Chapter 1202 1201. Body Hair Whistle Is Ineffective!
This year is the best chance for Wade to win the championship in the next few years. It is rare for Antoine Walker and Payton to be in such good form in the playoffs. It will be difficult to have such high-quality role players in the future. It is hard to say how O'Neal will be in next season. Jason Williams' three-point accuracy this season is also phenomenal. He has never been so accurate. Wade, who has experienced Damon Jones, knows that some shooters are ridiculously accurate for one or two years, but it is hard to say after that.
Although he felt a little ashamed, Wade was still ready to take advantage of the sudden advantage!
He has always had a lot of whistles, but when he played against the Hawks before, there were almost no star whistles. The one defending him was McGrady, who was higher than him, but this time he had a star whistle!
Wade made a technical foul free throw.
Then the players of the two teams came to the court. Liu Mang, Josh Smith and Kwame Brown went to the two sides of the three-second zone to prepare for free throw rebounds.
The Hawks replaced Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Iguodala, Josh Smith and Kwame Brown.
The Heat replaced Jason Williams, Wade, Posey, Antoine Walker, and Haslem.
Haslem is the darling of the Heat. With a middle-class salary of 5 million, he averaged 9 points and 9 rebounds per game, and his playing time was only 26 minutes per game. He was very efficient. Both the power forward and the center played very well. After learning about the unexpected advantage Wade had, Pat Riley replaced Haslem to open up space for Wade and let O'Neal take a break.
Wade made the first free throw, but if he made both free throws, he would not be a member of the James-Wade combination. Wade missed the second free throw!
10 to 12, the Heat were still two points behind.
Josh Smith and Kwame Brown blocked the opponent, and Liu Mang received the rebound.
The Heat's lineup returned to defense much faster, not giving Liu Mang the opportunity to counterattack directly after grabbing the rebound.
Liu Mang quickly advanced to the frontcourt. The Hawks' lineup was also very fast. They rushed to the frontcourt quickly, not giving the Heat a chance to defend in a positional battle.
Liu Mang reached the three-point line and passed the ball to Jason Terry before Wade came up to defend.
The Heat were very afraid of Jason Terry. This guy averaged 27 points in four regular season games against them!
When Jason Terry received the ball, one person was at a 45-degree angle on the right. The Heat's defensive formation was still chaotic. Antoine Walker and Posey double-teamed Jason Terry. Liu Mang cut to the basket. Josh Smith consciously came up to block Wade. Liu Mang cut into the inside. Jason Terry received the ball and immediately passed it back to Liu Mang who cut in.
This pass was very beautiful. The ball was not stopped, attracting double-teaming without wasting time.
Liu Mang received the ball, Wade was blocked, Liu Mang rushed straight into the inside, Kwame Brown retreated, and Liu Mang jumped towards Haslem!
Haslem was fighting with Kwame Brown one second ago, and the next second he was facing Liu Mang's attack. With a height of 2.03 meters, he did not try to stop the opponent, but chose to get out of the way.
Liu Mang slammed the ball into the basket with one hand.
The game time was just over 6 minutes, and Liu Mang had 10 points in half a quarter! 14 to 10, the Hawks were still leading by 4 points, and there was still a chance to defend the next one and score one more to widen the gap to more than five points!
With a five-point lead, you can establish an advantage at the start!
Haslem picked up the ball and yelled at his teammates: "Retreat quickly!"
Haslem couldn't defend this ball. As a center, he just grabbed the rebound and ran back from the farthest point. He was the first to receive the ball under the basket. Antoine Walker ran too slowly.
Wade received Haslem's serve and advanced to the front court, ready to start using the extra advantage he just got!
It's not that he deliberately wants to commit a foul, but he wants to take advantage of the threat of the referee's whistle to his star player, so that he dare not defend him too roughly, and he can give full play to his skills.
However, when Wade pushed forward to the frontcourt, he found that it was a little different from what he thought. It was not Iguodala who came to defend him, but Liu Mang.
This... Wade was even more excited! If Liu Mang was taken down, his chances of winning would be even greater!
Liu Mang looked at Wade's eager expression. Sure enough, this guy was ready to take advantage of the "favor" given to him by the referee. However, it is understandable that if Liu Mang himself had that kind of whistle, he would definitely use it every day. It's a pity that in this era, after the opponent has targeted defense, it is difficult for him to deliberately commit a foul. He can only do it occasionally to ease his belief in JDZ.
Seeing Wade outside the three-point line, Liu Mang immediately pressed up and defended Wade in the way McGrady defended Wade.
McGrady has studied Wade for a long time. He is the main defender of Wade. He has studied the best way to defend Wade that he can think of. Liu Mang only needs to learn from it, that is, to stick to him and put pressure on his body.
Wade did not stop and crushed Liu Mang to break through to the basket.
Liu Mang moved quickly, sticking to Wade. After entering the distance within the free throw line, he took the shot to prevent Wade from rushing directly to the basket. He wanted to press Wade to the bottom line and give Kwame Brown time to shrink back from the left mid-range to make up for the defense.
When Liu Mang took the shot, the referee had the whistle in his mouth, but when he saw that it was Liu Mang, the referee hesitated...
