Chapter 500: One Dozen Two
"Has it started!?" Seeing An Jie take the initiative to lean on himself, Chris Bosh gritted his teeth. If James hadn't helped with the ball just now www.biquge.info Bosh would have lost it.
However, now, Anjie's singles in the low post, Bosh can get very limited assistance.
Udonis Haslem, the 32-year-old forward who joined the league with James in '03, was the only support Bosh could get.
In today's league, there aren't many players who can impress fans with their hard work as a child. And Haslem is one of the few who is there.
While he was never a star on the court, he represented all the traits and traits that a Heat player wanted. Leadership, tenacity, durability, stability, and purity, these are all things you can find in Haslem.
Seeing that after An Jie received the basketball and began to push back, Haslem tried his best to get rid of the entanglement with Hickson, and was ready to make up for the basket and Bosh to complete the encirclement of An Jie.
Bosh had little defenses in front of Anjie, and every time Anjie sat back, Bosh would take a step back.
When there were still two or three steps away from the forbidden area, An Jie suddenly turned around and accelerated, intending to break through Bosh!
Seeing this, Haslem immediately moved sideways to the basket and raised his hands high. Even if he can't stop An Jie, he has to make An Jie a foul.
Seeing that An Jie was getting closer and closer to him, Haslem gritted his teeth! How strong An Jie's impact was, Haslem knew very well in his heart. Even if he successfully made a foul on this ball, An Jie's collision would be a great injury to him.
Seeing Haslem standing still under the basket, Anjie, who was going to dunk, changed his mind. He didn't want the cunning Haslem to make a foul on himself as he wished, but with Haslem blocking in front and Bosh chasing after him, Anjie had very little space to use.
So, An Jie suddenly slowed down. With only a few centimeters away from Haslem, he took advantage of his height and reach to complete the throw in front of Haslem with his hands raised!
"It's not a regular way to shoot...... But Ann still scored the ball! But I didn't expect that the current An Jie can already score goals without being conventional.
"Damn. Bosh picked up the ball that leaked from the Nets to the ground, and he and Haslem worked together to block it, but neither could stop Anjie. It seems that today, I am destined to have a very difficult life.
Anjie's goal did not touch James much, not that James did not trust Bosh and Haslem, but that he knew Anjie's strength. This guy is very difficult to be restrained.
After that, the two sides played back and forth for a few rounds, but to the surprise of fans, the Trail Blazers and the Heat were both playing under each other's high-intensity defenses
Wade, who was tormented by injuries, played very embarrassed under the marking of Matthews, Wade is a player who uses breakthrough as the main means of scoring, but Anjie's defense under the basket and Matthews's tight defense made Wade experience failure again and again.
Bosh, this guy is kind of an all-around insider. But when he faced An Jie, Bosh became "all incapable".
As for Chalmers and Haslem, scoring is not their specialty. In the entire Heat team, only James can play at a high level. Iguodala did everything he could, but James was the kind of player who could score whenever he wanted to.
And on the Trail Blazers' side, the situation is not much better. After Iguodala hit a three-pointer in the opening game, he was naturally completely strangled by James. Matthews and Lillard's poor hand felt and wasted a few of Angel's wonderful passes. Although he faced Haslem, Hixon's limited offensive ability still prevented him from playing any decent offense.
Only Anjie and James, as long as they shoot, most of them can score. It is also under the leadership of these two guys that the scores of the two teams will continue to rise.
The game continued at this pace until the eighth minute of the first quarter, when Riccard began to gradually rotate his lineup. On the Heat side, Spoelstra, who only has nine players who can participate in the rotation, really left James on the court!
"Batum! give me a hard attack!" Rickard doesn't think Batum can beat James, but the more aggressive Batum is on the offensive end, the more James will be consumed.
Surprisingly, Batum was very efficient when he came on the court. Maybe James was aware of the problem too, so he didn't go all out to fight Batum. In this way, Batum has instead become the most efficient scoring point for the Trail Blazers today outside of Anjie.
Finally, knowing that there was only one minute left in the first quarter, Spoelstra finally freed up his man to replace James.
Rickard deliberately looked at James's condition, the guy's face was not red and his heart was not beating, as if the long battle had no effect on him at all. But Rickard wasn't worried, it was only the first quarter, and when the game got to the fourth quarter, James wouldn't be so composed.
In the end, with James' long playing time, the Heat led the Trail Blazers by three points on the road, 21-18.
