The Cavaliers opened with a three-pointer, and the Mavericks counterattacked quickly, with Chen Zhi and Nowitzki blocking the three-point line in the first round.

Although James was only blocked for a moment, Love had to switch to Chen, who was close to Nowitzki's side and rushed inside.

Chen Zhi, who rushed two steps, suddenly slowed down, his figure suddenly raised, and at the same time his eyes aimed at the basket, Lefu immediately took a big step forward to prepare for the block, but in the next moment, Chen Zhi had already accelerated again and directly passed Lefu.

Tristan Thompson had already put Bogut behind and stayed on the last line of defense for the Cavaliers in advance, and was ready to catch up as soon as Chen had passed LeFou.

And Chen stopped abruptly in the middle distance after arriving at Lefou, obviously intending to pull directly in the middle distance.

The Eight Sages King moved his steps and immediately stopped, because he knew that with his speed, it was too late to block Chen Dao, the most important thing was that he saw James who had already rushed to the distance behind Chen Zhi, and James had already jumped first when Chen Zhi was about to jump, according to the rhythm of Chen Zhi's jump, it was likely to be hatted by James.

But it's a pity that Chen Zhi did withdraw his hand and lift it up, but then he quickly retracted the basketball exposed upwards as if he had eyes behind his back, and James's predicted jump immediately flew into the air, and the whole person flew past from Chen Zhi's side.

At the same time as James pounced, Chen didn't look back, and the ball in his hand was accurately passed to the old driver who was let go by James through the back, although the audience has long been accustomed to Chen Zhi's various wonderful passes, but seeing such a wonderful pass without looking at people, the fans still broke out in amazement!

The whole offensive process is complicated, but on the court it is only in an instant, and several players are quickly making various offensive and defensive choices.

Chen Zhi, who started the attack with the ball, made several adjustments, but from the beginning of the blocking, the whole action was done in one go, as if he had expected all the changes on the court, in fact, he was just making adjustments according to the Cavaliers' defense, but his reaction was too fast.

However, James's pursuit, Chen Zhi really expected it, or after the blocking, he has been on guard against James's possible defense, otherwise he would not have made a fake action of a stop-and-go jump shot, if not, I am afraid that he would really be taught by James to be a man.

Covered by efficient offense and all-around skills, among all sorts of other aura, James' defense tends to be underrated.

At the beginning of entering the league, James' defense was indeed not particularly good, for the simple reason that he had not been nurtured in college games, and first of all, he lacked defensive experience.

Moreover, he entered the league as the chosen son, and offense is his focus, he does not need to buy playing time from the bench like Kobe, and must rely on defense to gain a foothold, Kobe's defense, like other offensive methods, is basically obtained from studying Jordan.

What's more, James scored very high at that time, but he was still growing on the offensive end, and his projection ability was the focus of his practice.

Even so, his defensive strength is still well above the league average, but his defensive attitude is really not top-level, and the overall defensive performance is above the league average, which is not impressive.

For a player with James' physical talent and basketball IQ, once he wants to evolve on the defensive end, it only takes a chance to do it.

And this opportunity for James is the Olympics, the 08 Beijing Olympics.

The painful lessons of Dream 5 and Dream 6, as well as the defeat of Dream 7 in the World Championships, made the basketball of the United States urgently need a redemption.

For the first time at this Olympics, James and Kobe Bryant played alongside him as a regular teammate.

The members of Dream Eight are mainly based on Dream Seven, and then Kobe Bryant and veteran Kidd are added as leaders to intimidate this group of talented young players.

Although all the people in the Dream Eight team are star players, there is no doubt that Kobe Bryant, who has won the triple crown in hand, won the scoring championship in a row, staged a battle to slay the dragon, and just won the MVP trophy, as the best player recognized in the United States at that time, is the spiritual leader of that team, and Kobe Bryant's team, players usually hear him constantly emphasizing defense!

What made James change qualitatively on the defensive end was naturally not Kobe's simple defensive slogans, but the defensive philosophy and defensive training of the Dream Eight team, and it was Kobe's defensive performance as the first person on the court to set standards and examples for the former Dream Seven team, which were scattered in the mouth of the American media.

However, Kobe's defensive performance on the court was not enough to have such a huge impact on James, and it was probably himself who really changed James on the defensive end.

