Chapter 280: We Can't Be Teammates
"Why bother, you and I are our own masters, each on the court uses its own means, in the end someone wins, naturally someone loses, you can't afford to lose, right?" Wu Huang touched his fist lightly with the stiff-faced James before the game, I don't know if he was joking, or he felt it, but it seemed that he was still ridiculing the most likely, but in the end, he added a sentence in a daze: "Maybe we will have a day when we will be teammates in the future, in short, the world is unpredictable, this is not certain." ”
James snorted coldly: "It's not that I can't afford to lose, I just don't agree with your winning method, I think we can't be teammates." ”
Wu Huang was noncommittal, he just said it casually, with his selfish character, how could he cooperate with a superstar of his own level? Unless...... Unless there is a team that is more perverted than the Heat and makes a drama of the Big Four huddling, then Wu Huang will consider whether he needs a teammate like James? Because he is not sure about the lineup of the Big Four, but this situation is almost impossible, the top three are enough to play, and the Big Four will not let people live?
James didn't have this kind of thought, he is very similar to Wu Huang in some places, the reason why he didn't go to the Knicks and came to the Heat in the summer was because Wu Huang rose too fast, and he consciously went to New York and didn't have full confidence in submitting this guy. But coming to the Heat is different, Bosh is only half a giant at best, Wade has begun to go down from the top again, and even if he can't replace Wade as the core in the first season, he will naturally become the cornerstone of the team in the second season. Do you really think he's here to assist Wade? I believe that even Kuroko, who hates James, will not believe such words.
Historically, there has been almost no such thing as a king alliance in the NBA, and the real king will not be in a league with another king. When Chamberlain switched to the Lakers, it was considered to be a joke, but in fact? At that time, the big man was already old, and the average score per game was more than 20 points, was the big boss in that state still a real king?
I won't mention such a distant example, there are many examples that can be checked more recently, among which Magic is an alternative, because he is the chosen king, and it can only be said that the Lakers are lucky; Duncan was also the chosen king, but the admiral was already old at that time, and the Spurs still had only one king; Kobe Bryant and O'Neal were traded when the former was not yet mature, and when one of them matured, infighting immediately began; As for Larry Bird, most of the time he is a god with four younger brothers, and those four people are not king-level figures except for McHale, who grew up later, and later became a refrigerator in his own right, and he grew up step by step by himself, rather than the team through trades.
These examples all prove that a team can only have one true king, and this is the rule of nature, and it has always been so. Unless a king is about to grow old, or a king has not yet grown up, or one of them is just a king of data, it is another matter, but if it is really two kings at the peak of their prime, the result will certainly not be very good.
The Knicks continued the same routine as the Knicks in the previous game today, with D'Antoni moving Gallinari to the No. 4 spot again, starting five players: Wu Huang, Danny Green, Iguodala, Gallinari, and Stoudemire.
O'Neal has reason to be dissatisfied with this, the big z on the opposite side is not as good as his condition, but at least people can get the starting position, but D'Antoni always moves him out of the starting lineup, which is an act of treating him as nothing, and O'Neal once again feels the same contempt and humiliation as the Knights.
There's no way, NBA coaches don't have to use someone because of their high historical status, he had to use O'Neal during the Suns period, that's because he has a salary of more than 20 million, if you don't use it, the boss can't say it, and the fans can't say it, but now O'Neal only gets a veteran base salary, so no one will criticize D'Antoni for not using him well.
The Heat's starting lineup has not changed: Arroyo, Wade, James, Bosh, Big Z.
The core of the Knicks' tactics today is to limit the Heat's interior offense, and the defense line is more dependent on the interior to defend the opponent to break through, and appropriately let Wade and James shoot on the outside, but it is necessary to separate Bosh from the other two giants, this kind of defense has a bit of a taste of Bosh as the real core.
D'Antoni has always had a big brain, and he often comes up with some very strange or unrealistic strategies. Of course, what he came up with was basically a strategy rather than a specific tactic, and the truth was right, but it was not easy to implement. Just like today, he felt that defending Bosh and the Heat's interior offense would improve his winning percentage, so he told his players that they should do it.
