Chapter 514: 4-0 (4000 words)
For Heat fans, tonight was supposed to be a great night to win, because Xiao Si, who had been violent from the beginning in the previous games, was dumb tonight, and he only scored 4 points at the end of the first quarter! Spoelstra's inclusion of LeBron James in the No. 4 position played a role, and seriously, this change of formation allowed the coach to regain the trust of many Miami fans after being scolded for a season.
It's just that before their smiles can be fully revealed, they retract them.
Yi!
This is the first person in the league who has always been a little worse than Xiao Si in the dazzling intensity of this arena in the past, and he ran wild when Xiao Si was restricted, scoring 13 points in a single quarter, in the hearts of Miami fans, this is a feat that the irascible Xiao Si has not completed, LeBron entered the interior line and put the Heat's outside defense into trouble, especially the defense of Yi Jianlian, which is like a bubble, and it will burst at the touch of a button.
Yi Jianlian made a big move, and the Heat fell behind again.
A faint thought rose in the hearts of all Miami fans, I am afraid that the Knicks will win this game again.
Heat fans don't know that this is the first time in a row that Yi Jianlian has stopped them in the playoffs! In the past few years, this team only had Wade, and if they lose, they will lose, whether they want it or not, they must also admit that Yi Jianlian is more powerful than Dwyane Wade. It's not something hard to swallow losing to a stronger guy. But this year, the Heat team has gathered the Big Three, and all Miami fans believe from the bottom of their hearts that the dynasty belonging to Miami is coming, and no one will think that a team with Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James will not win the championship!
It's impossible!
So this year, all Miami fans have a much, much greater expectation for the Heat than in previous years. It's just that now fans find that there is something happening that is difficult for them to accept: even if they have the Big Three, they still can't cross Yi Jianlian and his team, even if this team is changed from the Bucks to the Knicks, Yi Jianlian is still the same Yi Jianlian. Still able to complete the show that made Miami fans desperate.
The margin continued to widen in the second quarter of the game.
Spoelstra experienced Hamlet-style troubles, whether to defend against Xiao Si or against Yi Jianlian, which was a problem, and he watched in silence as the score difference exceeded 10 points, and finally he chose to let LeBron James return to the No. 3 position, and Xiao Si almost got out of the slump with continuous dunks at the same time that LeBron James left the inside.
The score difference was close to 15 points at one point!
And with Xiao Si's rampage, the game is really out of suspense.
Although LeBron and Wade stepped up in the second half to save the team, they narrowed the gap to about 10 points and failed to close the gap further.
In the end, the Knicks won the third game of the second round of the playoffs with a score difference of 16 points at the American Airlines Center 110-94, expanding the score to 3-0, and the Heat's Big Three were only one defeat away from fishing!
Xiao Si only scored 4 points in the first quarter, but exploded in the second three quarters, and still cut down 29 points and 14 rebounds in the whole game.
He is like a bug on the inside of the Heat, without LeBron James, the inside line of the Heat is the back garden of his home, and he can go when he wants.
Yi Jianlian started violently, and his personal offensive firepower attenuated after establishing the lead, but under his needle lead, the scoring firepower of the entire Knicks team was much fiercer.
Knicks players, including Smalls, have benefited from it!
It was also from this time that the Knicks further widened the point difference!
Yi Jianlian, who attracts defense, is the same as Yi Jianlian, who is full of personal firepower, and he is a player who can benefit the team a lot, and what is even more terrifying is that Yi Jianlian himself knows very well what kind of situation and what kind of model should be transformed into!
Yi Jianlian got a total of 32 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in the whole game, and the number of turnovers was 3, considering his large number of balls in this game, this number of turnovers is still acceptable!
Yi Jianlian, who once again got a triple-double, has officially reached 11 triple-doubles in the playoffs in his career, as expected by many media, but after one game, he once again made a new breakthrough in the playoffs triple-double list, he surpassed "Big Bird" Bird, and now he is the same as Jason Kidd, the number of triple-doubles so far in his career has reached 11, ranking second in the NBA's all-time triple-double list, and 19 times away from the first "Magic" Johnson!
One thing to say, this number of times seems to be a lot, but everyone knows very well that with Yi Jianlian's current momentum of winning three doubles, the possibility of stopping him is injury and time!
LeBron James tried his best in this game and also got a triple-double of 35 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, but compared with Yi Jianlian, he had as many as 5 turnovers, in fact, LeBron James's data is enough to make people ignore the insignificant flaw that he has 5 turnovers.
But because Yi Jianlian also got a triple-double and led the team to win the game, compared with the two, LeBron James's 5 mistakes are a bit spicy!
More importantly, LeBron had 2 turnovers in the third quarter, 5 minutes and 27 seconds in the third quarter, Wade just made efforts to narrow the score difference to 11 points, and after the Knicks missed, they had the possibility of narrowing the score difference to single digits, but at this time, LeBron James made 2 turnovers, and the Knicks seized to complete the counterattack, so that this opportunity, which was likely to be a key turning point in the game, was wasted.
If you really want to analyze it, LeBron's two mistakes are actually very critical!
If LeBron didn't make mistakes in these two rounds, but scored points, the Heat would not have been defeated in the next game, and the entire fourth quarter would have become 12 minutes waiting for death to be a bad one.
At that time, the players on the Heat team had no motivation to continue fighting.
