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Chapter 55 Did You Do It On Purpose? (Today's first update)
After losing the game with the 76ers, Riley was in a bad mood.

原本热火的战绩是39胜21负，而76人是40胜20负，如果热火能赢下这场比赛他们就将和76人的胜率持平。

The 76ers are No. [-] in the Atlantic Division, and the Heat are also No. [-] in the Southeast Division. When they have the same record and winning percentage, the mutual record is the key to determine who ranks higher.

And so far this season, the Heat have lost the first two games against the 76ers, and they have lost all three times in this game.

This means that even if the Heat have the same winning percentage as the 76ers at the end of the season, their ranking can only be lower than the 76ers.

What's more, they are now 76 games behind the 2ers, and there is little hope of equaling the 76ers' winning percentage.

This kind of "slot battle" loss, where losing one game is almost equal to losing two games, is obviously the most unacceptable for the Heat who want to occupy a favorable position in the playoffs.

It is conceivable how depressed the "magic operator" is now.

On March 3, the Heat challenged the Pistons in an away game. This is another key battle, because the Pistons are currently ranked tenth in the Eastern Conference and obviously belong to the underdogs in the league.

If you want to have a good record, you must score points against this underdog. After all, even if you can win against a strong team, it will not be easy.

The Pistons fielded their usual starting five all season: point guard Chucky Atkins, shooting guard Jerry Stackhouse, small forward Michael Curry (the name is good and strong), power forward Joe Smith, and center Ben Wallace.

The starting five for the Heat are point guard Tim Hardaway, shooting guard Eddie Jones, small forward Bruce Bowen, power forward Anthony Mason and center Brian Grant.

Since the Heat signed Stan Van Gundy, a chubby assistant coach in the middle of the season, the team's perimeter defense has improved significantly under his guidance.

But for Wang Dalin, the arrival of Van Gundy is not a good thing. It is precisely because he gradually shifted the team's defensive focus to the outside that Wang Dalin lost his starting position.

Wang Dalin's defensive attitude is naturally fine, but his defensive ability can only be said to be passable.

65 inside defense, 60 outside defense, this level of defensive ability... no matter inside or outside, he can only limit the opponent's substitute players, and he is still quite reluctant to face the offense of the starters.

Generally speaking, Wang Dalin is currently considered to be a player who is strong in offense and weak in defense. If he is given more offensive opportunities on the bench, his precise mid-range and long-range shots can often make the opponent's bench lineup very embarrassing.

And if you put him in the starting lineup, let alone how many shots he can have on the offensive end, it is easy to be targeted by the opponent only on the defensive end.

Fortunately, after several unsuccessful appearances as a substitute, Wang Dalin finally got used to it, and gradually became the leader in the second team.

This is also normal. The Heat's bench lineup this season includes Dan Marley, AC Green, Don McLenne, and Duane Coswell, who are quite old, Eddie House is too immature, and Ricky Davis is purely stupid. If Wang Dalin still can't seize the opportunity to perform, I'm really sorry for my 81 overall ability.

As for Todd Fowler, if it wasn't for the fact that the Heat had to maintain a minimum 14-man roster, they would have been cut like Ernest Brown and Jamal Robinson.

After the start of the game, the offensive rhythm of the Pistons was not slow at all. Their movement speed and ball transmission speed were very fast.

After all, their head coach is now George Irving, not Larry Brown.

Compared with Brown, who only emphasizes defense, coach Irving obviously prefers offense. The team he coaches never deliberately slows down the pace of the game in order to reduce points lost.

That's right, the old man Brown's so-called defensive tactics, in fact, the core idea is to reduce the rhythm and reduce the offensive and defensive rounds, so that even if they lose, they will not lose ugly.

Make a bold assumption, if the Pistons coached by Brown in 2004 replaced Rasheed Wallace with a power forward without shooting ability, it would be strange for them to win the "F4" Lakers in the finals!
Don't over-mythologize Ben Wallace's single defense ability.

This guy did limit O'Neal at the basket, but that was only one or two games. Most of the time, he was tortured by the "big shark" like everyone else!

