Chapter 346 Capture the American Airlines Center
"Brothers, we have been forced into a dead end. If we still want to advance, we can't lose this game again!" Wade mobilized before the fourth quarter. Although the Heat players responded one after another, they were not too active. Obviously, this temporary mobilization line does not have too high incitement.
When Emperor Wu saw this scene, he would definitely laugh. He spent money outside to invite the navy to praise how great his pre-match speeches were. Then a group of brainless fans immediately praised him. In the end, everyone thought that he was born with a leader spirit, etc.... But in fact, he even asked someone to write the manuscripts of the speeches, so he didn't have time to do these things.
In college, he did have his own pre-match speeches several times, but he secretly checked a lot of information online in advance, and then copied them from others. He really asked him to write a Martin Luther-style speech by himself. This was too difficult for him. He is a basketball player!
At this moment, the Knicks didn't need a speech. Wu Huang just joined hands with the players and encouraged his teammates: "After a while, it will be the fourth quarter. As long as we try our best in every second in the next, the final result will be what we want. Now let them see the results of our hard work for a season!"
Emperor Wu's mobilization is the same as that of the horse, but now the Knicks are in the upper hand. Even if Emperor Wu says "I will decide it's you Pikachu", the Knicks players will still shout with each other and their morale will double.
Instead of mobilizing like this, Wade would rather take the lead and scold Wu Huang with his teammates. This has a high chance of resonating with Heat players. If you are not careful, the team's morale will be greatly boosted. Especially when James' hatred against Wu Huang is almost full at this moment, as long as the gorillas enter the crazy offensive mode, the Heat still have a chance, after all, they are only 6 points behind.
But it has to be said that the Heat have really bad defense. In the first three games, they put all their efforts into the defense, and the focus of the defense was also on Emperor Wu, but Emperor Wu was unsolvable. Every time he scored, he cut a knife on the Heat. But this does not mean that the Heat don't need to defend Emperor Wu. Although Wade's defense replacement effect is average, it is at least much better than the defense effect of Chamos and Bibi, and even the effect of double-teaming between the two. If no one is available, it would be better to give Wade's halving the price of threatening on the offensive end to limit Emperor Wu with all his strength, and even use Wade to play point guards as a way to win.
But Spoelstra also has his own concerns. He does have plans to let Wade play the No. 1 position, but considering that this will limit his scoring ability and also lead to some unpredictable problems in the ball, it is still difficult to make up his mind in the end.
If Wade plays point guard, it is hard to say whether he will reduce the ball rights given to James. The Heat have just figured out the distribution of ball rights. They rashly change the positions of the two, which is likely to have a series of unpredictable chain reactions in a short period of time. The playoffs cannot be joked about. Spoelstra naturally won't make such a change of the problem, which is all his back. He also has to consider his job.
Wu Huang continued to play in the fourth quarter. In this round of series, Xiao Beizi looked for opportunities to let him rest for three or four minutes at the end of the third quarter, and the same is true today.
When commenting on Wu Huang, Jeff Van Gundy said: "Many retired celebrities and professional media people will mention passing awareness and overall situation when commenting on Hugo's strengths, but the most valuable thing is his 'creativeness'. This ability is the most important indicator to measure a player's talent, because it cannot be increased through experience, but awareness and overall situation can be improved through a large amount of experience."
Mark Jackson also said: "'Creativity' is not only useful on the basketball court, but also on the football field. All midfielders in the football field are geniuses with excellent creativity. Of course, the same is true on the basketball court. You have to pass unexpected passes by defensive players. This is something hugo has always done very well."
As soon as the fourth quarter began, Wu Huang made a realistic "ground pass" fake move after pick-and-roll with Monroe. Bibi was quite experienced, but he was still deceived to believe it. As soon as he diverted his sight, he found that Wu Huang did not pass the ball at all. The basketball bounced back to his hand. Wu Huang's speed did not decrease and continued to kill at the basket.
It was not only Bibi who was cheated among the Heat players, but Magloil, who defended Monroe, was also cheated. Monroe took advantage of his moves to throw away the defense and rushed to the basket. Only then did Wu Huang really pass the ball, easily assisting Monroe to dunk.
Wu Huang learned this move from Chris Paul. This guy didn't have so many tricks before he was injured last season, but after the start of this season, he had many fake moves of passing the ball. Combined with his historical ball sense, Wu Huang was always fooled by his various fake moves. So after the game, he learned all these tricks that he couldn't deal with from the video. He was no worse than Paul's talent in terms of ball sense. In theory, he could learn Paul's skills. What Wu Huang lacked compared to Paul was only technical and experience accumulation, and whether these moves were suitable for him.