The Knicks' players are right to hear it, and they say it well, but they can't understand what to do, and they can't understand it on the other side, which causes the players to always be a little vague in their heads, and they completely rely on their own understanding to execute the tactics.
Wu Huang's understanding of this is that he needs to help his teammates defend regularly, especially on the inside, and Iguodala and Green plan to do the same, and today the three of them must form a defensive line that can advance and retreat together, and when Wade and James break through, they must be able to shrink together, and when the basketball turns back to the outside, they must steal together.
Gallinari doesn't have that awareness, but Green can, which is why D'Antoni is increasingly fond of putting the Italian in the No. 4 position, his single defense is still okay, and he can barely parry against a lightweight interior like Bosh, at least to meet the defensive requirements that D'Antoni has in mind.
After the opening of the game, the Heat insisted on putting solid defense first, waiting for opportunities to play defensive counterattacks. Unsurprisingly, in the last game, they used this trick to almost kill the Knicks. The Miami idea is that the faster New Yorkers play, the more mistakes they will make, and the more holes they can catch, and their defense is dominated by strong oppression, and they are best at making opponent mistakes and counterattacking, which is the best way to deal with the Knicks at this stage.
Both teams feel like they're holding the opponent's seven inches, and it depends on how well the players execute.
Xiao Si earned the right to attack for the team for the first time, Wu Huang quickly advanced to the front court after getting the basketball, but he just tried to break through, and saw that the heat team returned to defense in time, and he didn't have a good chance to score, so he immediately retreated to the top of the arc and began to direct his teammates to run tactics.
This is the Knicks' offensive routine today, Wu Huang can find a way to solve the problem with his breakthrough and personal ability in the first 10 seconds, but if he doesn't have a chance to score directly, then retreat to play blocking and other tactics, D'Antoni summed up this offensive method after the last game.
The good thing about Iguodala and Green is that they are willing to run off the ball, and Gallinari is also active in running, so that the Knicks, except for the center, are basically involved in the game and can effectively tear apart the opponent's defense. Wu Huang and Xiao Si played the role of attacking with the ball, and carried out the task of attacking and sharing the ball under the running of the three.
This tactic is actually very suitable for the mask man Hamilton, if this guy can be a few years younger, maybe the Knicks would have traded Gallinari and the Pistons a long time ago.
On the Knicks' first offense, Wu Huang and Xiao Si passed the ball to the weak side after blocking and dismantling, and Iguodala missed the shot.
In this round, the Knicks' tactics were played, but the basketball could not be hit.
The Heat's first offense was obviously inferior to the Knicks in terms of coordination, and James used his individual ability to force a break through Iguodala and chose to force a layup instead of passing.
Xiao Si made up for the defense in time, jumped up and watched the basketball fly above his fingers, and hurriedly looked back, the basketball bounced three or four times on the basket and finally rolled into the net.
This is a typical manifestation of individual ability, just like Wu Huang in the last game, the goal is all played by the stars.
Heat fans cheered for James' goal, it seems that the little emperor is in good shape today, the humiliating loss in the last game made him have a strong desire to attack today, this ball may have been passed out as usual, but today in the face of Iguodala and Xiaosi's sandwich defense, James still chose to force a shot.
The Knicks attacked three times in a row, and the tactics can be said to have been played, at least their shots were more reasonable, and they didn't encounter too many obstacles, but the final results were all very different. On the contrary, James has an excellent character today, and in the first four attacks of the Heat, he himself made three shots, and the results hit all of them, leading the Heat to play an 8-0 offensive in the opening game.
D'Antoni could only ask for a timeout, and then arranged for Wu Huang to play more singles to avoid the embarrassment of the team's bad hands. But since the whole team was not smooth, Wu Huang inevitably fell into the ice period. Speaking of which, today he did not receive too much verbal attack from the fans in the away stadium, but on the contrary, he was out of shape, and he was scolded more and more sharply in the away away from home, and it seems that he has no combat effectiveness if he is not scolded.
"It's not okay to fight like this!" Wu Huang and Xiao Si discussed, since they are the internal and external core of the team, they naturally have to stand up in this kind of headwind.
In the face of Wu Huang and Xiao Si's blocking and dismantling, the Heat actually didn't have a very good response plan, they knew how to defend it, but these two guys were too outstanding in their personal abilities, even if they knew how to defend it, they couldn't prevent it.
