NBA Old Age Star System

Chapter 163 After All-Star

In the next few rounds, Su Tian didn't do anything else, and was soon replaced.

In the fourth quarter, the two sides gradually began to get serious, and Kobe also encouraged everyone to take it seriously.

In the middle of the fourth quarter, Su Tian was replaced again.

At this time, Su Tian has already activated the state of the king of the last quarter.

After receiving a pass from Lowry, he met James Harden, made a three-threat feint, and made a direct three-pointer.

Swah——

Su Tian easily hit a three-pointer.

In the fourth quarter, Su Tian was still confident, but Su Tian couldn't perform too well on the All-Star stage.

In the next few rounds, Su Tian didn't have much chance to perform.

In the end, at the moment of the decisive battle, the Eastern Conference has already fallen behind by a lot of points, and there is no need to chase points.So Su Tian didn't try to show off the limelight.

最终比赛结束，西部以196-173大胜东部球队，科比以10分6篮板7助攻1抢断的数据告别了全明星之旅。

威斯布鲁克以31分5助攻8篮板5抢断蝉联MVP，成为历史上第二位蝉联全明星MVP的球员，保罗乔治命中的9记三分也是历史最多。

Su Tian's performance was not bad either, scoring 23 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 steal.

After the All-Star game ended, Su Tian also had a rare chance to rest.

The Cavaliers' first game after the All-Stars didn't come until the 18th.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Tian has to deal with some commercial endorsements and commercial shooting.

What makes Su Tian proud is that there are really a lot of Chinese fans in Toronto, most of them are his own fans.

In the past few days in Toronto, Su Tian also felt the charm of this city.

Time flies and vacations are always short.

On February 2, the first game after the Cavaliers All-Star will start.

The Cavaliers will play against the Bulls at home.

In previous games against the Bulls, the Cavaliers have won, and this time is no exception.

What's more, this time I also experienced the All-Star Weekend holiday. The whole team had enough rest, especially Irving, who recovered very well.

At the beginning of the game, he showed a huge desire to attack, frequently breaking through and causing damage.

最终本场比赛骑士106-95轻松获胜，詹姆斯25分9篮板9助攻的准三双。

欧文也拿到20分4助攻2篮板，苏天拿到25分7助攻4篮板。

Of course, what makes Tyronn Lue the most gratifying is not the performance of star players, but the performance of other role players, who are becoming more and more trustworthy.

The day after the game against the Bulls, the Cavaliers made a trade to fill the power forward position.

On February 2, the Cleveland Cavaliers reached a three-way deal with the Magic and Trail Blazers, and Channing Frye joined the Cavaliers.

The specific transaction is that Frye joined the Cavaliers, Varejao went to the Trail Blazers, and the Magic got the second-round pick (sent by the Trail Blazers) and the Cavaliers' Cunningham.

In addition, the Blazers also got a protected first-round pick sent by the Cavaliers (the first round in 2018, of which the top ten protections for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019).

Frye's contract expires in the summer of 2018, with a salary of $819 million this season, and a total salary of more than $1500 million in the next two seasons.He would be a good option for the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers were also looking for Anderson, who was also a big pitcher from the Pelicans, and finally traded for Frye.

Frye has played in the NBA for 10 seasons, playing for the Knicks, Trail Blazers, Suns, and Magic. This season, he played 44 games for the Magic, including 29 starts, averaging 5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.

It is worth mentioning that in terms of jump shots this season, Frye's effective field goal percentage is still very good, reaching 55.8%. Among the players in the league who have taken at least 150 jump shots, only Curry has a higher data than Frye. , Dudley, Redick.

Varejao is a veteran of the Cavaliers. He spent 13 seasons in the NBA with the Cavaliers. He averaged 7.6 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in his career. He is one of LeBron's favorite teammates.

However, this season Varejao's salary reached 970 million US dollars, and next season's salary will be 930 million US dollars. The total salary of the Cavaliers lineup will reach 1.1 million US dollars, and there is still a luxury tax of 6500 million US dollars to be paid.

Varejao played 31 games this season, averaging only 10 minutes per game, contributing 2.6 points and 2.9 rebounds, which has little effect.Coupled with his injury history and age factors, Varejao is more meaningful as the leader of the locker room.

After sending away Varejao and Cunningham, the Cavaliers saved $1000 million in salary expenses.

However, after the Blazers traded for Varejao, they directly chose to lay off.

At this time, an interesting thing happened. On February 2, the Golden State Warriors reached a signing agreement with Anderson Varejao on a basic salary contract, which lasted until the end of the season.

