Chapter 181: Debut (3)
After the Spurs got the ball, Leonard rolled over and hit a jumper, and then the Warriors seemed to lose their crosshairs and missed three consecutive attacks, while the Spurs used the advantage of the interior to gradually open the score, forcing the Warriors to ask for a timeout again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
During the timeout, Popovich began to make substitutions, with Mills, Baerstein, and Ginobili all on the court, but Thunderwater was left on the court and used as a small forward.
After the pause, the Spurs were all bench players, and although Mills was a point guard, he was only responsible for dribbling through the half, and it was Ginobili who really played a role in the organization.
Warriors coach Kerr saw that his players were not in good shape and it was time for the rotation, so he sent McCaw and West on the court, McCaw attacked, and West could respond in the middle range.
West came up and played a role, passing the ball to Curry for a layup to score.
The Spurs' offense is Mills dribbling over half the court and handing it to Ginobili, Ginobili uses Belstein's cover to break through, attracts the defense and passes the ball to Belstein, Belstein's three-point shot misses, at this time the Warriors get a fast break, grab a rebound, grab a rebound, the defensive formation has been disrupted, but the rebounding ghost makes the god fall to Ginobili's head.
The Spurs retreated from the defense also hurried back from the new attack, Lei Shui retreated to the middle line, and was busy running back, when he ran to the three-point line, Ginobili was dribbling back, and he didn't look at Lei Shui's position, he pushed with his left hand, and the ball rebounded to a meter away in front of Lei Shui, Lei Shui was stunned, at this time Ginobili only had ears and eyes at himself, and the ball just passed over, Lei Shui was not ready, took a step forward, grabbed the ball and paused, and was busy receiving a dribble and starting to make a layup.
After scoring, Ginobili was a little dissatisfied and said to Lei Shui: "You have to always be ready to catch the ball and attack, this ball can go straight on, if they defend better, you will waste a great layup opportunity." ”
Lei Shui nodded hurriedly, thinking, it seems that playing with Ginobili must always be ready to receive the ball, he seems to have a God's perspective, and he can know the position of each teammate on the field without his eyes, and he must ask him for advice after the game, how to practice such insight.
In the final minute of the third quarter, although Curry scored 5 points on 2-of-3 shooting, Mills and Baerstein on the Spurs side also entered the fourth quarter with 2 goals and an 11-point advantage.
After the third quarter, Lei Shui scored 9 points, 3 rebounds, and 1 assist, and successfully completed the defensive task without making any more mistakes.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Popovich actually played a small lineup, David Lee played center, Leonard and Thunderwater played forward, Ginobili and Mills played guard, and the Warriors played Thompson, Durant, Iguodala, Clark, Vallejo, and used the preseason to try the lineup.
As soon as he came up, Mills hit a three-point shot to expand the advantage, and Durant also scored under the basket, Leonard immediately quickly countered a small throw on the edge of the three-second zone, and since then, the Warriors have missed consecutive offenses, while the Spurs have been smooth sailing, 2 minutes later, Al Dridge was replaced to sit inside, Mills and Ginobili made a sudden shot to extend the advantage to 18 points, and Thunder Water also took the opportunity to score 2 rebounds again.
After the Spurs grabbed the frontcourt board again, Kerr finally couldn't sit still, and once again changed to a strengthened version of the Death Five lineup, and the outside began to hit two three-pointers, and Durant also broke through to make it 2+1.
Although the Spurs failed to prevent the Warriors' offense during this time, they used offense to return the color, so the score was not narrowed much.
The Spurs switched back to the main force when the ball was dead, and Thunderwater was also off.
In the end, with the excellent performance of the Spurs team, the Warriors failed to catch up with the score, and the Spurs won the game by 20 points.
Thunder Water had 9 points, 5 rebounds, and 2 assists.
Su Qun said in his comments after the game: "Lei Shui performed well today, although he was a little uncomfortable at the beginning, but he immediately adjusted and completed the task excellently, if he can continue to maintain this efficiency, it is very beneficial for him to stay in the team." ”
Ke Fan said: "Today's Thunder Water offense, three dunks, one layup, all on the inside, in fact, he has the ability to shoot from the outside, and he is a point guard, Popovich should go back and study how to use him, if only used as a coolie, it would be a pity." ”
Su Qun said: "Now Lei Shui has just joined the team, I guess I haven't practiced with the team, and I haven't been able to master the tactics or anything, so I can only look at the defense first, I estimate that with the understanding of the team's tactics, there should be a chance to show his ability, but don't rush it." ”
Ke Fan said: "I think we still have to start from defense and stay in the team first. ”
Su Qun agreed: "Yes, you can't stay, everything is in vain." ”
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Since Lei Shui was signed after the start of the preseason, this is the first time to represent the Spurs, and it is a Chinese face, at the post-game press conference, reporters inevitably asked Popovich: "We look at a new face in this game, how did you decide to sign this player?" ”
Popovich said: "You're talking about No. 39, the guy named Ray, I don't know how I signed him, but my assistant coach told me that we need that type of player to improve the defensive height of the second team, and he just met our criteria, so we signed him in, of course it's temporary, and he needs to show more to impress management." ”
The reporter asked: "What is your assessment of his performance in this game?" ”
"Obviously, he's still a bit of a kid, but he's also showing a positive side, which is what the team needs," Popovich said. ”
The reporter asked: "Will the factors of the Chinese market prompt this signing?" ”
Popovich said: "You can ask the manager of the team this question. ”
The reporter continued to ask: "That thunder water..."
"Oh yes, can you ask some other questions, our players were all doing well today, you can't just look at one person." Popovich apparently did not want to talk about the issue of thunderwater anymore.
After Popovich answered questions, reporters also asked the rest of the Spurs what they thought of the new colleague.
"Obviously, he made a couple of defensive mistakes at the beginning, but the good thing is that he made adjustments very quickly and young people make mistakes, but he's smart and he's talented," Gasol said. ”
Ginobili said: "He's still going to need to adapt to the team, he hasn't built a chemistry with us yet, but he seems to be humble. ”
"Oh, he's very aggressive, I like this kid, but he's a little less talkative, I don't think he's good English," said Dedmon. ”
Leonard said, "Ah, I don't know his name yet..."