The competition in the West this year is indeed fierce enough, and in all four playoff matchups, except for the Trail Blazers' 4-2 victory over the Rockets, the other three groups have all reached the seventh game. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On May 3, the Thunder and Clippers both defeated their opponents on their home courts, and the two teams are about to meet in the Western Conference semifinals. In a playoff game in the East on the same day, the Pacers also defeated the Hawks at home, knocking out the Hawks 4-3.

This obviously bodes very badly for the Lakers, as the three groups of the seven matchups were all won by the home team and eliminated by the away team. And the last game between the Lakers and the Spurs was held on the home court of the Spurs.

Back at the ATT Center Arena again, the Spurs are united, and the Spurs fans also make the Lakers feel the pressure on the Devil's home court.

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This slogan should be extremely familiar to the Lakers, beat-la, "beat the Lakers", in 1980 the Celtics played against the Philadelphia 76ers, the fans saw that there was no hope of winning, and the whole court shouted "beat-la", giving the hope of defeating the Lakers to their opponent Philadelphia. This slogan is especially loud in the playoffs, and for more than three decades, every opponent of the Lakers, whether directly or indirectly, has played it on the home court whenever it is a key battle to enter the playoffs.

Today, that slogan resounded at ATT Centre Court.

"If the Lakers can win this year, it will be a miracle! It's not just the Black Eight Miracle, the comeback from 0-3 down, but no one has ever done it. A photojournalist sighed.

"If this is the home court of the Lakers, it is possible, but this is the home court of the Spurs, and there is no hope for the Lakers. The Spurs are just too strong this year! Mike Wells spoke. He's an ace sports reporter for ESPN, and this time he was on hand to cover the spotlight battle.

"But if you look at the Lakers' lineup, it's not weak." The photojournalist spoke.

"The Lakers' lineup is not weak, there are inside and outside, and there are top star players, but the two sides are not at the same level at the tactical level, D'Antoni is still a little worse than Popovich! Just wait and see, this game will be a tactical victory, just like it was a few years ago! Wells spoke.

As the two spoke, the game had already begun, and the two sides were still in the regular starting lineup, and nothing had changed.

Of course, the Lakers still play run-and-shoot, focusing on fast offense and fast-paced ball-passing, but what D'Antoni didn't expect was that the Spurs chose to play against the bomb again!

It's "again" indeed, like when the Spurs played the Phoenix Suns in the playoffs.

D'Antoni's mind couldn't help but go back to a few years ago, when he was the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, a team that was one of the top three teams in the West for several years in a row and was considered the most powerful contender for the championship.

However, in the playoffs, the Suns lost to the Spurs, losing 1-4 to the Spurs in the 2005 Western Conference Finals, and 2-4 to the Spurs in the 2006 Western Conference Semifinals. And at that time, the Spurs actually fought against the Suns!

It was one of the most painful experiences of D'Antoni's coaching career, and he vaguely remembers the first game between the two sides, when the Suns scored 32 points in the fourth quarter on their home court, which is a normal number for a bombarded team to score 30+ in a single quarter. The opponent, the Spurs, scored 43 points in the fourth quarter!

At that time, the Spurs dared to compete with the Pistons' "Five Tigers" on defense, and the Suns, who were good at bombardment, could not compare to the Spurs who were inclined to defense when they played normally, which was really a profound lesson for D'Antoni.

And now, the Spurs are doing it again, they have to compete with the Lakers on offense, and this time on the Spurs' home court, they have an advantage.

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"Tony Parker!" The DJ on the scene chanted Parker's name as he scored again.

Playing against the bomb, Parker must be more efficient than the aging Duncan, and the current Nash is also a hole on the defensive end, Parker can easily score on Nash's head.

At the same time, Danny Green and Ginobili, who came off the bench, also played very well. And Split was a little bit out of this tactic, so he was replaced early. On the contrary, Boris Dior got more opportunities to play.

Every time the Spurs score, the scene will boil, and the shouts of "" are still endless, but the Lakers are not behind the score.

"Zhang Guan, three-point shot! Again! The ball was played beautifully, and the ball was thrown in against Leonard's defense. 28-28 draw, the Lakers equalized again! ”

"Zhang Guan, step back and shoot a three-pointer, it's in! 37-38, the Lakers narrowed the gap to 1 point again! ”

"Zhang Guan holds the ball, time is running out, 5 seconds, 4 seconds, 3 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second, three-point shot! Entered! Three-pointer at the buzzer! This goal Leonard has been sealed in Zhang Guan's face, but Zhang Guan still scored the ball! At the end of the first half, with Zhang Guan's three-pointer at the whistle, the Lakers were 64-65, temporarily trailing the Spurs by one point. ”

Popovich looked at the stats and suddenly had a feeling of distraction.

