king of defenders

Chapter 624 Continuing to lead, getting braver with each battle

"Assist defense, double-team?" Meng Yun sneered, and passed the ball with a ground pass to Green in the bottom corner. Green raised his knife and hit a three-pointer.

Coach Casey frowned and stood on the sidelines with his arms folded.

The game continues. The Raptors, as always, have a very slow offensive rhythm. They try to slow down the game and prevent the Heat from playing a fast-paced offense and defense. They suffered a big loss in the last game, and they also realized that once the Heat's It's going to be scary when the tempo is fast, and the kind of attack that's in full swing makes them terrified and difficult to parry.

Of course, while reducing the offensive and defensive rhythm, the Raptors are pursuing the success rate.

As the rhythm of offense and defense slows down, there will be fewer offensive rounds in the same period of time, so a sufficient hit rate must be guaranteed to ensure the threat of offense.

In this regard, the Raptors are still very good. Their lineup is very balanced, and there is no shortage of stars. After passing the ball a few times this time, they still scored the ball and returned the color.

Turning around, Meng Yun came to the front court.

Carroll stepped forward, Meng Yun changed direction with a crotch, and broke through from the left hand side. Carroll quickly moved to the right, but Meng Yun immediately dribbled behind his back, but DeRozan quickly rushed over and helped Carroll Helping defense, Meng Yun smiled slightly, didn't care, immediately passed the ball to Wade, the Raptors changed defense again, Meng Yun didn't play, and passed it to Luol Deng, Luol Deng had a chance Yes, took the ball and went inside and scored a layup.

"Another one." Coach Casey gritted his teeth, stroked his chin, and looked serious, "It seems that it is not enough to guard against Meng. The Heat don't completely rely on Meng and Wade. Yes, just like the last game, it seems It was Meng and Wade who played really well, that's why they won the game. But the fact that everyone else played really well, that's why."

"It's hard for a team to rely entirely on one person to win, but if the core players can perform well and the role players can also perform well, it will be different."

In the last game, the Heat's three armies worked hard. Everyone was active and conscientious. Everyone played their role, so they won easily and won the Raptors by more than 20 points.

This time too.

Seeing that Meng Yun scored a lot of points in front, Coach Casey changed his defensive strategy and focused on Meng Yun, but failed.

When Luol Deng, Green, and Whiteside can also stand up and score, the defense or double-teaming will not work, because Meng Yun is also an excellent organizer in addition to his excellent scoring ability.

What's more, in addition to Luol Deng, Green, Whiteside, there is also Wade.

"It seems that it is difficult to gain the upper hand in the first quarter. It doesn't matter, the game is still very early." Looking up at the timer, Coach Casey began to change players, gradually replacing the main players and replacing them with substitutes.

Here, Spoelstra also made a substitution.

In fact, with Meng Yun's state, it can take a little longer, but with Dragic on the bench, Spoelstra also replaced Meng Yun.

The two sides entered the rotation time, slack off the last game's prestige, and the Heat's substitute lineup played very well. Although it wasn't as direct as the previous game to suppress the opponent, at least they were evenly matched.

that's enough.

As long as the rotation lineup does not lose to the opponent, Spoelstra is confident that he can defeat the opponent with the main lineup.

"I don't feel very good today."

"Yeah, it's not as good as the last game, there is a ball that should be shot"

However, several substitute players were very dissatisfied, thinking that they didn't play well in the previous game, and it felt so good to play against the opponent in the last game.

In a blink of an eye, the game has entered the second half.

Although Coach Casey made repeated adjustments, the Raptors fell behind throughout the first half. By the end of the first half, the Raptors had fallen behind by 12 points.

But entering the second half, the situation changed suddenly.

"Pull away."

DeRozan singles, forcibly breaks through, Wade retreats quickly, DeRozan suddenly changes direction, his body pauses, Wade pauses subconsciously, the next moment DeRozan speeds up, enters the inside line from the left, and flies away It started with a one-handed dunk.

A few rounds later, DeRozan played singles again, and after attracting double-teams, he passed the ball to Carroll on the outside. Carroll feinted and passed it to Lowry.

At this time, Lowry had a chance and hit a three-pointer.

With DeRozan and Lowry scoring successively, the Raptors launched a counterattack, hitting the Heat with an 8:0 shock wave in a moment, reducing the point difference to 4 points at once.

"beep"

Spoelstra called a timeout.

He didn't blame the players, but said in a deep voice: "We have been leading, and we are a little slack."

Everyone was shocked and bowed their heads silently.

In the last big victory, although this game did not lead as much as the previous game, it was still leading in the first half, which even gave the Heat players an illusion that the Raptors were vulnerable.

This kind of mentality is very dangerous, and the Heat players began to relax. As a result, the Raptors seized this opportunity to launch a counterattack and played a wave of counterattack-climax-climax, reducing the point difference to 4 points at once.

"Remember, you can't take it lightly at any time, and you can't be blindly arrogant." Spoelstra said: "Don't forget, we are still behind in the series score."

"Yes." Everyone responded in unison.

The pause ends soon.

Back on the court, the Raptors players immediately felt that the momentum of the Heat had changed.

Meng Yun came to the frontcourt and gestured to his teammates. Everyone moved quickly and saw Green running out of position. Meng Yun passed the ball, and Green lifted the ball, making a gesture to shoot a three-pointer. Lowry subconsciously jumped up (Carroll defends Meng Yun, and Lowry can only match up with Green), but he knew he was fooled as soon as he jumped.

Green just flicked, accelerated quickly, left Lowry behind, rushed to the inside of the Raptors, jumped up to face Valanciunas, and threw the ball.

boom!
Did not enter.

"Mine." Scola jumped up, scrambling for the rebound.

"Go away." With a roar, Whiteside raised his long arms, grabbed the basketball first, and directly pressed the basketball into the ring, completing the dunk.

In the next few rounds, the two sides came and went, and each other won and lost. The Heat stabilized the situation. Although the point difference was narrowed to single digits, they always maintained their lead.

On the sidelines, Coach Casey frowned: "Damn it, the best chance to overtake has been lost. Spoelstra really has two brushes, allowing them to stabilize the situation. If they want to overtake in this quarter, they must It’s not that easy anymore. Wade and Meng are very threatening, and Whiteside, Luol Deng, and Green can stand up and score, so the Heat will be very difficult to deal with.”

Winning or losing the game is actually a cumulative process. In the first three games of the series, the Raptors used their strong defense to seize the opportunity and used the bench lineup to expand their advantages. They were able to suppress the Heat and win the first game.

After winning the first game, the Raptors took the momentum of the first game and won two more games in a row, pushing the Heat to the edge of the cliff.

But when the Heat broke out in the fourth game and won the game, the situation began to change.The momentum of the Heat, which was originally at a disadvantage, began to roll back. Meng Yun and Wade played well, and the other players recovered. In addition, the bench lineup recovered under the leadership of Dragic. Compared with the Raptors, the Heat are getting better. The more courageous he is, the more he is not inferior.

(End of this chapter)