262. Fishing
The referee blows a short whistle, throws the ball into the air, and jumps the ball. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Gasol and Duncan jump ball!
At this age, the vertical bounce of the two is not too much, and the height and arm span are also about the same, in general, Gasol, who is a few years younger, has more advantages in jumping balls, but the spirit is completely different!
Gasol has not had much hope for this season, and the Spurs have indeed been a little too strong this year. He is already planning training for the summer and looking forward to improving his young team-mates next season, with a contract still to go.
And Duncan is still as steady as a rock, without a little change in mood.
Duncan won the jump ball for the first time in this series!
The Spurs attacked first, and Parker advanced to the frontcourt.
The Spurs were in the same position as ever, with Duncan in the low post, Dio in the bottom left corner, Danny Green in the 45-degree angle on the right, Dio in the high post ready to receive the ball, and Leonard in charge of blocking and pick-and-roll.
Parker hit Nash, it was called an easy one, one step past Nash, Parker burst to the three-point line.
Parker entered the three-point line to attract the defense and passed to Duncan, Duncan shook Gasol away with a turn, and then Green who came over the defense raised high and gently put the ball into the basket!
With long arms and a soft feel, Duncan's physical talent is the foundation for him to dominate the court at such an age!
From 1-0 on the road to two consecutive losses at home, the overly powerful Spurs have dealt a blow to the Lakers, a team dominated by young people.
The Spurs' offense is very smooth, and they don't need to look at their teammates to know where their teammates are, while the Lakers' morale is low.
The Spurs played very aggressively, Parker, Duncan, and Dio kept hitting the interior after blocking and dismantling, and Dio changed his bad habits after playing like that in the first game, and perfectly executed Popovich's task, Liu Ren provoked several times to no avail, and could only watch him like a fish in water in the Spurs system.
Kobe Bryant and Liu Ren worked hard, but unfortunately their teammates were really hit and couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the two, the two could only hold the ball and hit the inside line like holding an explosive bag to blow up the bunker, the Spurs defense on the outside was too good, and the mid-range Kobe Bryant took the ball and wrapped it, while the Lakers did not have a second mid-distance master, so they could only impact the inside.
Duncan seemed to be back to the top, sending three big hats in a row, directly suppressing the momentum of Kobe Bryant and Liu Ren's breakthrough inside line and stepping on the soles of his feet.
Duncan's block is the most distinctive, he doesn't jump, he predicts the opponent's shooting line at the beginning, and the hat comes down directly when he stands, and his block direction is often where his teammates are, and he can directly counterattack, this kind of block has been practiced countless times!
The Lakers were forced to float and shoot from the outside, and the Spurs defended very well one-on-one, and the Lakers players had a very difficult outside shot and were difficult to hit.
The Spurs' team offense played vigorously, counterattacking constantly, Dio sent 6 counterattack long pass assists in the first quarter, and the Spurs led by 16 points 29-13 in the first quarter.
Like the previous game, in the second quarter, the Spurs did not relax, the first half of the quarter suddenly started to bombard, suddenly opened the difference, in the second half of the quarter replaced Duncan to play positional warfare, Duncan in the interior defense dominance is getting stronger and stronger, at the end of the half has already got 5 blocks, the Spurs team has reached the realm of play, this playoffs they are too strong! In the second quarter, the score was 33-20.
62-33 at halftime, Spurs led by 29 points at halftime!
At the beginning of the second half, the Spurs directly switched to the bench lineup, thinking that the Lakers would give up the game, but they didn't expect the Lakers to still send the main lineup.
Among the young Lakers, only Liu Ren still has fighting spirit, Whiteside, Green and others were beaten by Duncan on the inside and lost confidence, and Duncan almost touched their heads and said: The future is yours.
The young players of the Lakers on the outside were taught to be people by Ginobili and Parker, and Leonard's dedication to defense was quite terrifying, and he couldn't prevent Liu Ren, but he could help defend others!
The Spurs are saying to the young people of the Lakers with practical actions: your basketball dream!
Veterans Gasol and Nash are strategically no longer fighting, Nash wants not to get injured and looks forward to the growth of young people next season, Gasol is the same, the former is to win the championship more securely, and the latter has already won the championship and doesn't care about this year.
The only ones who have been fighting are Liu Ren and Kobe!
Liu Ren waved his arms and frantically attacked the inside, which really scared Popovich, and quickly asked the players to loosen up their defense to avoid the players from getting injured, and simply attacked the Lakers.
Spurs can defend opponents and fight against opponents, which is why they can change the tempo and mess up with opponents!
Liu Ren and Kobe Bryant both scored 17 points in a single quarter, and the two led the Lakers to a 40-point performance in a single quarter, but the Spurs also scored 37 points.
The Lakers trailed the score to 73-99 at the end of the third quarter, still trailing by 26 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Lakers gave up, Kobe Bryant played too hard, D'Antoni was really afraid that he had something wrong with his Achilles tendon just a few months ago, although theoretically the injured area would become more tenacious, but no one would take this risk for a game that was already inconsequential and very difficult to win!
Everyone can see that this year's Spurs are no worse than the dominance of the peak of the OK combination! Unbeatable!
The fourth quarter became garbage time, and a group of benches on the Spurs' side played like robots according to the Spurs' system, and the benches on the Lakers' side were blown up.
127-100, the Spurs defeated the Lakers with a score of 27 points in the fifth game to advance to the Finals!
The main players of the Lakers sat on the sidelines in a daze, Liu Ren refused to leave the ATT center for a long time, and in four consecutive games, from a surprise of 1-0 to three consecutive defeats, the score became 1-3 and was basically eliminated, and now it was eliminated in a fiasco on the road, everything came too fast!
Although Liu Ren knows that this year's Spurs are among the best teams in the history of championships, he thinks he can win, and he thinks that his group is no worse than anyone else!
"Next year! You're still young, don't worry! Bryant patted Liu Ren on the shoulder and walked to the locker room.
The Spurs are already celebrating winning the Western Conference championship and waiting for the league to issue the division championship flag, and Kobe Bryant admitted the fact that he lost earlier than Liu Ren, after all, he has failed, he knows how to adjust himself, but he doesn't want to see that picture at a glance.
And Liu Ren watched the whole picture on the spot, he wants to remember this moment and remember that he was eliminated in the playoffs for the first time in the real sense.
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After winning the game and drinking to celebrate, and losing to drink to relieve their worries, a group of Lakers people drank in the chartered hotel, and some even went to find exotic women living in the local area, and vented their dissatisfaction while drinking and saying unclean words.
Liu Ren sat alone in the corner, he was very unwilling, he wanted to beat the strongest opponent, this year's Spurs are obviously the strongest team in the past ten years, and the Spurs in the future will never be as strong as this year, even if they really beat the Spurs in the future, they are not the current Spurs.
The pain of losing and the fact that there will be no such perverted opponent in the future, Liu Ren accepts the fact of losing with mixed feelings.