At the beginning of the second quarter, James sat on the bench to rest, and LBJ played the whole first quarter, no matter how steely he was, he had to take a break. On the Heat side, Wade, who had been resting for a while, came on the court with a regular second lineup to continue the team's offensive firepower.

David. Blatter doesn't like Dieng. Vitesse, it's time to let him play. 34-year-old Mike. Miller simply couldn't play that long and was now sitting on the bench gasping for air, and the Cavaliers had no other bench at the shooting guard position.

Wade has a good eye on a young defender like Vitesse, whose style is a bit like the 'Flash' of his youth, who loves to break through and is ineffective when he shoots from mid-to-long range. But Vitesse's ability to attack without the ball is much worse than Wade's, and he doesn't like to attack off the ball either.

'The Flash' simply doesn't shoot and always leaves a certain buffer space for himself. Vitesse didn't feel good on the outside after he came on the court, and his strong offensive desire against Wade also disrupted the original offensive rotation.

David. Blatter looked grim off the pitch and did need someone who could break the deadlock in the second team, but not the kind of guy who didn't care about the team's deployment. After less than two or three minutes, Blatter took advantage of a dead-ball opportunity to make a change and remove Dieng. Vitesse, will Carey. Owen and Matthew. Dellavedova came on the pitch together.

Vitesse has been glaring at Blatter since he left the pitch, hoping for an explanation, but the manager didn't even look at him. Irving and Dellavedova played at the same time to great effect, and Dellavedova was not very characteristic on the offensive end, but he was quite impressively aggressive defensively, and he was physically strong and mobile. Under his watch, Wade really had a hard time getting rid of the Australian for a while.

Irving faced the Heat's second lineup, which was not so sluggish in defensive intensity, and even made a sudden shot to Norris. Cole was in a hurry.

However, the Miamins' offensive firepower is also not weak. Granger and Sean. Williams each made a three-pointer, and Norris. Kerr broke through the interior once to make a kill, and the Heat, who blossomed more points, still maintained the lead.

Four minutes into the second quarter, LeBron . James is back on the line, and the Cavaliers without him are eating by the touch, Kyrie. Irving is a scorer rather than a playmaker.

Spoelstra saw that James was on the court, and also hurriedly put Ruhr. Deng and Whiteside shouted, having made up his mind that as long as LBJ was on the court for this game, those two men would have to be on the court as well. Today, the Heat are trying to limit James' play as much as possible, especially cutting off his passing lanes and leaving him alone to face Ruhr. Deng and Whiteside.

James took the serve and brought it to the front court, then came to the wing low post and turned his back to Luhr. Deng, the British, who lacked tonnage, naturally still couldn't withstand the forced collision of the other party. Chris. Bosh came over to contain James this time, but LBJ had a strong playmaking ability to pass, and he distributed the ball to Tristan in time after Bosh pounced. Thompson.

Thompson's half-volley ability was very inconsistent, and Whiteside did not pounce according to the coach's rules, allowing Thompson to shoot in the high post. The basketball hit the hoop and tossed, but still fell into the net.

Spoelstra calmly motioned to continue so defense, to Tristan. Thompson's high-post shooting ability, it would be nice to be able to score once out of 10 shots......

The Heat missed the offense, James grabbed the defensive rebound and led himself through the half, continued to play low back, attracted Bosh and passed the ball out again. Thompson didn't have the confidence to shoot himself this time, and he saw that the opponent's basket was relatively empty, so he simply planned to break through by himself.

But he really thought too much, and Thompson, who hit the basket, just wanted to dunk, but Whiteside, who had been quickly recovered, directly slapped the basketball in his hand out of the sideline with a big hat!

“What a block！！！ Thompson's desire to score two points was rejected by Whiteside!! "Charles. Barkley pulled out a high-pitched voice, "I love this performance, guys, I like it!" That's what an inside line should do! ”

"Seriously, it's not often that we see a big 7-foot guy move so nimble! You know, he was just outside the paint area to keep an eye on Kevin. What about Lefou! Even O'Neal, who is accustomed to seeing all kinds of centers, couldn't help but sigh with some surprise, "The Miamins signed a moving barrier that can cover the entire paint area with a base salary contract, and I have to say they really made a lot of money!" ”

***

Taking advantage of the dead-ball opportunity, Spoelstra brought Addison back on the court, and the Heat returned to the starting lineup.

Carey. Irving ran to the three-point line to receive the sideline serve, and Addison kept a body distance from him, while his right hand reached out and kept shaking in front of his opponent's eyes, trying to disrupt Irving's vision.

Irving's attempt to force Addison was unsuccessful, and seeing that there was little time left on the offense, he made a fumbled shot directly from outside the three-point line. The basketball hit the iron and popped, and Whiteside protected the rebound, which was immediately handed over to Addison, who retreated to answer.

