In the center circle, Miami Heat center Corey Ryder leaps high to flick the ball towards his teammates.

Compared to Elvin Butler, who has just reached 2.10 meters tall, Corey Ryder, who is 2.17 meters tall, obviously has a jump ball advantage.

Elvin Butler has grown two centimetres taller this season, which is a surprise for the 20-year-old, after all, 2.08 meters doesn't look or sound like a normal center forward, at least 2.10 meters sounds quite tall.

However, although he has grown two centimeters taller, Irvin still looks a little immature in the face of the 27-year-old Heat's starting center Corey Ryder, who is not only not tall enough, but also has a slightly earlier jump opportunity.

Corey Ryder headed the ball in the direction of Dwyane Wall.

However, Wall's side, Runner captain Blair Bowman, has already been stuck in position.

The game was full of physical confrontation from the start.

Wall tried to get around Blair to grab the ball, but the old Blair didn't get entangled with Waldo, and he just flicked the ball with one hand.

Turgun happened to be in the flight path of the ball, and he did not pause after receiving the ball, and threw the ball directly to the front court with both hands.

The Runners' running and fast-break have always been their signature style of play, and now many teams in the league have begun to consciously imitate the Runners' fast-break play, including today's Miami Heat, who have actually practiced fast-break training.

Although Claesson, the head coach of the Heat, does not strongly advocate the run-and-gun style of play and the fast attack, he also believes that the fast break can be a necessary supplement to the team's play.

However, Clayson didn't expect the Runners' fast-break play to be so aggressive, just like this mid-circle jump ball, obviously the Runners haven't gotten the ball in their hands yet, but they already have players who are about to go down to the Heat basket.

Salehi was a little distrustful of his teammates when he first joined the Runners, especially Turgun, who he felt was not trustworthy with a little white face who was even better looking than himself.

However, Salish is arguably the man who has the most confidence in Turgun and his teammates, and he believes that his teammates can definitely get the ball, so Salish is almost down before the ball is confirmed.

As Salish believed, Turgun got the ball over the first moment, and Salish dunked with both hands in the face of an empty frontcourt.

In the first five seconds, the Runners opened the scoring and the Sa City fans cheered, and the waving of blue towels made the entire Energy Balance Arena feel like the sea.

Just after being easily scored by the opponent at the beginning, the players of the Heat team were inevitably a little depressed.

However, they have now adjusted their mood and are ready to start attacking on their own side.

Dwyane Wall dribbled through the half court and was still in charge today.

One of the first things Claesson, the Heat's mid-regular season head coach, did when he arrived at the team was to make Dwyane Wall the team's starting point guard, and Wall had been used as a shooting guard and small forward.

After Wall started to possess the ball, the Heat had enough advantages in the point guard position, Wall was not only fast enough, but also had a good overall view, his speed and height made him have an advantage over the point guards of other teams in the point guard position, just like Turgon, although Turgon's offense is very inexplicable, but it is almost impossible to let him defend Wall.

Wall came up front with the ball and was once again confronted by Blair's defence.

As the team's captain, Blair Bowman is not only an important finisher in attack, but also an indispensable figure in defence.

In the face of Blair's defense, Wall tried to use his speed to force his opponent, after all, he was defended by a veteran who was over 30 years old.

Blair really didn't expect the young Wall to be so bold, and at the same time, he didn't expect the opponent's first step to be so fast, he didn't even adjust his center of gravity, and the other party had already flashed past him.

However, Wall's pace was not able to fully recover from the rest of the day, and as soon as he broke through Blair, Turgun had already stepped up from the flank.

Wang Lei formulated the team's hierarchical defensive strategy for Wall's speed before the game, so the players paid attention to their rotation and defense in defense, although Turgun could not face Wall's impact head-on, but he was enough to slow down Wall's speed in this situation.

Wall's pace didn't come up, but he did notice teammate Stevenson, who was open after Turgun's refill.

So Wall passed the ball to Stevenson as soon as possible.

However, as soon as Stevenson received the ball, the Runners' rotation players had already made up for it, and Salish stuck to Stevenson in the front, depriving the opponent of any chance to shoot.

At this point, Blair turned to the inside, and the entire Runners' defense remained intact.

Wang Lei has emphasized defense to the team since the start of the playoffs, and now the Runners' defense is not strong, but it is definitely much better than in the regular season.

The Heat lost the chance to shoot, so the ball was passed back into Wall's hands to organize the offense.

Wall saw Blair misposition to defend Heat power forward Richard Bendel after the rotation, so he hoisted the ball inside and teammate Richard had a misplaced chance to attack.

The Heat players somewhat underestimated the defensive strength of the Runners captain, and in the face of Richard, who was a head taller than him, Blair calmly withstood the opponent's attack, and then forced Richard to make a hasty shot after the attack was almost 24 seconds away.

Richard Bandel's hasty shot bounced off the basket, and Elvin Butler jammed Heat center Corey Ryder into position, and Sallich rushed in from the outside to grab the rebound.

The Heat didn't dare to be careless, and they immediately began to retreat, and everyone knew how good the Runners' fast break was.

This time, however, the Runners slowed down and slowly advanced to the frontcourt.

Wall defended Turgun, which was a challenge for him.

In the regular season, although Wall played in the Heat and the Runners, he was still a point guard at that time, and he never went head-to-head with Turgon, and now facing this point guard, who is known as the strongest shooter in the history of the league, even if Wall has a big heart, it is inevitable that he will be a little nervous.