Chapter 102: Siege and kill the wolves

The Spurs are the slowest team in the league, and at the start of the season, you don't think this team is going to be strong or threatening!

At the beginning of each season, ESPN selects the 30-team rankings for that season, and the San Antonio people seem to have been unpopular on this list, and whenever this authoritative list comes out, there must be no Spurs spot among the teams on the list.

But no one will ignore the aging Holy City team, as long as they have a GDP combination in their team and as long as their local coach is Popovich, they will be one of the most threatening teams in the league.

This season, this slow-burning team is playing much harder, this year's competitive pressure in the West is not ordinary, the Spurs under the leadership of Duncan and others, also played quite hard, facing the rising stars in the league, and those Mesozoic superstars who can't wait to grab power, the Spurs can be said to be not in a good situation.

However, the regular season is a long marathon, and being ahead doesn't mean you can always maintain your advantage, you have to be on the lookout for those behind you.

For the young Timberwolves, even though they are already in seventh place in the West, they can't let their guard down, because the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder behind them are not easy opponents to mess with.

Spurs are the most threatening one!

In tonight's game, the Spurs played solidly, and every offensive and defensive combination was implicitly in line with Popovich's good tactical philosophy, and this Holy City team is probably the best team in the league.

Not one of them!

Their roster is full of veterans who have played for eight or nine years, and in terms of tactical guidance, Popovich is a rare master tactician in the league.

It is also this team that has a large number of veterans with rich game experience, and their execution of tactics is also the highest in the league, perhaps because of the passage of time, their pace is slow, and their bounce is weak, but their understanding of tactics will not be reduced by half a point because of the passage of time, but will become more capable of playing due to the accumulation of years.

It stands to reason that in the fourth quarter of the game, the young and talented Timberwolves should have the advantage, and in tonight's game, fierce defense and lots of movement are not uncommon, and the players are fighting for that opportunity.

In such a high-intensity and high-consumption game, the San Antonios should be the most uncomfortable side, but when the game really reached the fourth quarter, things did not evolve as expected.

The Timberwolves, who were originally dominated by their youth and strength, are now on an equal footing with the Spurs' veterans, and even faintly fall behind.

This game was not like the Celtics, Li Shihao found offensive opportunities from the heavily defended Spurs defense several times in the fourth quarter through his personal ability, and wanted to blow the horn of counterattack.

But the old Spurs didn't make it easy for the Timberwolves to do this, the Spurs are old, but not soft, these aging veterans still gave the young Timberwolves several offensive and ferocious counterattacks in the fourth quarter, interrupting the Timberwolves' idea of trying to overtake.

The Spurs are indeed very good at playing, and the team is full of veterans, but the Spurs obviously know how to take advantage of the advantages better than the Boston Celtics, although in terms of strength, the Celtics are better, but in terms of how to play correctly, the Spurs are obviously the smartest guys in this league.

From the beginning of the game, the Spurs' generals had already thought that excessive physical exertion would occur in the final quarter of the game, and it was precisely because of this that the Spurs veterans had a reasonable distribution of physical strength, and there was no loss of strength.

Not only that, but the wise Spurs veterans also added a little "condiment" to the game, which made the game a little more difficult.

The young Timberwolves felt this in the first quarter of the game, with small actions and strength, some big defensive moves, and even some foul moves that should be blown off, all easily avoided in the referee's nonchalant eyes.

Tonight this is the home of the Spurs, this is the small town of San Antonio, and the young Timberwolves are obviously playing a little aggrieved, but they can only grit their teeth and hold on.

It can't be helped, home field advantage is a factor that exists in the league, and it also exists in Minnesota, and the players who play in this league understand it, and they can't change it, they can only adapt.

Although the young lads of the Timberwolves are young and energetic, and their physical strength is much more abundant than that of the aging Spurs, they can't withstand the "fresh seasoning" brought by the old spurs when they experience the pressure of high-intensity games.

The disadvantages are starting to come to the fore, the Timberwolves don't have a reasonable and deep bench lineup, and the Timberwolves have been able to play an impressive team record this season, obviously thanks much of the credit to the stability and chemistry of the starting lineup.

But the barrenness on the bench was clearly overshadowed by the glittering record.

In this battle with the Spurs, weaknesses began to be revealed, and even became a little fatal.

The Timberwolves' young lads are starting to show signs of physical exhaustion, starting with Ryan Gomez, who made a lot of good three-pointers tonight and was focused enough on the defensive end, so it is understandable that the physical exertion is huge.

Then there is Marc Gasol, Gasol Jr.'s physical exertion may be the highest in the team, and the calories consumed by the interior players on the field are not simple because of their height, not to mention that the focus of Gasol Jr.'s defense in tonight's game is the experienced Stone Buddha Duncan.

In terms of defense, the Timberwolves Gasol Jr. is indeed better than Kevin Love in this regard, and the team's interior defense gate is now also on Gasol Jr.

The final race is like the last lap of a 1,500-meter race, and when both teams have reached their last breath, the battle is who has more experience and who can last the longest.

Li Shihao was able to stand up at this time, he has always maintained the habit of long-distance running exercise, and his endurance kung fu is trained in this way, when the NCAA was crazy in March, facing the strong rival University of Connecticut, Syracuse University played six overtimes, Li Shihao, as the team's outside core, has spent a lot of energy on both offensive and defensive ends, but in the end it was they who had the last laugh.

But tonight's opponent is clearly a team of old hunters who want to hunt down their young wolves.

In the last quarter, Li Shihao gritted his teeth to resist the team's offensive banner when everyone was a little exhausted, and relied on his personal ability to play again and again, scoring 8 points with sudden shots, but it was still difficult to stop the Spurs' stable offensive and defensive rhythm.

The opponent is like a stable vehicle with every part of it, and it is clear that there is no absolute power to stop them.

In the end, when the final whistle blew, the bright red score of 112:101 over the stadium made Li Shihao and Lefu a little distracted and lonely.

If you lose, you lose without temper, and the strength of the opponent's team is not much different from them, but they are too experienced in the game, and they are far better than their own game.

It's a massacre where young wolves are rounded up by spicy San Antonio hunters!