Depth: The Heat are the crocodiles of the eastern quagmire Cold-blooded cunning lurkers

While the Nets in the East were still struggling with the Big Three and the Bucks were defending their titles with great fanfare, the Miami Heat was like a crocodile in a hot swamp, quietly observing the prey not far away, a top predator capable of cutting a big "net" and dragging the adult male "deer" into a pond and winding to death, the Miami Heat had been eyeing the tiger and silent in the past few seasons, and was trying to restore, "Riley Manufacturing" never disappointed: iron-blooded, cold-blooded, and full of cunning.

Chapter 1: Find a cunning hunter.

Yes, the Heat has dug up lowry who looks old," a steel cannon that has been looking at the toughest gun for the past 10 years, and is actually the player who "creates fouls on the opponent" the most, a top figure full of blood and cunning, and the number one candidate that the Heat dreamed of. In the words of the current Internet popularity, the top hunters always appear in the form of prey, and Lowry has dressed up as a pig to eat a tiger in the past few years.

The heat's young talents are all over lowly, saying that lowry is the best number one they have ever worked with. In fact, Lowry is very much in line with Riley's aesthetic of the Heat and even a predatory team. Anyone who knows Riley knows that he was vampire-level in terms of making the most of his materials and making the most of his talents, and behind the years when the gorgeous Lakers defended his title, star players including the Magic were tortured by him, and Riley seemed to prefer Cooper's stalking type at the time. And Lowry is similar to the old-school defender of the 90s like Starks, grassroots, iron-blooded, messy, and full of fighting spirit and even cunning, Starks was once one of the very few stars who dared to look at Jordan to launch a provocation.

This explains why the Heat and Butler are still suspected of recruiting Lowry in the summer, and what makes them so fond of a 36-year-old veteran? The catfish effect began with Lowry, and his champion temperament and the commoner king and the heat were counted as the king of the eight to see the green beans, absolutely perfect. It turns out that Lori's arrival has changed the state of the heat tepid, if the heat is a pile of dry wood, then Lori is the fire. He might even seduce the Heat's underlying bad personality — much like the green-faced Rodman of the '80s who studied under Lambier. The Heat itself had the toughness, the iron blood, and the sense of heaviness, but it lacked the cunning and stuffy gourd on Lori's body. So Lowry's arrival fundamentally ignited the Heat, stimulating their cells and subconscious minds to "make it bad" in the confrontation, which made the Heat instantly become not only iron-blooded, but also transformed into the cunning and difficult team that Riley wanted to see most, like the New York Knicks in the 90s.

Chapter 2: Building a Wall.

Tucker, it's a wall.

In the last 5 minutes of the game with the Nets, Tucker chased Harden like a pickup truck, directly bumping into Harris, who was coming to block the demolition, and as a result, Tucker raised his hands in pain, blocked the foul and then took back the ball, and then the camera swept Tucker, showing a sly smile. If Tucker used to be an honest wall, rain or shine, then tucker honed the characteristics of hob meat during the Bucks' victory last season.

The Heat conceded an average of 95 points at the beginning of the season, the first in the league, an increase of 12.1% in defense over the same period last season, which is basically a qualitative change; in addition, the Heat averaged 44.8 points through two-pointers, the first in the league, the rebounds of the whole team, limiting the opponent's shooting rate to less than 40%, the league's first; the average opponent can only take 7.3 frontcourt rebounds, the league first, even if it is a defense outside the three-point line, the Heat also makes the opponent's shooting rate less than 30%, the league second. Compared to Popovich, who has had to sacrifice defense to compromise on offense in recent years, the Heat have now become a benchmark for the league's defense, all of which cannot be said to be because of a Tucker, but Tucker's importance in the Heat's territory is almost the same as Lowry's.

Some of the most famous tough guys in the league and have a grassroots temperament, the locker room boss, and catfish effect stars, rare, beverley in the early years of the Rockets counted as one, and bradley of the earlier Green Army is also of the same type, and now Boston Smart is the typical representative, and then Tucker. Tucker's work with the Nets last season was once pointed out, but from the result orientation point of view, Tucker's role in the Bucks last season was irreplaceable. Before coming to the Heat, Tucker's words were very representative of his relationship with the Heat: "It's all tough guys here, we're going to be tough together, it's going to be very interesting." "The Heat's 15 million tucker is a bargain that can't be more cost-effective."

Unlike the tiring work at the Bucks, the Heat respect Tucker more on the offensive end, which returned him to the familiar position with the Rockets, and tucker used the familiar rhythm of the night to beat the Nets to let Durant hit the iron 7 times in a single head-to-head with himself, and he also scored 15 points. In today's Heat system, Tucker also followed Adebayor and Butler with a "defensive contribution value" of 0.3, and the team was third. On top of that, Tucker's arrival was a boost to the Heat's outside line.