Of course, coach Irving's offensive tactics are actually mostly singles for the team's stars (at this time, Stackhouse was mainly used for singles), and he really doesn't know how to train defense, otherwise how could the Pistons he coached not even make the playoffs?
The Heat have been very defensive this season. Although the Pistons played smoothly after the start of the game, their shooting percentage was not high, especially the scoring leader Stackhouse of their team, who played 6 for 7 shots in 0 minutes of the first quarter.

If it weren't for Atkins as if he was on the hook, the Heat might be able to lead by double digits in the first quarter.

Atkins took the lead at the beginning of the game, and the little point guard suppressed Hardaway on both ends of the offense and defense.His speed is very fast, he almost always breaks through when attacking, and he spares no effort to stalk Hardaway when defending. The old Hardaway can't keep up with his footsteps at all.

Although the Pistons' defense is not good, the Heat's offensive efficiency is not high-the Heat's starters in this game seem to be unable to find their shooting touch.

Just looking at the records of the two sides this season, anyone would think that this is a game with a huge difference in strength, but in fact the two sides have played back and forth, basically evenly matched.

With 2 minutes and 46 seconds left in the first quarter, Wang Dalin was replaced and he replaced Mason as a power forward.

At this time, Eddie Jones was the only starting player on the Heat field. He didn't feel good today, so he decided to let Wang Dalin lead the offense.

The backup point guard was Eddie House. He dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and handed the ball directly to Wang Dalin without delay.

What is a firm revolutionary friendship?
Compared with his quick passing vision, House obviously trusted Wang Dalin more. After he passed the ball, he started to run actively.

As the season draws to a close, House has gradually replaced Anthony Carter and has become the No. 1 pick for the Heat's current backup point guard.

Jones fell to the bottom corner on the right. He had been playing for nearly 10 minutes, and his physical strength was quite exhausted. At this time, he just wanted to take a break.

House took advantage of Green's cover to quickly go around the baseline. Just as Martin Cliffs, who was chasing him, was thrown away by a position, Wang Dalin's pass had already passed.

After receiving the ball, House didn't shoot directly, and the phone call would be fleeting. He could only gesture to Green to call for a pick-and-roll.

Green mentioned that the left flank was covering for House. House wanted to break through by himself, but he saw Wang Dalin running behind him quickly from the corner of his vision, so he quickly passed a hand and helped him block the defender.

"Shh!"

Wang Dalin catches the ball and hits a three-pointer.

Since the three-point ability increased to 85, regardless of whether the shooting percentage has improved, Wang Dalin's confidence in shooting three-pointers has indeed greatly improved.

After Wang Dalin made the three-pointer, both sides missed two offenses... In this game, this kind of scene is not unusual at all, it is completely normal operation.

The score came to 20:21, and the Pistons led by 1 point.

Looking back, Stackhouse singled Marley for the Pistons. With the cover of power forward Brian Cardinal, he switched positions, and the man who defended him was replaced by Wang Dalin.

"This ball must be defended!" Wang Dalin lowered his center of gravity and opened his arms to increase his defensive area as much as possible.

Stackhouse took a pose with the ball in one hand, but unfortunately his name is not Tracy or Michael, the same pose, the beauty is quite different.

Wang Dalin was concentrating, but he still underestimated Stackhouse and overestimated his lateral movement speed.

It is true that his lateral agility of 66 is not bad among interior players, but he is still a bit slow compared with a swingman like Stackhouse.

"Shh!"

This mid-range emergency stop jumper hit, the score came to 20:23, the Pistons led by 3 points, and there were 5 seconds left in the first quarter.

"Damn it!" Wang Dalin couldn't help cursing inwardly, "Stackhouse, you're a deadbeat. When I didn't play, you shot 7 for 0 shots. When I came up, you made a fuss...Isn't this deliberately embarrassing you?"

Seeing Wang Dalin's gloomy face, House comforted him and said, "Don't worry, Wang, hurry up later, I'll pass it to you after halftime, and you give him back one!"

Wang Dalin smiled wryly in his heart: "It's only 5 seconds, you really think highly of me..."

(End of this chapter)