Chapter 114: The opponent of the West
In the SBC Center Arena, Zhang Xiaotian's family and friends sat in the audience early.
When he warmed up, he also attracted bursts of cheers from fans, and the home court was more comfortable.
Last night, Yang Feiyu also showed a rare gentle appearance and gave him a massage to relax, which was far worse than the team's professionalism, but it was a sense of achievement.
So, the scum of the warriors, let him be slashed by the sword.
Just kidding, even when they return to their home stadium, the Spurs players don't dare to relax in any way.
They took a 3-1 lead, but it wasn't so easy to win every game.
Several of the bigwigs are not physical maniacs, so they expect to stop running away and be able to finish the fight at home.
The starters of both sides are no different from the last game, and the Warriors are determined to play a powerful attack.
The judgment can't be said to be bad, because the defense can't be raised for a while, and the key is that it's a bit desperate.
They didn't perform well at home before, but now after adapting to the opponent's style of play, Spurs have shown strong fighting power on the court.
Duncan took the lead, and Landry must have been a little short of effort to defend Duncan.
Fortunately, the Warriors have no intention of restricting the Spurs' interior line, and they need to see it offensively.
It's just that what they didn't expect was that neither Curry nor Klay Thompson would be allowed to do so.
I don't know if it's because of the pressure or the Spurs' defense is uncomfortable, it's rare for the two to play iron at the same time.
The Warriors played iron, and the Spurs were not merciful, and in addition to Duncan, Leonard and Parker also scored.
The Warriors can only choose to let Barnes score this third point, Barnes can't single out Leonard at all, and he has to rely on Curry to attract the attention of the defense to have a chance to score.
Will his score be able to kill Spurs, it's definitely not going to work.
Mark Jackson had no choice but to switch to the double-edged sword of Jarrett Jack.
Jack's shooting percentage isn't a problem, and the Spurs prefer the ball-handler to Curry.
However, by this time, the Spurs had firmly grasped the lead.
In order to improve the situation, the Warriors also boldly used people, Richard Jefferson, who played soy sauce before, got a chance, and the annual salary of tens of millions of soy sauce was also miserable, and David Lee, who was not so good in his comeback state, also played.
I have to say that in the case of Ginobili's magical bad hand, the Warriors' lineup can chase points, but Ginobili has a lot of experience, and he didn't waste but started to organize.
Not as hard as the previous games, Popovich, who got the match point, increased the rotation, and under the leadership of Ginobili, almost everyone scored, including Zhang Xiaotian.
The Warriors focus on offense, and their defense is terrible, which is why the Spurs can get shots whenever they come up, and Ginobili can disrupt the rhythm of the opponent's defense as soon as he breaks through.
This team has no tradition of defense, and Mark Jackson has adjusted his defense in the past two years, and now he is desperate to score, and everything is back to the funnel form.
Fortunately, in the case of Popovich's waves, the Warriors only lost by 3 points at halftime, and there was still hope of winning the game.
Popovich rotated such a wave, but also to let a few veteran players rest more when he was ahead, so that he could exert his strength at a critical moment and win the Warriors at home.
is also to increase the rotation, the Warriors are forced to do so, and the Spurs are planning and then moving, and making decisions from above.
The premise of this superiority is the player's performance, and Curry, who played in the playoffs for the first time, finally showed his youth.
In the third quarter, Parker began to lead the rhythm, with very simple blocking and pick-and-roll coordination, and Parker also had simple mid-range shots and passes, which made the Warriors very painful.
Not five minutes into the second half, the Warriors couldn't hold it up and replaced Jack again to start the strongest scoring mode of the three-guard.
The Warriors had to fight hard, and the Spurs, who had the advantage of the score, did not respond, and they still maintained a very steady pace.
Parker's ball was split by Leonard and Danny Green.
The situation for the Warriors suddenly became precarious, and when Curry and Klay Thompson became ordinary players, the Spurs' old spiciness was shown.
Playing spurs, if you are not crazy, you will find death, who is more reasonable than stability.
The head coach of the Warriors has run out of recruits at this time, and can only expect the players to explode.
Curry's fans wish he could make a few three-pointers unreasonably at this time, but the continuous iron has changed Curry's own mentality.
And losing is elimination, and when the opponent is pressing, the player will also have the idea that it would be better to give up.
By the end of the third quarter, the margin between the two sides had reached double digits.
At the beginning of the final quarter, the Spurs launched a general attack, and the wave in the first half does not mean that the second half is still a wave.
First Ginobili partnered with Zhang Xiaotian, Ginobili's hand suddenly recovered, hitting three points and two points, and then Leonard's partner Zhang Xiaotian, who rested early Parker has been on the court, and the team maintains three offensive points.
In other words, in the fourth quarter, they will only play with seven people, and each of them has a lot of strength.
And from the beginning, it was one big and four small, and the offense and defense were aggressive.
The Warriors, who were still rotating step by step, were caught off guard, and it was too late to react.
Parker, Ginobili and Zhang Xiaotian teamed up to score 20 points in the first half of the quarter, and the score gap between the two sides also exceeded the 20-point mark.
At 4:37, the Warriors surrendered, and a group of young people walked to the bench in frustration.
Then Spurs also made a substitution, allowing all 13 players to come out and enjoy the cheers of the home crowd.
Except for McGrady, who played a squirming game, the other players all scored.
At 110:91, the Spurs defeated the Warriors and advanced to the Western Conference finals with a total score of 4:1.
Curry and Klay Thompson go high and low, and while Warriors head coach Mark Jackson calls them the best backcourt combination of all time, they still have a long way to go.
In comparison, Leonard, who is very stable and not so amazing, is about to step on the stage of the Western Final for the second time.
Spurs were the first to advance, and the players could also rest for a few days.
This is related to the physical strength of the team bosses, and it is the best situation for them.
The next day's matchup between the Heat and the Bulls, the Bulls had an eight-point lead at the start of the final quarter, and they also played very well in this game, with Boozer, Nate Robinson, and Jimmy Butler all efficient in front.
But during the Heat rotation, Battier scored 8 points in a row, and the main team played a terrifying defense again, and Wade's mid-range shot killed the game, and the Bulls, who did their best, regretfully exited.
In the game between the Thunder and the Grizzlies, Durant did not create a miracle after all, playing the whole game but had no physical strength in the final quarter, unable to score plus turnovers, and he had run out of energy.
If Thunder head coach Scott Brooks had given him a few minutes to rest, the results would have been reversed, but the court didn't have ifs, and the Spurs would face off against the Grizzlies on the highest stage in the West.