Chapter 477 Dominance
Although the process of Brown's isolation against Love was ugly, the excellent shooting rate made people realize that Love's defense was completely unqualified as a fifth position.
His body has no advantage even in the fourth position. Taking the fifth position, which requires the most physical talent to ensure the lower limit, is a pure gift.
However, the Heat's offensive firepower is strong enough, and with Wade and Ariza, two tough defensive players, who can work hard on the outside, they can usually guarantee a certain lower limit.
Now when faced with a strong perimeter like the SuperSonics, they caught Love's defensive loophole at a glance, allowing Brown to continue to play in isolation, causing the Heat's defense to reach a deadlock.
As a power forward who was forced to the fifth position, Love's static and dynamic talents are mediocre. Moreover, he does not have the competitive attitude of a mangy like those low-talented insiders who are physically disabled and strong-willed.
Love's strength is technology and his responsibility is to protect rebounds. Therefore, when defending Brown, he only ensures that he does not lose his position. Whenever Brown takes a shot, he will interfere symbolically, and then turn around and get stuck.
This of course ensures that he is in an advantageous position every time he grabs a rebound.
But the disadvantages are also obvious.
A swashbuckling defense like this is ineffective except in the opening moments.
Brown scored consecutively in the low post.
Half a quarter passed, and the Heat, who had a strong start, messed up their position when the SuperSonics strangely played Kwame Brown.
16 to 11
Seattle takes the lead.
Heat head coach Spoelstra is not yet the magical coach of the 2020s who must change his tactics every time out. As a head coach, he is widely regarded as the on-court incarnation of Riley.
Since he is an incarnation, he does not need his own thoughts and consciousness. He only needs to stabilize the locker room and seize the opportunity to call a timeout. Riley behind the scenes will take care of the rest.
So when the Sonics let Brown play in isolations continuously, Spoelstra struggled for a while before he realized that they could double-team Kwame Brown.
With this person's technical roughness, he will definitely not be able to pass the ball well when he is double-teamed.
Therefore, after the timeout, the Heat clarified Brown's defensive method of double-teaming when he gets the ball in the low post.
As a result, Spoelstra was only on the first floor, while his opponent was at least on the third floor.
It was Yu Fei's on-the-spot decision to let Brown beat Love's defense in singles.
It was this decision that allowed Karl to see how bad Loew's defense was.
Since Love's defense is so bad, why don't they replace Brown with Ou, who is more capable of attacking in the low post?
Therefore, Brown, who made great achievements, was replaced after the timeout.
O'Brien takes Brown's place at center.
This is his position in the Pacers. After he went to the Lakers, he lost weight and played the fourth position. But against a pocket center like Love, who is all about the fourth position from weight to size, he has nothing to fear.
In addition to replacing Brown with O'Brien, Karl also saw that Durant was "not too excited" and lacked enthusiasm during tactical movements, so he replaced him with rookie Alonzo Key.
In the past six minutes, Durant was like an invisible man, taking only one shot and hitting the ball.
In other words, his current data is 0 points.
"Have a good rest, we need your energy in the second quarter."
Karl said softly.
This is what Durant is looking forward to.
Tonight the team will focus on attacking inside, so Yu Fei and Roy will definitely increase the frequency of passing the ball to the inside.
So if he wants to average 18 shots per game like before, he has to seize the opportunity to take a lot of shots in the transition period.
"Why should you replace me?" Durant heard Brown's complaint, "I'm 4 out of 7. What can Jermaine do? He's already a half-wasted person."
Is it possible? Is the half-wasted Jermaine better than you?
Durant has a problem with Brown.
He thought the megalomaniac had crossed the line in many ways.
If Yu Fei was yelling at him on the court, then OK, he had nothing to say, but Kwame Brown?
Seriously? He didn't pass a single ball, so he was forced to do it for a long time?
"If KD had passed the ball, I would be 5 for 8 now!" Brown still remembers how Durant ignored him.
Durant will only say words that fit Durant's character: "My bad."
"You are wrong!" Brown said in an experienced tone, "Fry and Brandon both believe in me, and you have to believe in me too."
They don't believe you. They believe that Kevin Love, an idiot who can't defend but insists on playing the fifth position to get rebounds, can't guard any inside man!
Durant gradually discovered that the voice deep in his heart was becoming more and more violent and intense, and it became less and less like the words he would blurt out.
That wasn't what he would say, but why were they there?
Just when Durant was thinking, SuperSonics rookie Alonzo Key flew up to destroy the Heat's pass, and then Rodman possessed him. He would rather let his body kiss the floor to save the ball.
Unfortunately, his enthusiasm was misplaced.
He has the courage to save the ball, but does not have the ability to find his teammates when he is out of balance.
The ball flew to Curry's hands.
In an instant, Curry launched a counterattack.
Yu Fei caught up, but Curry was not afraid at all. He dribbled behind his back and stopped suddenly, and quickly threw a chasing three-pointer in front of Yu Fei's face.
