Chapter 212: The Vacancy of the Substitute

Recently, the Spurs have not had a good time, and Parker is full of trouble.

This player not only has a messy private life, but also heard that the team still wants to trade him, Parker's advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious, of course, this means that on the court, Parker's advantage is his speed, when he breaks through, speed and flexibility have reached an extreme, although Parker in the 06-07 season is the strongest, in recent years due to the impact of injuries, his speed has decreased a little, but compared with the players of the Pacers, only Zhang Kong can catch up with him.

Parker is a perfect example of what it means to be 'fast and not broken' on offense, but his shortcomings are just as obvious.

The main reason why there is no Parker's name among the four major point guards in the league is because this guy doesn't look like a point guard except for his height, his vision is too small, and his passing is particularly unpenetrating.

Such a point guard would have no room for maximum salary, because of the existence of Po Povich, so Parker can continue to play, because the Spurs like Duncan and Ginobili can attack with the ball on their own.

In the first half of the first quarter, the Pacers' starters and the Spurs' starters were inseparable.

After all, the offensive ability of the Pacers' side is indeed no worse than that of the Spurs, and there are even some that are excessive.

Mike Dunleavy replaced Dundee Jones as the starter today, and the Pacers can fire from all three points on the perimeter.

The Spurs finally experienced the feeling of the second brother looking in the mirror this time, defending Zhang Kong, and the remaining two will fire, defending Granger, and Dunleavy, heavily defending Granger and Dunleavy, Zhang Kong's side is here again, these three outside tridents, the Spurs are already a little anxious, and Duncan on the inside wants to pull out to defend, Zhang Kong will always find a gap on the inside.

Both Murphy and Hibbert performed extremely well on the offensive end, and the Spurs were dizzy.

But the Spurs are not ambiguous, they didn't play randomly because the Pacers had strong firepower, they are the most disciplined team in the NBA, there is no one! The Pacers' offense is extremely sharp, while their defense is poor.

The Spurs seized the loopholes in the Pacers' defense and played the interior and the second and third positions one by one, and the entire Pacers' defensive system was originally based on two axes, one is the big lock on the outside, the Spurs have no way at all, Parker can only rely on speed to rush hard, if he stops, he will definitely be locked by Zhang Kong, and the defensive axis of the interior is Hibbert, a rookie.

A rookie is a rookie, and he must be ready to make people eat at any time, and when McDyce carried him, this guy disappeared on the defensive end, which also made Jim O'Brien shake his head, and now the Pacers are really short of an interior line, otherwise they won't be able to go far at all, and finally survived to the first quarter After eight minutes, the Pacers led the Spurs by a full 6 points at 21-15.

Spurs fans are also used to watching the Spurs fall behind, and they didn't make any boos to boo the home team, but they were still there to affect the mood of the Pacers players.

When the bench came on, the Spurs' offense instantly extinguished the resistance of the Pacers, Ginobili and Bonner, the two big giants in the Spurs.

gave the Pacers' bench a good lesson, telling them how red the bench really is, and a round of overwhelming offense.

Ginobili is omnipotent in the outside three-pointer, mid-range shot, and breakthrough, and Bonner's three-point and interior offense also make the Pacers' two bench interior miserable, these two guys may not be bad to play a tailwind fight, every time the team encounters a headwind, they are finished, TJ Ford can also crash into George Hill and rush into the interior to score, but if you want to string the team's chaos...... From here, the gap between the Spurs and the Pacers was rested, and in less than five minutes just now, the Spurs also encountered a situation like the current Pacers, the Pacers' outside three spears kept firing, and the Spurs also had some confusion, but the Spurs could become sober from such a situation and still score on the inside.

Although it is still six points behind, it has not been broken up, but the current Pacers have been completely dispersed.

Attacked by Ginobili and Bonner, the players were all good players, but when they started to play singles, Jim O'Brien looked at the situation on the court, and his brows furrowed rapidly.

As a head coach, he naturally knows his team's weaknesses, and the Pacers' bench is somewhat similar to the Lakers' bench group.

You can do anything when you play downwind, but you can be depressed when you play against the wind, they all look luxurious, but they are actually very fragile.

The Pacers' firepower is basically concentrated on the outside, but when the outside group began to fight on their own, the shooting rate was really a bit miserable, and in the remaining four minutes, the Pacers had a total of 7 balls and 1 of 7 shots...... The Spurs, on the other hand, scored 15 points in a row and played a wave of 15-2 small **, overtaking the score in one fell swoop.

