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Chapter 249 Defeated in the first battle!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!

Chapter 240 The eighth battle is defeated!
In fact, after watching the first-round series between the Heat and the Magic.

Mike Woodson knows it very well, given the Eagles' current interior configuration and Darko Milicic's current defensive ability and defensive strength.

Facing O'Neal, who played more and more offensively in the first round of the series, with the performance of a top inside player, the Eagles' inside line must be unstoppable.

It's just that what Mike Woodson didn't expect was that the Eagles' inside line would be blown so thoroughly.

Especially Darko Milicic, he acted like a child in front of O'Neill!
Throughout the first quarter of the game, Darko Milicic was like a cardboard man. O'Neal only needed to make a light impact to gain enough space to attack.

Complete the second impact, and Darko Milicic will completely lose his defensive position.

In the second quarter, after Mike Woodson saw that O'Neal finally had a rest, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, this guy is already old."

This may be the biggest weakness of O'Neal and Yao Ming in this era without a bunch of heavy centers!
It's just that even without O'Neal, the Heat are not something the Eagles can underestimate!
As last year's defending champions, the Heat have not changed much in the main lineup, and this year they will further absorb some powerful veteran players.

The Heat's bench lineup and rotation are still stronger than the Eagles.

When facing the Cavaliers, Josh Childress, Jose Calderon, etc., who played very well, have no advantage at all when facing the Heat's rotation this time. .

Therefore, after the rotation time ended, although the Heat failed to further widen the gap between the two teams.

But it also didn't allow the Eagles to further shorten the score gap between the two teams.

Then, wait until the Heat's starting lineup returns to the game, especially after O'Neal returns to the game.

The game has returned to the vicious circle of the first quarter. The inside line cannot be defended, the offense cannot be opened, and the score is quickly opened again!
That's the problem again, no one in the Eagles can stop the physically fit O'Neal in the paint.

And as long as O'Neal can continue to overwhelm the Eagles inside, it will be difficult for the Eagles to regain the initiative of the game.

Even if Xu Lang's field control ability is obviously much better than any player on the Heat team, it's useless!
Perhaps with the growth of age and the burden of weight, O'Neal's defensive area and moving speed on the defensive end have lived up to their peak.

But on the offensive end, O'Neal, who has been able to maintain a weight of around 145kg so far, is still the top existence in the NBA in terms of dominance and lethality in the low post.

Even to a certain extent, O'Neal's offensive ability in the low post during this year's playoffs is not much different from that of O'Neal when he won the championship last year.

In the face of O'Neal, whose offensive strength reached last year's championship.

Not to mention that the current overall strength evaluation is only 86, and the defensive strength is only 83 Darko Milicic!
Even if Darko Milicic can improve his defensive strength to the level of his talent upper limit, which is 89, he still cannot stop O'Neal who is fully fired.

At most, at that time, Darko Milicic will be able to be abused by O'Neal with a little dignity!

Then, as O'Neal continued to wreak havoc on the inside of the Eagles, the trend of the game was undoubtedly headed towards being beaten by the Heat.

In the end, at the end of the halftime game, the Heat had already achieved an 11-point lead.

This wasn't the first game in the series between the Cavaliers and the Hawks.

In that game, the Cavaliers relied on the help of the referee to achieve such a high lead at the end of the half.

In this game, the Heat had already achieved a double-digit lead at halftime only relying on O'Neal's performance in the paint.

"Obviously, there is a huge gap between the Eagles and the Heat. There is even a serious level difference between Darko Milicic and O'Neal, or it can be said that the two are not at the same level at all!"

"Of course, I still insist on what I said before. The future belongs to Darko Milicic, but the present still belongs to Yao Ming and O'Neal."

There is no doubt that for the Heat, the performance of the entire team in the first half of the game is still worthy of recognition.

Especially for O'Neill, I don't know if it's because Pat Riley has magical powers and knows how to pour chicken soup, or O'Neill himself is a little unwilling to be surpassed so easily by Yao Ming.

After the middle of the season, O'Neal's game state has begun to improve continuously, and his weight has gradually dropped from the previous state of close to 160 kg to the current state of about 145 kg.

145kg is also the best weight for O'Neal given by a large number of professional teams based on O'Neal's current physical condition and game state!
Compared with the peak period, O'Neal, who often weighed more than 155 kg and 145 kg, must have declined in low-level dominance.

It's just that even if the dominance in the low post has declined and the weight has dropped, no one in the entire league can withstand the impact of O'Neal except Yao Ming.

At least so far this season, O'Neal has only lost to Yao Ming in a one-on-one match.

