Chapter 903: The First Victory in the Finals and Wade's Wrath!
James wants to prove himself, regardless of the stats of this game, regardless of the outcome of this game, he wants to prove that he is not undercover!
As long as he proves that he is not an undercover agent, everything will be normal for the Heat, and the victory belongs to the Heat, he can have a chance to perform in future games, and his majestic career can continue to be realized!
However, reality left James very confused.
It's really, really confused.
At the end of the second quarter, the rotation players of the two teams played very exciting and lively, but there were not many points, and the score was 42-36 when the starters of the two teams returned to the court.
The Heat are still behind, but the Heat are not far behind.
As long as the Heat team goes all out and plays seriously, in an environment where Yes is sandwiched by Wade and Ben Gordon's dead-end bag and it is difficult to score, as long as no one in the SuperSonics can stand up and score, then the Heat can turn defeat into victory.
Chandler defended well against Milicic in this game, and Millsap and Rondo didn't feel so good.
In this case, as long as Durant can't score points, then the probability of supersonic kneeling is very high.
Judging from such a situation, it can be seen how big the advantage of the Heat is over the supersound.
James doesn't need to show himself on the offensive end at all, as long as he can defend Durant on the defensive end, the Heat can easily beat the SuperSonics.
So, Spoelstra is very confident in the strategy he has developed for this series.
As long as James can defend Durant, this task is not difficult, James will definitely be able to complete it, James will complete it, the team will win, the team will win, the rest of the team will completely let go of their prejudices against James, the team will be normal, united, and the dynasty will come.
It should not have been a surprise to complete such a simple task to start a dynasty.
But!
Accidents really happen everywhere.
James is also undercover in the face of Durant.
And he must continue to support James when he is undercover, and continue to watch James go undercover on the sidelines.
Knowing that Xiang is in front of him, he has to eat with a smile!
"Beautiful change of direction break, Durant once again broke through James's defense with his peculiar change of direction break!"
"James is close, James's whole body is attached to Durant's body, Durant shot, Durant actually chose a mid-range backward jumper when James is so close, beautiful, and hit!"
It's beautiful, Durant's offense looks very beautiful!
Such a beautiful offense, such a high offensive efficiency, if it weren't for Chris Bosh in the middle to defend Durant in five.
Spoelstra would even think that Durant is a strengthened version of Maddy.
But......
It's all fake!
On the court, James's defense is fake, and that enhanced version of Maddie is naturally fake!
After knowing that James was undercover, he continued to put James on the court, and he had no choice but to do so.
This game can be lost, but the next round of the series cannot be lost!
If James is not allowed to play this game, James is not allowed to continue to prove himself, and James is not allowed to defend Durant, it is impossible for the Heat to win this series!
So how do you prove that James is completely on the side of the Heat and has left Yes?
The way to prove it is that James defended Durant!
It doesn't make sense to put James in front of Millsap, Rondo.
Put it in front of Yes, he didn't dare, James was undercover, Yes could score 100 points!
Yes's strength plus James's undercover agent, that looks like a super strengthened version of Jordan!
Even if Durant has James' undercover bonus, it looks like a strengthened version of Maddie.
Therefore, there is no need to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, as long as James is willing to seriously defend Durant and prevent him from dying, then the Heat can win this battle.
Spoelstra believes James will last off the cliff.
It's not that he doesn't have the heat in his heart at all, he will give James trust in this game, and he will work hard to let the team help him pull James back after this game!
However, this is the future, this game......
Spoelstra lost hope after the second quarter.
At the end of the second quarter, the score on the court was 60-52, and the difference between the two sides was still not very large.
It looks like the Heat are ahead.
But analyzing the performance of the players on the field, you can see what the gap between the two teams is.
Durant broke out again in the second quarter, and under James' defense, he scored 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting, 0-of-1 3-pointers, and 3-of-4 free throws.
With Durant's strength, it is naturally impossible to play such a performance in the face of James, who is not undercover.
In other words, James was still undercover in the second quarter.
Since James is an undercover agent, no matter how close the Heat score is, it is impossible to beat the SuperSonics.
Continue to put Bosh in front of Durant?
It doesn't make sense,
If Durant presses down, Millsap, who is defended by James, will get up.
After all, Bosh is on the inside, and it is impossible to stand on the outside to defend Durant all the time, the defensive effect cannot be so good all the time, and it is very dangerous for the inside line to defend the outside all the time.
Giving Durant to James, and the rest of the Heat players against the other SuperSonics, the game worked out well.
In the first half of this game, except for Durant's 25 points, the SuperSonics did not score much, Yes 5 of 10, scored 13 points, and had 12 assists, which is a strong statistic, but the score is not high, at least not high for Yes.
And Milicic, 2 of 10 scored 4 points, Millsap scored 2 points 1 of 3, and the most amazing thing was Rondo, who had almost no one to defend him, and Rondo scored 0 points on 0 of 5 in the first half, with 0 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds.
And that's why Spopartstra is so confident.
The matchup between James and Durant was cut off by him.
Durant scored 25 points on 10-of-18 shooting in the first half of the game, with the SuperSonics leading by just eight points.
As long as James seriously defends Durant, it is impossible for Durant to have such a shooting percentage, such a scoring efficiency, and even Durant's 15 points in the first half is already very good, and the Heat will lead by 2 points!
What's more, as long as James defends carefully, Durant can't score 15 points in the half!
Of course, as a good manager, Spoelstra certainly can't put all his eggs in one basket.
He also needs to try how well the rest of the team can defend Durant.
This is an alternative to dealing with James's reluctance to come back from Yes all the time.
If James isn't willing to pull back from the precipice, he and the Heat certainly need an alternative.
The Heat need to find an answer to Durant.