And if according to historical development, these two teams can finally successfully meet in the finals, Varejao will become the first player in NBA history to play for two championship teams successively in a single season.

Anderson Varejao: Even if you fight, I have to have a share of the championship ring.

But it is a pity that Channing Frye's first game in his Cavaliers career was not good.

On February 2, Frye represented the Cavaliers for the first time in the game against the Pistons at home.

全场拿到了2分4篮板1助攻1失误2犯规，三分球2投0中，有点水土不服的表现。

Although Frye's performance will not affect the Cavaliers as a whole, the Cavaliers still lost this game.

The Pistons defeated the Cavaliers 96-88. A total of 6 Pistons scored in double figures. It can be said that all members broke out.

Drummond grabbed 15 rebounds alone. If James hadn't participated in the rebound competition in the later period, maybe Drummond could score 20 rebounds in this game.
当然本场骑士输掉比赛的主要原因还是詹姆斯的掉线，詹姆斯全场拿到12分5助攻8篮板6失误，命中率只有27.8%，三分球4投0中。

James can have such a performance, although there are reasons for James himself, but it has to be said that the Pistons have a good defense.

After losing the game against the Pistons, the Cavaliers' record came to 48 wins and 7 losses.

Even though he lost a game, it was considered normal.

The next two games against the Hornets and Raptors were easily won, and the Cavaliers were not affected by the loss.

On February 2, the Cavaliers went to Washington to play against the Wizards. This was the previous back-to-back game. James took a break to prepare to focus on the Pacers in the next game.

So the lineup for this game has become, Irving, Su Tian, ​​Richard Jefferson, Love, Thompson.

The Wizards' lineup is John Wall, Garnett Tapper, Jared Dudley, Otto Porter, Gortat.

As soon as the game started, the Wizards played very proactively. Wall frequently broke through Irving's defense and entered the interior, causing damage.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Tyronn Lue quickly called a timeout and asked Su Tian and Owen to switch defenses.

The timeout ends and the game continues, with the Cavaliers owning the ball.Su Tian observed that the Wizards also brought Bill up.

Irving came to the frontcourt with the ball, and Wall stood at the top of the arc to defend Irving.

Irving called Love to cooperate with the pick-and-roll, and used the pick-and-roll to make a breakthrough. He was delayed by Otto Porter and passed the ball to Su Tian who came out of the running position.

Su Tian received the ball and rushed to the middle distance, stopped and shot a jumper, and the basketball was hit accurately.

The ball is switched, and it's the Wizards' turn to attack.

Wall came to the front court with the ball, and Su Tian directly defended and started the death coil mode.

Wall was a little caught off guard by Su Tian's sudden attack, failed to control the ball well, and was intercepted by Su Tian inadvertently.

After Su Tian grabbed the ball, he rushed forward with the ball.

Although Wall's reaction was half a beat slow, Waldo was fast and caught up in time.

With better basketball control and physical strength, Su Tian didn't allow Wall's interference to block him and continued to advance with the ball.

The two entangled from the midfield line all the way to the basket. Su Tian directly received the ball, took a European step, stepped on a strange rhythm, easily swayed away from Wall's interference, and made a layup.

Two rounds after returning from the timeout, Su Tian scored 4 points and 1 steal, showing full performance.

The Wizards served from the bottom line and continued to organize the offense.

This time Wall was prepared, and Su Tian didn't make any surprise attacks. Instead, he kept his defensive position and kept disturbing Wall.

Wall's speed is good, but he lacks variety. He failed to get rid of Su Tian's death entanglement, and passed the ball to Otto Porter in desperation.

Otto Porter got the ball and faced Love's defense. Instead of attacking, he tried to organize the team's running tactics.

But after running for a while, he found that there was no reason to run, so Porter had to hold the ball and prepare to break through Love.

Compared with Love, Porter's coordination and speed will be better, but the strength will be worse.

In response to Porter's face-to-face breakthrough, Love is a bit stretched.

Porter made an explosive breakthrough, easily crossed Love's defense and rushed to the basket.

Thompson hurried to the inside to help prevent interference, and Love also turned around to chase, forming a double-team in two steps.

Porter looked left and right, didn't find a particularly good pass option, so he had to force his shot for a layup.

boom--

There was a crisp iron strike, and Porter's layup was still interfered with and failed to score.

Thompson turned around and took the rebound, and passed the ball directly to Su Tian who was outside the three-point line.

Su Tian took the ball and turned around and rushed towards the opponent's basket.

