Chapter 345: I Dreamed in a Dream that I Took Three Pairs
Emperor Wu's provocation was not hidden at all, which was also his usual trick when he gained the upper hand, especially after his own fame and status became higher and higher, the greater the impact of this kind of trash talk on the enemy. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Imagine that when Jordan points at you and says, "You're a piece of trash, I'm going to sweep you to the trash can", will the victim be infinitely angry in his heart, or will he be scared and trembling and afraid to make a sound?
No matter what kind of mentality you have, it will have a negative impact on the opponent, which is why many stars in the eighties and nineties liked to talk trash talk, even if it was just a simple vulgar language, it was very effective, and there are very few people in the world who can still be calm in the face of trash talk.
In the pre-game ESPN scouting report, they believe that the Heat can only win if they play bloody, especially if the bench players are not capable enough, but at least they can't lag behind in action, and they can't play well, so they will always fight hard, right?
An hour before the start of the game, Shen Operator, Mo Ning and others were already watching the game from the sidelines, which reminded people of the era when Miami used defense to run rampant ten years ago, when even in the face of a bunch of boxers Knicks, they still dared to fight muscles, and there was no reason to soften when they met Hugo's little white face today.
But the problem is that the Big Three don't have the heart to show their muscles, and they can't even defend a little.
In the third game, from the perspective of the field, the Big Three have played hard enough, and the whole court can see that there is a desire to win, but the ability of other teammates is too poor, the gap in talent and age of these players cannot be made up by gritting their teeth, the overall strength of the Knicks players is overwhelming, the Big Three have been desperately attacking, and then let them defend desperately, so it is better to find Superman to play the game.
The Knicks actually had a bit of trouble, and after the last game, O'Neal looked very tired, and although he was excited at the time, he even took a drip the next day to replenish his energy.
"I'm old!" O'Neal has been saying this sentence since yesterday, even if he is lazy for most of the regular season, O'Neill has not felt the pain of physical aging like in the past two days.
Back then, he Uncle O'Neal could jump backflips on the spot with a weight of 320 pounds, and at 340 pounds, he could also stage a dunk close to a flat frame in actual combat, but now he has been reduced to the extent that he has to go to the hospital for an intravenous drip after an outbreak, and he has not recovered after two days, so he can't retire.
"Let's lose weight, I can still beat when I lose 320 pounds." Wu Huang patted O'Neal on the shoulder before the game, the outside world doesn't know O'Neal's real weight, but he knows, the real weight of this product has exceeded 360 pounds, if he can lose about 330 pounds, then he can indeed play for another season.
O'Neal doesn't want to work so hard anymore, he just wants to help the Knicks win the championship this season, and then retire with his five championship rings, it's not impossible to lose 330 pounds, but it's too hard for a billionaire who is almost 40 years old.
Today, O'Neill took the initiative to ask to play as a substitute before the game, in fact, this is already a compromise for his good face, and he actually means to stop playing.
Of course, D'Antoni understands, so he will not send O'Neal on the field today, and it is difficult for O'Neill in this state to perform well, and sending him up is also the result of delay.
"Will I be like this when I'm 39?" When Emperor Wu saw O'Neill's embarrassment, he also sighed a little in his heart about the lethality of time to human beings, even if it was a monster like O'Neill, it was too powerless in the face of aging.
"So if you want to win honors, you have to take as many as possible when you are young, I don't want to wait seven years to win the first championship like Jordan, and I don't want to wait for eight years like James to win the championship, when I haven't really aged, I have to be challenged by the next generation of little kids, it's a tragedy!" Wu Huang complained a little about his own meaning, O'Neill's old state made him even more unwilling to give up any chance to win honors, he didn't want to run to hug the young man's thigh when he was old.
After the players of the two teams came out, a report of Wu Huang mocking the Heat before the game was played on the big screen at the scene, which naturally attracted waves of boos and abuse from the home fans!
The Heat seem to want to make the home fans release more noise about Wu Huang in this way, so as to affect his play.
However, Wu Huang's fans, including his harem, reacted very handsome when they saw the pre-match appearance of this bastard. But they didn't know that today's costume of Emperor Wu was given by Xiao Keluo, who has been busy filming recently and can't always harass him.
It is said that Xiao Kolo, who has successfully lost weight through filming, has been harassing him again since a few days ago. Today, with the advantage of her brother, she went to the hotel where the Knicks players stayed under the pretext of coming to Miami for a vacation, and today she went to the game with Brandon to watch the game, and she was staring at him in the private room at the moment.
