Chapter 83: Response
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Facing Yang Yi, Parker felt that this was not an opportunity to make a foul. Everyone knows the strength of the fat man's collision, as long as he waits for his 'reasonable' action to be knocked away, he will properly make him a dribbling and hitting someone.
Unconsciously, Parker had a strange smile on his face.
It's just that he never thought that in a one-on-one situation, Yang Yi did not force his inside line with his strong body, but stopped at the three-point line at the top of the arc.
Yang braked suddenly, but Parker didn't. With inertia, he took a big step forward before braking the car, but it was too late to defend Yang Yi.
When the fat man lifted the ball, Parker rushed back, trying to interfere with Yang Yi's projection. But Yang Yi didn't shoot the ball out angrily as Parker thought, but threw the ball in the direction of the rebound, and then looked at Parker who rushed to his eyes with a smile.
Bang dang!
With a bang, the basketball was thrown into the basket by Aminu, adding two points to the Pelicans' scoring book. However, all this has nothing to do with Parker, and he feels a little lost at the moment.
I just discussed a tactic, but I was immediately slapped in the face by Yang Yi, my brother Ginobili was surrounded and robbed, and he was also treated as a monkey, which is really lifeless!
Yang Yi's steal caused laughter from the fans at the scene, and the previous actions were also replayed on the big screen above the stadium. However, the replay was not for the Pelicans to quickly take down Ginobili's steal, but for Yang Yi to eavesdrop on the Spurs' tactics.
It wasn't a big deal for the Spurs to lose two points from a sneak attack, but everyone was on Duncan, and his face turned green.
"What do you see I'm doing, am I doing something wrong?" Shi Buddha asked embarrassedly.
The Spurs all shook their heads and walked back, ready to take on the attack, and no one answered Shi Fo's question. It's just that Duncan, although nicknamed Deng Dudu, is a representative of great wisdom and foolishness. He quickly figured out why his teammates reacted like this, he was the big guy in the eavesdropping world at the beginning, and now he was pried into the corner like this, no wonder his teammates had such eyes.
Popovich stroked his gray hair on the sidelines and remained silent. There is an old Chinese saying that dies before leaving the school, which is about the current state of the Spurs. I originally wanted to get The One down, but I never thought that my tactics had already been fully known by the other party, and I still swaggered to eavesdrop.
Alas, it's sad to die! Why didn't this freak fall and lie down obediently, what's the point of struggling here, anyway, the West Final Spurs are decided, no matter how good the little fat man is at the moment.
Yes, Popovich firmly believes that it will definitely be the Spurs who will emerge from the Western Conference finals in the end, and as for the Pelicans, it is better to stay there and stay there. Even if this game is lost, the Spurs still have a good chance of reaching the finals.
He has that confidence because he's a championship coach and with his experience he knows where he can go and where he can lead the team to where he goes.
For the Pelicans, the opponent in the Western Finals, the only person Popovich cares about is Yang Yi. Yang Yi is the only uncertain factor, and the outcome of the game is likely to be in his thoughts.
However, although Yang is as fierce as a tiger, Popovich really doesn't see him as a real opponent, just as an uncertain factor. Popovich's eyes have moved beyond the Western Conference Finals to the Finals.
In his mind, the only team that can compete with the Spurs in the playoffs this season is the Heat trio who are still in their prime. As for the other teams, they are either old and young, or they are riddled with injuries and are not capable of playing their most powerful attacking power.
Pelicans are the little ones! There is no one on the team who can hold up the team's façade in the playoffs. Yang Yi doesn't count, he is a newcomer and has never participated in the playoffs, how can he be counted!
And even with the addition of Yang Yi, the pelican is just a trapped beast, and when its three-plate axe passes, it will be the season of spur harvesting.
Even now that the team is trailing the Pelicans by 15 points at 44-29, Popovich didn't take it seriously. The way to deal with Yang Yi just now was just that he was directing the players to fight normally.
The resilience of the Spurs has not really been brought into play.
Popovich smiled and scolded Parker. In the Spurs, Parker is Bobo's punching bag, he doesn't scold Duncan or Ginobili, he stares at Parker and scolds. Of course, Parker is used to it! Judging from the depth of Bobo's scolding, he could tell if the old man was really angry.
Obviously, the old man is not angry at the moment, but he is not happy to keep his mouth shut. There are all kinds of signs that the old man is going to move seriously, and the Spurs have never been a team that everyone kneades, otherwise the cohesion of the team is not so strong.
Before, the old man Bobo stood on the sidelines and commanded the Spurs to play steadily, without making much changes, so Yang Yi seized the opportunity to break each one. Now! Even though the Pelicans have extended the margin to 15 points, the Spurs will still play at their own pace.
With the order of the old man Bobo, the spur began to spin steadily at high speed, like a fast-running high-speed train, pressing over all kinds of thorns under its feet, and rushing forward extremely quickly, which was its destination.
In the middle of the transition, the Spurs suddenly increased their speed, and the tempo became very fast and pressing. The Pelicans didn't get used to it for a while, and were pressed upside down by the Spurs, and a wave of 7:0 attacks narrowed the difference between the two teams to single digits, and the Pelicans only had an eight-point lead left.
These did not appear during the simulation training, and Yang Yi could only rely on experience to deal with the sudden change in rhythm of the Spurs, but unfortunately he was still beaten with a 7:0 attack wave. However, he didn't blink an eye, and no matter what the situation was, his mind quickly adapted, and he was able to figure out a way to fight back.
Williams had to call a timeout. Obviously, the team is very uncomfortable with the Spurs' instantaneous change of rhythm, otherwise with Yang Yi's power, they will not be indifferent to being beaten 7:0. They're in trouble!
The change of rhythm takes a long time to practice, it is a change that belongs to the team as a whole, and it requires everyone to cooperate tacitly to perform, whether it is offensive or defensive, sudden rhythm changes can achieve good results. It was an unexpected change, and the impermanent rhythm was always confusing, and it was easy to get dizzy.
Williams didn't have a good way to deal with this situation either. Although the Pelicans have improved a lot overall, if they want to safely block the Spurs' offense, they are 100% more than willing and not enough. The safest way is to replace defense with offense.
The Pelican's strength lies in its ubiquitous attack power, and as long as the Pelican's own attack power can continue, there is nothing that cannot be solved on the court.