Chapter 400: The Flash Counterattacks
Kobe Bryant hit a wave of 9-0 and made three free throws, and Heat coach Stan Van Gundy (Da Fan) couldn't sit still - in fact, he hadn't sat since the beginning of the game, he had been standing on the sidelines with his hands on his chest, and he almost jumped up in frustration when he saw Wade being whistled for a foul.
After the Lakers' defense was adjusted, the Heat played too rigidly on the offensive end, which is the reason why Dafan couldn't stand it.
The referee wanted to watch the replay to determine whether Kobe's shot was a three-point shot, and Dafan simply called a timeout.
Coming back from a timeout, Bryant makes a free throw.
Kobe Bryant, who returned to his indifferent face, was highly concentrated, had no accidents, and hit all three free throws, and the score came to 12:4.
And the effect of the Heat's timeout was immediately apparent.
O'Neal was adamant about his position, and when he received the basketball, he found that Odom was on the side ready to pinch at any time, and he didn't hit it hard or pass the ball immediately.
Haslem, on the other hand, came alive and covered Wade at the free-throw line.
At the timeout, Wade listened to Dafan's advice, calmed down himself, and found his greatest strengths - speed and flexibility.
As soon as Haslem blocked, Wade got rid of Kobe's entanglement, turned and cut into the three-second zone, and O'Neal's pass was in place in time.
In the face of Odom's supplementary defense, Wade threw a throw, and the basketball obediently went into the net, easily scoring two points.
Kobe Bryant can't do anything about it.
As long as there is enough patience, with Wade's athleticism, he can always find an opportunity, and Kobe Bryant can't do it without Wade receiving the ball.
In professional basketball games, the offensive ability has reached a certain level, and one-on-one cannot be prevented, and the opponent can only be limited by the overall defense, which is the biggest weakness of the current Lakers.
However, Kobe Bryant didn't care, he had already scored 12 points in a row, and he had already compared O'Neal to him, and the fire he was holding back in his heart was vented, and he calmed down, returned to the offensive end, and did not attack again.
The game has just begun, this is not a 100-meter race, but a marathon, the situation on the court is still dominated by the Lakers, and Kobe Bryant is also going to slow down.
The first wave of the "OK" battle that fans were looking forward to came to an end, and the Lakers finally returned to the familiar rhythm.
Lu Xiaofeng and Odom blocked, Haslem didn't dare to let Odom go, and Damon Jones bypassed the pursuit.
Lu Xiaofeng took the opportunity to burst into the inside, facing O'Neal's defense and Eddie Jones's retracting bag, and glanced at Wade, who was recycled to the other side of the three-second zone and eyed at him, Lu Xiaofeng did not dare to pass Mime under the basket, but passed to Butler in the bottom corner.
However, the three-point shot was indeed not as reliable as the two-point shot, and Butler faced Eddie Jones' counterattack and missed the open three-point shot.
Lu Xiaofeng still wanted to grab the rebound in the frontcourt, but was blocked by O'Neal's huge body, so he had to give up.
And Wade tasted the sweetness, slipped away from Kobe Bryant again, and came to the free throw line with a catch-and-shoot.
Kobe Bryant didn't get rid of it so easily, quickly bypassing Haslem and flying up behind Wade to reward him with a big hat.
However, Wade bent his leg and tightened his abdomen, and Kobe Bryant's block hit his wrist and was whistled for a foul.
Looking back, Kobe Bryant "used the other way to return the other", and also used the cover, cut into the inside, received Lu Xiaofeng's ground-hitting pass, and challenged O'Neal again.
The same air move, dodging in the air, finally caused O'Neal's thug to foul.
However, Wade, who seems to have "opened up the second vein of Ren Du", can no longer prevent it.
He doesn't go head-to-head with Kobe Bryant, he always uses cover, either breaking through with the ball, or shooting when he catches the ball, and always finds an opportunity.
The Lakers' most typical combination of inside and outside play has been perfectly replicated in the Heat.
With O'Neal included, the active Wade will enter the gap of the Lakers and instantly disintegrate the Lakers' defense; Strictly guard against Wade's running, and there is no way to contain O'Neal.
O'Neal and Wade are holding each other back, making the Lakers' defense take care of each other.
That's the terrible thing about the combination of inside and out.
On the Lakers' side, although they were suppressed by O'Neal on the inside and couldn't attack, their strong outside attack power has always maintained the lead in the score.
It wasn't until halfway through the first quarter that the situation on the court changed abruptly.
Wade burst inside, Meme made up for it, and the basketball passed under Mime's armpit.
After O'Neal received the ball, he did not immediately force a violent dunk, but made a false feint, which was to avoid Kobe's supplementary defense, but let Mime get hit.
Kobe flew behind O'Neal, and Mime, who was shaken up and blocked, couldn't dodge it, and slapped O'Neal the arm.
Fortunately, O'Neal's explosiveness was not as good as it was back then, and he didn't play two plus one, just two free throws, and O'Neal also missed two free throws.
However, don't be happy too early, after Lu Xiaofeng hit a shot in a hurry, it was the Heat's turn to attack, and Mime fouled again.
This time it was Wade.
Slipped to the bottom line to get rid of Kobe Bryant and received a pass from Eddie Jones, Wade actually made a shooting feint under the basket, and Mime couldn't help jumping again.
Wade then got up and was shot out by Meme, and although the basketball that was thrown at random in the sky was still some distance from the basket, it won a second foul on Meme.
Mime, who gets into foul trouble almost every game, is once again cannon fodder.
Tang Shuai waved his hand, and Serbian "little yellow hair" Milicic ran up excitedly.
The Serbian young man, who has recently become the new favorite of Los Angeles fans, is also competitive, grabbing a backcourt rebound as soon as he comes up, and then goes to the frontcourt, receives Lu Xiaofeng's pass, and comes to an empty dunk behind O'Neal.
In the carnival of the audience, this kid didn't know that the sky was high.
This is three places higher than Wade's draft pick, and when he saw Wade at the same level, he was obviously overexcited, and when he saw Wade enter the inside line, he jumped up without hesitation, forgetting the lesson of Meme's blood, and after eating Wade's feints, he was inexperienced, and he didn't commit a foul, and he was beaten two plus one by Wade.
Tang Shuai, who was sitting on the bench on the sidelines, saw this scene, immediately stood up, and beckoned him over, wanting to open a small stove for him and have a "grinding gun".
There's no way, he hasn't defended O'Neill once, he has committed a rule, and Mime has been beaten down, how can he prevent it?
After Wadega's free throw, at 28:27, the Heat was about to catch up, and Wade's personal score reached 15 points quietly.
The immature "Flash", who was stunned by Kobe Bryant in the first few minutes, counterattacked strongly, although he still couldn't prevent Kobe, his role on the court was not smaller than Kobe.
In a blink of an eye, the game lasted more than 9 minutes, and it was time for both sides to make substitutions.