Wu Huang felt that Xiao Kolo was still more cute two years ago, since the development of the previous year, the little Lori has grown a little crooked, and she is only halfway through the girl's development, and I don't know if it will get better or worse in another two years. To sum it up, it's still very risky to raise Lori, the so-called eighteen changes in the female college, how do you know if he's getting better or worse?
If you refer to the cuteness of little Hermione when she was ten years old, her appearance is at least thirty percent less than at that time, so Emperor Wu is also very worried about Little Colo's future appearance. On the contrary, it was a little singer who was not too good-looking when he first met, after breast augmentation last year, I don't know if she secretly had plastic surgery this year, not only her face has become more and more beautiful, but her skin has also become better and better, this stinky girl has magically become beautiful? Wu Huang felt in his heart that this slut must have secretly undergone plastic surgery, how could anyone start to look good at the age of 19?
Spoelstra on the sidelines had a tense facial expression today, and he struggled to think about various options to beat the Knicks in the past two days, but in the end they all fell into the same embarrassment - he simply didn't have enough players to implement it!
The whole league knows that if you want to defend Wu Huang, you must need the help of the inside line, and at the same time, the speed of the players who defend him should not be too slow, and the explosiveness and pace must at least reach the top rank, otherwise even if there is an inside line with outstanding defense, it will not be easy to deal with Wu Huang's breakthrough, just like most teams were helpless with the breakthrough of the Flash three years ago.
The Mavericks will also be watching this game, and they are focusing part of their energy on these two teams in the East like the Knicks, and they are mainly watching the Knicks, and the most difficult team in this team is naturally Wu Huang.
Carlisle is also at a loss for how to defend Wu Huang, although Kidd can use experience and awareness to deal with Westbrook, but in the face of the much more cunning Chinese, everyone thinks that the 38-year-old Kidd may be overwhelmed, just like the old fish is destined to be blown up, Kidd is also doomed to be difficult to escape the poisonous hand of Wu Huang.
The current Mavericks hope that the Heat can pull back a game, and it is best to come up with some ways to limit Wu Huang for their reference.
But it's a pity that the Heat have no way to deal with Wu Huang at all, Spoelstra learned the strategy of the Knicks to put James and defend against others today, and the Heat also transferred their defensive energy to Xiao Si and other Knicks players today, and most of the time they took the most ordinary single defense + a small amount of assistance defense against Wu Huang, and no longer treated him as a superstar.
Knicks starting lineup: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Gallinari, Stoudemire, Collins.
Heat starting lineup: Chalmers, Wade, James, Haslem, Joel Anthony.
Before today's game, the Knicks had won 77 games this season, the most of any team, while the Heat were in danger and could not have recovered if they were not careful. But for the Knicks to get a match point and put the Heat in a real desperate situation, they will have to repeat what they have done 77 times.
ABC Radio's Jeff Van Gundy said after the game began: "Although this is only the fourth game in a best-of-seven series, everyone on Earth knows that this is also a game that the Heat can't afford to lose, and the Big Three will tie again, and the Knicks' home-court advantage will be minimized; Taking a step back, the Knicks will have the match point, and the Heat will face a catastrophe. ”
Mark Jackson also commented: "The characteristics of the Knicks and the Heat are very obvious, the Knicks are better as a whole, and the Heat rely on the three giants to play. In other words, if the Knicks' numerical advantage can't be played, then it will be difficult for them to win, and it will be like the first game. ”
After the opening, today's Heat played more reasonable, first let Bosh score two points on the inside, and then rely on Wade's breakthrough to score, combining inside and outside for a while, with a slight advantage on the court, leading 16:13 halfway through the quarter.
James was not in a hurry to attack today, and once again created opportunities for his teammates first, but the effect was not good except for Bosh and Wade, and the Knicks' excellent individual defense ability made it difficult for players outside the Heat Big Three to score points. And the players outside the Big Three of the Heat are not confident enough today, they always pass the ball out after they get it, and they don't dare to shoot if they don't have an empty position, which is the real trouble for the Heat.
The Knicks targeted Bosh on the defensive end today, and D'Antoni felt that Bosh, who had a finger injury, was the best one of the Big Three to deal with. In the last game, they scattered their defensive forces and dealt with Wade and Bosh at the same time, and the triumvirate combined to score 84 points, which shows that the Knicks can't limit the two giants at the same time, and the reason why they won the last game was better offense. But the mustache knew that they couldn't play as crazy as they did in Game 3 every game, so today they lightened their defensive responsibilities a little more, changed the restriction target to Bosh alone, and continued to watch the players outside the Heat's Big Three. In this way, with their excellent offense, they will still have a better chance of winning this game than the Heat.
