"Slow down! Slow down the pace! Don't let them play the fast break easily! In response to the Heat's fast break, Monty immediately made adjustments and shouted at the players on the court.

Wang Meng naturally knows this, the pace of the Heat is fast, the Hornets must not follow fast, and playing the inside line steadily is the king.

The Heat's fast break is indeed very strong, and the extreme fast break of the four people is almost unsolvable, but the near-unsolvable is not unsolvable after all, and there are many hard injuries in this kind of fast attack, and it can still be slightly limited if it is accurate.

Wang Meng's move is very simple, that is, try to interfere with Bosh's serve.

As long as you can slow down the timing of Bosh's serve a little, you can buy enough time for Gasol and Oden to get back into play.

Slowing down the serve here is not necessarily to block Bosh's serve in front of him, after all, the Heat now have four players who can control the ball on the court, and blocking the serve is simply not realistic when there are four passing targets.

Wang Meng's slow serve, in fact, is a little childish, Wang Meng is in his own side of the offense is completed, try to grab the basketball before Bosh and others, and then rub the basketball to the referee, the referee will hand the ball to Bosh for serve, so that after grinding for a long time, the time will pass 3 or 4 seconds, and the Heat's fast attack will be self-defeating.

However, Wang Meng's move is a bit hurtful, and the fans all over the court are invariably empty, and they are used to seeing the Heat's hearty fast attack, and the Heat's fans tolerate such obscene actions.

Even the referee looked at Wang Meng's eyes a little impatiently, you can interfere, why do you always pass the ball to me? I'm not tired of serving, huh? Although he was unhappy, the referee couldn't blow Wang Meng for a foul, after all, it was normal to pick up the basketball and hand the ball to the referee to serve, and there was nothing wrong with it.

After all, the Heat's fast break is different from the original Sun's, the Sun's fast break is more about using the players' running, and the Heat's fast break is completely extreme fast, I just run faster than you! It's just to go back to the basket before you, and if you have the ability, you will catch up with me, and if you don't have the ability, you can see me attack.

It's true that this kind of fast break is sometimes shorter than the Suns' run-and-gun offense, but it's a bit blind when it's limited by the opponent or the players don't feel good.

Then with this opportunity, the Hornets steadily attacked the interior line, and at the same time slightly contained the Heat's offense.

However, the Heat's fast break is not a conventional tactic due to its limitations, but is only used as a surprise move, and when the fast break can't be played, the Heat will quickly change their offensive tactics.

Blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, this is the most frequently used tactic of the Heat this season, in one game, the number of blocks and pick-and-rolls of the Heat is even more than that of a team like the Hornets that mainly plays blocking and pick-and-rolling, no way, who makes the current Heat the best outside team in the league?

James, Kidd, Ray Allen, Chalmers, Miller, Battier, this three-point shooter has made all teams in the league scared, and other players with average three-point shooting percentages such as Wade, Bosh, and Haslem have good mid-range shooting ability, although they are not good at three-point shooting.

A game that uses a shot to kill the opponent is the current Heat.

With pick-and-roll, the Heat's shooters can easily find space to shoot and then fire en masse to shoot any of the league's defensive powerhouses.

However, today seems to be not beautiful, and the Heat's players have a very average outside feel, even if they shoot in the open after blocking and dismantling, the shooting rate is also very average. In particular, the Hornets also played steadily and steadily on the inside shooting rate, and soon the difference between the two teams widened.

At 23:17, at the end of the first quarter of the game, the Heat was 6 points behind the Hornets, which is already a big disadvantage for the defending champions, because the Heat started with Kidd and Ray Allen, two veterans, and the premature play made both of them have a lot of physical consumption, but in the case of physical energy consumption, the Heat is still behind, which is a bit too much to say.

Of the 17 points in the first quarter, the Heat scored 11 points by James, and this guy played very comfortably against Gasol, the offense broke through on the outside, and it was difficult for Gasol, who was moving slowly, to keep up with James. Oden was also pulled out by Bosh, and the empty interior line was a good occasion for James to brush up on points.

However, Gasol can't stop James, James can't stop Gasol either, and when he singles James on the inside of the Heat, Gasol's shooting rate is also very high, and James, who has an absolute disadvantage in height, can't prevent Gasol either. James scored 11 points in a single quarter, and Gasol was also not to be outdone, cutting 10 points and 4 rebounds in response to James.

The second quarter is the world of the benches, and the Heat's benches and the Hornets' benches can't say who is strong and who is weak. The bench duo of Chalmers, Miller, Battier, Haslem and Joel Anthony will really struggle to compare the upper side against the combination of Hornets Fisher, Roy, Barnes, Yi Jianlian and Milicic.

