The time finally came to May 25th, and this year's Eastern Conference Finals is a contest between the two most popular teams, but it is also difficult not to murmur a few words in my heart, the previous seventh game of the Bulls was not taken care of by the referee even on their own home court, and there may not be no factors that the league wants the Knicks and Heat to meet again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Of course, the league has been trying to create a gimmick between 24vs23 in the past few years, but unfortunately the Cavaliers always fall in the East, so this also proves that the league may be biased towards a certain team to a certain extent, but this favoritism will have a bottom line, if your strength is insufficient, the league will not make you a champion.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat faced a strong defending champion, and Bosh on the injury list did not become a smoke bomb for the Heat in the end, and the poor pseudo-giant was sitting on the sidelines in a suit, and his injury was still in an unknowable state.

O'Neal laughed: "Today's Heat will feel what despair is on the inside. "The big fat man is right, if the Heat has a Bosh under the basket, it is equivalent to the Chinese team having Yao Ming, even if it is bad, it is the first in Asia, but if there is no such person, it is nothing.

Spoelstra today drew up a four-man rotational defensive roster for Wu Huang, which includes youngsters like Chalmers and Cole, as well as misplaced superstars like James and Wade, and the Filipino hopes that the team can reduce the harm caused by Wu Huang with collective defense.

In the first half, the Heat's defense of Wu Huang was indeed very successful, the Holy Sect Master only scored 12 of the team's 50 points, and Wu Huang only shot 4 of 10 shots in the two quarters, and only shot 2 of 6 three-pointers.

But it was not so much the Heat's defensive success as Wu Huang deliberately giving up the offense, and today he chose to trust his teammates and planned to rely on team basketball to defeat the Heat's Big Three. It was with Wu Huang's selflessness and trust in the first half that the Knicks successfully extinguished several offensive attacks launched by the Heat in the second quarter, and the Holy Sect Master also helped the Knicks launch a wave of counterattacks in the middle of the quarter, when he used the breakthrough to assist Gasol and David West to score layups, and then split the ball to Batile and Gallinari to hit three-point shots, thus leading the team to a wave of 10-4 small climax and maintaining the lead.

During this period, it was the New York Holy Master who instigated all the Knicks' offense, although this time he did not rely on offense to lead the team, but Wu Huang now has more ways to help the team, and he does not necessarily have to score in person.

Throughout the first half, Wu Huang was suppressing his desire to score, but from the third quarter, Wu Huang's offensive desire began to swell sharply, since his mid-to-long-range shooting was targeted and could not perform, then Wu Huang chose to use a breakthrough to open the Heat's defense in the second half, didn't Ewing say yesterday that he is a great player who can shoot suddenly? This is the time to show his breakthrough ability.

The Heat's interior completely abandoned offense from the start of the game, and today their mission was only defense.

But in the face of the Holy Sect Master with his own home whistle, as Ewing said yesterday, the current rules are too friendly to offensive players, especially a guy like Wu Huang who always wants to rely on people, and it is a foul if he doesn't pay attention to it.

These defenders are embarrassed, and their strength is the ability to fight physically, and if they don't make physical contact, it will allow Wu Huang to shoot at any time. Therefore, defending Wu Huang has high requirements for the interior line, you must have enough height and athleticism to do it, and the current interior line in the league that can make Wu Huang feel uncomfortable is only Howard, Chandler, Ibaka, Noah, Duncan, and Garnett. Although Jordan Jr. and Whiteside also belong to this kind of insider, Wu Huang is not afraid of these two people at all, because these two guys are not very easy to use, at least at this stage, they can't pose much threat to him. Just like Serge Ibaka only played this year, once a defender's brain is not good, it takes a lot of game experience to mature.

In the third quarter of the game, as Wu Huang hit two close-range throws at the beginning, the Heat's defense began to collapse, and it was from this time that the Knicks continued to expand the point difference, Wu Huang contributed 12 points in the third quarter, of which 8 points were scored within 12 feet, and the remaining 4 points were through free throws, and the Holy Sect Master, who completely lost three points, was still unstoppable, and once again led the Knicks to establish a 14-point lead in this quarter through offense.

"Fortunately, today is not the end of the third quarter, 14 points for the Heat, I think there is still a chance." Barkley's words sound like milking the Heat, 14 points is already a very stable advantage for the current Knicks, in fact, it was difficult for the Knicks last season to be caught up by the opponent with a double-digit lead, and now the inside advantage is so obvious, it is almost impossible for the Heat to turn around.

In the last quarter, the Heat, who refused to give up, was ready to launch a final round of attack waves and stage a big comeback, but at this time, Wu Huang's three-point shot completely disrupted the Heat's plan to fight back, although Wu Huang only scored 8 points in this quarter, but his two three-pointers helped the Knicks always keep the difference above 10 points.

At the end of the fourth quarter, with Wu Huang assisting Iguodala to hit a three-pointer and assisting David West to hit a jumper, the Knicks finally won 107-89 and ushered in a good start to the series at home.

