Chapter 187: If you attack me, I will defend
Before the start of this series, the San Antonio media emphasized the supremacy of defense, which was originally the magic weapon for the Spurs to defeat the enemy, but the Lakers retaliated in the first two games, their tenacious and tight defense made the Spurs at a loss, the shooting percentage has not been improved, and the offense cannot fight the Lakers, which is equivalent to losing two keys to victory at the same time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The most important thing is that David Robinson, the core, is completely trapped in a circle by the Lakers, although he can make waves in this circle, but he can't break through the shackles set by the Lakers for him, and naturally he can't lead the Spurs to win the final victory, because the circle drawn by the Lakers is the damage they can bear, and only by breaking through this circle can they defeat the Lakers.
The "Admiral" scored a combined 67 points in the first two games, but the Lakers can clearly withstand such a blow, so some local media believe that David Robinson must score 40+ in Game 3 in order to single-handedly defeat the Lakers, who are stronger overall.
Bob Hill feels that the crux of the problem is not here, but there is no good way, at this time, only which side is louder, he humbly accepts, otherwise he will definitely be scolded after losing, on the contrary, at least these voices should not hit his face to attack him.
Well, so Bo Boshere is still too young for the media to be afraid to slap himself in the face?
This is probably the funniest saying I've heard this year, if slapping themselves in the face can increase their sales and attention, then they can't wait to pull their loved ones in the face and get them to be beaten.
In the past few months, there has been a flood of exciting news - space stations, large aircraft, domestic aircraft carriers, quantum computers, liquid metal, combustible ice, the Belt and Road Initiative...... These news have raised the national self-confidence of the Chinese people, but looking at the comments below, there are still many people who are not used to China being strong!
On the night of 21 years ago, Zhang Yi looked up at the sky after walking out of the hotel, and found that the moon was not very round, and it was covered by dark clouds after a while, and now there was no waning moon.
The weather in San Antonio was not very good today, there was a little rain during the day, the sky was gray, and there was a lifeless and oppressive atmosphere in the air, which made people feel cheerful.
The atmosphere in the "Alamo Dome" was even more oppressive, with the Spurs fans shouting a little out of breath before the game, and many people closed their mouths halfway through the shout, as if someone had choked their necks.
Zhang Wei has already felt what is lack of confidence in the players' tunnel, this kind of home atmosphere is a model, and he doesn't even have the confidence to shout for the team, and he still wants to turn the tables?
There are still not many changes in the starters of the two teams, the Lakers dare not risk using Finley again, and the Spurs have no one to replace, so everyone just makes up for it.
The home fans look unmotivated, but that doesn't mean the players don't have the fighting spirit.
The Spurs, who had lost two games in a row on the road, knew that there was no room for further losses today, and they felt the danger of being eliminated and put on a desperate offensive posture, allowing the Lakers to commit two fouls in the first two minutes.
Zhang Mao was relieved, although there were a lot of fouls after the opening, but he just made a defensive action that could be judged or not, and the referee stood next to him but did not say anything, which means that there is no too much home whistle today, and there may not even be a home whistle, those two fouls are indeed fouls, not that the referee embarrassed them.
"Who says the league doesn't want to see a sweep? Now it's 2-0 across the league, all four teams have a chance to sweep and advance, and I don't see the referee deliberately helping the underdog. ”
Zhang Qian scoffed at the opinions of some fans, as long as your style of play does not make the league particularly annoying, then you will basically not be targeted.
Of course, if the old emperor is gone and the new king is not established, then it is not certain what the alliance will play.
After the first two minutes of the first quarter, Zhang Fu found that the Spurs were no longer targeting him today, neither a large number of packs, nor allowing him to score, today the Spurs played a serious single defense, the position seemed to be a slightly forward 23 station, the main defense is the inside line and the penalty area, but it is not completely let go of the outside line.
Bob Hill couldn't find a way to target Zhang Qi on the defensive end, so he simply didn't target anyone today, putting on a complete default formation, and the NBA's most mainstream man-to-man defense, and didn't play any superfluous tricks.
This "I don't care how you play, I'll play with myself anyway" attitude is very interesting, the Lakers couldn't find a breakthrough in the first two games for a while, and the opening game was a bit dull.
The Spurs' strategy in the first game is not to cover Zhang Mao, then the latter will naturally score desperately, because this is a flaw that you leaked yourself; In the second game, the Spurs changed to an all-out package, and that Zhang naturally tried to make his teammates score desperately, which is still a weakness that you put out yourself.
