Chapter 916: Giant Wave
"This is the Celestial Arena Sports Channel, and today is the third game of the 2014 NBA Finals, and the Los Angeles Lakers are currently leading the Miami Heat by a big score of 2-0. I'm Yu Jia, I'm Yangyi, and today we will explain this classic battle for you. ”
"Watching the game early in the morning, it is estimated that everyone has not woken up a little, but the game is exciting enough, and it broke out before the game that the Heat team has held a plenary meeting, and it is rumored that this game vows to defend the home court and win the game! Here are the pre-game interview footage of James and Wade and Bosh, we can see that the Heat are basically not discouraged, and this game is back at home in Miami, and the game should still be played. ”
"It can't be helped, this game is too crucial for Miami." Yang Yi began his commentary performance: "It's like a war under the ancient soldiers, and now the opponent has reached the royal city, and there is no room for retreat." Therefore, in this game, the Heat team is bound to fight hard and let the whole burst out with the strongest strength. ”
"I'm also looking forward to it, the Heat suffered from heaven to hell in this round of the series, and the American counterparts were originally more optimistic about them beating the Lakers, but they didn't expect that after 2 games, the Lakers had a 2-0 lead."
"This is the problem of the Heat team itself, the Lakers are not afraid of the Heat team in my opinion, and the lack of soldiers in the regular season has the upper hand with them, at least not falling behind. Now after the Spurs' battle, the vigorous series super comeback, the Lakers have a kind of resilience and spirit in the whole team, which the Heat did not estimate before. So all of a sudden, it seems that they are a little unprepared and not resilient enough. There was a divine twist that he liked and was best at: "But, but, after all, the Heat is still the strongest hegemon in the league who has won the Eastern Conference three times and won the championship twice, and James is still the first person for many years, so I don't think he will be so restrained." ”
"Yangyi, what do you think of our Chinese guy Tang Qian? How do you think he played these two games? How many points can you score? ”
"To be honest, I was impressed with Tang Qian, I originally thought that he was the ordinary main player or the fourth and third man in the star-studded Lakers, but I didn't expect his potential to be so strong, I believe that not only me, but everyone was shocked." Yangyi finally began to have an obvious "bias": "Look at his statistics last year, scoring 4.9 points, rebounds, 12.5 blocks, 4.1 assists, 0.9 steals, and 0.2 steals. Coupled with the lack of scoring ability, I wrote an article at the beginning of the season, and although I also thought that ESPN's ranking was unfair, and the ranking of 103 was too low, I definitely did not expect him to become like this by leaps and bounds this season. ”
"Then if you want to rank him now, how will you rank? Brimming? ”
This time, he didn't sell too much: "The first blue-collar or the league, the first center." ”
"Oh? So high? Yu Jiadao.
"yes, it's that high." "It's not like I'm deliberately giving him extra points just because he's a Chinese player, it's just that you look at his personal data and personal performance this season. Averaged 12.2 points, rebounds, 21.3 rebounds, 7.5 blocks, 3.3 assists, and 0.2 steals per game. There are even some stats that NBA all-time stars can match! Plus All-Star + AMVP + Rebounding King + Block King + One Burst + First Defense + Best Defensive Player, the data and honors are extremely hard, anyway, don't talk about anything else, don't talk about the future, just this season, Tang Qian I think he can sit on the throne of the league's No. 1 center. ”
"Are you about to become a fan of Tang Qian?" Yu Jia said with a smile.
"The same Chinese, he can fight out, I secret him will not suffer."
"It looks like there is another heavyweight in the Tang Mi army under the guidance of Zhang, haha~"
"Don't you like such a Chinese player?"
"Of course I do." Yu Jia said: "Please remember, I am the earliest commentator of Mi Tang Qian, earlier than the Yang around me." ”
Unconsciously, Tang Qian has become a comprehensive ban and a public favorite, what is the main thing? The main thing is what Yao Ming said to him at the Houston All-Star Game back then, playing out, being strong, that is the king.
Otherwise, everything will be in vain and nonsense.
The stronger you are, the more the domestic basketball world needs you, and the sooner you will lift the ban.
Looking at it, Da Yao still has what he said, at least before, Tang Qian would never get the public support and public liking of so many people. That's his influence and audience, and it's growing dramatically.
On the Internet, James and Cormire are still spraying each other, and it seems that this round of finals will not stop until it ends.
After introducing the players, the main players of both sides went on the field.
The Lakers are a lineup of Kobe Bryant + Farmar + Meeks + Gasol + Tang Qian.