In terms of the individual ability of the players, Roy can blow up all the substitutes of the two teams, and even the main team is only Wade James and a few others who can talk to Roy one-on-one, in addition to Roy, the other substitutes of the Hornets only have a physical advantage when small forward Barnes faces Battier, and the other players are all disadvantages.

Fisher has old arms and legs, and now his only role is almost a more stable three-point shot, and even organizing the offense is Roy's task. Although Yi Jianlian has played very well since joining the Hornets, he is enough to play an important role player for the Hornets, but he looks much immature in the face of Haslem, Haslem, the champion of the Heat, if he is enough to be a starter in other teams, but in the Heat, he is willing to act as the blue-collar of the Big Three, this strong blue-collar will blow up Yi Jianlian at both offensive and defensive ends, and the strong defense makes Yi Jianlian at a loss, and the simple and crude use of physical fitness to play the inside line also makes Yi Jianlian have no way.

As for Milicic, well, although he was only below James in the draft pick back then, beating Anthony, Wade and others, but now it seems that his only role is to protect and protect backcourt rebounds, and there is not much gap with Joel Anthony of the Heat.

In terms of overall bench strength, the Heat is better than the Hornets, but the Hornets have Roy's big killer, and Roy's offense alone is on top of the offense of the Heat's entire bench team. The two sides are inseparable, and the Heat are worried, because the score is behind the Heat's side, the substitutes can't catch up with the score, and the main players feel very average, how to play this game?

By halftime, the difference between the two sides had widened to 60:48, a 12-point gap.

The Hornets, who played steadily, scored 60 points in the first half, while the Heat, who are good at chaotic battles and fast breaks, did not even score 50 points.

A large part of the reason for the Hornets' pressing defense is that in the second quarter, when the two sides were on the main line, the Hornets did not let Oden play, but let Roy continue to stay on the court.

Gasol was in the center position, and Wallace naturally replaced the big forward to defend James, and the same muscle [***], Wallace's defense put James into a hard battle. Wallace's strength is not weaker than James, but it is weaker than James in terms of speed, and in the case of consciously taking a step back to defend, James must waste a lot of physical strength and energy if he wants to break through Wallace, and he may not be able to break through successfully.

And Gasol, who was liberated on the defensive end, was even more full of firepower, and when he played Bosh alone, Gasol was rarely tough, and he grabbed Bosh a little worse than himself on several inside lines in a row.

Bosh is about to cry, isn't it written like this in the script, isn't Gasol a sister-in-law? Isn't he a softie? Why are you so hard when you eat yourself?

In fact, Gasol is still as soft as before, and it hasn't changed much, except that Bosh is softer than Gasol.

Although Bosh is a black man, he is much smaller than Gasol in terms of weight and strength, and more importantly, since joining the Heat, no, it should be said that when he was with the Raptors, Bosh has not been a player who plays inside, and most of his offensive means are mid-range jump shots. Gasol is different, although he is always called soft by the league, but most of Gasol's offense is completed in the inside penalty area, and there are many times when there are fierce physical collisions with other teams' interiors, which is very different from Bosh who tries to avoid physical contact.

The attacking methods of the two men were very different, and with Gasol deliberately looking for a physical confrontation, Bosh withered.

In fact, as early as last season, when the Big Three were just formed, there were already many people who said that Bosh was not enough to be one of the Big Three, his contribution to the team was too little, and the team's lack of interior offense and rebounding, Bosh did not provide the team well, but because the firepower of the Big Three was too strong, after winning the championship in the second season, this call was much smaller, especially after Kidd and Ray Allen and others joined the Heat, which made the overall style of the Heat change greatly. Bosh has become the best example of a big and four small player because of his speed on the interior and his mid-range shooting ability allows him to pull up space for his teammates.

However, the poor ability to fight inside is after all a poor ability to fight inside, Bosh's defensive ability on the inside is not even as good as Haslem and Joel Anthony in the team, if it is not for the advantage of height, Bosh's interior defense is even inferior to James.

Gasol's explosion of Bosh was beyond everyone's expectations, no one expected that Bosh, one of the Big Three, would have no power to fight back in the face of Gasol, who is also an All-Star power forward.

Looking at such a big three, Bosh, Wang Meng suddenly understood why the Heat's rebounding king would be James. Refusing to rush inside to attack the basket and grab rebounds, how could Bosh have more rebounds?

Now the All-Star power forwards in the league, Garnett and Duncan are old, and their rebounding ability has deteriorated, so they only average 8 to 9 per game, which is understandable, and other All-Star power forwards such as Gasol, Griffin, Love, Randolph and other All-Star power forwards have about 10 rebounds, and as an All-Star, the number of rebounds is not double-double, only Bosh, Aldridge, Nowitzki are just a few people, the latter two can contribute more than 20 points per game to the team, even if the number of rebounds is less, it doesn't matter, But the Heat's Bosh contributed very little firepower on the offensive end, averaging only about 17 points per game in the first two seasons, and this season due to the addition of Kidd and Ray Allen, Bosh's shots were reduced again, and now the average score per game is only about 14 points, under such a low score, Bosh has barely 7 rebounds, which is a bit too much.

