Chapter 350: The Battle of Endurance

Is Radmanovic stronger than Jones and Miller? Anyone in their right mind knows the answer, and Heat fans think it's just luck, while Knicks fans don't agree with this explanation, thinking that Tony Allen's answer in an interview may explain why a player like a skier can play well with the Knicks, but Jones and Miller can't play normally with the Heat.

"The pressure of being on a team with Hugo is much higher than the pressure of playing with Hugo. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 This sounds a bit contradictory, but in fact it is not a conflict, Wu Huang will not open his mouth to complain about his teammates even if he is angry in the game, he knows when to take responsibility for himself, and when to throw the pot, and whose pot to dump......

However, Wu Huang is notoriously difficult to get along with in training, he will ask his teammates to practice more, he will severely reprimand teammates who do not perform well in team training matches, and even punish those players who cause trouble off the field...... He has done a lot of things beyond the scope of players, arguably the Knicks' biggest ball tyrant, and is also privately called a tyrant and dictator by many players. But only his scolding is not heard in the game, and he is rarely heard criticizing his teammates in front of the media, which is why Knicks players are easy to play in the game.

And the favorite thing about shooters like Gallinari is that as long as you don't hesitate to get the basketball, it's time to make an offensive shot, then you won't be blamed for whether you go in or not, and he will let you practice shooting more after the game, but you will never be angry because someone can't shoot correctly in the game.

To put it simply, as long as you do what you should do in the game, Wu Huang will think that you have fulfilled your responsibilities, as for whether you did it or not, there are many factors that can interfere here, so the result is not in the scope of his criticism, and it is a big deal to wait until the end of the season, Wu Huang asked the team to trade out a teammate who is always playing iron, which is a problem of player ability.

Radmanovic and Green were not under pressure today, they will shoot when they receive a pass from Wu Huang, even if they can't throw Wu Huang, they will give them a thumbs up and encouragement, this small detail is actually very important to role players, Wu Huang was different from Jordan from the beginning, he didn't think that other players would have the same ability as himself, otherwise how could he have such a big reputation and such a high status?

The Big Three of the Heat are different, especially James has been dragged down by his CBA teammates for so many years, and his heart is too tired, this year he would rather be hostile to the world than join a giant lineup, and his goal is only one - the championship!

But seeing that he made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, he fell into the dead loop of pig teammates again, but this time the fans didn't buy his account, they didn't care about the role players, they only thought that you formed the Big Three that disrupted the balance, and if you didn't win the championship, it wasn't the garbage of these teammates, but your own ability.

It's not that these fans don't know that the Heat's current lineup is very deformed, but they just can't get used to the Big Three, especially not getting used to James not staying in Cleveland to create his own dynasty, but instead choosing to hug his thighs at the peak that he has never had, which makes many people jump directly from James to James Black, and they want James to never win a championship.

These people are not so much fans of a particular star as they really like to see the "challenge", the satisfaction of defeating the strong with the weak. Iverson, Carter, and Garnett all belong to such lone heroes, and the Cavaliers, who were led by James alone, undoubtedly belong to this ranks.

But now that James, who defected to the Heat, no longer belongs to this ranks, many people feel that James has been afraid of challenges and that he is a coward. As the saying goes, they will naturally look for new spiritual sustenance, and because of James's series of immature behaviors, they were transferred to Zhan Hei by the way before leaving.

As long as James doesn't win the championship for a day, there will be a special thrill in these people's hearts, because they can prove that they are right, and those who are afraid of the challenge and choose to be deserters to hug their thighs will never succeed.

Wu Huang is not strictly a lonely hero, but the double core seems to be acceptable under the backdrop of the Big Three, and Xiao Si is here to defect to the Knicks, Wu Huang belongs to the side that is hugged by the thigh, which makes him accidentally become the spiritual sustenance of more fans, who calls other stars either ugly themselves, or ugly girls, and there is no sense of substitution for Wu Huang at all.

After the start of the second quarter, Wu Huang still did not rest and continued to lead the team, the Knicks lineup: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Gallinari, Evans, O'Neal.

D'Antoni was forced to replace the starter early in the first quarter, and the advantage is that he can chase points during rotation time, and this lineup is basically the main force, and there is no need to worry about attacking power.

