Chapter 39: Avenge Bai Xiaofei!
Playing with a championship-level team like the Heat, the Hornets must give everything they have if they want to win, and there can be no slackness, although the head coach of the Heat, Spoelstra, has been criticized as Riley's "puppet coach" in the outside world, but I have to say that Spoelstra still has a set of meshing players, he knows the strengths and weaknesses of each player, and can arrange the players in his most convenient position, and he is a video editor, for the analysis of the trend of the game, also has his own unique opinions.
The Hornets game against the Heat is an example, Wade was immediately sent off after a brief flash in the second half of the first quarter, after all, his physical condition is no longer than it was back then, his fragile knee needs to be protected as much as possible, LeBron James is actually the core of this team's offense and defense, as usual, he barely carried the ball in the first half, but frequently passed the ball to teammates to help them find their touch, he only played 18 minutes in the first half, but got a game-high 8 assists, Among them, the biggest benefit is Haslem and Bosh two inside, James's every breakthrough, will definitely be able to attract two people's packs, Haslem and Bosh only need to shoot in the middle of the distance in their best point, can easily increase the score for the Heat, the Heat scored as many as 58 points in the first half! Among them, Haslem scored 12 points and Bosh scored 22 points, Bosh truly embodied the role of an All-Star player in this game, his mid-range shot, inside attack, and even three-point shots, all of which made Okafor and Bai Xiaofei have no temper.
On the other hand, the Hornets have a relatively single tactic, it is completely a pick-and-roll cooperation between West and Chris Paul, and others are constantly running back to find offensive space, there is no doubt that Paul is the brain and tactical core of this team, he played a full 24 minutes in the first half, although he only scored 10 points, but he sent 10 assists in the half, and did his best to revitalize the team's offense, Ariza scored six points with two three-pointers, and David West had a bad hand in this game and only hit 2 of 10 shots to score 4 points, Bai Xiaofei scored 6 points and 5 rebounds in the half, and the veteran Peja became the team's lifesaver, he scored 9 points on three consecutive three-pointers from the outside, and the Hornets scored 42 points in the first half, almost every offense had Paul's participation.
The Hornets trailed the Heat by a full 16 points in the first half, and the third quarter was a very sensitive time, and if the Hornets couldn't hold on, the game would be very likely to be won by the Heat in waves.
That's what the Hornets thought, so did the Heat, and Wade was substituted after a symbolic two-minute play in the third quarter, replacing him with shooter Mike Miller, after which James started to attack and he was going to take over the game!
At this time, it is Ariza who defends James, Ariza is a very good defensive player, but his physical fitness is too different from James, Ariza does have the intention to kill the enemy and is powerless, James only has one block, he can unimpeded to the basket and score points! Ariza was blocked by James's strong body, and there was no room to defend at all!
In a sense, James and O'Neal are both the same type of players, among the players of the same era, those who are stronger than James are not as tall as James, those who are taller than James are not as good as James, and the body with better skills than James is not James!
In the first five minutes of the third quarter, James has scored two consecutive baskets to score points! Another time was to assist Mike Miller in the bottom corner to score a three-pointer, with 7 minutes and 14 seconds left in the third quarter, James forced Ariza, the former didn't even disguise, broke through directly from the right side, relying on his unique physical conditions to directly grind into the inside, three steps strong! It was Bai Xiaofei who was guarding the basket, Bai Xiaofei showed no weakness, jumped up to block James's layup route, James raised his left arm to frame Bai Xiaofei in the air, this raised arm seems to be a regular action, but in fact there is a hidden elbow, this elbow was not raised, at the moment when the two people made physical contact, the elbow was on Bai Xiaofei's chest, think about how strong James's strength is, no matter how thick Bai Xiaofei's flesh is, it has been smashed into a heart! This elbow was extremely hidden, and the others couldn't see it at all, they could only see Bai Xiaofei and James jumping up and taking off at the same time to fight, and finally James won a big victory, holding the ball with his right hand and twisting the basketball into the basket! Bai Xiaofei was knocked to the ground and fell from the air, falling a big heel!