Wu Huang contributed 32 points, 7 rebounds, 15 assists and 5 steals, Gasol 22 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, David West 16 points and 5 rebounds, Iguodala 13 points, Gallinari 11 points, and Battier 6 points.

In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wu Huang not only showed a different performance in passing strategy, but also showed the all-round ability of a Hall of Fame superstar in his breakthrough and defense, and the 5 steals in the whole game perfectly interpreted the value of his defensive title, and also proved that those coaches were not old and confused to vote for him, in fact, on the contrary, these guys know very well that Wu Huang is terrible when defending with all his might.

The Knicks' interior advantage was not fully played today, D'Antoni still took Wu Huang as the offensive and defensive center, although the interior advantage was also used, but it can also be seen from the personal data of the two interior lines that the Knicks did not care much about their advantage, nor did they particularly use this advantage, they felt that it was enough to win with a normal style of play.

This is also the most embarrassing situation for the Heat, the Knicks are equivalent to saving the killer feature, maybe they want to wait until the second game, or go to the road to make good use of their interior advantage, so that the Heat has basically no reaction time. The Knicks still look ready for a quick game, and they have saved a lot of their tactics for the road game, which is naturally a sweep.

"Sweep the Heat?" Most fans don't dare to think so, after all, James and Wade are in the same year, and the Heat still have the strength to eliminate most of the strong teams without Bosh, so the Knicks' plan makes them completely unable to keep up with the rhythm.

Spoelstra claimed after the game that his team lost because of some bad luck, and that the Heat had a lot of rebounding balls on the basket today, and if those balls went in, maybe the trend of the whole game would be rewritten.

When the New York media heard this, of course, they laughed, this kind of statement of the Filipinos is the same as the "if xxx" that fans often say after losing, but in fact, how can there be so many "ifs", this is a typical can't afford to lose mentality. Of course, Spoelstra didn't mean he couldn't afford to lose, he was making excuses for his players to believe that we could still win, otherwise we wouldn't be able to play.

ESPN's post-game comment on the Eastern Conference Finals was: The Knicks easily won the first game with their talent and roster advantage, and although James and Wade combined to contribute 63 points, this score was not enough for the Heat to win.

The Knicks first won in the "shooting percentage" today, in the first three quarters, the Knicks' shooting rate has been maintained at about 50%, while the Heat's shooting rate is only about 40%, the huge contrast between the two sides in the shooting rate has led to polarization from the third quarter, especially when Wu Huang broke out in the third quarter, after scoring 12 points in a single quarter, the Knicks have occupied a 14-point lead after the third quarter. Although the Knicks had slightly more turnovers than the Heat today, their high shooting percentage solved all the problems.

Secondly, the Knicks also have an absolute advantage in rebounding and inside, their shooting percentage is high, and they also suppress the Heat in rebounding by as much as 15. Although Gasol and David West don't score much, compared to the Heat's 10 points inside, any of their data is much higher than this score, and the Knicks' high shooting rate is like this, how can the Heat who are completely counting on James and Wade beat the Knicks' shooting percentage?

In the end, the biggest problem of the Heat is still the unsolvable Holy Master, today's Heat has put a lot of effort into Wu Huang's medium and long range shooting, they use a lot of high pressing and double packs to limit Wu Huang's long-range projection, Wade and James put half of their defensive energy on Wu Huang, the result is the full flowering of the Knicks players, and then in the second half a little relaxation of Wu Huang's defense, in the end they didn't even look at Wu Huang, basically it can be said that the bamboo basket is empty.

Jordan was deliberately let off by his opponents more often than he was surrounded by his opponents, because countless examples have proven that no matter how many people you use to defend him, it is difficult to resist his outbursts at a certain time, or more simply, you can't surround him for 48 minutes, and these guys often only need a few minutes to kill the enemy.

Therefore, instead of wasting a lot of manpower and energy to block him, it is better to use these efforts on other players to be effective.

However, the Heat today focused all their energy on Wu Huang, which is clearly another example of failed defense, and while other methods may not be effective, they have chosen the wrong way to go.

In fact, a lot can be seen in this game, when the talented Knicks have an absolute advantage in point guard, interior, shooting percentage, rebounding, and benching, then it is simply difficult for any team to beat them. The Heat now have to solve at least three of these disadvantages to have any hope of defeating the Knicks, but none of these five problems are easy to solve, but the Knicks' problem of "a little too many mistakes" today is easy to solve.

Miami fans always feel like time flies too quickly after a team loses, and the gap between days gives them a feeling of "playing a second game in the blink of an eye".

New York fans felt that time was passing so slowly, and they couldn't wait for the second game in the blink of an eye.

In the match on May 27, one side of the fans felt that the waiting time was too long, and the other side felt that the interval was too short, but whether it was fast or slow, the second game did start in the blink of an eye.

Spoelstra had said in his pre-match press conference that after the first game, they were mainly looking for excitement for the game. In the playoffs in the past two years, the Heat players have played very depressed every game, and every time it seems like they are against the whole world, and he now needs the players to let go of these baggage and find the joy and excitement of playing again.

