Chapter 817: Internal Contradictions, Overtime Domination
The Clippers maintained their lead in the score, and the atmosphere in the team was quite good.
In terms of strength, Erniu's performance is there, and no Clippers player can reach the level of Erniu on both offensive and defensive ends; in terms of fame, the name of the founder of the Hawks dynasty is indeed bluffing, and there is no third player with championship experience in the team except Chauncey Billups.
Don't look at CP3 from time to time to make a little move, but at best, it is just a subconscious power grabbing behavior by a former team boss, even if Neil O'Hill occasionally comes out as a-stirring stick, Erniu's dominance in the Clippers is still difficult to shake.
The Clippers head coach can take the situation in stride, but the current situation of the Heat head coach is completely different.
As the NBA's first Filipino head coach, Eric Spoelstra was seen by many media as nothing more than a puppet pushed to the front by Pat Riley.
Yes, Spoelstra was just an assistant coach watching videos and scouting before he became head coach, and at the end of the day, he still lacks a convincing coaching resume.
Many fans may still remember the press conference when the Big Three gathered in Miami.
But most people have focused on James' N-crown declaration, but forgot that James said before that that he hoped Riley would come back to coach. (James' exact words were to the effect that Riley would coach the Heat, who have the Big Three, and the team would completely dominate the NBA.) )
This proves from the side that even within the Big Three, there is not enough confidence in head coach Spoelstra.
Just early last season, due to the Heat's poor start to the season, James had a shoulder bump with Spoelstra in a game against the Mavericks.
According to a certain media report, James also set aside the head coach to hold a player meeting, which is very likely to drive out his head coach.
The authenticity of the latter is doubtful, but the shoulder collision with the head coach was captured by the camera lens on the spot.
Although both of them covered it up extremely afterwards, saying that the shoulder bump was just an accident and not something James did on purpose.
But in fact, James has a long history of shoulder bumps, and during his time with the Cavaliers, he was dissatisfied with head coach Mike Brown and bumped him on the shoulder in a game.
James eventually left the Cavaliers to join the Heat, and Brown was fired before James left.
It is also rumored that Wade was also incited by James against Spoelstra, which is undoubtedly a huge disaster for the Heat.
As the Heat's record gradually recovers, the relationship between the head coach and the players has been repaired, and it seems as if nothing happened, but let's not forget that the championship in the 10-11 season is not lost to the Miami Heat.
Since being defeated by the Mavericks in the Finals, the Heat certainly need to learn lessons internally.
Riley even took the initiative to put forward the idea of hoping that James would appear more in the low post in the team meeting.
On the other hand, in fact, the Heat Big Three also raised doubts about Spoelstra's coaching ability, and if Riley hadn't supported the Luzon behind the scenes, he would have been sacked early.
"Don't give the Celestial Empire so many opportunities to shoot calmly, LeBron, Chris, you should go up and put pressure on him on the defensive end as much as possible. Spoelstra said as he gestured on the tactical board.
James and Bosh just nodded, a little bit of a nodder.
"D. Wade, don't give J.J. Redick too much space on the defensive end, do you want a pitcher to blow you up? On the offensive end, you have to take on more responsibility......"
"Okay, I see what you mean, but we can't do everything in the game. D. Wade's tone grew impatient.
Spoelstra continued to say forcefully: "What do you say? Is this the attitude that FMVP should have?"
Wade also stood up at this time and replied, "That's right, I'm FMVP, who are you?"
……
The two forced each other to look at each other for a while, but finally James stood up and separated the two.
Spoelstra is not Pat Riley after all, he has neither dominated the Lakers Shotime, nor commanded the New York gang, and has not stepped up to clean up the mess when the situation collapsed, and unified supergiants like Wade and O'Neal to win the championship again.
Spoelstra's coaching ability may not be as weak as the media suggests, but he does lack a record to back it up.
This is also a common problem in the media in the United States, once you are a minority, as long as you can't get convincing results, you will suffer more accusations and suspicions than others.
Fortunately, the quarrel between D. Wade and Spoelstra is just a passing one, and in fact, when the team is not going well, this kind of quarrel is not suitable to be over-interpreted.
