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Chapter 277 It's Not That Simple

At 14:[-] p.m. on NO.[-], Game [-] of the Finals between the Thunder and the Heat continued at the Ford Center.

As the announcer finally called out Su Yang’s name, more than 9000 spectators cheered in unison, and the central large screen simultaneously showed tens of thousands of spectators shouting in unison outside the Ford Center, as well as videos of Thunder fans from all over the world connection.

Some fans stand at the Empire State Building in New York, some live at the Antarctic scientific research station, and some lie on luxury cruise ships...

For a moment, Su Yang felt that he was in the center of the world, and hundreds of millions of people were watching the tiebreaker.

Anyway, there are hundreds of millions of fans watching the game just by CCTV5 and Sina live broadcast, but he knows that it is mainly Ke Mi and Zhan Mi who are fighting against each other. The number of real fans of Thunder Three, and even Su Yang's fans is very small. Thunderbolt turned into a gun virtually.

The cheers were endless. Su Yang clapped his hands and called the whole team to surround him. With Harden on his left arm and Westbrook on his right hand, he looked up at Durant and said loudly, "Tonight is our career. Another game in a million games, whatever you want to do, just go for it, do it with faith and passion, each of you have 14 strong teammates, and I will stand behind you and support you all , let us trust each other, let us move forward hand in hand..."

After the words fell, Su Yang raised his right hand high, Durant and others clapped hands and fisted, and the whole team shouted 123OKC in unison.

The sound spread to the sidelines, and many spectators spontaneously shouted OKC, and in a blink of an eye, the audience shouted OKC in unison.

That huge shout, together with the blue T-shirts and arms waving in unison, formed waves of sound visible to the naked eye.

Then the long whistle sounded, and the two teams entered the starting stadium to take their positions. The audience stood up and watched, and the whole army was ready to go.

The Thunder starting lineup remains unchanged.

For the Heat, Chalmers replaced Bibby as the starting point guard, and Joel Anthony replaced Miller.

There were cheers everywhere in the arena, the Heat won the jump ball, LeBron caught the ball in the backcourt and crossed the center line, and threw it to Wade on the left.

"Defense!" The audience shouted in unison, and the Thunder directly put up a three-two defensive formation to limit breakthroughs.

In an instant, Joel Anthony went up to the wall to set up a positioning screen, while LeBron stepped on the ground at the same time to accelerate and rush, bullying Jordan to move slowly, and went straight to the bottom line basket where the restriction effect of the three-two defense was relatively weak, forming a James-Way connection airborne threat.

Su Yang saw it, and wanted to shout to remind Jordan not to turn around and chase, but unfortunately he was in a different half, and even if he ran to the center line, the shout could not pass through, so he subconsciously raised his hands up, reminding Jordan to use it as much as possible. height.

Almost at the same time, Jordan raised his hands to interfere with Wade's passing route, probably because he himself had thought of how to do it.

In the blink of an eye, Wade realized that the risk of passing the ball was too high. He raised his hand and threw the ball to Joel Anthony, and then accelerated with all his strength.

After Joel Anthony received the ball, he immediately handed it back, and the two cooperated, and the rhythm was so fast.

But the Thunder's defensive quality is super strong, Sefolosa quickly bypassed the screen to intercept, and Westbrook followed Su Yang's pre-match arrangement, and directly moved 45 degrees from the right side to jointly intercept. Anyway, Chalmers pulled the three-pointer horizontally. It’s okay to be bold and let go for a while.

"Zi la..."

Wade stopped the brakes suddenly, raised his hand and threw the ball to the right, then blocked Westbrook's return route with his back, and continued to exert physical confrontation.

Chalmers simultaneously bowed to catch the ball at the 45-degree three-point line on the right, skillfully combined the ball and took off, and the result was that the shot was not good.

No one on the Thunder side expected that Chalmers would be so stretched, and he didn't touch three-pointers in the wide open. On the Heat side, Wade quickly slipped to the basket, easily picked up the offensive rebound, and took advantage of the opportunity to lead out of the paint. , and Bosh do pick-and-roll cooperation on the right wing.

Jordan did not hesitate to switch defenses and delay, Wade has no room to break through, and hurriedly threw the ball to the left 45-degree three-point line.

LeBron catches the ball and turns around suddenly and divides it to the left corner. Chalmers catches the ball wide open again and gets an excellent shot.

But Chalmers seemed to be too nervous, not only did not rush to shoot, but instead made a breakthrough, and directly collided with Joel Anthony, who was trying to help with the screen, wasting the attack time in vain, and continued to rush forward, making an emergency stop, jumping and throwing .

The momentum was quite ferocious, but it was a pity that the basketball went directly across the bridge, and it was another non-stick. The audience laughed in unison.

