The Way of the Center

Anjie's first offense in the opening game completely deterred Jermaine O'Neal. For a former top player like O'Neal, he knows the depth of the opponent just once with a matchup. The bad news is that Anjie's current strength is far above that of O'Neal.

Spoelstra can't help it. Now the entire league is short of insiders. The two elders in the Heat team that can be handed out are O'Neal and Haslem. However, these two guys are both power forwards, and it is not appropriate for them to play center. No way, Spoelstra has no choice. Do you think everyone has a bunch of insiders like Van Gundy's old fox?

Other teams can only use power forward centers. Van Gundy is better. He directly put Morris, a powerful center forward, into the position of power forward. It's like Van Gundy is showing off: we have people inside.

After Anjie scored, Michael Beasley was not happy. Although he was humiliatingly losing to Anjie in college, he won the Heat's trial afterwards and was a lot higher than Anjie in the draft.

It can be said that he started much better than Anjie. However, after entering the league, Anjie became one of the most successful group of people. Beasley was not convinced, but also very jealous. The guy who was brushed off by himself during the Heat's trial training did not deserve such a status.

Beasley's emotions were completely mobilized by himself, and he began to move aggressively, making Morris, who was slightly slow, miserable.

Wade does have the highest right to fire the Heat, especially after he had just made a layup, the Flash wanted to chase after the victory and score another goal.

After seeing Beasley running so aggressively, Wade changed his mind. Since someone is willing to stand up and share the pressure of scoring with themselves, why not do it? And Wade knew that if he wanted Beasley to become a talent and assist him, he had to feed Beasley the right to shoot.

Beasley got the basketball as he wished, and Morris, who was a little slower, quickened his pace, for fear that Beasley would take advantage of this gap to start shooting.

Morris' worries became reality. Seeing Morris was still a few steps away from him, Michael Beasley raised his hand and was ready to shoot!

"Michael Beasley, beautiful! He gave Andrew Morris a fly!" Kenny Smith thought that the problematic Miami Heat boy was about to shoot again, but it was just a shooting fake.

After deceiving Morris, Beasley bowed and cut in. An Jie made up to the basket early, and Beasley was not stupid. After playing with An Jie several times, he was very aware of An Jie's abilities. Beasley did not continue to go inside, but made a mid-range emergency stop jumper.

Choosing to shoot from outside, no matter how great An Jie is, now he can't cover beyond the three-second zone.

As soon as Beasley shot the ball, he smiled contemptuously at An Jie.

"What are you proud of? It's not necessarily if the goal is not scored!" An Jie turned his head unwillingly, but found that the basketball had penetrated the net and fell to the ground.

"Hey, I'm in good shape today." Wade took the initiative to reach out and give Beasley a high-five. Beasley didn't refuse, and was appreciated by the team boss who didn't like it.

"This is what Michael Beasley hates. Morris is very good at defending the traditional inside, but Beasley is very tricky to hold him."

"That guy is too fast!" Morris won't be able to stand alone for the sake of face, he began to explain the reasons to others.

"It's okay to be a bull, next time we pay attention to help defense." Duran answered and waved, motioning for others to quickly serve.

Beasley got the ball for the second time. Durant did what he said and went to double-team Beasley with Morris. But Beasley made a clever pass and the ball came to Quentin Richardson.

Quentin Richardson's open three-point ability is definitely not bad, he took the open decisively, and the basketball once again got into the net.

"Michael Beasley completely disrupted the Thunder's defensive deployment. Coach Van Gundy has to change defense, because it is clear that Morris can't deal with Beasley's style of players."

Van Gundy was indeed thinking about who could face Beasley. Anjie? No, if Anjie goes, the quality of the Thunder's inside defense will be greatly reduced. Where's the substitute insider? No, that group of guys are just as capable of defending perimeter players as Morris.

It seemed that Van Gundy didn't seem to have any choice except Durant.

"Are you going to be a junior or senior?" Van Gundy touched his chin. He had never done this before. But today...Should I give it a try?

Van Gundy began to hesitate. He was overly rigid and poor on-site scheduling. These were Van Gundy's two major shortcomings. Now, this rigid head coach will take a long time to consider whether to change.

During Van Gundy's hesitation, Morris let Beasley break through and scored an emergency stop mid-range shot.

An Jie boldly rushed to the outside line this time to make up for defense, but it didn't help.

10 to 6, the Thunder fell four points behind. Although Morris can also regain his face on the offensive end, Van Gundy obviously doesn't want the two sides to "mutually abuse" each other. The effect he hopes to see is that a guy who Beasley can't defend and can't attack will go against him.

"Sean, you go!" Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, Van Gundy walked up to Livingston.

"Me?" Livingston looked around, and Van Gundy seemed to be talking to him.

"Yes, come on, man, you play at the third position. Anyway, the Heat are also replaced by a small forward with a guard. I think you have no problem, right?"

"No! Boss!" Livingston was also famous in high school, but after entering the NBA, he hasn't performed for a long time, so he was sold by the teams one after another. Although joining the Thunder this season has more playing time, there is still no practical change. Livingston was of course excited because he was given an important task in the field this morning! He hurriedly agreed to Van Gundy, fearing that the opportunity would slip away.

