Nine Hundred and Forty-Six. The Heat's Pressure Defense!

James turned around like a top and rarely watched the fans who watched his game. It is true that he can do tricks at his size. Even if his work is not very detailed, it is still quite enjoyable to watch.

During the transition of offense and defense, the Grizzlies attacked. Gasol had just sent the ball. Sun Ce, who received the ball, quickly stuck his butt out and blocked Wade, who was rushing forward to press the defense. Wade failed to rush and slowly retreated. .

Sun Ce carefully dribbled the ball forward. James and Wade followed Sun Ce and Paul George closely. The two men's full-court pressure defense, although they did not directly attack, the two beast-like guys were about to press at any time. This appearance brings a great sense of pressure to the ball holder.

Sun Ce had experienced this feeling twice last season, and he had already been mentally prepared. He would pass the ball quickly without encountering pressure from the defense. Otherwise, Wade would pounce on him when he received the serve just now, and it was an obvious "sneak attack." , and it was thrown to Paul George in a hurry.

The reason why James and Wade go up to tackle Wade instead of James, who is more suitable for guarding Sun Ce, is because they want to scare Sun Ce into passing the ball out and let Paul George, who is not that good at controlling the ball, control the ball, so that James can have more opportunities. Good chance to steal.

After arriving in the frontcourt, Sun Ce's defender changed back to James. As soon as Sun Ce approached the three-point line, he encountered a rough defense. Sun Ce didn't care about face at all. He stuck his butt sideways to avoid James' pressing hand. Randolph pulled He came out to help Sun Ce block James. Sun Ce turned around and came back. He turned around and rushed to the middle distance, and Bosh followed.

Bosh's defense is also good. After all, the template is Garnett. He can't guard the inside, but he is very good at guarding pick-and-rolls.

Sun Ce faced Bosh's defense from the mid-range and made a step-up jump shot...missed!

James immediately turned around to stop Randolph who was trying to rush inside. Bosh took back and tried to grab a defensive rebound, but was stopped by Gasol who was unable to rush and ran back! Wade collected the defensive rebound.

Wade wanted to counterattack, and Sun Ce followed closely. James was pushed by Randolph and was unable to start immediately, but James was still very fierce and rushed to the frontcourt to attract Randolph and Paul - George is double-teaming, and Gasol has retreated to the basket. Wade is closely followed by Sun Ce. If he rushes in, he will face the front and back attacks of Gasol and Sun Ce. Pay attention to the positions and movements of his teammates and opponents. He chose to pass the ball, and lobbed a long pass to Chalmers who had just ran outside the left three-point line.

Chalmers caught the ball and shot a three-pointer, and Klay Thompson stepped in to defend, causing interference!

Chalmers missed a three-pointer!

The ball hit the frame very crisply and bounced out quickly. Gasol blocked Joel Anthony who was rushing in, but the ball was farther outside. Bosh, who was released by Klay Thompson, pounced on him. Grabbing an offensive rebound...a player wearing No. 3 jersey flew past him and picked off the rebound...

When Wade passed the ball out, Sun Ce started to shrink. When Chalmers was forced to lean back and shoot the ball, Sun Ce was immediately ready to grab the rebound. He was well prepared and took the lead in front of Bosh. Put the rebound away.

The Heat's full-court press!

Sun Ce got the defensive rebound and James came forward.

The Heat's pressing defense is really strong. Since there is no inside line to protect the basket, the Heat's defense has a lot of holes, so they chose to go forward. They have good pressing ability in all five positions. They use fierce physical confrontation and quick defense changes to force The opponent makes a choice though.

Under the Heat's defense, Sun Ce doesn't have any good solutions. The opponent is good at guarding pick-and-rolls and has a lot of physical confrontation. If he wants his teammates to drop down low and dig slowly, he also has to have the time to wait for his teammates to get into position. He just has to deal with it. James' close defense prevented Sun Ce from being distracted and unable to wait for Randolph to drop low.

You can only launch a pick-and-roll attack immediately.

Bosh is good at guarding pick-and-rolls, has quick short-distance bursts, and has really good defensive coverage. Sun Ce doesn't have Rose's top-level impact that can directly deflect Bosh, and his quasi-top collision explosiveness to deal with Bosh's attack. The confrontation is still a bit bad.

