Chapter 840: Radiance

"Erwin, the final few minutes of the game are about to start, how do you think the Spurs and Heat are going to do the rest of the minutes?"

"In the past few minutes, the Spurs and the Heat have been very efficient offensively, so after the timeout, they should both strengthen their defenses, and for the leading Spurs, they will definitely slow down to control the pace of the game, playing slow-paced positional battles, which is their best tactic, and for the backward Heat, they are strengthening their own defense at the same time, but also to ensure the success rate of every attack, there are less than 3 minutes left, the Spurs are leading by 5 points, whether it is the Spurs or the Heat, All have a chance to win this game. ”

When Eric Spoelstra called a long timeout with less than three minutes left before the end of the game, Michaels and Magic Johnson on the sidelines began discussing the tactics and strategies of the Spurs and Heat in the final moments.

Maybe it's the seven big games with the Pacers, so that the physical reserves of the Heat up and down are exhausted, after the start of the Finals, most of the players in the Heat team seem to be out of shape, and the Spurs, who have had enough rest time, pressed the Heat to the floor after the start of this game and rubbed it repeatedly, although they were at a disadvantage from beginning to end, but the Heat's performance was also quite tenacious, especially as the sixth man Ray Allen, the Heat can bite the score tightly and drag the game to the present, Ray Allen is definitely indispensable.

After the timeout, Eric Spoelstra made adjustments to the Heat's lineup, Dwyane Wade replaced Mario Chanmos as the No. 1 position, Ray Allen's key ball ability has always been strong, and Ray Allen's performance today was also very good, so in the final moments of the game, Eric Spoelstra put Ray Allen into the main lineup.

After the game restarted, Chris Bosh, who was serving the sideline ball on the sidelines, directly passed the basketball to James's hands, and when James ran towards the top of the arc with the ball, Chris Bosh, who finished the sideline ball, ran towards the basket with Tim Duncan, and the rest of the Heat players also started to run with the defensive players around them, and the four Heat players on the court all pulled away and set up a singles posture for James.

"Singles?" The playoffs are the stage of superstars, and the finals are even more so, but in the final minutes of the decisive victory, the Heat gave up their tactics and chose to let James hold the ball alone to decide the outcome of the game. Or is Eric Spoelstra confident in James that he can single-handedly lead the Heat to victory over the Spurs?

If the Heat's opponent is not the Spurs, not a team with Meng Xu and Duncan, two historical defensive players, but the Thunder or the Pacers, then letting James hold the ball alone can solve them, but in this game, James has proven that he can't break Meng Xu and Duncan's defense, and in this case, the hope of the game is pinned on James's singles, Magic Johnson really can't understand Eric Spoelstra's thinking, of course, let James hold the ball alone, It's also likely to be a false shot, and Eric Spoelstra's purpose is to let James attract the Spurs' defensive attention.

Just when Magic Johnson was still thinking about what the purpose of Eric Spoelstra's arrangement was, James, who was holding the ball a little to the left of the top of the arc, began to slap the basketball and move laterally, while James moved laterally, Sean Battier, who was not far from James, quickly ran over to cover for James, and after successfully getting rid of Meng Xu behind him through the cover with Battier, James did not rush to shoot, but rushed directly to the basket after shaking off Burres Dior, but before James and Duncan could meet, James passed the basketball to Ray Allen, who happened to run to the bottom right corner.

96-94, Ray Allen, who received James' pass, hit a three-pointer cleanly to help the Heat narrow the gap to just one point.

"Beautiful three-pointer, this is the fifth three-pointer Ray Allen shot today, this is also his 22nd point today, in the case of Wade and Bosh are not performing well, it is Ray Allen who uses one three-pointer after another to help the Heat always maintain the suspense of the game!" After Ray Allen's three-point shot, the American Airlines arena was boiling in an instant.

And when Ray Allen hit a three-point shot under the defense of Kawhi Leonard, Eric Spoelstra on the sidelines also waved his arms excitedly, James broke through to attract the defense, and Ray Allen, who was hiding in the shadows, completed the fatal blow, Eric Spoelstra's tactics arranged during the timeout were very successful, although Ray Allen's three points were not a killer shot, nor did they help the Heat overtake the score, but Eric Spoelstra believes that this is definitely a goal that can affect the outcome of the game.

"Kawaii, don't be stunned, attack quickly." Ray Allen hit a three-point shot under his nose, and Kawhi Leonard was obviously a little self-blaming, but just when Kawhi Leonard was still stunned, Meng Xu on the side shouted at him, and Kewi Leonard, who was awakened by Meng Xu's shout, quickly ran towards the front court.

Exactly as Magic Johnson had just predicted, although the Spurs' lead was only 2 points left, but after the switch of offense and defense, the Spurs still slowed down the pace of the game and were ready to delay time.

The basketball passed around on the outside, and finally came to Meng Xu's hands, although it was Battier who was defending Meng Xu now, but Meng Xu had no intention of holding the ball alone this time, but while slapping the basketball, he looked left and right to observe the running position of his teammates.

When Tony Parker, who ran from the bottom corner of the left side, shook off Wade behind him, Meng Xu immediately turned his body and made a plan to pass the ball to Parker, but when Parker stretched out his hands to catch the ball, Parker found that Meng Xu did not pass the basketball, and the basketball in Meng Xu's hand disappeared from Parker's sight.

