Chapter Seventy-Four: The Big Three of the Heat
Wade has a bad knee feeling this season, playing only 13 of the first 22 games, averaging 22 points, 5.1 assists and 4.9 rebounds per game, but the Heat's record is still at the top of the Eastern Conference because the Heat have a player named "LeBron James".
James became famous as a teenager, he was already the first high school student in the United States when he was in high school, he did not go to college, after the end of his high school career, he directly entered the NBA draft, and in the first round of the 2003 draft, he was signed by the Cleveland Cavaliers without any suspense, and since then, James has been playing for the Cavaliers for seven years, and has become the leader of the Cavaliers, seven seasons, James averaged 27.8 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists per game, was a one-time scoring champion, a two-time All-Defensive Team selection, a two-time regular season MVP, a four-time All-Star selection, and a veritable No. 1 in the league. This season, when Wade was absent, he carried the team both offensively and defensively, averaging 32 points, 7 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game!
You may be more familiar with James' career than I am, so I don't dwell too much on it.
Chris Bosh, one of the league's top three power forwards, was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the fourth round in 2003, grew into a team leader in the third year after being a junior brother under Carter for two years, and played for the Raptors in the past seven years, Bosh averaged 20.2 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, shooting 49.2%, and was selected as a four-time All-Star.
Bosh is tall, but his ass is small, his feet are small, and his legs are thin, which makes his back singles not take advantage of most of the strong interior lines in the league, but Bosh's upper body strength is very good, and his defense is underestimated, in fact, it doesn't hurt him to defend a "brutalist" big forward like Stoudemire, and the young Bosh idol is the "Wolf King" Garnett, so he has been studying Garnett's footsteps, but unfortunately, The left-handed Bosh never learned Garnett's signature turn-and-back jumper after shaking his shoulders, but he perfected his inside footwork, averaging 23.5 points and 10.8 rebounds per game this season.
It is worth mentioning that Bosh is not only a good basketball player, but also a student with very good academic performance, especially in art, he is very accomplished, in the period when he did not determine basketball as his life goal, Bosh's ideal is to become an artist, which can explain why Bosh always makes his hairstyle so "kill Matt", because those who engage in art are like this, after joining the Heat, Bosh changed his hairstyle to a small flat head, but the artistic attributes did not change, Every time Bosh roared at the goal, there was always a wave of domineering on his body, but the strange thing was that in his unusually wide mouth, there was a black braces......
Mike Miller, the No. 5 rookie in 2000, the winner of the best rookie of the year, he is a pure shooter, his career three-point shooting rate is more than 40%, his passing is also very good, he has a high interpretation of tactics, although he is tall, but his defense is not good, rebounding is limited to defensive rebounds that are not difficult, and he is very good as a role player.
In fact, Miller is also very important for the team with a heart in the Heat, because Wade and James' outside shots are not stable enough, so the team's outside scoring depends on Miller to complete, although the team has a big three, but usually play together Miller, Bosh, James and Wade one of them, Miller as long as he can catch the gap from the Jenway double bag and shoot that damn three-point shot, his task is complete, This year, Miller signed a four-year, $22.4 million contract with the team, and this year's annual salary of $5 million is the most salary for a role player in the Heat, which can also be seen from the team's expectations and reliance on Miller. Miller's stats this year are 10.7 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game, shooting 56.7% from three-point range! Perfectly acted as a lubricant for the team.
Udonis? Haslem, the rookie in 2002, went to France to play for a year, was recruited by the Heat, and has been playing so far, this year as the captain of the team, on the court Haslem has a tough style of play, dare to any inside hard hit, not afraid of things, dare to stand out for teammates, off the court Haslem team is the spiritual leader of the team, willing to do everything beneficial for the team, whether it is to play starters, or substitutes, have no regrets, do their best to help the team win, last year in order to make room for the team to sign the Big Three, Willing to take a $6 million pay cut, you must know that the Ha team has never won a contract of more than $8 million in his career! This year, as Bosh's bench, he played an average of 20 minutes per game, scoring 5.4 points and 4.8 basketballs.
