basketball player

Chapter 380 Chapter 378: Asshole Coach's Asshole Player
LeBron James is carrying his team on his shoulders.

After three quarters, the Heat trailed by 13 points, and Stephenson still hit LeBron on the last buzzer shot.There is no doubt that this made James feel extremely self-blame and very unwilling.

Think about it, the majestic "League No. 1" was held back by a substitute from the opponent and couldn't find his way. This is simply ridiculous!
But if you want to count it carefully, Leonard, who caused James troubles in the last game, seems to be a substitute.
"LeBron has been fouled 4 times, you know what to do. If LeBron James is off, then this game is ours. Go to force him to foul, whether it is an offensive foul or a defensive foul. It doesn't matter. In short, go to force him to foul!"

Henson admits that he is a coach who will do whatever it takes to win.His only bottom line is not to intentionally hurt opposing players.Henson doesn't mind other methods.

Even if it's flopping, even if it's cheating, even if it's letting the opponent's star go off the court.

Stephenson is naturally gearing up for this, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Henson did not let Stephenson play.Facts have proved that Henson's choice is wise, because LeBron James in the fourth quarter looks very angry!
"boom!"

As soon as the fourth quarter began, there was a loud bang from the basket in front of Henson's eyes.A strong dunk, the dunk is none other than LBJ!

James came in against Leonard's defense. There was no tactical aspect to this attack, it was crushed by James.But Henson has also said before that handing the ball to LeBron James is a tactic.

Even Leonard couldn't withstand James' forced dunk. If Stephenson were to defend the ball, the picture would definitely be horrible.

Then, in addition to actively contributing on the defensive end, James also made consecutive three-pointers from the outside.Everyone can see that James is about to turn on "Rage Mode".He couldn't bear to lose his first home game, and he couldn't bear to be so embarrassed by a substitute.In the blink of an eye, James helped the Heat narrow the 13-point difference to 5 points.

But Henson did not suspend the game. He knew very well that the narrowing of the point difference was not due to a problem with his own tactics, nor was there a problem with his employment, but a problem with James.

His three goals were too difficult!

The first goal was almost dunking Leonard, and the next two three-pointers were also made against Leonard's defense.Henson admitted that James is miraculous, but no matter how miraculous, it is impossible to score like this every time!
Sure enough, after James scored 8 points in a row, the Heat's offense misfired again.There is a period of time, this is the norm for the Heat today, and Henson is not worried at all.

And what he wanted to see finally happened in the 5th minute of the fourth quarter.

This is a breakthrough by Paul George, who broke through Wade through West's beautiful screen.At this time, Bosh, who originally needed to defend the basket, was pulled to the right corner by Horford.

If you sit back and watch, George will get a chance to dunk.So James hurried back to the penalty area, trying to chase George from behind.

It's just that George's athletic ability is not covered, he didn't suffer in the air, and James didn't even touch the basketball in George's hand.Just like that, their bodies collided violently in the air.How could George withstand the impact of this "armored car" and flew directly out of the bottom line.

It seems that this is just an ordinary foul.But this foul caused every American Airlines Center fan to raise their hearts to their throats.

This time the whistle means that their "king", their "emperor", will bear the fifth foul of the game!
Spoelstra hesitated for a while, or replaced James.After losing James, the Heat's offense has stagnated.

Although Wade's performance this season is also remarkable, he is not the original Wade after all.In the Pacers' defense like a meat grinder, Wade played very hard.

As for Bosh, apart from the hilarious words after the first game of the series that attracted much attention, he became transparent again.In this moment of life and death, Bosh is often unable to become the key to open the situation.

As soon as James left the field, the momentum that the Heat had finally built up suddenly broke.It can be said that Wade does not work hard, and even Henson admires Wade's hard work.But unfortunately, this is still not the Wade ten years ago.

Henson followed the old class and played with a regular rotation until the last 2 minutes and 38 seconds of the fourth quarter.It wasn't until then that Spoelstra re-appointed James.

With Wade's unremitting efforts and Mike Miller's accurate three-pointer, the Heat were able to narrow the point difference to single digits before James came back.

As soon as James came on the court, Henson also made a change.He replaced Jimmy Butler who performed well today and scored 16 points with Stephenson.I believe that James will be very "kind" when he sees Stephenson reappear!

"Calm down, LeBron, leave that idiot alone!"

