On the first day of 2005, the Cavaliers played against the Dallas Mavericks, who were fourth in the Western Conference, 19 wins and 10 losses at home.

Gund Arena, Noviskirahim and Noviskirahim and Bernardo Dirk finally met under the expectation of Rick Carlisle.

If there is Huang Nowitzki in this game at this time, it would be even more impressive.

In that case, the battle between the three Nowitzkis in black, yellow and white can be divided into a real Nowitzki in Carlisle's expectations.

By the way, by the way, before Nowitzki's rise in the past few seasons and before Rahim's displaced in the past few seasons, the real "Nowitzki" in the NBA has always been Rahim.

According to research by Cavaliers head coach Carlisle.

Rahim and Dirk's historical battle record.

Of course, Rahim beat Dirk in the rookie season.

After that, Rahim could still suppress Dirk steadily.

Until Dirk's third season in the NBA, that is, the 200-01 season, Dirk was suppressed by Rahim. Two of them met for the first time this season. Dirk scored 5 points in three quarters. Rahim on the opposite side scored 22 points. Why was it in three quarters? Because the fourth quarter of this game was garbage time, Dirk was collapsed by Rahim, and the Mavericks naturally collapsed. You know, Dirk is the main attacker this season, with an average of 21.8 points per game.

Of course, since this season, Dirk has successfully gained the upper hand, and Dirk has become stronger and stronger.

However, Rahim is not without the power of confrontation. Last season, Rahim also defeated the five-star Mavericks with the Hawks, with 27 points and 10 rebounds, and Dirk opposite him 23 points and 10 rebounds.

And this is also why Carlisle is increasingly respecting Rahim recently.

This power forward, who is considered a "transparent" in this league, is really a god.

If you talk about his strength, it is definitely incomparable to the five power forwards including Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki and Weber and Chen Xiao.

However, in the fight with the other four powerful forwards besides Chen Xiao, Rahim can basically do 50 points.

Rahim not only defeated Nowitzki last season, but also defeated last season's MVP Kevin Garnett, leading the Hawks to defeat the Timberwolves 97-89, scoring 32 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists, while Garnett on the opposite side made 17 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 fouls, almost being beaten by Rahim.

This is very magical.

In short, after discovering a magical feature like Rahim, Carlisle was really surprised.

To be honest, Rahim has never started in his career and played in the playoffs. This is the ninth NBA season for the 28-year-old. He has never started in his career and has never proved himself in the playoffs, which makes Carlisle not know what to say.

Of course, if Raheem really proved himself in the playoffs, then maybe it wouldn't be the turn for the Cavaliers.

A player with such excellent offensive strength is 27 years old, and the NBA team will sell him out. Can this be the responsibility of the NBA team?

Rahim himself must have a responsibility.

It’s still too Buddha, the kind that doesn’t whip and doesn’t leave by yourself.

Soaking wolfberry in a thermos is actually quite suitable for him.

Although Rahim has been in a bad team all his career and finally made it to the Trail Blazers last season. The team made it to the playoffs, and he is still a substitute himself, but judging from the playoffs between the Trail Blazers and the Timberwolves last season, Rahim should not be the kind of abuse player in Carlisle's opinion.

As a substitute for Randolph, facing last season's MVP, Rahim averaged 21 minutes per game in the playoffs, averaging 9.5 points per game, shooting percentage of 54%, a close range shooting percentage of 60%, a mid-range shooting percentage of 100%, and a long range two-point shooting percentage of 40%. You shouldn't say that such a substitute player is poor, right?

At least, this offensive efficiency is better than Randolph.

With such high offensive efficiency, the Trail Blazers even traded him and threw him into substitutes. Is it blind?

Of course not, because his defensive efficiency is 120, and his opponent scores 120 points per 100 rounds. This is really a bit bad, especially in this era.

This is the sequelae of a player who has been rubbishing the team. Defensive attitude and defensive habits are really not good.

However, in the Cavaliers, there is really no shortage of human defense, but human offense.

Especially an offensive player who can hold Duncan tightly by his side and has no time to come out to assist in defense!

Duncan plays center, the Cavaliers are not afraid.

What the Cavaliers are afraid of is Duncan, who plays power forward.

Duncan, who plays power forward, has too big a defense area.

And this is also why Carlisle was so excited after finding Rahim, a "treasure".

This is also the reason why Rahim has such a heavy role in the Cavaliers recently.

This season, Carlisle played restraint tactics, targeting various NBA teams, and developed a restraint tactical system to defeat them with 90 points and 100 points.

After Carlisle and Chen Xiao James explained his use of Rahim and the characteristics of Rahim, Chen Xiao and Xiao Zhan certainly supported it.

