At the beginning of the second quarter, both the novice fans and real NBA fans at Key Arena could tell that the Heat's main offensive point was Pierce.

The player Pierce mainly attacks is James Harden.

In fact, many experts and media had anticipated this routine of the Heat before the game.

Pierce's post-up ability, coupled with his comprehensive offensive skills, would not look too bad when placed in front of Kobe.

Not to mention in front of rotation players like James Harden.

Even if James Harden really has All-Star ability, is Pierce an ordinary All-Star?

Does James Harden have All-Star-level defensive post-up ability?

Therefore, before the game started, the whole world was not very optimistic about the SuperSonics. Even Arenas felt that the world was in despair. It was difficult for the SuperSonics to stop the Heat. It was for this reason.

When the Heat's lineup rotates with eight players, it's really strong!

James, Wade, Garnett, Pierce...

These four are really no ordinary All-Stars now, they are still superstars!

Although it is impossible for Garnett and Pierce to become superstars in the game now, there is no problem in maintaining their superstar strength within 25 to 30 minutes.

If you add the special-function superstar Ray Allen, when the Heat rotate eight players, they can maintain two superstars on the court at all times with the All-Star lineup.

Even if the Sonics really have ten All-Stars, they still only have yes, and Durant is barely a superstar.

Others are all-stars at best.

In the NBA, there is still a big difference between superstars and all-stars.

The gap between James Harden and Pierce will be even greater.

However, what shocked the entire Key Arena was.

When Pierce came up, he focused on attacking James Harden. This offensive option that seemed to be within his grasp actually encountered difficulties from the beginning!

"Pierce can't beat James Harden?!"

This result really surprised all the media reporters at the scene.

After three minutes of the second quarter, the entire Key Arena commentary box with commentators from all over the world was whispering.

Pierce now has the strength of a superstar in 25-30 minutes of playing time. This is not their conjecture. It is the fact that the Heat defeated the Mavericks, Grizzlies, Nuggets and Timberwolves before. Pierce fought against Afflalo and McGrady in succession.

An overall evaluation that Anthony and Guy won't fall behind even in a fierce battle.

Pierce has constantly faced strong opponents and accepted challenges in the past, but in almost every game he can draw a 50-50 draw against these powerful opponents.

Forget about one or two games. If every game is like this, then you can only admit that Pierce still has the ability to be a superstar.

At least, he has such strength when he is physically strong.

But now, Pierce, who seemed to be on a 50-50 basis with Afflalo, Tracy McGrady, Anthony, and Gay, is now on a 50-50 basis with James Harden on the court!

In the first three minutes of the second quarter, Pierce was the main attacker and could not hit Anthony from behind. He could only use his height advantage to attack from the front.

Moreover, the frontal attack is not that easy to attack. Pierce's skills are very good, but he no longer has such excellent physical fitness, and there is no way to use pure skills to get rid of James Harden.

James Harden can always feel the danger caused by Pierce's fake moves, and can always block the danger caused by Pierce's fake moves.

You know, although Pierce's physical talent is not that outstanding now, his skills are getting better and better.

Even some NBA veterans, even James on the same team, would feel uncomfortable when faced with his increasingly demonic fake moves.

But when he faced James Harden, he couldn't play from behind, nor could he use his technical skills to break through with the ball from the front. In the end, Pierce was forced to use his height to make a pull-up shot in front of James Harden!

Although the dry pull is also his unique skill, he is an offensive kaleidoscope, not a shooter!

As an offensive kaleidoscope, it is simply a shame to be forced by a young man like James Harden to use his height to pull up.

On the court, Pierce is feeling very uncomfortable right now.

On the sidelines, while the whole world was marveling at James Harden's post-up defense, the SuperSonics players were not too surprised.

"James' back-up defensive ability is still so amazing!"

"After all, even Mark would find it difficult to beat James from behind, haha."

"It's really hard to imagine that James' body contains so much energy."

Listening to his teammates' comments about James Harden, Ye Si nodded silently in his heart.

