Chapter Seventy-Four: A Battle of Wits and Courage (I)
In the frontcourt, Anthony forced Ruhr Deng, turned over and leaned back against the defense, hit a mid-range shot, responded to Wade, and clenched the score on the field. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The tempo of the two sides was fast, Dragic passed the ball to Wade again, and Afflaro was close to prevent Wade from soaring another three points, but Wade changed direction, passed Afflalo in one step, entered the interior, faced O'Quinn's supplementary defense, and rode and shot arrows to add two more points to the Heat.
Wade felt hot, like a killing god possessed, and scored 8 points in a row in the opening game, proving to fans and the media that he is still the "Flash" who blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, and also shows his firm determination to win.
Wang Zhuo signaled the referee to pause, players from both sides returned to the bench one after another, and Wade walked back to the sidelines and kept high-fiveing and hitting his chest with his teammates, venting the excitement brought by the goal.
This is the fastest game called a timeout since Wang Zhuo took charge, just because the opponent is the rampaging Wade, Wang Zhuo understands that Wade has a wealth of playoff experience and knows how to win the game, so he must find ways to limit Wade and prevent the Heat from continuing to score.
In basketball, you are not afraid of the opponent scoring, but you are afraid of the opponent's continuous scoring, because this will make the player fall into a hopeless situation of chasing points, so as to completely fall into passivity, there is no doubt that Wade is a player with the ability to score continuously.
"Aaron, keep clinging to Dwayne, let him break through, Kyle, move your position a little higher, block his breakthrough route, and force him to pass!"
On the bench, Wang Zhuo arranged defensive tactics, which are similar to local joint defense, putting Wade to break through, and the interior players made up for the defense in time, blocking the breakthrough space after he started the first step.
In terms of single defense, it is difficult for Afflaro to limit Wade, and a simple local joint defense can obviously make up for the lack of personal defensive ability, Wang Zhuo does not agree with the implementation of the package tactic at the beginning of the game, because it is easy to cause leakage of defense, causing another player to break out, so that the opponent is not bright in the east and bright in the west.
"Kristaps, play harder and be more resolute!"
Defense is never the final solution, only offense is the key to breaking the passive situation, Porzingis is a rookie with no playoff experience, Wang Zhuo knows that he must be encouraged to remain confident and play aggressively.
Porzingis debuted on the stage of the playoffs, the problem of inexperience was exposed, under the high-intensity defense, he didn't know how to deal with it, although he was still ignorant about the situation on the field, but Wang Zhuo's words still gave him great confidence, and when Porzingis nodded, the look on his face was extremely resolute.
After the timeout, the players re-entered the game, Grant passed the ball to Anthony, Ruhr Deng stuck tightly, Spoelstra guessed that the Knicks would focus on Anthony, so he specifically told Ruhr Deng to defend tightly, indeed, Ruhr Deng's strong defense made Anthony feel at a loss.
Porzingis quickly stepped forward to block, Anthony used the cover to shake off Ruhr Deng and burst into the paint area, Whiteside made up the defense in time, raised his arms high, blocked Anthony's shooting sight, at this time, Porzingis moved laterally and walked near the free throw line, Anthony's eyes swept over, and he returned to the pistol, Porzingis received the ball, jumped, and shot in one go, without a trace of mud and water, and the ball fell steadily into the basket.
The score on the court was 6:8, the Knicks were still two points behind the Heat, Dragic received the ball in the backcourt and instigated a full-court fast attack, but found that Afflalo was close to Wade, there was no passing space at all, Dragic passed the ball to Joe Johnson for a transition, and the ball returned to Wade's hands again.
The ball smashed in the front of the basket, it seemed that the back force was insufficient, it bounced out, Porzingis waved his long arm, took the ball into his arms, Anthony had run back to the front court, Porzingis passed a long pass in the half, Anthony hit Ruhr Deng unstable, directly chased three points, the ball was like a sharp arrow out of the bow, a hundred steps through Yang, and hit the bull's-eye steadily.
The score on the court was 9:8, two rounds of offense, one round of defense, the Knicks had overtaken the score and reversed the situation on the court, after Jerry Grant cut off Wade's pass, the front court was two to one, and Afflalo hit a layup, Spoelstra couldn't hold on anymore and called a timeout.
"Hassan, play the starting spirit, be ready to support Dwayne at any time, Golan, pass the ball to the inside!"
Wade has been taken care of, if it is a strong attack, there will inevitably be a lack of physical strength in the second half, Spoelstra can only shift the focus of the offense, his first thought is of course Whiteside, if the interior formation of lethality, the Knicks will inevitably tighten the defense, and there will be offensive opportunities on the outside.
After the pause, Dragic no longer insisted on feeding Wade the ball, Wade was more of a running cover without the ball, creating space for Dragic to pass the ball inside, sure enough, Dragic aimed at the opportunity and threw it high, Whiteside jumped high and pressed the ball into the basket with both hands.
The American Airlines Arena burst into cheers and a tsunami of cheers, and Hasler danced his towel on the bench, jumping up and down with excitement like a monkey in heat.
Switching offense, Whiteside was powerful on the defensive end, covering Jerry Grant's layup, Ruhr Deng picked up the rebound, the Heat stabilized the rhythm, fell into the half-court position, and played an inside and outside cooperation again, Whiteside received the ball under the basket and carried O'Quinn to hit a hook shot.
With a score of 9:12 on the court, the Heat regained the lead, and when they turned around, Anthony broke through and hit a throw, keeping the score on the court from being pulled away.
When the Heat dropped the ball to the interior again on the offensive end, in order to avoid Whiteside from blowing up the inside, Anthony entered the paint area and O'Quinn wrapped Whiteside, but Ruhr Deng on the outside appeared empty, Whiteside seized the opportunity and passed the ball, and Ruel Deng received the ball and shot from a distance to add another three points for the Heat.
The tempo on the field changed from fast to slow, but the shooting rate of both sides was high, the offensive end played patiently and reasonably, and the score on the field was also alternately leading.
"Kristaps, you defend Hassan Whiteside, remember, go around the front, you have to go around the front, you can't let him receive the ball!"
Wang Zhuo called a 20-second short timeout, arranged a change of defense, and at the same time replaced Calderon to replace Grant.
At the end of the timeout, on the offensive end, Calderon hit a mid-range jumper to narrow the gap on the court, and on the defensive end, Porzingis stood in front of Whiteside at all times, due to the difference in height, Whiteside couldn't receive the ball at all, Dragic had no choice but to force a breakthrough, and when there was not enough space, he leaned and missed, O'Quinn jumped up and struggled to pull the ball out.
Anthony dribbled quickly, the home fans shouted "defend", Ruhr Deng followed closely after the defense, Anthony kept at his feet, and forced a hard shot against the defense, and Ruel Deng struggled to save.
"Bang", a crisp sound, Ruhr Deng fouled the player, but the ball was off his fingertips, and flew steadily into the basket with a parabola, and the referee's whistle sounded, and the ball scored a penalty.