Chapter 361: Slaughtering the Heat is Actually This Simple

Wade brings the ball across half-court; he is a superstar who is fearless and quite calm. In terms of talent, he is certainly not as good as LeBron James of the same draft class, but if it comes to the final moment, with only the last attack, the head coach will trust Wade more. In fact, James would do the same.

James is a very smart player; his intelligence is reflected in his overall view. He is a rare player among black people who has a comprehensive consideration; his vision is far-reaching, but he is too calculating, maximizing benefits, and sometimes his decisiveness is insufficient.

Wade brings the ball across half-court, and Fan Xi goes to mark him.

Wade accelerates to attack Fan Xi's defensive line, uses a change of direction to break free for half a step of space, stops for a jump shot... Fan Xi's block fails to take effect.

Hits a mid-range shot.

This is the ability display that a superstar should have.

The definition of a superstar is to destroy the opponent's defensive line alone; it is a nuclear weapon that cannot be defended.

Bilupusi continues to bring the ball across half-court, and Fan Xi exchanges a look with him.

He lets Bilupusi and Nowitzki run a pick-and-roll.

Nowitzki moves to the high post, Bilupusi takes the opportunity to break inward, LeBron James has to switch defense, and Bilupusi passes the ball to Nowitzki.

Nowitzki uses his size to attack the small, bringing the ball into the paint.

Wade rushes up, and at the same time, Fan Xi kills into the paint. Nowitzki lobs the basketball toward the paint, Fan Xi jumps up, and Marcus Camby, who was prepared, rushes over.

But Fan Xi catches the basketball and doesn't dunk directly; instead, he taps it lightly, the basketball changes its flight direction, Xiao Qiaodan takes off behind Camby, and slams the basketball into the rim with both hands... Poor Marcus Camby is ridden under the crotch again.

Xiao Qiaodan roars at the sky after the violent dunk; he is exceptionally excited. He shouts: Now, who is the number one defensive center in the NBA!

Although this ball has nothing to do with defense at all.

But this doesn't hinder him from pointing fingers at Marcus Camby's head in excitement.

Marcus Camby is extremely angry; he glares at Xiao Qiaodan.

He seems to want to tell Xiao Qiaodan something.

"Don't look at me, old man; my opponents are Tyson Chandler and Dwight Howard."

Xiao Qiaodan says to him from a high position: "However, only I am playing in the Finals."

This sentence makes Marcus Camby angry.

This is completely not taking him seriously, and it is a naked belittlement.

"DeAndre, what you said is not bad."

Fan Xi reaches out and high-fives Xiao Qiaodan.

His words deepen Camby's anger; this is a person who is unwilling to be looked down upon. He bites his back teeth and says fiercely: "You will pay the price."

"Old man. It's not easy for you to find a job at your age. Don't say any more bluffing words; it's ridiculous." Xiao Qiaodan belittles him again.

He walks back.

Such actions undoubtedly make Marcus Camby's mindset break. He really wants to rush up and punch Fan Xi and Xiao Qiaodan once each. However, his reason tells him that if he does this, the person who will be happiest is the Clippers.

"I must dunk on them once."

Marcus Camby says through gritted teeth when passing the basketball to Wade.

Wade takes a deep look at this representative of the Golden Generation; the psychological stimulation Camby suffered in this game is too great.

He nods and says: "You come to set a screen for me later; I will hit the basketball into the paint."

Wade knows that if Marcus isn't allowed to vent the resentment in his heart through basketball, he is very likely to vent it in other ways.

This will cause the worst consequences.

So, Wade takes over the ball in the front court. Fan Xi stares at him closely; Wade adopts a large change-of-direction breakthrough method. In his swing, Fan Xi ponders his center of gravity.

When Wade suddenly speeds up to cut inward, Fan Xi follows closely... Fan Xi guesses Wade's breakthrough trend correctly, but hits Camby's screen head-on.

Wade continues to attack inward.

At the same time, Marcus Camby also cuts inward, forming a trend of two-line advancement.

Xiao Qiaodan has already gone to chase Wade.

Fan Xi sees this and deliberately slows down by half a step.

Sure enough, after Wade kills into the paint, he passes the basketball to Camby, who is following on the other side. Camby catches the basketball and jumps up; he tries a powerful two-handed dunk.

