The Spurs retreated very quickly, which also reflected the Spurs' good tactical quality. By the time Wade arrived at the Spurs' half, Chen Feng was already ready to defend in front of him.
Arriving at the top of the arc, Wade found that Birdman Anderson on the inside had secured his position under the basket, so he lobbed the ball in.
Birdman Anderson was seen dribbling the ball while squeezing Tim Duncan desperately. Just when everyone thought he was about to take a shot, Birdman Anderson suddenly used his body as a blocker and passed the ball to the basket.
Wade.
After Wade caught the ball, he threw it directly and the ball hit the board and went into the frame.
Wade, who scored under the basket, gave Anderson a high-five with no expression on his face, and then walked back to defend.
Chen Feng squinted his eyes slightly, thinking about how to fight next.
Tim Duncan passed the ball to Chen Feng and then quickly ran towards the Heat half court.
"Clang", a sound of striking iron was heard.
When Tim Duncan missed a field goal, Chen Feng jumped up suddenly, grabbed the flying basketball and grabbed the offensive rebound.
After grabbing the offensive rebound, Chen Feng took action directly, turned over for a layup, and tipped the ball into the basket.
Wade glanced at the position of his teammates, then faced Chen Feng's defense, dribbled the ball under his hips twice in a row, then stepped back and made a jump shot from outside the three-point line.
With a "swish" sound, the basketball hit the net.
"**, how come this guy is so accurate?"
Popovich, who was standing on the sidelines, quickly called a timeout after seeing Wade hit another three-pointer.
During the time when Wade returned to the court, the Heat had a 7:2 spurt. Although the Spurs were only 5 points behind the Heat, the Spurs had gradually fallen into a disadvantage.
Led by the Flash, the Heat have already gained momentum.
At this time, the effect of the Heat's rotation of Wade throughout the season is reflected!
After the timeout, Popovich replaced Tracy McGrady and Leonard. On the Heat's side, Chris Bosh also came up.
Chen Feng would not be intimidated by Wade's performance. He received the ball in one step inside the three-point line, aimed at the basket and made an unreasonable jump shot. The basketball flew into the frame in a beautiful arc.
Chen Feng was completely at loggerheads with Wade, and the two of them were going back and forth against each other.
Wade organized the Heat's offense, broke through the baseline, and passed the ball from behind to Ray Allen at the top of the arc. The latter opened his hand and hit a three-pointer.
With a "swish" sound, the ball was scored again.
The Spurs attacked, Leonard received a wonderful pass from Chen Feng, and made a beautiful three-pointer from the bottom corner.
During this period, the shooting percentages of both sides were quite high.
Wade cut to the basket from the center, received Battier's pass, and went straight for a layup, but was interfered by Chen Feng and missed the layup.
Derrick Favors grabbed his eighth rebound of the game and threw it to Chen Feng.
Dribbling past half court, Chen Feng used Tim Duncan's screen to penetrate the Heat's basket, attracting another defensive player to cover up.
The result was predictable. Chen Feng passed the ball directly to the free Tim Duncan. After receiving the ball, the latter took a big step and dunked successfully.
Spoelstra watched the Spurs complete another wave of offense and shook his head with some disappointment.
In the second quarter of the game, the Heat's defensive intensity dropped a lot.
So Spoelstra also requested a timeout.
"I believe everyone understands the purpose of calling this timeout. Look at your defense, it's just like paper. I don't want to see this kind of defense again. If anyone still has this attitude, then he will be off the field. Our team
There is no shortage of people here." Spoelstra has always been relatively calm, but today, after seeing the players' poor defense, Spoelstra also yelled angrily at the Heat players.
After the timeout, the Spurs' Chen Feng was replaced by Mills.
Since the start of the game, Chen Feng has only rested for a while at the end of the first quarter. So for the next game, Popovich decided to let Chen Feng rest for a while.
As for the Heat, starting small forward James replaced Battier.
Perhaps Spoelstra's reprimand had an effect, as the Heat indeed increased their defensive intensity in the following games. This left the Spurs' offense at a loss.
Wade easily carried the ball across half court and passed the ball with a hit. The ball quickly bounced into the hands of Chris Bosh, who turned and hit a jumper.
Leonard's three-point shot missed. Derrick Favors grabbed the offensive rebound and handed it to McGrady. McGrady singled out James and attempted a fadeaway jumper, but failed to hit. After Birdman Anderson picked off the defensive rebound, he quickly
Put it into Wade's hand.
Wade handed it to James. James hit another three-pointer without anyone marking him. Tracy McGrady only needed six seconds to return the favor. He broke through to the Heat's three-point line and made a direct shot.
Three points, also hit.