Wade once told in an interview about the scene when the Dream Eight team arrived in China, and there were many fans who greeted the Dream Eight team, but basically everyone ran to Kobe Bryant, and didn't pay attention to the other players of the Dream Eight team, whether it was Wade, who had already won the championship, or James, who didn't have much honor at that time.

James is not an arrogant player, but he is definitely one of the most ambitious players in history, and the target of the Chosen One is Jordan and Kobe Bryant, the top players of all time.

Outside of the United States, Kobe Bryant's incomparable popularity and popularity in China made him feel that he and Kobe Bryant's status was completely different, which was countless times greater than the gap between their status in the NBA at that time, and it can even be said that there was a gap between stars and ordinary passers-by.

The biggest difference between James and Kobe is not whether the offense is picturesque, but the attitude towards defense, perhaps this is the beginning of what really makes James have a different view of defense, the real world-class superstar must be the same as Jordan and Kobe, dominating both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, only offense is far from enough.

In this Olympic Games, the Dream Team finally won the championship, and Anthony, who claimed in the interview that Kobe's defense benefited the Dream Team a lot, finally failed to learn Kobe's attitude on the defensive end, and James Since this Olympic Games, the defensive end of the new season has directly completed the transformation, and the vote rate in the Dpoy selection that year is second only to Howard the Monster, and he is completely the first person to defend the outside that year.

And his performance on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends also made him the league's new MVP after Kobe, you must know that James averaged only 28.4 points per game that year, compared with his average of more than 30 points per game in previous seasons, it was a decline, but the qualitative change on the defensive end allowed him to successfully lead the Cavaliers to the best record in the league, and it can be said that it was defense that made him a real MVP-level player.

After that, James until he started to play health ball, except for the first year of joining the Heat due to the decision 1 and his image was seriously damaged and was left out in the cold, he was almost among the top five in the DPOY selection, and the basic players who can beat him are interior players, after all, the selection of DPOY has always been beneficial to the inside, it can be said that after the 08 Olympics to 14 years before returning to the Cavaliers after becoming famous, James was the best player on the outside defense in those years.

James, who really has a correct attitude on the defensive end, not only has extremely outstanding individual defensive strength, but also has the most terrifying awareness and ability of the top outside defense in history.

It was after reading the Mavericks' scouting report about James that Chen Zhi always paid attention to James's help defense, which allowed him to escape the catastrophe in the opening game.

It's a pity that Nuo Tianwang hasn't found his feel at the beginning of the game, and the empty three-point shot is still iron, and not everyone feels hot at the beginning like Lefu did.

However, Chen Dao, who failed to deliver an assist, obviously had no intention of letting the Mavericks' offense fail.

After a series of actions to block and break through the fake shooting and real pass, Chen Zhi continued to rush to the basket at the same time as Nowitzki's three-point shot.

The moment Tristan Thompson saw Nowitzki's three-pointer in the open position, he glanced at Bogut, who was just stuck in the rebound position by James, who couldn't chase the hat.

When the Eight Sages saw the basketball bounce on the basket and was about to jump to collect the rebound, he saw a hand appear in his sight, pressing the ejected basketball into the basket in mid-air, and then he felt a person's body pressing on his back.

There is no doubt that it was Chen Zhi who completed this one-handed deduction.

The fans at the scene who had just been screamed by Chen Zhi not looking at the wonderful rumor behind the people suddenly let out a burst of exclamations in unison.

After this unison exclamation, the stadium resounded with bursts of cheers, and these people who were cheering for Chen Zhi were probably fans who spent a high price to buy second-hand tickets to watch Chen Zhi's game.

Of course, there are more Chen Zhi fans, because they are surrounded by Cavaliers fans, they have to secretly cheer in their hearts, after all, this is the home court of the Cavaliers, in case there is a little friction due to cheering, it is difficult to beat four hands with two fists.

"Well done!" Nowitzki high-fived Chen Zhi in the retreat and applauded Chen Zhi's wonderful performance just now.

The old driver who was provoked by Chen Zhi's sentence of "passing on the beauty" rolled his eyes, and the other Mavericks who heard this couldn't help but smile.

The game started after both sides attacked and defended.

Against the Cavaliers led by James, Chen Zhi didn't dare to be careless, when facing the Warriors who were sent off the court by Durant, the Mavericks failed to win, although now the Mavericks are close to returning to full strength, and the state is not what it used to be, but now Chen Zhi's hand is not as hot as it was then.

