Chapter 130: See You Again
After Pickle Pepper threw the ball in, there was only one minute left in the game, and the Heat quickly called a timeout to plan the next strategy.
Coach Frank said to his teammates, "In the next few rounds, as you believe you know, the Filipino only has three tactics, James singles, Wade singles, and James passes. He's not going to play any other tactics and I want you to know that, now we're two points ahead, this is our home stadium and we've got match points, you should know what that means, as long as we get through that one minute, we can go straight to the finals. ”
As he spoke, he encouraged a few main players who were going to play. At the end of the timeout, the Heat team's frontcourt sideline was ready to serve, the Pacers' rotation speed was very fast, the Heat team's ball almost failed to send, and when the 5-second time was about to expire, Bosh was able to hoist the ball to Wade, and Wade ran several laps to find an opportunity in order to catch the pass.
Seeing that the Heat finally sent the basketball out, the Pacers quickly adjusted their defensive formation, and after Wade received the basketball, he found that the opponent's defensive formation had been rearranged, so he had no choice but to hand the ball to James and prepare to play a positional battle.
James dribbled the ball and watched his opponent's position while directing his teammates to run. Suddenly, he changed direction, and then accelerated directly past Lance in front of him, fortunately, the rotation on the Pacers' side was very fast, James had not been able to take two more steps to the inside, David West had already made up for it, and Lance also quickly switched to the front of Battier that West leaked, and the offense was blocked again, James looked up and saw that there was not much offensive time left, and chose to force the opponent directly. David West's defense was sealed in the face, but James' step-back jumper was still scored.
The Pacers quickly called a timeout, because now that the score of the two sides has returned to the same starting line, Coach Frank replaced Hibbert with Lance Stephenson, so that the five players on the court of the Pacers have a certain amount of projection ability, and also increase the pressure on the Heat's defense.
After the pause, the Pacers sent the sideline ball to Ye Xuan's hand with difficulty, Ye Xuan handed the ball to Pickled Pepper, and began to run without the ball, and Pickled Pepper stood at the top of the arc with the ball, and in the face of James's defense, he suddenly started, took two steps inward, and then shook the opponent away, and then hit the opponent with the ball. It's a pity that he never expected that James was not completely shaken up by him, but simply cushioned his feet, and Pickled Pepper's foul making tactics this time ended in failure.
The basketball that was thrown by Pickles in a bizarre position of course ended in an iron, with Bosh grabbing the rebound and the Heat quickly calling a timeout to prepare for the final offense, as there were only 27 seconds left in the game.
On the Pacers' bench, Coach Frank was furious, "Holy! What are you guys fighting? We're better than them, we're more flexible than them, so why don't we get the ball out? Don't be overwhelmed by their momentum, calm down and fight well! Seeing that the good situation was about to be overturned by the opponent, Frank Vogel was also angry, but unfortunately it is useless to say this now, so he can only arrange the next defense.
After the timeout, the Pacers brought on Hibbert again, after all, the defense still relies on Hibbert to guard the interior. After the Heat sent the ball out, they put it in James's hands, and James slowly dribbled the ball, looking up at the countdown on the timer, while calmly observing the every move of the players on the court.
The fans at the Consec Arena cheered for the home team while waving plastic sticks in their hands and chanting 'defense!!' When there were 10 seconds left in the countdown, James suddenly started, using Battier to mention the cover of the high post, and quickly broke inside, although the Pacers' defensive conversion was very timely, but it still allowed James to find an opportunity, a pass from the back of the head, and sent the ball directly to the hands of Bosh who quietly pulled it out to the high post, and the real giant received the ball and shot calmly, and shot the basketball steadily.
The atmosphere of the scene was condensed, almost the Pacers who led the whole game, in their own home court, when there were less than 6 seconds left in the time, the opponent shot a deadly three-pointer, and now the Pacers not only did not have the lead, but also fell behind the opponent by three points, which made the fans at the Consec Arena a little unable to accept this sudden blow, and the players on the court were also a little blind, but fortunately, Coach Frank was calm and quickly called a timeout.
At the end of the timeout, the Pacers directly sent a 5-small lineup, in addition to the few people just now, Coach Frank also used Solomon Hill to replace David West, the purpose is very obvious, that is, to bet on three points, completely give up the opportunity to attack twice.
The basketball was sent to Ye Xuan's hands, Wade quickly pounced and stuck to Ye Xuan's body to defend, Ye Xuan took a step back to open up a little space and then passed the ball to Pickle Pepper, after Pickle Pepper took the ball, he saw that there was not much time left, so he had no choice but to pull out his hand on the spot, the basketball brushed out of the basket, Bosh held the rebound high in his arms, and Solomon Hill on the side hurriedly stepped forward to foul, but there was less than 1 second left, with the first free throw of the real giant, and the second basket came out, The Pacers' home court was also lost.
But fortunately, the Pacers still have two match points, and in the next game, they will go back to Miami to challenge their opponents, while the Heat are still one foot on the cliff and may be doomed at any time, so they will definitely win the game desperately at home.
For the Pacers, the loss in this game also just reminded them of one point, that is, although their strength is good, their experience needs to be improved, after all, the 24-year-old Pickle Pepper and the 20-year-old Ye Xuan are the main Pacers, and the oldest player is actually Luis Scola. That's the main reason why the Pacers suddenly don't play on their last few offenses.
However, after the defeat in this game, I believe they will learn from it and bounce back to the next game to play as they should.