From sparring to superstar

Chapter 141.
On the court, the timeout ended and neither team made any substitutions.

Li Ao walked to the free throw line.

The Heat players' free throws and rebounds are very aggressive, and the defensive attitude has changed visible to the naked eye.

Actively blocking the opponent's free throws is also part of the defense. It is for the players who make free throws-you have to be careful, our rebound protection is very fierce, you can't make free throws and miss the rebound.

After receiving the ball, Li Ao complained, "The team with the worst rebounds, who is it for?", and then threw the ball with ease.

Hearing Li Ao's words and seeing Li Ao easily hit a free throw with disdain.

The Heat players are so angry!

They finally understood the mood of the Knicks players.

The Heat attacked, and Eddie Jones faced Li Ao's defense and chose to break through the inside.

He couldn't get rid of Li Ao's chasing and defending, and faced the back and forth attacks of O'Neal and Li Ao on the inside, and made a high-throw shot... "哐"...it hit the basket, it was iron!
Eddie Jones is very annoyed, and the degree of regret for choosing to come to the Heat to compete for the championship is +1. The Magic also invited him...

He is not good at this kind of isolation, but in the Heat he can only play this kind of low-efficiency offense.

Although he was annoyed, his game attitude was very professional. Seeing Jermaine O'Neal get the rebound, he immediately turned around and stuck to Li Ao who was about to go down. He didn't let Li Ao go back to his back until Bo Wen came up from the three-point line. Defensive object there.

Like Eddie Jones, the rest of the Heat retreated very actively, and the Clippers had no fast break and fell into a positional battle.

Facing Bowen, Li Ao has an advantage in speed, but it is difficult to get open shots by running around the pile.

Bowen's speed is not too slow, the speed of 87 is enough in most cases, but compared with Li Ao, a player with the speed of a point guard, it is obviously much worse.

However, Bowen relied on defensive predictions and prepared to move in advance, which greatly made up for the gap in speed.

Seeing that Li Ao had no chance, Greg Anthony passed the ball to Maggette, and Maggette broke through the frame... Eddie Jones and Anthony Mason Jr. defended successfully, Maggette missed a layup at close range, and Bu Ryan Grant struggled to protect the defensive rebound.

Li Ao retreated quickly, thinking that the opponent deserved to be the new league's top defensive team.

Unlike the tough defense of the Knicks, the Heat's maximum height of 206 cm is not tall enough, and it is not as strong as the Knicks players. The defense takes a skillful approach.

The Heat, which began to defend seriously, showed a completely different defense from the previous few rounds. When Li Ao went around the pile, the opponent gave enough interference to help Bowen continue to chase the defense in place and avoid the dislocation caused by the switch.

The players of the Heat are shorter than the Knicks, but correspondingly, they are faster and have stronger space interception capabilities, which limits the range of Li Ao's running positions.

The blocking and pinching of the strong side with the ball is also in place. When playing against the Knicks, it was relatively easy for Maggette to attack the basket, but he was locked up for the first breakthrough here.

However, Li Ao was not surprised by these. He already knew the opponent's defensive characteristics when preparing for the battle.

But there is one thing he can't believe-Bowen's defensive prediction ability reminds him of Duncan!

He even felt that Bowen's defensive prediction ability was better than Duncan's.

Failed to take the opportunity to open the point difference to double digits, the Clippers players were not in a hurry.

Retreating to the backcourt, Li Ao followed Eddie Jones and threw himself into the defense with his teammates.

The ball continued to come to Eddie Jones, and he continued his exhausting but inefficient drive-and-score play.

He knew that, if there were no accidents, he would not be able to score a few assists tonight against the Clippers, a team with the right defensive tactics and strong defensive attitude.

The running ability of the teammates is really poor. Tim Hardaway and Anthony Mason Jr. are both core players with the ball.

Originally, there was only one starting teammate like this. The magic operator introduced Anthony Mason Jr. as the sixth man, but Mourning was reimbursed, so he could only use Anthony Mason Jr. as the first scoring point inside.

So, now when Eddie Jones breaks through, there are two uncles standing on the top arc and the bottom line.