After scoring four points early in the first quarter, Bosh lost his offensive touch under the Knicks' targeting, failed to hit a shot from the ninth minute of the quarter, and was replaced by Spoelstra with four minutes left in the first quarter.
At the end of the first quarter, with the super impact of Wade and James, Miamibo made a few free throws and took the opportunity to stabilize the position. But the Heat's interior defense is worse after the absence of Bosh, Haslem and Joel Anthony are very passive under the interior attack of Monroe and Smalls with medium and long-range shooting, they know that being pulled outside the box will lead to the lack of defense under the basket, but Monroe and Smalls' high shooting percentage makes them have to be repeatedly pulled out of the box by opponents to defend.
Monroe became the wonder soldier of the Knicks today, although he is only a first-year rookie, but it is undeniable that he has the strength, and he is better than the Heat in terms of potential Menroe except for Bosh and Big Z. And in terms of immediate combat power, if Monroe can play his normal form, I am afraid he will be better than all the Heat interior except Bosh.
In the first three games, Monroe, the lucky rookie who started playing the division finals as soon as he entered the NBA, was too nervous on the court, and even made people feel a little trembling, and for a role in charge of mid-range shooting and high post in the tactical system, he had to be clear enough about his tasks, and at the same time he should be decisive enough when shooting or passing, but Monroe couldn't do this in the first three games.
But now it's different, the Knicks have the upper hand in the series, plus there is a three-game adaptation period, and the most important thing is that the Heat don't have the slightest target for Monroe, which gives him a chance to play.
In this game, the Knicks' rookie center seized the opportunity, and in the face of the Heat players' big stride defense, Monroe got a lot of comfortable shooting opportunities in the first quarter, shooting 3 of 4 from mid-range, and the Heat was embarrassed, and the Knicks played a wave of 11:2 at the end of the first quarter and exceeded 26:25 in one fell swoop.
At this moment, the global commentators are sympathizing with the Heat, and the big sharks are estimated to have been overconsumed in the last game, and they didn't play at all today. But Monroe, an inconspicuous little guy, actually jumped out quietly, 3 shots + two free throws in the first quarter of the game, and the Knicks' rookie center scored 8 points in the first quarter and stabbed the Heat!
Wu Huang didn't expect Monroe to stand up today, but this little guy does have some strength, at least much stronger than the Heat's group of old, weak, sick and disabled. I'm afraid that apart from Bosh, the Heat can't find a stronger interior line than Monroe now, which is also the reason why all Heat fans feel extremely embarrassed!
In the first quarter, Wu Huang had 5 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, Monroe had 8 points and 2 rebounds, Iguodala had 4 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, and Bosh had 4 points and 2 rebounds.
The Heat continued to rely on the Big Three to score points, James had 7 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, Wade had 9 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, Bosh had 5 points and 3 rebounds, and the remaining Heat players only scored 4 points in total, which is not as good as Bosh who scored the least among the Big Three, which is another embarrassing place for Heat fans.
In the second quarter, the Heat tried to rely on Bosh + Haslem to form an offensive and defensive interior combination, and seize the lead on both offensive and defensive ends, but it turned out to be a pipe dream!
Spoelstra still kept the two giants on the court at the same time in the early part of the second quarter, James + Bosh can be a combination of the sea god in any team, and they will not suffer a big loss in the face of the Knicks, but it is not enough to chase points, this combination can only keep the game stalemate.
D'Antoni has figured out the Heat's employment strategy through three games, Spoelstra will always keep the two giants on the court, and his response is to leave Wu Huang on the court all the time, anyway, the more he plays, the more he will allocate physical strength, Wu Huang is enough to play for 48 minutes, let him play on the court all the time, and even call a few less timeouts.
Wu Huang brought Tony Allen, Gallinari, Evans and Monroe in the rotation lineup, this lineup is somewhat lacking in offensive power, and can only rely on Wu Huang to score or create opportunities with his personal strength, but fortunately, the Heat's weak No. 1 position once again gives Wu Huang the opportunity to surpass the Big Three in performance.
Is Wu Huang really better than the Big Three? Since the end of the last game, some media have given a negative answer, they believe that Wu Huang is just in time for the league to replace the old and the new, and his play has something to do with the weakness of the opposing players.
In the playoffs in the past two years, he played against teams that started rebuilding three or five years ago, or teams that rebuilt earlier, and the teams in the league at that time still tried to focus on the interior or forward when selecting the core. It just so happens that there are many forward talents produced in those years, but there are very few excellent guards, and Wu Huang has rarely met in the playoffs in the strong No. 1 position, all of them are old guys and ordinary players, so no matter whether the Knicks win or lose, at least his performance will not be bad.
