Updated: 2013-05-31

The Timberwolves and the Heat fought an extremely hot offensive battle.

At the end of the first quarter, the two teams scored 37:31, and the Timberwolves fell 6 points behind. This was because they dug a word at the beginning. Although they played well afterwards, they had to defend the opponent if they wanted to bury the pit. However, it was extremely difficult for the Timberwolves to defend the Heat.

The Timberwolves are worried about defense, but the Heat are different. The Heat have long studied the Timberwolves.

They are still prepared for how to defend the Timberwolves.

After returning from the second quarter, Wang Kai and LeBron both rested off the court, and the Timberwolves and the Heat played as a substitute.

In terms of personnel, the Heat does not have many people playing basketball. The Heat have just formed this season. After gathering the Big Three, there is no room for other players to renew. Therefore, the Heat's substitute lineup is basically a player that the Heat has not traded.

They don’t have the bargaining chips for trading, and it can be imagined that the quality of the players is definitely not very good. Although the Heat’s substitute level is average, Wade is led by the substitute lineup.

Moreover, after Wade's substitute, he actually defended Curry. In this way, he handed Teague to Arroyo to defend, and Jefferson in the inside to Joel Anthony to defend. As for the jumping man McKee Magloyle, it's almost done, because McKee has not yet developed any offensive ability.

The Heat's offensive lineup is not as good as the opponent at this time, but its defensive strength is stronger than the Timberwolves. You should know that before LeBron came, the Heat were famous for their iron-blooded defense.

So at the beginning of the second quarter, the Heat mainly played defensive tactics, and five Heat players chased the Timberwolves' players to defend.

The Timberwolves got the ball for the first time in the second quarter, and Curry only received the basketball, and Wade immediately went up to defend.

Curry's ball is extremely ethereal. When it is low-coordinated, Curry can kill people, but when he meets Wade, it is extremely difficult for Curry to play. Wade always puts great pressure on Curry's body. Curry's weak body is a fatal flaw. In fact, using cover and off-ball attack can maximize Curry's ability, and the shortcomings of Curry's weak attack will be reflected.

Once Wade suppressed Curry, Curry quickly passed the ball to Teague to relieve stress, but at this time Teague met someone with a speed comparable to himself.

Teague was also very troublesome here. He and Teague were entangled and passed the ball to Jefferson. Jefferson took the ball and thought Boss had finally gone down and he could attack well.

But he didn't expect that Joel Anthony also made Jefferson very unhappy. He said that Joel Anthony is not a good rebounder or a good inside protector. However, Joel Anthony has one advantage, which is that his pace is not slow, especially when he is better at pick-and-roll defense.

With this advantage, Jefferson struggled to beat Anthony, and he turned around twice in a row and missed the jump shot.

The Heat caught the basketball all at once. At this time, the Heat did not have the same offensive routine as the Timberwolves changed, and they were still new troops.

But the Heat were prepared for a long time. Once the team advanced, Arroyo immediately forced his breakthrough into Curry.

Curry struggled to fight, but Arroyo broke through halfway through and passed the basketball.

Wade from outside received the ball and continued to break through, and the Heat made a breakthrough after coming up, repeatedly forcing the breakthrough.

The combination of Curry and Teague was immediately at a disadvantage. Neither of them could stop the Heat from breaking through in such a rotation. If Wang Kai was on the court, he could still defend, but now Wang Kai was on the court, it was obvious that the Timberwolves' defense was in danger.

The Heat made a hand-to-hand breakthrough at this time. When the Timberwolves were a little embarrassed, Wade passed the ball to Maglouier at the bottom line. Maglouier stepped up to attack the basket, and caused McGee to foul.

The Heat made an extremely high-intensity breakthrough at the beginning of the second quarter, and the overall intensity of the game was suddenly driven.

When Magloire made one of two free throws on the free throw line, Reggie Miller said: "The Heat finally made the intensity in the second quarter. It takes more courage to face such high-intensity hand-to-hand combat against the Timberwolves."

"Indeed, there are not many ways for the Heat to do now, but every way for the Heat will definitely be very fierce." Charles Barkley further explained.

