Chapter 553: A Difficult Victory
The Spurs' forced substitutions also gave the Lakers some respite, but correspondingly, they also need to repay the team on the offensive end, after all, they are not liberated to allow them to relax, since the pressure on the defensive end has been reduced, then they should make corresponding contributions on the offensive end, and in the next round, Gasol stepped up.
Because the Spurs didn't adapt to losing Jefferson's rhythm for a while, after Ye Xuan's side shot and hit the iron, they were actually ready to start a fast break, but the rebound was grabbed by Gasol, and Aldridge, who grabbed the rebound with Gasol, immediately pounced on him to defend him, Gasol saw that he had no chance to attack twice, so he immediately passed the ball back to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan used Solomon Hill next to him to make a block after receiving the ball, Then he took two steps inside and hit the ball with a throw.
The difference between the two teams has been further narrowed, and the Spurs' lead has been basically erased by the Lakers, but at this time, Leonard also broke out, first facing Solomon Hill's defense and hitting two points at the same time, causing the latter's foul, and then using the help of his teammates in defense to force Ye Xuan to make a mistake, and this mistake also gave the Spurs a chance to counterattack, although in the end the counterattack ended with Ye Xuan making up for the cap and chasing Parker, But at least it also scared the Lakers, and in terms of physical strength, the physical exertion of this kind of chasing back will also have some impact on Ye Xuan.
However, in the next few minutes, Ye Xuan was not affected by the mistake just now, he completely dominated the game, three shots in four attacks, and scored 8 points, although the only pass sent the ball to the hands of Solomon Hill, and then the latter hit the iron, but scored eight points in four rounds, which is already a very efficient offensive Xiao Gaochao.
And Solomon Hill's state today is obviously a little bad, plus a few shots in the first quarter, he has shot 0 of 5 from outside the three-point line today, which is why the Lakers still haven't taken the lead so far, as long as he can hit two of these five balls, then the Lakers' current situation will not be so passive, and the most important thing is that if he can make some contributions on the offensive end, it will also make the opponent less rampant with Ye Xuan's bag, at least he will have some scruples, not like now, not only Leonard came to defend Ye Xuan, but also players were ready to deal with Ye Xuan's forced breakthrough and the like.
Soon Ye Xuan began to feel that his physical strength was declining significantly, although his physical condition now he would choose to repair before the start of each game, but there was no way to replenish the loss of physical fitness through these methods, if he wanted to continue to have sufficient physical strength in the second half, then Ye Xuan could only choose to use physical recovery potions at halftime.
But he also knows that if this game is still the same as it is now, then even if he can replenish his physical strength and continue to help the team bite the score, but once his form begins to decline after a long time, then the team will still be in a disadvantageous situation. The only thing I can hope for is that my teammates can find their form in time, at least Solomon Hill can't be like this on the offensive end.
The first half of the game ended like this, in the first half of the game, the Lakers fell behind nearly ten points from the beginning, and then gradually erased the difference, and finally the Lakers hit a three-pointer again by Ye Xuan when there was a minute and a half left in the second quarter of the game, and successfully overtook the score, which is good news for the Lakers, but in the next minute and a half, the Spurs' offense suddenly became like a chicken blood, David Lee hit a three-point shot, Leonard hit a three-point shot, and Ginobili hit a three-point shot, In a minute and a half, the Spurs had a total of four shots, and as a result, they hit three three-pointers, which made the Lakers fall behind again in an instant, although there was also a Ye Xuan's mid-range shot and a Wade's layup in the middle, but overall they were still behind by four points at the end of the first half.
59:63, this score is very unsatisfactory for the Lakers, not because they didn't do a good job on the offensive end, in fact, 59 points is not high, but it also hit the Lakers' halftime average score in the regular season, but let the opponent's halftime score reach 63 points, and it is also a positional offensive team like the Spurs that is not very good at playing high scores, which is simply a shame for the Lakers, You must know that the Spurs averaged only 101.6 points per game in the regular season this season, which ranked sixth from the bottom in the league, and in front of the Lakers, who have always been proud of their individual defensive ability, they scored 63 points in the half, which was simply slapping the Lakers in the face.
At halftime, Ye Xuan also expressed his dissatisfaction with the team's defense in the locker room, of course, this is not to shake the pot, but to remind his teammates that everyone's attention to this game is obviously not enough, so this situation will occur, of course, for Solomon Hill, a little brother who is already familiar with Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan reprimanded him unceremoniously, his poor performance in the first half of 8 shots and 0 today is simply a black hole in the Lakers' lineup, if these eight balls can be even two shots, Now the Lakers are the leading side, and although he doesn't seem to have any problems on the defensive end today, Solomon Hill has not shown his combat effectiveness in terms of packing and protecting interior players, so Ye Xuan called Solomon Hill aside after Wharton Jr. finished arranging his tactics, and then taught him a few good lessons.
The second half of the game started quickly, and the Lakers still had some problems on the offensive end of the game in the third quarter, such as Ye Xuan had to pass the ball when facing the opponent's bag, but his teammates were still wasting the team's offensive opportunities, such as Gasol and Randle's interior cooperation was directly disconnected, and the interior cooperation of the two did not appear once in this game, which is not good news for the Lakers' offense, fortunately, the Lakers are not sleepwalking in the whole team today, After seeing that Solomon Hill had not improved for more than four minutes in the second half, Wharton Jr. decisively replaced him and then replaced Clarkson.