Chapter Three: A Story.

The Heat built the concept of the troops and the root cause of the failures of these years.

Tucker's improvement to the Heat's outside line stems from the Heat's attempts, improvements and enthusiasm for three-pointers on the outside in the past few seasons, which has been particularly evident in the past two seasons. But shooters like Hiro and Robinson don't have an absolute spatial advantage, which allows Adebayor to force his projection and responsiveness. Riley knows the Heat's problems, and in the past few seasons Riley has consciously changed the Heat's slow offensive mode, layer by layer of position cramping and bone-pulling gameplay, which has also been temporarily recognized by the Grizzlies in the West, but eventually drowned in the torrent of the small-ball era.

But the Heat's loss to the Lakers in the Finals still helped Riley make up his mind: the height was not enough to make up for the hardness, but the instability of the three-pointer could only be used as an offensive auxiliary, not a dominant. The Heat's team's not-so-long but stylistic history has always struggled on the offensive end. And this season the Heat abandoned last season's crazy three-point tactics, tucker and Lowry's arrival gave the Heat better cover, more solid blocking, this blocking quality is really visible to the naked eye, Tucker a sideways, the Heat shooter is in front of the open field.

This season, the Heat's three-point shooting is 14.4% fewer than last season, averaging 31 shots per game, the league's fifth-to-last, averaging 9.5 league-to-last three-point shots per game, 26.6% less than the same period last season, this change is very huge. But at the same time, the Heat's offense has improved by 2% over the same period, and the 13th league average in points per game has rushed to the middle and upper reaches, and their always headache-ridden offense, mid-range disconnection, and the problem of weak offensive attack on the inside of the tall team seem to have been solved. The Heat's 61.5 two-pointers this season are fourth in the league, up nearly 30 percent year-over-year and averaging 31 two-pointers per game, second in the league, up 20 percent year-over-year.

The Heat have benefited from tucker and Lowry joining, Riley has corrected the Heat's biggest problems of the past few years, and the overcorrection on the offensive end has now become a balanced offensive mode. At the end of the position, Tucker's blocking and Lowry's organization almost freed up Adebayor's position, and the Warcraft had a three-season low in assists this season, but averaged nearly 13 career highs in rebounds per game. Previously, Adebayo needed to stay away from the three-second zone for a long time because of the heat's lack of quality in the mid-range position, but the height of the team facing the luxury interior line was still at a loss, lowry's appearance and impact made up for the shortcomings of Dragic's lack of confrontation, and Tucker's cover quality within 16 feet freed Adebayor.

And found the "ball carrier", "perfect blocker" candidate, the Heat's sense of position on the struggle and awkwardness, finally smoothed out, the Heat to build the team style concept finally has a clear vein, Butler also ushered in a more balanced output this season, in the second position Butler originally has the top defense and body, Tucker liberated his second position attributes, and Lowry let Adebayor not tired of coping and blocking, the Heat each position was corrected, at this time their three points became a conventional weapon again, The exquisite blocking and dismantling and the attack and defense of the middle-distance small circle are the comfort zone and dessert position of the Heat.

Chapter 4: A driftwood that bites

The crocodile is such a predator in the form of prey, extremely camouflaged, aggressively hidden, surprisingly victorious and strongly grasping, he is a seemingly harmless driftwood in the river, and he is always rushing out of the calm deadly.

Why are Angie and Riley the toughest leaders in the league's history? After two teams were in a rebuilding period, none of them could make adjustments as quickly as they did, completing their rise in a matter of years. Compared with the Green Army's draft system and the cultivation of young people, Riley is indeed more good at stylizing and routineizing, selectively selecting players under a formula, just like a jigsaw puzzle. Riley has spent nearly $1 billion in recent years, and his miserliness to Wade and all kinds of money thrown at people on the fringes in recent years have made people cry out for Wade.

But looking back now, Riley was really fierce. The people selected by the Heat in recent years are all "very Leiley" or the type that is getting closer and closer to the Heat label, and if it is not, it will be replaced and continue to try, in order to run into a satisfactory degree. Last season, the Heat lost to the Lakers due to injury, but it was not a failure, and Riley saw further possibilities on the existing team, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of playing style and tactics, which is the characteristic of the god operator. Although the Heat have a short history, they are one of the representatives of long-term prosperity. It should be known that with the deepening of the season, Oladipo will also make a comeback, and the internal improvement of the Heat's combat effectiveness is already foreseeable.

The new season of the Heat is back, will break the Bucks and Nets in the East two male dominance of the situation, the three-legged momentum has been formed, and the Heat is now in the dark Bucks Nets in the light, the continuous victory over the Bucks and nets declare the determination and ambition of the Heat to make a comeback, miami will be the most dangerous challenger.