On October 28, the two Eastern powerhouses of the Brooklyn Nets and the Miami Heat had a strong dialogue, and after only one short offseason, the situation of the two teams changed dramatically.
Last season's Heat with the Eastern Conference championship Yu Wei, before the season by all kinds of experts generally optimistic, the result is that the team suffered serious injury troubles, the genius rookie Hiro experienced a stunning season after the magic is not there, the end of the season is also constantly caught in a variety of trading rumors, the first round of the playoffs was successfully avenged by the Bucks, for a time, the Heat's fiery flame suddenly became slightly extinguished.
But as long as Patlelli is there, the Heat will not be extinguished, after a series of operations, the Heat has added a lot of fuel to the furnace, first of all, with Lowry to replace Dragic, Dragic compared to Lowry is actually not inferior in terms of personal ability and organization of attack, Lowry's advantage is to make the team's harmony rise again to a higher level, Butler and Lowry are super iron brothers, brother basketball can have buff blessing, while Lowry's personal play and Butler are also more complementary, Dragic is now more partial to the organization and the outside three points, in terms of personal ability to attract defensive attention is obviously not as good as Lowry, the Heat maximum salary to renew Butler is also to show attitude, at least the next 2-3 years will be Butler Lowry Adebayo this triangle combination as the core, this year and next year is the most testing period for the Heat, Butler and Lowry's age so that this combination does not have much time to run, with Patreli's personality, the results are likely to fall apart.
In terms of supporting roles, the Heat have poached Tucker, his defensive ability in last year's Finals stage is the greatest value, everyone knows that he is specially prepared for the Nets, Bucks, 76ers, Hawks, these potential opponents, the introduction of Tucker also shows the heat's ambitions, at least to win the Eastern Conference championship to qualify.
Big Morris's playing style is also very in line with the Heat's tactical system, the Heat's offensive system is more of the offensive core Butler eats raw on the inside, and the big Morris's outside projection can not only improve the outside threat, but also open up the penalty area space.
Of course, all this is on paper, the real effect has to be tested in the game, I just happened to watch their October 22 game against the Bucks and today's game against the Nets, it should be said that the current Heat's defense has returned to the level of the Eastern Conference championship period, in the 22nd game against the Bucks, they once again found the familiar rhythm of defeating the Bucks, using Tucker, Butler, Adebayo composed of the forward group to limit the alphabet brother, while the extremely oppressive rotation defense, Greatly reducing the opponent's outside shooting rate, the offensive end is the three armed forces with life, multi-point flowering, only half a quarter of the ball to hit the Bucks falling flowers.
Today against the Nets, it is this routine, using Lowry, Tucker, Duncan Robinson and others to put pressure on Harden, do not let go of the shot, when Harden breaks through to the inside line of the opportunity, when Harden enters the inside line will enter the defensive position of Adebayo, Adebayo is not a stupid big inside line, his coverage area is very large, Harden can only distribute the ball to the outside shooter, this time is the key moment to test the Nets shooter, Harris played very well in the first quarter, the Nets have been leading the score, but to the beginning of the third quarter, When the Heat's outside defense intensity increased, we can see that many of Harris's outside shots were difficult shots under the heat defenders' pursuit defense, the shooting rate dropped very badly, in the fourth quarter, Nash began to give up Griffin and Ader's big personal selection, chose to change into Millsap and Bruce Brown's small inside line, once forced the score closer, but there was a problem in the outside link, Mills played abnormally on the outside line today, and after shooting, The Nets' small interior line is even more insecure in terms of rebounding, the backcourt rebounds have lost a lot, the data given by the live broadcast is that the Heat have grabbed 17 frontcourt rebounds, and the second score has reached more than 20 points, while the Nets have only 4 frontcourt rebounds in total, this huge gap The Nets want to win it is really difficult.
At present, the main problem of the Nets in my opinion is still out of the inside, I don't know why after a short offseason, Harden and his teammates feel that the cooperation is a rusty machine, always extremely stuck, in the absence of Durant and Irving last season, Harden alone led the team to the kind of flowing, open and closed cooperation completely gone, especially in terms of interior cooperation, Griffin to Harden's blocking quality is very low, so that Harden still has to face the defender after using Griffin's blocking, At the same time, Griffin's offensive desire after the demolition is getting lower and lower, he is often the ball immediately after receiving the ball to the outside line, there is no low single after the attraction of the bag clip, teammates receive his pass is also continue to face the defender, completely unable to find the right offensive opportunity, this is reflected in the third quarter is very obvious, Griffin can also be removed to receive three points after the outside, the shooting rate after the start of this season is unbearable, Ard's blocking quality is acceptable, when his ability to move means that he can not eat cake like a young man, Harden, who lost his cake partner, is good at cooking, teammates can't eat well and can't do anything, Millsap's situation is basically similar to Ade's, Bruce Brown doesn't have last season's surprise effect, and now it seems that the only one who can call Harden is Clarkston, who is not on today.
So last season the Nets' proud inside and outside blossoms have been dudded first inside, and the outside line, although Harris is not as accurate as last season, but the shooting rate is ok, and there is Mills on the outside, he is much stronger than Shamet, so I say that the Nets' problem is still on the inside.
With the nets' core configuration plus Harden's past successful partner, there are two types, either excellent athleticism, high blocking and demolition literacy, defensive can protect the frame, typical is Capela, or it is a 3D type of interior line, can have a threat on the outside line, typical is Tucker, even Anderson who has 3 no D can also exert his power on the offensive end, and the Nets' current configuration is really not up to standard.
Harden this point is not exciting, the Power of the Nets is directly reduced by half, Durant is destined to be alone, it is still only the beginning of the season, there is an old Saying in China called three years old to see the old, through I watched the Nets against the Bucks and the Heat of the two games, I have felt that the Nets' illness is not easy to heal, Nash looks haggard a lot, and now can only look forward to Irving this variable.
Or hope the Nets have good luck.