Chapter 1231. Has He Really Changed?

Facing the Seattle SuperSonics, after the All-Star League team was defeated by Ye Si, the whole world chose to surrender in the face of the threat of this big devil.

But James didn't. James, who firmly believed that the Cleveland Cavaliers would be invincible after putting together a six-star lineup, has been waiting and preparing.

James has never been an unwise person. He certainly knows that in this year's All-Star Game, the league's hard power is definitely better than that of the Cavaliers. Even if the Cavaliers put together a six-star lineup, their hard power will not be as good as this year's All-Star Game. The strength of the league team.

But hard power is hard power, and the outcome of the game is the outcome of the game. If hard power is effective, the league team will not lose in this year's All-Star Game!

In James's view, he has always been a more capable and charismatic leader than Kobe.

The All-Star Game is a team led by Kobe Bryant.

The Cavaliers are the team he leads.

At the same time, although the All-Stars are united and try their best, they have no way to go all out. There is a difference between going all out and going all out.

In order to defeat Yes, they can change their shortcomings, which is to go all out, but changing the shortcomings in the game does not mean that they will work hard for the victory of the All-Star United.

This is a completely different concept.

He won't fight for Kobe to win the All-Star Team. He won't, nor will Curry, Yao Ming or Nowitzki.

But Sonics players will fight for Yes.

This is the biggest difference between the All-Star United and the SuperSonics All-Star Team.

The hard power team is stronger, but in terms of lethality, the Alliance team is simply beaten by the SuperSonics.

In a basketball game where only five players can play, sometimes such hard work and lethality are more important than strength.

This is also a deep advantage that allows the Sonics to defeat league teams.

The Sonics are not as strong as the league teams, but they can win with their lethal advantage.

When facing league teams, lethality is the advantage of Sonics players.

But when facing the Cavaliers, the Sonics' lethal advantage is gone.

Because the Cavaliers are also a group of players who are willing to fight for him!

SuperSonics players can fight for Yes, and Cavaliers players can fight for LeBron James. At this point, the two teams are the same.

Under such equal conditions, the first factor that affects the outcome of the Sonics and Cavaliers can only consider the hard power of both parties.

The Cavaliers' six-star lineup will definitely not be weaker than the Seattle SuperSonics!

The Seattle SuperSonics' six members of the Miracle Generation, Yes, Durant, and Leonard are barely super giants, and the other three, Antetokounmpo, James Harden, and Rondo, are at best All-Star level.

But for the Cavaliers, he and Anthony are super giants, but Cousins, DeRozan, and John Wall are all superstars. In addition, Iguodala and Daniel Gibson are all-stars. In addition, I love , Chandler Parsons, McGee, Sullinger and other players are all very good players.

Every player on the Cavaliers, like the players on the Sonics, is a warrior who can fight.

He absolutely does not believe that the Cavaliers he built is worse than any team in league history.

In order to get these players, he has almost become the general manager of the Cavaliers, and every step he makes is cautious. He believes that there are no mistakes or mistakes. Not only are there no mistakes, but they are all the best choices.

In this case, as long as he no longer has to prove himself in front of Yes like the first game of the season, with the strength of him and the team, he can defeat any opponent!

"LeBron, Yes is invincible one-on-one. You need to recognize this clearly. You are not Yes's opponent. I am not, and Kobe is not. Everyone is not Yes's opponent one-on-one, but it doesn't matter, because basketball is In a game of five people, the outcome of a basketball game is decided by five people, not one person!"

"in particular,

The Cavaliers are a team that has the strength and qualifications to say Yes, one person can never determine our outcome! "

This is what Anthony said to him.

James deeply agrees with this!

On the evening of April 16, at the Yes Memorial Arena in Seattle, more than 30,000 Seattle fans greeted the Seattle SuperSonics players as they appeared one after another with their cheers.

This game is the last game of the regular season for the Seattle SuperSonics, the last mile of their 82-game winning streak.

This caused the Yes Memorial Arena, which could only seat 25,000 spectators, to be overloaded by 50% for this game, with more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 spectators squeezed in.

