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"Oh, here we come! Boss, you guessed it too accurately! The Bulls are really planning to use foul tactics to break the 'one star and four shots'."

Lowry said in surprise, and looked at Shen Fei with more and more admiration.

"However, it is really rare to use foul tactics so early..."

Yao Ming said doubtfully.

On the sidelines, Sipo frowned.

He is not surprised at all about foul tactics, after all, the Bulls have used them many times before.

But the foul play started at the beginning of the second quarter...

This was somewhat beyond Sipo's expectations.

[It takes the fifth foul to enter the bonus, the Bulls are too impatient...]

Sipo couldn't help being a little speechless.

The game continued and the Heat served from the sideline.

Taking advantage of the serve gap, Howard has already run to the low post.

Strangely, Asik didn't foul right away this time.

It wasn't until Chalmers passed the ball to the low post and Howard rolled into the basket with a back-up single that Asik bared his fangs.

Just as Warcraft was about to jump up to make a shot, Asik threw out a horizontal hand and hit Howard hard on the forearm.

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp sound, and just listening to it made my flesh hurt.

Howard was also "slapped" to the ground, and the ball he barely threw flew out of the baseline.

"Beep!"

The whistle sounded and the Bulls made a defensive foul.

However, the referee's whistle did not calm Howard's anger.

He rushed towards Asik with eyes wide open, and the two of them instantly entered the "top bull" state.

Fortunately, the other players of the two teams separated them immediately.

Seeing that the smell of gunpowder was getting stronger, the referee went to the technical platform to check the slow motion and returned to defense.

About 1 minute later, the referee announced the result of the penalty—it was a tough foul (tough foul), but it did not exceed the limit, so it was not upgraded to a technical foul or malicious foul.

As soon as the penalty result came out, there were boos at the scene.

"referee. sucks!"

"referee. sucks!"

"referee. sucks!"

......

Amidst the scolding of "black whistle", Howard walked to the free throw line.

The fans quickly quieted down to avoid disturbing Warcraft's free throws.

However, Howard's emotions and body (forearm) were obviously affected.

His first free throw only touched the Nets and almost made a three-point shot.

On the sidelines, Noah stood up laughing and applauded Howard provocatively.

Such a move also made the fans even more dissatisfied.

The referee immediately went to the sidelines and warned Noah.

Noah then sat back resentfully, but still had a provocative smile on his face.

Howard took a deep breath, calmed down, and threw the second ball...

hit!

34:27, the point difference came to 7 points.

But the good times don't last long....

After the offensive and defensive transition, Ray Allen successfully blocked Luol Deng's back attack, but he was just about to advance with the ball when the whistle sounded again.

Yes, Asik fouls Howard again.

Counting the previous two fouls, he has accumulated three fouls.

However, the Heat's fast break was once again strangled in the cradle.

After being fouled again and again, Howard's heart has been messed up.

Instead of dropping quickly to the low post when a teammate throws the throw, he moved unhurriedly toward the Bulls half court.

Heat coach Spoelstra on the sidelines also frowned, thinking about how to deal with it.

Soon, the whistle sounded again.

The foul was the Bulls' backup shooting guard - Bogans.

He hadn't fouled before, so he was merciless.

At this time, the Bulls had accumulated four fouls in this quarter.

Next, regardless of whether it is a shooting foul or not, the fouled Heat player will go directly to the free throw line.

Seeing this, Si Bo slapped his head, and immediately chose a substitution.

He put Haslem and James together, replaced Howard and Chalmers.

The Heat's field lineup became: James, Ray Allen, Mike Miller, James Jones and Haslem.

This lineup can be understood as one star + three shots + one blue collar, which can be regarded as a fine-tuned version of one star four shots.

In this lineup, James will take on the organizational work on the offensive end.

When defending, he will go to the fourth position and use his physical talent to help the team protect the inside.

............

Such a substitution adjustment naturally aroused discussions among the Rockets players.

"The Bulls did break the 'one star and four shots', but paid the price of four fouls. Now the second quarter has only played less than 3 minutes, and then they are likely to give the Heat a lot of free throw opportunities."

Yao Ming analyzed.

"So although this foul tactic is effective, it also has side effects. It's just that the overall configuration of the Bulls is far inferior to that of the Heat, so we can only use this bad strategy."

"But the Bulls have shown me a way of thinking that we can do better than them in the future."

Mark Jackson said confidently.

............

After James came on the court, the situation changed again.

With the Bulls at full foul count, players had to be careful on defense to avoid fouls.

But this kind of defense, for James, who is good at breakthroughs, is almost equal to sending points.

In the first round after playing, James used the cover to go straight to the basket and hit an easy layup.

In the transition between offense and defense, Rose also used a breakthrough to get to the inside.

But James suddenly burst out, and a chasing cap nailed Rose's layup to the board.

Haslem protected the rebound and handed the ball to James.

James advanced quickly with the ball.

The Bulls players were afraid of his impact, so they immediately stepped forward to block him.

But Bogans moved too much in the process of grabbing, and was whistled for a foul by the referee...

James went straight to the free throw line!

"mvp!!!"

"mvp!!!"

"mvp!!!"

......

In the cheers of the audience, James made two free throws to rewrite the score to 34:31.

The difference between the two sides is only 3 points!

At the critical moment, Rose stood up again.

He got rid of Chalmers' defense with the help of a screen, and then made a big leap to the basket.

Facing James who was helping to defend, Rose once again used his signature pull-bar layup, hitting the ball with difficulty!

36: 31!

However, this goal did not help the Bulls stop the decline.

As James went to the basket time and time again, the point difference was gradually narrowed.

With 6 minutes left in the second quarter, the two teams tied at 45!

At this time, Sipo waved his hand and replaced Wade back on the court.

When Thibodeau saw Wade play, his heart was half cold.

You know, Wade's breakthrough ability during this period is comparable to that of James.

A James Bull can't guard against it, and now there is another Wade...

Thibodeau quickly replaced Noah back on the field, hoping to improve his ability to protect the frame.

But will things really go as he wishes?