Chapter 202: The First Battle of the Spurs

The series between the Trail Blazers and the Rockets finally ended in Houston, but although the ball was won, the most regrettable thing was Totoro's record, he scored 30+ in the first half, and no one didn't think he would score 30 points in the second half, especially in the face of the Trail Blazers, who were poor in donkey skills, and even the bravest Oden was carried down, and others would not risk their lives at all.

However, it was the referee's whistle that changed all that, it is said that after the game, angry fans spontaneously blocked the stadium, surrounded the various passages and prepared to give the three referees on duty a good look.

However, the referee who finally sentenced Totoro to leave the field was still beaten, and a traitor appeared in the escort security team, and quickly threw a left hook while pretending to protect the opponent from approaching him, although he was controlled by other colleagues with only one punch, but this punch also knocked off the referee's front teeth.

"I want to ask if you were sent off by the referee after only two quarters today, how do you feel about it, I knew that this was when you were likely to make history tonight."

At the post-game press conference, a brain-dead reporter asked a question that Totoro doesn't want to hear right now.

"Hehe, I don't think the referee made a mistake, although my action was really just a whim and unintentional, but this action should not have appeared on the court, and I accept the referee's decision to punish me."

My Neighbor Totoro replied with a smile, "As for the record, I'm not worried at all, I'm only 19 years old, this is my first season in the NBA, and I'll have countless nights to create things that I couldn't do tonight, and of course, I'll be more sane and civilized." ”

His strength made the reporters and friends in the audience couldn't help but applaud him in unison, but few of them thought that Totoro had scolded the eighteenth generation of the ancestor on duty in his heart at this moment, and he said in his heart How could that security guard knock out one of his front teeth? It's still too light, if he could make a move, he would have crippled this middle-aged man a long time ago.

At the entire press conference, no one asked about the poor Oden, even the Trail Blazers reporter only learned about Oden's injury from the team, no way, as soon as the game ended, the video of Oden's yin man was officially put on this website by the Rockets, and then sent to the NBA headquarters and the official homepage Hun Sen has viewed it millions of times, and now everyone knows that he is asking for his own hardships, and he was countered by Totoro with violence, how can these reporters be embarrassed to expose the shortcomings of their players?

The Lakers also defeated the Mavericks on their home court to get the match point, and today the Lakers finally played their inside advantage, Bynum beat Dampier, Gasol entangled Nowitzki, Odom also blossomed, and the Lakers advanced to the second round without bloodlessness at Staples Arena.

However, Gasol's ability to restrain Nowitzki should have nothing to do with his sister-in-law himself, but the German tank itself is indeed out of strength, and it is no longer something that ordinary people can do to put the team on their shoulders and compete with the Lakers who are the first in the West for four games, and Odom's outburst today is also a bit strange, according to the grapevine, it seems that it is because Karinshan has recently left Los Angeles because of an invitation to a fashion show, I don't know if this is the direct reason for his outbreak in this game.

In the second round, the Spurs defeated the Jazz, the Hornets stabbed the Suns, and Gentry had entered the countdown stage, and all four second-round series teams in the West were released, and they all coincidentally defeated their opponents 4-1.

The Eastern Conference is tangled, because the Hawks and Celtics have lost again, and they are now tied 2-2 with their respective opponents, and they will have to wait at least two games to decide the winner, and Howard and James will have a rest.

It's just that these four strong teams in the West will not wait for the results of the East Division, Rockets vs Spurs, Lakers vs Hornets, their first game time has been set for next Tuesday, and the Rockets have no time to care about whether the teams in the East will overturn.

The Spurs have been the bitter master of the Rockets for many years, and when Maddie was there, the Rockets were always unlucky against the Spurs, and now that they have changed to another team, they still can't beat the experienced Spurs, which is a headache.

The main trouble for the Spurs is in the iron triangle composed of three GDP stars who have worked together for many years, Duncan is responsible for the center, Parker is responsible for tearing down the opponent's defense, and Ginobili is the type of assassin raid, supplemented by a resourceful Popovich who is constantly changing formations against the weaknesses of the opposing team, the Spurs have almost become an invincible team, at least the normal team is certainly not their opponent when playing with others according to the normal routine.

"What should I do?"

Adelman has been working all night with the coaching staff in the conference room to discuss the plan all night, but they have discussed and discussed without a good result, they have watched the game video of being killed countless times in the regular season, but the embarrassing thing is that the Spurs are changing the lineup in almost every game, and once even put Ginobili in the starting lineup to play the Rockets by surprise, who knows what the hell they will have in the first meeting of the playoffs?

"We're not their opponents when we play joint defense, but we can't prevent their tactical movement without joint defense on the defensive end, these damn guys, why didn't the Jazz kill a few more Spurs players that time."

Adelman couldn't help but pull up the small amount of gray hair on his head, which meant that the Jazz didn't hear it, otherwise they would have been.

Three days passed in a flash, and the Celtics and Hawks on the eastern side got their respective match points, while on the western side, the Rockets and Spurs will be the first to play.

In the past few days, the coaching staff of the Rockets still hasn't come up with any effective methods, but they are not completely unaware of the weaknesses of the Spurs, first of all, there is no lineup in the world that is flawless, Adelman has observed a lot of their game videos, and found that no matter how they change the lineup, the 45-degree arc top on the left and right sides has always been their cover door, and every time they play with the Mavericks or the Lakers, Kobe Bryant and Nowitzki can always have a good performance, The reason is that these two friends are so accurate that they have no friends in these two angles.

