Chapter 903: The First Victory in the Finals and Wade's Anger!
James wants to prove himself. Regardless of the data of this game, regardless of the outcome of this game, he wants to prove that he is not an undercover!
As long as he proves that he is not an undercover, everything will be normal for the Heat, the victory belongs to the Heat, he will have the opportunity to perform in future games, and his great cause can continue to be realized!
However, the reality makes James very confused.
Really very, very confused.
After the rotation time in the second quarter, the rotation players of the two teams played very exciting and lively, but did not score much. When the players of the two teams returned to the court again, the score on the court was 42 to 36.
The Heat is still behind, but the difference in points behind the Heat is not big.
As long as the Heat go all out and play seriously, in the environment where Yes is double-teamed by Wade and Ben Gordon and it is difficult to score, as long as no one in the Supersonics can stand up and score, then the Heat can turn defeat into victory.
In this game, Chandler's defense against Milicic is very good, and Millsap and Rondo's touch is not that good.
In this case, as long as Durant can't score, the probability of the Supersonics kneeling is very high.
From this situation, we can see how big the Heat's advantage over the Supersonics is.
James doesn't need to show himself on the offensive end. As long as he can defend Durant on the defensive end, the Heat can easily beat the Supersonics.
Therefore, Spoelstra is very confident in the strategy he has formulated for this round of the series.
As long as James can defend Durant, this task is not difficult, and James can definitely complete it. When James completes it, the team wins. When the team wins, the other members of the team will completely put aside their prejudice against James, and the team will be normal and united, and the dynasty will come.
As long as such a simple task is completed, the dynasty can be started. This should not be unexpected.
But!
Accidents are really everywhere.
James is also undercover in front of Durant.
And he must continue to support James when James is undercover, and continue to watch James undercover on the sidelines.
He knows that there is shit in front of him, but he has to eat it with a smile!
"A beautiful change of direction breakthrough, Durant once again used his unique change of direction breakthrough to break through James' defense!"
"James is close, James' whole body is close to Durant, Durant shot, Durant chose a mid-range fadeaway jumper when James was so close, beautiful, and hit again!"
Very beautiful, Durant's attacks look very beautiful!
Such a beautiful attack, such a high offensive efficiency, if Chris Bosh hadn't defended Durant's five-for-five.
Spoelstra would even think that Durant is an enhanced version of McGrady.
But...
All this is fake!
On the court, James' defense is fake, and the enhanced version of McGrady is naturally fake!
Knowing that James is an undercover, he still puts James on the court, he has no choice.
This game can be lost, but the next round of the series cannot be lost!
If James is not allowed to play in this game, if James is not allowed to continue to prove himself, if James is not allowed to defend Durant, the Heat will not be able to win this round of the series!
So how to prove that James has completely stood on the side of the Heat and left Yes?
The way to prove it is that James defended Durant!
It is meaningless to put James in front of Millsap and Rondo.
Putting him in front of Yes,
he dare not, James is undercover, Yes can get 100 points!
Yes's strength plus James's undercover, that looks like a super enhanced version of Jordan!
Even if Durant has James's undercover bonus, he looks like an enhanced version of McGrady.
So, don't worry about the gains and losses of a city or a place, as long as James is willing to defend Durant seriously and defend him to death, then the Heat can win this battle.
Spoelstra believes that James will finally pull back from the brink.
He is not completely without the Heat in his heart. He will give James trust in this game, and after this game, he will work hard to let the team help him pull James back!
However, this is in the future, this game...
Spoelstra lost hope after the second quarter.
After the second quarter, the score on the field was 60 to 52, and the difference between the two sides was still not very large.
It looks like the Heat is leading.
But by analyzing the performance of the players on the field, we can see what the gap between the two teams is.
Durant broke out again in the second quarter. Under James' defense, he made 5 of 8 shots, 0 of 1 three-point shots, and 3 of 4 free throws to get 13 points.
With Durant's strength, it is naturally impossible to play such a performance against James who is not undercover.
In other words, James is still undercover in the second quarter.
Since James is an undercover, no matter how close the score of the Heat is, it is impossible to beat the Supersonics.
Continue to put Bosh in front of Durant?
It's meaningless.
If Durant is suppressed, Millsap, who is defended by James, will stand up.
Bosh is an inside player after all. It is impossible for him to stand outside to defend Durant all the time. The defensive effect cannot be so good all the time, and it is very dangerous for the inside player to defend the outside player all the time.
Leave Durant to James, and let other Heat players deal with other Supersonics players, and the effect of the game is very good.
In the first half of this game, except for Durant's 25 points, other Supersonics players did not score much. Yes made 5 of 10 shots, scored 13 points, and had 12 assists. This data is very strong, but the score is not high, at least not high for Yes.
Milicic made 2 of 10 shots and scored 4 points, Millsap made 1 of 3 shots and scored 2 points. The most amazing thing is Rondo. Almost no one defended him. Rondo made 0 of 5 shots in the first half and scored 0 points, 0 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds.
And this is why Spoelstra is so confident.
The duel between James and Durant was split by him.
Durant made 10 of 18 shots in the first half of this game and scored 25 points, and the Supersonics only led by 8 points.
As long as James defends Durant seriously, Durant will never have such a hit rate and such scoring efficiency. Even if Durant scored 15 points in the first half, it would be very good, and the Heat would still lead by 2 points!
Moreover, as long as James defends seriously, Durant will never score 15 points in the first half!
Of course, as an excellent head coach, Spoelstra certainly can't put all his eggs in one basket.
He also needs to try the defensive effect of other players on the team against Durant.
This is a backup plan to deal with James in case he is unwilling to come back from Yes.
If James is unwilling to stop, he and the Heat will certainly need a backup plan.
The Heat need to find a solution to Durant.
