When the first quarter was more than 8 minutes into the game, as Leonard hit two three-pointers in a row, the Spurs instantly extended the margin to 8 points. www.biquge.infoTrail Blazers head coach Stotts immediately called a timeout.

Coming back from the timeout, Stotts replaced the in-form Aminu with Crabbe.

In the 2016-17 season, Aaron Crabbe played 79 regular season games for the Trail Blazers, averaging 10.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per game, and in this series, Crabbe averaged 15.4 points per game, which is the third scoring point of the Trail Blazers in addition to the Trail Blazers' double guns.

On the Trail Blazers bench, Crabbe took off his training uniform, touched his heel twice with his hand, and walked onto the court.

"Stotts replaced Crabbe, and with them eight points down, Crabbe was perhaps the only point of trust for Coach Stoltz"

"Stotts chose to trust Crabbe, and it makes sense, after all, the 24-year-old Crabbe does have some scoring ability, and he has performed very well in this series"

After Crabbe came out, the offensive pressure on the Trail Blazers was indeed much less, and Lillard passed the ball to him on the first offense of Crabbe's play.

In the face of Dedmon's defense, Crabbe made a breakthrough, rushed to the inside, and then dodged Gasol's block, made a layup, and incidentally caused Gasol's foul.

There was a cheer in the Moda Center Arena, Crabbe walked to the free throw line, hit a free throw, 17:23, I have to say, as soon as Crabbe came on the court, the Trail Blazers' offense seemed to be much smoother.

The Spurs' offense finally failed once when the Trail Blazers were completely in a good position, Tony Parker's cutting layup was hit by Nurkic's big hat, the Trail Blazers won the basketball fast break, Lillard rushed to the front court is a violent dunk, 19:23, after Crabbe played, on the court, the three players with the most scoring ability in the Trail Blazers team, in addition to McCollum, Lillard and Crabbe have each shown their strength.

The Trail Blazers also relied on these two balls to quickly narrow the gap to 4 points.

And then, the Trail Blazers quickly established a connection on the offensive end, Lillard broke through the ball, McCollum scored a three-pointer from the outside; Then the Spurs also scored three points, and Jin Feng's bottom corner three-pointers accurately drilled into the basket; Back on the offensive end, Lillard faced Gasol's defense, rushed inside to attract the bag, and then distributed the ball to Nurkic on the other side, Nurkic shot in the middle and hit it successfully.

In this way, when Crabbe came off the bench, the Trail Blazers clenched the score, and Lillard also took advantage of the Spurs' negligence in several defensive failures, and once again got two excellent shots, scoring five points in a row, a three-pointer and a mid-range shot, and in the first quarter of the game, Lillard had scored 14 points.

At the end of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers were 28:30 at home, only 2 points behind the Spurs, you know, before Crabbe played, the Trail Blazers were 8 points behind, which means that after Crabbe played, the Trail Blazers directly won the Spurs by 6 points, which also means that Stotts bet right!

In the second quarter, the Spurs began to deploy their troops and replace them with substitutes.

Except for Jin Feng who continued to stay on the court, everyone else was replaced, point guard Patrick Mills, shooting guard Manu Ginobili, power forward David Lee and center Dedmon, plus Jin Feng, five people played in the second quarter. Jin Feng rested for 5 minutes in the first quarter of the game, and his physical strength did not seem to be a problem.

Isn't it a little weird? How come there is no small forward?

It can only be said that Popovich did this on purpose.

Of course, it can only be said that Jin Feng and Ginobili can play small forwards at any time.

The Trail Blazers, on the other hand, fielded a semi-main lineup, with Lillard, who played the full first quarter, and Turner on the sidelines, plus shooting guard McCollum, Crabbe as a cameo at small forward, power forward Lehmann and center Plumlee.

At the beginning of the game, the Spurs' hand was average, the new Manuginobili missed two consecutive shots, and the Trail Blazers equalized the score with a tie and a goal from Crabbe.

