Time finally came on May 25th. This year's Eastern Conference Finals is another contest between the two most popular teams, but it is difficult not to make people whisper in their hearts. The Bulls' seventh game was not taken care of even at home, and there may not be no factors in the league that want the Knicks and the Heat to meet again.

Of course, the league has always wanted to create a gimmick 24vs between the Imperial City PK, but unfortunately the Cavaliers always fall in the East, so this proves that the league may be biased towards a certain team to a certain extent, but this favoritism will have a bottom line. If you are not strong enough, no matter how favoritism is, the league will not make you a champion.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat faced the powerful defending champion, and Bosh on the injury list did not become the Heat's smoke bomb in the end. The poor pseudo-giant was sitting on the sidelines in a suit, and his injury was still unknown.

O'Neal smiled and said, "Today's Heat will feel despair in the inside." The fat man was right. If the Heat had Bosh at the basket, it would be like the Chinese team having Yao Ming. Even if it was bad, it would be the number one in Asia. But without this person, it would be nothing.

Spoelstra today formulated a four-player rotation defensive roster for Emperor Wu, including young players like Chamos and Cole, as well as misplaced superstar players like James and Wade. The Filipinos hope that the team can use collective defense to reduce the harm caused by Emperor Wu.

In the first half, the Heat's defense against Wu Huang was indeed very successful. The Holy Master only scored 12 points of the team's 50 points. In the two quarters, Wu Huang only made 4 of 10 shots and only made 2 of 6 three-pointers. His hot feel was finally reduced by the Heat.

But rather than saying that the Heat's defense was successful, it was better to say that Wu Huang deliberately gave up the offense. Today he chose to trust his teammates and planned to rely on team basketball to defeat the Heat's Big Three. It was precisely because of Wu Huang's selflessness and trust in the first half that the Knicks successfully extinguished several offensives launched by the Heat in the second quarter, and the Holy Master also helped the Knicks launch a counterattack in the middle of this quarter. At that time, he used his breakthrough to assist Gasol and David West to score layups, and then passed the ball to Bathirl and Garlinari to hit three-pointers, thus leading the whole team to a 10-4 climax and maintain the lead.

During this period, it was the Saint Master of New York who was instigating all the Knicks' offensives. Although this time he did not rely on offense to drive the team, Wu Huang now has more ways to help the team and does not necessarily have to score points in person.

Throughout the first half, Wu Huang suppressed his desire to score, but from the third quarter, Wu Huang's offensive desire began to expand rapidly. Since his mid-range shot was targeted and unable to perform, Wu Huang chose to use breakthroughs to open the Heat's defense in the second half. Didn't Ewing say yesterday that he was a great player who could break through and shoot? This is the time to show his breakthrough ability.

The Heat's inside completely gave up offense from the beginning of the game, and today their mission is only defense.

However, facing the Holy Master who has his own home whistle, as Ewing said yesterday, the current rules are too friendly to offensive players, especially those like Wu Huang who always wants to lean on others, if you don’t pay attention, it will be a foul.

These defensive players are very embarrassed. Their advantage is their physical ability to fight. If they don’t make physical contact, they will allow Wu Huang to shoot at any time. Therefore, the defense of Wu Huang has high requirements for the inside. You must have enough height and athletic ability. At present, the inside players in the league that can make Wu Huang feel uncomfortable are only Howard, Chandler, Ibaka, Noah, Duncan, and Garnett. Although Jordan and Whiteside also belong to this type of inside, Wu Huang is not afraid of these two people at all, because these two guys’ brains are not very good, at least at this stage, it is impossible to pose too much threat to him. Just like Ibaka has only played this year, if the defensive players’ brains are not good, they need a lot of game experience to mature.

In the third quarter, with Wu Huang hitting two close-range throws at the beginning, the Heat's defense began to collapse. It was from this period that the Knicks continued to widen the gap. Wu Huang contributed 12 points in the third quarter, 8 of which were obtained within 12 feet. The remaining 4 points were made by free throws and completely lost the three-pointer, the Holy Master, who once again led the Knicks to establish a 14-point lead in this quarter through offense.

"Fortunately, today is not over in three quarters. I think there is still a chance for the Heat." Barkley's words sound like he was in the Milk Heat. 14 points is already a very stable advantage for the Knicks now. In fact, it was difficult for the Knicks to catch up with the opponent under the double-digit lead last season. Now the inside advantage is so obvious, it is almost impossible for the Heat to turn the tables.

In the last quarter, the Heat, who refused to give up, were preparing to launch the last round of attack waves and stage a big turnaround. However, at this time, Wu Huang's three-pointer completely disrupted the Heat's plan to counterattack. Although Wu Huang only scored 8 points in this quarter, his two three-pointers helped the Knicks keep the score difference above 10 points.

At the end of the fourth quarter, with Wu Huang assisting Igudara to hit a three-pointer and assisting David to hit a jump shot in West, the Knicks finally won a big victory with 107:89, and got a good start to the series at home.

