Chapter 491: Blocking and Demolition (Medium)

From a pick-and-roll standpoint, there are a lot of similarities between the two teams.

The difference is that because of O'Neal's slow moving speed, the Heat's offense this season is mostly based on positional offense, and defensive counterattacks and transition offenses are very rare.

As for the Warriors, the mobility ranks first in the entire league, in addition to the positional offense has its own routine, the defensive counterattack is also at the top level of the league.

But the defensive counterattack focuses on defense, and the Warriors have a strong defense in the restricted area, but the outside defense is very average.

Montgomery has been thinking about how to improve the Warriors' perimeter defense.

Against the Heat, the test of this will be infinitely magnified.

On the Heat's side, Pat Riley is thinking about the opposite of Montgomery, and he is more worried about the Heat's interior defense.

Yang Di is now crowned with an all-round title, and his mobility is considered the top in the league, and this season, he has developed many abilities such as low footwork, turning jumpers, and mid-range shooting, Haslem is too short, O'Neal is too heavy and too slow, and the Heat have never had a suitable interior line suitable for defense.

As soon as Pat Riley thought about this, Yang Di began to take the initiative to ask for the ball on the court.

Yang Di was stuck with the 2.03 meter Haslem with his back, his right hand went around the arm that blocked Haslem's outreach, and his left hand was raised high, hunched and squeezed, looking for space to catch the ball.

Haslem didn't dare to go around too much, otherwise Yang Di could turn around and attack the basket directly.

After the Warriors guided the ball from the outside, Danny Granger hoisted the ball in, and Youngdy received the ball from Granger in one step outside the paint area.

The Heat undoubtedly chose to shrink the defense, and Wade, who was in the free throw line area, was not prepared to give Yang Di a chance to play alone.

The Heat formed a zone defense in an instant, and there were many defenders in the strong side position.

The Warriors shifted players to the weak side, Yang Di raised his head to watch the situation on the court, and at the same time, dribbled with his left hand, sank his center of gravity, and leaned his back on Haslem.

It was like a huge mountain, carrying an extremely terrifying power, and it slapped over like a stormy wave.

"Bang!"

Haslem's pupils dilated suddenly, his arm was numb, and the whole person instantly couldn't bear this terrifying power, and took a small step back.

"How is that possible! How can his power be so great! ”

Haslem looked frightened, the strength of Yang Di's body was not at all as good as the back of O'Neill when he was training, when he fought against O'Neal, but O'Neal's weight was more than 140 kilograms, and Yang Di's weight was only about 110 kilograms, and the difference between the two was 60 kilograms!

He didn't know that at this time, Yang Di's strength score was already as high as 109, and he was only one step away from becoming an S+-level god-level power, and in the entire NBA, Ben Wallace's strength was stronger than him, and in terms of torso core strength alone, maybe O'Neal was not as good as him.

Wade knew he couldn't wait any longer, and Haslem was clearly struggling to do it.

He rushed over to wrap Yang Di, and Yang Di, waiting for this moment, firmly grasped the basketball with both hands, passed it outside, and the basketball flew straight to Byron Davis, who was in the vacant position near forty-five degrees on the left without any fancy moves.

The Heat rotated defense, and as soon as the ball was in Byron's hands, Anthony Walker was in front of him.

Byron kept the ball in his hands and turned to the right, leaving Danny Granger in absolute space.

Wade pounced, and Danny Granger took a deep breath and shot the three-pointer with a determined gaze.

Wade looked back and didn't believe that this young man who was participating in the finals for the first time would hit the first shot, which was not at all logical.

"Huh!"

But basketball pierced through the heart accurately, Danny Granger, the 17th pick this season, quickly became the Warriors' upstart, not only on the offensive end can contribute 9.6 points per game, 37 percent three-point shooting, but also on the defensive end to grab 4.7 rebounds per game, tough style, and even squeezed out the more accurate three-point shooter Dunleavy to become the Warriors' regular starter in the playoffs.

As soon as the ball was thrown, there was a huge cheer in the Auckland Stadium, and the fans cheered the players on every goal.

"Good shot!"

Yang Di pointed at Danny Granger and signaled that he had made a decisive shot.

Byron was also happy in his heart, and easily got another assist, which is the finals, every data is precious, and it can improve the value of the player.

5-2, the Warriors opened the game with a three-point lead.

Heat offense.

Wade stretched out his hand and motioned for the Heat players to pull away and prepare to single Byron Davis, who lowered his center of gravity and also made gestures to signal the Warriors players not to come over to help defend.

The moment the two faced each other, Wade suddenly stepped out with his right foot to the right.

He still has the league's top first step, which is frighteningly fast, and Byron is prepared this time, taking a small jump back, and making up his mind to pay attention to whether he can shoot or not.

After the space was widened, Wade changed direction in front of the body, changed lanes to the left and forced a breakthrough.

"Bang!"

The two confronted each other, and the heads-up picture was not presentable.

Wade dribbled two steps, then grabbed the basketball and took three strong steps, and in the confrontation with Byron, he tilted over and threw the ball with one hand.

Byron couldn't cover Wade, and just blindly applied physical pressure.

"Bell!"

With such defense, it is difficult for Wade to ensure a shooting percentage.

Under the basket, there was the first real rebound of the game, Youngdika was struggling to move forward Haslem, and Chandler was on a par with O'Neal, even slightly weak.

The basketball bounced to Chandler's side, and Chandler's face turned pale, gritted his teeth, and jumped up early.

"What does he want to do?" O'Neal felt that Chandler couldn't control the basketball even when he jumped.

Chandler gritted his teeth and reached up with one hand, O'Neal spread his hands, and in the confrontation between the two, Chandler's fingers were the first to touch the basketball, and then his fingers hooked, and the basketball was bounced to the other side of the basket by him.

"It turned out to be allocated to Yang Di!"

O'Neill watched the basketball fly away from his eyes.

Yang Di, who was in the position of the card owner, adjusted his steps slightly, and after moving horizontally, he jumped up and grabbed the rebounding ball, and landed in the middle of everyone, as if he had caught a rare treasure, and firmly protected it in his arms.

Haslem stepped forward to harass Yang Di, not giving Yang Di a chance to dribble and advance easily, and the other players of the Heat quickly retreated.

In the face of the transition offense that Yang Di directly advanced after grabbing the rebound in the No. 4 position, the Heat also obviously did special defensive training, and the formation was like a drop of water, not giving the Warriors any chance to easily launch an offensive score.

The Warriors fell to the ground, and after the ball was guided, Byron Davis and Yang Di blocked and dismantled.

Yang Di didn't block Wade for the first time, Byron broke through to the basket under Wade's defensive pressure, and under the Heat's very layered defense, he missed the flying layup, O'Neal grabbed the rebound, and the two sides came and went, officially entering the right stage of the game.