NBA: Trading Westbrook at the beginning shocked Lao Zhan

"Really, old guy, then come and try."

Jokic lowered his center of gravity, his eyes fixed on James' core position.

When a person is attacking, the footsteps and shoulders will change, but the core position of the person will basically not move. As long as the defender keeps an eye on the change of the core position, he can effectively predict the offensive movement of the attacker!
This trick really worked. James did a few moves but did not mobilize Jokic's center of gravity. It can be seen that Jokic is still very good at defense.

At this time, the 24-second attack time is running out. After James took a step away, he kicked the ground and used his speed to force Jokic.

Although Jokic has a good defensive awareness, he is a center after all. It is difficult to match James in terms of speed, and he was squeezed by James in one step!
Gordon on the outside line saw this and ran over to defend, but James had no fear, instead of choosing to score the ball outward, he jumped directly and dunked.

Gordon struggled to take off to block the shot, but he took off a little later, and the takeoff height was a bit lower than James!
James held the ball with one hand in the air, and blocked Gordon with the other hand in front of him.

After that, bam!
James dunks the ball into the basket through Gordon!

"Oh oh oh, shit! shit! James dunks Gordon!!"

Barkley stood up in front of the technical stage, shouting exaggeratedly.

"OMG! It's crazy, this is how a star player should respond!"

"It's impossible for you to think that this is something a veteran can do!"

O'Neill couldn't sit still anymore, and praised James with a surprised expression.

As the two said, this dunk is really explosive, and it can definitely win the top five goals today!

But the Nuggets fans didn't want to see this scene. The fans stood up and put their heads in their hands. They were surprised that the home court was quiet!
"However, Gordon did a good job. His supplementary defense has posed a certain threat to James!"

Barkley seemed to realize that something was wrong with his words. After all, he was at the home court of the Nuggets, so he quickly turned the topic and praised Gordon's supplementary defense.

"You are right. Gordon is a good defensive player. This is the way to defend this kind of ball. Even if you will be dunked 10 times out of 9, you still have to jump!"

O'Neal also nodded in agreement, echoing Barkley's praise of Gordon's defense.

"Okay, let's see how the Nuggets respond!"

After speaking a few words, O'Neill hurriedly turned his attention to the playing field.

At this time Jokic was holding the ball on the three-point line and confronting Dyke.

"Is there no one in the Lakers team? Why are you still guarding me?"

"It's too easy to hit you. Do the Lakers want me to break the record for the highest score in a single game?"

Jokic stared at Deckard in front of him, babbling trash talk.

Deckard didn't fight back, but just stared at Jokic's movements intently.

Unexpectedly, Deckard kept silent, like a boring gourd, Jokic made fun of himself, lowered his center of gravity and prepared to attack.

Pretend to break through to the right to adjust Deckard's center of gravity, then make a cross step, squeezing out half of Deckard's body.

Taking advantage of his size, Jokic used this half-step distance to continue grinding inside.

Grinding hard to the basket, Jokic squeezed Deckard away, hit the rebound and hit the basket.

"Well done, well done Deke, well defended, keep doing it!"

Vogel loudly encouraged Deckard, who was defending hard, from the sidelines.

Don't look at Jokic's high efficiency since the opening, but under Dyke's defense, Jokic's few shots were not easy, and his physical strength was exhausted!
"James, implement our strategy!"

Vogel yelled at James from the sidelines.

At this time, Jokic was a little tired, and Vogel simply let James continue to singles Jokic to consume his energy!
Holding the ball to the frontcourt, the Nuggets were afraid of the Lakers' three-pointers and continued to choose man-to-man.

James continued to maintain the previous strategy, calling a pick-and-roll to replace the defender with Jokic.

James struggled to break through, constantly using his strong body to attack Jokic.

There is no doubt that James' physical fitness is at a historical level. Although he is very old at this time, his physical fitness has not declined too much.

Even though Jokic's defensive ability is not bad, he still can't hold on after eating so many confrontations from James.

Bang, bang, bang!
The sound of Jokic and James' physical confrontation was loud, and the wild physical collision made the photographer with the camera on the bottom line unable to help but be terrified.

After carrying James' body a few times again, Jokic finally lost his defensive position, and James made a successful layup.

Covering his reddened chest, Jokic couldn't help but gasped.

The head coach of the Nuggets also saw Jokic's embarrassment, and he quickly shouted: "Guys, 1, play No. 1 tactic!"

Hearing what the head coach said, Monta Morris, who had the ball in the frontcourt, nodded to express his understanding.

Going to the frontcourt, Monta Morris directs the movement of his teammates.

Next, the Nuggets players ran quickly, and the basketball circulated among the players!
It can be seen that the Nuggets head coach wants other Nuggets players to participate in the offense to disperse Jokic's offensive pressure!
But the other players of the Lakers defended very well. For several rounds, the Nuggets ran for a long time and had no good chances. Most of the balls could only be handed over to Jokic.

The Lakers continued the previous strategy, James and other players took turns looking for Jokic to consume!
In this way, after the first quarter, the Nuggets scored 28 points better than the Lakers by 24 points!
Although relying on Jokic's efficient singles in the first quarter, the Nuggets still have a 4-point lead, but their head star Jokic's physical strength has been consumed a lot, and the situation is not optimistic!
The situation on the Lakers' side is much better. Vogel has a lot of soldiers that can be used, and he can make a lot of adjustments during the rest time.

"Hey, in the next quarter, we will play a big lineup, James, Johnson, Gary Clark, Howard, Gabriel, five of you, we will play inside!"

"When defending, Howard went to face Jokic and try to give him physical confrontation!"

Vogel was engrossed in arranging the strategy for the second quarter, completely oblivious to the fact that Westbrook's frown on the bench was getting deeper.