Chapter 436: First Round (4)
"Sir, I disagree!"
"You say!"
"I think the playoffs are a big penalty scale, and deliberately looking for confrontation will only disrupt our shooting rhythm, you know that we are a team that lives by shooting, and if you only think about killing the opponent and ignore our own characteristics, it is not worth the loss."
In response to Wang Lei's criticism, Turgun first put forward different opinions.
The atmosphere in the Runners team has always been very good, Wang Lei himself is a coach who is good at listening to the opinions of the players, although he was not satisfied with the performance of the players before, but Wang Lei still listened carefully when Turgun raised different opinions.
It has to be said that Turgon's statement is very reasonable, and his words really explain the essence of the entire Runners.
"Well, you're right, we are indeed a team that has been shooting for a living. But bunny, you overlook the fact that you're looking at things from our own point of view, which is great, but you also have to consider that your opponent is not an unresponsive machine, and they will also do a lot of things to interrupt your shooting. ”
"To be exact, the Spurs' previous move between fouls and non-fouls was actually a kind of testing, testing the scale of the referee's decision, and also testing your reaction."
"At this time, if we really keep avoiding them, this can indeed have a certain possibility for us to ensure the hit rate to a certain extent, but as long as we retreat, our opponents will not hesitate to press up and further pressure our shooting space, so hiding from the fight is definitely not worth the loss."
"So how to deal with this situation, I think the best way is for us to take the initiative to find fouls, try to cause damage to their players, which is possible to interrupt our shooting rhythm to a certain extent, but at the same time, it will also make the opponent bigger and more loss, in the fourth quarter of the game, think about it, when their starters and even everyone is fouled, who dares to foul easily, that is the time for us to take what we want."
Wang Lei's simple explanation won the approval of many players, and Turgun himself fell into thinking, he is indeed too young to think about it comprehensively and thoroughly.
"Sir is right, I also think we should play harder, otherwise the Spurs will harass us more unscrupulously, and only when they are scared will we win more space for us."
Captain Blair also agreed with Wang Lei, although he has not experienced many playoffs before, but in comparison, Blair has a more accurate grasp of the game than Turgon.
As a consensus was formed within the Runners, the Runners' style of play changed greatly after the start of the second quarter.
Rotational point guard Francis Leonardo turned on singles mode after re-entering the court in the second quarter.
The energetic hybrid was holding the ball like a dynamite bag and slamming it into the Spurs' basket.
At the same time, several other Runners pitchers immediately dispersed to the perimeter to open up space for Francis.
The Spurs players, who are very afraid of the Runners' three-point rain, have not been able to protect the interior, which makes Francis's high breakthrough success rate scary, and it also causes a lot of damage to the Spurs' interior rotation lineup.
Spurs head coach Alexander Pope had to bring his starters back on the court shortly after the start of the second quarter.
As both sides began to play a lot tougher, the confrontation in the game became more and more intense, and the old spurs players kept watching the emotions of the runners' rotation players.
John Claes, who has a more irascible personality, even received a technical foul for clashing with a Spurs player.
Nearly halfway through the game in the second quarter, Wang Lei gradually changed to the starter.
The pace of offense and defense slowed down on both sides, something Alexander Pope and the Spurs players would have liked to see, given that the Runners have always been known for their super-fast offense and defense.
But as the game progressed, Coach Pope's mood gradually became irritable, and the assistant coach kept reporting to him the number of fouls on the players, and with this number of increases, the Spurs have inevitably gone to the other side of defeat.
This is Wang Lei's upright conspiracy, he gave up what his team was good at, and used another perspective to discover the special advantages that the team has when facing a team like the Spurs.
Although the scene of the game was not exciting at all, as the Runners gradually widened the difference, the fans of Sausa City were still as excited as children who got candy on Halloween.
The last time the Sa City team, which was still called the Kings, broke into the playoffs was seven or eight years ago, when Blair was in his youth, and he and the then Kings reached the playoffs with the eighth place in the West.
But in that playoffs, the fledgling Blair was strangled by the Lakers, and the entire Kings were easily eliminated by the Lakers 4-0.
Since that playoffs, the Kings haven't made it to the top eight in the West, so this new team of runners can be considered to have made the playoffs for the first time.
Sachsa fans don't expect their team to play good basketball anymore, they want their team to win and go further, or even win the championship, which is what they are most happy to see.
By the end of the half, the Runners had finally stretched the gap between the two teams to double digits.
Although Turgun, Sallich and Blair did not score much in this half of the game today, they gave the Spurs a headache for the defense, and after starting to implement Wang Lei's "touch porcelain" tactics, the Runners were full of aggression in every offense or defense.
The Spurs' veterans can use their experience to overpower the Runners in terms of their control over the tempo of the game, but the Spurs are dumbfounded when the Runners really use their young bodies to find a confrontation with them.
It is said that the horizontal is afraid of being stunned, and the Spurs are so afraid of dying, and now the Spurs are the ones who hate, and the Runners are not only a little stunned, but even began to develop towards death.
After all, the Spurs struggled further back, and the more they played, the more they lost, and they could say that they had forgotten from the beginning of the game how "fickle" the Runners were.