Bulls’ Luol Deng sees LeBron James on path to obstruction

So how do you guard LeBron James?

‘‘You try to make everything he does tough,’’ Bulls forward Luol Deng said Friday of the Miami Heat superstar. ‘‘He’s going to make tough shots, he’s going to make tough plays. My job is, every time I’m on him, I don’t want to let him have any easy basket. Every basket, he’s going to work for.’’

Snubbed in the NBA’s All-Defensive Team voting, Deng has a right to have a chip on his shoulder. He was easily the best defender on arguably the best defensive team.

But it’s more about help from his friends than trying to show up the league’s coaches, who didn’t do their All-Defense homework. The Bulls know James can, and will, get the ball to Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and some talented spot-up shooters.

‘‘The thing that makes them so hard to guard is LeBron is such a complete player,’’ coach Tom Thibodeau said. ‘‘And the thing that gets overlooked, not only with LeBron but also with Dwyane Wade, is how unselfish they are. If you overcommit, they’re going to hit the open man.’’