The whole world knows that there is no problem with flanking Yes, but Milicic and Durant need to be solved, Milicic Chandler can solve it well, but Durant, it needs to be solved.
The Heat didn't hoard too many players at the small forward position before because James was at the small forward position.
Everyone knows that James is an iron man, so the only backup small forward for the Heat is Grant Hill, and Grant Hill has been defeated by Durant last year in the Suns.
The veteran now relies on his experience and offense rather than defense.
After halftime, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Heat played in the third quarter.
Spoelstra is trying his best to change and find answers without hurting James' self-esteem, although it is said that as long as James returns, the outcome of this game does not matter.
But that's just talk.
How can the victory or defeat of the finals not matter!
So, in the second half of the Heat, Spoelstra moved James away from Durant's side and put Ben Gordon next to Durant.
James, on the other hand, is in opposition to Yes.
In order to make up for James, Spoelstra withstood very much pressure from the whole team, and he gave James the right to attack when James did not prove that he was not undercover and was still undercover for Yes.
It's not just trust in James and the need to pull his heart back.
In the first half, the Heat barely played Yes on the offensive end.
This is very dangerous.
Wade, Ben Gordon are not easy to play Yes.
Chris Bosh and Chandler certainly didn't either.
James can even be said to be the only singles player with an advantage in the Heat's one-on-one face Yes, at least with height and weight, and good skills.
And if James plays Yes, it will always be possible to create a rift between James and Yes, right?
If James and Wade have a good effect of sandwiching Yes, the same effect as Wade and Ben Gordon, plus James can still play Yes, if Ben Gordon's defense of Durant is better than James's, then his change of formation is successful, maybe in the case of fighting for James's heart, he can still win a game, which will make a lot of money!
As a former puppet manager.
Spousla's position with the Heat is limited.
Dancing in shackles, he needs to pay attention to the opinions of every star player.
He needed to balance the views of all parties.
In this case, in the face of such a huge problem now, Spoelstra is really racking his brains.
Spoelstra's idea is good.
He hoped that James could play Yes, and James played Yes, not only did James play Yes, but it was also very efficient!
But......
"James' success rate in singles Yes is so high!"
"The success rate is high, but does it make sense to play yes in a single like James? Running in front of Yes with the ball, he pulled it out directly, and he didn't have a physical confrontation against Yes at all, this offensive intensity, it can't kill Yes at all, it can't kill Yes, why fight Yes, isn't it fragrant to play Rondo?! ”
"It's true that although James is very efficient on offense, it is not as efficient as Wade in playing Rondo."
"And, have you noticed that after James was put in front of Yes, Yes's offensive efficiency has risen dramatically?!"
"Of course, I found out that after James scored in front of Yes, Yes was going to score in front of James right away, and it was just like saying yes."
"yes, yes and James work so well together, hehe, Wade feels like superfluous on the court."
Wade's face was ugly.
He's already enduring, very, very forbearing.
But can you not be so arrogant!
This is already a straight face ride!
He and Ben Gordon sandwiched Yes, who scored 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting in the first half.
He and James sandwiched Yes, and Yes scored 14 points in the third quarter of the game on 5-of-8 and 4-of-6 three-pointers!
The pinch effect of him and James is worse than that of Ben Gordon, and it is much worse!
In the third quarter, the Heat were directly beaten by the SuperSonics under the leadership of James and Yes!
In the face of Wade, he was already trying to suppress it, but he couldn't suppress his anger, and James was also very confused.
He scored one, Yes immediately returned one, he scored a two-pointer, Yes immediately returned a three-pointer, and Yes's points were all scored in the middle of him and Wade.
Don't say that Wade will think too much, even he will think too much!
This cooperation is indeed too tacit.
But he really didn't cooperate with Yes!
The reason why he doesn't go close to Yes is because he suspects that Yes knows his offensive methods very well, and he has been undercover in the playoffs for so many games just to change his previous style of play, how can he continue to use it in front of Yes?!
It's not like he can't do anything to Yes!
He really wanted to die!
But?!
Looking at Wade's eyes, James was really about to cry.
Like James, Spoelstra will cry.
"Sure enough, it was a mistake to let James defend Yes."
Yes, under the bag of James and Wade, he was able to beat the Heat with supersonic speed in a wave in the third quarter, and directly collapsed the Heat in the third quarter!
This Nima's, James defends Durant worse than the team's second-to-last starting defensive Bosh.
James defends Yes, worse than Ben Gordon, who is the team's starting defense at the bottom!
Although the unchanged formation is also a loss, but after changing the formation, the loss is so miserable, Spoelstra still did not expect it.
James can't defend against Yes right now.
Ben Gordon, who was in front of Durant, also couldn't guard Durant, who shot 2 of 4 in the third quarter and 1 of 2 3-pointers and scored 7 points.
Of course, although Ben Gordon can't guard Durant, his defensive effect is still better than that of James, who is undercover.
In this experiment in the third quarter, Spoelstra was already very convinced that the Heat only James could defend Durant, and at the same time, if the Heat wanted to beat the SuperSonics, they had to put James in front of Durant and let James defend Durant!
In the fourth quarter, Spoelstra did not change his tactics in the third quarter.
Under Ben Gordon's defense, Durant went 2-of-4 again in the fourth quarter and scored 8 points in a single quarter.
And Yes, under the bag of James and Wade, shot 1 of 1 and scored 4 points.
The fourth quarter lasted four minutes, and the game officially entered garbage time.
In the end, the Heat lost the first game of the Finals 91-113 on the road, in an uncanny fashion.
"LeBron, you come with me!"
In the celebration of the supersonic fans of the Key Arena, an angry roar was particularly abrupt......
Can't hold back any longer!
I can't take it anymore!