Today, the Spurs no longer play routines, and Zhang Qian has to find a way to deal with the Spurs by himself, but he is not as comfortable as the first two games.
David Robinson took on more tasks on the offensive end today, Bob Hill listened to the advice of the media on the offensive end, so he threw all the burden on the "general" to carry, and the pre-game encouragement was like this - "David, you are the last hope of the whole village, the key to whether the Spurs can make a 360-degree comeback is whether you can break the Lakers' defense, and also drive your teammates to perform well." ”
Well, if Harris fools Zhang Qiu like this, then he is not far from the end of class, Zhang Zhu must be backhanded with a big mouth to let the person who said this turn 360 degrees first!
But David Robinson was really fooled into success, although many people say that he is the softest of the four centers, but in fact, the "general" is the most willing to sacrifice himself for the team among the four, and he is also the most unselfish one. He's really the kind of guy who can get the coach to obey unconditionally as long as he says something like "this is an order" or "Pippi Shrimp let's go", and Duncan will be the kind of player in the future, and so will Leonard......
The Lakers soon found out that today's "general" was attacking his defense with a sense of no return, and soon he handed out an assist, and Elliott opened the scoring for the Spurs with a layup.
Zhang Qian also found that Elliott is also this kind of strength on the offensive end, and this kidney fighter can't defend against Zhang Qiu no matter what, but he can fight the offensive end.
Very good, this is to fight with them to attack, of course the Lakers will not let the Spurs get their wish, and immediately changed to defensive counterattacks, waiting for the opponent to send them to the door.
After understanding the intentions of the Spurs, the Lakers were not in a hurry on the court, first stabilized the defense, and then looked for opportunities to counterattack, and also scored again and again after the opening, Zhang Mao completed a slam dunk, and Van Exel also broke his fast outside the three-point line, the Lakers players did not panic at all, and they also saw that the Spurs seemed to know that they could not take care of both offensive and defensive ends, and they were going to have a backwater battle on the offensive end today, so the Lakers naturally wanted to make them unable to play comfortably on the offensive end, and find a way to disgust the opponent.
But no matter how disgusted the Spurs are by the Lakers, the atmosphere in the "Alamo Dome" is slowly beginning to become active, in fact, there is nothing wrong with the Spurs' choice, and the defensive game will definitely become very depressing, and now the city is depressed enough, and then it is so dull to play, I believe that the fans really can't create a home atmosphere.
The Spurs will have to liven up their home atmosphere today in order to use the momentum of their home court to beat the Lakers, and they will have to rely on the home bonus if they want to beat the Lakers.
Besides, they really don't have that much energy to balance offense and defense now, in comparison, because they are too flawed in defense, it is better to fight with the Lakers on offense, and use the home court advantage, the Spurs can also fight with the Lakers, at least this has a greater chance of winning.
But the Lakers did not cooperate, and took advantage of the Spurs' anxious offense to fight back several times in a row, and in the first five minutes of the opening game, the Lakers still led 12:10.
Since then, the Lakers have been firmly in control of the situation, but the Spurs' momentum has not been suppressed, the home atmosphere is slowly improving, San Antonio fans have begun to shout slogans, and they have also begun to release boos when the Lakers attack, which will definitely have a certain impact on the Lakers' offense.
With 2 minutes and 30 seconds left in the first quarter, Zhang Zhu, a guy who was naturally suitable for counterattacking, took advantage of everyone's physical strength to begin to decline and needed to adjust the rhythm, and suddenly burst out and scored 4 points in a row with a breakthrough, and Cebaros also sneaked to hit his first shot, and then Van Exel threw in another three-pointer, and the Lakers established a double-digit advantage of 36-26 with a wave of 14:7 climax in two and a half minutes.
This is a bit embarrassing, the Spurs offense is not bad, and 26 points in the first quarter is considered a good performance, but the Lakers guys are completely unreasonable, and seize the opportunity to play a wave of offensive that makes Spurs fans feel desperate again.
Zhang said that he didn't know how to play such an attack wave, he just made a start, and after he scored four points in a row, the next teammates' scores did not have so much to do with him.
But it doesn't matter, even if he doesn't know how to do it, as long as he immediately pretends to be planned, everyone will give him all the credit, as if the offensive was completely planned by him.
David Robinson frowned at Zhang, both of them played the full quarter, and he was a little better statistically, but the Spurs were ten points behind, and he really had a feeling of powerlessness right now.