Heat 2nd quarter rotation lineup: Bibby, Wade, Jones, James, Haslem.

Spoelstra did not dare to rest the main team, and in addition to retaining the two giants, he also sent James to the No. 4 position and added a three-point shooter to increase the range.

After James started the second quarter, he first hit a mid-range shot, and then assisted Jones for a three-point shot, and the Heat chased the score to 29.

But then the Knicks' main players gradually found their touch, Wu Huang first assisted Iguodala to cut into the basket to score, and then made a layup in the restricted area and was slapped by James and fanned out...... But what neither of them expected was that the basketball returned to Wu Huang's hands by mistake, and the latter did not pause in his hands in a confused state, and directly passed the basketball from behind him to the hands of Gallinari, who was empty on the outside, and the Italian finally hit his third three-point shot, and the Knicks re-widened the difference to 5 points.

"My assist is amazing!" Wu Huang is a little stupid, he just played for a while in the second quarter, and his assists are almost ten, and the ball passed out of his hand today still has a bonus effect!?

The Knicks' counterattack came very suddenly, and after the start of the second quarter, Wu Huang quickly assisted O'Neal to score under the cheers of the fans in the stadium, and even Reggie Evans hit a close-range jumper from inside the box line under his breakaway point.

The Heat hurriedly called a timeout to interrupt the Knicks' offensive feeling, but after the timeout, Wu Huang assisted O'Neal again to cause a foul under the basket, although he did not get an assist this time, but O'Neal made one of two free throws to help the team turn the score into 34:29, and the Knicks extended the lead to 10 points at 8:09 in the second quarter.

Wu Huang can only hehe at the moment, his score is still a pitiful two points, but the number of assists has become 11, this kind of performance is the first time he has encountered, he has never been content to pass the ball for his teammates for so long, he has only one shot in the second quarter so far, and he was given a bloody cap by James, and the shooting rate of 1 of 5 shots in the whole game looks really miserable!

Spoelstra finally began to tell the players to start covering Wu Huang from the midfield, but this time it was not to defend his score, but to defend his assists, this is the first time that Wu Huang has forced the opponent to wrap himself with an assist, and the fans in Madison Garden shouted "MVP" again!

No matter how miserable Wu Huang's score is, he is still the protagonist of the whole court and the most threatening player for the Knicks.

James's performance today is actually not inferior to Wu Huang, but not only Knicks fans ignore him, except for Miami fans and his own fans, most of the world's commentators are touting Wu Huang's performance at the moment, and neutral fans are also paying attention to Wu Huang, this kind of favoritism makes Wu Huang's fans a little embarrassed.

The gorillas may have felt the injustice themselves, and two minutes later, the Heat called a timeout again. The adjustment finally worked, and Wu Huang's magic could not be maintained, and the Knicks players continued to miss shots under the pressure of the Heat. On the offensive end, the Heat's role players finally showed a bit of presence, with Chalmers and Jones each hitting a three-pointer, and soon after, Wade slammed Gallinari for a steal and James hit a layup in the crowd.

At 4:35 in the second quarter, the Heat finally narrowed the gap to 2 points at 41:43.

James' expression was slightly hideous, and the gorilla had already entered a furious state at this time, and he scored 20 points before halftime, which finally made fans start to turn their attention to him.

The problem with the Knicks is that the long-range projection is not stable enough, Spoelstra took two pauses and knocked the Knicks' just warmed up feel back to its original shape, Wu Huang played a leading role in it, his sixth shot missed again, and then Gallinari and Xiaosi's shots hit the iron one after another, Iguodala finally paid the price of a foul on the defensive end to block James's dunk, but he got the punishment of three fouls, which is already a brother in a foul crisis for two consecutive games.

With Tony Allen even more unable to contribute long-range output after being replaced, D'Antoni began to struggle with whether to bring in the substitutes. However, it is not his coaching characteristic to easily replace the main force with substitutes, and the eight-man rotation is the rotation method he is good at, and he will not easily trust these substitutes unless he has to, even if they have played well in the first quarter.

Wu Huang looked at his 1 of 6 shots, and he really didn't dare to shoot anymore, and he didn't shoot his seventh ball of the game until the last 1 minute and 20 seconds of the first half, but he still failed to hit!

