The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Chapter 104 The total score is 30!

After the timeout, on the Wizards side, Curry, Green and Haywood went off, and Harden, Beverly and Jordan came on.

Since it is decided to storm the inside, Harden, who is good at European breakthroughs and fouls, is naturally the first choice.

In fact, Curry's ability to break through with the ball is also very strong, and even his finishing ability and efficiency at the basket have always been the top point guards in the league. Ignored his breakthrough ability.

But Wang Xiao did not choose to let Curry focus on breakthroughs. After all, there are specialties in the art industry. In Wang Xiao's system, Curry's biggest role is the three-pointer. Since he has Harden, he naturally wants Harden's role to be eliminated. Play to the max.

After Harden came on the court, he immediately began to use pick-and-roll dislocations against the Heat's striker.

The Heat's two strikers are small forward Beasley and power forward Haslem, neither of which is good at speed. Harden can easily break through the defense of the two and rush inside to cause damage.

This approach is almost exactly the same as Wade.

The difference is that under the defense of Beverly's mad dog, Wade has to spend more effort to get rid of the opponent, and when he rushes into the inside, he faces Jordan, who is tall, long and not slow.

This is the gap between the players and the lineup.

Whether it's Haywood, Jordan or McGee, in Wang Xiao's tactical system, they are the last line of defense for the team's vulnerable perimeter defense. Their work throughout the season is to assist defense, block rebounds and pick and rolls. The work has been handy.

But the Heat's center O'Neal obviously couldn't adapt to this kind of work of constantly checking for leaks.

At his peak, O'Neal was a typical power forward with excellent offense and defense. While his offense was strong, his defensive ability was also outstanding.

But today's O'Neal is no longer the same O'Neal who averaged 20+10 plus 2.6 blocks per game in his peak period. His knee injury has greatly reduced his athletic ability.

In the 70 regular season games played on behalf of the Heat this season, Jermaine O'Neal averaged only 13.6 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, and he needed frequent assistance from Haslem and Joel Anthony on the defensive end.

When Haslem was pulled out to the perimeter because of the pick-and-roll, Jordan, who was guarding the basket alone, was powerless when facing Harden.

In less than 3 minutes, Harden caused two fouls in a row to O'Neal. The latter had no choice but to end, and the standard blue-collar center Joel Anthony was on top.

Joel Anthony's defensive ability is much better than Jordan's today, especially in terms of defense ability. Anthony's speed in the interior is not bad, and the area of ​​defense is large. He is better than Jr. O'Neal in defending Harden. few.

But even so, if it wasn't for O'Neal's too many fouls, Spoelstra would not be willing to replace Joel Anthony.

Although Jermaine O'Neal is a bit weak in defense, but after all, he is a former All-Star insider with rich experience and certain offensive methods. He can more or less share some pressure on Wade inside.

But when Joel Anthony played, the Heat really only had Wade as an offensive point on the court.

Sure enough, Wang Xiao's eyes lit up when he saw Joel Anthony on the field. He stood up and walked to the sidelines to shout loudly.

"DeAndre (Jordan), you can pay more attention to Wade! Don't worry about the guy next to you."

Joel Anthony was an indispensable blue-collar player inside the Heat when he was in the Big Three. He basically stuck in position to grab rebounds, and he did all the dirty work of assisting defense and supplementing defense.

But when it comes to offense, Joel Anthony can be described as horrible.

Throughout his career, Joel Anthony has never averaged more than 4 points per game in any season!

It's so cruel. While his own offensive ability is lacking, Joel Anthony can't even stand inside to eat cakes.

Wang Xiao wasn't worried at all about Wade breaking through and passing the ball to Joel Anthony, and he even wished Wade would do that.

Of course Wade also knew this, so after the breakthrough, he could only bite the bullet and carry the front and back attacks of Jordan and Beverly to force the attack.

But people have limits after all. After playing the whole quarter, he was basically attacking with the ball, and Wade was already getting a little tired.

When his two consecutive breakthrough layups were ruthlessly rejected by Jordan Jr., Spoelstra had to call a timeout.

After returning from the timeout, Wade was replaced for a rest, and the Heat began to play a regular positional battle under the control of Chalmers.

How could Wang Xiao let go of such an opportunity?

Curry reappeared, Jordan was replaced, and the team immediately switched to the death five small mode, and began to speed up.

Without Wade, the speed of the Heat's players on the field is even slower, and they can't keep up with the rhythm of the Wizards.

Whenever the Heat's offense is blocked, they will soon face the Wizards' crazy fast break.

Before the end of the first quarter, the Wizards had completed the lead in the score.

When the whistle sounded for the end of the first quarter, the Heat players who walked off the court were a little confused.

They really don't know how to beat their opponents.

Also confused, there are more than 19,000 spectators in the American Airlines Arena.

Before the start of the series, they all believed that it would be the best result for the Heat to meet the Wizards in the first round of the playoffs.

Compared with the Cavaliers in the East, the Magic in the third and the Celtics in the fourth, the Wizards ranked second definitely seem to be the best one to deal with. As long as they can use defense to contain their three-pointers, There is hope of winning!

But the reality is so cruel.

It definitely makes sense for the Wizards to be second in the Eastern Conference.

In the first and second games, the Heat were completely unable to limit the Wizards' three-point rain, and were easily shot to death.

And at the beginning of the third game, relying on the home court advantage, the Heat did miss the Wizards' three-pointer, but then... they discovered that the Wizards are not entirely a team that relies on three-pointers, relying on three-pointers After the shooters opened up the space, the Wizards' breakthrough actually had a very strong lethality.

Defeat the second in the East with the seventh or lower in the East?

This is just a good wish.

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In the second quarter of the game, Wade appeared again and kept scoring to help the team keep up with the pace of the Wizards.

However, once Wade was off the court, the rhythm on the court collapsed instantly.

At the end of halftime, the score gap between the two teams was not that big, but in the third quarter, Wade only rested for a few minutes off the court at the beginning, and the Wizards seized the opportunity. Curry scored two consecutive goals. Three points, plus Harden rushed inside to create 2+1, and the difference was widened in an instant.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wade immediately played, but it was too late.

After three quarters of the game, Curry and others have gradually begun to adapt to the atmosphere of the Heat's home court... To be precise, compared with the beginning of the game, the enthusiasm of Heat fans has cooled down at this time, and many fans have even begun to leave early. field.

Curry, who had regained his form, scored consecutively in the third quarter and expanded the point difference to more than 20 points in one go... When the game ended, the score difference between the two teams was fixed at 24 points.

The total score is 3:0!

The Wizards won the match point. At the same time, the Wizards also outscored their opponents by more than 20 points in three consecutive games! A complete crush without any suspense.