In the first quarter, Zhang Mao scored 9 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, and David Robinson scored 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, and the result was that the Lakers led by 10 points.
In the second quarter, Zhang Mao did not go out of the break, and David Robinson continued to stay on the court.
Chuck Person, who scored six points in a row, was the hero of the Spurs' failure to be left too far away by the Lakers, the veteran took out all his chakras, and he shot a three-pointer at the beginning of the second quarter, but Zhang turned his head and scored four points in a row, plus Finley's dunk, which allowed the Lakers to maintain the lead.
The head coaches of both teams know that if they continue to play like this, the Spurs are afraid that they will kneel again.
After the home fans were abruptly thrown away by the Lakers at the end of the first quarter, the momentum weakened, just like some extremely unconfident Chinese, even if there is more good news, it is difficult for them to have national self-confidence.
Spurs fans can't stand the stimulation now, but Zhang Qian must find a way to stimulate them, the enemy is still best to kneel forever, and once he stands up, it is difficult to press down again.
David Robinson responded with a 6-0 to close the gap, but the Lakers then struggled defensively and allowed the Spurs to score just one goal in three minutes. At the same time, he was not idle in addition to defense, and he was also productive in attack, so it can be said that the offense was not affected too much.
It's a physical advantage for the players, the Lakers can juggle offense and defense, but the Spurs cannot.
Before the end of the first half, the Lakers relied on defensive counterattacks to play another 14-6 attack wave, and ended the first half with a 12-point lead of 67-55.
At halftime, you can compare the data of the two teams -
The Lakers shot 50% from the field in the first half, while the Spurs shot only 40%, but they were able to keep their distance on 6-of-12 three-point shots.
Zhang Qi scored 20 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the first half, and Magic had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists.
David Robinson had 22 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, and his own offense was still playing and better than the first two games, but if you don't count those three-pointers with a lot of luck, he still couldn't lead his teammates.
Bob Hill can't help it, there is one person who is too sluggish in this round, and that person is Vinnie Denagro.
The white shooter is a two-player with decent ball handling, but his vision and passing are not enough for the number one position, preferring the number two position for long-range shooting
The Clippers were led by the "Admiral" in the first round because they couldn't limit David Robinson, and as a result, De Nagro on the outside shot nearly 60% from three-point range, averaging 22 All-Star points per game.
But the Lakers are not afraid of this two-way guard who is not tall enough, whether it is Cebaros or Finley, it is enough to prevent this extremely important member of the Spurs, plus Zhang Qi can freeze the Spurs' only two remaining three-point shooting points as long as he wants, the Spurs' three-point shots have not been opened, and today it was only luck to shoot those very reluctant shots.
David Robinson wants to use his offense to involve more of the Lakers' defensive strength today, but the Lakers don't plan to follow the Spurs' idea, no matter how many points you score, the Lakers use 23 positions to defend, and the idea of attracting the Lakers' outside defensive strength to the interior should be impossible to achieve.
In the second half, the Lakers maintained an advantage of more than 10 points, Zhang Yu continued to break in to play one, and then pass the rhythm of one, anyway, the Spurs were tepid on the defensive end, and he played comfortably on the offensive end today.
David Robinson's powerful dunk with 6:30 left in the third quarter pushed his score to 28 points, and the "Alamo Dome" was cheered, but then the Spurs went pointless for more than two minutes and the Lakers still led by double digits.
"If you don't defend, you can't keep up with the score."
Bob Hill knew that the Spurs should be finished, and they wanted to fight for offense, but the Lakers did not play against them, and immediately changed their tactics to defensive counterattacks after the opening, which made the Spurs' attempt to attack miserable, and the Lakers did not give this opportunity at all.
Harris thought to himself, "Just kidding, why should I fight you?" It's not that I can't devote some of my energy to defense, and even today I simply focus on defense, and use defensive counterattacks to deal with your dying throes, which is really beautiful! ”
Zhang's subsequent three-pointers also brought his own score to 24 points, and he also set off another wave of 11-4 offensive by the Lakers, who led by 16 points at 92-76 with two minutes left in the third quarter.
Although the Spurs did not let the team lose with the "general" and Avery Johnson's scores, they still trailed by 14 points at 82-96 and entered the fourth quarter, and the hope of winning was very slim.
The Lakers entered the final quarter with a 14-point advantage, which basically laid the foundation for the victory.
Zhang Wei scored 29 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, and Magic had 12 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
Although David Robinson scored a game-high 33 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks, he still couldn't help the Spurs narrow the gap, but fell behind more and more......