Even in the last round of the series against the Magic, Howard was completely suppressed by O'Neal one-on-one when facing O'Neal!
However, compared to Darko Milicic's completely blown performance in this game, Howard can still jump a little bit when facing O'Neal one-on-one!
And what makes Pat Riley even more satisfying is that.

In this game, not only O'Neal couldn't play an excellent game performance.

Several other role players of the Heat also played very well.

You know, this season, I don’t know if it’s because they have already won the championship. Many veterans of the Heat are not in a good state of play. This is also the first round of the series, and the Heat will be forced to the tiebreaker by the Magic. One of the important reasons.

However, in this game, although the Heat failed to achieve the fiery state of all the soldiers, several main core substitute players still played their due role!
For example, in the first half of the game, Mourning, who only played a total of 6 minutes, faced the Eagles' inside substitute core player Theo Ratliff, and he did not lose at all.

You must know that Mourning, who is 37 years old this season, is the second-oldest player in this Heat team.

The player with the highest age is Gary Payton whose average playing time has plummeted below 10 minutes this season.

Compared with Gary, who started to play badly after winning the championship.Payton and Alonzo Mourning averaged 8+5 per game in the regular season this season.

Whether it's the protection of the Heat's penalty area in the rotation lineup, or the inside attack when the substitute lineup can't start the offensive situation, Mourning has done everything he can do in a limited time.

After entering the playoffs, Mourning played the perfect role of an excellent veteran player.

In the last round of the series, Mourning stood up and helped O'Neal share the defensive pressure many times when O'Neal was exhausted physically and mentally by the Magic's pitchers.

It is precisely because of Mourning's performance that O'Neal only needed to play 34.5 minutes per game in the last round of the series.

We must know that for O'Neal, who is 35 years old and weighs 145 kilograms this year, reasonable playing time and physical distribution are crucial.

At the same time, this is also an important reason why O'Neal can still stay off the court to rest at the beginning of the third quarter in the second half of the game!
The players the Heat have left on the field right now are:
Center: Alonzo Mourning, Power Forward: Udonis Haslem, Small Forward: Antoine Walker, Shooting Guard: Dwyane Wade, Point Guard: Gary Payton.

Compared with the Heat's half-starter and half-substitute lineup, the Eagles continue to maintain a full starting lineup.

After all, the Eagles can still score double-digit scores for the laggards!

As soon as the game came up, the offensive ball was first on the Eagles' side.

Xu Lang holds the ball outside!

He looked at the idol Gary Payton, who hadn't played for a minute in the game in front of him.

"Oh, time makes people old!"

Then, without mercy, Xu Lang pushed Gary Payton to the edge of the three-second zone on the left.

Gary Payton has a height of 1m93, a weight of 81kg, and is close to the age of 39.

Facing Xu Lang, who is 2m01 tall, weighs 101kg, and has just reached 22 years old.

Although Gary Payton has tried very hard to block Xu Lang's attack this time through various small moves and defensive experience!

But it turns out that these things will not work very well without sufficient physical fitness!
With a simple back-and-back jumper, Gary Payton's outstretched hands could barely reach the position of Xu Lang's chin.

There is no doubt that with the support of Xu Lang, Gary Payton has become the biggest loophole on the defensive end of the Heat in this game.

As a player who doesn't have a strong desire to win, but also doesn't like to lose, Xu Lang didn't hesitate to grab Gary Payton and start fighting wildly!

Then, when Xu Lang faced Gary Payton consecutively and made back-to-back mid-range jumpers.

The Heat made a substitution, and Gary Payton, who had just played for 2 minutes in this game, was replaced off the court again.

Looking at Gary Payton who was replaced, Xu Lang looked regretful!
"Uh, I remember Xu Lang said before that Gary Payton is his idol!"

Gary Payton: (ω)?

Gary Payton was replaced by Jason Williams, known as "Bai Qiao".

Compared with Gary Payton, Jason Williams' defense is not that strong.

But Jason Williams is young enough!
Enough stamina, and enough dexterous movement speed, although Jason Williams still can't defend against Xu Lang, he can defend against Szczerbiak and Tony Allen!
As for Xu Lang, Antoine Walker, who is 2m03 tall and weighs 103kg, will defend him.

The only problem is that although Antoine Walker is not at a disadvantage against Xu Lang in terms of height and weight, there is obviously a big gap between Antoine Walker and Xu Lang in terms of short-distance explosive power and breakthrough speed.

Especially against a player like Xu Lang who can shoot, shoot, and pass, Antoine Walker's defense is even more difficult!

The mid-range emergency stop jumper after the breakthrough, the hand-to-hand pass that attracts the defense after the breakthrough, the rhythm change after the breakthrough, and the final attack in the penalty area.

