Chapter 367: Falling short

McMillan was quite satisfied with the team's performance in the first half, and at halftime, he praised his players in the locker room, and hoped that they could continue to perform so well in the second half, after all, it is not easy to lead the Heat on the road. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, perhaps unhappy with the team's starting center Anthony, Spoelstra brought on Haslem at the start of the second half, putting Bosh in the No. 5 position, a substitution that had a big impact on the Trail Blazers' interior line. Although Haslem is a pocket interior player who is only 2.03 meters tall, he has a certain crosshairs in his mid-range shooting, and he has a ruthlessness that no other Heat player can match when defending and fighting for rebounds, and his appearance quickly limited Aldridge.

This is also one of the things that McMillan sometimes dislikes with Aldridge, this guy is really a bit soft, as long as the opponent plays a little tougher, he will become constrained, and he doesn't know where to go with his mid-range jumper. Many times McMillan hoped that he could play tougher and fight more hand-to-hand with opponents under the basket, but Aldridge always promised well, and when he arrived on the court, he began to move outside, which made McMillan feel a little headache.

Obviously, Spoelstra used Haslem to exchange Aldridge, which is undoubtedly a good deal, after all, Haslem, as a Heat veteran, now has the most important task on the court is to defend, grab rebounds, and by the way, boost the morale of his teammates, while Aldridge is an important scoring point for the Trail Blazers. Any head coach in the league will probably have a smile on his face when he sees this scene.

Now the Trail Blazers can be said to be supported by Ye Feng alone, Miller can occasionally bring some help to the team outside the three-point line, and Matthews is so miserable by Wade that he basically can't count on what he can do. Spoelstra's hand allowed the Heat to quickly turn the tide on the court after the start of the third quarter, if it weren't for Ye Feng's ability to maintain a relatively high shooting percentage under James' strong defensive pressure, maybe the score between the two sides would have been pulled apart long ago.

Even so, the Trail Blazers are undoubtedly at a disadvantage on the field, I have to say that the Heat formed the Big Three is simply a BUG-like existence, no matter what you say about the Celtics' Big Three, they have entered the end of their careers, and they are no longer in their prime, but James They are still in the prime of their careers, and they are starting to huddle, which is simply 10,000 critical damage points for the other 29 teams in the league.

However, Ye Feng does not intend to admit defeat, since he has already entered the finals, he must try his best to see if he can touch the championship trophy, what is the matter of raising his hand and surrendering directly in the face of a strong enemy? It's better to give it a go, and even if you lose, you can leave with your head held high.

After McMillan replaced Mills, Ye Feng completely became the organizer of the team's offense, and it was obviously a brain disease to defeat the Heat alone, and the only way to win was to guide all the offensive firepower of his teammates. Mills came on the court obviously to let him bully Bibi, Ye Feng decisively chose to use Mills as a sharp knife for the team's offense, although Bibi was known as the "White Devil" back then, but now he is old, and he is not Mills's opponent in terms of speed at all.

With Matthews being defended to death by Wade, Ye Feng and Mills took on the task of assaulting the inside, and the two took turns to break through, trying to disrupt the Heat's defense. In contrast, Mills achieved more brilliant results, Ye Feng still needed a lot of effort to get rid of James's close defense, Mills only had a starting distance to rush directly past Bibby, it was as easy as going on an outing.

The two-man turn-through effort greatly compressed the Heat's defense, and they had to choose to hoard heavy equipment on the inside, so that the Trail Blazers came under much less pressure on the outside. It is precisely because they chose to shrink the defensive line that the Trail Blazers bit the score in the case of the continuous outbreak of the Heat Big Three, otherwise with their multi-level defensive system from the outside to the inside, perhaps Ye Feng's only choice is to constantly project three-pointers on the outside.

At the end of the third quarter, the Heat led by five points, and the transition from lead to trail was largely due to Aldridge's instigation. After scoring 13 points in the first half, he only scored a measly four points in the third quarter, two of which were due to Haslem being too aggressive defensively to give him a chance to go to the free throw line, or he would have only scored a goal in the field. And Aldridge only made 3 shots, he has reached the point where he does not dare to go to the inside line to get the ball in the position, and it is normal to only get 3 shots.

Ye Feng didn't complain about anything, he had long known that Aldridge's personality was so gentle that he was a little cowardly, but as a teammate, it was not good to have infighting, and now the only way is to help the team reverse and win, although it is very difficult, but it may not be impossible to succeed.

In fact, he almost did. With a few unreasonable shots from outside the three-point line, Ye Feng scored 7 points in a row with 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter to help the team equalize the score. However, just as he was about to overtake the score in one go, the Heat decisively sent James and Wade to the double bag, and the ball passed by Ye Feng was continuously wasted by his teammates, and Matthews missed three shots outside the three-point line alone.

James and Wade successfully connected twice, Bosh also scored a three-pointer, and the Heat took the opportunity to play a wave of 7-0 small climax, once again pulling the score away, this time Ye Feng was basically powerless as a key target, two consecutive three-pointers against the defensive strong shot were out of the frame, and the rebound was directly taken away by Haslem, not giving the Trail Blazers any chance to turn defeat into victory.

In the end, the Trail Blazers suffered a black start in this year's Finals, losing to the Heat 110-123 in the first game, and Ye Feng cut a big double-double of 32 points and 13 assists, because no one from the Trail Blazers scored a double-double except for him, Aldridge and Batum. And the Heat Big Three broke out at the same time, James got a triple-double of 22 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, Wade scored a game-high 34 points, and Bosh also contributed a double-double of 18 points and 12 rebounds.