0724 Year and Today (Deacon
The brief pause ends soon.
Maybe it's willful, or maybe there's a way, the Spurs are up and down, and the typical Popovich-style operation.
Mills replaced Parker, Ginobili replaced Green, Kyle Anderson replaced Leonard, and Gay replaced Gasol.
Ade switched to the center, maybe because Popovich felt that only the performance was good enough, or maybe the Spurs wanted to speed up.
"If I really want to speed up, then I like it..."
Su Yang thought for a moment and turned his head toward Little Nans, signaling to go to the technical station to prepare for the appearance. At the same time, he reminded Laven to defend Mills and asked Curry to defend Ginobili, who was about to retire, to reduce the confrontation for Curry.
The Spurs kick off the field.
The king is routine to defend a full game first to avoid fast attacks.
Mills took the ball and pressed the shoulders down and pushed the center of gravity to accelerate and rushed, but he failed to get rid of LaVine. The center line was forced to stop and turn around and change direction, otherwise he would face the risk of going out of bounds. However, he did not expect to hit the ball in panic. LaVine took advantage of the chaos to steal and rushed straight to the basket.
Mills immediately chased after him.
But his speed was not as fast as that of the elderly Ginobili. Ginobili took advantage of LaVin's ball and jumped up, raised his hand and slapped hard at LaVin's arm, decisively fouled to stop the attack, and then hugged LaVin tightly to prevent LaVin from falling unsteadily standing.
He looks quite gentlemanly, but the action is really dangerous.
It's a bit like when Pierce intercepted LeBron, causing LeBron to quarrel with his mother, and then Garnett educated people.
The referee blew a whistle and gave Raven two free throws.
Lavin gritted his teeth and grinned and touched the swollen part of his arms, and shook it enough to stand on the free throw line. Cheers rang out in the stadium.
Taking advantage of the free throw, Su Yang took down Tatum and Lopez, replaced Covington and Nans, preparing to strengthen the defense.
The Spurs' substitute lineup looks quite average, but their ability to chase points and defensive pressure are quite strong. They have suffered losses in the past three games and must not be underestimated. Especially Ginobili's reading of the game, Jordan may have a few minutes left in 20 minutes.
While thinking, Su Yang waved to the sidelines and called Curry to the sidelines, raised his hand to block his mouth and whispered: "We must target Ginobili on the offensive end later, and strive to defeat him. We must pay more attention to Ginobili's breakthrough on the defensive end, don't think he is too old."
In Su Yang's view, Popovich would rather use Ginobili, who has a worse defense than George Hill. The only reason is that Ginobili leads the Spurs to find the rhythm, so that Leonard Gasol will make 1 of 5 shots and Leonard will make 0 of 3 shots.
Curry nodded to show his understanding, and then returned to the venue, and passed it word by word to Covington to prepare in advance.
Amid the cheers of the audience, Lavin scored both free throws.
The Kings lead 17-4.
The Spurs re-telephone attack was still the old routine. The big man at the top of the arc helped, and started to move the strength and weakness, and made a big round, choosing to hand the ball over to Gino proportions. The Kings were prepared for a long time, and they would cover the pick-and-roll and go to the sideline to give ice.
For a moment, Ginobili encountered the trouble of Leonard having no way out, and in a hurry, he chose to stop the ball and find someone.
Take a huge risk and pass the ball to the opposite right wing. The movement is very slow and the intention is obvious. The centered little Nans raises his hand to steal you.
The Spurs came back for a timeout and the Kings made two consecutive steals.
Cheers burst into tears in the arena.
Antetokounmpo rushed with the ball, just like Mazda accelerating with all his might, crossing the center line in two seconds, almost a triple jump, and started the ball early, carrying the Spurs three-man defense, took another European step, forcibly prepared to make a layup, and successfully caused a foul.
“omg!”
In the tnt live broadcast seat, Isaiah Thomas exclaimed: "I have never seen a fast attack method like Giannis. The range of halftime only dribbles twice, and the defending players are completely unable to adapt to his offensive rhythm. I think the King has found a way to win!"
Miller shrugged slightly: "Actually, they also played like this, trying to be fast, but they didn't have Curry in the first two games. Curry just returned to form in the third game, and he also encountered Aldridge and Leonard who were almost invincible. His luck was slightly worse."
Cheers were everywhere in the field, Antetokounmpo stood on the free throw line, and the first free kick was charged for 10 seconds before taking action, and the bumpy jumped into the net.
The second free throw followed, and the Kings led 19-4, and the game situation showed a one-sided trend.
The two teams changed offensively and defense, Su Yang clapped his hands to remind the Kings to stay focused. The game will take 42 minutes and have not won.
Spurs horn formation starts.
Ginobili ran an Iverson to cut across the cross, received a pass from the left wing, and then passed to Ade, who was simultaneously using the cover to go around the left waist position. The Spurs didn't even play their favorite transfer of strength and weakness, just wanting the most stable player to break the scoring drought as soon as possible.
