Chapter 272: Crisis
It was already the middle of the night when I arrived in Milwaukee, so the first thing I did after getting off the plane was to go to the hotel to rest, and when I arrived at the hotel, it was not early.
Back-to-back games, or away, according to the arrangement of the old man Bobo, there will be players to take turns to rest, Ade just hit the knee, although there is no big problem, but it will also affect the force, there may be a risk of injury, plus Gasol is recovering from the wind and cold is good, so it was decided to take turns to rest Ade.
Such a short period of rest is obviously still a bit tight for the Spurs, although it does not consume a lot of money to play the Timberwolves overall, but running back and forth is still not conducive to the recovery of physical strength.
Fortunately, Lei Shui is young, as long as he sleeps enough, he will recover relatively quickly.
It was almost noon when Lei Shui got up, and he had a meal and went for a walk, it was also winter, the climate in Milwaukee was much better than that in Minnesota, and the afternoon time was consumed quickly, and after eating early, he had to rush to the arena to warm up before the game.
The Spurs were clearly unable to do so when they warmed up, and some were yawning.
The Bucks, on the other hand, are not only physically advantageous, but have just won four consecutive victories, and have obvious psychological advantages.
The Bucks also belong to a team dominated by young people, compared to the Timberwolves, the Bucks are more talented, and can even put out a starting lineup with an average height of more than 210, and all of them are arm span maniacs, under the leadership of Kidd, this gang of people play with super passion, unlimited ability to change defenses, can be said to be the biggest nemesis of the blocking team, and the Spurs are good at blocking and dismantling, this time may encounter challenges.
The Spurs started with center Gasol, power forward Lee, small forward Leonard, point guard Raywater, and point guard Parker.
The Bucks starters are more flexible, with center Henson, three forwards: Snell, Parker, and Antetokounmpo, and point guard Dellavedova.
The Bucks got the first wave of the ball, and the point guard looked for Brother Alphabet for the first time, at this time it was Lei Shui who defended Brother Alphabet, Lei Shui and Brother Alphabet were in similar physical condition, Brother Alphabet was taller, but Lei Shui's arm span was slightly longer than Brother Alphabet.
Brother Alphabet's key position is different from others, not relying on the strength of the hard top, but through flexible running, to seize the advantageous position, Brother Alphabet first occupies the position on the edge of the penalty area, at this time Lei Shui can not be forced to push people out, easy to foul, can only stick to Brother Alphabet.
The others pulled away, Brother Alphabet received the pass and shook it left and right, his back was pushed in, and then he turned around and threw a small backward jumper, the shooting point was very high, but the Lei Shui air defense point was not short, but Brother Alphabet mastered the rhythm very well, Lei Shui ate the confrontation, the jump block was a little slower, Brother Alphabet had already thrown the ball, but in order to avoid the block, speeding up the shot speed would obviously reduce the hit rate, and the first ball missed.
The Spurs attacked, Leonard missed a pull-up jumper, the Bucks counterattacked, and Dellavedova also missed.
Lee passed the ball and was stealed by Brother Alphabet, Brother Alphabet went straight to the basket, made a layup, and Leonard also hit a shot.
The scores of the two teams alternately rose, the Bucks' main means of scoring was to storm the basket, and none of them hit outside the three-point line, while the Spurs were the opposite, because of back-to-back reasons, in order to save physical strength, most of the offense ended with shooting, and the three-point shooting was also good.
Lei Shui this time on Brother Alphabet, the requirements for defense are relatively high, and the assistant coach before the game also specially reminded Lei Shui, Brother Alphabet is a big threat in the near basket, good at counterattacking, breakthrough, and medium and long distance is his biggest weakness, Lei Shui tried to control Brother Alphabet to the far basket distance at first, but in the case of no ball, it is very difficult, Lei Shui wanted to use his body to squeeze Brother Alphabet out, but was continuously turned by Brother Alphabet and ran into the basket, and finally Lei Shui decided to let go of Brother Alphabet one step away, let him defend after receiving the ball in the middle distance, The effect is better.
On the offensive end, Lei Shui is also the first time to encounter such a tall and flexible defender, compared to the previous game, scoring has become not so easy, Kidd must have studied Lei Shui, Brother Alphabet on Lei Shui's shooting is relatively dead, forcing Lei Shui to break through, as soon as he breaks in, there is a delay in assisting the defense, trying to prevent Lei Shui from jumping, one person tops, one person blocks, several long arms of the Bucks jumped up, a few arms are like iron buckets, forcing Lei Shui to pass, fortunately, the Spurs' outside feel is okay today, Although Lei Shui is not easy to score, he still has a lot of assists.
As the Bucks played more and more resolutely inside, the Spurs' defense became smaller and smaller, and when the Bucks felt that the interior was no longer easy to play, they expanded the offense outward, but the poor outside shooting rate made the Spurs more resolute on the inside, and the point difference was gradually stretched to 6 points.
Although the Spurs relied on Lei Shui's sudden points to get a lot of vacant opportunities, but Lei Shui can't break through like this frequently, the Bucks' defense has a relatively large physical consumption of Lei Shui, plus back-to-back, if the physical energy is not reasonably distributed, it is likely that there will be no strength in the end, Bobo Old Man realized this, so he gave full play to the advantage of more players and rotated early.
In the first quarter, Thunder Water scored 2 points, 2 rebounds, and 4 assists in 7 minutes of playing time, which was a decrease from before.
After the Spurs rotation, Kidd observed that after Gasol went off the court, the Spurs' interior was weak, and he used Monroe and Beasley to focus on the impact on the interior, which was very efficient, and the score was chased to 2 points, and finally the whistle at the end of the first quarter saved the Spurs who had fallen into a disadvantage.
At the intermission, the old man Bobo realized that the outside shooting rate was declining, so he arranged the second quarter to play the blocking and dismantling breakthrough tactics, but Kidd had already prepared a way to deal with it, and arranged five super athletic elders to play early on, Brother Alphabet came to play point guard, and encountered the blocking and dismantling infinite change of defense, no matter how to change positions, everyone in front of the Spurs was full of big tall and long arms, and the Spurs' bench players were basically tactical players with mediocre physical fitness, and their single ability was below the horizontal line, facing such a defense, One by one, they panicked, and in the end they could only be handed over to the forty-year-old man Ginobili to play alone.
Ginobili can only bite the bullet, but after all, he is afraid of being young and strong, and he plunges into it alone, either in a hurry or the pass is broken, and in the second quarter for up to 4 minutes, only Ginobili scored 2 points by free throws.
Even if the old man Bobo wanted to let the main force rest more, he couldn't sit still, and quickly changed back to the main force, but the main force came back and failed to change the situation on the court, and he couldn't play under such a defense, and finally Leonard singled, under Parker's defense, all 3 shots were lost, and then changed to Lei Shui's singles, and the Bucks specially arranged defensive tactics for Lei Shui, wheel battles plus unlimited defenses, and the Bucks' change of defense was very fast, because they didn't consider the position factor at all, whoever was close to the defense, usually Lei Shui threw out the pass, As soon as teammates receive a pass, basically the defense is in front of them, the Bucks' defense is purely based on strong athleticism, after all, the Bucks are full of physical strength to wait for work, and the Spurs can not withstand such consumption, in 8 minutes, the Bucks led the offense with defense to play a wave of 17:2 climax, the lead reached 15 points, and the Spurs fell into a crisis.