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Chapter 198 Criticism of James

But the celebration is the celebration. The entire Timberwolves were relatively low-key during the interview after the game.

"This is only the first game of the finals, we cannot let our guard down, we need to be more focused."

After the game, Su Chen didn't show off.

Anyway, the opponent has James at his peak, who knows if James will have a convulsion?

Even though the Timberwolves had a chance to crush the Heat in the first game, Su Chen remained vigilant.

Today's Su Chen already has the aura of a handsome man.

The next day.

For the first game of the finals, the Heat's defeat naturally caused a lot of discussion.

Although the Heat suffered a big loss in the first game, many fans still feel that the whole series will be set in this way.

After all, the reputation the Heat have accumulated over the past few years makes fans feel that this Heat is still a very strong team in the league.

In the past three seasons, the Heat have been regular visitors to the Finals.

Even if the Timberwolves play a very strong performance, they are still a newly formed team, and the lack of superstars in the team has always been a point that this team is not optimistic about.

Regarding the Heat, there are also many accusations.

A well-known reporter pointed out that the reason why the Timberwolves can win the Heat so easily is because James did not stand up.

In the first game, James wanted to take over the game more than once, but he was met with a strong defense led by Iguodala.

The Timberwolves' defensive lineup is indeed very good, with Iguodala as the main defender, plus a group of excellent defenders, whether they are double-teaming or assisting in defense.

But the reporter pointed out that if James wants to attack the greatest throne in history, then these are not the reasons.

It is true that many of the Heat's players are role players, and they are older, and their role is not so obvious.

Even Wade didn't give James much support.

When James faced double-teams, he basically chose to pass the ball and let his teammates solve these problems.

"The establishment of the Heat's Big Three has already occupied the majority of the Heat's salary space. As a team leader, you should not blame your teammates for not being good enough."

"Wade has exhausted all the ammunition for the previous champion, and he is still playing with injuries."

"LeBron, when you're facing a two-man Minnesota defense you can't always pass the ball as a problem-solving defense, I mean always, Jordan still has a lot of hard-charging scenes against two and three defenders. "

In the article, the reporter also criticized James.

As soon as this article came out, it also aroused the support of many people.

If this article was published before, there may still be some controversy, but after the last game, this view has won the support of most fans.

Everyone can actually see the current situation of the Heat. The role players are weak, and the decline of the deputy cannot give much help.

If other players are like this, maybe the fans will understand.

But he is James.

Such a seemingly reasonable choice is actually an unreasonable one.

Although the Timberwolves have a lot of help defenses, Iguodala is still on single defense most of the time.

As an existence that hit the top few in history, what is it to be guarded by Iguodala?

What the outside world doesn't know is.

Now the atmosphere in the Heat team is also very tense.

In particular, the contradiction between James and the team's coaching staff and management has become more and more obvious.

This made many Heat players very depressed during training.

Many of these people were recruited by James, and they would definitely support James in normal times.

But James, judging from all signs, is unlikely to continue to renew his contract with the Heat next season, so it doesn't make sense for them to support James.

On the contrary, some contracts are still not short-term with the Heat, and they will offend the management.

Eric Spoelstra is also very distressed. Faced with the situation of the team, as the head coach, he should do something.

But sandwiched between Riley and James, and James is still very dissatisfied with him, his control over the team is also very limited.

If he had a little way before, but the opponent was Su Chen, and Eric Spoelstra could not do much when he had almost lost control of the team.

The relationship between the players and the coach of the entire team is very delicate.

The pace of the finals is still relatively fast.

Soon, the second game of the finals started again in Minnesota.

For the Timberwolves, if they can win this game, they will keep both home games.

Going to Miami next, as long as they win one of the two home games, the Timberwolves will have a great chance of winning.

Unlike last season's 2-3-2, the Heat did not have the chance to fight back in one go for three consecutive home games.

回到2-2-1-1-1后，热火输掉一个主场后，会继续来到明尼苏达。

With the Timberwolves in control of the match point, it would be too difficult to capture the Timberwolves' two home games.

This game is quite critical for the Heat.

The Heat team still cheered in the player locker room, but when the players waited to enter the tunnel, they became silent again.

Even if someone wants to liven up the atmosphere, but seeing James with a straight face, they don't do such self-defeating things.

The character of a team largely depends on what the boss of the team is like.

As for the Timberwolves who won the next round, the players were still united and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

During the rumored break, Su Chen did not let the team train too much, but did some recreational activities for team building.

This makes the atmosphere of the team better.

There is already a gap in strength between the two sides, and the Heat still look a little bit infighting, which makes the suspense of the game even smaller.

Soon, the game began.

Players from both sides enter the field.

Timberwolves starting lineup: Serge Ibaka (C), Giannis Antetokounmpo (PF), Luol Deng (SF), Andre Iguodala (SG), Jimmy Butt Le (PG)

Heat starting lineup: Chris Bosh (C), Rashard Lewis (PF), LeBron James (SF), Dwyane Wade (SG), Mario Chalmers (PG)

In terms of player configuration, neither side has made any changes.

The Timberwolves don't need to change if they win, but the Heat can only play at this point, and there is nothing to change.

This game of the Timberwolves still continued the state of the previous game.

The Heat haven't changed at all.

For example, James no longer guards against Giannis Antetokounmpo, but lets Bosh do the defense.

Judging from James' performance on both ends of the offense and defense, it is obvious that he wants to save energy on the defensive end so that he can perform on the offensive end.

Of course, James also knows the criticism of him from the outside world.

He felt that it was because he consumed too much on the defensive end, so he couldn't use his full strength on the offensive end, so this time he let Bosh defend and he devoted all his energy to the offensive end.

Su Chen still used a fixed ability value on Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of those players who struggles when you have enough defenders to match him.

But if it doesn't match up, I'm sorry, Giannis Antetokounmpo will give the opponent a face.

(End of this chapter)