At 9:09 in the first quarter, Wu Huang and Xiao Si immediately passed the ball into the interior after blocking and dismantling, and Arroyo almost fell to the ground after breaking the ball, but it was still a little worse than basketball. Xiao Si slapped the horse into the penalty area to receive the basketball, with Bosh on the left and James on the right, but he still rushed up and made a foul.
D'Antoni breathed a sigh of relief on the sidelines, they haven't scored a point so far, and this time they finally have a chance to play, if they are more than 10 points behind in the opening game, then this game will not be good.
"Was the Heat's lead a stroke of luck?" Wu Huang secretly thought in his heart, why did he think that the Heat's tactics were similar to theirs? After playing for three minutes, Wu Huang found that his breakthrough did not have many opportunities to shoot today, and the same was true for others, and the Heat seemed to be playing the same attention as them, which was actually the main defense inside line and the appropriate release of the outside line.
But this choice makes Wu Huang very unintelligible, and he can understand and agree with the mustache's choice, because the Heat's breakthrough is stronger and the outside shooting is not good. But the Knicks are just the opposite, they are very strong on the outside, but the breakthrough is slightly inferior, what is the idea of that Filipino?
Spoelstra's idea is very simple, because the Knicks are not strong on the outside and weak on the inside, their interior offense is just not as good as the outside, Spoelstra found after studying the video of the Knicks' big win that although the Knicks are better at long-range shooting, they use breakthroughs when creating opportunities, and only if they can break through, they can really open the outside line, so the Filipino also plans to do an experiment, he wants to see if their outside projection firepower will be reduced after preventing the Knicks' breakthrough?
This attempt is very effective, the Heat's defense pays attention to the interference of passing, and secondly, the rotation speed is fast, Wade and James can return to the defensive position in time after the help defense, which makes their defense have a lot of mutual cooperation, and will not easily lose position, at most, let the Knicks players get some bad and bad shooting opportunities, at this time it depends on the opponent's feel and their own offense.
Today, the Knicks' hand is obviously not very good, and it can even be said to be very poor, but the Heat's own offense has a feeling, James then not only has a very high grasp of his own offense, but also sent a few wonderful points, so that the Knicks do not dare to easily use a large number of defensive forces to cover him, otherwise it will be even worse for Wade to launch a surge.
"He can do it, there's no reason why I can't?" Wu Huang made 1 of 3 shots in the opening game, and his condition was not so good, but he still had to stand up at this time.
In the 6th minute and 33 seconds, Wu Huang and Xiao Si forcibly shot in front of Wade, who switched defenses, after blocking and dismantling, but the arc was adjusted too much, and they almost shot a three-pointer, and the basketball just bounced outside after dipping the basket.
"Beautiful!" Wu Huang screamed after missing the shot, O'Neal, who had just come on the court, got stuck under the basket, almost stood to grab the rebound, and then opened his broad shoulders to squeeze the defenders on both sides and easily put the ball up.
James is the one who was squeezed away by O'Neal, he has always used his body to squeeze others away, and today he was finally taught the same way, O'Neal's ****** twisted, and he was pushed aside.
O'Neal raised his hand after scoring and gestured to the Miami fans he was familiar with, and many may have forgotten that five years ago he was no less cheered here than Wade, and that he was the Heat's only championship, and that O'Neal was very popular with fans here.
James was a bit of a face-loser, and the Heat's next offense, he once again held the ball into the box.
The Knicks players did not put too many troops to defend James's breakthrough this time, O'Neal blocked outside the reasonable collision area alone, he chose a position in advance, and opened his hand to interfere with James's breakthrough, although the latter ball was not blocked, but the interference was too great and finally popped out of the frame, and Wu Huang wittily grabbed the rebound.
"Haha, the third rebound!" Wu Huang secretly laughed after grabbing the rebound, everyone paid attention to O'Neal VS James in this round, but not many people paid attention to it, Wu Huang grabbed most of the team's defensive rebounds today, because he could always judge the correct landing point of the basketball, and then use his super mobility to rush to the scene of the crime to get the basketball in his hand. (To be continued.) )