Fortunately, in the Spurs' third offense, Patrick Mills rushed into the interior and scored two points to help the Spurs stabilize the situation.

McCollum then drove to a layup, and after hitting the basket, he also drew a foul on Manuginobili, and the Trail Blazers countered the score again.

Spurs' offense, Manuginobili received the ball and threw it, but his hand was still not good, and the offensive end hit the iron again.

Then, the Trail Blazers relied on Crabbe's strength to score one after another, and then the Trail Blazers replaced Plumlee with Amino, playing a small lineup, and played a wave of 9:o offensive Xiaogao-Chao in the middle of the second quarter, which suddenly expanded the lead and led the Spurs by 1o points.

Popovich immediately called a timeout, Manu was not in good shape, so he naturally wanted to be replaced, Popovich thought for a while and said: "Danny, you replace Manu, Kewai, you replace David Lee, Jonathan replaces Dedmon, we also play a small lineup, and the opponent attacks." ”

Now the lineup on the Trail Blazers is also a small lineup, so Popovich thought about it and decided to give up the interior line and rely on the single defense of Jin Feng, Leonard and Danny Green to play the fast attack.

"The Spurs have made substitutions, and they have brought on Danny Green, Jonathan Simmons and Kawhi Leonard in quick succession, and it looks like they are going to play a small lineup as well."

The game came back, the Spurs who switched to a small lineup accelerated the offensive tempo, Patrick Mills cut in with the ball, and divided the ball after attracting the bag, the Trail Blazers quickly made up the defense, Danny Green, who received the ball, shared the ball again, and Jin Feng in the bottom corner received the ball and shot, stepping on the line and hitting two points!

Then, the Trail Blazers attacked, the Spurs sped up the switch on the defensive end, and Crabbe's breakaway hit Leonard headbutt, and the referee suddenly blew the whistle.

Just when the Spurs players thought it was an offensive foul, the referee signaled it was a defensive foul.

All of a sudden, everyone was in an uproar, Leonard frowned and spread his hands, far away to show that he didn't understand what the penalty meant, while Simmons, who had a hot temper on the court, rushed to the referee and appealed to the referee.

Knowing that it was useless, Simmons was still aggressive.

It wasn't until the referee resolutely let Crabbe go to the free-throw line that Simmons walked away.

"The home court advantage of the Trail Blazers is starting to threaten, indeed, if the Trail Blazers lose this game, then their season is completely over, obviously, for the league, they don't care who advances to the second round between the Spurs and the Trail Blazers, what they really care about is interests, if the Spurs solve the Trail Blazers in four games, then obviously, the ratings do not meet the requirements of some people or certain interest groups... This is what the Union does not want to see. ”

In the TNT commentary live broadcast room, Charles Barkley, who has always been known for his "big mouth", this time, he also couldn't hold back, and pointed the finger at the alliance.

Crabbe walked to the free throw line and hit both free throws, still a 1o point difference.

Then, Patrick Mills was whistled for an offensive foul by the referee when he cut in with the ball, and at this time, Simmons finally couldn't help it, this hot man has always been endearing in the Spurs, but his personality also led to him being an impulsive person.

"You *shit referee! Did you take money from Portland? ”

There was a boo, but the boos were directed at the Spurs and at Simmons.

The referee of the match was Doterion, who took a few steps back to dodge the aggressive Simmons, and then whistled again amid boos to signal Simmons for a technical foul, and the audience burst into cheers.

At this time, Simmons was even more annoyed, and he rushed straight to rush up again, but Jin Feng hurriedly rushed over and grabbed Simmons.

"Jonathan, calm down!" Jin Feng relied on his own strength to pull Simmons back to the Spurs' bench, and Popovich did not hesitate, directly substitution, allowing David Lee (David Lee's relatively short height) to re-play, and the Spurs continued to play small tactics.