When Wade was blocked by Liu Mang, he was ready to throw the ball to the basket when he heard the whistle to see if he could play 2+1, but this time the referee did not blow the whistle!
Wade broke into the three-second zone!
At this time, Kwame Brown had already returned, and he and Liu Mang covered Wade's shooting space and passing angle. The only moving route required by the rules was to leave room for the bottom line under the basket, but Wade had no place to dribble in that little space. Wade could only grab the ball, take two steps, and throw the ball out with his back to the basket.
Wade made a jump shot from the right side of the reasonable collision zone to the left side of the reasonable collision zone, and then threw the ball back to the right side of the reasonable collision zone, making a bridge shot!
Liu Mang grabbed the defensive rebound!
The bet was won!
The referee dared not blow the whistle!
Because he was Liu Mang!
Liu Mang grabbed the defensive rebound and immediately passed it to Jason Terry. The Heat retreated faster than last time. When Jason Terry received the ball in the middle line and ran to the frontcourt, Jason Williams had already defended in place.
However, Jason Terry ignored everything, rushed to the three-point line, faced Jason Williams' defense, and shot a three-pointer...
Jason-Terry's wave-like chase three-pointer hit when I play against the Heat!
17 to 10! After the weird call, the Hawks not only did not suppress their momentum, but their momentum became stronger! They scored 5 to 0 and widened the score difference to 7 points!
The Heat called a timeout! At 6:40, the game entered an official timeout.
The league wanted Wade to play like Liu Mang and have a wonderful series with Liu Mang, so they gave Wade a star whistle, but if Liu Mang was called, it would go against the league's idea of a more intense game!
The current rule is that defense above the free throw line cannot use hands to block the opponent's breakthrough, but there is no clear regulation on the distance within the free throw line. The understanding of referees, fans, media, and professionals is to continue the previous rules. Only the upper line outside the free throw line is not allowed to use hands to block... Of course, pulling and pushing people within the distance of the free throw line is also not allowed. Being able to use hands means that you can support your arms in the cylinder to block the opponent, rather than colliding with the opponent. Blocking with the chest is definitely not as stable as blocking with arms.
But the confrontation is big, generally speaking, the defense at the beginning has some pushing actions, that is, the action of actively going forward to meet the collision. The referee doesn't need to blow the whistle, and the players have no reason to say that the whistle is wrong. They can only attack like McGrady.
Liu Mang went to defend Wade, which was beyond the referee's expectation. He could only choose to use "normal whistle", or put the whistle scale at the same level, because Wade defended Liu Mang in the same way, and Liu Mang defended Wade in the same way, and there was nothing wrong with it.
Wade had always had a whistle before, and he got three whistles in more than five minutes, and it felt like his body hair grew to the opponent's bench, but suddenly there was no whistle! Pat Riley originally wanted to take advantage of Wade and let O'Neal take a break before replacing O'Neal, but he didn't expect that Wade suddenly had no whistle, at least no whistle against Liu Mang.
The momentum was beaten by the Hawks!
After the timeout, neither the Hawks nor the Heat made substitutions.
After Liu Mang knew that he had made the right bet, he continued to defend Wade, which had a great impact on Pat Riley and Wade's impromptu play!
Liu Mang defended Wade and committed few fouls, but when others helped to double-team, there was a foul if there was physical contact, and the whistle was full of body hair.
But that was enough. Liu Mang did not expect the referee to be so tolerant of other people's defense, but as long as the person who was not defending Wade was called for fouls all the time, it was enough. Others should be as careful as possible, or simply not to help defend. Liu Mang tried his best to defend Wade and limit as much as possible.
Because Liu Mang already wanted to be arrogant! He didn't limit Wade much in a one-on-one match, just a little, and use offense to deal with Wade! His and Jason Terry's offense was not weak at all!
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Seeing that Wade on the court did not get the huge advantage as they imagined, David Stern and Vice President Stu Jackson in the box were a little melancholy.
"Boss, what should we do?" Stu Jackson asked cautiously when he saw that things were not developing as they imagined.
"The two best players in 2003 still couldn't beat Ace. Ace is too smart." David Stern smiled helplessly.
"Should we notify the referees? Let them not worry so much?" Stu Jackson made a suggestion that made David Stern feel annoyed.
David Stern was speechless. Stu Jackson was good in everything, steady and obedient, and his philosophy on the NBA was the same as his, but he was too mediocre, everything was mediocre, like a successor who inherited everything from him but only inherited a little bit of the external aspects.
David Stern could only explain: "No, now is the era of Ace, so let's do it, it will be very intense. We don't want the Hawks to lose, but to make this series more exciting. Nothing is more tempting than the finals matchup between Ace and BIG-Yao, Kobe and McGrady, but the matchup between Kobe and O'Neal is also very interesting. The game is played by the players, not us."
Stu Jackson, who looks honest and has an honest personality, feels very strange. This doesn't sound like what David Stern said.
David Stern looked at Stu Jackson's confused expression. Unfortunately, he didn't expect that the best successor who would appear before him would be a pure businessman, rather than this old friend who shared the same interests with him for more than ten years.