Chapter 148: Get the inside line down
"They're just a pack of old wolves, their teeth are loose, and no matter how strong they were, they couldn't bite anyone now."
"Pre-season doesn't say anything, we're a team that wants to win the championship, and the purpose of pre-season is to find problems, you don't have to prove that you can play."
In an interview with reporters before the game, Zhang Xiaotian rarely pulled hatred.
Although there is little chance of scoring 20 points in the Nets, Zhang Xiaotian is also arrogant with the attitude of preferring to miss and not let go, and competitive sports don't like modest players.
He wouldn't have worked as hard if he only had a card-like reward, but anything that had previously been rewarded with an improved stat was too tempting.
You must know that he is not slacking off in his training now, but it is getting more and more difficult to improve his attributes.
If he wants to become stronger, the higher the basic ability, the better, and even more important than the skill.
This is also the reason why Zhang Xiaotian has not used the victory points now, the training room is still equipped, and the victory points are limited, so he has a difficult choice.
In the first game of November, the Heat challenged the Nets away.
The Nets have caused a stir this summer, as they have acquired Pierce and Garnett through a big trade with the Celtics, plus Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson and Deron Williams, who are known as All-Star teams, and gamble on a championship.
Why is it a big gamble, the luxury tax is not explained first, and it is far ahead of the second.
The average annual salary of the first five positions is 16 million plus, and there are good substitutes, which is also very arrogant.
In the preseason, they killed the Heat twice, and if the two teams want to fight again, there will naturally be a topic.
Zhang Xiaotian spoke wildly before the game, and was glared at by Garnett when he was warming up on the court.
However, it is not this one who Zhang Xiaotian wants to anger, although Garnett is aging more powerfully, if he is against him, he may really be able to score 20 points, but Zhang Xiaotian is still not so good at playing the fourth position.
Pierce did not hesitate to fight back before the game, Zhang Xiaotian was just a yellow-mouthed child, but now he has no special emotions.
After winning the championship, Pierce was missing a breath of air.
The technique is still there, but that sharpness for James' is gone.
Having won the championship of his dreams and getting older, Pierce's mentality has long since changed.
So among the famous figures Zhang Xiaotian played against last season, Pierce was relatively relaxed.
This time he also has a glimmer of expectation in his heart, and he starts in the third position, which is against Pierce.
Wade also played this time, and the Heat sent the strongest lineup.
The Nets' starting five are all big names, but the most threatening to the Heat is actually Brook Lopez, because the Heat will definitely be empty if they play a small lineup.
Bosh is not good at jumping balls, he was pressed by Duncan Sr. last season, and now he definitely can't beat Lopez.
The Nets took the lead in attacking, and the ball was handed over to Pierce, and the audience was also a little looking forward to seeing how the truth repaired Zhang Xiaotian, an arrogant boy.
Zhang Xiaotian is also engrossed, Pierce was always absent-minded when he fought against Pierce last year, if he really wanted to resist, he was still a little nervous, after all, he was a famous person, and it would definitely be difficult to prevent an outbreak.
Unexpectedly, Pierce did not force the hit, but distributed the ball.
Deron Williams received the ball and scored first, and although Deron Williams is not as sharp as he was with the Jazz now, he still has a slight advantage over Chanmoss.
On the Heat's side, Wade was the first to score points.
Wade is wearing a knee for a long season, not that he's no longer good, he's a year younger than Joe Johnson and still has the level of a first-class defender.
However, it was the Nets who took the lead in controlling the situation, and as expected, Lopez became a problem that the Heat could not get around on the defensive end.
It can be said that Lopez, a traditional interior with relatively solid basic skills, has no one in the Heat team who can defend alone.
But it is obviously inappropriate to shrink the defense from the beginning, and the Nets are also capable of shooting three-pointers, and the Heat need to confirm everyone's status.
When the main force was present, the gap between the two sides was not obvious.
As soon as the rotation came up, the Nets did have the advantage, with Blatch, Kirilenko, Livingston, Jason Terry and others all scoring points.
On the Heat side, Ray Allen was stared at to death, and he had fewer opportunities than Zhang Xiaotian to make a move.
This kind of thing of grievances in the rivers and lakes seems to be more hateful than Zhang Xiaotian's words.
Fortunately, Wade was not ambiguous at all, and in the second quarter, he continued to break through and make kills, catching up with the score little by little.
The key is that López was suddenly knocked out by them.
Lopez is really good at standing, but he has a fatal weakness that he moves too slowly, and the Heat continuously hit the inside, and after beating him, the Nets' interior advantage is completely gone.
Blatch, who came off the bench, managed to be so-so, and the defense was basically none.
What's more, Garnett is older than last season and he is no longer able to sit on the inside.
The strong point of the interior line is beaten down, and the Heat have nothing to fear, whether it is three points or a breakthrough on the outside, the Nets only have the share of calling Dad.
As soon as the half was over, the two teams were tied.
At halftime, the Heat was already a lot relieved, and the Nets, a local tyrant team, were indeed as Zhang Xiaotian said, and the old wolf teeth were no longer sharp.
Garnett couldn't resist James at all, and Pierce couldn't even sit and beat Zhang Xiaotian, you must know that the current Zhang Xiaotian has no skills, and his strength is very ordinary.
Deron is no longer at it, and the bigger threat is Joe Johnson and Lopez.
Their strategy has not changed, and all five people on the field have strengthened their breakthroughs except for Bosh, anyway, they have to get López down first, and then they can do whatever they want.
The Heat's consideration must be right, at the beginning of the second half, James scored inside to make a foul, and Garnett faced James, his pace was too slow, and he could only foul.
If he doesn't foul Lopez, he will foul, which will be more troublesome.
But what the Heat didn't expect was that the Nets would follow their tactics.
The Nets stepped up their pick-and-rolls in the second half, and defensive substitutions went inside, and Dellon, singles Joe and Pierce were all veterans in that regard.
If the Heat want to play their interior, they will play the Heat's interior.
Lopez was beaten down by the Heat in three minutes, but Bosh soon went down to rest.
Haslem came up and went down for two minutes, and then Birdman Anderson came up to top it.
The interior lines of both sides have been beaten one after another, but the difference between the Heat and the Nets is that no one will open up space when Bosh goes down, and their bench interior lines are all blue-collar, unlike the Nets Brache who can play a dozen on the offensive end.
After James and Wade hit the iron in a row, the situation of the Heat suddenly became dangerous.