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With less than 10 seconds on the clock and with Los angeles lakers Trailing by one point on Friday, LeBron James appeared to put his final touch in a brilliant 40-point game to claim his fourth title. NBA. Attracting practically all the defense of the Miami HeatThe star, who leads the league in assists for the first time in his career, found a pass to Danny Green absolutely free to spin.
Green, a two-time NBA champion and with a 40% success rate on three-point throws, has the nickname “Deadshot” precisely because of his reputation as a kicker, for “killing” balls, approaching the end of the translation. The Lakers hired him exactly for moments like this: creating spaces and capitalizing on LeBron’s ability to find pitches.
Green shot with no defender around. The ball was in the ring, with 7.1 seconds remaining, and Heat won Game 5 of the NBA Finals 111-118, leaving the series against the Lakers 3-2. The ball will rise again this Sunday at 8:30 pm (Brasilia time), again with a live broadcast of the ESPN we do ESPN app.
“So if you just watch the play, I was able to get two defenders down the free throw line and find one of our pitchers for a clean ball of three to win the championship,” LeBron said, after the game, in which he had Respect numbers: 15 of 21 forehand shots, 13 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals. “I trusted him, we trusted him, and she just didn’t fall.”
“You live with it, you live with it. It’s one of the best takes we could have had … Danny had a great vision. It just didn’t fall. I know he would like to have that opportunity again, “he added.
Lakers coach Frank Vogel said LeBron was “ready to take on the whole Heat team” but “that he made the right move.” “Danny is one of our best kickers, he had great vision and we have to accept the results.”
Vogel was far less sympathetic with two fouls scored on Jimmy Butler in the final minute of the game, helping the Heat win and extend the series. One from Markieff Morris, with 46.7 seconds remaining; and another by Anthony Davis, with 16.8 seconds.
Regardless, the Lakers didn’t play their best game this Friday, trailing by 11 points in the second quarter, before seeking a tie in the third and falling back 11 points with 10:31 left in the fourth period.
The first “hole” that the Los Angeles team entered was, most of the time, Davis on the bench, after aggravating the injury he suffered in the series against the Denver Nuggets, after a clash with Andre Iguodala still in the first quarter. Still, he scored 28 points, with 12 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks.
After playing 42 minutes, does the problem concern game 6? “I’ll be fine on Sunday,” he replied. A source close to Davis told the ESPN that the player “feels pain”, but is “bearable”.
The question seems to be how the Lakers will stop the Heat, who have won two of the last three series games, after going 2-0 and missing their first title shot. Until this Friday, LeBron had 3 victories in three halves that entered the Finals and could close the series.
In 2016, the star led the Cleveland Knights for the historical turn in the warriors of the golden state, the only team that opened 3-1 in the final and lost the title. Now LeBron is on a mission to prevent the same from happening to the Lakers against the Heat.
