Chapter 853: When Will I Be Able to Score?
This is embarrassing, the Heat sent a strong lineup to play against the Nets. took the other party and took Zhou Qi to pull the score away...... There were no substitutions on either side, which was a surprise at this timeout.
The Heat's players also know exactly how to play. The Nets are different from teams like the Celtics, Warriors, and Rockets, and sometimes they still don't enter the "three-point rain mode" right away.
So in this case, as long as Miami uses their inside advantage to keep playing with the opponent, I don't believe that they have no substitutions and players when their physical strength declines!
Wade got the basketball and quickly attracted the attention of some players in the Nets, and immediately threw the ball high to Whiteside, who scored directly from the stand-in and Mozgov in the late game! 19:14!
Zhou Qi can clearly feel the power of Whiteside by his side! If he wanted to, it felt like the basket would be in perfect condition...... If it were in the playoffs, Whiteside wouldn't be so gentle.
Russell went to the front court and passed the ball to Williamson, who was caught and passed to Zhou Qi, and Zhou Qi's jumper was covered under Johnson's defense! Williamson immediately moved sideways to pick up the basketball, and suddenly his wrist flicked in the air, and the basketball came to Zhou Qi again.
Mozgov jumped straight up and scored a dunk after getting the basketball in the air! 21:14! Winslow got the basketball and passed the ball to Johnson, Wade took the basketball next to him and jumped directly to hit a three-point shot!
After returning from a timeout, the Heat's vigilance and state in the game got better! They need to improve their offensive efficiency! And in the team, Dragic, Wade, and Whiteside are still relatively sure.
Winslow is currently asked to focus on defending the Nets, and Johnson, although he is also active and physical on the court, is still asked to focus on defending opponents like Winslow.
Zhou Qi got the basketball, and at this time he noticed a change in the playing style of the Heat's interior players. They don't care how the players on the outside move. Basically, it was relatively inward, and Zhou Qi's feints were tentative but useless.
When the opponent began to come over, Zhou Qi began to single Johnson with his back, he knew that Winslow would come over and try to break his ball, in the process, Zhou Qi immediately grabbed the basketball and turned around and suddenly stopped for a while, and then jumped up to play the basketball board into the basket! 23:17!
The cheers at the scene were even higher at this time! Zhou Qi's performance today is eye-catching! Compared with those super teams he has encountered since the beginning of the regular season, compared with the team in front of him now, Zhou Qi feels a lot more relaxed!
If he can cope with the players of the average team now, there is actually not much bottom. But he felt comfortable playing today.
"Wade paid less attention to scoring in the second quarter of the game, and the team tried to score as much as possible, and a lot of scattered offensive ......" Eric made this response strategy at this time when he was ready to spend his energy in the back.
"In the next quarter and the third quarter, I ask you to score a little bit more, and if we can, we have to stretch the difference to about 15 points in the third quarter......
32:29! In the face of such a team, Chen felt that he couldn't relax too much, and the opponent finally chased only 3 points in the first quarter of the game! Their win percentage so far this season, with Wade's return and some of the other players on the team, have played well at times!
The lineup on the Heat's side in the second quarter was Olynyk, Richardson, Winslow, Ellington, and Wade! These are good players. Winslow remained on the court, and the way they played this quarter was a big change from the previous one.
On the Nets' side, Bojan and Burke are on the court. Russell was sitting there chatting with Daniels, and Williamson was quieting down as he was about to start watching the game.
Burke dribbled the ball to the front court, and he will be the team's playmaker for this quarter! Jeremy Lin is here to score! After Zhou Qi got the basketball, his jump shot at Richardson was directly interfered with by the opponent! Winslow went in to get the rebound and passed to Wade, and Ellington didn't take the basketball and hit a three-point shot after a while! 32:32! The score is tied!
Lin dribbled the ball across the half, Bojan took his pass and didn't have three points under Winslow's defense! After Olynyk got the ball, he couldn't shoot under the defense of Zhou and Mozgov!
