Chapter 228: The decisive battle for GDP return
Today's second update!
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With the special convulsive play in the last two minutes of the third quarter, the Bulls launched a 10-2 attack wave to pull the score to 86-77 in one fell swoop, and the Bulls regained a nearly 10-point lead. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
This scene was not expected by Thibodeau, who originally just wanted Nate to come on the court and stir things up, so that the team could get through the last two minutes smoothly and win Sun Xiaotian more than two minutes of rest. Unexpectedly, Nate exceeded the task.
Thibodu simply opened the fourth quarter, Sun Xiaotian sat on the bench to rest, and let Nate lead the team to play, as long as Sun Xiaotian had one more minute of rest, the team would have one more chance of winning.
"I originally thought that this substitution was a failure of Thibodeau, but who would have thought that it would become a stroke of genius."
But he was afraid to take anything seriously, and Thibodeau's use of Nate was actually completely out of desperation, and Popovich didn't pay attention to it, because he never imagined that Nate would play like this.
In the fourth quarter, Popovich began to pay attention to Nate and made targeted defensive arrangements for him. Nate is a typical pump-style player, and the best way to defend him is to lead. Since he likes to shoot, let him shoot enough, of course, to lead him to shoot where he is not good at shooting. As a result, the Bulls' possession was concentrated in Nate's hands, and no one else had access to the ball. When the opponent gave Nate a chance to shoot, Nate couldn't take it.
In fact, Nate belongs to the kind of person who believes in his own feel, he feels that he feels good, and he will not hesitate to shoot, and the timing of the shot is not good, which is very unreasonable. Coupled with the Spurs' targeted defensive pressing, Nate's shortcomings on the court were exposed more and more, and the Spurs took the opportunity to gradually catch up with the score.
91:87!
The Bulls are just four points ahead of the Spurs.
Thibodeau looked at the time, 3 minutes had passed in the fourth quarter, and Sun Xiaotian had a full 5 minutes off the court, in a sense, Thibodeau's tactics worked.
Thibodeau made personnel changes, he removed Nate, but also replaced Boozer and Lee, replaced Hinrich, Sun Xiaotian and Noah, plus the previous Butler and Gibson, the Bulls returned to the previous regular lineup. As the wonder soldier at the beginning of this game, Thibodeau put him on the bench, which was somewhat surprising. In fact, Thibodeau is for defensive reasons, because the more the game is played to the end, the more important the defense becomes.
Getting a long rest couldn't be happier for Sun Xiaotian. At this point, he already felt that his whole body was full of energy.
When the Spurs saw Sun Xiaotian return to the court, their defensive strategy against him was basically the same as in the first half, which was to prevent him from receiving the ball. And the Bulls' strategy is the same as in the first half, that is, let Sun Xiaotian take the ball from the backcourt.
Sun Xiaotian held the ball and broke into the inside line with the cover of Noah, seeing that it was Sun Xiaotian, Split and Leonard did not dare to be careless, and directly clamped Sun Xiaotian from both sides of the baseline like dumplings. Sun Xiaotian carried the two of them at this time, and threw the ball back of his head, and Noah, who followed up in time, didn't even think about a slam dunk with both hands after receiving the ball!
Either way, if the team can have a player who can attract the opponent's bag, what a happy thing for the manager of this team.
And Sun Xiaotian is the kind of player who can both attract a team and lead a team.
The Spurs' return offense started with Leonardo because Parker and Duncan were both resting off the court at this point.
Leonard leaned on Butler's back to receive the ball, and Butler tried to push Leonard with his chest as much as possible, but Leonard was skilful with his technical steps. He first shook from side to side and turned tentatively, then suddenly turned around with the ball to attack the basket, and after entering the paint area, he took a step back and made a jumper.
"Brush"!
The ball goes into the net with a crisp sound.
came back to Sun Xiaotian also fell into a low position, with his back to Ginobili, although Ginobili's defense in the first half made Sun Xiaotian suffer, but so far, Sun Xiaotian has adapted very much.
After receiving the ball with his back, Sun Xiaotian turned around on the spot, held the ball above his head with both hands, and drew a circle clockwise. There is a reason why Sun Xiaotian exposed the ball to Ginobili like this, as long as Ginobili dared to reach out, Sun Xiaotian could make a foul, but Ginobili was not fooled.
Sun Xiaotian took a tentative step, and then suddenly started, killing from Ginobili's left hand to the basket, but Ginobili's footsteps moved quickly, blocking Sun Xiaotian's path in time. Sun Xiaotian then turned around and turned his back to Ginobili again, just when everyone thought that Sun Xiaotian would choose to shoot a back-to-back jumper, Sun Xiaotian chose to turn around again, and the speed was extremely fast, leaving Ginobili behind him in one step.
"Sun Xiaotian tricked him!"
Passing Ginobili, Sun Xiaotian barely had the angle to shoot, but he still didn't care, threw himself in the sky, and threw the ball into the basket between the four hands of Split and Leonard.
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In this way, the two sides go back and forth, and the score difference is always 4 to 5 points.
At the time of the technical timeout, with just over five minutes left in the game, Popovich was ready to put Parker and Duncan on the court.
At this time, Thibodeau suddenly understood something, why did Popovich still let Parker and Duncan rest off the court for so long when the team was so difficult?
It turns out that Popovich's consideration of employing people is the same as Thibodeau, no matter how crazy Nate is, he is just a miracle move, and it will not have any impact on the trend of the two teams in the end, and the team still has to rely on Sun Xiaotian's gang to support it in the end.
The same is true for the Spurs, although Leonard will become the business card of the Spurs in the future, but at the moment he is just a hairy young man who has just faded from immaturity, and the team's final decisive weapon still depends on the GDP of the three old men.
Sun Xiaotian clearly remembered the first battle between the two sides in the regular season, although the confrontation between the two sides was fierce at the time, but at the last moment of the game, the GDP trio returned to the position and took the game directly.
Pause back.
GDP three people are on the court, Parker dribbled through the midfield alone, and then handed it to Ginobili who came out of the bottom line, and his Nobili didn't dribble directly to the inside line, giving Duncan who had already fallen low, and Ginobili took advantage of the situation to run back from the middle to cut in, Duncan Shun was a hit to the ground, the moment Ginobili received the ball and went to the basket, Gibson opened his arms and directly covered Ginobili, but Ginobili came to overcome rigidity with softness, he moved realistically, shook Gibson, and passed under the basket. The ball returned to Duncan's hands again, and Noah, who was defending Duncan, was attracted by Ginobili's space at this time, and before he could turn around, Duncan made a layup directly. (To be continued.) )