Chapter 203: Pressing the Champion to Fight
Taking advantage of the timeout, the head coaches of both teams were actively arranging their tactics, and as the referee blew the whistle at the end of the timeout, the players of both teams returned to the field.
Because of the excellent performance of the king at the beginning, the atmosphere at the scene was very hot, but Li Tian and other king players were not too proud at this time, after all, the game had just begun, and the Heat did not seem to be in the state on the offensive end, and on the defensive end, they were not so focused.
After this timeout, the Heat will definitely make adjustments, and the Kings players are well aware of that.
Sure enough, after the timeout, the Heat's offense immediately paid off, as James caught the attention of the Kings' defense with a strong basket, and then distributed the ball to Bosh, who made a layup.
The Heat's goal didn't affect the Kings' players too much, and after Bosh completed the goal, the Kings quickly sent the baseline ball to the other half, still trying to find a direct counterattack.
However, the Heat's retreat defense did an equally good job, Li Tian rushed to the front court to take Evans' pass, and found that Wade in front of him was completely defended in place, so he chose to pass the ball back to Evans and reorganize the offense.
At this time, Cousins once again came to the inside position, Thompson stayed in the other side of the ground midrange, and Li Tian and other three outside players stayed outside the three-point line.
It's a very regular position, and it looks like the Kings are still going to give the ball to Cousins for singles.
It is still Bosh who is defending Cousins, and the previous rounds have proved to be extremely difficult to rely on Bosh to defend Cousins, and the same is true at this time, a back, Cousins directly squeezed Bosin away a small step, seeing this, the Heat players quickly chose to attack.
At the same time as Battier stepped forward to flank the attack. Thompson pulled out, and the Kings' three perimeter players quickly started running.
Cousins passed the ball and the ball fell to the outside of the three-point line, and at this point, it was the ...... who received the ball from the outside Li Tian!
If according to the conventional judgment, the continuous attack on the inside line before the king succeeded. At this time, Cousins had already attracted the attention of the defense near the three-second zone, and it was very easy for Li Tian to get a direct shot after receiving the ball after running.
However, the Heat apparently did not completely shrink the defense because of the Kings' previous consecutive basket scores, and after Li Tian received the ball, Wade quickly followed up and stopped him.
There was no chance to shoot directly, Li Tian did not hesitate, smashed the ball on the floor, and after moving to the left side to receive the ball, he stopped and changed direction, and started to rush to the right side.
"Porphyry!" Wade, who defended Li Tian, moved his feet to block it at the first time. However, his body was quickly blocked.
Jason Thompson mentioned the high post at this time, and when Li Tian was about to break through, he also happened to come to Li Tian's side to block and dismantle.
Taking the opportunity to shake off Wade, Li Tian rushed directly to the three-point line, but at this time, his front was not a smooth road, and Battier, who had shrunk to the inside, rushed out quickly at this time. And Jacous, who was defending Iguodala on the right side, also moved his feet at this time to step forward to help the defense.
Continuing to rush forward, Li Tian threw the ball out casually. Passed to Iguodala.
After passing the ball, Li Tian ran back and pulled out, and when Iguodala started the dribble from outside the three-point line and continued to attract the defensive attention of Battier and James, Li Tian went around to the three-point line behind Iguodala.
Iguodala, who took two steps forward on the dribble, quickly returned the ball at this time, almost just when Li Tian just fell outside the three-point line. His ball was passed back again.
After receiving the ball, he jumped quickly, taking advantage of the fact that the Heat's defenders could not catch up with the defense at the moment, Li Tian shot outside the three-point line.
"Huh!" Steady hit!
Li Tian, who completed the goal, retreated to the backcourt and completed a high-five with Iguodala during this timeout. The Heat are clearly more focused defensively, and they haven't completely shrunk their defense to the basket because of the Kings' back-to-back basket play, and the Heat are also watching out for the Kings' outside offense.
However, for such defensive adjustments as the Heat, Adelman also has a certain judgment, and Li Tian finally got the opportunity to shoot.
