Chapter 842: 06 Years of History Repeated!
San Antonio, AT&T Center, Game 3 between the Lakers and Spurs. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The Spurs played well overall in the last game, especially Bertans' super high three-point shooting rate helped the Spurs, and they may not be so magical in today's game, but for Xie Chen, even if they don't play as well as the last game, this game will be difficult to play today, because on the road, he still has to face the legendary Spurs.
The Spurs have won five NBA championships, six Western Conference championships, and five regular season firsts in the past few decades, and they are the team with the most championships in addition to the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls.
And the current Spurs are also a team that is enough to compete for the championship, that is to say, Xie Chen has to face two championship teams of different eras in a row, play two games, and win.
This is too difficult, far from being comparable to the thunder.
Because considering that playing the legendary Spurs may lose the game and lose the system ability, after losing the system ability, Xie Chen can still break through and score in the middle of the shot, but he can't stage a three-point game, so he wants to use Curry's three-point ability before playing the legendary game.
However, the Spurs' defense today will be the same as the previous two games, and from the beginning will let Leonard stare at Xie Chen's three-point shooting and will not let him shoot.
"In the first two games, Leonard's three-point defense against Xie was good, as long as he continues to limit him today, the Spurs still have a big chance of winning, I hope Nick Young can also shoot consecutive three-pointers like Bertans, he has the ability." Carmelo Anthony of the superstar watchers said.
The only members of the superstar viewing group who came to the scene today were Anthony, Hassan Whiteside and Carl Dons, and the others stayed in Los Angeles.
Popovich thinks that he has also done a good job in defending Xie Chen in these two games, especially the control of Xie Chen's emotions, so that Xie Chen has always hesitated in the choice of attack, Popovich believes that in this third game, Xie Chen will still play cautiously and will not play personal heroism.
In fact, Popovich is not afraid of Xie Chen's decent play, but he is afraid that Xie Chen will mess up in an orderly manner, which will make Popovich not know how to deal with it.
As soon as the third game began, Popovich was taken by surprise.
Xie Chen held the ball just after half court and came to a position near the three-point line, center Mozgov stepped forward to cover, Xie Chen did not break through directly, but handed the ball to Mozgov, and then moved inside without the ball.
Leonard naturally followed in, but Xie Chen suddenly turned around and retreated from the three-point line to the outside of the three-point line, and at the same time Mozgov passed the ball to Xie Chen, when Leonard wanted to keep up again, he was already blocked by Mozgov, Xie Chen's position to receive the ball was one step away from the three-point line, and when Gasol's speed was slow and he didn't keep up, Xie Chen jumped directly for three points.
Swish!
The first three-pointer hits.
"Looks like Xie is going to open tonight's three points!" Downs said excitedly.
Popovich was a little surprised, now the two sides are tied 1-1, it stands to reason that Xie Chen didn't need to start betting on the game with unreasonable three points so early, and it was when the game came up, how did he know that Xie Chen was worried about losing his ability to use three points in advance, so Popovich didn't do anything to deal with it.
Then, Xie Chen also continued to shoot three points in a row, the shooting rate was not high, but it was not low, but he didn't hit continuously.
"Thank you, what the hell is this guy doing?" Popovich didn't understand, why did he fight for three-pointers as soon as he came up? He looked at the Lakers' coach Luke Wharton, who didn't understand why Xie Chen did this, but was just informed by Xie Chen in advance, but as soon as he saw Popovich's eyes, he immediately pretended to be inscrutable and intrigued.
"This rookie is going to do things with me in the playoffs in his first year." Popovich didn't like the way Luke Wharton looked at him.
In the first quarter, Xie Chen led the Spurs all the way with an unreasonable three-point shot, but he didn't lead too much, and within a few minutes of the start of the second quarter, he was chased by the Spurs' bench.
In the Spurs' bench today, it was not Bertans who was amazed, but a substitution, Jonathan Simmons.
