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Chapter 251: Trapped Shark Tactics!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!

Chapter 250 Trapped Shark Tactics!

When O'Neal, the absolute strength of the Heat's inside line, no longer played so smoothly and comfortably, the operation of the Heat's tactical system was naturally affected to a certain extent.

In the end, under the leadership of Xu Lang, the Eagles ended the first quarter with a two-point lead.

As for why O'Neal did not perform well in the first quarter, the Eagles only achieved a two-point lead.

Part of the reason is that except for Xu Lang, the physical condition of most of the Eagles' players cannot allow them to take into account both offense and defense.

Therefore, when most of the players focused on the defensive end in the first quarter, the Eagles' offensive efficiency on the offensive end naturally began to decline.

At the same time, because of the continuous improvement of the defensive strength of the Eagles and Lang Oda's three-man pincer defensive strategy, the restriction effect on O'Neal is getting better and better.

Let the Heat also not perform very well on the offensive end.

So at the end of the first quarter, the score between the Eagles and the Heat was not as wild as it was in the first game.

20: 18!

At the end of the first quarter, under the defense of the Eagles, the Heat failed to score more than 20 points.

And the Eagles only relied on Szczerbiak's long-distance two-pointer stepping on the three-point line at the last moment to raise their single-quarter score in the first quarter to 20 points.

"Oh, am I going back ten years? Or are the two teams in front of us, not the Heat and the Hawks, but the Pistons and Spurs in the 04-05 season?"

Barkley yelled with an exaggerated expression on his face when he saw the extremely slow pace of the game, the extremely poor offensive efficiency, and the extremely high defensive intensity of the two pairs in the first quarter.

In fact, it's not just Barkley, every fan and commentator who watched this game, some are not used to the defensive intensity shown by the Eagles in this game!

After all, before, whether in the regular season or the first round of the playoffs, the Eagles were undoubtedly a strong offensive and defensive team.

Especially in the paint, because Darko Milicic, the core of the team, has a soft style of play. When the Eagles encounter a team with a strong attacking ability in the paint, they will be easily beaten.

For example, when they met the Magic and Howard before, except for the few games that Xu Lang opened up, the Eagles met several teams with top insiders in the league, and most of the time they were tortured and killed!

For example, the Spurs and Rockets in the West, the Magic in the East and now the Heat!

However, in this game, the Eagles actually played an excellent defensive efficiency against O'Neal!
This is something neither the Magic nor Howard could do in the last game!

Especially in the first quarter of the game, O'Neal struggled so much against Theo Ratliff, Darko Milicic, and Xu Lang in the paint.

It is even more difficult for everyone to believe that this is the defensive strength that the Eagles can do!

You must know that in the last game, the Eagles were still the offensively strong and defensively weak team that O'Neal almost broke through the entire team by himself.

But just two days later, this game was only after the replacement of Theo Ratliff, the defense of the entire Eagles seemed to have completely undergone a qualitative change.

Especially the inside defense, the appearance of Theo Ratliff directly made the Eagles achieve a complete change on the defensive end.

Of course, although everyone knows that Theo Ratliff's playing is just a small puzzle to complete the Eagles' trapped shark tactics.

The main reason why O'Neal played so embarrassingly in the first quarter was Xu Lang's timely flanking and timely steals and interference.

However, although the Eagles' defensive strength suddenly increased, it did catch the Heat by surprise.

But Pat Riley didn't have any worries and frustrations on his face, because the defense is what Pat Riley and the Heat are most familiar with.

Compared to being a little behind in the score, Pat Riley is more concerned that the rhythm of the game is in the hands of that team.

Obviously, at the end of the first quarter, as the Heat's players became more and more accustomed to the rhythm of the game, the Eagles' lead has begun to be slowly worn away!

Then, in the second quarter, Mourning, who replaced O'Neal, directly led the Heat to play an iron-blooded defensive rhythm and defensive performance.

In contrast, because Theo Ratliff was off.

As a result, although not all of the Hawks' rotations are substitute players, their defensive performance is not as good as that of the Heat's rotation.

And what makes Mike Woodson even more headache is that.

In the case of being inferior to the Heat on the defensive end, on the offensive end, several substitute players in the Eagles' rotation for this game are also somewhat inferior to the Heat's rotation.

After all, the rotation players of the Eagles are also mainly young players. It may be okay to let them fight with the wind, but it is a bit too embarrassing to fight this kind of defensive stalemate!

Fortunately, Mike Woodson is not a strong leader. After two consecutive tactical adjustments and lineup rotations in the second quarter, they failed to change the weak offensive and defensive state of the substitute lineup.

It immediately replaced Xu Lang, who had only rested for 1 minute in the first quarter, to the playing field.