After Monroe scored this goal, the attack on the Heat players was very high because they were tricked, but they were unable to fight back. Wade rested off the court in the first quarter, and the Heat's rotation was to replace James at the end of the third quarter and Wade in the first quarter, so during this period, only Bosh and James on the Heat's field.
When only Bosh and James were present, the Knicks naturally focused on James. Bosh only allowed the blue-collar workers to handle it by themselves. Even if they couldn't handle it, it would make it difficult for Bosh to get a comfortable move. The Knicks' inside blue-collar workers are still able to do this.
James tried to shoot another three-pointer on the offensive end, but missed this time, which seemed to prove that he didn't feel good.
Heat fans then saw a scene that they didn't understand very much. James started passing the ball to his teammates again. At most, he made a breakthrough. Once the Knicks' double-team came up, James would pass the ball immediately, but the Heat players' shooting efficiency was not high.
The Knicks players are not slow at some point in defense. This is mainly because the Heat themselves are not able to tear the opponent's defense line by passing the ball like the Spurs. Usually after James passes the ball, the Heat players who receive the basketball are not able to transfer the ball to the Knicks' weak defense area again. This routine is not the style of play that the Heat are good at. They are all used to creating opportunities by the giants and shooting when they receive the basketball. But now they don't have the opportunity to shoot when they catch the ball, and the Knicks' first two rotations are very fast, which makes them less and less sure how to play.
Spoelstra said he had no choice. He couldn't let the team play a tactical system of continuous passes, but their Big Three are good at individual offenses. Isn't it a waste of talent to let them play the Spurs? Pat Riley is sure to be the first to fire him.
"There is still no shooter who can run!" Spoelstra felt that there was no excellent shooter in his team who was good at running without the ball, which was the key to passiveness. If there was a player like Ray Allen who took advantage of the situation, the sudden score between Zhan Wei and his two men would be effective.
But far-reaching water cannot quench the near thirst. Pat Riley had already expected that it would be difficult for the Heat to win the championship in the first season. This season, they paid too much in the summer to win the Big Three. Next season is their real time to win the championship. Don’t see that when you see, you can only use a middle class, but as long as you can attract more veterans like O’Neal, the whole team will be very different.
James did not take the initiative to attack, Bosh could only play hard in the inside line. Facing Monroe, he scored the first 2 points in the quarter, and then blocked Garlinari's layup. Soon after, Bosh relied on himself to help the Heat to catch the gap closer to 5 points.
At the critical moment, Wu Huang took out the touch of his big heart, one three-pointer and one three-pointer, widening the gap to 11 points again. After Gallinari also made a three-pointer, the Knicks led by 98:86 to 12 points.
The Knicks fans breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that their core had no idea of data swiping. The two previous key goals were no longer critical. The six points almost ruined the Heat's hope of a comeback.
However, before the thought was over, the Knicks fans saw Wu Huang knocking away Monroe and snatched a defensive rebound very fiercely!
"Okay, I still have to win a triple-double!" Knicks fans immediately felt that they were too naive. If Emperor Wu didn't brush the data, he would have gotten a triple-double.
After Wu Huang grabbed the rebound from Monroe's head, he felt a little dissatisfied. He felt that this kid was a little ignorant. At this time, of course he was helping him block people and brush up the data. Didn't he see Reggie Evans there come to grab the rebound at all? This is the manifestation of lack of vision.
Fortunately, Monroe has a relatively high understanding. Then he helped Emperor Wu to take the initiative to block people on the offensive end, and took out the spirit of going through fire and water to help his boss win a triple-double.
"That's right!" With this cooperation, Wu Huang quickly got the ninth rebound. Although most of today's rebounds are defensive rebounds, as long as he can make up double digits, he doesn't care about the value of value. Being able to get a triple-double while winning is the greatest value of value.
Emperor Wu's shameless behavior finally angered James. The gorilla, who was used to being invisible in the fourth quarter, could not bear to watch it anymore, and finally showed the spirit of fighting for life...
Starting from 5 minutes and 45 seconds in the fourth quarter, James used his suicide breakthrough to cause four consecutive fouls in the next two minutes, and he also played two plus one. In these two minutes, James scored almost alone in the Heat. The advantage of leading by 12 points at the highest was directly scored by this wave of offense and returned to 6 points.
In the final stage of the game, the morale of the Heat players finally recovered under the explosion of James. The score was reduced to 94:100, and it was time for the Knicks to need someone to stand up again...