14+7, such data is luxurious enough for an ordinary blue-collar worker, but it is somewhat unsightly to put it on the only inner core Bosh after the heat.

When the whistle blew at the end of the game, Wang Meng looked at the score on the scoreboard, and once again deeply realized what it means to have an inside line to win the world.

At 115:107, the Hornets won the game with an away win over the defending champion Heat.

The best player in this game was Gasol, the best player of the Hornets last game. In this game, Gasol played even better than against the Grizzlies. He scored 39 points and 13 rebounds in the game, 39 points is Gasol's highest score this season, and of Gasol's 13 rebounds, 5 are frontcourt rebounds, and the Heat's interior rebounds are really bad.

Oden, who is also an insider, also played well in this game, with 16 points and 8 rebounds, although the rebounds did not go double-double, but Oden got a full 5 blocks on the head of the Heat, two of which were given to Wade, and the remaining three Kidd, James and Chalmers each got one.

Wang Meng's performance in this game can only be said to be average, 18 points and 8 assists, but those who have watched this game know that the victory of this game has an absolutely direct relationship with Wang Meng, although Wang Meng did not directly oppose James or Wade throughout the game, but steadily suppressed the rhythm and did not let the Heat easily play a fast attack, which is definitely Wang Meng's credit, controlling the court, for the current Wang Meng, is not a particularly difficult thing.

In addition to Wang Menggasu and Oden, the Hornets also had two players score in double figures, Roy came off the bench but scored the Hornets' second-highest 22 points, and the Hornets' other starter, Wallace, although he was entangled with James throughout the game, also scored 14 points and 6 rebounds.

Compared with the Hornets, the scoring situation of the Heat's players is much inferior, the Big Three James 26 points, Wade 21 points, Bosh only has a pitiful 12 points, Kidd was targeted by Wang Meng throughout the game, only scored 6 points, and Ray Allen has 15 points.

In any case, the Heat lost this game, and they lost very neatly, and the reason for the loss is very clear, that is, the inside, and the Heat lost to the Hornets' tough inside.

With the Heat, the Hornets have won three in a row, first 14 in a row, then two in a row, and then three in a row, and the Hornets' record is so good that everyone feels like a dream.

There are too many strong teams this season, and all of them are giant combinations, the most typical teams, the Heat has James, Wade, Bosh, Kidd and Ray Allen, the Lakers are composed of Paul, Kobe, Howard Big Three, the Spurs have Duncan, Yao Ming two interior giants, the Knicks have Nash, Anthony Studmeier's super fast attack combination, and the Thunder, Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka, Gordon and Carman's lineup is also terrifying.

These giants originally thought that their team would lead the league at the beginning of the season, but they didn't expect that the most unattractive Hornets were at the front.

Whether it is the team lineup or the salary of the team, the Hornets are the least among the strong teams in the league, and the salary cap of the Hornets has just reached the top, although it is not redundant, but it is not exceeded, in the league, such a salary can only be regarded as the level of the middle and lower reaches of the league.

But at such a level, how is it not surprising that the Hornets can achieve such amazing results?

In terms of the team's stars, the Hornets seem to be doing well, not to mention four All-Stars, Wang Meng, Roy, Gasol and Wallace. But in addition to Wang Meng and Gasol, although Wallace is an all-star, his performance has been tepid, and fans' impression of him is only limited to his violent dunk and iron-blooded defense.

As for Roy, although he was the league's third-largest scoring guard after Kobe and Wade before he was injured, he is a person without a meniscus after all, even with the support of Wang Meng's medical kit, he is no longer the core of the team at the beginning.

In the final analysis, the Hornets' tactical core has only two from beginning to end, one mile and one outside, Wang Meng on the outside, and Gasol on the inside. However, just by virtue of the ancient dual-core model, the Hornets can surpass the three-core or even four-core team model of other strong teams, which shows that the ancient tactical model is not necessarily inferior to the game giant model.

With the performance of the Hornets at the beginning of the season, it has been determined that the Hornets are not a big problem to enter the playoffs, and now the head coach of the Hornets needs to think carefully about how the Hornets should play to win if they meet a giant team such as the Lakers and Spurs in the playoffs.

The audience in front of the TV watched the game between the Heat and the Hornets, and was about to go to bed early or change the channel to watch other programs, when they suddenly found an interesting program on the TV, which was very familiar, that is, Barkley's smiling face and O'Neal's bitter melon face.

"Hey! Guys! Did you miss me? Barkley smiled happily, "You know what? I miss you guys! Because I've been waiting for this moment for a long, long time! ”

(To be continued)