Chapter 461: James' Tears
December 25, 2007, Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland.
Every Cavaliers fan at the scene looked at the score on the scoreboard, with incredible and painful expressions on their faces,
118 to 97!
In this game where they almost gathered the power of the whole city, the huge difference of 21 points made the entire Quicken Loans Arena fall into dead silence.
At the end of the game, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost 21 points at home!
James, O'Neal, Ben Wallace, and the Cavaliers, who are almost equipped with the Big Three, were swept by the Sonics for 21 points at home!
The biggest point difference in the game once came to 28 points!
More importantly, in the fourth quarter of this game, Yes sat on the sidelines and did not play.
And their pride, the son of Cleveland, LeBron James played the entire fourth quarter!
Even so, the Cleveland Cavaliers still lost 21 points at home.
32 to 28, that's the score in the fourth quarter without Yes.
With James speeding up crazily, chasing crazily, and the Supersonics without Yes, the Cavaliers scored a game-high 32 points in a single quarter.
The Sonics, although not as good as the Cavaliers led by James, only scored 28 points in a single quarter, but this score was enough for the Sonics to allow Yes to sit on the sidelines and win the game.
Quicken Loans Arena, after the game, many people are staring at the scoreboard in a daze.
That's a pretty magical score.
When the fourth quarter started, because James stayed on the court and Yes was always off the court, many people were more optimistic that James could lead the Cavaliers to bring Yes back on the court.
The Sonics' rotation is really rubbish on the offensive end.
The entire team revolves around Durant.
As far as the single-defense strength shown by James in this game, Durant can't be defended by James on the offensive end, hammered to death!
But what about the final result?
In this fast-paced fourth quarter, Durant was 5 of 13 from the field and 38.5 percent from the field.
The hit rate is very low.
Really very low.
However, as long as they watched the game in the fourth quarter, no one would think that Durant's shooting rate is low!
Throughout the fourth quarter, James was frantically targeting Durant.
James ignored the Cavaliers' basket protection, gave up assisting the other players in the Sonics, and strangled Durant wholeheartedly.
This is the strongest defensive strength that James has come up with.
James has only used such a defensive intensity against three people this season.
One is Kobe, one is the previous Yes, and the other is Durant in the fourth quarter.
In addition to the BUG of Yes, the last Kobe who was treated like this by James made 8 of 22 shots in the whole game, and his shooting percentage was 36%!
Durant faced James' defense in the fourth quarter, and his offensive efficiency was a little better than Kobe's.
Facing James' desperate defensive style,
Besides Yes, who dares to say that their shooting percentage can be higher than Durant's, and their offense is better than Durant's?
Recently, Durant's shooting percentage has been floating around 40% per game.
The 38.5% shooting rate in this game can also be regarded as floating around 40%!
With James' incredible level of defense, Durant's offensive efficiency is about the same as usual.
In other words, James went all out in this game and even added that O'Neal and Ben Wallace couldn't defend Yes, even Yes' younger brother Durant couldn't defend!
Is it amazing?
Durant's shooting percentage in the fourth quarter was 5 of 13, and James' shooting percentage in the fourth quarter was also 5 of 13!
Durant scored 15 points on 5 of 13 shots.
James scored 18 points on 5 of 13 shots.
James shoots a lot more free throws than Durant.
If free throws are removed, James and Durant have the same scoring efficiency in the fourth quarter!
The performance of the two is evenly divided.
No, it's not evenly divided. Although Durant and James have the same shooting percentage, most of Durant's points are three-pointers. Without free throws, Durant has more points than James!
"In the fourth quarter, James' purpose was to force Yes, but in the end, Durant led the team and blocked James."
Looking at the staring James with an incredible face on the court, to be reasonable, Barkley also finds it incredible now.
Facing James' defense in the fourth quarter, even if Durant can shoot 30% of the field, it is already very satisfying.
But in the end, he played the same efficiency as James, which is really amazing.
Is Durant still the No. 1 player on the ESPN trash list?
