Chapter 132: Stone Buddha Rejuvenates Emperor Zhan
The Heat players are in a desperate posture when they come on the court, but it is obviously not only them who are desperate, and Duncan exploded at the beginning.
To understand the hearts of middle-aged and old men, it is better to take a plane than to play a game.
And Leonard found that he is also quite capable of scoring, and he has been playing against James before, and this time he found out that it was a very pleasant thing to play against Mike Miller.
To the surprise of the Spurs, Mario Chammos felt good today, and Battier, who was reused again, also felt good, and with Mike Miller and Ray Allen, the Heat's outside shooting was very threatening.
The game has been tangled, but when it comes to the rotation, it is the Heat who have the advantage.
Duncan is resting, James is able to top up on the court, and Ginobili is a bit iron.
In fact, since the playoffs, Ginobili's form has not been very good, of course, relatively.
Ginobili's style of play is more affected by age.
Everyone fought a small lineup, and Zhang Xiaotian mixed well with the main team, but Ginobili and Gary Neil didn't hold up the rotation time, and Popovich had a bit of a headache.
And just like Zhang Xiaotian reported before, he didn't resist James today.
Popovich will not be rash, Zhang Xiaotian will definitely go up, and let Leonard defend James.
It's just that Zhang Xiaotian will continue to play with the main force, or will he lead the rotation lineup with Ginobili.
Fortunately, Duncan was still calling on the inside after Duncan came on the court in the second quarter, and Popovich had more time to think about it.
There is Duncan in offense, and Zhang Xiaotian and Leonard only need to focus on defense.
The biggest difference between Leonard's defense of James and Zhang Xiaotian is to give the opponent a certain amount of space to shoot and try to limit James' breakthrough, but this is also the right judgment of the hand commander to be so generous.
After being entangled with Zhang Xiaotian for most of the quarter, and suddenly changed to a technical type like Leonard, James was really a little uncomfortable, and the look on his face froze after missing the two shots.
From Leonard's paralyzed face, James sensed a deep malice.
This is what he thinks about too much, Leonard has always played conscientiously and will not be sarcastic at all.
But he looked like he was despising it, which was more effective than Zhang Xiaotian's trash talk.
Seeing Duncan score consecutive points against the Spurs, James finally exploded.
It doesn't matter how the spurs defend him, puffing up the muscles is to kill inside.
This kind of hard work took effect immediately, Leonard looked like he had done his best, and James's unreasonable hard work exposed the young man.
Crushed Leonard by one, and Duncan came up to help defend and was also fouled.
Relying on James's awakening, the two teams are still inseparable.
Duncan squeezed away Bosh and got hard, James carried Leonard to the basket, and the neutral fans were immediately excited, the game was really good.
After 25 points in the half, Duncan had murderous anger in his eyes, and the Heat were all worried.
Is this 37 years old? The 20-year-old little pink is not so fierce.
Just like that, Spurs ended the first half with a two-point lead.
At halftime, in the Heat's locker room, James took all the blame.
He spoke in place of the head coach and aggressively asked his teammates to fight a little harder, and they couldn't let the 37-year-old veteran do whatever he wanted.
Spoelstra was a little embarrassed, but he really didn't expect Duncan to explode like this.
In the Spurs' locker room, everyone was not as excited as they imagined.
Duncan Khan is raining down, and the team doctor is asking about the situation and helping him with a simple muscle recovery.
If he continues to play, Duncan should be able to be tough for about ten minutes, but once he rests, he may not be able to play like in the first half.
After careful consideration, Popovich started Gary Neil in the second half, first looking at Duncan's situation, and then deciding when to let Zhang Xiaotian play.
At the beginning of the second half, James fouled Leonard.
He played unreasonably, and Leonard's defensive effect was similar to Zhang Xiaotian.
It's just that James's physical strength is also huge in this way, so he can only fight at this time to see who can't hold it first.
Obviously, Duncan couldn't hold on, and he didn't continue to eat Bosh after missing the single, but smartly played with Parker to block and go out, and Duncan also had a shot.
This is the experience, if the stunned Qing chooses to continue to fight inside, he will be looking for humiliation.
The inside line is still out, and the Spurs can only choose to shoot on the outside, but they are not very accurate on the outside in the first half, if it weren't for Duncan's outburst, they would have been beaten down, and in the second half, the outside feel is still not good.
Popovich hurried to Ginobili, and Parker also changed his style of play and tried to kill as much as he could.
Unlike James, who can grind hard inside, Parker has to rely on the speed of the screen, which is much more difficult than the small mid-range shot that throws off a step.
There's no way around it, Parker's mid-range shot is scary when it's accurate, and it's scary when it's not.
Seeing that the Heat took the lead again and mastered the situation, Popovich was also very entangled, if he couldn't win this game, he might really be overturned on the road.
It's not to scare yourself, GDP actually has injuries all over his body, and he can't be compared with a barbarian like James.
And if Duncan can't win at his peak, how can they win, relying on the explosion of the shooter group, it's too much luck, Popovich doesn't like it.
He looked at Zhang Xiaotian, and Zhang Xiaotian immediately made a firm expression.
Popovich sighed and applied for a substitution to the technical desk, Zhang Xiaotian is also an unstable guy, but at this time, Popovich can only look at him.
Zhang Xiaotian is also not ambiguous, and the victory point does not need to wait for any more time at this time.
However, he still hesitated for a few seconds in the choice of cards, whether to take into account the defense of the hot state card.
Or don't, that way you can't go up or down, and you may not be able to achieve your goal.
How to choose the scoring king card and the three-point rain card, he has used the scoring king card before, and it is very cool to use, but it is a Warrior who is not so strong on defense, if he breaks out against the Heat, James will definitely change the defense.
How can James help the team the most when he changes defenses, and in the end, Zhang Xiaotian chose a three-point rain card with a higher shooting percentage.
The three-point rain card shooting rate has doubled, making his three-point shooting rate more than two points, although the scoring king card is easy to use in various ways to score, but he will do it in those ways, facing James is not safe, or the shooting rate is the priority, after all, he will not stupidly shoot three points when he uses skills in the final quarter.
Halfway through the third quarter, when James rushed inside to make a foul free throw, Zhang Xiaotian came on the court.
Because of Leonard's previous play, James is now defending Leonard.
Zhang Xiaotian is a role player after all, and he won't keep an eye on it.
brush, Zhang Xiaotian hit a three-point shot against Mike Miller, and James suddenly had a bad premonition.