I'm king in the basket

Chapter 525 The Crazy Emperor
On the last goal of the first half, Wade and Dragic faced each other.

As the league's top perimeter defender, Wade's first lateral move is extremely fast, but when he faced Dragic, he could no longer move quickly and was easily passed by the Slovenian.

At the basket, Li Xing, who played the second quarter, helped Dragic get stuck, and he could easily fly to the basket.

Only one second was left for the Heat.

One second, if it is not called a timeout, is only enough to serve a ball, and then throw a [-]-for-[-] three-pointer.

The Raptors once again established a 15-point lead.

One word for the Heat: Tired.

The seven players played a high-intensity first half in rotation, and the stamina bar began to have problems.

Except for the DBJ trio, the shooting percentages of the others began to plummet, but they couldn't help but shoot too much. If it wasn't for five three-pointers in a single quarter in the second quarter, it would not be just a 15-point difference now.

A reporter asked how to defend against Li Xing.

Bosh looked a little helpless.

"Lucky is so good," Bosh said before returning to the dugout room. "I don't know what face I'm going to put on. Most of the time, I think I'm on guard."

Li Xing's halftime statistics were not outstanding, with 12 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks.

Compared with his playing time, this data is relatively average.

He played the entire second quarter and executed Snyder's setup well, controlling the penalty area and forcing the Heat to keep shooting from the outside.

He succeeded, and the Heat have indeed fallen into a vicious circle of only shooting three-pointers.

They dare not go to the basket, fear Li Xing's defense, and dare not make rotation adjustments easily.

They only played a seven-man rotation in the first half, while the Raptors made a ten-man rotation at halftime.

Except for the few people at the bottom of the team, everyone else played.

Li Xing played the entire second quarter and constructed an impeccable line of defense.

The helplessness of the Heat is that Haslem can't pull Li Xing, and he can't make shots without interference.

Bosh can be pulled outside, but you have a trick, and I have a solution.

As long as Bosh went outside, the Raptors would let others follow, and Li Xing resolutely stayed near the paint area.

It is precisely because of this distribution that the Heat's strategy failed completely.

They changed back to the appearance of last season, the inside line was just a display, let Li Xing beat them, and the winner was on Jane Wei's side.

Such a tactical system has been proven to be a failure for two consecutive years.

Especially last season, James played like that, and still lost the Eastern Conference Finals in the end.

Repeating the old tricks will only repeat the same mistakes.

They were already in a predicament, Whiteside's effect was not as good as expected, and others could not perform well against Li Xing.

In the Heat's locker room, Spoelstra is frantically pouring chicken soup.

On the Raptors side, Snyder made a change to James' defense.

"Matt, you started the second half."

Snyder said.

Barnes was slightly surprised: "Me?"

"Is there a problem? I need someone to watch LeBron on the outside. Chris and Will don't have enough confrontation."

Snyder said.

"No problem!" Barnes said.

Snyder continued: "If LeBron wants to break through, Luckey, the rest is up to you."

"Yes." Li Xing replied.

The 2007 Spurs showed the world how to defend James.

At that time, James was still in his infancy. Although he led the team to the finals, he lacked many personal abilities.

Defending James has never been a one-person job.

Even the 07 Spurs couldn't guard him alone.

At that time, they used Bowen to match up with James, and Duncan was always on call at the basket.

As long as James dares to come in, the power forward with the league's top defense will have to restrict him.

Similarly, in real history, the Spurs in 13 and 14 all inherited Leonard on the outside and Duncan on the inside.

After that, the Warriors were also headed by Iguodala, with Bogut, McGee and others filling in the inside.

Pressing from the outside and pressing from the inside, this is the ultimate strategy for defending James.

Snyder borrowed what the Spurs did to James.

Barnes' defense is not as strong as Bowen's, but Li Xing's defense is far stronger than Duncan's.

It is complementary.

As long as Barnes can stare down James' shots, the task will be completed.

After this task was assigned, Barnes felt that the burden on him was very heavy.

"Reggie, it seems that I'm not useless at all." Barnes said with feeling.

"Tch, you fucking don't act like a good boy." Evans said that he was heartless, but actually wanted to play.

But there is no way, the Raptors are very crowded inside, and he can only get opportunities in garbage time.

In terms of his style, it is actually not suitable for the Raptors.

The team still retains him because he is old, has a fierce personality, can calm the young people in the team, and can also be the big brother in the locker room. At the same time, he is not expensive.

Second, the most important point is to make friends with Li Xing.

If you want to move him, it depends on whether Li Xing agrees or not.

