Chapter 962: Spurs and Popovich to be played!
Stephen Jackson didn't want to play this game against the SuperSonics, very much.
As a defensive player who thinks highly of himself, he feels that his opponents should be players like Kobe, Yes and Maddie.
Is it necessary for him to defend a player like Rondo who can defend with air at all in this game?
To let Stephen Jackson defend a player on the court who can't attack at all is an insult to him!
If it weren't for Bowen, when Bao Sange left, he told him that he must be obedient at Spurs, listen to Bobo's words, Bobo dared to humiliate him like this, and his violent temper would never silence him.
His pride can't do the kind of action that blocks a three-year-old's shot on the court, and it's the most brutal blocking action!
In Rondo's game, in front of him, facing him, and directly pulling him to hit the first three-pointer of the game, Stephen Jackson was shocked.
Although he didn't contribute to Rondo's defense, it was quite incredible that he could throw that kind of shot in front of his defense.
He wasn't shocked by Rondo's prowess.
Rondo's strength hasn't been seen clearly in the pre-game shooting practice of the superSonics in these ten games?
This kid may be very capable in other aspects, but in terms of scoring ability, it is really not at all.
He was shocked that Yes's passing and playmaking were really so amazing.
Although he had heard about it before, it was the first time he had encountered it.
Not only Stephen Jackson, in fact, every time he was thrown into such an attack by Rondo, the look on his face was shocked.
Is a player like Rondo someone who can throw in this kind of shot?
Of course not!
So not only Stephen Jackson, but Popovich on the sidelines and the other Spurs players on the court were shocked when they first saw Rondo throw in this kind of shot.
That kind of-covered face shock.
You know that this guy's offense stinks and stinks, so stinky that you don't even bother to defend him, and feel that defending him is an insult to you.
But even a person who is attacking and stinks like this, but he can shame you, what kind of feelings do you say?
"I can now understand why Kobe Bryant was almost driven crazy by Rondo......"
Looking at the Spurs and SuperSonics game going on on the field, Ginobili thought to himself.
After Rondo hit his first three-pointer, the Spurs were very uncomfortable.
Bobo said that when he wanted to limit Rondo in this game, he asked everyone's opinion.
The players have mixed emotions.
Bobo needs to recast his own prestige, and of course they support it.
But to move Jackson away from Durant or Yes and to Rondo's side is basically giving up the game.
Any Spurs player who comes into the team is instilled with the idea that winning is more important than anything else.
But this game ......
Although Bobo did not say to give up the game.
But basically he has told everyone with practical actions that he and the team gave up this game in exchange for the price of defending Rondo.
It's not that the Spurs haven't given up the game, the Spurs have given up the game before, it is for the final victory, for the championship, the rotation is off, and the victory given up is not important.
But this time, it wasn't an unimportant win, and the Spurs are still in the bottom three of the West.
If you lose, then you have to continue to sink, the west is not the east, the west is here, you have a ten-game winning streak, and the ranking is not moving.
The Rockets stayed in ninth place in the West on a 15-game winning streak last season and didn't move at all.
For Spurs right now, a win in any game is important.
That's right, even if Spurs don't give up the win, with the strength of the two teams, the victory in this game will not be easy.
But basketball is round after all, and there is still a chance to fight it.
Although he is afraid of Yes, he has always dreamed that when he is competing with Yes, Yes's legs suddenly slip and twist his legs?
Of course, for Bobo's prestige, for Bobo to regain the reputation he lost, everyone is willing to sacrifice a game.
It's a big deal to sacrifice a season, Bobo's contribution to the Spurs, there's not much to say.
The point is, if you give up the game to win, you still can't stop Rondo's attack.
You know it's a lump of stool, but this lump of poop can keep sticking in front of you, what does it feel like?
It's too TM uncomfortable, it's too TM disgusting, okay!
