The Knicks, the Heat, and the Bulls have made the competitiveness of the Eastern Conference sweep away the embarrassment of the previous decade, although this season has been affected by the shutdown and the season has shrunk, but the Heat is still the strongest team in the Southeast Division, and it is also a strong contender for the Eastern Conference championship, and the Knicks must first bypass the sniping of the Bulls and the Heat if they want to defend the title. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Miami Big Three failed to reach the Finals in their first season, and they were one series away from the O'Brien Cup, which was also considered a losing season.

In recent years, the league has formed a giant lineup, and these teams are also very clear about one thing in addition to building a team, that is, this giant model is a "big gamble on the future with the present", so many giant teams, only one will be successful in the end, and only they can rely on the championship to attract those free stars who are about to start to decline, as well as role players to take a pay cut.

But what about the teams that don't win the title? This season's free market has given some answers to this question, and veterans like Battier did not hesitate to refuse full mid-range offers from the Heat, Bulls, Lakers and other teams, but chose to give only a partial mid-range Knicks. Even J.R. Smith, who makes Miami fans feel like he has picked up a big bargain at the moment, is also considering joining the Knicks first, and the latter did not come to the Heat.

There can only be one championship per season, so only one team can succeed in the unhealthy giant model, and the remaining giant teams that can't win the championship can't attract these best free agents to take a pay cut, then their bloated salary space will slowly drag down the team, and when the giants grow old in a few years, what awaits them will be a long rebuilding period.

The Heat still have a chance, and after a season of running-in and a baptism of baptism in the Eastern Conference Finals, they will surely launch a strong attack on the Knicks again this year. But the center is still the weakest link in the Heat's five positions, and in last year's Eastern Conference Finals, one O'Neal upset the Heat's restricted area, and Joel Anthony, who has almost negligible scoring ability, seems to have become the only center available to the Heat. Newly signed Eddie Curry, the aging Mageloyer, and Pittman, who rarely made an appearance last season, don't seem to be very reliable.

However, the Miami media believes that due to Bosh's successful weight gain in the summer, the team can even string a center when they need him, so in the new season, the Heat center problem will be solved to a certain extent.

The Knicks' coaching staff has done the most research of any team on the Heat, followed by the Bulls. Even if the Chicagoans played better than the Heat in the regular season, in the playoffs, most people still felt that the Heat were more dangerous than the Bulls.

James has had a noticeably calm head this year, honing his long-range shooting and back-to-back skills over the summer, and while he hasn't suddenly become a long-range shooter and a top-tier back-to-back attacker, the Gorillas have at least stabilized their three-point shooting at over 35 percent. And if Emperor Wu wants to defend him in a different position like last year, the result will only make himself suffer.

Wu Huang also watched a lot of game highlights before the Heat, James's back-to-back offense this season, if you really want to talk about the level, it may not be as good as the set he practiced two years ago, but it is true that he will not be so embarrassed to move out as soon as he enters the back-to-back mode.

James' current back play is more like an interior player, mainly relying on the body to arch inward, and there is very little room for choice in the middle, far less than Kobe Bryant, who can turn back and forth at any time, or turn around to shoot to complete the offense, he does not have that kind of foot.

The Gorilla's mid-range back-to-body shooting is still not very efficient at the moment, but as long as he uses his strength and weight to sit near the restricted area line, his turn-around shooting is more reliable at this time, and he will occasionally use the turn here to complete the layup.

The Knicks' scouting team has the most say in this, and they provide a statistic that illustrates how good James' back is really good.

First of all, James currently scores 0.82 points per round on his back, which is not very good, and it is not up to the league average, barely at the level of the middle and lower reaches. Among the guards, Bryant averaged 1.06 points per round for his backshots last season. Howard, who is at the center position, averaged 1.02 points per round last season. However, in terms of the statistics of back-hitting shooting percentage, James's data is not bad, reaching 46.1%. Bryant shot 48.7 percent from the field and Howard 51.5 percent.

