The Knicks' bench depth has been a much-talked about part of the season this season, and in this crucial encounter, Tony Allen, who had almost worn the bench before, became D'Antoni's best player. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoBefore this game, poor Tony Allen could only play as a substitute for Iguodala in a limited time, and the physical strength of the first brother was the best in the Knicks team except for Wu Huang, so it is conceivable how many opportunities Tony Allen can get in this. And it's just such a little playing time, and in the end it will be squeezed out by Gallinari, if it weren't for the Knicks who basically killed the opponent in the first two rounds in the third quarter, Tony Allen probably wouldn't even be able to average 14 minutes per game.

After the start of the Eastern Conference Finals, Tony Allen appeared in garbage time in the first two meetings, and after only 20 minutes combined, he was already suffocated.

In this game, after being sent out by D'Antoni in the first half, Tony Allen's performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends made people see his outstanding performance in the previous two seasons, contributing 6 points in 3 shots in the first half, two of which were to receive a wonderful pass from an inside teammate, and one of the shots was to receive a pass from Wu Huang to press the whistle jumper, but this goal was also magically thrown, and Wu Huang added an assist in vain. In addition to attacking, the pass he gave to Gasol was enough to show that he and his teammates still have a good understanding. After entering the second half, Toni Allen was still heavily used by D'Antoni, and the mustache even did not hesitate to reduce Iguodala's playing time and move the latter to the third position, which also indirectly reduced Battier's playing time.

Tony Allen's impression in the outside media, including the impression of many Knicks fans, is just a cost-effective defensive player, but to what extent his defense, except for the Knicks who have a clearer understanding, others are limited to his playing time, in fact, they don't know enough.

In fact, this excellent guard who has the ability of the best defensive lineup, but was buried by the Knicks, has surpassed most people's imagination on the defensive end.

As soon as he came out of the second half, Tony Allen used two consecutive cuts to the basket to score easily, and even used the time difference to play a 2+1 contribution.

Today's Tony Allen is not ambiguous on the offensive end, of course, he has not forgotten his old job, so when he was substituted in the third quarter, he faced Wade and had a wonderful anti-judgment steal, which caused a sigh in the American Airlines Center, Wade's state today is too bad!

Wade in the third quarter can be said to be completely lost, only two points in a single quarter, unable to find a way to score at all, and feeling terrible.

Tony Allen couldn't prevent the Flashes who didn't decline much last season, but this season's Tony Allen is still on his own, but Wade's body has begun to decline, in this contrast, Tony Allen, whose defensive ability is underestimated by everyone, finally broke out, and Wade couldn't find a scoring opportunity at all under the death entanglement of his physical strength.

The Knicks really don't lack defense right now, and in addition to Tony Allen, veteran Battier also played an important role in this game, and he was almost the most efficient player in the first quarter, and those two three-pointers are still fresh in people's minds. Although not very conspicuous on the defensive end, James still broke out for a while under his defense, but overall, Batman didn't let James play a sustained outburst.

This can also see how terrifying the bench depth of this Knicks is now, and excellent role players like Danny Green, who even the Spurs want to trade and are good enough to play on the big scene, don't get a chance to play in this Knicks team at all. But looking at the old, weak, sick and disabled in the Heat team, I believe fans should be able to fully understand how the 0:2 score came about.

In the first half, although Wu Huang only scored 5 points, he handed out 7 assists, especially the three assists that helped the team withstand the Heat's counterattack. For the first time, after Wu Huang broke through, he used a hook shot to reverse Gasol's easy layup and score; The second time, Wu Huang reflexively passed to Tony Allen behind him after the attack time was almost up, and hit a whistle ball; For the third time, Wu Huang broke through with the ball horizontally, and suddenly jumped up and passed to Gallinari on the weak side to hit a three-point shot.

It was with Wu Huang's three wonderful assists that the Knicks led the Heat by six points at 65:59 at halftime.

Today's Heat has Bosh, the Knicks are really not easy to play, and it becomes very difficult to open up the point difference in one breath, they must always concentrate to prevent themselves from encountering a scoring drought, or being hit by the Heat for a wave of attacks, and the pressure on both offensive and defensive ends is still relatively large. But it also forced Wu Huang to all his energy in the organization, and his seven assists in the first half were all wonderful, and the old Lakers fans seemed to see the tall but extremely magical magician.

