Playing against Pat Riley's team is torture, and every time you play the Heat, it's so hard.

No matter how the Hawks speed up the counterattack, when it came time for the Heat to attack, Rod Strickland slowly moved over and slowly organized the offense.

Liu Mang is looking forward to Pat Riley stepping down to the position of general manager because of the bad position, and giving up the position of head coach to Stan Van Gundy, although they are both defensive head coaches, but Stan Van Gundy's style of play is a super center plus four pitchers, although it is still defense-oriented, but the offensive end is still rhythmic, unlike Pat Riley, even in the championship year of the 05-06 season, with O'Neal and Wade, can limit the total number of shots in a game to 150.

Now there are no super scorers, and the Heat's total shooting in a game is only about 140, and they have 70 or so and opponents are in their early 70s.

Liu Mang has not had a chance to dunk, mainly because today's game with the Heat is a little different, the last time he played against the Heat, the Heat players themselves relied on the defensive habit of rapid retreat, and figured out a little way to deal with the Hawks' cavalry tactics, and this game Pat Riley seemed to consciously begin to target the defense.

"Pat, didn't you say you wanted to see the Eagles' new tactics? Why do you have to take the initiative to deal with them? Stan Van Gundy was confused again.

Pat Riley looked at this disciple who was not successful, he was so sad, he worked very hard, and he knew how to ask questions, but he was a little too stupid and had no ability to learn independently!

Pat Riley is ready to give the position of head coach to this disciple after he has finished his own two years and got a good seedling, but now he is really hesitant about this decision that has been made a long time ago!

But his own family from a video editor to the current disciple, always reluctant to scold, Pat Riley patiently explained: "We will not always be rotten, this new tactic we will deal with in the future, although we can't beat it now, but also try to find their weaknesses, ...... in the future"

As Pat Riley explained to Big Van Gundy, the Heat began to rely on their own mobility to put a lot of defensive pressure on the Hawks' cavalry tactics.

After seeing the Eagles' new tactics for the first time, Pat Riley was even more determined that there would definitely be a play-free system in the future, so whether it was learning their offense or trying to defend them, it was all about preparing for the future.

Pat Riley's response to the Hawks' cavalry company lineup was to collectively return to defense, block people and cut, shrink under the basket, and block three-pointers alone

The Heat's lineup can really do this, their highest lineup is Mourning is only two meters and eight, although Mourning's explosiveness has been greatly reduced due to kidney disease, but the speed is still very fast, no worse than Muhammad and Newbell, and can do a five-man quick return defense to put pressure on the Hawks at all stages.

So Liu Mang couldn't find any chance to dunk, and there was pressure to find a vacant space to follow up in the counterattack, so he simply put aside the task and devoted himself to the game.

The Hawks still have a strength advantage, the offensive style of play has long been formed, which is their advantage against the Heat, the Heat team is mainly a slow pace of defense and a half-court defense that constantly gives pressure, mainly a slow rhythm, from the perspective of defensive efficiency, when the Hawks are on the court, the defensive efficiency of the two teams is almost the same, the Heat team is first in the East, the Nets are second in the East, the Hawks are third in the East, and the Pistons are fourth in the East, the four teams are mainly the difference in rhythm, and the efficiency and strength of the defensive end are not too bad.

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At halftime, it was another low-scoring game, with the Hawks leading the Heat by five points at 44-39 to end the half.

Liu Mang got 9 points and 3 assists in the first half, and he was a little anxious when he looked at the situation that he couldn't open.

Coach Krueger is not very optimistic about the situation on the court, of course, the odds of winning are very high, the Hawks still have a chance of winning, and it is very high, but they are dragged down by the Heat like this, and they will have back-to-back games against the Heat tomorrow, and then they will go to Dallas to play against the Mavericks on the day off......

In the first half, Coach Krueger tried all kinds of speed-ups, and even sent an inside combination of Raheem and Newbell at one point, but the opponent immediately responded positively, replacing the Golden State heavy machine gun Chris Gatlin in the original generation of the Warriors back then, this is a really fast artillery, the earliest 3D type player, although he has no three-point ability, but he moves fast, has a mid-range shot, mainly good defense, and the Heat team also sends a small lineup.

Obviously, the Heat are sincere and want to wrestle with the Hawks.

Coach Kruger doesn't know why the Heat suddenly made up for it, and he doesn't know that Pat Riley actually wants to see what changes the Hawks' cavalry tactics have.

But even if you know it, it won't affect Coach Kruger's efforts to adjust, and basketball is the kind of game that studies the opponent's style of play and responds.

However, after Coach Kruger looked at the Heat's first-half statistics, he found a problem.

To play the Heat, you don't have to go against their rhythm!

In the first half, the Heat restrained the Hawks' cavalry tactics well, mainly because the Heat were not tall overall, and they had a short center that moved quickly.

But when the Heat switched to a short center, their interior defensive efficiency dropped a lot!

Liu Mang's basket caused two fouls and another 2+1, Rahim's strong play from the second quarter was also more efficient than in the first quarter when Mo Ning was there, the cavalry lineup failed to charge with all its strength today, but the blocking efficiency after being forced to fall into the position was much higher.

This made Coach Kruger's eyes shine!

Change tactics! The big lineup is coming!

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At the end of the break, on the Hawks' side, in the players' small doubts about how to suddenly change the regular style of play and lineup, the Eagles replaced the big lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff.

This lineup is not fast, and it is the most stable lineup used to press the lineup when it is leading at the end of the third quarter of the second, third, and fourth quarters, rather than the shock lineup when the score is opened.

But it was this lineup that made Pat Riley on the Heat bench can't stop laughing.

"This rookie coach is really amazing!" Pat Riley didn't expect Coach Kruger to see the Heat's biggest problem right now.

The Heat's rhythm, slow offense, and active defensive style of play are very good at dealing with those fast-paced teams, because when a fast-paced team encounters this kind of slow-paced team, it will definitely increase endlessly, and in a fast and slow rhythm, the fast-paced team's own rhythm will be lost.

And the Heat team, they don't have an offensive rhythm in the first place, and they just defend to the death, so it seems that the Heat's defensive style of play is very incomprehensible, and in the end, they can only rely on stronger firepower to try to kill them.

But if the opponent is not bad, steady and steady, just like that, the Heat really have no way to overtake, and their best scorer Eddie Jones is not the kind of player who has the ability to open an embarrassing situation.

Now that the rookie coach of the Eagles has found out this, there is no need for Pat Riley to continue to play against each other, or deliberately mess up, there is no need to play with all his might! Pat Riley wants to fight with this really talented college coach!