The situation turned out as the Hornets imagined, and when the bench players on both sides came on, the Hornets began to fully suppress the Heat.

Roy's breakthrough shot, Oden's strong inside shot, and the Heat were beaten by the Hornets' fierce offense for a while. Even Ray Allen had a dismal shooting percentage of missing three consecutive three-point shots.

The difference between the two teams also quickly widened due to the huge gap between the substitutes.

At halftime, the Hornets had an 18-point home lead over the Heat, which was definitely a huge advantage.

"It seems that the Hornets will still win this game." Seeing that the situation had developed like this, Barkley shook his head and began to close the coffin. "The Hornets are so stable, whether they are starters or substitutes, they have absolute offensive points, and the Heat currently have only one such point, James, which is really a bit lonely."

"Wade's playoff performance this season has been so disappointing." O'Neal expressed his opinion on the performance of his former teammates, "Look at his current performance in the face of Wang Meng, he is afraid to attack, is this still the original Wade?" ”

"He can't be blamed entirely for that." Smith stood in the position of solidarity with Wade, "After all, the injury on his leg is real, in the case of a leg injury, he will not only be hindered physically, but also psychologically shadowed, I believe that as long as he recovers health, he will still be the original Flash."

"The question is, when will he get better? Waiting for surgery in the summer? If Wade can't step up to help James, this year's O'Brien Cup is far from the Heat. O'Neill said.

Off the court, the Heat's Shuai also began to do Wade's work.

"Dwyan, what's wrong with you? It's not like you at all. Si Shuai looked at Wade and said solemnly: "It's just that when you meet a rising star Wang Meng, you retreat?" It's not your principle to retreat, I remember that in the past, you never flinched even against opponents who were much better than you, why did you back down now, when you were so close to the championship? ”

Wade shook his head, "No, coach, I'm not afraid of Wang Meng, it's just"

"No, it's just that!" Si Shuai waved his hand and said decisively: "Now your good brother James needs help, and our entire team, only you can help him!" You're the captain of this team, you should know what to do in times like this! ”

Wade was silent, but Si Shuai could tell from his eyes that Wade was ready to fight hard.

That's right, it's desperate.

Si Shuai knows that if the Heat loses this game, then there is basically no hope for this Finals, although the next 3 games are the home of the Heat, but even if it is a home game, Si Shuai is not sure that he can win.

The game continued to unfold, on the field, Wang Meng was still defending Wade, and Wang Meng was very easy to defend Wade before, because once Wade faced Wang Meng's defense, he would always choose to avoid.

But as soon as he came on the field this time, Wang Meng found that Wade's eyes were wrong.

He looked at himself with the courage to look at death, and it looked almost the same as Tony Parker's eyes in the Western Conference Finals.

"It's a little bad, Wade is going to work hard!" Wang Meng secretly shouted that it was not good, once Wade attacked wildly, it would definitely be many times more terrifying than Parker, Wang Meng couldn't even prevent Parker at the beginning, let alone Wade?

If it is a one-on-one heads-up, Wang Meng will not be afraid of anyone, in the case of his own various skills, if there is still someone who can win against him in heads-up, he will simply find a piece of tofu to commit suicide.

But now the Hornets need Wang Meng to control the overall situation, the entire Hornets system, the only players with the ball and Roy are sharp, it is no exaggeration to say that every attack of the Hornets on the court has a direct or indirect relationship with Wang Meng, if there is no Wang Meng, the Hornets' offense will fall into a very blind single, and the efficiency will be very low. If Wang Meng is tired of defending Wade and misses the team's offense, then the whole situation will be turned upside down.

A player like Wade can put aside everything and fight with Wang Meng, because the Heat team has a stronger James than him in addition to him, and also has a smart team brain Kidd, but if Wang Meng ignores Wade, only Roy can lead the team to attack, although Roy is fully qualified for this job, but his playing time is too short after all, 25 minutes is really a little less in a game.

