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Chapter 61 Fighting the Blazers, losing three games in a row

2003 11 Month 1 Day.

Portland, Moda Center.

The Cavaliers challenged the Trail Blazers away.

The Blazers are a traditional strong team. From 1990 to 2003, they have reached the playoffs for 14 consecutive years.

In 2000, the Blazers even made it to the Western Conference Finals and lost to the Lakers led by the OK team in 7 games.

Facing this traditional tycoon, the Cavaliers have a small winning percentage, which also makes Paul grey.

Because it is very likely that the Cavaliers will start with a three-game losing streak.

To be honest, this opening schedule is indeed not good for the Cavaliers. It is back to back, and two of the three games are away games.

And the three opponents are all strong teams in the Western Conference, who can snatch tickets for the Western Conference playoffs.

But the media doesn't care about these, they only look at the results, if you lose three games in a row, then you are a weak team and the coach is a failure.

Paul sent a regular lineup: Ilgauskas, Boozer, James, Davis, McInnis.

Trailblazers here.

Power forward: "Big Black Bear" Zach Randolph, (206 cm, 118 kg), the existence of peak 23+10+2.

Power forward: "Roaring God" Rasheed Wallace, (211 cm, 104 kg), one of the future Pistons, and a representative of all-around power forwards.

Rashid is omnipotent. Although he can't reach the peak of everything, there is nothing he can't do, from offense to defense.

Power Forward: Dale Davis, (211cm, 104kg).

Small Forward: Bunch Wells, (196cm, 95kg).

Point guard: "Little Flying Squirrel" Damon Stoudemire, (178 cm, 78 kg).

Jordan called the most troublesome guy.

小飞鼠新秀即巅峰，场均19分4篮板9.3助攻1.4抢断的数据拿下1995年的最佳新秀。

The best rookie may not be very good, but if you look at the opponents who competed with Little Momonga for the best rookie, you will know how strong this guy is.

Kevin Garnett, Michael Finley, Joe Smith, Sabonis, Stackhouse...all are All-Star players.

(How does Sabonis exist? The former Soviet center who can’t be defeated by the four major centers in the NBA, if it wasn’t because of international relations that he entered the NBA in his later years, the era of the four major centers has become the era of the five major centers.)
It's a pity that Little Flying Squirrel is not self-disciplined, gets involved in drugs, and ruins himself.

After only playing well for three years, the performance of Little Flying Squirrel is getting worse and worse, and the data has shrunk significantly.

Today, Little Flying Squirrel is over [-] years old, and in addition to being injured last season, his condition is even worse.

However, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and it can be called the most troublesome player by Jordan, so it can't be underestimated.

That's right, the Blazers are a wonderful lineup of 4 forwards and 1 point guard.

Moreover, although Bunch Wells is the height of a swingman, he is the weight of a power forward and has the technical characteristics of a power forward.

So from an extreme point of view, you can think of the Blazers starting lineup as 4 power forwards and 1 point guard.

Looking at this lineup, Ye Feng was speechless for a long time.

That is to say, this kind of deformed lineup will appear in the era of extreme emphasis on the inside line, and it will never appear again in the small ball era.

Of course, another reason is that Rasheed Wallace's feet are fast, and it is not too disadvantageous to defend small forwards.

beep~
The game officially begins.

Fighting and fighting, Ye Feng suddenly found that this game had become a fierce battle inside the two sides.

Knight here.

With Ilgauskas and Boozer, the inside offense is already very strong, and the big Z, who has been in a downturn for two games, finally regained his feeling.

The two played the entire first quarter, making 8 of 6 shots and scoring 12 points.

But the embarrassing thing is that under the siege of the Blazers' four power forwards, the two grabbed a total of three rebounds.

But Davis and James were miserable. Every time they broke through and rushed into a group of big men, they found that they couldn't tell the difference between south, east and north. There were muscle blocks and big arms everywhere, and they couldn't even pass the ball.

