Chapter 302: A Small Victory in the First Battle (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
After the timeout, the Spurs' offense, Tony Parker scored 2 points on a quick layup, and the difference was pulled back to 4 points. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Then, Anxi confronted Stephen Curry.
Stephen Curry's dribbling was still careless, and he slowly took the ball across the halfway line from the backcourt, and Anxi took a few steps forward, ready to stick it up as soon as Curry crossed the sideline. However, out of the corner of his eye, he found that David Lee came out again, and he ran towards the three-point line.
An Xi's eyes jumped, he knew that the outside cover of the warriors was coming again, and it seemed that after tasting the sweetness, the warriors kept using the same routine.
Off the court, Popovich frowned, and Mike Budenholzer on the side said: "This offensive routine of the Warriors has been used since the regular season, but it is not used much, maybe I think this game is good, so I have been using it, right?" ā
Popovich nodded, and he relaxed: "Actually, it's not a big deal, let Ann defend first, if you still can't defend it, we can use a small lineup to change the defense." ā
Popovich got to the point, why were the Warriors able to create so many three-point opportunities for Curry? In fact, after Stephen Curry passed the screen, the Spurs were Duncan or Split who made up the defense, and before he could paste it, Curry, who shot extremely fast, completed a three-point shot.
On the court, David Lee had already moved to Anxi's side, directly blocking Anxi, and Curry moved sideways, seeing that he was about to get rid of Anxi again.
At this moment, An Xi retreated, and then made a large lateral move, and suddenly took a step towards the sideways, and Stephen Curry, who was about to make a move, pounced!
Stephen Curry continued to shoot like the previous few balls, but at this moment, a behemoth pounced overwhelmed, this is Anxi!
Stephen Curry was startled, and in order to avoid Anxi, the shooting hand was also lowered.
"Stephen Curry, the three-point shot after the cover is shot again!"
With a bang, the basketball bounced on the hoop and didn't go in!
"Rebounds, rebounds!" Popovich stood up and shouted.
Split, who was on the inside, directly stuck in the position and grabbed the rebound.
Blocking Curry's three-pointer, the Spurs had a chance to widen the gap, and Popovich began to swing at Fang Xiao on the sidelines, constantly asking Parker to pick up the pace and make a pressing gesture again.
Parker controlled the ball to the frontcourt, the Spurs also played high cover, Duncan directly mentioned the high position at the 45-degree angle, Anxi came around from the bottom corner, Duncan blocked Klay Thompson who made up the defense, Anxi shook off Klay Thompson, received the ball and stepped directly on the three-point line for a jumper, and scored 2 points with a bang.
A 6-point deficit with 1 minute left in the third quarter.
The Warriors still don't believe in evil, and continue to cover outside the three-point line, this time it was Anxi, struggling to break free from David Lee's cover, and then interfering with Curry's three-point points again.
After missing two consecutive shots, the Spurs had another wave of offense, and Duncan scored on the inside layup, expanding the margin to 8 points.
At the end of the third quarter, the Warriors' last shot missed, and the Spurs were left with two seconds, but it was difficult to score in these two seconds.
At the end of the third quarter, the Spurs led the Warriors by eight points.
And at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spurs and the Warriors both replaced the main force, after all, the physical strength should be reserved for the real decisive battle, the Spurs thought so, and the Warriors did the same, although they were behind the 8 points, but the 8 points have always been chasable, even in the final stage of the game.
Of course, the premise is that the Warriors' bench can stabilize this point difference, and even narrow the point difference until the main team plays.
In this regard, Mark Jackson is still very confident, after all, in terms of bench depth, the Warriors are still relatively strong in the league, with Carl Landry and Azeri on the inside, Jared Jack and Richard Jefferson on the outside, as well as young players such as Draymond Green and Kent Bazemore.
However, when he actually came off the bench against the Spurs, Mark Jackson knew where the real gap was.
Or where are the really strong substitutes.
Although Anxi played the first game in this game, and the Spurs' bench was missing the important Anxi, the Spurs still relied on Manuginoby and Mills to suppress the Warriors and widen the difference.
Before the game entered the decisive stage, it was already beaten by the Spurs and lost its suspense.
With 6 minutes left in the final quarter, the Spurs had already led by 15 points, and Mark Jackson hurried to replace the main force, which was too late, but the Warriors still replaced the main force, and Popovich also followed behind the Warriors and replaced the main force.
Although there were 6 minutes left in the game, Mark Jackson still felt that 15 points could be chased, and he decided to take a gamble.
The game is not far from the end, Curry did his best in this game, he scored 30+ points again, but the team still trailed the Spurs, and wanted to chase 15 points in the last 6 minutes, Curry himself did not have much confidence.