"Defending Wade or keeping the team's offensive efficiency up." Wang Meng hesitated for a moment, then chose the latter.

"Tony, you come to defend Wade, this guy is probably going to go crazy, you have to be careful." Wang Meng and Tony Allen said.

Tony Allen patted his chest and said with a big grin: "Don't worry, I've got it!" ”

A few minutes later, Tony Allen was about to cry. "I'll wipe it! What's going on? Wade's drug addict, right? ”

In terms of height, Wade and Tony Allen are almost the same, but in terms of weight and explosiveness, Tony Allen is far inferior to Wade, although Wade is injured, but in the state of Wade's burst, he also puts the trivial matter of knee injury in the back of his mind.

So, Tony Allen began to experience the painful experience of being broken through by Wade.

In terms of individual defense, Tony Allen is definitely one of the best players in the league, but he is facing Wade after all, this man can get 20+30+ or even 40+ on Kobe Bryant, who was at the peak when he was young, let alone facing Tony Allen?

Although the current Wade is incomparable to the original, it is still not something that Tony Allen can deal with. When Tony Allen faced such a Wade, the only thing he could do was to interfere with Wade with his own defense as much as possible, thus greatly depleting Wade's physical strength.

Because of Wade's opening, the Heat's offense gradually began to improve, with Vedra pulling space, James's offense is also more relaxed, Janway connection is like this, you look at the two of them on the court, always feel that they are in a duplicate position, there are some conflicts on the court, but when they have a down, you will feel that their threat level has become less than before.

However, despite this, the Hornets did not catch up with the score by the Heat, because while the Heat attacked, the Hornets' offense did not stagnate, and the reason why Wang Meng gave up defending Wade was to stabilize the Hornets' offensive rhythm, and under the leadership of Wang Meng, the Hornets' offense was not weaker than the Heat.

"See, even if Wade played well, wouldn't they be able to catch up with the Hornets?" Seeing this, Barkley smiled, as if he had successfully proved that his vision could not be wrong.

"That being said, the Hornets are in a bit of trouble right now." O'Neal said, pointing to the Hornets' interior players and saying, "Don't you think they've had a lot of fouls?" ”

"Huh?" Barkley looked at the technical statistics, only to find that the Hornets' two interior lines, Gasol had 3 fouls, and Oden had already committed 4 fouls.

Before the end of the third quarter of the game, these two big men already had so many fouls?

"In this game, the Hornets effectively curbed the Heat's three-point wave, but in order to guard against the outside, the pressure on the inside was almost all pressed on the two interior lines of Oden and Gasol." O'Neal's tone was a little meaningful, "Coupled with Wade and James' rotation on the inside, it's impossible for them to control the number of fouls they have." ”

"In that case, there's a good chance that the two big men of the Hornets will end up fouling before the end of the fourth quarter." Smith said: "In this way, the Hornets' biggest reliance is going to disappear, and the Heat have an advantage." ”

"But that's in the fourth quarter, and that's all that happens if the Heat can get the deficit to a reasonable position in the third quarter. Like the current 18-point difference, even if the Hornets have two inside lines, what can the Heat do? Barkley clearly dismisses that.

But then, Gasol fouled once, and both he and Oden had four fouls, and Monty had to replace both of them at the same time in order to ensure their playing time in the fourth quarter.

"I said that you should pay attention to fouls and pay attention to fouls, why did both of them become 4 fouls?" Monty asked angrily.

"No way, Coach." Gasol Auden and the two looked very innocent, "They are specifically looking for us, even if they sacrifice offensive efficiency, they want to make us fouls, I don't have to avoid them every time on the inside, just let them bump into them, it's really no way." ”

Monty opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

It's just that in this way, the pressure is all on the outside line of the Hornets led by Wang Meng, without Gasol and Oden, the inside line of the Hornets suddenly becomes on the same running line as the Heat, and in the case of the Heat having Bosh, the inside line has even become a disadvantage for the Hornets.

