NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 196 Big Score One to Zero
Under such circumstances, neither James nor Eric Spoelstra has a good solution on the Heat's side.

The Timberwolves are giving you a role player opportunity, but the role player is not efficient in handling the ball, so what can you do?
In the last quarter of the game, the Heat basically couldn't catch up with this score.

Although James tried his best to lead the team to catch up with the score in the third quarter, Iguodala was also full of strength and had a tit-for-tat confrontation with James.

Iguodala is very strong. Although he is still not as strong as James, he can match James in terms of confrontation and speed.

If it is 1V1, Iguodala will definitely not be able to beat James.

But when Iguodala is not the star of the team, if he can match up with James, then he has done a very good job.

In fact, James is also taking a differentiated route. Those who are stronger than him are not as fast as him, and those who are faster than him are not as strong as him.

Iguodala is fast and strong, and he can match up with James.

And in the last quarter, not only James was tired, but other Heat players were also quite tired.

Wade will not say, he was originally playing with injuries.

There are not many role players that the Heat can play, and all of them are still old.

In order to match the intensity, Erik Spoelstra put veterans who are barely able to fight for a long time on the court.

Whether it is Lewis or Ray Allen, these older veterans play no less playing time than Wade.

Facing the young and strong guys of the Timberwolves, the Heat not only can't match their combat effectiveness, but now they can't even match their physical strength.

Seeing that the score had been unable to catch up, Eric Spoelstra replaced the three of James Wade and Bosh in the middle of the last quarter.

It's like the game has been given up ahead of time.

There are still a few games in the series. At this time of the Big Three, Eric Spoelstra also has to save a little.

At the same time, Lewis and Ray Allen were also replaced after a few rounds.

The Heat's second lineup is basically the same as the water dispenser lineup, and there is not much difference.

However, Su Chen didn't intend to humiliate the Heat, and directly replaced the third team that fell out of the rotation.

The third team is basically the people who have not been traded out of the original Timberwolves team to fill the lineup, but Beverly is also added to it.

How rich the Timberwolves' defensive resources are, a defensive champion like Beverly did not enter the rotation in G1 of the finals.

If Beverly switches to the Heat, Eric Spoelstra will replace Beverly directly with Chalmers and become the main point guard with more than 30 minutes of playing time.

Eric Spoelstra, who was on the Heat's bench, was a little helpless when he saw Beverley playing in the third team.

Beverly has already made a name for himself this season, especially when facing the Trail Blazers and Warriors.

Whether it's Beverly's pursuit of Curry or the bite of Lillard, it's still fresh in people's memory.

Beverly, who has such strength, didn't play in the rotation time.

The key is that when such an important puzzle was not played, the Timberwolves still led the Heat by a large score, which made Eric Spoelstra really sigh.

There are too few people available to the Heat.

Not only Lewis and Ray Allen played more than 10 minutes, but even the 36-year-old Birdman Anderson played more than 20 minutes.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

As the buzzer sounded at the end of the game, the Timberwolves defended their G1 home court.

Timberwolves 123:98 Heat.

The Timberwolves won a big victory at home and rewritten the score.

Timberwolves 1-0 Heat.

James, who was sitting off the court, couldn't wait to leave the player channel when the game ended.

Throughout the whole process, James did not communicate with his teammates and the coaching staff.

Although the Heat have only lost the first game now, this game allowed James to see the gap between the players on both sides.

No matter how strong he is, he needs help, and James understands that very well.

On the field that was swept by the Spurs in the finals, James understood that he alone would not be able to beat a championship-level team.

In this game, not only will Iguodala be defending him, but players such as Giannis and Josh will come to switch him.

At the same time, Kawin double-teamed him or interfered with him from time to time, and after entering the penalty area, Ibaka was waiting for him.

Almost every goal James scored in this game was chased and intercepted by the Timberwolves defensive champions.

The Timberwolves have defended him like this, but what are his teammates doing?
Wade's efficiency is relatively low under Butler's single defense.

No matter whether Bosh is facing Giannis or Ibaka, he can't do it in the paint, and his efficiency is basically the same as that of Wade.

Ibaka's defense against Nowitzki and Duncan was directly blown up, but Bosh couldn't beat Ibaka very efficiently.

As for the others, a bunch of veteran James didn't expect anything from them.

As for Erik Spoelstra, that's what annoys James the most.

In James' view, the Timberwolves not only crushed them from the players, but also the coaches crushed Eric Spoelstra.

James doesn't want to think about next season so quickly, after all, this is G1 of the finals.

However, the strength gap presented in this game made James very disappointed with the Heat.

As the leader of this team, James, when he is silent, it is difficult for others to say much.

Besides losing the game, they didn't have that kind of thought.

The entire Heat team almost completed their exit in such a silent atmosphere.

Eric Spoelstra wanted to say something to the players, but after this game, he also saw the gap between the Timberwolves and the Heat.

The Heat's salary structure was originally the Big Three plus the base salary, but now, among the Big Three, two of them are less efficient.

There is another one that can be played, but the opponent has used the defensive resources of the whole team and devoted it to this point.

Besides, Eric Spoelstra already lost to Su Chen once last season.

He faced Su Chen, but he was actually under some pressure.

Su Chen's Warriors, whose lineup was not as good as the Heat's last season, defeated him to win the championship.

The current Timberwolves, it seems that the outside world is not very optimistic, but Eric Spoelstra knows how strong this Timberwolves are.

The Heat can rush out of the East, and it looks like they are still a championship-level team, but in fact the East is too weak.

They can't limit James at this point, even if the team's defensive resources are poured into it, they can't really limit James.

Although Wade and Bosh's efficiency has declined, if they are not facing elite defenders, they still have some firepower.

In fact, the Pacers' strength has also dropped a lot, which can be seen from the fact that they advanced through the tiebreaker in the first round.

Hibbert was the reason why the Pacers were really strong last season. Hibbert dropped directly to the [-] center level, and even played six games with the Heat.

Eric Spoelstra knows that this Timberwolves lineup is much stronger than the outside world estimates.

Almost all of the Timberwolves' starters are elite defenders.

There are even elite defenders hiding on the bench.

All kinds of defensive resources, such as Butler and Beverly for small guards.

The defensive line has resources such as Iguodala, Luol Deng, and Josh.

There are resources like Ibaka and Giannis in the defense, and they can also be used as inside sweeps, and the defensive coverage is quite large.

There are also super defenders like Covington in the defense.

Such defensive resources are outrageous.

(End of this chapter)