Zay Derunas? Ilgoskas, from Lithuania, a tall center with a height of 221 cm, nicknamed "Big Z", played with James last year with the Cavaliers, but this year following in James' footsteps rejected the Cavaliers' offer, joined the Heat with a one-year salary, and fought side by side with James again, this year Ilgoskas is 35 years old, has played in the league for more than 14 seasons, and has undergone 5 major surgeries on both feet, so it is difficult for the current "Big Z" to have the former dominance under the basket, The offense has been nothing but mid-range, averaging 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds in 25 minutes per game this year.
Mario Chambers, selected by the Timberwolves in the second round in 2008 at No. 8, was then traded to the Heat, and is now a young player that the Heat has focused on cultivating, and has been playing the team's starting No. 1 position since he was a rookie. In the 2008 Finals, Chanmos hit a three-pointer with 3.6 seconds left in the game, and led the team to the final victory in overtime, allowing Derrick Rose, who had worked hard throughout the game, to return home with a shot that made Chanmos famous. This season, Chammos continues to be the team's starting point guard, averaging 13.4 points and 6.8 assists in 34 minutes per game.
Joel Anthony, Anthony entered the league in 2007 as a non-draft pick, last year the Heat gave Anthony a 5-year $18 million contract, which is the fourth highest salary on the team after the Big Three and McMiller, which shows that the team still has expectations for Anthony, as an interior player, Anthony who is only 206 cm tall obviously suffers a lot, but his strength is very good, he is very good at grabbing rebounds in the front court, fierce defense, full of energy, but the scoring ability is very bad, A typical energy blue-collar player, off the court, Anthony is full of fighting spirit and completely obedient to the team's arrangement, and this season he has played his own value behind the starting center "Big Z", averaging 2.3 points and 5.9 rebounds in 20 minutes per game.
Carlos Arroyo. Arroyo from Puerto Rico did not have a lot of success in the NBA, but he was a "BUG" in the international arena, making Arroyo famous in the 2003 Men's Basketball Championship of the Americas, that year the United States team sent the "Dream Six" to participate in the game, and the stars in it can be strung together, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Carlos Boozer, LeBron James, Sean Marion, Amare Stoudemire and so onBut in the three games of the series, they lost to Puerto Rico, which has a population of only 4 million, and the leader of that team is Carlos Arroyo, who scored 24 points and led the Puerto Rico national team to a 92-73 victory over the United States, and in the game, Arroyo used an extremely coquettish ballfake to shake the "little bully" Stoudemire to the ground!
After entering the NBA, Arroyo's development was extremely unsmooth, because of the style of play and personality, Arroyo was unable to integrate into the American cultural system, which restricted Arroyo's development, and he was never reused in many teams.
Defensively, Arroyo is not very satisfactory, his body is thin, his single defense ability is relatively poor, and on the offensive end, Arroyo is good at pull-up jump shots and small throws, especially throws, he has almost no shooting action, sometimes it looks like just a casual throw, and the basketball can obediently drill into the net! Arroyo is the second-most open post behind Chanmos this season, averaging seven points and 1.6 assists in 18 minutes per game.
James Jones, similar to McMiller in type and role, although he only averaged only 5 points per game in his career, he still has more than 40% three-point shooting rate outside the three-point line, compared to Miller, the defense is better, the poor dribbling ability leads to basically no ability to hold the ball, the three-point accuracy is not stable enough, and the outbreak is often accompanied by a sluggish hand in several consecutive games.
Zhu Wang Howard, I won't list the awesome past about Uncle Huo, this year in the Heat basically belongs to the status of a mentor, guiding the growth of young players, 38-year-old Uncle Huo is on the verge of retirement, and there is basically no contribution on the court.
Jamal Magloyle, a player who used to be a good interior player in the league and was selected for the 2004 All-Star Game, was not hardworking by nature, didn't get along well with other players, and lost the motivation to continue in the NBA after his brother was killed by gangsters, and the NBA no longer belonged to him.
Patrick Beverley, in 2010, the Heat used a two-year $1.2 million contract to recruit Beverley, who had a good training in Europe, although he did well in Europe, but he did not show NBA-level quality, and in the first 22 games of the Heat, Beverley did not get a minute of playing time.