Chapter 254: Encounter the Spur Again
Last season, the Hornets defeated the Spurs with a 4-1 aggregate score and entered the Western Conference Finals, where they lost seven games against the Lakers.
It's really a pain that stays with the Spurs.
It's also something that has left Spurs players heartbroken throughout the offseason.
Facing the Hornets again, although the Hornets have reinforcements, they believe they can teach the Hornets a good lesson.
In the past five games, Zhong Yu has averaged 37 points per game, as well as 1 block and 2 steals per game, which is really strong.
At the moment, he is firmly at the top of the scoring charts.
He is also the top scorer.
The scoring title, which is indeed a supreme honor for a quarterback. For this honor, I don't know how many seniors have been able to spill their blood without success.
At the same time, Zhong Yu is also the first NBA scoring champion among Chinese players and even Chinese players.
The game between the Hornets and the Spurs got a lot of attention.
A lot of people are looking forward to the results of this game as soon as possible - will the Hornets beat the Spurs again to prove themselves, or will the Spurs let the Hornets end their five-game winning streak and end this best start, and finally have to drift away?
Such suspense attracted a lot of fans to watch this game.
"We're going to meet the Hornets again!" In fact, in a team like the Spurs, many people seem to ignore Vicky's words, and this stuffy guy is indeed too silent.
However, when it comes to the Hornets, these guys aren't so careless.
Indeed, the Hornets left them with an unforgettable humiliation last season. In this game, no matter what it takes, the Spurs want to get their guts back.
Don't think that Spurs players don't have that sense of honor when they're old...... After all, this is in the NBA, and every player has his own pride.
"Yes! We're going to meet the Hornets again! This team, with our shame last season, became a glorious stepping stone for them to reach the Western Conference Finals...... We must not back down from this encounter. β
Everyone nodded thoughtfully, no matter what, ** Vicky's words still spoke to the bottom of many people's hearts.
Last season, they lost to the Hornets for no apparent reason, which really made them feel too aggrieved.
This season, they want to do everything in their power to get revenge and teach the Hornets a memorable lesson.
The Spurs coach is encouraging the players, and the Hornets coach is the same.
Scott said: "This is a great start that the Hornets have never had before! Guys, we did something that a lot of people couldn't have imagined, and we got the opening five wins in a row, which is pretty magical. And now, the Spurs will definitely not be resigned to their defeat last season, and they will definitely do their best to get revenge. We need to beat them and use our victory to stop their disgusting thoughts of ending our winning streak...... We need a win! β
βyesοΌβ Every player, yelling.
Now, the Hornets are one of the hottest teams in the league, and even the Lakers may not have as much exposure as they do occasionally.
Many of the Hornets' players have also experienced the treatment that some players can only experience with the Lakers and the like - even if they perform well in a training game, or have some tricks in a training game, they can immediately get the attention of all the fans.
That feeling, now the Hornets have given them.
So, now everyone doesn't want the Hornets to lose.
"Can the Hornets continue their winning streak and beat the Spurs again?" This topic has also become one of the hottest topics about the NBA league in the United States recently.
And the collision between the Hornets and the Spurs soon took place at the home of the Spurs, San Antonio.
San Antonio is an area with a strong home atmosphere, Zhong Yu led the overall score here last season, eliminated the Spurs, and now, the enemies are very angry, and the fans are scolding the Hornets.
This made Hornets fans even more eager to win this game.
During the warm-up, Jongwook met Ginobili.
Ginobili said, "Hey, long time no see. β
"Long time no see, buddy, it's been a long time since you lost the Olympics." Zhong Yu said deliberately.
Ginobili smiled helplessly, this guy is really "good" to him, and many things have to be reminded of him. So, he said, "Actually, I haven't seen you on TV for a long time since you lost to the U.S. national team in China." β
Zhong Yu laughed, Ginobili and his-for-tat confrontation was also expected by himself.
Ginobili also smiled before saying, "I can inform you in advance that the Hornets' six-game winning streak is impossible, and your game must be the background." β
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The race is really on!
This game, which has attracted a lot of attention, is officially played at the home stadium of San Antonio! Today, the Hornets still fielded their own thunderous starting lineup - Paul, Jongyu, Peja, West, Chandler.
The Spurs also released their starting lineup.
The two teams, after last season, will face another conversation.
The Spurs are still the same old and spicy team.
The Hornets, on the other hand, are rising stars from the West. This season, the league has deliberately scheduled two consecutive games between the Hornets and the Spurs, which means that now the Spurs host the Hornets, and then, the two teams have to play again.
