Chapter 435: Domination of the Forbidden Zone
After arriving in the frontcourt, the Wizards once again started with the blocking of Hinrich and Li Kaiming, this time James and Chalmers communicated clearly, and chose to wrap Hinrich so that he could not pass the ball, and in desperation, Hinrich passed the ball to Leonard on the outside.
At this time, Li Kaiming had come to the waist position after the end of the block, and when he clapped his hands towards Leonard to ask for the ball, James had successfully returned to the defensive position.
Li Kaiming pushed it with his back, felt James's defensive force, and then suddenly threw James away with a turn towards the bottom line, but James's physical talent was really powerful, and he was half a body behind in the first shot, and he quickly caught up, but at this time Li Kaiming had already hit the basket in one step.
Heat center Turyaf came over again to help James make up for the defense, but Li Kaiming first shook Turyaf's hands with a shooting action, and then directly hit Blatch behind Turyaf through the crotch, who received the ball and pulled the onion under the basket with one arm and dunked it with one arm!
4 to 0!
Bradge roared in the sky after the violent buckle! In the last round of the series, he met Hibbert, who was completely bigger than his body, and couldn't play at all, and when he came to the Eastern Conference finals, facing the Heat's temporary center, he experienced the feeling of Hibbert in the last round, and the opening two dunks detonated the home court!
Spoo on the sidelines reminded the Heat players not to overdo it, but there was no meaning to call a timeout.
The Heat served to the frontcourt, and the ball was given to James, who chose to let Battier block this time, but Leonard and Li Kaiming both chose to bypass the cover and defend James to break through, so James passed the ball to Battier who was dismantled to the top of the arc, Leonard made up the defense, Battier missed the shot, and Blatch grabbed the rebound.
Against a Heat team without Bosh, the Wizards' interior can do whatever they want in the restricted area.
Hinrich held the ball past half court, took advantage of Chalmers' lack of attention to his breakthrough, and after reaching the middle distance, a fake fax throw, but unfortunately it was not scored.
Turiaf desperately pushed off Blatch to help the team get stuck in the biggest threat of grabbing rebounds, and when James next to him was about to win this easy rebound, Li Kaiming suddenly came out from the side, used his long arm to take the frontcourt rebound from James's head, and then stood on tiptoe to hit the board!
6 to 0!
The Wizards' bench was already crazy, and Zhang Weiping in the broadcast area also had a smile on their faces, "The Wizards' opening state is very good, they play very methodically, and they have seized the weakness of the Heat's interior emptiness, and now all these 6 points are scored under the basket!" It is estimated that the Heat are going to take a timeout! ”
As soon as Zhang Weiping's voice fell, the referee's whistle came from the field, and Spo really applied for a timeout!
The home fans at mcI Center are already excited, especially young people and children, who have begun to stand up and dance all kinds of fashionable dances in their seats, and even some human murder weapons, shaking vigorously with the music, making the two lumps soft and constantly shaking, as if they can break free from the shackles and jump out at any moment!
Spo was very unhappy with the performance of the Heat players, "After the opponent makes a shot, you have to immediately turn around and jam your own defender, understand? Grabbing a rebound is much more important than jumping! Don't make this low-level mistake again! ”
When the game came back, the Heat served to the frontcourt, and after the ball was given to James, the ball was not stopped, but a transfer ball was given to Wade on the outside.
Wade was moving when he received the ball, so he used his speed to directly press the shoulder to break through, Thompson defense Wade's speed and skill were really not good, and he was easily passed, and after reaching the basket, Wade combined the ball with a signature European step, shook off Bracy's layup, and helped the Heat score a valuable first point.
Spo's timeout was still very useful, and from this round onwards, the Heat's rebounding protection was much more serious than before, and even James began to get stuck.
However, the Heat without Bosh is still weak in the interior strength of the Wizards, so in the first quarter the Wizards almost never shot on the outside, and the Wizards' shooting power is also concentrated in Hinrich, Li Kaiming and Blatch, these people did not hesitate after getting the ball, that is, to break through to the basket, and pass to Blatch when they encounter the help defense, and after a single quarter, the Wizards took what they wanted in the Heat's restricted area, scoring 24 points in a single quarter, leading the Heat by 3 points at 28-25.
In the second quarter, Sanders replaced the rotation lineup, and after Li Kaiming went off the court, the Wizards' interior advantage was still obvious, even if the mY boy Javier McGee who played as a substitute in the Wizards, it was not something that Turiaf and the like could stop, although McGee's skills and ball handling ability were much weaker than Brackey's, but it was not an exaggeration to say that the body was below the All-Star level below the head.
In just half a quarter of McGee's play, he had six rebounds and three blocks.
Of course, Spo understands that the Heat team can't fight the Wizards in rotation, anyway, he has these few cards in his hand, and they all play to the Eastern Finals, what happened to the dead grass stars?
So James and Wade had to be separated for a period of time to take substitutes, and when these two people played for almost 20 minutes, Li Kaiming and others, who had been resting for more than half a quarter and only played for more than 10 minutes, played again.
At this time, the score of the two sides was 38-41, that is, when the Heat team did not lack giants from beginning to end, it only took half a quarter to surpass the Wizards by 3 points.
This is something that all basketball commentators don't think of, in their cognition, when any one of Jawe is on the Wizards' rotation, they should be able to kill them, but the problem is that tonight's Jawe doesn't seem to feel good on the outside, James loses all his shots outside the three-point line, Wade simply didn't throw three points, and even Battier, the most reliable on the outside of the Heat, has a very bad hand tonight, currently shooting 1 of 4.
