Chapter 218: Danger
"We need to play more aggressively at both ends of the pitch or we will lose the title and we have no way out......," shouted Spoelstra in the home dressing room. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Well done in the first half, we only need half a game, we just need to play half a game, the victory will be ours, the championship will be ours......" was Popovich's yelling in the visitors' dressing room.
Although the two men are not talking about different things, they have one thing in common, they are both trying to mobilize the team's fighting spirit and hard work as much as possible.
The point difference of 10 is a lot less, but it is not too much to say more, and when the game is played like this, whoever can grit his teeth and do his best will be able to win the game.
Under the mobilization of the two head coaches, the players of both sides stepped onto the pitch with fighting spirit and started the second half of the game.
At this time, the pressure on the Heat was undoubtedly greater, so at the beginning of the second half, they were full of energy, first shooting a three-pointer on the offensive end, and then, James stealed Parker to assist Wade on a fast break, and the difference was suddenly narrowed to 5 points.
But soon, the Spurs stabilized their position, and Duncan stepped up and calmly hit a slap shot.
In this game, Duncan's form was amazing, and after this ball was hit, he had already scored his 22nd point.
Duncan's goal helped stabilize the situation for the Spurs, and at this time, the defensive trio of Li Yang, Leonard, and Danny Green continued to exert their defensive power, and with Duncan on the inside, it was extremely difficult for the Heat to attack the interior or the outside.
At this time, the only thing that the Heat can be satisfied with is probably defense, they pay a lot of attention to defending the Spurs' counterattack, and the tough defense in the fall into the position also makes the Spurs' offense not as smooth as the first half of the game.
At 77:65, after the third quarter, the difference between the two teams was 12 points, and although the Spurs were unable to pull the gap away, they managed to keep the difference in double digits.
"Dwyan, LeBron, stand up! We need to close the gap as soon as possible!"
'We need to play better on both ends of the pitch and we only have one game left. ”
At the end of the third quarter, the Heat still trailed by 12 points, which made the hearts of Heat fans suddenly hang, especially thinking of the previous five games, all of which were the teams that led in the third quarter to win the final victory, and Heat fans couldn't calm down.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spurs took the lead in attacking, and the ball came to the Heat after Dior's shot missed. It was still James who controlled the ball, and James, who was holding the ball, broke through with the help of the pick-and-roll, but did not choose to attack on his own, but passed the ball to Chalmers outside the three-point line.
"Why is LeBron still passing, we need to score ......"
Seeing James pass the ball, Heat fans couldn't help but feel anxious, but soon, their anxiety turned into cheers, and Chalmers hit a three-point shot.
The Heat players are giving it a go at this time, so although Chalmers' shooting opportunity is not too good, he still shot, and it is precisely because of the mentality of letting go that he hit the ball instead.
The Spurs were not affected by the Heat's offense and relaunched the offense, Ginobili controlled the ball and Split played a block, Split blocked and went down, and after receiving an assist from Ginobili, he hit a layup to score two points.
The ball changed hands, Li Yang opened his hand to stop in front of James, and after the opponent rushed up, he immediately went up to the defense, but at this time James passed the ball out again.
The ball was still passed beyond the three-point line, and this time it was Mike Miller who picked it up.
Miller, like Chalmers, almost disappeared from the three games he played away, but back at home, both of them felt very good today, and after receiving a pass from James, he also gave it a go, and Miller shot three points against the defense, and he also hit.
"Coax!"
When Miller hit a three-pointer, the audience burst into loud cheers, and after this shot, the Heat narrowed the gap to eight points.
Realizing that something was wrong, Popovich immediately called a timeout and brought Duncan and Leonard on the court, replacing Split and Dio.
After the timeout, Ginobili broke through and caused a foul, and after two free throws and one hit, the ball was once again in the hands of the Heat, Li Yang continued to follow James, and when he saw James receiving a pass from Chalmers in the high position, he immediately took a step back, ready to defend James' breakthrough.
What Li Yang didn't expect was that James chose to shoot directly at this time, and a big two-point shot.
"Coax!" James's goal made the Heat fans at the scene cheer more violently than before.
In this game, James gave the team too little help in scoring under the rotation defense of Li Yang and Leonard, and only 2 of the 10 shots in front of him, James's goal at the moment made Heat fans suddenly excited.
