My Name is Kobe Bryant

The Miami Heat are a real strong team in the Eastern Conference. They are very good offensive and defensive teams. They currently rank third in the Eastern Conference with 25 wins and 9 losses. Second only to the Bulls led by Michael Jordan and the Pistons led by Grant Hill.

Miami has all the details that a top team should have, stars, coaches, records, and the ball market.

The Heat have all these things. As a team that only joined the NBA in 1988, the Heat's team building efficiency is much higher than that of other teams that entered the league during the same period. And it's all thanks to one man - the fortune teller.

In September 1995, Pat Riley came from the Knicks and was appointed by the Heat as head coach and president. Holding the two powers of trading and tactics, Riley carried out a drastic reorganization of the team after taking office. The Hornets exchanged for the All-Star center tough guy Alonzo Mourning, and the Warriors exchanged for the All-Star point guard Tim Hada. prestige.

Two All-Stars with perfect positions and complementary styles, their chemistry is amazing. Tim Hardaway changed his title of defensive colander in the Warriors and handed over the defense to Mourning with confidence. And Mourning finally doesn't have to compete with Larry Johnson for the team leader position. In the Heat, he is the absolute core of offense and defense.

The classic combination of point guard and center allowed them to advance all the way. The two players achieved each other and played the best performance of their careers this season.

And the tactical arrangement of the magician Pat Riley is the catalyst to stimulate the team. He combines the iron-blooded defense with the giant planet. While allowing the stars to play very freely and comfortably to their best ability, the team's defense ranks among the best in the league. And under him, players rarely have conflicts, because Pat Riley is a very strong coach.

The Heat are not Mourning's team, nor are they Tim Hardaway's teams.

The Heat are Pat Riley's team.

From the team owner's management level to the players, there is no one in the Heat who does not admire this white man who has been sloppy all year round. His aura is like the underworld boss in The Godfather, his mystery reveals majesty.

Speaking of which, this legendary coach is also a legend of the Lakers. Riley spent five full seasons in Los Angeles as a player, including the 1971-72 season to help the team achieve a record 33 consecutive victories in NBA history and the best record in the regular season of 69 wins and 13 losses (this record was not until 1995- The 96 season was rewritten by the Chicago Bulls). In the playoffs of this season, the Lakers also passed all the way, and finally defeated the Knicks 4:1 to win the championship.

After retiring, Riley began to take over the Los Angeles Lakers. He led the Lakers to create the "SHOWTIME" era in the 1980s, which is still talked about and created the Lakers dynasty, and won the championship four times in 82, 85, 87, and 88 throne.

With the end of SHOWTIME's two core players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magician, Pat Riley went to New York to coach the Knicks, turning the underwhelming Knicks into the iron-blooded Knicks. It's just that he lost to Jordan many times, and Ewing's aging and management turmoil made him choose to leave New York for the warm and pleasant Miami Beach.

The big black hand who promoted the trade between Mourning and Hardaway is currently focusing on the disintegrated and rebuilt Mavericks. The last remaining small forward in the Mavericks 3J combination, Jamal Mashburn is valued by him. It is said that the two teams are about to complete the transaction.

If the transaction is successful, three All-Star levels and a three-big combination with perfectly matched position functions will be born. The Heat will leap from a strong team in the playoffs to a championship team.

The Big Three will always be Pat Riley's idea of ​​building a team. In the SHOWTIME era, he had Magician, Skyhook, and James Worthy. Now he wants to imitate this idea and build a dynasty again.

Although there are many strong teams in the Eastern Conference, there is only one Bulls at the championship level. The single-core Pistons and the Heat lacking role players are just playoff-level teams. If the Mashburn deal is completed, the Heat will have the capital to challenge the Bulls.

The lack of role players for the Heat is due to the trade between Mourning and Hardaway. Pat Riley has been trying to find a solution. In his last life, he single-handedly discovered Bruce Bowen. The magic operator is Bowen's first Bole. But this time Bowen was snatched by Kobe.

Even so, Riley used some unremarkable players to make up the front and back. The shooting guard is the No. 19 pick in the second round of 1994, Voshan Leonard with a height of 1.93 meters. This player has been in the league for 11 years, with a career average of 11.9 points per game. This season, he can hit 2.5 three-pointers with a 41.4% shooting rate. He is a top spot-up shooter and a civilian player that Riley discovered .

Although the three-pointer is accurate, his defense is not very good.

At the small forward position, Riley uses Dan Marley, the 1.98-meter No. 14 pick in 1988. He is also a three-point shooter, averaging 5.6 three-pointers per game. This sales rate is quite high for the league.

Similarly, white small forwards are not very tall or strong. The defense is still poor.

This is the ills of the Heat. Point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards are not good at defense, and they are even defensive colanders. Although Patley used the inside defense composed of PJ Brown and Mourning to make the team's defense look very good in the regular season, but the magic operator knows that when the critical moment comes, the team's outside defense will inevitably collapse.

This is why Riley desperately wants to trade for Mashburn.

Pat Riley left New York just to build a team to beat the Bulls, and now he is making progress towards his goal.

Before this battle, the Heat and the Bulls had played three games this season, with one win and two losses. The Heat locked up the Bulls at 83:80 on December 7. In that game, Jordan scored 37 points, 9 rebounds and 3 on 16 of 30 shots. With help, Jordan played easily in the face of the Heat's weak perimeter defense.

But the overall shooting percentage of the Bulls is only 41.8%. The interior defense composed of Mourning and PJ Brown is really too strong. Most of the Bulls' offenses are killing the interior. Broken blood. This game gave the Bulls their second defeat of the season.

Pat Riley knows that as long as Mashburn is won, the Heat can go further, both offensively and defensively. It is his dream to have a striker with excellent physical fitness and offensive skills.

He even asked the price Lant Hill many times, he believed that as long as he was given a Hill, he would be able to build the SHOWTIME dynasty again! He can destroy Jordan's championship dream!

He wants to avenge his shame and return all the losses he suffered in New York to Jordan.

The Heat have a good winning percentage against the Western Conference teams. They have defeated Houston and the Trail Blazers successively before. Pat Riley firmly believes that the Lakers will be the next team to be beaten by them.

Pat Riley made full preparations for this game. His defensive tactical idea was to use PJ Brown, the inside blue-collar, to withstand O'Neal, and then Mourning assisted in the defense. At 26 years old, the young Mourning moves very fast, and PJ Brown is also full of strength, enough to block O'Neal's first move. In Pat Riley's view, if O'Neal is locked, the Lakers will lose this game!