Chapter 121: Yes's Big Iron Elbow (4/5)
"This match between the SuperSonics and the Spurs does not affect the standings of the two teams, the result of winning or losing does not affect the two teams, but this game is still extremely important for both teams!"
"The Spurs need to occupy the top four positions in the West and can't be pulled away by the Mavericks and Rockets, the SuperSonics need to work hard for the playoffs, the Spurs are strong, but the Spurs who play back-to-back away games are strong teams they can win!"
The Spurs and SuperSonics game will of course be broadcast live across the United States.
There are a lot of national live broadcasts of SuperSonics this season, and before the start of the season, even if the game between SuperSonics and Spurs is broadcast nationally, no one will think that there will be any suspense in the game between SuperSonics and Spurs.
That's not to mention that the two teams are now in a close position, one fifth and the other sixth.
If someone said that the SuperSonics and the Spurs were close to each other before the start of the season, I am afraid that they would be directly regarded as crazy.
"The SuperSonics have no change in their starting lineup tonight, the backcourt is still Rondo and Yes, the small forward is Quentin Richardson, the power forward David Lee, and the center Milicic"
"On the Spurs side, point guard Tony Parker, shooting guard Bruce Bowen, small forward Michael Finley, power forward Tim Duncan, center Oberto"
Both teams' starting lineups are regular lineups, and generally speaking, in the regular season of the NBA, there will not be a team that does too much targeted arrangement.
In the regular season, even if it is a targeted arrangement, it is a small strategic direction.
For example, Popovich asked Bowen to strengthen the defense of Yes.
And this is also Popovich's jealousy of Yes.
In the current NBA, there are not too many coaches who are afraid of Yes, and Popovich is probably the most of them.
Popovich now doesn't know what the specific strength of Yes looks like.
The strongest Yes is called Full Yes, Maddie + Iverson + Reggie Miller.
Such a Yes is really powerful, the bloody Lynx, the lore Piston, are all such Yes.
However, it is not the strongest Yes who often appears in front of others, but the Yes who likes to run without the ball.
The point is, when this Yes without the ball will turn into an all-out Yes, no one knows, and this is a problem.
Yes is a real coach killer!
If you don't know the specific strength and mode switching of Yes, then you can't make a targeted arrangement for Yes.
In the last game against the Nets, the Nets were wrong for Yes.
Let Carter spend a lot of energy to chase down Yes, Yes didn't prevent it, Carter himself was consumed.
The Nets take Yes too seriously.
Can Popovich understand that this powerful player can do it without paying attention?
It's not okay not to pay attention to it, and it can't be to take it too seriously like the Nets.
He's not going to let the SuperSonics play that dump system in this game, he's going to leave Yes to Bowen to defend.
He has a lot of trust in Bowen, and no player can beat the Spurs on his own in the face of Bowen's defense!
Bowen will greatly reduce the offensive efficiency of opposing players.
Yes has been extremely efficient offensively this season, but that's because he hasn't met Bowen yet.
Bowen's defensive hard power may not be as strong as his reputation, but he has the strength that hard power does not have.
With a defensive knife like Bowen, Popovich feels much luckier than Nets head coach Frank.
Even if Bowen can't prevent Yes, Bowen can use other methods to make Yes angry, thus reducing Yes's efficiency.
Milicic, who only lost to Howard in terms of jump balls, still allowed the SuperSonics to get the first wave of the game tonight.
At the end of the jump ball, Bruce Bowen stuck directly to Yes's body.
The jersey was ripped off.
Yass was grabbed by Bowen in the back of his clothes.
Bowen's athleticism is average, and now that he's older, he's almost 36, so it's really strange if he can keep up with Yes's speed.
Since the talent can't keep up, then use some means that can keep up.
Ye Si could feel that as soon as he was ready to start, then Bowen would get off the black beast, and the hand that grabbed his back clothes would pinch his flesh directly.
"Good!"
Popovich was pleased with Bowen's intimidating defense.
Dirty or not, as long as Yes is scared and doesn't run, then the Spurs' defense is successful.
Bowen kept Yes under control, and Duncan beat the other SuperSonics players again, and the Spurs won.
"Yes didn't start?!"
"Yes are you really scared of Bowen?"
The referee may not have noticed Bowen's small movements now, how could Ray Allen, who has been entangled with Bowen for so long, not know what Bowen is doing now.
To intimidate a rookie in this way is probably something that a slut like Bowen can do.
He's a smart guy, but he's just a little timid.
If it were a player like Carter or Kobe, in the face of his psychologically suggestive intimidation, he would definitely open or shake his hand away.
Then he can pretend to be fouled, and then hook Kobe Bryant's or Carter's leg from behind, and even if the referee sees it, he won't do anything with him, at most he will be covered with an ordinary foul.
Use an ordinary foul to make Kobe Bryant and Carter pay, how to see how worthwhile!
"Yes asking for the ball?"
After Rondo pushed the ball into the front court, he saw Yes who was about to ask for the ball.
Yes, there are not many cases where you don't run and ask for the ball directly.
But since Yes asked for the ball, it was impossible for him not to give it.
"Yes is not stuck in Bowen now, the ball is going to be the ball, it's dangerous!"
Yes, I'm so impatient!
Such a pass can be dangerous, of course, and the player behind is not stuck, and Bowen can go around to the front to complete the steal at any time.
Seeing Rondo's pass, Bowen really had some urge to come up and steal.
However, this impulse was eventually controlled by Bowen.
Steal stats aren't as important as successful defenses.
No need to break the ball, as long as Yes receives the ball, he can let Yes know what the best defensive player in the league is.
Many of his weapons are ready now, just waiting for Yes to catch the ball.
Popovich was happy with Bowen's defense, but found it hard to believe Yes would throw in the towel.
Is Yes anything else?
Ye Si held his left hand horizontally, watching the basketball get closer and closer to him, Ye Si received the blue ball with his left hand and completed the turn.
With a bang, coupled with a tearing sound, Ye Si jumped up directly.
And Bowen, who was defending Yes behind Ye Si and intimidating Ye Si just now, has now covered his neck and sat down on the ground!
34…… 41…… 55…… 62
62!
With a bang, the supersonic took the lead in scoring.
What just happened?
Popovich on the sidelines was a little blind.
He didn't see anything?!
Watching the constant slow-motion on the TV, Pierce and Ray Allen looked at each other with a look of disbelief in their eyes.
Bowen, elbowed?
Elbow his or yes?!