"Please come in." Henson, sitting in his office, heard a knock on the door.

"Henson, I'd like to report you on the situation." It was Bruce Fraser, the brilliant coach who saved the shots of the Pacers' young players.

"What's wrong?"

"It's about Leonard." Fraser covered his head.

"Kawaii, well, isn't he disobedient? Or is there no improvement in shooting? As soon as it was Leonard, Henson immediately became serious. After all, this is one of the players he focuses on developing!

"No, Leonard's kid is obedient and progressive, but I'm going to be driven crazy by him, Henson. I have to rush home after every training session to take care of the kids, you know, my wife just gave birth to our third baby, and it makes me very nervous. But Leonard just refused to leave, practiced late every day, and asked me to accompany him to practice, I couldn't refuse him, after all, this is my job. But if this continues, I'm afraid my wife will divorce me! ”

"Poof!" After listening to Fraser's "encounter", Henson smiled very unkindly.

"Please, Henson, I'm serious." Fraser had a loveless look on his face.

"Okay, I'll talk to Kawaii. Don't worry, from now on, he won't bother you with the child. ”

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Looking at Leonard's performance on the court, Henson suddenly remembered a conversation he had with Fraser during the regular season this season.

Since then, Leonard has not forced Fraser to take him to practice in the evening. But since then, Leonard has been the first player to come every day, because Fraser is the first coach of the team. This way, Leonard has more time to practice with Fraser each day.

So, Henson was right. Leonard's most valuable talent is not his height and reach, but two traits - low-key hard work and buried emotions!

Even with that hard work, he never complained about his substitute role. But when Henson needed him, he never let the Chinese coach down.

And at this time, the time Leonard spent on the training ground, all the hard work he made, all paid off!

At this point, the game between the Pacers and the Heat has reached its final and most critical moment. Leonard continued to break through with the ball, and LeBron's tank-like body didn't let the taciturn No. 2 stall.

After Leonard burst to the basket, the Heat's defense began to shrink. Seeing this, Leonard waved his long arm and redistributed the basketball to George outside the three-point line. The young No. 24 guard is not soft, and catching and shooting is the foundation of his foothold in the NBA, not to mention that this is still a big vacancy.

Just like that, Paul George hit a three-point shot and moved the score to 93 draw! The remaining time of the game was only 49 seconds!

"It's unbelievable that Leonard can attract the Heat's defensive shrinkage! God, just about 48 minutes ago, we thought he was just coming up to contain James. However, Coach Henson gave him the task of killing the Miami Heat directly! ”

Kenny Smith's heart was pounding, he knew Leonard and what that guy could do. But today, Leonard's performance completely exceeded expectations.

It's not for nothing that the game is so scorching that the Heat will shrink because of Leonard.

People have not forgotten James's three turnovers, Leonard's breakthrough points with triple threat moves again and again, and how those long arms caused problems for James on both offensive and defensive ends. Leonard, who is silent, unknowingly becomes the master of this game!

At this point, Leonard had scored 26 points and shot a whopping 65! LeBron scored 10 more points than Leonard, but shot only 40!

Throughout the game, Leonard was constantly blocking the Heat and James. When West and Horford came off the bench, Leonard even topped the No. 4 position for a while! He managed to carry a couple of fouls for his interior teammates, allowing the Pacers to avoid foul trouble. Of course, it also managed to stop James from hitting the frame several times.

By the time Spoelstra and James discovered that Leonard was more than just a sapper today, he had already assisted George on a key three-pointer. In other words, they found out too late!

The Filipino called a halt to the game, and with more than 40 seconds to go, he needed to plan his last-minute attack. There's no doubt that Spoelstra was prepared for this, and the anxious game against the Pacers didn't surprise him.

And today, the main offensive point of the Heat team at a critical moment is undoubtedly James, who just completed the overtime whistle kill two days ago!

Now that the score is just a draw, Spoelstra believes that James can still dominate the game at the crucial moment!

On the other side, Henson also switched to the "death defense" according to the plan. In the last 40 seconds, it's almost time! Only this time Henson only left Horford on the floor, and the remaining four were Stephenson, George, Jimmy Butler and Leonard! This is an upgraded version of "Death Defense". Because Henson knows very well that at the critical moment, Spoelstra will definitely use the stronger attacking Battier to play the number four position!

"Remember my request, my request is not to give them a chance to shoot the key ball, not to shoot!" Before going on the court, Henson re-emphasized his strategy, and when people saw the Pacers' lineup, they were stunned.