Solomon Hill probably knew that he played very badly in this game, and he looked very frustrated after being replaced, and Wharton Jr. on the side kept comforting him, after all, this series is not only the game in front of him, and the Lakers still need Solomon Hill to cheer up as soon as possible.
The game on the court still continues, after Clarkson came on the court, the Lakers' offense did get some improvements, Ye Xuan directly played a tactic to create offensive opportunities for him in the first round after he was replaced, and unlike Solomon Hill, Clarkson's independent offensive ability is much better than the former, so Solomon Hill can only shoot at fixed points most of the time, while Clarkson can quickly cut inside after receiving a pass or something, this round is like this, Clarkson received the ball at the top of the arc and duffled a shot before taking two quick steps inside before throwing the ball in.
After that, an offense, it was the cooperation of Ye Xuan and Clarkson, this time Clarkson did not choose to break through, but shot directly on the spot, although this time the Spurs players who supplemented him had been sealed in front of him, but they still let Clarkson hit this shot, after this shot, the Lakers successfully narrowed the gap to 4 points, and this three-point hit also made the Spurs start to be a little timid, although they still resolutely chose to wrap after Ye Xuan's forced breakthrough, But on the other hand, they have to worry about Clarkson's cold arrows, so when they defend and run tactics, they don't seem so confident.
Ye Xuan naturally won't miss this opportunity, and instantly took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's doubts about the tactics to break through the singles several times in a row, and the score was equalized in an instant, which is also the first time since the first quarter of the game that the Lakers have caught up with the score, and the following can bring huge pressure to the Spurs, they know in the last game, once the Lakers enter their own offensive rhythm, then they are likely to be taken away by the opponent in a wave, and there is no chance to fight back at all, So the old man was also very witty, and immediately called a timeout.
After the timeout came back, they also immediately made personnel adjustments, replacing Jefferson with Simmons, although this lineup is short, but in the face of the Lakers' interior line, it will not fall into disadvantage, the most important thing is that Simmons' movement speed can support him to carry out a wide range of actions such as making up and defending, which can help the Spurs relieve some pressure on defense.
However, the gap in the offensive point and the team's physical fitness made the Spurs still unable to reopen the score, and for the rest of the third quarter, the two teams were basically alternating the lead with each other, and this time the Lakers would not give the opponent a chance to reopen the score.
At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers finally temporarily fell behind by one point into the final quarter, but at this time their substitutions and operations have achieved a certain advantage, first of all, Gasol and Wade, the two experienced veterans, do not have much physical consumption in the game, which allows them to play for a long time in the fourth quarter of the game, and secondly, Ye Xuan's playing time at this point did not suddenly soar to more than 40 minutes, because when the third quarter of the game was about 9 minutes old, The Lakers replaced Ye Xuan to rest, and Felton also made a contribution at this time, in more than 4 minutes of bench time, he hit a three-pointer and two free throws, at least in terms of offensive firepower, the Lakers did not let the Lakers fall too much because of Ye Xuan's rest.
In the first half of the fourth quarter, Nick Young and Speights also had a good performance, in the face of Mills and Ginobili led by the Spurs bench, they did not fall behind at all, and even Yang Shaoxia staged a 3+1 four-point play in the middle, this action, this location, made Zhuge and Parker on the court think of the three plus one that Maddie hit against Duncan when he was chasing points in the game.
Since then, the main forces of the two teams have been replaced, at this time the Lakers generals have gradually found their state, especially in the first half of the game was not very good Randle and Wade, the final decisive moment, first Randle received Ye Xuan's air relay pass and dunked directly, scored two points, and then Wade successfully stole Parker's horizontal pass, so that the Spurs' offense returned in vain, and then when pushing the counterattack, it was Randle who stood up and quickly arrived at the front line. Then he received a through ball from Wade near the free throw line, took two steps and hit the ball with another dunk.
This time, the Spurs fell behind by 4 points, and the old man Zhuge had to immediately call a timeout to adjust the state and mentality of the players on the court. At the end of the timeout, the Spurs sideline served and began to prepare for the attack, this time they chose to let the team's core Leonard come to play alone, after a few people pulled away, Clarkson faced Leonard's back singles alone, but what Leonard didn't expect was that Clarkson would actually use the back stool to deal with the inside player at this time, and the Spurs made another mistake, and this mistake also gave Ye Xuan a chance to chase three points, three points hit, the Spurs instantly fell behind by seven points, so far, The Lakers' breath finally eased up, after all, the difficulty of this game was something they didn't expect before the game, and it was true, this season the Lakers went too smoothly, causing them to habitually play tailwind, but when the game started unfavorably, they were forced to only play against the wind, if it wasn't for Ye Xuan withstanding the pressure in this game, then this game might have been won by the Spurs.
After this three points, the Lakers have basically controlled the situation, originally the Spurs are relying on the war of attrition and the Lakers slowly grinding, playing to this time, the physical strength of the Spurs, especially the physical strength of some veterans such as Jefferson and Parker, has dropped to the freezing point, and it is completely hanging on the court to fight, and now it is suddenly hit by the opponent two counterattacks, and this breath is vented in an instant, and then the state of the Spurs has declined significantly. In the end, I could only watch the Lakers slowly pull the score away, and in the last quarter of the game, the Lakers finally played a counterattack of 31:19 in a single quarter, successfully reversed the score, and won the game.