Chapter 841: Attack and Defense

"The Heat played very tough today, and they pressed the Spurs all over the court at the beginning of the game!"

When Mario Moneys directly pasted Tony Parker in the backcourt, and Sean Battier always followed Meng Xu around, there was an exclamation in the press box on the sidelines.

In the previous games, the Heat used full-court pressing or half-court pressing tactics against the Spurs, although because of Meng Xu's strong pressing ability, the Heat's pressing defense against the Spurs could not have the expected effect, but in today's game, Eric Spoelstra still decided to press the Spurs full-court, and after the game started, he pressed the Spurs full-court tight, because compared to Meng Xu's personal ability, Eric Spoelstra is more afraid of the Spurs' teamwork ability.

No matter what tactics the opponent plays, as long as the defender presses them full-court or half-court tightening, then the offensive team on the field will eventually evolve into a singles tactic, because the full-court pressing tactics can effectively cut off the connection between the attackers. And that's why many teams, whether it's a good defensive team or a poor defensive team, use full-court pressing tactics at the end of the game.

Although Mario Chammos's physical condition is not outstanding, his defensive attitude is very good, coupled with the head coach's arrangement of Eric Spoelstra before the game, so that when he is close to Parker, he pounces very fiercely, and many actions are on the verge of fouling, maybe the reason why Mario Chammos did this, and it is also Eric Spoelstra who wants to test the scale of today's game.

Seeing that Tony Parker was entangled by Mario Chanmos and was unable to dribble through the half court for a long time, Meng Xu, who had reached the vicinity of the center circle, quickly retreated and made a cover for Tony Parker, helping Tony Parker get rid of Mario Chanmos's pressing and smoothly dribble through the center circle.

However, after Tony Parker passed the ball through the center circle, he had to face another problem, Parker successfully got rid of Mario Battles through the cover with Meng Xu, but after the cover, the defense of Tony Parker became Sean Battier, and in the face of Sean Battier, whose single defense ability is one level higher than Mario Money, Tony Parker will undoubtedly be more difficult when launching an attack.

Tony Parker, who almost made a mistake under the close pressure of Sean Battier, handed over the basketball in his hand to Meng Xu who ran towards him after barely leaning on Battier sideways.

Meng Xu is physically strong, a defensive player like Mario Chanmos, Meng Xu only needs to lean lightly to squeeze him away, plus Meng Xu's ball control ability is also top-notch, so Meng Xu is not afraid of close pressing, and in the face of Mario Chanmos's close pressing, Meng Xu also has many offensive options, either to squeeze him away and force him to shoot, or to use his body to force him, but this time Meng Xu first used his speed to quickly move two steps sideways towards the right side of Mario Chanmos's body, Then he suddenly stopped his footsteps and burst past the left side of Mario Chanmos's body.

When Meng Xu broke through in an extremely strange way and got rid of Mario Chammos's close pressing, the Spurs fans at the scene instantly let out a burst of cheers.

And the Heat players on the court, after Meng Xu got rid of Mario Chanmos's close pressing, there was no one to make up for Mario Chanmos, because this is the characteristic of the full-court pressing tactics, if the Heat players on the court have someone to defend Mario Chanmos, Meng Xu only needs to pass the basketball to the pressing object of the defensive player, and the Heat's defense will completely collapse, so after Meng Xu got rid of Mario Chanmos, Dwyane Wade, who is closer to Mario Chanmos, did not make up for Meng Xu, Instead, he sat back and watched Meng Xu rush directly to the basket after getting rid of Mario Chanmos.

Almost at the same time that Meng Xu got rid of Mario Chambers, Tim Duncan, who was entangled with Chris Bosh under the basket, took the initiative to give Meng Xu the way to break through and moved a few steps towards the other side of the paint area, and Burrese Dior, after Meng Xu began to break through, also ran towards the other bottom corner of the court, although the Spurs' attack seemed to be Meng Xu's single-handedness, but the Spurs' cooperation did not lose.