But if it is captured by various media, what comes out of their mouths is probably another story like the sky falling apart.
At halftime, the second half of the game officially began.
Both teams started back on the field.
Paul held the ball over the half, and after Gao Gao and Erniu made a block, he went to the basket, attracted the defense, and sent the ball to Ruan Erniu on the wing, who was interrupted by the referee's whistle before he could make a shot.
Ruan Erniu held the basketball in his hand and looked at Joe Crawford's gestures, the Clippers did not encounter the Lakers tonight, not to mention that this is still the home court of the Clippers, Crawford should not be biased towards the Heat in terms of blowing penalties.
Sure enough, Joe Crawford didn't make a wrong decision, because someone did foul him.
Joel Anthony of the Heat's interior voluntarily fouled Jordan Jr., who then walked to the free throw line.
"Bang!"
Jordan Jr. missed the first shot, and Erniu stepped forward to high-five him and made a calm gesture to him.
"Bang!"
The second penalty is missed again!
Even if you change the way you shoot free throws, it's not going to happen overnight if you want to really improve your free throw percentage.
Bosh protected the backcourt rebounds, and the Heat possessed the ball.
Chalmers possessed the ball past half court and then passed the ball to D. Wade, who faced Redick with a difficult unreasonable three-pointer.
"Brush!"
The Heat caught up.
Erniu suddenly felt a little bad, the Heat really used a slash-and-kill tactic, and the attack was very decisive, and then Joel Anthony fouled Jordan Jr. again on the defensive end.
The former was then replaced by Haslem, who again missed both free throws, including a blue hollow.
Tom Thibodeau didn't hesitate to make a substitution, replacing Jordan Jr. and replacing Yi Jianlian with Kraft to the No. 5 position.
Jordan Jr.'s mentality has taken its toll, and in any case, missing all four free throws isn't the average of his recent games.
What's even more lethal is that on the offensive end of the Heat, James flanked the inside and sent a second pass, and Chalmers, who was ambushed in the bottom corner, received the ball unexpectedly and also hit a three-pointer.
The score was instantly narrowed to within five points, and the Clippers were in trouble.
Thibodeau asked for a timeout, the Clippers needed to calm down, and the Heat's momentum had to be interrupted.
"Don't be slack on the defensive end, I don't want to see the opponent go off the court without being guarded, and whoever doesn't want to defend will do it right away. "Thibodeau is called an assistant coach, but in fact, in the game, the job is not much different from that of a head coach.
Ruan Erniu said solemnly: "Don't forget our goal before the start of the game, the Hot Team is a team that deserves our best to beat!"
It's useless to just talk about it, the real strength of the players still needs to be verified on the playing field.
On the offensive end of the Clippers, Ruan Erniu held the ball in the low post and attracted the double bag of Bosh and James, Manniu sent the ball out in the gap, and Paul waved the ball to the wing at the moment of receiving the ball.
Kawaii is in an unguarded position.
Catch, jump, shoot!
"Brush!"
An expressionless cold face, as if his goal was nothing more than eating and drinking for him.
James gets a foul on the basket with the ball.
Ruan Erniu forced a shot from the bottom corner to hit 2 points.
Paul feints outside the three-point line, and shoots with his hand raised outside the three-point line.
D. Wade got past Redick in one step, pulled up the inside for a layup, and hit a layup under the encirclement of Erniu and Allen.
……
The game finally came to a fever pitch, with the two sides going back and forth in a costly offensive and defensive battle throughout the third quarter.
At 30:25, the Heat won by 5 points in this quarter, bringing the total score to 75:80, and the 5-point difference is not a big deal for a team like the Heat.
The depressed little Jordan sat helplessly on the sidelines, and God knows if Thibodeau will reschedule him on the court this time.
On the commentary bench of TNT, it was the turn of Barkley and others to brag about it.
"In the third quarter, the Heat played quite well, James played especially smart, he was avoiding Kraft Nguyen, if the back was someone else, he was determined to attack with the ball, and if the defender was a Celestial Empire, he chose to use his advantage to guide the whole team. ”
Although Barkley has not looked down on James since last season, he still admitted the role of LBJ for the game.