James seemed to have found an offensive feeling because of the hit of this ball, and in the next round, after Duncan's shot on the Spurs' side, James, who came to the other half, once again faced Li Yang's defensive shooting and hit.
This goal rewrote the score to 80:75, which made the Heat fans more and more excited, and they stood up and shouted into the arena.
Popovich stood up and looked at the court with a blank face, but he already knew in his heart that the Heat was very likely to rise and the time to really test the Spurs had come.
Sure enough, in the cheers of the Heat fans at the scene, the Heat became more and more courageous, they became very active at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and James, who was slightly embarrassed by Li Yang and Leonard's defense in the first half of the game, finally found the touch of outside shooting and scored continuously.
At 6:32 in the fourth quarter, James hit another shot against Leonard's defense, tying the score at 82:82.
Popovich called a timeout, Li Yang, who was replaced by Parker two minutes ago, listened to Popovich's tactical arrangement with his teammates, his brows furrowed slightly, he didn't expect that the situation would reverse so quickly, and the Heat, who let go, burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, and tied the score in just half a quarter of game.
Thinking of this, Li Yang's eyes looked at the bench at the other end again, through the crowd, he could see James, this half of the game, the Heat's offense was almost completely initiated by James, in the face of him and Leonard's defense, the opponent either assisted or scored, and the performance was similar to the first half of the game.
"Is this the strength of a top star who has been in the league for many years?" Li Yang secretly thought in his heart, a strong fighting spirit surged in his chest, and he was extremely eager to be able to play at this time and have a confrontation with James in this state.
However, he also knew that Popovich would not choose to send him on the court at this time, although Li Yang's performance in this game was excellent, but Duncan, Leonard, Green, Ginobili, Parker, this is Popovich's most trusted lineup at this stage.
It's just that what Li Yang didn't expect was that after three minutes, there was a variable.
After the timeout, Ginobili made a pass error, James made a steal and counterattacked, and Ginobili had no choice but to foul and received his fifth foul.
Although Ginobili then hit a two-pointer to make up for it, Ginobili received another foul a little over a minute later.
With 2:31 left in the game, Ginobili left the court with six fouls, and the score was 86-87, with the Heat leading by one point.
"Yang, play!"
After a little thought, Popovich chose to send Li Yang at the last minute, Li Yang performed well in this game, and at the last moment, he really needed a tougher defense.
After the game, it turned out that this was the most correct decision of Popovich in this match!
Of course, no one can think of this now, Li Yang walked on the court, his eyes looked at Ginobili who came over, the expression on the other party's face was very annoyed, it was obvious that Ginobili was not satisfied with his performance in this section, he made a mistake and had two fouls.
"Manu, it's okay, we'll win the game. High-fived Ginobili, and Li Yang comforted
Ginobili nodded, and when he passed by Li Yang, he paused again, turned his head to Li Yang and said, "Yang, come on!"
"Of course, I will!" Li Yang replied with a heavy nod.
With Wade hitting both free throws, the score became 86-89, and the difference between the two sides came to three points.
"Defend! Defend!"
At this time, the Heat fans also stood up from their seats and shouted excitedly into the court, knowing that if they could prevent the Spurs from attacking for one or two rounds, the situation would be completely different.
Parker controlled the ball to the halfcourt, and it was James who stopped in front of Parker at this time, which is one of the ultimate killer moves of the Heat.
Sure enough, Parker dribbled the ball several times but tried to break through without success, and had to retreat outside the three-point line on the right side.
Duncan stepped forward to block and dismantle, Parker dribbled the ball and tried to get rid of it, but at this time, the Heat suddenly changed their previous defensive tactics and chose to wrap up.
When Parker dribbled to the right, Bosh took the initiative to step forward, and James quickly squeezed past Duncan's side, and the two clamped Parker tightly.
Being pressed by the two, Parker couldn't pass the ball to Duncan's hands for a while, and immediately rushed out to the side with the ball, trying to force through James and Bosh's sandwich, but this was not easy, Parker had stepped back two steps away from the three-point line, but still got rid of the defender.
The two Heat players clamped Parker in the middle, and their bodies kept squeezing towards Parker, and at this moment, Parker, who was in the sandwich, suddenly stumbled and fell to the floor.
"Oh, Tony fell......"
Looking at this scene on the court, Mike Brin immediately exclaimed, Parker's fall was going to fall off the court, and if so, the Spurs would make a mistake. (To be continued.) )