Chapter 332: San Antonio Sun
Yao Ming's first half of the game was very long, reaching 20 minutes, not only because Yao Ming had a mood of being underestimated by the Spurs, and his efficiency on the court was surprisingly high, but also because in a game like the finals, there was no need to think about physical strength and other things, as long as he could win the game, Yao Ming had time to rest in the summer of this year.
But Yao Ming's physical strength still had to be considered, so after the break halftime, Yao Ming did not return to the game until the seventh minute of the third quarter, and at this time the players on the court became Payton, Battier, Jay, Dior and Yao Ming.
Dio played at this point because in the first half, when Yao Ming was treated 'special', Dio was more suitable than Bosh to partner with Yao Ming.
Dio's passing technique is more concealed and effective than Bosh, and Bosh's performance is more like a big general, not suitable to be a transfer point for receiving the ball, and after the Spurs' bench changes, Bosh is more suitable to become a point of attack with Gong Feng and others on the bench, taking on various responsibilities of protecting rebounds and impacting the basket, otherwise the Knicks may let the Spurs pull away the scoring of both sides when they are on the bench.
When seeing Yao Ming on the court, Parker, who dribbled, slowly brought the ball to the front court, and when dribbling, it seemed that he glanced at Popovich sitting on the court, and after seeing Popo's casual nod, Parker gently put the ball down, and then collided with each other with his two fists.
This is a gesture that the Knicks have not seen again, and among the players on the court at this time, Manu replaced Barry as the starter, and Manu's playing time in this game seems to have been unlimited, and he is not worried about his physical problems at all.
Duncan suddenly stepped forward at this time to make a block with Parker, after Parker and Duncan blocked, quickly broke through the basket, and suddenly passed to Bowen on the bottom foot before Payton's help defense arrived, and before Battier's defense, Bowen quickly passed the ball from the bottom foot to Horry, who did the second block with Duncan, and Dior, who was a little slower, gave Horry the first vacancy.
Without the slightest hesitation, Horry threw the basketball in his hand, and Horry, who continued to feel in the first half, became a very consistent shooter in the Spurs.
In the face of such an offense, the Knicks did not have the slightest difference, but started to attack as usual, Payton and Dior blocked and dismantled, under the rapid sandwich of the Spurs' three defenses and two, passed to Jay on the outside, broke through the Ginobili defense, and passed to Yao Ming in the low post before Duncan assisted in the defense, and directly scored the ball with a small hook.
This kind of offense is also the norm for the Knicks, but what everyone in the Knicks didn't expect was that seeing such a goal, Bowen, who was defending Yao Ming on the bottom line, quickly passed the ball out, and Duncan actually took the form of a fast run and started the Spurs' extremely rare five-man fast attack.
Just when Yao Ming was slightly stunned and didn't keep up with Duncan, the Spurs players quickly ran from both sides, opened the hollow, and Parker's fast attack with the ball was a fast break completed by Duncan in the high post.
Seeing such a spur, Mir was stunned! It was the Spurs fans who watched the game in the SBC center who looked at Duncan with a blank face after completing the dunk.
This is a typical Suns offensive model, from the fast running of the frontcourt, pulling out enough offensive space, especially when facing a slow-moving interior line, such a fast pace is even more uncomfortable.
Although Yao Ming is a 'bulky' center, aren't you Duncan? That's what all the Knicks players and coaching staff don't understand, or is the Spurs just trying to make a misdirection with such a tactic? When Mir saw such an attack, he could only think of these at first.
But the next Spurs were completely unexpected by the Knicks, taking a quick rotation at the same time, they began to run constantly, and in the offense, they completely adopted the offensive mode of the Suns, Duncan's role was similar to that of Xiao Si, and he was much stronger than Xiao Si in this game.
Parker and Ginobili are two versions of Nash and Barbossa, one uses a strong offensive mode, adopts an offensive interior, and uses tactics to make up for the lack of passing ability, while Ginobili becomes the core of the team, the three points of offensive and defensive conversion, passing or directly attacking the basket, are all Ginobili's own choices, when the Knicks' defense is in place, it is usually Manu who continues the Spurs' offense in his own way.
For the rest of the third quarter, it was under such circumstances that the Spurs immediately stretched the score to nine points in five or six rounds, which was also the most in three games for the Spurs.
Mir didn't call a timeout, and even had the idea of replacing the players, but considering some psychological factors, Mir finally gave his players a lot of opportunities to perform. That doesn't count as a proper godfather coach, but Mill does it anyway.
The saying that Tzu does not lead the troops is also very popular in basketball, otherwise it is impossible for some core members of championship teams to play about 34 minutes in the regular season, and increase to 40 minutes in the playoffs.
It is necessary to give young players some opportunities in the regular season, which is likely to reduce the burden on the team in future games, reduce the risk of injury to key players, and may also surprise the team.
But on a stage like the finals, Mir's approach is not necessarily very clever, nor does it necessarily make most people feel authoritative, let alone reflect the ruthlessness that a champion coach should have.
However, the Knicks are facing a lot of uncertain changes in the summer of this season, if you think of this factor, you should indeed be tolerant of some candidates on the bench, and it may not be effective to change others, and the Spurs' approach can be regarded as hurting a thousand people and losing eight hundred.
If Yao Ming is replaced, it is not necessary to say that he has fallen into the trap set by the Spurs, anyway, with Duncan's current strength, what really makes him feel uncomfortable is that there is no second candidate except Yao Ming, and as for the rest, he naturally did not expect the Spurs' hand to be so hot.
At the break in the third quarter, Mill looked at Yao Ming's continuous sweat and hesitated for a moment at the beginning of the fourth quarter, letting Yao Ming rest for a while, letting Bosh go to Duncan and Battier to play the fourth position.
Such a change of formation is indeed unexpectedly good, whether it is because of Duncan's physical decline or the Spurs at the beginning of the fourth quarter, for the sake of efficiency and physical strength, the play is relatively slow, at least the Knicks' main players keep the difference within seven points, but it is extremely difficult to go further.
The Spurs are now more like a superstar team, Parker, Manu, Duncan, these three will always stand up at a critical moment, try their best to put the basketball into the basket, the team's operation has never been complicated, even if it is a deliberate foul, it does not let the Knicks raise the speed again, plus some reasons for the home whistle, and finally the Knicks lost the third game of the Finals.
The Spurs' change of formation was very successful, but still no media really favored the Spurs to get the final victory, the most obvious point is that the Spurs' main force did their best, and in the case of an average of 45 minutes of GDP, it still took a little luck to win this game in the end, which really cannot be said to be a real success. However, as far as this game is concerned, Spurs did do everything they could, and it was a win.
After this game, Mir really realized what the biggest difference between Bow Peak and Jay was, and although he had this awareness before, it was not as profound as this game.
If you want to find a 'culprit' in this game, there is no doubt that Jay played a certain negative role in it.
After the change of formation, the Spurs are mainly aimed at Jay's defense, provoking, designing defensive traps, and even giving Jay the ability to 'create' possible scoring space, these are all small means of the Spurs, but such small means do make the Spurs win the final victory in the end, even if Jay scored 27 points and 3 assists in this game.
Jay can make his future better, but Gong Feng can make the team's future better, these are two realms. (To be continued.) )