How fierce is the three heights of the knight's strange flower? Basketball Defense League No. 1 Manager: Team Building imitates champion Lakers and Bucks

This season, the Cavaliers are the most surprising team in the league. The Cavaliers' formation of the frontcourt three highs was not optimistic, but unexpectedly, the Cavaliers' strange three highs received miraculous effects, their inner defensive league first, the overall defensive efficiency league second only to the Warriors.

In the past few years, the league has indeed set off a wave of small ball, but in fact, from the 2020 and 2021 finals, height advantage and defense are still very important. The Lakers and Bucks were able to win the championship by relying on excellent interior defense and height advantages. In the face of the Lakers and Bucks' height advantage, the Heat, who like to push Adebayo to the fifth position, and the Sun, which has dropped significantly when Ayton is off the field, are unable to fight back.

So in the offseason, the Cavaliers imitated the Lakers and Bucks' team building ideas when building the team, trying to improve the height of the frontcourt and prioritize the interior defense. The Cavaliers not only gave Jarrett Allen a big five-year, $100 million contract, but also selected Ivan Mobley with the number three pick in the draft. The 2m13 Mobly and 2m11 Allen were not done, and the Cavaliers got the 2m13 Markkanen by signing first and then swapping him, and pushed him to the third position.

Such a tall frontcourt lineup, looking at the league, the Cavaliers can be described as unique. Cavaliers general manager Altman said: "We've watched a lot of footage and studied the championships over the last few years, and they're all teams that are very good defensively. The Bucks own Antetokounmpo and Brooke Lopez. The Lakers have LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Dwight Howard, they all play big lineups, and they all win championships. ”

Although the Cavaliers say that they imitate the Lakers and Bucks, in fact, they are more extreme than the Lakers and the Bucks, and their starting frontcourt trio is more than 2 meters 10 meters tall, while the Lakers and The Bucks are not more than 2 meters 06. When the Cavaliers entered the rotation time, Kevin Love came on, and their height still did not drop too obviously, because The Knights were 2 meters 03 tall, and the Height of the Cavaliers still had a huge advantage against those teams that liked to play small lineups during the rotation time.

The height advantage, combined with Allen and Mobley's formidable ability to guard the basket, led the Cavaliers to play the league's best under-basket defense, putting them at 59.3 percent from the three-second zone, top no. 1 in the league. In terms of basketball defensive dominance, the Cavaliers learned the essence of the Lakers and Bucks.

"Opponents can really feel the pressure that our height advantage gives them," Cavaliers coach Bixtaff said.

In fact, the Offseason Cavaliers' introduction of Mobley and Markkanen was questioned a lot, but now that Mobly and Allen are now one of the best frontcourt combinations in the league, Markkanen's role in the cavalier system is more obvious than when he played for the Bulls before.

Altman said: "We don't think Mobley is a player with a character very much like Allen, we feel they can coexist. ”

The Cavaliers are currently in 5th place in the East, and they have a good chance of hitting the top 4 in the East. Altman thinks the team has a bright future, and Bikstaff also said: "We haven't finished evolving yet, but we like where the team is now. ”