However, in the next game, the home team will be the Hornets.
After the jump ball began, the Spurs' Parker possessed the ball past half court and the first offense began. Zhong Yu's current defender is Finley, and he knows that he has to face Zhong Yu again, and Finley's face is not very good-looking.
The first ball, Parker passed to the inside and passed to Duncan.
Duncan used his excellent technique to score the first two points of the game with a board-hitting jumper.
Then, the Hornets players went on offense. The Spurs immediately laid out their defensive lineup, and it was clear that they were playing against the Hornets today with the usual pressing style of defense.
The Spurs' pressing is called defense, which is more famous in the league, and this is a team with a relatively balanced offense and defense. In defending against the Hornets' pick-and-roll, they used a full-court pressing.
Paul and Zhong Yu came to a blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, Paul entered the inside, West received a pass from Paul, missed the jump shot, and the offense and defense were converted.
The basketball came to Duncan's hands again, Duncan was caught by the Hornets, and the basketball immediately passed to Bowen, who ran out of the open space on the outside, and Bowen didn't have a jumper, and the ball was back in the hands of the Hornets.
Paul passed the basketball to Zhong Yu, and then, West came up to block and dismantle, Zhong Yu went all the way to the inside, but, when Zhong Yu came to a place not far from the depth, put away the basketball, and then was forced a little tight by Duncan's oppressive surname defense, unable to shoot, so he had to pass the basketball out of the line.
Paul hit an outside jumper and hit a three-pointer.
Then, the Spurs used the high-post blocking tactics of Paco and Duncan, and the Hornets used their own blocking and pick-and-roll well, but they were not very experienced in defending the opponent's pick-and-roll.
He had just made a pick-and-roll for Parker in the high post and immediately ran to the inside, and then Parker started to get inside. The Hornets went over to defend Parker, and he passed the basketball to Duncan, who was on the inside, and after a turn, he made a jumper that was still pretty accurate on the board.
Although Duncan's shooting is rigid to the point that many people hate it, other people's shooting is capable, that is, they can hit it very consistently.
That's ability.
The ball was back in the hands of the Hornets again, and then, back into the hands of Jong-wook. Zhong Yu began to break through with the ball, and now with the bonus of the first stacking effect in the third area, Zhong Yu's breakthrough is also more handy, and after breaking through Finley, he directly enters the inside line.
It's just that as soon as he came to the inside, the Spurs immediately changed formations, blocking his way forward, and if Zhong Yu continued to go deeper, he could only fall into the Spurs' inside trap.
Immediately, after Zhong Yu dribbled under a crotch, he immediately retreated to a seventeen-foot place and made a jump shot, this mid-range shot was very beautiful, and under the bonus of the backwards, it gave people a very gorgeous feeling.
The two-pointer hit and Jongwook scored his first two points of the game.
The match between the two teams was played in such a situation.
The Spurs used their own Duncan as the core, and the other three-point shooters ran out of the open space, waiting for Duncan to find an opportunity to give them passes, as well as high post blocking and pick-and-roll plays, or Duncan single-play plays, and a mix of ...... Dealing with the Hornets' calm positional defense.
The Spurs' offense is efficient, and they're like a tireless machine, and every player is a screw in that machine.
In this way, the machine is up and running.
The offensive tactics of the Hornets are mainly the cooperation between the players, Paul's breakthrough, the running of other players to pull out the open space, Paul can pass the ball to West and Zhong Yu can score jumpers and also stuff the ball inside. In addition, Zhong Yu broke through to score by himself, and Zhong Yu broke through and shared the ball...... These are the Hornets' offensive tactics.
The two teams battled their opponents again and again with a fairly focused attack and defense.
In this game, the fans still enjoyed watching it, and the players on both sides went back and forth, playing quite well.
It's just that Zhong Yu felt a little wrong today, and the Spurs' defense of him made him feel a sense of crisis.
This sense of crisis made him feel that it seemed that the Spurs had a tactic specifically aimed at him.
He could barely get under the basket and score.
Maybe he can use his speed and his breakthrough skills to get to the inside of the free throw line. However, after that, he couldn't help it, and the Spurs would always find all kinds of ways to make it difficult for him to shoot, and the shooting rate was not high.
In this way, Zhong Yu was kicked out of the interior and could only rely more on his mid-range shots and jump shots outside the three-point line. It's just that, in that way, Zhong Yu has also been caught a lot, the shooting rate is not too high, and the help to the team has been completely reduced to the scoring level.
It's a bit of a bad situation.
(To be continued)