In the first half of the game, Zhang Guan made a total of 23 shots, but the key thing is that 15 of them were shots outside the three-point line, and Zhang Guan shot 9 three-pointers, and the three-point shooting rate reached 60%! Just relying on three-pointers, Zhang Guan scored 27 points, and counting two-point shots and free throws, Zhang Guan scored a full 37 points in the first half!

More than 30 points in the half, and there are some active athletes who can do it, such as James and Durant, really let them score desperately, and 30 points in the half is not difficult. Chamberlain once scored 59 points in the half, and Kobe Bryant also scored 55 points in the half.

In terms of hit rate, Zhang Guan is not very exaggerated. Kobe Bryant's 81-point game that year, the shooting rate was above 60%, the two 65-point and 62-point single-game shooting rates were 59% and 58% respectively, and the shooting rate reached 61% when the single-game was 61 points. Those strongmen who can score more than 50 points in a game have their shooting percentage at around 60%.

However, what worried Popovich the most was the three-pointer who shot 9-of-15!

In NBA history, the most three-pointers in a single game are Jr-Smith's 22, and so far Zhang Guan has made 15 three-pointers, and he only needs to shoot 7 three-pointers in the second half to tie J.R. Smith's record, and 8 more three-pointers to break this record.

However, at that time, J.R. Smith shot 22 three-pointers and only hit 10, but Zhang Guan shot 9 in the first half!

In the NBA, Kobe Bryant hit the most three-pointers in a single game, and he shot 12 of 18 three-pointers against the SuperSonics in 2003, shooting 66.7% from three-point range, a record that was not broken until 2016 by the perverted Curry, when Curry hit 13 of 17 three-point shots, and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 76.5%.

Today, Zhang Guan's three-point shooting rate is exactly 60%, which is not as good as the Kobe Bryant back then, and far worse than the Curry in the future, but it is enough to shock Popovich.

When the Warriors won the championship next year, the NBA began to popularize three-point shooting, at that time, some teams in the NBA who were good at shooting three-pointers were able to shoot more than 30 three-pointers per game, and the Rockets under D'Antoni were even more perverted, averaging 86.8 shots per game, of which 40 were three-point shots, and almost half of the team's offense was completed outside the three-point line.

And this season's Spurs, who only averaged 21.4 three-pointers per game, how could Mr. Popovich be shocked when he watched Zhang Guan throw 15 three-pointers in the first half.

Throwing three-pointers, this is exactly the way to play after three years, and even after three years, the Spurs have experience against the Warriors, but they still have a headache when they encounter the Rockets who throw three-pointers. Now that he met a team that played bombardment and threw three-pointers in advance, Popovich was a little overwhelmed for a while.

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In the second half, when Zhang Guan made two more three-pointers, the commentator began to sit still.

"Zhang Guan, he only needs to throw one more three-pointer to tie Kobe's record of 12 three-pointers in a single game! Now that the third quarter is less than halfway through, it seems that Zhang Guan has broken this record, and there is no suspense! As soon as the commentator's voice fell, Zhang Guan was one step away from the three-point line and made an early shot.

"Three-pointer, in! The twelfth! Zhang Guan's twelfth three-pointer shot in this game! He's tied Bryant's record for hitting 12 three-pointers in a single game, and if he made one more shot, he would be able to break that record! The commentator roared excitedly, and in front of the TV, countless fans were also excited.

NBA records certainly don't exist every day, and fans spend time watching games because they want to see exciting matchups, and if a new record can be witnessed, no matter whether the game is exciting or not, no matter what the outcome of the game is, it is worth the trip for fans. For neutral fans, Zhang Guan's performance deserves their applause.

It's just that for the fans at the Spurs' home stadium, this is not good news, being broken by the opponent on their home ground, and it is such a crucial game, it is indeed a very demoralizing thing.

The most morale hurt is Leonard, he is responsible for defending Zhang Guan, as the top defender in the league, even if he meets LeBron James, Leonard is not at all intimidated, but in today's game, he has never been able to prevent Zhang Guan's three-point shooting.

James is a player who relies more on breaking, his mid-to-long-range shooting accuracy is not very high, and he is the kind of player who doesn't have to defend too much but can't let him shoot. In the future, the Warriors will defend James, and even take two steps back to defend, which is to completely look down on James's shooting.

James's shooting is really nothing in the eyes of the Warriors' "perverted quasi-quasi". However, in the 2004 playoffs, the Warriors' "perverted quasi-quasi" were still in their infancy.

