After the timeout, for the Wizards, Curry, Green and Haywood came off the court, and Harden, Beverley and DeAndre Jordan came on.

Since he decided to attack the inside, Harden, who is good at European step breakthroughs and drawing fouls, is naturally the first choice.

In fact, Curry's ability to break through with the ball is also very strong. Even his finishing ability and efficiency at the basket have always been the top point guards in the league. It is just because his three-pointers are so lethal that people often

His breakthrough ability was ignored.

But Wang Xiao did not choose to let Curry focus on breakthroughs. After all, there are specialties in the art industry. In Wang Xiao's system, Curry's biggest role is the three-pointer. Since he has Harden, he will naturally let Harden's role be replaced.

Maximize it.

After Harden came on the court, he immediately began to constantly use pick-and-roll mismatches to confront the Heat's forwards.

The Heat's two strikers are small forward Beasley and power forward Haslem. Neither is a player with good speed. Harden can easily break through the defense of the two and rush inside to cause damage.

This approach is almost identical to Wade's.

The difference was that Wade had to put in more effort to get rid of his opponent under Beverly's mad-dog defense, and when he rushed inside, he faced DeAndre Jordan, who was tall, long-armed and not slow in his movement.

This is the gap between players and lineup.

Whether it is Haywood, DeAndre Jordan or McGee, in Wang Xiao's tactical system, they are the last line of defense for the team's fragile perimeter defense. Their job throughout the season is to assist defense, block rebounds and pick-and-rolls.

Work has become easier.

But Heat center O'Neal Jr. obviously cannot adapt to this kind of job of constantly checking for leaks and filling in gaps.

At his peak, O'Neal Jr. was a typical power forward with both offense and defense. While his offense was strong, he also had outstanding defensive abilities.

But today's O'Neal is no longer the same O'Neal who averaged 20+10 and 2.6 blocks per game during his peak period. The trouble of knee injuries has greatly reduced his athletic ability.

In 70 regular season games played for the Heat this season, O'Neal only averaged 13.6 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. On the defensive end, he needs frequent assistance from Haslem and Joel Anthony.

When Haslem was pulled out to the outside because of the pick-and-roll, Jordan, who was guarding the basket alone, was simply helpless when facing Harden.

In less than 3 minutes, Harden caused two consecutive fouls on O'Neal. The latter had no choice but to leave the game, and he was replaced by standard blue-collar center Joel Anthony.

Joel Anthony's defensive ability is much better than today's Jordan, especially in terms of assist defense ability. Anthony's speed in the paint is pretty good, and he has a large assist defense area. He is better than O'Neal in defending Harden.

few.

But even so, if O'Neal hadn't committed too many fouls, Spoelstra would not have been willing to replace Joel Anthony.

Although O'Neal Jr. is a bit weak in defense, he is a former All-Star insider, has rich experience, and has certain offensive methods. He can more or less share some pressure on Wade in the paint.

But when Joel Anthony came on the court, Wade was really the only offensive point left on the Heat court.

Sure enough, when he saw Joel Anthony coming on the court, Wang Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up. He stood up and walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly.

"DeAndre (Little Jordan), you can pay more attention to Wade! Don't worry about the guy next to you."

When Joel Anthony was in the Heat's Big Three, he was an indispensable blue-collar player in the Heat's interior. He basically did all the dirty work of getting rebounds and assisting in defense.

But when it comes to offense, Joel Anthony can be described as horrific.

Throughout his career, Joel Anthony has never averaged more than 4 points per game in any season!

It's so cruel. While he lacks offensive ability, Joel Anthony can't even stand in the paint and eat cake.

Wang Xiao was not worried at all about Wade breaking through and passing the ball to Joel Anthony. He was even eager for Wade to do that.

Of course Wade knew this, so after the breakthrough, he could only forcefully attack with the back and forth attacks of DeAndre Jordan and Beverley.

But people have their limits after all. After playing a whole quarter of the game, basically holding the ball and attacking, Wade was starting to feel a little tired.

When his two consecutive breakthrough layups were ruthlessly rejected by Jordan's block, Spoelstra had to call a timeout.

After returning from the timeout, Wade was taken off the court to rest, and the Heat began to play a strict positional battle with Chalmers in charge of the ball.

How could Wang Xiao let go of such an opportunity?

Curry reappeared, DeAndre Jordan was replaced, and the team immediately switched to the five-death mode and began to increase speed.

Without Wade, the Heat's players are even slower on the court and cannot keep up with the Wizards' pace.

Whenever the Heat's offense is blocked, they will immediately face the Wizards' crazy fast break.

Before the end of the first quarter, the Wizards had already completed the lead.

When the buzzer sounded at the end of the first quarter, the Heat players who walked off the court were a little confused.

They really don't know how to defeat their opponents.

Equally confused were the more than 19,000 spectators at the American Airlines Arena.

Before the series started, they all believed that the best outcome would be for the Heat to meet the Wizards in the first round of the playoffs.

Compared with the Cavaliers, who are first in the Eastern Conference, the Magic, who are third, and the Celtics, who are fourth, the Wizards, who are ranked second, definitely seem to be the best team to deal with. As long as they can use defense to contain their three-pointers,

There is hope of winning!

But the reality is so cruel.

It definitely makes sense for the Wizards to be ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

In the first and second games, the Heat were completely unable to limit the Wizards' three-point shooting, and were easily shot to death.

At the beginning of the third game, relying on their home court advantage, the Heat did allow the Wizards to miss a three-pointer, but then... they discovered that the Wizards were not a team that relied entirely on three-pointers.

After the shooters opened up the space, the Wizards' breakthrough was extremely lethal.

The No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference defeated the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference?

This is just a good wish.

…

In the second quarter of the game, Wade appeared again and kept scoring to help the team keep up with the Wizards.

However, once Wade came off the court, the rhythm on the court instantly collapsed.

At the end of halftime, the score gap between the two teams was not big. However, in the third quarter, Wade only took a few minutes to rest off the court. The Wizards seized the opportunity and Curry scored two consecutive goals.

A three-pointer, plus Harden rushing into the paint to create 2+1, instantly widened the point difference.

Wade saw the situation was going badly and immediately came on the court, but it was too late.

After playing three quarters of the game, Curry and others have gradually begun to adapt to the Heat's home atmosphere... To be precise, the enthusiasm of the Heat fans has cooled down compared to the beginning of the game, and many fans have even begun to leave early.

field.

Curry, who had regained his form, scored consecutively in the third quarter, widening the point difference to more than 20 points... When the game ended, the score gap between the two teams was fixed at 24 points.

The total score is 3:0!
Chapter completed!