After halftime, Wu Huang was still surrounded by a bunch of black guys in the middle in the third quarter, and the Heat were hurt by Wu Huang's pass in the first half, and obviously made some adjustments at halftime. In the second half, they no longer used two people to wrap him all the time, but the encirclement has always existed, whether he is breaking through to the basket or dribbling and looking for opportunities, there will be someone around him who can encircle him at any time, and the Heat's defense of him has become a circle but not a trap.

But Wu Huang in this section can be called artistic in command and offense, when Iguodala was in hot form in the third quarter, Wu Huang simply handed over the ball to a brother to handle freely during this time, and the latter assisted Gasol to stage an aerial relay, and at the same time successfully scored three points himself. And when James began to defend Iguodala closely, Wu Huang developed the team's third, fourth, and even fifth scoring points, and Tony Allen scored another six points in the third quarter, four of which were direct assists from Wu Huang.

David West and Gasol began to return the ball to Wu Huang in the second half, in addition to assisting teammates, Wu Huang also strengthened his personal offense in this quarter, although the Heat's defense is not easy to deal with, but after sending seconds to teammates in a row, the Heat no matter how against Wu Huang has to take care of his passing route, which gives him some scoring opportunities.

In this quarter, Wu Huang used true and false passes and shooting feints, stunned to score 6 points surrounded by the Heat, each ball is a chance to catch the time difference in the cracks, often as long as the Heat players lose their minds, Wu Huang will make a decisive shot, this quarter he shot 3 of 5, scored 6 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, led the Knicks to extend the lead to 9 points, and entered the fourth quarter with 96:87.

In the fourth quarter of the game, although the Heat approached the difference to within 5 points with a wave of 12:4 small climax in the early stage, Wu Huang took turns to switch between the two modes of assist and scoring at will, and he scored 8 of the team's 24 points in the final quarter, and also contributed 5 assists, which also made the Heat's final counterattack completely bankrupt.

There are also some bright spots on the Heat side, such as Bosh every month.

With the last 3 minutes and 10 seconds left in the game, Bosh held the ball with his back to face Davidsey's defense, who took a step forward and tried to break the ball, but Bosh turned around and flew like a dragon out of the sea to complete the two-handed dunk.

Bosh roared to the sky after completing the dunk, and by this time he had already scored 32 points on the Knicks' defense, supporting the Heat's interior offense. After scoring this goal, Bosh's outburst continued, and then he made a foul free throw on a jumper from the baseline, and when David West was about to make a layup on the defense, Bosh covered Davidsey's ball with a big hat, and today he remained aggressive on both ends of the floor.

But the problem is that the score difference between the two teams has been deadlocked around 10 points, and although the Heat played a small climax, the Knicks immediately returned through Wu Huang's outburst.

After D'Antoni switched back to the full starting lineup, Battier hit his third three-pointer of the game, the veteran's wonderful play from head to end set off the Heat's sixth man J.R. Smith extremely embarrassing, this guy continued to be very unreliable throughout the playoffs, N shooting one shot was really commonplace for him, and his less than 25% three-point shooting rate in this playoffs hurt the Heat and the Big Three.

But what made it most difficult for the Heat to overtake the score was the Knicks' surprising defensive ability, which ultimately limited the Heat's scoring to 22 points in the fourth quarter, which was definitely a perfect performance for D'Antoni's team and deserved praise from Knicks fans.

Wade was the biggest victim of the Knicks' excellent defense, he was put to only two points by Tony Allen in the second quarter, and he didn't perform too well under Iguodala's defense in the fourth quarter, and only four points in the final quarter were far from helping the team complete the comeback, and the Heat needed him to make a bigger contribution.

But this year's Wade said that he is no longer able to do it, and Iguodala, who was a little unable to keep up with him last year, has been able to keep up with him this year. Of course, it's not that the other party has become faster, Iguodala has reached the peak, and now he can only maintain and cannot improve anymore, so the real problem is that he himself has slowed down. In this kind of level of competition, "slower and slower" is not as simple as it seems, and this "one point" is enough to determine whether he can successfully break through Iguodala or be blocked by the latter.

The Knicks' defensive targets today are James and Wade, but they are actually mainly aimed at Wade.

The Knicks feel that it will be relatively simple to limit Wade to score less than usual, James's physical fitness has not declined, so it is too difficult to limit him, Battier can only make James unable to break out under full defense, but it is still not difficult for this guy to get 30+6+6 data, but it is much easier to make Wade unable to get 25+5+5.