Although he often "cleans up" Li Xing, everyone can see that the latter can resist, and not resisting just shows that they have a good relationship.

If Li Xing knew about this, he must let "everyone" know that he and Evans had a good relationship, but it wasn't because of this that he didn't resist, he really couldn't resist!The skill points are all in the wrong place!

"You actually let the old man come and face me?"

At the beginning of the second half, James found out that his opponent was neither Middleton nor Button, and he was puzzled.

It made Barnes wonder what he said.

It's not like they haven't fought before, who do they look down on?

"Do you really think of yourself as an emperor? Let's try to score a goal first when you say something like this, idiot!" The other party didn't take himself seriously, so Barnes naturally didn't treat him politely.

James let out a muffled hum from his nose, and immediately wanted to let Barnes know how big the gap between them was.

Low hands, heavy shoulders, like a roaring truck, such speed and explosive power appear in a person of this height and weight, which is indeed a rare talent in ancient times.

James breaks through Barnes effortlessly.

He knew the problem was behind.

Li Xing is like a ghost, and it is a huge ghost. He is not here to scare people, his existence is fear itself.

With Bosh by his side, James wanted to pass the ball, but Li Xing didn't leave him behind.

He still maintains the best defensive position, can limit Bosh, while blocking his drive.

Talented, skilled and knows where to stand.

What could be more irritating than this?

James was not reconciled to sinking here, and it was rare for him to lose his mind. He wanted to find a confrontation with Li Xing, and drove away everyone else for a layup.

James' core strength is a full point of 100, upper body strength is 95, and lower body strength is also 95.

What does it mean?His strength can be regarded as top-notch among players.

And what about Li Xing?After completing "Break the Wall", the upper limit of his attributes in all aspects increased by 20 points, and he paid the most attention to strength, so he filled up these attribute points immediately.

Coupled with the usual practice, it can be said that his strength is far above James.

Want to knock people off?

dream!

"LeBron hit his head against the wall!"

Li Xing stood still and knocked James down, but the referee didn't blow his whistle.

There is a reasonable collision zone, and Li Xing did not violate his cylinder.

James hit himself up, but was bounced to the ground, missed the ball, and the Raptors counterattacked, the Kings had no choice but to look away.

As soon as James broke through, Barnes thought about a fast break.

So when the time came, he ran the fast break faster than DeRozan.

DeRozan, who picked up the rebound, gave an uncomfortable long pass, but Barnes still caught it, rushed across the half court, and scored with a one-handed dunk.

James' anger grew with time, he didn't believe he couldn't beat Li Xing.

The first words Barnes said after returning to the backcourt ignited his anger even more.

"I thought you were so strong, but in the end you couldn't even hit Larch, don't you know he's very thin?" Barnes said eccentrically in front of James.

These words even got Li Xing shot.

Anyone who uses it to attack the opponent, it's okay to get hurt a little bit.

With a cold expression, Li Xing winked at Barnes, signaling him to continue.

"So please don't act like you are a king in front of me. A real king will never abandon his country!" Barnes was like James' competitor, unscrupulously exposing him underpants.

The emperor of Miami has completely gone off the rails.

Next, the world saw an irrational James.

Since he entered the league, he has always presented a perfect image.

not going to be mad.

Not playful.

Will not do stupid things.

He just makes the right decisions.

He has created a perfect business image for himself, and he is destined to be a world-renowned superstar.

However.
The rise of Li Xing and the Raptors cut off his path to hegemony.

There is a high mountain in front of you. If you can't climb it, you can only be crushed under you for the rest of your life.

The pressure was so strong that James couldn't breathe, and now Barnes had wounded the softest part of his heart.

He could no longer control his anger.

Whether he was wronged or not, he just wanted to vent.

What hometown?What brother?What champion?
Let's all die!

"This LeBron is very strange, he is like a different person."

"Perhaps because he foresaw his failure."

"The so-called God will make him crazy if he wants to die?"

"If I built a rare superteam and then fell to the same guy three years in a row, who was so many years younger than me, I'd go crazy too," Stoudemire said.

James' outburst annexed the Heat's possession of the ball, and everyone else could only stand and watch him play.

He passes when he wants to pass, and attacks when he wants to attack.

He dominates the ball like a master in Miami and doesn't care about others' feelings.

The only change is that the point difference is getting bigger and bigger.

James played beautiful data.

A triple-double of 40 points.

The results of it?
The Heat defeated the Raptors by 30 points in Game [-] of the Eastern Conference Finals.

(End of this chapter)