Chapter 234: Rematch

At 3:30 p.m. on February 10, at the American Airlines Center in Miami, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat will play a season rematch.

The last matchup between the two sides in Stamp was a classic, Li Liang hit 100% from the field, and a last-minute steal and assist helped the Lakers win.

Not only did he win the game, but he also managed to make himself an All-Star.

This time came to the home court, the Miami Heat was bound to win, and the whole team was in good spirits.

At the start of the season, the defending champions were not in great form.

In many games, the opening is to dig a pit, dig a sinkhole, and then slowly start filling in.

So in the first half of the season, their record was led by the Knicks.

In the middle of the game, the Heat gradually gained momentum.

Not only are they talented, but the team is healthy.

On the contrary, the Knicks' record has slipped due to the injury problems of Anthony and Kidd.

To fill the gaps in the team's interior basket guard, Pat Riley signed Chris Anderson.

It's a good signing, and with Anderson's blocks and rebounds, Joel Anthony can retire to sit off the court as a spectator.

The Heat have been in good form lately, and they've just snapped a four-game winning streak.

In their last game, they beat the visiting Los Angeles Clippers 111-89 at home.

The Clippers, who have averaged 101 points per game this season, are strong enough to show the strength of the Heat.

This Los Angeles Lakers want to get out of the way, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

Once the game began, the Heat took the lead in gaining offensive rights.

The Heat made Nash misplaced James through the cooperation of the outside, and James rushed to the basket.

Nash had to foul and James hit two free throws to score the first two points of the game.

Pat Riley once said that if I were given five all-around All-Stars, I would be able to blow up my opponent and win the championship with a mismatch strategy.

James played successfully in the opening game, which is not a good sign for the Lakers.

A tug-of-war ensued in the first quarter.

Kobe Bryant continued to be his send-off son, Guanyin, and constantly cooperated with Nash, passing the ball to Nash, to Howard, and to Li Liang.

Li Liang didn't have the same shooting rate as he did against the Heat before, and he didn't score the first three-pointer in the opening game.

Because the Heat began to use Haslem to target Li Liang all over the court, they couldn't let him play such a magical performance again.

Haslem defends with a tangled character, is not tall, and he doesn't jump up to block anything.

It's always around you, circling around you, disrupting your offensive rhythm.

This kind of defense Li Liang hates the most, because he has no offensive ability with the ball.

But the upside of this is that Kobe Bryant and Nash have a lot of room to move.

The two sides played a dog-tooth game, with Bryant diching out five assists in the first quarter and Nash scoring a season-high 12 points in a single quarter.

The Lakers led the Heat by two points at 28:26 in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the Lakers still played beautifully, going back and forth with the Heat on both offensive and defensive ends, and continued to use Howard's advantage point to attack the Heat's basket.

Howard missed the previous game against the Heat due to injury.

Li Liang snatched the Heat on the inside and vomited blood.

Now Howard is back, and after a period of slow adjustment, his form is picking up.

Howard played well in the first half, with eight points and 10 rebounds in the half, including four frontcourt rebounds.

At halftime, the Lakers were 55-51, leading the Heat by four points.

It stands to reason that the team is ahead, and the core players Kobe Bryant and Howard are playing well, and Mike Brown should be confident.

But at halftime, Brown felt uncertain.

Because Li Liang did not play this point.

In the first half, the Heat would rather let Howard basket a second offense, rather than in the last game, where two people guarded and gave Li Liang a chance.

Si Po specially sent people to keep an eye on Li Liang and prevent him from "stealing chickens".

Li Liang's performance in the first half was very average, 1 of 3 three-pointers, 2 free throws, and there was no other scoring performance.

Brown felt worried, Li Liang is the team's barometer and the only reliable player in the three-point line.

He didn't play well in the first half, which meant that the team was lame in attack.

Sure enough, in the second half, the Heat suddenly exerted force, and the outside line suddenly increased pressure.

