In mid-January, the Cavaliers' new signing Rashard Lewis played a few bad games, and the Cavaliers stumbled as a result. Fortunately, their winning streak has not been interrupted, and their overall condition is still hot.
Then at the end of January, Rashard Lewis finally integrated into the Cavaliers. He became accustomed to catching and shooting when he didn't have much possession of the ball, and he was always active in the corners on both sides and outside the three-point line.
For several consecutive games, the Cavaliers have been using their Big Three, with LeBron James scoring about 28 points, Lin Yu scoring about 22 points, and Rashard Lewis scoring about 17 points.
He scored nearly 70 points per game.
In the era of 2007 when defense was king, just the Big Three could score 70 points, plus Andre Miller, Big Z, Drew Gooden, and Damian Wilkins.
With high-quality role players, the Cavaliers' offense no longer has any problems.
Now they can even put together a weakened version of the one-star four-shooter lineup that is actually one-star three-shooter lineup. Lin Yu, Rashard Lewis and Daniel Gibson provide most of the three-point firepower. Added together, in
They are the best in the entire nba league.
Relying on the league's top offensive firepower and the defense that Mike Brown always attaches great importance to, the Cavaliers continued to maintain a high winning rate in January.
Time passed quickly in January. The Cavaliers played 16 games in January. They only lost 4 games and achieved a record of 12 wins and 4 losses.
Counting the six losses in the first two months, the Cavaliers have only lost 10 games at the end of the regular season. Their overall record is 35 wins and 10 losses, still ranking first in the league.
It’s just that the pursuers behind them are fierce. The gap between the Dallas Mavericks and the Cavaliers in the West is only 1 game. The gap between the Celtics and the Cavaliers in the East is only 1.5 games. There is also Phoenix, they and the Cavaliers.
There are only 2.5 wins left.
"At the end of the January schedule, the Cleveland Cavaliers are still number one in the league, but behind them are the Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns. The entire NBA has clearly become divided into different levels."
"The Cavaliers and Celtics in the East, and the defending champion Mavericks and Suns in the West are the favorites to compete for the championship this season. They are the top teams in the league. There are two teams in the East and West, which is relatively balanced."
"But the second-best first-class team in the East is only the Detroit Pistons, while the West includes the San Antonio Spurs, Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, and the Denver Nuggets who traded Allen Iverson."
In February, at Lin Yu's home, he read the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, Ben Gulliver's latest masterpiece, and directly analyzed the league's situation based on half of the regular season record.
The Cavaliers, Celtics, Mavericks and Suns have become what he considers to be the favorites to win the championship, while the Spurs, who actually won the championship in Lin Yu's memory of his previous life, have become a sub-top first-class team.
Lin Yu smiled and shook his head: "The Mavericks are just a regular season team this season, and their problems are too big."
"Is Maverick's problem too big?"
The person who asked the question in surprise was David Alexander, who had just completed a set of strength training with Lin Yu.
Lin Yu nodded: "Because their star player, the German, has a fatal weakness. Soon this weakness will be found out by smart coaches and then targeted."
In that time and space in his previous life, Lin Yu, who was particularly familiar with the Warriors' defeat of the Mavericks, knew very clearly that the reason why the Mavericks were defeated that year was because Nowitzki, who did not have a post-up game and did not have a Golden Rooster jumper, was beaten by Stephen -
Jackson was completely on guard against death.
The smart coach Lin Yu calls is Don Nelson, now the head coach of the Warriors.
David Alexander shook his head: "You can find the weakness. If it was really a weakness, a coach would have taken advantage of it long ago."
Lin Yu smiled and didn't explain much, but he began to panic inside.
In the playoffs last season, he defeated the Heat, who were supposed to win the championship. He won't defeat the Warriors this time, right?
Lin Yu touched his chin and felt that it was not impossible.
"Lin, the results of the second phase of voting have been announced!"
The person who walked in quickly, his whole body filled with excitement, was Jeff Schwartz. During this time, this guy seemed to be living in Cleveland.
Lin Yu is also very clear about this guy's thoughts. The guy's focus now is to complete the contract renewal with Lin Yu, but Lin Yu has never made a promise and has been looking for other options, but other options are too difficult to find. Suddenly,
He doesn't want to make a decision yet.
The results of the second phase of All-Star voting have been announced, and what Jeff Schwartz presented is the final result.
"The final vote winner was LeBron James. He received 2.51 million votes. You are second in the Eastern Conference."
"Second in the East?"
Lin Yu was still a little surprised. To his surprise, with a complete victory over Wade, he once again reversed the voting results and successfully overtook the second place in the Eastern Conference, and was also the first in the Eastern Conference guard position.
Bit.
This also means that his All-Star starting position is confirmed!
"Yes, you are second in the Eastern Conference and first in the guard position, with a total of 2.37 million votes."
"Second in the league is your compatriot Yao from China. He got 2.47 million votes. In the final stage, it was almost a competition between him and LeBron, but in the end LeBron was better."
Jeff Schwartz also expressed some emotion: "I really didn't expect that Cleveland, a market as small as it could be, could actually cast votes for the top two in the Eastern Conference..."
Lin Yu shook his head: "No, Jeff, you are wrong. Most of my votes come from China, and Cleveland's votes may only account for about 10%."
Lin Yu knows very well that in Cleveland, his fans are not very large, probably only accounting for about 30% of the fans in North America. Among the fans in North America, Chinese fans should account for the vast majority.
If the scope of comparison is expanded to the world, that is, fans from China are added, the number of Cleveland fans cannot even be determined.
To be able to cast a vote that ranks third in the league, how many fans do you need? One Cleveland is obviously not enough.
And LeBron James, who won the most votes, obviously got a lot of votes from outside Cleveland.
Lin Yu even speculated that James might have relied on Lin Yu's influence to get some domestic votes, and then overtook Yao to become the top vote-getter in this season's All-Star voting.
"By the way, Lin, in addition to the All-Star game, I suggest you sign up for the three-point contest. For you at this stage, if you can win the honor of the three-point king, your commercial value will be higher."
Following the advice given by Jeff Schwartz, Lin Yu nodded seriously: "I will sign up."
He also believes that the three-point contest is indeed a good place for him to earn honors and reputation, especially now that his three-point attributes are so high, he must win the crown of the three-point king.
If you can't win the three-point contest in one session, then come to several more.