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Chapter 274 Dawn
On the NO.12 match day, the sixth game of the Finals between the Thunder and the Heat started at the Ford Center Arena.

It was a matter of whether the Thunder could make it to Game [-]. As many as [-] fans in Oklahoma City surrounded the arena.

Most of the fans felt sorry for Chandler's continued absence, but they also understood that life is bigger than basketball, so they didn't speak ill of each other.

The match kicked off at seven o'clock, and the two teams did not make personnel adjustments. They went all out at the beginning of the game, competing for details and execution.

Durant and LeBron also played the full 12 minutes in the first quarter, and continued to stay on the field after the start of the second quarter. Both offensive and defensive ends drove their team, but at the critical moment, Harden stood up and made consecutive emergency stops. Take up the burden of scoring for the Thunder.

At the end of the half, the Thunder led the Heat 60-57 with Harden's surprisingly good performance.

In the third quarter, the two teams still played inextricably. The Thunder always maintained the lead and suppressed the Heat.

In order to chase points, the Heat let LeBron play a full 12 minutes, but Su Yang didn't dare to push him, and he didn't replace Durant.

That kind of operation made Durant very tired, but it was also exchanged for LeBron, the strongest engine of the Heat, which was relatively profitable.

The game was going on anxiously. With Durant breaking through and making two free throws, the Thunder led the Heat 95 to 90.

Beep!The referee blew his whistle and gestured for a long timeout for the Heat.

"Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... " the MVP shout of the audience wave after wave.

Su Yang applauded, and looked at the timer by the way, and found that there were 6 minutes and 48 seconds left before the end of the game, and the assistant coach Brian next to him quickly said: "We are not currently troubled by fouls, and there are two long timeouts and two short timeouts. can use…"

Su Yang nodded again and again to show that he heard it, then picked up the tactical board, and took the initiative to lean towards the Thunder generals who were walking back to the bench.

"Next, we need to pay attention to controlling the rhythm. The opponent will definitely increase the level of aggressiveness. Try to hand the ball over to Harden and Durant. If there is no suitable opportunity, don't rush to start. The more critical the moment, the more we must be patient... "

There is nothing to emphasize on the tactical aspect. The main thing is to stabilize the mentality of the players, after all, the opponent is full of desire.

In addition to stabilizing his mentality, Su Yang also specially asked Durant to serve as a power forward temporarily. On the one hand, the defense against Bosh is not so strong and the risk of injury is reduced. brown.

During the conversation, the whistle sounded at the end of the timeout, the players of the two teams re-entered the field, and the game continued.

Heat adjustment lineup, the five are Wade, Miller, LeBron, Bosh, Haslem.

The Thunder did not make lineup adjustments. The five players are Westbrook, Harden, Green, Durant, and Ibaka.

Beep!The referee times the ball.

The Heat attacked from the bottom line in the backcourt, LeBron took the ball and slowly pushed forward, and Bosh ran to follow up simultaneously.

According to Su Yang's arrangement, Green approached LeBron in advance to interfere with LeBron, and tried his best to prevent LeBron from urging the Heat to break fast.

"Defense defense!" Ford Center shouted everywhere, and the audience wanted to send out ultrasonic waves to attack LeBron.

In the blink of an eye, LeBron ran across the center line with the ball, and Bosh reached the right elbow simultaneously, and the Heat formed a horn formation.

Wade immediately started from the right wing, directly made an AI cut, and with the help of Bosh's cover, moved to the left wing position in a wide range.

Seeing this, LeBron passed the ball across, and Haslem moved across the wall simultaneously to screen, and Bosh took the opportunity to run to Wade from his right elbow.

The Heat's AI cut with STS screen, followed by pick-and-roll changes, has strong tactical continuity. It can run out of Wade to break through with the ball, or Bosh splits the inside cut in advance, and cooperates with LeBron's Bind cut. It is worth using after a timeout.

But Su Yang has already studied the Heat's tactics thoroughly. At the moment Bosh ran to Wade's side, Durant decisively gave up chasing Bosh according to the pre-match arrangement, and instead teamed up with Westbrook to attack left and right. Wade, one low and one high.