Zhou Qi jumped up again and turned past Richardson, and then went to the front court, Burke took his pass and immediately scored a layup! 34:32! Burke knows that the most important thing now is to score first, and if he doesn't score three points, then the Nets will be in a passive position again!
Wade passed the ball to Winslow, who drew the defense and passed the ball straight to Ellington, who hit another three-pointer when Lin didn't come! 35:34! Eric knows that Ellington still feels good today!
Ellington is one of those players who is not very consistent, he plays well when he is in good form, and when he is not in good form, the coach knows it is time to let him off.
After Lin received Burke's pass, he used his speed to quickly pass Ellington, and then used Zhou Qi's body to get into the basket to let Olynyk receive a foul and reach 2+1! 37:35!
Winslow dribbles to the frontcourt, uses his physicality to get past the opponent and dunks at Bojan! 37:37! Winslow still feels quite relaxed when he doesn't have Williamson on the court~
Bojan dribbled over the half, and when he attracted two defenders, he decisively passed the ball to Zhou Qi, who received the ball, and Zhou Qi quickly jumped high outside the three-point line to throw the ball! Basketball is playing in the basket again! 40:37!
At this time, Chen Cai somewhat understood that Zhou Qi's game today was either to throw crickets or dunk, which was to increase his offensive efficiency~
Richardson took Wade's pass and immediately passed it to Winslow, who jumped back for a three-pointer without moving forward! 40:40!
Until the second quarter, the two sides have not opened the score! The Heat are in a hurry! The Nets are now basically going to switch to a second team. The Heat, on the other hand, have made some changes, but what they hope to do is lead by some points and the Nets going into the second half.
Only then can some opportunities arise! If the Nets have a full main lineup, the Heat is estimated to be very difficult to play! Compared to last season, the Heat feel that the comparison of the strength of the two teams has not changed much.
After Lin's three-pointer was missed, Olynyk immediately got the rebound and passed the ball! Winslow took the basketball and dribbled quickly at Bojan, and after a prediction error by the opponent, Winslow immediately got up and beat the opponent to hit a long-range 2-point shot in the frontcourt! 42:40!
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"They played well in the back and we made a few more mistakes today," Chen was clearly not happy at the press conference. It wasn't supposed to be like that
The Nets' relaxation in the back almost lost the game. At the end of the first half, it was a 62-62 draw! In the third quarter, the Heat team doctor led the Nets by 8 points at 92:84 and entered the fourth quarter!
118:116! Originally, the bigger the other players on the Heat side today, the better! Coupled with the play of Wade and Dragic, their team almost succeeded in the end!
I thought the Nets would be able to beat the Heat to garbage time in the fourth quarter. As a result, mistakes began to occur in the third quarter of the game, and gradually the players on the court of the Nets also realized that the other party was fighting with them!
So the Brooklyn players played the game with each other seriously, and at this time, there was no way to recover the points lost in the third quarter.
Whiteside 20 points, 10 rebounds and 5 blocks!! Johnson had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, and Winslow had 11 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists! Wade 26 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists! Dragic 21 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists!
The team played a relatively reasonable game in the later games, and they still let the benches on the court in the third quarter to relax the Nets' vigilance, and quickly replaced the benches at this time to start counterattacking!
The cooperation of the opposing players in the back is also good! The Nets' level of chaos eventually came back from the chaos.
Mozgov had 7 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, and Zhou Qi had 17 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists! Williamson 36 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists! Daniels 18 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists! Jeremy Lin 16 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists!
Williamson was a big headache for them in this game! Lin's fast pass, Bojan came to release the cold arrow at every turn! Such a basketball is still very strong! The Nets took the game seriously in the final quarter, and in the end the Heat couldn't turn the game around.
For the next game, Chen is not very clear about the strength of the Lakers this season. There's nothing wrong with them on the player side.
The Lakers didn't have much success in the West after last season, but Walton wasn't fired in the end.
