I just play ball

Chapter 268 Grade Gap
LeBron made two free throws and the Heat chased to 12-22.

The Lakers served from the bottom line to attack, Li Yue continued to seek block cooperation as usual, so as to displace Ray Allen, while the Heat continued to double-team and rotate to defend, Iguodala disassembled and went down, caught the ball again and scored, just like a video replay.

Turning his head, LeBron received the ball from the right waist and singled Iguodala with his back. At the same time, he used his footsteps and body to hit a fadeaway shot with difficulty, helping the Heat to bite the point difference and retain the suspense of the Christmas game.

In this way, the Lakers easily scored through the pick-and-roll mid-range shot, and the Heat struggled to score through low-post singles. The game quickly reached the end of the first quarter, and the official timeout came. Continue to stay on the court, only Wade and Bosh are off to rest, clearly wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to chase points.

Li Yue and Iguodala sat on the bench at the same time. The players on the Lakers, whether it was Covington or Nick Young, were unable to restrain LeBron. Resting with Bosh, LeBron focused on the offensive end again. The Heat had many defensive loopholes, and Meeks and Blake scored easily.

After the first quarter, the Lakers led 36 to 29.

After playing for [-] minutes in a row, LeBron was arranged to stay off the court by coach Spoelstra. The Heat changed to Wade and Bosh to lead the team. They improved on the defensive end, but because of LeBron's rest, The Lakers double-teamed and intercepted, the Heat had difficulty distributing the ball quickly, and the offensive end fell into a quagmire again, failing to further narrow the point difference.

When the main force of the Lakers and LeBron reappeared, the game returned to the previous situation where the Lakers scored easily and the Heat struggled to score. However, LeBron's physical strength declined, and the success rate of singles also decreased accordingly. The Lakers led more and more.

When the bell rang at the end of halftime, the score was fixed at 68 to 54. The Lakers had 15 more assists than the Heat.

Back in the locker room, Li Yue changed his sneakers, rewrapped his ankles, and browsed news and Twitter in his free time.

Perhaps the heat was easily suppressed at halftime. In the voting statistics initiated by ESPN, more than 85.24% of the votes believed that the Lakers would defend their title, and 72.96% of the votes believed that the Spurs were the strongest opponent of the Lakers.

As for the reason, a large number of hot list comments pointed out that Wade was limited by injuries and age, and his personal performance no longer conformed to the second core status of the Heat. Moreover, the stingy Heat owner pardoned Mike Miller, which caused the Heat's outside offensive and defensive strength to decline. The competitive status of veterans such as Lewis and Battier has further declined, and their strength is not as good as before.

Coupled with the fierce conflict between Chalmers and LeBron not long ago, the Heat have internal and external troubles. Tonight, they have not been taken away by the Lakers. It is all due to LeBron playing [-] minutes in the first quarter. Tragedy is bound to happen.

There are also many well-known commentators who said that it is not that the Heat are not strong enough, but that the Lakers are too fierce. The Pacers lost 42 points before, which is enough to prove that other teams want to beat the Lakers, or they must take advantage of extensive injuries like the Mavericks and spend a lot of time. Stealing points in an offensive style, or making very few mistakes like the Spurs, and making efficient use of the Lakers' mistakes.

Seeing so many people bragging about the team's performance, Li Yue chose two of them, read them aloud and shared them with his teammates. The whole team returned to the court excitedly after hearing it, and warmed up for shooting in advance, wanting to prove that so many people had the right vision.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Heat gave Battier and Chalmers the opportunity to make three-pointers first. They struggled to get the opportunity under the Lakers' unlimited defenses. They only made 3 of 1 consecutive shots and had to change to LeBron's arc again. Top master.

After half a quarter of the game, the point difference did not continue to widen, but when D'Antoni sent a combination of Li Yue, Kobe, and Igo, the Lakers' offensive and defensive strength increased sharply, and they directly played a wave of 8-0, scaring Spoelstra. pause.

After the timeout, LeBron started the singles mode. Li Yue, Kobe, and Igo responded in turn. It felt like the three heroes were fighting against Lu Bu, helping the Lakers maintain a 20-point lead.

After three quarters, the Lakers lead 98 to 78.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers sent a pure second team, and the Heat replaced the two main players, LeBron and Bosh.

The on-site TNT commentator believes that if the Heat can take the opportunity to narrow the point difference, then the game still has to be played. If it cannot be done, the Christmas game will end in garbage time.

Li Yue sat on the bench, watching the game with a towel on.

Lakers lineup, Marshall, Meeks, Nick Young, Covington, Jordan Hill.

Heat lineup, Norris Cole, Wade, Ray Allen, Lewis, Birdman Anderson.

According to the result of the opening jump ball, the Lakers attacked first.

Marshall dribbled the ball to the LOGO, and the team showed a V-shaped formation.Nick Young started from the left wing, rushed to the free throw line with the help of Hill's cover, blocked Anderson's defense, Cole chased behind him, Lewis moved laterally to interfere, and forced an emergency stop.

