Chapter 1168 [Free Throws Explode, Decay Before Aging]

Mike Brown had just called a timeout and couldn't immediately call a second, and the Nets were up to James.

James broke through with the ball and squeezed Tucker to the basket, attracting Nurkic to make up for the ball and giving it to Howard, who didn't take a single shot, and this time it didn't disappoint, scoring two points from close range on the right side. 19 to 6.

The Lakers attacked, and the Nets began to resolutely wrap Guo Xu, and others can shoot it, and Guo Xu can't be allowed to score anymore. None of them wanted to see Guo Xu break the personal single-game all-time scoring record in the finals.

Elgin Baylor's 61 points in 1961-62 was an NBA record, and Guo Xu had already broken the playoff single-game scoring record, but the Finals were not.

It's not that Guo Xu is incapable, but that he doesn't have time. When playing for the Suns, Guo Xu's opponents in the finals were Cavaliers led by James five times, and most games were out of work in the third quarter.

Brown is a coach who is good at arranging the defensive system, and the players rotate and defend quickly, and Guo Xu can't directly deliver assists every time he passes the ball. Fortunately, Carter and Horford moved the ball quickly, a few from the right side to the left bottom corner, and Tucker's jumper missed.

Howard grabbed the rebound and passed to Beverley, and James and J.R. Smith quickly tried to launch a counterattack.

As a result, Beverley was forced in the backcourt by Guo Xu as soon as he dribbled a step and did not get out of the three-point line, unable to hold the ball and advance quickly, nor could he quickly send the ball to his teammates in the right position, delaying the fighter.

When Beverley joined the Nets, many people were optimistic about him, thinking that it was a good deal for the Nets to sign him, but in fact, his strength was worth the money. The point guard, who averaged up to 3.4 assists per game in four seasons of his career, was clearly flawed.

Guo Xu made a close-fitting move, allowing Beverley to dribble the ball back and then move sideways, and the opportunity to counterattack was lost after being blocked for two seconds.

Beverley dribbled the ball across half the court with the width of the court, thinking that the ball was successful without being broken, but James had already greeted his mother in his heart. Beverley's legs are so thin that he is not qualified to play brother basketball with him.

Positional warfare James wants to get a heads-up opportunity is not so easy, the perimeter can be, and the penalty area will definitely be trapped. Nurkic became the main defensive workhorse today, and he didn't have to worry about doing anything near the penalty area, and he let Howard go many times.

Howard doesn't pose much of a threat with the ball, as long as Tucker and Nurkic turn fast enough to foul him and send him a free throw.

In the first quarter, the Lakers only used this defensive style, and the rest of the Nets players did not play much except for James and Howard. James scored seven points in the first quarter and made 1-of-2 three-pointers while he was trapped. Howard scored six points and made 2-of-6 free throws.

Howard has been on a blast at the free-throw line this year, averaging 2.8 of 7.6 free throws per game and shooting 36.8 percent from the field. In the regular season, his 48.9% free throw shooting rate was a personal record low, and no one knew what happened to him, and suddenly he couldn't shoot at all.

The Raptors won two games with shark-slashing tactics, and in two games won by the Nets, the scores were very close, and the winners were not decided until the last minute. The Nets also won just 56 games during the regular season, one more than the Raptors.

All indications show that the Nets' ability to enter the finals depends on the weak competition in the East. The overall strength of this Nets team is much worse than the Cavaliers, but the Lakers are stronger than the Warriors, who finished second in 2016 with 73 wins.

Guo Xu scored 19 points and 5 assists in a single quarter, leading the Lakers team to blossom more points, leading 38-22.

In the second quarter, Guo Xu did not rest with substitutes, and the other four were Booker, Carter, Robertson, Boozer, and the death of the five-small lineup.

The Nets usually have a large and four-small lineup, with five players in the rotation being Jarred Jack, Wade, Bogdanovic, Thaddeus Young, and Thomas Robinson.

