Chapter 1910 The Ultimate Personal Showdown
A dazzling confrontation!
"After waiting for so long, the two teams did not disappoint us. The game here is really beautiful! Wonderful!" Coach Zhang gave a thumbs up.
"It is really the ultimate offense and defense, the rhythm is so good, these 12 minutes really feel like I can't get enough of it, it feels like not a minute or a second was wasted, both sides played their own rhythm, it's really rare." Yu Jia also felt that he was not satisfied.
In the TNT studio after Barkley shouted that sentence, the trio also praised this game.
"Basketball games are strange. Sometimes you have to use fouls to show your strength, but more fouls do not mean that you are good at defense. On the contrary, extreme defense sometimes does not have many fouls. Just like this quarter, both sides only had 5 fouls each, and there were almost no extra moves, but this does not mean that both sides did not play tough." Kenny Smith said.
"I agree, Kenny is right, this kind of game is the most exciting game. Using fouls all the time will make the game very fragmented. This game is different. Both sides played very smoothly, but the defense was very good. This is not a contradiction. Only two teams with a certain degree of strength can do this." O'Neal said.
The fans also enjoyed it. The enthusiasm of the fans in the entire Miami stadium has reached its peak, and there are more and more fans in front of the TV. The number of viewers in North America at the same time has exceeded 20 million. This number is quite difficult. You know, there were not so many people watching the NBA Finals in 2005.
And this is not the end. As the game progresses, the ratings tonight are expected to reach a terrible number.
The reason is that the first quarter is really exciting.
From the beginning of the fight for the ball, both sides quickly entered the state, with a high success rate and excellent defense, especially the confrontation at key positions. The Big Three are really the Big Three, and the Lakers players have also experienced the strength of the complete Big Three.
"The Heat Big Three are finally running-in." ESPN's commentator commented.
The tacit understanding of the Lakers Big Three does not need to be said much. The four championships prove everything, and various records are just footnotes to the strength of the three.
The Heat Big Three have been controversial since the last century. There is no other reason, because if James and Wade are still at the level of their respective peak periods, Bosh's performance is far from his status as a giant.
The main reason is that there is no tacit understanding. Bosh always feels that he is outside of James and Wade, and is incompatible with the entire Heat system.
This is also determined by Bosh's personal technical characteristics. Unlike power forwards such as Gasol, Duncan, and Garnett, Bosh has never been a back-to-the-basket expert. On the contrary, he is a typical face-to-frame power forward. With a good mid-range and long-range shooting ability, he is an absolute Dragon King in the Raptors.
But in the Heat, James and Wade, two singles masters, compressed his singles space. He had no space for singles at all. Coupled with the lack of a center in the Heat, he had to play the five position for a long time, which he was very uncomfortable with, so that his performance has been very bad.
However, in fact, Bosh is the one who sacrificed the most among the Big Three. From a power forward who played one-on-one in the face of the basket to a blue-collar player who created space and shot as soon as he caught the ball, everyone knows the pain in Bosh's heart.
This season, the appearance of Joel Anthony can be regarded as Bosh returning to the familiar No. 4 position, and Spoelstra's enrichment of tactics in the summer finally allowed Bosh to find his position.
This also allowed the Lakers' JKJ and the Heat's Big Three to face each other for the first time!
Ji Feng and James played a suffocating rhythm.
In the first quarter, the two sides played 34-34, among which Ji Feng had 8 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 offensive rebounds, 1 steal, 1 block, 1 turnover, and a hit rate of 67%, while James had 10 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, 2 turnovers, and a hit rate of 56%.
Although the data are very good, they still cannot represent everything. The confrontation between the two on the field continued until the end of the first quarter, and the two also showed their super scoring and organizational abilities.
And such confrontation is still going on in the second quarter.
After the intermission, both sides started to rotate. Although the game is important, it is not the playoffs or the finals after all, so it is not necessary to kill the main players. At the same time, both sides also need to see how much trouble the substitutes can cause to the other side.
The Lakers replaced Kapono, and Jordan Hill and Powell came on the court in the interior.
The Heat replaced Haslem and Battier, and James moved to the fourth position.
The team was still led by Ji Feng and James.
"Ji Feng and James' physique is really enviable. Their physical fitness is undoubtedly the most abundant. Letting them on the court is also to prevent the team from collapsing." Barkley said.
At the beginning, Ji Feng made a pick-and-roll pass, Jordan Hill completed a dunk in an alley-oop, and the Heat's Battier also received James's sudden pass and returned the favor.
Afterwards, Kapono alertly stole the ball and assisted Ji Feng to dunk in a fast break.
The Heat returned the favor with James from the mid-range...
"Although the substitutes are on, the protagonists are still Ji Feng and James." Yu Jia said that the influence of the two on the court is really everywhere.
That's right, throughout the second and third quarters, it was still Ji Feng vs. James, and the most exciting scene undoubtedly happened at the beginning of the third quarter.
James made a pick-and-roll, and Ji Feng was disturbed by Bosh and instantly fell behind by two positions!
However, Ji Feng quickly caught up!
"That's it now!" Ji Feng suddenly speeded up. Although he was behind James in taking off, with the help of his speed, he quickly narrowed the distance between the two in the air and used one hand before the basketball touched the basket. Fan the ball away.
James looked stunned. What a terrifying defensive power this was. He was two positions ahead, but was caught up by Ji Feng in an instant.
"Is this the strength of first defense and four-time Defensive Player of the Year..." James held his mouth and did not speak.
However, although Ji Feng suppressed James in this round, James performed equally well. With his back-up ability, he still caused a lot of trouble for Ji Feng.
You can tell by looking at the score that at the end of the third quarter, the Lakers led 76-75 by only 1 point!
"The fourth quarter is the most critical." Ji Feng said to his teammates, "Not just the last five minutes, I mean the entire fourth quarter."
By observing the video, Ji Feng found that the Heat often played a very subtle and fast offense at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then widened the point difference, which then snowballed and turned the advantage into a victory.
Therefore, Ji Feng also reminded his teammates before the start of the most critical final quarter to defend well at the beginning of the fourth quarter to avoid being played by the Heat in their preferred game rhythm!
The decisive battle is about to begin!