However, when he rises to the highest point.

Just as he is about to smash the basketball into the rim, he discovers in horror that he is being shrouded by a terrifying shadow.

At this time, some sounds of shock have already appeared on the sidelines.

Camby rushes to want to collect the ball, but it is already too late.

Fan Xi slashes down with both hands like an eagle catching a rabbit, slap!

Fan Xi's hands are like sharp blades, directly seizing the basketball Camby is holding high, and then pulls it back fiercely; the basketball is directly taken away by Fan Xi domineeringly.

Camby in the air has no power to continue.

His eyes become terrified and angry.

By the time he lands and looks back, Fan Xi is already sprinting to the front court with the basketball that originally belonged to him. At this time, what echoes in his ears is the exclamation and sigh of the entire Meihangzhongxin qiuguan.

He missed a sure-fire dunk; Fan Xi is like the devil Satan depriving him of his glory. Not only did he not vent the depression in his heart, but instead, he became more congested.

When he looks toward the front court angrily, Fan Xi is already flashing and moving in the paint. In the double-team of Wade and James, he uses a perfect aerial move; he glides and hangs in the air, makes an extremely elegant layup, and puts the basketball into the rim with a backhand.

At this time, his body is still gliding steadily, while Wade and James, who are chasing behind, have already descended.

This ball successfully demonstrates the combination of strength and aesthetics.

"Elegant, truly elegant!"

Charles Barkley praises from the bottom of his heart.

Such praise makes the audience in front of the TV unable to disagree; Fan Xi's movements are too elegant, too floating, too peerless... he is simply like a banished immortal from heaven.

Since Michael Jordan, no one has ever played gliding in the air so exquisitely.

Fan Xi is simply playing with two superstars in the air.

Compared with Fan Xi, James is not just a little bit worse in terms of aesthetics.

Many female viewers really fell in love with basketball because of this; Fan Xi's sense of beauty, lifting weight as if it were light, floating with the wind, makes them unable to restrain their screams, and they crazily close their legs.

Fan Xi doesn't know that he has made so many women in front of the TV crazy.

He has blocked all external public opinion. In fact, in his deeper thinking, he feels that he is an unwelcome person now, and he and his agent team subconsciously believe that this will be an event that will deal a great blow to his commercial career.

So, Fan Xi has closed off all these negative emotions. He has made psychological preparations to focus on playing basketball in the future.

In his heart, this is a difficult road, starting with defeating Miami to win the Grand Champion.

"Is Derek Rose more powerful, or am I more powerful?"

After landing, Fan Xi asks Wade beside him: "Derek also often destroyed your aerial double-teams in the last series."

This is not a question that makes Wade feel happy.

If Fan Xi is the new-generation superstar he hates the most, then the youngest regular season MVP in history is the second guy he hates the most.

Rose is very much like a young Wade in every aspect, but it seems he is better at tearing apart defenses than Wade, and his passing vision is also better.

Wade feels that he didn't have the treatment Rose has now when he was young; after all, Wade was considered an older rookie back then, and he didn't debut as the center of attention like Rose. He was a member of Miami's rebuilding plan at the time, and only after one season did he become the absolute core and absolute training object.

Although, he won the Finals MVP within his rookie contract.

But whether in commercial aspects or on the court, the pursuit he received was not as good as Rose's.

"You are both very ordinary," Wade answers insincerely, pretending to be indifferent: "You can ask Dirk how I broke through in '06."

As soon as Wade finishes this sentence, Nowitzki adds a shot: "You were indeed very fierce in '06; I have never seen a guard who broke through with three referees at the same time."

Wade originally wanted to act cool, but was ruthlessly shattered by Nowitzki.

Miami won four consecutive victories after trailing 0:2 in '06, and Wade made great contributions. However, the officiating in the last four games still makes Dallas feel unwilling to let go; Wade averaged twenty or thirty free throws per game—is this a scale that normal people can blow?

That year's Finals, Wade's efficiency rating exceeded peak Jordan; he couldn't help but exceed it.

Afterward, many people said that the referees took away Nowitzki's Grand Champion.