"A 6-point lead is enough. There is only three minutes left. They can't catch up with us. Next, they will play the double stacking tactic." Wu Huang simply cheered up to his teammates, dribbling while playing tactical gestures.
The "double stack" tactic is one of the commonly used styles of play for teams that tend to shoot. The default routine is that all players except point guards are piled on both sides of the penalty area line before the tactic is executed. After the tactics begin to be executed, the role of inside players is to provide the shooter with offensive space, that is, to act as a cover without the ball.
This tactic naturally needs to make some changes when you get this tactic. Whoever covers it for whom is a possible cover. The inside combination of the Knicks on the court is Sir and Monroe. Both of them have good mid-range shooting. Although the Knicks' tactics are not implemented well in the blocking stage, there are too many players who can shoot after they spread out, and it is also difficult to defend.
The Heat players are still very nervous when defending. The difficulty of this tactic is that it is not enough to miss a single person. So when the Knicks players disperse, the Heat's defensive formation is obviously a bit chaotic. Although they finally relied on the athletic ability of the Big Three, they finally did not really miss their defenders, but they forgot that Wu Huang's passing point is also aggressive and even more threatening.
Chamos became a sinner again. At the critical moment, he took Wu Huang's fake moves again. When his feet slipped, Wu Huang wiped it with one step. At this moment, there was not even a single figure in the Heat's penalty area, and all the defensive players were pulled outside. After Wu Huang broke through, he easily scored two points with a layup.
"ezpz!" After Wu Huang scored, he spread his hands and another sarcasm that attracted people.
The home fans could clearly see what Wu Huang said from his mouth through the large screen on the scene. For a moment, the Heat fans were full of swearing!
Emperor Wu turned a blind eye. After provoking, he took out a lazy look and walked back. If he didn't think it was too naive, he would even want to jump back, which would make the Heat players even more exciting.
This goal of the Knicks is a typical personal ability. Wu Huang said that leading by 6 points is safe, but in fact he is just talking nonsense. Of course, 6 points is not safe, but now leading by 8 points is really safe, and this goal will bring greater pressure to the Heat. This time it depends on whether anyone from the Heat has come forward to respond.
James stood up, and then he passed the ball again... Of course, he should choose to pass this ball. The Gorillas have attracted double-teams from two defensive players. After Bosh received the basketball, he could get a chance to directly challenge Sir Si in the penalty area.
"Come pass quickly! Pass quickly!" Wu Huang chose to let go Chamos to assist in defense of Bosh, and his mouth was still not honest, and he kept shouting for Bosh to pass quickly.
Bosh couldn't hear Wu Huang's words clearly. The cheers of fans on the scene had already covered up most of the voices, but he saw the open space on the outside. However, considering Chamos's three-point shooting percentage in the playoffs, the Dragon King hesitated for a moment and chose to play against Si.
"You go down there!" Emperor Wu shouted from behind!
When Bosh watched the video after the game, he should have found that he shouldn't hesitate. This hesitation gave Wu Huang the opportunity to jump from behind to block. He obviously underestimated Wu Huang's assisting defense speed and determination. The latter almost blocked Bosh with an action that would be 80% foul. He planned to rather send him to the free throw line than to directly shoot and score.
Bosh's right finger injury had improved, but he was still not as flexible as normal. The key was that he was not steadily enough to catch the ball. Although he used the rhythm to flash through Xiao Si's block, he was seized by Emperor Wu behind him and slapped the racket very savagely.
"No foul?" Wu Huangba got off the basketball and almost rode on Bosh, and directly staggered the poor Dragon King, so the basketball was naturally taken by Xiao Si.
But what made all the fans booed was that the referee did not even judge Emperor Wu for a foul?!
This made Emperor Wu a little unbelievable because he went for the foul.
When the fans saw this scene, they naturally started to scold again. However, through the large-screen replay, although Wu Huang went for a foul, his final block was accurately shot on the basketball. Although the subsequent action of ramming Bosh was suspected of foul, Bosh's ball did not jump high. Therefore, when Wu Huang almost rode on him, Bosh had already landed first, which did not constitute a rule of infringement on the cylinder.
The Knicks immediately launched a fast attack after getting the basketball. Iguodala assisted Garlinari to complete a double-handed dunk. Wu Huang did not participate and did not affect the Knicks' fast attack threat at all.
"The big thing is gone!" Spoelstra knew that the defeat was irreversible. From the second game, they could not actually limit the Knicks' offense. His offense was not as strong as the Knicks. If he wanted to win, it would be difficult to reach the top. Even with the help of his home court advantage, it would be difficult to recover his disadvantage.
