Chapter 324: Fierce Battle Heat

Of course, the Heat's outside advantage needs specific circumstances to play a role, while the Clippers' inside advantage is always there.

At the beginning of the game, the Clippers played the inside line steadily, and the bombing of Griffin and Jordan Jr. made the Heat interior line turn over for a while.

In the face of this situation, the Heat are also helpless, what they can do is to try to involve the show on the outside to solve it, even Bosh who plays power forward also tries to attack from a long distance, although the outside shooting has a hidden danger of shooting percentage, but at least it is much better than fighting the enemy's length with his own shortcomings.

On the other hand, the Heat also used the combination of James and Wade to take turns to impact the Clippers' interior line, putting pressure on the Clippers' two interior players, although the defensive effect of Wang Cannon and Matthews was very small, but at least it was better than nothing.

Maybe it's the reason for the first game of the finals, the Heat felt very good at the beginning, and the shooting rate on the outside was not much worse than the inside of the Clippers, but the Clippers were obviously not in a hurry, because there was always a time when the feeling was lost, and the dominant inside line would always take the initiative.

The actual situation is the same as expected by the Clippers, halfway through the first quarter, the Heat players' hands entered a cold state, and they failed to hit four or five consecutive attacks, while the Clippers seized this opportunity and played a round of fast-break frenzy led by Wang Cannon Paul and others, directly widening the score gap between the two teams.

At 28:17, the Heat trailed by 11 points, and Spoelstra was forced to call a timeout, then changed the lineup, replacing Chalmers and Haslem with Ray Allen and Battier.

In this way, the Heat can be regarded as a broken can and completely give up the right to compete on the inside, the only one who can compete on the inside Haslem was replaced, and Bosh alone cannot compete with Griffin and Jordan Jr., as for Battier, who replaced the big forward. Although his defense is very good, it is obvious that he is not an interior player, and his rebounding ability and interior offensive ability are average.

However, with such a lineup, the Heat is in the state of five outside shooters, including Bosh who can shoot three-pointers, and the Clippers are forced to pull everyone out to defend. Griffin and Jordan Jr. are no exception.

The withdrawal of the interior also made the Clippers' interior defense extremely empty, but it provided a good opportunity for Wade James to break through.

Coupled with the three-point support of Ray Allen and Battier, the Heat also played well, and although they failed to control the inside rebounds, they could continue to compete with the Clippers.

At the end of the first quarter, the score was 31:25, and the Heat chased the score back to within 10 points.

After the game came up in the second quarter, the Heat's scoring momentum became stronger, and Ray Allen and Chalmers hit consecutive three-pointers from the outside. directly chased the difference back, and also successfully overtook it.

But how could Wang Cannon sit back and watch the team be overtaken?

hit two in a row on the inside, James also had no way to do this, Wang Cannon's hook James can't be prevented, he is only a little higher than Wang Cannon, and it is not enough to block the hook such a skill.

This was only secondary, as the Clippers' lineup changed dramatically halfway through the second quarter.

That's right. It's a huge change indeed.

The two mainstays of the interior, Griffin and Jordan Jr., were both off the court. Instead, there are two players, Kidd and Barnes, both of whom are outside players, and if you count the king cannon and Romecius, the Clippers' roster has also become five outside players.

On the pitch, it seemed like that, but when the game continued. Everyone was stunned to find out, which is the Clippers' five-outside lineup? It's clearly a big belt and four small! Wang Dacang alone with four outside players, not to mention how happy he was.

Standing on the inside line, Wang Cannon once again exerted the strength of the inside line at the dominance level, and James couldn't prevent Wang Cannon's singles on the inside line at all. With all sorts of offensive techniques, hooks, forced dunks, and step-back jumpers, Wang seems to be showing how rich his offensive skills are now.

In desperation, the Heat had to let Bosh also return to the interior to help defend Wang Cannon, but in this way, the Heat only had 3 defensive players left on the outside, while the Clippers had 4 outside players, and one was a passing master like Paul.