Now, Nowitzki's eyes are burning; having reached the closing stage of his career, he wants to take back what belongs to him.

This series is not just the Big Three seeking revenge on Fan Xi.

There is also Nowitzki seeking revenge on the Heat.

6-year reincarnation, Nowitzki finally got the opportunity.

"Sure enough, it's an unconvinced Nowitzki; I will still finish you off this year," Dwyane Wade says coldly to Nowitzki.

Nowitzki's eyes are sharp; he stares straight at Wade: "Then try it."

Fan Xi has never seen Nowitzki in such a 'venomous' posture.

He didn't expect his casual trash talk to lead to this old past.

And back to the half-court, Wade kills into the paint again; Nowitzki stands straight outside the restricted area, and he is knocked over by Wade.

This time, the head referee doesn't blow a blocking foul again, but gives the whistle for Wade's offensive foul fairly.

This is a key defense.

The Clippers also take the opportunity to replace Bilupusi with Arenas, and Fan Xi brings the ball across half-court.

When Fan Xi brings the ball to the arc, Nowitzki moves up to set a screen for Fan Xi, Fan Xi takes the opportunity to kill into the free-throw line, and then he makes a long pass, giving the basketball to Arenas who ran to the corner.

Arenas catches and shoots... Swish!

Three-pointer hits.

The point spread moves in an uncontrollable direction.

Miami is caught off guard.

At this time, Charles Barkley is the first to figure out some flavor; he says to Kenny Smith: "Just now, this pass from Jack, did you taste anything?"

"Does it look like Stockton's pass to Hornacek? This is completely a reproduction of the Utah Jazz's tactics back then."

Charles Barkley says with certainty.

He is too familiar with the Utah duo of the same era; back then, Karl Malone and Stockton could be called sweeping the Western Conference.

Charles Barkley's peak overlapped with the Utah duo; although they were both victims of the Jordan era, there was also intense competition between them. It's just that... Barkley didn't compete with the peak Jazz, even if he joined the Rockets later because he couldn't beat them.

Kenny Smith looks at the replay, and he is also surprised to find: "If you didn't say it, I wouldn't have noticed. It's really very similar; the passing technique, the timing of the breakthrough, the rhythm of the pass... simple, natural. This is Stockton's move. I remember during the regular season last year, Jack once asked Stockton for advice; could it be that he learned it at that time?"

Smith mutters.

At this time, the game is already continuing.

James attacks the paint, Leonard is the main defender, but in the process, his basketball is slapped by Fan Xi, which causes him to be a bit short when laying up, the basketball hits the front rim, and the rebound is collected by Xiao Qiaodan.

Then he passes to Fan Xi.

Fan Xi brings the ball across half-court.

He pushes steadily.

Arriving at the top of the three-point arc, Nowitzki moves up to screen, then Fan Xi breaks into the free-throw line, attracts a double-team and passes, Nowitzki hits a high-post jump shot.

"Pick-and-roll tactics!!!"

Pat Riley's eyes are full of horror.

Pick-and-roll tactics are something every point guard knows; in the past, Fan Xi wasn't good at it. But now, this pass after the pick-and-roll is too perfect; although it looks unremarkable to ordinary people, to an insider... it is perfect beyond compare.

Fan Xi's control of timing and control of passing force have reached the peak.

He seized Miami's defensive gap and put Nowitzki in the perfect rhythm.

Why was Karl Malone able to become the highest-scoring power forward?

His offensive means were not many.

The reason is that Stockton fed the ball well.

Now, Nowitzki's offensive ability is undoubtedly stronger than Karl Malone's; he has too many moves to use, facing the basket or back to the basket, he can be counted as a master of a generation.

If Fan Xi really has Stockton's pick-and-roll skill.

Miami is dead.

Pat Riley takes a deep breath; his entire spine is covered in dense cold sweat.

The female fans in front of the TV don't know why this unremarkable assist can make the TV commentator scream.

But Kobe Bryant, sitting in front of the TV, holds his forehead. He originally thought that if time could turn back, the Lakers played according to his way, and he didn't get injured, taking the Clippers would be a sure thing.

But now, when Fan Xi brings out this move.

He realizes that even if time turned back, the Lakers had no problems, the Lakers' success rate in the series would not exceed 50%.

