Chapter 222: The Contest of Substitutes (Part I)
What is team basketball, maybe many fans will say that the 03-04 season of the Pistons, what civilian, grassroots championship myth, but many fans have forgotten the Spurs, last season's Spurs regular season scoring highest was only Tony Parker's 16.7 points, but there are 6 players in the team who scored double-doubles in the regular season, and there are three who average 8 points and 9 points per game. In terms of lineup, the Spurs in the 2013-14 season not only have a strong GDP portfolio, but also hoard a group of high-quality 3D players, plus the lovely and flexible French magician Dior and others who are growing, it can be said that the Spurs were among the top in the league in terms of starting lineup and bench depth. That season, the Spurs achieved a 62-20 record in the league, in which the old and strong GDP is still the most stable cornerstone combination of the Spurs, they can average 44.1 points, 15.0 rebounds and 13.0 assists per game, and the 22-year-old Leonard has also grown into the team's third leading scorer, coupled with a number of excellent role players, so that the Spurs have won a wave of 19 consecutive wins after the star break. Throughout the regular season, the team averaged 105.4 points per game on the offensive end and only conceded 97.6 points on the defensive end.
At the same time, the Spurs have implemented their team philosophy well, their offense is full of money, each offense has to go through multiple passes to find the best shot, the entire Finals series down the Spurs with a terrifying 52.8% shooting rate and 46.6% three-point shooting rate on the offensive end of the fierce suppression of the Heat, the number of assists is 25.4, which is higher than the Heat's average of 15.2 times per game 10, you must know that the Heat also have a 47.2% shooting rate and a 39.7% three-point shooting rate, so that it can be easily defeated 4:1, this Spurs, once considered to be a team that Jordan may not be able to deal with when he comes.
Regarding some domestic and foreign films that pay tribute to their predecessors, "Old Cannon", which was released this year, several old films in Hong Kong "Dark Flower" and "Underworld", and "The Godfather" in the United States, are all a kind of "no-holding" loneliness and helplessness that realistic old guns are bound to be replaced, but at the same time, what is really rendered is a kind of respect, tribute, inheritance and even fear of the spiritual culture of "old guns". In the entire history of the NBA — in the entire history of the NBA — there has been no other team that has been as solid as the San Antonio Spurs for 20 years. The Spurs are an old station built on the road of this progressive era, and there will always be a train that will take you to the place of dreams, they seem to be stinky and hard but warm about the persistence and dreams of all pure, with the same attitude proudly standing in the ever-changing river of years, not swept by the stream, nor will it be taken away by the countercurrent.
In the 2014-2015 season, the Spurs retained their team members almost intact, and the Suns next faced the league's No. 1 bench group last season.
After the first quarter of the game, the score was 24:26, and the Suns led by 2 points, and then in the second quarter, the old man smiled weirdly at Hornacek, waved his big hand, and directly went up and down five times, sending a lineup of Manuginobili, Marco Berinelli, Kyle Anderson, Boris Dio, and Aaron Baines.
On the other side, Hornacek thought for a while, last season, the Spurs' team basketball made everyone in the league see the power of team basketball, and there is an endless stream of coaches to learn this style of play, and Hornacek is no exception.
In Hornacek's view, the Spurs' team basketball is likely to be a state that the future championship-winning team needs, at present, Li Mojie may be able to grow into the league's top small forward this season, but it is not enough to have a Li Mojie, and it is whimsical to expect the sophomore Li Mojie to defeat the Cavaliers' Big Three and the Thunder King Bomb combination, so Hornacek has been constantly pondering the Spurs' team basketball style this offseason.
"You're studing, I'll follow!" Hornacek looked at the old man and muttered, anyway, it's just a regular season, and you can afford to lose!