In the past, when the Key Arena could only seat more than 16,000 spectators, it was often overcrowded by 50%, seating 25,000 spectators.

Yes Memorial Arena has now been expanded to 25,000 seats, but it is still far from enough.

It can only be said that the number of spectators that flood into the Seattle SuperSonics' home court does not depend on the number of seats, but on how many people the SuperSonics allow into the stadium.

For safety reasons, the NBA and SuperSonics only allow overcrowding of 50% at most. According to Seattle fans' enthusiasm for the Sonics, even if it is 100% overcrowded, as long as it is allowed, the Sonics' home court can be filled with 50,000 people for every game.

Of course, for SuperSonics fans, every game is worth coming to watch, but obviously, the meaning of the game between the SuperSonics and the Cavaliers is very different.

"The first game of the season between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Cavaliers. The Seattle SuperSonics pulled the Cavaliers off their pedestal and then occupied the pedestal that originally belonged to the Cavaliers for an entire season. This game was the last game of the season. , can the Cavaliers knock the SuperSonics off their pedestal?"

After the players finished warming up, the starting players of the two teams were already standing on the court.

At this time, Kenny Smith on the sidelines was a little nervous.

Hearing Kenny Smith say this, Barkley actually wanted to complain.

Why are you people always so confident?

He also wants to pull the Seattle SuperSonics off their pedestal.

Why did you forget the Seattle SuperSonics' performance in the All-Star Game so quickly?

Of course, just as Kenny Smith is confident about the Cavaliers, Barkley is also confident about the Sonics.

Cousins, Thick Eyebrows, Anthony, Iguodala, James

Antetokounmpo, Durant, Leonard, Leafs, James Harden

This is the starting lineup for this game between the two teams.

The Cavaliers' starting lineup changed in this game, and John Wall's starting position was replaced by Iguodala.

This change was requested by LeBron James. It was based on the situation in the team's first game with the Sonics. John Wall was in the starting lineup, whether it was against Leafs or the other five Sonics players. Very disadvantaged.

John Wall, who lacks sufficient shooting ability on the offensive end, is difficult to play, and Wall, who lacks height on defense, is also difficult to defend.

John Wall, DeRozan, Chandler Parsons and others will be even better on the bench.

Every player in the Cavaliers' starting lineup must either be a player who can match up with the Sonics on both offense and defense. If not, at least they must be someone with Cousins' offensive advantage.

I have to say that this change of the Cavaliers is still very surprising.

But at the same time, it also makes people's eyes shine. Of course, what shines is not the level of tactics. Since Phil Jackson started the precedent of not using a small point guard when facing the Sonics, many teams have not played against the Sonics. Will be a small point guard.

That's it for all tactics.

The key is the Cavaliers' personnel reserves.

"The Cavaliers have always used the Golden State Warriors as their imaginary enemy in the offseason this season, and have accumulated a large number of forward players in the team. Unexpectedly, they have not used them against the Warriors, but they first used them against the Seattle SuperSonics."

"When James pushed for Iguodala to be signed in the offseason, many people felt that the price of signing Iguodala was a bit expensive. Now, with the SuperSonics' five small lineups running rampant, people like Iguodala The value of such a well-rounded small forward is becoming increasingly high, and for the Cavaliers, James' push to sign Iguodala during the offseason may be their greatest signing of the season."

On the sidelines of the court, Kenny Smith was still full of praise for James.

Although Barkley sounds a little uncomfortable, after all, as a player, based on Kenny Smith's words, why does it feel like the Cavaliers' head coach is also James, and the general manager is also James?

Of course, although he was complaining like this in his heart, Barkley still recognized Kenny Smith's words.

That is, the Cavaliers' signing of Iguodala definitely saved the Cavaliers and James' entire season.

Especially after the Cavaliers were defeated by the Warriors on Christmas Day, without Iguodala, the Cavaliers would not be able to change their formation.

Iguodala brings a lot of possibilities to the Cavaliers.

After being defeated by the Warriors 5-8 in the first game, they beat the Warriors in the second game. The Cavaliers removed John Wall and added Iguodala. The Cavaliers obviously became completely different.

