Chapter 776: The Shocking Seattle and the Collapsed Mindset James!
The first quarter of the game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Miami Heat was a shock.
Not only the spectators in person and in front of the TV, but also the players on both sides of the pitch.
LeBron James is now holding his head and staring blankly at the floor.
He really didn't know how this game would start like this.
Not only did James not know why this game started like this, but even Wade and Bosh sitting next to him, as well as the other four of the Big Five such as Chandler and Ben Gordon, also didn't know why this game was such a game.
Everyone's eyes looked at James in shock.
Not to mention these Heat players, Spoelstra, the head coach of the Heat, is also looking at James in disbelief.
As the head coach of the Heat, he didn't want to say that the first quarter of the game was because of James's undercover agent, so that the Heat, who could have won at least 10 points, could only tie with the Seattle SuperSonics in the end.
He really doesn't want to put the team's problems on one person.
But in the first quarter of the game, this is how it turned out!
He really didn't expect that LeBron James would behave like this in a game!
The opening of this game couldn't be better for the Heat, yes doesn't feel good, this has been confirmed.
The same Yes mentality is indeed very collapsed, so the general feel, actually shot so crazy, this is impossible in the previous Yes game.
With Yes's previous ball quotient, it is impossible for him to play fast-paced with the Heat!
But in order to score 100 points, for more rounds, Yes is dizzy and the Heat to play against the offense, play speed, in this world, and the Heat team does not fall into the position to play against the team, in the eyes of Spoelstra and the Heat, it is their own people!
It can be said that the Yes of this game is my own people!
The Yes of the first quarter of the game is your own people.
With someone like Yes, the Heat team didn't be able to seize the opportunity!
Obviously, there was a chance to play Yes for a fifty-eight, but the Heat didn't grasp it!
Why are James and the Heat players so shocked and incredible at this time?
Obviously, the two sides are only tied now, and the Heat are not lagging behind.
Why does James look so guilty?
That's because they really have a chance to play Yes a fifty-eight in this game!
However, in the end, James buried such an opportunity with his own hands.
The end result is that they wasted a quarter of their time in vain!
Now that the score of the two teams is tied, with three quarters left in the game, the chances of the Miami Heat wanting to play Yes and SuperSonics by 58 points are very, very low!
As long as this game can be played in Seattle, the public opinion situation of the Miami Heat and James will be greatly improved, and when the time comes, the Miami Heat can put down all the baggage and easily move towards the championship.
It can be said that after Yes's game felt wrong, after Yes's mentality went wrong, this game was not just James greedy, each of them wanted to be greedy to get what they wanted from this game.
It's just that!
What was originally at his fingertips was given away by James himself, who was most eager to get this thing!
This kind of depression, this kind of self-blame, this kind of discomfort, there is no need for James himself to say it, everyone knows it!
Of course, he and his Heat players don't think that James is playing the Heat now, and it's very, very normal for players to have ups and downs.
It's just that the ups and downs of James' offensive state really didn't come at the right time.
Originally, this was the best chance to prove him, but he got it......
Now Spoelstra can be sure that the commentators or reporters in various countries around the world must be playing James's undercover meme like crazy right now.
"Guys, now isn't the time for us to get down."
After Spoelstra looked at the faces of all the Heat players, and saw these shocked Heat players take their eyes from James to him, Spoelstra continued solemnly.
"The result of the first quarter was an accident, an accident that no one expected, we lost a lot of chances, but guys, it's not enough to frustrate us, as long as the mentality of Yes is still problematic in this game, still chasing 100 points, still not feeling good, then we will not completely lose our chances at any time."
In a Big Five team like the Heat, Spoelstra's presence on the team is usually very low.
He is a puppet, this is the consensus of the whole world.
The whole world knows that the real coach of the Heat is his Spoelstra teacher, Pat Riley.
It's not just the world that sees it that way, but within the team, most of the players think that way.
As a manager, he has almost no authority within the team.
Of course, he knows that he is indeed a puppet in the Heat, but even if he is a puppet, he wants to be a puppet who can make a difference, and he feels that he still has some strength, whether it is tactically or in other aspects of coaching.