But perhaps the excitement was too much, so the Heat adopted a high-intensity defensive approach at the beginning, so fans soon saw James a block and a steal, he and Wade each staged a violent dunk, and James and Wade made two steals in a short period of time in the second half of the quarter.

The Knicks were clearly unprepared for this at first, and they made back-to-back mistakes that led to a 10-point deficit at one point.

The Heat's defensive style is still yesterday's "rush", but the intensity has escalated again. Their "grab" mainly refers to steals, "force" can be regarded as close defense, and "surrounding" is for Wu Huang's bag, and the intensity is greater than the previous game, and some foul actions are not restrained at all, they don't want to see themselves swept in the gambling league.

The referee's sister-in-law today is indeed a little loose, at the beginning of the game, whenever Wu Huang receives the ball in the high post and prepares to attack, the Heat will use two people to chase and intercept him, and the wings and the inside line will always pay attention to his passing route, the Heat seems to be preparing a way to the end, they did not choose to let go of Wu Huang to take care of others, but chose to strengthen the encirclement and suppression of Wu Huang again.

Unfortunately, the Knicks quickly found a solution, and they adopted a strategy of avoiding the real and making the difference.

The Heat sandwiched Wu Huang, so the Knicks reduced the number of Wu Huang's offensive launches and let others attack as much as possible, so when the half passed, David West scored 15 points, and Gasol also scored a lot of 10 points. Even Battier, who has relatively poor offensive ability, has a lot of shots, he hit two three-pointers in the first half, you must know that it was James who defended him, so it is conceivable that when Battier made a three-pointer, James must have gone to do something else.

The basketball court is so big, and the tight pressing on the perimeter will definitely weaken the defense on the inside, because it is difficult for players on the perimeter to instantly return to the basket to participate in the protection of rebounding, and the Knicks then used this feature to launch a targeted offense, that is, to fight for rebounds in the front court and launch a secondary offensive score.

All this is most typical in the second quarter, Gasol grabbed the rebound in the front court and passed it to David West, who completed 2+1 with a violent dunk; Gasol grabbed the rebound and made a layup; David West grabbed the rebound in the front court again and scored again...... In this way, the Knicks scored 18 points in the first half by rebounding in the front court, accounting for nearly 40% of the total 49 points.

At the end of the game, the Knicks had a terrifying 20 rebounds in the frontcourt, including 12 in the first half and 8 in the second half, and they also had a 51-32 advantage in overall rebounding. The disparity in rebounding statistics is partly due to the Heat's own lack of interior strength, but there is also a large factor due to the negative effects of their overly aggressive defense on the perimeter.

Another side effect of being too aggressive is that it is difficult to sustain the whole game. The Heat's own bench strength is relatively weak, so they can only rely on a few main players to play for a long time to keep the lineup competitive, and today James and Wade consumed more physical strength in the scramble, so the collapse of the fourth quarter is somewhat inevitable.

As soon as the fourth quarter came up, Battier received another pass from Gasol and hit a three-point shot from the outside!

But this time, Batman not only gave the team enough three-point support on the offensive end, but he even made James suffer a lot in the second half today. In the second half of the third period, James felt cold, and only hit one shot in the next six shots, the key is that Battier did not let him get a free throw opportunity, and he also made James two offensive fouls at a critical moment in the fourth quarter.

James only got 19 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in the whole game, and his shooting percentage was 6 of 20 shots.

The Knicks brought in Battier in the summer in the hope that he would be useful in the playoffs, and judging from the performance in the playoffs, the Knicks' summer signing is worth it. Of course, the Knicks will still face a tough game when they come to Miami the day after tomorrow, so 2:0 is not the time for them to relax, and the team needs more contributions like Battier today. After all, the more playoff helpers, the farther you can go, and the Heat are a ready-made negative example.

Wu Huang is not very happy today, he only got 14 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists under the Heat's iron-hearted strict defense, and finally only got 14 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, such data is not like the Holy Sect Master, but his 7 steals and 3 blocks once again let himself have something to brag about after the game.

In fact, Wu Huang was a little anxious in this game, the Heat really didn't let him score today, not even passing, the whole team was staring at him alone, this excessive targeting also made Wu Huang secretly wonder: "Damn, I'm very low-key this time, okay?" I didn't provoke them at all before the game, I knew that this was the case, and I would have been addicted to it. ”

Emperor Wu didn't know where he got such a big hatred, didn't he provoke it, but others thought he was a bully? Could it be that people are really good and can't be deceived by others? However, it was precisely because he was very depressed on the offensive end of Wu Huang that he simply spent all his energy on defense, and in the fourth quarter, he even went to the sea to dislocate James and Wade for a few rounds, during which he shouted "Come on!" Damn, hurt each other! ”

Not to mention, one of Wu Huang's three caps is James from behind, I don't know if this guy feels so bad today, is it because of his own cap?

But in any case, a point guard with seven steals and three blocks can only say that he played dominance on the defensive end, and at this time, looking at his other stats, it doesn't seem to matter. (To be continued.) )