"Is this guy really that Du Shiwu?"
The Sonics players sitting next to Yeth are now far more shocked than the professionals in the field.
How much they hated Durant before, and how shocked they are now.
"Is this still the guy we got rid of and went fast?"
Leading the team alone blocked such a swift counterattack by the Cavaliers.
This is the first time supersonic!
In the past, the Supersonics did not have a second player who could score stably after Yes went off the field.
The reason why the Sonics' rotation lineup can't become the league's top rotation lineup is because they lack a player who can always score consistently no matter what the situation is.
Frequent misfiring.
If it is facing James like this in the fourth quarter.
They can be sure that if the previous Supersonic rotation lineup, it must be misfired.
They need Yes to play again to maintain stability.
But Durant actually stabilized the Sonics' situation on the court.
Durant in the fourth quarter, on the offensive end, did what Milicic, Rondo and all other Sonics players except Yes failed to do!
"This guy could really be Pippen next to Yes!"
David Lee's exclamation made all the supersonic players around Ye Si who were envious of the silence recover from their absence.
For a moment, every Supersonic player had an inconsistent expression on their faces.
As the current second-in-command of the Supersonics, Milicic's expression on his face is still very surprised. This is the expression of most Supersonics players now.
And Rondo...
The expression on Rondo's face now is very unhappy.
What does it mean that this guy can really be Pippen next to Yes?
What about Pippenima!
Short Li, if you can't speak, just shut up!
Yes doesn't need Pippen at all, it's enough to have the second master beside Yes!
What Pippen is not Pippen, that is the feudal remnant of the NBA!
Damn it, can Du Shiwu really compete with the second master for the position of second master? !
Ye Si is very satisfied with Durant's performance in the fourth quarter.
After the test in the fourth quarter of this game, Yeth can finally confirm that Durant's characteristic really exists.
Durant made 5 of 13 shots in the fourth quarter and 12 of 30 shots in the game, just 40%!
It's really amazing!
Of course, in addition to this, the Sonics players now have a change in attitude towards Durant, which also makes Yeth very happy.
This means that Durant's second child task may be completed.
Durant's second child task is not only possible to complete, but if other players are no longer obsessed with driving Durant away, then they may also have tasks that can be done.
This is a virtuous circle!
Ye Si didn't even think that this game against the Cavaliers could give him so many surprises.
This game against the Cavaliers was a surprise, whether it was for Yeth, Durant or the Sonics.
But for James, this is an impossible game.
This season, he encountered so much ridicule and suffering in Cleveland, but he still kept hope for the future, and still felt that the future was full of light.
why is that? !
Isn't it because he always felt that his knight was stronger than Yes' supersonic?
He has always felt that Yes's current strength is temporarily higher than his, and the overall strength of his Cavaliers must be higher than that of the Supersonic.
And the Cavaliers are still a lot above the supersonic speed!
He will prove this in this game, and O'Neill, Ben Wallace, and his teammates will also help him prove this!
But what was the final result?
O'Neill and Ben Wallace inexplicably blocked his way to pursue Yes again and again!
From the point of view of the Cavaliers fans and the audience in front of the TV, he, O'Neal and Ben Wallace couldn't prevent Yes alone.
But what is the reality?
The reality is that he is alone on the court facing O'Neal and Ben Wallace plus Yes3!
1 to 3 is not Yes, it is him!
No one knows about this except him!
What makes people desperate is that he even suspects that O'Neill and Ben Wallace are cheating him.
He had nothing to do with either of them.
The prestige of these two people in the NBA is too high!
As long as these two are not injured, as long as they want to play on the court, no one in the entire NBA would dare to put them off the court.
He doesn't have such a reputation, and Mike Brown doesn't even have such a reputation!
More importantly, O'Neal and the Cavaliers still have a 3-year 60 million contract, which will last until the summer of 2010!
Three years! O'Neal's super contract will take him three years!