NBA mid-point defensive three-point shooters, who have always been based on interference, did not go up to desperately stick to the defense, and went up to desperately stick to the defense of a three-point shooter, Maddy has told the whole league with a wonderful performance of 35 seconds, what the result will be. However, when Curry's "perverted quasi" appeared, no one in the entire NBA could prevent him. Parker even said that the best way to defend Curry is to keep him from receiving the ball, and once Curry receives the ball, the only thing that can be done is to start praying.

Of course, later, the NBA's rear tailgate also summed up some ways to deal with Curry, such as using height to exert pressure, disrupting Curry's dribbling rhythm, full-court defense, early packing, etc., every guard has a method specifically for Curry, and most of them interfere with Curry before he shoots.

It's just that the current Leonard, where does he know these tricks, he still defends Zhang Guan in the same way as he defended three-point shots in the past, which is naturally deflated.

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13 three-pointers looked like it was only a matter of time, and for the Spurs, they would have liked it to come later.

But what should have come is always coming, and now it is only halfway through the third quarter, and Zhang Guan has a lot of time to shoot his 13th three-pointer.

"Zhang Guan, three-point shot! The pop-up box is out! ”

The Spurs home fans let out a sigh of relief, but just then, Whiteside burst out of the crowd and flicked the ball to the outside. Bazemore snatched the ball and immediately broke through with the ball, attracting the attention of the Spurs and distributing the ball to Zhang Guan.

"Zhang Guan, another three-pointer, in! The 13th three-pointer, Zhang Guan broke Kobe's record of 12 three-pointers in a single game! ”

The fans at the stadium let out a sigh of disappointment, and Popovich immediately called a short timeout.

In fact, the Spurs did not fall behind in the score, and the main purpose of Popovich's timeout was to stabilize the morale of the army and keep the players from being affected psychologically.

It has to be said that the Spurs players are still very stable, they did not show panic, but continued to implement the tactics developed by Popovich.

I have to say that the Spurs' firepower is really very strong, even if they play against each other, they are not weaker than the Lakers at all, and the Spurs' defense is obviously better than the Lakers.

And at this time in the game, the Lakers can only continue to believe in Zhang Guan's hand.

"Three-pointer, again, 14th! Hit the 14th three-pointer in a single game! Zhang Guan has set a new record! At the same time, this is also Zhang Guan's 23rd shot in this game, and he broke the record of 22 three-point shots made by J.R. Smith in a single game! ”

At the end of the third quarter, Zhang Guan made his 14th three-pointer, and then the Spurs used a time-running offense to end the third quarter, at which time the score was 92-94, and the Spurs still led by two points.

For the Spurs, Duncan had 12 points, Parker 16, Ginobili 11 points, Leonard 11 points, Danny Green 12 points, and Dior 10 points. And Zhang Guan alone scored 56 points!

"56 points in the third quarter, today's Zhang Guan is too terrifying, do you want to go for 80 points?"

"If Zhang Guan plays the fourth quarter, maybe he can really break the 80-point mark, and there are still 24 points left from 80 points, and for the top scorers, 24 points in a single quarter is not impossible."

"The Spurs also have six players in double figures, and Mills and Belinelli are on the verge of scoring 10 points. If they had been given a few more shots in the fourth quarter, they would have scored in double digits. ”

"I can see that this is a battle between stars and teams, and the Lakers are now completely relying on Zhang Guan's three-point shot, and the Spurs are just five people together."

"That's right, it's two completely different basketball philosophies, whether it's teamwork or it's superstars. The final result is about to be revealed. ”

"The fourth quarter has begun! Look, Zhang Guan has not rested, he is still on the field! So he's going to play the fourth quarter! ”

"Zhang Guan didn't rest in the third quarter, and then he had to play the fourth quarter again, he was going to work hard."

"The Lakers are two points behind, and at this time, they can't fight anymore! D'Antoni didn't dare to let Zhang Guan go off the field at all. ”

"Three-pointer, again! Zhang Guan's three-point shot is scored again! The 15th three-pointer, 95-94, the Lakers finally overtook it! ”

Zhang Guan made the 15th three-pointer of the game to help the Lakers overtake the score.

In the next second, a tsunami-like sound erupted at the scene.

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Spurs fans don't accept being behind, they're going to take down Los Angeles!

“！”

The Spurs players clenched their fists excitedly, glaring at each Lakers player, their expressions revealing a strong sense of battle.

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D'Antoni unconsciously felt his hands begin to tremble, and he knew that the moment the Lakers overtook the score, the decisive moment had finally arrived!

Said the passer

It feels like it's getting better, it's the end of the month, let's try to brew another outbreak, let's explode again before we end!