The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 247
After chatting about tens of billions of dollars in big business, Li Pu still wanted to return to reality and conduct a "small business" worth tens of thousands of dollars in a game.

On December 12, the Kings played at home against the Heat, which had just played the Christmas game.

Today's Heat has long been a joke in the league.

Made it to the finals for three consecutive years, lost to the Mavericks in the first year, and lost to the Thunder in the next two years.

Obviously formed a luxurious Big Three lineup, but still failed to win the championship.

People have no expectations for James at all now, what a proud son of heaven is just the biggest loser!
Of course, this does not affect their Christmas battle.

In addition, since last season, Wade's knee has completely failed.

There have been many injuries this season, and this game is due to high injuries.

Therefore, the Heat's starting lineup for this field is: Mario Chalmers, Roger Mason, LeBron James, Sean Battier and Chris Bosh.

It can be seen that even if Wade is missing, the Heat still crush the Kings in terms of team strength!
Well, at least fans think so.

In fact, the two teams had just played a game in Miami a week ago. As a result, the Kings lost 103:122, and Li Pu passively completed a three-quarter check-in.

Now that the two teams meet again, Kings fans are uneasy, wondering if their team's attributes of stealing from the rich and helping the poor can be brought into play again?

In addition, the starting lineup of the Kings has been adjusted tonight. Giannis replaced Patterson as the starter. Giannis, who is only 19 years and 21 days old, has become the youngest starter of the Kings.

Li Pu easily won the jump ball from Bosh's face and put the ball into Giannis' hands.

Battier who defends Giannis, although Battier is a defensive expert, he is 36 years old after all. This is his last season, and all statistics are career lows.

Sure enough, Giannis accelerated his dribble and easily broke through Battier's defense.

Although Giannis is 8cm taller than Battier, but in terms of speed, Battier has completely failed to catch up with Giannis at this time.

After the breakthrough, the Heat's defense was quickly put in place, and James blocked Giannis for the first time.

Giannis can pass Battier in one step, but he can't pass James in one step, but he passes the ball back!
I saw Giannis throwing the ball to Middleton who was emptied outside. Although Battier took turns to defend, it was still a step too late. Middleton caught the ball and shot.

Basketball hollow into the net!

As the season progresses, although Middleton is still supernatural and can switch at will, his three-point shooting percentage has been steadily increasing, and now it has reached 35% unknowingly.

If he can maintain this momentum, it is definitely not a problem to wait until the end of the season to shoot more than 40%.

Middleton's thunder out of thin air kicked off the game.

Although the average age of the Heat is older, the Heat are undoubtedly the side that needs to speed up the pace of the game. Who makes their inside shorter?

James quickly came to the frontcourt with the ball and let James take a step to defend.

Although James' mid-range shooting has improved a lot compared to when he was young, the best way to defend James is to force him to shoot.

After all, letting him break through would cause more harm.

After coming to the frontcourt, James called Bosh to pick and roll with him.

After the pick-and-roll, the player in front of James was changed from Butler to Li Pu. The defensive pressure increased instead of falling, but James immediately passed the ball back to Bosh.

After receiving the ball, Bosh took a mid-range jumper. Although Butler tried his best to save it, the difference in height allowed Bosh to hit the shot!
Although Bosh has been questioned since the formation of the Big Three, both the media and the fans attribute the responsibility for the team's failure to win the championship to him.

But it is undeniable that he does have strength!
How to put it, he used to lead the team to the playoffs as the boss of the team!
After the Heat scored, without waiting for celebration, Giannis quickly took the ball to the bottom line, made a long pass, and found Bledsoe in the frontcourt.

After Bledsoe received the ball, he used his speed to overwhelm Chalmers, then made a layup and scored 2 points again!
Giannis is a point guard after all, and his passing ability is still good. This quarterback makes a long pass, and he passes it well!

And this is why coach Brown knew that Giannis' shooting ability was not good, so he still sent him on the court.

It is to increase the vitality of the team to impact the Heat's aging lineup.

At this time, the Heat have already noticed what the Kings want to do, and the opponent wants to be faster than themselves?
James brought the ball upfield again, and this time he chose to pick and roll with Battier.

It has to be said that James is also smart. In just one round, he sensed the intentions of the Kings and also discovered the role of Giannis in it.

Therefore, he decided to take Giannis first.

Pick and roll, facing Giannis, James chose to force a breakthrough, knocked Giannis into the paint, and put the ball into the basket.

"Drip!"

At the same time, the referee whistled, "2+1"!
Don't think Giannis can become DPOY in the future, but he is really a younger brother now, especially in front of James, he is even the younger brother.

Fortunately, James missed an additional penalty, which also made Giannis' foul not too bad.

James missed the free throw. After receiving the rebound, Li Pu made another long pass and found Bledsoe in the frontcourt without stopping.

However, this time the Heat retreated in a timely manner. After all, they have rich experience, and it is impossible for them to suffer a loss and not have a long memory.

Seeing that the opponent retreated in time and had no chance, Bledsoe handed the ball to Butler again.

After Butler received the ball, after getting the ball, he faced Roger Mason's defense and forced a breakthrough.

Mason is also 34 years old this season. Compared with the young Butler, he is definitely old and can't keep up with Butler's speed.

Butler played very tough, carrying a pack of explosives to the basket for a layup, but missed!

But Butler put down the offensive rebounds, went up and scored!

With his hard work, not only did he live up to Li Pu's trust, but he even got himself an offensive rebound.

Well, who said offensive rebounds can't be done?
The Kings had a particularly smooth start tonight. Even though Li Pu hadn't played yet, other players on the team performed well.

Even Giannis, who was the starter for the first time, sent out two assists even though he didn't score.

Just as he was talking, James' layup was blocked by Li Pu. After the rebound was received, another long pass found Giannis.

This time, Giannis went all the way from the backcourt to the frontcourt, flying dunks!

Who would have thought that when the Kings played the Heat 9:4 in the opening game, among the five starters, only Li Pu did not score?

(End of this chapter)