On November 5, Zhang Xiaotian followed the team to Toronto.

The schedule of the Heat at the beginning of the season was not very good, coupled with the state and run-in, if it wasn't for Zhang Xiaotian, they would not have been able to win a streak.

This season's Raptors are not so easy to play.

After getting Rudy Gay, the Raptors' outside trio of DeRozan, Lowry, and Rudy Gay are non-negligible on both offensive and defensive ends, and in the Heat game, Bosh did not come together because of the birth of his son.

Fortunately, the Raptors are an outside-line team, and the Heat are naturally not afraid to fight outside.

However, Haslem replaced Bosh on the inside, and the Heat not only had no offensive power on the inside, but even their height dropped a lot.

That is, in the face of the Raptors, the Heat can line up this kind of lineup, because the Raptors are an outside team without a pure three-point shooter, and if the Heat shrinks their defense, they are not very worried about the opponent's three-point line breaking out.

At the beginning of the game, the jump ball must have been won by the Raptors, and they are also extremely smart to attack the interior first, and in the face of a lineup with obvious weaknesses, professional teams will not make mistakes in judgment.

The Raptors played well on the first few shots, but soon found it difficult to defend a small lineup.

It is also because their center Valanciunas is not very good at helping to defend, so James and Wade can be assured to kill inside.

Rudy Gay and Zhang Xiaotian are also a bit of a grudge, Zhang Xiaotian is ready to trash talk, but just like worried, Rudy Gay was arranged to switch to James.

Defensively, James is the obvious number four.

But on the offensive end, he's not really an inside lineman, because a lot of the time he's in possession.

The Heat's style of play, everyone is very open, and many times there is no deep position on the inside, which is their threat, and they can't get out of the big man.

Because of this, it is normal for there to be a change of defense, Rudy Gay to defend James, basically does not need to fight on the inside, similar to James in the defensive third position.

At this time, it should be Zhang Xiaotian, the outside player facing the Raptors' No. 4 position, to stand up.

Zhang Xiaotian's own strength is not too bad now, and he can still play with dislocation.

It's just that Bosh didn't play in this game, Haslem didn't have Bosh's ability to open up space, and Zhang Xiaotian used his feet to break through the opponent and often crashed headlong into the encirclement of the inside line.

Not only him, but others have also encountered this problem.

It's just that Wade and James are more capable, so they are not as severely controlled as Zhang Xiaotian.

If you only have two points of power, it will naturally not work, Zhang Xiaotian's weakness has also been exposed, his ability to shoot when receiving the ball is not good enough, and the run-in with James and Wade is actually continuing.

The Raptors relied on the interior to firmly occupy the advantage, although in the past the interior was only their fourth choice, but today the situation is special, Valanciunas can safely bully Haslem on the inside.

Spoelstra is also a championship coach, and although he is rigid compared to Popovich, he will adjust when he encounters problems.

He simply replaced Zhang Xiaotian and Wade, and used shooters such as Ray Allen, Battier, and Lewis to cooperate with James, and to use Chris Anderson on the inside.

This lineup can fully play the role of James, break through the ball, and shoot three outside shooters.

James will let Wade lead the shooter group, so that the interior only needs to be defensive, and Joel Anthony can also come up for a while.

In the middle, Zhang Xiaotian has also partnered with the two bigwigs of the team, but now with this style of play, his role is relatively small.

It was by relying on a simple breakthrough that the situation on the court changed, and the Heat gradually took the initiative.

It's not that the Raptors can't prevent this tactic, they can't prevent James and Wade.

And in the offense, their outside line didn't play at all, DeRozan was okay, the mid-range was more stable, and Lowry and Rudy Gay were the two iron men.

Lowry was the Heat giving him three points, and he had some problems with his hand.

Rudy Gay is habitually strong, and Dwyane Casey can't help his offensive options, obviously a very strong addition, but it always fails to achieve the effect he wants.

Fortunately, Terrence Rose, who came off the bench, felt okay, and at halftime, the Heat only led by 2 points.

After all, their style of play is to go off the rails, and without Bosh rebounds is even more problematic, and if the shooting percentage drops slightly, the Raptors may seize the opportunity.

But in the case of hard injuries, the Heat have no more options.

Fortunately, in addition to their offense, their defense is also top-notch, and it is not easy for the Raptors to score points.

So, it's going to be a tough fight.

In the second half, the Heat's defense began to target Valanciunas, as long as he got the ball near the penalty area, Valanciunas had little ability to respond anyway.

The Raptors' response was DeRozan's singles, and Wade's defense was very good, but he was a little bit of a loser.

However, DeRozan also struggled to limit Wade, and James was still unstoppable.

To limit James, you have to have a defensive master, and the Raptors obviously don't have this configuration.

Rudy Gay can't restrain James, and he only performs average on the offensive end, and it is Zhang Xiaotian who defends him.

James' single defense is definitely good, but the team needs his help defense more, so it is best for Zhang Xiaotian to do this kind of thing to defend the scoring point.

Although he paid the price of two fouls, Zhang Xiaotian's defensive task was also completed well, and Rudy Gay still performed mediocre when he was exerting his strength.

This is also because he rushed in to face James's help defense, as long as Zhang Xiaotian entangles the other party, Rudy Gay naturally can't score as much as he wants.

In Rudy Gay, Zhang Xiaotian also felt his own progress.

Now Rudy Gay can't keep half the shooting rate in front of him as he did before.

The two sides went back and forth to the fourth quarter, and James went down to rest at the beginning of the last quarter, Zhang Xiaotian was also replaced, and the Heat was still groping for his use, and the playing time was still fine-tuning.

However, he played at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and Wade played with three substitutes, and Zhang Xiaotian knew that the opportunity had come.

Wade is not as sticky as James, and Zhang Xiaotian scored 4 points in a row.

The Raptors haven't realized the danger yet, DeRozan is still resting, and Rudy Gay is locked by Zhang Xiaotian of the activated skill, and the Heat have a 10-0 mini-climax.

The Raptors head coach had no idea that Rudy Gay would lead the team like this.

It was too late for DeRozan to come up and save the game, because the rested James scored again after coming on the court and did not give the Raptors any chance.

The Heat finally won the next game 105-94 and won five in a row.

The only pity is that Zhang Xiaotian's task still has not made any progress.