Chapter 394 James and his baseline ball
Spoelstra walked to the sidelines, shouted at James, and then reached out to signal him to lower the rhythm.
The Heat are not in a hurry to lead by 13 points.
The Heat played a positional battle in the frontcourt, and James broke through with the ball.
The Spurs contracted their defense, and Leonard almost stole the whole person from James.
James suddenly gave Moss money.
Qian Moss' three-pointer, Tang Tianxie's defense was in place, which directly caused interference.
"Bang!"
Qian Moss' three-pointer missed, and Duncan protected the defensive rebound.
The Spurs played absolute defensive intensity after coming in the second half.
After Parker got the ball, he did not have to make a quick break and pressed the rhythm to play the position in the frontcourt.
The Heat's defensive strength is still very high, but it is obvious that the Spurs are not as anxious as they were in the first half.
Tang Tian's running position restrained most of the Heat's defensive attention, and Leonard suddenly cut into the basket from the bottom corner.
Parker's pass, Leonard made a layup against Bosh after receiving the ball, and also caused Bosh's foul!
2+1!
Cheers burst into tears at the scene.
Because of Tang Tian's dazzling light, Leonard's performance was completely covered.
But in fact, this No. 15 show that entered the league with Tang Tian has grown up well!
Not only are the defense excellent, but the offensive shooting stability is also getting higher and higher.
And the key is that his calm temperament is somewhat similar to Tang Tian.
Tang Tian went over and bumped into Leonard's chest, then slapped hard and roared.
He is mobilizing his teammates in this way.
Leonard made a free throw, and the Spurs came back in the second half to play a 5-0 wave, narrowing the gap to 10 points.
The Heat continued to play in the frontcourt. This time James scored, helping the Heat continue to score.
But looking back, the Spurs' positional battle was completed again. This time it was Duncan, who turned around and scored a goal after receiving the ball at the basket.
Spoelstra's weakness was exposed at this time.
When the situation is stalemate, he can fight Popovich with tactical moves back and forth, but after taking the lead, there will be a choice deviation.
Because the Heat were leading, he gave up the defensive counterattack that the Heat were good at in order to make stability, and instead fought against the Spurs against the offensive position.
There are obvious differences in efficiency on both sides.
Moreover, Tang Tian used body language to encourage the team on both ends of the offense and defense. The Spurs team was excited and the positional battle was patient and efficient.
The Spurs are eroding the Heat's lead little by little, and Spoelstra cannot stop him from replacing Ray Allen and Haslem in succession.
After the third quarter, the two teams tied at 65!
The Spurs played 30-15 in a single quarter, and smoothed out the 15-point difference!
Starting from defense and playing success rate, the Spurs have successfully achieved it!
Although Popovich didn't know what was going on in the locker room, he could feel what Tang Tian was doing even when standing on the sidelines.
I don’t know when it started, but Tang Tian has become the spiritual leader of the Spurs.
By the way, maybe it was that last year, on the Father's Day night, Tang Tian gave him five high-fives and five shouts.
"Shake, the game is not over yet!"
By the time the Spurs tied, Barkley had completely survived, and now he began to challenge O'Neal again.
O'Neal also laughed. Although he didn't want to lose that bet, as a melon-eating crowd, it would be nice to be able to reach the tiebreak in the finals.
Of course there is another point, as Barkley said, the game is not over yet.
There is another competition, and the outcome is still unknown.
The two sides entered the final quarter.
After a break between the festivals, Spoelstra finally reacted and began to speed up the pace of the game again.
But the Spurs have already gotten up in form, and the Heat have failed to widen the score after several attempts.
Gripping his teeth, the Spurs tied with the Heat 30 seconds before the final game!
The fans on the scene felt that their hearts were about to jump out, and this was really a countdown game!
James signaled everyone to pull away for the Heat's frontcourt ball, and then directly broke into Leonard.
Leonard defended well.
James made a layup after breaking into the basket, but failed!
But he jumped up for the second time and then grabbed the offensive rebound, causing Leonard's thug!
Two chances of extra punishment!
Peak James!
The fans at the scene were restless.
The Heat fans on the hotline once again climaxed.
"Who will choose my emperor's last attack again?"
"The final free throw win, won the first championship in his career! The script has been written!"
"Aren't you afraid of missing two free throws?"
"What a joke, my king's free throw shooting percentage has exceeded 80% for the first time this season! Look at it, you will definitely hit both free throws!"
"Come on, I can't wait!"
...
James walked onto the free throw line and adjusted his breath.
In the away game, what greeted him was no longer the neat MVP shouts or the booings everywhere.
The first penalty is taken.
The arc is very positive, and it can be felt that his free throw feel is obviously better than last season.
"Bang!"
But the angle is slightly off.
The first penalty is missed!
"..." Hotline fans.
The second penalty.
Adjust your breathing and then take action.
"Bang!"
Still off the line!
At the critical moment, two stable free throws were still missed!
At this time, Bosh had a long hand and poked the ball into the sky, then jumped up and flew out again!
Seeing that the ball was about to go out of bounds, James ran over from the bottom line and then caught the ball back!
Wade jumped up in the air to catch the ball, and then with 5 seconds left in the game, he faced Duncan, who was assisting in defense, and made a difficult backward jump shot.
The ball... was shot in!
The Heat scored a key 2-point lead!
Popovich reached out and called for a pause.
However, he did not get the tactical board as usual at the first time, but rushed to the referee and shouted, pointing his hands constantly at the bottom line.
It turned out to be the ball just now. Popovich thought James had already gone out of bounds when he saved the ball!
In the last two minutes, the head coach has the right to request a video replay.
The game entered a technical pause.
The referee went to the technical stand to watch the video playback.
The playback is projected onto the large LED screen on the scene.
After only one use, there was an uproar on the scene.
It was obvious that James saved the ball from outside the court, and even saved the ball after trotting two steps off the court.
This is an obvious misjudgment!
When the LED screen started to slow down, there were boos everywhere.
If it weren't for this misjudgment, the Heat wouldn't be ahead now!
Several referees from the technical desk were communicating.
After the exchange, we explained to the referees of the two teams respectively.
After hearing the explanation, Popovich turned around and left, and it was obvious that he was quite unhappy.
The referee then signaled for the Spurs to suspend.
Misjudgment has been determined, but the NBA rules, in order to maintain the referee's image, will not be changed once the penalty takes effect.
So Wade's goal just now is still valid, the Spurs called a timeout, and they still have the last 5 seconds left.
Chapter completed!