"Did I mock Durant the other day for shooting 0 of 8 from three-point range?" Wu Huang has vaguely seen the ridicule of the little schoolbag egg pain at this moment, this guy will "laugh" of course because he sees Wu Huang's pitiful shooting rate, as for the egg pain, it is because his team is on the verge of elimination 1:3, even if Wu Huang also throws an 8-0 three-point data today, as long as the Knicks win at home, no one will laugh at him after the game, at most it is just a joke.

Before the end of halftime, Wu Huang assisted Monroe to score two points under the basket, but in fact, the Knicks' rookie center performed very average today, only 4 points and 3 rebounds so far, but there were 3 fouls and 2 turnovers.

James scored two points again on the final offense with a mid-range shot to tie the score at 49-54 at halftime, with the Knicks trailing the Heat by five points at halftime.

Wu Huang continued his magical play in assists, he still only had 2 points after the first half, but he had 4 rebounds and 13 assists in the strange statistics, and if the team's hand dropped again in the second half of the second quarter, he would have had a chance to get more assists.

However, even 13 assists broke his career record, and before that, Wu Huang's playoff half-time assist record was eight, and today he improved the record by as much as five, just two short of the 15 assists in the halftime held by Magic Johnson and Doc Rivers.

The statistics of the other Knicks players are relatively flat, including Xiaosi's performance today is also relatively weak, with only 9 points and 5 rebounds in the first half. Other players: O'Neal 8 points and 4 rebounds, Radmanovic 12 points and 2 rebounds.

In this game, absolutely no one thought that the skier man would shoot 4 of 5 three-pointers in the first half, and he would actually become the highest scoring player on the Knicks team, which made Wu Huang a little embarrassed.

For the Heat, James scored a game-high 25 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, Wade had 13 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and Bosh had 8 points and 6 rebounds.

The Miami players are looking at Radmanovic with a little bad eyes at the moment, if it weren't for this water cooler patron to spoil their good deeds, the Heat would have led the Knicks by double digits, but now they are only 5 points ahead, which is not a safe score, and such a small advantage can be wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Jeff Van Gundy commented at halftime, saying: "Hugo's passing today has a kind of magic, the NBA all-time playoff single-game assist record is 24, this record is held by Magic Johnson and Stockton, Hugo's 13 assists in the half did not break the playoff half-time assist record, but he still has a chance to break the all-game assist record." ”

Mark Jackson said: "The Heat players didn't have a lot of excitement when they returned to the tunnel in the middle of the court, and a mere five-point lead wasn't enough to put them at ease. Looking back at this point, the Heat's performance on the defensive end today was actually pretty average, they leaked a lot of shooting opportunities to the Knicks, and if the latter can find their groove at some point in the second half, such as in the first half of the second quarter, then the lead will quickly come back. ”

After returning to the dressing room, Wu Huang also encouraged his teammates: "Don't be nervous, they just rely on luck to get a few points ahead of us, we have created enough chances in the first half, as long as we continue to maintain this attacking rhythm, we just need to wait for the feeling to come back, and that is when we counterattack." ”

Although the Knicks players responded to the boss's reprimand, their enthusiasm was very average, and they didn't seem to have much energy, including Wu Huang, who was also a little unrefreshed, and when he saw that his teammates responded, he climbed into the chair and asked the masseur to massage him.

After the first half, the Knicks players are more tired, and when a person is physically and mentally exhausted, it is not something that can be lifted up if he wants to lift his spirit.

Wu Huang buried his head as soon as he climbed into the chair, and the lack of rest in the first half made him want to just crawl and watch his teammates finish the next game.

The Heat's locker room is also a similar situation, as soon as James returned to the locker room and sat down, he actually had the urge not to stand up again, don't think that cutting 25 points in the half is an easy job, even if the physical strength is against the sky, but the energy consumed by his such a big man to rush up is not comparable to ordinary players, at this moment James is very doubtful that he can continue to play like this, and finally be able to hold on to the end of the game.

At this time, it is actually a contest of willpower between the players on both sides.

Everyone's physical strength is almost at the bottom, and whoever can hold on to the last breath will be the final winner! (To be continued.) )