Then there is the foul making rate, James' foul making rate is 10.3%, which is a lot lower than Kobe's 14%, but it is also decent among outside players. At present, James's worst is the back error rate, 15.4% of the back play error rate is too high, the data of whether the back play is strong is very important, Aldridge's back play error rate is 4.1%, Nowitzki's back play error rate is 4.9%, Duncan's back play error rate is 6.2%, Gasol 7.4%, Yao Ming 7.6%, Kobe Bryant 8.6%, and then see if James is a bit high?

In the end, the comprehensive conclusion is: James's back play level is in the middle and lower reaches of the outside players, which is not too pitiful, but it is far from good, and it needs at least one season of continuous improvement from the average level.

But the game was bad for the Knicks, they were going to play on the road, and the Heat fans had already shouted the slogan of "revenge", and last season they managed to grab an away game, which was ended by the Knicks in a row of three cities, and most Miami fans believe that is the reason why the role players are not good enough. This year, they have Byron Davis and Jr Smith, who are in good form, plus the improvement of several young players in the team, and the continuous run-in of the Big Three, except for the center forward position is still very tight, the overall strength has improved a lot compared to last season.

"What I want to say is that there are too many teams looking for revenge on us this year, and each one of them has to put some big words before the start of the fight to show their presence." Wu Huang spread his hands, "So we have no interest in dealing with these people now, if you want to take revenge, then you can just come and defeat us, anyway, we haven't lost a game, we still have a chance." Wu Huang's pre-game words made Heat fans and players angry, and his words directly put the status of the Big Three under his knees.

But to say that there is no one in his eyes, Emperor Wu just successfully used the identity of the victor to mock his opponent, of course he has such power, who calls him the winner of the last battle.

But then again, generally positive people will not use this kind of power, they will most likely make a generous appearance in the face of provocation and smile slightly, but Wu Huang will not do this, although he has now reduced the pre-game wild words, but if the opponent runs in front of him first, then don't blame him for using his poisonous tongue.

Heat fans packed the entire American Airlines arena an hour before the game began, and nearly 20,000 Miami fans set the game in a playoff atmosphere that looked like they weren't coming out of last season's Eastern Conference Finals.

Wu Huang joked with his teammates with a smile after the game: "This is the sixth game of the Eastern Conference Finals, and we are currently leading 4:1. ”

Gasol and Batil listened to this joke, but they suddenly felt a lot of pressure in their hearts.

Therefore, smart people are easy to think too much, and they think that there is something in Emperor Wu's words at the moment?

However, Wu Huang's words are just casual words, but Gasol and Battier are a little under pressure, this game can really test the strength of their lineup, neither team will retain much strength in the regular season meeting, and the Knicks must show their best condition.

Generally, except for the Spurs, which are elderly nursing homes, few teams will retain their strength in the regular season against their championship rivals, at most one or two killer moves.

There are many tactical differences between basketball and football, and the biggest difference between the two is that football may only need to score a goal through pre-prepared tactics to basically determine the outcome of the game. But basketball is different, you have to score 100 points per game, you have to ensure the continuity of output, so it is difficult to retain the strength of the NBA game, let alone rely on one or two killer moves to decide the winner.

Besides, you can't find a problem if you don't use these combinations, no team will rashly use a set of tactics that have not been tested in actual combat in the playoffs, and once it is not good to use and is beaten into an attack wave, it may be very straightforward.

Even some tactics you have to face a strong opponent to find out the problem, playing a weak team does not mean that your tactics are very good, so the Knicks and the Heat are ready to borrow each other in this game to test their strength, and now find that the problem is far better than being beaten 2:0 in the playoffs and then adjusted 10,000 times.

Knicks starting lineup today: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Battier, David West, Gasol.

In this lineup, Battier is not strong enough to defend James and not fast enough to defend Wade, so who he will defend is a big question.

In the end, the Knicks' coaching staff thought that although Battier was not fast, he had an excellent prediction, and it was useless to deal with James anyway, and it was still difficult for Iguodala to resist James after gaining weight, so it would be better to use defensive awareness to deal with him. And Iguodala defended Wade better last season has been confirmed, so there is no need to think about how to choose.

