Chapter 102: The Advantage Is Huge
The Lakers are still strong on the inside, with Gasol and Howard both scoring in double figures in the first half.
In comparison, Split is a few notches lower, and Duncan is difficult to fight against alone.
However, the Spurs belong to a balanced team on the inside, and at the beginning of the second half, Parker was powerful, in fact, neither Nash nor Blake could prevent Parker.
What's more critical is that Howard's foul is still a hidden danger, and technical roughness is technical roughness, even if the first center is not cured.
Parker was capped by Howard in the first half, but the French sports car is an old fritter, and he can't even fluctuate in his heart, and in the third quarter he strengthened the impact, and Howard was tragic, with two fouls and a total of four fouls that could only be left early.
Without Howard, the Spurs' breakthrough was easier and more enjoyable, the outside line couldn't be stopped, no one was blocked inside, and the score advantage suddenly came to more than 10 points.
Then Howard came back on the court, only to find that he was being targeted badly.
Split is specifically squeezing him, all kinds of hand-to-hand combat without the ball, if Howard squeezes in and gets the ball, it will be a pinch attack immediately, Howard is not Gasol, and his ability to respond is not so strong.
As a result, Howard made consecutive mistakes, and he pushed in a hurry, muttering...... Fifth foul.
After Howard went down, the Spurs immediately replaced the most attacking big four small lineup, Parker still couldn't stop, Zhang Xiaotian also scored 7 points, this time the Lakers gave up the game early, and the Spurs won the game with a total score of 2:0.
Kobe Bryant almost smashed the TV while watching the live broadcast at home, and with his competitive character, he could only watch the team lose at home, which can be imagined how painful it was.
He couldn't help but spur the team on social media, which upset everyone.
Zhang Xiaotian understands Kobe Bryant very well, and he deeply understands the pain of not being able to participate in the game by himself, not to mention characters like Kobe, but unfortunately suddenly this year's lineup.
On the same day that Spurs won 2-0, two other teams also achieved the same record.
The Pacers took the Hawks with ease, and Paul George proved that his performance was not accidental.
It's clear that Josh Smith can't hold up the Hawks either, and the Hawks will have to keep changing if they want to go further.
The Thunder also won the Rockets unexpectedly, Durant and Westbrook are still unstoppable, the difference is that Harden exploded in this game, one person made more free throws than two, cut 36 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Beverley, who was also mentioned as the starter, also scored 12 rebounds, you can imagine how hard the Rockets worked.
Unfortunately, in the end, Delfino missed a three-point shot, and they lost by three points.
This Rockets played with three guards, but Jeremy Lin's role was reduced, and he felt out of place with this team.
He needs a lot of possession to play at a high level, but he can't reach the core level of the team, which is quite embarrassing, and the Rockets have found that a guard like Beverley who dares to play hard and can do dirty work without possessing the ball is more suitable to stay with Harden.
Moreover, he was injured in this game.
The playoffs continued, the Heat beat the Bucks away from home, and the Bucks returned to their home court to start well, but still felt unstable, and then proved that there is a big gap between the two teams.
Fans said that watching the Heat and Spurs play is the same, they don't give their opponents any chances, make people sleepy, and the first round of the playoffs feels more and more boring.
The Big Three are in the position and the substitute Ray Allen is also in the position, so there is really nothing to play.
The Bulls returned to their home court to continue to play the next gram, narrowly beating the Nets by three points and leading 2-1 in the overall score.
However, the defensive battle between the two teams was slower, 79:76, and the score was also talented.
After Jimmy Butler became the team's starter, the defense was the one who worked hard.
In the playoffs, excellent young people also popped up one by one, and many players who looked similar in the regular season, some of them were real gold, and some of them were silver-like pewter heads.
In addition, the game between the Grizzlies and the Clippers, after going to the home court of the Grizzlies, pulled back as everyone expected, and the black and white bears overwhelmed the Clippers Twin Towers, and the man had the last laugh.
On April 26, the Spurs traveled to Los Angeles to play their first road trip of the playoffs.
The Lakers' house leak happened to rain overnight, and Nash was also sidelined due to injury.
"We're still confident that we can come back and win this series," Howard said in an interview, adding that he didn't lose a loser, "and we made it to the playoffs, and we're going to try to go further, and I'm not going to give up because I'm down and I'm hurt." ”
Now the Lakers' backcourt players have become Andrew Goodlocke and Darius Morris, Goodlocke was also signed by the Lakers after the regular season to put out the fire, and the development league MVP did not expect to start in the playoffs.
It's just that Howard finally said a nice word, and the foul came on the court a little early, and he went down to rest with two fouls in more than 4 minutes left in the first quarter.
Spurs Parker, Duncan, Leonard all suppressed the opposing players, and had a relatively big advantage from the beginning, in fact, the Lakers' young people are still good, Goodlock scored a team-high 14 points at halftime, but unfortunately it is of little significance.
Duncan was very murderous, Parker was ruthless, leading by more than 20 points in the third quarter, and then Popovich let everyone go up and play, regardless of the Lakers' insistence on fighting with the main force.
All 13 players from the team got their chance to play, and everyone scored, and even the Spurs were filled with joy on the bench.
Some people are happy and some people are worried, and Howard's bench for playing the Spurs was fouled five times, which was also quite miserable.
The Lakers' hopes of qualifying were completely extinguished, but the Spurs were in some trouble as their starting center Split was injured and could not play in the next game.
However, his ring can be said to be the least important point of the Spurs, and it has little impact on the strength of the Spurs.
Similarly, the Knicks went to the road and beat the Celtics again, becoming another team with a 3-0 lead, and the Celtics really can't do it this season.
The Warriors, who returned to their home court, won the Nuggets by 2 points, and their previous game was extremely intense, and the Warriors David Lee changed lineup after being injured, giving people the feeling that it was a notch stronger.
The big and four small guards of the three guards, the attack power is simply terrifying, the most terrifying one is called Stephen Curry, who can do everything in scoring and stealing, and is simply the No. 1 coveted player, and the strange thing is that he can still grab rebounds with this small body.
Well, Paul can grab it, Westbrook can grab it too, and the current No. 1 spot is not so traditional.
Zhang Xiaotian sent a message to his girlfriend at the hotel, discussing when he would be able to shine in the playoffs.
didn't get a ticket for the away game, Yang Feiyu originally planned to come over to play without a ticket, but it happened to be a graduation ceremony, and the two could only communicate with their mobile phones.
Actually, it's good, otherwise Zhang Xiaotian couldn't stay together because of the team's discipline, wouldn't it be unpleasant.