After a few rounds, Sun Ce personally felt how fierce the defense of the team with the fourth lowest points per game in the league was. The Heat only conceded 92.3 points per game this season, which was higher than the 93.2 points per game average given by the Grizzlies. Nearly 1 point.

The Grizzlies have the best defensive five in the league, but due to their run-and-gun style, they allow the fifth-lowest points per game in the league. The team that limits opponents to the lowest points is the 76ers, who average 88.5 points per game. The second is the Celtics' 90.5 points, and the third is the Bulls' 91.8 points.

The Grizzlies had a difficult start. Sun Ce felt that the defense of James and Way was stronger, fiercer and better coordinated than the defense of Holiday + Iguodala!

The Grizzlies' defensive end did not do so well at the beginning. Gasol encountered the Heat's version of LeBron James for the first time. Compared with James, whose flaws were more obvious last season, James is too weak this season. The 76ers have Iguodala, the Bulls have Luol Deng, the Lakers have Artest and Kobe...the Grizzlies have The three-man defense of Paul George, Klay Thompson, and Sun Ce was replaced on the side, but it didn't work. Only Randolph could withstand it. If Randolph was close to him, it would not be so easy for James to get up to speed, but James would borrow In the pick-and-roll, look for Klay Thompson or Paul George to play, just like looking for Curry in the pick-and-roll wireless singles in the future Finals in the original time and space.

And let James rush into the inside line, and Gasol did not defend well.

Give Gasol a day or two to think and practice footwork, he may be able to find a way to deal with James after personally defending him, but this is the first time he has played against James this season, and there is still a big difference between watching the video and feeling it in person.

This season, even Howard, Noah, and Garnett were beaten badly when they first met James, and they only found a way to limit him after the later confrontation.

And Wade is not a vegetarian. The decline is serious, but this is compared with his own peak period. In terms of strength, no one on the outside of the Grizzlies can match Wade on the offensive end except Sun Ce.

This is a quasi-top breakthrough guard!

At 4 minutes and 22 seconds in the first quarter, the Grizzlies called a timeout!

5 to 9, 4 points behind!

In nearly 4 and a half minutes, the Grizzlies only scored 5 points. The opponent's score was not high, about 2 points per minute. The Grizzlies' defense was okay, at least they didn't let the opponent play too many offense and defense transitions. Sun Ce, Randolph, and Paul George defended Wade and James' speed very well, which made James or Wade fall into positional battle breakthroughs or pick-and-rolls, forcing the two to consume more energy.

But overall, the Grizzlies were very passive. Such defense also consumed a lot of energy for Klay Thompson and Paul George, who were in their first and second years. The key was that they couldn't score!

In this case, Coach Hollins also wanted to be aggressive and run and play! You have to try everything...

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Sun Ce played with Nash, Klay Thompson, Paul George, and Jordan.

On the Heat side, Wade, McGrady, Mike Miller, James, and Bosh played.

Joel Anthony left the court with honor. Sun Ce knew the role of Joel Anthony. This short and small guy has excellent mobility and is willing to do any dirty work. No wonder he got a 3-year, $10.5 million contract from the Heat.

The Grizzlies' substitution surprised even Pat Riley behind the Heat bench. It was too bold. Less than 4 and a half minutes into the game, Randolph, the best player in the team, was directly replaced. Now that Nash, who is better at controlling the ball and passing, has come up, there are three shooters and a player with impact. It would be great to keep catching Randolph's low-post ability. It's simple and direct.

However, this is Pat Riley's reverse thinking. He actually hopes that the Grizzlies can play like that to continue to lower the rhythm, because the Heat is the fifth lowest team in the league in terms of shots this season, and is the team that limits the opponent's shots the least.

Obviously, as a defensive expert, Coach Hollins also saw that the Heat wanted to slow down the tempo. Although the Heat forced their opponents to make quick decisions after falling into a positional battle, the tempo was actually very slow. The Heat's full-court pressure defense, the opponent's ball-controlling player had to defend after half the court, and when the opponent's ball-holding player reached the three-point line, the 24-second offensive time was almost half over. At this time, the Heat continued to confront, and the opponent's ball-holding player had to make a quick decision.

This is the Heat's defense!

