Chapter 218: The Playoffs Are Coming
The playoffs of the 2013-2014 season finally kicked off in late April, and the Heat's first opponent was the Bobcats, who rose this season.
However, their game was not on the first day, and the Raptors and Nets started first.
The Raptors have a better record than the Nets, but they are also only too good to be good, and there are several groups of teams in the East and West that are close in strength this time.
The Nets took the initiative as soon as they came up, and the old fritters in the playoffs were different.
DeRozan, the young core of the Raptors, played in the playoffs for the first time, and this guy did not have the mental quality of Paul George, and he frequently played iron under nervousness, laying the groundwork for the team's failure.
Pierce, who had been in a slump for most of the game in the final minute of the Nets, suddenly came out of nowhere and won a win on the road.
In the game between the Western Conference Clippers and the Warriors, the Warriors are also on the following grams.
It's not that the three-point shot died, in fact, the Clippers shot more three-pointers.
Griffin was plagued by fouls, and the Clippers' twin towers didn't play to their power.
Paul led the team to fight with the Warriors until the last minute, but he didn't expect that St. Paul, who has always been steady, made a mistake and missed a free throw, giving up the victory to the Warriors.
A player like Paul has the strength, but he is a little less lucky, and there will always be some problems at critical moments.
This is true for most of the big guys in history who haven't won championships, but Paul is still at his peak and has a lot of opportunities.
In another game in the East, the Hawks without Horford actually upset the Pacers.
This is something that no one expected before, this season the Pacers have performed well, everyone has put them in the Heat class, but fortunately, the playoffs are not a winner.
Hibbert was also plagued by fouls in this game, and Teague and Millsap were completely macho style, teaming up for 27 points in the third quarter and eliminating the Pacers in one wave.
However, Paul George is still vigorous, scoring, rebounding, steals, assists, blocks are omnipotent, and all statistics are the first on the team, a bit of James.
The Thunder's game against the Grizzlies was the only one on the first day that didn't show the following situation.
Durant 33+8+7, Westbrook 23+10+5, both are unstoppable.
The Grizzlies Black and White Bear and Conley also played well, but the three of them combined were both less, and the Grizzlies had no substitutes, so the failure was reasonable.
And the grizzly bear has always been a type that drives low and goes high, getting better and better, and the Thunder can't be taken lightly.
On April 20, the game between the Heat and the Bobcats began.
Zhang Xiaotian is playing the playoffs for the second time, but the enthusiastic cheers of the home fans still make his blood boil.
He prefers the playoff elimination system to the regular season.
In fact, he misses the NCAA format very much, and enters March Madness to decide the winner of the game.
It's a pity that the team was not strong at that time, and he was a small substitute, and he didn't show his face a few times in the past few years.
He will also have this kind of emotion, but he is definitely the type to perform better at critical moments, and it was the same before he got the system, he likes big scenes, and he likes the battlefield where the strong are like clouds.
The starting lineups of both sides were unchanged from the regular season, and the Bobcats got the chance to attack first at the beginning of the game, and Al Jefferson also hit a single shot.
The Bobcats are the biggest threat to the Heat on the offensive end, and Al Jefferson is not too worried about the young core of the perimeter, Kemba Walker.
But the Bobcats were able to make the playoffs, and it was their defense that mattered more crucially.
James was treated at the highest level from the start, causing the Heat to be slower to heat up.
Because the interior line was suppressed, the Heat did not start well, allowing the opponent to occupy the score advantage.
The Bobcats' tactic is very simple, that is, to find a way to give the ball to the inside singles, but fortunately they are not a twin tower configuration, and the Heat can still slow down.
When it came to the rotation, the Heat gradually turned the situation around.
After all, there aren't many players on the Bobcat bench, and only Gary Neal, who was traded in the middle of the season, has performed well.
The substitute chased the difference back, and then it was the show time of the Big Three.
After determining the opponent's status, the Heat made some adjustments on both offensive and defensive ends.
Al Jefferson's side definitely can't let him play alone easily, it's still easy to block a single interior line, just shrink the defense.
The outside can give them some chances, and the offensive end is about suppressing the opponent and improving efficiency.
The Heat did just that, and they overtook the lead by seven points in the first half.
At halftime, the Heat summed up the previous game, and their threat in the second half was still Al Jefferson, and they could choose to play with a flank strategy.
After all, Kemba Walker, the Bobcats' outside core, is playing in the playoffs for the first time, and the Heat are not worried about him spoiling the game.
In the second half, the Heat chose to shoot from the beginning, and Walker did get a chance on the outside, but the Heat always maintained the lead with their offense.
In order to contain the opponent's interior line, the opponent's outside line got a lot of opportunities, and the Heat were not able to pull away the score.
But this is the first game of the playoffs, and they need to be steady.
As long as they are ahead, they will squeeze the Bobcats inside, because the Bobcats can be pinched to death at any point on the outside, and they are not in a hurry.
The Bobcats weren't in a hurry, and it was good for them to bite the Heat away from home.
But as the score time dwindled, the Bobcats couldn't be so calm, and it was always the lagging side who would be the first to panic, and they tried to put on an attacking lineup at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
The Heat had been waiting for them for a long time, and in two and a half minutes, they extended their lead to double digits.
It's too late for the lynx to regret it, in fact, they can't help it, and if they drag it out, it's over.
And in the last quarter, whether it was James, Wade, or Zhang Xiaotian, they couldn't be restrained by single defense.
You can wait for the right time when you are behind in front, and you must take risks when it comes to the end.
As soon as he took the risk, the score gap fell behind by 20 points, and the suspense of the game was lost in an instant.
This is the difference in strength, drag the rhythm to fight the defensive score will lose better, if you want to fight the offense, you will be abused by blood, but for the slightest possibility of victory, the Bobcats have no choice.
At 105:88, the Heat won the first game without any danger, and Zhang Xiaotian had 14 points and 5 rebounds.
The strength of the Bobcat, he doesn't need to be amazed at all.
So no one notices that he's a little stronger than he was in the regular season.
In the final moments of the regular season, he used 47 victory points in the system training room to improve his strength, leaving only 25 victory points in case of emergency.
[Basketball stats (full value 100), Power: 76, Speed: 73, Bounce: 73, Three-point: 70, Shot: 80, Layup: 80, Dunk: 72, Confrontation: 79, Defense: 77, Ball Control: 72, Passing: 68, Steal: 67, Inside: 62, Rebound: 73, Block: 62, Stability: 73. 】
The change in values shows that relying on the particularity of the training room, the speed of his improvement is not inferior to that of the first year, which makes him more confident and confident.