The Mavericks still opened with Bogut on the jumper, and the Cavaliers started with center Tristan Thompson.

Prior to James' return to the Cavaliers, Tristan Thompson was an unknown player, and although he was the fourth pick in the 11th Draft, Thompson received little attention with then-time champion Irving with the Cavaliers, mainly because he didn't show much potential in his rookie year.

In fact, experts and fans didn't expect much from him from the beginning, not only him, but the entire 11th rookie, which was considered to be the lowest rookie in the new century, this is not just a small year in the draft, even the draft champion Irving did not receive much expectation, let alone Thompson, who was the fourth pick.

However, after the start of the new season, when people look back on the 11th draft, they can't help but sigh that this is really a gold-rich draft.

Tristan Thompson is already a championship center, and Irving, the first pick, is a superstar-level champion point guard.

Before the Cavaliers won the championship, Leonard, who was drafted with the fifteenth pick, had already won the FMVP, and now he is the cornerstone of the new generation of the Spurs.

After Leonard, the absolute main player of the team won the championship, was Klay Thompson, who formed the Splash Brothers with Curry, and the Splash Brothers are now called the Megatron League, and Thompson's draft pick was only 11th that year.

In addition to these superstars who already have championship rings in their hands, there are still many other star-level players who support the team.

Kemba Walker, who is the ninth pick, is now the treasure in the hands of Master Joe, and Jeremy Lin played well in the Hornets last year, but his performance is much inferior to that of Kemba Walker.

Jimmy Butler, the thirtieth pick, won the power struggle with Ross and is already an absolute pillar in Chicago.

Thomas Jr., the sixtieth pick, is now a core player of the Celtics, and has been dubbed the strongest 175 on the surface by fans around the world.

There are as many as six All-Stars at the cornerstone level of the team alone, and in addition to these All-Star superstars, there are countless others who play the main position in the team, such as the Raptors' main center Valanciunas, the Pistons' main point guard Reggie Jackson, the power forward Tobias Harris, the Magic's main center Vucevich, as well as the Morris brothers, half-orcs and so on.

It is worth mentioning that Norris Kerr, the Heat champion point guard who partnered with Zhan Huang that year, and Chandler Parsons, a wealthy coach who went to the Grizzlies to get the highest salary, are also players produced this year.

Seeing that many players with much lower draft picks than themselves have received the highest salary and the highest salary, it is no wonder that Tristan Thompson's average of 8+8 per game is 80 million.

However, the Cavaliers' money was worth it in the end, after all, the Cavaliers successfully won the championship, and when Bogut was injured and fell, Thompson gave the Cavaliers a lot of advantage on the inside, and he assisted Zhan Huang to win the championship, and he was finally named the title of the Eight Sages.

However, in recent times, this former virtuous king has made Cavaliers fans very uncomfortable, and they can't wait to take away the virtuous word in the middle of his title, and then read it backwards, because Khloe Kardashian, who left his old love for Harden, caught up with the Cavaliers, an inside rebounding idiot.

At the moment when Kardashian caught up with Thompson, probably all Cavaliers fans couldn't help but feel frightened, Kardashian's threat to the Cavaliers is simply greater than the threat of Durant joining the Warriors to defend the Cavaliers.

What makes Cavaliers fans even more speechless is that the Eight Sages are not just playing around like Habeard, he and Kardashian seem to have rubbed a spark of true love, and even blatantly contradicted the team's boss James for Khloe Kardashian, and would rather not get along with his teammates than insist on being with Kardashian.

Tristan Thompson is now in a hot game with Khloe Kardashian, but it doesn't seem to have affected his on-court performance for a short time, and he is still fierce. Maybe Khloe Kardashian said that Tristan Thompson is the most capable man he has ever seen, and he is really not bragging about his little boyfriend, compared to Brother Deng's squeezed eye defense on the court, TT is really slightly better.

This contemporary Rodman, who is very good at grabbing frontcourt rebounds, although he is only 206 cm tall, but in the contest with Bogut, relying on the jumping speed far beyond the opponent, he won the jump ball against Bogut, a big center who is half a head taller than him and has a better arm span than him.