So, the Clippers' three-point rain began to fall.

This situation has stunned many people.

"Holy! The Clippers don't need interior players at all, Wang Cannon is enough to be on the inside alone, so isn't Griffin and Jordan Jr. redundant? O'Neill said depressedly.

"That's what I said, but it's not." Barkley has been commenting on the game for many years, at least in terms of tactical literacy. "Although it seems that there is no need for Griffin and Jordan Jr., the two inside lines, but you must know that the tactics of one big belt and four small ones are not stable after all, and the play of interior players may be able to ensure stability, but the feel of outside players cannot be 100% guaranteed after all, but with Griffin and Jordan Jr., plus Wang Cannon, the three inside lines, the Clippers can ensure a stable scoring point no matter how much they play with any team."

"It's a completely different concept. Think about it, there used to be Howard's magic and there was not a bunch of terrified outside shooters? In the end, the Magic failed to lift a championship, why is that? Isn't it because the outside line is always guarded to death, and only Howard can jump on the inside? ”

"Of course I know, I'm not stupid!" O'Neill couldn't help but glare at Barkley, very unhappy with Barkley's showmanship. As a Hall of Fame-caliber player, how could O'Neal not understand? At the beginning, he was also an inner super killer, and in terms of lethality in the inner line, it was much more terrifying than the current Wang Cannon. He just saw Wang Cannon so bullish and sighed casually.

"But then again, the reason why the Clippers have been able to play a terrifying 37-game winning streak this season may have an extremely important reason for the configuration of their lineup, and the abundance of excellent players has provided the Clippers with a lot more options to choose from." Smith also said: "But in this way, the Heat will be in trouble, after all, they can't take advantage of the outside offense they are good at now, how can they play?" ”

Indeed, seeing this situation. Spoelstra, the head coach of the Heat, was also stunned, and the opposite side actually played on the outside like his side, and the terrible thing was that there was a king cannon who really played well.

"Sure enough! The unexpected factor is still in Wang Cannon's body. Shaking his head, Spoelstra could only smile helplessly, after all, James alone could not defend against Wang Cannon on the inside, this is a helpless thing.

After being pressed and beaten by the Clippers. The score between the two sides widened the gap again, and at this time, the Clippers replaced Griffin and Jordan Jr. on the inside again, and once again played the interior offense.

The Heat were completely blinded by the style of play inside and outside the game, and even James Wade and others didn't know how to play.

The Clippers' point advantage was re-established, and as a result, the Heat were not able to catch up.

At 113:98, the Clippers won the game again on their home court.

Since the playoffs this season, the Clippers have never lost their first game at home.

In this game, Wang Cannon scored 39 points and had 19 rebounds, while Paul had 10 points and 14 assists. Griffin had 25 points and 13 rebounds, and the corresponding number of the Heat's Big Three was as follows.

James had 27 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists, a quasi-triple-double, Wade had 24 points and 6 assists, and Bosh had 19 points and 7 rebounds.

In comparison, it is the Clippers' Big Three that has a greater advantage.

In terms of benches, the Heat bench lineup led by Ray Allen Battier and others is slightly better than the bench lineup led by Clippers Kidd. However, it is only a little better, and it cannot effectively make up for the gap pulled down by the main lineup.

It's just a simple game. But after looking at the statistics, basically no one is optimistic that the Heat can win the series three times.

Because the statistics of the two teams are too different.

In one game, the Clippers grabbed 14 offensive rebounds, while the Heat only had three, and the Clippers successfully blocked eight times inside. The Heat also only have 3, although the Heat's three-point shooting is ahead of the Clippers, but the Clippers are not much worse than the Heat, and the gap between the two is really too big.

As a well-known mouthpiece, Barkley commented on both teams after the game.

