Maybe it was an earth-shattering "header" that caused Jimmy Butler's nose to bleed, Xie Chen felt a little uncomfortable, so he "teased" this wooden kid and joked with the other party.

If Miami adds another Jimmy Butler to the lineup, of course, it will be like a tiger with wings, but Xie Chen also knows that this thing is not realistic at all.

Jimmy Butler turned down a four-year, $40 million contract from the Bulls last October, doing so because he was counting on a significant increase in the league's salary cap during the 2016-2017 season.

Butler is pursuing a short-term max contract rather than a five-year parent contract like the Bulls, and he wants to sign a three-year, $50 million contract with a one-year player option so that he can sign a larger max contract when he enters the free agent market again.

In any case, the Miami Heat will not be able to satisfy Butler, and it is even unrealistic to retain the current roster. It is generally believed that in the next few years, Wade, Xie Chen, and Hassan are unlikely to stay in the team at the same time.

Now every NBA player, especially the star who has made a difference, has to think like a businessman, even if he doesn't become a businessman himself, he has to have a special team. Xie Chen never thought about the future, whether he stayed or scattered, the most important thing is now, this season, they want to win the championship!

The Chicago Bulls were not regarded as a target by Xie Chen from the beginning, so this round of the series must be won without suspense, and now that they have lost the start, this one must be won!

Because he has already lost one game, even if he is ahead of the score, no one in the Heat team dares to relax in the slightest, and Xie Chen, the "magician", still exerts his energy.

Hassan went outside to receive the ball in the high post, and he also tried to play the role of playmaker, and if he could have the mid-to-long-range shooting ability of Bosh, he would be more threatening, and now everyone knows he will pass it next.

Xie Chen was in the bottom corner on the right side, Hassan could pass the ball at any time, and at this time, Wade launched a very good and beautiful counterrun to get rid of, he first cut in from the outside in, but then turned back, Jimmy Butler of course had to follow Wade's footsteps.

At this time, Hassan passed the ball to Xie Chen.

At this moment, Wade suddenly ran back, pushed Butler, and walked to the basket again, Xie Chen almost received the pass, and threw it to Wade's position under the basket, Wade got the ball, a false shake, and hit the board easily.

Although Jimmy Butler is fierce defensively, even if he has a height advantage in such a close position to the basket, he is absolutely no match for the experienced Wade, this is the experience accumulated over the years, which is something that no one with skills like Xie Chen can do.

Xie Chen added another assist, and it seems that this assist is no longer a big problem.

The continuous outside shooting misses made the Bulls lose patience, so they began to play the inside line continuously, Rose broke through with a change of speed, just got rid of Xie Chen, forced a layup, Hassan jumped up and stared directly at the rebound!

Ross is about to blow up, this is not the first time that Hassan, a big man, has Gairos, Hassan seems to know Rose's layup routine very well, and can clearly judge the route of Rose's layup, and easily blocked him.

After hitting the rebound, the basketball bounced out and was picked up by Noah, Noah smiled evilly, the basket was empty, the opportunity ah, he jumped slowly, tried to make a layup with his left hand, and then, another big hat flew in!

"How is that possible!" Noah couldn't believe it, he finally took advantage of Hassan's loss of position and wanted to steal two points on the inside, but he didn't expect it to be covered, he turned his head and looked, and his anger was even stronger, it was Xie Chen!

Just now I felt a strong coercion behind him, because of the physical contact, which made Noah think it was a big man blocking, but he didn't expect it to be the youngest Xie Chen!

Hassan finished covering Xie Chengai! The scene was full of cheers, and what I wanted was such a domineering defense!

But the excitement is still not over!

After Xie Chen blocked, he was pushed up to the sky by Noah, and then into the hands of Jimmy Butler, Butler took advantage of the chaos of the two formations when the horses were on their backs, one accelerated and went straight to the basket, and then instantly vacated, he wanted to dunk!

"Damn it!" Xie Chen was annoyed, his favorite thing was to block the dunk! And Guy Jimmy Butler's mission is not yet complete, but he has just blocked and played Noah, and he has no skills at all.

