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Chapter 457 Riley's Choice
The successive losses suffered by the Miami Heat in Orlando and Los Angeles have made many people worry whether this team, which swept across the country at the beginning of the season, will immediately fall to the bottom. After all, Wade and Lin Yi, whom they rely on, are not in Among the team, not many people think that such a team can continue to hit the No. Crazy winning streak, especially when they saw Wade holding his ankle in pain during the game, everyone's heart was cold.

Losing two trump cards in a row when the important schedule came, this made Spoelstra, who had just been promoted to the second-year coach, a headache. After the game against the Lakers, he looked helplessly at the team's lineup It's the first time I'm worried. If Lin Yi's absence drained their inside control, then Wade's injury made the entire Miami Heat worse, especially in the face of such a dense schedule.

Now the Miami people can't find a leader who can stand up and direct the overall situation immediately. Lin Yi's suspension period will end with eight games, but the Heat now need to play five away games during this period. None of these opponents One is easy to provoke, Nuggets, Eagles, Pacers, Thunder, Bucks, looking at the names of these future opponents, Spoelstra is about to start cursing again, he really doesn’t know if God is playing with him, If you insist on playing such a difficult schedule on the road in the most difficult time for your team, isn't this TM deliberately finding fault?The damn scheduler.

The dense and difficult schedule is not the most troublesome problem for Filipinos. The most terrible thing is the medical report from the team doctor about Wade's injury. At the conclusion of the eight weeks, this kind of news almost made Spoelstra feel collapsed. The sharpest knife in his hand is now going to stop fighting for two months. Damn, this damn luck, really bad!
Now it is about to enter the stalemate stage in December. If there is no way to accumulate a certain advantage in the early stage, then when the old players are in a physical crisis, the Miami Heat will fall into a very troublesome situation. Among them, Spoelstra often splits Lin Yi and Wade for rotation in the early game. In addition to improving the offensive efficiency on the court, it is to allow the players to have more rest time. The team's organizational ability can completely bring the game under the control of the Heat, especially Lin Yi's strong performance on the court has allowed this method to be brought into full play, and their offensive efficiency after the split is excellent. Very efficient.

But now all of this has no room for development. The absence of Lin Yi and Wade at the same time has already determined that Miami must rely on the whole team to sprint to win the victory. This kind of physical consumption will greatly increase, especially in the Insiders Ben Wallace and McDyess will need to greatly increase their playing time to make up for the loophole of Lin Yi's absence from the game, and in terms of scoring, the team's entire team needs to act.

Spoelstra's biggest headache is the problem of Wade's replacement. Is there anyone in the free market at this time who will release a scoring strongman who can beat swingmen?The entire Heat team can't come up with someone who can play the same role as Wade to play the shooting guard position. Without Lin and Wade again and again, this is almost a waste of one-third of the Heat's entire firepower. Even if the Filipino feels that he is a genius, he has no other choice. Perhaps the only person he can turn to at this time is that old fox-like Pat Riley.

"Boss, I can only try my best to win the game. At least until that kid Lin Yi comes back, I can hardly guarantee that our winning percentage will remain at a high level. After all, we now have one less insider pillar. , there is also one less swingman who can break through the opponent at any time. The existing players can play interspersed and run, but if they are allowed to perform a strong attack in a positional battle, it is difficult for anyone to tear through the opponent's defense line in the first place , Those old guys have a lot of experience, but they don't have a sharp breakthrough like Wade. I can only say that before Lin Yi lifts his suspension, try to get as many victories as possible, but God, whether the old man will help, I don't know I don’t know, I just have to pray.”

After losing the Lakers game, Spoelstra was bargaining with Pat Riley in a very rogue tone, but what he said was indeed the actual situation. After all, the entire team's offensive and defensive systems are Based on those two guys, even if there is only one of them, he can still ensure that the team's operation is still normal, but what makes him most depressed now is that these two guys are absent at the same time, which makes him carefully build The dual-core of the machine has completely lost the drive, and now even the tank in Miami has been filled with gasoline, but the engine is gone.