Mr. President also volunteered to defend James in the locker room, according to him: "Before coming to the East, I had to defend LeBron twice a year, and I knew that his blind spot was the jumper near the free throw line, and I would force him to go that way, especially after he missed one shot." Then Mr. President vowed to say, "I know if he misses again, then he's going to get frustrated, and he's going to go to the basket, and there's an offensive foul waiting for him, and I have a way to get him off the floor." ”

Wu Huang of course knows that Mr. President's words are somewhat exaggerated, and he has also looked at the team's statistics before, and in the 16 meetings between the two sides, James has never been sent off, and only four have committed more than two fouls. But Battier's defensive strategy did bother James for a long time, especially when he didn't feel good.

The Heat's starting lineup is similar to last season: Money, Wade, James, Bosh, Joel Anthony.

The Heat's change this season is that Bosh is often used as a center, and then James makes a cameo appearance at the No. 4 position, a change that occasionally achieves unexpected surprises. But under normal circumstances, James would probably still attack from the outside.

As soon as Wu Huang came out, he was cordially greeted by the Heat fans, and the Holy Sect Master waved his hand to the fans who abused him calmly, at this moment you can't even find the slightest expression of emotion on his face, he can already completely ignore these negative effects of the away game.

Miami fans were so angry with him that after Wu Huang waved his hand, he actually had the leisure to lean down and fiddle with his broken sneakers.

The UA generation sneakers worn by Wu Huang have become the most popular pair of signature shoes sold in the world after the start of the season, UA brought Wu Huang to win the championship and specially made this third generation of signature shoes with the main color of golden yellow, although the performance is limited compared with the second generation, but the technology it uses is more mature, and it is more durable. But at the same time, it's more expensive, which is important, the shoes of all the stars in the NBA are the most expensive of Wu Huang's current pair, but the market is still in short supply, and this is the role of influence, and those fans who can afford to spend $199 on shoes don't care about spending another $50 more.

And just like Kobe Bryant also has a low-end "Venom" series, UA is also preparing a pair of relatively low-end outfield shoes this season, such as an "undefeated" series, or the "Holy Master" series, etc., in short, with Wu Huang's current fame, don't say two sneakers, even if you make three and then divide them into high, medium and low-end grades, you won't have to worry about not selling.

Wu Huang would like to see his mid-range shoes sell at almost the same price as James' high-end shoes, but sell more than him, and the gorilla's expression will be very good.

After the start of the game, the Knicks focused on Gasol's interior offense today, hoping to use his height advantage to force Bosh or Joel Anthony. One of these two has enough strength but is too short, and the other is passable but not weighs enough.

Even if Gasol has been criticized for being "soft", he at least has the height and weight of a real center and a weight of 250 pounds, and it is okay to bully a lightweight power forward like Bosh, and it is even more advantageous to a pocket center like Joel Anthony.

In fact, the way the Lakers opened Gasol didn't seem quite right after 2010, and they magnified Gasol's shortcomings - the back was not solid enough. And in layman's terms, you just can't get your ass into it. Gasol weighs only 240 to 250 pounds, and he doesn't have the exaggerated muscles and ****** of the black and hard guys, so he can't play like that.

D'Antoni is also not very good at using Gasol, strictly speaking, he is not even very good at using Davidssy, it is a very big mistake to fix these two people in a certain range, especially Gasol's footwork is not fully utilized, the Spaniard must keep moving to play his flexibility and height advantage, rather than letting him move in a certain range as a standing post inside, which will also imprison his spirituality at the same time.

But Gasol already feels a little more comfortable now than he did with the Lakers, because since last season, he has not only had to move Bryant's breakaway, but he also had to give Bynum a position. Basically, where these two are attacking with the ball, he has to hide to the side to respond, and then look for an opportunity to pick up the pass and shoot.

