When it came to May 26, the two-day break passed quickly, and for the Wizards players, the two days were a blink of an eye, the first day was busy on the road, the second day was mostly spent recovering, and there was very little time to actually practice.

Of course, this is the experience of the players, and for manager Saunders, the break between every two games is a time for him and his coaching staff to do tedious mental work, but Saunders did not think of any tactics that could directly destroy the opponent, and did not even study the opponent's movement and video too much, but focused most of his energy on studying the rotation of the away team.

There's only one reason for that, and that's for Sanders to be well prepared for these two games, especially if his rotation is disrupted.

To put it mildly, even the referee at his home court dares to blow the whistle openly, and when he arrives at the home court of the Heat, he can think of how the referee will blow it, with his toes!

Therefore, Sanders should study as many lineup combinations as possible, taking into account the possibility of everyone being blown out of the game, and of course, the most important thing is to consider the impact of Li Kaiming's departure.

Everyone knows that the core of the Wizards team is Li Kaiming, as long as he can get him off the court, basically half of the game will be won, and the Heat players on the opposite side must be very clear, so in the third game, the Heat players led by James will definitely hit Li Kaiming like crazy!

How to protect Li Kaiming while ensuring that the team's defense does not collapse is the core issue that Sanders considers......

Of course, in addition to studying the lineup, Sanders also said to all the players in the pre-game video lesson: "In the two away games, everyone must be calm on the field!" Calm down, calm down, calm down! I think everyone knows which side the referee is on, and if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, I hope everyone can play with their brains! ”

"Of course, the main thing is Lee!" Sanders' voice changed, and the object of his speech was specific to Li Kaiming alone, "You are the absolute core of our team, so you must not have problems in the next two games!" Pay attention to the referee's scale when defending, if he blows tightly, then you can relax the defensive scale a little, and leave Qingshan without worrying about running out of firewood, if you are blown down, then these two games are basically gone......"

Li Kaiming nodded, indicating that he understood.

Sanders looked around, then stood up and emphasized: "If you want to win the championship, this is a difficult difficulty that we have to overcome, I hope everyone can focus on the collective on the court, if you feel that you can't stand it, then I can let you rest and replace someone else!" ”

The players of the Wizards team all pouted, what are you kidding, where can this kind of matchup against the Heat Big Three help the team win the championship? What bad brain would give up such an opportunity?

Seeing that no one was silent, Sanders nodded with satisfaction, "Get ready to go!" ”

At eight o'clock in the evening, the familiar golden hour, the American Airlines arena was crowded, when the home Heat triumvirate with the starters appeared, the whole arena became noisy, the big three fans waved the cheering equipment in their hands, some people shook the jerseys they were wearing, and some people shouted mVp, of course, the most eye-catching are the fans holding the big head sign of the star, at this time the lights of the stadium have not returned to normal, and it looks like a group of ghosts wandering in the darkness from afar......

Players from both sides are ready for the third game!

Originally, Sanders thought that he had considered it perfect enough, but after actually arriving on the court, tonight's referee's bottom line was still beyond his cognition!

After the first quarter of the game, Li Kaiming, Leonard, and Thompson all had two fouls on their backs, and Blatch, who was protecting the frame inside, was even more aggrieved, blowing 3 fouls on his back in one quarter and complaining about the technical fouls after the penalty!

In this case, the Wizards' rotation was completely chopped, and the starting lineup was on the court for less than 4 minutes, Leonard received a second foul and had to go off the court to protect, without Leonard as the first line of defense to block James, which made Li Kaiming and Blatch on the inside have to spend more energy on helping to defend James, so the result is also obvious, the first quarter has not been played, Li Kaiming has two personal fouls and goes to rest.

Because the core of the outside and inside defense was off, Sanders let Bracchi play for an extra minute, and it was this minute that directly allowed Bracchi to get his third foul of the night......

And the Heat also led the Wizards by 9 points in a single quarter at 32-23!

Although the Wizards' bench lineup is not bad in the league, but no matter how powerful it is, it is only a group of benches, the Heat are now 0-2 behind, James and Bosh played the first quarter and did not dare to relax at all, Wade got a few minutes of rest because of his knee.

Against the terrifying Big Three, it's all too normal for the Wizards' bench to be blown up.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Sanders took Li Kaiming and Leonard, and put out a five-outside lineup on the court, at this time the Wizards urgently needed to chase points, and the penalty scale was okay at the beginning, which was an acceptable home whistle range.