The basketball was put into Owen's hands, and in the process of steadily holding the ball through the half court, he had already looked at Chen Zhi on the opposite side, but unfortunately the high-spirited Owen was disappointed to find that it was not Chen Zhi but Matthews who was standing in front of him to be with him!

Irving sniffled, then threw the ball to James on the flank, and began to move without the ball himself. If it is Chen Zhi who defends in front of him, he must definitely try Chen Zhi's defense in this ball.

Although James is already a thirty-year-old man, Curry and Durant have the momentum to challenge the first person in the league, but before James shows old age in the playoffs, I am afraid he is still recognized as the first person.

Chen Zhi faced James, and immediately felt unprecedented excitement, even more excited than when he fought with Leonard, after all, Leonard is also a new star, and he has just taken over the scepter from Duncan, and James has been the first person to dominate the league for many years, the most versatile player in the entire NBA, who can play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position.

NBA players who can play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position do exist, such as Artest, that is, Ci Shiping, who is now the Lakers' escort for the rookies, was a man who played from the No. 1 to the No. 5 position back then, of course, more than the No. 1 to No. 5 position, he didn't even let go of the audience.

As one of the greatest point guard players in history, Johnson played the center position in the finals in his rookie season on behalf of the injured Skyhook Abdul-Jabbar, and also used the center stunt of Skyhook to complete the stunt, and finally played an FMVP.

However, Magic Johnson is not actually fully capable of five positions, his fatal flaws are movement speed and three-point shooting, Magic, as the tallest pure point guard player in history, is tired of height and weight, and is much slower than other NBA-level backcourt players.

Of course, the most important thing is the three-point shot, when the Magic averages only 1.2 three-point shots per game in his entire career, the three-point shooting rate is still only three-layer, or even about two layers all year round, and the three-point shot in the later part of his career is somewhat accurate.

Among the active players, Antetokounmpo is also a player who claims to be able to play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position, but the projection ability is a cut short like the Magic, and the ball control ability and passing vision need to be improved.

The player who can really play the No. 1 to No. 5 positions and play superstar performances is probably the only player in the entire NBA history, LeBron James.

He is faster than many point guards, and his strength is also at the level of a center, and in this small-ball era, he is more capable of playing the center position, not to mention that he has already served as the starting five position as early as the Heat period.

As for his biggest shortcoming projection, it's not a problem. In fact, his projection ability has changed qualitatively as early as the second year after joining the Heat. Zhan Huang, who fell under the Mavericks' joint defense, practiced three-point shooting hard under the guidance of Jun Zilei, and the three-point shooting rate reached 40.6% that season, and the three-point shooting rate after that was basically about 36%, and he averaged more than four three-point shots per game, which is already the standard of a qualified shooter.

At this moment when he really faced James, Chen Zhi was even wondering if he was dreaming, he was an ordinary person a year ago, and now he can face LeBron James, the first person in the league who is the all-round king in basketball history.

What's even crazier is that Chen Zhi still has the idea of beating James to lead the team to win! The life of the system plug-in is really terrible!

After receiving Irving's pass, James put on a three-threat posture, and when he found that Chen Zhi in front of him seemed to be a little distracted, he couldn't help but be a little surprised!

What's going on, is this guy doing it on purpose! James frowned slightly, he didn't believe that this guy who had been so superb in defense recently would lose his mind when facing himself, and he couldn't even defend with his eyes!

However, this is a professional arena after all, and James, who was not fully sure of defeating the Mavericks, immediately took advantage of this loophole, and did not hesitate to break through from Chen to the right side and go straight to the basket!

Chen Zhi was so easily passed, it was really unexpected by the Mavericks, and it could even be said that it was unexpected by the fans in the audience, and many fans who watched the game on the Internet even spit out words like "I X" directly.

The first to react was Bogut, a professional frame protector, before he was injured in the finals last year, he also had a bloody cap against James, but that was the situation where the defender in front of James was not out of position, but was crushed under the basket, James's speed could not be fully rushed, like Chen Zhi was cleaned up like this, and he was a little frightened when he looked at James who rushed up with a big mouth! is also a muddy person like Dream Green, who dares to take off head-on and scare James, even if he is overturned, he will be blocked!