Three years ago at this time, Simmons was considering giving up basketball in favor of a 9-to-5 job, but now, he's showing off his talent in the NBA's Western Conference semifinals against one of the league's most versatile players.
During a Spurs fast break, Simmons received the basketball in the front and started to jump very far from the basket, Simmons slid with one hand and split the dunk, when he lifted the basketball high, many people doubted that the ball would dunk away, but in the end, he still dunked the ball into the basket.
The Spurs have rarely had players as physically gifted.
Anthony sighed: "I have an impression of this guy, fortunately he didn't give up basketball back then, he brought a lot of energy to the Spurs, his dunks are amazing, and his three-point shot is getting better and better." ”
Simmons is different from last year's No. 1 pick, this Jonathan Simmons is an undrafted pick, he once didn't know where his future was, and he once wanted to give up basketball, until now he finally made a name for himself and had the right stage, he waited too long for this day.
"Just let the world remember my name, Jonathan Simmons!" Simmons is very excited, he can actually jump from close to this ball, and there is no need to jump so high and so laborious, there are no defenders in front of him, he can even simply go to the basket to complete the offense, but he has to do such a dunk action, because he knows how influential Xie Chen is, today's game must be watched by many people, and he wants to show himself in front of fans all over the world.
Xie Chen is still resting off the court, and he is also amazed by Simmons' dunk.
But what he didn't expect was that Simmons would dare to provoke Xie Chen next!
Simmons made a steal near the three-point line, and then, immediately spread his speed and rushed to the frontcourt, just now Simmons showed his super bounce and dunk ability, and the Lakers' defenders did not get bored and gave up the chase.
Faced with an empty frontcourt and no defenders chasing after him, Simmons had no worries at all.
"My show time is coming!"
Simmons actually started jumping at the free-throw line this time!
"Free throw line dunk?" Everyone was shocked, Simmons dared to do this in front of Xie Chen!
Bang!
Simmons made a perfect glide and then dunked the basketball into the basket, and after the dunk, Simmons roared hard.
Someone in the Spurs provoked Xie Chen with a free throw line dunk? This is something that no one expected!
I saw Xie Chen, who was originally sitting quietly on the bench, immediately stood up.
"Xie was enraged! He's going to play Jiaozuo! Carl Towns said, looking at the Lakers player bench.
Anthony also smiled: "The world is really unpredictable, a guy who wanted to be a barber a few years ago now appears on the court of the Western Conference semifinals to provoke the best basketball players in the world, this guy is really kind." ”
Everyone can see Simmons's provocation to Xie Chen, and everyone knows that Xie Chen is the one who will definitely respond to the provocation, playing the spurs originally made Xie Chen feel a little dull, because there was no trash talk and no provocation, which made him feel that there was no passion for playing, and Simmons did this, which was exactly what Xie Chen wanted.
However, before Xie Chen came on the court and staged a dunk duel between Xie Chen and Simmons, Popovich on the Spurs side immediately replaced Simmons.
"Hahaha, Simmons finished pretending, and the first person who couldn't stand it was his coach!"
"Simmons: Jesus has wings on my back, and I'm the 16th champion Simmons!"
"Popovich: Don't be busy with heaven just yet, bring me a bench to sit on!"
Simmons was instantly substituted, and he also glanced at Popovich with some fear, he knew that although he hit two good shots, Popovich was angry, Popovich didn't like the players to be so high-profile, especially this series, especially for Xie Chen.
"I want to control every moment of Xie's emotions, don't mess with me." Popovich looked at Simmons and said, as soon as Xie Chen came up and shot three points in a row, it was very incomprehensible to Popovich, and he couldn't let Xie Chen continue to play basketball that he couldn't understand.
As soon as Xie Chen saw that Simmons was off, he also sat down again, and a wonderful battle was not completed.
The warrior generals, who were bystanders, all sighed.