That kind of defensive strategy, even stronger than Wade, couldn't break through. Wade hurriedly pulled the ball back, stopped abruptly and turned to look at Bosh.

Seeing this, Ibaka stepped sideways and waved his hands to interfere with the passing route, causing Wade's hope of making a long pass to the bottom corner to be dashed, but Haslem stepped forward in time to respond, and immediately returned the pass after receiving the ball, and incidentally set up a wall Block Westbrook and form a side screen.

In the blink of an eye, Wade slumped his shoulders and lowered his center of gravity to charge forward, relying on his footsteps and body position, he planned to forcefully charge Durant.

Seeing this, Green moved 45 degrees from the right side to control the video, cutting off the possibility of overtaking in the curve, and Wade quickly scored the ball.

LeBron took the ball at 45 degrees on the right side, and also lowered his center of gravity and rushed, but Green returned quickly, cutting off the breakthrough space.

Westbrook and Durant shrank into the paint, but who would have thought that LeBron raised his hand and hit the ground to pass the ball, and the basketball seemed to have its own obstacle recognition and GPS positioning system, perfectly avoiding the Thunder three snatching, accurate landed in front of the running doctor.

Ibaka hurriedly turned around to intercept, but he was one step behind. The doctor picked up the basketball, jumped high and dunked with both hands to score.

The cheers of the audience stopped abruptly, and the Heat's bench was full of joy. Ibaka raised his right hand to signal that he made a mistake.

Su Yang waved his hand to indicate that it wasn't Ibaka's fault, nor was it the Thunder's fault. Just now, the overall defensive selection and execution ability have reached the limit according to the pre-game arrangement. The Heat's ability to score those two points was all due to LeBron's slam dunk. day's small range pass.

Offensive and defensive transitions on the court, Westbrook dribbled the ball to the left 45-degree three-point line, and the rest of the Thunder used various cover-run tactics.

After some conduct, Green took the ball sideways on the left wing to face the misplaced defensive Wade, and slowly pushed in.

Wade didn't fight hard, and Miller also jumped back and forth between double-teaming and returning to defend Westbrook until he double-teamed in the last five seconds.

Green hurriedly turned around and tried to pass the ball to Westbrook, but he didn't push Wade. The center of gravity of his body was out of balance, and his movements were deformed.

Miller took advantage of the situation and bent down to grab it, looked up and glanced at the front, and passed it to LeBron, and the Heat launched a fast break counterattack.

LeBron rushed to the free throw line in two seconds, made an emergency stop and passed to Wade, who followed up simultaneously, and Westbrook failed to steal sideways.Harden hurriedly retreated to try to defend, but Wade caught the ball and directly forced a three-step basket, quickly tossed the ball and hit the board without giving any chance.

94 to 95, after the Heat paused, it took only 50 seconds to catch up with only 1 point, and the team's momentum soared.

Especially Wade, who does not dunk when there is a wide open opportunity, but wants to score, brings a great bonus to the Heat.

There were all kinds of anxious and complaining voices at the scene. The Heat's strong pursuit of points brought great pressure to the audience, and the Thunder players seemed a little panicked.Seeing this, Su Yang took a deep breath to stabilize his mind, without showing the slightest nervousness, and then gestured toward the venue.

Seeing his gesture, Ibaka sent the ball to Harden, then strode to the right side of the front court, and stood together with Westbrook and Green.

The space on the left side and the paint area was quickly left. Harden ran to the left 45 degrees with the ball and played a pick-and-roll with Durant.

The moment the pick-and-roll started, LeBron and Bosh decisively double-teamed, and Miller and Haslem also stood in the paint to intercept in advance.

That kind of interception, and LeBron chasing close to him, Harden didn't dare to rush, stopped and jumped and passed the ball 45 degrees to the right.

Westbrook catches the ball with both hands, but before he can put it down, Miller's defense is already in place, and Wade also turns around to pay attention at the right corner, which makes Westbrook have no chance to break through. After observing halftime, he chooses to pass the ball back Harden who came out to meet him.

