"Coach, it seems that LeBron is really happy to have won this award, but to be honest, it's really a bit surprising. I thought this award must be from the big guy from the West again."

On April 24, 2008, at the training hall of the Manhattan Challengers, the players who had just defeated the Cavaliers yesterday began to get excited early in the morning. Of course, this was also the news that they received early in the morning that James won the league's best defensive player this season. You know, although this award is not an award like MVP, it is definitely very attractive to these players.

Even in terms of value content of all the regular season awards, it is second only to MVP. After all, MVP is regarded as an all-round award for players' offense, defense and team record, and the league does not have the Best Offensive Player Award. In this case, the Best Defensive Player is naturally second only to MBP, which is much better than the so-called fastest-progressive and sixth man.

James, a player who was called a data brush two years ago, was at this time, and the head of the Manhattan Challenger player came to the team early this morning and couldn't believe it when he got the news from Zhuang Fei. However, in the end, Zhuang Fei repeatedly confirmed that he had reluctantly reacted. He had won any honors in NBA.

When he was in the NBA, he was once the best rookie in the league. At that time, he and Anthony were also very glorious. However, the next three years were completely in the dark period of the Hawks, and he was completely in the blank period. Anthony was still making great progress, while he was still standing still and even sinking. The descent in recent years made James even forget that he could still gain recognition from others. This unexpected surprise proves that he has indeed gained the re-recognition of those experts now.

This is a very landmark thing for himself. After all, James is a player who cares a lot about other people's opinions, and in a sense he is very similar to Garnett.

"I hope he can start from now and surpass himself again. This award does not mean that it is the highest or strongest." Zhuang Fei smiled and said, looking at the young forward who was excited by his teammates.

Zhuang Fei is also very happy that James was able to win the Best Defensive Player Award. For him, he is still optimistic about the league's rebounding champion this year. However, this season, James played a very outrageous defensive data, averaging 9.5 rebounds, 2.2 blocks and 2.3 steals per game. The two players who can achieve this data are Duncan and Garnett, both of whom are the best defensive players in the league.

Of course, for Zhuang Fei, James' defensive data is very beautiful and can be called the top in the league at present. In terms of data, there is no problem with him as the best defensive player, but some defenses are not reflected by data. Although James' defense is good, he has not reached the level of Duncan or Garnett. In a sense, Zhuang Fei still appreciates Kwame Brown's defense more. The strongest defensive center in the league is really the kind of player who has his own defensive system. There are only two such players in the league, one is Duncan and the other is Kwame Brown.

However, it is a pleasure for James to be able to make a comeback successfully. Now the league's media experts are paying more and more attention to data, which is not too bad. Although the Manhattan Challenger's defense will not change too much because James won the best defensive player, this is also an incentive for the Manhattan Challenger players.

Of course, James won the best defender this season, but James did not enter the first team of the best defensive team. The best defensive team announced at the same time as the best defensive player, the first defensive team was still controlled by Kwame Brown, Duncan, Garnett, Carter and Lagabe, while the second team was O'C, Howard, James, Kobe and Bowen.

Of course, the Best Defensive Player cannot enter the Best Defensive Team for a team. This is not a strange thing. After all, the votes for the two awards are not a group of people. The Best Defensive Player is chosen by the reporters, so this is also the reason why Howard has been crazy about storming before. Many times, when choosing players, reporters will not recall the performance of players in a game, nor will they remember what a player performs in a game. More often, they will look at the direction of public opinion, which means that they can easily make their own subjective judgments. Some reporters even just pick up data statistics and select people in data statistics.

The best defensive lineup was chosen by the head coach, which is more objective. Obviously, in the minds of the NBA coaches, Duncan is still the one with the highest score, which is also Duncan who has been the best defensive lineup for ten consecutive years. Although he only had the best defensive player in his career, James only ranked seventh, so he ranked second.

During the best period, the NBA's major awards were slowly being awarded, and the NBA's playoffs have also entered a few anxious stages, especially for the Wizards and the Bobcats, which Zhuang Fei has always paid great attention to. In terms of overall strength, the Wizards' strength is not just one level higher than the Bobcats. The level of the players of the two teams is almost not on the same level. However, in many people's opinion, such a series that is no suspense. As the second Wizards in the East was forced into a desperate place by the Bobcats. In the third game of the two sides on April 24, the Wizards' first away game, lost to the Bobcats again with a score of 93-97. After three games, the Wizards fell behind 1-2. Even if they won the second game, they finally won by Nash's final victory. I'm afraid for the Wizards, they never dreamed that their team would encounter such great difficulties in the first round of the playoffs.

"Coach, I finally know why you said that the Bobcats restrained the Wizards before the start of this round of series. This is not just restraint. It's simply that all the Wizards' weaknesses are facing the Bobcats' strength. It's incredible."

In Zhuang Fei's office, Zhuang Fei and his assistant, also a student, Kenny Walker, had just watched the third game of the two teams. The Wizards' away loss made Kenny Walker still a little amazed at this time, especially when he recalled the game just now, he was even more excited. The advantages of the Bobcats are actually very simple, nothing more than Marbury's breakthrough layup or pass, the team's defensive speed, and Gerald Wallace's comprehensive offensive ability and support ability in the fourth position. This is a very simple team.

