The No.1 Anti-Fans in Basketball-Chapter 436 - 224 Hansen Horse Racing 2.0

Miami fans are proud, because even when they repeatedly fell behind, the Heat Team kept catching up.

But at the same time, Miami fans feel desperate, because every time they were about to take the lead, Hansen would step up and score again, widening the gap.

Grizzlies, why do they have Hansen?

How could they have him along with the "black and white bears"?

By now a member of the Spurs management, Ferry stated that this had nothing to do with him.

When the game reached the final moments, and the Heat Team had narrowed the gap to just 5 points, Hansen scored again over Wade, and the morale of the Heat Team collapsed completely.

They now resembled Song Jingang from Queshu Valley, being beaten again as they regrouped until they completely crumbled after the eighth battle.

It wasn’t that their ability wasn’t strong enough; they usually overpowered others, but this time they faced someone who seemed unstoppable.

The final score stabilized at 103 to 110, with the Heat Team unexpectedly losing G1.

The postgame statistics show Durant with 31 points and 6 rebounds, Bosh with 24 points and 11 rebounds, Wade with 16 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, and Ray Allen with 9 points.

Hansen scored 36 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, Randolph 20 points and 8 rebounds, Guy 15 points, Little Gasol 14 points and 13 rebounds, Conley 13 points and 9 assists.

"Keeping the Heat Team’s score around 100 is not easy, defense was the foundation of our victory tonight," Joerger summarized at the post-game press conference.

"Hansen?"

"He is our key to the door of victory."

"They are a stronger team, but we are a better team. Teamwork lays the foundation for exceptional defense," Randolph emphasized when questioned by reporters.

"The most important thing we did tonight was to tell everyone that we can beat them," Hansen stressed the significance of the game.

After the Grizzlies defeated the Heat in G1, the online sentiment almost completely flipped.

Those who had previously thought the Heat could win the finals were now looking forward to seeing O’Neal drink bathwater, as joked by fans.

"This may be good for KD because now he doesn’t actually have to drink Hansen’s bathwater," some fans even teased Durant.

Indeed, the league has Kobe fans, LeBron fans, and now many Hansen fans, but very few Durant fans.

Partly because Nike had previously given all the major promotional resources to James, and partly because ever since that "bathwater" comment, anyone who wanted to stan Durant had to consider the weird looks they’d draw from others.

You like him, you must share his taste, right?

When dating me, you wouldn’t think about drinking my bathwater, would you?

If there were enough Durant fans, Barkley and others would have been overwhelmed long ago.

Even when you ask LeBron fans who they would rather see win at this time, they also hope it’s the Grizzlies.

After all, following Haslem’s remark that "we were champions before you even arrived," they do not want to see the Heat win a championship circle.

If that really happened, James would lose not just respect but also his top endorser position with Nike.

Two days later, G2 between the Grizzlies and Heat continued in Miami.

Spoelstra made adjustments in this game by moving Ray Allen into the starting lineup.

Since our ability to organize isn’t great, we’ll use enough scorers to scatter your defensive resources, preventing you from having quick defensive shifts.

It proved effective, though maybe in a way different than Spoelstra had anticipated.

Because neither Chalmers nor Hill was playing, a lot of the ball handling fell to Wade, who showcased his organizing skills.

As a combo guard, Wade is mostly known as a shooting guard and isn’t famous for organizing.

Or to say, organizing and scoring — no one can truly balance the two.

After all, reality is not a game; a player only has one brain, thinking about how to score means analyzing possible defensive plays by the opponent, thinking about organizing means reading the game and predicting the teammates’ movements.

But before forming the Big Three, Wade’s average assists per game were around 7, not much less than James.

To make a parallel comparison, his current organizing ability is about the same level as Hansen’s.

Not the strongest, but he can certainly hold his own.

points, 5 rebounds, 11 assists — this was Wade’s stat line.

Under his lead, the Heat scored 118 points.

Kenny Smith was right, offense is often unstable, with high variability, but the Heat Team tend to reach their peak more easily.

Or to say, in G1 the Grizzlies’ shield stopped the Heat’s spear, but in G2, after the Heat sharpened their spear, they pierced through the Grizzlies’ defense.

After G2, the online sentiment shifted once again.

"G1 was just an off day for the Heat Team, G2 shows their true level."

"The era of winning championships through defense is over, basketball games are ultimately won by those who score more."

"How could a 70-win team lose to a 62-win team? It’s impossible for the Grizzlies to win."

It’s like a turn-based game, whoever wins a match, the opinions overwhelmingly tilt one way, and all seem valid.

In April this year, the League introduced a new rule that would start in the 2013-2014 season to change the finals’ format from a 2-3-2 to a 2-2-1-1-1 system.