Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 374
As soon as Ye Feng's remarks came out, the public was in an uproar, especially the local media in Miami. They wrote articles criticizing the opponent's arrogance, and expressed their confidence in the Heat's fourth game to tie the big score.The Portland media rejoiced. They firmly believed that the team leader should have the arrogance to directly kill the opponent. Ye Feng's remarks undoubtedly hit their G-spot. It is commonplace to fight with each other and ridicule each other.

But the Blazers have not been affected by the outside world at all, and are still preparing step by step for the fourth game of the finals.However, under Ye Feng's encouragement, each of them seemed to have been injected with blood, and they performed very hard during training. It has reached the point where McMillan had to reduce the training time to prevent them from getting injured.

Normal people would think that Ye Feng's remarks are a kind of provocation, not to mention that as opponents, the Heat, who are as calm as James, are a little upset, not to mention those players who are relatively irritable. Ye Feng was abolished in the game.But they are just talking. The intensity of the league's punishment is not fun, and Spoelstra will not allow them to play tricks in the game. Deliberately targeting that is another matter.

One of the two sides was high-spirited and the other was full of anger. The fourth game started with sparks flying everywhere. Almost everyone on the defensive end desperately blocked the eye-catching, and would rather foul than allow the opponent to score.Under such intensity of the game, the two sides only scored 4 to 10 in the first 8 minutes, and the Heat took a slight lead. This is incredible for two teams with super firepower. rate did not reach 40%.

Surprisingly, the first to get out of the quagmire was not the Heat with a slight lead, but the Trail Blazers at home, or strictly speaking, Ye Feng alone.In this game, he began to hand over the organizational power to Miller, and he continued to look for opportunities in off-ball running positions.

The shooting percentages of both sides were not high before, and Ye Feng was no exception. He only made 4 of 3 shots in the first 1 minutes. Not to mention the comparison with the 59 points in the second game, even when he lost the first game, he was not so miserable. .But Ye Feng didn't back down, he still continued to ask his teammates for the ball, trying to throw the ball into the basket.

His persistence paid off. After hitting a difficult turnaround jumper against James' defense, his touch seemed to be all back.Although he didn't play singles with the ball, Ye Feng still used the cover to fire continuously from beyond the three-point line, helping the Blazers to overtake the score quickly.

Of course the Big Three of the Heat are very upset, but they have no real marksman in their starting lineup. It is really easy for Wade and James to rush to the basket to score, but their three-pointers are not reliable. Not to mention Haslem, Bibby's three-pointer is a drop in the bucket.So what if they can score a two-pointer?Every goal is one point less than the Blazers, and we can only watch the point difference continue to be widened, only the difference between fast and slow.

What made them even more desperate was that, driven by Ye Feng, the Blazers made all three-pointers from outside. Miller and Matthews also began to search for open spots to hit three-pointers, and even Aldridge, who was about to grab rebounds, Both Camby and Camby were doing nothing, and his teammates' three-pointers were too accurate.

This unexpected three-point rain liberated the inside offense again, because the Heat could only choose to expand the defense outside, so that the inside of the three-point line seemed very empty.The most important thing is that the outside defensive players dare not casually call back the defense, which means missing people on the outside. With the Blazers' three-point shooting rate, missing people is equivalent to a fatal blow.In desperation, the Heat's outside players can only choose to constantly go back and forth between the inside and outside, and their physical strength declines rapidly.

In this way, a vicious cycle is formed. The defensive end is exhausted and exhausted, and then the offensive end cannot maintain the shooting rate. In order to narrow the point difference, it is necessary to work hard on the defensive end... There is no way to restrain the Blazers' sudden fiery touch.

The only thing he can do is to continue to let James and Wade bring their own substitute players on the field after the Blazers replaced the substitutes. Now is not the time to consider the physical strength of the players in this game. It is easy to be directly beaten by the opponent. The Blazers have such offensive firepower.

However, the Blazers' substitutes are still up to the mark. Fernandez and Batum also maintain a good touch on the outside. Although they are not as abnormal as the main players, they are enough.The inside line was completely handed over to Ayres. He gave full play to his ability to grab rebounds. Even if his teammates missed shots, he still had a great chance to return the bullet. It's embarrassing to bully.

In fact, the Blazers made a lot of mistakes in the first quarter, twice as many as the Heat, which has a lot to do with their excessive sharing of the ball.You can't guarantee that every pass you make is safe. In order to obtain greater benefits, you must take corresponding risks, so some seemingly dangerous passes are not uncommon in the game.It was precisely in pursuit of better shooting opportunities that the Blazers made as many as 8 turnovers in the first quarter.

Although the number of turnovers was twice as high as that of the opponent, and although the Heat seized the opportunity to play a few fast-break counterattacks, at the end of the first quarter, the Blazers were still leading by 37 points 30-7.This is undoubtedly due to the outside three-point shooters headed by Ye Feng. They made 8 three-pointers together in the first quarter, while the Heat only scored 2 three-pointers. Points, well made up for the trouble caused by too many mistakes.

It's not that the Heat don't have good three-point shooters, such as James Jones, and he plays a lot of time.But McMillan deliberately released Cunningham at the fourth position of the bench and asked him to defend Jones, making the latter have no three-point shooting skills but even the shooting space was compressed.

Except for Jones, the three-pointers of other Heat players are basically so-so. Only backup point guard Chalmers' 36.1% and James' 34.7% are worth watching, and the others don't even have [-]%.With such a weak three-point firepower, and against the Blazers who feel hot, they can only accept the tragic fate of being rubbed on the ground by their opponents aggrievedly.

(End of this chapter)