ace marshal

Chapter 1526 3.4
This season is the fourth season of James Harden's career.

It is also the last season of his rookie contract.

During the regular season, Harden started all 78 games, averaging 35.6 minutes per game, contributing 20.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 6.2 assists.

The performance is getting better and better, and the Clippers' early contract extension looks very cost-effective.

As Harden's beard grows longer, it is naturally his skills.

However, in the playoffs, Harden's performance declined somewhat.

The average playing time has increased to 38.2 minutes, but the data has dropped significantly, 16.7 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 4.4 assists, and an average of 3.6 turnovers per game.

This assist-to-turnover ratio is far from ideal.

This may also have something to do with the teams the Clippers encountered after the start of the playoffs.

Both the Grizzlies and the Spurs are good at defensive teams, and there are defensive leaders in the team, especially Ginobili's restrictions on Harden, making Harden almost invisible in the Western Conference semifinals.

However, Lan Shengli has always believed in Harden, and has been giving Harden a chance, hoping that Harden can find himself.

In the Western Conference Finals, Harden played a few good games and proved himself.

But after coming to the stage of the finals, facing the defense of Wade, Battier and other elite perimeter defenders, Harden once again suffered a power outage.

Especially in the first two games, the break was obvious.

However, when many people thought that he would continue to lose the chain like this, Harden suddenly broke out.

In the last 4 minutes of the fourth quarter of Game 3 of the finals, Harden made a "1+[-]", a chasing three-pointer, a defense that created a scrimmage, and a mid-range step-back jumper just completed against Wade.

Harden scored nine points in a row, and the point difference was only 2 points.

There is still 1 minute and 58 seconds left in the game, and this time the outcome is really unpredictable.

Ballmer punched wildly again, and now he no longer needs to be silent.

Perhaps after a while, the Clippers will be able to complete the overtake.

"Defence~!!"

"Defence~!!"

The defensive voices of the fans resounded throughout the Staples Center.

The Heat have felt unprecedented pressure since the start of the Finals.

Here James dribbles with his back and George defends behind.

When the other Heat players were about to continue to pull away, James suddenly called a pick-and-roll this time.

Bosh immediately ran over sullenly.

Started a pick-and-roll with James.

"Help me defend~!!!"

Love resolutely switched defenses in front of James and reminded his teammates.

Here James once again signaled his teammates to pull away.

Then it was still the breakthrough of the dribble with the left hand, which was exactly the same as the previous action of forcing Harden.

But Love doesn't have Harden's "height advantage", so he can't steal the ball and can only defend by intercepting in the air.

I saw that James had already reached near the edge of the left backboard.Suddenly there was a sudden slam on the brakes, and at the same time, he seemed to push Love with his right hand while he was a little staggering.

Love was obviously stressed and bounced away.

"Oh~!!!!"

The fans at the scene also immediately exclaimed, and made gestures of walking violations.

After all, the moment James stopped the ball, he took a few small steps.

Even the Clippers players gestured to remind the referee.

But the referee didn't blow his whistle.

Seeing this, the experienced James directly and quickly completed a throw on the board.

"Click~, brush~!!"

The ball hits the board easily into the box.

A more controversial goal.

The Heat's players returned to defense immediately, because being able to score this goal was indeed too important to them, and it solved their urgent need.

The Clippers players are still appealing to the referee, but the appeal at this time is meaningless.

The game was not interrupted, and the Clippers could only continue to serve.

"Hey~!!!, let's go~, this is the finals~!!, don't be kidding~!!!, we need a fair competition environment~!!!"

Lan Shengli was of course out of breath at the moment, waving his arms at the referee and yelling.

Harper on the side stopped Lan Shengli.

After all, if you say a few more words, it is very likely that you will be whistled for a technical foul.

Then the previous efforts to chase points may really be in vain.

"referee sucks (referee is too rubbish)~!!"

"referee sucks~!!"

"referee sucks~!!"

As the head coach, Lan Shengli can't say much, but the fans can.

The sound of abusing the referee replaced the previous defensive sound, resounding throughout the Staples Center.

However, the Clippers still have to pay close attention to the offense here, and the 4-point disadvantage can still catch up.

Harden dribbled the ball here, and as soon as he was about to do a pick-and-roll with Love, Battier double-teamed him directly.

The early double-teaming prevented Harden from forming a pick-and-roll with Love.

Harden had no choice but to hand the ball to Love.

After Love received the ball, the Clippers formed a four-on-three situation.

Love met Bosh who was guarding the basket, dribbled and killed.

Bosh stood outside the reasonable collision zone, ready to make Love's dribble charge.

But Love slowed down very smartly, but still knocked Bosh down, but he didn't lose his center of gravity.

The referee still did not whistle this time.

This time it was the Heat's players waiting for the whistle.

Ke Lefu is still very calm, since there is no whistle, then I will continue to attack.

"Swipe~!!"

The short-range toss shot steadily scored the ball.

This can be regarded as the referee getting back a whistle for the Clippers.

"Whistle should be blown if there is physical contact~, how can there be no whistle~?!, really~"

This time it was Spoelstra who questioned the referee.

After all, for the Heat, in the situation just now, even Bosh's defensive foul can be whistled, at least Love can't score the ball so easily.

The referee's whistleblowing has indeed created a situation of "both sides are not happy".

103:101, the Clippers are still two points behind, and there are only 1 minute and 20 seconds left in the game.

In the next two rounds, both sides took out the strongest defensive posture.

"Clang clang~!!"

Wade's mid-range shot missed.

"Da~, clang~!!"

When Harden continued to be double-teamed in advance, George's breakthrough layup was seriously interfered with and failed to score.

With 27.4 seconds left in the clock, the Heat have the ball.

The Clippers did not foul early, they hope to defend the ball, and then bet on the last attack.

At the end of James' control, he also encountered an early double-team, and James gave Chalmers.

"Dum~!!!"

Chalmers' hasty three-point shot ended with a "three non-stick".

There are only the last 3.4 seconds left.

(End of this chapter)