After Rondo's opening three-point shot, Rondo, who played the entire first quarter, scored 12 points on and off in the first quarter.
This score is definitely worthy of his current status as the scoring champion.
If you hadn't watched this game, you guys would have thought, are you guys discriminating against the great NBA scoring champion?!
Everyone scored 12 points in a single quarter.
You guys still say that he is a weak scorer, and he is garbage?
Ginobili felt that it was really not him who discriminated against Rondo, nor that he and the Spurs discriminated against Rondo.
It's really ......
Rondo's scoring of 12 points in the first quarter is really hard not to complain.
In the first quarter of the game, after Rondo came up and hit a 3-pointer, Jackson's defense against Rondo immediately became stricter.
But Jackson's tighter defense still couldn't stop Rondo from scoring.
Rondo threw it when he should have thrown it, it really didn't have a little hesitation, and he could still get in if he threw it, and the hit rate was not bad.
This made Jackson quite uncomfortable, if he wasn't sure that Rondo was poop-like on the offensive end, he would even think that Rondo was not pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, deliberately.
It's not just Jackson, seeing Rondo's strong performance, many people have such thoughts.
Soon, though, these people were slapped in the face.
Jackson lost his defense once and didn't keep up with Rondo, Rondo's offense was very sudden, or he didn't shoot for the whole quarter, or when he wanted to shoot, it was also sudden, and he really couldn't concentrate all the time.
Because of the loss of concentration and concentration in defense, Jackson thought that according to Rondo's touch and Yes's assist, this goal would go in nine times out of ten.
But that crisp clang!
That's a real slap in the face!
I'm desperately defending, you can throw, Lao Tzu is distracted and doesn't defend, you can't shoot?
After that, Jackson experimented a few more times with a very ugly face, and Rondo's shooting didn't really have anything to do with his defensive intensity.
This Nima makes the defenders uncomfortable.
In that case, there's a hairy point to my TM defending this guy on the court.
Isn't my TM's in front of Yes, in front of Durant, in front of Milicic, in front of Millsap?
Wouldn't it be better to leave this poop to the air to defend it!
What's the biggest blow to a defender?
It's not the strength of the attacking players.
The offensive players are strong, as long as my defense is effective, the defensive players will still try to defend actively, maybe the stronger the offensive players, the higher the fighting spirit of the defensive players.
In fact, the thing that hits a defender the most is not that the offensive player is too strong, but that his own defense is ineffective.
Just like the defense against Rondo.
Stephen Jackson was very, very uncomfortable when he came off the court.
Defending Rondo in the first quarter, he was really uncomfortable.
Can you not feel bad if you have been covered with a whole section of poop?
Knowing that he is poop, it would be good for us to take it far away, so we have to run over and step on it, there is a disease!
Of course, it cannot be directly said that Popovich is sick, but can only complain in his heart.
And Popovich is really not sick, isn't it just for his own prestige and the things of the dream team?
Otherwise, if the Spurs players are really left to follow him to play the dream team, it will indeed be too pitiful.
It's not that he doesn't approve of Popovich regaining his popularity, he still respects Popovich very much.
But he doesn't want to be the one who helps Bobo regain his prestige and defend Rondo!
He really wants to strike now!
"Stephen, let's get through this game."
Ginobili patted Jackson on the shoulder sympathetically before taking the Spurs bench onto the court.
Although he was comforted by Ginobili, Jackson still became more and more angry the more he thought about it.
Stephen Jackson was angry, while Popovich, next to him, was frowning.
Rondo's performance in the first quarter really proved once again that he was poop, almost exactly like what he showed in his pre-game shooting drill.
It's also the same race he saw between Rondo and the SuperSonics before.
The reason why Kobe Bryant was almost driven crazy by Rondo is not because Kobe Bryant's hard defense is too long, he can't defend it, he doesn't defend it, and Rondo can't score or doesn't attack.
Rondo Bryant doubted his own life.
