Chapter 188: Spurs' Defense
In the Spurs locker room, there was some silence, as if they were the ones who were pressed and beaten behind in the first half, and the whole locker room was a little suffocating.
Bruce Bowen's accidental injury made Popovich a little stretched on defense, especially at the last moment of the first half, Gu Fei slipped out of the empty position through cover and running to shoot three points, and narrowed the difference between the two sides to five points in just three minutes, if he can't come up with a good defensive method to contain the rookie in the second half, the team is likely to fail, and now the best way is to find a player who can defend Gu Fei alone, Popovich glanced at the entire locker room and sighed softly, Where is there such a character in his own team, thinking of this, the wrinkles on Popovich's old forehead are even deeper.
Suddenly, a figure came into Popovich's line of sight, and that figure was Tony Parker, the "French sports car".
Although Parker's height is nearly ten centimeters shorter than Gu Fei's, Parker's speed is undoubtedly an effective curb for Gu Fei's running offense, others can't keep up when Gu Fei is running, maybe Parker can keep up with his speed, and then get a player with height to help defend, maybe he can really contain that rookie?
As one of the league's top head coaches, Popovich is undoubtedly a master tactician, and as soon as he found a way to do it, he grabbed the time to start arranging.
"Cheer up, we're still on the leading side, you don't lose confidence because of a rookie's three consecutive points, right?" Popovich clapped and drew everyone's attention to the Spurs.
As the leader of the team, Tim Duncan, immediately stood up, "The coach is right, how can we be frustrated because of a rookie, this is San Antonio, this is our home stadium, everyone cheers up"
"Okay, let's see how we're going to fight," said Popovich, who immediately began to demonstrate on the big tactical board.
"Tony. You use your speed to defend him, he runs and you follow, Manu, Tim, Robert, you three pay attention to the defense, once he runs, you need to intercept him in the last place, if you are in place Robert you go up to mark, use your height ......"
The Spurs players all expressed great agreement when they heard Popovich's defensive arrangement, and the Spurs players all had extremely high tactical literacy, and they obviously thought that such a defensive arrangement could prevent the rookie, and soon the twenty minutes of the halftime break came, and the Spurs players were full of confidence and stepped on the floor.
"Because Bruce accidentally injured himself in the defense against Gu. So Greg Popovich sent in Robert Horry, and I'm looking forward to Greig's defensive set-up of Gu and how Gu responds" In Hoffman's opening commentary of the second half, the second half officially began.
Parker was staring at Gu Fei not far away, Robert Horry, the key gentleman, was standing in front of Gu Fei at the moment, and Ginobili went to defend Thorton, but he still kept his eyes on Gu Fei's body.
Gu Fei easily got rid of Robert Horry and ran to the other side, and just when Gu Fei thought he could easily run out of the empty position, he was surprised to find that Tony Parker was following him closely.
Under Parker's stubborn entanglement, Gu Fei finally did not participate in the first offense of the Clippers in the second half, and finally Carman pitched, but the basketball slid out of the frame.
"Bill. It seems that Greg made a heavy hand in order to deal with Gu Ke, what do you think of the first defense in the second half? Hoffman looked at Bill Wharton beside him.
Bill Wharton held his headset, "Obviously, Greg is also afraid that Gu's scoring ability will be fully released, so he needs to use defense to contain Gu's offense." Especially in terms of movement, so he uses Tony's speed to contain it, so maybe it will work, I think it should be like this" I have to say that Bill Wharton, an old guy with many years of experience as a player and commentator, basically said Popovich's thoughts after watching the Spurs' defense on the court last time.
And the Spurs around the troika. In terms of offense, he was still calm and orderly and unhurried, and finally with the help of Duncan's cover, Tony Parker broke through to the inside line and made a big throw. The difference between the two sides was stretched to 7 points, a relatively safe point difference.
Switching offense and defense, Robert Horry stood in front of Gu Fei again, with a faint smile on his face, "Rookie, the future is yours"
Gu Fei was slightly stunned, people have such a good attitude, you can't come up with a straight face, and after smiling slightly, he said, "Robert, thank you, you are also an example worthy of my learning"
The two of them chatted like this, and such a scene made Ginobili and Parker, who were not far from them, think that the two of them were engaged in a fierce trash talk duel!
