Chapter 120: Stuck in the Swamp
Maybe it's his own hallucination, Harris reassured himself. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After all, the Lakers are still ahead, although their advantage is running out.
The half-hour break passed quickly, and the two sides entered the second half of the game.
Harris finally knew that his worries were not unnecessary, because, he clearly felt that the Spurs only went through a halftime break, and their defensive intensity suddenly rose by more than one level, if the Spurs were a strong team in the first half, then the state shown by the Spurs at the beginning of the third quarter reminded Harris of the Utah Jazz who swept them in the playoffs last season.
The Lakers basically didn't react to the Spurs' sudden crazy defense, they were confused for a while, Harris ordered to go around to prevent Duncan from receiving the ball, although Campbell's front did cause the Spurs to make a few mistakes, but the Spurs' excellent defense made the Lakers unable to convert these mistakes into defensive counterattacks.
The old guys on the outside of the Spurs seemed to have been doped, and there was no sign of the slowness and embarrassment of the first half from them, and they also burst out with great enthusiasm for the game after the start of the third quarter.
In this case, the Lakers' pitiful one-point advantage was naturally no longer an advantage, and they were soon overtaken by the Spurs.
Jones played smoothly in the first half, but now he is being hit by the defensive shooting rate plummeted, as a last resort, Jones can only give up his personal offense, and instead start to connect the team, he is not like Kobe, he can't shoot until he throws in, he is still very pursuing a reasonable way of playing, after all, he is not a superstar, and there is no unlimited firing power to make him willful.
Tony on the inside is also very uncomfortable, Harris is targeting Duncan, but Popovich is also targeting Tony.
Popovich almost directly let Duncan give up on Campbell and shifted all the defensive pressure on the interior to Toney, after all, Tony also cut 9 points and 6 rebounds in the first half, and he played an integral role on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends of the Lakers.
However, under Popovich's targeting, Tony is now almost caught as soon as he receives the ball, and Duncan is still very insidious, obviously Popovich has studied Tony's technical characteristics in advance, and he knows that Tony has trained his passing ability, but this is still a shortcoming of him.
Popovich took advantage of this by allowing Duncan to block Toney's eyes while he was packed, making it impossible for him to pass the ball to Campbell easily.
This made Tony very uncomfortable.
Originally, with just one David Robinson's words, Tony could still guarantee five or five, but now with the addition of a Duncan, Tony suddenly felt as if he was being locked in a cage.
In this case, to be honest, Campbell can't bear any pressure on Tony at all, Tony is now ******** by the Spurs' twin towers, and he even made a low-level mistake with a three-second offense, which seemed to be deep in the swamp made Tony extremely upset, watching Duncan's unwavering expression silently execute the bag on him, Tony was simply angry.
Suddenly, as soon as Tony was impulsive, he directly wanted to pull up a dunk against the defense of the two, but before he could exert his strength, Duncan covered the sky with one palm, and directly fanned the ball in Tony's hand.
In desperation, Toney had no choice but to give up attacking with the ball, and he used all his energy to defend.
However, just when no one in the Lakers was able to stand up and score, Kobe Bryant, who had almost the whole game, stepped up.
He's no longer obsessed with making jumpers from the outside, and he's starting to break through more of an option.
Facing Monty Williams, who was defending him, Kobe Bryant dribbled continuously in a row of cross-steps, and then suddenly accelerated and passed Monty Williams directly.
In fact, Monty Williams was very engrossed, and he also reacted at the moment when Kobe Bryant made an acceleration move, but his brain reacted, but his body couldn't keep up with his brain's thoughts, and in the face of Kobe's breakthrough, he only had time to make a tentative steal.
After Kobe Bryant passed Monty Williams, his whole momentum suddenly changed, he has always given people the feeling of being as elegant as the wind and agile as a snake, but this time, his whole thing seems to be like a sharp lightning, straight into the inside line of the Spurs.
He knows very well that in the current situation of the Lakers, someone must step up and score, and it is useless to just jump shots, only by scoring a few good shots and boosting the morale of his teammates, the Lakers have a chance to compete with this Spurs.
Therefore, Kobe Bryant played this ball very decisively, and in a short time, he had already hit the inside line of the Spurs, and in the face of Duncan's move over to make up the defense, Kobe did not flinch, he made a European step and easily deceived Duncan.
David Robinson saw that even Duncan had been passed, and he had no choice but to give up Tony to make up for Kobe.
The third?
Bryant threw the whole person directly into the air, and he made a very large pull move when David Robinson opened his arms to cover Kobe's shooting lane.
Bryant bypassed David Robinson's airtight defense in the air and sent the ball to the basket.
"Drop"
The referee also blew David Robinson for a foul!
One against three! It's a real one-on-three! Kobe Bryant's one-on-three hit into two plus one, which is also crazy.
Tony excitedly stepped forward and collided with Kobe Bryant at the first time, he was really entangled by those two big men before, and now seeing these people deflated in front of Kobe, he should be the most excited person.
However, celebration is celebrate, and Kobe Bryant has to execute free throws next, so he didn't keep messing with Tony.
Bryant walked to the free throw line, he took the ball thrown to him by the referee, Bryant took a deep breath, and then hit the ball safely.
With such a goal, even Harris couldn't hide his joy, and now the Lakers really need a scorer like Kobe Bryant in this situation.
Now the Lakers are still three points behind, and the situation on their court is still not optimistic.
The Spurs can defend against the Lakers on the defensive end, and even on their defensive end, they are better than the Lakers who have been running in for a year, which is enough to show how good Coach Popovich's ability to adjust the team is.