Although the home opener is important to Washington fans, the game itself is not interesting.
The opponent is the Philadelphia 76ers without Iguodala and Jrue Holiday. The Wizards will lose if they don't win by 10 points.
The third game was the heavyweight one, and the opponent happened to be the Miami Heat, which had made a heavy comeback in the preseason some time ago. Although it was an away game, this did not prevent Li Kaiming from giving the Heat some color.
November 3, Miami, American Airlines Arena.
If you want to ask which team's fans in the entire NBA hate Li Kaiming the most, Heat fans would say second, and no one would dare to say first.
The Big Three of the super battleship Heat formed in 2010. Now three years have passed and James' contract is about to end. As a result, they have entered the finals once in three years. That finals also made the soft-hearted Nowitzki stand up. .
The remaining two years were all lost to the same team. How can this not make Heat fans hate it?
So when all the pre-game preparations were in place, when Li Kaiming and other Wizards players walked onto the court, bursts of boos broke out in the American Airlines Arena!
Li Kaiming and his teammates around him looked at each other and smiled, with very relaxed expressions on their faces.
They have been to this place many times. Both players and fans are old opponents and have long been used to it. If the fans at the American Airlines Arena don't boo them, Li Kaiming and others will still feel uncomfortable!
The starting lineups of both sides took to the court.
Miami Heat: Point guard Mario Chalmers, shooting guard Dwyane Wade, small forward LeBron James, power forward Chris Bosh, center Udonis Haslem.
Washington Wizards: Point guard Kirk Hinrich, shooting guard Klay Thompson, small forward Kawhi Leonard, power forward Kaiming Lee, center Andre Blatche.
During the jump ball stage, Blatche was always strong and used his height and wingspan advantages to crush Haslem and help the Wizards win the first goal.
Hinrich dribbled the ball past half-court, and the Wizards ran a tactic. Finally, Thompson used Li Kaiming's screen to make a big circle, circled to the other side at a 45-degree angle to catch the ball and throw it, and then the audience booed Hit a three-pointer with a swoosh!
3 to 0!
This three-pointer was like a loud slap in the face of the fans at the American Airlines Arena, causing their boos to subside.
The Heat attacked. After Chalmers dribbled the ball past half court, he handed the ball to James who was asking for the ball from the outside. After the latter got the ball, he faced Leonard. He first made a clumsy stomping triple threat, but to no avail. Become a ball tank to break through!
This move has been almost unstoppable in his ten-year career. Even if he can block it, he usually rushes to the basket and is defended by the opponent's big center. There are few outside defenders who can let him hit the ball during the impact stage. slow down.
So James was also very confident, but after he took two steps, the smile on his face froze, and a few drops of cold sweat poured down his forehead!
How could this person with facial paralysis be so powerful?
James was horrified. Of course he could see that Leonard's muscle lines were more obvious than last season, but the latter's huge strength still exceeded his imagination!
Because he found that the tank breakthrough he relied on for survival could not reach the inside line. He just used his speed to rush to the edge of the penalty area, and he had to stop the ball!
James swallowed and then passed the ball to Bosh. The latter made a fake move in the face of Li Kaiming's defense and then broke through smoothly and missed the layup.
The Wizards got the rebound, and Li Kaiming threw Bosh away and ran forward. Hinrich, with perfect understanding, swung the ball forward. Li Kaiming, who was running at high speed, turned around and scooped up the ball, then put his hands together to score a goal. European step in a big circle, passing Wade who rushed over to cut the ball cleanly!
After passing Wade, the Heat's basket was clearly visible. He stepped into the free throw line with one foot, took off, glided in the air for a distance, and succeeded with a one-arm dunk!
After landing, Li Kaiming looked up to the sky and roared. The fans standing behind the backboard were all shocked by his momentum!
The Heat attacked and the ball continued to get to James. Facing Leonard, the latter wanted to try a tank breakthrough again, but he was still held down halfway through the breakthrough. In desperation, he had to pass the ball to Wade on the outside. The player used the screen to reach the basket and hit a difficult pull-up layup to help the Heat stop the bleeding!
However, before the fans at the American Airlines Arena could take a breath, the Wizards attacked the frontcourt. Li Kaiming caught the ball and threw it from outside the three-point line, hitting Bosh's defense!
8 to 2!
As soon as the game started, the Wizards firmly grasped the rhythm of the game.
The Heat attacked again. This time James chose to call a screen, hoping to hit Hinrich's mismatch. However, Hinrich and Leonard completed perfect cooperation on the defensive end. First, they suddenly went up to double-team, and then Leonard Nader saw the opportunity and struck directly, slapping the basketball!
The force of this palm was so strong that even James didn't catch it, and the basketball slipped directly out of his hand.
But he reacted quickly and wanted to regain control of the ball. At this time, a pair of robot hands stretched out. Leonard and James put their hands on the ball almost at the same time.
Then a fierce battle began, and the referee on the sideline stopped it in time, indicating that it was a scrum.
During the subsequent scramble for the ball, although James relied on his physical talent to win the ball again, Leonard's defense still caused the Heat to waste ten seconds of offensive time.
