Today, the NBA regular season continues with the Cleveland Cavaliers hosting the Brooklyn Nets in an earlier game. The Cavaliers have improved a lot this season, and although they don't have superstars in the game, and even reimbursed sexton and Rubio two main defenders this season, they still maintain a certain competitiveness.
The Cavaliers have brought in veteran guard Rondo from the Los Angeles Lakers, but their main player is Garland. In the third season of his career, Garland has completely become the cavalier core of the Cavaliers' backcourt, he has a good scoring ability, but at the same time he does not skimp on sharing the ball, and is a qualified organizer.
So far this season, Garland has averaged 19.7 points, 3.4 rebounds, 7.9 assists and 1.3 steals per game, shooting 46.8 percent from the field and 37 percent from three-point range. There's already a lot of talk about Garland making the All-Star game lineup this season.
In this game, Garland also performed well. Irving hasn't had a needle yet, so he's only allowed to play the Nets' road game against the Cavaliers.
But Garland did not lose the least against Irving and Harden, scoring 22 points, six rebounds and 12 assists, which was not intimidating compared to either Irving or Harden.
Durant, the core of the Nets, was out for 4 to 6 weeks due to injury, so the Nets' defensive system completely collapsed, and eventually lost to the Cavaliers 107-114. Garland's brilliant performance not only allowed the Cavaliers to defend their home stadium, but also added weight to the All-Star regular game lineup that entered the NBA for the first time in his career.