Back on the other side of the half, the Heat's offense also played again, or James broke through, this time he distributed the ball to the outside of Chalmers in the middle, after receiving the ball, Chalmers outside the three-point line a dum, deceived Evans' defense and hit a one-step pull-up jump shot inside the three-point line to hit two points.
The Kings opened the game with five shots, which undoubtedly told the Heat players that they needed to do better defensively, and this time, they simply chose to press the whole court.
After Evans received the baseline serve, Chalmers began to post the delay, and Li Tian and others also posted it immediately after entering the halfcourt.
The Heat's defense is improving, and this is evident to the Kings' players, including Li Tian.
Standing outside the three-point line, Li Tian can clearly feel the pressure exerted by Wade, Wade is not only an offensive master, at the same time, he also has deep attainments on the defensive end, of course, in many cases, such as a superstar with excellent offensive ability like Wade, defensive ability is easier to be ignored, but now Li Tian obviously can't ignore it.
Wade's defense is clearly not to give Li Tian too easy to run and attack, but Li Tian is not willing to be restricted by the opponent like this, he has been resting for more than 20 days, he is full of energy after returning to the court, and he is also full of offensive **.
Moving backwards, Li Tian widened the distance between him and Wade, and then suddenly started and began to run without the ball.
In terms of absolute speed, Li Tian may not have an advantage in front of Wade, but in terms of skills in running without the ball, Li Tian is stronger than Wade.
Although Wade has also been transforming more off-ball in the past two years, and it is indeed very successful, the top off-ball running skills in the Li Tian League are not comparable to Wade.
The continuous flashing of his body, Li Tian did not blindly run in one direction, he constantly used the cover of his teammates and his own emergency stop and anti-running to interfere with Wade's judgment during the run, which made Wade's nerves tense up all over the body, and he completely relied on excellent reactions to follow up.
But even the most brilliant responses. In the face of Li Tian's almost instinctive running, there will also be times when there are mistakes in judgment.
In the middle distance on the right side, Li Tian, who came out of the bottom line, suddenly stopped and ran back, changed direction and no longer ran outside the three-point line, but took a step towards the basket.
Wade, who reacted very quickly, almost immediately chose to move a step towards the basket, however, at this time, Li Tian made a mistake. Ran back to the three-point line.
Whether it was the previous emergency stop and reverse run or the sudden change of direction again at this time, all of Li Tian's movements were extremely sudden.
And Wade, who has been following Li Tian for a long time, inevitably loosened the strings at this time, making his reaction slightly slower by half a beat, that is, in the blink of an eye, Li Tian has rushed outside the three-point line again and received the pass from his teammates.
"Li Tian catches the ball from beyond three points, and another one?"
received a pass outside the three-point line, although Wade had already made a quick save at this time, but. Li Tian was not affected by this, facing the Flash's defense, Li Tian, who had just hit a shot outside the three-point line, chose to shoot again.
"Huh!"
The next moment, the basketball pierced the net again!
The Kings' brilliant offense didn't end there, just a minute after Li Tian scored that time......
"Huh!"
"Iguodala shoots from the outside, too! The Kings were in really good offensive form today, hitting all seven of their first seven shots and three three-pointers in the opening game. At 6:17, the Kings led by 11 points. ”
Spoelstra stood on the sidelines, his brow furrowed slightly. The Kings' offensive state today was a bit surprising, and in the timeout, he had rearranged the defense, and did not completely press the defensive center of gravity on the inside, but reminded the players to pay attention to the outside defense, but. But he was still hit three three-pointers in a row by the king.
"Ray, get ready to play!"
Glancing at Li Tian, who was retreating to the backcourt at this time, Spoelstra turned his head and said to Ray Allen, who was sitting on the bench.
Obviously, in this section, Li Tian's excellent off-ball running is the main reason why the Kings can get so many outside opportunities.
The first two rounds. Li Tiandu used his running to find an open shot, and Iguodala's shot just now was also because Li Tian's catch after running attracted the attention of Wade and James, and Li Tian seized the opportunity to pass the ball to Iguodala, so that the latter got a shooting opportunity.
