At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, whether it was a lively little white fan or a real NBA fan, it could be seen that the main offensive point of the Heat team was Pierce.

And Pierce's main offensive player is James Harden.

In fact, this routine of the Heat was expected by many experts and media before the game.

Pierce's back-to-back singles, combined with his all-round offensive skills, won't make him look too bad in front of Kobe.

Not to mention in front of rotation players like James Harden.

Even if James Harden really has the strength of an All-Star, is Pierce an ordinary All-Star?

Does James Harden have an All-Star caliber defensive back-to-back single?

Therefore, before the start of the game, the world was not very optimistic about the supersonic, even Arenas felt that the world was desperate, and it was difficult for the supersonic to stop the heat, and it was for this reason.

When the Heat lineup plays an eight-man rotation, it's really strong!

James, Wade, Garnett, Pierce......

These four are really not ordinary all-stars now, they are still superstars!

Garnett and Pierce may not be superstars now, but they have no problem maintaining their superstar strength for 25 to 30 minutes.

If you add the superstar Ray Allen with special features, when the Heat eight-man rotation is in place, they can keep two superstars with an all-star lineup on the court at all times.

Even if the SuperSonics really have ten All-Stars, there is still only Yes as a superstar, and Durant is barely a superstar.

Others are all-stars at best.

In the NBA, the difference between a superstar and an All-Star is still huge.

And the gap between James Harden and Pierce will be even greater.

It's just that the whole key arena was a little stunned.

Pierce's main attacker James Harden, who seemed to be a hand-picked offensive option, actually encountered difficulties from the beginning!

"Pierce can't beat James Harden on his back?!"

This result really surprised all the media reporters on the scene.

After three minutes of the second quarter, commentators from all over the world were whispering in the commentary seats throughout Key Arena.

Pierce now has the strength of a superstar in 25-30 minutes of playing time, this is not their speculation, it is an overall evaluation of the Heat's previous defeat of the Mavericks, Grizzlies, Nuggets and Timberwolves, Pierce tearing up Afralo, Maddy, pampering Anthony, and fierce fighting Guy are not left behind.

Pierce has faced tough opponents and accepted challenges in the past, but he can play against these strong opponents in almost every game.

Forget about two games a game, if every game is like this, then you can only admit that Pierce does still have the strength of a superstar now.

At the very least, when he is full of physical strength, he has such strength.

But now, Pierce, who used to look like Afralo, Maddie, Anthony, and Guy, is now on the court with James Harden!

In the first three minutes of the second quarter, Pierce was the main attacker, and he couldn't beat Anthony with his back, so he could only use the advantage of height to attack head-on.

And the frontal offense is not so good to attack, Pierce's technique is excellent, but he no longer has such a great physical fitness, and there is no way to shake off James Harden with pure technique.

James Harden can always feel the danger of Pierce's feints, and he can always block the dangers of Pierce's feints.

You know, although Pierce's physical talent is not so good now, his skills are getting more and more demonic.

Even some NBA veterans, even James on the same team, will be very uncomfortable in the face of his increasingly demonic feints.

But when he faced James Harden, he couldn't hit it with his back, and he couldn't break through with the ball in front of him, and in the end, he could only force Pierce to use his height to shoot in front of James Harden!

Although dry pulling is also his stunt, he is an offensive kaleidoscope, not a shooter!

As an offensive kaleidoscope, it is simply a shame to be forced by a young man like James Harden to use his height to pull out.

On the pitch, Pierce is very uncomfortable right now.

And on the sidelines, while the world was marveling at James Harden's back-to-back defense, the SuperSonics weren't too surprised.

"James' back-to-back defensive ability is still so good!"

"After all, even Mark can't beat James in his back, hehe."

"It's really hard to imagine that James has that much energy in his body."

Listening to his teammates' comments on James Harden, Ye Si also nodded silently in his heart.

James Harden's back-to-back defense is probably second only to the all-out Seattle SuperSonics on the perimeter.

Maybe you can go five or five with Tucker.

When Yees knew about James Harden's talent for predicting danger, he knew that this kid could make a difference on the defensive end.

Especially defending players like Ginobili or Pierce who use their IQ or chicken thief to play with defenders can be very effective.

Ginobili has indeed been very uncomfortable by James Harden in the past two years.

And in this game, Pierce also felt the same discomfort as Ginobili faced James Harden.

James Harden's talent for predicting danger isn't invincible either.

Defensively, this talent can make James Harden sensitive to the danger in his place, so that he can instinctively make up for the danger.

However, if this danger exceeds the limit of James Harden's physical talent, his body instinctively wants to make up for it, but it can't make up for it, then it can't be prevented.

So, this talent of James Harden is very suitable for defending players who are not as athletic as him.

For example, interior players, such as veterans like Pierce.

James Harden's athleticism is actually not bad, but the main test of defense is the speed of lateral movement, and James Harden's size makes him really not so good at lateral speed.

Therefore, when James Harden is defending Durant, even if his talent is fully opened, it is still hung by Durant, and Durant's drastic change of direction can make James Harden's talent only beep and cry out for danger, and there is no way to make up for it.

At the same time, Durant's dry pull can also only make James's talent beep and beep there, and there is no way to jump up and block Durant's shot.

James Harden's talent and his special physical gifts have polarized his defensive strength.

When it's strong, it's really strong, just like now, forcing the Heat, a super rotating lineup, to change the team's offensive style after playing for three minutes.

Why did Spoelstra use Pierce as the core of the rotational attack for this game?

