Chapter 484: Falling Behind at the Beginning
It's the middle of June, and the weather in Miami is getting hotter.
Due to the climate, Miami has become rainy in June, often with a heavy rain at night and strong daylight during the day.
The weather like this makes people in Miami lazy, because heavy rain and intense ultraviolet rays are not good things for humanity, which is increasingly vulnerable in modern society.
Even so, several days of heavy rain in Miami at night didn't make any reduction in the attendance of the American Airlines arena, and although the Heat are now behind the Runners, the team with a championship tradition has a large number of extremely loyal and avid fans.
Since Miami is located on the Florida Peninsula and borders the Caribbean Sea, there are many immigrants from North and Central America as well as immigrants from South America, both of whom speak Latin languages have one thing in common, that is, they are passionate about life and can devote all their enthusiasm to what they love.
Whether it is a new immigrant or a second- or third-generation old immigrant, when they come to Miami, they naturally have to try to integrate into the city, so naturally, the Heat team has a group of loyal fans who can be called fanatical.
This group of Latin-speaking fanatics is a stark expression of their Latin American obsession with sports, whether they can brave the rain to cheer on the Heat all night in front of billboards outdoors or risk being caught by the police for an all-night "bonfire" outside the Runners' hotel.
Wang Lei couldn't help but wonder when he saw these fanatical fans and Miami police skillfully playing "guerrilla warfare", whether this is our *** idea really spread all over the world.
However, although the fanatical fans of the Heat team outside made a lot of noise, this did not affect the rest of the runners players in the slightest.
In fact, before coming to Miami, the Runners had sufficient preparations for this situation, and the hotels where the Runners stayed were basically chain hotels under the name of the team owner Francis family, and the hotel announced this time was just a disguise, and only the members of the coaching staff and some security personnel lived in it, and the players who really needed a good rest were actually arranged in another hotel.
Wang Lei came here at most to make an appearance, and then he would quietly return to the hotel where the players were staying to discuss the playing style of the fourth finals with the team.
For the fourth game, Wang Lei really didn't think about what changes to make, after all, the Heat team has shown great changes in the last few games, their head coach Claeson is a wise and decisive guy, and he will not hesitate to make a decision when he sees the opportunity, although this led to the Heat's defeat in the last game, but Wang Lei has to admit that Claessen is indeed a very good coach.
There's no doubt that the Heat have an absolute dominance on the inside, so the Runners will have to play on the outside if they want to win the next games.
Wang Lei felt that after the third game, the Heat would definitely make corresponding adjustments to the outside defense of the Runners, but now the Runners really can't find a good strategy if they want to make corresponding changes, because their interior line is too weak, even if they find a way to attack the inside line in the next fourth game, it will not help, and the Heat team only needs to pay a little attention to lock the Runners' interior offense.
So as far as the current situation is concerned, what Wang Lei can do is to make a fuss on the team's outside line and continue to maintain the team's efficient offense on the outside, so that the runners will not be in an absolute disadvantage in the next game.
The fourth game kicked off at the American Airlines Arena, and after several days of heavy rain at night in Miami, more local Miami fans came outside the American Airlines arena to cheer on the Heat, hoping that their team would equalize and eventually win the third championship in the team's history.
The Runners were in good shape when they entered the American Airlines arena again, and the team's interior line was indeed weak, but the Runners' strong firepower on the outside was recognized by the entire league and even the world basketball world.
The Heat didn't show the slightest nervousness, although they are now one game behind the Runners, but this is the American Airlines Arena, this is Miami, and the Heat players must have the appearance and condition of a strong man.
As soon as the game began, the Heat fired first at the Runners' interior.
Claessen is well aware that the Runners are almost defenseless defensively, and they have focused most of their attention on scoring and how to make sure they hit the field.
This can ensure that the Heat will not have too many problems on offense, but now the real problem that the Heat need to face is their own defense, if they can't prevent the Runners' outside three-pointers, then this game is expected to be exactly the same as the last game.
Wall once again controlled the ball today, and when he got to the frontcourt, he didn't break through, just handed the ball to the inside, and then began to pay attention to cutting off the connection between Turgun and the rest of the Runners.
Claeson found out through the study of the footage that most of the Runners' offense was initiated by Turgon, so the key to this game was to prevent Turgun.
The Heat's interior players scored two points comfortably against the Runners' barely defended interior.
The Runners serve from the baseline, and the Heat immediately form a full-court press, preventing the Runners from playing extreme fast-break counterattacks like in the previous game.
Turgun made a couple of quick stops to try to get away from Wall's defense, but Wall's pace ensured that he could keep up with Turgun well.
Tobevich, who served from the baseline, was forced to pass the ball to Salich, who advanced to the front court with the ball.
Salish drove the ball to the front court and found that Turgun was stuck to death and had no chance to receive the ball, while the Heat players who defended him were more relaxed, and he felt that this was a good opportunity to shoot, so he did not hesitate to shoot directly from three-point shots.
The basketball spun around the basket and then rolled out, and as soon as the game started, Salish couldn't guarantee that he felt as good as Turgun.
The Heat grabbed the rebound and slowly advanced, and they were determined to grind slowly with the Runners today, and definitely not give the opponent a chance to raise the speed.
With an easy score from the inside, the Heat opened the game with a four-point lead, just like in the previous game.
Wang Lei immediately stood up on the sidelines, waving his hand to signal the players to attack more resolutely on the outside, and the feeling was thrown, if they even had to hesitate to shoot, then the runners would definitely not have any chance in this game.