The Heat are the Big Three + Lewis + Chris. Anderson, this is a personnel change compared to the previous two games, and he has removed Mario, who is usually basically a starter. Chanmos, replaced by "Birdman" Anderson on the inside. This is tantamount to making it clear that it is necessary to strengthen the arch guard for the interior in the first quarter of the third game of the finals.
Although Anderson's stats look average, his style of play is a tough guy, which is what people like the most. Because sometimes when dealing with the inside line, you don't need to be too good at the data, you just need to be tough enough and entangled. "Birdman" Anderson is an NBA inspirational who came out of the domestic CBA, and he also made mistakes in the middle, but this did not break him, so he replaced it in order to entangle the Lakers' interior line, and he didn't need any data.
As long as it can make the Lakers' interior offense less comfortable.
At the beginning of the game, the basketball undoubtedly fell into the hands of the Lakers, and Tang Qian's probability of winning the scrum was too high, causing the Heat fans to have no confidence in Anderson's scrum.
The fact is also that Anderson has no way of competing for Tang Qian.
The Lakers started their first offense, Farmar passed the ball to Kobe, Kobe Bryant and other interior players fell into position, and then Kobe Bryant gave the interior line, as if he wanted to rely on the interior line to destroy the Heat team like in the previous game. However, the Heat obviously made arrangements tonight, and they didn't protect the interior very well, but that was because their main defensive pressure was concentrated on the outside, otherwise the overall shrinkage would still work well. After all, the rotation ability of the Big Three is the strongest in the entire league, which no team has yet matched.
Gasol didn't react in a hurry, the ball was directly missed, the basketball fell into the hands of the Heat in the blink of an eye, and Miami turned defense into offense.
On the offensive end, James broke through, and Wade followed up on the other side, which seems to be a typical Heat team's "Jenway defensive counterattack mode", but in fact, this is just a game. Because James's ball and Wade are not the main attack point, but the feint attack point. They rely on themselves to draw the vast majority of the Lakers' defensive attention.
Then if they don't attack, who will? Of course, it can't be "Birdman" Anderson, whose offense is limited to secondary offenses, dunks and their leaks. Wanting him to attack is suicidal. So, it can only be Bosh and Lewis.
This Heat team changed the style of play in the previous two games, and in the first two games, Lewis and Bosh basically had no right to shoot, and there were mostly "watching the show". But tonight the Heat clearly adjusted their plan and gave the first ball to Chris. Bosh. Chris. Bosh didn't think much about it, he took the ball and shot, brush~, the Lakers had no one to defend him, and the basketball was caught. The Heat took the lead in this game.
The Lakers didn't play well on the next ball, Gasol wanted to pass to Tang Qian, but was stealed by Wade of the Heat team who jumped up halfway, and the inside pass failed, the Heat team switched offense and defense, Wade made a three-step layup, and Kobe Bryant immediately started to block and interfere. Under the strong interference of No. 24, Wade's shot slid out of the basket, but it didn't really stop the Heat's offensive round.
Because James's follow-up directly made up for the ball, boom~, the Heat scored another 2 points at home.
4-0。
The Lakers missed three points, Tang Qian got the rebound in the front court, 2 offenses were violated, and the Lakers got a point on 1 of 2 free throws from the free throw line. If the previous ones were all switched offense and defense by the Heat because of mistakes, then the following ball starts with the Lakers really not defending well. Because the Heat began to use the Bosh "Wave Giant" superstar to go head-to-head.
This is also basically invisible in the first two games, Bosh is a player who can still sign the highest salary after James leaves, and he has actually quietly completed a kind of "evolution" this season. His shooting consistency has become more and more intensified. If you look at Bosh's previous data, either the middle distance 2 points are very accurate, or the middle and long distance 2 points are very accurate, but when they are accurate together, it is rare. It was different from the start of the season, until Bosh "retired due to illness", he was on both mid-range and mid-to-long-range 2-pointers, and he reached a level of efficiency and accuracy at the same time. Although the offense can't be compared to Nowitzki, the average open 2-point shot, so to speak, is about the same as Nowitzki's career average. The data proves that Nowitzki's career is around 2 points and 47% in the middle distance, and 2 points and 47% in the middle and long distance, which of course calculates his rookie period and decline period. But this season, Bosh's mid-range and mid-range 2-pointers both reached 48.1 percent and 48.7 percent, respectively, and his average shooting distance soared above 13 feet for the first time. That's about 2~3 feet higher than the previous average! That's amazing! And that's a sample of 79 games in the regular season, which is definitely enough! Since the beginning of the 13-14 season, Bosh can be said to have entered the peak of his career! In the future, the average shooting distance will also be higher and farther. You thought it was the regular season? No, no, no, Bosh is still stable in the playoffs this season, and his mid-range and mid-to-long range 2-pointers have reached more than 44%, of which the latter has even reached 45.5%!