In the whole game, Gasol's 29 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists made D'Antoni full of praise, David West's 14 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists also made people admire his comprehensiveness, and Iguodala's performance of 18 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists also played the style of the Knicks' hidden star. But in fact, the player that the Heat fear the most is still Wu Huang, who they want to target. Throughout the game, Wu Huang was the focus of the Heat, but the Holy Sect Master changed the bad feeling of the previous game, and he completely destroyed the Heat's defense in the second half. And the Knicks' unlimited allocation of resources to Wu Huang throughout the game also maximized his role in the team.

Gasol and David West, as well as Iguodala, were all played at some point today. But in reality, they were all just smoke covering Emperor Wu. From beginning to end, there is only one real core of the Knicks, and that is Wu Huang. Today's Wu Huang was able to switch between different game modes at will during the game, which also reflects the fact that he can do whatever he wants in the team.

Wu Huang really wants to play in the Knicks, and his teammates have to cooperate with him to execute the absolute core, even if he wants to make trouble, his teammates have to accompany him. It can be said that as long as it is within the strategic scope of the team, Wu Huang has all the freedom to decide. He can freely decide any style of play and personnel according to his judgment of the situation, and he can completely dislike a teammate who does not play well for a certain period of time, so he can wave his hand and let him go down and rest first, which is a power that few team cores can enjoy.

At the beginning of the game, the Heat's defense against Wu Huang was not just a normal one-on-one defense, and they unlocked the highest difficulty to continue targeting him from the beginning, but Wu Huang's height advantage in front of Chalmers and Kerr was unmistakable, and he was able to easily observe the position of his teammates, dispatch and pass after receiving the ball, and he already had the style of a magician.

Today, Wu Huang also strengthened the lateral cut, which made it more difficult for the Heat to defend his ball, and his turnaround pass left the Heat's two point guards, including Zhan Wei, who has been assisting on both sides, feel at a loss. This is Wu Huang's deliberate response policy, and after moving laterally, there is a "Z" shaped breakthrough, although it is not direct enough in terms of lethality, but it can make the Heat's defense leak a bigger flaw, and it will be more difficult to defend his ball.

The Heat did feel very tricky in the face of Wu Huang's large number of lateral movements, and the help defense of the two James and Fight became more uncomfortable than the first two games, which is why Iguodala and Battier could get more opportunities, Wu Huang's movement made it easier for the Janway and the two to help the defense of the Knicks leak the opportunity to shoot in the open position, and Wu Huang made the Heat pay a greater price for himself than in the first two games, which is the response that Wu Huang found for himself to be targeted.

However, after suffering in the first quarter, the Heat also became more flexible in their defense against Wu Huang, and most of the time they used the method of surrounding but not clipping, which also showed the Heat's control on the defensive end. However, at the beginning of the second half, Wu Huang once again used his personal ability and physical advantages to deceive the opponent with feints under a relatively loose defense, and quickly completed the shooting action to score, as long as the Heat loosened his defense a little, he could get enough space to play. The space the Heat gave him was something that nine out of nine guards in the league couldn't use, but it was enough for Wu Huang, who only needed a split second of defensive space to complete the shot and score.

In the fourth quarter after that, Wu Huang played well in the high area, and even the interior of Bosh and the Heat began to frequently help outside players to help defend, but this still could not stop Wu Huang's passing threat, and during this period, there was even a scene where Haslem had to hug Wu Huang, for which he also suffered a malicious foul.

Entering the critical moment of the game, Wu Huang has a new way to deal with the Heat's defense, he no longer blindly threatens the opponent with the ball, but tries to cut inside without the ball many times, and then quickly makes the choice of attacking or passing the ball again after receiving the pass from his teammates. And this time he set himself very little reaction time, he asked himself to make a split-second choice on the run after receiving the ball, whether to throw or pass must be made in a split second.

This change made the Heat feel the pressure again, their defense really couldn't keep up with Wu Huang's strain speed, they couldn't do the same fast reaction as Wu Huang, the Holy Sect Master perfectly used his reaction advantage to force the opponent to fight with his talent, but you must know that the defense is passive, how can anyone keep up with his reaction speed in this situation?

Wu Huang scored 4 points and 2 assists in a row in the critical time of the fourth quarter, and one shot was even completed with Iguodala without looking at the pass + empty dunk score, his threat has always kept the Heat on his back, even if there are many timeouts and substitutions, there is nothing he can do. By the end of the last two minutes, he had already stretched the deficit to 15 points with his brilliant performance, and this absolute dominance of the court made James helpless, and he didn't have so many helpers to make the most of his rollers.

There was still the last minute before the end of the game, Miami's home court had begun to cool down, and fans began to leave the court early, although LeBron James gave Wu Huang a big hat in the final stage of the game, and then played a 2+1, but the Knicks have basically locked up the victory at the moment, and this little damage is no longer justified.

