Looking at the mad dog-like Bobcats players on the field, Brown was a little worried. It's not that he hasn't led the Cavaliers to play against this young team in the past two years, and the Bobcats give him the impression that there are indeed a few good seedlings in the roster, and players like Allen and Ariza are the first-class outside defenders of the future, but to say that the Bobcats have excellent defense, then he can't agree.

For two seasons in a row, the Bobcats have ranked in the middle of the league in terms of points conceded per game and defensive efficiency, and it's not without players scoring high points against the Bobcats. Of course, none of those players are small forwards, after all, the defense at the No. 3 position is the best done by the Bobcats, and the other positions are more than a notch off.

But this time the Bobcats' full-court pressing surprised Brown and made the Cavaliers' players feel even more confused, and the Bobcats' defense in the first two games was also good, but it didn't reach that level. Brown also had some luck in thinking that it was just a joke for a Bobcat to start the game with a full-court press, and that they would soon be reduced in intensity due to fitness issues.

However, Brown soon stopped laughing, and the Bobcats players proved with their unfathomable physical prowess that this was not a joke, but a strategy against the Cavaliers. James and West are okay, Hughes can barely keep up, and inside Gooden and Ilgoskas are out of luck, constantly doing switchbacks on the court, and it's useless at all.

The situation forced Brown to make substitutions less than five minutes into the game, mainly with Gooden and Ilgoskas taking turns to take the break. The Bobcats' response was to run wildly, using constant interspersed runs on the offensive end to create scoring opportunities, and on the defensive end, they also chased after the butts of the Cavaliers players, and even Milicic and Gasol Jr. on the inside did not skimp on their physical strength, such a fast pace made the Cavaliers simply exhausted.

It's not like the Cavaliers haven't tried to keep up with the Bobcats, but there are only a few people who can keep up at a time, and that's all about transitioning offense. The Cavaliers' transition offense was difficult to play because the Bobcats were quick to retreat, and they were helpless against the Bobcats' transition offense, and the result of playing more with less was to add two more points to the opponent.

To Brown's surprise and even horror, the Bobcats' fast-paced offense and defense lasted almost the entire first quarter, and thanks to James' individual ability, the Cavaliers only trailed by seven points at 28-35, and the margin had not yet reached double digits. But Brown could clearly see that James' entire vest was soaked when he came off the court, which was not a normal situation.

He couldn't help but be amazed at the physical fitness of the Bobcats players, this is a team of perverts! Brown had always thought that the best physical team in the NBA would be the Suns, after all, their "seven-second offense" was in full swing, and the athleticism of the main players was also very good. But now it seems that the best physical fitness is the bobcat.

Jackson was quite satisfied with the performance of the players in the first quarter, and he was not afraid of any physical problems with them, and Chang Wei was the best guarantee in the team. At the beginning, Chang Wei strongly demanded to put the physical fitness of the players in the first place, and even did not hesitate to slap the table with his old friends, mainly for today's situation, and it is definitely not possible to press the whole court without sufficient physical fitness.

In the second quarter, the Bobcats still had no intention of slowing down, and Brown had asked the players to try to maintain their rhythm, but they were still carried quickly. Every Cavaliers player is scolding his mother in his heart, why are you running so fast when you have nothing to do? Can't you just slow down? I didn't realize you could run so well in the first two races, but now you run as fast as rabbits!

The commentators at the scene were also surprised, full-court pressing is not a new tactic, any team will use it if they have nothing to do, but it is absolutely impossible to continue to use full-court pressing like the Bobcats.

However, Jackson didn't intend to continue the full-court pressing, and the Bobcats resumed their regular style of play just over three minutes into the second quarter, much to the relief of the Cavaliers' players. But that doesn't mean the Bobcats won't maintain their fast offensive style on the offensive end, the Cavaliers have been dragged out of internal injuries, and now the defensive end is almost laissez-faire.

Brown knew that if he wanted to lower the pace of the Bobcats, he would have to tighten the fence first, but the problem with the Cavaliers right now is that the role players are all too young, and it's almost impossible to expect them to be able to defend well despite the huge physical exertion. Brown couldn't help but look at the rest of the bench, is it time to think about giving the youngsters some chances?

The Cavaliers still have young players on the bench, with Vallejo, born in 1982, and Pavlovich, born in 1983, both capable of stepping up, and their defense is good. Brown didn't want to see the difference between the two sides being further widened, so he decisively took advantage of the dead ball opportunity to replace the two guys, so that the field was all players under the age of 30.

Lowering the average age was the easiest way to do it, and the Cavaliers seemed to have regained their energy after this substitution and began to follow in the footsteps of the Bobcats. But Chang Wei secretly laughed, if the Bobcats' fast attack was so easy to crack, would it still be a team trained by themselves? Simply lowering the average age of the players will at best ease the team's predicament.

Sure enough, when these two players came on the court, the Cavaliers' offense improved a little, after all, Vallejo added a connection point to the interior, but if you want to talk about defense, you can't talk about it, Pavlovic is also helpless in the face of Roy, and he also paid for a personal foul, Vallejo's rim protection ability is not bad, but it is not enough to see in front of Milicic and Gasol Jr.

At halftime, Brown's approach still didn't work, and the Cavaliers trailed by 12 points at 58-70, which wasn't a big margin but was a slap in the face for them. When the Cavaliers equalized the score before, everyone was ready to take advantage of the momentum of winning to the next game on the road, but they didn't expect that after halftime, it was themselves who fell behind.

Although they all thought on the surface that the Bobcats won the first game of the series was just luck, in fact, deep down they recognized the strength of their opponents, and disrespecting their opponents was disrespecting themselves. And judging from the current performance of the Bobcats, they are also determined to win their home court, and more importantly, it is not the Cavaliers who are leading now!