This is different from the last one.

The last game of the Heat was to press up at the beginning and cause the Lakers to make mistakes in a row.

As a result, the Lakers relied on Li Liang's play to survive.

James ended up taking over the game without success.

Today is the opposite, and James and Wade are allowed to find their form in the offense at the beginning.

James scored 18 points in the first half, and although the team was behind, the shooting sensation of the two Janway was found.

The suffocating high-pressure perimeter defense they could turn on at any time, in the third quarter.

The physical confrontation between the two sides went up all at once, and both the Heat and the Lakers received fouls in a row.

Li Liang had some physical contact and altercation between the two while defending James.

As a result, James suffered a technical foul, and Li Liang didn't do anything at all.

James asked the referee to theorize, Li Liang learned well this time, and no longer fanned the flames next to him.

Because fanning the flames will be blown for technical fouls.

James' argument was of course pointless, and the technical foul was still given to James alone.

There is no way, now the referees are inexplicably more biased towards Li Liang.

Even the referees themselves didn't realize that they were really tolerant enough of Li Liang.

If you don't swear or do anything, you basically don't give technical fouls.

This is too easy for Li Liang, I don't need to swear when I swear.

James didn't argue any further, thinking that the Chosen Son was the legendary Union to take care of.

After arriving in Miami, it seems that the referees don't care much about him, but he is violated in physical confrontations again and again.

In fact, you James is just the chosen son, can you compare to the father of the system?

But on the basketball court, in the final analysis, it is still strength.

James's strength is much better than Li Liang.

After the two sides clashed, James scored seven straight points in the middle of the third quarter.

A breakaway, a mid-range shot, a three-pointer.

The Heat overtook all of a sudden.

Mike Brown called two timeouts in the third quarter to try to set up a three-point shot for Li Liang from the outside.

As a result, Battier, Lewis and even Ray Allen all stepped forward one after another to defend Li Liang closely.

Anyway, he just didn't give Li Liang a chance to make a three-point shot.

The offense was still supported by Kobe Bryant and Nash.

Kobe Bryant has sent Ziguanyin for many games in a row, and now Li Liang's assist point is missing, and other points are blocked, so he can only forcibly return to Tieguanyin mode.

The difference between the two sides has remained at around 7 points.

As soon as the fourth quarter came up, Li Liang finally broke through the encirclement and hit a direct three-point shot at the top of the arc.

Then he steals James in the middle and assists Meeks for a layup, narrowing the gap to just 2 points.

But after a timeout, James assisted on Battier's three-point shot.

Then in a quick counterattack, the Heat connected, and James scored on an aerial relay.

That wasn't the end of it, James stole Nash's pass again, and the fast break rushed to the basket and dunked again.

The Heat returned the Lakers a 7-0, and the difference was 9 points.

Since then, the Lakers have been resisting, but unfortunately the Heat's defense is as solid as a rock.

This time Spo's strategy and tactics were used properly, and there was no blind intensity at the beginning.

He controlled Li Liang's point first, and then slowly grinded with the Lakers.

Every team's three-point shot is so important these days, and the reason why the Heat are strong is that they have several three-pointers from the outside.

The east is not bright, and the west is bright.

As for the Lakers, Li Liang's point is bright enough, but except for him, the others are unstable.

In fact, because Li Liang attracted attention, Meeks and Ci Shiping's three-point shots were already very good.

But as soon as Li Liang's offensive end was wasted, the Lakers felt that they were always short of a breath.

Until the final minute of the game, the Lakers still had a chance.

Nash hit the first three-pointer of the game.

Then he stopped the Heat's offense, and Kobe Bryant made a layup on the offensive end.

The margin was reduced to five points in the last minute.

However, James made a strong layup at the last moment, which also caused Howard to foul.

Li Liang's "Book of Stays" did not work this time.

This goal completely killed the game, and the Heat defeated the Lakers 107-100 at home, with a seven-point advantage, and won five in a row.