One of the league finals focused on promoting the battle between Chris Paul and LeBron James. They met in high school, and the two geniuses fell in love with each other. They entered the NBA and became superstars, and their friendship grew.

Paul said that James was his best friend. James, on the other hand, said Paul was like a member of his family.

When James was fighting in the Finals in 2007, Paul even brought his girlfriend Jada to Cleveland to live at James' house to take care of pregnant Savana Brinson for James. Paul was the godfather of James' children, and James was the godfather of Paul's children.

The two are the MVP of the regular season last season and the MVP of this season, respectively, and are a highlight of the Finals.

Compared with coaches, the Cavaliers are clearly not opponents. Yang Rui is widely regarded as the best coach, but Adelman has never won a championship. Many experts believe that the gap between the coaches will determine the final outcome of the game.

Seeing this evaluation, Adelman just wants to smash the TV, he is a back-handed person in the Cavaliers, it is James's credit to win, and he will not use people when he loses, and the role players can't give James enough support.

This is the trouble of coaching superstars, except for Yang Rui, no coach can steal the limelight from the stars.

The 13-member expert team formed by ESPN is unanimously optimistic about the Clippers winning the championship, and the two most optimistic about the Cavaliers think that the finals will be tied for seven, but the Clippers still win.

According to an online survey, only Cleveland is the only one in all states in the United States that supports the Cavaliers to win this year's championship, and all other cities are generally optimistic about the Clippers.

The prediction is one-sided, not only because Yang Rui's record is brilliant, but also because the knight's record is too miserable. In Yang Rui's previous life, before the start of this year's finals, the outside world was unanimously optimistic that the Thunder would defeat the Heat to win the NBA championship.

To put it bluntly, the 2003 Big Three are not so brave, and they can enter the finals in a row because the competition in the East is weak, and from the previous life to 2012, only Wade won a championship in 2006 among the stars of the 2003 platinum generation, and the other two giants have been defeated and defeated repeatedly, and their reputation is not supported by their records, but by fans and the league.

What's worse in this life, Wade didn't win the championship in the Heat, he was abused in the Finals like James, and the Big Three only won one game in the Finals after entering the league, with such an embarrassing record, who would be optimistic about them?

Before the game, everyone in the Clippers expressed their confidence in winning the championship, not only to win, but also to win beautifully. On the Cavaliers' side, both the players and the coaches only said that they would try their best and had little confidence.

If the Cavaliers had a player with Jennings' personality at this time, saying that they had beaten the Clippers in 6 games, maybe the morale would have been stronger.

On schedule 232, the Clippers first played two home courts, and on June 13, the first game was played at Staples Arena in Los Angeles.

Before the game, TNT Barkley said: "Staples is Jerry Young's blessed land, after he arrived in Los Angeles, he has only missed the Finals once in five seasons with the Lakers and two seasons with the Clippers, and every year he leads the team is the favorite to win the championship, which is unprecedented in the history of the NBA." ”

Smith said with a smile: "Jerry proved the importance of basketball coaching, after he left, the Raptors, Wizards, and Lakers have all declined significantly, and they have never reached the Finals. ”

Barkley said: "I think Kobe Bryant had a chance to surpass Michael Jordan as long as he had a good relationship with Jerry, at least in honor, but unfortunately he was disobedient and gave up this opportunity, after it was reported that Kobe Bryant was not injured at all in the 2009 playoffs, and it was Jerry who excluded him from the playoff list, and the Lakers won all the playoffs, judging from Kobe's performance after that, this is really possible." ”

After the warm-up, players from both sides stood in the middle of the field.

Clippers starters: Paul, Battier, Gay, Griffin, Chandler.

Cavaliers starters: Chalmers, Wade, Miller, James, Bosh.

Adelman adjusted the lineup, with James playing power forward and Vallejo as the substitute, and this season, James has often played the No. 4 position, whether he likes it or not, it is indeed good for the team.

After entering the league, James's height has grown a little longer, and it has reached 205CM, and the Kings power forward Chris Webber was only 206CM, Webb has always played as a power forward, and James can certainly play.

If there is enough honor, James can do it the way he likes, but as a street star who has not won a championship, he can only accept the arrangement of the coaching staff, because the one he likes has never succeeded.

If it weren't for Adelman's flexible lineup, the Cavaliers would have been sent home by the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, and Miller would have been able to add a consistent three-point shooting point to the starter, which would have been more tactically useful than Vallejo and Grant Hill.

The Clippers attack first, and the game begins.

Paul dribbled outside the three-point line and waited for his teammates to pull away, observing the position, and the Cavaliers were man-to-man.

Paul immediately analyzed that one of the most advantageous heads-up offensive points on the court is himself, Wade defends Guy, James and Griffin, Miller and Battier, will not become a defensive hole.

If it is an attacking defender, he will definitely choose to go heads-up against Chalmers, Paul will not do that, his first goal is to lead the whole team.

He beckoned, Chandler covered in the middle to block Chalmers, Paul burst to the right, and Bosh switched quickly, making it impossible for Paul to break through easily and not be able to shoot.

Paul held the ball and forced a break to 45 degrees, found a small gap to pass the ball to the middle, Chandler cut the ball to accelerate, and only took one step to hit the defending James.

James fell to the ground on his back, and the referee blew the whistle and hit the man with the ball.

Yang Rui frowned on the sidelines, Chandler was close to perfection on the defensive end, and the offense was too bad, as long as he shifted the ball, Griffin would get an open shot, but unfortunately he often didn't see such opportunities.

Zhang Li sighed: "James ranked fourth in the Best Defensive Player selection this year, and this time the filling is really timely, he doesn't just defend with his body, he defends very smartly." ”

Yu Jia said: "James's individual ability is impeccable, and he is the core at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. ”

The Cavaliers attacked, the Clippers used mixed defense, Guy stared at James on the outside, Paul stared at Chalmers, and the other three areas combined defense, shrinking to the restricted area at any time.

This is a common tactic for all teams when dealing with James, only the joint defense can limit him from breaking through the middle of the road, and the periphery must find someone with a similar height and physique to follow James, otherwise he can also jump shots, and the shooting percentage has improved compared to last season. The fast is not as strong as him, and the strong is not as fast as him, James is indeed the most capable player in the NBA at present.

Guy is very smart defensively, putting two steps away from the main defense to break through, and he can slightly interfere with the dry pull-up jumper. The knight has been a knight for four years, and the two know each other.

James forced a break, Guy followed with super physicality, and near the right side of the box, Chandler dropped back to the box.

James jumped to the basket and distributed the ball to the left in the gap, Bosh received the ball from the baseline, and Battier let go of Wade to cover the defense.

Bosh took advantage of the situation to split the ball, and Chandler rushed out to interfere with Wade's shot, and his outstanding defensive awareness was undoubted. Wade missed a jumper under the interference, and Guy grabbed the rebound in the backcourt and waited for Paul to answer.

The Clippers players were also playing in the Finals for the first time, so they were extra careful, and Paul slowly controlled the ball to the frontcourt, this time playing a pick-and-roll with Griffin, and Chandler attracting the defense in the low post.

James switched defenses, and Paul burst out on the left to attract James, and pulled away to Griffin in the middle.

Griffin squeezed Chalmers away and rushed to the basket, dribbled to draw the ball to Bosh's defense, transferred the ball to the right low post, Chandler received the ball and jumped up, and smashed the ball with both hands. 2 to 0.

In the beautiful internal pass, the Clippers opened first.

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