Without the advantage of the inside, the Hornets can only rely on the outside to fight against the Heat, but even if Roy is allowed to replace Tony Allen on the court and form an outside lineup of Wang Meng, Roy, and Wallace, there is still no advantage compared with the Heat.

"Whether or not we can withstand the Heat's crazy counterattack in the third quarter will be the most critical point in whether we can win this game."

Wang Meng thought secretly in his heart.

Looking at Wade and James on the Heat's side, the offense in Wang Meng's heart was also pulled, in order to connect the whole team, Wang Meng did not fully attack, and now, it is obvious that the Hornets will need Wang Meng's full attack.

The physical strength consumed by the king in this half day is not much, and at this time, it finally has a place to use!

On the first ball, Wang Meng directly opened the instant explosion, like Wade James, he quickly rushed into the inside and dunked, and no one in the Heat could stop Wang Meng who opened the instant explosion.

However, this is not over, and then Wang Meng pulled out his hand outside the three-point line and hit a lesson for three minutes.

Wang Meng, who scored five points in a row, also successfully stabilized the Hornets' offense.

And James, who defended Wang Meng, was also extremely serious.

But no matter how serious James is, he still can't prevent Wang Meng.

In the third ball, Wang Meng used the butterfly to rush into the inside with a butterfly on the outside, and then hit with a throw.

Three attacks hit three times, and Wang Meng's crazy scoring made the Heat have to call a timeout to ease.

But the pause still can't stop Wang Meng's attack, and the instant outbreak doesn't matter how many pauses you call, and the use of the skill of the heart eye has a cooldown time, the more the opponent calls the pause, the faster the heart eye skill will cool down, and the number of uses will also increase.

The Hornet's scoring point is not only Wang Meng, because Wang Meng's best partner Gasol is also watching the excitement off the court, in order to ensure offensive efficiency, Roy is also arranged to play, Roy's offensive ability may be slightly worse than Wang Meng, Wade James and others, but it is definitely not much worse, after all, Roy still has the nickname of Yellow Mamba in the Trail Blazers.

The Hornets' offense is extremely strong due to the leadership of Wang Meng and Roy, but the Heat is not weak at all. After all, James Wade and the two are not vegetarians. The two of them can already be called one of the strongest outside combinations in history, and the only ones that can be compared with it are the Jordan Pippen combination of the Bulls back then, and the Paul Kobe combination of the Lakers now, even Wang Meng and Roy can't be among them.

For a while, the Heat's Hornets' struggle strangely turned into a breakthrough repair on the outside.

Wang Meng's butterfly breakthrough through the flower step, Wade's lightning breakthrough, James's tank flow breakthrough, Roy's frequency conversion breakthrough.

The breakthroughs in turn dazzled the eyes of the audience, and at the same time suffered the interior defenders of both sides.

Soon, under what Wang Meng could do, Bosh also followed the back of Gasol Oden, becoming the third player to commit four fouls in this game, and was also obediently substituted.

In fact, Bosh's performance today can be described as very poor, even if he doesn't get off the court, he doesn't contribute much on the court, he has already had 2 fouls when defending Gasol, which is one of the important reasons why Wang Meng can easily get him off the court.

The third quarter of the game was coming to an end, Wang Meng put his hands on his waist, panting, looking at the score on the timer, a smile appeared on his face, "Very good, as long as this score is maintained, in the fourth quarter, Gasol Auden played, the situation is the same as the Hornets." ”

The fantasy is beautiful, but the reality is often cruel, Wang Meng wanted to stabilize the score and persevere, but at this time, the outside line of the Heat suddenly began to convuls.

Five three-pointers in a row, each with 3 different players shooting, but all of them hit.

In an instant, the Heat scored 15 points in a row, but during this period, the Heat's 4 offenses only scored 3 times, which means that during this period, the Heat won by 9 points.

The original 18-point difference was pulled back to a single digit of 9 points.

What's worse is that the Heat's three-point shooting doesn't seem to have stopped.

(To be continued)