Chapter 292: Breakthrough
In a sense, Po Povich is not one of the coaches who are particularly slow to change formations on the spot like Adelman.
The strengths and weaknesses of several major coaches in the league are also obvious, the old Nelson focuses too much on offense and the weakness is defense, Larry Brown focuses too much on defense and lacks offense, Pat Riley focuses too much on training and makes his players physically and mentally exhausted, Phil Jackson is always mysterious, sometimes he is blindfolded when he is right, and if he is not right, then wait to lose! Sloan pays too much attention to the game, a little too ruthless for the sake of victory, Adelman has a gorgeous attack but the team's ability to play tough is too poor, George Karl is easy to attack and lose against the wind plus he is too poor in health, and Pop Povic's strengths are his shortcomings! is too militarized, and the players under him don't need to have aura, and they don't need to be forty or fifty points per game to save the team.
He doesn't need a hero, if this hero only appears in one or two games, then he can accept it, and if there are too many out, then it won't work.
So while Po Povic controls the overall stability of the Spurs, he also kills the spirit of these players in the Spurs.
Ginobili is definitely the main offensive player in other teams, but he can only be the sixth man in the Spurs.
Of course, it seems that David Stern does not pay much attention to the basketball market in South America, where basketball has little meaning, and the Brazilian team has even disbanded the basketball team in previous years, and it has only been formed in recent years.
Even if the Argentine team won the first place in the world, it did not make Argentina pay any attention to basketball, and the population of basketball in South America is less than 1/10,000 of football...... Of course, this is a little different from Zhang Kong's domestic situation...... Some people say that the biggest contribution of the national football team is to make the Chinese men's basketball team more important in China!
So David Stern doesn't pay much attention to the South American market, so Ginobili can't be a hero of the Argentines like Yao Ming, in the current situation where there is no commercial market, your physical fitness is not good, you can't run fast, you can't jump high, you can't dunk beautifully, and there are almost no blocks, so even when Ginobili has the strength, he can't mix in the NBA.
It can be seen from his salary that he can be regarded as the lowest salary among players of the same level.
But he's the toughest player of his calibre! Seeing that Zhang Kong on the field was getting more and more difficult, Popovich's eyes rolled, and he naturally thought of Ginobili, the guy who exhausted Zhang Kong in the last game, so with a wave of his hand, Ginobili jumped the Argentine tango and ran to the field, and the position he was standing in was exactly the fourth position.
However, Ginobili came, Zhang Kong didn't fight him, and Zhang Kong changed his position back with Deng Tai Jones this time.
Zhang Kong knows that with his own consciousness and experience, it is difficult to use his own ability to defend against Ginobili like those old birds in the alliance, so let Deng Tai Jones take this shortcoming! He's coming to deal with Parker.
Parker's speed may be extremely difficult to deal with in the eyes of others, but in Zhang Kong's eyes, this speed is much worse, as long as he is not used to speed, Zhang Kong wants to prevent Parker, which is not a big problem, because his jump shooting ability is really poor.
On this side, Zhang Kong strengthened his defensive ability, and the offensive side was not too attentive, but at this time, Granger stepped up.
When he knew that Zhang Kong was the main attacker, he was not very comfortable in his heart, but who asked this Zhang Kong to go to an All-Star, and in a blink of an eye, he became the hottest star in the league now, and he Granger was not convinced.
But Zhang Kong did not get on the throne because of this, and he still gave Granger a lot of opportunities today, Granger is a guy who is soft, and introverted, he doesn't like to talk very much, and others are good to him, he remembers, sullen.
So after Zhang Kong passed him a few balls, he forgot about Zhang Kong's main attack, and the slightest contradiction that appeared inside instantly resolved into intangible, although Zhang Kong is no longer the main attacker, but the efficiency of the Pacers' offense has not slowed down.
Just like Al Jefferson defends Duncan, Duncan can't completely limit the opponent from scoring in the same way that Al Jefferson defends the opponent.
So Zhang Kong's pass can be found either to Al Jefferson or Hibbert on the inside, or to Granger.
If you play a team like the Suns and Warriors now, the defense may collapse, but the Spurs can rely on their strong rotation position to resist their own defensive formation...... After playing nine minutes in the first quarter, Zhang Kong came to the sideline break and let Earl Watson, a small man, go up and charge.
