"What are the Heat and Spurs doing?"

When the official timeout of the first quarter of the game was coming, looking at the score of 7-9 on the scoreboard, Michaels really couldn't imagine that the Heat and Spurs could play such an ugly game, the first quarter of the game had been played nearly halfway, but neither of these teams scored double-doubles, looking at the picture of the two sides constantly playing iron and mistakes, Michaels's mind recalled the Finals between the Spurs and the Pistons a few years ago, and the two sides played extremely ugly, The ratings for that finals were also the lowest in decades.

And this season's finals, Wake Forest two heroes against the Heat Big Three, this veteran superstar combination against the league's upstarts, is to attract countless attention and attention, the three finals that have ended, compared with last season's Heat and Thunder finals, the ratings directly increased by 6 percentage points, although compared to the Pacers against the Spurs and Lakers when the ratings are slightly inferior, but the 16.5% rating is enough to make the top management of the ABC TV network excited and unable to sleep.

But the Heat and the Spurs in today's game of play, but a bit of self-destruction of the Great Wall, at the beginning of the game, the Heat on the Spurs full-court tight defense, and the Spurs strengthened the rotation of the defensive end, Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard are not sparing physical strength everywhere to help defend and fill the position, whether it is the Spurs or the Heat, they all hope to achieve the goal of defeating the opponent by strengthening their defense, but the current league is no longer the era of advocating iron and blood, buying a basketball ticket and watching a mixed boxing by the way, Tough defense and fierce physical confrontation will only scare away spectators and fans, so watching the fierce confrontation between the Heat and Spurs on the court, Michaels is a little worried about the ratings of this game.

Meng Xu's blocking of James after the opening, and the almost ubiquitous defense in the next few minutes, did make the Heat's offense a big problem, although the Heat has been speeding up and does not play positional battles with the Spurs, but after Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard, the rapid defensive speed, and continuous successful defense, the Heat still inevitably fell into a positional battle with the Spurs.

In addition to Eric Spoelstra's arrangement today, Chris Bosh needs to pull out all the time to shoot three-pointers, no one on the inside, and James and Wade's breakthroughs have been repeatedly blocked, which makes the Heat's scoring efficiency on the offensive end has not been high, and under the Heat's continuous acceleration, the number of turnovers has also risen sharply, so before the start of this game, the Heat, who wanted to beat the Spurs away from home with great confidence and fighting spirit, fell into an unfavorable situation at the beginning of this game, but fortunately, Under the Heat's crazy full-court tight defense, the Spurs' offensive efficiency is not too high, otherwise the current difference between the two sides would not be 2 points.

Looking at the Heat players who missed the shot again and failed to grab the rebound, they began to retreat quickly, Eric Spoelstra, who had been standing on the sidelines, frowned tighter, before the start of this game, Eric Spoelstra thought that relying on the full-court pressing defense, coupled with the continuous acceleration of the offensive end, the Heat would definitely be able to establish a lead over the Spurs in the first quarter of the game, so as to ensure the victory of the whole game, but after the game started, Eric Spoelstra has only discovered the gap between the buyer's show and the seller's show.

Especially when the first quarter of the game ended, the Heat entered a timeout with a score of 17-22, Eric Spoelstra's expression was even more ugly, the Heat's full-court pressing in the first quarter did not have the expected effect at all, but the Heat's offense, in the face of the Spurs' suddenly strengthened defense, under the two almost perverted Spider-Man, almost airtight defense, completely at a loss.

"I didn't expect that the finals have already reached the fourth game, and the Spurs still have something hidden."

When the players on both sides left the court one after another, Magic Johnson on the commentary bench looked at Popovich who was sitting on the sidelines and said something meaningful.

Generally speaking, in the first two rounds of the playoffs, all ambitious teams will have reservations, try to hide their killer features and hole cards, so as to play a surprise role in the later games, and by the way, they can also take advantage of the first two rounds of the confrontation to adjust their game status, but all the teams that enter the division finals and finals, most of them will give up the temptation, eager to kick the opponent directly as soon as they come up, so that they have no chance to turn over, but the Spurs are not among these teams.

Take this season's playoffs as an example, almost every round of games, the Spurs can come up with some hole cards, especially after entering the finals, and now it has reached the fourth game of the endless game, the Spurs still have room for adjustment, and they can even come up with some tactics and strategies that have not been used before, Meng Xu and Kawhi Leonard use excellent defense and tacit cooperation, so that the Heat's offense is at a loss, this is still the Heat has been speeding up, if you wait until Tim Duncan returns to the defense in place, With Tim Duncan in the basket, the Heat's offense will be even tougher.

"Eric Spoelstra must have a lot of headaches right now, Erwin, is there any way you can crack this defensive strategy of the Spurs?" Looking at Eric Spoelstra, who was frowning and arranging tactics on the sidelines, Michaels on the commentary bench turned his head and asked his partner, as a semi-professional, Michaels can understand what it means for Spurs to defend like this, but Michaels has no way to crack it, after all, he is only a semi-professional, so Michaels wants to find some strategies from Magic Johnson.

"It's difficult, it's a victory of talent, Meng Xu and Leonard are the kind of players who have height, arm span, movement speed and defensive sense are all top players, a team can have a player like this, their defense and help defense can make a qualitative change, not to mention that the Spurs now have two such players, unless the Heat can have two LeBron, and a Ray Allen who is in his prime, it will be difficult for them to destroy the Spurs' defense." After Michaels' question, Magic Johnson shook his head directly, saying that he couldn't do anything, tactical victories and technical victories could find ways to deal with them, but only talent victories needed more powerful talents than them to suppress them.

"It looks like it's going to be hard for the Heat to win this game."

In the first quarter of this game, whether it is offensive or defensive, the Heat is very passive, but as the head coach, Eric Spoelstra's solution to the problem is to increase the playing time of the main lineup, and is ready to take advantage of the time period of the Spurs' main lineup rotation to continue to send all the main forces and take the opportunity to recover the disadvantage on the court.