Legendary star

Chapter 850 Talent
"What are the Heat and the Spurs doing?"

When the official timeout of the first quarter was approaching, looking at the 7-9 score on the scoreboard, Michaels really couldn't imagine that the Heat and the Spurs could play such an ugly game. Nearly halfway through the game, but neither of the two teams scored in double figures. Looking at the scenes of the two sides' continuous strikes and mistakes, Michaels recalled the finals between the Spurs and the Pistons in the past few years. , The extremely ugly style of play of both sides made the ratings of that finals the lowest in decades.

In the finals of this season, the Wake Forest duo played against the Big Three of the Heat. In the finals between the Heat and Thunder last season, the ratings directly increased by 6 percentage points. Although it was slightly worse than the sky-high ratings when the Pacers played against the Spurs and Lakers, the ratings of 16.5% were enough to make ABC TV network The higher-ups were so excited that they couldn't sleep.

However, the way the Heat and the Spurs played in today's game is a bit self-destructive. At the beginning of the game, the Heat pressed the Spurs all the way to defend, and the Spurs strengthened the rotation on the defensive end. Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard and Kawhi Leonard spared no effort to help defend everywhere. Whether it is the Spurs or the Heat, they all hope to defeat their opponents by strengthening their defense, but the current league is no longer the one that advocates iron and blood. Buying a basketball ticket can also watch a mixed boxing era. Tough defense and fierce physical confrontation will only scare away the audience and fans, so watching the fierce confrontation between the Heat and the Spurs on the field, Michaels I am a little worried about the ratings of this game.

Meng Xu's blocking of James after the opening, and the almost ubiquitous help defense in the next few minutes, did cause a big problem for the Heat's offense. After Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard's fast retreat and consecutive successful defenses, the Heat will inevitably fall into a positional battle with the Spurs.

With the addition of Eric Spoelstra in today's arrangement, Chris Bosh needs to keep pulling out to shoot three-pointers, there is no one inside, and the breakthroughs of James and Wade are repeatedly blocked, which makes the Heat The scoring efficiency on the offensive end has never been high, and the number of turnovers has also risen linearly as the Heat continue to speed up. Therefore, before the start of this game, I have great confidence and fighting spirit to beat the Spurs in the away game. The Heat fell into an unfavorable situation at the beginning of this game, but fortunately, under the frenzied defense of the Heat, the Spurs' offensive efficiency is not too high, otherwise the current point difference between the two sides will not be great. Might be 2 points.

Seeing the Heat players who missed another shot and failed to grab a rebound began to retreat quickly, Eric Spoelstra, who had been standing on the sidelines, frowned more and more. Previously, Eric Spoelstra believed that relying on the full-court tight defense, coupled with the continuous acceleration of the offensive end, the Heat will definitely be able to establish a lead over the Spurs in the first quarter, thus ensuring the entire game. The victory of the game, but after the game started, Erik Spoelstra discovered the gap between the buyer's show and the seller's show.

Especially when the first quarter ended and the Heat entered a timeout with a score of 17 to 22, Eric Spoelstra's expression became even more ugly. The Heat's full-court press in the first quarter was completely absent It had the expected effect, but it was the Heat's offense that was completely at a loss in front of the Spurs' suddenly enhanced defense and the almost impenetrable defense of the two almost perverted Spidermen.

"Unexpectedly, the finals have already reached the fourth game, and the Spurs still have something to hide."

When the players on both sides left the court one after another, Magic Johnson on the commentary seat looked at Popovich sitting on the sidelines and said something meaningful.

Generally speaking, in the first two rounds of the playoffs, all ambitious teams will hold back and try to hide their trump cards and hole cards, so as to play a role of surprise in the following games, and by the way, they can also take advantage of The first two rounds of confrontation are not too fierce to adjust their game state, but most of the teams that have entered the division finals and finals will give up the temptation, wishing to kick their opponents over as soon as they come up, so that they have no chance to stand up , but the Spurs are not among these teams.

Take this season's playoffs as an example. In almost every round of the game, the Spurs can show some cards, especially after entering the finals. Now that they have reached the fourth game of the endless game, the Spurs still have to adjust There is still room for the Heat to come up with some tactics and strategies that have not been used before. Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard's excellent defense and tacit cooperation made the Heat's offense at a loss. Has been speeding up. If Tim Duncan returns to the defense and Tim Duncan sits at the basket, the Heat's offense will be even more difficult.

"Eric Spoelstra must be having a headache right now, Erwin, do you have any way to break the Spurs' defensive strategy?" Looking at Eri who was frowning tightly and arranging tactics on the sidelines Ke Spoelstra, Michaels on the commentary seat turned his head and asked his partner, as a semi-professional, Michaels can understand what the Spurs' defense means, but Michaels has no way to crack it After all, he is only a semi-professional, so Michaels wanted to find some coping strategies from Magic Johnson.

"It's hard. It's a victory for talent. Both Meng Xu and Leonard are the kind of players with height, wingspan, movement speed and defensive sense. A team can have a player like this. Players, their defense and defense can produce qualitative changes, not to mention that the Spurs now have two such players. Unless the Heat can have two LeBrons and a Ray Allen who is at his peak, they will be difficult to destroy The Spurs' defense." After Michaels asked, Magic Johnson shook his head directly, saying that he was powerless, and he could find solutions to both tactical and technical victories, but only the talent Victory requires talents stronger than them to be able to suppress them.

"It seems that it is very difficult for the Heat to win this game."

Off the court, James, Bosh and others who had just left the court listened to the head coach's tactical arrangement, and their faces were also very ugly. In the first quarter of this game, whether it was the offensive end or the defensive end, the Heat were Very passive, but as the head coach Eric Spoelstra, the solution to the problem is to increase the playing time of the main lineup, and prepare to continue to send all the players while the Spurs are rotating the main lineup. The main force, take the opportunity to regain the disadvantage on the field.

(End of this chapter)