Crabbe walked to the free throw line and executed a technical foul free throw, hitting both free throws to give the Trail Blazers a 12-point lead, and then the Trail Blazers went out of bounds, and Crabbe took the basketball, and if the ball was scored again, the margin would be further widened.

Just when the Pioneers were attacking, the major broadcast TV stations in the United States didn't dare to say much, but in China, CCTV and Tencent Sports didn't have so many scruples.

Yang Yi directly sprayed: "Two misjudgments in a row, especially when Jonathan Simmons has already appealed once, the referee still did not rein in and continued to misjudge, I think the situation is already obvious, the league is manipulating the game!" ”

Wang Meng was also very angry: "Teacher Yang is right, a ball that is obviously an offensive foul, this referee actually blew it into a defensive foul, and another is obviously a defensive foul, but this referee blew an offensive foul, which is very unreasonable, just a few blows, the Trailblazers suddenly opened the point difference, and the referee's business ability does not seem to be as good as ours!" ”

On the side of Tencent Sports, Ke Fan (let's pretend that Ke Fan has not been suspended from work, it is all caused by brainless fans) didn't dare to say too much, but Su Qun was blunt: "In order to ensure the victory of the Trailblazers, the referee has begun to blow indiscriminately, you look at these balls, blowing them out is not good for Spurs!" ”

On the court, the game was not suspended because of these two misjudgments, and the Trail Blazers' offense, McCollum rushed inside, and the layup was interfered with by Leonard and did not score.

This time the referee is not blowing the whistle, although Leonard still has the same action to defend, but the referee does not dare to blow the Spurs all the time, if it keeps blowing, things may get bigger, after all, Popovich is not easy to mess with, you can put up with Popovich once or twice for the sake of the next game, if you keep blowing, you will not give the Spurs a way to live.

In the second quarter of the game, the referee began to have all kinds of biases and misjudgments, most of which were in favor of the Trail Blazers, and the score was slowly pulled away by the Trail Blazers.

At the end of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Spurs by 17 points. This is something that no one expected before the game.

The Spurs locker room at halftime was finally not as quiet as it used to be.

Popovich pulled his throat and shouted hoarsely in the center of the court: "We were 17 points behind in the first half, which is a bit too big, what does it mean? That means we have a good chance of losing this game, yes, we're already 3-0 up, it's okay to lose one! But, this game, we can obviously win! I don't want to continue to struggle with a team that doesn't have championship quality."

"Let's not talk about the referee's problem, in the middle of the second quarter, why were you scored 9 points in a row by the opponent? What are you doing with your defense? The offense can be boiled down to bad form, what about the defense? Popovich's yelling directly threw the veteran Manuginobili into it.

Manu lowered his head and said nothing, listening to the old man continue to criticize: "Then there is the referee's bias and faint whistle, but can this really affect us?" Our backwardness is largely due to the fact that our offense is not doing well, and of course there are problems in defense! ”

Having said so much, Popovich's tone also softened: "Then, next, in the third and fourth quarters, we have to chase points!" Now the league wants to control the game through the referees, so we won't let them do it! In the second half, the offensive end played a success rate, played a fast pace, and the 17-point difference was just a 17-point difference, and it could be recovered soon! ”

"Yes, we can't let the league do what we want, this game, we have to win!" As the spiritual leader of the locker room, Tony Parker stepped up at this time to help boost Popovich's morale.

In fact, for Jin Feng, he doesn't need to be inspired, no matter when, Jin Feng's morale is the peak, and he is always eager for victory.

In the first half, Jin Feng was the most stable player for the Spurs, shooting an open three-point shot from time to time on the offensive end, and of course, now the mid-range step-back jumper can also be thrown; Then the defensive end killed McCollum, and McCollum only scored 8 points in the first half under Jin Feng's defense, which was still the result of the first half.

