Playing against Pat Riley's team is torture, and every time we play the Heat it's so hard.

Regardless of how the Hawks speed up their counterattack, when the Heat attack, Rod Strickland slowly moves over and slowly organizes the offense.

Liu Mang really hopes that Pat Riley will step aside as general manager soon because of his poor performance, and give up the position of head coach to Stan Van Gundy. Although they are both defensive head coaches, Stan Van Gundy's style of play is...

The tactic of a super center plus four pitchers, although it is still mainly defensive, the offensive end still has rhythm. Unlike Pat Riley, even in the championship year of the 2005-06 season, with O'Neal and Wade, he can

Limit the total number of shots taken in a game to 150.

There is no super scorer now, and the Heat's total number of shots in a game is only about 140. They take 70 shots and their opponents take 70 shots.

Liu Mang never had a chance to dunk, mainly because today's game against the Heat was a little different. The last time they played against the Heat, the Heat players relied on their defensive habits of retreating quickly to deal with the Hawks.

Using the team's cavalry tactics, Pat Riley seemed to consciously start targeting defense in this game.

"Pat, didn't you say before that you wanted to see the Eagles' new tactics? Why are you taking the initiative to deal with them?" Stan Van Gundy was confused again.

Pat Riley looked at this incompetent disciple and felt so sad. He had worked very hard and knew how to ask questions, but he was a bit too stupid and incapable of independent learning!

Pat Riley planned to give the position of head coach to this disciple after he had done everything he could in the past two years and got good prospects, but now he is really hesitant about this decision that had been made long ago!

But from being a video editor to his current disciple, he is always reluctant to scold him. Pat Riley explained patiently: "We won't always be bad. We will have to deal with this new tactic in the future, although we can't beat it now."

, but also try to find their weaknesses, in the future..."

Just as Pat Riley explained to Van Gundy, the Heat began to rely on their high mobility to put strong defensive pressure on the Hawks' cavalry tactics.

After seeing the Hawks' new tactics for the first time, Pat Riley became more determined that there will definitely be a position-neutral tactical system in the future, so whether he is learning their offense or trying to defend them, he is preparing for the future.

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Pat Riley's response to the Eagles' Cavalry Company lineup was to collectively defend, block people and cut, shrink the basket, and block three-pointers by himself.

The Heat's lineup can really do this. The tallest member of their lineup is Mourning, who is only 2.08 meters tall. Although Mourning's explosive power has been greatly reduced due to kidney disease, he is still very fast, no worse than Muhammad and Nubel.

, a method that enables five players to quickly return to defense and put pressure on the Eagles at all stages.

As a result, Liu Mang couldn't find any opportunities to dunk, and he was under pressure to find open spaces to follow up during the counterattack, so he simply put aside the task and devoted himself to the game.

The Hawks still have a strength advantage, and their offensive style of play has long been established. This is their advantage against the Heat. The Heat mainly defend at a slow pace and add constant pressure to the half-court defense. The main reason is the slow pace. From the defensive efficiency

Generally speaking, when Ratliff is on the court for the Hawks, the defensive efficiency of the two teams is not much different. The Heat are first in the Eastern Conference, the Nets are second in the Eastern Conference, the Hawks are third in the Eastern Conference, and the Pistons are fourth in the Eastern Conference. The four teams mainly

It's just the difference in rhythm. The efficiency and strength on the defensive end are not much different.

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At the end of the half, it was another low-scoring game. The Hawks led the Heat by 5 points 44 to 39 and ended the half.

Liu Mang scored 9 points and 3 assists in the first half. Seeing the situation that could not be opened, he was a little anxious.

Coach Kruger is not very optimistic about the situation on the court. Of course, the probability of winning is very high. The Hawks still have a chance of winning, and it is very high. However, the Heat are dragging down the rhythm like this. They will have to play back-to-back with the Heat tomorrow.

, and then take a day off to go to Dallas for a fierce battle with the Mavericks...

In the first half, Coach Kruger tried various ways to increase the speed, and even sent out the inside combination of Raheem and Nubell at one point, but the opponent immediately responded actively and defeated the Golden State Heavy Machine Gun of the first generation of the Warriors in the run-and-gun era.

Reese Gatlin came on, he was a really fast artillery player, the earliest 3D player. Although he didn't have three-point ability, he moved fast, had a mid-range shot, and was mainly good at defense. The Heat also deployed a small lineup.

Obviously, the Heat are sincere in wanting to compete with the Hawks.

Coach Kruger didn't know why the Heat suddenly failed to make ends meet, and he didn't know that Pat Riley actually wanted to see what changes there were in the Hawks' cavalry tactics.

But even if he knew it, it would not affect Coach Kruger's efforts to adjust. Basketball is a game where you study the opponent's style of play and then respond.

However, after looking at the Heat's statistics in the first half, Coach Kruger discovered a problem.

To beat the Heat, you don’t necessarily have to go against their rhythm!

In the first half, the Heat restrained the Hawks' cavalry tactics very well, mainly because the Heat are not tall overall and have a short center who moves quickly.

But when the Heat replaced a shorter center, their interior defensive efficiency dropped a lot!

Liu Mang's basket caused two fouls and another 2 vs. 1. Rahim's strong play from the second quarter was more efficient than when Mourning was in the first quarter. The Cavalry lineup failed to charge at full strength today, but was forced to fall into position.

The pick-and-roll efficiency was much higher after that.

This made Coach Kruger’s eyes light up!

Change tactics! Let’s start with a bigger lineup!

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At the end of the halftime break, on the Eagles side, the players were a little confused about why they suddenly changed their regular play style and lineup. The Eagles replaced Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Rahim.

Treve's big lineup.

This lineup is not fast. It is the most stable lineup used to hold down the team when leading at the end of the second, third, and fourth quarters, rather than an impact lineup when the score is widened.

But it was this lineup that made Pat Riley on the Heat bench unable to stop smiling.

"This new coach is really awesome!" Pat Riley didn't expect Coach Kruger to see the Heat's biggest problem now.

The Heat's style of supporting tempo, slow offense, and active defense is very good at dealing with fast-paced teams, because fast-paced teams will definitely increase their speed endlessly when encountering such slow-paced teams.

In a slow tempo, the fast-paced team's own rhythm will be lost.

The Heat, on the other hand, have no offensive rhythm and just defend to the death. Therefore, it seems that the Heat's defensive style of play is very unsolvable. In the end, they can only rely on stronger firepower to try to kill them.

But if the opponent is in a good position, plays steadily, and is exhausted like that, the Heat really have no way to overtake, and their best scorer Eddie Jones is not the kind of player who has the ability to open up embarrassing situations. At this time, if the opponent

With stars who can perform well in positional battles, the Heat have little choice but to keep the scene from looking ugly.

Now that the Eagles' new coach has discovered this, there is no need for Pat Riley to continue this pairing, or to deliberately mess it up. It doesn't matter. Let's fight with all our strength! Pat Riley wants to fight this one.
Chapter completed!