"The Clippers are after this season. As long as you can do everything you can to keep the current lineup, it can be called perfect. As for the Heat, I think after this season, they may be willing to spend a lot of money on a quality center, right? The stinginess has shattered their dream of three consecutive championships! ”

Although the Finals series has only been played for 1 game, Barkley has bluntly said that the Heat's dream of three consecutive championships is shattered, which is obviously naked support for the Clippers.

But even so, the famous big mouth has won the support and approval of many people this time, and in the online victory vote between the two teams, the Clippers won by a huge margin, which shows that the Clippers occupy an absolute dominant position both on and off the court.

Who would have thought that the Clippers' opponent would be the Heat, who have won the O'Brien Cup twice and have what is known as the strongest Big Three in history?

The second game between the two sides was again played at the Clippers' home stadium, Staples Arena.

This game stunned many people from the beginning, because the Clippers actually changed the lineup, and this is the first time in this season that the Clippers have changed their starting lineup for non-injury reasons.

This change is not big, it's just that Jordan Jr. has done it on the bench, and what makes the Heat's eyes black is that Wang Cannon has replaced Jordan Jr. as the starting center.

This is obviously a naked bullying of the Heat, there is no big man on the inside! At this time, if the Heat had a Howard or Tyson Chandler, Wang Cannon would definitely learn to be a man! Although Wang Cannon's hook hand and backward shooting are very powerful, but when he encounters Howard and Chandler, who are not much inferior to him, and are also high and scary or excellent bouncers, whether it is a hook or a backward shot, there is a great possibility of being blocked.

However, the Heat can just be obscene, because their only big man on the inside is Bosh, a skinny bamboo pole who is about to fall down when he is resisted by Wang Cannon, and the remaining few players who can defend on the inside, Haslem is not tall enough, Battier is not physically good enough, and James is also similar to Wang Cannon, so it is naturally impossible to prevent Wang Cannon from using hook hands to attack.

Still, the game has to go on, doesn't it? Even if it's very depressing, the Heat still have to bite the bullet.

It's just that Bosh, who defended the king's cannon, suffered.

kept being squeezed by Wang Cannon like a chicken, Bosh was about to cry, he really wanted to say to Wang Cannon, buddy, for the sake of our face as teammates for a year, you spare my life!

But Bosh himself knew that Wang Dacang was stunned and didn't recognize his relatives at all, so Bosh didn't say this sentence in the end, and successfully brewed his own tragedy.

In the first quarter of the game, Wang completed four inside singles on Bosh's head, grabbed three offensive rebounds, and blocked the Heat's two offenses.

With Wang Cannon's anti-sky table, the Clippers once again managed to occupy an absolute advantage in the first quarter.

Little Jordan sat on the sidelines and couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Although Wang Cannon took his starting center position, Little Jordan didn't care, after all, Little Jordan still admired Wang Cannon's interior offensive methods, that guy is much more powerful than himself! And Jordan Jr. is also very clear that although he has not started for the time being, the Clippers are still inseparable from their own, like the current tactical system is not a long-term solution, the real panacea lineup, you also need to be the inner line of the Dinghai Shenpin, after all, Wang Cannon is too low, this is a hard injury.

Sure enough, as Jordan Jr. expected, he came off the bench in the second quarter of the game, and one dozen was a whole quarter, and the result was no different from the starter.

Of course, there is still a difference when you calculate carefully, and it is the Clippers who occupy the initiative of the game in the first place.

In this game, James also learned from Wang Cannon and strengthened the number of inside back singles, but James's back singles scoring efficiency is much lower than that of Wang Cannon, although he can maintain a good shooting rate of 50 percent, but compared with Wang Cannon's shooting rate of about 80 percent, it is indeed too much worse.

Today, the Heat's outside shooters did not show as much firepower as they did in the last game, because the Clippers have made a targeted single defense, whether it is Ray Allen, or Battier or even Miller and others, there are no particularly good shooting opportunities. (To be continued......)