"You talk to the board of directors about these things yourself, I can't help you, I can only help you try to pick Wade's alternatives in the free market, but only God knows if there will be any that can be fished out. Fortunately, I haven't used up all my cap space this summer, but I don't think any team is willing to trade me now. Supplementing us will always be a threat to them. "

Pat Riley knew that at this time there was no way to ask the Filipino to plunder the victory as crazy as in the previous stage, but he hoped that this guy could explain to the board of directors himself, after all, this kid is now the coach of the team, And his responsibility is to dig out the bottomless free agent market as much as possible during Wade's absence from the game. Who knows if there will be any available talents there. After all, he wants to find someone who can replace Wade's scoring efficiency. It's a bit too difficult for the guy. There are still eight games left in Lin Yi's suspension. Maybe after this kid comes back, the whole team will feel better. After all, this little guy also led the ball alone when Wade was injured last season. Team, and the effect is not bad.

However, in order to be on the safe side, it is best to find a suitable replacement from free agents. However, after flipping through the free agent information in his hand, Pat Riley is really about to fall into contemplation. The way to trade is now basically Not realistic. After all, few teams have swingmen with outstanding scoring ability. A big change, especially for them to contribute players to their opponents, is simply an impossible deal.

Pick a qualified scorer from among the unemployed?Maybe there is no shortage of high scorers in that market, for example, guys like Marbury have not yet found a suitable club, but the bad boy who has obviously lost his forward momentum can no longer arouse Pat Riley's interest, the old fox is very Know what kind of swingman you need to find. He must not only break through the opponent's defense and score on offense.

More importantly, this guy must be able to behave like a qualified fighter when the team needs him. Only with a strong mentality can he be accepted by the Miami people. Cowards who can only shoot are never welcome here Buggy, finding a guy like this is not simply a need for him to be a qualified substitute for Wade. Pat Riley needs this guy to do his best on the way for the Miami Heat to hit the championship, but now It seems that such a guy is not so easy to find, especially in such a period of time, it is already very difficult to find a qualified scorer, not to mention so many requirements, maybe it is true Only God can do what Pat Riley wants.

But the NBA schedule will not give Pat Riley more time to think, its pace is always so hurried and crazy, especially for the current Miami Heat, this damn schedule is like a rush Usually, every team is desperately driven forward to plunder victories, but now the Miami Heat have changed from a deadly killer to a target of plunder, after losing the two sharp knives of Lin Yi and Wade , Not many people will worry about the Heat's crazy offense anymore, and the Nuggets took the lead in starting their own battle of revenge.

Without Lin Yi's ability to control the interior, the two big men Kenyon Martin and Nene are like sharks smelling blood, and they are desperately facing McDyess, Ben Wallace and Haslem These guys launched an impact. Maybe the Miami Heat, under the arrangement of Spoelstra on the rebound, can still stabilize the inside battle. When Billups started to forcefully cut in from the outside, there was no longer a shot that could be thrown from the inside to slap the "alien" hard.

Perhaps the rebounding ability of guys like Millsap can ensure that the disadvantage in rebounding will not be too great, but when the opponent's swingman forcibly smears into the inside of the Miami Heat, the first-time supplementary defense is no longer necessary. It doesn't feel as fierce as usual. Since the day Lin Yi was absent, the entire Heat's ability to block shots has dropped by nearly a notch. Without this guy's three or so blocks per game, the Miami Heat's interior defensive strength Obviously there are shortcomings, especially when facing the forced breakthroughs of opponents' swingmen, they always seem very weak.

114:96 Even if Millsap, McDyess and others scored in double figures, this did not save them from failure. When the opponent's lineup has a Carmelo Anthony who can attack the inside like crazy , the balance on the field has long since ceased to exist. When the score is stalemate, Billups's pass only needs to find the running "melon" to solve many problems. Spoelstra is not without arrangements The task of marking, but even if you are defending and holding this guy once, can you restrict this guy from entering the paint for the entire game?

I'm afraid that no team's defensive system will be so tight. What's more, Billups, a big-hearted guy, is still as sharp as ever in the peripheral three-pointer. With a crazy JR. Smith, I am afraid that any The team will feel stretched in defense. The Miami players have worked hard enough, but some things cannot be replaced by hard work. The gap in personal ability is not so easy to make up.Chalmers and Haslem have worked hard enough, but sometimes there is such a big difference between genius and mediocrity, and there is no need to change it.

