Chapter 252 Win the second game
Piao Tian Si When O'Neal and Wade returned to the court, the Spurs' pressure increased greatly, especially O'Neal. After his physical strength was restored, Nestrovic could not defend him at all, so he could only send him to the free throw line. Soon Nestrovic got five fouls, and **Vic immediately replaced him with Obotto.
Under Stephen's defense, Wade's score was in pieces and his performance was indeed not very good, but relying on the two of them, the Heat have been suppressing the Spurs in scoring, and both sides have been performing the drama of equalizing, overtaking, equalizing and overtaking for everyone.[]
Until the end of the game, the Spurs missed an offensive move. When they came back, Jason Williams of the Heat made an unreasonable three-pointer, which allowed the Heat to overtake one point again. Because the Spurs' offense was not very good in these few minutes, especially Stephen, who had almost received any balls, so naturally there was no good performance.
After Stephen faced Wade, his teammates considerately reduced his offensive burden and allowed him to spend most of his energy on defense. However, the other Spurs players were not very stable today, and there was no effective and continuous scoring point, which led to the failure to widen the gap and being tightly entangled by the Heat.
After the score was overtaken, **Vic stood up and called a timeout. When the defense was at its best, the offensive problem must be solved. Otherwise, if it is entangled in the end, it is hard to say who will win. In terms of ability to play key balls, the Heat are not inferior to the Spurs at all.
**Vicci first asked Stephen if there was any physical strength problem. He was worried that Stephen was not physically strong due to his defense Wade, so he didn't invest much on the offensive end. However, after asking, Stephen clearly stated that he had no physical strength problems.
Stephen has now scored 39 points, which is Stephen's score high in the playoffs and also the score high in the finals. Since his teammates are vaguely unwilling to score, Stephen has no intention of trying to score.
Of course, no one made it clear, but Stephen could feel that his own popularity in this game was almost the same. Thirty-nine points were about 30, and Stephen did not force the 40 to fifty. For Stephen, there was no record-breaking **. As long as the team could win and finally win the finals, that would be fine.
Unfortunately, the performance of other Spurs today was not very good. Even Duncan could only extend his shooting range when O'Neal was firmly in the inside. Without the shooting at the basket, the shooting percentage could not be guaranteed. Although Duncan has scored 22 points until now, and has eleven rebounds and three assists, it is not satisfactory for his performance.
Not to mention the others, Tony Parker has only scored 12 points until now. Although he had six assists and Michael Finley scored eleven points, he made nine shots. Among the eleven points, two of them were obtained through free throws, and the remaining scores were still two three-pointers.
The worse the touch, the more you need to try, the more you need to dare to take action. This is a quality that a player must have. If you don’t shoot because you miss two or three shots, then you will never dare to take action. However, at the critical moment of the game, you must hand the ball over to the player who is most confident in the offense.
This seems to be a contradiction, a competition and compromise. If Stephen is a No. 1 pick like Duncan, once he enters the team, he is the core of the team, or has rich qualifications, then Stephen can also bravely ask everyone for the ball, but Stephen is just a rookie after all, and he is also a second-round rookie. The more critical the moment, everyone will easily ignore him.
Fame, fame, and fame are also one of the main factors that decide who to hand the ball to in the end, but Stephen doesn't have these. Although he scored a lot of points in the front, it was based on his last game with one more quarter than others.
Moreover, many people have a reason to excuse themselves in their hearts. Stephen needs to devote most of his energy to defending the opponent's most threatening Wade, so it is normal for us to undertake more offensive tasks. The easiest thing people forgive is themselves.
This is why Stephen could not get the ball in these few minutes. After calling the timeout, **Vic reiterated that he wanted to play the success rate and handed the ball over to the most confident players. Only then did the Spurs players realize the mistake they made just now.
Although they will not admit their mistakes to Stephen or **Vicci, they will look at Stephen with guilt to express their attitude, but Stephen will not care about this. On the court, who doesn't want to score more points and make more shots. No one doesn't like scenery and glory, and no one doesn't like big contracts.
After returning to the court, Pat Riley had already guessed that the Spurs might make adjustments, but instead replaced James Posey with a focus on keeping Stephen. The Spurs' ball rights did not come to Stephen's hands at the beginning, but were still in Michael Finley's hands.