Barkley described the Heat team at the critical moment of the dying comeback, the Holy Sect leader was like a basin of cold water to extinguish the Heat's previous hopes and dreams, as if warning the opponent "Although this is your territory, it is not a place for you to go wild, because where there is me, no one can go wild."

Wu Huang has been accustomed to taking over the game at critical moments in these two games, and the Heat can hardly find a way to crack Wu Huang, in fact, they have been able to bite the score, but the Knicks are like the final sprint of a long-distance running game, and suddenly left the Heat behind. If you look at the performance of the two teams in the final quarter, you should know where the gap is. The Big Three were unable to save the team, and they couldn't even give the fans any confidence to see the win, which is the saddest part. The Big Three didn't get control of the court, which had always been in the hands of the Knicks, and they controlled the game by a lot more than the Heat, which was a classic victory for skill over physicality.

Of course, although the Knicks players are known for their skills, their health is not bad. In D'Antoni's eyes, the Knicks are now a master of the Sword Sect with peerless internal force, while the Heat is a group of Air Sect masters who have peerless internal strength, but do not pay attention to moves.

Knicks players are obviously better at holding the ball in the game, they are more capable of making technical moves, and they are more daring to play more than three combinations. On the other hand, the Heat players played a lot more monotonously, basically not much different from the previous round of playing the Bulls, except for the "giant singles", which is a small cooperation between giants, and then continue to play singles......

But it's worth mentioning that in this game, Bosh hit 13 shots from 22 shots in the game, and finally scored 34 points, and also grabbed 17 rebounds. Compared to the previous two rounds, he played very well in this game, not to mention the first game back from injury. It's a pity that such a big double-double didn't bring the Heat a win in the game, because the Knicks had a total of six double-doubles in the end, which is much stronger than the Heat's J.R. Smith, who only took 13 shots to score 11 points, except for the Big Three.

Heat head coach Spoelstra "supported" Bosh before and after the game, and praised him as an "indispensable player", but unfortunately this indispensable player failed to help the Heat achieve a victory in the end, and now the Miami people have completely lost the possibility of qualifying, and the struggle in front of them is no longer how to turn defeat into victory, but how not to be swept out.

"Now, I don't think they still have a chance, I think the next game is going to end the whole series." After the game, Wu Huang took his oversized triple-double of 19 points, 12 rebounds, 17 assists and 3 steals, and pronounced the death sentence against the Heat with a serious face. Under this data, the Miami media couldn't protest at all, especially under the premise that Bosh had broken out, their last card had been played, but the Knicks still had a pair of "king bombs" in their hands, which made them only stare at Wu Huang who was a winner on the stage with unwilling eyes after the game.

In fact, it was not only Wu Huang who said this, but after the game, the major media unanimously announced the death penalty to the Heat, but it was just a little surprising in this process.

Before the start of the series, it was not difficult to predict the Knicks' victory, but this kind of crushing made many fans start to stop embarrassing the Heat and the Big Three, because everyone finally found out that the team that set off the NBA huddle trend is actually nothing remarkable. Even ordinary fans can see that compared to the Heat's crampedness on offense, the Knicks' basketball is becoming more dazzling and confident the more they play.

At this time, look at the Knicks' lineup, their two interior lines, as well as two outside lines, can hold the ball and push the offense, only Battier in the starting five has no ability to hold the ball, such a lineup can be said to be unique, even the Celtics with five stars in history, they do not have the omnipotence that the Knicks have today.

The biggest feature of this group of players in New York is that they are all-rounded, if Battier is replaced by Gallinari, it is a starting five that can carry the ball and attack, which is indeed terrifying, once the players' tacit understanding is high enough, the choice of passing and defensive center of gravity alone can make the opponent drink a pot.

What's even more embarrassing for Miami is that they have a natural flaw in interior height and bench depth, and Wade has begun to decline, which further magnifies their disadvantage. As for defense? Look at Jawe's increasingly difficult shots, look at the Heat's piecemeal scoring during rotation time, and the Knicks' players' defensive awareness in their bones allows them to make up for the shortcomings of the coach and the system.

Basically, it's hard to see players like Battier, Andre Iguodala and Tony Allen overlook the importance of defending on the pitch, and these guys are going to defend spontaneously on the pitch and help them out on the pitch, regardless of how bad the coach is defending and the team's defensive system. These things don't have to be dictated by the coach at all, and that's why they've been where they are today. These Knicks players love to win, they all know how to win, and they are more capable of winning, just like the Spurs and Green Army in previous years, such a team is always the most terrifying.