In the second half, the game restarted, Jin Feng still did not rest, at this time, he has become the most important part of the Spurs, when Leonard puts the main energy into the offensive end, as long as Jin Feng is there, the Trail Blazers will have one less offensive point, which is still very important. Of course, Popovich dared to continue to use Jin Feng like this, naturally because he understood that there was no problem with Jin Feng's physical strength now.

In the third quarter, the Trail Blazers replaced McCollum and let Lillard and Nurkic, who had a full break in the second quarter, take Lehmann, Vonleh and Turner to play the third quarter, while the corresponding lineup on the Spurs' side is Tony Parker, Manuginobili, David Lee and Aldridge, plus a Jin Feng, which is an obvious offensive lineup.

Seeing Lillard playing, Popovich also took the opportunity to let Jin Feng defend Lillard.

The third quarter of the game officially began, the Spurs attacked, and Manuginobili, who was trained by Popovich for a halftime break, also began to break out, he and Tony Parker made a cross cover, directly holding the ball and rushing to the three-point line, a jumper shot after an emergency stop, and hit it steadily! There are 15 points left in the difference.

The poor feeling of the second quarter was finally chased away by Manu, and his first ball went in, raising his right hand to shoot, Manu quickly stepped back to defend, and there was a boo from the center of Moda.

In the case of a big score behind, defense is very important, and only by guarding against the opponent's attack can the score difference be quickly narrowed.

So far this season, Jin Feng's single defense ability has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and for Lillard, who is now facing Jin Feng's defense, the grudge between the two of them has been concluded from the beginning of this game.

Of course, for the superstar-level Lillard, he is not stunned, although he is unhappy with Jin Feng, but he also knows that Jin Feng is indeed not easy to mess with, so when facing Jin Feng, Lillard immediately played a twelve-point attention, slowly dribbled the ball, and then suddenly, without any superfluous movements, Lillard directly used his speed to break through from Jin Feng's right side.

Jin Feng's whole person was attached to Lillard's body, Lillard carried Jin Feng's body, rushed a few steps, and the whole person was almost crooked.

However, Lillard is not the kind of person who likes to cheat fouls, Jin Feng's defense is fine, he didn't pretend to fall or anything, carrying Jin Feng's defense, making an emergency stop, and then jumping up to shoot.

Jin Feng also jumped up, stretched out his hand to block Lillard's shooting angle, and Lillard in the air directly turned around and passed the ball out again.

It's a pity that the other players on the floor at this time basically have no independent offensive ability, and Vonleh, who received the ball, dribbled the ball for a while, and then handed the ball to Lillard again.

Seeing that there were few 24 seconds left, Lillard could only force it, dribble a few steps, and force a long-range two-point shot from one step inside the three-point line, and hit the iron with a bang.

The rebound was protected by the Spurs, and Tony Parker quickly brought the ball to the frontcourt, and as Popovich requested, rushed directly to the interior to speed up the pace of the offense.

Tony Parker, who rushed inside, was surrounded by Lehmann and Lillard, and he didn't stick to the ball, but went straight out, and Aldridge received the ball and made a layup to score two points, leaving the difference of 13 points.

Then, Lillard forced Jin Feng to fail again, the Spurs launched a fast attack, Jin Feng took the lead, received a pass from Tony Parker, and directly shot a three-point shot!

With a bang, the basketball goes into the hoop! There are only 10 points left! Jin Feng jumped up with both hands, and Popovich on the sidelines also waved his hand violently, spitting out a sentence of American scolding, obviously, the Spurs' repeated chasing points at the beginning of the third quarter made the old man very excited.

There was a boo at the Moda Center, and Stotts called a timeout in time, and the referee blew the whistle and the Trail Blazers asked for a timeout.

As soon as the third quarter came up, the Spurs played a 7-0, and the momentum was played, and when they took a timeout and left the game, everyone was excited.

The Trail Blazers' adjustment came quickly, McCollum re-played, McCollum's play, intended to free Lillard, after all, although he did not play well in the first half, but the containment was still there.