At the end of the first half, the 76ers led by five points at 53-48 at halftime.

Green walked off the court in disappointment, thinking that he would be able to restrain Zhang Zifeng today.

But I didn't expect that I couldn't prevent each other at all. The other party is too good to run, and he won't stop at all.

It's hard enough to keep up on your own. What's more, the other party often changes direction. It's even harder to keep up on your own.

That's not even counting the fact that he has teammates to help him cover all the time.

Oh, my God!

Green sometimes finds himself playing against the entire 76ers.

In the second half, it was time for both teams to get back on the field.

Zhang Zifeng found that the person who defended him had changed, and it became Leonard to mark him. Green goes to mark Grant.

Just after half-time, Leonard came over to mark.

With the help of cover, Rondo successfully shook off Parker and rushed into the inside.

When Rondo started to start, Zhang Zifeng began to run.

Zhang Zifeng quickly ran to the right side outside the three-point line, and Rondo's ball passed out in time.

Zhang Zifeng received the pass and was about to jump up and shoot.

Leonard killed, pressed very tightly, and his height and arms put a lot of pressure on Zhang Zifeng.

Zhang Zifeng hurriedly withdrew the ball and broke through to the inside.

Leonard is a better defensive player than Green, a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, a three-time All-Defensive First Team in the league, and a two-time All-NBA First Team.

Leonard followed as soon as possible, sticking all the way, trying his best to put pressure on Zhang Zifeng.

In addition to being much more defensive aware than Green, more importantly, Leonard's physical fitness is not comparable to Green's body.

In the West, Durant didn't dare to resist James, and could only use his feet and height to defend James.

In the past, Iguodala could barely fight James.

Now only Leonard can resist James, and you can imagine how strong this guy's body is.

Zhang Zifeng finally broke through to the basket, and after a big stride, he wanted to go to the basket and hook the ball into the basket.

In the past, Zhang Zifeng could score such a goal nine times out of ten.

But today, under Leonard's strict defense, Zhang Zifeng has struck iron.

Dedmon grabbed the rebound and immediately made a long pass, Parker received the ball, ran the front court with the ball, and in the face of Rondo's block, Parker used his experience to rush to the basket and took advantage of the rhythm difference to make a layup.

A successful defensive counterattack!

Zhang Zifeng looked at Leonard, who was expressionless like Duncan, and couldn't help but sigh. It's so strong, really powerful, it's not at the same level as Green in the first half.

If you want to get rid of the other party, it seems that Green's method is different.

On the offense of the 76ers, Zhang Zifeng finally got rid of Leonard and received a shot.

But when jumping up to shoot, Leonard felt the jump block in time, and his long arms gave Zhang Zifeng a lot of interference.

This ball, Zhang Zifeng hit the iron.

Fortunately, Ibaka grabbed the ball and scored it with a second attack under the basket.

In the next few balls, Long Duo saw that Zhang Zifeng's chances were not good, so he cooperated with other teammates.

But under the Spurs' solid and tight defensive system, the offense of the other players of the 76ers is not good, and they continue to play iron.

The Spurs took advantage of the opportunity to play a small 8-0 surge, 55-58, to overtake the score.

Spurs are good at strengthening their defense. Use the defense to devour the opponent's lead bit by bit, and then tilt the advantage to the Spurs.

Now they are using this tactic to limit Zhang Zifeng, causing the 76ers' offensive mistakes one after another.

Compared to the Spurs, who are full of energy, the 76ers are very anxious.

saw that the Spurs scored continuously, but his class was continuous iron.

They became a little impatient, and several times they attacked too quickly. But the more you rush, the worse you play, and the less you can score.

Brett. Brown saw that the situation of the team was not right, and quickly signaled the referee to take a timeout.

All of a sudden, the situation for the 76ers has become precarious, and they are now three points behind their opponents from leading the position.

Although it was only three minutes into the second half, Brett. Brown could only send Sharic on the court early, play a five-man lineup, and strengthen the offense.

Brett. Brown didn't talk about tactics or motivate the players. He just repeatedly reassured the players to calm down. "We're still ahead, so there's no need to worry. As long as we play our rhythm and let the opponent run with our rhythm. We're going to win! Don't call, hold your breath and play at our pace! ”

The head coach of the Spurs came to motivate his players: "Boys, you did a good job just now, continue to play like this for the rest of the game, try to pull the score away in the third quarter." Come on! ”

The timeout came back and the game continued. The audience was filled with the sound of cheering for the Spurs, condensed into a torrent of sound, echoing in the stadium.

Although the 76ers sent a five-small lineup, they hope to speed up.