But who would have thought that Westbrook shrunk excessively to grab a rebound, but he missed it and let Wade easily pick up an offensive rebound.

"Ouch, I'm a turtle..."

Su Yang raised his eyebrows and stared. Could it be that the encouragement of "do whatever you want" at the beginning made Westbrook let himself go?

While thinking about it, Wade passed the ball to Chalmers in the right corner, but Chalmers was afraid and did not dare to make a wide open shot.

The basketball flew to the right at 45 degrees, and there were only 5 seconds left in the attack time. LeBron turned sideways to test a little, kicked off the ground and shot a three-pointer.

Boom!The basketball hits the hoop and into the net.

"It's really interesting. Sometimes you don't give LeBron so many choices and put him in a great limit, but he performs better..." Su Yang complained, guessing that it might be a real difficulty in choosing, and he would be stimulated after not choosing. The strongest combat power.

The offensive and defensive transitions on the field, the audience cheered in unison, and the Thunder started with the conventional formation of one inside and four outside.

Westbrook ran to the right wing with the ball, bowed and patted to wait for the opportunity.At the same time, Sefolosha came up from the free throw line and set a back screen for Ibaka to block Bosh at the top of the key, and Ibaka took the opportunity to run to the right wing and asked Westbrook to set a ghost screen to cooperate.

The Heat's defensive formation was torn apart in an instant, but Westbrook did not attack, but passed the ball up to the top of the arc to Sefrosa.

Sefolosha took the ball and turned to the left, and Jordan lifted it from the left waist at the same time, pretending to cover for Sefolosha.

The Thunder's running position is a simplified version of the zipper tactic designed around Harden, but Sefolosha does not have the breakthrough ability of Harden. The tactic skips the breakthrough with the ball directly. Durant, who is stuck on the left waist and back.

The left area was cleared at the same time, Durant dribbled the ball with his back to LeBron to find the rhythm, took two consecutive shots, turned over and made a jump shot.

The basketball slammed into the net, the DJ shouted Durant, the Ford Center cheered, and the audience sat down one after another.

The two teams switched offense and defense, and Su Yang did not give an order. Westbrook directly pressed Chalmers in the backcourt, which was extremely oppressive.

Chalmers almost lost the ball several times, hurriedly ran across the center line with the help of Bosh's cover, and hurriedly passed the ball to Bosh.

But Chalmers was nervous, and the basic tactical quality was still there. After passing the ball, he immediately ran down to the left waist, forming a step-up screen with Joel Anthony in the left elbow area, and Wade synchronously from the left corner. Start, stride toward the 45-degree three-point line.

With that kind of running position + screen, it is really difficult for Sefolosha to catch up, but Wade's emergency stop to catch the ball is just like that.

when!Basketball hits the basket and hits the iron.

The audience on the sidelines cheered when they saw this, but Joel Anthony jumped high to grab an offensive rebound, followed by a second take-off to put the basket.

when!Basketball strikes iron again.

Westbrook got the rebound and pushed for a fast break, and the Thunder's three-point line in the frontcourt completed a strong and weak side shift. Ibaka caught the ball on the right waist, turned around and took off, and threw a mid-range shot against Bosh. But it is also a record of three non-sticks, which is surprising.

Wade picked up the rebound, raised his hand and made a long pass to the left sideline. LeBron caught the ball and rushed, and the left elbow in the frontcourt made an emergency stop and fell back to make a mid-range shot.

The basketball slammed into the net, and the Thunder generals were still preparing to shrink and block the paint, blocking a loneliness.

It is obvious that LeBron was in excellent form after the opening game. He dared to shoot if he had no choice but to shoot if he had a choice. He did not feel nervous like Chalmers, nor was he too hasty like Ibaka, nor did he play casually like Westbrook. It is transparent.

Su Yang thought for a moment, then discussed with Snyder, and decided to maintain the current defensive strategy - priority defense against breakthroughs.

In the blink of an eye, there were more than five minutes left in the first quarter. LeBron, who was in excellent form, was full on the offensive end and made many mid-range shots. The defensive end also effectively restricted Durant from 5 of 2 shots. With 9 points and 3 assists, he helped The Heat temporarily lead the Thunder 22 to 15.

Su Yang was not in a hurry, but took advantage of the Heat's free throws and arranged for Green and Harden to replace Ibaka and Sefolosha.

In the ESPN commentary booth, Van Gundy smiled and said: "This is the strongest LeBron I have ever seen. He perfectly balances individual scoring and driving the team. He also goes all out on the defensive end. This is a game he can't afford to lose. The Thunder want to win. not that simple…"

(End of this chapter)