Chapter 32 The heat of the run-in period

On the 6th, the Clippers hosted the Heat. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Since the big shark O'Neal joined the Heat last year, the Heat has always been the favorite to win the championship, not for others, but for O'Neal alone.

O'Neal is a rare dominant center in NBA history, and his presence on the inside will be solid, and despite some restraint against technical centers and poor free-throw shooting percentage, O'Neal is still the league's No. 1 center.

After the big sharks traveled east last year, the Heat became a strong team, and he brought confidence to the Heat and made the Heat players grow rapidly. Although they were eliminated by the Pistons in the Eastern Conference finals, the shadow of the strong team has been planted.

This year, the Heat brought in players with strength such as Payton, Mourning, Anthony Walker, and Jason Williams to fill the weaknesses of the lineup and greatly increase the strength of the Heat's bench.

Although the strength has increased greatly, the strength of the Heat has not improved much compared to last season for the time being, mainly due to the big change of blood has made the team's tactics change a lot, and the speed of new players integrating into the team's tactics has slowed down, so that the Heat is still in the run-in, and occasionally can play eye-catching games, but the record is not very outstanding.

Although the Clippers have also changed a group of players, the team's run-in is very fast. Brand and Carman are both old men, and together they are able to resist most of them on the inside. Kassel is an old fritter and has fought all tactics. Mobley was a bit later to integrate, but his style of play was relatively simple, and a slight change in tactics would be fine.

The rest are all rookies this year, including Liu Su, David Lee, Ryan Gomez, and James Singleton, who just need to learn the team's tactics as quickly as possible.

After the start of the game, the combination of O'Neal and Wade is still very powerful, but if you want to be less powerful than the OK combination, because Wade's long-range shooting is not good, and he is an assault player like James.

The Clippers changed their starting lineup, with Carman and Brand unchanged, and they came to limit O'Neal. Radmanovic provided outside firepower, Rose played as shooting guard to defend Wade, and Kassel connected the team.

Although it was just a change of people, the overall formation has changed, adopting a joint defense tactic, specializing in defending O'Neal and Wade, who are the biggest threats.

Sure enough, the Heat seemed to be choked, and their attack power was weakened by more than half all of a sudden, if it weren't for O'Neal's strong dominance and Karman's defense, the Heat would basically be able to surrender the gun in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Liu Su aligned Gary Payton. Now Payton is also old, his speed is slow, and his defensive ability has lost his original power with the reduction of physical strength.

In the face of the more dynamic Liu Su, Payton is basically no different from ordinary players, if it weren't for his game experience telling Liu Su that this is a super defender, Liu Su would definitely not know that this was once a superstar.

After the game, Liu Su said to reporters: "It is not himself who can make a player fall, but injuries and time."

Payton was basically of retirement age, so he was quickly replaced with a young player who could barely keep up with Liu Su's pace.

O'Neal's physical strength was not enough to allow him to play the whole game, so he went down early to rest, and he is now averaging 30 minutes per game.

It was difficult for Wade to support the team on his own, but thankfully there were other players around. Mourning and Anthony Walker stepped up to score, and if it had been last year, the Heat would have been able to surrender their guns.

The Clippers easily defeated the Heat, 121-96, and the Clippers scored 25 points loudly. Liu Su didn't have much time to play against Wade this time, but there were still a few rounds. I have to say that Wade's speed is very fast, Liu Su decided that he was faster than himself, especially Wade's first step, the name of Flash is not called in vain.

Wade also saw Liu Su's defensive ability, he had always heard that the Clippers rookie was very good, but he didn't expect it to be so good. It was very uncomfortable for him to defend every attack, half of the breakthrough was blocked, the remaining half was still half caught by the opponent, and the remaining half could easily get scoring opportunities or passing opportunities.

Liu Su didn't play very well in this game, but he still got 17 points and 10 assists. After he came on the court in the eighth minute of the third quarter, he strengthened his defense, or assisted or rushed into the interior to score a layup, pulling the score to 30 points, thus turning the fourth quarter into garbage time.

After the victory over the Heat, the Clippers are still waiting for the Knicks at home, and after playing the Knicks, they will face the Suns and Pistons back-to-back at home.