Wu Huang contributed 32 points, 7 rebounds, 15 assists and 5 steals in the whole game, Gasol scored 22 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, David West scored 16 points and 5 rebounds, Iguodala scored 13 points, Gallinari scored 11 points, and Bathir scored 6 points.

In the first match of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wu Huang not only showed a different performance from the past in passing, but his breakthrough and defense also showed the omnipotence of a Hall of Fame superstar. Five steals in the game perfectly interpreted the value of his defensive title, and also proved that those coaches were not obsessed with his votes. In fact, on the contrary, these guys knew very well how terrible Wu Huang was when he was defending with all his might.

The Knicks' inside advantage was not fully utilized today. D'Antoni still used Wu Huang as the offensive and defensive center. Although the inside advantage was also used, it can be seen from the personal data of the two insiders that the Knicks did not care much about their advantages, nor did they use this advantage in particular. They felt that using normal playing style was enough to win.

This is also the most embarrassing situation that makes the Heat. The Knicks are equivalent to keeping their killer moves. Maybe they want to wait until the second game or go away to make good use of their inside advantage, so that the Heat will have basically no reaction time. The Knicks seem to be preparing to make a quick decision, and they have left many means to the away game, which is naturally the idea of ​​sweeping.

"Do you sweep the Heat?" Most fans dare not think so. After all, James and Wade were in the past. If the Heat lacked Bosh, they still had the strength to eliminate most powerful teams, so the Knicks plan made them unable to keep up with the pace at all.

After the game, Spoelstra claimed that his team lost because they had some luck. Today, the Heat had many rebound balls on the basket. If they entered a few of these lucky balls, the trend of the whole game might be rewritten.

After hearing this, the New York media was of course sneering. The Filipinos' statement is the same as the "if xxx" that fans often say after losing, but in fact, there are not so many "ifs", which is a typical mentality of not being able to lose. Of course, Spolstra is not that he cannot afford to lose. He is making excuses for the players to believe that we can still win, otherwise we can't play.

Espn's comment on the Eastern Conference Finals after the game was: The Knicks easily won the first game with their talent and lineup advantages. Although James and Wade jointly contributed 63 points, this score was not enough for the Heat to win.

The Knicks won the first place today in the "hit rate". In the first three quarters, the Knicks' shooting percentage remained at around 50%, while the Heat's hit percentage was only about 40%. The huge contrast between the two sides in hit percentage led to polarization from the third quarter, especially when Wu Huang broke out in the third quarter and scored 12 points in a single quarter, the Knicks had already taken a 14-point lead after the three quarters. Although the Knicks made a slightly higher turnover than the Heat today, their high hit rate solved all problems.

Secondly, the Knicks also have an absolute advantage in rebounding and inside, their shooting percentage is high, and they also suppress the Heat in rebounding by up to 15. Although Gasol and David Si don’t score much, they only scored 10 points in the interior, and any of their data is much higher than this score. This is how the Knicks’ shooting percentage is high. How can the Heat, who completely count on James and Wade, play a shooting percentage that exceeds the Knicks?

Finally, the biggest problem of the Heat is still the unsolvable Holy Master. Today, the Heat have put a lot of effort into Wu Huang's mid-range. They used a large number of high-pressures and double-teams to limit Wu Huang's long-range shooting. Wade and James put half of their defensive energy on Wu Huang, and the result was the full bloom of the Knicks players. Then they relaxed their defense against Wu Huang in the second half. In the end, they couldn't even watch Wu Huang. It can basically be said that they were useless to get a bamboo basket.

Jordan was deliberately let go by his opponent back then, much more times than he was surrounded by his opponent, because countless examples have proved that even if you use many people to defend him, it will be difficult to resist his outbreak at a certain period of time, or to put it simply, you cannot surround him for 48 minutes, and these guys often only take a few minutes to kill the enemy.

Therefore, instead of wasting a lot of manpower and energy to block him, it is better to use these skills on other players to be effective.

However, the Heat have devoted all their energy to Emperor Wu today. This is obviously another defensive example of failure. Although other methods may not be effective, they chose the wrong path to go.

In fact, there are many things that can be seen in this game. When the talented Knicks have an absolute advantage in point guard, inside, shooting percentage, rebounds, and substitutes, it will be difficult for any team to defeat them. The Heat now have to solve at least three of the disadvantages in order to have the hope of defeating the Knicks, but none of these five problems are easy to solve. On the contrary, the Knicks' problem of "a bit of mistakes" today is easy to solve.

After the team lost, Miami fans always felt that time passed too quickly. The intervals of the day gave them the feeling of "playing the second game in a blink of an eye."

New York fans think time is passing so slowly, and they want to be the second game in the blink of an eye.

In the game on May 27, one side fans felt that the waiting time was too long, while the other side felt that the interval was too short, but whether it was fast or slow, the second game did start in the blink of an eye.

Spoelstra said at the pre-match press conference that after the first game, they were mainly looking for excitement of the game. In the past two years of playoffs, the Heat players have played very depressed in every game, and every time they seem to be fighting the whole world. He now needs the players to put down these burdens and find the fun and excitement of playing the game again.

