Chapter 173: West's Mid-Pitch (Plus Update, Fourth Update)
Ye Xuan walked to the free throw line with a desperate face and jumped with Leonard, facing Leonard with a longer arm span than himself, taller than himself, and even a better bounce than himself, Ye Xuan wanted to surrender directly, but the result was not as Ye Xuan expected, although he tried his best to jump, but he still failed to shoot the basketball.
Danny Green took the basketball that Leonard struck, and without hesitation, he rushed directly to the Pacers' halfcourt, but fortunately, the Pacers' players were still quite focused, so they didn't give the opponent a chance to break fast.
The moment Dior received the basketball, he directly took West behind him as the axis, and then turned around quickly and then rushed to the inside line of the Pacers, Hibbert of course did not allow anyone to be presumptuous on his own turf, and immediately rushed up to invite Dior to eat a hot pot, but the French magician is not in vain, a person who does not look at the back of the man hit the ball from Hibbert's crotch to Duncan's hand under the basket, Duncan of course will not be polite and easy to grab the ball with both hands and put the ball into the basket.
Seeing Duncan's indifferent expression after dunking the ball in (in fact, there was no expression in the first place), West suddenly felt that the passion he had when he was partnering Paul with the Hornets was rekindled. After coming to the front court, West directly asked Ye Xuan for the ball in the high position, and Ye Xuan of course would not save face, so he passed the ball directly to West.
West received a pass and faced Dior, who was defending himself, and after two tentative steps, he suddenly took two steps to the left, and then threw a hand in a quick stop to hit the ball, and immediately found the field for the ball just now.
The Spurs didn't feel much on their side, and they still used the team's passing and breaking points to find the vacancy step by step, and then quickly passed the ball to the person who found the vacancy to complete the final blow, and this round the ball was passed from Dio to the top of the arc after a circle, and then Dio hit a long-range two-pointer.
Of course, West, who was responsible for defending Dior, was not convinced, and immediately asked Ye Xuan for the ball after coming to the front court, and then used his back to hit and turn back to shoot a jumper again.
In the next two rounds, West obviously played confidently, although the opponent on the defensive end still used constant passes and bursts to tear the Pacers' formation, but West suddenly showed his strength on the offensive end when he was an All-Star, and he also caught the Spurs off guard.
And with less than 3 minutes left in the third quarter of the game, Duncan's physical strength began to be a little exhausted, after all, he was 38 years old, and his physical fitness had indeed gone downhill, and the Spurs simply replaced Duncan directly, and then replaced Belinelli, and then replaced Parker with Mills, obviously wanting to let the troika rest well in order to meet the decisive battle in the fourth quarter of the game.
The Pacers, on the other hand, chose to replace Ye Xuan, replaced Solomon Hill, and then replaced Hibbert with Scola Scola, so that West played center on the court, and Pickled Pepper organized the team's offense.
At the end of the substitution, the Spurs served the ball on the sideline, and as soon as the ball was sent, the overall rhythm of the Spurs suddenly increased, Mills quickly rushed to the frontcourt, and then used Belinelli's cover to directly dodge the defense of Pickled Pepper and rushed to the opponent's interior, and forced a throw under Scola's defense to hit the ball.
And Pickled Pepper obviously hasn't adapted too much to the identity of point guard, especially the opponent didn't replace Leonard, so now it's finally Pickled Pepper's turn to experience the fear of being marked by Leonard, fortunately, Pickled Pepper's dribbling skills are not bad, and after coming to the front court, he passed the ball to West, who was still asking for the ball on the inside.
West used his skills in the low post, quickly found an opportunity and shook off Dior, but Danny Green on the side immediately made up for it, and West was not in a hurry to hand over the ball to Lance Stephenson on the outside, Stephenson received the ball and made a direct three-point shot, but unfortunately Stephenson, who felt a little cooler, failed to hit this shot.
But what is surprising is that Scola actually stuck in a favorable position, and then won this frontcourt rebound, and then used his feet to shake off Dio, who came to make up for the defense, and made an easy layup.
The Spurs continued to implement their tactics, still choosing to play fast, as a member of the Suns Kombat whirlwind, Dio was naturally very familiar with this rhythm, after Mills rushed to the front court with the ball, he found that Dio had been ambushed on the left side of the free throw line, so he decisively handed the ball to Dio.
After Dior received the ball, there was no fancy action, and it was a two-point shot that was pulled up directly, although West's hand had been sealed on his face, but it still failed to interfere with the opponent, and the basketball fell into the net.
And looking back, Solomon Hill seemed to have opened up again, received the basketball that West split from the inside, flipped a shot and flew Mills in front of him, and then quickly slashed to the Spurs' interior and caused a foul from Dio.
Coach Frank quickly took advantage of this opportunity to replace Pickle Pepper with orthodox point guard C.J. Watson, after all, Pickle Pepper is now only playing the role of dribbling through half the court on the court, rather than wasting his physical strength on the court, it is better to let him rest for a while and prepare for the big battle in the fourth quarter of the game.
And the Spurs, obviously, did not forget Leonard's defensive task, so he also replaced Leonard with this dead ball and replaced it with Bonkeystone, although the speed of Bonkeystone may not be good when he is attacking quickly, but his outside projection ability is still good, and his Scola is obviously not a fast-moving player.
Solomon Hill came to the free throw line, steadily shot both free throws, and then quickly stepped back to defend, the Spurs' offensive rhythm was still very fast, Mills quickly came to the front court and called Dio to help make a pick-and-roll, and then quickly rushed to the Pacers' interior line, and then faced Lance Stephenson, who came to the defense, and handed a ball to Danny Green, who steadily hit the open three-point shot.
Not to be outdone, after Watson passed the ball to West, West's back hit first attracted the opponent's bag, and then after he split the ball, he quickly ran back to the bottom right corner, and received an assist from Solomon Hill, and successfully returned the opponent with a three-pointer.