Realizing that Wade didn't seem to be working very well with Li Tian, Spoelstra decided to switch to Ray Allen, who apparently thought he would be a better fit to defend a great off-ball running pitcher like Li Tian.
Spoelstra was ready to bring on Ray Allen when he waited for the dead ball, but there was no dead ball on the pitch for several rounds in a row, and he had no way to make a substitution.
In these rounds, Wade's burst from the Heat allowed Battier to hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner, and the Kings' offense finally missed, and Evans bounced out of the basket with a mid-range jumper on the left side.
"Tick!" Spoelstra's long-awaited opportunity came with 6:01 left in the first quarter, when Bosh's foul on Cousins inside gave the referee a whistle.
After three consecutive outside shots, the Kings suddenly handed the ball to Evans and Cousins to attack the basket, although Evans and Cousins had missed once before, but this time, after Iguodala's outside catch attracted the attention of the Heat's defense, the ball was passed to Cousins who cut into the basket, causing Bosh to foul.
Spoelstra replaced Ray Allen and replaced Wade, but then he suddenly found that Li Tian was actually off.
"Forget that guy only played half a quarter." Spoelstra suddenly reacted at this time, and the Kings' game Li Tian usually only played about half a quarter of each quarter.
Li Tian, who was replaced, is very accustomed to playing about 25 minutes in a game, although this time is not a complete average of four quarters, but generally not too different, especially when the king is still ahead, Li Tian played half a quarter, which is a normal rotation.
Li Tian didn't rush to tell Adelman that his physical fitness had gotten better, because it didn't make sense, and he needed to find a time to let Adelman know, but not now.
Middleton came to the court in place of Li Tian, and in addition to him, Thomas Robinson also got the opportunity to play.
Recently. Thomas Robinson is gaining Adelman's trust, and his excellent rebounding ability and defense that is getting better and better allow him to get about 20 minutes of playing time per game.
When he got the chance to play, Thomas Robinson immediately showed his enthusiasm, Cousins hit the first free throw, but the second free throw bounced off the basket and Robinson flashed out of Bosh's card spot. Use your excellent bounce speed to catch the rebound.
After taking the rebound and dodging the defender's defense, Robinson immediately sent the ball to Evans on the perimeter, and the Kings reorganized the offense.
This is another area of improvement for Robinson, who is not in a hurry to complete his second offense after rushing to the frontcourt to rebound, and after this period of adaptation, he has slowly changed this habit.
Passing the ball to the outside, the Robinson man then rushed to the outside of the three-point line to block Evans.
Chalmers was blocked by Robinson, and Evans then dribbled to the side and rushed into the three-point line, just at this point. The Heat opted for a direct switch, with Battier defending Evans.
As a good defensive player, Battier didn't have much of a problem switching to defend Evans, and although his footwork was not as good as before, with his excellent judgment, he still stuck Evans as he tried to hit the basket in the first place.
On the other side, however, Chalmers, who played against Robinson, was clearly out of place.
Robinson is also aware of this. After completing the pick-and-roll, the man quickly cut to the basket. At the same time, he motioned for Evans to pass.
Bosh was pulled to the other side of the middle distance by Cousins at this time, and Evans, who controlled the ball, soon found that Robinson had an offensive opportunity at this time, and did not entangle with Battier anymore, he quickly sent the ball out of his hand and passed it to Robinson's hands.
After receiving Evans' pass, Robinson smashed the ball to the floor with both hands. A jump forward, while jumping into the three-second zone, also directly pushed Chalmers completely.
Jumping with both feet, Robinson grabs the basketball in his right hand and wants to dunk the ball to the basket!
And at this time. Players for the Heat have also emerged...... LeBron James.
Jumping from the side, James waved his hand and swept towards the basketball that Robinson was clutching in his hand.
After discovering that it was James next to him, Robinson did not feel flustered, his eyes lit up, but he became more and more excited!
