The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 248 One Man Team

No one expected that when facing the Heat, this Kings team chose to be faster than their opponents, and they even had the upper hand.

In a daze, people realized that three years later, this Heat team is already old.

The once brilliant Big Three lineup is now a group of veterans in the starting lineup.

It is said that Quan is afraid of the young, but no one thought that their lineup would age so quickly?

Of course, if the king wants to kill the Heat all at once, that's impossible!

James broke through again, and when he made a layup, he caused Giannis' second foul.

At this time, only 5 minutes had passed since the opening.

Giannis, who received the second offender, walked off the stage dejectedly.

"Good performance! Take your time!" Coach Brown did not blame Giannis, but encouraged Giannis.

Although he received coach Brown's performance, Giannis did not show much happiness. After all, this is his first start game, and he wants to play better.

After Giannis left the field, Coach Brown did not replace Patterson or Muscala, but replaced Thomas Jr.

In this way, it is tantamount to pushing Middleton to the power forward position, and the Kings also played a small lineup.

It has to be said that this is a risky move for the Kings, but Coach Brown played it very smartly.

In this lineup, the guard and power forward positions are defensive weak points.

But the Heat are in these two positions, and there are no players who can attack independently.

Both Chalmers and Battier are pitchers without the ability to attack independently.

What's more, even if they really break through forcefully, Li Pu will still be on the inside to help defend.

It can be said that this is a tactic specially used by coach Brown against the Heat.

Don't tell me, the effect is pretty good!
Thomas Jr.'s breakthrough made the Heat's defense confused for a while, and they had to shrink their defense to stop Thomas Jr..

And Thomas Jr. took the opportunity to distribute the ball to Middleton on the outside. Middleton made another three-pointer and returned it!
Unknowingly, the point difference has come to 11 points.

The Heat executed the last attack of the first quarter. James came to the frontcourt with the ball and used a tank breakthrough, but was cut off by Butler during a layup, and hit James and popped out of the baseline.

At the end of the first quarter, the Kings led 29:18.

In the first quarter, although Li Pu played the entire quarter, he only scored 2 points. There was no way, his teammates played so well, so the ball was not in Li Pu's hands at all.

Bledsoe has 6 points, Butler has 5 points, and Middleton has 9 points. The score distribution is very balanced.

However, just as the Kings fans were praising other Kings fans, they lost power in the second quarter.

In fact, it is not appropriate to say that it was a power outage, mainly because the Heat's substitutes Norris Cole and Michael Beasley performed well, and the two teamed up to score 9 points.

At the same time, they found a way to defend the Kings. Through the frontcourt pressing and partial flank defense, they successfully put the Kings into a scoring drought.

At the end of the first quarter, with an 11-point lead, by the time Li Pu played again, only 2 points remained.

In just 3 minutes, the Kings lost 9 points.

You just hold the ball and spend 24 seconds without making a shot. Don’t make mistakes. The opponents have never recovered 9 points so quickly.

It can also be seen from this that the shortcomings of the Kings' lack of veterans are undoubtedly revealed.

Although young players have great potential, they fluctuate too much and lack stability.

Although this situation also existed in the original Thunder, the team's talent is too high.

The basics of Durant, Westbrook and Li Pu are too stable. As long as two of the three perform normally, the game can basically be won.

After Li Pu returned to the field, he hit a hook and stabilized the situation.

But at this time, the Heat, who have already played their form, how can it be so easy to press?
Even James can throw a three-pointer one step away from the three-point line, how can this be defended?
In this way, with the miraculous performance of the Heat in the second quarter, they beat the Kings 32:19.

At halftime, the Heat had overtaken the Kings by 50 points 48:2.

Although the fans were already prepared for the King's performance, when they saw this scene, they still felt heartbroken.

Can our Kings not play so excitingly?People with heart disease really can't watch this game. They have to hold Suxiao Jiuxin Pills in their hands when watching the game.

After the start of the second half, the game between the two sides was not so open and closed. Although the other players of the Kings did not perform as well as in the first quarter, fortunately, Li Pu began to take over the game at this time.

The continuous singles allowed Li Pu to increase his points quickly, and unknowingly scored another 11 points in a single quarter.

This made the Heat choose to double-team Li Pu in the second half of this quarter.

Fortunately, at this time, besides Li Pu, someone in the Kings stood up, and that was Butler!
When Li Pu was surrounded, he was able to pass inside and outside shots, not only helping the team maintain the score, but even successfully overtook the score at the end of the third quarter.

Butler's outburst was unexpected by the Heat, and it also made them dare not attack Li Pu so recklessly.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the offense of both teams was not very good.

The kings are proud of the backcourt double guns, this game is not good, the shooting rate is not high, and the output is still low.

The two together barely scored more than 10 points, not as high as Norris Cole of the Heat!

Therefore, in the fourth quarter, Li Pu did not dare to take a break, and only stayed off the court for less than 2 minutes before returning to the court. At this time, the Kings fell behind by 2 points.

After that, the two teams fell into a long fight. The two sides fought for several rounds, but neither of them made it.

Those who knew said it was a good defense, but those who didn't know thought it was pecking at each other!

At the critical moment, when Li Pu was double-teamed, he gave the ball to Middleton. Middleton raised his knife and hit his fifth three-pointer tonight, helping the Kings overtake by 2 points in one fell swoop.

But turning around, James caused Giannis' sixth foul again!

In this way, poor Giannis, as a starter for the first time, graduated with 25 fouls in less than 6 minutes.

And the audience only scored 8 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.

With James making two free throws and Butler missing a three-pointer, the two teams officially entered overtime.

When it came to overtime, Li Pu stood up again and carried the audience!

With the team trailing by 5 points, the individual scored 8 points in a row and overtook the score in one fell swoop.

In the end, it was a layup by Butler that caused Bosh's foul.

In the end, Butler made 2 free throws and sealed the victory.

The score was 103:108 later, and the Kings defeated the Heat in overtime at home.

In addition to Li Pu scoring a team-high 27 points, Butler scored 26 points and Middleton scored 22 points, making this team look like Li Pu's one-man team.

(End of this chapter)