Kenny Smith said: "The turning point of the game should be the Heat's two fouls on DeAndre Jordan, and DeAndrew's free throws have always been his hard wound, even if he did well in the first few games by emptying the toilet. ”
Webber laughed and said, "DeAndre should still be given more chances, see? Rick Barry was talking to Jordan behind the back of the bench, and I think they were still talking about free throw stance." ”
In fact, Webb doesn't qualify for much when it comes to free throws, shooting just 64.9 percent from the free-throw line in his career, just slightly better than those with well-known free-throw disorders.
Barkley finally said: "The final quarter starts soon, let's wait and see!"
The final quarter of the game did start, but fans in front of the TV probably prefer to return to the intermission and continue to listen to all kinds of braggadocio and ridicule from TNT Tiantuan.
This is a game that is too ugly, under the high-intensity defense, the main theme of the double reversal is only one iron!
"Bang!", bang!", bang!"
The Staples Center went into blacksmith mode, and it turns out that even without the legendary four-iron three-iron sitting, there can be a harmonious iron strike on and off the course.
The scene is ugly, but no audience is willing to change the channel, because the two sides are too anxious.
Even if it became quite difficult to score a goal, the fierce confrontation between the two teams made the game not seem dull.
Even if they strike iron separately in the game, it is very particular about the spectacle of the specific game.
The two sides don't give in to each other, Ruan Erniu and James don't score or not, it doesn't matter, both sides have entered the scale of fouling, all kinds of breakthroughs, arms, feints, anyway, with all the help of all methods to help the team get free throws.
The two made 10 free throws in the first quarter, with James hitting eight and Nguyen Er Niu hitting six.
With only 28 seconds left in the game, 94-97, the Heat still trailed the Clippers by three points, but the visitors still had the ball.
James and Bosh both went up to the inside at the same time, while D. Wade chose to break through against Battier's defense.
When the defense was already two bulls on the inside, the cheeks chose to split the ball......
At a 45-degree angle on the wing, Bosh received the basketball outside the three-point line, and Yi Jianlian pounced for the first time, but Bosh shot first.
"Brush!"
Ball in!
Tie!
Paul's last throw, forced a long shot failed, and the game went into overtime.
Just when everyone thought that the game was going to enter a more brutal contest, the balance of overtime was broken by one person in an instant!
The 5-minute overtime officially began, and on the offensive end of the Heat, James held the ball on the outside and tried to break through kawaii to impact the basket.
Accelerate, pass, jump.
James didn't rejoice for half a second, when a big yellow hand rushed out from the side and slapped the fan out.
Paul picked up the basketball and immediately chose to hold the ball and rush to the halfcourt, Chalmers followed the defense in time, but Paul's vision was wide enough.
After a Baifo feint past Chalmers, in the face of D. Wade's supplemental defense, Paul sent a second-to-ground pass, and with a flick of Paul's wrist, the ball passed between Wade's feet.
It was none other than Ruan Erniu, who had just completed the capping, who plugged in at high speed from the back.
Catch, jump, windmill.
Nguyen Er Niu packed the basket with one arm and opened the scoring for overtime.
When it comes to overtime, every point counts, and no one wants to be suffocated suddenly, but tonight's Heat have been choked by the throat.
They used everything in the second half, including slashing, to finally equalize before the end of the game, and they never expected Kraft Nguyen's pervert, even in extra time, the physical reserves were still extremely good.
Three-pointers, mid-range shots, back shots, and dunks, Ruan Erniu completely dominated this overtime, using his super strength to lead the Clippers away the game in a wave.
100:106, just like that, the Clippers ushered in a six-game winning streak after losing to the Spurs on their home court.
Jordan played only 22 minutes in the game and was refrigerated, Ruan Erniu scored 42 points and a big double-double of 32 boards, and Paul also had a double-double of 27 points and 11 assists.
The direct score of the pickle girl combination alone reached 65% of the home team's total score, and this is where the superstars come in.