One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixteen. LeBron James Wants to Beat Himself

Not only did Sun Ce score, but Wade also slapped Sun Ce on the right shoulder. Sun Ce's goal was valid and he had to take a free throw!

The Heat called a timeout!

He bumped into Paul George, who almost choked him, but James seemed to be in more pain, and his expression was extremely anxious!

It was not physical pain. He remembered where the feeling he didn't want to think about came from and what the shadow was. It was the finals two years ago!

In the four finals, three of them entered the final quarter. Their Heat played evenly with the Mavericks, with a small score difference, and even one game was a tie.

But in the final quarter, Novitsky scored no matter how he shot. Kidd took advantage of Nowitzki's average of 10+ points in the final quarter of four games, connected the team, and swept their Heat!

Everything is connected!

James recalled that after the first quarter, Sun Ce and Randolph did not attack in the second quarter, but let Nash connect the team's offense. In the third quarter, Sun Ce and Randolph took turns to attack... This is similar to the Mavericks' style of play in 2011. Although the roles have changed a lot and the details of the play are different, the strategy is the same!

In fact, James and his head coach Spoelstra discovered the Grizzlies' strategy and knew that the opponent wanted to compete and then play at the critical moment, but they did not connect it with the Mavericks in 2011.

But Sun Ce came up in the fourth quarter and scored 6 points with 3 shots and a free throw opportunity. This hot and desperate touch was exactly the same as Nowitzki at that time!

Not only James saw it, but others also saw it!

Most of the players of the 2011 Heat team are still in the team now, and they are basically the main players... Of course, the players who did not perform well in that Heat team and were not the core or main players have long been traded away or not renewed.

38 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 blocks, 4 steals, 26 points in the second half so far... There are nearly 9 minutes left in the fourth quarter!

James feels that Sun Ce is more terrible than Nowitzki in 2011! Nowitzki is limited by his physical strength, and he can't fight like Sun Ce in the third quarter and the fourth quarter. He has to rely on Yao Ming, Kidd and Chandler with DeShawn Stephenson's pick-and-roll combination to support the first three quarters. Nowitzki took over the game in the fourth quarter. From Nowitzki's average of 27 points in the finals that year, it can be seen that the first three quarters did not score much.

But Sun Ce scored 20 points in the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter, he seemed to be unaffected by his physical strength, and he played harder and harder!

As a veteran,

James knows that it is not that Sun Ce is getting faster, not that Sun Ce is jumping higher, and not that Sun Ce is reacting more and more sensitively; but that their physical strength is declining, and they are getting slower and slower, making them jump shorter and shorter, and making them react slower!

The Heat hoped that Sun Ce's touch would decline due to the timeout, but they also had to face a more cruel reality. The Grizzlies had four players on and four off!

After the timeout, the Grizzlies sent out Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, Randolph, and Gasol.

The Heat also changed players, and the strongest lineup of Wade, Ray Allen, James, Bosh, and Nene came on the court.

Sun Ce came on and made the free throw, 91 to 86, and the Grizzlies played a wave of 9 to 4, leading by 5 points!

The shadow of the Heat's past emerged. This game was very similar to the first game of the finals two years ago.

James hastily chose to gamble. He did not break through the pick-and-roll, but took a step back and shot a three-pointer one meter away from the three-point line while Jimmy Butler took a step back to defend...

To use the tone of a certain Komi, the commentator of the court station said - this is unreasonable!

This is not James' rhythm. Most of his three-pointers are used to widen the gap when he is leading, not as a key ball, and he missed!

Randolph grabbed the defensive rebound before Bosh and Wade rushed to grab the ball, and quickly passed it to Sun Ce. Sun Ce protected the ball and encountered James' full-court defense!

Give James more time to slow down, he can adjust, but now, the terrible picture at the beginning has shrouded his mind and he played more impatiently.

Sun Ce passed the ball to Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler judged the opportunity and started a fast break. Sun Ce was stuck and Gasol couldn't keep up, but Randolph and Klay Thompson followed up. Jimmy Butler used Randolph to follow up and attract defense together, and passed it to Klay Thompson. Klay Thompson's chasing three-pointer hit, 94 to 86, the Grizzlies led by 8 points!

This time the Grizzlies didn't expect it, and they played a wave of defense and counterattack so easily. James is the defensive core of the Heat. He didn't retreat but played full-court pressing, which was a huge damage to the Heat's positional battle rhythm!

The importance of the core is self-evident, whether it is the offensive core or the defensive core. For example, the Spurs' defense dropped a big level when Duncan left. The 76ers' Howard's defense collapsed, and the 76ers' entire defense collapsed directly.

The point difference changed from 5 points to 8 points, which seemed to be just one goal, but it would be difficult for the Heat to catch up with this one goal, because the Grizzlies were not leading by one goal, but by 8 points. At least 3 goals were needed to overtake, which gave the Grizzlies a huge psychological advantage and they could slowly grind and endure.

The Grizzlies like grinding and playing the best!

During the official timeout in the fourth quarter, the Heat played two rounds and raised the score to 90 points, but Randolph also took advantage of Sun Ce and Klay Thompson's distraction and scored 4 points in the singles inside. In addition, Wade irrationally entangled with Klay Thompson. Klay Thompson looked at Wade with compassionate eyes, nothing happened, but Wade received a technical foul. Klay Thompson made a free throw for the technical foul. The Grizzlies raised the score to 99 points before the official timeout!

During the official timeout, Coach Hollins replaced Klay Thompson, who scored 4 points in the fourth quarter. Although Randolph was not afraid of fighting, if a fight really broke out and a player was suspended, the Grizzlies would definitely be affected more than the opponent. As far as this game was concerned, none of their players could be missing.

Moreover, with a 9-point lead, what kind of offense was there? Coach Hollins even replaced Randolph and sent out a lineup of Sun Ce, Jimmy Butler, Tony Allen, Paul George, and Gasol.

With 5 minutes and 38 seconds left and 9 points behind, the Grizzlies' lineup could not be described as a tank lineup, it was simply a terrifying combination of titanium alloy and diamonds!

They completely gave up on offense without reservation and played purely on defense!

James wanted to curse at this moment, not at others, but at himself!

It was that shot, the one where he made a three-pointer and the opponent made a three-point counterattack, that shot destroyed their outstanding performance of the entire game!