LeBron immediately returned to the defense, still adopting a close-to-press strategy, but this time, Harden resolutely made an emergency stop to make a mid-range shot.

That was the effect of Su Yang's conversation before the game. Unfortunately, Harden probably still isn't used to it. The basketball bounced and flew backwards.

Bosh Bosh picked up the rebound, turned around and threw it to LeBron, the Heat started a fast break again, and the Thunder team quickly returned to defense.

Seeing that everyone in the defensive formation was paying too much attention to LeBron, Su Yang hurriedly shouted a reminder: "Be careful..."

Before the words fell, Wade received the ball from the left wing and cooperated with Bosh who arrived in the pick-and-roll. However, Su Yang reminded Durant to delay the block + return to the defense in time. Together with Westbrook, he successfully defended the pick-and-roll and continued to give Wei German pressure, not allowed to continue to try to pick and roll.

Wade was not in a hurry, he dribbled the ball slowly like an old man, and suddenly passed to Haslem who pretended to be a screen, but actually opened the inside cut ahead of time, and Ibaka made a wrong judgment and chose to intercept Wade , Directly pass the basket to the basket.

Seeing this, the Heat's bench stood up and raised their hands in advance, while Haslem took the ball and took off, clasping the buckle vigorously with both hands.

With a bang, the basketball exploded into the net, and the Heat overtook the Thunder 96-95. Su Yang got up and asked for a long timeout.

In the ESPN commentary, Jeff Van Gundy smiled and said: "Serge Ibaka made two mistakes in a row. Although there are reasons for the Heat's players to play well, it still contributed to the Heat's easy 4 points. You think Su Yang will replace him. go down?"

Mark Jackson nodded: "I think he will change. He must replace Ibaka to remind the rest of the Thunder team to stay focused, otherwise the Thunder will be prone to a vicious cycle. He dare not take that risk. This is the Finals, and the Thunder are facing elimination."

On the field, Su Yang patted Ibaka's trembling shoulders, and smiled to indicate that he should not feel nervous, because the two points lost related to Ibaka, one was because LeBron passed the ball too much, and the other was according to Su Yang's pre-match rules. Arrangement resolutely delay Wade.

There was another point loss, and the tactics were completely out, but who would have thought that Green would not succeed in taking Wade alone.

"I assure you!"

"The Heat scored three times in a row. It's not that we did poor offense and defense, but that they were lucky. What we have to do is to keep calm and continue to play according to the ideas we set before the game. Our offense and defense are very good, and we will win this game. ..."

Between the words, the whistle sounded at the end of the timeout, and the game continued without any personnel adjustments by the Thunder.

Beep!The referee blew the whistle to time the ball, the Thunder launched an attack from the bottom line of the backcourt, and the audience cheered in unison.

Westbrook dribbled the ball to the right wing, Durant used Harden to cover the ball and went up to the top of the arc to catch the ball, then turned around and forced Bosh, but Bosh chased desperately, Wade and Haslem were still standing ahead Durant had to make an emergency stop and pass back.

Westbrook took the ball and passed to the free throw line. Durant caught the ball and faced Bosh sideways.

The basketball went into the circle and spun twice, and then it came out of the basket, and the Ford Center suddenly burst into a sound of regret.

The Heat grabbed 4 of 2 from the basket, Wade jumped out of bounds and volleyed to save the ball, LeBron caught the ball and turned around, slowly advancing.

It's still a bullhorn formation, or Wade runs the 'Iverson crosscut' to start, or Bosh uses Haslem's cover to find Wade to play a pick-and-roll, the Heat grab a good tactic and try their best, but the Thunder have experience , Durant did not double-team.

Instead, Ibaka went up and intercepted, not giving Wade room to break through, and helping Westbrook squeeze through the screen to catch up.

Unexpectedly, Wade actually rushed to shoot, and the three-pointer went into the net, and the Ford center suddenly silenced.

Seeing that kind of operation, Su Yang couldn't control his emotions. He kept raising his eyebrows and staring to relieve the shocking feeling in his heart: Wade's three-point shooting percentage in the entire series was extremely low. It is too strong.