But the problem is that when the basketball comes to these two people, almost all of them are meat buns rolling with a rhythm of no return, and the boss will occasionally pass him a few balls, but Bynum will hardly pass the ball to him, this style of play and the role of the team make him very disliked.

Today, the Knicks are ready to use Gasol to break the enemy, so naturally they have to expand his range of activities. What makes Gasol feel more comfortable with the Knicks than the Lakers is that David West will be very cooperative with him at this time, often taking the initiative to pull to the weak side and give up his position to Gasol, this kind of generosity and collective consciousness is obviously countless times stronger than Bynum.

But Gasol forgot that it was he who was always silently cooperating with other teammates, and these teammates who knew how to respect each other would reciprocate with him.

Joel Anthony lost after the opening in Gasol's low post and the attack of the free throw line, the real height of the Canadian interior line may only be 200cm and the real height of 213cm Spaniard is too far apart in height, even if his strength can withstand Gasol's back attack, but as long as the Knicks find a way to let Gasol receive the ball close to the basket, he can only raise his hands and watch the opponent complete the offense, in this case he is powerless to block the basket.

The Knicks used Gasol as a shaft, constantly allowing him to attack with the ball near the restricted area, aiming at the weakness of the Heat's center position.

The huge shortcomings of the Heat's interior line were frantically targeted by the Knicks as soon as they came up, and the opening score of 9:2 made Spoelstra have to ask for a timeout, and if they can't quickly find a solution to the problem, the Knicks only use this trick to clean them up.

Joel Anthony actually defended well, and the Heat put him as a starter because they thought he was the best defensive player on the team's interior, and it wouldn't be better to replace it with Haslem, who was not as strong as him, because the Canadian's footwork was not bad.

"Then Bosh will defend it!" Spoelstra could only think of this in his heart, there are only a few people in the Heat's interior line, Joel Anthony and Haslem have similar functions, and if the two of them don't work, then only Bosh can be used.

Not only are the Heat having trouble defensively, they also have to fix their offensive problems as soon as possible. Bad defense doesn't mean that offense can't score, but in the first three minutes of the opening game, James and Wade kept passing, these two guys obviously want to see the details of the Knicks first, and then they want the other party to go to the hard touch to see the situation first.

James has thoroughly acquired the core role of the team this year, Wade's declining physical condition has made him less offensive threat than last season, and the Flash is not as good as Kobe Bryant now, even if he is a few years younger than the boss, but his knees are not young at all.

After the pause, James began to attack with the ball, mainly based on breakthroughs, he did not dare to rashly use his half-baked back offense to attack the Knicks, Gasol's help defense is still very deterrent, and the criticism of fans does not mean that the players are not aware of the threat of the Spaniards on the inside.

But it was not easy to break through Battier's defense, and Mr. President's anticipatory positioning was very accurate, and he was always one step ahead of James. If you want to bypass him, of course, it's not impossible, but a little delay is enough for the Knicks' interior to come to help the defense, and then he will face two or three people to defend, which is similar to the rhythm of playing the Spurs.

In the face of Battier's defense, James has only one way to attack easily, and that is long-range shooting.

Mr. President can't do this either, and the Knicks' defensive strategy is meant to test his shooting crosshairs.

James didn't go inside to challenge the Knicks' collective defense, and he didn't have to try him to know it wouldn't work too well. At his level, if he still doesn't know what kind of attack has a success rate, then it will really be eight years in vain.

The Knicks players have adopted a certain level of laissez-faire strategy with James' outside shooting, and being able to force him to shoot from the outside is a successful defense, and they don't believe the gorilla can kill them with his shot.

Wu Huang's desire to attack in the first quarter was not strong, and his breakthrough with the ball was more to create opportunities for Gasol to receive the ball in the restricted area, and the Heat began to increase the outside defense after a timeout, and he felt that it was easy for Gasol to attack on the inside and be blocked by the Heat's outside players.

"Don't help me, let them help me." Gasol let Wu Huang stay honest outside in the middle of the first quarter, he was not afraid of the opponent's defense to contain him, don't forget that during the Lakers' championship period, his best thing is to respond on the inside.