It's just that the entire Heat team has been quite smooth this season, and there is no adversity for him to play at all.
Even in the usual game, when he was talking about tactics, the Heat players led by James did not listen to what he said.
James, in particular, didn't even look at him directly.
Although the tactics played by the Heat team have nothing to do with him as a head coach, these Heat players really don't even bother to pretend, which makes him embarrassed.
Now, the team's adversity has finally appeared, and he, a puppet, finally has a chance to perform!
Hearing him say this, even James, who usually didn't look at him when he was talking about tactics, raised his head at this time, staring at him with blood-red eyes.
"We didn't get the result we wanted in the first quarter, but guys, you have to believe that we're going to get back into shape, LeBron can't be worse than in the first quarter, as long as Yes wants to chase 100 points to complete his false remarks before the game, we still have a chance, don't forget, our advantage with the Seattle SuperSonics is all-round!"
"Whether it's a starter or a substitute, our advantage over the Seattle SuperSonics allows us to play explosively at any time!"
"For us, with an undercover Yes with the Seattle SuperSonics, is it hard for us to win this team by 20 points in each of the three quarters?"
After Spoelstra finished laughing, he also looked at James, who had eased a lot at this time, and said: "Unless LeBron is an undercover agent who Yes put next to us, but LeBron, you tell us, are you?" ”
"Of course not!"
James hadn't even spoken, and Wade on one side spoke in James' place.
LeBron is certainly not an undercover agent for the Heat!
In the first quarter of the game, LeBron was undercover, and that was because he was not in good shape, and it was not because he wanted to perform badly.
What is Undercover?
Suppose that when LeBron turned his back to face the Seattle SuperSonics Barria, LeBron didn't dare to play, hesitated there, didn't pass or attack, and finally made a mistake, that's undercover!
LeBron in the first quarter was not in good shape at best, and finally made a move because of his bad state.
There's no way to blame LeBron for this.
Spoelstra was joking about the tension before the Heat, and the Heat players certainly saw it clearly.
Seeing that the atmosphere of the Heat team returned to normal under Spoelstra's adjustment at this time, Redick, who is a member of the great team of the Heat, was also relieved.
As a fifteen members of the Heat team, he sat on the bench in a suit in this game, which means that he didn't have any chance to play in this game.
This season with the Heat, he played less than 10 minutes in total.
He is very clear about his own strength, and the whole Heat team is also very clear.
Two years with the Pistons didn't play much, coupled with two years of alcoholism, his ability and physical condition are quite poor.
It doesn't meet the needs of a top team like the Heat at all.
He now knows that he was able to get the Heat's base salary contract entirely because James wanted him to spread an atmosphere of hatred within the team.
At this point, Tyronn Lue, who is the team's fourteen, is the same.
However, Tyronn Lue is better than him, although he does not play much time, but Tyronn Lue's game form is still there, and he is still valuable on the court.
Now that he's worthless on the court, it doesn't matter, as long as he's off the court, valuable to James and to the Heat, he's not going to lose his job!
As long as the hatred he spreads off the court can help the Heat and James, he'll always be able to hold a spot with the Heat!
A team doesn't need to be the kind of player who can play and contribute.
Originally, the first quarter was like that, and Reddick really almost collapsed.
Before the start of this game, he could dream of the arrogant appearance of his head in the face of the desperate Yes who was beaten by his team for 58 points after the game.
If this game can't play Yes a fifty-eight, and even the Heat team loses, then not only will he not be able to show in front of Yes, but even his own position in the Heat will be a little unsafe, and the team can't win Yes and the Heat, then it means that the atmosphere of hatred Yes that he spread is useless, not only useless, but also makes people know, and it will make people feel that James is a spiritual victor, which will make James laughed at by the whole world.
When the time comes......
Redick couldn't even imagine what kind of tragic ending he would have for the Heat after losing this game.
His wife has been born, and he's no longer the Redick he was in the NCAA dreaming of becoming a superstar.