"Toot toot!"
Defensive fouls!
Bai Xiaofei got up and just wanted to find James theory, but was called a timeout by Monty Williams and had to give up.
Williams' timeout didn't set up the tactics, he just quietly watched the players wipe their sweat and drink drinks to refuel, and he was helpless against James, in fact, any coach is helpless against James.
Williams turned his head and swept his eyes to the bench, Zhaoqiang, who was sitting on the bench with a towel, looked up, and actually met Williams's eyes, Williams raised his head, Zhaoqiang was understanding, he slowly stood up, then took off his coat and strode into the room.
Williams knew in his heart that Zhaoqiang was already his only hope, and if he couldn't even prevent Zhaoqiang, this game could basically be explained.
After the pause, the Hornets changed formations, Zhaoqiang replaced Ariza to defend James, Bai Xiaofei was replaced, and Okafor came on the court to strengthen the defense of the inside!
At this moment, the Hornets trailed the Heat by 19 points, James missed a free throw, West did not block the person and was drilled in by Bosh to find a gap, the basketball thrown by James spun around the hoop and fell, Bosh jumped high, gently touched the basketball with the tips of his fingers, and pulled the basketball out of the inside, which happened to fall into the arms of James, who was still standing on the free throw line, James did not attack, but pushed outside the three-point line to reorganize the offense!
James stood at the top of the arc on the left, and Haslem was about to run over to block the dismantlement, when James waved his hand and shouted,
“NO,NO,NO!”
He motioned for singles!
Everyone else pulled down the weak side to make room for James to play singles, and James hunched over the ball, his eyes glancing at the timer on the rebound while dribbling the ball!
10 seconds, 9 seconds, 8 seconds, 7 seconds!
James suddenly launched an attack, still the same routine as before, a simple disguised feint and then broke through on the right side with the ball! The fans in the audience were nervously watching the duel between Zhaoqiang and James, this young man from the East, the player who defended Kobe Bryant's killer in the last game, faced the first person in the league in this game, what kind of performance will LeBron James have!
It's over!
At the moment when James started, Zhaoqiang didn't react at all, as if he was deceived by James's not very real feints, James was overjoyed, and he was thinking about how to solve this attack - whether to make a soaring tomahawk split buckle or turn over and fold the buckle with both hands!
Suddenly! James felt a strong pain in his throat, only to see him collapse to the ground with a hideous expression, and he didn't care about the basketball in his hand, his two big hands covered his painful throat, and he gasped for air in his mouth, but he couldn't say a word in his throat.
The fans in the stadium gasped!
At the moment when James broke through with Zhaoqiang, Zhaoqiang suddenly erected his left elbow, and this elbow smashed on James's throat impartially, to tell the truth, this elbow Zhaoqiang was deliberate, but the strength was not very great, and James, who was lying on the ground in pain and kept rolling, had the element of performance, in order to get it, it was just the whistle of the referee!
Zhao Qiang walked in two steps to James who was lying on the ground, looked at James's expression that he didn't know whether it was real pain or fake pain, anyway, he had a very distorted face, and said,
“Yourmother’suseyourelbow!” This matter is clearly Zhaoqiang avenging Bai Xiaofei, James's dark elbow to Bai Xiaofei just now, others can't see it, but Zhaoqiang, who is used to small movements on the court, can see it clearly, Zhaoqiang originally wanted to say "Just fuck you will use elbows", I don't want to pass the English test, but in a hurry, I actually said "You fuck use your elbow!" "I don't know if James can understand.