It feels like I'm doing something that doesn't make any sense.
And that's why those NBA coaches are so resistant to developing a special defensive strategy for Rondo.
Judging by Rondo's game, it really doesn't make any sense.
It's good to hand over Rondo to the air defense.
After re-experiencing all these things that he had seen on TV before, Popovich always felt that something was wrong.
Maybe he's a very suspicious person, or maybe he's very habitually overthinking.
If Rondo really is that rubbish, can he really face those shots from Jackson?
If Rondo is really not that garbage, but he can't shoot so many simple balls? There are not many fools in this world, is Rondo acting, one person or two people can't see it, and the whole world can't see it? If Rondo is really acting, then it can only be said that Rondo's acting skills are too high.
So, is Rondo really good or really not great?
Popovich is frowning now.
The rest of the world chose to believe that Rondo was not great.
There's no way a good guy can score and shoot like that in his career.
The NBA is not football, there is no such thing as hidden strength, and the SuperSonics are not the kind of team where the boss suppresses his teammates, but Van Rondo has a bit of ability to score and has long been outstanding.
With Durant's strength as a rookie, he can win the scoring title!
So, the rest of the world chose Rondo is the real dish, and attributed the magic of Rondo to the magic of Yes's passing and organization, turning decay into magic organization and passing.
Ahead of this game, he thought so too.
That's why they resist preventing Rondo from scoring, Yes has the ability to support others without supporting Rondo.
It's just that all of this makes sense, and all of this is reasonable, but why does it always feel a little discordant?
I felt the discord, but Popovich couldn't find where the discord was?
It's very uncomfortable.
Although the second quarter of the game began, for Popovich, he was still thinking about the magical situation of Rondo in the first quarter.
After the end of the first quarter, the Spurs were trailing by 18 points on the road.
After Jackson went to Rondo's side, not only Rondo's 12 points, but also the other supersonic players.
The Spurs' defense is basically collapsing.
Of course, the Spurs gave up the game in order to defend Rondo, so such a point difference is understandable.
And after the start of the second quarter, the difference between the two sides was still widening, and Ginobili met his old rival James Harden again.
The performance of the two people on the court can cause laughter in the key arena every time.
And James in front of the TV was a look of contempt.
That's what happens to players who don't have talent to get into the NBA.
If you don't have talent, you will want to get something like this.
He's very talented, and his talent gives him unparalleled aggression, so he never fakes a fall.
In the second quarter, the rotation lineup of the two sides played for five minutes, and the Spurs rotation led by Ginobili was continued to play by the rotation lineup led by James Harden and Gasol Jr.
The Spurs, who did not intend to win this game, finished the rotation time and fell behind by more than 20 points.
For this game, Popovich and the Spurs' goal is not to get Rondo to get the highest score of the game, and nothing else matters.
In the second quarter, Popovich, who was full of doubts about Rondo, continued to use Jackson to defend Rondo.
And then......
It's still exactly the same result, with defense Rondo can score, without defense Rondo can't score.
Popovich was a little skeptical at the end of the first half.
So much so that at halftime, Popovich looked at the score on the sidelines and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Do I still have to pinch Rondo in a double attack?
Although the outcome of this game is not important, he doesn't want to be beaten fifty-eight.
Poop is poop has been proven with Jackson.
He's going to prove it again with a double pinch?
Just when Popovich's whole person was doubting life and was a little lost......
"Bobo, your phone is ringing, it's Bruce's."
Bruce's phone?
Popovich and the Spurs players around him were a little surprised.
Popovich restrained his expression and took the lead in the player's tunnel with his mobile phone.
After answering the phone, Bowen's angry, unwilling and extremely firm voice came.
"Bobo, the whole world has been fooled, Rondo's attack is not poop, I am 100% sure that Rondo's attack is very strong!"
Bowen yelled angrily that Popovich's phone almost fell off because he couldn't hold it steadily.