He began to shoot from the outside, but the shooting percentage was not as good as in the previous quarters.
The Spurs used their stable offense to make the Warriors realize where the gap is, the offense still needs to be stable, and the explosive offense is useless after all.
When the full-time whistle blew, the ATT arena erupted in loud cheers, and the Spurs won the game in the first game, and in the end, the Spurs won the game by 11 points.
The margin of Spurs' final win was not very large, 11 points, which is not a big difference.
But the media is still pessimistic about the future of the Warriors.
"The dark horse can't go down anymore, and the stability of the Spurs has overcome everything."
"The Warriors lost the first game of the Western Finals, and in this series, the Warriors should honestly accumulate experience."
"The overall situation of the finals has been decided, the Spurs will take revenge on the Heat again, or will the Spurs win the championship in a row?"
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All the remarks seem to be saying that the Warriors are no longer likely to advance, and these words are naturally extremely uncomfortable in the ears of the Warriors' big mouths, so before the start of the second game, Andrew Boggart stood up again: "We just lost one game, there are seven games in a series, and this is the first game, why does everyone think that we are finished?" ā
"And we've only lost by 11 points, which means we have a lot of possibilities for the rest of the game, doesn't it?"
Andrew Boggart didn't shoot at the spurs, he knew that even if he fired at the spurs, it wouldn't have much effect, and the Spurs wouldn't pay attention to him. He just defended the Warriors, and then within the Warriors, he continued to cheer up a group of young people as Big Brother.
The Western Conference Finals are two days apart, and within those two days, the second game of the Eastern Conference Finals begins.
David Fitzdale said in an interview before the game that the Heat's goal is to enter the Finals as soon as possible, although it is not said to sweep, but everyone can hear that the Heat's goal is to sweep the Pacers, and obviously the big win in the first game gave David Fitzdale unlimited confidence.
The second game between the Heat and the Pacers began, and in San Antonio, Anxi returned home after a day of training.
Pushing the door and shouting, "Abby, I'm back!" ā
Then there was a sound of footsteps, Abby rushed out of the house, and then saw that Anxi had changed into slippers, so he pulled Anxi.
"Come on, Ann."
An Xi was confused: "What's wrong?" ā
"I've picked a few houses, come and see them with me."
"What are you doing with a house?" Looking at Abby, who was a little excited, An Xi was a little puzzled, but soon An Xi reacted: "Are you ready to buy a house?" ā
Abby had already spread out a few photos of the house on the table, then looked at Anxi, and replied as a matter of course: "Yes, you got so much money back, why don't you buy a house, do you keep renting this house to live in?" ā
After saying this, she also picked up her fingers: "Also, not only do you want to buy a house, but your car should also be changed, you are also a small star in the NBA, it's time to change to a luxury car, and in addition, when you finish the playoffs, I am ready to take you to Europe and add you a few clothes." ā
An Xi touched his nose, he was inexplicably moved, but thinking about it, this is moving? I'm too easy to be moved.
He pulled Abby to sit down: "Abby, there is something I've been thinking about for a long time and haven't said. ā
"What's the matter?" Abby's face changed.
An Xi smiled: "It's not a big deal, I'm preparing to leave San Antonio next season." ā
"Leaving San Antonio?" Abby was taken aback.
An Xi can also imagine Abby's surprise, after all, he hasn't said it a few times since he left the Spurs, and he has also said it in front of Abby before, but Abby may have forgotten it a long time ago, after all, Anxi said it casually when he mentioned it, and forgot it after he finished speaking.
He explained: "Yes, I felt like I should leave San Antonio for the sake of my career. ā
"And where are you going?" Abby didn't continue to ask why Anxi left, after all, in her opinion, it didn't matter whether Anxi left or not, anyway, she could leave with Anxi.
"I don't know yet, my contract hasn't expired yet?" Anxi shook her head, and then looked at Abby with a funny expression.
Abby thought for a while, directly pulled up the photos of the house on the table, and then said, "Then don't look at the house yet, and when you know where to go next, we'll look at the house." ā
An Xi nodded and mumbled.
"What about you? What are you going to do? Anxi asked, and was a little silent, Abby is a reporter for Fox Sports in San Antonio, if Anxi leaves San Antonio, and Abby can't be transferred out of San Antonio, wouldn't it be a separation between the two places? Anxi can't stand it.
Abby tilted her head and thought, "I'll quit, quit, anyway, you can make so much money." Abby laughed, and Anxi laughed too.
"Okay, no problem, I support your resignation." (To be continued.) )