He quickly regained his composure, pretended to be calm and made tactical gestures, indicating that he would continue to hand over the ball to Durant.

But Westbrook didn't seem to want to pay attention, or maybe he didn't see it, and rushed directly with the ball, rushing into the encirclement of the Heat without knowing the danger.Seeing this, Su Yang rushed to the center line and shouted: "RUSS! Hey! RUSS! STOP!"

Perhaps it was the shouts that spread to the court, Westbrook also calmed down, stopped suddenly, turned around and threw the ball to Durant.

Durant took the ball with his right elbow, rushed to the left waist against Bosh, stopped abruptly, turned around and raised his hand to lift Haslem, and then made a low-handed layup with a smooth up and down step. Hit the falling Haslem with a bang, and shot simultaneously.

Beep!The referee whistled for a foul, but unfortunately he failed to make a two-point layup and only had two free throw opportunities.

Seeing the opportunity to break the scoring drought appeared, the audience applauded wildly, and Su Yang waved Westbrook to the sidelines.

"RUSS, we need you to keep calm, only if you keep calm can you give the Heat the greatest threat..."

Between the words, Su Yang tried his best to appease Westbrook's restless heart, knowing that Westbrook's ball power was greatly reduced and he was not comfortable.

Westbrook nodded again and again to express his understanding, and then returned to the court, and Durant made two free throws, and the Thunder chased 97 to 99.

Amidst the defensive shouts all over the court, the Heat launched an offense and continued to play the previous horn formation + Iverson's cross-cutting tactics.

That was a bit of an insult to the IQ of the Thunder generals. All kinds of defenses were in place quickly. Wade made a strong breakthrough to the baseline but failed. Instead, he took the next step and handed the ball to LeBron. pass the ball.

Bosh was intercepted by Westbrook as soon as he was secure, but Westbrook seemed to be overly excited, and threw the ball out of bounds with a long pass directly, making a big mistake.

"Damn it..." With the audience sighing regretfully, Su Yang took a deep breath and felt his blood pressure soar.

The ball is still in the hands of the Heat, and Spoelstra hastily arranged sideline tactics.After some passes, Bosh received the ball in the left corner for singles, pretended to shoot and fly Durant, and then strode to the basket for a layup, causing Ibaka's thug to foul.

Seeing this, Su Yang clapped his hands to remind him to continue to focus. There was nothing to say about this ball, and Durant couldn't guard against it.

There were boos at the Ford Center, Bosh hit the iron with the first free throw, and hit the circle with the second free throw into the net. The Heat led 100 to 97.

Thunder launched a counterattack, Su Yang raised his hand and slapped his elbow, indicating that the players should also play bullhorn tactics to pursue the success rate.

The horn formation was formed immediately, and Harden started from the right wing to do an 'Iverson crosscut', but unlike Wade, Harden chose to crosscut from the paint area, allowing the Heat's two elbow defenders to fall into the blind spot of vision, not so Reaction time.

Seeing Harden reach 45 degrees to the left, Westbrook raised his hand to pass the ball, while Ibaka and Durant stepped forward to cover simultaneously.

Durant made a screen and cut in along the sideline, Ibaka screened last night and stayed in place, and Harden dribbled the ball to the top of the arc.

The three of the Heat instantly turned their attention to the top of the arc, but Harden threw the ball to the left waist in advance, perfectly shifting the strength and weakness.

Durant took the ball in the wide open space on the left waist, and the three before the Heat, including Wade, rushed towards Durant together.

Durant calmly passed the ball back to the top of the arc, and Ibaka slid down simultaneously, blocking LeBron's route back to defense Harden.

In an instant, Harden set up a wide open shooting position, took off steadily and threw a three-pointer, and the basketball slammed into the net.

100 to 100, the Thunder tied the Heat, the cheers in the Ford Center burst, and the DJ shouted Harden's name in a drawn out voice.

Su Yang applauded along with the audience, and continued to remain calm, but he knew in his heart that if he resisted the wave of heat, the dawn of victory was in sight.

(End of this chapter)