The reason for this is that the management does not know if they can find a coach who will satisfy them and can take over as Wharton. Zen master Jackson received the email and replied that he believed in Wharton's ability and was not in the mood to return to the coaching position.
Jackson is now looking to see which team will be the vice president. And if they choose another coach to be the new coach of the Lakers, will they be able to get a good place in the West?
There are already a number of strong players among the current Lakers players! Besides, Kobe Bryant and Nash are still on the team. After a period of discussion and reflection, it was finally decided that Walton would remain with the Lakers, giving him a one-year, $1.95 million contract.
During that time, Wharton was still somewhat anxious about where he would go next, when the management told him to wait for notice. At that time, there was no team to give him a position as head coach. All are teaching assistant positions, with a maximum salary of $350,000 a year.
On the day he was notified, Wharton was relieved! First, I went home and gave my wife who was cooking at home a hug! Then, after dinner, I fell into deep thought by myself.
His wife thought he was out there going on something tricky. He was immediately overjoyed to learn that his husband would continue to coach here in Los Angeles for another year. Because some time ago, Wharton also mentioned to him that he might have to coach somewhere else.
At night, Wharton sat alone in the courtyard of his house in a daze. Are the Lakers short of players right now? Center López, defender Thomas Jr., there are players like Kuzma on the front line!
Kobe Bryant's words don't let him play too much in the early stage, and these young players will need to play in the future games! If you want to talk about star players, but there is only one superstar. Kobe Bryant is a player who has experienced big scenes!
Whether it was the combination with O'Neal back then, or the championship when he was with his sister-in-law later, Kobe Bryant was an important member of it! Mobilize the enthusiasm of young players!
The Lakers are now losing three games this season. The rest of the games were good. With the league's star-level Lopez and Thomas Jr., as well as the young people gradually cultivated by the Lakers over the years, it is a little unspeakable if they still can't play results.
Former blue-collar center Mozgov has some other players on the team, such as Clarkson, Nance and others, and maybe there are some reasons for it in the team. But when the Lakers have changed a bit, is it still the same?
Lopez, who has played in the Nets for so many years, has seen a lot of players come and go in Brooklyn, and he is the one who has been accumulating experience in the team~ From a somewhat bulky center to a current one who can dribble, defend under the basket, and make three points outside, jokes like "big guard Lopez" also show that Brooke's personal dribbling is still okay.
Now, if Brooke's contract ends, there must be a whole bunch of teams rushing to ask him to join them! Lopes almost meets the requirements of many teams for centers now, can burst into singles, can fight, and has three-point accuracy!
Agile body, high mid-range shooting percentage, can pass the ball, can quickly cooperate with teammates...... If it weren't for the Nets management at the time to restructure Brooklyn and let Lopez go, this player wouldn't have let him go!
Chen didn't want him to leave, this big guy was practical! The team can reduce his playing time and make him more efficient in training! At the critical moment, in addition to the guard, he kept passing the ball to Da Luo, and then he shot from the middle distance to increase the defense!
And the combination of Williamson and Da Luo and Jeremy Lin...... The current situation is that Mozgov has not become the star center in the league as the team expects, and perhaps he is a blue-collar player, at least in terms of his individual performance, he is not a star player.
Wharton prepared for the next game against the Nets at the Staples Center for a while. I have to say that the Nets are developing a little fast. If they still win the title this year, they will become the only team to win three consecutive championships in recent years!
Wharton shook his head when he thought of this, the changes in the league are too fast now! A lot of teams can become strong teams. The competition in the West has become more intense! Wharton can clearly feel this!
Let him try it in the west? Wharton sometimes wondered if he would be better off if he went to the East. Sometimes the competition in the west has reached the point of misery! Look at the current teams in the West, Warriors, Rockets, Spurs, Trail Blazers, Thunder, Pelicans, Timberwolves......
Every team is amazing! What Wharton may not be well aware of is that there have been some teams in the East that have gone strong over the years. Looking at some of the stats in front of him, Wharton couldn't wait to play a game with the Nets.