At six o'clock in the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun was still there, but Quicken Loans Center was already brightly lit.
Fans come and go, the flow is endless, last season's championship, and this season's still excellent record so far, have made Katsumura's originally bleak football market become hot.
In a home game, Lin Yu rarely drove. Instead, he wore a heavy cotton suit, covered his head with a hat, and wore a thick mask.
In the sub-zero temperature of Kecun, this kind of dress is not strange.
He took the Kecun subway all the way and arrived outside Quicken Loans Center.
He arrived a little early, so Lin Yu was not in a hurry to enter the arena. Instead, he stood in the square at the entrance of Quicken Loans Center for a while.
Standing quietly, Lin Yu counted every fan who entered the Quicken Loans Center. Some were smiling, some were silent, some were quite serious, but the jerseys they wore were the focus of Lin Yu's attention.
After about ten minutes, Lin Yu secretly sorted out the fans passing by the entrance.
There are nearly 200 fans, and about half of them are not wearing jerseys. For the remaining half, more than 40 are wearing jerseys with No. 23, and more than a dozen are wearing jerseys with No. 0. The remaining numbers are more varied, such as the big ones.
From top to bottom, fans, management, and even the coaching staff all told Lin Yu that the Cavaliers would only be LeBron James' team.
He made up his mind and went around to the players' entrance of the arena, where a group of fans gathered, divided into distinct groups in twos and threes. Whenever a player passed by, a group of fans would rush out and ask for autographs.
When Lin Yu arrived, he took off his mask.
So, a group of five or six fans asking for autographs, including men and women, black, white and yellow, rushed up. Lin Yu signed autographs for these fans with a smile.
Then, as he continued walking down, he was surrounded by a group of extremely hungry reporters.
"Lin, you have lost consecutively recently. Will this strong showdown against the Spurs be an opportunity for you to rebound?"
"The outside world thinks that you have been in poor condition recently. Will you adjust back for this game?"
"Lin, do you think Brian Windhorst's argument is correct? Are you the culprit for the Cavaliers' declining record?"
"..."
Lin Yu must admit that Amanda Gray's push was very successful. It was a repeat of last season's finals, a strong showdown between the Cavaliers and the Spurs. However, the media reporters focused on the Cavaliers' losing streak.
, is it caused by Lin Yu’s declining condition...
Lin Yu walked all the way to the player entrance, surrounded by arena security, and was about to leave.
He had already pushed open the glass door and was about to step into the arena. The reporters outside were already ready to give up.
Lin Yu suddenly turned around and spoke with surprise in his eyes.
"First of all, I am very unhappy about some of the speculation from the outside world. Indeed, the Cavaliers have been losing games recently. The problems are multifaceted, but some people want to leave all the problems to me, Brian Windhus.
Special, I think, as colleagues, you should know this famous reporter from the Cleveland Honesty newspaper very well."
"I don't want to throw the problem to anyone in the team, but what I have to say is that the team does have some problems that are unclear to the outside world, and I can no longer tolerate these problems."
Lin Yu's first paragraph was secretly directed at LeBron James. The media reporters at the scene were already very surprised. They seemed to have seen the scene of the LL group turning against each other.
After they heard Lin Yu's second words, they gradually began to believe that there must be problems within the Cavaliers. Internal fighting, conflicts within the team, and a plot very similar to the disintegration of the OK group seemed to be unfolding.
"After yesterday's training, I talked to Danny Ferry and applied for a trade to leave Cleveland. I don't want to stay here anymore. Here, I don't feel the respect from the management, and there seems to be no respect between teammates.
Trust and tacit understanding..."
"Having said so much, I just want to tell everyone that I am leaving Cleveland. At this stage, my departure is a good thing for me personally and for the Cavaliers. I hope Danny Ferry and his
Assistants, please stop hesitating and seize the time to finalize a deal."
Lin Yu spoke vaguely, but to the reporters who surrounded the player entrance to Quicken Loans Center, his words were equivalent to a thunder.
"Boom!!! The LL group is about to disintegrate!!!"
But they didn't get key information from Lin Yu. For example, what happened inside the Knights?
So, the moment Lin Yu turned around again, there was more and higher noise at the player entrance of Quicken Loans Center. Everyone was asking Lin Yu in different sentences what was going on inside the Cavaliers.
In the end what happened?
Lin Yu didn't answer. He had decided to save some face for James, because now, he didn't need to completely break up with James.
The situation has reached this point, and it is clear to everyone that Lin Yu is determined because he and James have irreconcilable differences: ball rights and status in the team.
James wants a supreme position, and losing last season's FMVP trophy is already unbearable for him. Last season, he could also help Lin Yu find reasons. If his own performance was not too bad, the FMVP trophy would not be lost to Lin Yu.
Take it away.
At the beginning of this season, Lin Yu's performance was so dazzling that he was already surpassed in many cases. In the All-Star voting, Lin Yu's votes also doubled him, plus the best of the month, and the Cavaliers' home court became more and more popular.
Lin Yu fans, Honest Daily has to praise Lin Yu for some of his reports...
This was unbearable for James.
Therefore, James used his voice in the team to take back Lin Yu's ball rights, and then further suppressed Lin Yu. It seemed to be successful.
But the decline in the team's record completely exposed the problem.
Therefore, James only has two options left. One is to allow the team's record to continue to get worse, and the other is to make a compromise and return the ball rights that Lin Yu deserves to Lin Yu, and then lead the team back to the starting point.
Winning trajectory.
What would James choose?
Lin Yu secretly made a guess. He felt that with James's personality, compromise or no compromise was possible, because James was a sophisticated egoist and would only consider himself.
For James, winning and team status are equally important.
In the past and future timeline, James had a similar intra-team struggle. In the Heat, where he had no say, he chose to undermine himself, forcing the Heat to give him the core position of tactics in the following season.
Perhaps now, what James wants is just for Lin Yu to bow his head. If Lin Yu bows his head, Lin Yu will get the ball rights that are enough to cooperate with James to lead the team to win.
But obviously, now that Lin Yu is forcing the palace to leave in public, this means that he will not bow his head.
It seems that James has only one choice left, and that is to not compromise.
If James refuses to compromise, he is forcing the Cavaliers' management to make a choice. The decision-making power is not in the hands of Danny Ferry, nor even in the hands of Dan Gilbert, but in the hands of thousands of Clevelanders.