Chris Paul is even more dumbfounded in front of another TV; he gave Miami many ideas, and he considers himself to have a thorough study of Fan Xi.

But he never dreamed that Fan Xi had such an amazing improvement in organizational ability; one pass to Arenas, one pass to Nowitzki. As a top point guard in history, Paul is very good at the logic of basketball operation, and he knows very well what these two unremarkable passes after screens mean.

Master realm.

In the past, he always said Fan Xi was not a real point guard.

Now, he can no longer speak.

Because even if it were himself, he is not sure he could pass a better ball.

Miami will lose.

If the Clippers didn't have three major rotations missing, Miami would even lose miserably.

Chris Paul makes such a judgment, and then, he mutters to himself: "Why is it that this guy has such big news and public opinion, yet he can still be so calm and focused on the game itself?"

Paul considers himself to have excellent psychological quality, but he didn't expect Fan Xi to be so excellent.

The game continues.

The Big Three are not vegetarians.

They also form high-quality pick-and-rolls, and James and Wade frequently trigger the famous James-Wade connection in defensive counterattacks; their wonderful performance makes the scene cheer.

However, it doesn't have much significance.

During halftime, James said he would beat the Clippers to collapse in the third quarter, and then slaughter them in the fourth quarter.

Now, it is the Heat that are collapsing.

After the third quarter, the Clippers lead by 19 points.

This is a silent lead.

Fan Xi and Nowitzki no longer hide their pick-and-roll tactics; two super-powerful offensive individuals form a tacit partner in the form of a pick-and-roll. Fan Xi uses his unremarkable but extremely practical tactics to perfectly release Nowitzki's personal offensive ability, and the virtuous cycle formed by the two allows Arenas, Leonard, Xiao Qiaodan, and the subsequently appearing Hamilton and Grant Hill to integrate perfectly.

The Clippers form a real offensive system, and it is an offensive cluster with extreme combat power.

Miami cannot establish a counterattack mode in a short time; they can only continue to release their own abilities, so they played many highlight moments.

But highlight moments cannot save them.

They are like people who struggle with all their might, but sink deeper and deeper in non-Newtonian fluid.

Head coach Spoelstra is helpless on the bench; he and the coaching staff are struggling to find the answer.

Actually, there is a ready-made answer.

The Chicago Bulls' triangle offense; back then, the Chicago Bulls beat the Jazz twice in the Finals.

Today's Heat composition is also very similar to the Bulls; two superstars partner on the wing, plus an inside shooter, an inside blue-collar worker, and a quasi-elite point guard.

So, when the fourth quarter started, they made some strategic adjustments, trying their best to make themselves look more like the Bulls of the 90s.

Unfortunately, drawing a tiger by imitating a cat, it is neither fish nor fowl.

Although they are very tight on the defensive end, Camby in the paint is not Rodman.

Rodman is an underrated super genius; he often saves the game in his own way when Jordan is not performing well.

But Camby, with 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter, pushed Fan Xi with his hands.

At that time, Fan Xi was hunting the paint again; he made a perfect aerial move in the air, used his layup to dodge the front and back double-team of Camby and James, and picked the basketball into the rim with his left hand.

After scoring.

Camby couldn't take it anymore; he pushed Fan Xi fiercely.

Then, the Heat players hugged him in a circle, fearing he would be irrational.

The head referee blew a technical foul on him, Spoelstra quickly pressed him on the bench, and also replaced James and Wade.

The 27-point spread makes them admit defeat.

This forms a sharp contrast with their arrogance before the game.

At that time, everyone thought this would be a one-sided massacre, and some experts even predicted with certainty that this would create the largest point spread in the Finals.

They predicted half correctly.

The massacre is a real massacre.

The point spread is also climbing.

But the object is wrong.

It is the Clippers sharpening their knives toward the pigs and sheep.

The female viewers in front of the TV are extremely excited; they are like watching a super blockbuster, although there are twists and turns, the male lead they support won the final victory.

They flocked to various basketball homepages or social networks.

Using their voices to support Fan Xi and express their excitement.

These voices quickly gathered to form a torrent.

It began to produce an unprecedented chemical reaction to the crazy public opinion.

… ===== CHAPTER 362 =====