James Harden's post-up defensive ability may be second only to that of the entire Seattle SuperSonics perimeter with his full strength.

Maybe it's a 50-50 split with Tucker.

When Ye Si first learned about James Harden's talent of predicting danger, he knew that this kid could make a difference on the defensive end.

Especially guarding players like Ginobili or Pierce who use their IQ or chicken thieves to play with defensive players, it has a great effect.

Ginobili has indeed been made very uncomfortable by James Harden in the past two years.

In this game, Pierce also felt the same discomfort that Ginobili felt when facing James Harden.

James Harden's talent for predicting danger is not invincible.

On defense, this talent allows James Harden to be sensitive to the dangers in his areas, so that he can instinctively make up for the dangers.

However, if this danger exceeds the limit of James Harden's physical talent, his body will instinctively want to make up for it, but it cannot make up for it, so it cannot be prevented.

Therefore, James Harden's talent is very suitable for guarding players who are not as athletic as him.

For example, inside players, such as Pierce, a veteran who plays dirty tricks.

James Harden's athletic ability is actually not bad, but the main test of defense is his lateral speed. James Harden's body shape makes him really not that good in lateral speed.

Therefore, when James Harden is defending Durant, even if his talent is fully utilized, he will be beaten by Durant. Durant's drastic change of direction can only make James Harden's talent only

There is no way to make up for it when it beeps and screams danger.

At the same time, Durant's pull-up also only made James' talent beep, unable to jump up and block Durant's shot.

James Harden's talent and his special physical talent make his defensive capabilities somewhat polarizing.

When it's strong, it's really strong. Like now, the Heat's super rotation lineup can only change the team's offensive method after three minutes of play.

Why did Spoelstra use Pierce as the core of the offensive rotation in this game?

That's because only Pierce seems to have an absolute advantage against Harden.

When Garnett plays Garnett, Chris Bosh plays Ibaka, or Rasheed Wallace plays Tucker, there is no absolute advantage.

When Pierce didn't have the absolute advantage he imagined when he beat James Harden, the look on Spoelstra's face was very solemn.

In his design, this game was a tie between the starters and a decisive victory for the substitutes. His substitutes had an absolute advantage. Naturally, the Heat were absolutely sure of winning this game.

But now, the certainty is constantly declining.

After the first six minutes of the second quarter, the score on the court was 44 to 42!

The Heat lead the Seattle SuperSonics by 2 points on the road.

Although the Heat are leading, the Seattle SuperSonics are lagging behind.

But when the official timeout came in the second quarter, there was no joy on the faces of the Heat players.

The SuperSonics fans at the scene were extremely excited.

"During the rotation in the second quarter, the Heat failed to achieve their strategic goals, and the SuperSonics players became shocking, especially James Harden. Like Millsap, his big players were also

Yes has been developed!”

Barkley was even so excited that he was a little incoherent at this time.

What does it mean that his big app has also been developed?

TNT is a very serious TV channel, isn’t it?

Kenny Smith kept complaining in his heart.

However, I have to say that Barkley's statement is indeed reasonable.

It is a well-known fact that yes likes big and long.

Some players who were nothing but big and tall were trained by yes to become very distinctive players.

Among them, the long representatives are Durant, Rondo and Ibaka.

The big representatives are Millsap and James Harden.

The existence of yes is really too friendly to these two types of players.

So much so that Barkley and Scottie Pippen, representatives of these two types of players, are quite friendly to yes.

Pippen has said more than once that if his partner were Yes instead of Jordan, he would be able to enter the top ten in NBA history.

Although Buckley didn't say that, everyone knew what he meant.

Under the guidance of yes, these players who once seemed like useless players are now really shining with dazzling light.

Looking at the SuperSonics No. 9 on the court who was greeting his teammates at the end of the court, Kenny Smith was sighing. Kenny Smith also knew that many people were also sighing and admiring at this time.

"James, you did a great job. I didn't expect you to have sex with Pierce!"
To be continued...