Chapter 498: James' Way of Responding
At the end of the third quarter, the two sides battled at 78:80, and the Clippers led the Heat by two points.
The difference between the two sides in this game has not exceeded 10 points so far, which is enough to see the intensity of the game.
Both coaches made full preparations before the game, and although Rivers was flawed in his on-the-spot command, the pre-game preparation was very adequate.
And on the spot, he also gave Li Liang or Paul full command decision-making power, and let them control the rhythm on the field.
As for Spo, it goes without saying that he has always been known for his excellent preparation before the game.
The change of tactics and the pertinence are very strong.
The opening and first half of the Heat's containment of Li Liang actually did a good job.
But I didn't expect that Li Liang's playing style is now richer and more layered, and his adjustment ability is particularly strong.
Avoided its edge throughout the first half, and in the third quarter, he led the Clippers forward, always slightly overpowering the Heat.
On the Heat side, James set the sea god needle, and supported the team's organizational offense while stabilizing the output.
It's just that the Heat didn't take advantage of a lot of good opportunities on the outside tonight.
Bosh's open three-pointers, Battier's open three-pointers both hit.
Instead, James hit two three-pointers.
It's hard to believe that James is the first on the Heat team in terms of three-point shooting percentage and three-point shooting this season!
It's a little higher than Ray Allen in second place.
James is averaging 1.8 three-pointers per game, while Ray Allen is averaging 1.6 per game.
Although there is no way to compare with Li Liang's 4.2, the two of them together have fewer hits than Li Liang.
But for James, it's already a career-high high, and he's taking 4.5 shots per game.
A 40 percent shooting percentage is quite high, as Ray Allen has only 38 percent of his shooting percentage this year.
It can be said that the group of shooters that the Heat relied on to survive in previous seasons, with James' passing and strategy as the core, have been declining in terms of the quantity and quality of three-point shots.
James stepped up at this time, relying on his own ability to give enough support to the team in areas that he is not very good at.
Therefore, after seeing such a result, Riley also obediently closed his mouth and stopped pointing fingers at James's choice.
The fourth quarter of the game began quickly, and Li Liang and James continued to sit on the sidelines to rest, preparing for the decisive battle in the fourth quarter.
At the end of the third quarter, James had a defensive foul on Griffin as he returned to defense.
After being whistled for a foul, James argued with the referee and ended up with another technical foul.
It can be seen that as the final quarter of the game approaches, James's desire to fight is getting stronger and stronger, and his anger is getting bigger and bigger.
And Li Liang sat on the court, still thinking in his mind, should he post a three-point shooting rate in the fourth quarter and kill the Heat?
It's definitely going to die.,I just don't know what level of posts to use.。
B-rank has the longest duration, but the boost effect is too limited, and A-rank has a mid-range boost effect and duration.
The S-level is Li Liang's favorite to use, with strong explosiveness, but it only has 1 minute, and it can be used to hang his life when it is right.
But he is afraid of a timeout, and with Sibo's current fear of Li Liang, at most two three-pointers, Sibo will definitely call a timeout.
So Li Liang weighed it and decided to use the A-level promotion sticker.
At present, his empty three-point ability has reached 90 points, and with the help of the touch rune, after using the A-level promotion sticker, the effect is already amazing.
In the case of a completely empty position, Li Liang is almost 100% sure that he can throw the ball in.
As long as he is given enough room to adjust, distance is never a big problem.
That's where the overbearing aspect of the hit rate booster post comes in.
He improves your three-point shooting percentage, which means that as long as you shoot a three-pointer, he can directly increase the shooting percentage by a fixed percentage point.
Like an A-level sticker, it will increase by 10% in five minutes.
In other words, if you stand on the baseline and shoot, as long as you are strong enough, and you don't throw it blindly and in the opposite direction, you will score at least 1 out of 10 balls.
Because for everyone, throwing threes from the baseline is still an official game is not training, and the shooting percentage tends to be close to 0.
The NBA has a few balls thrown out of the backcourt every game every season because the clock is running out to try your luck.
There are more than 2,000 games in a season, and there are only a handful of people who can throw it in.
And if you use a post, 10 at least 1 into 1, which is already very scary.
So for Li Liang, space is always more important than distance.
Li conscience calculated in his heart that at this time, on the court, Griffin continued to lead the second team to withstand the Heat's counterattack.
Griffin took on a lot of possession and shots tonight, and the Clippers' scoring was focused on Griffin, Li Liang and Crawford.
The other players didn't contribute much under the Heat's strong outside defense.
However, new signing Livingston started the fourth quarter well.
First, he received a pass from Barnes, cut into the basket in the middle, jumped into the three-second zone, and made a layup with his right hand.
Then the defense took the backcourt rebound, held the ball and launched a counterattack, and assisted Griffin to attack the basket and score a dunk.
On the Heat side, Ray Allen received a pass from Wade, broke through the wing with the ball, and hit the ground to pass to Anderson on the baseline.
Anderson catches the ball and lays it up, causing Odom's defensive foul.
Free throws, both free throws.
Li Liang was on the field and wanted to scold again.
Tonight, the Clippers were annoyed by the Heat's empty cut, and as long as Li Liang was not there, the bottom line was always leaky.
In the final analysis, there is still not enough pressure on the ball carrier, and there are also problems with the timing of the bag and the encirclement.
The best way to deal with air cutting and blocking and dismantling is generally two, one is to have enough and timely pressure on the ball holder, resulting in him not being able to play the ball smoothly, and the opportunity for air cutting and blocking and dismantling is fleeting, and the defense is successful.