The Heat increased their intensity in the second quarter and wanted to fight with the Timberwolves, that is, to fight willpower, which is obviously not good for the Timberwolves rookies.

Sure enough, after a hand-to-hand round, the Timberwolves' rookie outside combination got the ball before coming over, and the Heat immediately defended the game with high intensity again.

Wade and Arroyo defended Curry and Teague to the death. Facing the Heat's high-intensity defense, two very good rookies finally showed their inexperienced skills and made a mistake in passing. The basketball was suddenly intercepted by James Jones who followed up from behind.

Jones is an old minister of the Heat. He is an old shooter who has served Wade for many years. Once the steal is successful, he will immediately stand on the three-point line.

James Jones fired at the three-point line, and the Timberwolves players rushed to the league, but James Jones did not make any moves, but the frontcourt rebound was caught by Joel Anthony who followed him.

Anthony, who caught the rebound, got up and attacked the basket, directly wiped the board and scored two points.

Once the Heat's intensity at the beginning of the second quarter increased, the Timberwolves were indeed a little scared. When they encountered a team like the Heat, the Timberwolves were indeed a little more tender.

The Timberwolves kicked off at the bottom, but this time the basketball just started, and McHale immediately called a timeout.

At this time, McHale realized that the Timberwolves were not playing well now, but the reason was that the team's core operation became Curry. The Heat stared at Curry, and his team's offense was naturally blocked.

So at this time, you should add a core of your operation instead of replacing two rookies. McHale is indeed confident in the newcomer and does not blindly believe in the old man. At this time, McHale has two choices. Go to Wang Kai, directly provide a ball holding point on the outside and add a support point on Love.

McHale hesitated for a moment and chose to go to Love. McHale, like Wang Kai, is committed to building a better team, so necessary training is necessary. If you want more training, you cannot be afraid of losing.

At the critical moment, McHale did not go to Wang Kai and went to Love. Wang Kai did not protest at all. He also agreed with McHale's approach.

The Timberwolves changed to Love when they came back, and in the first round, they designed a tactical offense without the ball for Curry.

Curry came up and immediately used his teammate's cover to run out quickly to catch the ball and shoot a three-pointer.

"brush!"

With sufficient cover assurance, Curry's hit rate is still guaranteed when there are empty spaces.

The Timberwolves seem to have solved a lot of problems on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, the Heat continued to forcibly break through, and Arroyo and Wade tested the Timberwolves' defensive outside ability to the greatest extent.

At this time, the Timberwolves' outside defense was indeed untested. Teague lacked physical experience, Curry had no physical and no experience, and at this time the Timberwolves' inside was not as good as the defender, Jefferson was an offensive player, and Love was trapped by his height and insufficient assisting ability. Because of this, Wang Kai usually does the most role of assisting players in playing soy games. Now it is simply bad without Wang Kai's Timberwolves' assisting defense.

The Heat just saw that the Timberwolves lacked this role of defense, so they only made a breakthrough today.

The Heat prepared in advance and caught the Timberwolves' seven inches. The Timberwolves naturally retreated step by step. After several rounds, although the Timberwolves improved on the offensive end, the defensive end was continued to break through continuously by the Heat.

Seeing this situation, McHale looked back at Wang Kai, and Wang Kai stood up consciously.

Playing with ordinary teams, the substitute lineup is now top-notch, but once faced with a team like the Heat with top breakthroughs, the team still needs Wang Kai's defense.

The team's demand for Wang Kai is no longer urgent in offense, but it is the same urgent on the defensive end.

After more than 4 minutes in the second quarter, Wang Kai came back, but the Heat took advantage of Wang Kai's absence to slightly open the score.

39:49, the Heat widened the score difference to 10 points. The score difference was not big, but the Heat have maintained a score difference of about 10 points since the beginning, which is a problem.

This shows that the Heat have a certain ability to keep the score difference between the two teams at around 10 points. The Heat's state of widening the score difference is also very uncomfortable for the Timberwolves.
Chapter completed!