Chapter 154 - The Preseason Season Ends
How did they know that this is all the Heat's current "tactic", raising Blunt.
You must know that this uncle has a big contract of 8.51 million, if you don't raise this uncle, who wants to take over?
So after the first two run-ins, Li Yao also saw and groped out the habits of this uncle, so it will make people feel that the Heat has been playing the inside line today, although Blount's strength has regressed obviously so far, but under the deliberate feeding of Wade and Li Yao, there were 12 points before the end of the first half, so that Coach Spo couldn't help but nod his head, you must know that in the first two preseason games, although they Heat showed strength beyond his imagination to win the game, But this big man with an annual salary of 8.51 million is a headache for him, and now he can calculate it, if he can continue to play like this, I believe that Blunt can also have a certain attraction to the team with a weak interior line.
At halftime, Li Yao and Wade couldn't help but glance at the technical statistics table when they got off the court, and when the two saw Blunt's 12 points, they couldn't help but smile at each other, and the first step of the task was completed.
Shortly after the start of the second half, because the score gap between the two sides was not large, and the Heat's interior line was too weak, Coach Spo waved his hand. Gasol came on to replace the Harbin team as a power forward, and Blunt continued to stay on the court, and they wanted to feed Blunt as much fat as possible.
The only people in the Heat who know about this are Coach Spo, Wade and Li Yao, and even Blunt doesn't know about it, so at this time, Blunt thought that he had conquered the head coach with his excellent performance today, so he played more actively after the start of the second half, and Li Yao was very happy about this, Blunt's initiative actually made the Heat's offense play more fluent, and there was no need for Li Yao and Wade to repeatedly force breakthroughs to find cooperation, and gradually pulled away the score that was not much ahead of the Nets.
In the end, the Heat defeated the Nets 92-82 again, making it three straight wins in the opening game of the preseason.
And Blount, who has been criticized in the first two games, actually cut down 22 points and 8 rebounds in this game under the deliberate actions of Li Yao and Wade, and even staged a violent dunk, which is really surprising.
As for the first two games of the Heat, which were rated as a new generation of backcourt double guns, the Heat backcourt duo only scored a total of 25 points in the whole game, Wade's 15 points and Li Yao's 10 points, which is like a change of person compared to the first two games that can shoot down 50+ backcourt double guns, but there is one data that has created the best result since the start of the Heat double guns, that is, assists, Li Yao's 12 assists and Wade's 8 assists have reached an unprecedented height, And Li Yao also got the first double-double of his NBA career in this game.
During the post-game interview, although Blunt watched a game-high score of 22 points and 8 rebounds, the goal of all reporters was still around Li Yao and Wade, wanting to interview them why they played like this today.
"We just did what we were supposed to do, basketball is a five-man sport, and although the first two games were pretty good for Lee and me, it wasn't easy for us to win, but today you saw that when we activated our teammates, we improved a lot." Wade's serious answer to the question almost didn't make Li Yao laugh, the first two games seemed to be the most difficult except for the first game when facing the Pistons, only this one was the most difficult.
But Li Yao had to hold back, why? Because after Wade finished answering, the microphone immediately turned to him.
"Ahem, that, I just did what a point guard should do, please forgive me for the first two offensive ** is a bit exuberant, after all, as a rookie, I always want to show myself, plus I didn't participate in the summer game, the first two games will often ignore my teammates, this is not what a qualified point guard should do, so after Coach Spo pointed it out, I decisively made a change." When the microphone was handed to him, Li Yao, who was still snickering at Wade, instantly became very serious, and began to explain his mistakes in righteous words.
You must know that these people who interviewed Li Yao have many old acquaintances of Li Yao, and everyone is not blind, you said that you need team cooperation to play like this, okay, we believe it, but why do you keep looking for Blount to feed the cake?
When the reporter handed the microphone to Blunt, who was the most eye-catching performer today, Blunt's words made Wade frown, and even more so to the reporters.
"Actually, this is my normal performance, I won't say much about the first two games, I feel that I can play better, of course, if the team gives me enough trust and support." Blount said arrogantly in the face of the reporter's question.
