Chapter 457: First Victory
The seven-point incident in a single quarter not only made the Heat dig a 12-point hole, but also had a more severe consequence of a blow to morale. The first quarter of the first game directly allowed the home defense to score seven points, which was a very heavy blow to the team's self-confidence. It is likely that the player will not dare to shoot confidently, which will put the team in a situation where it cannot be saved.
In fact, just for this first quarter of the game, it is already certain that the Knicks will win this game.
Now that the Knicks have a huge advantage, the possibility of losing is very slim, although not impossible. But now the advantage of the Knicks is too great, not only in the score, but also in the psychological advantage.
In the second quarter of the game, the Knicks sent substitute players, but the Heat still let the main players on the court, it seems that it is to chase points, if they don't chase the score back at this time, don't get the momentum back, then the Heat really have no chance.
However, the Heat's idea is good, but the reality is cruel. Although the Heat still kept the main team on the court, and the Knicks only sent a bench, they still did not recover the lost points.
The Knicks came to the playoffs, Crawford didn't know what was going on and seemed to feel like he was coming suddenly, this game, facing Wade, although Crawford couldn't prevent Wade at all, but it also made the Heat helpless against him.
Crawford hit a three-pointer just after the start of the second quarter. 22:7。
On the Heat side, James Jones also quickly received Wade's pass, and then shot a two-pointer, at least finally breaking the scoring drought, 22:9.
And came back to his senses, Crawford took advantage of Lefou's blocking, rushed directly into the inside, and used his famous stunt, a butterfly through flowers, but the rhythm of the ball was not neat, failed, the ball was broken by Wade, after the ball was broken, Wade quickly ran forward, intending to make a fast attack, but, after passing the ball to Chalmers, when Chalmers wanted to pass the ball to Jermaine O'Neal, he was pulled out by Nate Robinson behind him. Nate Robinson also steals a ball, and Chalmers is obviously a little out of shape now, and it can be seen that the fighting spirit of the Heat is very low now, and there is no desire to fight at all. Chalmers' ball was also cut off from behind because of lack of concentration.
Nate Robinson broke the ball and threw the ball directly to Lefu who had not had time to return to the defense in the front court, and Lefu received the ball and directly came to a two-handed dunk. But even if it's not ornamental, he's got two points. 24:9。
When halfway through the second quarter, the Heat will find that the effect of putting the team's main players on the court has not played at all. Originally, Eric Spoelstra put Wade, O'Neal Jr., and Haslem on the court to chase some points, and then be able to bring back the disadvantage in momentum, but now the Knicks' bench does not have the upper hand at all in the face of the main force of the Heat, and even after six minutes of the game, the score difference on the court has not only narrowed, but has become a little bigger. The score on the field became 29:14.
It's ironic that the score difference has changed from 12 points to 15 points, but it's normal for the Knicks to have a big morale boost and the players to play harder. Or rather, they were just infected by the atmosphere of the team.
In the second half of the second quarter of the game, you can't continue to let the main players stumble, otherwise you will be tired to death.
The Heat could only ask for a timeout and make substitutions.
The result is naturally obvious, the Knicks' main players and the Heat's bench players are not only not at the same level, the Heat's bench players are like the level of CBA players, and the Knicks' main players are very strong in the NBA.
Among the Heat's benches, there is only one Michael Beasley, but in any case, he is a rookie, and not all rookies are called Chen Jiyuan. Not all rookies can easily average 20 points per game.
Although Michael Beasley helped the Heat on the bench with a bit of a dying look, he was quickly eliminated by the Knicks' attack wave.
On the Knicks' side, after the substitution, the five people on the court were Chen Jiyuan, Starkey, Sessions, Crawford, Landry, and Chen Jiyuan. Because Wade was not there, Tony Allen and Stephen Jackson were replaced. Let them rest for the time being, although Tony Allen does not have much playing time, but the most difficult task is to be given to him, so Thibodeau must let Tony Allen have enough strength to prevent Wade. As long as Wade can be prevented, then it will be a victory for the Knicks. Thibodeau is convinced of this.