In the past few years, the league has been in rotation and has begun to produce the No. 1 position again, and he himself is a member of the genius point guard blowout, but almost all of these teams that have selected the point guard as the cornerstone are in the process of rebuilding, and most of the rest are also in the West, and it is difficult to see them in the Eastern playoffs, and Rose is the only time.
Wu Huang has not met an opponent of his level in the playoffs in the past two years, and the teams he has faced in the playoffs are either strong inside or forward, or none of them are strong point guards, which is why his personal data is excellent.
The Heat changed tactics during the rotation and went for a frantic three-man package. But Wu Huang's self-confidence is extremely strong, unless all three people come up, otherwise even if two people are in a bag, he has to try it first, and he will never pass the ball as soon as he sees two people surrounding him like in the first game, which is not enough pressure on the Heat's defense.
Gallinari quickly found an opportunity to cut under the basket to score, and it was a slightly rushed shot, and the basketball bounced several times on the basket because of the rush of the shot, and the basketball nearly missed.
If you only look at this result, many people may think that Gallinari's shot is too impatient, but just look at James, who has arrived at him a second later, you can see how necessary this slightly hurried shot is.
The Italian has now stepped up his shot, which is a strain under pressure, as has the rest of the Knicks.
The playoffs get to the back, the physical confrontation becomes more and more intense, which requires more and more talent from the players, and everyone needs to do technical moves and shots with a more intense defense.
In the first game, Gallinari's shooting was always interfered with by secondary defense or assistant defense players, the reason is that he pursued the position and comfort of the shot too much, but James and Wade's secondary defensive speed is far from being comparable to ordinary players, don't think that it will be okay to get rid of them at the first time, if you can't shoot as soon as possible, the blink of an eye will be made up or re-chased by the defender you get rid of.
In this kind of game, there will definitely not be too many shooting opportunities that you feel comfortable with, you need to shoot in range immediately after getting rid of the defense, don't expect to be able to go to your favorite shooting hot zone, players are in a hurry to shoot most of the time, and this is the test of talent.
Fans can also see the true strength of a player in this kind of game, and those who take a break as soon as the playoffs arrive are either not talented enough, or they are not actively training, and these people can't cope with the increasingly high-intensity defense of the playoffs anyway.
Wu Huang was certainly not in the ranks, first assisting Gallinari to score, and then facing the Heat's two-man defensive breakaway layup.
The Heat's targeting did not have much effect, Bibby and Chanmos's dual-point guard tactics were like horses in front of Wu Huang, and the hidden danger on the defensive end was greater, Wu Huang then assisted Tony Allen to break through the foul, and the Knicks aimed at the Heat's two guards to play.
Spoelstra doesn't want to talk now, and the average person can't see where Wu Huang's basketball IQ is high on the offensive end, but he can see it.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the Knicks' first offense was still a mid-court cover tactic, with the Knicks covering Monroe and Wu Huang in the middle, and setting up shooters in the perimeter corners, and Reggie Evans was responsible for impacting the frontcourt rebounds.
But I don't know if I don't think this is enough to target the Heat's bag defense, and then the Knicks quickly started to play a 1-4 high post strategy, which is a very good position to resist the pressing defense, because the point guard will have four pass options.
During this period, D'Antoni has been sitting on the bench and has not made any movements, so this adjustment must have been made by Emperor Wu himself.
The mustache then replaced Evans with Danny Green, which made it easier for Wu to handle the ball after the break. This substitution is obviously implemented to facilitate Wu Huang to play 1-4 high post tactics, and it also shows that D'Antoni is cooperating with Wu Huang's attack to make substitutions, and the so-called puppet refers to this.
At this time, the Heat did not make corresponding changes on the defensive end according to the Knicks' offense, and asked him to stand on the sidelines and instruct the players to pay attention to Wu Huang's ball. At the same time, it also made him understand why when Mavericks vs Thunder, why he felt that the adjustment of the Thunder was always slower than that of the opponent, the old and spicy Kidd has been adjusting his team's offensive and defensive formation according to the situation on the court and the opponent, but Wei Shao will only let his teammates scatter his singles, and the gap is not ordinarily large.
James, for his part, was still in no hurry to attack, and with 5:50 left in the quarter, he made a steal before making a layup, which was the first time he scored in a field game in the quarter. After that, James broke through the basket twice and hit a few more shots, but he was very efficient, and he scored eight points in the quarter, but the Heat still trailed by eight points at 50-58 to end the first half.