But the Spurs' consistent defensive system is more solid, rigorous, and good at controlling the tempo.

The 76ers can't improve their speed, Sharic doesn't have many ways to fight in positional battles, and other players don't have too good ways to break the scoring drought.

Seeing that there was no shooting opportunity under Green's defense, Grant habitually wanted to pass the ball to Zhang Zifeng.

But Leonard judged in advance, and with a crisp "snap", Leonard broke the ball.

"Oops!"

Zhang Zifeng hurriedly wanted to block Leonard, but Leonard had already taken the first step to control the ball.

rushed to the front court with the ball, and as soon as he hit the penalty area, he scored 2 points with a violent dunk.

Spurs fans saw the cheers, but the 76ers players were anxious, and the score had increased to 8 points.

If you don't score again, once the score is pulled to 10 points, it will not be difficult to turn it around at the Spurs' home stadium.

Now, they are extremely eager for Zhang Zifeng to stand up and help the team stabilize his position with goals as before.

was restrained by Leonard in the second half, and Zhang Zifeng never gave up thinking about how to get rid of Leonard.

I have also been adjusting my state and feel during the game.

Looking at Leonard's burly figure, Zhang Zifeng had some plans in his heart.

When Rondo just wanted to catch the ball, Zhang Zifeng shouted: "Rajan, I'll control the ball." I came up with a plan and wanted to try it out! ”

Rondo heard it, so he ran to the front court and let Zhang Zifeng control the ball.

Zhang Zifeng received the ball, and while dribbling, he shouted to Sharic, "Dario, wait for us to play blocking and dismantling!" ”

Sharich nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay! ”

Dribbling the ball to the frontcourt, seeing Leonard coming up again, Zhang Zifeng hurriedly made tactical gestures.

Sharich ran up, and Zhang Zifeng immediately broke through diagonally with the ball.

Leonard blocked it, and Bertans came up to interfere with Zhang Zifeng.

As long as there is a little interference, Leonard's astonishing reaction speed can be made up in time.

Zhang Zifeng knew this trick and did not continue to break through with the ball, he passed the ball to Sharic.

Then Zhang Zifeng suddenly accelerated and ran in the opposite direction to another test in Shaliri.

As soon as Zhang Zifeng ran past him, Sharic immediately passed the ball back to Zhang Zifeng, and he cut inside himself and took away the defender.

At this time, Leonard thought that he was going to change Sharic, but he didn't expect Zhang Zifeng to run back again.

I just wanted to mention it, but it's already slow,

Zhang Zifeng jumped up and shot quickly.

saw Zhang Zifeng shoot, and the ball flew in the air.

The whole game was watching the ball, and if it hit, the Spurs' morale would be devastated.

At the same time, the morale of the 76ers will be back high.

Spurs fans don't want to see the ball hit, but the 76ers players desperately want it to go in.

In the limelight.

"Huh!"

The basketball crashes through the net, making a crisp scratching sound!

The ball is in!

Sharich rushed up and collided with Zhang Zifeng fiercely.

The 76ers' benches sitting on the sidelines also stood up and cheered and applauded loudly.

The Spurs' side is much more dull, and their morale, which they have managed to get up, is a little lower. Green was even more resentful of Zhang Zifeng, it was Zhang Zifeng who scored the ball in his reluctance.

Zhang Zifeng's three-pointer broke the 76ers' scoring drought and calmed the 76ers' anxious mood.

Seeing that Leonard really didn't defend the ball, Zhang Zifeng understood his weakness.

Leonard's defense is really good, and he is the strongest among the backcourt players and forward swingmen that Zhang Zifeng has encountered.

Beverley was just serious defensively and desperately tough to make his defense good.

But in terms of defensive skills and strength, Leonard is superior.

Leonard has a lot of strengths, solid defensive skills and a serious attitude. Fearless of confrontation and strong ability to pit. Excellent defensive awareness and positional awareness.

Whether it's a front-to-head one-on-one or a flank to help defend the position, Leonard can do it.

But the only thing that is his biggest weakness now is the ability to move laterally.

Leonard gained more than a dozen pounds in order to be able to fight James in the past few years, which strengthened his ability to fight, but it had a certain impact on his lateral movement.

If it's a defensive three, Leonard's lateral movement won't be a problem.

But if he is allowed to defend the guard, especially when he is defending the pick-and-roll, the effect will be much worse.

Knowing that Leonard moved laterally and slowly, Zhang Zifeng either cooperated with Sharic to block and dismantle, or pulled the bottom corner to take Leonard away and let the other four play spurs.

