Chapter 245: Driving the Breakthrough
The Spurs will be particularly strong in odd-numbered years, Duncan has already won three championships, and for the fourth, the Spurs' Dinghaishen Needle is also full of confidence. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
From the start of the game, the Spurs didn't seem to be affected by the road, taking advantage of the height advantage on the outside to score first.
Then came Duncan's efficient performance, scoring and defending everything, especially three consecutive blocks on the inside, which directly allowed the Spurs to firmly grasp the lead.
Under Duncan's strong play, the Knicks' interior problems were completely exposed, and when Eddie Curry couldn't fully show his strength on the offensive end, the team's problems were not something that could be easily remedied on the outside.
After losing more than a dozen rebounds, even after Lehi hit three three-pointers and scored 15 points in the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers lost at home for the first time in the playoffs.
Now the people who saw that they were unhappy were happy, and said that the Knicks couldn't do it, and sure enough, they lost the first game.
When you lose, it doesn't help to explain, "We didn't do well in a lot of places, so we lost, it's that simple on the basketball court, the score will reflect everything, but the finals are not a game that is guaranteed to be won or lost." ”
The second game will not be a matter of life or death, but it is likely to be the direction of the game, especially against a team like Spurs, if they can't win at home, they don't want to win in the end.
The Knicks need someone to step up and give their teammates confidence and lead them to a better game.
It was the Spurs who won the jump ball again, and Duncan took the ball with his back in the low post at the beginning, and the Knicks chose to pinch it without hesitation.
Duncan passed the ball to the perimeter, Parker changed direction to change Francis's defensive center of gravity, and then hit a pull-up jumper in a style that was simple and practical, making it difficult to guard against.
Next, the Knicks attacked, and the ball still passed to Lehi's hands, but this time he was standing in the low post.
Bowen defended very tightly, clinging to him from the last game, with some small movements that made people tired of it.
Lehi would have had the ball in the low post and would have been able to get past Duncan if he squeezed it in, so he had fewer options, but he did it anyway.
After he got the ball, he just sat inside, Bowen's defense is very annoying, but Bowen's lack of strength is also a fact, he can't resist Lehi like James.
Lehi resisted twice rhythmically, his body blocked the opponent, not giving Bowen a chance to pick up the ball, it was not easy to pinch him at this time, unless he made up his mind when he received the ball, but the Spurs did not do that, they were more confident than the Cavaliers.
Lehi can immediately turn around and jump on the pinch, and the same is true if he doesn't get on the pinch.
Lehi resisted Bowen and made a rhythmic turn-over jumper, not even leaning back, and hit directly.
That's what Lehi is capable of, he can break down the defense in his own way, and then shoot the ball into the basket like a shooting drill.
In terms of offense, the Spurs' choice is very obvious, Parker, Duncan, Ginobili in rotation time, is not as often able to bloom more, but it is also true that these three people are difficult to defend, Parker's rhythm, Ginobili's rhythm, Duncan's solidity.
And because of Duncan's existence, Lehi, the Knicks' strongest defensive weapon, could not play a key role.
However, after the Knicks put up their strongest defense, it was difficult for the rest of the Spurs to score.
Bowen and Oberto needless to say, the Spurs didn't need him to score in the first place, and Bowen met Lehi and was kept a clean sheet.
What saw the effect was Finley's point, Finley was getting older, and after Marbury strengthened his physical confrontation, his height advantage was useless, and his shots after several confrontations were all iron.
The Spurs couldn't score as much as they relied on to score on GDP alone, but their defense also limited the Knicks' shooting percentage, and the two sides played more intensely than in the first game.
With Lehi down the post and Channing Flair outside the three-point line, the Knicks' tactics were all about disrupting the Spurs' defense.
After Lehi forced Bowen a few times, the Spurs also tried to defend themselves, and Duncan defended Lehi in the low post, but Duncan couldn't follow Channing Frye out.
But soon the Spurs realized that this was unreliable, and like Duncan, Lehi could easily pull away to shoot or break through, and his speed made Duncan helpless.
Duncan stood on the inside line to assist in the defense and posed a great threat to Lehi, and coming up to defend alone was to give away points.
This is also the Spurs' regular season season two games played without Lehi's Knicks, and some impressions of Lehi flowed.
After some tossing, the two sides fought to a 20:20 tie in the first quarter.
At the start of the quarter, Crawford and Ginobili both hit clean three-pointers.
Ginobili ranked third in the sixth man's vote, not that his ability is worse than Crawford and Barbossa, it should be said that he has stronger comprehensive ability, but he was almost the main force in the first half of the season, otherwise, Crawford's defending sixth man may be a little hanging.
Fortunately, the Spurs' bench lineup is not worth worrying about except for Ginobili.
The Knicks were more capable of scoring off the bench, and when the main players of the two sides came on, the Knicks led by four points.
But Duncan came up and forced a foul on Eddie Curry and hit both free throws, and then Parker made another mid-range shot to tie the score.
As against the Cavaliers, the defense of both sides did not give the players many scoring opportunities, so it was still a difficult feeling to be easily caught up by 4 points.
When he was anxious, Lehi suddenly made a strong shot outside the three-point line, and the score of the Knicks was in the lead.
The Spurs are not in a hurry, and it is still Parker's breakthrough and Duncan's chisel on the inside.
Lehi's three-point strong shot can only be done with feeling, and it is not possible to shoot like this every offense, otherwise it will increase the number of irons.
The Spurs' defense has made the Knicks' offense less fluid than it was in the regular season, and the outside shooting percentages of Marbury and Francis have been affected, which is why they have been slow to get into the offensive rhythm, and Duncan's help defense is a big reason.
The biggest feature of the Knicks' outside line is that they have a strong impact, so when they encounter a strong inside line, they will be affected, and to break this situation, they will reduce their individual performance, but in this way, they will lose their advantage.
How to achieve a balance between individuals and teams, this is difficult to grasp very appropriately, and this is also a problem that the Knicks will not encounter in the regular season, because the team that can cause them this kind of trouble is probably the Spurs.
That's why they're going to change the way they attack a little bit, and they need Lehi to be driven, which is not the same as before.
And Lehi, when the rest of his teammates were restricted, did it with his steady scoring. (To be continued.) )