The game starts with both sides jumping the ball. Oden didn't have any suspense to get the jump ball with an advantage of being half an arm's length above Bosh.

As soon as Wang Meng caught the ball, he was stunned to find that it was James standing in front of him.

"Are you going to defend me in the first place?" Although there are some surprises, this is still in Wang Meng's expectations, although the current Heat is star-studded, but the real ability to compete with Wang Meng is after Wade's downturn, only James remains.

However, Wang Meng has never paid special attention to James's defensive skills.

Is James strong defensively? It's a matter of opinion, and his defensive intensity is based on his excellent physical qualities. In terms of power and speed, James is one of the top groups in the league, and his height of 2.03 meters also makes him a good performance in defense.

But James has never been a defensive expert, good physical fitness and defense are completely two different concepts, Battier's physical fitness is very average, but he has a foundation that many people can't achieve on the opposite side of defense, which is an important surname of defensive skills.

When defending a player, how to position can make him feel a lot of pressure, his hands there can make it difficult for him to dribble, and when he moves with the opponent as he breaks through, what kind of force should be used to make him feel uncomfortable. These things need to be carefully calculated and considered, and just learning some written defensive skills does not mean that you can become a defensive giant, and the form on the court can change rapidly, and the defenders need to make appropriate adjustments at any time.

But in this regard, James is definitely not as good as Wang Meng, for no other reason, although Wang Meng has been in the league for a short time, but when he first entered the league, he went head-to-head with Kobe, the first person in the league at that time, and his defensive skills had been fully exercised at that time. Not only that, but in the training space provided by the system, Wang Meng has the opportunity to go head-to-head with the league's top superstars almost every day, which also creates Wang Meng's strong defensive ability.

Having said so much, it is just to prove that James's defense is actually not as strong as imagined, James is more about physical fitness plus years of playing experience, and he is not particularly familiar with various defensive skills.

In the face of James's defense, Wang Meng doesn't have much pressure, especially Wang Meng's butterfly walks, and what he is best at is dealing with players like James.

Butterfly wears flower step, the name of this move looks quite powerful and domineering, but in fact, it is just a move that is simply disguised in front of the body and a step together, in the NBA, it is a guard basically everyone can do, but a few can do it as neat as Iverson, moving like lightning. Using continuous disguised dribbling to shake off opponents and rush inside is not something that just one person can do.

After Wang Meng learned the butterfly through the flower step, he was able to use this trick, and Wang Meng used it almost the same as the butterfly through the flower step at the peak of Iverson, if it was in the state of opening the instant explosion, it was even more almost invincible, but after the instant outbreak was opened, Wang Meng could not fully master it until now, and he could only use one or two handsome at ordinary times, and it was basically impossible to defend it.

James is also a breakthrough master, and almost no one can prevent him when he breaks through, but unlike Wang Meng's breakthrough with butterflies, James's breakthrough is based on his physical fitness.

With his huge and very heavy weight, coupled with his very fast speed, James was like a lethal missile when he broke through, and no one rushed to stop it.

James' speed is one of the best even among all players in the league, but this is just to say that his straight-line acceleration, his lateral movement speed is very average, and his huge body and height of 2.03 meters make it impossible for James to move quickly laterally.

Unfortunately, the butterfly step is a very challenging move for the opponent to move laterally. Continuous large dribbling in disguise, even many players with fast lateral movement may not be able to keep up, let alone James?

Wang Meng accelerated to break through, and James immediately met him, straightening his chest and waiting for Wang to slam into him. Wang Meng is not stupid, how can he collide with James when he doesn't open the instant outburst? Quickly swapping the ball from his right hand to his left hand, Wang Meng's breakthrough direction changed instantly.

With Wang Meng's change, James also immediately moved his body in the same direction as Wang Meng, Wang Meng's speed was very fast, and James had to use all his strength to keep up with Wang Meng's speed.

But at this time, Wang Meng dribbled behind his back and switched the basketball in his left hand back to his right hand. Re-rush in the direction of the initial breakthrough.

Now James can't catch up, after all, James weighs too much than Wang Meng, in the case of moving in one direction with all his strength, it takes a long time to stop alone, if you force it to stop, the result will be that your feet can't bear the pressure of speed and slip, commonly known as ankle terminator.