The Knicks won the first half in the rotation, and the Heat scored only two points in the first three minutes of the quarter, but the Knicks took advantage of Wu Huang's sudden point to extend the lead to eight points in one fell swoop. Then the main players of the two teams returned to the court, and the game formed a stalemate, but the point difference was preserved until the end of the first half, and the Knicks still led the Heat by eight points.
Theoretically, the Knicks' best offensive approach is to pull the bag while Wu Huang breaks through, passes the ball to teammates who have open space, and lets them finish the game. But how to execute is a problem, Wu Huang used his personal ability to complete the part of attracting the bag, and he can also successfully divide the ball, if it weren't for the referee still blowing the home whistle from time to time to help the Heat continue to live, the difference at this moment would be more than eight points.
Xiao Si and Gallinari, and even Monroe have completed their tasks on the offensive end, and also played their advantages on the offensive end, Stoudemire scored 10 points and 5 rebounds in the half, Gallinari scored 16 points, and Monroe also scored 12 points, half of the credit for the scores of these players should be credited to Wu Huang, and his 10 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists also showed his versatility again.
But the Heat are not easy to kill, they also have their own killer weapon, that killer is Wade and James, they are the best players in the league with a combination of speed, power and skill, and in the second half of the game, the two even acted as point guards for the Heat, continuing to control the distribution of the ball.
But sometimes it's really hard to figure out why James is often reluctant to attack on his own.
Today, the Knicks went all out to defend Bosh, and the Dragons scored only seven points in the first half, and although Wade and himself scored 20 and 15 points respectively, these points alone were clearly not enough when the rest of his teammates barely scored.
James still doesn't shoot when he doesn't have a good opportunity, and this reasonable style of play becomes very unreasonable in this situation, and it is not impossible to even understand it as "negative".
Wade forced his way to the basket several times in the first half under Iguodala's defense, and then fell to the ground in embarrassment, but James only shot when he had a good opportunity, which made it feel like he didn't give his best.
With 6:12 left in the third quarter, the Heat entered a scoring drought, unable to shoot a goal for nearly three minutes, and only relied on free throws to score a point, and the Knicks took the opportunity to extend the margin to 12 points. The Miamins, who were in a difficult situation, decisively used Mike Miller, leaving not a single point guard on the court, and it worked wonders, the playoff three-point shooter finally threw two passes from James, only to see James break through twice in a row to kill Monroe, not only to make Monroe four fouls, but also to help the team narrow the margin to five points.
Charles Barkley has long said of James, ****** thinks he sometimes falls into a strange irrationality, and that's exactly the opposite of Kobe. The latter is me who passes you the ball but you don't score in a row, so well, I won't pass you in this game. James is different, he likes to pass the ball to teammates who can't shoot all the time, which can be understood as helping his teammates find touch, but it can also be said that he is being careful, which is the practice of deliberately putting teammates who are not in good shape on the stage. This kind of teammate who has never been able to shoot will definitely be picked up by the fans after the game, and the confidence will definitely become less and less like this.
Although Kobe's approach will keep this teammate out of shape throughout the game, James's approach will make this teammate out of shape for a long time, of course, the reason is that they have more problems of their own, and if he shoots correctly, he will definitely not have these problems that will never be clear.
Wu Huang doesn't like to criticize his teammates in the game, and if his teammates take the initiative to practice after the game, he won't bring the problem out again, because he knows that people will find their own problems, and those who can't do it can't become his teammates.
Xiao Si helped the team stabilize the situation at a critical moment, and the little bully, who was robbed of the limelight again today, finally broke out in the third quarter!
In the last game, he was robbed of the limelight by O'Neal, after all, this is an old-timer, but today in the first half of the game, Monroe stole the limelight, which made Xiao Si a little difficult to accept.
Monroe shot accurately in the first half today, and Xiao Si used a breakthrough in the second half to tell others: It is far from enough to have a handful of shots, and without my breakthrough to silently help you attract defense, where do you get so many shooting opportunities?
In fact, it is true, no matter how good Monroe is, it makes the Heat dare not let him go easily, but even when Xiao Si is not accurate in shooting, the Heat still dare not let him go easily, the difference is because his breakthrough is extremely lethal.
Before the end of the third quarter, Smalls used five breakthroughs to stand at the free throw line and scored nine points in less than five minutes to help the team regain the advantage, and the Knicks led by six points at 85:79 after the third quarter into the final quarter.
Wu Huang's performance today makes people feel that he is secretly brushing data there again, after three quarters, he turned his personal data into 18 points, 7 rebounds, 10 assists and 3 steals, if after the start of the fourth quarter, he desperately grabbed rebounds as soon as he came up, then he was properly brushing data. (To be continued.) )