Back in Cleveland, the Cavaliers held a regular meeting of the coaching staff before the day's daily practice.

"This Mavericks team is heavily underrated, they are well-balanced on both ends of the floor, and Rick has a well-developed system with no obvious shortcomings, and they are a standard championship team." Casey was with the Mavericks, and after carefully analyzing the footage and watching the Western Conference Finals live, his conclusions were the most convincing.

"And it's a question of how to defend Nowitzki." Cassel continued.

"We didn't have anybody on the team who could match him, Anderson and Frye have limited playing time since they entered the playoffs because of defensive issues, and we've actually been using a big four lineup since we got into the second round, and now it's going to be really troublesome against Nowitzki, who is the hottest in form." Mutombo went on to say that when he was a player, he relied on defense to eat, and he also saw this aspect more thoroughly.

"This year's Dirk has no flaws on the offensive end, three-pointers, two-pointers, free throws, golden rooster independence, and even his slightly lame looking breakaway, which is very lethal, and it is really difficult to limit him." Dale Curry continued.

The assistant coaches all nodded one after another, Aldridge, Pau Gasol and Ibaka are all top-notch power forwards in the league, but they are all blown up against Nowitzki, let alone the Cavaliers' No. 4 position.

Tang Tian was also thoughtful.

He suddenly realized that some of his impressions had flowed.

Looking at the data since the playoffs, Nowitzki has killed God and killed Buddha, and has scored nearly 30 points per game with a 50% shooting rate.

Looking back carefully on his previous life, Nowitzki seems to have been inefficient because of his inaccurate performance in the last two games, and in his current state, he is really close to the existence of "invincible".

"And their manager is Carlisle." Curry added.

A team that meets the requirements of a championship, a manager who can be called a master tactician.

In the two games of the regular season, the 1-1 draw between the Cavaliers and Mavericks is very revealing.

Although it is not as easy as the Cavaliers to advance, in the highly competitive West, they defeated the Trail Blazers 4-2, swept the Lakers 4-0, and crushed the Thunder 4-1.

A regular meeting did not discuss much substance.

After the regular meeting, Tang Tian called Casey to his office alone.

"I'm going to start against Nowitzki with Rashid."

"Nowitzki's only disadvantage on the offensive end is speed, Rashid is experienced, they can indeed play on the top position, but Rashid's age and physical strength, the intensity of the finals may not be able to play for a few minutes." Casey analyzed.

"I know."

"So what happens when Rashid is gone?" Casey knew that Tang Tian mentioned this, and he must have his own ideas.

"I'm going to let LeBron defend it." Tang Tian continued.

Casey froze for a moment, then nodded.

James has a height disadvantage, but his weight and speed are not at a loss, as long as it is not in a deep low position, the defensive effect is indeed the best, and letting Wallace top the opening minutes can save James a lot of physical strength.

Tang Tian didn't express his opinion at the regular meeting, it seemed that he had already planned in his heart.

"I'll go down and refine the plan." Casey continued.

"Well, by the way, call LeBron down to my office."

Ten minutes later, James showed up in the coach's office.

The two of them haven't communicated a few times a season, but this time has been a succession.

"I'm defending Dirk? I'll finish him. ”

After hearing Tang Tian's request, James said without much hesitation.

In fact, in the playoffs last year, Tang Tian also asked him to take on the task of defending Garnett.

'It's not an easy thing to do, Dirk is too lethal in the low post and you have to keep him out of the box as much as possible and limit the number of times he receives the ball if possible. Tang Tian emphasized.

"I understand."

"Well, the specifics, I'll get Casey back to you."

James got up and prepared to leave.

"LeBron, whether you can defend against Dirk is the key to the championship, and your play on the defensive end will be decisive." Tang Tian admonished.

"Coach, I know." James nodded, and left the office.

Seeing James leave, Tang Tian let out a long breath.

Under normal circumstances, the team rarely uses its own team core to defend the opponent's offensive core, and in the early rounds, Boozer and Garnett are actually Artest in the main defense.

Now James has to defend Nowitzki, which is bound to have an impact on James' offensive end.

With the previous Foreman matter, Tang Tian can't guarantee whether James will have an idea after playing in the finals.

There was only a total of 4 days between the end of the division finals and the start of the finals.

Basically, two days off, plus one day of training, the finals are about to start.

Before the start of the match, the major media still predicted the result of the final.

The results were very similar to last year.

It's just that this time it's the Cavaliers who are absolutely favored.

90% of survey respondents believe that the Cavaliers are absolutely champions.

5% chose to abstain.

The bottom 5% believe that the only reason the Mavericks can win the championship is because of American heroism, and they expect Nowitzki to be the single-core hero.

The contrast is huge, but the Mavericks are very low-key.

Except for a few words from Cuban, "Dirk won't let the championship slip away again," the Mavericks didn't say anything from the whole team.

Nowitzki is very low-key, but Terry, Stevenson and the like are big mouths, and this kind of low-key must be what Carlisle has requested.

They saw themselves as the underdogs and gave it their all for the game.

It only makes the game harder.

Of course, it's also more exciting.

The finals are highly anticipated.

The Mavericks don't have too much stardom except for Nowitzki, and it is because of this that they have been looked down upon, but they have been "dark horses" all the way, and now they are the only team that sniped the Cavaliers.

Whether it can be dark to the end will be known immediately.

Cleveland's fan sentiment is also unusually high.

Since the formation of the Big Three in the offseason, they have been expecting the team to start a dynasty.

Now, after a season of fighting, the team has finally reached the final finals.

A win against their opponents would give them their second and first consecutive championship in the team's history.

For a small town like Cleveland, that would be a great honor.

And judging from the current situation, this is a high probability event, and it is impossible for them not to pay attention to it.

In the opening match of the finals, this small eastern city was already boiling in the city, with stadiums, bars, squares, as long as there was a TV broadcast, the crowd had already gathered early.

Drinking beer and chatting, just waiting for the finals to kick off.

The momentum is even greater than that of the NFL Super Bowl.

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