It is said that James is most afraid of the black and hard big centers, and those big centers are really not afraid of Lao Zhan! It's a small train that rushes up, and it's uncomfortable to hit anyone.

However, Big Mouth still chose to defend without hesitation after all, which is the quality of a professional center and the pride of a main champion center.

Of course, the most important thing is that he saw that Chen Zhi seemed to suddenly come back to his senses at the moment after being broken through by James, and was chasing after James quickly, as long as he could make James jealous of his own position, he might be able to successfully resolve James's attack, unless James was determined to block it, then he could only fight head-on! It's a big deal that after being hit, squirt a good meal to that kid!

James did rush up, but seeing Bogut grab the position in advance, he seemed to be determined to face himself head-on, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak.

If you put it in the young age, this kind of ball that successfully breaks through and rushes up, no matter who is in front of you, will also jump and buckle! Or now it's the playoffs, maybe it's deducted.

But an old man is an old man, and he is no longer as stunned as he was when he was young, not to mention that it is only the regular season now, and it is the first goal of the opening game, and it is not even the fourth quarter, so there is no need to risk his health.

What's more, the kid behind him reacted quickly and faster, and he was already close to him, plus his natural bounce speed that was faster than others, maybe he would have chased himself before he successfully blocked Bogut!

The life-and-death moment of the seventh game of last year's finals with a score of 89:89 tied "The Block", that is, the goal of chasing Iguodala to save the Cavaliers, not only Iguodala was impressed, James was also unforgettable, he didn't want such a bloody hat chase to happen to him!

However, James, who has become a habit of paddling in the regular season, still jumped!

However, after jumping to attract the defense, he shot falsely, and the ball in his hand was thrown at Kevin Love, who was standing in the bottom corner!

Although Nuo Tianwang is an old arm and old leg, he can't withstand the toss of James who collides at all, so he didn't think about helping to defend LeBron at all, but in line with the idea of protecting the rebound, Lao Tianwang still shrank two steps inside.

When he found that the basketball flew from the top of his head to the bottom corner, the old driver stepped on the accelerator and immediately stepped on the bottom, thinking about the bottom corner and returning to defense.

However, before he took the second step, Aishen Lefu had already shot a three-point shot, like a precision-guided bomb, directly to the basket.

Seeing this, Nowitzki couldn't help but shake his head, and reached out to his Mavericks teammates and shouted, "My bad! ”

At the team meeting, Carlisle has already highlighted the defensive issues, including the defense of the three-point shot against Love.

The reason is very simple, Love has been very hot recently, just in the previous game against the Trail Blazers, Love made 8 of 10 three-pointers in a single quarter, and scored 34 points in a single quarter, second only to Klay Thompson's 37 points in a single quarter, and this single quarter score also tied Chen Zhi's previous 34 points in a single quarter against the Pacers.

Nowitzki, the No. 4 position of the Mavericks, was naturally the guy in charge of defending Lefou, but he didn't expect to let Lefu shoot three points at the beginning, which is not a good sign.

"My fault, the defense was distracted just now, otherwise you wouldn't have exposed such a big gap." When Chen Zhi heard Nowitzki's words, he couldn't help but say so.

"Dirk, just stand in front of him, rebound or something, don't worry about it, anyway, we're used to your angry slashing 0 boards." Matthews couldn't help but joke when he saw Nowitzki blame himself again and again.

Novitsky couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and that little self-reproach suddenly disappeared.

Matthews continued, "As for Chen, if you can't stop James, or let me come, well, forget it, let Barnes come!" ”

"I'll do my best!" The minibus responded very seriously when he heard this.

Chen Zhi took the ball from Bogut's bottom line, and couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "It's better for me to defend James, I finally grabbed it with Barnes, and it's rare that Carlisle also happily agreed to let me defend!" But before we do that, let's score this goal first! ”

"Good!" "No problem!" "Let's go!"

The Mavericks who began to advance to the front court shouted one after another.

James, who had already retreated to his own half, heard the shouts of the Mavericks players opposite, and couldn't help but look a little more solemn.