When Meng Xu assisted Avery Johnson to hit a three-pointer through a breakthrough point again, Popovich on the sidelines felt that he was not good, how bad was Johnson's three-point shot? Johnson, who has played 10 seasons in the league, has a 30% three-point shooting percentage in the highest season, and Avery Johnson has rarely even shot three-pointers since last year, because in Popovich's tactics, it is not allowed to shoot even if he can't shoot

In 82 games in the regular season this season, Avery Johnson made a total of 19 three-point shots, but only hit three times, and the three-point shooting percentage was basically the lowest in his career. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In this game, Johnson shot 2 of 5 three-pointers, you must know that in the previous ten seasons, Johnson has never hit more than two three-pointers in a game, and Avery Johnson broke a career record in this game.

The Spurs are not a team that is good at three-point shooting, whether it was an average of 10.3 shots per game last season, or 3.6 shots per game, it was the league's bottom, although this season with the addition of Meng Xu, the Spurs' three-point shooting has directly improved a notch, but the number of shots per game and 5.7 shots are only in the middle of the league.

And in this game, due to Meng Xu's continuous breakthroughs, the Lakers were forced to start shrinking the defense in the third quarter, so that the Spurs got a large number of outside shooting opportunities, which was in the past, the Spurs must have been at a loss, but in today's game, in addition to Meng Xu still did not find the touch, the other three of the Spurs' outside four irons, Sean Ettrio, Mario Eli and Avery Johnson, the three have shot 8 three-pointers so far in this game, which also puts the Lakers in a dilemma now, Without shrinking the defensive line, Duncan's deterrent power on the interior is quite large, coupled with Meng Xu's continuous breakthroughs and killing the Lakers' interior line, Robert Hawley was fouled 3 times by Meng Xu, and AC Green was also fouled twice in the third quarter. If the contraction continues, with the Spurs' current three-point shooting rate, sooner or later they will be killed by the Spurs.

"Fei'er, shall we call a timeout?" Just when Phil Jackson was still struggling with whether to shrink or not, the Spurs hit another three-pointer, 73-65, and the difference between the two teams was about to reach 10 points.

"Wait." Looking up at the timing card, there was at most one round before the official timeout, Phil Jackson dismissed the assistant coach's suggestion, and at the same time was thinking quickly about how to deal with the next game.

Looking at his rising assists, and getting closer and closer to the first triple-double of his career, Meng Xu's heart is also very happy, compared with the simple self-happiness of scoring, the assist is a thing that the whole team is cool, hello, hello, everyone. In order to achieve the goal of a triple-double as soon as possible, Meng Xu not only gave up the opportunity to shoot when attacking, constantly passing the ball to his teammates, but also worked hard to protect every rebound on the defensive end, after Sean Etellio became a big forward, the Spurs' interior height decreased sharply, and the rebounding was also in a slight trend, although the position on the court is now a scoring guard, but protecting rebounds is also Meng Xu's glorious responsibility, after all, a backcourt rebound 3 points and 3 points of experience, and the playoffs have doubled.

Because the Spurs have never been able to limit O'Neal in this series, and this game Popovich pushed Sean Etellio to the position of power forward, the Spurs, who were the first defensive in the regular season, are now relying on the personal abilities of Duncan and Meng Xu to barely maintain the Spurs' defense. The Lakers' defense is also at the top of the league in the regular season, but this round of the series between the Spurs and the Lakers is not like last year's Finals, when the Spurs met the Knicks, the two teams played crazy and played extremely dull. On the contrary, the Lakers and the Spurs also started to attack, and the Spurs couldn't find a way to limit the triangle offense, and whether it was the Spurs' twin towers or the sudden points, the Lakers didn't have a good way so far.

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In the last round before the official timeout in the third quarter, when Meng Xu once again held the ball in the middle of the middle circle and the three-point line, Kobe Bryant let Meng Xu go farther this time. directly put Meng Xu one and a half steps away, and the body leaned slightly to the right, in the previous game, the first change of direction of Meng Xu's breakthrough was from left to right, perhaps to find Meng Xu's breakthrough law, Kobe Bryant directly made the above defensive choice.

Meng Xu held the ball and shook it to the right side of his body, then chose to break through to the left, and then changed direction to the right while Kobe Bryant followed, so it was easy to wipe over Kobe's defense and this time AC Green, who rushed over to make up for the defense, and at the same time, after being thrown away by Meng Xu, Kobe Bryant was also chasing after him.

Almost just when AC Green was in his position, O'Neal moved to the left side behind AC Green's body, and at this time, if Meng Xu wanted to continue to change direction and break through AC Green, he would definitely rush into O'Neal's arms.

As if to see O'Neal's intentions, or if he had something else in mind, Duncan left the basket and ran two steps near the sideline, but O'Neal didn't follow, but waited on the edge of the paint as before.

Although Duncan was no longer defended at this time, the passing route between Meng Xu and Duncan had been tightly sealed by Kobe Bryant and AC Green.

Resisting the pain in his ankle, Meng Xu completed two changes of direction in front of AC Green, appeared behind O'Neal, and faced Fox who came over to make up for it, Meng Xu, who was already at the end of the strong crossbow, had to raise the basketball and lean towards Fox's body, and Meng Xu can now be said to be very proficient in cheating fouls.

The moment Meng Xu bumped into Fox, Meng Xu felt that something was wrong, and this deception foul was likely to not succeed, because at the moment when Meng Xu rushed over, Fox seemed to be in a good position before Meng Xu's start.

The referee blew two whistles, and Meng Xu was also a surprise, and the referee on duty blew Fox's blocking foul.

"Maybe this is the home whistle?" Now Meng Xu on the free throw line is still thinking about this problem, in the Lakers' home game, it was almost the same position, the same way, but the referee blew Avery Johnson's offensive foul.