Chapter 545: Facial Paralysis and the King
The home opener, while important for Washington fans, was nothing to watch in itself.
The opponent is the Philadelphia 76ers without Iguodala and Jrue Holiday Jrue Holiday, and the Wizards will lose if they don't win by 10 points.
The third game is the heavyweight, and the opponent happens to be the Miami Heat, who hit hard in the preseason some time ago, although it is an away game, but this does not prevent Li Kaiming from giving the Heat a little color.
Nov. 3, Miami, American Airlines Arena.
If you want to ask which team's fans in the entire NbA hate Li Kaiming the most, then the Heat fans say second, and no one dares to say first.
The Super Battleship Heat Triumvirate, which was formed in 2010, now three years have passed, James's contract is coming to an end, and as a result, he has entered a Finals in three years, and that Finals also made the soft egg Nowitzki turn over directly.
The remaining two years were all lost to the same team, how can this not make the hearts of Heat fans hate?
So when all the pre-game preparations were made, when Li Kaiming and other Wizards players walked onto the court, there were bursts of boos in the American Airlines arena!
Li Kaiming and his teammates around him looked at each other and smiled, the expression on their faces was very relaxed.
They have been to this place many times, whether it is the players or the fans, they are old opponents, and they have long been used to it, if the fans in the American Airlines Arena do not boo them, Li Kaiming and others will feel unaccustomed to it!
The starting line-ups of both sides took to the pitch.
Miami Heat: Point guard Mario Chalmers, point guard Dwayne Wade, small forward LeBron James, power forward Chris Posh, center Udonis Haslem.
Washington Wizards: Point guard Kirk Simridge, point guard Klay Thompson, small forward Cowhi Leonard, power forward Kaiming Lee, center Andre Blach.
In the jump stage, Blatch grew old and strong, using his height and reach advantage to crush Haslem and help the Wizards win the first shot.
Hinrich dribbled over half the court, the Wizards ran a tactic, and finally Thompson took advantage of Li Kaiming's cover to make a big circle, went around the other side of the 45-degree catch and threw it, and then hit a three-point shot in the boos of the whole court!
3 to 0!
The three-point shot was like a resounding slap in the face of the fans at the American Airlines Arena, causing their boos to be muffled.
The Heat attacked, and after Chalmers dribbled through the halfcourt, he handed the ball to James, who asked for the ball with his back on the outside, who took the ball and faced Leonard, first with a botched stomping triple threat, and then turned into a tank breakthrough after no result!
This move has been almost unstoppable in his 10-year career, and even if he can block it, he usually rushes to the basket and is defended by the opponent's big center, and there are few outside defenders who can slow him down during the impact of the dribble.
So James is also very confident, but after he rushed two steps, the smile on his face froze, and a few drops of cold sweat flowed down his forehead!
How can this facial paralysis be so powerful?
James was terrified, of course he could see that Leonard's muscles were more pronounced than last season, but the latter's tremendous strength was still beyond his imagination!
Because he found that the tank he relied on for survival broke through, and he couldn't reach the inside line, but just used his speed to rush to the edge of the penalty area, and he had to stop the ball!
James swallowed a mouthful of spit and then passed the ball to Bosh, who made a feint in the face of Li Kaiming's defense and then broke through and missed the layup.
The Wizards got the rebound, Li Kaiming directly threw off Bosh and ran wildly to the frontcourt, Hinrich was full of tacit understanding, threw the ball vigorously to the front court, Li Kaiming who was running at high speed turned around and scooped the ball, and then put the ball together with both hands, a big loop European step, and directly rushed over to cut the ball Wade and had a clean time!
After passing Wade, the Heat's basket was in full view, and he stepped into the free throw line with one foot, kicked off the ground, glided through the air for some distance, and dunked with one arm!
After landing, Li Kaiming looked up to the sky and roared, and the fans standing behind the rebound were all shocked by his momentum!
The Heat attacked, and the ball continued to be given to James, who faced Leonard and wanted to try to break through the tank again, but he was still held down halfway through the breakthrough, and had no choice but to pass the ball to Wade on the outside, who killed the basket with the help of cover, and hit a difficult pull-up layup to help the Heat stop the bleeding!
However, before the fans at the American Airlines Arena had time to catch their breath, the Wizards attacked to the frontcourt, and Li Kaiming received the ball outside the three-point line and threw it, facing Bosh's defense!
8 to 2!
As soon as the game began, the Wizards had a firm grip on the rhythm of the game.
The Heat attacked again, this time James chose to call a cover, wanting to hit Hinrich's misalignment, but Hinrich and Leonard completed a perfect match on the defensive end, first suddenly grabbed the bag, and then Leonard saw the opportunity to shoot directly and slapped the basketball!
The power of this palm is not small, even James didn't catch it, and the basketball slid directly out of his hand.
But he was quick to react and wanted to regain control of the ball, when a pair of robot hands reached over, and Leonard and James pressed their hands on the ball almost at the same time.
A fierce scramble ensued, and the referee on the sideline stopped in time to indicate that it was a scrum.