After Tim Duncan and Burrece Dior gave way to the lane, Meng Xu rushed to the basket very smoothly, and Chris Bosh, who couldn't bear it, immediately gave up his defense against Duncan and rushed over to make up for Meng Xu, who was ready to go to the basket, but just when Bosh just pounced in front of Meng Xu, Meng Xu flicked his wrist and passed the basketball to Tim Duncan, who was no longer defended behind Bosh.

"Mario, Chris, Sean, watch your defense!" After Duncan, who received Meng Xu's pass, scored with one hand, Eric Spoelstra, who had been standing on the sidelines, yelled at Sean Battier, who began to run to the frontcourt, as well as Chris Bosh and Mario Money, the Heat's loss of points, Mario Money's primary responsibility, if it wasn't for his defensive misposition of Meng Xu, there would be no later situation, of course, Sean Battier, who was supposed to defend Meng Xu, was also secondarily responsible.

On the defensive end, the Spurs pressed the whole court, and on the offensive end, the Heat also began to speed up crazily, ready to speed up the pace of the game, slow pace is the rhythm that the Spurs are best at, and the Spurs are a team that is very good at controlling the pace of the game, so if you want to beat the Spurs, you must ensure that you can't enter the rhythm that the Spurs are good at.

After Chris Pos quickly sent the baseline ball, the Heat's offense had already begun, and Mario Chammos did not wait for Bosh to arrive in the frontcourt, he began to organize the offense, and avoiding a positional battle with the Spurs was the only core of the Heat's offensive end in today's game.

When the dribble was about to reach the top of the arc, Mario Chanmos first observed the running positions of his teammates around him, and then after making a posture to break through, he quickly passed the basketball to Dwyane Wade, who was on the right side of the three-point line.

And Eric Spoelstra blamed all this on the offensive speed of the Heat, so in today's game Eric Spoelstra instructed all the Heat players to do everything possible to raise the offensive speed, and grab rebounds if they miss, anyway, they have to do everything possible to speed up the pace of the game, as for Chris Bosh, Eric Spoelstra assigned him the task on the offensive end today, which turned out to be to shoot three points at the top of the arc.

Chris Bosh is not in place, and Tim Duncan is naturally impossible to retreat in place, so the Heat want to take advantage of the Spurs' unstable foothold on the defensive end, quickly complete the offense, and Wade, who broke through with Kawhi Leonard, rushed all the way to the edge of the paint area, and passed the basketball to James on the other side of the court.

Taking two steps in a row, when he was getting closer and closer to the position James wanted, James could clearly feel the sound of his heart beating faster, especially when James jumped up from the floor, all the sounds around him, all the images disappeared from his ears and eyes, and in James's eyes, there was only the basket not far from him at the moment! And this dunk will also be James leading the Heat to blow the horn of the counterattack!

Just when James's hand holding the basketball was about to reach the top of the basket, James saw a big hand appear directly in his sight, and when this big hand slapped directly on the basketball that James was holding with one hand, James, who was still flying in the air, had already opened his eyes wide and held the owner of the big hand tightly.

"I'm covered? My dunk was covered? Under the huge impact, James, who fell from the air, was stunned to look at the basketball that had flown out of the bottom line.

At this time, not to mention James, even the cameras and cameras raised under the basket, ready to record this exciting moment, and even Eric Spoelstra, who was standing on the sidelines with his hands stretched out and ready to cheer, all had shocked expressions on their faces at this time.

"When did Meng Xu appear under the basket?"

From James who was blocked by Meng Xu to Eric Spoelstra on the sidelines, there is only one question now, that is, when did Meng Xu appear under the basket and block James, when James just received the ball and started, Meng Xu was obviously still following Battier near the bottom corner on the other side, how did he judge James's offensive intentions in such a short period of time and react to help defend?