Chapter 47: "Away Bugs" (Part II)
The Heat relied on Wade and Bosh to play in turn, and kept biting the score, although the Knicks occupied the initiative on the court, they were never able to further open the gap. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wang Zhuo is not in a hurry, the first half of the second quarter is the time for the rotation lineup to play, since the main force can not open up the difference, then fight for the substitute, Wang Zhuo is thinking about a Tian Ji horse racing routine.
The Knicks' main lineup is weak defensively, but there are several defensive giants among the bench players, such as Jerry Grant, Kyle O'Quinn and Lance Thomas, so Wang Zhuo's tactic is to let the main force play more in the rotation time, and when the main force fights, the bench lineup will come on the stage, use the main force to widen the difference, and the substitute surprise defense to contain the counterattack of the main force of the Heat.
Wade's physical condition does not allow him to stay on the court for a long time, so even if the Heat succeeds in a short period of time, it will not be able to cause sustained damage, so Wang Zhuo dares to boldly adopt this strategy, after all, it is still quite risky to fight against the main force with a substitute.
At first, Fisher did not agree with Wang Zhuo's tactics, but the situation on the court is very clear, no one can stop the opponent's attack, if it continues like this, it will definitely be more and more unfavorable to the Knicks who are fighting away, so they can only take a risk.
The referee blew the whistle for the start of the second quarter, and Wang Zhuo sent out a lineup of Anthony, Jerry Grant, Derrick Williams, Robin Lopez and Afflaro, which was an extremely aggressive lineup, and the Heat's bench lineup was almost unavailable except for Gerard Green, a convulsive attacker.
The Heat are a normal nine-man rotation, with Gerard Green and Bosh leading three fringe players on the court, and due to injuries and Wade's inability to play for a long time, Spoelstra can only use fringe players, which is also a purely helpless move.
The lineup sent by the Heat is also a lineup that focuses on offense and light on defense, Gerald Green's defense is almost negligible, and Bosh has been floating on the outside for a long time, so the two sides are competing to see who has the stronger offensive power.
On paper, the Knicks are more dominant, after all, there are three main players, while the Heat only have one main force, and Spoelstra's intention is also obvious, that is, he hopes that Bosh and Gerald Green will use offense to drag the Knicks and survive the rotation time of about 4 minutes.
However, his intentions were clearly understood by Wang Zhuo, so the lineup sent by Wang Zhuo was very targeted, and when the Knicks launched their first attack in the second quarter, Pat Riley, the president of the Heat team standing on the bench, frowned slightly, obviously not expecting Fisher to be so dangerous.
Sure enough, the situation on the court began to change, Jerry Grant's fast break was more aggressive, on the offensive end, Lopez and Anthony frequently hit mid-range shots after blocking, and on the defensive end, Lopez changed the strategy of not being in the three-second zone in the first half, and followed Bosh closely, and his height and arm length made Bosh very uncomfortable.
Gerald Green's nerve knife characteristics began to stand out, but he only had nerves, did not go out of the knife, and frequently hit the iron outside, the Heat team quickly fell into passivity at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and the players on the defensive end did not have the ability to break the block and dismantle, and the two major firepower points on the offensive end, one was contained, and the other was slow to find the state.
The Knicks seized the opportunity to constantly organize fast breaks, firmly controlled the situation on the court, and after a few rounds, the point difference has risen from the original 1 point to 9 points.
Spoelstra's gloomy face looked a little ugly, and he had to call a timeout before the official timeout to rearrange his tactics.
At the end of the timeout, Spoelstra sent Ruhr Deng, hoping to rely on Ruhr Deng's defensive ability to contain the Knicks' blocking, but did not put Wade on the court, it is obvious that the Heat are strictly controlling Wade's playing time, and the offensive end is still relying on Bosh and Green.
Wang Zhuo did not rest on his laurels, waiting for Spoelstra to arrange a targeted defense, but took the initiative to attack, removed Anthony and Lopez, and sent Porzingis and O'Quinne, so that the Knicks' firepower on the offensive end became weaker, but the defense instantly improved a notch.
Spoelstra didn't expect that the Knicks would also change their strategy, and even put on a defense-oriented lineup, and couldn't help but greet Fisher and his mother in his heart, in fact, in this case, anyone will burst into foul language.
However, Spoelstra was completely wrong, all this was not done by Fisher, but by the assistant coach Wang Zhuo behind him, Fisher just stood in front of the stage for a symbolic performance, won the scenery in front of the people, was scolded behind his back, lost as a scapegoat, and was scolded by the fans by name, anyway, he was a thankless corner.
The Heat's offense did not improve because of the appearance of Ruel Deng, although Bosh recovered because of Lopez's downplay, but Green was still playing wildly, and the defensive end became a colander, which was blown up by Derrick Williams.
After the Knicks changed the lineup, Wang Zhuo was no longer obsessed with playing blocking and dismantling, but focused on Derrick Williams, which made Green's sparse defense infinitely magnified, and O'Quin's ability to protect the basket ensured the Knicks' interior defense and backcourt rebounding.
In the end, at the official timeout, the Knicks relied on Wang Zhuo's anticipation of the enemy to take the lead in the rotation time to stretch the difference to 8 points, although the main force played a little more, but this also laid the Knicks' lead, and at the same time gave Spoelstra a psychological blow, so that he had a little more fear when selecting players.
In fact, Wang Zhuo's purpose has been achieved, and the rest of the time only needs to rotate normally, if the Heat team has an obvious momentum of chasing points, it will be called a timeout, and a targeted pressure will be pressed.
As a result, the more normal the rotation, the more confused Spoelstra felt, and he couldn't guess what Fisher was up to, until there were only five minutes left in the game, and it dawned on him that the Knicks were playing a smokescreen to disrupt his thinking and confuse the public.
Obviously, it was too late for the horn of the counterattack to blow at this time, the Knicks had completely controlled the situation on the court, Anthony completely extinguished the Heat's counterattack momentum with a stable mid-range shot, although the score was forced to be close for a while, but the Knicks still had the last laugh with a score of 98:90.
"From today onwards, don't call us 'away bugs' anymore, because we're never dragons at home!"
After the game, Fisher couldn't hide his excitement, talked eloquently in front of the media, and finally made a joke in front of the microphone, which made everyone present laugh.