The No. 2 position is led by Mike. Miller becomes Matthew. Dellavedova, the Cavaliers' outside defense is the equivalent of a notch. Just a few minutes of observation from the bench had already made Addison quite serious about the Australian. Defensively motivated, strong, fast-moving, and projective...... As a functional defender, Dellavedova can contribute more than Mike. Miller is much taller.

And now the Cavaliers are flanked by James and Dellavedova, who can make up for the lack of slow interior movement with flanks.

Raising his hand to beckon Bosh to cover, Addison accelerates to the right with the ball. Dellavedova on the flank really made up for it, Addison passed the ball to Wade, and the 'Flash' received the ball and cut inside. Thompson rotates into place.

After all, there is a certain advantage in playing small and big, and Wade's quick pull ball turned and shook Thompson away before he could react, facing the basket. Kevin. Love turned and pounced, the 'Flash' decisively passed the ball to Whiteside, and the Heat center stepped forward to hit the board against Love and put the ball into the basket.

But this was only one of Wade's only few highlights in the second quarter, as Dellavedova let go of the three-point line and stuck to the mid-range and basket-up strategy, which limited the Heat's soul a lot, and even muted it for a while.

Seeing that the most important firepower point on the outside was going out, Addison began to take the initiative to increase his offensive tasks in the second half of the second quarter. Dellavedova was already struggling to defend Wade alone, and he had no time to care about the Chinese point guard, and the 'Flash' found himself in a shackle with his offensive hand and ran around the entire half with the Australian, not giving him a chance to help defend others.

With two minutes left in the first half, the score rose to 48-47 and the Heat led by just one point.

At this time, Wade has been substituted, and Dellavedova, who has been running with Wade for 10 minutes, is also out of the game. Miller is back on the field.

Addison confronted Carey again. Irving! He scored a total of 8 points in the first half, maybe he could have done better! "Kenny. Smith said, looking at the situation in the field.

Irving watched Addison dribble in front of him, and he knew his defense wasn't commendable, but he didn't want to be broken down by a rookie in a row under the footage of the national broadcast.

The Heat point guard's duffle was not complicated, it was a change of direction in front of him, and Irving followed the move and bumped into Bosh who came over to cover, once again letting the opponent out of his defense.

Addison didn't go to James' side for the entire first half when he played the pick-and-roll, which made James want to help defend but not enough. Mike. Miller's retraction and defense Addison didn't pay attention to it at all, and a simple change of hands behind his back wiped the opponent sideways.

Addison, who had raised his speed, was in front of the reasonable collision zone in an instant, and Tristan. Thompson frowned angrily under the basket, as if telling the Chinese rookie that if he dared to come, he would have a hot pot dinner!

But Addison's speed did not slow down at all, he took a step towards Thompson's left side of the dribble, and when the opponent's consciousness was attracted, he quickly completed a 360° turn under the basket with both hands, jumped up lightly and let his arm pull the rod slightly, and flexibly picked the ball into the basket with his left hand!

"Oh! This is TP9's signature under-the-basket turnaround layup! Addison's imitation is very flavorful! O'Neal's eyes showed amazement, and he had played against the Spurs led by the GDP group in the last decade of his career. Parker's classic trick is quite familiar.

"So Addison already scored 10 points in the first half, which is not much worse than Irving."

***

At halftime, the two sides were tied at 52:50, with Miami leading by two points at home.

LBJ had 17 points, 4 assists and 6 rebounds in the first half, but only shot 6 of 13, and the shooting percentage was not impressive, and the Heat's defensive system still had a great impact on him. Carey. Irving had 14 points, 1 assist and 2 rebounds, and the two cores almost accounted for two-thirds of the Cavaliers' first-half scores.

On the Heat side, there were more blossoms, with Addison 10 points, 6 assists and 2 rebounds, Wade 8 points, 2 assists and 2 rebounds, Bosh 10 points and 4 rebounds, and Whiteside 5 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks...... It's Ruhl. Deng didn't contribute much to the scoring, and he put all his energy on keeping LeBron on today. James, in addition to being able to shoot one or two three-pointers on the offensive end, it is difficult to have extra physical strength to do more.

Spoelstra did not make any changes to the tactics, just allowing the players to use half-time to rest and recover as much as possible. In the second half, James and Irving will only have a stronger impact and will need to defend harder as a team.

On the other side, David. Blatter has a tumultuous idea of how to turn things around. Originally, he adhered to a team-oriented style of play in Europe, but this Cavaliers team obviously can't play 'very team'.

This is a team with the Big Three as the core, or this is the team of James and Irving, and many times he will be seen as a puppet as a coach. Blatter knew very well how strong the individual heroism of these NBA superstars was, so he also knew that the Cavaliers would definitely be a team with singles as their main tactic.

Herein lies the problem, as it seems that the single cannot break through the Miami defence......