Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

Vogel's plan went bankrupt. George and Qi Tian were unable to restrain their opponents at all. If the previous lead had not been squandered, the Pacers would have fallen behind now.

He decisively requested a substitution and replaced George with Granger.

"The substitution was timely."

Brian Shaw secretly made his assessment of the current head coach.

No head coach can seize the opponent's weaknesses at the beginning of the game and deploy his troops, so on-the-spot response is an important indicator to judge whether the head coach is a good coach.

Now it seems that there is a gap in quality between Vogel and Brian Shaw's previous head coach, Jackson. He is not even worthy of carrying Jackson's shoes, but he is still a good coach.

"At least he's not stubborn."

"seven!"

Collison's breakthrough attracted the defense and quickly passed to Qi Tian on the outside.

The advantage of a small lineup is that it is fast and can easily get opportunities by attacking the basket.

Qi Tian received the ball and took a shot confidently, but Battier had already taken advantage of the short time of Collison's pass to make up for the missed defense. He followed up, saw his opponent's jump shot, and immediately jumped to interfere.

"clang!"

The basketball bounced out of the frame, but Chalmers collected the rebound.

"Quick attack!"

The Heat, with James Wade on the outside, naturally chose to play fast break, but Granger and Dengtay Jones quickly returned to defense.

Wade's three-step layup was also interfered by Jones and missed.

"Who doesn't know how to break fast?"

The Pacers, who were still quickly returning to defense, immediately changed roles and rushed towards the Heat's half.

"This way!"

Deng Tai Jones broke through with the ball. After Qi Tian asked for the ball, he slid in from the baseline and made a layup after receiving the pass.

"63-56."

"Wonderful pass!"

"nice shot!"

"Nice pen!"

Pacers fans and players on the bench immediately raised their arms and waved signs or towels to cheer for the players on the court.

"Hu~hu~"

Wade breathed heavily, waited for Chalmers to receive the serve, and slowly ran towards the opponent's half.

As soon as he came to the frontcourt, Deng Tai Jones stayed close to his opponent and caused a confrontation.

Wade wanted to move, but was blocked by Deng Tai Jones. He did not hesitate to stay close to Wade regardless of his physical strength.

"Don't be afraid of physical confrontation, consume your opponent's energy and create opportunities for your teammates!"

Vogel expected that his opponent would definitely let James Wade play the entire fourth quarter, so that their playing time would be close to 40 minutes, so he gave the players instructions in advance.

Defending the opponent is a no-brainer, but Granger, George, Qi Tian, ​​Deng Tai Jones, and even Stephenson are all very physically strong. If they can drain the opponent's physical strength and achieve the purpose of redeeming the pieces in disguise, that is also a way.

Granger stretched out his hand to interfere from time to time. As expected, Chalmers passed to James and completed the steal.

"Oops!"

Collison, Deng Tai Jones and Qi Tian on the outside quickly ran towards the opponent's half. James Wade and others were shocked, picked up their speed and quickly ran back to defend.

Collison caught the ball and went straight for a layup. Wade jumped up to block the shot, but was called a shooting foul by the referee, sending Collison to the free throw line.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Collison made two solid free throws and opened the point difference to 9 points.

"65-56."

The Pacers fans immediately became excited when they saw the dawn of victory.

"pause!"

Spoelstra called a timeout. The team failed to even the score difference but was pulled away by the opponent. This made him very worried about the impact on the players' mentality.

"Strengthen your defense!"

The Heat head coach said to the people on the outside,

"The opponent's offense relies more on pick-and-rolls or movement to get open spaces, delaying the inside line, and just don't let the opponent pass to the inside line."

"Run faster on the outside and don't give your opponent an opportunity to take an open shot."

Spoelstra had noticed the weakness of the opponent's lineup, looked at James, and said:

"As long as they don't give others the chance to open, the Pacers will have only one choice, give priority to Granger and let him handle the ball."

"When the time comes..."

James understood what he meant and said:

"I will guard him alone so that he cannot score."

The head coach nodded with satisfaction. In the last game, James defended West alone and successfully allowed West to only score 5 points in the second half. Now guarding Granger, who is also a small forward, must not be a problem.

"The opponent's inside line is Hibbert, and he may not be able to keep up with the outside line. When we attack, we try to let the defender pick and roll and challenge Hibbert one-on-one."

Coach Spoelstra decided to use the method of attacking the inside to try to weaken the influence of the opponent's inside.

Wade and Chalmers looked at the tactics he drew and nodded.

The timeout ended quickly and the two teams returned to the field.

As expected, Chalmers and Wade took advantage of the opportunity to challenge Hibbert after the pick-and-roll and scored consecutively, narrowing the point difference in one fell swoop.

West missed Battier's single shot, and James turned around, grabbed the defensive rebound, and quickly rushed toward the opponent's half.

Qi Tian quickly returned to defense, but was easily squeezed away by James and made a layup.

But at this moment, a figure rushed over from James, jumped up and handed a hat from the side, it was Granger!

Granger got the rebound, turned around and rushed towards the opponent's half.

"Danny is so awesome!"

George was the most enthusiastic fan off the court, waving towels crazily and cheering for Granger.

Granger quickly searched for the position of his teammates and saw Deng Tai Jones cutting into the basket and passing the ball decisively. However, Wade was experienced and jumped out from the other side to steal the basketball and quickly handed it to James.

James was not interfered by the chasing Granger this time and easily succeeded in a layup.

"65-62."

"You got lucky once, but you won't get a second chance!"

James proudly yelled trash talk at Granger.

Granger couldn't bear the grievance and directly attacked him.

"Do you feel embarrassed about being blocked?"

Seeing that the two were about to start rapping, the referee immediately blew the whistle and gave each of them a technical foul.

"Calm down, Danny!"

West, who had just replaced Hibbert, quickly came over and held Granger with his teammates to prevent him from acting too aggressively.

The Heat players on the other side also grabbed James.

"Are you okay?"

Wade didn't expect James to get angry. After separating from him, he turned around and asked.

"Of course I'm fine."

James blinked and said to Wade.

Wade was stunned.

Vogel quickly called a timeout, allowing Granger to calm down and arrange offensive tactics.

After the timeout, George Hill, who had replaced Dengta Jones, called West for a pick-and-roll and passed the ball to West. West made a layup that caused Chalmers to foul and went to the free throw line.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Made both free throws.

"67-62."

James and Wade scored consecutively, and Collison responded with a pull-up jump shot.

With only 6 minutes left in the game, Vogel requested a substitution and replaced Hibbert and George who had enough time to rest, replacing all the main players with the normal lineup.