The Heat have now pushed the Pacers to the fourth spot, and the Pacers, as a dark horse team, have not been in the dark in the end, and with the re-injury of their core player Granger who has just returned from injury this season, their season has come to an end.

Without Danny Granger, the team is missing a star player, and everyone knows that it takes a team's star to decide how far a team can go in the playoffs.

In other words, since the All-Star break, when the top eight teams all start to fight for a better ranking, whether or not there are stars on the team will already determine a lot of things.

It's like the Pacers.

At the beginning of the season, he broke into the top three in the East and pressed the Heat team under him, and at that time, Granger had not yet developed a tacit understanding with the rest of the team, and this team had such ability, and everyone was waiting for them to play a higher expression after further completing the run-in.

But before they could see a better performance, Granger was injured again!

The injury also deprived the Pacers of the ability to continue in the dark.

However, Granger was clearly another victim of the schedule, and he had just recovered from his injury, and his body could not keep up with such intensity, and finally collapsed.

……

The Heat have continued to have a ferocious momentum this season, especially after they officially adapted to the LeBron James system, which is currently the team with the longest winning streak since New York.

The meeting of these two teams is, in the eyes of many, Mars hitting the Earth, and in the eyes of Heat fans, it will be a battle of proof for the Heat.

They will be the best in the league after this game, and in the playoffs, they will pay back last year's loss.

Therefore, tonight, the fans of the Heat team are also extremely excited.

Chandler grabbed the right to attack first, Yi Jianlian took the ball directly in the backcourt, and the Heat signed Battier this summer, and his addition allowed LeBron to appear in the No. 1 position without scruples, and he plus Wade and Battier, the outside defense of these three people is terrifying.

Yi Jianlian doesn't want Dragic to face LeBron, such a strong opponent is on their home court, if these guys are pressed from the beginning, then they will be difficult to play.

Therefore, this attack must be fought well!

Yi Jianlian held the ball to the frontcourt, and the person who defended him was Battier, and behind him were Wade and LeBron, such a defensive target can be called luxurious, and only the Heat can put on such a defensive lineup.

To be honest, Yi Jianlian didn't dare to kill inside for the first time.

So he didn't rush to dribble inside, but held the ball and watched his New York teammates fall into position.

"Pull away, pull away!"

Yi Jianlian commanded his teammates to open up the space, he didn't believe it, in this case, these guys still dared to guard him like this!

He thought so, but what he didn't expect was that these guys really dared to ......

Even though the New York team stretched the entire space to the maximum, the three guys still focused on defending him, and the three of them guarded a triangle.

Yi Jianlian watched these guys stare at him to death, and he didn't want to be "shut down" for such defensive strength. So he shot straight and threw the ball out.

Battier didn't expect Yi Jianlian to throw it so suddenly, he hurriedly stretched out his hand, and could only watch the ball fly out of Yi Jianlian's hand.

But...... The arc of this ball is a bit low!

Battier looked at Yi Jianlian's shot.

He watched, LeBron and Wade were also watching, and suddenly they reacted, this is not a shot, it is a pass!

The two men hurried back to the defense, but unfortunately, Chandler jumped high and pressed the ball that went to the side of the basket into the basket.

The Heat fans who were still excited at the scene were also stunned one by one at this time, they didn't expect the Knicks to score so much momentum in their first shot.

2-0！

What's more, the Knicks' momentum rose all of a sudden.

Chandler high-fived Yi Jianlian, this ball is too comfortable!

Although they have been working together for a month and a half, until now, Chandler is also very surprised by Yi Jianlian's passing ability.

Because this guy passes the ball so well, every ball is very comfortable.

For Chandler, who specializes in eating cakes for a living, he has cooperated with a lot of excellent No. 1 positions throughout his career, such as Chris Paul, and Jason Kidd, although Yi Jianlian is not from the orthodox No. 1 position, his passing is still very good.

This guy's ball sense is outstanding!

Chandler boasted in his heart.

In fact, although there is no direct relationship between passing ability and ball control ability, the passing ability of the guy who is not good at dribbling will not be much better, on the contrary, the guy who passes well in the No. 1 position is also very good at dribbling.

Of course, there is no direct evidence to prove this, but at least it shows that the guy who has good ball control and good passing will not have a bad sense of the ball, and this sentence can also be said in reverse, Yi Jianlian's ball sense is good, so his dribbling ability and passing ability are also very good.

If you have the ability, continue to defend me like this!

Yi Jianlian defended back, the Heat team defended him like this, which just gave him a chance to exploit loopholes The three of them are on Yi Jianlian's side, and the offensive formation of the New York team is very open, and the remaining two people will definitely not be able to prevent the remaining 4 people, this is obvious!

Why, is it harder to defend a well-rounded and altruistic guy?

Just because they can open up the situation in the most suitable way at the most suitable time, and such a guy is not obsessed with statistics, as long as the individual is strong enough and can attract enough defense, then his team will definitely win well.

For example, the current Yi Jianlian, he has nothing to prove for simple data! It also allows him to be better involved in the game.

Although the Heat team has changed the absolute core, there is one thing that has not changed in this team, and that is that their interior line is still very empty and weak.

This is something they can't make up for!

Chris Bosh will become a very useful core player in the coming years, but now he is a leak in the team when he is alone, such as the ball just now, he has faster mobility than Chandler, but he does not have the physical fitness of the latter, he can't grab a position on the inside, and he can't stop Tyson Chandler from completing the empty catch!

The New York Knicks used this ball to suppress the momentum of the Heat, and dominated the road on the road, leading by 5 points at the end of the first quarter at 30-25.

It was supposed to be 9 points ahead.

It's just that after Yi Jianlian left the court, the Heat team, which still had LeBron James on the court, recovered a 4-point difference.