"Morris was replaced by Coach Van Gundy. He looked very unhappy. But it is true that this guy was completely at a disadvantage with Michael Beasley one-on-one." Reggie Miller is analyzing Van Gundy's early change for the audience. Human purpose.

Since Livingston came to play in the third position, Durant, of course, replaced Morris and partnered with An Jie inside.

"The Thunder used a large and four small lineups! Can you believe it, this is a compromise that Jeff Van Gundy will make?" Kenny Smith's eyes widened. The Thunder's tactics have always been very traditional. With so many games for the Thunder, this change is the first time I've seen it.

After the substitution, it was the Heat's offensive round. Wade looked at the changes on the court and was still considering whether to continue to feed Beasley.

When Wade's attention was slightly separated from the ball, Westbrook suddenly hit it! Almost took away the basketball in Wade's hands!

Wade also reacted quickly and quickly hugged the ball with both hands. Although the dribble was interrupted, but anyway, a mistake was avoided.

"Dwyane!" Seeing that Wade's organization was interrupted, Beasley stepped forward to respond. Wade didn't think too much, now it seems the perfect choice to hand the ball to Beasley!

After receiving the ball, Beasley turned to face the frame, but the person confronting him has become the tall and arm-length Thunder No. 35, Kevin Durant.

Beasley also planned to use the same set of dealing with Morris to deal with Durant, but found that it didn't work anymore.

He forcibly broke through Durant's entanglement, of course, has been unable to get the opportunity to stop the jumper.

Before he knew it, Beasley had already broken through to the inside. He was unwilling to give up like this, so he was defeated by Durant. He is also the first high school student in his respective era. Why can Durant be rated as a superstar in the future, and he can only survive under Wade's protection.

Thinking of this, Beasley was once again overly arrogant and lost his composure.

He forced a layup inside, and Durant followed suit, but it was a few centimeters away.

It's a pity that the reason why the Thunder's inside line is terrifying is not because of Durant, but because...

"Pop!" It felt like deja vu, which Beasley had been overshadowed in the past when he was in college.

"Ann! Beautiful hot pot! Coach Van Gundy's deployment played an immediate effect. In the first round of the substitution, Beasley's scoring momentum was interrupted!"

"Hey, here again." Wade shook his head. This is not the first time Beasley has "attended a crime".

Westbrook saw An Jie finish the shot and started sprinting, which almost became his reflex. Durant was also unambiguous, picking up a long throw of basketball, and the Thunder launched a landmark conversion attack from the backcourt.

Although Wade followed very closely, he still failed to prevent Westbrook from completing the dunk. "The Flash" knew that if he jumped off and interfered rashly, it was very likely that Westbrook would score two plus one.

Durant's support to An Jie after reaching the fourth position is also comprehensive. Now the entire Thunder team is only inside An Jie in the offensive. The other four people, without exception, all stood outside the three-point line.

Watching Anjie ravaging O'Neal again and again in the interior, the rest of the Heat really dare not double-team. Because of the four guys on the Thunder standing outside the three-point line, each of them has a precise three-pointer.

O'Neal was panting because of An Jie, he couldn't prevent him, he couldn't prevent a ball.

Seeing Anjie's performance on the court so brilliantly, Morris also changed his unhappiness when he was just replaced. He waved the towel frantically and made various exaggerated movements to cheer for An Jie's wonderful performance.

If you don't double-team at this time, O'Neill probably should have been hit with a psychological shadow. A 20-year-old guy beats himself up like this, and it feels uncomfortable for anyone to leave it there.

When Beasley doubled up towards An Jie with revenge, An Jie was not greedy for merit. Although Anjie had already scored 6 points on 3 of 3 shots before, he knew what it meant to be good. Seeing Beasley's double-teaming, Angel decisively turned the ball to the outside. Durant took a glance after receiving the ball and took the shot calmly.

"Swipe!" After a three-pointer hit, Michael Beasley hugged his head with regretful hands. Because after the goal was scored, the point difference between the Thunder and the Heat officially became double digits.

After Durant scored the goal, Spoelstra had to call a timeout. At this time, it was only more than 4 minutes before the end of the first quarter, and it was almost time for the second team to compete.

After the timeout came back, the two teams really changed players. Under the control of Chalmers, everyone in the second team of the Heat could score one or two goals~www.readwn.com~ but Morris was already panicked. , Then beat Haslem to no temper.

After finally getting the opportunity, he was disturbed by the annoying guy Michael Beasley. Morris's anger can only be cast on Haslem.

Although Haslem is hardworking and tough, it can be said that you can add all the good characteristics to this hardworking big man. But in front of Morris, who was struggling enough, Haslem also had to bow down.

"Boom!" Another fierce collision, another vigorous dunk. With the end of Morris' last attack, the ups and downs of the first quarter of the game finally came to an end.

During this period, the Thunder and Heat have had an advantage, but the score makes the Heat's advantage seem so insignificant.

19-29, the Thunder established a very lead for the Thunder in the first quarter under the fierce attack of the three big tall men Anjie, Morris and Durant.

It's not without reason why the two-game losing streak Thunder will make the two-game winning Heat so jealous.