But perhaps it was too excited, so the Heat adopted a high-intensity defensive approach at the beginning, so the fans quickly saw James blocking and stealing, and he and Wade each made a dunk. In the second half of the quarter, James and Wade made two steals in a short period of time.

The Knicks obviously were not prepared for this at the beginning. They made consecutive mistakes and fell behind by 10 points at one point.

The Heat's defense method is still yesterday's "snatching and siege", but the intensity has been upgraded again. Their "snatching" mainly refers to stealing, and "siege" can be regarded as close-fitting defense, while "siege" is double-teaming for Wu Huang, and the strength is greater than the previous game. Some foul moves are not restrained at all. They are betting on the league and don't want to see themselves swept.

The referee's sister-in-law is indeed a little relaxed today. At the beginning of the game, whenever Wu Huang received the ball at a high position to prepare for attack, the Heat would use two people to surround him, and the two wings and the inside would always pay attention to his passing route. The Heat seemed to be preparing to go the end. They did not choose to let Wu Huang go to watch over the others, but instead chose to strengthen the encirclement and suppression of Wu Huang again.

But unfortunately, the Knicks quickly found a solution, and they adopted a strategy of avoiding the real and turning to the virtual.

The Heat double-teamed Wu Huang, so the Knicks reduced Wu Huang's attack launch times and let others attack as much as possible. So when the half passed, David West scored 15 points, and Gasol also scored a lot of 10 points. Even Bathir, who had relatively poor independent offensive ability, got a lot of shots. He hit two three-pointers in the first half. You should know that James is the one who defended him, so it is conceivable that when Bathir scored a three-pointer, James must have done something else.

The basketball court is so big, and the pressure on the outside will definitely weaken the defense of the inside, because it is difficult for players on the outside to return to the basket instantly to participate in the protection of rebounds. The Knicks then took advantage of this feature to launch targeted attacks, that is, to compete for the frontcourt rebounds and launch a second offensive score.

All of this was the most typical performance in the second quarter. Gasol grabbed the frontcourt rebound and passed it to David Si, who finished 2+1 with a dunk; David Si scored the frontcourt rebound and made a dunk directly; Gasol scored the frontcourt rebound and made a layup; David Si scored the frontcourt rebound again and made a dunk again... In this way, the Knicks scored 18 points in the first half with the frontcourt rebound, accounting for nearly 40% of all 49 points.

Throughout the game, the Knicks' frontcourt rebounds reached a terrifying 20, including 12 in the first half and 8 in the second half. In terms of overall rebounding, they also had an advantage of 51:32. The difference in rebounding data is so huge that part of this is caused by the Heat's lack of inside strength, but there is also a big factor in the negative effect of their fierce external defense.

There is another side effect of being too fierce to grab the siege, that is, it is difficult to continue the whole game. The Heat's substitute strength is relatively weak, so they can only rely on a few main players to play for a long time to maintain the competitiveness of the lineup. Today, James and Wade consumed more physical strength in the fight, so the collapse in the fourth quarter was inevitable.

As soon as the fourth quarter came, Bathir received another pass from Gasol and made a three-pointer from the outside!

But this time, Batman not only gave the team enough three-point support on the offensive end, but he even caused James to suffer a lot in the second half. In the second half of the third, James felt cold and only hit one goal in the next six shots. The key was that Battier did not give him a free throw opportunity. In the fourth quarter, he also made two offensive fouls from James at a critical moment.

James only scored 19 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in the whole game, and his shooting percentage was 6 of 20 shots. In addition to Bathil's excellent defense, this shooting percentage also shows that the young emperor is really tired.

The Knicks introduced Battier in the summer because they hoped that he would be useful in the playoffs. Judging from his performance in the playoffs, the Knicks' summer signing is worth it. Of course, when they come to Miami the day after tomorrow, the Knicks will still face fierce battles. Therefore, 2:0 is not the time for them to relax. The team also needs more contributions like Battier today. After all, the more helpers in the playoffs, the further they can go. The Heat are a ready-made negative example.

Emperor Wu was not very happy today. Under the Heat's decisive defense, he only scored 14 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. Such data is not like the one played by the Holy Leader, but his 7 steals and 3 blocks once again gave him some bragging after the game.

In fact, Wu Huang was a little anxious in this game. The Heat really didn't let him score today, and he didn't even let the pass. The whole team was staring at him alone. This excessive target also made Wu Huang secretly wonder: "Damn, I'm very low-key this time? I didn't provoke them at all before the game. If I had known this, I would have enjoyed it."

Emperor Wu didn't know where he got such a great hatred. Could it be that he didn't provoke him anymore? Instead, others thought he was bullied? Could it be that he was really good and could not be bullied? However, it was because he was very depressed on Emperor Wu's offensive end that he simply devoted all his energy to defense. In the fourth quarter, he even went to the sea to defend for several rounds. During this period, he shouted loudly, "Come on! Damn, hurt each other!"

Not to mention, one of Wu Huang's three blocks was James from behind. I wonder if this guy feels so bad today, is it because of his block this time?
Chapter completed!