The two made 8 of 3 shots combined, which was very inefficient.

Trailblazers over there.

With 4 power forwards on the court, it goes without saying that he values ​​the inside line.

Dale Davis is a blue-collar coolie, but Randolph and Rasheed Wallace are invincible offensively.

Randolph is fighting in hand-to-hand combat, and Wallace is making various mid-range shots to distance himself. The cooperation between the two is more perfect than the Cavaliers' inside combination.

Everyone has discovered that the basketball is always hovering in the paint, and all shots are shot inside the three-point line, and there is no three-point shot. This is something that only happened in that era.

After one quarter, the two sides battled to a 23-level tie.

Ye Feng played in the last few minutes, but he was instructed to throw the ball inside, so he didn't even make a shot.

The second quarter begins.

Big Z and Boozer all went off to rest, and the offensive firepower of the Cavaliers inside was all extinguished at once.

And the Blazers are actually three tall inside players, forwards, and forwards.

The Blazers have 10 main rotation players, 5 are over 210 centimeters, 6 inside players, 1 center + 5 power forwards + 2 small forwards + 2 guards, it is amazing that there are only two guards.

But this strange formation really restricted the Cavaliers.

Throughout the second quarter, except for Ye Feng who had an absolute height advantage against Little Flying Squirrel and scored 3 three-pointers, everyone else was blown away.

The inside line was heavily sieged, and the breakthrough of James and Davis seemed to be mired in mud, and they could not get out after entering.

In one quarter of the game, 31:16, the Blazers directly opened up the 15-point difference.

In the second half, Paul resumed the strategy of the first quarter again, allowing the rested Big Z and Boozer to attack, and the Cavaliers finally recovered a point.

But the inside players are too tall, and the problem of physical strength is inevitable, not to mention facing the siege of a group of insiders from the Blazers.

Big Z and Boozer played in the fourth quarter and couldn't move at all.

As a result, the Cavaliers were defeated again in the fourth quarter.

Except for Ye Feng who made three three-pointers in front of Little Flying Squirrel again, none of the others behaved normally.

At the end, 98:108, the Cavaliers ushered in a three-game losing streak.

Ilgauskas scored a game-high 21 points, but only grabbed 4 rebounds, completely sorry for his 221 cm height.

Davis has 16 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, a quasi-triple-double data, but his shooting percentage is just over 40%, and his offensive efficiency is not high.

Boozer 15 points and 9 rebounds, the performance is acceptable.

James had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists. He made 12 of 3 shots and only made 25% of his shots.

In this game, James' shooting problems were very obvious. In the case of unfavorable breakthroughs, James' shooting percentage was simply unbearable.

Ye Feng performed very well. Facing the old flying mouse who was only 178 centimeters, Ye Feng made 6 of 6 shots, all of which were three-pointers. He scored 18 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block.

It's a pity that Ye Feng's perfect performance did not bring victory to the Cavaliers.

(This is related to Paul's strategy of playing inside.

If Ye Feng insisted on beating Little Flying Squirrel, it might have a miraculous effect.

Of course, in this era where insiders are paramount and defense wins, it is impossible for Ye Feng, an undrafted and backup guard, to get this kind of treatment, and Paul, a conservative coach, is not so courageous. )
For the Trail Blazers, Randolph had 21 points, 13 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals. He was the undoubted MVP of the game.

Woods had 15 points, Flying Squirrel had 14 points, Wallace had 14 points, Wells had 11 points and Patterson had 10 points.
Six players scored in double figures and won easily and happily.

After the game, Paul looked gloomy and said nothing at the press conference.

0 wins and 3 losses is fine, let's look at the next schedule of the Cavaliers, Nuggets, Pacers, two consecutive away, and two strong teams
This schedule is really too unfriendly to the Cavaliers.

　ps: Thanks for the reward of Cholera's Life!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)