In the scrum that followed, although James relied on his physical talent to take the ball again, Leonard's defense still allowed the Heat to waste ten seconds of offensive time.
In the end, James broke through halfway and threw the ball to Wade on the perimeter, who had little time left when he received the ball, so he could only catch the ball and throw it, which was deflected wide by Thompson's defense.
Li Kaiming grabbed the rebound and handed it to Hinrich to dribble to the frontcourt.
The Wizards played a classical pick-and-roll strategy, and Li Kaiming went down as a cover man after blocking and pick-and-roll, attracting James' defense.
At this time, the Heat team was still immersed in the fantasy of casually letting Leonard go last season, but Li Kaiming, who had trained with Leonard for a summer, was clear in his heart, and Leonard this season was definitely much stronger than last season, both offensively and defensively!
In the process of receiving the ball, Li Kaiming raised the ball above his head, watching the Heat's defense shrink almost, so he directly distributed the ball to Leonard on the outside, who received the ball decisively and hit it from mid-distance!
10 to 2!
The Heat attacked, and the ball was given to James, who still wanted to get rid of Leonard with the help of the pick-and-roll, but tonight's facial paralysis seemed to have received some command, pestering James like kraft candy.
Even the blocking and dismantling could not allow James to completely get rid of Leonard, and in desperation, he had to pass the ball to Chalmers again, although the latter received the ball in a three-point position, but he was not good at this rhythm at all, and hesitated to shoot the iron!
The Wizards protected the rebounding ball, and after arriving in the frontcourt, Li Kaiming took the initiative to go out to catch the ball, and then a push changed direction and stepped back, opening up the distance between him and Bosh and throwing it up!
With a three-point hollow into the net, the Wizards' bench stood up to celebrate, and Coach Spo on the sidelines called a timeout with a gloomy face!
After the locker room turmoil in the offseason, although James and Spo were reluctantly reconciled with the team's president, Pat Riley, everyone on the Heat team felt that there was a strange atmosphere in the locker room this season.
This atmosphere still comes from James and Spo, although the two have reconciled on the surface, it can still be seen from Riley's behavior that surface repair cannot leave the deep cracks intact.
After all, the broken mirror cannot be reunited.
Spo didn't make any adjustments to the rotation, but drew a few random sentences on the strategy board, emphasizing that "only by breaking to the opponent's basket can you create open opportunities on the outside, and it is useless to barely pass the ball during the break......
When they heard this, all the Heat players chuckled in their hearts.
Why the team is lagging behind, Spo is clear in his heart, but he just doesn't want to say it in front of everyone.
The game came back, and the Heat served to the frontcourt.
James also seemed to hear the meaning of Spo's words, and after receiving the ball outside the three-point line, he took two steps back, like an angry bull, shaved the ground twice with his hind hooves, and then prepared to attack!
Leonard's face was fearless, his strong arms were as strong as steel, and he rose to the challenge, and his thick legs were like the roots of an old tree, nailed to the ground.
Two small forwards with terrifying bodies slammed into each other with a dull sound!
But after all, James took the initiative to attack, and his body carried more energy, which actually allowed him to crash into Leonard, and then take eight steps outside and rush to the basket.
Of course, Leonard was not easy to mess with, and the long arms were constantly interfering next to him, and finally James approached the basket of his dreams for the first time in this game.
When he was about to come to a basket that showed a soft touch, a tall figure suddenly rushed over next to him, and then a move like a divine palm directly gave the great king a spicy hot pot!
The tactical board in Spo's hand on the sidelines suddenly drooped......
At this moment, James is infinitely confused in his heart, he feels that he is taking the most difficult road at the moment, obviously there is already a face paralyzed in front of him, he struggled to break through to the basket, but what greeted him was not success, but a more cruel hat!
Success may seem imminent, but it's just a mirage.
He tried to spread his hands and pray to the referee, but he was responded to by the exclamations and sighs of the fans in the audience, because the Wizards pushed the fast break, rushed to the front court, and after Li Kaiming received the ball and blocked Bosh!
At this time, James was still standing in the backcourt, his eyes glazed......
Heat fans could never have imagined that the home team, which scored 40 points from the Tulle Wizards in the preseason, would be beaten to pieces before halftime after the game began.
James, the core of the team, can only occasionally steal a chicken for a layup under the defense of Leonard, or use inconsistent shooting to score, but it is a drop in the bucket and cannot be sustained at all.
Wade had to stand up in this situation, but he was no longer at his peak with a major knee injury, and with the Wizards' interior defense, even if Wade came over, it was enough for him to drink a pot.
After Thompson and Leonard grew up, the Wizards' roster finally showed its fangs, and in Game 3 of the season, they beat their opponents by 36 points at the Miami Heat's home court, while limiting the opposing three cores to less than 50 percent shooting.
James shot 5-of-17, Wade shot 9-of-19 and Bosh 5-of-14......
They announced their return with a hearty victory and slapped a group of bullstakes on the Heat.
Is this the number one odds to win the championship? Amusing!