But in the following time, the Heat launched a fierce counterattack.
After halftime, Wade threw the ball high, and James cut from the wing to the basket, leaped high and dunked with both hands.
Only a minute and a half after the timeout, Wade scored 3 points and 2 assists. His performance was so exciting that the fans in the audience screamed.
With four minutes left in the first half, Chen Feng appeared again, but in the duel with Wade, Chen Feng did not take advantage.
Chen Feng quickly brought the ball across the half court, watching Derrick Favors keep getting stuck in the paint for the ball. With a lob, the ball was quickly handed over to Derrick Favors.
The ball was passed very cleverly. It happened to be in Derrick Favors' hands when he turned around and shouldered it. His shoulders suddenly exerted force, pushing Chris Bosh out, and he won a little jump under the basket.
space.
Derrick Favors was really like a ferocious beast. He roared under the basket and his huge body rose into the air. Anderson, who was defending, couldn't stop him at all. Instead, he was called for a defense by the referee.
It's a foul because he just stepped on one foot within the reasonable collision area.
In NBA courts, a semicircle with the center of the basket as the center and a radius of 4 feet (1.2 meters) is called the reasonable collision zone.
Standing within the arc line, as long as the defensive player has physical contact with the offensive player, a defensive foul may be assessed. Outside the line, the defensive player can stand in advance. If the offensive player physically contacts the defensive player, an offensive foul will be assessed.
Player offensive foul. In the reasonable collision area, when the opponent is attacking, if the defensive player jumps up, he will not be whistled for a foul. If he does not jump, he will be whistled for a defensive foul.
Derrick Favors made the first free throw, but the second one bounced out of the basket.
The extremely ferocious Derrick Favors grabbed the offensive rebound and then passed the ball to Chen Feng from the outside.
After Chen Feng received the ball, he quickly broke through, but as soon as he took the first step, the ball disappeared in his hand.
Chen Feng looked up at his watch and saw that the ball was intercepted by James here.
"Whoa", Wade's breakthrough layup was successful, completing the fast break counterattack.
This was Wade's 21st point in the first half, and Chen Feng's mistake just now was also his third mistake of the game.
Spoelstra is very satisfied with the current situation of the Heat. He is sitting on the coaching bench with a smile on his face and discussing something with the assistant coach.
Spurs coach Popovich is not in the mood to sit around at the moment. He is standing on the sidelines, anxiously reminding the players to defend well, pass the ball more, and cooperate.
The Heat's outside line is very crazy. The Heat's outside line, led by Wade and James, has brought a great impact to the Spurs.
Popovich quickly called a timeout to prepare for the defense in the last two minutes of the first half and find the right opportunity to narrow the point difference to single digits.
Now, the Spurs are 13 points behind the Heat. This is a very big test for the Spurs. If they cannot reduce the point difference to single digits before the end of the first half, then the second half will
The game is not easy to play.
Popovich also understood that the incomplete team lineup had exhausted the players physically and mentally. So during the timeout, he did not criticize the players' performance with a straight face, but encouraged them earnestly.
"In the last two minutes, we must defend well. The Heat's outside touch is too hot. They can always attack our basket. We must strangle them and then take advantage of our inside advantage.
It poses a threat to the opponent's inside line. So, next, we have to play a second and third zone defense." Popovich took the tactical board and drew it while laying out the tactics for the players in detail.
Zone defense, as the name suggests, means joint defense. It consists of positional zone defense and counterpoint zone defense. If combined with man-to-man marking, it can also be transformed into a mixed defense (hybrid defense).
The biggest difference between zone defense and man-marking is that the ultimate goal of zone defense is to prevent the ball.
The second and third zone defense is a deformation of the most basic 2-1-2 zone defense. It has similar advantages to 2-1-2. It aims to consolidate rebounds and protect the basket, and strengthens the prevention of the opponent's baseline slippage and blind spots on the outside.
Similar to 2-1-2, but if the center under the basket rises too slowly, the opponent's forward who inserts from 45 degrees may dominate the free throw line and the blind area of the small penalty area.
The advantage of the second and third zone defense is that it strengthens the perimeter defense, which is helpful for defending mid-range shots from the front and both sides of the perimeter, and is also conducive to perimeter interceptions and counterattacks for fast breaks.
Since it has advantages, the second and third zone defense also has disadvantages. Its disadvantage is that the defense in the two bottom corners and the penalty area is weak, and the defender is prone to fouls when grabbing rebounds, which is not conducive to the defensive team rushing to grab rebounds.
The second and third zone defense deployed by Popovich had an effect in the following period. Not only were the Heat's outside shots blocked by the Spurs, but their firepower to attack the basket was also extinguished by the Spurs.