While sorting out the team's offense, Chen Zhi did not give up his personal offense, but what he never expected was that after a few rounds of offense and defense, the Mavericks still fell behind, and they fell behind by a big score.

The reason is very simple, in the last game, he directly turned on the rampage mode to blow up the Trailblazers' Aishen Lefu, once again showing his recent anti-sky feeling, shooting four three-pointers and four hits.

Just as the Mavericks used Love and Irving as a breakthrough in the offense, Nowitzki became a breakthrough in the Cavaliers' offense. After a few passes from the outside, Nowitzki was clearly a little out of step on the defensive end.

The current Lefu is not the round little fat man of the previous Timberwolves period, after losing weight, he has become a man, and he may no longer be able to cut down the double 30 data of 30 points and 30 rebounds, but his mobility has obviously improved.

What's more, even if his ability to move doesn't improve, Nowitzki may not be able to keep up with him.

Taking a step back, even if Nowitzki is standing not far in front of him, after receiving the basketball, Lefu can still make a decisive shot, after all, Nowitzki's outside defense is basically the same as nothing, he can only stretch out his arm to interfere in defense, not even a little bounce, it is impossible to form a block on Lefu's shot, and can only be reluctantly called interference.

The most important thing is Lefou's fiery hand, as well as the confidence brought by the last game, in the past, the old driver stood in front of him, even if there was no defense, he would never be so decisive.

Fortunately, the defense of the starting lineup of the Mavericks is not bad, except for Nowitzki, who really has no defensive ability, the other positions are players with excellent defensive ability in their respective positions.

In particular, Chen's defense of James made the Cavaliers' offensive rotation not as smooth as the last game against the Trail Blazers, and the Cavaliers couldn't easily send the ball to Love.

The Cavaliers attacked, and the ball was once again in the hands of James, looking at the demon in front of him who was putting on a defensive posture, it seemed that he was just keeping an eye on himself, and in fact he had been constantly observing the situation on the court with the corner of his eye, James obviously felt the resistance on the offensive end, because this demon obviously wanted to predict his passing route and make a steal.

James took a deep breath, it is normal for Chen Zhi to have this kind of thought, after all, the defensive pressure he puts on himself is indeed huge, even in the 14 finals against the Spurs, Leonard, who won the FMVP, did not bring him such a strong resistance.

In fact, when Leonard won the Finals MVP, he hadn't completely evolved into a Dpoy-level defender.

Perhaps Iguodala when the Warriors won the championship can be said to really rely on the FMVP obtained by defending James, and Leonard's FMVP is more of his eye-catching performance on the offensive end.

In the five big games, the first Leonard had limited shots, the second Leonard did not feel good, it can be said that the main energy was in the defense of James, but the effect was not very good, James handed over 52% shooting rate in the first game, slightly lower than his shooting rate in the entire playoffs, and the second game had a shooting rate of 63.6%.

In the next three games, James' shooting rates were 64%, 58%, and 47.6% respectively, and it can be said that only the last game did effectively limit James.

Leonard's real brilliance in these three games is on the offensive end, he only took 13 shots at most in the three games, but scored 29 points, 20 points, and 22 points respectively, plus a series of small statistics, and the corresponding shooting rates were 76.9%, 58.3%, and 70% respectively, and the efficiency was more than that of James, who is known for his efficiency.

Therefore, the offensive end almost suppressed Lao Zhan's outburst was the main reason for him to get FMVP, and limiting James was just a plus.

One of the main reasons why James feels that Chen Zhi is under more defensive pressure than Leonard is that although it is difficult to face Leonard's back-to-back attack, it is not to the point of not being able to stand still, and Leonard often has to retreat to cushion. In the face of Chen Dao, even if the back body squeezes under the basket, the opponent basically only shakes his upper body slightly, and does not move at all under his feet.

The Cavaliers fans were brought up after Lefou's consecutive three-point shots, and the hustle and bustle of the stadium immediately rose to a new level, but in the face of James, who was defending by Chen, his face was solemn.

Once again, he protected the ball with his back, turned and broke through, and suddenly passed the ball to Lefu who moved to the bottom corner, who faced Nowitzki's defense and opened the score for the Cavaliers again, James was still not optimistic.