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Chapter 406 The Role of Stars

The game in the second quarter was completely like a replica of the first quarter. The Timberwolves players still crazily bit their opponents on the field like their team name, and did not miss any opportunity to make the opponent feel restrained.On the other hand, the Heat are basically veterans, and their small moves may be better than the Timberwolves, but they don't have their ruthlessness, so they are naturally at a disadvantage.

Such a situation is unbearable for Spoelstra, but he has nothing to do now, he can only wait to see if the Big Three under his command can restore the decline.Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long. James, who had been entangled by Xu Hao throughout the first quarter, began to explode. His style of play was very simple. Aren't you tough?I'm going to be tougher than you!

James's style of play has always been very smart. As he grows older and the strength of his teammates improves, it will be difficult for him to face the situation of one person taking on a team alone again.However, now he seems to have found his old self, rushing left and right in the Timberwolves' defense with the ball, and he can still score layups with two or three people hanging on him.

Xu Hao, who was in charge of defending him, narrowed his eyes. He rubbed his arm. He was almost broken by James when he was defending just now. One can imagine how terrifying the impact of this monster is.Xu Hao knew very well that it would be unwise to go head-to-head with James now. On the defensive end, he could only interfere with it, and it would be better to offset his score.

At present, the Timberwolves' offense is still based on the inside, but Milicic and Jordan are the partners on the court.Milicic's offensive ability is not as good as Love and Pekovic, but he has improved his passing ability to a certain extent after training with Xu Hao for a long time. Attack the Heat's rim.

Even so, the scoring ability of their inside combination is still far inferior to Love + Pekovic. Fortunately, they are well aware of this, and when they find an opportunity, they will distribute the ball to the outside and let the teammates in the gap go. Shoot the [-] and they're waiting to grab the rebound at the rim.The others did get a lot of opportunities to make calls, but Xu Hao was always firmly restricted by the Heat.

But now that James is starting to score, Xu Hao, as the core of the Timberwolves' tactics, can't make sense if he doesn't score. You can't push all the tasks to your teammates, can you?So the big question is, how do you get rid of the Heat's defense?
In this game, the Heat were really focused on dealing with Xu Hao. Wade was always by his side, and as long as Xu Hao received the ball, the Heat players closest to him would jump over and double-team Wade, forcing Xu Hao to have no choice. Don't pass the ball.If he wants to exert his strength on the offensive end, what Xu Hao has to do is not to let the heat encircle him, so that he has room to shoot.

When Milicic gave the ball to Xu Hao again, Wade followed suit and posted it up, and Haslem, who was closest to Xu Hao, also stepped forward to help defend.However, what they didn't expect was that Xu Hao didn't make any adjustments after receiving the ball, and he didn't even pay attention to Wade's interference, but directly pulled up from the spot and shot.

Under normal circumstances, such a shot is very difficult to hit.Firstly, Milicic’s pass was not so perfect, lacking in height, speed and strength, which was fatal to the shooter; secondly, Wade’s defense was not sloppy. Haslem hurried over and wanted to interfere; in the end, Xu Hao's receding angle was too big, so big that normal players didn't have much confidence in hitting. He could really avoid blocked shots score?

The fact that ordinary people can’t do it doesn’t mean that Xu Hao can’t do it. It’s the first time he used such a super fadeaway jumper on the field, but he has tried it more than once in the system and in private training. Not too low.Of course, Xu Hao is not someone who hastily used immature techniques in competitions, but now he can't help it.

In the surprised eyes of everyone, the basketball slowly but firmly fell into the basket, helping the Timberwolves add another 2 points.However, in the eyes of the Heat players, Xu Hao is just shit luck. In their long careers, who hasn't made these seemingly unreasonable shots?If he was lucky this time, he might not be able to do it next time.

However, Xu Hao quickly hit them in the face with the same shot, and it was a more difficult three-pointer.Now it's the Heat's turn to be dumbfounded. Does anyone else shoot like this?The key question is, he can really shoot!
Milicic also saw that the way is coming. What they have to do inside is to pass the ball more comfortably to Xu Hao, so that he can be more confident in shooting.After finding a suitable shot, Xu Hao quickly became active, catching the Heat off guard.Originally, the Timberwolves' inside singles were a bit overwhelming, but now there is Xu Hao, how can this be prevented?
Under such circumstances, the game became a confrontation between James and Xu Hao, and it was very difficult for the two of them to score a goal.James had to deal with the Timberwolves' tough defense like a hooligan, while Xu Hao had to break through the double-teams that the Heat might form at any time. One of them kept rushing to the basket to try to score, and the other kept jumping and shooting in front of the opponent.Often as long as James succeeds in a layup, Xu Hao will immediately shoot back to prevent him from gaining momentum.

However, in comparison, the Timberwolves still have more scoring points. Even if Spoelstra replaced Bosh, the problem of scoring could not be solved.The Heat say they are the Big Three, but only James and Wade are in charge. Bosh can only play on one side. He can't match the performance of when he was the leader of the Raptors. After receiving the ball, whether he can send the ball to the basket is a matter of opinion. Spoelstra watched from the sidelines with gritted teeth.

Relying on the advantage obtained in the first quarter, the Timberwolves ended the first half 48 to 40. The 8-point lead may not look like a big one, but it is actually very rare.Of course, the entire Timberwolves team hopes to lead the opponent by 8 to [-] points and directly turn the second half into garbage time, but this is obviously impossible, and an [-]-point advantage is considered very good.

In this quarter of the game, James and Xu Hao gave full play to the role of stars, and also worked hard to help the team grab points. They scored 13 and 12 points respectively in a single quarter, which is hard to distinguish.This is acceptable for the Timberwolves. Doesn't it mean that Xu Hao beat James on the offensive end?They are still in the lead now, that's enough.

(End of this chapter)