Chapter 552: Fight the Spurs again
The schedule of the playoffs is very tight, so the Lakers only got one day to watch after the victory over the Spurs, and then they had to usher in the second game with the Spurs, the big win in the last game continues to make the Lakers reminisce, and the situation on the Spurs' side is completely different, their morale and other aspects have not been affected by the loss in the last game, and on the contrary, because of some media reports and appear to be united, if the Lakers do not deal with this game seriously, Definitely going to be beaten by the Spurs.
At the beginning of the game, the Lakers' interior line still failed to win the jump ball, the basketball was slapped into Parker's hands, Parker took a few steps forward after controlling the ball, and immediately sent the ball to Leonard's hands with a blow, Leonard turned his back and directly passed Solomon Hill at the moment of receiving the ball, and then quickly broke through to the inside, and finally although Randle came over in time to make up for the defense, but he could only barely interfere with it, Leonard's hand felt restored today, and he still hit the ball with Randle.
Looking back, the Lakers began to attack, Ye Xuan's strategy was still to help his teammates shoot away, and then start his own individual performance, so when he attacked for the first time, he didn't go to attack with the ball himself, but came to a simple breakthrough shot, and the basketball came to the hands of Solomon Hill, who pulled it up and shot, but unfortunately the shot was interfered with by Parker, and finally hit the iron.
The rebound was collected by Leonard, he didn't pass the ball anymore, and after he quickly advanced to the front court, he sent the ball from the left side of Solomon Hill to Aldridge, who took two steps into the restricted area after receiving the ball and easily dunked, and the Spurs started the game with two consecutive offenses and easily entered the restricted area to score, which was called an easy freehand, but the Lakers didn't know if it was because the big win in the last game brought their sense of crisis to a standstill or what the situation was, In fact, the style of play at this time still seems very casual.
After serving in the backcourt, Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court, and then passed the ball to Wade on the side, Wade directly chose his own singles after receiving the ball, but under the defense of Danny Green, Wade's breakthrough throw also ended in failure, the rebound was caught by Aldridge, Parker began to advance to the front court again after receiving the pass, and he naturally had no idea of singles in the face of Ye Xuan's defense, so he came to the front court and waited for his teammates to settle down, and directly called Jefferson to help block and dismantle, Then he took a step inward and then suddenly stepped back, and then made a decisive shot outside the three-point line, Ye Xuan's side was originally going to continue to chase after dodging the block, so he was originally backwards when he passed the block, but this time he directly gave Parker a big vacancy, and Parker was not as miserable as in the last game, and hit a three-point shot.
And the Lakers still didn't react here, the opponent had beaten a seven-to-zero at the beginning, but the team still didn't have the slightest idea to make any adjustments or the like, fortunately, at this time Ye Xuan had suddenly realized that something was wrong, so he didn't choose to continue to pass the ball during this offense, but chose to force himself to do it alone, using the continuous shaking and change of direction of his footsteps, Ye Xuan successfully passed Leonard, and then broke into the inside line to force up and cause Jefferson's foul, After causing this foul, Ye Xuan felt that he grabbed Wade and whispered a few words, and Wade was obviously very sophisticated, and immediately ran to the sidelines to communicate with Wharton Jr.
Ye Xuan hit the first free throw steadily, and at this time, Wharton Jr. also called a timeout as Ye Xuan thought, after the adjustment of this pause, the Lakers also more or less put down the appearance of hanging children when they just started, and began to take the game seriously, this time the Spurs' offense suddenly became difficult, in this round, Jefferson's inside ball-holding single ended with a passing error after being trapped, and after the basketball was cut off by Randle, it was immediately sent to Wade's hands, Wade quickly advanced a few steps and found Ye Xuan, but because Leonard's defense was indeed very tight, Wade did not pass the ball rashly, but when he advanced to the front court, he suddenly found that the opponent had no one to defend him, so Wade naturally would not be polite, and directly pulled it up to be a three-point shot, Wade's three-point shooting rate was still very stable without defense, and the ball was shot, narrowing the difference to two points.
However, the Spurs' offensive efficiency today was obviously much better than the previous game, and in retrospect, they immediately used the cooperation between the two big men on the inside to complete an inside pass attack, and finally scored two points with a dunk by Jefferson. On the Lakers' side, because of the bias towards outside offense, the offense still chose to shoot outside the three-point line, although the tactics were played, but today's Solomon Hill is really a little iron, so in the end his shot ended in iron again, although the offensive rebound was pointed out by Randle, but Wade's side did not get the basketball out of the point, and was taken down by Green next to him.
After the Spurs stabilized their rhythm, they continued to attack, although Ye Xuan did a good job defensively, but his contribution to the team's defense was still not very good, the Spurs' team basketball style of play made the Lakers a little tired, plus their current hand is not very good, so the Lakers are in a very embarrassing situation now. In this round, Aldridge received the ball near the free throw line and hit another solid shot, and the Lakers fell behind by six points again.
Ye Xuan also knows that the opponent's hand is good now, if he doesn't want to interfere with the opponent's hand, then the Lakers should have to explain here in this game, so in the next attack, Ye Xuan resolutely chose to force a breakthrough, this time it was Aldridge who changed the defense, in terms of arm span and height, his defense should be better than Jefferson, but for Ye Xuan, anyway, he has only one goal, which is to impact the Spurs' interior line, So whether it's Aldridge or Jefferson, he can only bite the bullet, but fortunately, this time Ade was still shaken, so that Ye Xuan successfully made a foul, and the basketball also happened to hit the rebound and bounced into the basket, 2+1!