At the beginning of the second quarter, during the bench rotation of the two teams, LeBron's Heat team on the court recovered the remaining 5 points! It was also at the same time that the score was tied that Yi Jianlian returned to the court, and he next faced the other two giants of the Heat.

Speaking of which, the Heat have really grown a lot, especially Chris Bosh, who knows how to play next to LeBron and Wade!

There is a type of player whose role on the court is not reflected in the data, and Chris Bosh is becoming such a player that he plays more aggressively when LeBron is not on the court!

After David West was given the starting lineup due to the injury of Xiao Si in the New York team, their interior lineup was a little weaker than before.

Bosh scored two goals in a row in that time!

It was also his activity that the Heat caught up with all the point differences!

However, as soon as Yi Jianlian came on the court, he used a three-pointer to stretch the score difference to more than 3 points.

This point difference made the American Airlines Arena, which was still cheering, fall silent again.

Yi Jianlian will always have the ability to shut up the most excited away fans at a crucial moment.

The American Airlines Arena returned to calm, but Yi Jianlian did not stop scoring a goal, but continued to exert his strength, scoring 9 points in less than three minutes, and his score in this quarter has reached double figures.

This is the current Yi Jianlian, facing the strongest Heat team, he can still score points as quickly as chopping melons and vegetables.

It's just that although he has scored 12 points, he has only scored 18 points so far, which is not a high score compared to his previous period.

In the first quarter, the Heat were too targeted for his defense, and he didn't get too many good shots, and of course, because the Heat's defensive targets were all on him, the rest of the Knicks benefited from this, and he got 6 assists in the first quarter.

Speaking of this year's New York team, it is really different, while Yi Jianlian is strictly guarded, there are other people to help score, which also makes Yi Jianlian no longer have to play so tired.

He was able to score like this in the second quarter because he was very physical!

This team has become stronger, and Yi Jianlian has become stronger!

The score in the second quarter was re-opened by the New York team after Yi Jianlian came on the court, and Spoelstra was helpless to see the situation, so he could only hurry up and put LeBron James on the court again.

LeBron James is on the court, the "Big Three" are back together, Bosh is doing his dirty work again, and he's undoubtedly becoming more efficient.

It can be seen from his ability to seamlessly transform his identity as a blue-collar and offensive core, this guy has adapted to the status of a team's three-in-command.

LeBron James returned to the court and played very resolutely, Dragic they couldn't stop the humanoid tank at all, and D'Antoni put Yi Jianlian opposite LeBron at this time.

The only one who can stop this tank is the first person in the alliance who is also a beast!

LeBron faced Yi Jianlian, this time he finally did not break through directly, he has fought with Yi Jianlian a lot of times, he knows that the latter's physical strength is gradually increasing, Yi Jianlian in his rookie season can still be crushed by him for layups, the second season has been able to resist a little, and in the following seasons, he has directly become a beast that can resist LeBron's breakthrough!

LeBron didn't dare to break through, if he was entangled by Yi Jianlian, and a player from the New York team hit him from the side, then he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't lose the ball.

LeBron starts organizing passes!

During the time when LeBron was not attacking, Wade stepped up.

To say that in the first year of Wade's retreat to the second line, his strength was definitely still in the top five in the league, but in order to let LeBron James play better, he chose to be a second-in-command and fully cooperate with LeBron James, so that the latter can play to his maximum ability.

LeBron James's ability is unquestionable, and he can guarantee a team's floor.

Especially the original, from 2010 to 2018, he reached 8 finals in a row, such a feat is really not something ordinary people can achieve.

Not to mention that he also changed teams and players in those years, and he was able to ensure that a team made it to the finals for eight consecutive years, which shows how good his ability is.

Of course, it is only said that Wade has the ability to be a big leader this season, but he is a second leader, which also keeps his physical fitness very full.

During the period when LeBron was not attacking, he began to shoot constantly on the offensive end, and scored three consecutive balls under the basket, and the overall momentum of the Heat team rose again, and he was no longer pressed by the New York Knicks!

With the momentum in the second half of the second quarter, the Heat also chased the difference to only 5 points before halftime!

The Heat thus became the third team to trail the New York team by less than 10 points at halftime!

In the second half, the rested Heat team changed their moves and began to specifically look for Yi Jianlian's point to play, LeBron James and Wade dunked Bosh, looking for Yi Jianlian one after another, they didn't mean anything else, that is, to forcibly consume Yi Jianlian's physical energy.

Yi Jianlian is not stupid, he didn't have a hard top of these guys, they all said that this year's New York team is different from last year, this year's New York team has Tyson Chandler, the player who ranked second in the Defensive Player of the Year award last year, and he is not afraid that if he misses someone, he will be directly burst into a sieve, on the contrary, sometimes he misses one or two times, and then forms a pinch attack with Chandler, which can make the offensive players of the Heat team make mistakes.

In short, Yi Jianlian and Chandler teamed up on the defensive end, and the Heat's wheel battle did not have any effect, but was also opened up by the New York team by a few points.

Spoelstra saw that this trick was useless, and quickly changed the formation, allowing the "Big Three" to find other breakthroughs.

In fact, the "Big Three" of the Heat team take turns to impact the core players of the opponent is also their tactical first, after all, the ability of these guys is here, and their rotation to impact the average player can't stand it!

What I didn't expect was that ordinary people couldn't stand it, but the New York team could stand it, and the Heat team couldn't steal chickens, but was seized by the New York Knicks to play several offenses.

By the time the fourth quarter began, the New York team had stretched the margin to 12 points.

The fans of the Heat team, who were extremely excited before the game, were in no mood to speak at this time, they never thought that this year's Heat team would still be beaten like this by Yi Jianlian!

So far, haven't been ahead, right?