Chapter 1280: Chapter 405: If You All Want to Be MJ So Badly, I’ll Make It Happen for You

Even a person like that can become a two-time champion coach, so Mike Brown thinks he can too.

This hostility towards Spoelstra is quite common among the younger coaching crowd.

Also in their early thirties, many coaches are still doing miscellaneous tasks within the team, yet Erik Spoelstra already has two rings with a great team. This excellence inevitably provokes jealousy, and jealousy is fertile ground for hate to grow.

Tonight, Mike Brown will make Erik Spoelstra pay the price for his boldness.

The Warriors’ press-trap defense may temporarily restrain the Cavaliers, but how will they solve the stamina issue?

It’s only a matter of time before the Warriors collapse, Mike Brown is convinced of that.

He and LeBron James will take a historic step tonight!

During the first quarter of the game, the Warriors once relied on fierce aggressive pressure to gain the upper hand.

The Warriors’ defensive enthusiasm is the closest Mike Brown has seen to the New York Knicks. As everyone knows, defense requires unconditional passion, and this passion is often difficult to sustain.

Most teams will experience a decline in defensive enthusiasm at some point during the game.

The Knicks have KG, a walking booster, so that team can maintain defensive intensity for all 48 minutes.

The Warriors this season are like that too, time and time again, Jason Richardson and Tayshaun Prince tirelessly shadow James. Time and time again, the whole team rotates and positions tirelessly.

From the first minute of the match, this enthusiasm has never ceased.

James had no real scoring opportunities; he could only helplessly pass the ball over and over again, watching Larry Hughes, a half-hearted scorer, squander chance after chance with his unreliable jump shots.

Although Larry Hughes averaged 22 points per game last season, he is not a good scorer. In fact, his jump shot ability is only slightly better than Jason Kidd’s. Apart from finishing at the rim, Larry Hughes doesn’t have a single shot position that can be considered efficient; his defensive value far exceeds his offensive value.

At the beginning of the century, guards who were more about defense than offense were common, like Eric Snow and Aaron McKie.

The biggest problem with Larry Hughes is that he’s not good but loves to shoot.

Whether it’s Eric Snow or Jason Kidd, knowing their shooting ability is weak they wouldn’t shoot excessively.

But Larry Hughes is like those people who flaunt what they lack, just like short Japanese being obsessed with big things.

After receiving a pass from James, Larry Hughes often did not overthink before raising his hands to shoot.

This made the already chaotic Cavaliers offense even worse.

Although, for the Warriors apart from Roger and Jason Richardson, others also lacked touch. Relying on defense, the Warriors still gradually widened the point gap.

Spoelstra’s thinking is correct, shooting form might let you down, but defense will never go astray.

Hank Egan looked nervously at Mike Brown time and again, but that guy just sat there, silent.

Finally, in the eighth minute of the game, the Warriors had a problem.

On this possession, Roger leaned on Larry Hughes to break through to mid-range. Despite having the size of a second position, Larry Hughes weighed less than 90 kg, which put him at a disadvantage in confrontations.

LBJ and AK47 both went to trap Roger, creating a situation where three Cavaliers were defending against him.

Roger immediately jumped up in the air and found Jason Richardson.

But Jason Richardson’s wide-open jump shot bounced off the rim.

And this was already his second consecutive miss from a wide-open shot.

“Damn!” Jason Richardson wiped his sweat and quickly returned to defense.

Just past half-court, Larry Hughes was already driving the ball up. He isn’t a good shooter, but he’s definitely a counterattack expert.

Jason Richardson tried to move laterally to block Larry Hughes, under normal circumstances this task would be easy for him.

But this time when he moved laterally to block, Larry Hughes just brushed past him, Richardson’s lateral move was a half-step slow.

Hughes charged into the restricted area, faced the chasing Little Prince, made an airborne backhand pass to the trailing James, who powerfully slammed the ball for a score.

The Quicken Loans Arena regained vitality, as this play narrowed the Cavaliers’ gap to just 3 points.

The bottom of the TV screen displayed: Cavaliers are leading a 7-0 scoring run.

In the past few possessions, the Warriors who originally controlled the game were overwhelmed by the Cavaliers on both ends.

At this time, Mike Brown on the bench finally said a sentence to Hank Egan: “Look, we don’t need to adjust anything.”

Warriors pause the game, Mike Brown stands up amidst the cheers, enjoying the feeling of controlling everything.

The reason for the Warriors’ sudden stall was simple, their stamina consumption was greater than the Cavaliers.

The relentless pressuring made the Warriors players tire more easily, it also wore out their touch.

Mike Brown was just waiting for this moment; he knew Erik Spoelstra was digging his own grave.