The strongest champion puzzle

Chapter 259 The Spurs in the New Season
Losing immediately after a big victory, netizens can ridicule that it is the law of character conservation, but the team has to reflect.

The issue of Cavaliers' defense was brought up again.

If Ty Lawson, a guard who has not yet reached the All-Star level, can also make the Cavaliers' defense become a sieve, will the team still want to compete for the championship.

Irving's defense, Love's defense, and the team's overall defense have all been criticized enough.

James can only criticize offense, while Zhang Xiaotian criticizes stealth, because the two of them can defend well.

How to improve the team's defense is also a headache for the Cavaliers' coaching staff.

In fact, Zhang Xiaotian and James are two outstanding players in personal defense, which is not bad, and ordinary players are also configured like this.

For Love, he has rebounds and a certain amount of one-on-one defense, plus offense, you can't ask him for more.

Irving's talent on the offensive end is even more prominent, and young people cannot be counterproductive.

Team defense is actually defensive rotation and assisting defense. Defensive rotation can be practiced. If assisting defense, it may be faster to trade here.

The Cavaliers' strongest defense is James. Even if James plays inside, it is still not enough. Bosh's defense is also good in the Heat, so for the time being, the team has nothing to do.

The assistant coach in charge of defense, Tyronn Lue, can only actively communicate with the players, so that the team can raise the defensive atmosphere as much as possible.

As a former league player, Tyronn Lue is very good at communicating with players.

The next game will be against the Spurs at home. To be honest, the players also pay more attention to it.

James is still in the semi-coach mode. From the training point of view, the Cavaliers' defense is still turning for the better.

It's just that if something like defense collapses a little bit, it may collapse faster than offense.

So the defensive end has to pay more anger, and many teams don't have the patience.

It's not a matter of patience for the Cavaliers. If they want to compete for the championship, they must do it.

The Spurs can be regarded as Zhang Xiaotian's old club, and when he fought against the Spurs again, his name was mentioned again.

The main reason is that the previous two champions were with the Spurs and defeated the Spurs. It is estimated that as long as he plays against the Spurs, he will be brought out once.

The embarrassment should be the Spurs, after all, they didn't keep Zhang Xiaotian.

"I understand the Spurs' choice. They just need a second team helper. They may feel that my strength is stronger."

When facing the reporter, Zhang Xiaotian joked, "But this happened a long time ago, we should talk about some new news."

The Spurs have not changed much this season from last season, they have always remained the same in the West, and have been competitive in the West, although their Dinghaishenzhen is one year older.

Because of Splitter's injury, when he came to Cleveland, the Spurs chose Diaw to start.

Diaw doesn't need to defend James now, but Danny Green has to defend Zhang Xiaotian.

Now that the outside world calls the Cavaliers the Big Four, Zhang Xiaotian is actually a little embarrassed. His statistics still haven't reached this level, and the giants in the fourth quarter are about the same.

Zhang Xiaotian has relatively many contacts with his former teammates of the Spurs, but the Heat who left not long ago do not have a deep relationship.

The hometown team and the first team must be different. They meet twice in the regular season every season, and they are regarded as gatherings of old friends.

The Cavaliers can actually learn from the Spurs' defense. The Spurs also have players who are good at single defense and bad at single defense. In the league, they are a team that combines individual defense and overall defense.

However, the old stone Buddha's defense ability is still there, and this knight can't match it.

For example, Danny Green, who Zhang Xiaotian is going to face today, is also a guy who is good at personal defense and defense. Zhang Xiaotian also needs to learn from him in defense, but because of his position, Zhang Xiaotian still has a way to deal with him.

The other is even more troublesome, and that is Leonard, who is also good at single defense and auxiliary defense.

At the start of the game, Duncan actually forced the Cavaliers' insiders, and it is estimated that it depends on the person.

When he was physically strong, the Cavaliers really couldn't defend against him.

His physical strength has dropped, but his strength has not. It can only be said to be powerful.

Relatively speaking, it is much more difficult for the Cavaliers to play against a team like the Spurs.

But there's no shame in it, and a stalemate with the Spurs is better than a stalemate with a team with a poor record.

When he lost the game, Waiters' shooting rate felt pretty good. This time he met the Spurs, he was sluggish again.

The Cavaliers have high expectations for him, and it is almost cold now.

Fortunately, Ginobili is also habitually striking the iron, and the two sides' points increase is slow, and the fight is fierce.

In the second quarter, Duncan lost the previous vitality, but Irving on the Cavaliers felt it.

The Spurs' record is not bad at the beginning, but it feels like Parker is getting old, and he can no longer take advantage of the contest with Irving.

Leonard is getting better and better, but his opponent is James, it's good to be able to resist, and it's still too young to become a strong point.

The Spurs' usual strengths didn't take advantage of them, but Dior played brilliantly against the weakest link of the Cavaliers.

"Zhang, do you feel depressed? My defensive skills have become stronger." Danny Green said proudly.

"What qualifications does a person with zero eggs have to speak? Your defensive skills are stronger, so I'm not going to take the best defense." Zhang Xiaotian scorned.

Danny Green is speechless. He can't say that his offensive level is poor, although that is a fact.

Zhang Xiaotian didn't score a few goals in the first half, but he successfully blocked Danny Green. Zhang Xiaotian has the most experience in dealing with Danny Green who needs his teammates to feed the ball.

The Spurs took the lead in the first quarter, and the Cavaliers led by 3 points in the second quarter.

When it came to halftime, both teams were thinking about their ideas. It hasn't been long since the start of the season, and neither team wants to be polite.

Diaw is not an insider with a pure style of play. If the Cavaliers want to target the Spurs, it may be better to be a big or a small.

It's a pity that there are still few suitable players in the team's four small teams. Waiters is cold and is now ranked behind Joe Harris. It's just that Joe Harris' ability is not outstanding enough. Against a strong team like the Spurs, I don't know how effective it will be. How about it.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Cavaliers' increase in intensity was still effective.

But the old fritters like the Spurs are not so easily defeated.

And as soon as the rotation time came, the Spurs quickly reversed the situation, using outside shots to turn the score again within minutes.

The Cavaliers missed a single three-pointer in the third quarter. Not only did the head coach David Blatt feel the danger, but the players on the field also played uncomfortable.

It can't go on like this, we must take advantage of the small gap in the score to reverse the situation again.

So at the beginning of the final quarter, Zhang Xiaotian faced Ginobili in front of him and ran into him mercilessly.

For the aging Spurs, how to defend in the final quarter is a problem they couldn't solve in the finals last season.

(End of this chapter)