At this time, Zhang Kong had already scored 10 points, 3 assists and 1 block after the first quarter, and the block was taken from Parker's hand, Parker's speed was good, but after the speed slowed down, his layup threat was not great.
And what worries Jim O'Brien a little is Jefferson sitting on the bench, and this guy is not bad either.
Now on the court, he is the core of the court, and together with Ginobili, he plays quite beautifully with the Spurs' bench.
The bench group on the Pacers' side is not bad, although the point guard Earl Watson's ability to string and interpret the game is not particularly good, but he is fast, the passing is also good, and he also has a crazy shot, and the scoring guard position has Luthor Hyde, a strong maniac, even if his hand is not crazy, Dunk Dunleavy, who plays the third position, can also go down to the second position to play, and Tyler Hansburo on the inside is also quite good' Not three or four', the inside line is because of the trade of a lot of strong players, Murphy, Milicic, Tyrus Thomas, such a bench rotation, even stronger than the starters of some teams, and recently Milicic is playing better and better, and the bench on the Pacers' side is becoming more and more stable.
But in the face of the Spurs today, the Spurs' benches still taught the Pacers' bench a lesson, and in the remaining three minutes of the first half, the Pacers were still 5 points ahead of the opponent, but they were caught up in a blink of an eye.
At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers led the visiting Spurs by one point 27-26, and after Jefferson came on the court, the two guys Ginobili stirred up trouble on the outside and scored ten points in a row, which was also the main reason for the Pacers' unfavorable outside offense.
After the start of the second quarter of the game, Zhang Kong still sat on the court to rest, observing the situation on the court, and the Spurs were still the same bench lineup, the center just transferred from the Pistons this year to the defensive titan Antonio McDyce, the power forward is DeJuan Blair, who played with Zhang Kong in the rookie game and also broke the rookie game rebounding record, and the small forward is Richard Jefferson, who is now more feared by Jim O'Brien, Manu Ginobili, and point guard Roger Mason.
This set of bench lineups, this set of bench lineups, good defense, good offense, which makes Jim O'Brien a little helpless! At this moment, Zhang Kong quietly came to his side and secretly pulled Rajim O'Brien's clothes.
"Now the Spurs have a fatal heel in this lineup!" Hearing Zhang Kong's words, Jim O'Brien was a little surprised, what is the fatal weakness of this Spurs lineup, why don't you know? However, Zhang Kong secretly came over and told himself, this is obviously to give himself face, Lao Mei is also a face-loving existence, watching Zhang Kong say it, he also listened carefully.
"Look at their center!" Listening to Zhang Kong's words, Jim O'Brien began to observe Mike Dyce, Mike Deyce used to be a very powerful player, and his defensive level was even about the same as Big Ben, if it wasn't for McDyce's inside gate at that time, Philip Saunders would not have been able to sell Big Ben so easily, although he was the head coach, but the team's uniform group was not all in a state of brain damage, but that was Mike Dyce at that time.
Originally, when Zhang Kong didn't say it, Jim O'Brien really didn't think about Mike Dyce, his eyes were all Ginobili and Jefferson, but when Zhang Kong mentioned it, he couldn't help but look at Mike Days in the distance.
"This guy does have a problem!" Looking at Mike Days on the field, O'Brien felt more and more interesting, this empty eye was really poisonous enough, glancing at Zhang Kong, who had returned to the bench, Jim O'Brien made a gesture.
"Since you found out, you are responsible for getting rid of him!" From Jim O'Brien's eyes, Zhang Kong saw what this guy meant, and his face turned white in an instant, this guy is taking revenge, but it doesn't matter.
Now what Zhang Kong needs is victory, and for the victory of the team, Zhang Kong has to be a 'bad guy'.
Taking advantage of a dead ball, Zhang Kong came to the court and replaced Earl Watson as point guard.
Seeing that the second game has only started for more than two minutes, and the Pacers have no intention of collapsing, what are they sending Zhang Kong up to do at this time? Po Povich glanced at Zhang Kong and Jim O'Brien on the sidelines with some surprise and didn't know what medicine they were selling in their gourd, if Po Povich said this, Zhang Kong would tell him that it was a fake drug! Fake drugs that kill people.
Zhang Kong just came on the field, after receiving the ball, he went straight to Mike Dyce, there was no turning in the middle of the road, seeing Zhang Kong rushing to Mike Dyce, Po Povic off the field was scared into a cold sweat, as the coach of the team, he naturally knew what was going on.
(To be continued)