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Chapter 472 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain

Chapter 472 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain

The Raptors and the Heat became 2:2, and the battle of Tianwangshan ensued.According to the schedule, the game will return to Miami in the south again, and will be played at the Heat's home stadium, the American Airlines Center Arena.

For the Heat, being able to win a difficult away game in the north is already a blessing in misfortune.Now, the balance of victory seems to be tilting slightly in their direction.

Ying Xiong is great, but the Raptors only have one Ying Xiong, and besides him, there is not even an All-Star player.Maybe this team will become terrifying in a year or two, but right now, there are still many flaws.

On May 5, at the American Airlines Center Arena in Miami, the match between the Heat and the Raptors will start soon.The attention of this game is already the highest among all the games in the East and West.Ying Xiong VS the Big Three, just thinking about it can make your blood boil, and you spend money to buy tickets at a high price.

The liveliness of the American Airlines Center arena is comparable to that of last year's finals.This level of competition has topics, stars, and scenes. Can it not attract attention?

In this game, the starting lineup of the Heat at home is the same as the previous game.

The Raptors, who are playing away, have changed in this game!This is the first time the Raptors have changed since the playoffs!Coach Casey did not significantly adjust the starting lineup, but replaced the starting point guard Calderon with Barbosa.

It is not difficult to see that Coach Casey put the "Brazilian Lightning" with stronger autonomous offensive ability into the starting lineup, aiming to reduce the burden on Yingxiong on the offensive end.And Yingxiong + DeRozan + Barbosa + James Johnson, this lineup is the lineup with the strongest independent offensive ability that the team can send out.If Bargnani can't play as a center forward, replacing Aaron Gray with Ed Davis or Magloire will not be able to reduce Yingxiong's burden in essence.The size of Along Gray can slightly limit Janeway's impact on the basket.

For the Raptors, what is more worrying is how much Ying Xiong can recover after a day of rest when he got a cramp in the last game?Even though he didn't participate in the team's training yesterday, even so, how many layers can he recover?If he can't get back to 100 percent, the team is in trouble.

Ying Xiong is as important to the Raptors as James was to the Cavaliers back then.Coach Casey naturally knows this, and he adjusted the starting lineup out of this consideration.

Ying Xiong is naturally the clearest about his body.He's not back to 100%, but he's close.He is now grateful that he has practiced Wu Qinxi all these years, allowing his body to recover much faster than the average player.He is very clear that even with his physical fitness and physical condition, he still cannot escape the limit of physical fitness.After all, people have physical limits, and I am no exception.

The game started soon.The Heat still continued the strategy of the last game, whether it was the offensive end or the defensive end, to consume Yingxiong at all costs and try to drain his physical energy.

The Raptors are protecting Ying Xiong at all costs, hoping to use the strength of the whole team to save this core's precious physical fitness.

The two sides launched a very characteristic game.Yingxiong was on the field, trying to reduce strong play and increase the proportion of off-ball offense; on the defensive end, the team arranged for him to defend the 3D player Battier, and the task of defending James was given to James Johnson.

The Heat have rich experience and responded very quickly.If you want to defend Battier, let James or Wade play a pick-and-roll with Battier and put him in front of them; on the offensive end, if you play off the ball, then let the defensive players start physical confrontation without the ball. Use up your stamina.

A superstar who is the best offense and defense in the team, it is always impossible to rely on others to protect him.Soon, the score was opened by the Heat.Barbosa's independent scoring ability is indeed not bad, much better than Calderon, but under Wade's defense (Chalmers goes to defend Yingxiong), he can't play much offensive strength.

In this case, the Raptors did achieve the goal of reducing Yingxiong's physical consumption, but the offensive end was inefficient and the defensive end could not limit the opponent.It is reflected in the score, that is, the opponent has opened up the point difference.

In this case, Ying Xiong was forced to play with the ball again.Because apart from him, almost no one in the team can take advantage of the slightest advantage in the process of facing each other.

Since Barbosa was in the starting lineup, Calderon's bench lineup was blown up in the face of the James-led shooter team in the transitional period, almost powerless to fight back.In this case, Ying Xiong was once again forced to return to the field early.After coming and going, in the first half of the game, the Raptors not only failed to take advantage of the score, but the physical condition of the team's core Yingxiong was worse than the previous game.

In the second half of the game, Coach Casey restored Calderon's regular starting lineup, negating the change with his actions, which heralded the failure of the change.However, the opponent did not stop consuming corresponding males.They still exhausted Ying Xiong in various ways regardless of whether it was physical or energy.

Seeing that love will be consumed by the other party like this, Coach Casey is still unable to come up with a reasonable countermeasure even though he is very anxious.At the end of the day, it's a dead end.Because you can't keep your best player off the floor, you can't keep your best ball handler off the ball, and you certainly can't keep your best defender off the floor.

Basketball is a total attack and total defense sport. Whether you are a forward or a guard, you must participate in both offense and defense. This is also the helplessness of Coach Casey.

In fact, the best way for Ying Xiong to preserve his physical fitness is to reduce his playing time.But the problem is that as soon as he leaves the field, the team can't resist the opponent and starts to collapse.

Ying Xiong played 45 minutes in the whole game, once again breaking the record of playing time in the playoffs (44 minutes in the previous game).However, he still can't prevent the fate of the team's failure!

In the end, the Heat, playing at home, made another victory with a 10-point advantage, rewriting the total score of the series to 3:2.From 1:2 behind to now 3:2 ahead, the opponent got the match point first. For this favorite team to win the championship, only they know the hardships and hardships.In order to win the Raptors with Yingxiong, they even resorted to some shameless attrition tactics. It can be seen that Yingxiong's existence has pushed them to a dead end.

Ying Xiong scored 42 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks in the game, but he still couldn't stop the team from continuing to lose.In this game, he once again encountered the "physical limit". In the final stage of the final game, his physical energy was exhausted, and the 5th style disappeared, unable to reverse his opponent.

(End of this chapter)