I don't know how to solve it from a tactical level. There are ways, but they are not necessarily good ways. It is not uncommon for NBA team coaches to make pig-like tactical decisions. Coach Hollins decisively avoided the possibility of becoming a pig-like coach. He just changed the lineup and left the tactical decision to the players.

Coach Hollins didn't expect that one day he would be the one who wanted to speed up.

After the timeout, under the leadership of Nash, the Grizzlies started the run-and-gun mode.

If you can't defend James, then forget it. Nash and Jordan will pass the ball to Sun Ce in the positional battle by pick-and-roll and counterattack. If you can shoot quickly, shoot quickly. If you can cut in and score, cut in and score. You have to speed up.

The Heat tried to slow down the tempo, but Nash's ball control was stable and his passing was good. It was useless for Wade to defend. Sun Ce didn't hold the ball and ran to reduce physical contact with James.

James really didn't expect that a team would play run-and-gun against them. The key is that the core lineup of Nash + Jordan + Sun Ce plus two shooters played very well!

As the game went on, the Heat gradually couldn't keep up the tempo. Originally, they retreated quickly after each goal and kept making physical contact, but that also made them miss a lot of counterattack opportunities. Although they wanted to slow down the tempo, who doesn't want to score easily? Obviously, they could score easily, and they couldn't defend tightly. From the 4th minute and 22 seconds to the 8th minute and 58 seconds, the Grizzlies scored 14 points in less than 5 minutes!

It was the Heat's turn to attack again. James saw Klay Thompson retreat directly to the basket and defended his long-range shot. The Grizzlies scored 14 to 11, and the score was chased to 19 to 20. The Heat was only leading by 1 point. James chose to try the first three-pointer of the game...

Missed!

Jordan and Klay Thompson blocked Wade and Bosh who wanted to rush for the ball. Sun Ce received the defensive rebound, passed it to Nash as soon as he landed, and immediately rushed to the front court.

After rushing to the front court, Sun Ce received a long pass from Nash and stepped into the basket. James retreated very quickly and wanted to chase and block the ball. Sun Ce faked a shot, and James jumped up immediately. Sun Ce stood up again, and the king dunk was triggered! The bounce speed increased significantly, and before James jumped up for the second time and reached out to block the shot, he quickly slammed the ball into the basket with one hand, 21 to 20, and the Grizzlies overtook by 1 point!

James was also dunked!

James knew that Sun Ce's dunk was a fake move, but Sun Ce's dunk was too powerful.

It's not that he has to shake off his opponent to trigger the Overlord Dunk. Only the American God knows that he has to shake off his opponent to trigger it.

The opponent's impression of Sun Ce is that he is very powerful when he catches the ball and dunks under the basket.

Seeing Sun Ce turn around and run back, James immediately picked up the ball and passed it to Wade who was running back, caught Jordan and Klay Thompson to follow up, and Sun Ce was still running back, so Wade started a fast break!

This time, the Heat could no longer control the rhythm, but the Heat's offensive efficiency was also improved.

Similarly, Nash's strategy was also successful. He just wanted to speed up the rhythm, reduce confrontation, and make more use of the shots of Neil, Klay Thompson, and Paul George.

Indeed, the Grizzlies didn't get any advantage in the positional battle tonight. If it was a playoff series, it would be fine. Maybe they could think of a way to solve the problem of no forwards who could hold up to James, but now they have no idea. Let's just solve this game with the existing methods.

The two teams played a 12-11 wave in the last 2 minutes and 40 seconds of the first quarter. The Heat's two three-pointers were really good. McGrady and James Jones, who came off the bench, played an important role.

After the first quarter, the two teams scored 32 points!

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Sun Ce returned to the bench. This quarter was really tiring!

First, they fought hard in the positional battle and didn't get any advantage. Then they attacked again. The Heat insisted on keeping the pressure defense for nearly half a quarter. Sun Ce was facing James. That feeling was too difficult! Fortunately, Mr. Na commanded properly. Sun Ce worked hard to cut in or run to receive the ball and shoot, and received the ball and passed it. Only in less than 8 minutes did he level the 4-point difference and even surpassed it at one point.

This game was tougher than expected! James scored 17 points in a single quarter, too strong!

The good news is that Bosh played for 9 minutes in the first quarter and didn't get a single rebound!

Bosh, who was sitting on the sidelines, was about to collapse, every time, every time, every time! Just as the ball was about to fall over his head, someone took it away!