In the Cavaliers' halftime, Rahim, who once again started the game, was under a lot of pressure at this time.

To be honest, it has been nine seasons in his career so far, and Rahim has never been given such high expectations.

real.

Yesterday Carlisle told him that he hoped he would perform well in the game against Nowitzki and decided on a real Nowitzki. He told him that he was really shocked by his responsibilities and importance in the team this season.

When he was thrown by the Trail Blazers to the Cavaliers, to be honest, he was already planning to retire.

He is not a player with too many strange hobbies. He has made more than 70 million US dollars in his career. He feels that this money is enough for him to live a good retirement life.

After he completed his career as a player, he also thought about doing some other things.

For example, the team's management, or even the league's management.

He actually doesn't have much expectations for the player's career now.

He even planned to retire when he was in his 30s.

only……

"Julianus, you are one of the most critical players in our NBA. I, Chen, LeBron, Cleveland, need your contribution. I hope you can become the brightest gem in our crown!"

The brightest gem on the crown!

Raheem didn't know if Carlisle dared to say such things in front of Chen Xiao and James, and would he be beaten if he said this.

But to be honest, he was really moved at that time.

The reuse of himself as a national expert criticized "Pig Head" is not because he wants to make good data to trade himself, but because he really values ​​himself, so that Chen Xiao and James, the two teams' leading players assisted him in several games.

at last……

"Rick, I can't guarantee that I can be the brightest gem in your heart. I can only guarantee that no one can defend me when you need me to attack."

This tone is so terrible!

However, for Carlisle, who had just studied his record of the matchup between him and the best power forwards in the NBA, such a big tone did not make him feel that he was bragging at all.

On the court, the Cavaliers recalled yesterday's promise to Carlisle, Rahim felt that he was impulsive.

The atmosphere at that time made him involuntarily express his opinion.

To be honest, I am already 28 years old and are almost retired. Isn’t it good to be a salted fish that doesn’t take the blame or rise?

To be honest, if Penny Hardaway off the field knew about Raheem's thoughts at this time, he would definitely want to come and beat him up.

You are a 28-year-old young man who thinks about retirement every day. So what is my 33-year-old person?

Brent Barry said, Perry, don’t be angry, I’m 33 years old this year, haven’t I retired, either?

Of course, no one knows what Rahim is thinking now at this time.

On the court, Tyson Chandler jumped the ball and defeated Eric Danpeer, and the game officially began.

In this game, the Cavaliers started the start of center Chandler, power forward Raheem, small forward James, shooting guard Chen Xiao, and point guard Xiao Mo.

The Dallas Mavericks' starting lineup is center Danpeir, power forward Nowitzki, small forward Josh Howard, shooting guard Finley, and organizational defender Grant Hill.

In addition, the Mavericks also have Chen Xiao’s old friend and Devin Harris on the bench.

Well, Terry was sold to the Mavericks by the Hawks last season, while Devin Harris was selected by the Wizards and then left behind.

In this game against the Mavericks, the Cavaliers' goal is to inspect Rahim.

So in the first attack of this game, the Cavaliers still played Rahim.

On the court, after Xiao Mo dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, he handed the ball to Chen Xiao. Chen Xiao did not choose to break through or directly pull it out in the face of harassment from his old opponent Finley, but was preparing to hit the ball to Rahim's hand.

As the current main attacker, Rahim has the initiative in attack.

Rahim decided to play pick-and-roll or catch and shoot inside.

This time, Rahim did not choose to pick-and-roll with Chen Xiao, but ran to the basket.

Well, it was not Rahim's best shooting position at close range, but came directly to the basket at the center position.

Seeing Rahim calling Chandler away, he leaned against Nowitzki behind him under the basket, and Chen Xiao, who was about to pass the ball to Rahim outside, was stunned for a moment.

By the way, he really lacked understanding of Rahim.

After Raheem came to the Cavaliers, because his role was not that important, he did not set such offensive tactics for him. He himself never thought of playing hard at the basket so hard, so Chen Xiao didn't know that he had this ability.

To be honest, although Nowitzki's defense at the basket is average, Nowitzki is so high. Chen Xiao thinks that this is not a good choice for playing Nowitzki at the basket.

However, since Rahim wants to fight like this, Chen Xiao must not stop passing it.

After Chen Xiao dropped the ball into Rahim's hand at the basket, Chen Xiao wanted to know how the team's power forward played against Nowitzki.

Hook?

I'm afraid it won't work, a step back jump shot?

It would be better to use the cover to catch the ball and shoot at close range.
To be continued...