In this way, Wang Meng completely passed James and rushed to the inside.

As the captain of the Heat, Haslem is very strong on the inside, although he is of average height, he is often better than many players who are much taller than him.

It's a pity that he faced Wang Meng this time.

Wang Meng dribbled into the inner line, and suddenly there was an urge to dunk one in his mind.

Wang Meng hasn't dunked for a long time, after all, the playoffs are different from the regular season, blind take-off dunks are easy to be hacked by those red-eyed players, in order to avoid unnecessary injuries, Wang Meng in the playoffs except for those opportunities that are basically undefended, otherwise he will not choose to dunk this offensive method at all.

"Instant explosion!" Looking at the oncoming Haslem, Wang Meng shouted in his heart, and then a surge of force supported Wang Meng to take two big steps at the free throw line and jump high.

Seeing Wang Meng jumping, Haslem did not dodge or dodge, and also jumped up against Wang Meng, and at the same time raised his hands high to cover the basket in front of Wang Meng.

The bodies of the two people collided violently under the basket, Wang Meng only felt a shock to his body, and then Haslem flew out first.

"Drink!" Wang Meng roared, plucked up his hands with all his strength, and slammed the basketball into the basket.

A dunk instantly detonated the atmosphere of the entire New Orleans arena. Hornet fans haven't seen Wang Meng's violent dunk for a long time.

"The power enhancement exploded instantly, and the effect was obviously different." Wang Meng let go of the basket and fell to the ground, looking at the rebound that had just shaken because of his huge power dunk, and thought to himself, "But it seems that the physical exertion has also increased, so you still need to use it carefully." ”

"Haha, it's been a long time since I've seen Wang Meng dunk so passionately! When was the last time Wang Meng did this? Playoffs first round? The regular season? Forget it, I can't remember it clearly, but I've always wondered why Wang Meng's extremely thin body can burst out with such a strong force. O'Neill asked with some curiosity: "According to his lethality, I always feel that I have to weigh at least two hundred pounds to be able to do it." ”

"I think what you are worried about is why Wang Meng's little body can throw you over the shoulder." Barkley glanced sideways at O'Neal and said with a strange smile: "Or maybe O'Neal, you are not as heavy as you look?" ”

"Can we stop talking about it?" O'Neal said depressedly, every time he remembered the terrifying scene of being thrown over the shoulder by Wang and then beaten by the Hornets fans, O'Neal always felt a dull pain in his butt.

was scored by Wang Meng like this, and the Heat's counterattack was immediately launched.

Since the starting point guard was Chalmers, the basketball was in James' hands after halftime.

Defending James is still Wallace, he is in the Hornets, which is equivalent to Ci Shiping in the Lakers, and his job is to be responsible for the defense of the opponent's top soldiers. James' speed is indeed outstanding, and no one can defend against the impact, but Wallace can at least stop James when he is not ready to break through. It seems like it's easy, but the only people in the league who can do it on their own are Wallace of the Hornets, Tzu Shiping of the Lakers and Marion of the Mavericks. For the rest, maybe Celtic's Pierce may be able to block it, but Pierce is old now after all, and he is inferior in physical fitness compared to the previous ones.

James' breakthrough was blocked by Wallace, but it doesn't mean that the Heat's offense has stalled like this, and there are many games against the Hornets, and James knows very well what to do in this situation.

With a slight eye prompt, Haslem, who was slammed into by Wang just now, immediately sneaked over to block James, and the reminder speed of the other members of the Hornets was just a little slower, allowing Haslem to block Wallace.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, James immediately rushed into the interior with this pick-and-roll.

One, two, three, James flew into the air, and after a regular glide in the air, he dunked the basketball into the basket with one hand.

James' acceleration was so fast that it didn't take just three steps for him to rush in from beyond the three-point line and complete the jump. The rest of the Hornets' players simply didn't have time to make up the defense, and Gasol, who was responsible for defending Haslem, was not able to complete the defense task, after all, his speed was too different from James.

In just 30 seconds of the opening game, the Hornets and the Heat scored one on both sides, but in comparison, Wang Meng's dunk after first passing James, and then slamming into Haslem was much more domineering than James' dunk that screamed and blocked.

(To be continued)