"Ugh!!!"
"Stephen is not afraid of Fry!"
"Fry is right, Stephen is special!"
"The most special thing about him is that every technology he is good at is the mainstream of this era!"
Curry's performance sparked discussions on major television stations.
This was the first time he faced a flying opponent in the NBA. He had no stage fright at all and performed extremely well. Probably he has seen many similar performances from the opponent when he was in the Dream Team. Now that rookie Ku Yufei is showing such outstanding skills in front of him, he doesn't seem surprised.
Yu Fei is more concerned about Alonzo Key than Curry.
"It's a good thing to work hard." Yu Fei said, "But your hard work is obviously too much. The game has not reached that point yet."
Ji understood what Yu Fei wanted to express.
There is no need to fly to save the ball at this time, such feats should be reserved for more meaningful moments. Besides, the results of his feat were not good.
Key played college basketball for four years, and he certainly knows when to exert his best efforts for the team. But now, his downward dog mentality has taken over his subjective consciousness.
This mentality gave him the understanding that he must give his best to every ball.
Therefore, he remained silent in response to Fei's advice.
Yu Fei knew that he listened to his own words, but he didn't listen. If there was a next time, he would fly out.
There should be no one who hates players who work hard in the game.
"I heard that you have been practicing baseline three-pointers recently?" Yu Fei asked after receiving the serve.
Key said: "The three-pointer from the right corner, Anthony (Morrow) taught me for a while."
"I'm not quite sure yet." Ji didn't want Yu Fei to have too high expectations of himself, so he quickly added.
Yu Fei said with expectation: "We will know soon whether you have practiced specifically."
Key was a little surprised. Does this mean that Frye is going to make a ball for himself?
He is right.
Yu Fei dribbled the ball across half court and raised his hand to direct his teammates to move.
Key was weaving in and out of the crowd, and the Heat didn't take his shooting threat to heart, limiting Roy and Moreau to catching the ball.
Suddenly, Collison stepped forward to set a screen for Key.
Key sprinted along the right corner.
One step, two steps, three steps... According to Yu Fei's understanding, it takes six steps to run from that position to the three-point line, but Ji only took five steps.
Maybe it's because his stride is relatively long, or maybe he doesn't have a clear idea of running to catch the ball and just follows his feelings.
Yu Fei passed the ball instantly and looked at Ji's feet the moment he released the ball.
Sure enough, it crossed the line.
Yu Fei has been teammates with the best shooter in history - Ray Allen takes six steps every time he runs from the basket to the baseline. That is the best rhythm and the most appropriate number of steps, which can create the perfect opportunity for the shooter. Rhythm and feel on the ball.
Alonzo Key didn't understand this, and he only started practicing three-pointers systematically after entering the NBA.
So this low-level error is acceptable.
"Bang!"
Ji's step on the line missed two points.
Love grabbed the defensive rebound and then performed one of his most acclaimed skills - a pass.
Love grabbed the rebound and accurately threw a long pass with both hands.
He almost created a direct scoring opportunity for Ariza.
But Yu Fei's reaction was too fast.
Starting from the moment when Key missed the shot, he ran back. When Ariza caught the ball, the two men were almost in the same position. At such a moment, Ariza suddenly had a bold idea - if he could seize the opportunity to dunk Frye, would this round be his "Stackhouse humiliates Michael" moment?
Ariza can foresee how much this dunk will bring to his reputation.
This allowed him to overcome his fear.
Coming to the frontcourt, Ariza shouted loudly and leaned against Yu Fei, trying to use his strength. However, at the moment when their bodies collided, Ariza was horrified to find that Yu Fei's body was not knocked away by him at all.
Not only did he fail to gain strength, but his feet were weak due to insufficient anticipation of physical confrontation, and his take-off height was far from high enough.
"It's over..."
Ariza wailed in his heart, he understood Yu Fei.
He will not miss any opportunity to defend his position.
Just as Ariza thought, Yu Fei jumped to a higher place than him, grabbed the basketball roughly with both hands, and took the ball off Ariza's head, causing Ariza to fall upside down.
A terrible sound erupted from the scene.
It's like a god revealing his true form in front of hundreds of millions of believers.
The players in the center of the field could clearly feel that the Key Arena environment suddenly became hot and dry, and the noise from all directions made them deaf.
Yu Fei quickly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and Curry was misplaced to defend.
Yu Fei, however, had no intention of making any unnecessary moves. He simply ignored Curry's defense and shot a chasing three-pointer over the opponent's head without giving the opponent any time to think.
Uh-huh!
When the ball scored, Spoelstra made the right decision. Yu Fei released the pressure of "I am the master" and decisively stopped the game.
"Stephen may become a special player in the future, but he will inevitably play in Frye's shadow." Doug Collins said exaggeratedly, "Frye's wings envelope the league. Every feather is a symbol of dominance!”
(End of chapter)