That is to say, Xu Lang obtained the exclusive skills from Chamberlain before. Otherwise, Xu Lang, who was both a mother and a father in the first quarter of the game, and who was on the offensive and defensive shoulders, would have a hard time with his physical fitness until the last quarter of the game!

The appearance of Xu Lang has improved the state and efficiency of the Eagles on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, there is still a big gap between the Eagles' bench lineup and the Heat with Mourning.

In the end, the second half of the game ended.

With the help of the rotation, the Heat not only evened the two-point gap between the two teams, but also overtook the Eagles by two points.

Fortunately, in the second half of the second quarter, with O'Neal playing, Theo Ratliff also returned to the game.

Then, the audience managed to watch a good half of the game in the first half of the second quarter, and the two teams re-entered the state of fighting each other.

It's just that compared to the first quarter, the Heat's offensive efficiency in the second half of the second quarter is still not very high.

But just as Pat Riley had expected.

What the Heat are best at is iron and blood plus defense, plus this game is played at the Heat's home court.

Therefore, in the second half of the second quarter, as the Heat slowly adapted to the defensive rhythm and defensive intensity of the game.

The balance of victory in the game began to slowly pull back to a position close to the middle.

However, because the Eagles still have a slight advantage in rebounding.

As a result, the Heat have been unable to continue to expand the score gap between the two teams.

Of course, after the Heat slowly adapted to this intensity of the game rhythm, the Eagles have been unable to complete the lead.

At the end of the halftime game, the Heat entered the second half with a one-point lead.

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"The two teams are now caught in the time to start competing for internal strength."

Zhang Weiping, Director Zhang looked at the fiery scene where all the players of the two teams were entangled together, and said with some concern.

"However, it is obvious that the Heat are a team with more heritage than this young Eagles team!"

Now the game time has come to the 8th minute of the third game.

In the past half of the game, the scores of the Eagles and the Heat have been in a state of rising alternately.

The offensive efficiency of the two teams is also lower in each quarter.

In the first quarter, both teams had an offensive efficiency of around 45%.

By the second quarter, the offensive efficiency of the two teams had dropped to around 40%.

In the third quarter, the offensive efficiency of the two teams dropped directly below 35%.

The extremely high-intensity defensive duel has caused all players of the two teams to be in extremely poor physical condition.

O'Neal even had a rest in the 7th minute of the third quarter.

Obviously, for the 35-year-old O'Neal this year, such a high-intensity offense and defense will consume his physical energy faster than usual.

To be honest, O'Neal in today's game.

Although the overall offensive efficiency is not high, it still brings great defensive pressure to the Eagles' inside line.

If it weren't for Theo Ratliff and Xu Langdarko Milicic who put more defensive energy on O'Neal, O'Neal is likely to continue the game state and offensive efficiency of the last game, and directly put the Eagles' The inside line was pierced.

In fact, if O'Neal can persist and continue to give the Eagles such a high-intensity internal defensive pressure.

The Heat still have a higher chance of winning this game.

It's just a pity that under the entanglement of Theo Ratliff, the physical fitness of the 35-year-old O'Neill really makes it impossible for him to fight continuously for a long time with high intensity!

This caused the Heat to slowly accumulate some initiative when O'Neal was on the court.

But these initiatives are not enough to directly kill the game, and when the initiative accumulated by the Heat is high enough, O'Neal has to rest because of physical problems.

This intermittent rhythm makes it difficult for the Heat's overall offensive efficiency to maintain a certain continuity.

In the third quarter, the high and low offensive state was also an important reason why the Heat could only maintain a one-point lead at the end of the three quarters.

Soon the inter-section break will end, and the fourth quarter will officially begin.

On the third day of the game, O'Neal, who left the game early to rest, recovered his physical fitness after getting a certain amount of rest time.

But obviously, O'Neill's physical recovery is not high enough.

At least, there is no way for O'Neal to kill the game directly when he plays now.

So as soon as the fourth quarter came up, the Heat did not immediately send O'Neal to the court.

Instead, Mourning was sent to replace O'Neal's starting lineup.

Pat Riley knows very well that the two teams have completely begun to fight for their background so far in this game.

Especially when the offensive efficiency of these two teams is not high now, ensuring defense is the key factor in this game and whether they can win the game in the end.

The only problem is that when some people should be conservative and defensive, he is unreasonable.

As soon as the fourth quarter came up, the offensive ball was first on the Eagles' side!
The Eagles attack, Xu Lang holds the ball from the outside!

Xu Lang, who stood two steps away from the three-point line, watched the entire Heat's defense shrink as much as possible to the inside.

Without hesitation, he completed the take-off shot more than one step away from the three-point line!

"In this game, it depends on who makes fewer mistakes. At this time, the Eagles should try their best to play the ball inside to ensure the success rate!"

