After losing to the Lakers on January 14, Beijing time, the Cavaliers' current record is 12 wins and 28 losses. Compared with the Western Conference leaders, their current situation is very different. James led the Cavaliers to win the championship in 2016, and then they entered the finals for two consecutive years, but the Cavaliers quickly collapsed after James left Clash.
The question surrounding the Cavaliers is not whether they have a chance to win the championship, but whether the new coach Bellerin is the head coach who leads this reconstruction team out of the quagmire, as well as Love and Tristan Thompson , whether these two high-paying veterans with championship experience will continue to stay in the team, or will they be sent away before the trade deadline next month.
After the game, James was also asked about the sensitive question of his two former teammates "if traded". However, in order to avoid a storm in the media by one of his own words, James chose to bypass this problem, bit his lip and shrugged, and jumped directly to the next question. James must also know that if he answers these two players will be of great help to the new team, the headlines of the next day will be: James hopes that the Lakers and will introduce Love and Thompson.
However, James was happy to talk about his personal showdown with Tristan Thompson.
"We have also had many matches in our past training," James pointed out. "So TT is a great defender, able to defend big men, small men, and so on. So you have to try to be very decisive in the movement, don't hold the ball for too long, you have to be able to complete the attack, because he is also a good blocker." In the
game, Thompson also completed a dunk in front of James. After the game, he said that he enjoyed the time he was fighting against James.
"I just accept the challenge," Thompson said. "It's always fun to play against our best players in the contemporary era, (James) can be said to be one of the best players of all time, so I like this kind of game."
In this game, the Lakers were 14 points behind in the first half (this was the biggest trail of the season), and scored 81 points in the second half, which was the highest score in the first and second half in the past 30 years (on November 17, 1987, the Lakers scored 84 points in the second half against the Trail Blazers).
And after winning this game, the Lakers' winning streak reached 9 games. In the four seasons of playing in the same game with James, Thompson's impression of the Cavaliers was the same as other teams in the league.
"They are such a team. For them, this year they either won the championship or failed completely." Thompson said.
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