But when Thompson and Lewis hit two three-pointers in quick succession from the bottom corner, closing the gap to within 5 points, the situation changed in an instant!

James attacked the inside, either scoring or walking to the free throw line, Wade is similar, with the referee's scale, after breaking through the three-point line, he threw himself up directly, as long as he didn't score, he would definitely make free throws!

Leonard, who was on the outside, quickly accumulated 3 fouls and had to go off the court again to protect, Li Kaiming insisted on playing on the court until there were 4 minutes left in the second quarter, and was finally caught by the referee, and then received the third foul, at which time the Wizards were still trailing by 7 points.

Sanders on the sidelines wanted to replace Li Kaiming, but Li Kaiming waved his hand at him, and Sanders gave up, in fact, he also had a fluke mentality in his heart, as long as Li Kaiming was on the court, even if he couldn't narrow the point difference, at least he could ensure that he would not be pulled away by the opposite side.

However, it was this fluke that directly made the Wizards lose hope of this game.

When there were 50 seconds left before the end of the halftime, Li Kaiming received the ball on the outside, and then broke through the opposite Bosh in one step, rushed to the inside line to attract James's help defense, and then gave the ball to Kong Yue in the empty space!

But his body was still rushing forward because of inertia, and he happened to collide with James standing in front of him, Li Kaiming just turned his head to see if Sun Yue's goal was scored, and the referee's whistle sounded again!

Li Kaiming turned his head to look at him in confusion, and James in front of him was already sitting on the ground at some point, spreading his hands and complaining about the referee.

It can be seen from the gesture of the referee on the sideline that this is blowing his offensive foul, or rather, the referee thinks that James made Li Kaiming's offensive foul successful!

This time Li Kaiming and Sanders did not expect, Sanders shouted at the referee and made a gesture to challenge the penalty.

The three referees pretended to walk to the technical table, and then symbolically replayed a few times, announcing to the camera that the Wizards' challenge had failed, and Li Kaiming received his fourth foul!

This foul is well-known for the Wizards, the core of the team accumulated 4 fouls in the first half, and they are still behind, how to play the rest of the time?

Without Li Kaiming's Wizards, he couldn't compete with the Big Three Heat, and at this time he could only sit on the bench anxiously, constantly cheering for his teammates in his heart, but the difference was still opened up little by little......

By the time Li Kaiming appeared again, the Heat team had already led to 12 points, and at this time, he didn't care about any team tactics, so he directly took over the ball and started to play singles, but Spo on the Heat side was not a vegetarian, after Li Kaiming scored two consecutive rounds, he began to let the players on the court wrap Li Kaiming, and also prevent the latter from receiving the ball!

With the blessing of the referee, the players of the Heat team can unscrupulously defend with all kinds of big moves, and there are countless small actions, which greatly affects the shooting feel of the Wizards players.

On the other hand, the Wizards' actions are very strict, as long as they can be seen to be fouls, they give the Heat a chance to go to the free throw line.

Of course, Li Kaiming will not sit still, he began to use off-ball tactics to get rid of the defense, and then catch the ball and hit strongly, compared to the inefficiency of others, his shooting efficiency is indeed much higher, but one person is still not worth the strength of 8 people.

When James and Wade broke through with the ball, they were not only not afraid when they saw Li Kaiming in front of them, but they screamed and hit Li Kaiming!

When the game came to the last five minutes, Bosh on the inside line singled Li Kaiming with his back, and after turning around, a big loop directly sent the latter to the sixth foul!

After Leonard, Li Kaiming also successfully graduated, becoming the second player of the Wizards to be sent off tonight.

The Heat took advantage of the situation to directly stretch the difference to 20 points, and finally the game ended, and the Heat defeated the Wizards 116-97 to tie the series to 1-2.

And the penalty scale of this game has also become a hot topic on the Emerica basketball forum and social media, and fans continue to stand up and say that tonight's referee is too dark......

However, when the picture shifts to media interviews and news, it is all in this style:

"LeBron slashed 36+14+7 and beat the Wizards at home!"

"The Big Three are all in the way, there is still suspense in this round of the series!"

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Almost none of the mainstream media talked about the penalty scale, all of them were boasting about James' play and predicting the development trend of this series, and it seemed that they had formed some kind of tacit understanding.