LeBron James, your house got robbed.

After both teams had a day off, Game 2 of the first round of the playoffs began, and a similar scenario played out as if copied and pasted.

Before the game, Chandler received his Defensive Player of the Year award and gave a long speech thanking his teammates, coaches, and general manager.

However, the Southern California farm boy's skills were far inferior to Tyronn Lue's, and his speech clearly showed signs of being memorized.

The content of the competitions is largely the same.

The Cavaliers tightly guarded Anthony, trying their best to prevent him from receiving the ball, with Ariza and Leonard constantly on his heels throughout the game.

Anthony didn't even manage to score any of the difficult shots in this game.

Stoudemire also encountered difficulties; he tried other offensive methods but could not shake off Garnett's entanglement.

After all, a defensive master like him, by opening up more driving lanes, can inevitably excel in other areas.

Forced into the paint, he took off again and unleashed a powerful attack. However, today's champion, with the added boost of DPOY, fought even harder, putting all his strength into a head-on confrontation with Stoudemire.

Nobody wants to be dunked on the night they win Defensive Player of the Year.

In fact, it has been proven that Chandler's physical condition was much better than Stoudemire's.

However, more aggressive and tougher strategies have also brought some negative effects.

To prevent Stoudemire from dunking on him, Chandler stepped out of the paint and preemptively blocked Stoudemire's point of contact, making it very difficult for the latter.

To be honest, this defense has a Garnett-esque feel to it; it's highly likely that KG gave it some pointers.

But the result was that Turiaf, known as the French Butcher, had a breakout performance, grabbing 5 offensive rebounds, many of which led to second-chance points.

Chen Shuo could sense Garnett's aging. Two or three years ago, if Garnett had made a similar play and brought Stoudemire to Chandler, he would have had time to get back and retrieve the rebound.

Fortunately, the Cavaliers' chances of winning are so great that this little incident won't cause any ripples.

The injury to guard Shumpert has laid bare the Knicks' weak defense.

Even Thompson was driving to the basket and attacking the Knicks' rim.

The Cavaliers ultimately won another game at home with an easy 115-83 victory.

This game completely shattered the morale of the Knicks players.

Stoudemire, who only scored 13 points in the game, vented his anger on the fire hydrants in the player tunnel after the game.

He ultimately cut his arm on glass, an accident that caused him to miss Game 3 with the Cavaliers.

This quickly became the biggest highlight of this series.

When Chen Shuo heard about this, he was both amused and exasperated. He hadn't expected that even after the Knicks changed opponents, Stoudemire still couldn't let go of the fire hydrant.

Paul's agent, Leon Rose, is also Anthony's agent, and his main business is based in New York.

Therefore, before this series, Paul also brought up some rumors from within the Knicks.

Last season, the Knicks quietly engaged in internal strife, with D'Antoni becoming the sacrificial lamb and scapegoat.

According to Paul, Stoudemire was never involved.

However, since Anthony joined, ball possession has been significantly reduced, his mentor has left the team, there has been a lack of adaptation to the tactical system, and the team faces immense pressure regarding its performance.

In addition, Stoudemire was plagued by injuries and was unable to find his form. He also experienced the grief of losing his older brother in the middle of the season.

All these suppressed emotions need an outlet.

It's not hard to understand why someone would smash a fire hydrant.

After taking a commanding 2-0 lead, they finally had two days of rest.

During this period, the Cavaliers Roundtable stopped focusing on the Knicks and started paying attention to other matchups.

The Pacers and Hawks are tied 2-0 in the top half of the bracket, alongside the Cavaliers and Knicks.

Rumors suggest that Horford will make a surprise return in Game 3, but Chen Shuo remains pessimistic about the Hawks' chances.

The Pacers are such a disciplined team that they are the perfect counter to egalitarian teams like the Hawks.

The starting five are all good, but their ability to break through defenses in the playoffs is lacking. Even Hawks star Joe Johnson struggles to carry the team when facing George's close defense.

At the same time, it must be made clear that before the vertical jump rule came out and Hibbert became like Gao Yuanyuan, he could not only be a major weapon on the defensive end.

As a center, Hibbert has a certain degree of independent offensive ability.

It's not a big deal in this era, but in crucial playoff games, especially with Hawks' starting center Al Horford injured, it's enough to severely punish the Hawks' defense.

Low-post offense may be time-consuming, laborious, and unrewarding, but that doesn't mean it's completely unusable.

In the original timeline, during the Cavaliers-Warriors rivalry, the Cavaliers dared to use Mozgov to severely punish the Warriors' interior defense against the Warriors' spacing defense.

Jokic's core skill later on was low-post offense; without it, other skill combinations would be difficult to utilize effectively.

Therefore, in a playoff series that spans an entire round, any offensive method, tactical system, or player can become the straw that breaks the balance of victory.

Chen Shuo has already begun to have the Cavaliers' coaching staff fully engaged in studying the Pacers' game footage and player habits.

The Cavaliers will most likely get past the Pacers, but the manner in which they do so will make a big difference.

Making the veteran play all seven games and then having him deal with the Heat's full-court double-teaming is basically a death sentence.

In the lower bracket, the second-ranked Bulls and the seventh-ranked Philadelphia 7ers are tied 1-1.

Without Rose, the Bulls and the already lackluster offense of the 76ers raised the intensity of the game to an unbelievable level, shattering the flow and coherence of the game and turning it into a contest of utter failure.

Let's see who can score and win in this high-intensity, high-stakes competition.

The other matchup is between the third-ranked Heat and the sixth-ranked Magic, a Florida showdown.

Dwight Howard suffered a season-ending back injury before the playoffs, playing his last game for the Magic.

This meant that the Magic were completely unable to cause the Heat any trouble or losses.

Its ease was no less than that of the Cavaliers vs. Knicks game.

Nevertheless, Chen Shuo still took the time to quickly review the recordings of the two games between the Heat and the Magic, trying to find some clues.

After looking at it for a while, he did find some strange things.

For reasons unknown, Spoelstra had Bosh bring back the face-up offense, which repeatedly destroyed Ryan Anderson and Glen Davis, who were matched up against him.

Moreover, in these two games, Bosh was clearly the main offensive force, with James and Wade playing supporting roles.

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Chen Shuo stared at Bosh on the screen, completely unsure of the Heat's intentions.

Bosh can indeed bully Ryan Anderson and Glen Davis, but can he really perform well against Garnett?

And to top it off, Chandler was also standing in the paint.

It's important to know that although Bosh's shooting range is getting longer, most of his face-up attacks end up at the rim.

Bosh's ability to distribute the ball when facing the basket is very limited. Once he faces the basket a lot, he will be caught in a pincer attack by Garnett and Chandler, which is quite a sight.

Chen Shuo could understand why the Heat gave up on letting James be the primary scorer.

After all, the Cavaliers' defensive formation is too effective against push-type forwards.

Although he didn't know how Riley convinced James to give up possession of the ball.

This seemed almost impossible to him.

Regardless of the reason, James should not be giving up possession of the ball at this moment.

But judging from these two games, the Heat did indeed rely on Bosh as their primary offensive option.

From the perspective of dealing with the Cavaliers, Wade should have been the more suitable primary scorer.

Chen Shuo had no idea what the fortune teller was up to this time.

But it definitely wasn't because of the Magic's lineup change, after all, the Magic's roster strength after losing Howard was far inferior to the Heat's.