He now needs to support his family, he needs the job of the Heat now, but his current contract has not been fully guaranteed by the Heat, and he still has an unemployment crisis.
It is precisely because of the current situation that it can be said that he is more eager to beat Yes than anyone else on the entire Heat team!
He was happier than anyone else on the entire Heat team to see the Heat back to normal and James back to normal!
"As long as we don't have a problem with our emotions, what are you going to fight us with?!"
"Seattle SuperSonics and Miami Heat, your team and my team?"
If it is the same as the famous quote of Kwame Brown.
"Looks like it can be killed in seconds!"
So, what are you going to do to fight me?!
From now on, you will live forever in the shadow of my JJ Reddick!
Reddick looked at the bench on the other side, and the light of wonder and hope on his face at this time did not even feel how strong it was.
For the team's performance in the first quarter, the Seattle SuperSonics were of course quite surprised.
The team was not in good shape in this game, he knew that.
He couldn't have been clearer about what kind of state these two teams were in when they were training.
After all, it was such a magical game with the Lakers.
After the game against the Lakers, the whole world is chasing Yes and the SuperSonics, and it is difficult not to be affected by such a popularity.
It's just that he really didn't expect the team to be in such a bad state and be able to lead for a long time in the first quarter.
This allowed the SuperSonics to accomplish what the team aspired to in the first quarter.
Yes's score is 28, and there is no problem with the minimum consumption of 30+ in this game.
The team tied with the Heat in the first quarter, and the team no longer has the possibility of being beaten by the Heat for a 58 humiliation, and even if it is possible, the possibility is already very small.
"Boys, you played great in the first quarter, but it's not over yet, everything is still possible!"
Everything is still possible!
It's the best of the stimulant remarks, and that's the state of the supersonic right now, whether the team wins or Yes 100 points, everything is possible!
So after his own remarks, Nelson Sr. can clearly feel that the mental state of the players who are not in good form in the team is really, really good.
The eyes of every substitute ready to come on are glowing.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the rotation lineup on the Seattle SuperSonics side was guard Barria, Harden, small forward Quentin Richardson, power forward Millsap, and center Marc Gasol.
This is the standard lineup for the SuperSonics who have been rotating players against strong teams for a lot of the season this season.
Because the rotation lineup is mainly responsible for cultivating Harden this season, the performance of the outside rotation players of the Seattle SuperSonics this season is very unstable, James Harden is a little sticky, and the timing of the pass really has a feeling of throwing the pot, which makes Barria and Quentin Richardson very uncomfortable, and the outside line of the entire Supersonic rotation lineup is a little disjointed by Harden.
In this case, in order to ensure that the team's rotation lineup is not taken away by the opponent, the inside line needs to be pressed, so the inside line of the supersonic rotation lineup is either Gasol Jr. and Millsap or Gasol Jr. and Milicic are pressed, and even Milicic and Millsap are sometimes pressed.
Gasol Jr., Millsap, and Milicic are the three main rotations in the SuperSonics interior position this season, and under normal circumstances, these three are played in two or two rounds.
Therefore, don't look at the playing time of Milicic and Millsap, the two starting insiders, each game is 32 minutes, in fact, as a substitute Gasol Jr., his playing time is actually not less than that of Milicic and Millsap, Gasol Jr. can play an average of 31 minutes per game this season, and can contribute 10 points, 6 rebounds, 1 block, 1 steal and 2 assists per game, it can be said that the performance is very comprehensive and reliable.
It is precisely because of the existence of Milicic, Millsap and Gasol Jr. that the SuperSonics are known as the touchstone of interior players in the league.
Which interior player you want to say that you are a superstar in the interior line, you don't need to beep more, just compete with these three big guys of the supersonic.
Most of the teams in the league have performed quite average on the inside in the face of the superSonics.
Of course, there are also some strongmen who perform very well, such as O'Neill, Yao Ming, Oden and others.
Although the SuperSonics' interior players can't stop O'Neal this season, the duo of these three has no problem in the rotation lineup to help the SuperSonics' bench lineup.
No matter how pitiful James Harden is on the bench, all three of them can get to the bottom.