Then, to everyone's shock, just as Jimmy Butler raised his long arm to split the dunk, his wide open and closed arm just fell, and immediately there was a muffled sound, and the basketball was not smashed into the basket! Instead, he was resisted by the other hand!

It's Wade!

Seeing Jimmy Butler go straight to the basket on the right side, Wade copied the shortcut and appeared from the left, then jumped up and held Butler's basketball with one hand, the two were deadlocked in the air for a moment, Butler quickly collapsed, the basketball was knocked out, Butler's whole body retreated, fell to the ground, and at this time, the offensive 24 seconds were up!

"Yay!"

Three blocks in a row from the Heat! The scene is just crazy with excitement!

Oh my God, is this Wade? It's unbelievable that his playoff table is exactly Wade during the championship period!

Wade also waved his arm excitedly, and then, stretched out his hands and pointed to the ground: "Thisismyhouse!" ”

"Hahaha." Xie Chen also happily went over and bumped Wade's shoulder, and the two high-fived Hassan together, this picture needs to be remembered, the Heat's current Big Three, especially on the defensive end, all three have extremely strong blocking ability, which is enough to make a Qiē opponent fearful!

"Oh, Xie, D-Wade, Hassan, these three guys take turns to block and directly consume the Bulls' offensive time, and the defense of these three guys gives people a strong deterrent!"

"When a team has three blockers, I don't know what reason to doubt that this team is going to lose."

In this game, not only did the backcourt combination of Xie Chen and Wade show terrifying power, but the strength of Xie Chen, Wade, and Hassan's three defensive giants was also shown in front of everyone, especially the Bulls' players, who were blocked by three different people in a row, and their momentum was completely wiped out.

was first bleeding by Xie Chen, and then blocked by Wade for a dunk, Jimmy Butler had a bad start today, and the next table was also affected by love, and Rose was stared at by Xie Chen, especially shooting, so at halftime, the Heat was still leading by 15 points.

At half-time, Thibodeau scolded the players in the dressing room: "Are you all still immersed in the dream of the last victory and have not woken up? You can see the situation clearly, you can see the score clearly, you are already 15 points behind, look at your poor defense, Xie gave 8 assists in the first half, he didn't make a lot of effort and things have already become like this, once he starts attacking in the second half, how can I stop him? You have to play more aggressively, don't be intimidated by them, it's us who have the advantage on the inside! ”

Thibodeau looked angry, the whole emotion was very terrible when it was vented, so that the players did not dare to speak, Thibodeau and the Bulls have about 9 million left on the contract, the team's management and coaching have always had contradictions, if this year's playoffs lose to the Heat, then Thibodeau is likely to be cut by the Bulls!

Thibodeau's 2010-2011 season gave the Bulls a league-best defensive efficiency of 101.5, and Thibodeau's defensive strategy effectively limited the possibility of a supergiant taking over the game. The teams are also vying to imitate.

Every team is figuring out how to crack Thibodeau's bucket formation, such as using pick-and-rolls to make it more difficult to help defend with three-point openings, and designing routines for versatile players to attack the defense from different angles, but the biggest irony is that Thibodeau himself is the one who doesn't know how to crack his own system.

The Bulls have always struggled to move the ball to the inside, and they move the ball slowly on the outside, everybody holding the ball and then stopping the ball for a few seconds for a while.

Previously, the shield for losing the game was injury, but this year, Rose is here, everyone is there, and the Heat are missing Bosh, in such a situation, if he still loses, then Thibodeau is unlikely to continue as the coach.

But as a coach, all he can do is keep motivating his teammates.

At the beginning of the second half, the two-point guard combination of Chalmers and Kerr had a magical effect, Kerr was desperately rushing inside, and then splitting the ball, and Chalmers was hiding in the bottom corner to sneak up on the three-pointers.

During the period when Xie Chen was not playing, the substitutes not only did not make the score closer, but made the score bigger! In the blink of an eye, the Heat are already 20 points ahead!

