king of defenders

Chapter 626 The Crucial Scene Six

May 5, Miami, American Airlines Arena.

The sixth game of the series is about to begin, and the players on both sides have finished warming up.

The two sides are arranging tactics, and Spoelstra on the Heat's side meticulously arranged the tactics, and then said with a stern face: "I don't need to say more about how important today's game is. I hope you can continue the previous one. For the two games, don’t have a psychological burden, but have confidence in yourself.”

"Remember, we have to win, and we can win. This is our home game, this is our game, and we're going to beat the Raptors, get it?"

"Understood." The crowd responded.

"Speak up, tell me, can you do it?" Spoelstra raised his voice, yelling, "Can you beat the Raptors?"

Everyone was shocked, looked at each other, and shouted in unison: "Yes!"

Hearing the roar from the Heat's side, the Raptors players not far away were upset, and couldn't help curling their lips, hum, isn't it just shouting slogans, who can't?But it's useless. If you can win by shouting slogans, do you still need to fight?
A group of Raptors players surrounded Coach Casey. Coach Casey looked serious and told his players carefully: "This game is our chance to eliminate the Heat. They won two games and saw hope. We went to the game without hesitation in the first two games. So, we have to take advantage of this."

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"Pick and roll!"

The game has started.

The Heat attacked, Meng Yun made a gesture after advancing to the frontcourt, Whiteside came up to pick and roll, Meng Yun threw off the defender and rushed forward, attracting the opponent's defense, and then passed back to Whiteside, Whiteside took the ball forward With luck, he jumped up facing Valanciunas, roared, pressed Valanciunas, and smashed the basketball into the basket with one hand.

"Roar" Whiteside let go of the basket, beat his chest, and roared loudly.

At this time, only 4 minutes were played in the first quarter, and the score was 12:6. The Heat took the lead. To the surprise of the Raptors, the Heat's momentum was still amazing.

"That's it, that's what you want."

"Great job keeping the Raptors down like this."

The Heat fans in the auditorium shouted excitedly. Coach Casey called the first timeout of the game. He frowned and looked towards the Heat. Seeing the serious and serious expressions of the Heat players, Coach Casey frowned slightly. , and then stretched out: "My predictions are not wrong, they are serious, but not crazy."

In the first two games, coach Casey thought the Heat were a little crazy. They defended crazily and attacked crazily, and their combat effectiveness can be described as super-level performance.

But this time, although the Heat still played very well, and the players were serious, defensive and aggressive, they were less crazy.

That's it.

There is nothing he can do against the crazy Heat coach Casey, but facing the no-crazy Heat team, Coach Casey is confident that he has a way to fight.

"Come here, let me talk about it." Coach Casey called the players together and rearranged the tactics: "We will further strengthen our offense later."

The pause ends soon.

After returning to the court, the Raptors stepped up their offense and became very aggressive on the offensive end. DeRozan and Lowry broke out to score points one after another, and others followed suit, playing a wave of fierce offensive.

"The opponent's attack is very fierce."

"Block it, be sure to guard against it."

"Yes, defend well, don't miss people, follow them closely. Everyone should be active, and the opponent's pick-and-roll should immediately switch defenses to block the Raptors' offense."

Facing the fierce offense of the Raptors, the Heat strengthened their defense.

However, the situation did take a turn for the worse, and soon the Heat fell into a disadvantage, and the score was overtaken by the Raptors and expanded a little bit.

Meng Yun and Wade stood up and relied on their personal abilities to score points, but it was only a drop in the bucket and could not stop their own decline, and they were still behind in the score.

"This is not a good situation," Rostern said.

Spoelstra hummed, frowned, and stared straight at the court.

Soon after most of the first quarter, the two sides entered the rotation time, and the situation has not changed, which disappointed the home fans. How the Heat showed their sharpness and offense in full swing in the previous two games, but they did not see it today.

By the end of the first quarter, the Heat had trailed by 8 points.

"What's going on? It was fine at the beginning, but why is it falling behind now?"

"Yeah, I was leading for a few minutes at the beginning, and then I fell behind for some reason. Then I fell behind more and more. Both the main lineup and the substitute lineup seemed to be at a disadvantage."

The home fans murmured, worried for the Heat.

Coach Spoelstra glanced at his players and sighed secretly: "This situation still happened, although it is better than expected, but if it continues like this, I am afraid it will be difficult to win this game. "

After winning two games in a row, Spoelstra was happy but also realized that there might be problems. The players would become timid and unable to let go.

So he vaccinated the players in advance, and Meng Yun and the others actually played pretty well. Compared with the previous two games, they were indeed not as crazy, but they didn't shrink back.

But there is one thing.

When the opponent suddenly strengthened their offense and became fierce on the offensive end, the Heat players finally adopted a conservative strategy and unconsciously put defense first.

"If this happened in the first two games, they would not even think about strengthening the defense. Their first thought must be to fight back and attack with offense." Spoelstra sighed secretly: "If it is with offense Against offense, in fact, we can gain the upper hand, but now facing the opponent's offense and blindly defending, it is very disadvantageous to us."

"Our defense isn't bad, but our offense is our strength."

"With Meng Yun's breakthrough, organization, and Wade, we have no shortage of offensive knives and full deterrence. And the current X tactics are focused on offense, just like the previous two games, but we played our own offense. , even with the defensive ability of the Raptors, they can't stop it."

"With offense and offense, we can win; with defense and offense, we will lose." Spoelstra muttered silently, clapping his hands, and when the players looked over, he said: "We can't blindly defend, we have to Offense. Remember how we played the first two games?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they nodded in unison: "I remember."

"Very good." Spoelstra said: "Just remember, play like that, we will not compare the opponent to defense, we have to use offense instead of defense, and play our own offensive rhythm."

All the Heat players agreed.

The second quarter began soon, watching the players walk onto the court, Spoelstra's brows still did not stretch, clear play is only one aspect, the key lies in execution.

(End of this chapter)