Although he was still beaten by Curry in the end, the progress from being beaten 58 to finally being beaten was very, very big.

"Kenny may be right about this game. It's not that easy for the Sonics to win easily."

Barkley was thinking secretly in his heart, because it had been some time since the Cavaliers were defeated by the Warriors in this game.

The Cavaliers are actually improving all the time. After all, this Cavaliers team is really young.

Just when Barkley was a little worried about this game against the Seattle SuperSonics, the game had already begun on the court.

Thick eyebrows and Antetokounmpo jump ball. Thick eyebrows and Antetokounmpo have the same jumping ball talent, but thick eyebrows are naturally better in jumping ball skills. After all, Antetokounmpo used to play as a defender. So generally speaking, as long as the thick eyebrows are focused enough, Antetokounmpo basically doesn't have many chances.

This time, the thick eyebrows were very focused.

This young insider, who has grown very rapidly recently and became famous when he defended Yao Ming's last attack in the Finals, can be said to be the favorite confidant of James of the Cavaliers.

At the same time, he is also the Cavaliers player who can best listen to James and the player who can best implement James' will.

The thick eyebrows defeated Antetokounmpo and successfully jumped the ball. The Cavaliers won the first offensive opportunity of the game. Without John Wall, a standard point guard, Iguodala and James can actually lead The ball is pushed forward to play the role of organization forward.

Of course, Iguodala is a backup, and the Cavaliers' real ball-handler and organizer now is James.

After James received the jump ball from the thick eyebrow, there was no delay and he directly took the ball to the frontcourt like a tank.

Facing Ye Si, who had been waiting there for a long time, James did not choose to go one-on-one with Ye Si like before. Instead, he used the cover of his thick eyebrows to block Ye Si away and then rushed directly towards Antetokounmpo. .

To be honest, Antetokounmpo never thought that James would rush so decisively.

"James and the Cavaliers definitely had a plan in advance!"

Antetokounmpo, who had just changed defense and didn't even stand still, was still half facing James. Faced with such an impact from James, Antetokounmpo did not dare to meet him.

In the end, he could only watch James running over him and watching James rushing over. Durant, who was defending Cousins ​​in the interior, came to help defend, but it was useless. Although Durant's current strength It's not small, but James, who is already charging, cannot be blocked by Durant alone. What's more, Durant also has to prevent James from passing the ball to Cousins.

In the end, Durant was driven by James to complete a difficult layup under the basket.

2 to 0!

In the Cavaliers' first wave of offense, James single-handedly penetrated the SuperSonics' defense!

The originally hot Yes Memorial Arena even became a little quiet after James's attack. Even Barkley was a little stunned.

"sharp!"

"Except for Yes, no other Seattle SuperSonics player can stop James' impact!"

Barkley has never seen James so determined and murderous!

Just when Barkley marveled at James' murderous intent at the beginning of the game, looking back, there was a problem with the Seattle SuperSonics' first attack. Facing Iguodala's defense, Leonard, who was accustomed to slow pace, could not I don’t know whether it was because the pace was too slow and Iguodala judged it, or because of my own carelessness. When preparing for a mid-range shot, Iguodala cut the ball directly.

After cutting the ball, Iguodala almost didn't hesitate and threw the ball forward. After Anthony premeditatedly blocked Yes, who was about to chase back, Durant and James were chasing after each other. Although Lant was not slow, he was directly missed by James when he caught the ball!

James relied on Durant to dunk at the basket!

4 to 0!

If it were a past game, James, who succeeded in dunking in this way, would definitely imitate Garnett and beat his chest and roar.

But now, he came down from the basket very coldly, extended his right hand to thank Iguodala in the distance, and then calmly returned to defense.

Looking at James who seemed to have really lost his mind at this time, the expression on Ye Si's face was also very surprised.

Has he really changed?

Ye Si was surprised.

But at this time, in the quiet atmosphere of Yes Stadium, the reporters in the media box were a little excited.

"The Sonics will really lose this game, right?!"

This is huge, huge news!

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