Popovich was much more cautious in this game than in the first game, the first game was spent on lessons, but the second game was about to show real strength from the beginning! He decisively turned on the barely used counter-bombardment mode!

The Spurs suddenly accelerated the defensive transition, forcing the Lakers to quickly tackle the offense, and they were ready to force up the tempo and the Lakers started to fight Biao. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

From the round just now, Popovich saw that positional warfare does not necessarily have an advantage, the Lakers have two positional battle masters Kobe and Gasol in these five starters, Nash and Liu Ren's three points are very good, Green's organizational ability is so good that Popovich scolded a group of people in Oakland for being pigs, so he immediately gestured to the players to change the style of play.

I have to say that the title of Popovich's No. 1 coach is not given for nothing, if he wants to build a strong defensive team like Larry Brown, he can easily do it, let him run and bomb like D'Antoni He can do better!

The Lakers focused on defending the opposition in three-point and mid-range, so Popovich picked up the speed and focused on attacking the basket.

D'Antoni, who has begun to shift to pay attention to defense, did not expect the Spurs to play in the playoffs or specialize in the interior, he is still inexperienced, and was once again brought into the rhythm of the Spurs by Popovich and forced to bombard.

Although Liu Ren entered a state of rage, Liu Ren made 8 of 10 in the first quarter, 7 of 10 free throws, and scored 23 points, but the scores of the two sides have been tight!

The Lakers scored 35 points in the first quarter, but the Spurs also scored 33 points!

Feeling that the eyes of everyone in the audience finally gathered on him, Liu Ren enjoyed this feeling very much.

At the end of the intermission, at the beginning of the second quarter, Liu Ren looked at Duncan, who seemed to have completely changed his spirit and showed a solemn expression, although he had seen him many times, he was still very excited in his heart.

Liu Ren looked at the guy in front of him, probably the most powerful forward in NBA history, Tim Duncan!

At the end of the 90s of the last century, the Spurs went from a team that was in the early stages of rebuilding and had just received the top pick, to suddenly promoted to a championship team, and won the championship in the shrinking season, relying on Duncan! He won the first team and the second team of the best defensive team from his first season in the league, which means that he was the strongest forward in the league from the first day he entered the league! Or even the number one striker in history!

But Duncan is also going to get old, and now he feels more and more powerless every year, and he now very much hopes that the team will have someone like he took the flag of the team in the hands of the Admiral, and take over the burden in his hands.

But the Spurs can't attract stars, and a team that needs to keep winning has a lot of things that are necessary, such as a defensive system, an interior defensive gate, and an outside defensive elite.

Now that the system is in place, there are also perimeter defensive guards, and there is a young perimeter defensive gate and offensive ability.

Or like the Heat, who have a super strong outside defense combination, if Liu Ren and Leonard are paired, Duncan believes that Popovich will definitely create a stronger outside defense than the Heat.

Because if you want to keep winning, you have to defend well! Whether it is a defensive system composed of inside and outside lines or an outside defensive encirclement, there is no problem, as long as you can prevent the opponent, it is a good defense!

But now the Spurs don't have an inside line that can take Duncan's class, and there is no other outside line that is comparable to Leonard, so all this fell to Duncan again, fortunately, the Spurs were too strong in the regular season, and Duncan didn't have to work too hard, but when it came to the important opponents in the playoffs, he started the days of being a father and a mother again.

Liu Ren's biggest regret is that he has not seen how strong Jordan is at the peak, and only saw a trace of his edge in some clips, but he has watched the showdown between Kobe Bryant and Duncan at his peak on TV, and both of them are invincible at their peak!

Duncan attacked twice in the first quarter and was replaced, and there was no consumption, and now it's time for him to play!

Duncan scored two points with a trademark 45-degree shot to tie the score.

The Lakers attacked, Kobe Bryant was resting, he didn't end the first quarter, the Lakers started the bombardment, D'Antoni was very cautious today, and the starters played longer in the first quarter.

It became Liu Ren who attacked with the ball! He changed direction and got half a body position, and then pushed Leonard into the interior as usual.

In the face of Duncan on the inside, Liu Ren's previous advantages are gone, in terms of speed and explosiveness, Liu Ren can be called the best in the league, but Duncan is too strong, his defensive awareness and footsteps are too powerful, he can always reach out to interfere at critical times, and the strength is still strong, after all, he is a guy who has been hard steel with O'Neal and won a few times.

Duncan's defensive prediction allowed him to stand in the direction of Liu Ren's offense one step ahead, which made up for this very well.

Liu Ren's best power-crushing inside face frame play lost its effect in front of Duncan.

Liu Ren was forced to stop the ball, and seeing that it was going to be three seconds, he could only call a timeout.

"Tim, I have to admit that you're strong." Liu Ren said to Duncan during the timeout.

"You're also very strong, it's the first time I've encountered a situation where the outside line comes to the inside line and uses his body to fight against me, but I can't stop it." Duncan is known in the league for being very sullen, but when he heard Liu Ren's praise, he immediately replied, "I really didn't expect you to look so thin and have such strength." ”

Liu Ren was honored by Duncan's praise, and he always felt that it was a great pity that Duncan did not win the best defensive player.

But this is also something that can't be helped, Duncan's biggest feature is more than ten years of stability, Duncan's peak was the four seasons from 01 to 05, he was invincible at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends in those years, and the Spurs were able to win the championship in those years by Duncan alone.

In those years, Duncan was definitely one of the best in the league on the defensive end, but he met Ben Wallace and Artest, who focused on defense, Duncan's defensive ability throughout his career was definitely stronger and more stable than these two, but these two belonged to the highlight performance, and these two always suppressed the stable Duncan in those years and won all the best defensive players.

After 05 years, Ben Wallace and Artest both declined, and the defense of the entire league began to decline because of the offensive wave set off by the Suns and Warriors.

Born at the wrong time, Duncan can say the same when he won the award of Best Defensive Player.