After watching the third game, Jordan unceremoniously commented: "The Heat's talent is far inferior to that of the Knicks, and basketball is not only about the body." Then the helper added that Bi Lian was very distracted, "In addition, I can't get an average of 50 points per game in this era, but it's okay to get 40 points." ”

The situation in the east has developed so far, and there is not much suspense about who will advance in the end, but the two teams in the west are playing hotly, and the Thunder did not have the same tragic first game as the Heat in the third game, and they finally got a valuable victory.

The game was actually played a day earlier than the Knicks and Heat, and the Thunder, who returned to their home court, were clearly well prepared for this game, they didn't want to tie their hands on their home court, and the Thunder bench led by Harden also made its most powerful response. Among them, Harden scored 15 points in the whole game, while the Spurs' Ginobili was completely dumb, and did not score 1 point in the second half, Stephen Jackson scored 16 points, and the Spurs bench also scored 49 points, but it did not help the result of the game, and finally the Thunder also defeated the Spurs 102-82 at home, and also rewrote the total score of the Western Conference Finals to 1:2, retaining the suspense of their own promotion.

The only good news for the Spurs in this game is that Duncan, the core of the team, surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar today and became the NBA's all-time playoff blocker.

Judging from the analysis of the data of the two teams in this game, mistakes are the main reason for the Spurs' loss, and the Thunder's 14 steals also taught the Spurs a good lesson, and at the same time made the Knicks secretly vigilant, originally they thought that the Spurs' 2:0 lead should be stable, but the Thunder team who returned to their home court seemed to have changed teams, and now they still have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

The Spurs shot 30 of 76 in this game, with a shooting rate of less than 40%, while the Thunder shot 40 of 88 in this game, far exceeding the Spurs in the number of shots and hits, and the shooting rate also reached 45.5%. What really dragged down the Thunder was the three-point shot, although the game was won, the Thunder's three-point shooting rate was only 27.3%, Durant shot 0 of 4, Sefolosha missed 6 three-pointers, Wei Shao's 2 shots were also lost, and the Spurs shot 11 of 26 three-pointers in this game, still showing their outside shooting strength.

The Thunder's three-point shooting in this series was very well targeted by the Spurs, shooting only 28% from three-point range in three games, which is only slightly better than the Heat, who have dropped to 26% three-point shooting. But the Thunder, which is one of the main offensive tools with a three-point split in the regular season, should be far more than that, and this undoubtedly gives the Knicks a lot of inspiration.

However, although they lost, after three games, the Spurs' pertinence is still in place, and their main defense is the Thunder's fast break and three-point shot, as long as they choke these two key points, it is equivalent to choking the throat of the Thunder.

The Thunder are still mainly a team that uses defensive counterattacks, fast-break raids and three-point shooting to score as a team, although their breakthrough is also good, but as long as they are limited to positional offense, these young guys will not be able to play their breakthrough ability, so the Knicks can learn the Spurs' defensive methods, anyway, Popovich must have found more and more effective than D'Antoni found.

But it's a pity that the Spurs don't have the advantage in rebounding compared to the Thunder, they only have 40 rebounds compared to the Thunder's 46 rebounds. In terms of assists, the Spurs also trailed the Thunder 18-23. The most terrible thing is the mistakes, the Spurs made a whopping 21 mistakes in this game, from the five mistakes at the beginning to the end of the game, the Spurs couldn't find a rhythm throughout the game, and the mistakes were frequent. Duncan opened the game with two turnovers, Parker, Ginobili and Jackson all had five and four turnovers, four turnovers, two by junior Split, and a number of other players had turnovers. In terms of turnovers, the Thunder only had seven, and the Spurs had 14 more than the Thunder.

At the same time, in terms of other statistics, the steals Thunder also have the advantage, with 14 steals in the game, Seflosha 6 steals, Wei Shao 4 steals, while the Spurs only have 2 steals, and the blocks rely on Duncan's 5 blocks, and the Spurs contributed 7 blocks in the game, but they are still behind the Thunder's 9 times.

Overall, the Spurs are not comfortable with the Thunder's impactful and aggressive defense today, and the Spurs players have fallen far behind when it comes to important physical gifts. It was a game of punches to kill the old master, and the Thunder also found a way to use their physical gifts defensively, which is a very bad sign for the Spurs, because it means that their experience advantage has been used up, and the next thing is a real hard power matchup. (To be continued.) )