Because of the previous substitution, the player who faced Adie directly was Nans, which was difficult to resist Adie's height and weight.
Ade turned around and sank to the bottom and rushed to the basket, and forced himself to release the basket with Xiao Nans defense. Popovich shouted a foul on the sidelines.
The referee did not whistle, the basketball smashed the basket and made a blacksmith. Ade tried to grab a tip-in but failed. Antetokounmpo transferred the ball to the outside line.
Curry, who faced Ginobili, got the basketball nearby, turned around and headed straight for the frontcourt, and made a move to pass the ball again, but in fact hesitated to break through Mills to assist in defense, stride into the paint area, and countered Guy's threat to defend, and made a signature high throw and layup.
Bang! The basketball rebounded and entered the net.
Beep! The referee blew the whistle at the same time and called Guy's foul.
There was another extra penalty, and cheers were everywhere in the stadium, Curry stood on the free throw line, and the audience shouted mvp in unison.
With a blast, the penalty was hollowed out. The Kings led the Spurs 22-4, and the first quarter ended 5 minutes and 23 seconds.
Taking advantage of the extra penalty, Su Yang looked at the Spurs at the reminder of Mike Brown and found that Popovich was calling for tactics.
As a level 15 user of the Spurs Post Bar, Su Yang recognized it at a glance that it was a zipper series tactic. Ginobili started by using the big man to catch the ball, but the ball holder might not pass it. As for the current situation of the Spurs, it may still be given to Ade.
Making up his mind, Su Yang clapped and shouted at Antetokounmpo who was returning to defense, and arranged for Antetokounmpo to temporarily defend Ade for one round.
It was originally a showdown between power forwards, but Ade was dislocated when he changed to center. Antetokounmpo is familiar with it.
Mills took the ball to the left wing of the frontcourt in a blink of an eye.
As Su Yang predicted, Ginobili ran to the top of the arc with the help of Ade's cover, but that was just a distraction. Mills immediately passed the ball to Ade in the left waist position, and Antetokounmpo reminded him that the position was very close to the outside.
Ade took the ball and sat down with his back, and put a trick on Antetokounmpo's card online, and turned to the bottom line and jumped to the board.
The basketball rebounded into the basket, but it rotated and flew out. Cheers broke out at the scene, and Xiao Nans followed up and got the rebound.
The king's counterattack suddenly started, but the Spurs retreated very quickly, so they could only change to land on the position, and in the process of conduction, LaVin's back attack.
Ginobili, who was responsible for defense, couldn't stand it, and Laven easily turned over and made a jump shot, and the Kings led 24-4.
Su Yang sighed and thought that this game should be at least stable. Don’t think about it for the next game to go to San Antonio for the time being.
With emotion, Covington flew to steal Guy's pass to the inside, probably because he had been too familiar with his teammates.
Curry then received the ball from the middle line and stopped at the front court logo position. He raised his hand and scored a three-pointer, which made him hollow into the net.
27 to 4, the game situation completely turned to the King.
Popovich didn't call a timeout either. The first quarter game was over quickly. The Kings led the Spurs 37 to 15. Except for only 2 fouls, they all led the Spurs in all other data, which made them lose three games in a row before. It seemed completely incomprehensible. It was so strange.
The second quarter started in a blink of an eye, and the Spurs used the almost invincible "Two Dezi" combination of Adleonard. The two finally found their form, and joined forces to make 8 of 9 shots, contributed 14 points with free throws, and Parker also made 2 of 3 shots, but the Spurs did not have any three-pointers, 2 assists in a single quarter, and the rotation routines of all players were not made. Although the 5-point gap was narrowed, it was useless.
The Kings firmly controlled the situation and led by 18 points in the third quarter. They did not give the Spurs any chance in the fourth quarter.
The whistle sounded in the final game, and the Kings defeated the Spurs 106-91, and the Western Conference semi-finals scored 1-3.
Curry performed well and scored 29 points, Antetokounmpo scored 28 points, and Raven, Tatum and Ross scored in double digits, and the Kings finally got back to their previous form. Su Yang attended the press conference and admitted that Brogden might also make a comeback.
But despite winning strongly, most media and fans are still not optimistic that the Kings can reverse the Spurs.
Some people pointed out that the Kings can win all rely on home advantage and the care of the league. Many big moves and fouls were not called, and the total mistakes were as high as 18. The Spurs just had a poor shooting feel. Leonard and Green could not make only 10 of 29 shots in two consecutive games.
Some people pointed out that Guy didn't perform well either.
In short, it is believed that the king can win a game, not the king's own ability, but the alliance's partiality and luck.
Su Yang laughed out loud when he saw the comments and thought to himself that if that was the case, I hope that today would be there every year, who would refuse?
That night, the whole team set off overnight to San Antonio, with only one day off, and Brogdon accompanied the team.
Chapter completed!