Li Yao was about to laugh when he heard Blunt's words, is this big brother's IQ funny? Blunt's words even reminded Lee of former Cavaliers star Ricky. Davis's original sentence: "I thought the team drafted James to give me a boost." ”
You must know that when Li Yao first contacted his teammates, there were several old players who relied on their seniority and wanted Li Yao to help them carry bags and shoes, but who was Li Yao? Wade's good friend and royal brother, the relationship between heaven and earth, Wade stood up directly as soon as he saw this posture, and told everyone that Li Yao was covered by him, don't think that you can bully him if you are old.
I didn't expect their pie feeding plan to have an accident today? Blount actually used an allusion to say that Li Yao had robbed him of the opportunity to play, which made Li Yao a little crying and laughing, what level do you have in your heart? actually blamed him Li Yao?
In the face of Blount's move, Li Yao is actually very helpless, damn, I don't mind if you hurt me, after all, it will be the one who is traded away, but as long as the person who is not blind can see that this game is Li Yao and Wade specially feeding him cakes, he is saying this now, what if some of the uniform groups who originally planned to find him to give a hand to the rookie are scared?
Wade frowned because of this, he was not worried that Li Yao would be angry because of Blount's words, because they not only lived close to each other but also walked around each other all the time, plus the two of them also lived in the same room when they went to the away game under Wade's signal, and they discussed the team's lineup together more than once, and the matter of feeding the ball was also the result of Wade discussing with Coach Spo.
So when Blunt said this, Wade was as worried as Li Yao about whether Blunt would be wanted.
But the matter has come to this point, Li Yao and Wade are also helpless, who makes Blunt not cooperate?
When Coach Spo learned the news from Wade, he was furious and hurriedly found his teacher Pat. Riley discusses countermeasures.
From this point you can see why people Pat. Riley is called the old fox, and he directly said to Coach Spo that as long as the data is brushed out, he will not worry about not being able to sell. To know that at that time Ricky. Didn't Davis sell it too, with his god operator, there would be no player who couldn't be sold.
After receiving the affirmation from his mentor, Coach Spo was relieved, since the old fox had already spoken, what else did he have to worry about? Will Pat. Riley's words were relayed to Wade, and he left.
When Wade called Li Yao for the reply he got from Coach Spo, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, the old fox deserves to be the old fox, in this case, it's not to brush the data, they let Blunt brush up on it.
So in the next game, Li Yao and Wade did not exert their strength again, but began to take the initiative to look for opportunities for teammates, in order to help the opponent brush up the data, but now they will not be so obvious, they will not only feed Bronte, even other players who are not in the team's rebuilding will enjoy unprecedented feeding treatment.
But it's not like there's no smart guy on the Heat, and that smart guy is Sean. Marion, from the beginning of the away game against the Nets, he found that something was wrong, Li Yao and Wade, the backcourt duo, actually gave up their powerful firepower and began to turn to tandem teammates, in fact, this is not strange, but feeding the guy Blunt to 22 points, the charm is worth thinking about.
Originally it was all with Sean. Marion has nothing to do with it, but when he played against the Magic team at home on October 19, when facing the Magic team with the peak state of Warcraft, it would be stupid to want to feed Blunt bread, so Li Yao and Wade put the goal of feeding the cake on Sean. Marion. At first, Marion didn't react, but as he had more opportunities, he realized that something was wrong, but in the face of the opportunities created by Li Yao and Wade, Marion couldn't waste it, and Marion became the best cake eater in the game.
On October 22, when facing the visiting Grizzlies at home, Blunt once again became the target of feeding the Grizzlies in the face of the not very strong Grizzlies, and scored 20+ points in the game.
On the 24th and 25th, two consecutive road trips also made Li Yao feel the discomfort of back-to-back for the first time, the first back-to-back trip made Li Yao not perform well against the Spurs on the 25th, these two consecutive games against the Hornets and Spurs, the Heat finally ended the final preseason trip with two consecutive defeats, but the harvest of the Heat team in these 7 games can be described as very huge, not only feeding the big guy Blount fat, but even the cooperation between the teams is more tacit.
At this point, the preseason of the 08-09 season is over, and the next thing is to wait for the first game of the regular season to come in 4 days.