The right hand that grabbed the ball suddenly accelerated and pressed down, almost avoiding James's palm, and the basketball was slammed into the basket!
"Bang!" "Tick!"
At the same time that the basketball was smashed into the basket, the referee's whistle sounded again, James fouled, 2+1!
"Thomas, well done!" On the sidelines, Li Tian, who had just sat down, immediately jumped up, reached out and pulled the towel draped over his body, and shouted excitedly into the field.
"Oh!" In the court, Robinson, who completed the dunk, was also extremely excited at this time, he puffed out the muscles of his arms and shouted at the sky!
At 9:20, although Robinson's subsequent free throw did not hit, the difference between the two teams came to 11 points, and the scene was completely ignited by Robinson's explosive dunk, and the King completely dominated the momentum.
Although James quickly responded with a forced layup under Iguodala's defense, Middleton hit another three-point shot after coming to the other end.
At 23:35, although the Heat were better on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends in the second half of the first quarter, it did not help them turn the tide after the first quarter, and under Adelman's aggressive tactical changes, the Kings' offense fully opened up, and they scored 35 points in a single quarter above the head of the defending champions and established a 12-point lead.
The start of the second quarter of the game was time for the bench, and the normal rotation on the Kings' side all sent substitutes to the court, while the Heat were sent to lead the team because they were behind by double digits, plus Wade had a half-quarter break in the first quarter.
For the Heat, this was a very good stage of chasing points, and the two best players in this game, Cousins and Li Tian, were both sitting on the sidelines, but this was obviously theoretical, and after three minutes, the difference between the two teams remained at 10 points.
"Great boys, Tyrek, DeMarcus, play!"
During the official timeout, Adelman praised the performance of his substitutes on the pitch. While sending Evans and Cousins back on the court, Iguodala stayed off the court and rested like Li Tian because James on the other side did not return to the court.
But after a minute, Iguodala was back on the court, because the opponent sent James at this time.
At 12 points, Evans and Cousins immediately came on the court and scored a goal each. Although Wade also scored 2 points on the other end, the difference was once again widened to 12 points, and Spoelstra immediately put James back on the court.
James's play helped the Heat very obviously, under the leadership of Wade and James, the Heat soon played a wave of 4:0 small climax, narrowing the difference to only 8 points, but the Kings quickly re-stabilized the situation, and the 8-point difference was directly maintained until only 3 minutes left in the second quarter.
Lee stopped in front of Wade and was halfway through the second quarter. Li Tian returned to the court.
As the game progressed, the Heat also began to get better, the previous round, Bosh just shot a three-pointer, when coming to the other side of the half when Li Tian tried to complete the offense after receiving the ball, the ball was snatched by Wade, fortunately the King's retreat was also timely, and did not let the Heat play a counterattack.
45:52, at this time. There are still 7 points left between the two teams, but. The Heat also have possession of the ball.
Wade controlled the ball, still in such a hurry, but Li Tian did not dare to be careless, and Bosh's three-point shot in the previous offensive round was because Wade broke through the opportunity created by Li Tian.
Li Tianzhu focused on preparing to prevent Wade's breakthrough. At this time, Bosh suddenly lifted the block.
Li Tian, who had already spotted Bosh appearing out of the corner of his eye, quickly took a small step back, ready to bypass Bosh's side, but Wade did not walk in the direction of Bosh's block at this time.
Li Tian and Thompson behind Bosh were both preparing to defend when Wade would break through from the right with Bosh's pick-and-roll. Wade suddenly started and rushed to the left at this time.
Although Li Tian was also on guard against this happening, when Wade started to rush forward, he quickly flashed back to the left, but he still couldn't stick to Wade in time.
Thompson flashed out in time at this time, and he had more reaction time further inside, and when Wade accelerated, he happened to come to Li Tian's side.
Behind Wade's body, Li Tian stopped abruptly after taking a step, although Thompson's defense was positive, but it also completely occupied the position of Li Tian's defense, and after a glance and found that Cousins was ready to make up for the defense, he immediately moved towards Bosh who was split to the three-point line at this time.