In the next 4 minutes, Xu Lang passed Antoine Walker again and again to complete various attacks and passes.

Under the leadership of Xu Lang, the Eagles scored 18 points in the first half of the third quarter.

As a defensive team, it is obviously not normal for the Heat to be led by Xu Lang to score nearly 20 points in half a quarter of the game.

Fortunately, in the first half of the game, the Heat had a big enough lead.

In addition, although the Heat faced the Hawks starting lineup led by Xu Lang in the first half of the game, they failed to complete the blockade on the defensive end.

But on the offensive end, relying on Wade's mid-range shooting and inside offense, which is not weaker than Xu Lang's, the Heat's offensive performance is not bad.

It's just that because Wade doesn't have as good passing ability as Xu Lang, the overall scoring data of the entire Heat team in the first half of the game is still slightly weaker than that of the Eagles.

In the end, at the end of the third half of the game, the Eagles still narrowed the gap between the two teams to six points.

And just as the Eagles planned to continue to further shorten the gap between the two teams, O'Neal returned to the game.

The intermission plus the rest in the first half of the third quarter allowed O'Neal to have full physical fitness and full offensive firepower when he played in the second half of the third quarter.

Then, in the first half of the third quarter, Darko Milicic, who had a hard time hitting half a quarter, began to fall into a state of being tortured again.

To be honest, Darko Milicic felt that facing O'Neal in this game was more difficult than facing Yao Ming.

When facing Yao Ming, Darko Milicic would be very embarrassed, but he also couldn't defend Yao Ming's various attacks.

Whether it was Yao Ming's back-turning and leaning-back shooting, or a small hook shot after leaning on the opponent, Darko Milicic could only watch Yao Ming complete the attack.

But when facing Yao Ming, Darko Milicic will not be knocked out of the baseline again and again, or even completely lose his defensive position time and time again!

But facing O'Neal is different. The physically fit O'Neal uses his 145 kg tonnage, coupled with unprecedented strength talent in NBA history.

It can break Darko Milicic's defensive position time and time again.

Basically in this game, when Darko Milicic defended O'Neal one-on-one, 80% of the time, O'Neal would directly knock him out of the baseline.

To sum it up, Yao Ming gave Darko Milicic the feeling that he could be defended, but he couldn't, while O'Neal gave Darko Milicic the feeling that it was not a question of whether he could be guarded, but whether he could be guarded. question.

Of course, it is obvious that O'Neal's style of play is more physical, and the requirements and damage to physical fitness will be higher.

So the third quarter was just half the game.

O'Neal's stamina accumulated through the intermission and the first half of the third quarter has bottomed out again.

Of course, O'Neill's physical consumption was not in vain.

Under the leadership of O'Neal, the Heat widened the gap between the two teams to more than double digits at the end of the third quarter.

At the same time, the Hawks, which scored 18 points in the first half of the third quarter, faced O'Neal in the second half. Wade basically used more than 20 seconds of hard rhythm to suppress each attack, and only scored 10 points in the half quarter. point.

Just like this, Xu Lang only scored when he hit a super long three-pointer at the buzzer at the end of the third quarter.

Otherwise, the Eagles are likely to score less than double digits in the second half of the game.

It can only be said that the Heat with O'Neal have greatly improved both on the offensive end and on the defensive end.

Needless to say on the offensive end, on the defensive end because of the addition of O'Neal, the Heat can defend more calmly.

And because of O'Neal's dominance and suppression in the interior, the quick counterattacks that the Eagles often use have become less.

The most important prerequisite for defensive counterattack is to be able to grab defensive rebounds.

It's a pity that with O'Neal, the chances and success rate of the Heat's second attack completely crushed the Eagles.

Of course, the Eagles have not completely surrendered in this game.

After all, as I said before, although O'Neal's offensive style and game style allow him to be extremely dominant when he plays.

But the same offensive method consumes a lot of his physical energy, making it difficult for O'Neal to stay on the court for a long time for such a high-intensity offense.

This gives the Eagles the possibility and opportunity to complete the final comeback.

It's just that when the fourth quarter started, the Hawks, Xu Lang and others saw O'Neal, who had just rested for less than 10 minutes, reappeared on the field, and their expressions immediately became serious.

Then after 5 minutes of the fourth quarter, the Eagles officially announced that they had given up the game.

With a 17-point difference, Darko Milicic has already been fouled five times, which puts the game in garbage time.

And what made Mike Woodson even more desperate was that O'Neal, who came up in the fourth quarter, changed his violent style of play all the way in the first three quarters, and started to play a combination of reality and reality!

This is also one of the reasons why Darko Milicic was fouled five times before halfway through the fourth quarter!

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