The boss of the team was put down, the first one to rush up and quit was Haslem, I saw him roaring and rushing towards Zhaoqiang, Mike Miller who was present hurriedly grabbed Haslem by the waist, Chanmos and Arroyo pulled Haslem by one arm and tried to push the latter to the bench, the first one to rush up on the Wasps side was David West, this person has practiced boxing since childhood, and his temper is also quite irritable, and when he saw something happening, he took three steps and made two steps to rush up, and the initiator of this conflict, Zhaoqiang, was like no one else, walked to the bench on his own, the big bald Crawford hurriedly rushed over, didn't say anything, one on both sides gave a "T" first, Haslem, who had eaten a technical foul, gradually calmed down, sat on the bench with a butt, and drank Gatorade, McMiller pushed Haslem to the bench, ran to James, and pulled the latter up.
After watching the video replay, the referee gave Haslem a technical foul and Zhaoqiang a first-degree malicious foul, McMiller made two free throws for the Heat, and Peja also hit both free throws for the Hornets, and the ball was still the Heat.
At this moment, James and Haslem were replaced and rested, Dwayne Wade was replaced, Miller was pushed to the third position, and at the same time, Ilgoskas, who is 221 cm tall, replaced Haslem, and the Hornets Zhaoqiang was replaced after only 18 seconds on the court, and Ariza was once again on the field.
Ariza don't look at James can't defend, it's more than enough to clean up a shooter Mike Miller, Miller didn't get rid of Ariza's defense on two consecutive outside shots, and the second time he also ate a big hat, at this time, Hornets leader Chris Paul suddenly broke out!
Anyone can see in this game that the Hornets players have no touch on the offensive end, and Chris Paul, as the "Queen Bee", no longer focuses on delivering cannonballs to his teammates, but directly takes over the game on the offensive end!
He first singled Chalmers, and after a continuous change of direction, he broke through the right side to pick a basket, and then received West's three-point shot from the outside line! Wade also singled Thorton, Paul returned the color again at the three-point line, Heat center Ilgoskas forced Okafor to miss, Paul protected the backcourt rebound, rode into the Heat's interior line, and made a small throw with his left hand, but behind Paul, Chris Bosh, who rushed out to make up for the defense, couldn't hold his body and knocked Paul to the ground with one palm!
Two plus one!
West stepped forward to pull Paul up, Paul rubbed his aching butt, and then stood at the free throw line as if nothing had happened......
This was true in the third quarter, and it was the same in the fourth quarter, when the Hornets, who were a full 20 points behind, relied on Chris Paul's super performance on the offensive end to pull the game back! In the last five minutes of the fourth quarter, the Hornets trailed by only 8 points at 98:106! At this time, LeBron James, who was sitting on the court, had a solemn face, and when he saw Paul once again enter the Heat interior line to play an offense, James stood up from the bench almost at the same time, and did not say hello to Spoelstra, and walked directly to the technical table to ask for a substitution!
The Heat team paused, James played, the Heat and the Hornets at this time have already come up with their strongest lineups, the Heat Big Three, plus Chanmos and Haslem, the Hornets learned the lesson of falling behind in the opening because of the unfavorable lineup, replaced Okafor, Bai Xiaofei came off the bench, and Monty Williams took out a rare toughness, pressing the starting scoring guard Allen Iverson on the bench and replacing it with Ariza, who has excellent defensive ability, that is to say, Ariza and Zhaoqiang played on the court at the same time,!
Of course, there is also Zhaoqiang who plays with Bai Xiaofei.
"Toot toot!"
It's timeout and the game continues!
Chanmos received the ball in the backcourt and dribbled it to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to James, and he and the other three teammates pulled down the weak side to make room for James to play alone, Chanmos was originally a good point guard, but after arriving at the Heat, he became a "dribble guard" who was only responsible for dribbling the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and then finding a position to shoot three points at a fixed point, which is all his tasks.
is still the established tactic, Haslem raised the top of the arc to block and dismantle, James held the ball to bypass the block and break through, but James made a small mistake when Haslem blocked and dismantled, and it was this mistake that seemed insignificant to others that was caught and used by Zhaoqiang!