Chapter 187: Wait!! I've watched this episode
At halftime, the Pacers looked very relaxed, after all, it was indeed a great achievement to be able to lead their opponents by as many as 19 points on the stage of the finals, not to mention that this is still a very critical battle of Tianwang Mountain, which makes the Pacers feel a little complacent, but fortunately, Coach Frank did not relax the management of the players, and still told everyone to always pay attention to the counterattack of the opponent, after all, the history of the NBA is not without a team that has been overturned by the Jedi.
On the Spurs' side, it was very dignified, the old man had to help his disciples recover their self-confidence over and over again, and told them the importance of this game, Duncan on the side also talked from time to time to encourage his teammates, fortunately, Duncan is worthy of being a top student in psychology, and he is very able to grasp the points of his teammates, so after Duncan and the old man's enlightenment, the Spurs' players can barely recover their self-confidence.
Duncan actually knows that these teammates are still skeptical about whether they can win this game, after all, they are 19 points behind their opponents at halftime, and it is not so easy to recover. So Duncan also understands that he still needs to take a good start and let his teammates see the hope of a comeback, so as to really inspire his teammates to win**.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Spurs changed their starting lineup, Duncan and Split partnered inside, Leonard and Parker partnered outside, these did not change, but Danny Green did not get the opportunity to start in the second half, but Ginobili appeared on the court, obviously the old man is still not very worried about the state of this role player, so I hope Duncan They can play a certain advantage, and then help these teammates restore confidence.
After Parker received the backcourt serve, he immediately rushed quickly towards the Pacers' half, took advantage of Duncan's high cover, directly passed Hill, who defended him, and directly threw the Spurs' first goal of the second half when the opponent's interior line had not yet come to make up for the defense.
And the Pacers' side, obviously a little underestimated, Hill controlled the ball and came to the front court, handed the ball to Pickle Pepper, Pickle Pepper made a gesture to signal that he wanted to play alone, and then after a few random feints, he shot directly against Ginobili's defense, and I don't know if it was because the halftime break was too long, or Pickle Pepper was indeed too relaxed, so the force after the ball shot was obviously a little small.
The rebound was grabbed by Duncan, and then immediately sent to Ginobili, who was ready to go quickly, and the bald man's shooting rate was also maintained well, and he immediately hit a chasing three-pointer after quickly controlling the ball to the frontcourt.
After chasing 5 points in two rounds, the Spurs fans suddenly saw the hope of winning again, so they began to cheer again, and on the Pacers' side, after Hill came to the front court with the ball, he immediately passed the ball to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan and West made a block, and Hill, who assisted and ran out of the vacant position, shot a two-point, which was considered to delay the Spurs' momentum of chasing points.
The Spurs' offense was still proceeding in an orderly manner, and after Parker brought the ball to the frontcourt, he used Duncan's cover to run out of the gap and gave the ball to Ginobili when Ye Xuan came to make up for the defense, helping the latter hit another 3-pointer.
Looking back, the Pacers immediately hit Duncan with the ball on the inside with the ball, and then the Spurs' offense also shot iron, which made the Pacers' generals instantly breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that they had blocked the opponent's counterattack.
But in the next 6 minutes, the Pacers' offense suddenly fell into a strange circle that couldn't be scored no matter how they shot, Pickled Pepper shot 0 of 3, Ye Xuan shot 0 of 2, Hibbert shot 0 of 2, Hill also shot 0 of 2, only West shot a 2-pointer, plus two free throws by Ye Xuan and Pickled Pepper, the Pacers only scored a total of 6 points.
On the Spurs' side, although the offensive efficiency is not particularly high, with the opponent's wave of scoring drought, they successfully approached the score. With three minutes left in the third quarter, the Spurs had narrowed the score to 70-64, directly narrowing the 19-point deficit to just six points. Although Coach Frank also called a timeout to adjust the state of the players in the middle, it still had no effect.
Fortunately, after a period of desperate chasing points and counterattacking, the opponent began to have problems with physical strength, called a timeout to replace Duncan and Parker, then replaced Dior and Mills, and then replaced Ginobili with Belinelli. directly replaced all the troikas, and I don't know if the old man is really so confident in Leonard's ability to lead the team, or if he feels that the role players off the court have adjusted their mentality.
On the other hand, the Pacers chose to replace all four except Ye Xuan with Solomon Hill, Lance Stephenson, Luis Scola and Masimmi. Ye Xuan actually felt a familiar smell when the opponent was frantically chasing points, and now he pauses and thinks about it carefully, isn't this scene the plot of the first yellow-green war in the twenty-first century?
At that time, the Lakers began the game as unstoppable as God, the Lakers shot extremely high, Garnett had to rest after two fouls in the first quarter, and the Celtics lost their defensive core, and their defense looked very fragile. Odom hit back-to-back jumpers to lead the Lakers to a 21-point lead over the Celtics at 35-14 at the end of the first quarter, the largest margin of the first quarter in NBA Finals history.
In the second quarter, the difference between the two teams reached 24 points, and at halftime, the Lakers still led the Celtics by as many as 17 points at 57-40. In the second half, the Celtics strengthened their defense, and the Lakers' shooting percentage dropped, and after the third quarter, the Celtics trailed by only 2 points at 71:73. The two sides went back and forth in the fourth quarter, but the Lakers took the lead until Eddie House hit a mid-range jumper and the Celtics achieved their first comeback.
In the final moments, Ray Allen sealed the win with a layup against Vujacic's defense. Looking back at the current game, isn't it similar to that game? It was all about taking a huge advantage in the first half, and then suddenly missing in the third quarter and being caught up by the opponent.
While thinking about it, Ye Xuan secretly decided that he must not repeat the mistakes of the Lakers, otherwise he would definitely be engraved on the pillar of shame with his teammates and become the laughing stock of future generations.