Michael Finley still chose to take action because in his opinion, Stephen faced huge defensive pressure, while his opponent was Wade, who was far lower than his own, so he still felt that his chance was better. Unfortunately, his move still fell out of the basket. **Vic couldn't help but swear when he saw this, but in order to prevent being caught by the microphone, he just showed his mouth shape and did not make a sound.
The ball bounced far away, and Stephen jumped and grabbed the frontcourt rebound. As soon as his body fell behind, there was James Posey behind him. O'Neal in front, he sandwiched Stephen in the middle, giving Stephen no room to jump. At this position, they all thought Stephen would choose to dunk or layup under the basket, but he didn't expect Stephen to suddenly turn around and turn behind James Posey, then leaned against James Posey, hooked the ball into the basket with a hook hand from a distance.
Now it's Pat Riley's turn to swear. The difficulty of this hook goal far from the basket is not much different from Duncan's three-pointer. Could it be that the Spurs really have any training tricks that others don't know. Can you practice the inside line if you can basically not attack at the beginning of a season?
Or is this kid's talent that he can train with just a little training. They never thought that Stephen's offense was excellent before his body changed. The most amazing thing was that he had a very good ball sense and was often able to score very difficult goals.
Moreover, many movements were limited to the body before, and it was difficult for Stephen to do it. Now that the body is coming, these movements can be done, giving people a feeling of great progress. In fact, it is just Stephen regaining his former feeling. You must know that Stephen was originally a street player whose offense is greater than defense.
But others don’t know that they all attribute Stephen’s change to the Spurs’ training system. It turned out that the Spurs had vision in drafting, but now they have become a team with both vision and training, which has brought a lot of benefits to the Spurs.
After Stephen scored a hook goal, his personal score had reached 41 points. At the same time, the Spurs also overtook the Heat by one point. However, after coming back, Wade and Haslem played a pick-and-roll cooperation on the Heat. Wade passed the ball to Haslem, and then Haslem quickly passed it back to Wade.
As Haslems got closer to the basket, Stephen rushed to Haslem. Although he turned around, Wade still caught this rare and small opportunity and made a jump shot into the basket.
When the Spurs attacked, Stephen changed his offensive method and ran from this end of the three-point line to the other end along the three-point line. Michael Finley and Tony Parker made continuous attacks along the way, blocking the defensive players behind Stephen. By the time Stephen stopped, it had already been replaced by Jason Williams' defense.
Stephen didn't take Jason Williams seriously at all. Suddenly, Duncan's pass immediately reached Stephen's hand. Stephen raised his hand and made a three-pointer. The ball went straight into the basket like a sharp arrow, without any obstacle at all. This was also Stephen's fifth three-pointer shot in this game.
The Spurs led by two points, and the Heat began to attack. To be on the safe side, the ball came to O'Neal's hands, but O'Neal was slightly away from the basket under Oberto's desperate push, which was not his best shooting position, so the ball naturally deviated from the basket.
Originally, Haslem could grab the basket, but James Posey ran over to compete for the rebound, but Stephen also brought it over. Stephen relied on the bounce height to get the ball into his hand and passed it to Tony Parker to dribble back to his own half.
At this time, there were only 43 seconds left in the game. The Spurs were steadily rushing the ball, not giving the Heat any chance, and consuming the game time. When the offensive time was only last three seconds left, Stephen received the ball, completely ignored James in front of him who reached out to the defense, jumped up, and threw the ball into the basket.
With a four-point gap and a twenty-six-second offensive time, the Heat still have time to attack, but they cannot equalize the score, and they must use foul tactics. However, their timeouts and foul numbers are not that good. In order to arrange the tactics of the last attack, the Heat consumed another timeout.
The tactics that were arranged did not work. The Heat chose three-pointers as the last attack time and replaced Antoine Walker and Gary Payton at the same time, but they failed to hit two consecutive three-point shots. Faced with four seconds of offense, they chose to foul Duncan.
Although Duncan only made one of two free throws, their three-pointers were lost again. This time it was Wade. When he jumped in the air, the whistle at the end of the game had already sounded. Stephen stood in front of him and seriously affected his sight. The ball still didn't hit, but even if it hit, it was useless. It was still a three-pointer.
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