Li Tian's move was originally just a defensive instinct, not wanting Bosh to get a big vacancy, but he soon realized that this choice was extremely correct.
Perhaps thinking that his breakthrough completely attracted the defense of the Kings players, Wade chose to throw the ball back to Bosh at this time, and Bosh pulled the ball outside the three-point line to widen the distance between the two, which also increased the time for him to receive the ball, which just gave the rushing Li Tian a chance.
In a rushing rush, Li Tian jumped high in front of Bosh, grabbed the basketball in his hand in the air, and made a steal!
"Beautiful, Li Tianfei steals, the king has a fast break opportunity......"
The domestic commentator, who is very familiar with the king's offense, shouted almost at the same time as Li Tian completed the steal, and the scene that happened on the court was indeed as he shouted, after completing the steal and landing, Li Tian rushed forward with a fast dribble to counterattack!
Li Tian and Bosh rushed to the other half side side by side, Bosh's movement speed may not be slow, but Li Tian's speed at this time is not bad even in the second position, not to mention such a full-court impact, the speed is easier to break out, and the gap is easier to show.
After rushing past the midfield, Li Tian had already established his leading position and completely threw Bosh away.
On the other side, Iguodala also took James to go down quickly, and the front court had a chance to play two and one!
When Li Tian rushed to the three-point line, Bosh was completely unable to defend him, and after seeing this, James on the other side had to run away from Iguodala and come to block Li Tian's fast break.
Li Tian and Iguodala split the inside line from both sides of the three-second zone, like two sharp arrows, and at this time, although James has a shield, there is only one.
Seeing that James was about to rush to him, Li Tian immediately shook his hand and sent the ball out and passed it to Iguodala's hands.
James showed excellent control of his body at this point. Running backwards and accelerating, he actually came to Iguodala's side the next moment when Iguodala had just received the ball.
After taking a step forward after receiving the ball, Iguodala was about to pass the ball back to Li Tian, and at this time James also saw this, and quickly put it on the top, and he directly pasted Iguodala. At the same time, the palm of his hand reached out and slapped the basketball that Iguodala placed on his right waist to be launched.
Good Iguodala, in the face of James's strong pressing, he was not too flustered, his right hand, which was originally holding the basketball on his waist, went around his back, he directly dodged James's pressing, and the ball flew out from behind him and flew towards Li Tian!
"Beautiful pass from behind, Iguodala made a wonderful pass to Li Tian, and made a layup......"
Li Tian, who rushed forward, first thought after receiving the ball was to dunk the ball into the basket. But when he jumped up, he suddenly felt a figure behind him approaching quickly.
Chris Bosh, without looking back, Li Tian can also guess who the arrivals are, he knows that he and Iguodala's continuous pass ball is still slightly delayed, and seizing the opportunity, Bosh catches up.
The basketball that originally wanted to be lifted directly over his head was closed in front of his chest at this time, and Li Tian's body, which was originally going to slide forward directly after jumping, was also changed to forward at this time.
As Li Tian judged. Behind him, Bosh leaped up quickly. Prepare to interfere with Li Tian's layup.
"Tick!"
However, Li Tianqian's body leaned into the basket to make Bosh's interference futile, and when he tried to get a little closer to Li Tian, the referee's whistle had already sounded.
Sell! At the same time as the referee's whistle sounded, Li Tian's fingers flicked lightly and picked out the ball. He knew that once the referee blew the whistle, Bosh would no longer be in control of his movements.
"Porphyry!"
Sure enough, after shooting the ball, Li Tian immediately felt a force behind him pressing on his body.
After falling into the floor, he staggered forward and took two steps and rushed directly into the audience, Li Tian also heard the cheers of the scene at this time!
"Coax!"
"Beautiful. 2+1! Li Tian hit a layup on the counterattack and caused a foul on Bosh, which was a crucial shot, and Li Tian completed a steal on a fast break, and if he could make a free throw, the Kings would regain a 10-point lead. ”
The Kings had a chance to re-extend the lead to 10 points, and Li Tian, who had this opportunity, did not miss and hit a free throw to rewrite the score to 45:75, and the Kings led by 10 points.