Seeing Stephenson playing, Spoelstra reminded him on the sidelines.Stephenson undoubtedly made LeBron very helpless today. He forced James to experience his all-in-one tricks, indiscriminate trash talk and flopping.

James nodded, and he also decided not to get entangled with this hooligan.With more than two minutes left in the game, the Heat are only behind by single digits, and there is still hope for everything!
Henson was actually a little nervous, after all, he didn't know what kind of method Stephenson would use to force James to foul.That guy doesn't have a brain circuit that normal people can keep up with, and LeBron has never been a grumpy player.It's not easy to provoke him.

In the next 1 minute of the game, Stephenson didn't make any moves, and the Heat also relied on James' strong return to narrow the point difference to 6 points!
At this time, there are only 58 seconds left before the end of the game. At 58 seconds and 6 minutes, the Heat fans were cheering.It seems that LeBron James seems to have saved the Heat again.

"Let's go to Leonard, Henson, it's the last minute!" Vogel was a little anxious. Judging from this 1 minute, Stephenson could neither let James off the field nor effectively contain James' counterattack.

Henson nodded. In the last 58 seconds, he didn't want to take any more risks.He doesn't blame Stephenson, after all, Stephenson played well enough in this game.

After signaling Leonard to go to the technical table to prepare to play, Henson turned his attention to the court again.At this point, James is resting his hands on his knees, waiting for Bosh to send the baseline ball.And it was Wade who went to meet him.

Stephenson sticks next to James, which is a very routine action.But then, Stephenson raised his right hand to cover James' mouth.
Sure enough, another wonderful move!
James flew into a rage!This is no longer a competition, but simply this kid's humiliation to himself!He straightened up suddenly, and then pushed Stephenson away!
Stephenson immediately spread his hands, grinning his eyes, with an innocent expression of "Look at what he did to me"!

Henson clenched his fists, how cheap!If he was James, or a Heat player, he would definitely beat Stephenson now!But unfortunately, that bastard player is under his own bastard coach!
With Stephenson, people have this evaluation: If he is your teammate, you will support him.But if he is your opponent, you may even want to kill him!

Before James had time to explain to the referee, he was called an offensive foul in the last 58 seconds of the game.The entire American Airlines Center was not calm, the fans booed one after another, and even greeted the Stephenson family woman directly in the stands.

But the guy didn't care, he just stood there and applauded silently.You bastard, what a real bastard!But this kind of bastard, Henson likes it!
At the same time that James made 6 fouls, Leonard took advantage of the dead ball to replace Stephenson, avoiding the conflict.Henson can guarantee that if he keeps Stephenson on the court again, there will be a hand-to-hand fight at the American Airlines Center.

Stephenson walked off the court, and Henson looked serious.Under the close-up of the scene, Henson walked up to Stephenson and cursed.

"Hahahaha, it seems that Coach Henson also doesn't understand Lance's behavior." Mike Brin smiled. Stephenson really will use the most unimaginable ways to irritate his opponents.But Henson probably wouldn't be too supportive of him doing this.

But in fact, Mike Brin was wrong.Henson wasn't angry. He pretended to yell, but what he actually said to Stephenson was: Well done, Lance.

James was off the court, with only 58 seconds left in the game, and the Heat were still 6 points behind.And Henson presented a revised "death defense" lineup composed of Paul, George, Butler and Leonard.

At the critical moment, James was sent off, which made the Heat's team mess up.After that, the Heat's offense frequently played, and Wade made a direct walking error and lost the ball.At this juncture, the Heat had to foul.

In the next critical round, Mike Miller's three-point shot was interfered by the active Jimmy Butler, and he made a three-point shot.Although Butler did not receive as much attention as Stephenson today, he also played at his own level.His defense and scoring made the Heat unconsciously passive.

And the three non-stick shots he forced Miller to vote in the last round completely killed the Heat's hope of a comeback!
In the end, the Heat lost this crucial battle by 7 points at home!After the game, Spoelstra's speech in an interview undoubtedly resonated with the fans in the audience.

"What can I say? A jerk coach and a jerk player, ruined it all."

At the press conference afterwards, Henson also heard Spoelstra's evaluation of himself from reporters, but he was not angry.

"If I can be a bastard who wins, then I am very happy." The Chinese coach didn't care about other people's eyes and smiled happily.

2 to 1, the Pacers are one step closer to successfully defending their title!

(End of this chapter)