Wu Huang soon knew that he was stupid, he really didn't have to work so hard, Gasol is different from Xiao Si, the Spaniard can pass the ball to his teammates who are in the open position on the outside, which is too different from Xiao Si who no longer passes the ball after receiving it.

At 5 minutes and 12 seconds in the first quarter, Wu Huang made a wide range of intersperses along the baseline, and on the way, he used David West's off-ball cover to get rid of the follow-up defender and fall outside the three-point line on the wing, just in time to see Gasol pass the ball in the bag.

This kind of unguarded open shooting was simply too easy for Wu Huang, and the Heat fans watched with desperate eyes as the basketball shot out of Wu Huang's hands, and then drew an arc that was sure to go in and fell into the basket.

Wu Huang's shooting arc always gives people a feeling of "this ball will go in", which also has a very big blow to the psychology of the enemy players, and it is easy to collapse the opponent's psychology when throwing.

After Gasol assisted Wu Huang to hit a three-point shot, his personal data has grown to 6 points and 2 assists, and the statistics are not particularly exaggerated, that is because Wu Huang always likes to pass the ball again after receiving the ball. His vision is also very good, and he can always see better shooting opportunities on the weak side, so his stats are your Gasol's brighter 6 points and 3 assists, and this kind of ability to sit back and enjoy it is no one, Gasol has contributed at least two indirect assists for him.

Wu Huang's three-pointer turned the score into 19:10, and the Knicks had the absolute upper hand in the first quarter, and the Heat couldn't think of a way to attack their interior, and they were almost pressed to play the rhythm.

Miami fans have long been unable to shout, and they are watching the game with a worried face, for fear that the Knicks will throw in another three-pointer next time they attack, which is a double-digit difference, and if the first quarter is just this point difference, it is no different from hanging.

"What are we fighting?" James was a little emotional after the timeout, he felt that compared to the Knicks' clear offensive style of attack, his side did not have a clear tactical goal at all, is it a tactic to rely on his own breakthrough shot?

Spoelstra does have part of the responsibility for this, the Heat still fixed James in a position, which actually limits James's comprehensiveness, there are already many fans who feel that the current James is sitting and playing, and James during the Cavaliers period is flying, how pleasing to watch James play at that time, how passionate it is!

Of course, this is not to let James continue to hold the ball in the midcourt and use double cover to kill the basket to complete the tomahawk dunk, but to hope that he can have more room to move, just like Gasol at the moment, these fans want James to move.

Besides, if you're going to play around a certain player, give them plenty of room to play.

In fact, when the Heat's coaching staff discussed it privately, they also felt that the Heat's tactics were too backward and limited James' play, and they needed a newer tactic and a tactic that was more suitable for James.

But in the first half, there was no opportunity for the Heat to adjust, the Knicks used Gasol's offense to constantly find scoring opportunities, and Wu Huang also enjoyed the way of playing without too much ball breakthrough to have a large number of open shots, this style of play He is indeed much easier, and the feeling of lying down to win is coming again.

At the end of the first half, the Knicks led the Heat by as many as 17 points at 62:45. This score is already a one-sided slaughter in the eyes of most fans, and the Heat always gave people a lifeless feeling in the first half, and at most we could see a few giants using their individual abilities to score a few goals in a small area, but this is not the way to kill people.

At halftime, Spoelstra faced the situation of being beaten by the Knicks, and finally came up with a set of ideas for the Heat coaching staff to steal football. And this is a set of immature play, but at the moment, it can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Speaking of this style of play, once it is used, if you don't win, it is really easy to be ridiculed.

Since losing to the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals last year, the Heat have known they had to establish James as a true core and tap into more value from the most physical basketball player on the planet, or they wouldn't have beaten the Knicks, whose entire team was built around Wu Huang.

James has long been thought to be playing football on the basketball court, a statement that inspired the Heat coaching staff. They thought that if that was the case, why not steal the style of football and improve a basketball system that suits James? For example, they can use James as the core "quarterback" of football? (To be continued.) )