Three consecutive losses, this may be the first time since the new season that the Heat have experienced the feeling of losing so many games in a row. Now some people have begun to say on TV and newspapers that the Heat's tactics are too dependent on Lin Yi and Wade. Personally, and Spoelstra is said by these people to be able to rely on the individual performance of star players to solve problems, and when the star disappears, he immediately loses the way to control the game. Such a coach It should not be included in the selection of the best coach at all. At this time, the Filipinos were very puzzled and asked the players around them, "Who can tell me when I was included in the selection of the best coach?" ? Does anyone remember that the league or somewhere notified me about this?”, no one could answer him, not even the top executives of the league could answer his question, it’s only the beginning of the fucking season, how can there be a selection!copy!
This is the method that the media often use when commenting on the ups and downs of a team's record. They always want to find the reason for the team's decline in performance, but in summary, they can never escape those points, either they are too dependent on a certain player, Either it is the level of the coaches, in short, it is definitely not their fault, they are the media, they are the eyes of the public who play a supervisory role, but sometimes the mouths of these people are really not as clean as a trash can, especially When the New York media people gloated over the Miami Heat's consecutive defeats, they only had disdain for the team in their eyes, but they seemed to forget one thing, that is, Lin Yi will lift the suspension , and Wade's injury will heal.

But these guys will always ignore Spoelstra's principle of doing things with revenge. When everyone's guns are aimed at him, this guy can't make this guy have any fear. It is the decisiveness to stimulate this lunatic to counterattack. It only takes one day. This guy used a beautiful counterattack and directly slapped these reporters very loudly. When they pecked away a piece of meat, they desperately found that the fire had not been extinguished, but burned even crazier.

105:90, Spoelstra's counterattack method was as crisp and neat as ever, and he also said something very pointedly when he was interviewed after the game, "Some reporters are saying that the Miami Heat rely on stars. Team, then please stop chasing superstars like Wade and James this summer, although I know their boss has luxury tax obsessive-compulsive disorder, but for the sake of his team not to rely on stars, please give up chasing Well, it’s for their own good.” No matter what this Filipino says, as long as anyone who hears his words knows very well that the rift between Miami and New York will definitely get deeper and deeper, as long as these guys can hold down New York For one thing, the topic will always exist and never change.

However, a victory in one game cannot conceal the troubles that the Miami Heat are facing now. Two days after winning the Atlanta Hawks, they lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in an away game. The opponent's offensive speed, but when the score remained stalemate until the last 2 minutes, Durant's strong inside line still had the most deadly effect. The three-point gap caused the Miamis to suffer another defeat. Five games, one win and four losses The results are indeed a bit ugly, but this is the result of Spoelstra's hard work. The gap is the gap. He does not deny that his team did not play well when it lacked leaders, but there are a few coaches who dare He patted his chest and said, if he takes away two absolute core players in his team, can he still win the game in a row?I'm afraid Phil Jackson can't do this either. After all, in addition to the overall basketball game, what is more important is the performance of the stars, especially in a league like the NBA where individual heroism prevails. The role of this kind of guy is sometimes even more effective than the command of any famous coach, after all, the ball needs them to play.

The consecutive failures have already sounded the alarm for Pat Riley. Even if Lin Yi can return after the suspension period expires, the Miami Heat will now need to replenish personnel. After all, you cannot always rely on Lin Yi alone If you continue to use this kid like this, then the scene in the finals of last season will be repeated again. Pat Riley does not want to let himself live in repeated tragedies forever. He must In the shortest possible time for the Miami Heat to find a guy who can attack the city at the back line, maybe now is the time for him to dial his wishful thinking again, because he has a flip on the table. contract, the guy above is clearly a good pick.

"Maybe, this is another very dangerous gamble, alas, why do I always make such crazy decisions when I am getting older, I really don't know if my fragile heart can make me survive the Heat When the team establishes its own dynasty, I hope those little fellows in Lin Yi will not make me wait too long, otherwise I really don’t know if I will be knocked down by this frightening life one day.” Pat Riley looked at the document in front of him and shook his head helplessly. This is an adventure, even a gamble that lost everything. God knows whether the guy on this contract will really stay in Miami safely. Go on, but now there may be no one in the free market who is more suitable for this position than him.

Gambling?Then go ahead. . .Anyway, I'm used to gambling. . .

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