Although Su Tian reacted quickly enough, he was indeed not as fast as Wall, and Wall caught him up in time.

But with the blessing of the "Veteran Dribble" badge, Su Tian still dribbled steadily through the half.

After coming to the frontcourt, Su Tian didn't rush to attack, and waited for his teammates to move and settle.

After the position was completed, Su Tian began to call Love for the pick-and-roll, and used the pick-and-roll to break through to the inside.

Compared with Wall, Su Tian still has some height advantages. With the help of the space brought by the pick-and-roll, an emergency stop shakes out the shooting space, and he immediately stops and jumps and shoots.

Swah——

Su Tian's middle distance remained stable.

At this time, the score came to 25-25, the score was tied, and there were about 3 minutes left in the time.

The possession of the ball was changed, Porter served to Wall, and Wall quickly advanced with the ball, and it seemed that he wanted to hit one quickly.

Su Tian's defensive acuity is still very good, and he stepped forward to defend in time, giving enough interference.

The momentum of Wall's impact was inevitably disturbed by Su Tian, ​​so he had to slow down and wait for his teammates.

When the time was almost right, Wall waved his hand to signal his teammates to cooperate in the pick-and-roll.

With the help of the pick-and-roll Wall started a breakthrough, but Su Tian also quickly bypassed the pick-and-roll. Although he didn't get in front of Wall, he followed Wall in time.

Wall leaned close to Su Tian's body and broke through to the inside. The two confronted and came to the basket. At this time, Thompson also came to help defend.

Wall received the ball for a layup, but found that Thompson was behind Su Tian to help defend, so he passed the ball to Gortat who was emptied.

Gortat catches the ball and makes a direct shot from close range.

bang, swish—

The basketball hits the backboard into the basket.

25-27
The Wizards took the lead again.

In this period, Wall is still relatively powerful. Su Tian, ​​​​who is in the state of the king of the final quarter, can only limit it, but cannot lock it.

The ball is switched, and it's the Cavaliers' turn to attack.

Irving came to the frontcourt with the ball and faced Wall's defense.

Although the Cavaliers switched defenses, the Wizards didn't dare to switch defenses. Wall was not good at defense, and it was already very difficult to face Irving.

Irving called Love for a pick-and-roll, and used the pick-and-roll to break through and attack the inside.

Wall bypassed the pick-and-roll and turned to chase Irving.

Otto Porter didn't dare to let Love go, and followed Love closely.

Owen came to the basket with the ball, collected the ball and took off, pulled the bar and scored a layup.

27-27
With little time left, the Wizards quickly served the ball, and Wall advanced with the ball, trying to grab an offensive round.

But just after Wall crossed the midfield line, Su Tian intercepted him. The fast break failed, so Wall slowed down.

After his teammates were all in position, Wall passed the ball to the inside Gortat. Gortat hit Thompson with his back, turned around and shot.

Basketball hit the iron and was interfered by Thompson.

Thompson turned around and got the rebound, passed the ball to find Su Tian, ​​Su Tian got the ball, looked at the timer, and pushed forward steadily.

Now that the last offensive round has come, the Cavaliers don't need to worry, as long as the time is pressed to the last second.

So Su Tian held the ball from the outside to press the time. Seeing that the time was almost up, he began to call Love for a pick-and-roll.

With the help of the pick-and-roll, Su Tian made a sudden move and successfully swayed to Bill, and then Su Tian retreated and made a three-pointer.

Drip - swish -

Su Tian successfully pressed at the last second and scored a three-pointer.

30-27, the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Irving was replaced for a rest and Dellavedova was replaced.

The Cavaliers lineup is adjusted to Dellavedova, Su Tian, ​​Shumpert, Love, and Mozgov.

The Wizards also made lineup adjustments in the second quarter. Ramon Sessions replaced Wall, and the team's main attack point became Bill.

Soon, the intermission is over and the second quarter begins.

The first possession of the second quarter was given to the Wizards, Ramon Sessions pushed forward with the ball, and Bradley Beal ran all over the court to drive Su Tian's defense.

Because of James' absence, Irving and Su Tian's time should be staggered as much as possible, so as to ensure that the team always has a ball-holding point on the court.

If both of them are off the court, then the team will not have a reliable offensive point with the ball. Does it depend on Love?
Just after halftime on Sessions' side, Dellavedova jumped up and bit the defense.

Su Tian also followed Bill, and Bill couldn't find a suitable opportunity to catch the ball at all.

For a while, the Wizards fell into an embarrassing situation where no one could hold the ball.

(End of this chapter)