That's basically Nowitzki's career average! And who is Nowitzki? To be able to match him in this strongest spot, Chris. Bosh is already quite awesome! After all, the medium and long-distance projection of "Nuo Tianwang", looking at all positions in history, is one of the strongest people. Open shots can be achieved, which shows Bosh's improvement.
So Bosh beat Gasol with a time difference, Bosh had just turned 30 years old and 2 months, and his style of play was also a type of foot and speed basket, so the older Gasol couldn't keep up with his footsteps at all, so he could only watch Bosh break through the feint and make a quick stop to shoot. He didn't jump very high, but because Bosh himself was tall and had long arms, Gasol had little way to adjust his body and interfere with the ball.
Brush ~ basketball is once again in the Lakers' net.
6-1, the Heat led the Los Angeles Lakers by 5 points as soon as they started.
In the next few minutes, the two sides went back and forth, but the Lakers did not take advantage of it at all, and there was a little difference from the first two opening games. During this period, the Heat relied on Bosh as the main offense, and the effect was indeed very significant. Whether Bosh is playing alone or running off the ball or shooting with the help of pick-and-roll cover, his opponent Paul is the one who makes his opponent Paul. Gasol was rather embarrassed.
Because this fully exposed Gasol's shortcomings on the defensive end.
It's very similar to the situation against the Mavericks.
In the face of this ranged No. 4 position, Gasol's height and weight are on the defensive end, but he is dragging his feet.
At least after he was 30 years old, after his movement and agility declined, he became more and more unable to guard against such people.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers actually trailed the Miami Heat by 2 points, 22-24, and entered the second quarter.
However, no one thought that the person who made the Heat team rise was not James, not Wade, but Chris, who has always been "marginalized". Bosh. Just kidding, you think you really don't have the ability, but he was also the fourth and first in the PER league back then, plus he just turned 30 years old, it is the golden age, he is in the prime of life, you give him a chance, he will definitely be able to play good data. Otherwise, you give him an average of 10+ shots per game, and he can still get 15+ in the playoffs this season, and he is already super efficient when there are basically no free throws, okay? You say it's about the same as Howard's shot? But not as good as Howard? What is Howard's career shooting distance? 3+! How much this season? 3.5! Bosh is almost 10+ feet away from his average and is only 9% off the field, okay? Besides, Howard scored 18.3 points on 11.3 shots in the regular season this season, but he averaged 9+ free throws per game! How many more shots is that than Bosh has averaged 2+ free throws per game in the playoffs this season? If you do the math, you know that the two people are not actually at the same shooting level.
And the opponent is still 34-year-old Gasol, and his attack is naturally more handy.
At the end of the first quarter, Tang sneaked off the court to rest, but in fact, the Heat secretly changed their offensive mode, and the shooting and ball possession were regained to No. 6 LeBron. James's hand. James took advantage of Tang Qian's absence and began to frantically attack the interior and attack wildly, just like the previous suppression, all for the "Lakers interior vacuum period" in this section.
Gasol and Jordan. Hill can't stop KING with a strong desire to attack at all.
However, at this time, Kobe Bryant was very smart and chose to stand up, and he also began to score consecutive singles, solving the situation that the Lakers' interior scoring was blocked and the score was unfavorable. However, you can't stand the Heat's Wade and James working together and attacking the interior together. And once James's breakthrough kill recovered, the Lakers' defense festered again, and Zhan Huang began to use the breakthrough to revitalize the team's shooters.
As soon as Tang dived off the court, the Heat changed to a small-ball lineup, and Bosh went down to rest.
James is playing with a small lineup.
In this way, the Lakers began to be tight, because their defense, especially the overall defense, is not strong, even if it is a game with the Spurs, the team tacit team fit has improved a lot, but there are some things that cannot be changed in a short period of time. The first is that their hard ability is there, whether it's Nick. Young Micks Jordan. Famar or Wesley. Johnson or Kendall. Marshallese, it's all one word, dish. What dish? Defend the master of the dish! So this means that their defense basically can't do much to hope. Second, the head coach of the Lakers is not good at building defense, let alone any defensive system, D'Antoni has been attacking and small ball all his life, and building a team defense with the purpose of offense instead of defense, you think too much.