As the saying goes, let him force him to force him, my son Nick Young, even Kobe is not as crazy as me!
when!The basketball hit the basket and hit the iron, rebounded and flew to the left, Hill and Anderson jumped up and competed at the same time.

The basketball was forced to fly out of bounds, and Anderson turned his head and gestured to the referee for a backcourt ball, but Hill jumped out of bounds in one step, grabbed the basketball during the fall, and threw it to the top of the arc with a vigorous swing of his arms. Marshall caught the ball and went straight to the penalty area, European step Anderson, who was still in a daze, scored two points with an easy layup, and the audience gave thunderous applause and cheers.

Easy to attack the Heat, Cole dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, and moved to the right with the help of Lewis' cover.

Marshall bypassed the screen and successfully intercepted. Cole changed hands and diverted to the left, and rushed to the free throw line with the help of Anderson's screen.

Facing Hill's interception and Covington's pincer attack, Cole lowered his center of gravity significantly and walked in. He tried to pass the ball to Anderson with a low hand several times, but all succeeded. Finally, he rushed to the bottom line, turned around and jumped high to the left. Pass the ball from the three-point line.Lewis, who was unguarded, received the ball, hesitated a little, and faced Covington who was flying back, forced a jump and shot a three-pointer.

The basketball hit the front of the rim and fell. Marshall picked it up and pushed forward. He rushed to the left wing and moved to the top of the arc with the help of Hill's cover. Facing Anderson's delay in changing defenses, he passed the ball directly to the right wing.Nick Young received the ball, moved to the sideline, used Covington's cover to get rid of Ray Allen, faced Lewis with a three-pointer, and resolutely refused to pass the ball!
when!Smashing baskets and striking iron.

Anderson and Hill took off to fight, the basketball was dialed to the free throw line, Cole and Covington grabbed it again, and the basketball rolled to the center line again under force.Marshall, who was about to retreat, picked it up easily, and raised his hands up to his left waist.

Hill caught the ball and took advantage of the momentum, turned around and passed Anderson with one step, and easily put the basket to score.

102 to 78, the Lakers lead expanded.

The big screen in the center showed LeBron sitting on the bench with a blank expression on his face.

The Heat attacked, Cole rushed the ball to the left wing, hit the ground and passed it to Wade, who was stuck in a good position.

Meeks didn't try to be brave, and immediately called for help in defense. Covington immediately rushed up from the top of the arc to press down. At the same time, Lewis went straight to the basket with no defense.Wade dribbles out in a hurry, jumping up to pass the ball to Covington, who is taller than himself.

The ball was played in a timely manner, but the arc was too high and the speed was too fast. Lewis couldn't catch it at all, and the basketball flew out of bounds.

The referee blew his whistle to punish the Lakers for possession of the ball in the backcourt. The audience applauded and cheered. Spoelstra turned and walked back to the bench. After saying a few words, LeBron and Bosh got up and walked to the technical table.

The Lakers attacked, Nick Young took the ball to the right wing, handed it to Marshall, and strode to the bottom corner to stand.

Marshall waited for two seconds with the ball, moved to the top of the arc with the help of Hill's cover, and passed the ball 45 degrees to the left from a distance.Covington caught the ball and observed for a while, and in order to find a good opportunity, he quickly dribbled the ball to the top of the arc to pass back to Marshall, and made a screen by the way.

The Heat adopted a pincer attack, Marshall rushed to the free throw line, and passed the ball from the top of his head to Covington who quietly ran 45 degrees to the right and was unguarded. Ray Allen rushed up to defend, and Covington split the ball to the right. bottom corner.

Nick Young, who had been in ambush for a long time, received the ball, raised his hand and scored a three-pointer, and the basketball went into the net.

105 to 78, the Lakers led by 27 points, and the Heat requested a timeout.

In the TNT commentary seat, Barkley shook his head and spread his hands: "When a team's pure second team can easily defeat another championship-level team's main second team, the final result can be said to be obvious."

"The current Lakers players on the court are very defensive and have a stronger desire to win the game." Kenny said, "Heat players are difficult to deal with. Those comments on social networks are indeed reasonable. There is a gap between the two teams."

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Back on the court, LeBron turned on the No.1 mode in the league. He hit various points through low-post backs, high-posts, and fast breaks, and occasionally assisted his teammates to score goals. However, the Heat could not limit the Lakers' offense, and the point difference was always higher than 20. .

In the last 3 minutes, Spoelstra took advantage of the timeout to replace all the main players, and arranged for Joel Anthony and other water cooler players to play. The Lakers also sent Beasley, Thackeray and others, and the game completely entered garbage time.

In the end, the Lakers won the Christmas game 122 to 103 and won 4 consecutive victories.

As the team representative, Li Yue distributed Christmas gifts to the children in the King's Avenue community. After finishing his work, he went directly to the locker room, took a shower and changed clothes to bid farewell to his teammates, and drove Chen Xi to the parking lot to leave the arena.

As soon as the car drove out of the Staples Center, Chen Xi asked with a smile, "Where's my Christmas present?"

(End of this chapter)