At the very least, the supersonic rotation players who lost those players on the outside, these three can still get back a lot.
In last season's SuperSonics rotation lineup, it was Kwame Brown and Millsap who played with Durant and practiced with Durant.
This season is to practice with James Harden.
It took Durant almost half a season to slowly practice.
When will James Harden practice?
It's really hard to say when James Harden will practice, but right now, the two interior players of the Heat team on the court, O'Neal Jr. and Chris Bosh, are really uncomfortable right now!
In the second quarter, the Heat's bench lineup was O'Neal Jr., Chris Bosh, Grant Hill, Ben Gordon and Calderon.
In the Heat's rotation, Chris Bosh and Ben Gordon are both starters.
Usually the Heat don't use it like this, usually the rotation time of the Heat team, in addition to O'Neal Jr., the other spot on the inside is Haslem or Vallejo, and the position of the scoring guard belongs to Marbury.
Arguably, the Heat's bench is the deepest in the league.
But this time, in order to regain the advantage they missed in the first quarter in bench time, the Heat felt that the upper pure rotation was a little unsafe, so they put Chris Bosh and Ben Gordon as the two starters.
Such an arrangement is a matter of course for the Heat.
Every minute counts for the Heat right now.
In order to play supersonic and Yes a fifty-eight, they really can't afford to delay.
Therefore, after the start of the second quarter, James clenched his fists tightly even when he was not on the court, looking worried about the team's rotation lineup.
According to the rotation lineup that the Heat came up with tonight, in the eyes of many people, there is no problem at all with the supersonics, the rotation lineup that plays with James Harden.
But!
What people never expected was that after the start of the second quarter of the game, the development of the game was completely different from what the Heat team imagined!
Chris Bosh and O'Neal Jr., a very formidable interior pairing, didn't live up to the task Spoelstra hoped they could have at bay Gasol Jr. and Millsap.
According to the Heat's thinking, Chris Bosh and O'Neal Jr. only need to suppress Gasol Jr. and Millsap, then the outside line will be handed over to Ben Gordon to defeat James Harden.
However, the combination of Chris Bosh and Ole Jr., which is stronger than Gasol Jr. and Millsap, has not been able to suppress these two.
"Milicic is the strongest inside line of the superSonics, Milicic is not present, Gasol Jr. and Millsap can actually withstand the attack of O'Neill Jr. and Chris Posh?!"
Not to mention that the Heat were surprised, even Barkley and Kenny Smith on the sidelines were surprised.
In the first quarter, the Heat and the SuperSonics were evenly matched, and Chandler and Chris Bosh were evenly matched with the SuperSonic's three-in-one interior.
This parity is largely attributed to Milicic.
With Milicic out of the field, who else can stop Chris Bosh and O'Neal Jr.?
Although the balance of O'Neill Jr. and Chris Bosh is not as balanced as that of Chris Bosh and Chandler, the offensive ability is a strengthened version!
Such an offensive enhancement can't even break without Milicic Gasol Jr. and Millsap?
And what is very embarrassing on the court is that Chris Bosh has singled Gasol Jr. and Millsap, and it can be seen that Chris Bosh really wants to find a way to suppress one of the two.
But that really can't be suppressed!
It's not just a stunner for the spectators on the sidelines.
Even Chris Bosh himself is a little skeptical.
In the first quarter, one-on-one couldn't get his old rival Milicic, and Chris Bosh admitted it.
The two were rookies in 2003, and since the rise of Milicic, there has been a voice in the league about him and Milicic who was the No. 1 interior player in 2003.
In the past two years, it has been difficult to distinguish between the high and low in each meeting between the two, and even when the ability value of each basketball game is arranged, he is only one or two points higher than Milicic most of the time.
He's better offensive, and Milicic is stronger defensively, and it's really normal that neither of the two can hold anyone down, and that's acceptable.
So in the first quarter, he watched the play of James, Wade and Ben Gordon resignedly, and was ready to punch Gasol Jr. or Millsap after Milicic went off the court in the second quarter!
This Nima's!
Why is the punch so painful?
This is not scientific!