Bowen has no running ability and can only catch and shoot at fixed points.

As expected by Eddie Jones, when he broke through, only his teammate Brian Grant was running...

He chose to make an emergency stop and jump shot...he was interfered by Li Ao's long arm.

Eddie Jones actively retreated, adjusted his mentality and devoted himself to defense.

Li Ao took the initiative to keep up with Eddie Jones, and said next to him: "The height is like Kobe, the breakthrough action is like Kobe, the jersey number is also like Kobe, but the strength is not like Kobe."

Eddie Jones felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest.

It seems to be the breakthrough of the No. 8 that he learned, and it is clearly the start of his breakthrough that was learned by the No. 8!
At this time, he just retreated into the three-point line. Seeing Li Ao speeding up, the annoyed Eddie Jones immediately posted it.

Bowen was about to come up to defend Li Ao, so he could only keep up with Maggette when he saw this.

The magic operator on the sidelines wanted to suffer when he saw this scene.

As he expected, Greg - Anthony made a decisive pass to Maggette.

Maggette received the ball and forced Bowen violently. Li Ao turned back from the bottom line and ran to the right at a 45-degree angle.

Eddie Jones was in a position to defend Maggette. Seeing that Bowen was run over and blocked, Maggette scored Li Ao, and Li Ao received the ball from the free throw line at a 45-degree angle on the right side... easy Hit!
Eddie Jones and Bowen switched defenses, and neither of them could defend!
14 to 3, the point difference came to 11 points!
When the point difference came to double digits, Eddie Jones calmed down and was no longer impulsive.

In the following time, the Heat did not let the Clippers hit another climax.

However, they also don't have the ability to narrow the point difference too much under the Clippers' defense.

And they couldn't completely contain the Clippers' offense.

As the gods and demons said, the Heat currently lack a core scorer who can really take on the big responsibility, and they also lack an inside frame guard.

Without Mourning, the Heat consistently missed rebounds when the defense was at its strongest.

The Heat had Mourning last season, averaging 3.4 rebounds per game, but this season they have a net loss of 2.6.

Offensive rebounds are also extremely poor, only averaging 9.8 per game, the last in the league, and the only team with less than 10 offensive rebounds this season.

This kind of rebounding ability makes the Heat's offensive continuity extremely poor tonight.

In the middle of the second quarter, Eddie Jones and Tim Hardaway finally took advantage of Li Ao's absence and shot from mid-to-long range, forcing the Clippers to expand their defense to the top arc.

But both AC Green and Anthony Mason Jr. struggled to get an offensive rebound over backup center Chris Mihm when Eddie Jones and Tim Hardaway missed shots.

The opportunity created by the two guns in the backcourt was wasted like this.

In the second half of the second quarter, the flaw that the Heat did not have an inside gate was once again exposed.

Chris Mihm's excellent rebound protection in the front part helped O'Neal win the rest time.

Jr. O'Neal, who re-entered the field, started punching the old, weak, sick and short!

After his playing style becomes more ruthless, his ability to bully the old, the weak and the short is even stronger!

面对206公分的布莱恩-格兰特，小奥尼尔重拳出击，半节时间5投3中，外加2中1的罚球拿到7分。

Led by O'Neal, the Clippers went 13-9 in the second half of the second quarter.

The Heat finally narrowed the point difference to 6 points in the middle of the second quarter and returned to double digits.

After the first half, the Clippers led the Heat by 49 points 39 to 10!
In the second half, the Heat's style of play did not change significantly, but it was very steady. The Clippers wanted to widen the point difference in one go but couldn't.

Pulling down the opponent's score and defeating the opponent with a wealth of low-scoring experience is the only way for the Heat to win this season.

As the third quarter progressed, the mid-range and long-range shooting percentage of the Clippers' wing shooters dropped sharply. The Heat's defensive effect became stronger and stronger. The Heat's players also began to close to the basket according to the established defensive strategy. Successfully contained O'Neal's inside storm and Odom's short-range breakthrough.

But the Heat's defense sank, and Li Ao's chance came!