Adelman is going to put Totoro here to disgust them this time, Totoro's mid-range shooting rate can be maintained at about 55% all year round, if they don't take precautions, it is estimated that Totoro will kill them by throwing them alone.

The second weakness is the serious aging of the Spurs team.

In the regular season, Popovich covered up this shortcoming with his strong rotation art, but in the playoffs, this problem will be infinitely magnified.

Duncan is 30+, Ginobili is just 30, Parker is 25 and 6 years younger, but can the three of them play a full game?

Look at the Spurs' bench lineup, Bowen, Robert Horry, Michael Finley, Blunt Barry, these old men are all about to be 160 years old, and on the other hand, the Spurs' rookies Sharod Ford, Sean Marx, and Nazar Mohammed are young enough, but they are either not physically good or have a shooting accuracy or have a problem with the ball quotient, after all, the Spurs have a regular season record of more than 50 wins every year, and they really can't pick any good seedlings in terms of their draft picks.

The Spurs' age gap is their biggest weakness now, Adelman is trying to make a big fuss about this, if it comes to the starting lineup, Adelman estimates that he can't win against the Spurs with such adjustments, but if you count the bench rotation time, the Spurs' Popovich is helpless even if he can fly.

So this time, Totoro is not in the starting list, the Spurs' starters are Oberto, Duncan, Bowen, Finley and Parker, the Rockets' starters are Yao Ming, Randolph, Iguodala, Battier and Calderon, on book strength, the starting lineup of the Rockets and the Spurs' starting lineup are five or five, Duncan can abuse Randolph, but Yao Ming can also cause tons of damage at Oberto's point, and the Spurs' defensive system is better, But on the Rockets' side, there is a brother and the president, two single defenses in the guard list, at least the existence of the top five, and the starting lineup should be five or five if no one plays abnormally.

If Popovich wants to win the Rockets, he must also work the rotation of the lineup, these two teams have their own advantages, but outside experts agree that if the Spurs can't take the Rockets within 5 games, the final winner should be the Rockets.

"What a funny little guy."

Before jumping the ball, Popovich looked thoughtfully at Totoro sitting on the bench.

As early as the first game of the regular season, when Totoro hadn't played much at that time, Popovich concluded in front of the media that Totoro would be the one with the greatest honor achievement among all rookies after 03, and everyone thought he was crazy at that time, because although there are not many superstars since the 04 generation, Paul, Deron Williams, and Rondo are still players who can become the league's top superstars, and Popovich compared the new generation of point guards with one sentence. How can others be convinced?

It's just that now it seems that Zhuge Go is nine dead Zhuge Go, your uncle is still your uncle, Popovich is like a god again, at that time he was willing to use either Ginobili or Parker to trade Totoro, but the Rockets gritted their teeth and did not agree, otherwise when the Spurs put together the troika combination of Duncan, Totoro, and Parker or Ginobili, I am afraid that any team in the West will not be their opponent.

When the two teams met for the first time, Popovich once used foul tactics to sanction a wave of Totoro, but after a season, Popovich thought that this tactic could no longer work, Totoro's growth is obvious to all, especially his innate ball quotient, let him know when to jump up and block and when to put it away, plus now his fame and the playoffs have increased the scale of penalties, and it is not difficult to get Totoro to get 6 fouls to leave, but the price may be that the Spurs eventually lose the game.

"This Duncan, why isn't he a member of Team Rocket?"

When Popovich regretted that Totoro was not his own player, Adelman also looked at Duncan and drooled, if Totoro is the small forward position player he wants the most, then Dumb is the big forward player that Boss wants the most, with his own defensive system, solid basic skills, excellent strategy, Princeton system needs to share the ball and keep running interspersed, more importantly, this set of tactics also needs a big man who can pass the ball to stand in the high position to guide the whole team to run and pass the threatening ball, Da Yao's interior offensive ability is not to say, but if he wants to do the job of a commander, the little giant is indeed not a stone Buddha.

From the topic of who is the best power forward of the 20th century Duncan and Garnett, there has been no result, and the fans on both sides have their own opinions, but in the eyes of insiders, they are not the same type of player at all.

Duncan is more like a traditional interior lineman, and Garnett is more like a 7-foot scoring post, Duncan can make the players around him better, Garnett can play explosive statistics by himself, Duncan has his own defensive system, and Garnett can drive the emotions of the whole team with his personality charm, and there is no difference between them.

Duncan is more favored by coaches like Adelman and Popovich, while Garnett is more preferred by coaches like Phil Jackson and Reaves.

When the whistle blew, the referee threw the orange ball into the air, although Duncan was a little old and couldn't jump, but he still had a lot of advantages over the little giant with a bounce centimeter of only 30CM, Shi Buddha took the lead in dialing the ball with a lead of half a palm, and the Spurs took the lead in attacking.

Parker burst the ball into the front court, Duncan pulled out to block the pick-and-roll, Parker accelerated with a change of direction to get rid of Calderon from Duncan's other side, Battier and Iguodala wanted to make up from the left and right, but Parker's speed was too fast, the title of the French sports car was not in vain, before the two major defenders arrived, Parker scored two points for the Spurs with a lick, and the Dragonborn Cave Arena suddenly resounded with a sigh.

Adelman's brow furrowed suddenly, the defense on the point guard has always been their weakness, and there is still no way to solve this problem in the playoffs, and if the Spurs' Popovich no longer targets them at this point, then the opposite side will not be the resourceful coach.

"But it doesn't matter, our inner line is stronger than you, I see who your stone Buddha is going to defend, if you defend against Yao Ming, I will let Randolph attack the main attack, if you go to defend against Randolph, I will use the little giant to hit you, let's see who has the last laugh." 2