Why does it feel like the defense of these two guys is not much worse than that of Milicic, and even ......
Some of the defensive qualities of Millsap and Marc Gasol seem to be stronger than Milicic!
On the offensive end, Chris Bosh and O'Neal Jr. couldn't suppress Marc Gasol and Millsap, and on the defensive end, the two were crazy to be rushed by Gasol Jr. and Millsap to grab rebounds.
It can be said that the situation shown on the court, the interior of the Heat team, which is ready to strike hard, is still evenly matched with the supersonic inside!
On the outside, Ben Gordon, who came up with the task of opening the score this time, is now playing very uncomfortably.
In the first quarter of the game, he and Wade were the two best players of the Heat, Wade faced Rondo's defense and scored 16 points in a single quarter, while he faced Ibaka's defense and scored 14 points in a single quarter, and the two combined to contribute 30 points out of 40 in the first quarter of the Heat!
This time in the rotation lineup, facing another garbage rookie of the SuperSonics, his little Yes is also ready to show off.
But, Nima's!
Beep beep!
A series of whistles sounded, causing Ben Gordon's eyes, which had already squeezed James Harden out of the way to shoot, to shrink rapidly.
Another whistle!
Nima's whistle again!
"Red Seven, offensive foul!"
Another offensive foul!
Seeing Ben Gordon, who came down from the air on the court and angrily smashed the basketball that was not thrown out of his hand to the floor, and was finally added by the referee with another technical foul, the audience on the sidelines was stunned!
"In less than three minutes, James Harden made three fouls for Ben Gordon, two offensive fouls and one defensive foul!"
"That's incredible, isn't it?"
"Ben Gordon is known as Little Yes, and his offensive and defensive skills are not as good as Yes, but they are definitely not that rough!"
Even the media commentators and reporters from all over the world on the sidelines were in an uproar.
They could see that the Seattle SuperSonics were in really bad shape in this game, and the offensive state of the rotation lineup was equally bad, scoring five points on James Harden's free throws in three minutes.
But Nima's, now the score on the court is actually 45-43!
The Seattle SuperSonics are miserable, and the Miami Heat's rotation lineup is even worse by the Seattle SuperSonics' rotation lineup!
"I always felt that after the game with the Lakers, James was a little bit different on the court."
"I feel the same way, James seems to be playing more delicately on both ends of the floor......
Exquisite?
Hearing the words of his teammates, Ye Si smiled after being stunned for a moment.
Quite delicate indeed.
James Harden is now playing out his refined egoistic style on the court on both ends of the floor.
The average person, especially someone with a more straightforward style like Ben Gordon, can be very, very uncomfortable.
"James Harden is not a great player, according to Kenny, he is like most ordinary people, he is not so unbearable, he is not so good, he is just an ordinary person, and now I swear, although James Harden is not good enough, he is definitely not an ordinary person!"
"It's the first time I've seen a role player tease an All-Star player so badly in a game, hahahaha."
Hearing the unbridled laughter of his partner next to him, Kenny Smith really blushed.
He really didn't know how to refute Barkley's words now, because he couldn't refute them at all!
A garbage player like James Harden, his current strength and future achievements can't even see Ben Gordon's heels, but this Nima's, this kid's style of play is too chicken thief, right?
The strength is not good, but this kind of chicken thief strength that grasps the opponent's loopholes is really easy to collapse people.
This guy is simply a-stirring stick on the court!
Ben Gordon was on the verge of being crushed by him!
Ben Gordon, who originally wanted to make a big splash in the rotation lineup, scored 3 points after three minutes, which is not as good as James Harden.
The Heat were supposed to lay the foundation for a 58-point win in the rotation, but after the last three minutes, they fell behind.
As a result, it really made James, Wade and others on the sidelines stunned.
Even Spoelstra, who wants to make a difference in this game, is now a little dazed, this game is really playing Seattle SuperSonics?
Although the Heat has not yet run in well, it will not encounter setbacks in a team like SuperSonic!
wanted to rely on the rotation lineup to pull points, but the rotation lineup was losing points, and Ben Gordon, the core of the rotation lineup, was also mentally collapsed by James Harden.