Green said: "Why did Popovich replace Simmons? Oh my God, how much morale he has with these two dunks, why is he afraid of stimulating Xie? When we warriors fought against Xie, we did things that angered Xie all the time! ”
If it was a warrior, after a provocation, there would be a series of provocations to stimulate Xie Chen, and they enjoyed this feeling of confrontation and provocation up and down.
Due to Popovich's control, Xie Chen failed to succeed in his madness, and slowly hit 30 points, and the legendary plot began.
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As Xie Chen expected, it is indeed a legendary Spurs team with GDP, this is the Spurs team in the 2005-2006 season, and it is also the playoffs!
Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Ginobili are all there, Duncan is in his prime, Ginobili still has long flowing hair, the engine of the French sports car is also very good, in addition to the GDP at its peak, there are Michael Finley, Bruce Bowen, Mohammed, Robert Horry.
Many people think that the Spurs are very strong this year, and the Spurs won the championship in 2007, but many people think that the Spurs team that Xie Chen faced the year before was stronger.
They won 16 of their first 19 games in the regular season this season, and set a new all-time record of 63 wins, with an easy first round of the playoffs.
It's a pity that the semifinals met the Mavericks who finally broke into the finals, although they fell behind 1:3, they stubbornly tied the score and fought to the seventh, even in the seventh, at the last moment, they still held the lead.
With only 32 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Ginobili hit a three-pointer from the outside, and the Spurs led the Mavericks 104-101.
But in the next second, Nowitzki scored two points under the basket, he wanted to score two points quickly, and then expected the Spurs to miss the next offense, but he didn't expect Nowitzki to score two points this time, but also caused Ginobili's foul, you know, it was Bowen who was defending Nowitzki at the time, and Ginobili didn't need to stretch out his hand at all.
Cheng Ye Manu, defeated Ye Manu, in less than a minute, Ginobili made people love and hate, but the Spurs were defeated by the Mavericks, and the Mavericks also lost to the Heat in the Finals, achieving the first championship in the history of the Heat.
Sometimes, many historical achievements happen by chance, if it weren't for Ginobili's foul, perhaps, the Heat would not have won the first championship trophy in team history, perhaps, in the future, Pat Riley also failed to fool James to the Heat, James does not go to the Heat, the Heat may not choose Xie Chen, maybe everything will change......
Xie Chen breathed a sigh of relief, in the face of every legendary challenge game of the Spurs, Xie Chen must strive to win, once he loses his system ability, it will be too passive, besides, this season Xie Chen has to challenge the Warriors team with the strongest lineup in history, if he can't beat other teams, Xie Chen can't pass his own level.
What's more, facing a legendary team, Xie Chen has a natural advantage, that is, they don't know their own ability.
Xie Chen led the team to take the lead first with Curry's three-point shot, however, Finley also felt very good and fought back with a three-point shot, Duncan really didn't have anything to say this year, and Mozgov's low-post singles scored very steadily on the board, and Ginobili and Tony Parker were also difficult to deal with.
The legendary Spurs can't guard against Xie Chen, but the Lakers can't also guard against the legendary Spurs, and their offense and defense have been strong this year.
In addition, in order to ensure that Xie Chen has enough physical strength and energy to deal with the current Spurs, he can't have too much playing time in this game, and in the end, the two sides are inseparable and have been deadlocked until the end.
In the last minute, the two sides scored a two-point, I scored a two-point, and it kept tiring, and suddenly, with more than thirty seconds left, the legendary Spurs Duncan held the ball to attract the bag, and quickly distributed the ball to Ginobili on the outside, Ginobili did not hesitate, and took three points after receiving the ball, and hit!
Spurs lead by three points!
"Yay!" The audience cheered.
Ginobili raised his arms and clenched his fists, which in the eyes of many would have been a fatal three-point killing game!
However, Xie Chen listened to the madness of the audience and watched Ginobili's excited movements, but suddenly smiled.
"It turned out that I encountered the spurs of this day." (To be continued.) )