After the difference reached 10 points, in the next two rounds, the offense of both sides was not completed, and at this time, the offense in the second quarter was only a little more than a minute left.
James dribbled outside the three-point line, and it was Iguodala who stopped him, Iguodala chose not to let go at this time, he directly retreated to the three-point line and opened his hands to guard against James' breakthrough.
James stepped on small steps and tried to find a flaw in Iguodala's defense.
However, the very experienced Iguodala did not give James such a chance, he stopped in front of the opponent and was extremely focused.
Slapping the ball down, James suddenly accelerated the frequency of the dribble, as if he was about to break through, but the next moment, he suddenly pulled up the shot outside the three-point meridian.
However, at this time, Iguodala was expected, and when James jumped and shot, he jumped forward for the first time to interfere.
"James made a three-point shot...... No! ”
"Bang!" James' shot was disrupted by Iguodala's save, and the basketball bounced high inside the basket.
Cousins, who was in a good position, picked up the rebound steadily on the inside, and at this time, Li Tian and others had quickly rushed to the other half.
Evans also got on the ball as soon as he received the pass, and a long pass directly sent the ball to Li Tian outside the three-point line on the right side of the arc.
After receiving the pass, he dribbled forward, and Li Tian seemed to take advantage of the opportunity that the Heat's retreat was not fully in place, and directly broke into the inside.
Wade, who had just retreated to the three-point line, did not retreat at this time, and he seemed to be going directly to the top of the defense. Obviously, Wade also knows something about Li Tian's situation and knows that using his body to defend Li Tian is the best way to defend.
"Squeak!"
However, at this time, Li Tian did not choose to break through, and with a violent friction sound, Li Tian stopped jumping outside the three-point line.
"Li Tian also came, facing Wade's three-point strong ......"
Seeing that Li Tian had chosen the same way as James before, the commentator immediately shouted.
James is facing Iguodala's strong throw, and at this time, Li Tian is facing Wade's strong throw, Wade's position at this time is even higher than Iguodala's position before, but Li Tian's emergency stop and jump speed is very fast, even Wade has no time to jump, so he can only raise his hand to interfere.
"Get in!"
Although Wade was still standing in front of him at the moment, Li Tian didn't seem to be disturbed in any way, and after jumping with his wrist pushing, the ball in his hand flew out and flew to the basket in the distance, and then in everyone's eyes......
"Huh!" Plunged into the basket and brought up a burst of white net flowers!
"Good shot! Li Tian quickly attacked and shot a three-point shot! The shot was so beautiful that it completely ignored Wade's defense and forced a three-point shot, giving the Kings a 13-point lead! ”
13 points! Both teams then completed an attack each, and Chalmers missed a long-range three-point range, and the score was fixed at 47-60 at the end of the first half, giving the Kings a 13-point lead.
"The Kings were obviously more prepared for this game, the Kings took the lead from the very beginning of the game, and this lead lasted throughout the half, and for most of the first half of the game, the Kings had a lead of about 10 points, which can be said to be completely pressing the Heat, which was not expected by many people before the game."
When the players on both sides walked to the locker room, the commentator and the guests also began to discuss the first half of the game, and as they said, throughout the first half of the game, the Kings were completely in the driver's seat, and they were pressing the Heat to play, which was indeed unexpected by many people.
Such a situation may make the Heat fans feel very unhappy, but it makes the Kings fans addicted, especially the domestic Kings fans, Li Tian's performance after returning from injury surprised them, in the first half of the rest of the players also performed very well, Li Tian seized not too many opportunities, only 8 shots to score 18 points.
"With 18 points in the half, 7 of 8 shots, 3 of 3 three-pointers, and 1 free throw, if he maintains such an offensive state, Li Tian should not have much problem scoring 30 points in the whole game." (To be continued.) )
PS: Eight thousand words long chapter, when you complete today's three more tasks, it's late, sorry!