The whole world knows that there is no problem with double-teaming Yes, but Milicic and Durant need to be solved. Milicic and Chandler can solve it well, but Durant needs someone to solve it.
Because the Heat has James at the small forward position, they didn't have too many players at the small forward position before.
As we all know, James is an iron man, so the Heat's backup small forward is only Grant Hill, who was defeated by Durant last year in the Suns.
The team now relies on the veteran's experience and offense, not defense.
After halftime, the third quarter of the Seattle Supersonics and the Heat.
Spoelstra tried his best to change and find answers without hurting James' self-esteem, although he said that as long as James came back, the outcome of this game was not important.
But this is just talk.
How could the outcome of the finals not be important!
So, in the second half of the Heat, Spoelstra moved James away from Durant and put Ben Gordon next to Durant.
James was against Yes.
In order to make up for James, Spoelstra took on a lot of pressure from the whole team. When James did not prove that he was not an undercover and was still undercover for Yes, he gave James the right to attack.
This is not just a need to trust James and win back his heart.
In the first half, the Heat team almost never played Yes on the offensive end.
This is very dangerous.
Wade and Ben Gordon are not good at playing against Yes.
Chris Bosh and Chandler certainly can't do it either.
James can even be said to be the only singles player in the Heat who has an advantage against Yes in a one-on-one situation. At least he has an advantage in height and weight and his skills are also very good.
And if James plays against Yes, there is always a possibility of creating a rift between James and Yes, right?
If James and Wade can double-team Yes, just like Wade and Ben Gordon, and James can also play against Yes, and if Ben Gordon is better than James in defending Durant, then his change of formation is successful. Maybe he can still win a game while winning James' heart, which is a big profit!
As a former puppet head coach.
Spoelstra's position in the Heat is limited.
It can be said that he is dancing with shackles on his feet. He needs to pay attention to the opinions of every star player.
He needs to balance the opinions of all parties.
In this case, facing such a huge problem now, Spoelstra really racked his brains.
Spoelstra's idea is very good.
He hopes that James can play against Yes, and James played against Yes. Not only did James play against Yes, but he was also very efficient!
But...
"James has a high success rate in singles against Yes!"
"The success rate is high, but is it meaningful for James to single against Yes like this? He just runs to Yes with the ball and pulls up directly, without any physical confrontation with Yes. This offensive intensity can't hurt Yes at all. If it can't hurt Yes, why attack Yes? Isn't it better to attack Rondo?!"
"Indeed, although James's offensive efficiency is very high, it is not as high as Wade's efficiency against Rondo."
"And, have you noticed that after James is put in front of Yes, Yes's offensive efficiency is rising sharply?!"
"Of course I noticed. After James scores in front of Yes, Yes can immediately score in front of James. It's just like what was agreed upon."
"Yes, Yes and James cooperate very well. Haha, Wade feels like a superfluous person on the court."
Wade's face is very ugly.
He has been enduring it, very, very enduring it.
But, can you not be so arrogant!
This is already a direct ride on the face!
He and Ben Gordon double-teamed Yes, and Yes made 5 of 10 shots in the first half, scoring 12 points.
He and James double-teamed Yes, and Yes made 5 of 8 shots in the third quarter, and 4 of 6 three-pointers, scoring 14 points!
The double-teaming effect of him and James was worse than that of Ben Gordon, and much worse!
In the third quarter, the Heat was directly hit by the Supersonics under the leadership of James and Yes!
Facing Wade, he was already trying to suppress it, but he couldn't suppress his anger, and James was also confused.
He scored one, and Yes immediately returned one. He scored two points, and Yes immediately returned a three-pointer, and Yes scored all the points in the double-teaming between him and Wade.
Don't say Wade would think too much, even he would think too much!
This cooperation is really tacit.
But he really didn't cooperate with Yes!
The reason why he didn't confront Yes in close combat was because he suspected that Yes knew his offensive methods very well. He went undercover in so many games in the playoffs just to change his previous style of play. How could he continue to use them in front of Yes? !
It's not that he can't take pity on Yes!
He really wants Yes to die!
But? !
James is really going to cry when he sees Wade's eyes.
Spoelstra is also going to cry like James.
"Sure enough, it was a mistake to let James defend Yes."
Yes, under the double team of James and Wade, was able to lead the Supersonics to a wave of attacks on the Heat in the third quarter, and directly defeated the Heat in the third quarter!
Damn, James' defense against Durant is worse than Bosh, who is the second-to-last defensive player on the team.
James' defense against Yes is worse than Ben Gordon, who is the last defensive player on the team!
Although they would lose if they didn't change the formation, Spoelstra didn't expect that they would lose so badly after the change.
James can't defend Yes now.
Ben Gordon, who was in front of Durant, couldn't defend Durant either. Durant made 2 of 4 shots in the third quarter, and 1 of 2 3-point shots and scored 7 points.
Of course, although Ben Gordon can't defend Durant, his defensive effect is still better than that of the undercover James.
In this experiment in the third quarter, Spoelstra was very sure that only James could defend Durant in the Heat. At the same time, if the Heat wanted to defeat the Supersonics, they had to put James in front of Durant and let James defend Durant!
In the fourth quarter, Spoelstra did not change the tactics in the third quarter.
Durant, under the defense of Ben Gordon, once again made 2 of 4 in the fourth quarter and scored 8 points in a single quarter.
And Yes, under the double-team of James and Wade, made 1 of 1 and scored 4 points.
After four minutes of the fourth quarter, the game officially entered garbage time.
In the end, the Heat lost the first game of the finals 91 to 113 in an incredible way away from home.
"LeBron, follow me!"
In the celebration of the Supersonics fans in the Key Arena, an angry roar seemed particularly abrupt...
I can't bear it anymore!
I can't bear it anymore!