pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 649 G2-Response
The best response on the court is to score.

Both the Heat and the Lakers played a very good offense in the first quarter, and the score rose very quickly. However, this was just the two teams adjusting their touch, and the two teams launched a confrontational battle in the second quarter.

After James returned, he shot from the outside and hit a three-pointer. After half a quarter of rest, instead of losing his touch, he became more precise and decisive.

Before the Lakers could warm up the lead, the Heat responded from the bench. Williams got an open space under the cover of Barrett and Mu Chenfeng, and he had a three-pointer.

This was originally just a mediocre three-pointer, but the Heat's early preparations were not simple at all. Williams is the team's substitute player. The three-pointer is a bit accurate, and it is reasonable to hit it. However, he can let two of the Heat's star players cover for him. It can be seen that the Heat's team does not have the obvious scoring core and substitute like other teams.

This kind of "VIP" level pick-and-roll treatment has been enjoyed by every substitute player in the Heat. Some die-hard fans even ridiculed that a 4000 million player is doing what a player with a basic salary should do. The Heat have a group of superstars with a basic salary.

This is the huge change that the Heat have undergone compared to last season. Every Heat player on the court must keep a close watch, because each of them has a good scoring ability.

This season, the average age of the Heat's lineup has reached 30 years old, which is not considered a low level. This is the age level after Mu Chenfeng joined. Except for a few starting players, the average age of the Lakers' bench has reached 33 years old. It is a veritable old team, but these old guys are getting older and more demonic, and they can play a role on the court.

The old guys were exhausted by taking turns marking James in the last game, but they completed the task satisfactorily, and each of them got a share of the Heat's first victory medal.

Felix used the rhythm change in the process of advancing to cause a foul by the marking player, and he made a shot while being fouled. Although he missed the shot, he got three free throws.

Felix made all three free throws in a row after walking to the free throw line. His free throws are still stable, maintaining at 88% this season. Giving him free throws is no different from sending points.

Felix made a "disguised" three-pointer, and the next step is to see the Heat's response. If they fail to respond, the Lakers will widen the point difference.

The Heat's response came, but what they responded was only a two-pointer. Barrett used his footsteps to feint a shot, squeezed past the defender to attack the basket, and completed the tomahawk dunk.

Offensive and defensive exchanges, Oscar's emergency stop jump shot after the breakthrough was seen by Mu Chenfeng, who jumped to block it, Oscar had to increase the arc of his shot in desperation, the basketball drew a very high arc and fell into the net bag, while Mu Chenfeng accidentally touched Oscar's wrist when blocking the shot, and was punished for a foul.

Oscar seized the opportunity to add a penalty and hit it with one blow.

Another "three-pointer", the Lakers used almost all ways to get a three-pointer to send the ball into the basket.

The Lakers' tactics on the defensive end are also very clear: put two points and defend three points.

It is puzzling that such a "weird" tactic appeared in the second quarter of the finals.

But it turned out to be the result they wanted. Wade made a breakthrough, used the "Misty Step" to sway the defensive player, and made a low-handed layup.

The Lakers can collect "three-pointers" every time they attack, but the Heat's next few responses are "two-pointers" except for the first goal.

"We can't let them make three-pointers anymore. If this goes on, the point difference will only get bigger and bigger." Wade summoned his players and made adjustments immediately.

"Strengthen the defense on the outside and seal the three-point line."

The Heat's defense has been improved to near the three-point line, which has stretched their defensive formation, and the distance between players to respond to each other has also become longer. Players need to run farther than ever before to help each other defend and double-team.

James passed the ball to Felix after half court, but he suddenly started to throw off the defense and ran to the inside. Felix did not stop the ball, but passed the ball directly into the penalty area, and played a "triangle" with James. James received the basketball comfortably. Due to the distance between the players, the Heat failed to form a double team immediately.

The two took off at the same time, and Gaia raised his hands high, guarding the basketball tightly, and gave James a certain amount of physical resistance in the air, forcing James to stop his advance, and he was still far away from the basket, unable to achieve a direct dunk.

Seeing that the man was about to fall back to the ground, James pulled the ball back with one hand, dunked into a layup, passed the ball under Gaia's armpit together with his hands, and exerted force with his wrist and fingers, and made a shot just before landing, and the basketball wiped the board.

Gaia has tried his best on the defensive end, but James' physical fitness is so abnormal, Gaia can only shake his head helplessly.

James is so terrifying when he is physically fit, no one can stop him in one-on-one.

Gaia was somewhat affected by this shot. He obviously got stuck in a good position in the next round, and switched Felix in front of him by switching defenses.

Gaia failed to use the ball all the way to the basket, and the basketball knocked out of the basket. He even failed to grab the subsequent rebound, which was firmly accepted by James.

Before James grabbed the rebound, Oscar had already launched a counterattack. He had great trust in his teammates' ability to grab the rebound. When James got the rebound, he had already passed halftime.

James hit the ball immediately, and Oscar stabilized the ball while running. In front of him was only the basket hanging in the air. Oscar rushed towards the basket, fast break, take-off, and attack. He performed these technical actions thousands of times on the training ground.

The technicians on the technical desk have all "+2" the Lakers' score in advance.

(End of this chapter)