"At the critical moment, Henson sent such a rare lineup! They didn't have an orthodox number four, but as it happened, Coach Spoelstra actually replaced Haslem with Battier. In this way, the lineup is completely matched! ”

Spoelstra shook his head, it wasn't a coincidence, but his rotation had been expected by Henson in advance!

But just because you can expect it doesn't mean you will win.

After the timeout, the Heat took the lead in attacking, and Chalmers looked at the four fierce outside defensive gates opposite, and felt a little at a loss.

So Chalmers passed the ball to James early, and as soon as James received the basketball, Leonard was entangled!

"Leonard's defense was as aggressive as ever, he froze James early and didn't even give James much vision to pass the ball."

As soon as Kenny Smith finished speaking, James suddenly broke through! His teammates have opened up space for him, and he just needs to go in and make a layup to equalize the score! But Leonard has been giving James a strong confrontation, and James also knows that this ball is very critical and must be grasped!

But all the way to the basket, James still couldn't carry Leonard. Thinking of his experience of being defended by Leonard again and again in previous games, James didn't dare to force it anymore. After all, this is a crucial offense that can make or break the game!

So, James temporarily changed the main point in the middle of the march and distributed the ball to Wade!

However, Paul George had been waiting for this moment for a long time. At the moment when James passed, George reacted in time to straighten his long arm and take a big step to cut off the basketball before Wade! In the last game, Wade assisted James to complete the stunner! And today, James made a fatal mistake!

"What a mistake! Paul George pushes forward with the ball! Wade tried his best, but he couldn't catch up with him! It's coming, it's coming! A one-handed dunk that takes a step inside the free throw line! Paul George, he almost slammed the game! ”

", do you really think that every key ball is all yours!?" Henson yelled unscrupulously, Spoelstra longed for James to finish the game every time, so he had to ask himself if he would say yes!

2 minutes and 32 seconds remaining. The Heat haven't been completely killed, and they still have a chance to live.

This time, it's still James, who wants to steal a two-point point with a breakthrough. After all, James will have a greater grasp of the breakthrough score than the long-range shot. However, the contraction of the death defense was very fast, so fast that James had already fallen into the encirclement before he could react to pass the ball!

Faced with tough confrontations and countless slender arms, James was neither able to attack the frame nor find a passing target. But James can't just stop the ball because he is standing in the three-second zone at this time, and if he stops like this, he will also be whistled for a three-second violation!

In the chaos, Leonard quickly got everything down! In the penalty area, James was knocked out of the ball "inexplicably" and made a second mistake in a row!

After Stephenson picked up the basketball, he immediately ran away, preventing the Heat from fouling in the first place, consuming their time. Eventually, Battier rushed straight up and knocked Stephenson off the field. His move undoubtedly caused another commotion on the field.

Henson remained unresponsive to this. Now there is a commotion, which will only affect the distracted Heat, and it has nothing to do with the Pacers!

After the conflict subsided, Stephenson stepped to the free throw line and made 1 of 2 free throws. Finson is not a consistent player, and if he were, he would have become a superstar. But even so, Pacers? Still leading the Heat by three points in the final 12 seconds. They are still in control, if the Heat lose this game, James, the hero of the last game, will take all the responsibility for the loss of this game!

After that, the Heat also knew they needed three points. So, the ball was hit into Bosh's hands. James was already a little scared, after all, the Pacers made it clear that they were targeting him at the last minute, otherwise they wouldn't have let him miss twice in a row.

Henson's demand is not to give Wade and James a chance to shoot in crunch time, and that doesn't include Bosh. Because he believes that the current "dragon king" is no longer the "dragon king" in Toronto! Even before the game, this guy blew a very untimely.

Bosh made a three-point shot, but Horford's forward shot was very timely! Horford moves fast and can defend the perimeter, which is why Henson only left him on the floor at the last moment!

With Horford sealed to his fingertips, Bosh, who was known as "didn't play well in the last game", knocked out the three-point shot! Leonard jumped high and collected his 10th rebound, achieving a double-double!

Bosh missed a shot, which almost ruined the Heat's last hope! They had another timeout, but they had to foul! ”

Henson smirked as Bosh, who had been the most vociferous before the game, had missed the most crucial goal of the game. This is really, creating the perfect conditions for yourself to fight back.

Although the game is not over yet, although the Heat still have a theoretical chance of winning. But Henson doesn't care anymore, he believes in his team, in the lineup that ended the game after just 49 seconds.

At this point, Coach Henson sat back on the bench. He was already thinking about how he would be addicted to the media later.