Chapter 166: A flash of helplessness
In anger, Coach Frank decisively called a timeout, and then sprayed at Lance, while the rebellious Lance had an indifferent expression, although he did not directly confront Frank Vogel, but also made Ye Xuan and others on the side sweat, I was afraid that the two would fight on the spot.
At the end of the timeout, Coach Frank made a decisive substitution, and Lance, who had only been on the field for two minutes, was directly replaced again, and he was replaced with Hibbert and George Hill, who played 10 minutes in a row, so now the lineup on the field has become Pickle Pepper alone, leading C.J. Watson, Solomon Hill, Luis Scola and Masimi to continue to fight on the court.
The Spurs, on the other hand, also made personnel changes, replacing Parker, who had been on the court for 10 minutes, with Mills, and then Danny Green with Ginobili. As a result, the Spurs' overall lineup has become an outside projection team again, which is also not good news for the Pacers, and Masimmi will have a special struggle when facing such a lineup.
However, at the end of the timeout, Coach Frank learned that the opponent had sent a lineup without an inside line, so he didn't have time to make any further adjustments, so he had to let Masimmy stay on the court to play. C.J. Watson received the sideline serve, slowly brought the ball to the front court, and then handed the ball to Pickle Pepper.
Pickled pepper held the ball in the face of Belinelli, still chose to forcibly break through the opponent, but the opponent's bag was very fast, Pickled Pepper had no choice but to divide the ball again, fortunately, after no Lance, the Pacers' ball was able to run again, although the opponent had the advantage on the inside, but the overall alignment of the Pacers side occupied the height advantage, after some conduction, the basketball came to the hands of Scola on the inside, Scola received the ball and used his footsteps to easily shake off Bonner, and then a layup scored the ball.
Then the Spurs began to attack, Mills brought the ball to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to Dio, who was in the high post to deal with, the Pacers side because Masimmy's movement speed was relatively slow, so Scola was arranged to defend Dio, but Dio is a flexible dead fat man, he is not only flexible, his tonnage is also very large, so in the face of Scola's defense Dio chose to force a breakthrough, and then leaned on his back twice, turned around to shoot.
But he never thought that Masimmy, who was black and hard, had quietly given up the defense of Bonner, and slipped over directly, the basketball in his hand just shot, and was slapped by Masimmy, after Solomon Hill picked up the basketball that was fanned, he quickly rushed to the opponent's half, and then took advantage of Ginobili to desperately return to the defense when he suddenly stopped outside the three-point line, and followed Ye Xuan for so long, Solomon Hill's shot was also a slight success, and this chase three points was also hollow into the net.
After that, the opponent's small lineup also showed its strength, constantly using the breakaway ball and quick transfer to tear the Pacers' defense, and after finding an open space, he made decisive shots. The rest of the first quarter was over in the blink of an eye, and the Pacers were fooled by Lance, so they still trailed the Spurs by 5 points at 33:28 at the end of the first quarter.
At the intermission, Coach Frank decisively replaced Masimmi, it is true that Masimmy can indeed give the opponent a certain deterrent on the inside when he is on the court, but the opponent's projection ability is also very strong, if it has been floating on the outside, the Pacers can easily fall into a situation where the four people can't rotate, and in desperation, they can only replace Masimmi and replace the bench player Chris Copeland on the front line.
This is also Copeland's first time on the stage of the finals, although since the rise of Solomon Hill, Copeland's opportunities in the team have become less and less, but this does not prevent Copeland from being in danger. Then, the Pacers replaced the pickled pepper that played the first quarter of the game and replaced Ye Xuan, who had rested for a long time.
The break was very short, and the game began soon in the second quarter, the Pacers served in the backcourt, C.J. Watson controlled the ball to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan looked up and found that what he was in front of was not Leonard's paralyzed face, but Ginobili, and he was immediately excited.
Before Ye Xuan had time to break through, a sturdy white man came out next to him and hugged Ye Xuan fiercely, and the referee's whistle immediately sounded. Ye Xuan looked blankly at Bonner, who was about to foul himself when only 6 seconds into the second quarter, and then put on a black question mark expression.
Bonner shrugged and pointed to the Spurs' bench, Ye Xuan looked over, the old man was laughing off the court, saw Ye Xuan look over, and gave a thumbs up, and then saw Leonard get up from the bench, obviously the Spurs are ready to use this dead ball opportunity to readjust the lineup.
Sure enough, the Spurs replaced Bonkey and let Leonard return to the court to guard Ye Xuan. Ye Xuan simply felt that the world was gloomy, he had just given himself hope, and immediately made such a rude foul and sent himself back to despair, which was even more disgusting than seeing Leonard on the court at the beginning.
However, Ye Xuan's psychological quality is not bad, he took the initiative to take the responsibility of serving the ball on the sideline, and after sending the ball to C.J. Watson, Ye Xuan didn't think about anything else, and started an irregular running position with Leonard, and 8 people stood still on the field again, watching Ye Xuan run in front like a headless fly, while Leonard was desperately chasing behind.
Suddenly, C.J. Watson suddenly moved, took two quick steps inward, and then a base passed the ball to the hand of Solomon Hill in the bottom corner of the right side, Solomon Hill received the ball lightly, directly shook Belinelli away, and then took a step inward and pulled up again to throw the ball, today's Solomon Hill seemed to be grabbing Lance's main position, playing very well, and the ball was also drilled straight into the basket.
But then, the Spurs actually let Leonard be the main attacker, you must know that Leonard's offense is not particularly good, so far his career high score is only 26 points, and the season average score is only 12.8 points, so everyone usually prefers him as a defensive giant, or a defensive core, rather than Duncan's successor The role of the team leader.