After the Celtics lost seven to the heat in the East final, many people thought that the final actually had results.
In fact, I think so too. If the Celtic and Nuggets finals, the uncertainty will exceed that of the heat to the Nuggets.
At the stage of reaching the finals in one season, the lineup and technical and tactical level do not determine everything, especially the heat has eliminated the Green Army, which proves to us once again that to this end, the proportion of a team’s spiritual temperament may not be lower than the level of lineup and tactics.
However, if the hardware gap on the basketball court reaches a certain level, it may not be enough to rely solely on the support of spiritual temperament. It’s like there are some mountains in the world, ordinary people can’t turn over, but some purposeful people can. However, when the altitude reaches a certain height, if you don’t rely on oxygen cylinders and Sherpa as a guide, you really can’t climb over.
Yokedge is such a mountain that the current lineup configuration of the heat cannot match it.
After hitting Dongju, the Heat lineup did not have enough size. The main center Adebayor is only 206 tall, and the two forwards Martin and stellus are only 196, starting No. 1 Vincent 191. If there are still people who do not suffer in the opposite position, it is Jimmy Butler, whose height is 201. He can either appear outside the line or play number 4, but for the heat that often uses joint defense, it doesn’t matter where he is.
Of course, there are some relatively high people in the heat. For example, Kevin Lefort, an experienced insider who is good at three points, is 203 tall, and Kodi Zeller, who once played a rotating center, also has 211, but neither of them is enough to match the height of jokedge for a long time.
Therefore, the heat will definitely use clamping, the difference is when to clamp and in which area to clamp. In terms of tactical logic, as long as there is a pinch, there will be a vacancy. The Nuggets performed very well in the playoffs. As early as in the regular season, the third point hit rate also ranked fourth, and the comprehensive hit rate of various shots ranked first, exceeding 50%.
The scorer Jamal Murray has a saying that the Heat team may be very depressed after hearing it. He said: “We have seen all kinds of adjustments. We have seen the bottom line pinch, arch top pinch, and let people who are not good at shooting go to defense. We have even seen various mixed types, and we have seen that the Clippers want kawaii or George to block and dismantle relieve a garrison. We have seen all kinds of defense.”
We don’t need to repeat Butler’s hardness and the temperament of the hot team. Every time they play a shocking game, they only need to copy and paste the past comments on him and his team, which will never be wrong.
Before the battle between the heat and the Green Army, I received a cheer T-shirt designed by Li Ning. Recently, when summer came, I dug out another T-shirt, which was designed by Li Ning last year: cross out the Last in One Last Dance and change it to More, which means “this is not the Last Dance, do it again”. You see, Li Ning’s design last year is not out of date today.
We can use a bonfire to compare the current Heat team. Spiritual temperament itself is not fuel, but burning firewood. Butler’s personal hard leadership temperament, the whole team’s unyielding civilian temperament, is the gasoline poured on the firewood. If the number of firewood piles is not enough, pouring more gasoline may burst brightly, but the bonfire will not burn for too long.
In addition to the unique playoff attributes and spiritual temperament, for the Heat, this finals will benefit them as well as the following points–
First, the Nuggets have rested for more than 10 days and may rust when they come up.
Second, apart from Codeville-pop and Jeff Green, no one in the Nuggets had experience in the finals, let alone winning the championship.
Third, Butler’s Heat team played the finals at home for the first time with the enthusiastic support of the audience, which was completely different from the empty scene in the bubble in 2020.
However, compared with those crucial aspects, these elements may seem somewhat marginalized. The advantages of nuggets are more in their lineup and play.
We can compare the Nuggets to a sculpture, which took eight years to complete. Although the Nuggets have done dozens of selection, signing and trading, they have never been pushed down and redone. Therefore, this is a work with firm faith, clear direction and precise conception.
Coach Malone and jokiki entered the Nuggets team at the same time in 2015, which has never changed so far. This is like establishing a solid skeleton for the Nuggets sculpture. In 2016, Jamal Murray joined the team, making this skeleton more complete.
In the next eight years, although all kinds of players went in and out, the basic shape of nuggets as a team never changed. In the last finals, you can say that jokiki lacked experience and was affected by injuries. But now this nugget has no injuries and jokiki has become extremely mature.
The addition of Gordon and Xiao PROTONIC still failed to bring the Nuggets to the height of the West. However, Calvin Booth, the new general manager of this season, took two signings to make the Nuggets complete, that’s Codeville-pop and Bruce Brown. The two of them finally gave the Nuggets team, which had always been heavy on attack and light on defense, a defensive temperament. In the new trend that offensive and defensive conversion became more and more important, Nuggets two valuable puzzle.
Therefore, as long as the Nuggets are not digging their own graves, but digging the gold nuggets belonging to them according to the normal routine, the Heat cannot beat them.
No matter how strong or weak the 30 NBA teams are, no team does not have weaknesses, and the Nuggets are no exception. Their biggest weakness is that the bench lineup is too short, and the inner line is too different from Jokic. But the Nuggets’s starting lineup was so strong that the opponents could not defeat their entire team through the advantages of the rotation stage. This means that even through the way of Tanji horse racing, the opponent cannot defeat the Nuggets. What’s more, the bench of the heat is too short and has no advantage in the rotation stage.
After the Warriors defeated the Nuggets last year, the dream chase once talked about the game with jokiki. Every round seemed to be playing chess, and its brainy degree was equivalent to the team that defeated James in the finals.
If it is described in this way, then the hot team and the Nuggets play chess, which is equivalent to the chess pieces in hand, is far from enough.
Sports itself is full of uncertainty and there will be various accidents. Even the two opponents who seem to have great differences in strength may produce unexpected results.
But this is not an ambiguous reason when looking forward to the heat and Nuggets finals. When Tencent came to look forward to the score, I gave it 4-1.
My respect for the heat and Butler was expressed long before the East decision. At that time, it was the Heat 4-2 that entered the finals, and the reason was Butler’s tough spirit. I just didn’t expect them to be so smooth that they would lead 3-0, let alone the Celtics to win 3 games in a row.
Therefore, between the heat and the Nuggets, it is not easy to be more optimistic about the Nuggets with a clear attitude, even a little unbearable. I very much hope Butler can win a championship before he retires. If he gets what he wants, it will be the best incentive for most ordinary people.
Su Qun column