So now the Knicks' five attack power lineups instantly made the Heat have the idea of not wanting to play anymore.
Chen Jiyuan continued to eat Joel Anthony in the low position, which is simply not a matter for Chen Jiyuan, it is too easy, SO. EASY。
Then Sessions attacked the opponent outside the three-point line, you know, the original Sessions outside the range is not outside the three-point line, but now it is different, this season's Sessions can already shoot outside the three-point line, and in order to exercise his three-point ability, this goods in the regular season a lot of three-point shots, just to strengthen their three-point shots.
This season, Sessions averaged 3.8 three-pointers per game, and the shooting rate was only in the early thirties, but in the later stage, Sessions' three-point shooting rate improved, and Chen Jiyuan probably knew why. Chen Jiyuan also met Sessions, but later after Chen Jiyuan could train at home, he didn't necessarily go to the stadium to train every day, what Chen Jiyuan didn't know was that every day, there would be two people in the stadium, one was Sessions and the other was Lefou. The two men train together in the arena and fight together to make their own long-range shots, every day. Although Lefu has not yet demonstrated his three-point ability on the court, in fact, when training, Lefu can also ensure a fairly good three-point shooting rate. However, on the one hand, the team has not yet arranged a tactic suitable for Lefu to shoot three-pointers, so Lefu does not dare to take it lightly for the time being, after all, Chen Jiyuan of this team is a well-deserved boss, and the Knicks are not the kind of bad team that will not allow rookies to play lightly.
Sessions shot 36 percent from three-point range late in the season, which wasn't very good, but at least as a guard, it was a decent number. And then in the end, Sessions shot 34 percent from three-point range all season.
With the excellent performance of the main players, the Knicks successfully continued to widen the point difference.
When there were 3 minutes left in the second quarter of the game, the Heat once again replaced the main team, but the overwork of the main players was very easy to have a considerable impact on the competitive state of the fourth quarter. After all, even if it's a superstar, it's human, okay?
However, even if the Heat sent the main players, they did not recover the decline at all. At the end of the second quarter, the Knicks still led by more than twenty points.
The score on the field became 47:25.
The Heat scored 25 points in the first half and 17 in the second quarter. Compared to the 7 points in the first quarter, it is already good.
In this way, will the Heat have a score of no more than 50 today? That's kind of awesome.
At halftime, the Knicks achieved such a result, and the home fans were naturally very excited, and the current situation looks, but it is no longer a problem for the Knicks to win the game. As long as the Knicks don't make any decisive mistakes in the second half.
After the start of the second half, the Knicks still maintained their defensive intensity in the first half of the game, but it is obviously not something that can be done if you want to suppress the opponent's score to single digits, not only the defense of your own side is good, but also the offensive difference on the opposite side, which can be said to be something that requires the joint efforts of both sides to complete.
In the third quarter of the game, the Heat recovered a little lost points, and by the end of the third quarter, the score on the court became 71:54. At least the score difference has become within 20 points.
However, at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, the Knicks quickly came to a small wave of climaxes.
Chen Jiyuan came up with a dunk, and then Chen Jiyuan assisted Sessions to score a basketball, and caused Haslem's foul, and then successfully made a free throw.
After Chen Jiyuan was trapped, he gave the ball to Tony Allen, and Tony Allen rushed into the inside line and made a violent dunk. This dunk completely made the shape of the rim on the court brighter.
After Stephen Jackson hit a three-pointer, the Heat dropped the game, and the margin was stretched to nearly 30 points. At this time, I already had to give up the game, the score difference was so big, the players still had no combat effectiveness at all, and the desire to fight was even more useless, and it was impossible not to give up the game.
The Knicks easily won Game 1 of the playoffs. The final score was 98:75.
The Knicks' successful defense allowed them to win this game.