In the five-small lineup, although the defense dropped a notch, the group of shooters led by Zhang Zifeng, the three-point long-range artillery fired, and the shells fell into the Spurs' basket one by one.

"Huh!"

"Huh!"

The 76ers rained a three-point rain on the Spurs' home court, hitting a 19-14 run to tie the score in one fell swoop.

The Spurs defended better, the 76ers offense was a little better, and the two teams alternated leads.

Although Leonard came up with a lot of ways to limit Zhang Zifeng, Zhang Zifeng used the experience accumulated in the past three years to fight wits and courage with Leonard and tried to find opportunities to run out of the open position to shoot.

made a block with Sharich again, and Zhang Zifeng made a successful shot.

"Huh!"

A crisp sound of the earth entering the network.

The Spurs players all felt very disgusted with Zhang Zifeng, it was this guy who immediately stood up and beat the Spurs' momentum with a shot as soon as they brought the score closer.

Let the Spurs counterattack again and again is useless.

"Soft eggs! What else would you do besides shooting! You're a soft egg! Spurs fans shouted angrily at Zhang Zifeng.

Spurs fans want to provoke Zhang Zifeng, and then make the opponent give up the shot and storm the basket.

However, Zhang Zifeng is not up to this kind of mentally retarded provocation.

It's amazing to be able to shoot!

At the end of the third quarter, under the leadership of Zhang Zifeng, the 76ers trailed by only 2 points at 75-77.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Zhang Zifeng opened the curtain with a three-pointer, and Grant suddenly burst out and threw 2 three-pointers, and he led the team to a 9-4 mini-climax.

The 76s regained a one-point lead at 84-81.

But it wasn't long before Green hit a three-pointer to put the score in check.

After 86 and 89 ties, with 1 minute and 46 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Leonard forced a layup and caused Grant to foul, and Leonard made 2 of 2 free throws.

The 76ers trailed by two points at 92-94.

At this critical moment, the 76ers made consecutive turnovers under the Spurs' defense. Zhang Zifeng and Sharic took turns to miss scoring opportunities.

Fortunately, Green also made a pass error when he was under Zhang Zifeng's close defense with 7.9 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the 76ers had the ball.

The 76ers rushed to request a short timeout.

Back from a timeout, serve on the sideline,

"Jack, catch the ball!" Ibaka passed the basketball quickly.

Zhang Zifeng wanted to step forward to catch the ball, but suddenly Leonard wanted to steal.

Fortunately, although Leonard hit the ball, he was directly afraid of going out of the court.

It continues to be the 76ers' possession.

Brett. Brown stood on the sidelines of the pitch and yelled at the Ibaka players, "Be careful, don't make any more mistakes!"

This time, Zhang Zifeng used the cover to cover and successfully received the ball.

As soon as he received the ball, Zhang Zifeng quickly raised his speed.

was blocked by Sharic, but Leonard quickly bypassed and chased after Zhang Zifeng.

Basket!

Zhang Zifeng only had baskets in his eyes at this time,

Leonard's speed is quite amazing, and he is about to catch up with Zhang Zifeng immediately.

It's closer! Caught up!

Leonard was finally completely blocked in front of Zhang Zifeng on the three-point line.

Leonard opened his hands, and he was going to defend the ball.

But the next second, he found himself tragic.

He was afraid not to give Zhang Zifeng a chance to shoot, but he didn't expect Zhang Zifeng to play cards out of common sense this time.

Zhang Zifeng threw the ball under Leonard's crotch with his right hand.

Leonard didn't have time to fit his feet, and the ball slid through his crotch.

Wear the crotch!

Leonard reacted and stepped sideways to keep up.

Zhang Zifeng has regained control of the ball and made a jump shot directly outside the three-point line.

Looking at Zhang Zifeng's body in front of him, his body was stretched, and his arms were about to turn out.

Leonard

If this ball is shot by Zhang Zifeng again, the Spurs will never have a chance to turn the tables around.

This must not be allowed to happen.

Leonard quickly flew sideways towards Zhang Zifeng, his hand straightened out.

Looking at Leonard, who rushed forward to defend, Zhang Zifeng looked at the basket in the air with firm eyes, and raised his hand to throw the ball

At this time, Leonard couldn't care about anything else, and hit Zhang Zifeng's arm directly with his right hand, but he still ate for a second.

The ball has been shot.

The basketball flew towards the sky, and for a while, the eyes of more than 20,000 fans in the audience, in front of the TV, in front of the mobile phone, the eyes of the Spurs fans or 76ers fans were focused on this ball that was falling from the top of the arc and was flying towards the basket.