basketball boulder

Chapter 49

Prince grabbed the ball and played a fast break.

The Heat retreated quickly this time and had no chance.

Billups took the ball to stabilize the rhythm and hit the position.

Big Ben came out to pick and roll, but the effect was not good.Leaving the basket, Ben has no scoring ability, so the Heat don't care about Ben and attack Billups.

The pick-and-roll failed, and Big Ben went to set a screen for Hamilton again.

Hamilton used this to get rid of Butler.

Billups saw it and passed the ball immediately.

When the ball arrives, Hamilton catches and shoots.

Swish!
4: 0.

Hamilton received Jordan's mid-range shooting guidance in the Wizards, and is now a well-known mid-range shot king in the league. His kung fu of catching and shooting with one hand coupled with his physical ability to run dead dogs can be called a defender's nightmare.

Looking back, Odom made a high mid-range shot.

4: 2.

The game continues.

Pistons attack.

Billups broke through and gave the ball to Prince in the corner. Prince was interfered by Butler and missed a three-pointer.

The Heat attack.

Old Jones' breakthrough was blocked by Big Ben and passed to Butler, but Butler forced a shot and was defended by Okur.

This round also became the epitome of the first quarter.

The scoring efficiency of the two teams is not high, and the scoring depends on one ball after another. The scene is very ugly.

But gradually, the Pistons built an advantage and pulled away a little bit.

Li Lei saw it clearly from the sidelines: The Heat were led by the nose by the Pistons and played with the rhythm of the Pistons. How could they not lag behind?
The Pistons' games are all such a point-by-point grind, which is their tradition.

But the Heat are mostly young people, and playing fast is the characteristic of the Heat.

Coach Da Fan also noticed it, and called timeouts to make adjustments several times, but the effect was not satisfactory.

Here, Billups plays an obvious role.

No matter how coach Dafan adjusts, Billups, as a point guard and the brain of the court, always controls the rhythm and guides the Pistons' offense.

On the Heat side, there is no one who can control the rhythm.

The two main players, Odom and Jones, are not strong characters. It is okay to let them fight tough battles, but they cannot lead their teammates.

Wade is too immature in front of Billups. Moreover, he is a shooting guard himself. Scoring is his characteristic, and controlling the rhythm is his weakness.

As a result, the Pistons have always been methodical.

The Heat team was chaotic for a while, the more chaotic it was, the less they could score, the worse their mentality, the worse their mentality, the more chaotic... The Heat fell into a vicious circle.

After playing 8 minutes in the first quarter, 17:9, the Pistons have already led by 8 points.

8 points is actually nothing, but it is too difficult to catch up in such a slow-paced game.

Coach Da Fan scratched his head and walked up and down the sidelines anxiously, but he had no good plan.

If this goes on like this, he probably will approach Xiao Fan and become a "Mediterranean".

……

When it was time for regular substitutions, the coaches of both sides began to dispatch troops.

Heat: Haslem, Odom, Li Lei, Jones, Wade.

Pistons: Big Ben, Collis Williams, Prince, Hamilton, Bob Sura.

Sura pushed forward with the ball, used Big Ben's pick-and-roll to get rid of Wade, and went into the paint.

Odom switched defenses a step late and failed to block Sura.

Sura hits the basket directly.

Haslem wanted to defend, but was firmly blocked by Big Ben's strong body.

This is an empty basket.

Sura hugged the basketball, adjusted a step, and pulled it up.

He wants to dunk!

At this moment, No. 15 of the Heat came after him and leaped high from behind Sura.

Snapped!
Li Lei slapped the ball out of the baseline.

Li Lei, who landed, did not celebrate, but went to Haslem and whispered: "Udonis, don't compete with Da Ben, use your footsteps to bypass him."

Haslem nodded.

It's still the Pistons' right to the ball, and it's a sideline kick.

24 seconds left to 6.8 seconds.

Sura received the ball in midfield, and Li Lei rushed forward, and together with Wade, he frantically pressed Sura.

Sura couldn't get the ball out for a while, and seeing that the time was running out, she threw it hard at the position of Big Ben in the frontcourt.

Big Ben came up to catch the ball.

Haslem suddenly came around from his side and poked the ball away.

Odom grabs the ball and plays fast break himself.

Prince and Hamilton retreated quickly, entangled Odom tightly.

Odom had no chance and passed the ball to Wade on the left.

Prince moved laterally for the first time, entangled Wade.

This defensive attitude and awareness is really nothing to say.

Wade didn't like it, and passed the ball to Li Lei behind him.

Li Lei was about to go up by himself, but when he saw that there was only Hamilton left beside Odom, Prince rushed towards him again, and simply threw the ball over the basket.

"Lamar!"

Li Lei shouted at the same time.

Odom rose directly from the ground, caught the basketball in the air, and dunked with both hands.

boom!
drop!
At the same time as the goal was scored, the whistle blew, and Hamilton drew a foul.

But how can Hamilton's small body pull Odom?

The result is 2+1.

Odom shook his fist and roared, "Roar!"

This ball directly vented all the anger that Odom had held back for most of the quarter.

"Stone, great pass!"

Odom took the initiative to give Li Lei a high five, which shows how excited he is.

Li Lei responded with a smile: "Lamar, calm down, let's play one ball at a time!"

Odom had just received a pass from Li Lei, so he naturally agreed to anything.

When he scored the free throw, at 17:12, the Heat narrowed the point difference to 5 points.

Larry Brown yelled from the sidelines: "Richard, you have to be more aggressive in fouling, don't talk like a bitch."

"Okay, sir."

Hamilton nodded.

In the Pistons, Hamilton is an exception.Although you can't tell how bad his defense is, absolutely no one can say how good his defense is.

He is 198cm tall and weighs only 84kg. He is not dominant against most small forwards and shooting guards, and his defense depends entirely on the system.

There are only two things he is good at, one is to run the opposite defender to spit, and the other is to throw the ball into the basket.

The Pistons attack again.

Sura continued to use the pick-and-roll to break through.

Odom followed up quickly this time, blocking Sura at the free throw line.

Wade also bypassed the pick-and-roll Big Ben, and Odom pinched Sura.

Sura was flanked by two sides, but she didn't panic.Seeing that Ben was cutting to the basket, Sura directly hoisted the ball high.

But as soon as the ball was played, Sura exclaimed: "Not good!"

At some point, Li Lei rushed over and destroyed the pass before Da Ben received the ball.

Wade grabbed the basketball and rushed to the frontcourt for a one-handed dunk.

boom!
Wade, who landed on the ground, also roared to the sky: "Roar!"

So cool!
The shot dispelled all the shadows that Billups had cast on him.

The score at this time was 17:14, and the Heat were only 3 points behind.

Drip!

Larry Brown directly called a timeout, and scolded Sura head and face.

"Idiot! Can't you see that damn rookie on the other side? He's already eyeing you! Don't play fast, that's not our rhythm, control the rhythm, play ball by ball, this is our style of play .Sit me on the bench and reflect on it!"

Sura is actually a good combo guard, but he can't adapt to the Pistons' style of play.

The Pistons require players to focus on the defensive end, but Sura is a man who is easy to catch on the offensive end.

On the defensive end, Sura is actually very hardworking, but he doesn't fit in with the Pistons' team style of play.

来活塞之前，苏拉场均7.3分3篮板3.2助攻，现在断崖式下跌到3.8分1.9篮板1.7助攻。

Larry Brown put Sura on the bench and re-assigned Billups.

(End of this chapter)