But such a simple team made the Wizards have no choice. When Marbury broke through, Kevin Martin, who was against him, was almost taken one step every time. Moreover, Marbury often even if he hit the basket and completed a layup, Stoudemire could only watch. The Suns were too slow on the defensive end. Three games made Marbury often scored more than 30 points, directly turning the former lone wolf into a crazy wolf. If Marbury went so crazy, no one would be able to stop him.

As for another point, the Wizards' outside defense and defensive speed are not mentioned. Whether it is Bale, Marbury or Rondo, they are defensive players who can block the Wizards' rapid attack. In particular, Rondo's control of Nash simply made Zhuang Fei and Kenny Walker amazed. Of course, Rondo, a young man, was naturally because Green was too familiar with Nash. Perhaps compared to Zhuang Fei, Green was not bad at all familiar with Nash.

So every time I saw Rondo wait until 24 seconds to put the ball directly on the court when he had no chance to pass, Kenny Walker really admired him. He had never seen this strategy of disrupting the offensive rhythm of the Wizards. It can be said that in Kenny Walker, the senior brother who looked very gentle, had a strategy in his heart, which was not as gentle and simple as he usually looked.

Of course, although the Wizards start five players, four of them are all at the colander level, at least there is one Marion that can be used. This Wizards' "Putting Man" used to have holes to repair wherever they were, but now he is entangled by Gerald Wallace and it is difficult for him to protect himself. Obviously, Green intends to let Wallace restrain Marion. Wallace's role in this round of series is very simple, which is to keep cutting, especially the empty cut on the weak side, and does not give Marion any chance to fill up. This is also the reason why the Wizards played so awkwardly in this round of series.

It can be said that judging from the first three games, Green and D'Anthony's battle against brothers, Green won completely. If it weren't for Nash's magical three-pointer in the middle circle in the second game, the Wizards' score was 0-3. Even if there is no 0-3 now, the situation has reached a desperate situation. For D'Anthony, who is not very responsive and has been holding on to run and shoot without any other tactical systems, Zhuang Fei is really sweating for him now. You know, Green he faces is a tactical kaleidoscope, and he is not much worse than Mark Allen in terms of tactical qualities.

Of course, at this time, the Wizards fell into a desperate situation, which was a surprise to many media in the United States. For Zhuang Fei, although he was a little surprised by Green's excellent performance in this round of the series, there was no doubt that compared with the Wizards' match between the Bobcats, Zhuang Fei's own game was also more important.

On April 25, the third game between the Manhattan Challengers and the Cavaliers was officially launched at the Cavaliers' home court, Gund Arena.

This playoff game between the Manhattan Challengers and the Cavaliers still caused a sensation in Cleveland. Cleveland fans were very good to Zhuang Fei, which is beyond doubt. Zhuang Fei gave their team's most popular player in history a championship ring, and cured all physical and psychological injuries in their team's history. At the same time, he sent back the most popular leader in their team's history without any bargaining. Moreover, Zhuang Fei respected the Cavaliers, a ten-year-old team, in daily interviews or other occasions, which almost made Zhuang Fei the second most popular figure in Cleveland.

In addition, when I was in the Lakers, most Cavaliers fans were short-term fans of the Lakers. It can be said that Zhuang Fei would receive great courtesy from these fans every time he came here. It was like returning to his own territory. Even though Zhuang Fei's team was already leading 2-0 in this round of series, it had reached the pace of sweeping their teams and still had not changed the attitude of these Cavaliers fans. This was also something that touched Zhuang Fei very much.

Of course, Zhuang Fei was very moved and grateful to the attitude of the Cavaliers fans, but Zhuang Fei did not show mercy to the Cavaliers team. After all, for these Cavaliers fans, their team entered the playoffs, they never expected the team to win, especially when they met Zhuang Fei, many Cavaliers fans had briefly become Lakers fans because of Hardaway. The almost invincible image created by Zhuang Fei during the Lakers has now remained in the hearts of Cavaliers fans. In the eyes of many Cavaliers fans, Zhuang Fei is invincible.

So when the Knights met Zhuang Fei, they never thought of defeating Zhuang Fei. They just hoped that the game would be exciting.

The third game between the Manhattan Challengers and the Cavaliers is indeed a wonderful game. Although the Cavaliers know that it is not an easy thing to defeat the Manhattan Challengers and is almost impossible under normal circumstances, in the third game, facing the Manhattan Challengers' first away game this season's playoffs, the Cavaliers players still have the idea to win one. After all, for most away teams, their first away game of the season is often not stable.

However, what made the Cavaliers players who almost fought for the death in this game was a bit embarrassing that although the Manhattan Challenger players were indeed somewhat different from the past in their state, they were not much, and their strength could not allow them to seize such an opportunity. In this case, although the Cavaliers worked very hard throughout the game, they finally lost to the Manhattan Challenger 104-115. This game was a relatively small difference in the score difference between the two teams.

Soon, after defeating the Cavaliers and winning three consecutive victories in this playoffs this year, on April 27, the fourth game between the Manhattan Challengers and the Cavaliers. The Manhattan Challengers may also end the first round of the game. After the defeat of the Manhattan Challengers in the last round, the Cavaliers still did not intend to give up in this game. Although they could not organize better blocking conditions than the last time, the Cavaliers still played very tenaciously in this game. In the end, although the result was 101 to 110, the Cavaliers lost again at home, after the game, the Cavaliers who lost the game received applause from the whole audience.
Chapter completed!