That's because only Pierce looks like he has an absolute advantage over Harden.

Garnett played Jr., Chris Bosh played Ibaka, and Rashid Wallace beat Tucker, and none had an absolute advantage.

When Pierce didn't have the absolute advantage of beating James Harden as he imagined, the look on Spoelstra's face was very solemn.

In his design, this game is a draw at the start, a win from the bench, and his own substitute has an absolute advantage, so naturally the Heat also has the absolute certainty of winning this game.

But right now, the grasp is constantly declining.

Six minutes before the second quarter, the score on the court was 44-42!

The Heat have a two-point lead over the Seattle SuperSonics on the road.

While the Heat are ahead, the Seattle SuperSonics are behind.

But when the official timeout for the second quarter came, the Heat's players didn't have a smile on their faces.

And the fans at the supersonic scene were extremely excited.

"During the second quarter of the rotation, the Heat didn't achieve their strategic goals, and the supersonic players became shocking, especially James Harden, James Harden, like Millsap, his big PP was also developed by Yes!"

Barkley was even a little incoherent with excitement at this time.

What does it mean that his big PP has also been developed?

TNT is a very serious TV channel, okay!

Kenny Smith kept complaining in his heart.

However, it has to be said that Barkley's statement is indeed well-founded.

Yes likes big and long, this is a well-known thing.

Some players who don't have anything but big and long have been trained by Yes to be very distinctive players.

Among the longest-standing figures are Durant, Rondo and Serge Ibaka.

The big exponents are Millsap and James Harden.

Yes is too friendly to these two types of players.

So much so that the representatives of these two types of players, Ross Barkley and Scott Pippen, are also quite friendly to Yes.

Pippen has said more than once that if his partner is not Jordan but Yes, he can be in the top 10 in NBA history.

Barkley didn't say that, but everyone knew what it meant.

Under Yes's tutelage, these players who used to be like waste wood are now really shining brightly.

Looking at the supersonic nine on the side of the court who was greeting his teammates off the court, Kenny Smith was sighing, and Kenny Smith also knew that many people were also sighing and admiring at this time.

"James, well done, I didn't expect you kid to be able to open up with Pierce!"

"Mark is actually not bad, and Garnett doesn't take much advantage of him."

"Sergi, you kid is a little bit almost funny, isn't it so difficult not to eat feints and not to jump? It's okay to be deceived by Nowitzki, you can still be deceived by Bosh! ”

When the supersonic substitutes came down, although the others looked like you garbage actually lost the score, the joy and excitement in the tone were still difficult to hide.

For the performance of the supersonic rotation players on the court, every supersonic is very satisfied.

The SuperSonics' rotation has exceeded all expectations, including Yes.

The Heat's eight-man rotation bench lineup is indeed very strong.

Although James Harden broke the Heat's bench lineup to force the supersonic bench and broke the supersonic rotation strategy.

But even if the two teams are strangled together, the Heat are the dominant side.

Just two points behind, which is a very, very good result.

After all, the supersonic rotation is really a rotation of the all-bench lineup.

Whether it is a starter or a substitute, all of them have an advantage, but the score on the court is only two points ahead, which makes everyone in the Heat extremely uncomfortable.

"It's only been a quarter and a half of the game, we have time, and the victory of this game must be ours!"

"And, don't forget, Yes still hasn't earned a penny!"

Yes, this game is still not scored!

This sentence made the originally unhappy Heat locker room full of fighting spirit again.

"If we can win this game and limit Yes to less than 20 points, then we can score 100 points even if we don't achieve the goal!"

Garnett forced the very uncomfortable irritability in his heart that was made by little Gasol, and his eyes flickered.

I have to say that the defense of James and Wade is really good.

That pinching blow makes people feel chills all over the body!

At the same time, Spoelstra, the coach he has always looked down on, is also quite bold.

In the case that Yes has proven himself to be the No. 1 organization master in history, he is still so crazy to use his two strongest defensive players to pinch Yes!

The official timeout is over, and the match between the two teams continues.

Although in the first quarter and a half, the Heat's pre-game strategy was not realized, and was broken by the SuperSonics one by one.

However, after the resumption of the game, Spoelstra still had no intention of changing his tactics.

For Durant and Rondo, who performed very well in the SuperSonics game, Spoelstra still did not put Wade and James, the team's two strongest players on the perimeter defense, in front of these two.

James and Wade are still frantically flanking Yes.

"This is probably the scariest outside attack I've ever seen!"

"The Heat's tactics in this game are far more resolute than their Finals last season!"

As the second quarter of the game drew to a close, many reporters and commentators were already whispering in the sideline media and commentary seats.

And the elder Nelson also looked at Spoelstra on the side with some surprise.

This young man, every time he saw him, he would be very surprised.

He had never seen such a decisive temperament in a manager so young.

Yes is the best scorer in the NBA.

Yes is also the strongest playmaker in the NBA.

Therefore, when defending Yes, many people will hesitate whether to pinch the organization or pinch his score, even if it is Popovich, they will hesitate, and even hesitate several times a game.

But Spoelstra ......

"Yes, this game isn't really going to be below 20 points, is it?!"

In the locker room of the Chicago Bulls, Noah looked surprised.

In the first half, Yes still scored zero points!

Not even a single shot made by James and Wade's pinching shot!

And Rose, who was next to Noah, also clenched his hands into fists.

He is one of the few players in the league to have been caught between James and Wade.

That feeling......

Rose's clenched fists seemed to be able to pinch the palms of his hands.