After receiving the ball, Xiaomo calmly shot, scoring a long two-pointer from the top of the arc.

Immediately after, James once again increased the physical confrontation he applied to Qin Yue.

Before the start of the season, James already weighed over 260 pounds (118 kilograms).

If you only look at his bench press results, his strength attribute could earn a score of over 88 in the [Mountain Peak] system's rating framework.

However, since he entered the league, James' biggest problem has been that he hasn't really honed his defensive skills.

During this period, James mainly relied on two defensive tricks.

The first one is called driving away.

The second one is called smashing.

Driving away means that, to conserve energy, James would often allow his opponent's offensive player to rush into the Knight's paint, using his physical talents and the Knight's interior height to complete subsequent chase-down blocks and force the opponent's offense to fail through strong interference.

Smashing refers to, when facing opponents he can physically overpower, the superstar-whistle-protected James uses his physicality, openly condoned by the referees, to show his toughness, instilling fear in his opponents.

But whether it was driving away or smashing, James relied on his historically great physical talents to defend.

With the defensive strategies crafted by Mike Brown surrounding him, James could certainly put up excellent defensive stats on the score sheet, but if during a game he faced opponents he couldn't physically dominate, he would find himself at a loss.

Historically, the players who managed to put up great numbers while matched against James in the finals are the best proof of this.

On the court, with a pick-and-roll and a handoff, Qin Yue received the ball near the free-throw line again and, with a powerful explosive dribble, successfully created space to start his drive.

At this time, James' lateral movement speed was definitely not slow, but having committed his defensive balance too early, he was easily left behind by Qin Yue.

In the Knight's paint, the King's Guard, attracted by Qin Yue's breakthrough, desperately blocked Qin Yue's next drive.

But faced with Qin Yue's ensuing long-distance floater... they were helpless.

This was a new skill Qin Yue painstakingly trained for under Grover's guidance this summer.

Although in his rookie season, Qin Yue had used floaters to finish plays in games, turning it into a truly unbeatable skill required a lot of effort this summer, and Qin Yue still had a long journey ahead.

What is the difficulty of the floater technique?

Is it the motion of flicking the ball out?

Of course not.

The real difficulty of the floater technique lies in judging the distance, controlling the feel, and whether one can still smoothly flick the ball towards the hoop after physical contact, as one does in training.

Grover is eager for Qin Yue to master this skill as profoundly as possible in the future.

Because given Qin Yue's height and wingspan, when he floats the ball on the court... one has to wonder, what exactly can the defenders do to stop him?

At this moment, in the paint, big Z, Gooden, and Pavlovic could only watch Qin Yue's high-arching floater with their eyes.

Swoosh——!

The next second, the basketball swished through the net, leaving the Knight players to sigh one after another.

Seeing this, Qin Yue turned to James, who was preparing to receive the baseline pass, and smiled: "Has no one ever taught you how to defend? Look, your teammates are all sighing at your defense just now."

Knight players: "..."

James: "..."

On the Knight's bench, watching Qin Yue not even spare his good friend, O'Neal suddenly felt relieved.

However...

As O'Neal pondered whether Qin Yue and James' "brotherhood" was merely plastic or superficial, Qin Yue, passing by the Knight's bench, did not forget to "kick" O'Neal, "Hey, the so-called number one center is now only a backup for 'big Z'?"

O'Neal: "..."

Undoubtedly, at this moment, Qin Yue closely resembled a village bully who kicks every dog that crosses his path.

Unfortunately, faced with this extremely arrogant village bully...

Not a single Knight player dared to respond.

On the Warriors' bench, Mike Malone, yawning, said, "The temperament of a team's star player often determines the character of the team.

Our Messiah is undoubtedly a player with a great character.

As for LeBron? I can only hope he grows up soon."

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