointing. After entering the league, the top pick Lang's tactical status in the Cavaliers is not high, and the ball is mainly concentrated in the hands of Irving. However, in the limited singles, Wiggins still exposed his flaws in the NBA environment, such as average dribbling ability and weak combination ability, especially left-handed dribbling, which is equal to no speed at the NBA level. Post-up singles , The turnaround jump shot has become his main scoring method, but facing Leonard, if you let James play a post-up single, you will have to peel off the skin, let alone Wiggins?

Brother Zui was beaten by Leonard on both offensive and defensive ends, and the Cavaliers immediately replaced Wiggins with CJ Myers to increase their strength.

However, CJ Miles is the kind of shooter who does not have the ability of a nerve knife, but has a hit rate of a nerve knife. Compared with Wiggins, Miles has a stronger body. But for the gap between the two sides, this improvement is nothing.

Fortunately, the efforts of the back line Irving and Fernandez achieved a certain effect. 30:24, the Nets ended the first quarter with a 6-point lead.

Facing his old enemy Curry, Irving continued to use 18 weapons in rotation on the offensive end, making the Nets hard to defend. His outstanding performance also allowed the Cavaliers to keep up with the rhythm of the Nets.

In the second quarter of the game, the two sides entered the matchup of rotating players. The savior of the Nets officially debuted. "Papa Waiters, who will be strong in his life", is now dissatisfied in various ways in the Cavaliers, such as Fernandez, Wiggins, and Irving. The atmosphere in the locker room was a bit difficult to say the least, and his performance on the court was also very poor. The Nets, on the other hand, were very united. Taking advantage of the Cavaliers' weak inside substitutes, they gave the ball to Boban continuously to help the big man dominate the Cavaliers inside.

When the Timberwolves are willing to trade Love, the most ideal trading partners include the Cavaliers. However, the Cavaliers were unwilling to give up Wiggins, resulting in the deal not being reached. But from the current point of view, the Magic team that got Love has improved significantly, and the Cavaliers really lack an inside attack point to echo Irving on the outside.

Without James, the Cavaliers want to pick a rookie like James, but James is not productive.

Waiters' wonderful performance helped the Nets gradually widen the gap in the score. In half a quarter, he made 1 of 6 shots, and most of them were non-threatening mid-range and long-range pull-up jumpers. Some people in the Nets dare not be beaten like this. It's a ghost to replace it.

It's not that the Cavaliers haven't thought about trading, but Waiters entered the league as the No. 4 pick. At least in their view, the potential is there, and the value of the trade is overestimated by them. It’s good that I’m losing money, and if I save my life and play well, it will be difficult to renew the contract, and I’m definitely not willing to pay too much chips.

He made great efforts and tried his best to maintain the point difference with the Nets. As a result, the substitute came up to play for a while, and the bifurcation reached 15 points. Irving wanted to cry but had no tears. However, after three years of experience, he has become much more mature than before, and he will no longer play emotionally willfully. After returning to the court, he succeeded in consecutive singles and helped the team narrow the point difference.

I have to say that Irving's singles ability is indeed strong. When the feel comes, a string of two or a string of three is not a problem. But the problem is that his relatively mediocre physical fitness makes it take more physical energy for him to complete a single, and this less energy-saving style of play makes his physical strength decline very quickly.

Some are equivalent to the assassin profession in the game. The threat is indeed great, but in team battles, a strong teammate or a strong team is needed to support him in order to maximize his value. Today's Cavaliers do not have this ability.

At halftime, the Nets led by 10 points 64:54. Curry scored 12 points on 5-for-11 shooting in the first half. And Irving's data is a little brighter, 8 of 14 shots, 18 points, and 3 assists. Individual performance is very exciting, and it is enough to deal with ordinary opponents, but there is no way, the Nets are really difficult to play.