am i proud?

Chapter 64 Chemical Reaction ([-]nd update today)

This season, the Heat's record once ranked second in the East, but Riley was a little slack in the "false rotation" in the first few games. As a result, they were overtaken by the Milwaukee Bucks. They are currently ranked third in the East by one game behind the Bucks.

In terms of team strength, they should be slightly better than the Raptors, who are currently ranked fifth in the Eastern Conference. Especially the team leader Mourning has returned, and the Heat players are as excited as if they had been pumped.

This is a "card position battle", and one win or one loss may affect the final ranking of the season, so both sides attach great importance to it.

I thought that the Heat would play inextricably with the Raptors in this game, but I didn't expect them to play badly.

The Heat still showed a very high level on the defensive end, but they played awkwardly on offense. There is no other reason... Mourning is back!

That's right, Mourning's sudden return made the Heat players seem to be unable to play.

After dozens of regular season games, the Heat's offensive routine has been quite smooth.Either Hardaway, the traditional point guard, will organize at the top of the three-point arc, or Wang Dalin will come outside the three-point line to play a high position to support, and the other players will follow the tactical running position and pick-and-roll pick-and-roll.

When it is really difficult to start the situation, Eddie Jones or Anthony Mason will play singles on the flanks. The singles ability of these two is also leveraged, and the offensive efficiency is not low.

But now that Mourning is back, as long as he is on the court, the players' first thought is to pass the ball to Mourning for low singles.

Mourning is obviously out of battle for a long time. Although he performed very well in training, he still has a bit of hips in real games. His low-post offensive efficiency is very low.

The Heat lost to the Raptors 92:101 in this game, and the game process was as unsuspecting as the score. The Heat have been suppressed by their opponents throughout the game and have never led.

莫宁上场20分钟，11投仅3中拿到9分6篮板1助攻。他的比赛感觉还在，不过明显难以适应赛季末段“卡位战”的比赛强度。

Mourning thought he would stage a "Return of the King" show, and even the game was broadcast live across the United States, but he was ashamed in the end.

"Alonzo is obviously not used to the rhythm of the game. I believe he will be able to get back to the state he was in last season by playing a few more games!"

"That's right! None of us can expect Alonzo to perform well as soon as he goes on the field after undergoing a kidney transplant operation. This is unscientific!"

TNT TV's "non-mainstream crosstalk combination" Barkley and Smith expressed their understanding of Mourning's poor performance in this game. After all, they both saw how vigorous Mourning was last season.

Isn't it just a kidney replacement?

For the "tough guy" Alonzo Mourning, can this be considered a matter?
On March 3, the Heat challenged the Bucks in an away game. This game is more critical than the previous game against the Raptors, because the Bucks happen to be second in the Eastern Conference, and the Heat are third in the Eastern Conference.

If the Heat win the Bucks in this game, they still hope to surpass the Bucks at the end of the season and get the second place in the Eastern Conference.

If you lose this game, everything will be over. I am afraid that the Heat will have no chance to rank second in the Eastern Conference this season.

Riley directly gave up the "false rotation", allowing Jones, Hardaway, Mason and Grant to play more than 35 minutes.

Mourning still came off the bench in this game, and his playing time was the same as the previous game for 20 minutes.

He made 8 of 4 shots and scored 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist. His efficiency seems to be pretty good, but he didn't make a free throw in the whole game, and he didn't cause any substantial damage to the Bucks inside.

On the other hand, the opponent's starting center, Elvin Johnson (not a magician), although he only scored 1 point from free throws, he grabbed 13 rebounds, including 4 offensive rebounds.

Bucks backup power forward Jason Caffey also scored 9 points and 11 rebounds, including 5 offensive rebounds.

In "Slam Dunk", the first center in Kanagawa Prefecture Takenori Akagi once said: "If you control the rebound, you can control the game!"

In this game, the Bucks grabbed 51 rebounds, including 14 offensive rebounds, while the Heat only grabbed 36 rebounds, including only 9 offensive rebounds...

The result is obvious, the Bucks controlled the rebound, so they won the game!

On April 4, the Heat challenged the Bulls away, and they finally won this game.

If even a team at the bottom of the league like the Bulls can't win, the Heat's players and coaches may have no face to face their third place in the Eastern Conference.

莫宁本场只上场打了16分钟，这次他的进攻效率好了不少，全场6投4中外加罚球6罚4中，拿到12分5篮板2助攻。

The best performer on the Heat's side was Hardaway, who scored 21 points and 10 assists, of which 3 assists were given to Mourning.

On April 4, the Heat played against the Celtics at home, and they lost again, with a score of 4:82.

保罗.皮尔斯和安托万.沃克这对“双子星”本场比赛双双发威，其中“真理”全场砍下33分9篮板，“胖头陀”也有20分5篮板5助攻进账。

The heat's game pace is too slow, so they have too few shots. They made 77 of 32 shots and only 41.7% from the field.

If the pace of the game is fast and the number of offensive and defensive rounds increases to 85-90, they can at least score 85-90 points according to this shooting percentage. The performance of the Celtics tonight may not necessarily win them.

But when Mourning's playing time increased to 23 minutes, how could the pace of the game be faster?

Mourning scored 10 points and 5 rebounds on 11 of 4 shots in this game. His shooting percentage was good, but his offensive efficiency was not high.Because, like the Bucks game, he had no lethality inside and only got 2 free throws in the game.

Since Mourning's return, the Heat have won 1 win and 3 losses in these four games, which can be said to be completely like two teams compared to before.Mourning's personal win-loss average is also very low, only -4.

In fact, the most influential person of Mourning's return is Wang Dalin. He not only reduced Wang Dalin's playing time, but also took up many mobile phone opportunities that originally belonged to Wang Dalin on the court, which caused Wang Dalin to fail to score in double figures in these few games.

The most important thing is... the team's good chemistry is gone!

When it comes to chemical reactions, more experienced fans should have a deep understanding.

比如2003-2004赛季时的“湖人F4”，还有2012-2013赛季时的“湖人新F4”，要说球员的咖位够大了吧？
But did they win in the end?
In the 2003-2004 season, the Lakers still made it to the finals, and finally won a "general runner-up".

What about the 2012-2013 season?
The first round of the playoffs was swept out by the Spurs 4:0!
Whether the team is strong or not sometimes depends not only on how many stars you have, even if you have gathered the "Big Three" or even the "Big Four", if the stars are not compatible, the strength may not increase but decrease.

And once the team's chemical reaction is good, such as the Pistons in the 2003-2004 season, they did not have a superstar in their team, but they defeated the "Lakers F4" and successfully won the championship.

The current problem for the Heat is that the team's chemical reaction has deteriorated after Mourning's return, so they have played so poorly in recent games.

Riley is very confident in Mourning. The former All-Star center is still strong. He believes that as long as Mourning plays a few more games, he will gradually recover.

But he didn't expect that his proud disciple would take the initiative to come to the office to have an interview with him...

(End of this chapter)