Thibodeau was already on the verge of despair, the Bulls were sleepwalking today, with no idea what they were doing, and their offensive inefficiency was inefficient, and it looked like there should be no more hope for this game.

When Xie Chen played again, it was time to really solve this game.

The Bulls relied on inside scoring to chase the score to 12 points at one point, and just when everyone thought that the Bulls were going to fight back, Xie Chen stood up and told them that there was no such possibility!

An ultra-low center of gravity to the left changed direction, directly pulled up the shot basket, and hit a three-point shot! The difference is widening again!

"D-ROSE, I'm sure I'm going to win this game!" Xie Chen said to Ross unceremoniously, hoping that the other party would realize early that they would not have any chance this time.

The Bulls have almost forced out the strongest Heat, Xie Chen scored and assisted, and even rebounded and blocked, Wade is also in great shape, and Hassan, finally broke out, the inside gate, domineering, Rohr Deng's outside shooting feel is also good, and Beasley, and even Chalmers, Kerr's bench tables are so good, under such an excellent team table, if you still lose to the Bulls, it can only prove that the Bulls are a super-first-class team, but this is not the case.

Noah's knees couldn't support the weight of his non-stop running, Rose was erratic, Butler was starting to fatigue, and Gibson's long-standing ankle problem sounded the alarm again.

Thibodeau has played Butler for too long throughout the season, and Pau Gasol, a 34-year-old veteran, has played 2,684 minutes a season, the last man to play that long at that age was Clifford Robinson in 2003, and the intensity was not the same as it is now.

The Heat know the Bulls aren't too tough to beat, as long as they can play at their level, and tonight, they did!

Gradually, the Bulls' defense was lax, and the originally excellent rebounding balls were not well protected, and one was stolen by Xie Chen.

Wade turned over and made a jumper, shot iron, and when the basketball popped up and Gasol was about to win the rebound, Xie Chen jumped up from behind and dunked the ball with both hands!

There was a thunderous cheer again!

"Sorry, man." Xie Chen's ball was dunked from the top of Gasol's head and snatched Gasol's rebound, and Xie Chen also said a friendly word to Gasol.

Gasol now thinks back to the dunk height just now, and still feels terrible: "It's already the third quarter, this guy is still so good?" He's even scarier than Kobe! ”

Kobe Bryant used to be the person Gasol admired the most, because of Kobe's unyielding personality and tenacity, but no matter how hard Kobe Bryant is, he will also be tired, as the game deepens, the bounce is no longer so high, and the shooting is no longer so accurate, but these conditions, Gasol has never seen in Xie Chen.

After Xie Chen dunked with both hands in a light jump, he quickly returned to the second half, and he couldn't see any tiredness, which made Gasol secretly scream "monster" in his heart.

Sure enough, as Thibodeau expected, Xie Chen was powerful in this quarter and stabilized the score, because he still couldn't use Lowry's skills to break through Rose, so Xie Chen's scores were basically three-point shots, low-post singles, and secondary offenses.

In the fourth quarter, all the main players of the Heat sat back and watched their benches play against the main force of the opponent.

The Bulls missed, Chalmers launched a fast attack, a long pass, passed to James Ennis, who was running very fast, Ennis did not let go of the opportunity to score this fast break, even in the face of Jimmy Butler, he did not hesitate to jump, and then completed a heavy dunk in front of Butler!

"It's so beautiful! James! Xie Chen, Wade and other players all stood up and applauded, this is simply a James-style dunk!

Next, Chalmers hit another three-pointer to widen the gap to 23 points, Xie Chen was overjoyed and high-fived his teammates one by one: "Wade, it seems that we don't need to play in the fourth quarter." ”

The Heat benches frantically wreaked havoc on the Bulls, and the unstoppable momentum did not lose the main lineup at all, and soon, Thibodeau also completely gave up resistance, replaced all the main teams, and quietly accepted the loss of this game.

In the end, the Heat defeated the Bulls 117-98 and tied the series at 1-1! R1152