This made Spoelstra speechless and helpless, and finally had to change the team's entire starting lineup after requesting a timeout.
Now it doesn't matter if it's fifty-eight or fifty-eight, what matters now is that the team needs a consistent lead!
If he falls behind, the team will definitely become more and more impatient, and the morale that he has boosted will fluctuate again, which is definitely not something he wants to see.
This game between the SuperSonics and the Heat is full of drama and accidents, with many, many things that almost everyone could not have imagined.
Many people didn't expect that after fifteen minutes of play, the supersonic were still on the leading side!
It doesn't matter if you think about it or not, the important thing is that now the superSonics are really ahead, the two teams are really evenly matched, and there is no doubt that this kind of game is definitely what everyone wants to see.
What's more, no matter what the shooting percentage is in the first quarter, at the very least, the score of 28 still keeps him alive with 100 points!
After the restart of the second quarter, James returned to the court, and he could clearly feel the change in the atmosphere.
The supersonic has completely come out of the Heat's powerful lineup deterrence!
What do you need to do now?!
James knows that he needs to calm down now!
One-on-one with Yes was not a good option, and it was his pre-match plan to knock Yes out of one-on-one with Yes, and it was clear that such a plan could not be continued now.
"James and Ben Gordon block and pick-and-roll!"
"For the first time in this game, James didn't find Yes to play one-on-one, and this time, James handed Yes to Ben Gordon!"
"James dribbled under his crotch and caught the tank to break through, and Ibaka was directly knocked away by James!"
Although Barkley doesn't know why James wants to crotch next time, such a breakthrough is really wonderful.
It's just that?!
Just when Barkley felt that his partner next to him, Kenny Smith, was going to yell out.
Bang!
Directly hold back all the words that Kenny Smith wanted to yell!
"After James broke through, in the face of Milicic's assisted defense, he rode a horse and shot arrows from a medium distance, and floated ......"
Before the word pretty could be shouted, Kenny Smith was blindsided.
This can also be covered?!
Yes seems to be able to predict where James wants to shoot after the breakthrough, and how he wants to shoot!
"How is this possible......"
Kenny Smith could clearly feel that James had changed his offensive style on the offensive end in the second quarter, but Yes was still shrouding James like a big net!
"This game is not James, this kid will shroud Yes and the supersonics!"
"It's Yes that casts LeBron James and the Supersonic in the shadows!"
At the beginning of the game, O'Neill was really quite unhappy and worried.
Although the whole world knows who the undercover agent of the Cavaliers and the American team is, if James' insidious whitewashing plan is really achieved, the great Shaq will also have a headache.
Now, seeing the game come to this, all the worry on O'Neal's face is gone.
"James, this kid thinks it's okay not to face Yes directly on the offensive end, hehe, naïve!"
"If it weren't for the poor feeling on the offensive end of Yes in this game, James would undoubtedly be the one who was blown up again in this game, is there me next to this kid now?"
O'Neill's voice was disdainful, and Daniel Gibson, who was next to him, wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything.
On TV, in the second quarter of the game, the Heat team's last attack, James once again blocked and switched positions to single Ibaka.
This time, James actually ......
"James is hesitating?!"
"James hesitated when he faced Ibaka?!"
"James was shadowed by Yes's help defense?!"
LeBron?!
On the court, Wade watched the first half of the game come to an end, and James did not face Ibaka's single shot, with a look of surprise on his face.
Why?
Why didn't LeBron even dare to fight Ibaka?
He's Ibaka!
Yes can really put so much pressure on LeBron's heart?!
James didn't dare to hit Ibaka, which became a result that made the whole world crazy to comment.
And these people were relieved to see the technical statistics after half-time in this game.
"50 points on 38 shots...... There were also 5 steals and 5 blocks......"
50 points, 5 steals, 5 blocks!
This data!
Barkley's eyes flickered.
Not to mention the first hit, this is quite troublesome data!
This is the mentality that collapsed Yes?
Why does James look like the one with a broken mentality?