In this case, Jawe can only hold his strength to break through to the inside, but the Wizards' rotation is not five up and five down, Leonard has always had to play against James, and McGee on the inside has completed the task of protecting the basket very well, and it was the moment Li Kaiming came back.
Li Kaiming came back, Sanders changed to a five-outside lineup, but Leonard was still on the court, Lewis was on the power forward position, and the Heat replaced center Turiaf and Haslem as center, so that the Heat became a smaller lineup than the Wizards.
The Wizards served, and after arriving in the frontcourt, Hinrich and Li Kaiming played blocking and dismantling, and the Heat team directly switched defenses to let Haslem face Hinrich, Li Kaiming opened his hand to ask for the ball to play misplaced, and Hinrich passed the ball instantly.
However, the Heat also knew that letting Li Kaiming play Chalmers was giving points to the Wizards, so Battier let go of Leonard to wrap Li Kaiming, Leonard cut directly to the inside, Li Kaiming passed the ball to Leonard behind his head, and the latter hit the board after receiving the ball!
40 to 41!
Sure enough, basketball doesn't lie, and Leonard's hard practice of playing board layups finally worked!
The Heat offense, James hit Leonard with his back after asking for the ball in the waist position, I heard that this offseason James deliberately found the big dream Olajuwon and reported a training class of 100,000 US dollars to learn back steps, in order to avoid the embarrassment of beating Barria and passing the ball in the playoffs.
Leonard pressed against James's back with his feet, the latter felt the force, and then turned around directly, and at the same time raised his elbow and came up on Leonard's ribs, Leonard stopped in pain, and James seized the opportunity to rush to the basket and fouled in the face of Blatche's defense!
James walked to the free throw line and hit both free throws, 40-43!
The Wizards went to the frontcourt, Li Kaiming stuck Haslem in the waist position, and was about to make a back-to-back single in the same position, Hinrich hoisted the ball in, and Li Kaiming turned around and threw it directly before Battier came over!
Haslem worked hard, but hard work didn't make up for the talent, the basketball hollowed into the net, and the mcI center resounded with cheers!
In the broadcast area, Zhang Weiping looked at Li Kaiming's shooting replay, sighed twice, and then pointed out, "Look, this is called a back-to-back singles ......"
Yu Jia next to him smiled and didn't answer, this kind of bold words are only old qualifications like Zhang Weiping dare to say, after all, James's audience in China is not a small number.
The Heat served, and after getting to the frontcourt, the ball was given to Wade, who used the cover to face Li Kaiming, and then used his speed to break through to the basket and change hands to score a layup to continue to maintain the point difference.
The two sides went back and forth until halftime.
When Li Kaiming's whistle missed the three-point shot, the score of the two sides had come to 49-50, that is, after half a quarter, both sides only scored single-digit points, which shows the high defensive intensity tonight.
The 20-minute break passed quickly, and when the game returned in the third quarter, the Heat once again fielded a second-quarter starter plus Haslem, while the Wizards started all.
The Heat served first, Chalmers dribbled the ball past half court and handed the ball to James, who hesitated in the face of Leonard, and then accelerated to break through inside, Li Kaiming went to swipe the card to help defend it, but James had a very strong desire to attack after the second half, and played very crisply, this ball is to break through to the basket.
Bracch went over to help Leonard defend, James jumped up and shook his wrist in the air, found a tricky angle to wipe the board and score!
I have to say that James' layup under this hand is still very soft, and muscular men rarely have such a soft layup feel as him.
The Wizards are still playing according to tactics, but in the second half, the Heat began to stick to the inside, and it seems that there were too many points conceded in the restricted area in the first half, which made Coach Spo learn from the pain and force the Wizards out of the restricted area in the second half.
However, in the face of the Heat's defense, the outside line of the Wizards team is about to be said, Klay Thompson, who cooled down the half, finally found a chance to perform, and his facial paralysis has been facing James, full of presence, and he almost didn't get any opportunities because the Wizards played the interior in the first half, and now it was finally his turn to perform!
So Li Kaiming used his containment to break through to the halfway point and then distributed the ball to Thompson on the outside, who hit three points one after another and quickly overtook the score.
However, the Heat's No. 2 position was Wade, and he immediately stepped up his defense against Thompson, who dropped his hand, and the two sides once again fell into a back-and-forth offensive rhythm that lasted until the final quarter.
In the last five minutes of the game, the Wizards led the Heat by 2 points at 89-87, and after Li Kaiming felt the familiar feeling in his hands, he decided to take over the ball and win the game!
The Heat attacked, after Wade broke through, a fake turn and threw missed, Leonard grabbed the rebound, Li Kaiming directly asked for the ball, dribbled to the front court, faced James's defense, dragged the step to two steps and then suddenly accelerated past the latter, and the Heat team could not help defend in the middle distance, he shot directly and hit steadily!
91 to 87!
The Heat team attacked, James missed the shot, spread his hand to foul, the referee ignored it, the Wizards pushed up the fast attack, and after arriving in the front court, the ball was transmitted to Li Kaiming's hands, James was late, and was about to put on a defensive posture, Li Kaiming directly pulled up the three points and threw it!
Swish!
Three-point hollow hit!
94 to 87! Li Kaiming suddenly broke out and scored 5 points in a row, stretching the difference to 7 points, and Coach Spo immediately called a timeout!