Chapter 400: The Spur's Burden
Spurs can be despised, but their strength cannot be denied.
Yang Feiyu's family has already returned, and it is estimated that her mother will come over in a few months.
However, the days of unfreedom continued, and it was really not so convenient after pregnancy, even if she wanted to go out to organize fan activities, Zhang Xiaotian was not at ease.
This product can only make trouble on the Internet, take a large number of people to fight with other fans, and enjoy it.
The company really doesn't have much to do now, the design of new products and professionals do it, they just need to make the decision, the key is not to scale up, then the marketing side does not need to spend much energy.
In terms of commercial endorsements, Zhang Xiaotian's market has risen again.
As long as the competitive star works hard to improve his strength and produces results, everything will follow.
Eddie is also a rising tide, and he seems to be a big man in this circle.
In November, the Spurs' first game was at home against the Jazz.
The Jazz didn't move much in the summer, but it was relatively affordable, and the key was the improvement of the team's own strength.
Needless to say, Rodney Hood and Gobert's growth has raised the team's floor.
With the addition of utility player George Hill and veteran Joe Johnson, the Jazz have not been willing to be spectators this season.
Although Hayward was unavailable for this game due to finger reasons, the Jazz were still able to test the Spurs' offensive approach with defense.
Hayward was not there, but the Jazz played an abnormally high shooting percentage, hitting consecutive shots from beyond the three-point line.
On the Spurs' side, they actually played normally, but they fell behind by double digits in the first quarter because of the opponent's three-point attempt.
In the bench competition, the Spurs also fell behind, and Simmons, Ginobili and Mills did not play a role.
After the main player comes on the court again, it becomes a star tactic.
Slow-paced and strict defense, star singles, it feels like old-school basketball.
But for Jazz, it really works.
Zhang Xiaotian, Leonard and Aldridge took turns to go out and grind the score back little by little.
By half-time, the difference had narrowed to four points.
In the era of small ball, this kind of slow chasing method has rarely been seen, that is, the Spurs can be fast or slow, but the overall star can change tactics.
The Jazz's weakness is offense, and even if they bring in players in the summer, they won't be able to change that.
The Spurs didn't do anything to the extreme, but when it comes to comprehensive means, there is nothing wrong with being the first in the league.
At halftime, Spurs were firm in their second-half strategy.
It is to gradually turn the forces over, crush the opponent little by little, and bully them for not having a star of the Spurs' level on the offensive end.
Of course, if the opponent can't support it, the Spurs will immediately speed up the game.
The Jazz also stepped up their defense in the third quarter, and on the offensive end their sophomore Tre Lyles played a surprise role.
The Spurs had already overtaken in the quarter, but were beaten 2 to 1 by the Jazz on the inside in the final moments.
At a slower pace, the Spurs trailed by two points before the start of the final quarter.
At the start of the final quarter, Jazz big man Joe Ingles was on fire.
Apparently after a hard summer of training, the Australian has improved a lot.
Of course, Zhang Xiaotian will respond, Joe Johnson is a year older and can't restrain him at all.
The two sides were desperate for several consecutive shots, and this time the Spurs took the lead in adjusting and replacing Leonard.
The adjustment was timely, and after Leonard came up, Joe Ingles had no chance to shoot.
The Jazz could only replace all the main players, and George Hill was also hot after he came on the court, and Parker was completely overwhelmed.
Parker is originally the type of offense and defense, and after the threat on the offensive end drops, many guards can bully him.
** Vicky is probably also entangled, after all, he is a disciple he trusts, if it were someone else, he would have been invited out of the starting lineup a long time ago.
Zhang Xiaotian still maintains a high efficiency, but Jazz is very strong, and he can't be killed for a while.
Zhang Xiaotian also discovered the problem of Spurs, Aldridge is too good as the core of the interior line, Leonard is very sharp in singles, but his singles feel is more old-fashioned, and it is difficult to break points.
The Spurs are different from the Warriors, the Warriors Splash Brothers burst points, and the Spurs have to rely on role players to score three points, which is why they have excellent results in the regular season and are a little struggling after strengthening their defense in the playoffs.
The critical moment is to fight for the star, and if Leonard and Aldridge can't bear this burden, Zhang Xiaotian will not let it go.
This season, the Spurs will be completely different because of him.
In the last five minutes, George Hill scored a steal and hit a three-pointer to help the Jazz overtake again, and Zhang Xiaotian only said one word and gave him the ball.
To be convincing, don't look at Leonard, who usually doesn't talk much, and is also a proud lord.
But his previous two attacks were interfered with by the Jazz's help defense, and Aldridge was caught in a physical confrontation and couldn't extricate himself, could Zhang Xiaotian do better than him.
Leonard didn't believe it, but he was willing to come over and cover for it.
Star tactics plus an insurance are the tactics of two stars.
Zhang Xiaotian asked Leonard to cover, in fact, it was two people who attacked, and the Jazz's interior defense was very good, but other means besides the pinch attack did not pose much threat to Zhang Xiaotian.
There is a gap in the cover to shoot, and the single hard-top defender shoots, if you pinch Leonard, you will have a chance, Leonard still has a hand in the middle of the shot, with Zhang Xiaotian's bonus, which is much more stable than the role player.
"Defend him, damn it, you can't let him just do that, we've stressed it many times on the training ground."
Watching Zhang Xiaotian unreasonably lead the team to overtake the score, Jazz head coach Quinn Schneider couldn't sit still, defense is the team's housekeeping skill, how can people hold the ball and attack like this.
The Jazz team was helpless, they felt that they were doing better than in training, but they were not facing a strong opponent like Zhang Xiaotian on the training court, and there was Leonard, these two forwards were too strong.
Leonard was also shocked in his heart, Zhang Xiaotian obviously did better than him.
How is it possible, obviously there was a big gap between everyone at that time, no, in the first day of training, Leonard felt that Zhang Xiaotian was not so powerful.
Damn it, he's always not serious on the training ground, why does he grow so fast.
Leonard was complicated in his heart, there was still no expression on his face, and he was harvesting the game with Zhang Xiaotian, to be precise, he was doing support, just like when he first entered the Spurs, and the team was still in charge of GDP.
Well, although there is some unhappiness, a small unhappiness does not dilute the joy of victory.
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