Chapter 433: Bloody Heavenly King Mountain
It's really frustrating to be equalized, but the whole Trail Blazers team didn't lose confidence in winning the entire Finals, even though they knew that top superstars like James and Wade would never break out and end with one or two games. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This is the confidence of the defending champions, although the Trail Blazers are not very old overall, but if they won the championship last season by accident, then this season they really have the temperament of the defending champions, so they can maintain their fighting spirit despite winning two games in a row and being equalized by their opponents. If it were last season, they would have started to doubt themselves, and they couldn't talk about their fighting spirit, and maybe only one or two people could have it.
Spoelstra and the rest of the Heat couldn't see what was going on in their opponents' minds, and they thought they could continue their winning streak and even take the O'Brien Cup into their arms. But they didn't expect that after coming to the Rose Garden Arena, they encountered stubborn resistance. Maybe the word resistance is misused, but the intensity of the game is far greater than the previous four games, and the two sides played so much that if it weren't for the referee's strength, the two sides would have clashed long ago.
From the first quarter of the game, pushing and shoving when the basket stuck each other was commonplace, and the foul action was quite large. Sometimes it's a tactical foul that can be just hugged, but it looks like it's going to play live wrestling, who isn't angry? Not to mention the young and vigorous Trail Blazers, although only Chalmers is still young among the Heat's five starters, even James is a bit of an emotional explosion, which is very rare for them.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the referee blew for the first technical foul of the game, and it was the Trail Blazers who suffered. McMillan still used the inside combination of Aldridge + Oden in this game, although he did not require the main attack, but Aldridge, as the team's second scorer, could always get some opportunities to shoot, but Battier, who was responsible for defending him, did not allow him to score the ball so easily, constantly interfering close to him like a piece of kraft candy.
There are some things that can't be repeated and repeated, and Battier's entanglement finally angered Aldridge, who deliberately elbowed Battier on the shoulder during a back-to-back single, and was just watched by the referee near the baseline.
Battier is also an experienced veteran, he can be said to be a master-level existence on the defensive end, not to mention that Aldridge is a deliberate offensive foul, even if it is not deliberate, Battier can also use his rich experience to create an offensive foul.
The referee, who had seen it all, did not hesitate to blow Aldridge for a technical foul, and although it was a correct decision, it still caused dissatisfaction among the Trail Blazers fans, and the noise of the scene instantly increased by many decibels. The fans' minds are simple, even if you blow the penalty right, but if you blow the players of our team, then it can't, which is also the cute and headache of the fans.
A technical foul further intensified the confrontation on the court, with Ye Feng committing two fouls at halftime, Matthews committing three fouls, and Aldridge, Oden and Hickson also committing two fouls; On the Heat side, James had two fouls, Wade had two fouls, Bosh had two fouls, and Battier and Haslem had three fouls, and the entire first half was cut off by the referee's whistle, so you can imagine what level the confrontation between the two sides has reached.
As the arrow figure of the Trailblazers, Ye Feng naturally received extra special "care", all of James' fouls were committed on him, and Battier also contributed a foul to him. Even so, Ye Feng is not afraid, he is now the leader of the team, if he admits in the face of the other party's key care, even the morale of the whole team will decline, and it will become difficult to win this game.
In the first half, Ye Feng scored 23 points alone, so at halftime, Spoelstra specially instructed Ye Feng to further limit in the second half. This is difficult for the Heat, but it is not impossible, especially since several defensive players have made up their minds to stop Ye Feng.
But after the start of the second half, Ye Feng still maintained a fairly high scoring efficiency, which made the Heat players even more angry, and the movements in their hands gradually increased. With 5 minutes and 24 seconds left in the third quarter, the bloodshed finally happened.
It was just an ordinary breakthrough layup, and Ye Feng didn't plan to use such an offensive method equivalent to humiliation as a dunk from someone else. But just as he was about to finish the layup, a figure flew over from the side and slapped the basketball hard, knocking Ye Feng to the ground.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was a defensive foul, but Ye Feng didn't get up for a long time after he fell to the ground, and when Matthews and Oden went to pull him up, they found that Ye Feng was bleeding all over his face, and a painful look appeared on his face, and the only good news was that he was still awake.
According to the rules of the NBA, players must be replaced after seeing blood, and they can only come back after processing. Obviously, Ye Feng was hit on the head by Haslem's elbow, this kind of thing can be big or small, it is better to check it carefully.
The team doctor hurriedly took out various medical supplies from the medicine box and treated Ye Feng's wounds. After wiping off the bloodstains, it was obvious that the corner of Ye Feng's eyebrows had been opened, and the blood was still bubbling, fortunately, the wound was not very big, and the team doctor put a special band-aid on Ye Feng and conducted a concussion test. Fortunately, after the test, Ye Feng was not hit with a concussion, which means that he can continue to appear in this game.
However, McMillan didn't plan to put him back on the court right away, just using this time to rest for a while and put on the court again in the fourth quarter. Ye Feng didn't object, he needed time to slow down, Haslem's elbow just now was indeed very powerful, and he deserved to be the oldest qualified tough guy player on the Heat's inside.
Ye Feng's injury further stimulated the anger of the Trail Blazers players, but there was no such grumpy thorn in the players on the field, so despite the anger, they didn't do anything irrational, and they preferred to use their performance on the court to slap their faces. At the end of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers smoothly led 85-79, creating a good foundation for Ye Feng's re-entry, which was also their tough response to the Heat's defense.