"The problem with the Heat is very obvious, in the first quarter of the game, except for the Big Three, everyone else did not score a point. The Trail Blazers weren't very good either, and although there were many scorers, everyone else was very inefficient except for Ambatum. Mike Brin looked at the first-quarter stats for both sides, and the stats weren't pretty.
The reason for this is the excellent defense of both sides. And under the excellent defense, the team wants to break the situation, or force the opponent to make consecutive mistakes and use the transition attack to open the score. Either that, it's the stars of their respective teams to carve out a gap!
It is clear that the options now in front of Riccard and Spoelstra are both the second!
"LeBron, I'll give you a five-minute break at the beginning of the second quarter!" Only someone of James' caliber can break through the Trail Blazers' defense.
"Yes, come on, everyone!" James is motivating his teammates as always, this guy knows deeply that a team can only play its strongest strength when it is united.
"Ann! You still didn't attack resolutely enough in the first quarter of the game! You can play with confidence, the Heat's interior line, there is no one who can defend you!" Ricard, for his part, also sent his most effective attacker.
The battle in the second quarter was about to break out, and Wade first shook off An Jie's layup with a classic lost step. An Jie shook his head helplessly, even if Wade lost the speed of the year, he could still complete the layup with a very deceptive pace. But with the support of losing speed, how many times can Wade break through Anjie's defense?
In the second offense of the Heat, Wade repeated his old trick, once again bypassing Matthews through Haslem's block and rushing straight to the basket.
Although Bosh has been blocking Anjie for Wade, Anjie only easily made a quick detour and broke through Bosh's protection.
Seeing An Jie come up, Wade did not have the slightest fear. He took that wavering step again, but this time, An Jie's defensive position was perfect!
"No chance!" Wade knew that his space had been killed by Anjieka, and if he made a rash move now, he would only add a cap to Anjie. He glanced at Bosh behind Anjie, because Anjie helped defend himself, as long as Wade could put the ball in Bosh's hands, Bosh would face the unguarded basket under the basket!
Thinking of this, Wade resolutely jumped! He passed the ball from Anjie's waist to Bosh, who understood it, caught the ball steadily, and was ready to dunk when he jumped!
"Smack!" There was a loud bang, and the basketball in Bosh's hand was flapped away. Hickson saw the ball flying towards him, and with a hand from the reflex class, he controlled the ball for the Trail Blazers.
Lillard, Matthews and Iguodala advanced in three lines, and Hickson handed the ball to Lillard, who was dragging behind, and Lillard continued to accelerate in the gaps, and finally assisted Iguodala to score another three points with a good game of breaking through the ball.
Wade and Bosh looked at each other, the two of them had just cooperated well enough, but even so, they couldn't shake Anjie's defense!
In fact, An Jie guessed Wade's intentions when he took off. Wade is not the kind of player who picks up the ball and hits it when his mind is hot, and he decides to jump when there is no space, so Wade must be for the purpose of passing!
So Anjie made a plan and let Bosh receive the basketball. Then when the "Dragon King" is so defenseless, cover the ball from behind.
"Ann's block is beautiful! He used his excellent ability to read the game and see Wade and Bosh through the ideas!"
"Ann single-handedly pinned down the two giants of the Heat, and I think, Coach Spoelstra, has to make some changes!" O'Neal was referring to, no doubt, the change being James.
"Boss, I've rested enough. James saw that the Heat had been suppressed by Anjie, so he took the initiative to ask Spoelstra to fight.
"But you've only had two minutes' rest now!" Spoelstra looked at the time, which was more than the original five-minute break.
"It's okay, I'm already rested. Let me play. James' expression was resolute and could not be rejected by Spoelstra. Most of the time, the players are at the mercy of the coach. But there are a few players in this league that can make the manager listen to them.
Spoelstra gritted his teeth and took advantage of the dead ball of Bosh's foul on Anjie to send James on the court.
"Oh, we saw that the Heat re-fielded LeBron James! Oh my God, this guy didn't have a long rest. CCTV's Yu Jia originally focused on An Jie, who made free throws, but James's appearance made the atmosphere restless again.
Anjie turned a deaf ear to everything around him, and his cool two free throws allowed the Trail Blazers to further extend their victory. Wade and Bosh, these two guys have been completely eaten by Anjie. James alone can upset the balance and change the situation.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time. When An Jie passed by James's side, his mouth was not idle.
"I'm not going to let you wait in vain. James' expression is serious, and now he is no longer the kind LeBron James he was before the game.
Now LeBron James has become the most dangerous man on the planet! He is ready to tear apart opponents, including Angel!
forced out James in the shortest time, and An Jie was very successful in doing this. But the real test has just arrived......