So Hornacek shouted to the bench: "Clarkson, McCollum, Pierce, Marcus, Nikla, you guys!" ”
The break ended quickly, and when the lineups of both sides came on the field, the audience present and in front of the TV all took a breath of cold air, and all ten people on the field were substitutes? These two coaches are playing with snakes? This is a live broadcast in the United States, aren't the two of them afraid that the newly appointed president Adam will wear a white cape, yellow clothes, red rain boots, and red gloves and turn into a bald cape man and beat these two people?
"This, this, in the second quarter, the coaches on both sides invariably changed to the team's second lineup?" Mike Brin wondered.
"No, no, no, it's not a coincidence, there must have been an exchange between Jeff and Greg, I was a coach and I know, it's just that the camera didn't capture it!" Van Gundy smiled mysteriously.
Many fans jokingly say that there are two kinds of NBA substitutes, one is their own team substitute, and the other is the Spurs substitute! Spurs' main team: Just play casually, you have to leave some room for the bench to perform, right? Spurs substitute: This group of SBs has dug holes, brothers, hurry up and chase points! To be honest, if the Spurs' bench lineup is on the books, only Girobili feels quite strong, but if you look at the overall strength, it may not be the strongest, and the Spurs' substitute is strong in the execution of tactics; You should have seen the performance of other teams on the bench, and the substitutes of the weak teams generally play more to find a sense of existence, or the playing time in the critical period is already less; As for the substitutes of strong teams, the coach will generally take the initiative to put them into the rotation plastic surgery to let them run in the actual battle; As for the tactics, I'm sorry, maybe most of the substitutes were replaced before they were in a hurry; The Spurs are different, the average playing time of the main players in the regular season does not exceed 30 minutes, and the playing time of the Spurs substitutes has not been counted, but it is estimated that it will not be too short; In addition, the Spurs' bench except for Girobili, if he does not play according to the tactics, he will not be able to play every minute.
The Spurs attacked, and the ball passed to power forward Dio. Diola got to the three-point line to catch the ball so Marcus had to follow as well.
Although Fat Di is fat, he has the ability to shoot, but there is interference in front of him, and it is difficult to grasp the rhythm. He passed the ball over Marcus' head and gave it to Ginobili, who broke through on cover in the middle.
Ginobili receives the ball and sprints straight to target the basket.
Jokic let go of his defender and made up for the basket, but Nikola was still slow, and Ginobili got rid of him with a dodge and made a layup.
"CJ, let's change the guard, I'll defend against Manu, you come around to defend this big man!" Pierce frowned and said, in his opinion, the defense of this group of recruits on the field is not qualified at all!
McLuum nodded in agreement and served to Clarkson, who quickly dribbled across half court.
Ginobili faced Clarkson, who received the ball at the free-throw line and distributed the ball to the right. McCollum shook off Belinelli, and Anderson hurriedly made up for it, so Pierce missed.
Although Belinelli was aware of the defense, Pierce immediately grabbed a three-point shot at 60 degrees on the right side, and the arc of the ball was perfect, hollow into the net!
"Beautiful! The veterans on both sides each scored one, and the Suns' operation in the past two seasons is really good, this year, the Suns signed Pierce with a 3-year middle class is definitely worth it, you must know that Paul can also average 13.7 points + 2 assists + 4.5 rebounds per game in the playoffs last season! Brin said.
The Spurs attacked, the ball passed to Dio again, Dio received the ball inside and leaned on Marcus with his back, and forced to turn to the left side and failed, because after winning the championship last season, Dior's body swelled up like a balloon in the offseason, which made Spurs stunned to sign a weight loss contract with him, and you can make money by losing weight, do you think you are the richest man in tomatoes? Wrong, it's San Antonio Odio!
The 203cm Dio is more than 260 pounds, no matter how flexible he is, it is impossible for him to easily break through the 240-pound 206cm Marcus, and he is still fat, and the back hitting power has not increased at all, but has declined because of the playfulness in the offseason, so Dio has no choice but to awkwardly hoist the ball to the outside Manu again.
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