One is the high-speed rotation defense of the whole team to ensure that the defense can be made up in time and not give the opponent a chance to vacate the position.
The second of these requires long-term run-in training of the team, and the players must have a good tacit understanding with each other.
The first is the need for a strong defensive core to carry on the field.
Mike Brown believes that in order to develop Li Liang into the best player, it is necessary to improve his defensive core ability.
And he doesn't think that the Clippers can run in such a good rotation ability in a short period of time, after all, there are too many shorts and colanders on the court.
Although the Clippers have problems defensively, they are getting better and better on offense.
Crawford, who was a little quiet in the third quarter, once again showed his excellent singles ability.
After receiving the ball on the wing, he changed direction with successive back-to-back dribbles and then hit a pull-up jump shot.
The ball also caused a defensive foul on Ray Allen, which required a penalty charge.
Li Liang looked at this game, this momentum, and thought to himself, he can take away the heat by going up and operating later.
Three minutes to sentence the Heat to death.
For Li Liang, as long as the cooperation is good, this is not a problem.
In order to create a good three-point shooting environment for Li Liang, Rivers also implemented a frenzied multi-person wall cover tactic.
It's usually Jordan Jr. and Griffin, and their bodies are thick enough.
Occasionally, Barnes would be added, and the men would form a wall that would separate all opponents, and then let Li Liang shoot three-pointers.
This set of tactics was originally prepared for Rondo when Rivers was with the Celtics.
As for Rondon's three-point shot, Perkins and Garnett cleared Rondo for two miles, and he didn't necessarily make a shot.
Li Liang is different, and if he gets such a vacancy, that is, training, which is close to 100 shots.
After Ray Allen hit a free throw, the Clippers missed the offense, and the Heat got a backcourt rebound to fight back.
The Clippers stepped back quickly and didn't give the Heat a chance to fight back.
Ray Allen chose to break through the middle after receiving the ball in the high post, but was stealed by Livingston, who was defending him!
The Clippers' defense was indeed not good tonight, but the extended defense allowed them to gain a lot from breaking the ball.
Livingston, who successfully broke the ball, countered with the ball and caused a defensive foul on Battier in the fast break and made free throws.
After hitting both free throws, the game was tied at 83-87 and the Clippers led by four points.
The Heat called a short timeout to make a substitution.
Li Liang knew that his time to play had come.
Meanwhile, off the Heat's bench, James seemed to smell danger.
The two took off their tracksuits almost at the same time, Li Liang rubbed his hands, and James touched his chest.
The decisive battle began.
The timeout ended quickly, and Wade went down to rest on the Heat's side, and James came on.
On the Clippers' side, Li Liang played, and Griffin went down to rest.
James' first offense after coming on the court, receiving the ball at the top of the arc and going straight to the basket.
He used his strong body to push Li Liang away, and threw his hand slightly back.
caused Li Liang's foul and went to the free throw line.
Li Liang took a deep breath and touched his chest.
James' ball rushed up like an armored chariot, hitting him with a pain in his sternum.
James hit both free throws at the free throw line, 86:87, and the Heat closed the score.
And Li Liang's three-point shooting conference started at this time.
Almost all of the Heat's players are unguarded and unconcerned.
Li Liang handed the ball to Livingston, then slowly passed half court, and suddenly made a block and cover for Livingston at 45 degrees on the right side.
After blocking and dismantling, Livingston cut a step and returned the ball to Li Liang, Li Liang stood one step outside the three-point line, and opened his hand to shoot after receiving the ball!
His shot was very fast, and the ball flew towards the basket at breakneck speed with a strong spin.
And then through the heart!
With a "swish", Zadispo's chest also hurt.
This familiar posture, familiar rhythm, no, heart attack is going to be committed.
With Espo's well-proportioned body, if he gets a heart attack when he gets old, Li Liang will be blamed nine times out of ten.
This three-point shot one by one, and once I made a shot, my heart beat faster, blood pressure and height.
Fortunately, Li Liang has been in the west for the past two seasons, and if he is in the east, Sipo may have to bring medicine to the stage.
The Staples Center was jubilant, and they knew that Li Liang's heavy artillery fire was coming!
However, only 10 seconds passed.
James held the ball in the high post, Bosh came up and made a fake cover to take away the defense, and James held the ball and walked to the left 45-degree three-point line.
made a shooting feint and didn't shake off Li Liang, but the second time he still chose to force a shot!
James' shooting stance doesn't look particularly standard, with some elbows turned out.
Because of his strength, his leg movements are relatively small, unlike some people who like to stretch their legs when shooting.
He was like a steady catapult that threw the ball to the basket.
"Huh!"
Also enter!
James' three-point shot was also hit!
It's really surprising that James actually replied with an answer?? ball, and with a three-point shot.
Li Liang was not to be outdone, and then with the help of Jordan Jr. and Barnes's outside cover, he made a three-point shot on the right side, two steps away from the three-point line, and also hit!
James immediately fired back, and he quickly passed the half court with the ball in the backcourt.
Then at the top of the arc with the highest three-point shooting percentage, he made a quick stop!
James hit his fourth three-pointer of the game!
It's unbelievable that James has shot 4-of-5 from three-point range so far.
4 out of 5 shots! He didn't even shoot his free throws that accurately.
The atmosphere of the scene began to be mobilized.
Everyone knew that the confrontation between James and Li Liang began.
It's just that everyone didn't expect that it would be a three-point shooting.
After the goal, James looked at Li Liang, as if to say, I will respond to you in the way you are best at.
And what about Li Liang, can he respond to him in the way James is good at?