And Ben Wallace, like O'Neal, also has a three-year contract. The remaining three years of Ben Wallace's contract are not as big as O'Neal, but it is still 45 million in three years!
The contract between O'Neal and Ben Wallace is 35 million a year. As long as the Cavaliers have these two, the Cavaliers don't even think about having any room for manipulation!
It would be fine if the two were completely incapable, and he could ask the boss of the Cavaliers to slowly amnesty the two of them.
But the key point is that these two people have some strength now.
The owner of the Cavaliers is not Bill Gates, and the amnesty players also have to pay the players!
For capitalists, it is a crime to waste something useful.
He can be sure that it is absolutely impossible for the Cavaliers boss to pardon either O'Neill or Ben Wallace.
Thinking of this, James looked at Durant more and more blankly.
He didn't understand why O'Neill and Ben Wallace wanted to cheat him.
But he knew that if O'Neill and Ben Wallace could cheat him once today, they could cheat him again and again in the future.
O'Neill and Ben Wallace, once his source of hope, have now become his source of despair!
He will be delayed by O'Neill and Ben Wallace for three years!
Based on O'Neal and Ben Wallace's paddling performance in the regular season this season, no team in the league is willing to take over and trade with the Cavaliers.
Three years of his career will be wasted by O'Neill and Ben Wallace!
If Yes spent these three years with him and accompanied him, he would not be unwilling.
But after the fourth quarter of this game, how could he think that Yes was wasting time with him!
Before, Yes used the second pick to select Durant, and the media experts in the league believed that Yes was wasting his career.
But after this game is over, no one will have any accusations about Yes's choice of David in this year's draft.
Even if Durant is really not the best choice.
Yes also used his selflessness and stubbornness to develop Durant into a very good choice!
It was him who personally cleared the choice of Yes to Durant!
Thinking of this, James felt more painful.
He is now sinking with O'Neal and Ben Wallace in the Cavaliers.
And Yes, he's already groomed his trashy young teammates!
Such a contrast made him suffocate in despair!
call!
James closed his eyes in pain.
"LeBron, this is just an ordinary game. There are too many games like this in the NBA every season. Losing a game doesn't mean anything. LeBron, now we need to be optimistic."
Opening his eyes, he looked at the smiling O'Neill and Ben Wallace who kept nodding in front of him.
James felt that his little heart was trembling.
optimism?
"LeBron, Ben and I will continue to be by your side, we will beat Yes one day!"
"Shaq is right, Shaq and I will dedicate our energy and career to you, and we will eventually beat Yes."
"..."
Dedicate the last of my energy and career to me?
If James heard the words of Ben Wallace and O'Neal before this game, he would definitely be very, very moved.
But now, he didn't feel any emotion, all he had was the fear of watching the chainsaw!
"LeBron."
Just when James was getting more and more timid in the face of the smiling O'Neill and Ben Wallace, a cold, unfamiliar and familiar voice sounded behind him.
James turned his head mechanically.
Yes? !
James looked surprised.
Are you here to laugh at me?
The look of surprise on James' face began to sink.
Ye Si didn't notice the change in James' expression now, and Ye Si looked moved now as the Cavaliers fans began to applaud slowly again.
The Cavaliers were slaughtered by the Sonics at home.
After a brief unsuitable silence, the Cavaliers fans once again became the strongest backing for the Cavaliers and James.
"LeBron, you are right. We have a group of partners behind us who make us stick together and give everything we have."
"I will not abandon my city, nor will I abandon KD, Rajon, and Paul. I will take them forward together. I hope that one day we can each carry all our hopes and pride on the highest stage in the world. meet."
"Come on together, the bravest warrior in my heart!"
Seeing Yes's outstretched fist, James touched it in a daze...
Looking at the back of Yes smiling and leaving, James looked at the smiling faces of O'Neill and Ben Wallace behind him... moving forward with them?
James closed his eyes blankly.
"LeBron, are you crying?!"
"LeBron was moved to tears by Yes?!"
Ah, despair...
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