After LeBron James left, the Cleveland Cavaliers did not have a good life, but this season, after selecting Mobley, the Cavaliers finally made up their minds to impact the playoffs. Unconsciously, the Cavaliers have completely completed the reconstruction, and the championship-winning lineup of that year is now only left in the team. There are Garland and Sexton in the backcourt, Mobley and Markkanen on the front, Allen in the starting center, and strong players such as Love and Osman and Rubio on the bench.
The Cleveland Cavaliers ushered in the post-James era and the opportunity to make a comeback. In this team, Love is no longer the core of the team, not even a starter, 33 years old is indeed not a friendly age for an interior player, but Kevin Love is different from the traditional interior player.
In the LeBron James era, Kevin Love is one of the team's big three, the first quarter of each game, the Cavaliers' offense will focus on Lefour, as long as Lefour opens, then the Cavaliers' offense will be smooth, once Lefour has no feel, then it can only rely on the personal ability of James and Irving. The reason is simple, Love is a spatial interior, and in the case of a hot three-pointer, the defender naturally needs to follow out, so that the opponent's penalty area is not protected, and for finishers like James and Irving, the score is simply a probe.
In other words, Loafer's style is perfectly suited to today's small ball era. In addition to this, Love also has excellent scoring explosiveness, which is due to his excellent outside feel. So even if the defense is average, Love can get a maximum salary contract, and even if the years are old, it can get a stable playing time in a team.
In the first three years of James's departure from the Cavaliers, Love can be said to be living like a year, the team is in a state of reconstruction, naturally there is no need for him to play, so Love's job is to take a high salary and pretend to be injured. For many people, this should be a dream life, but for a professional basketball player, it is very painful.
But this season, Love accepted the role of a substitute and once again became an important puzzle for the team. In this game against the Washington Wizards, Garland could not play because of injuries, Rubio was reimbursed for another season, the team did not have a point guard, and finally lost to the Washington Wizards 93-110. However, in this game, Lefour started the game, and the performance once again surprised everyone.
7 of 15 shots, 4 of 10 three-pointers, 6 of 8 free throws, 24 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal, you know, Love only played 29 minutes, and the scoring efficiency can be seen. In this game, Luck became the team's scoring king and, of course, rebounding king. It wasn't a sudden outburst of a game, the last game against the Pelicans, 24 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, 7 of 14 shooting, 7 of 12 three-pointers, and the last game against the Raptors, Love had 22 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, 7 of 12 shooting, and 6 of 9 three-pointers.
After reading these data, you should be able to clearly see that Love has completely become a spatial inner line, and three points have become his main means. In other words, the original Channing Frye's role. So far this season, Love has averaged 9.5 shots per game, including 5.9 three-pointers, combined with a 42.4 percent three-point shooting percentage, and Love's true shooting percentage is as high as 63.0 percent, ranking 46th in the league. In people's minds, Love is not an efficient scorer, with a true shooting percentage of 63.0%, which also creates a new career high for Love.
The transition from an All-Star to a supporting role for a player can be said to be very difficult, equivalent to a nirvana rebirth, but Kevin Luck has done it. After leaving James, it took him three years to finally be reborn and help the team in the most correct way, which is very different from Lefour, who originally brushed the data in Minnesota. The so-called growth, roughly so.