In the next few rounds, the Spurs' offense was still sharp, and the cooperation was very tacit, but the efficiency of the two on the offensive side decreased due to the pressure on the defensive end, which also made the Lakers barely able to take a breath, and the Lakers side was still able to rely on Ye Xuan alone to barely maintain the offense, Wade and Gasol also played one after another, not to mention Solomon Hill, who had not opened today.
Three minutes later, the game entered the first quarter of the TV timeout, the Lakers at this time has fallen behind the opponent by 7 points, although now the ball is in their hands, but the performance of this lineup is obviously not satisfactory to everyone, so in this TV timeout, except for Wharton Jr. pouring chicken soup on the players, it is basically adjusting the list of players who play. At the end of the timeout, the Lakers replaced Wade, Randle and Solomon Hill, and replaced Nick Young, who has been relatively stable in shooting this season, Clarkson with a certain ability to hold the ball and Spetts on the bench.
And the Spurs were not idle, swapping Parker and Jefferson for David Lee and Mills, while Ginobili, who Zhuge had always trusted, was still put on the bench for some reason. The game restarted, after Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court, he immediately came to a breakthrough again, this time it was Nick Yang who received the ball with a good shooting rate recently, Yang Shaoxia hit three points steadily after receiving the ball, even if Green had sealed his hand to his eyes, he was not able to prevent him from shooting this ball, I have to say that after Ye Xuan's adjustment, Yang Shaoxia is more stable and efficient than the previous convulsion, and the timing and speed of the shot have been improved.
In the following period, the new routine on the Spurs' side gradually came out, and the Lakers did not expect that the Spurs would take a risk to design a set of David Lee's three-point shooting tactics, but the Lakers, who did not react for a while, were hit two three-pointers in a row by David Lee, and the head was a little confused, but fortunately, Speights and Gasol each scored a two-point goal here, so the score was not pulled away by the opponent.
I have to say that the tactical ideas of Old Man Zhuge Wei have always made people feel stable in the past, but as soon as this hand is taken out today, it makes people feel a little sassy operation. But what Ye Xuan didn't expect was that the Spurs' style of play behind them was even more incomprehensible, and the tactics were played like this, at the end of the first quarter of the game, when the two teams changed to a new lineup, the Spurs finally replaced Ginobili, and as a result, their new tactics were actually to let Ginobili hold the ball and play alone to replace Ye Xuan's Feldton, you must know that although Felton has no advantage in height, but the tonnage is there, it stands to reason that Ginobili should be at a loss, But I didn't expect that the demon knife not only broke through head-on very bewitchingly, but also had two brushes in the technique of back-to-back singles, and actually used two different foot movements to shake Filton away for two consecutive rounds and then shot successfully, which made Ye Xuan look stupid off the court, is this still the Spurs team he knows?
In this case, the Lakers' rotation had to be disrupted by reality, less than three minutes into the second quarter of the game, Wharton Jr. chose to replace Ye Xuan in advance, although Gasol was still put on the bench, but the other main forces have basically been replaced, although Solomon Hill lost himself on the offensive end, but the defense was still relatively good, so Wharton Jr. still chose to give him another chance.
After Ye Xuan was replaced, the Lakers finally stabilized the situation on the court, originally Ye Xuan thought that he could take the opportunity to chase the score when the opponent did not replace Leonard or Aldridge, but the old man was also very spicy, and he decisively let Mills come forward to foul when Ye Xuan's second attack had not adjusted his actions, and then used the opportunity of the dead ball to replace Shuangde.
Ye Xuan feels that if this game drags on like this, it is very likely that it will be slowly consumed by the opponent, after all, several stable scoring points of his team need to be improved today, and the only ones who still maintain their feel are Nick Young and Speights, but one of these two people is too much of a loss in the face of Ade, and the other is that the defense is almost equal to air, so it is impossible for them to appear in the main showdown, since this is the case, then the only solution is to break out by themselves. So he quietly infiltrated his consciousness into the system, and then quickly exchanged the scope props, and immediately returned to reality after using it, and now, he is ready to start his scoring mode!
At the end of the substitution, the Lakers served on the sideline of the frontcourt, Ye Xuan received the basketball, and after receiving the basketball, he turned around and quickly took two steps to the side, and then took a step back to the three-point line and pulled it up to be a three-point shot, in the ball, the audience cheered, they saw this familiar scene, and knew that Ye Xuan was ready to start his own god-killing mode, and the Spurs obviously knew that they needed to do their best to curb Ye Xuan's play now, but some people were not able to be curbed if you said containment.
In the next three minutes, Ye Xuan's shooting directly threw the Spurs to the point of collapse, although the Spurs scored 7 points in these three minutes, which is not too bad, but in the face of Ye Xuan's 7 shots hit 6 goals and scored 15 points, their 7 points are a little too powerful, and in these more than three minutes, the most important thing is not that Ye Xuan suddenly broke out at this point and then narrowed the difference sharply, but that he scored two 2+ in a row in the process of attacking with the ball1, and the two 2+1 foulers are the same person - Al Jefferson, which allowed Jefferson to receive three fouls directly, and three fouls in the first half, Zhuge Vic could only replace him.
After replacing Jefferson and David Lee, the Spurs' interior defense ability has declined, and although David Lee used to be known as a double-double machine, but now his ability to grab rebounds has indeed declined very obviously, just like the double 30 Love came to the Cavaliers, and the rebounding data plummeted, and now he is not good at protecting the rebound, which also gives the Lakers' interior a chance to breathe, because in the confrontation with Ade and Jefferson, they are indeed very difficult.