In the end, James broke through halfway and threw the ball to Wade on the outside. When the latter caught the ball, there was little time left, so he could only catch the ball and throw it, but missed under Thompson's defense.
Li Kaiming grabbed the rebound and handed it to Hinrich to dribble to the frontcourt.
The Wizards played a classic pick-and-roll tactic. Li Kaiming acted as the screener and then moved down, attracting James' defense.
At this time, the Heat are still immersed in the fantasy of casually letting Leonard go last season, but Li Kaiming, who has trained with Leonard for a summer, is clear in his mind. Leonard this season is definitely much better than last season. Both on offense and defense!
During the impact of receiving the ball, Li Kaiming raised the ball above his head. Seeing that the Heat's defense had almost shrunk, he passed the ball directly to Leonard on the outside. The latter received the ball decisively and made a steady hit from mid-range!
10 to 2!
The Heat attacked and the ball was given to James. The latter still wanted to use the pick-and-roll to get rid of Leonard, but tonight's facial paralysis seemed to have received some instructions, pestering James like brown candy.
Even the pick-and-roll couldn't allow James to completely get rid of Leonard. In desperation, he had to pass the ball to Chalmers again. Although the latter received the ball into a three-pointer, he was not good at this rhythm at all and hesitated. Strike at once!
The Wizards protected the rebounds. After reaching the frontcourt, Li Kaiming took the initiative to catch the ball. Then he pushed the ball in a different direction and took a step back, widening the distance between him and Bosh. He just pulled it up and threw it!
The three-pointer hit the net with a bang. While the Wizards bench stood up to celebrate, Coach Spoelstra called a timeout with a gloomy face on the sidelines!
After the turmoil in the locker room during the offseason, although James and Spoelstra reluctantly reached a reconciliation with the help of team president Pat Riley, everyone in the Heat felt that this season's There was a strange atmosphere in the locker room.
This atmosphere still comes from James and Spoelstra. Although the two have reconciled on the surface, it can still be seen from Riley's behavior that superficial repairs cannot keep the deep cracks intact.
A broken mirror cannot be reunited after all.
Spoelstra did not make any adjustments to the personnel rotation, but simply drew a few sentences on the tactical board, and emphasized that "Only by breaking through to the opponent's basket can we create open opportunities for the outside line, and barely pass the ball during the breakthrough process." The ball is useless..."
When they heard this sentence, all the Heat players felt their hearts skip a beat.
Spoelstra knew why the team was lagging behind, but he just didn't want to say it in front of everyone.
After the game came back, the Heat served to the frontcourt.
James seemed to have heard the meaning of Spoelstra's words. After receiving the ball from outside the three-point line, he took two steps back, like an angry bull, pawing the ground twice with his hind hooves, and then gained momentum to attack!
Leonard showed no fear on his face, his strong arms were like steel, he faced the difficulties, and his thick legs were like the roots of an old tree, nailed to the ground.
Two small forwards with terrifying bodies collided with each other, making a dull sound!
But James took the initiative after all, and his body carried more energy. This time he knocked Leonard away, and then took eight steps away and rushed to the basket.
Of course, Leonard was not easy to mess with. His long arms kept interfering from the side. Finally, James got close to the basket he dreamed of for the first time in this game.
Just when he was about to pick up a basket that showed his soft touch, a tall figure suddenly rushed over from beside him, and then with a move of the Tathagata Palm, he directly gave the great king a spicy hot pot!
The tactical board in Spoelstra's hand suddenly drooped...
At this moment, James is infinitely confused. He feels that he is taking the most difficult road at this moment. There is already a paralyzed defender in front of him. He worked hard to break through to the basket, but what greets him is not Success, but a more cruel hat!
Success may seem right around the corner, but it's just a mirage.
He tried to spread his hands and pray to the referee, but what he responded to was the exclamations and sighs of the fans in the audience, because the Wizards pushed the fast break and rushed to the frontcourt. After Li Kaiming caught the ball and dunked Bosh!
At this time, James was still standing in the backcourt, his eyes dull...
Heat fans never imagined that the home team, which scored 40 points against the Wizards in the preseason, would be beaten to pieces less than halftime after the game started.
Under the defense of the paralyzed Leonard, James, the core of the team, can only occasionally steal chickens for layups, or use unstable shooting to score, but it is a drop in the bucket and cannot be sustained at all.
Wade had to stand up in this situation, but with a serious knee injury, he was no longer as brave as he was at his peak. Moreover, with the Wizards' interior defense, even if Wade at his peak came over, it would be enough for him to drink.
After Thompson and Leonard grew up, the Wizards' lineup finally showed its fangs. In the third game of the season, at the home court of the Miami Heat, they beat their opponent by 36 points and hit the opponent's three core players. rates are limited to less than 50 percent.
James made 5 of 17 shots, Wade made 9 of 19 shots, and Bosh made 5 of 14 shots...
They announced their return with a hearty victory and slapped many people who were optimistic about the Heat in the face.
Is this the number one odds-on favorite to win? ridiculous!