Therefore, when the inner line lost Tang Qian's deterrence, it was reasonable that they were suddenly exploded by the opponent.
No matter how strong Kobe Bryant is, he is also on the outside, so he can only defend one person, and people can still play without the ball to block and dismantle the cover, right?
Therefore, a strong point of outside defense, in fact, in addition to single defense, does not play a particularly big role.
If there is no interior support, if the outside teammates are all below the defensive level, then it will be difficult for Kobe Bryant to defend the entire outside line of the Lakers by himself, even if he has three heads and six arms. So in the second quarter, the Lakers were "beaten", and in the Heat's attack mode and contraction inside line, the Lakers could only rely on the No. 24 individual offense to "continue their lives".
The rest of the people can only wait to feed the ball, and their independent offensive ability is not strong.
Fortunately, "Yang Shaoxia" still puffed up his chest and shot 3 three-pointers on the outside, although he only hit 2, which was enough to temporarily alleviate the crisis that the Lakers' offensive point was too single. This is even more obvious after Gasol is off the field, Gasol can't bear too long playing time at the moment, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for 34~35 minutes. This is not nonsense, next season, Pau Gasol joined the Bulls to play the "second spring" of his career, and entered the second team + All-Star for the second time in his career, but his average playoff minutes per game have slipped to 31+ minutes, and then less and less, less and less durable.
So this season, Gasol is slightly better than Tang Qian at most, and he will not be much stronger physically.
After Gasol and Tang Qian both went down, the Lakers' overall defense immediately collapsed, and the outside and interior lines were all blown up, and the Heat team seemed to have detailed preparations for this game, detailed plans, when to play and who to play and how to play, all of which were tightly divided. and the style of play in the first two games, judging like two people. It seems that the pressure of being down 2-0 has made the defending champions feel a lot of anxiety, and they finally burst out with the energy to reach the NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive year.
This Lakers team does have a lot of things to do with the Heat, but they also have a lot of problems, and as long as the Heat take it seriously, they can also find flaws and cover doors.
For example, the Lakers' main interior players have a physical crisis, which is one of them.
You can concentrate on attacking and scoring in this section, so there is a change in the style of play of the Heat in the first and second quarters of this game.
Any team that can enter the finals has no reason to be underestimated, let alone a team that has reached the finals for 4 consecutive years?
Even if it's not as good as the Spurs, it's definitely not something to be taken lightly.
After all, the Lakers are not the Lakers team that turned the tables after the Western Conference Finals.
The disappearance of Nash and "God Descending to Earth" Tang Qian is enough to punish this team for "downshifting".
Therefore, the Heat team is indeed inferior to the Spurs this year, but the Lakers also do not have the strength to fight 7 games with the Spurs and turn the tables legendary. Therefore, the two sides actually have their own strengths, and neither side has an overwhelming advantage.
Of course, if Nash is still there, if Tang Qian is still a "god descending from heaven", then this game can be ended.
A series sweep is also a very likely thing.
It's a pity that there are no ifs.
At halftime, the Lakers finally scored 47 points, 25 points in a single quarter, which is a decent rhythm in this game, but you can't stand up to let the Heat score 35 points in a single quarter. Combined with the 24 points in the first quarter, the Heat had improved their score to 59 points at halftime, leading the Lakers by 12 points.
It seems that it is not that simple.
However, Tang Qian didn't think that the Lakers would lose this game, because as soon as he played, the Heat's offensive efficiency in the second quarter would not be able to continue. At that time, the Lakers could also suppress the opponent and let the opponent gradually fall into a scoring crisis.
It's a pity that Tang Qian's idea is still a little simpler.
Because he underestimated the strength of the Heat team, and also overestimated the current strength of the Lakers.
Having said that, the Miami Heat is not as good as the Spurs in the last round of the Western Conference finals, and it can even be said that it is far worse. However, isn't the Lakers far worse than the previous round? Perhaps, the Lakers' decline is even greater. After all, the previous playoffs were all controlled by Nash, so the team's overall tacit teamwork problem was not too exposed.
But Nash is gone, and the situation suddenly becomes apparent.
Although the Lakers won the first two games, they were all fighting on their own, with singles and basic cooperation being the majority, and the Heat's loss was more because they were a little unprepared and underestimated the Lakers. This game is back at home, the Heat played much better than the two better games, and with a clear division of each quarter and each quarter, the Lakers are a little unprepared.
At halftime, as soon as they came out of the locker room, the Heat gave the Lakers and Tang Qian a slap in the face.
Bosh, start scoring again.
And, and it's a three-point shot!!
Pointers!!!
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