However, the atmosphere is friendly and friendly, and Horry always remembers his defensive tasks, so Horry's body is close to Gu Fei, as if he wants to become a piece of meat on Gu Fei's body. Height, matched with his waving arms, Gu Fei seemed to be wrapped in Huoli.
But after all, Horry is already old, and his physical fitness and footsteps can not be compared with when he was young, relying more on experience, but in front of the young Gu Fei, Horry's close pressing quickly lost its effect, and one by one he retreated and accelerated and changed direction, completely leaving Horry behind, and when Gu Fei was about to get rid of Horry, Parker immediately left Livingston to keep up with Gu Fei, and Robert Horry, who was thrown away by Gu Fei, immediately ran in front of Livingston.
For a while, Gu Fei failed to have a good opportunity under Parker's pursuit, and his teammates did not dare to pass the ball to Gu Fei rashly, although Gu Fei had raised his hand to ask for the ball, but for the safety of the ball, his teammates still did not pass the ball to Gu Fei, but handed the ball to the inside Kaman again.
Popovich on the sidelines looked at the situation on the field with a smile on the corner of his mouth, obviously the situation on the field at the moment is exactly what he envisioned, and he said that he is satisfied with the current situation.
But Carman shot again with Duncan's interference, Duncan quickly collected the defensive rebound, and the Spurs immediately turned defense into offense, without waiting for Duncan to settle down, and the Spurs completed the counterattack and fast break under the double arrows of Ginobili and Parker.
"It seems that Gu is in a little trouble, teammates don't dare to pass the ball to Gu casually, in fact, I think they should be bolder, after all, Gu has an obvious height advantage, even if he doesn't run out of the vacant position, but in the face of Tony, I think Gu still has the ability to score the ball"
"Yes, I'm sure Gu's teammates will know what to do later" Bill Wharton agrees with Hoffman.
"Believe me, come boldly and pass it on, my height has an advantage." Gu Fei spread his hands to his teammates and said, a little helplessly.
The other players of the Clippers nodded in agreement with Gu Fei's request, after all, the team can't open the situation now, and it is normal for the leader of the team to hand over the ball to Gu Fei, so the Clippers' counterattack immediately started again.
Rob Tehorry's age determines that the key gentleman who scares all coaches will not be in the league for too long, so he cherishes every minute of his time on the field, Horry tried his best to stick to Gu Fei, and the small movements unique to the old fritters made Gu Fei feel like Bowen was defending him again, and Gu Fei's face naturally showed a disgusted expression.
Horry, who has been in the league for more than ten years, can naturally easily capture the changes in Gu Fei's face, he knows that once a player's mentality has even a little change, it will affect his state, no matter how good Gu Fei's performance is, Gu Fei is only a first-year rookie at present, so he thinks that this defense Horry is not far from success.
Gu Fei gently pushed, and once again successfully shook off Robert Horry, who was pressing him, and Horry did not entangle with Gu Fei too much, but ran directly to Livingston and Parker to change defenses.
When Parker followed him again, the disgust on Gu Fei's face had already dissipated, but a sudden change of direction, in the face of Gu Fei's sudden change of direction and running, Parker quickly chased after him, Gu Fei did not run to the empty position in the bottom corner this time but chose to drill into the inner line, Duncan waved his long arms and waited for him, but Gu Fei did not intend to entangle with the big man on the inside, he just planned to use the crowding of the inside line to get rid of Parker who was chasing him, and this trick proved to be really useful, Parker despite his fast speed, he still lost Gu Fei in the somewhat crowded inner line, when he drilled out of the inner line, he originally thought that Gu Fei should have gotten a chance to shoot at this moment, but when he saw that his teammate's demon knife Ginobili had entangled Gu Fei, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately chased after Thorton, handing Gu Fei over to Ginobili to take care of.
Gu Fei's shot under the interference also followed in the footsteps of Karman, but the only difference was that Gu Fei's ball smashed into Duncan's body and went out of the bottom line, so the ball was still the Clippers'.
However, Dunleavy on the sidelines was a little unable to sit still at this time, Gu Fei was his most important weapon to chase points now, and now Gu Fei was prevented at such a critical moment It was equivalent to scrapping the Clippers' score, so he immediately asked for a long timeout. (To be continued.) )
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