Chapter 471: First Victory

Wall is indeed very strong in character, but he is not the kind of young man who only knows how to fight and win, on the contrary, he is very aware of his own characteristics and strengths, but also knows his weaknesses and flaws, so in the break after the first quarter, Wall began to think about what flaws he had in his previous defense against Turgon.

After thinking calmly, Wall felt that he was a little too obsessed with Turgon's projection ability and dribbling ability, and it was precisely because of this scruple that Wall did not dare to stick too much and not dare to relax too much when defending Turgun in the first quarter, which always put him in a dilemma.

At that time, when Wall calmed down and then thought about it, he found that he actually thought too much, his biggest advantage over Turgun is undoubtedly strong physical fitness and super speed, and now it is undoubtedly the most unwise to give up these advantages to fight against Turgon, so after returning to the court in the second quarter, Wall began to press Turgun closely.

Turgun does not seem to be comfortable with Wall's "body hair" level defense, he has indeed encountered many types of point guards before, but there are really few like Wall, in contrast, Wall is actually more suitable for defending players at the point guard or even small forward position.

Turgun faced this situation and had to seek cover from his teammates to get rid of Wall's defense, but Wall's speed was so fast that there was no player on the Runners' bench who could match Wall's speed.

In desperation, Turgun had to start abandoning players to run without the ball.

Wang Leiya on the field saw Turgon's predicament, and he hurriedly replaced Salish to relieve the pressure on Turgon.

However, at this time, the Heat had already taken advantage of the physical advantage of the interior and began to close the gap in the score.

After Salich came on the pitch, he ended up possessing the ball and organizing the attack, and Turgun began to lead Wall on the run.

The game was then evenly matched again, with the Runners still maintaining a relatively good shooting percentage, and the Heat finding the right feel in the positional battle.

Wall's burst of points gave the Heat room to play with a couple of "3-and-D" players on the perimeter, who basically played defense, and then ran to shoot threes on offense.

Halfway through the second quarter, the two sides gradually changed their starters, and the Heat's starting center Corey Ryder, who was almost beaten by Elvin, was abandoned by the head coach at this time, and it was the backup power forward Harlan who replaced him.

On the Runners' side, Blair scored a low-post shot, and on the Heat's side, Wall immediately used his teammates' cover to hit a shot.

Turgun hit a three-point catcher, and Wall also immediately assisted his teammate to hit a three-pointer.

The two sides played much more smoothly than in the first quarter, and the intensity of the confrontation between the two sides also increased a lot.

Just before halftime, Wall broke through and drew Blair's third personal foul.

Wall walked to the free-throw line to earn his first 10 points of the game.

That may sound like a low score, but Wall had seven assists and six rebounds in the half, in addition to three blocks.

Before the game, Wang Lei had tried his best to imagine Wall's ability to a higher level, but now it seems that everyone still underestimates the ability of this outstanding young man.

However, although Wall's performance is extremely outstanding, the Heat team is still 8 to 10 points behind the Runners, and the Runners who play the lead or downwind are undoubtedly extremely strong.

The basketball world has always had a feeling of being out of control over things like feel and shooting percentage, and no one dares to say that they can always be accurate, even the Runners themselves dare not guarantee that they can have a good shooting percentage in every game.

However, Wang Lei led the runners to play convincing results, and also played many unimaginable games with high scores and hit rates, and the reason why this is so is actually because Wang Lei organically increased the number of rounds of the runners.

With the same hit rate, the score obtained by playing ten rounds and twelve rounds is different, so Wang Lei let the runners play the run bomb is actually to increase the number of shots and increase the possibility of hitting.

Of course, this does not necessarily mean that the winning rate is higher if there are more shots, Wang Lei's approach is to let the team maintain a reasonable tactical system and reasonable shot choices in a fast situation.

Wall made two free throws to help the Heat narrow the gap to six points, but before the Heat players could be mentally prepared, Turgun then hit a three-pointer to help the Runners still lead the Heat by nine points at halftime.

At halftime, the Heat were encouraging players to shoot more in the second half, and Clayson also realized that if the game was allowed to go on like this, the suspense of their comeback would be lower and lower, so instead of losing the game, it was better to be completely presumptuous and let the players shoot as many as possible, so that they would have a chance to chase points or even turn the tables.

After the start of the second half, the Heat did increase their outside shots again, but the Runners also increased their defensive intensity from the outside almost immediately.

Previously, the Runners had been defending the joint defense in order to limit Wall's speed, but after the Heat began to increase their outside shots, the Runners immediately switched to man-to-man defense, and their defense also expanded to the three-point line.

The Heat's shooting percentage began to decline as the Runners expanded their defense, and their role players, while having some three-point ability, couldn't match the Runners' top shooters.

Wall also lost his role in the first half at this point, and although Wall had more room to break through as the opponent expanded his defense, it was obvious which was more efficient compared to scoring two points or scoring three.

After the Heat's shooting percentage dropped, the Runners began to extend their lead.

By the end of the third quarter, the difference between the two sides had reached 16 points.

Entering the fourth quarter of the game, the Heat tried to make a final comeback, and Wall frequently went inside to make kills, and at the same time, the Heat rushed to grab rebounds more and more often.

But even so, the Runners still maintain a very good offensive efficiency and shooting percentage, and Turgun still maintains a shooting rate of about 60% on three-pointers today, which makes the Heat team less confident the bigger they get.

With three minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Runners still held a fifteen-point lead, and the Heat's head coach Claeson was also a bachelor, and he directly replaced the rotation player and gave up the game.

In this way, the Runners won the first game of the finals without blood, and they made new history for the Sau-City team.