Chapter 60 End the losing streak

After losing to the Magic, the Cavaliers then lost to the Rockets. The new version of the Rockets Big Three performed very well. Asik and others on the Cavaliers also released the ban and made a comeback, but even in the absence of backcourt all-star player Huang Jun, they finally lost to the Rockets by 11 points with 93 to 104.

James scored 38 points in the whole game, while the team's starting point guard Iverson scored 19 points and nine assists, but even so. The knight was still defeated by the Rockets, so the knight suffered two consecutive defeats. Huang Jun's absence hurt the knight a lot. Everyone knows this, but there's nothing we can do. You can't forcibly pull Huang Jun to the field, can you? The regular season is coming to an end, and the Cavaliers have also locked the position in the playoffs and the first place in the East. Even if the Cavaliers lose all the next games, the Celtics can't catch up with the Cavaliers.

So now the Cavaliers are playing without any pressure at all, and they no longer care so much about whether they lose or not. However, if they want to lock the top position in the league, they have to win a game. As long as they win a game, they will lock at the top of the list, so that they have an absolute home advantage regardless of the round of the playoffs, which is undoubtedly very important to the Cavaliers. So in the next game, that is, the game against the Mavericks, Brown gave them the task to win the game, so as to lock in the top position in advance.

In this way, he can safely carry out the rotation tactics, let James Iverson Battier and others take turns to have a good rest, so that the players have better physical fitness to play the playoffs. After all, the playoffs will start in more than a week. So Brown should also make a good plan for his team's players so that everyone can participate in the playoffs in the best condition.

The game against the Mavericks has finally begun. The Cavaliers' players all came to participate in this game with the confidence to win. So in order to prove your desire to win. From the beginning of the game, the Cavaliers' state was very hot. As soon as the first quarter was over, the Mavericks were confused. In a single quarter, the Cavaliers led the Mavericks by a full 19 points with 42 to 23. Before this result, no one expected that the Cavaliers who had experienced two consecutive defeats would play so well. If there was such a state against the Rockets and the Magic before, the winning streak would not be over.

Both players and fans of any team are convinced of this, but everyone knows that this situation is impossible, because the winning streak has become history. Naturally, the best performance in the first quarter was James, who contributed 21 points in a single quarter. It seems that James obviously lost his temper in this game. Of course, not only did James perform very well in the first quarter, but also Iverson's performance was also very good.

Although Iverson only scored five points, he scored seven assists, which is very rare. Everyone knows that Iverson is mainly scoring, but it is obviously not the case from the first quarter. Instead, the team is mainly organized by assists. Although it is so incredible in the eyes of outsiders, it is so normal and very normal among the many players of the Cavaliers.

Because they all know that Iverson is no longer the previous Iverson. In recent games, Iverson has been constantly changing by Brown. In every game, there will be tasks for him to carry out, and among these tasks, the assists are above seven, that is, the field Jun will get seven assists. Moreover, such tasks are set according to the strength of the opponent. In the first few games, the opponents were very strong, so Iverson's assist tasks were exactly seven, but Iverson not only completed, but also exceeded.

After so many tasks, Iverson has a casual feeling in assisting, no longer as if he had to work hard to assist before. Brown naturally saw such a situation. Seeing that Iverson was getting better day by day, he became more and more gratified. Because not many people can succeed in this change. Some coaches wanted Iverson to make a change before, but they failed in the end. The reason why they didn't succeed is that the team's strength is too poor. So this assist can't go up, so Iverson feels so unique.

But when there are so many strong teammates now, and he is also willing to pass the ball, he is originally a person who is willing to pass the ball. After so many years of failure, he is also very clear in his mind that if he wants to win the championship, it is difficult to get it by personal performance. There is nothing to win the championship except the strength of the team. Iverson can be said to have a deep understanding of this, so he is happy to assist in recent games. Now Iverson can be said to have put the score in the second position of the individual. In this way, the team has also reached a higher level because of Iverson's change.

At the end of the first half, the Cavaliers were more than 30 points ahead of the Mavericks. Forty to seventy-two, a very different score. For this game, all the Mavericks players felt that their faces were hot, and obviously everyone felt a sense of shame. Such a score is indeed a shameful event in their eyes. The half-time has just ended, and they are 30 points behind in the score. Is this their first time this season?

In this season, there is only one game that has lost more than 30 points in the whole game. However, now he lost 30 points at half-time. What about the end of the whole game? Thinking of this, the Mavericks players have made up their minds. Even if they can't recover the score in the second half, they can't let the Cavaliers widen their score difference.

It's just their idea, because at the beginning of the second half of the game, their state was not what they thought. When the third quarter was over, the score difference also came to 40 points. Such a difference has undoubtedly made them lose confidence in the victory of this game. Everyone understands this state very well. After all, when you watch the score constantly increasing, and it is also the kind of slaughter-level score. How can this make them regain their confidence?

This game is actually not so important for the Cavaliers, it's just to fight for a home advantage. However, this game is very important for the Mavericks, although the Mavericks are currently ranked eighth in the West. But with the end of the game, the Mavericks are not as stable in this position as before. The competition in the West is always so fierce. Although the regular season is coming to an end, the teams that don't want to go home to fish now are sprinting for the tickets for the playoffs, so the players of each team hope that the team in front of them will lose.

Only when the previous team loses can they catch up. If they win and the previous team wins again, it is a waste of another game. Because there are not many games left now, they must not lose, and not only can they not lose, but also pray for the loss of the competing team. Only in this way can they take a further lead.

At present, the top six teams in the West have been settled. At present, the seventh is the Hornets, the eighth is the Mavericks, and the sixth is the Jazz. The ninth place is the grizzly bear. Now the Grizzlies are constantly working hard for their playoff seats, but they also know that they want to enter the playoffs. In addition to their own performance, the eighth and seventh-place teams need to lose. Only in this way can they have a chance, and the tenth pioneer will also have a chance. It's just that the recent Trail Blazers suffered an injury attack and suddenly fell to the tenth place.

And the Trail Blazers' injured player this time is not Oden but Roy, and Roy's hand is undoubtedly very harmful to the Trail Blazers. So the Trail Blazers suddenly fell all the way from the playoffs to the current tenth position. But even so, they still have a chance to grab a place in the playoffs.

In the fourth quarter of the game, both teams sent their own substitutes to the game. It can be said that the game entered the garbage time early, and the victory of the game was won by the Cavaliers without any pressure. After winning the game, the Cavaliers ended their two-game losing streak, not only ending the losing streak, but also successfully locking in the top of the league. In this way, they will have a home advantage of the whole series in the playoffs, which is also a good thing for the Cavaliers.

Now they are only missing Huang Jun to recover from his injury. Naturally, they hope that Huang Jun can come back in advance in the last game of the regular season to find the feeling of the state game or something. However, they didn't talk to Huang Jun about this after the game. I just said it yesterday. If you say it now, it will give people the feeling that you are forcing others to come back quickly. So in order to avoid such a situation, no one mentioned it again.

They just need to wait quietly for the doctor's notice now. When the doctor informs that Huang Jun can play in the game, they can rest assured that Huang Jun will come back. Otherwise, if the injury is not completely healed, it may aggravate the injury. In this way, it is not a good thing for the team to win the championship.

The game was over. James scored 30 points and ten rebounds in less than three quarters. And another excellent player is naturally Iverson, and the playing time is about the same as James. After getting the data of 20 points and 12 assists, it also turned out very well.