Chapter 35: The Ending of Victory
After several consecutive defenses against Blake Griffin's offense, Anxi's name as a Griffin's nemesis is solid, and the Spurs quickly opened up the point difference with these waves of offense and defense. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Connected with the cap, Griffin's mentality has exploded a little, since the beginning of his rookie season, Griffin, who has been smooth sailing, has never suffered such a setback, at most, he has been defended and failed to attack, but before the first half of this game ended, he ate Anxi's three hot pots, which can be said to be miserable.
Griffin, who had an explosive mentality, began to attack indiscriminately, completely disrupting the offensive rhythm on the Clippers court.
Anxi's defense was still orderly, and Griffin did not score in various ways, and even rewarded Griffin with a big hat again.
The reporters on the sidelines have begun to shake their heads, and before the game, they thought that they could catch a mistake of Popovich this time and stir it up, but they didn't expect China An's performance to be so perfect.
In this way, at the end of the first half, the Spurs led the Clippers by 28 points at 68:40, Del Nigro was not a head coach who was good at adjusting the offense, and after Anxi completely blocked Griffin and disrupted the offensive rhythm of the Clippers, Del Nigro had no good way but to re-send Chris Paul, hoping that Paul could turn the tide.
But the Spurs are not easy to mess with, Tony Parker is not as good as Paul in controlling the tempo, but the overall rhythm of the Spurs is very good, and the blocking tactics of sometimes fast and sometimes slow can always find good opportunities to attack.
So in the second half, the Spurs continued to extend their lead, and Del Nigro was completely disappointed in Blake Griffin in this game, replacing Griffin early, allowing Paul to fight on the court with a group of role players, at least to ensure that the point difference was not pulled apart.
The Spurs maintained the lead until the beginning of the fourth quarter, when the Clippers replaced all their main players and surrendered, and the Spurs still maintained a lead of more than 25 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Spurs simply replaced several substitutes further back on the bench, except for Ecdiogu, James Anderson and Cory Joseph, who were not on the activation list, the other players were more or less given playing time, and even Matt Bonner, the nuclear weapon on the bench, played.
In the end, the game ended, and the Spurs won by 27 points with a score of 117:90 and won the opening two consecutive victories! And both games were big wins!
Anxi, who started this game, played 22 minutes in the whole game, made 7 three-pointers, hit 4 of them, and scored 12 points, plus 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 5 big hats! Blake Griffin, who was on the opposite side of the defense, shot 4 of 16 and only scored 10 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and was embarrassed by Anxi's defense.
After the game, Greg Popovich specially called Anxi and took Anxi to the scene of the post-match press conference.
To be honest, the media in the United States knows very little about Anxi, after all, Anxi was only a role player at UConn before participating in the draft, and no one thought that he would be drafted by the NBA, so there was no media to pay attention to Anxi at that time.
Until Anxi was drafted by the Spurs, only a few media reporters were surprised, because they didn't know where the Chinese player came from. However, the Spurs' draft policy in recent years has not made these reporters delve into it, because they feel that this China Security must be one of the Spurs' overseas plans, and they may not know when they will land in the NBA.
As a result, Anxi joined directly this season, but they still didn't care too much, they just felt that the Spurs were unwilling to strengthen themselves and signed Anxi to make up the numbers.
Therefore, many media reporters were very curious about this player who was regarded by Popovich as Blake's Griffin nemesis before the game, and they also hyped it up.
When Anxi followed Popovich into the media interview room, the flash clicked and flashed.
"Fellow journalists, the San Antonio Spurs post-match press conference is now open." The Spurs press officer, who hosted the press conference, announced the start.
The reporters began to raise their hands to ask questions, at the press conference, Popovich was not smiling, and Anxi was also a little nervous, so he also had a cold face, but when he saw Abby Hornacek, who was also attending the press conference, he couldn't help but smile.
As for Abby, of course, she also threw a wink at Anxi. The small movements of the two went unnoticed by the other reporters, as they both stared at Popovich and asked questions alone.
There are many and miscellaneous questions, including why he thinks Anxi can prevent Griffin, how did the Spurs think of choosing Anxi, etc., and Popovich's answer is also very simple, he just knows that Anxi can prevent Griffin, and the Spurs took a fancy to Anxi at first sight, etc., these perfunctory answers made the reporters depressed, so it didn't take long for them to target Anxi.
"Ann, hello, I'm Sam Amick, a reporter for USA Today, and almost all of us didn't know much about you before this game, what did you think when Gregg Popovich said before the game that you would be the Spurs' go-to to defend Griffin?" A bald bearded man among the reporters first asked An Xi a question.
After thinking for a while, An Xi replied, "I was surprised and a little nervous at the time, but I believed in my own ability, so what I always thought about was how to prevent Blake Griffin. ”
"So we don't know anything about you before, can you briefly introduce yourself? Like what type of player you are. Another reporter, who appeared to be from ESPN, stood up and asked directly.
"Me? I think it's a swingman who has a great defense and can shoot threes, right? ”
An Xi's last answer made all the reporters' eyes light up, and in the evening, all the news reports of the major media came out.
"Another masterpiece of the Spurs - high-quality 3D player China An!"
"Spurs Wonder Killer to Riffin, a role player with a good three-point defense!"
On the domestic side, the report was also sent back early, because of the recent series of media events, the only media in China that can be trusted by fans is Tiger Pounce, so as soon as the game ended, Tiger Pounce poured into a large number of fans.
Anxi started in his regular season debut in the NBA, and also got 12 points, 5 boards, 3 assists and 5 blocks, with a good performance, and Tiger Pounce also played such a title: "Spurs are made in China, and the three-point defense is correct!" ”
After the press conference, Anxi followed Abby home.
The moment he left the stadium, in a corner that An Xi didn't pay attention to at all, a white light suddenly imprinted into the inside of An Xi's clothes......