Chapter 215: Training
It's impossible for a few veterans of the Nets to play against it, after all, it's still the regular season.
They also know Zhang Xiaotian, and they used Telitovic to defend him during the rotation.
Telitovic was in good shape today, with a good outside touch, and three blocks in defense.
In the Nets' view, Zhang Xiaotian is a bit of a low-profile James.
Zhang Xiaotian can now clearly tell the other party that this is just their illusion.
Before, Telitovic's change of defense James worked well because James had a shooting problem, and Telitovic only needed to block it inside.
But Zhang Xiaotian is a good shot, the Nets now lack a good defensive interior, and can only rely on defense to shrink, whether it is Zhang Xiaotian or Wade, it will give them a headache.
When Zhang Xiaotian hit two consecutive outside shots and assisted his teammates to hit three-pointers, the Nets realized that the situation was a little different from what they expected.
The Nets are hesitant to take any action.
The Heat James hasn't come back yet, and they're going to the main team a little too early.
Just when he was entangled, Zhang Xiaotian hit again.
At this time, the Nets could only ask for a timeout, and they replaced Deron and Joe Johnson first, forming the strongest offensive lineup with the substitute Bradge and others.
Their plan is to attack, which is also something that cannot be helped, because of the impact of injuries, their interior players are not rich.
It's just that the two of them were not ideal on the offensive end after they came up, and Blatch won the frontcourt rebound and made free throws.
The Nets are known as a team of star players, but when it comes time to really make a difference, no one has stepped up.
Joe Johnson was already a little bad today, and now he is being defended by Zhang Xiaotian, and he is unable to lead the team to change the current predicament.
The Nets had no other way but to replace all the main forces.
The Heat also replaced James and others, and the Nets were not as main as the Heat, so it was useless to fight hard at this time.
The advantage of their bench is only when they face the Heat bench, and it is not easy to make it who comes now.
With three points of impact, Bosh got a lot of opportunities on the outside.
After all, the Nets still didn't dare to fight with the Heat with a pure small lineup, and at the last moment, they were still Pierce's most daring shot and the most hard.
However, Pierce's play only kept the Nets from continuing to pull away from the score, and Pierce worked too hard at the No. 4 position, and soon had five fouls.
He doesn't usually have that mentality, especially defensively.
Now we want to turn the tide, but we have more than enough heart but not enough strength.
At 1:16, Bosh hit a three-pointer, and the Heat led by 10 points, and the game was decided.
At 101:92, the Heat tore apart the Nets in the last quarter.
Zhang Xiaotian's efforts at critical moments have become the norm, and no one is surprised.
There is still some time to go until the playoffs, but some teams are already out early.
There are still playoff hopes in the East divided into three tiers, the first pot of the Heat and the Pacers have locked up the playoffs, the second pot has five teams that will enter the playoffs without accident, but the ranking is uncertain, and the third pot of four teams need to compete for the last spot.
Pot 1 in the West is also two teams, the Spurs and Thunder, who have also locked up the playoffs, and Pot 3 is where they are three teams and the other five teams are vying for the remaining three spots.
Relatively speaking, the form of the west is clearer, and the record of the east is closer.
There are already teams that are resting their main players in rotation, and the Heat have no such plans for the time being, and they are more inclined to adjust the state of their players in the game.
On March 14, the Heat played the Nuggets at home.
The Nuggets have experienced changes in coaches and players this season, and their results have plummeted, and now they have basically cut off the possibility of the playoffs.
The Heat also started the game easily, but they didn't expect to be beaten back by the Nuggets during the rotation period.
The opponent first broke up too much on the bench, and then in the third quarter, Ty Lawson and Farid exploded again, and forced into the final quarter with a lead of more than a dozen points.
In the final quarter, the Heat chased the score with all their might, but in the end they fell short, completely cutting off the possibility of creating history in the record.
On March 16, the second game between the Heat and the Rockets was played in Miami.
Parsons was locked up by Zhang Xiaotian again, and Ray Allen exploded in the second half, taking away the Rockets with Zhang Xiaotian in a wave during the rotation.
As the playoffs get closer, Ray Allen seems to be in good shape, which also makes the team's coaching staff very excited, and shooters in the rotation are an important tactic for the Heat.
The reason why the Heat played hard in the previous games was that Ray Allen's threat did not come out.
As soon as he turned on this, the Heat's fluency on the offensive end greatly increased.
The team is satisfied with the performance of the players is to start the rotation, and also intends to experiment with different lineups, the team with good results is willful, compared to the Spurs, the Heat is already late in action.
In the away game against the Cavaliers, Wade rested for the first time, and the Heat let Zhang Xiaotian take the No. 2 position, and once again let Oden start the No. 5 position.
This game almost capsized in the gutter, but it was Zhang Xiaotian who turned the tide in the fourth quarter.
However, the Heat don't care about winning or losing, and they are more focused on changing the effect of the roster.
Obviously, it didn't work out very well.
So in the away game against Celtic, their lineup changed again, Haslem appeared in the starting list for a long time, and James and Zhang Xiaotian were rested.
With Rondo's triple-double, the Heat suffered a defeat.
In fact, it was also the Heat wave, and the starting and substitute times in this game were about the same, and they were crazy to test the lineup and help some rotation players improve their condition.
After all, when it comes to the playoffs, they have to guard against all kinds of eventualities.
At the end of the regular season, they don't go out of their way to win most games.
Those who dare to make waves like this are the teams that have won the championship, and the Pacers and Thunder, who also have good records, are much more decent.
Some people stand up and criticize the team for not respecting the game and disrespecting the audience, but such remarks are useless, the team will definitely not listen to outsiders after taking so many dollars to support the team, at most find an excuse.
Popovich has a lot of experience in this area, and the Heat had to follow the Spurs' statement.
On March 21, the Heat hosted the Grizzlies.
Although it was the end of the regular season, it was the first time the two teams had met.
The Heat still have to test the lineup, but it is a very formal test of the lineup, the other side is a twin-tower team with playoff strength, they must not miss this opportunity, a team with a strong interior line will be a problem for the Heat in the playoffs, they are experiencing the intensity in advance.