Only LeBron still stormed the basket again and again, but it's a pity that every time he hits, even if he scores, the Knicks can complete an easy counterattack in the next round.
……
"Damn, why is this guy again, what the hell should I do to stop this guy!"
"Maybe that's God's will, when we just got Chris Bosh and LeBron James, we thought that our time had come, but now it seems that our time is far from coming, and even I doubt now that we can beat Yi before LeBron's four-year contract expires, it's a question!"
"Yi is the better player, it goes without saying, and it has been proven clear in the three games of this series!"
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Heat fans sighed after the game, the score has come to 3-0, the Heat lose another game they will go home, the third game of the series that should have been a turning point did not appear as they expected, Heat fans have no hope of eliminating the Knicks at all!
They even feel that it is a luxury for the Heat to win a game against the Knicks!
After the Heat lost Game 3 of the series, LeBron was in such a bad mood that he even missed the Heat's postgame press conference tonight.
This move made everyone realize that LeBron was running away and had no confidence in winning the series!
Miami fans felt helpless, and Cleveland fans were excited again, and they all swiped a "3" under LeBron James's Twitter!
Some of the more excited Cavaliers fans asked very bluntly on the message board: "Mr. LeBron, what do you mean by 3?" If you're looking for a third win in the series, why don't I see any change in the slightest, and you're not going to tweet 4 anytime soon, right? ”
"LeBron, I don't know who else you want to blame now?"
"Join the Knicks! LeBron, I think only Yi can lead you to victory now! ”
Cleveland fans are taunting as much as they can, but anything they think can hit LeBron James, they're all written under LeBron's Twitter tonight.
This is only the third game of the series, and the Heat still have a theoretical glimmer of life, and it is foreseeable that if the Heat loses in the next game and is really swept 4-0, the voice of condemnation will only be louder at that time, and it will definitely not be smaller.
How swaggering the Big Three of the Heat have been this summer, how much ridicule will be made for them after their loss.
However, no one has any sympathy for them, and even more people feel that they deserve it.
"It's the first time I've seen a team hold a press conference for new players, and that's the consequences they should bear!"
If the public enemy of the whole people can't go all the way up the current and reach the highest point, then the end will naturally be like a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats.
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Game 4 of the series between the Heat and the Knicks kicked off in the spotlight.
The game was also played at the American Airlines Center.
The slight difference from the previous game is that the expressions on the faces of the Heat fans today are more despair, and they themselves don't believe that the Heat can win this game!
After all, so far this season, the regular season plus the playoffs, the Heat have lost to the Knicks in seven consecutive games.
Haven't won a single game in 7 games, which means nothing needs to be said!
It is completely a reflection of strength not at a level or a restrained style.
Just like the Mavericks met the Warriors in the playoffs that year, and the Spurs met the Grizzlies in the playoffs this year, the weakest link is the strongest advantage of the opponent.
Today's game did not break out of this law, and even tonight's Heat team collapsed faster than usual, the Knicks team only took 6 minutes to establish a 10-point lead, the Heat team from LeBron James to Uncle Huo sitting on the court, everyone's expression was stiff, everyone's action joints were rusty, except for Dwyane Wade who scored 3 goals in a row during this time, none of the other Heat players were normal, especially LeBron James, He made a layup in an open position, but he didn't even make it!
It can be seen how much burden his spirit has carried in this game!
LeBron James has never been a person who can maintain a calm mind in key games, especially before he won the championship, and his mental quality is much worse.
The original Heat team reached this year's Finals, and in Game 6 of the Finals, LeBron was even passed by Barria and Jason Terry.
Those few empty defenses vividly reflected LeBron's fragile psychology at that time, just like tonight, he failed to make an open layup.
Yi Jianlian could clearly hear that at the same time that LeBron James didn't score this goal, there was a lot of sighs in the American Airlines Center arena, and the diehards of the Heat team didn't expect that the famous LeBron James would actually have a blue miss in the sky!
Don't you usually like to play a bit of domineering tomahawk slam buckles? Why didn't you dunk at the end of this layup?
Many Heat fans are tempted to ask.
LeBron James actually didn't hear these sighs, he is now immersed in the psychological burden of being ridiculed by fans all over the world and can't extricate himself, otherwise, he wouldn't have missed the layup!
Wade is the man who fought to the end of this game, he had 29 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, fought to the last moment, fought the last bullet, compared to him, the performance of the other two giants of the Heat team was a little too bad, Chris Bosh only got 12 points and 5 rebounds, LeBron only got 15 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, and the number of turnovers still reached 5.
Two of the Big Three played so poorly, this game naturally could not be won, the Knicks beat the Heat 98-83 and won this game, which was the Knicks' fourth victory in this series, the victory of this game allowed them to extend the big score to 4-0, they swept the Heat again in the playoffs as they did in the regular season!
Yi Jianlian got a total of 30 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in this game, and easily got a triple-double again, plus this triple-double, his triple-double in the playoffs has reached 12, squeezing out Jason Kidd and occupying the second place in the NBA playoffs all-time triple-double list.
Xiao Si also performed as well as in this game, with 34 points and 13 rebounds.
As a result, Smalls averaged more than 33 points per game in this series, which was the first time since '05 that he averaged such a high number of points per game in a series.
And the opponent is still the Miami Heat with LeBron, Bosh and Wade!