Looking at the player's fame, the Nets are not a star and a half better than the Lakers, Wade was the Heat's star in the past, and Thaddeus Young also made the first scorer in a single season with the 76ers. They cut Italian interior Bargnani in the middle of the game, and the fringe players are of Wayne Ellington's calibre.

But the Lakers have Guo Xu here, and the Nets' luxurious bench lineup can't beat them. The tactic is very simple, the three people pull away, Guo Xu and Boozer play blocking and dismantling, he breaks through with the ball, Boozer shoots or cuts in the air.

Guo Xu attracted the ball in the bag, and his teammates had the opportunity to shoot directly. If there is no direct opportunity, protect the ball, wait for Guo Xu, who is running, to pass the ball and create a singles opportunity for him.

Boozer is good at blocking and pick-and-roll, and he also has a lot of Finals experience, giving Boozer a chance to perform by putting young players and cornerstones on the bench in key matches.

Boozer is not a black hole on the defensive end, just shrink near the box and wait for the defender to grab the rebound. The Nets' bench, Thomas Robinson, had neither range nor back-to-back skills.

As a quality strongman, Thomas Robinson is the epitome of a wasted talent, with a frighteningly poor 45.3 percent true shooting percentage in the regular season. He's a restricted free agent after the season, but the Nets won't sign him to a new contract. He can be an important rotation only because the Nets lack a good interior bench and need him to protect the frame.

Boozer played a role off the bench, scoring on a catch-and-shoot shot, making a foul on an empty cut, and hitting both free throws, giving Guo Xu support on the offensive end.

Guo Xu can always attract the bag, and he breaks through the 33-year-old Jack is playing, and when he counterattacks, he quickly catches the ball, and Wade can't catch up.

JACK IS A HEAVY DEFENDER WITH A HEIGHT OF 191CM AND A WEIGHT OF 91 KG, SPEED IS A WEAKNESS, AND THE OFFENSE IS STRONG AND THE DEFENSE IS WEAK.

Wade, who weighs 100kg and is a heavy defender, has been declining in speed for the past two years and has begun to develop in the direction of playing with rhythm. On the surface, his statistics are still very comprehensive, but in fact, the efficiency is not good at all, and it is a tragedy that he can only shoot 0.1 three-pointers per game in the regular season.

The hidden dangers of Pat Riley getting Wade to do devil training began to appear. He and Guo Xu are both 34 years old, only two months younger, but they give people the impression of premature aging everywhere, and premature aging is exactly the common problem of stars under Riley.

Guo Xu jumped out of the contract this summer, and everyone will think that he gets 40 million a year is less, and Wade's market this summer, it is estimated that no team is willing to give him a high salary.

The root cause of Wade's decline is, of course, his overly desperate style of play. "Wade Fall" is very similar to the legendary Seven Wounds Fist, not so much that the lethality is too strong, but that the anger is too heavy, killing a thousand enemies but also losing 800 yourself. At the same time, the devil's training culture pursued by Riley, the godfather of the Heat, is also an important trigger for Wade's physical and mental overdraft.

Since taking the helm of the Heat portal in 1995, Riley has been most impressed by the frequent "shuffling" and continuous "dressing-up". The stars who came under Riley either reached the peak of their careers immediately (Mourning) or quickly found a second spring in their careers (O'Neal), but that didn't last long, and the stars soon suffered injuries or illnesses that hit their careers.

The strong man Mourning had a strange glomerular necrosis in his fourth year with the Heat; Wade suffered injuries in the fourth year of his career; Hardaway suffered back-to-back knee injuries in his fourth year with the Heat; O'Neal tore up with Riley in the middle of the Heat's fourth season...... In addition to the fact that these people's style of play is too dependent on the body, Riley's devil training is also a problem.

When it comes to devil training, Riley has many strange stories that have been told. He once locked the 39-year-old Jabbar in a super-hot sauna and steamed for 1.5 hours, and once had the magician do 300 boring switchbacks in a row, and it was clear that the man was sick.

When Wade hit three irons in a row under Robertson's defense, everyone knew he wouldn't be back at the top......