"Look at Hang, hey, why is Alang at the top of the wave at this time, it's a bit irrational, hey, strike, this shot is very reasonable, this shows Alang's responsibility!"

Su Qun: ……………

Yu Jia: ……………

In this game, because Xu Lang needs to help his teammates contain O'Neal in the interior more, the number of shots outside the three-point line is actually not many.

It's just that although the number of shots is not many and the shooting rate is not very high, Xu Lang's touch outside the three-point line in this game is definitely one of the best among the players of the two teams now!

It's just that the overall three-point shooting rate of the Eagles in this game is not high. As a result, Wade, who is now defending Xu Lang, subconsciously shrinks the inside line in defense, leaving Xu Lang completely empty shooting space.

"brush!"

"Oh, with a three-pointer, Xu Lang came up and gave the Heat a big blow!
I think Wade has somewhat forgotten that Xu Lang is the point guard with the most shots from beyond the three-point line this season. "

"At the same time, Xu Lang is also the three-point champion in the All-Star Weekend 3-point contest this season!"

Seeing Xu Lang hit a three-pointer, Pat Riley felt a thump in his heart and frowned.

Because O'Neal is not playing now, the Heat's ability to protect the frame in the interior is relatively weaker than before.

This is also an important reason why the Heat kept shrinking their defense and guarding the inside under the command of Pat Riley when the game came up.

But now after Xu Lang made a three-pointer.

Let Pat Riley's originally expected defensive strategy of shrinking the inside is a bit difficult to get off.

To be honest, so far in this game, except for Xu Lang, none of the players from the two teams has shot more than 30% from beyond the three-point line.

Even Xu Lang, including this goal, has only just reached 50% of his three-point shooting.

You must know that before this three-point hit, Xu Lang only made one of three shots from outside the three-point line. This is also an important reason why Wade dared to put Xu Lang two steps away to defend.

On the one hand, it was because Xu Lang's previous three-point shooting percentage was not very high.

On the other hand, where Xu Lang was just now, he was two steps away from the three-point line!

It was hard for Wade to imagine that Xu Lang dared to complete a super long-range three-pointer at this moment and this position.

"Sure enough, it's still fast to score three-pointers. No wonder Curry can reach the finals with three-pointers in the future."

To be honest, before Xu Lang entered the classic game against the Warriors.

He never thought that the number of three-point shots made by a team would reach more than 1/3 of the team's overall shots.

It is even more unexpected that any team can successfully break into the finals by relying on a three-point tactical system, and now the chances of winning the championship will be very high!
After all, Xu Lang is in an era with O'Neal, Yao Ming and other super insiders.

It's hard to imagine that a team without super insiders can surpass these super insiders with three-pointers!

"Speaking of which, if there are no center players at the level of Yao Ming and O'Neal in the future, will Darko be able to see through the clouds and see the moon."

Xu Lang looked at Darko Milicic, who was almost hugging and falling with Mourning just now, and felt a little emotional. Some players don't seem to belong to this era!

With Xu Lang's three-pointer, the Eagles completed the lead in the fourth quarter, but the game will continue.

Fighting again in another place, the Heat attacked here, and Wade made a jumper after a breakthrough after a sudden stop, helping the Heat to even out the difference between the two teams.

And after completing the offense, Wade immediately put Xu Lang on the defensive end, without giving Xu Lang any room to shoot.

It's just that when Wade was forced to defend two steps outside the three-point line, the defensive pressure on the Heat's interior naturally began to decline!
Then Xu Lang made a sudden high-throw pass like an antelope's horns, and completed the alley-oop with Josh Smith.

So far in the whole game, Josh Smith has only played 16 minutes because of Theo Ratliff.

However, Josh Smith's short appearance also has an advantage, that is, his physical condition is obviously the best of all players on the field.

Especially when the Eagles urgently need a player who can break through the Heat's interior defense, Josh Smith's abundant physical fitness and excellent rushing ability can play a very good role!

Then in the next few minutes, the Heat's defense began to fall into a dilemma.

Because of Xu Lang, the Heat still need to pay attention to the Hawks' shooting threats from outside the 3-point line from time to time.

And when the Heat's defensive attention was attracted by outside players such as Xu Lang, Josh Smith could use various running positions and Xu Lang's pass to complete the impact on the basket.

Although, the 37-year-old Mourning still maintains a very good defensive ability and frame protection ability this season.

But after all, he is old. Facing a player with strong mobility and strong impact ability like Josh Smith, Mourning still seems to be struggling on the defensive end.

Then, in the 3rd minute of the fourth quarter, the Eagles had taken a three-point lead with the help of Xu Lang's three-pointer and Josh Smith's rushing ability.

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