Without teammates intercepting from the flanks and interfering with passing and receiving from high positions, Bo Wen couldn't keep up with Li Ao's running position!
Li Ao seized the opportunity and made consecutive two-pointers in the area above the free throw line, scoring 9 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists and 1 block in a single quarter!Withstood the Heat's defensive counterattack!

At the end of the three quarters, the Heat not only failed to narrow the point difference, but were also opened up by the Clippers to 14 points. The Clippers scored 22 to 18 in a single quarter.

At the end of the quarter, Tim Hardaway started the wave. He hit two consecutive three-pointers when he came up, and he played a wave of 6-0 alone.

The Clippers did not score in the first 3 rounds.

Seeing that the point difference narrowed to 8 points, Li Ao came to the top arc to single-handedly defend Tim Hardaway.

Although he took the initiative to take responsibility, Li Ao was under a lot of pressure in the face of the cross step king.

But as soon as he formed a match with Tim Hardaway, who was advancing, he received a system prompt...

"The host one-on-one defends Tim Hardaway, who is 34 years old, triggers the level 3 punching nursing home, speed +2, strength +2, bounce +2, the awareness of judging the timing of the opponent's shooting and the awareness of breakthrough direction are improved, When the opponent passes the ball, there is a 10% probability of predicting the direction of the pass.”

Li Ao's eyes lit up, and he threw himself into defense excitedly.

I have to say that Tim Hardaway's condition is really good. It may be the effect of Pat Riley's devil training camp. It can't be seen that he is a 34-year-old veteran who has experienced serious injuries.

Li Ao was very excited to defend, but the offensive Tim Hardaway didn't have the fun of single-handedly playing with young talents.

The size gap is huge, and there is no chance of shooting.

Moreover, when he broke through, he found that his speed was not dominant.

The big spider is quicker than he was against Eddie Jones or Dan Marley before.

Tim Hardaway breaks the defense -- does an old man like me need to be this excited?

The joy that other veteran stars get when young talents are valued, Tim Hardaway is completely absent here.

Facing Li Ao's defense, Tim Hardaway played two rounds in singles. Both of them took off quickly after breaking through to grab the long two-point shot before Li Ao blocked the block...and missed. In the next round, Tim Hardaway will The ball goes to Eddie Jones, who is defended by a big Q.

Facing the big Q's defense, Eddie Jones had a higher success rate in breaking through and scoring goals, but it was obviously incomparable to Tim Hardaway's "swish" chasing 6 points in a row.

For the Clippers, after getting through the start of the game, the offensive end gradually found its sense, and continued their not-so-efficient but stable offense.

The Heat's last trump card, Tim Hardaway's outside shot was broken by Li Ao, and the Heat had no other changes.

The point difference fluctuated around 10 points until the end of the game.

The score was 20 to 23 in the final quarter, and the Clippers lost 3 points in a single quarter, but they led by 14 points in the first three quarters, and they firmly maintained their double-digit lead until the end of the game.

李敖19投8中，其中三分球3中1，加上6中5的罚球，拿到22分6板6助攻2抢断4盖帽，小奥尼尔15投8中拿到21分14板2助攻1抢断2盖帽。

The two led the Clippers to beat the visiting Heat 91 to 80, defend the victory, increase the winning percentage to 5%, and the record became 12 wins and 12 losses!
After the final whistle, the Clippers players cheered excitedly.

Winning is very stable, but playing is not easy at all!
If Shen Suanzi didn't start with brain twitching, they didn't have a climax at the beginning, they didn't build confidence, and they might be collapsed by the opponent's strong defense!
When the opponent launches a counterattack, they don't worry about losing a few points, and they are not afraid of making mistakes when making adjustments. They can even actively learn some defensive cooperation methods of the opponent, and don't worry about the cost of trial and error... The 11-point lead at the beginning gave them too much. Much leeway.

And this, thanks to their Spider-Man!

The teammates were amazed by Li Ao's game vision!
Who can connect Jordan's broken ribs with Pat Riley's Twitch?
Also their Spider-Man!

(End of this chapter)