Just when Tony Parker was still confused, he heard a huge dunk sound, Tony Parker turned his eyes and saw that Kawhi Leonard was already hanging on the basket, looking at Kawhi Leonard hanging on the basket, Parker was confused, didn't Meng Xu obviously want to pass the basketball to himself just now? And the passing action has already been made, how did the basketball run to Leonard again?

Not to mention Tony Parker, the Heat players on and off the court are all confused now, especially Sean Battier, who was standing in front of Meng Xu just now to defend Meng Xu, looked at Meng Xu with an incredible face, and like Parker, when Meng Xu turned around, Battier also thought that Meng Xu would pass the ball to Parker, and he would not have thought that Meng Xu would unexpectedly pass the basketball to Kawhi Leonard, who slipped the bottom line.

"Meng Xu's pass just now was so unexpected that he even deceived our live broadcast camera." When the on-site staff of ABC began to mobilize other cameras and wanted to play back the clip of Meng Xu's pass to Leonard just now, Michaels on the sidelines couldn't help but joke that the on-site staff, when broadcasting the attack just now, after Meng Xu made a passing action, the camera lens was transferred to Parker, but the basketball was not passed to Parker's hands, and when the camera lens was transferred back to Meng Xu, Kawhi Leonard, who received Meng Xu's pass, was already hanging on the basket.

"It looks like it's going to be hard for the Heat to win this game!" Compared with the excited Michaels, Magic Johnson is much calmer, because this kind of loud passing is an ordinary thing for Magic Johnson, in Magic Johnson's career, I don't know how many times this kind of pass has been completed, so what Magic Johnson is focusing on now is not Meng Xu's pass, and the seamless cooperation between Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard, Magic Johnson is concerned about the crisis that the Heat is in now.

After James assisted Ray Allen to hit that three-pointer, Magic Johnson felt that the balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the Heat, because before that, the Heat had been on the rise, and Ray Allen's three-pointer pushed the Heat's momentum to the peak, but from the Spurs up and down, in the next offensive reaction, Magic Johnson knew that the Spurs were not affected at all.

Tim Duncan, who is expressionless, Meng Xu, who is calm and calm, whether it is when he dunks in the air or after falling from the basket, the expression on his face has not changed in any way, from the expressions of these Spurs players on the court, Magic Johnson can see their strong psychological quality and confidence in winning this game.

After Kawhi Leonard scored a dunk, the Spurs players on the court didn't celebrate too much, just nodded to each other, made eye contact, and quickly retreated.

Maybe it's the increase in defensive intensity, or maybe it's because of the decline in physical strength, the Spurs and the Heat didn't score in the next two minutes, and the Heat side was a little better, but they finally relied on Chris Bosh's free throws to score 1 point, while the Spurs missed 3 shots.

With 26 seconds left before the end of the game, when Tony Parker missed another shot, Eric Spoelstra called a timeout very decisively and prepared to set up a final offensive strategy.

"Tim, you go and rest first."

"Danny, after the timeout, you take Thiem's place."

"We still have a 3-point lead, and the Heat will definitely shoot 3 points this round, so we have only one defensive goal, and that is to stop them from shooting outside the three-point line, don't foul, don't be afraid of them breaking through, as long as the Heat dare to break through, let them score two points, understand?"

As soon as the Spurs players on the court got off the court, Popovich made an arrangement, replacing Tim Duncan with Danny Green, with 26 seconds left, the Spurs led by 3 points, and the Heat only had two options, either to use up 24 seconds and then shoot three points to equalize the score, or to grab a three-pointer or 2 points on a normal offense, and then execute foul tactics, but with Popovich's understanding of Eric Spoelstra, he would definitely choose the former, so Popovich replaced Tim Duncan cleanly, Put all your defensive attention on the three-point line.

After the timeout, the Heat did as Popovich guessed, began to press the time, ready to use up the 24 seconds of this round, Mario Chanmos spent more than ten seconds holding the ball near the top of the arc, the Heat began to pass the ball, Mario Chanmos first handed the basketball to Wade, Wade passed the basketball to Ray Allen, and finally James shot near the 45-degree angle on the right side of the three-point line.

Because he knew in advance that the Heat would shoot three-pointers, Popovich not only replaced Duncan in advance and replaced him with an outside lineman, but also took care of the Heat's two best three-pointers on the court, Ray Allen and Mario Money, so the task of the Heat to execute this shot fell on James.

Although James's three-point shooting was not good, and he hit 1 of 4 shots in today's game, when the team needed him to execute the last shot, James was also very decisive to shoot.

"LeBron three-point shot!" The moment James jumped up, all the spectators in the American Airlines arena got up and left their seats, waiting for the moment when a miracle happened, they were ready to cheer, just waiting for the basketball thrown by James to fall into the hoop.

However, what they heard was the sound of Bang's iron, the sound of the basketball making contact with the front of the basket, like a sledgehammer smashing into the hearts of all Heat fans, making their expectations come to naught and making them fall into an ice cave.

But moments later, the American Airlines players burst into cheers, and although James missed a three-point shot, Chris Bosh beat Burrese Dior to grab the rebound.

Chris Bosh, who grabbed the rebound in the front court on the head of Burres Dior, did not make up the basket, but passed the basketball in his hand to Ray Allen, who had been waiting in the bottom corner for a long time, before his body was fully grounded.

Ray Allen, who has long been standing in the bottom corner, is like a sword ready to be unsheathed at any time, and the moment he receives Chris Bosh's pass, the sword is unsheathed and shines brightly!