Seeing the team like this, Zhang Kong wanted to go up to play the game, but he let Jim O'Brien pull him down.

He knew what Zhang Kong meant, but he couldn't let Zhang Kong go on the court to play, first of all, it was for Zhang Kong's physical strength.

There are still tough battles to fight in the next three quarters, and secondly, he is also to train the substitutes, it seems that the recent winning streak has made these substitutes a little fluttery, which is absolutely not allowed, although Jim O'Brien is not a particularly famous coach, but after all, he is also the coach of the first team, and he naturally knows when to do something.

At the end of the first quarter, the Spurs won 30-23, led by the benches, and snatched back as many as 13 points.

The Pacers opened the score, and at the start of the second quarter, Bogans and all-around small forward Jefferson scored five straight points to establish a double-digit advantage for the Spurs.

As soon as Zhang Kong played the last game, he broke through to the inside line and scored two points, and then broke through to Dunleavy, who hit a three-point shot, and then Zhang Kong broke into the interior again, causing the opponent's bag, and Murphy quietly withdrew from the three-point line at this time.

Zhang Kong successfully found Murphy, and after passing the ball, the latter hit another three-pointer, and the Pacers scored eight points in a row.

In one fell swoop, the score changed from 35-21 to 35-29, and the Spurs only left the Pacers 6 points first, and at this time, Granger's hand finally returned, and he began to hit two shots in a row, but the opponent's hand was not bad, specifically picking the Pacers' defensive weakness, Murphy at the fourth position of the big forward to play, and Murphy faced Duncan, except for being abused, there was really no too good way.

McDyce on the inside, he has already exhausted Hibbert by himself, and Hibbert is impossible even if he wants to help, eleven minutes have passed in the blink of an eye in the second quarter, and now there is only less than a minute left in the end.

The ball was in the hands of the Spurs, and Parker slowly dribbled through the half court with the basketball, and he just opened up after the half.

It's the time for the main team to the main team, Bogans has also been rested, and Ginobili is playing the second position on the field.

Parker looked at Zhang Kong in front of him and snorted, Zhang Kong's defense caused him a lot of trouble today.

But Parker doesn't care too much, because the Spurs are not like those weak teams in the league, they need an offensive center, and the Spurs have three offensive points, even if they are extinguished by Zhang Kong, as long as they attract Zhang Kong's defense, others still have a chance, just now Po Povich arranged it like this, Parker can not attack, but must not let Zhang Kong leave him, now Parker is doing the same, slowly dribbling after half court, Parker glanced at the time in front of him, There are still 41 seconds left before the end of the half, and there are still 18 seconds left on my side's offensive time, so there is no hurry.

So Parker began to grind outside the three-point line, while Zhang Kong stared at him nervously, following him step by step.

For Zhang Kong's follow-up defense, Parker didn't seem to see it, and finally time made him grind for more than ten seconds, and the offensive time was only 6 seconds, and at this time Parker had to attack, Parker secretly made a blocking gesture.

Although Zhang Kong didn't see his gesture, he 'saw' Duncan behind him had pulled out, Zhang Kong deliberately took half a step back, and when Parker borrowed Duncan's body to block it, Zhang Kong rushed directly past Duncan's side.

But when he saw Parker, all he saw was Parker's weird smile, and the ball was not in Parker's hand.

"Hit the mark!" Zhang Kong hurriedly began to look for the ball, and in a second he could only judge the opponent's movements, but he could not judge the path of the ball, and when people were out of Zhang Kong's line of sight, Zhang Kong could only know that there were people in that place, as if he was going to pass the ball.

But he couldn't tell what posture that person was, just now Parker was blocked by Duncan, although Zhang Kong knew that Parker was behind Duncan, but he couldn't judge his ball path, Zhang Kong saw Ginobili for the first time.

But Ginobili didn't have the ball, so it must have been Duncan! Zhang Kong guessed well this time, but he also guessed wrong, Duncan was indeed holding the ball, but at the moment when Zhang Kong looked at Duncan, Duncan passed the ball, and the ball flew directly into Ginobili's hand.

"Time difference!" These three words flashed in Zhang Kong's mind, and then he quickly turned to chase Ginobili.

(To be continued)