Then the Heat followed the score difference to only six points with Zhan Wei's offense, but there was not much time left. D'Antoni took the opportunity to replace Monroe and replace Reggie Evans and Sir Jersey to further consolidate the rebounding and defense at the basket.
Wu Huang then used two free throws to stabilize the situation, and Joel Anthony was also called for a first-degree malicious foul for being too big in defense.
The last two minutes of the game entered the mode of Wade's single-handed fight against the Knicks. He scored 6 points in three consecutive shots, but the so-called two fists were hard to beat four-handed. The Knicks always maintained a lead of more than 5 points. Wu Huang also took the time to get his tenth rebound and finally got his second triple-double in this year's playoffs.
Wade was still unwilling to surrender, and made a long three-pointer with 5.5 seconds left in the game, narrowing the gap to 3 points.
D'Antoni looked at the number of timeouts. The Heat had not even had a short timeout. The Knicks actually had a long timeout and a short timeout. It didn't seem like a waste, but it was stupid to use it! Of course, he would not take the initiative to help his opponent call a timeout. At this moment, Wu Huang not only forced the Heat players to foul him with his skillful ball control at a critical moment, but also spent two seconds. After making both free throws, the Heat could no longer see hope of winning again.
The Heat have no timeouts. After receiving the ball, James made a long shot before he was transported to the midfield. However, this time he failed to create a miracle and the basketball flew directly out of the field. The Heat could only accept two consecutive losses at home.
After the whistle sounded, Jeff Van Gundy said: "After this game, 'Miami' has no choice but to retreat. The mission of sticking to the 'American Air Arena' has not been completed. After the Knicks got the match point away again, they have fully held the initiative in this series. As long as the three match points are in hand, they can get tickets to the finals as soon as possible as possible as possible."
Marco Jackson commented: "The more reasonable explanation for this round of series is that even if the Big Three scored 87 points again, it cannot change the reality that the Knicks' offense makes the Heat helpless. In the four games, the Knicks averaged 110 points, while the Heat only averaged 91 points in the first two rounds. In particular, the counterattack troubles created by Hugo for the Heat are almost unsolvable."
Jeff Van Gundy added: "The Heat's defense cannot be found. No one in the inside can put enough pressure on rookies like Sir and Monroe on the offensive end. Bosh and Haslem want to hide outside the court to shoot. Joel Anthony has no offensive ability at all. The Heat's three inside players all lost their power on both ends of the offense and defense, and losing is inevitable."
Wu Huang didn't have much intention to accept an interview after the game. Although it was worth being happy to win the game, he wanted to return to New York soon, so the answers after the game were mostly to deal with things: "They caused us a lot of trouble, but you have also seen that we grasped those key offenses and had several wonderful defenses. But the opponent seemed to have little desire to resist most of the time. Although the counterattack in the final stage made us feel some pressure, most of the time, I still felt that we played very easily."
Well, even if Emperor Wu didn’t have the heart to accept an interview, such an answer still made people want to go up and beat him up!
Wu Huang scored 32 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists and 4 steals today. His performance of 16 points in the last quarter was like a cheat, which is why he can jump very much after the game.
The three giants joined forces to contribute 87 points today, but the final result was another loss, which attracted more attention after the game. Not everyone can do this kind of head-on battle with the three giants and wins. He has the capital to be arrogant.
Now the Knicks' 3:1 lead makes the Heat's out almost a foregone conclusion. New York, which holds three match points, has little chance of a fall in the next game, and this round of showdown is likely to end with an unexpected 4:1.
"We are very strong, not the kind you say, it's really strong!" Wu Huang's answer to the reason why his team won was still very uncooperative. This answer not only made Heat players feel that he was very disrespectful to him, but Heat fans also felt that he did not take his team seriously at all.
But anyone familiar with Emperor Wu knows that this guy was still taking advantage of the situation after the game and continued to use trash talks off the court to influence the Heat, which only means that he is still worried about the fifth game. If he really doesn't take the Heat seriously, he should just pick up nice words at this moment, rather than using this method of losing character + causing hatred.
Wu Huang now wants the entire Heat team, including the media, to focus on him. It is best for everyone to ignore that Sir has 22 points today, Gallinari has 20 points, and even Monroe, the rookie has 20 points...
If everyone really thinks that he killed the Big Three alone, then Wu Huang is very welcome to this result. First of all, his reputation will be further improved, and secondly, it will make the Knicks players who are neglected by the media more motivated to perform, and it will also make the Heat make a wrong judgment in the next game, which may completely destroy their already faint hope of turning the tables.
Chapter completed!