The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

James was off the court, and Bosh was being served by the Wizards' two high towers in turn. The offensive efficiency was greatly reduced. As a result, only Wade was left with the Heat's stable scoring points.

As for the Wizards, after the timeout, Curry also took a rest, but there were still Harden and Butler on the court.

At this stage, Harden is temporarily unable to compete with Wade head-on, but Butler is assisted on the offensive end, and Beverly, who replaced Curry on the defensive end, is responsible for defending Wade.

As the saying goes, three cobblers are worth Zhuge Liang, not to mention the three of Harden Butler and Beverly are definitely not cobblers.

For a while, the Wizards once again had the upper hand on the field and continued to widen the point difference.

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"Damn it! Why is it like this again!"

Looking at the game on the field, James, who was sitting on the bench, couldn't help clenching his fists.

He has seen such a scene more than once during the regular season, and this hateful team has always used this method to win.

When the original five starting players were all on the court, the Heat did not lose to the Wizards at all, and were even sharper and stronger than the Wizards compared to offense.

But every time the main players of both sides leave the field to rest and replace with substitute players, the gap starts to widen.

In the four games of the regular season, James kept filling holes, resting, filling holes, resting, and then scored 30+ or ​​even 40+ points in a game, and then watched helplessly as the team lost by a big score Contest.

In the playoffs, it is still like this, who can bear it!

James was very dissatisfied, and Spoelstra was also very helpless.

What can he do? He is also very desperate!

Who made the difference between the Heat's bench lineup and the Wizards?

The playoffs progressed to the Eastern Conference Finals, and the Heat's bench scorer was James Jones, who averaged 6.5 points per game in the playoffs.

Mike Miller, who spent a lot of money to sign at the beginning of the season and expected to be able to contribute powerful firepower to the Big Three from the bench, was plagued by injuries and averaged only 5.6 points per game in the regular season. In the playoffs, he averaged only 2.6 points per game. !

Let's look at the Wizards again. Not to mention Harden, who averaged 20+ points per game, or Butler, who can contribute 10+ points steadily. Curry's substitute, Beverly, averaged 20 points per game in the playoffs alone. With 5.7 points, it is almost the same as the Heat's substitute scorer Jones.

You must know that Beverly's main task on the court is defense, not offense!

Harden and Butler, here is a gap of about 30 points, and it is also the gap that the Heat's starting lineup must fill in.

What Spoelstra expects is that the Big Three can blow up the Wizards' starting lineup and quickly widen the point difference in the opening game to make up for the huge gap in the bench lineup.

But the fact is that the score of Wade + James + Bosh is only a little higher than that of Curry + George + Jamison. This point will disappear immediately after Harden comes on the court.

Now, what Spoelstra can hope for is that the follow-up Big Three can use their powerful personal abilities to smooth out the huge gap in the bench lineup.

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At the end of halftime, the point difference between the two teams reached double digits, and when the third quarter started, James, who reappeared, did show a strong offensive ability as Spoelstra imagined. George couldn't stop James at all, and was constantly broken into the inside by the opponent to score.

However, even so, there is still no tendency to narrow the difference.

Because Curry and George, who also reappeared, are also scoring. George's main energy is on defending James. The number of shots and scoring efficiency are better, but Curry is really unstoppable.

With the blessing of long-range shooting, today's Curry feels hot and frightening. Often James struggled to get rid of George's defense and scored two points with difficulty. , and then Curry made a quick three-pointer while everyone was unheard of.

What's terrible is that such a shot that doesn't have much time to aim and brew has an astonishingly high hit rate!

This season, the Heat can rank ninth in the league in terms of scoring, but there is still a big gap with the Wizards who rank first in the league.

The third quarter of the game failed to launch a counterattack, and in the fourth quarter, the Heat did not make too much waves.

At 119:104, the Wizards won the first victory of the series with a 15-point advantage at home.

In this game, Curry played extremely well for the Wizards. He made 12 of 19 shots, 6 of 9 three-pointers, and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored a team-high 36 points, but this score was not the whole game. Highest.

The player who scored the highest score in the game was James with 38 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists.

In this game, James tried his best, scoring 11 points in the first quarter, 8 points in the second quarter, and 15 points in the third quarter. But when it came to the fourth quarter, the impact of being entangled by George and Butler finally appeared , In the case of physical problems, James reduced the number of shots and gave more opportunities to Wade and Bosh. In the end, he only scored 4 points in the fourth quarter.

However, apart from James, only two people scored in double figures on the Heat's side. They were Wade with 26 points and Bosh with 19 points.

Under the Big Three, the Heat didn't even have a player who scored in double figures. Even the starting point guard Chalmers only scored 8 points in 32 minutes of playing.

Although Curry's defense is weak among point guards, it is only relatively speaking. It is relatively easy to deal with players like Chalmers who are not good at offense.

Compared with the Heat, the Wizards scored in double figures with a total of five players.

In addition to Curry, Harden scored 17 points and 7 assists, George scored 21 points, Jamison 13 points, Butler 11 points.

The difference was immediately apparent.

After the game, at the press conference, Spoelstra said helplessly: "The Wizards' bench lineup is very luxurious, with the best sixth man Harden, who is capable of starting any team. Butler at the position, plus a talented big man and a quality backup guard who is aggressive on defense..."

"To make matters worse, the Wizards' starting lineup is also extremely good. Paul George's toughness is admirable, and Curry has reached the level of top superstars like LeBron and Dwyane. With his three-pointers, it will still be difficult for us to play in the next game."

"I think, after this game, we will further study the Celtics' tactics when defending Curry, hoping to learn some ways to effectively interfere with the opponent's touch..."

Compared with Spoelstra's endless chatter, Wang Xiao's interview with reporters was much simpler and clearer.

"We have already won one victory, and we can enter the finals after we win three more games." Wang Xiao said with a smile: "I can't wait now, I hope this day can come sooner."