Chapter 163: Victory! The big score equalised
At the end of the timeout, the Spurs began to counterattack, and the Spurs, who were 15 points behind, suddenly accelerated the pace of the offense, allowing the Clippers to once again experience what it means to be non-stop and non-stop.
The speed of sharing the ball allowed the Spurs to bring the Clippers' defense into their own rhythm, and even the Clippers' offense was a little chaotic as time went on.
The Spurs players on the court have the ability to attack with the ball individually, and whoever holds the ball has to be taken seriously.
When you defend the opponent's ball, pass it out before it is hot, and over and over again, your defense will appear tired from the bottom of your heart and reduce the subconscious psychology of reducing the intensity of the defense.
In this way, the widened score difference will naturally narrow, and the speed is staggering.
At 4:29 in the fourth quarter, the Clippers 93:88 Spurs.
The difference between the two sides was widened to 15 points in the fourth quarter, and the Spurs played a wave of 10-point net wins. After the tide, the balance of the game was slowly pulled to the side of the Spurs.
"Damn it!" Rivers watched the sharply closing point difference between the two sides depressed, glanced at the bench and waved at Paul.
Put Paul back on the field in advance to control the rhythm, and as long as you are still in the lead, as long as you stabilize your position, you can just stabilize the attack.
The Spurs' strength lies in their miraculous passing ability, and since the Clippers' defense can't disrupt their offense well, it's enough to ensure their own success rate on the offensive end.
Attack against attack? If you don't avoid us, we won't be afraid, offense is one of the biggest weapons of the Clippers.
"Toot ~" Paul passed the ball to the inside line and hung it to Chen Lei, but unexpectedly turned around and broke through, Chen Lei knocked down Dio and was blown an offensive foul, the poor rookie raised his arm helplessly, and then looked at the aggrieved Dio and secretly said treacherous.
Dio stood up with the help of his teammates. He didn't feel the slightest sense of guilt. Seeing Chen Lei looking at him, he smiled at him.
It is the NBA's practice to make reasonable use of collisions to create foul opportunities. Even if it will be put on the name of fake falling, it is nothing, causing the opponent to foul and be commented on by others, obviously the former is more important.
Half a minute later, in the scramble for rebounds when the Spurs missed the attack, Chen Lei and Sprint's rebound grabbing was baptized by the referee's whistle again, but fortunately, this time the unlucky egg fell on Sprint, and Chen Lei was also shocked into a cold sweat.
Chen Lei's fouls have reached 4 times, and if you want to foul again, it will be the rhythm of sitting on the bench.
He didn't want to go to the bench, he wanted to stay in the field and fight!
In the subsequent game, Chen Lei was a little more careful. The continuous whistle just now made him have the idea that 'the referee wants to find a whistle from him', so once the referee stared at him with bull's eyes, Chen Lei felt a chill down his spine.
In the fourth quarter, 5 minutes and 52 seconds, Chen Lei was replaced by Rivers to rest off the court, the rotation time has come, even if Chen Lei wants to fight, Rivers will not let him stay on the court, and reasonable arrangement of each player's playing time is also one of the magic weapons to win.
The Spurs' crazy counterattack is not over, and Chen Lei off the field is also calculating when to shoot his critical hit.
But at this time, Paul, who only scored 6 points in the third quarter and a half, stood up and let Chen Lei shout, a 2+1 and a mid-range shot plus a three-point shot helped the team widen the difference to 9 points, approaching double digits.
Rivers was overjoyed to see this, and he also arranged the final tactics in full swing when the Spurs chose to take a timeout. With Paul, Redick and Barnes forming an outside three-man musketeer projection, and the rebounding combination of Jordan Jr. + Griffin on the inside, the scoring combination at the end of the fourth quarter.
This lineup is also the team's starting lineup for a long time. It was only destroyed after Chen Lei's arrival, so it can also be said that the sparks from these people are not weak at all.
Even say that the love spark of several people...... Wrong...... It should be a few people, and the spark on the pitch can even be said to be ignited without catalyzing, and there is a tacit understanding buried in the bones.
"I'm so excited~" Barnes looked at the other four people in the field with tears flashing in the corners of his eyes, and he still had to go out by himself at the critical moment!
After the arrival of that hateful fat man, he spent more and more time on the bench, and his average playing time per game was compressed by as much as 5 or 6 points, and the chances of playing at critical moments were even more limited.
What is the best rookie? What is the strongest newcomer? What is the most anticipated inside line? Make way for yourselves.
He is the strongest No. 3 position in this team, and he should be the team's starting small forward!
Barnes's attitude towards Chen Lei also changed as the game continued, and he was more disgusted with Chen Lei than Griffin, after all, his starting position was snatched away by Chen Lei.
So to say that this team wants to talk to Chen Lei Huashan the most uncomfortable Griffin, but he Barnes.
Thrown into the middle of the court at the critical moment, Barnes felt hot like a stimulant, and told the world with two fixed-point three-pointers that he was still the same Barnes who wore a hundred steps.
"Phew......" Popovich breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the scoreboard that was about to come to an end and shook his head, this game was lost.
Rivers' outside tactics in the final moments can be said to have achieved a lot of results, and it can also be said that Barnes alone helped the Clippers seal the victory, and when Chen Lei replaced Griffin at the end of the fourth quarter, the advantage was still hovering in double digits.
Chen Lei's crit was not used in this game, not that he didn't want to have a good time at the last moment, but at the last moment, when the Spurs replaced the main force and announced that the game was abandoned, he was also replaced by Rivers.
Poor Chen Lei returned to the court and just sent the ball but didn't touch the round and tactile ball that made him think about it, and he naturally felt regretful in his heart.
At 112:105, the Clippers finally defeated the Spurs in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals to win and tie the overall score.
In this game, the Clippers can be said to have suppressed the Spurs from the beginning, and snuffed out the Spurs' counterattack flame several times to win the away game, but the process was not simple.
The overall combat ability of the Spurs has made the Clippers complain, and I believe that after returning to Los Angeles, Rivers will definitely do some research on the opponent's extremely fast sharing of the ball and seek a way to break the enemy.
Ginobili scored 23 points and handed out 7 assists, Leonard scored 18 points, Duncan had 12 points and 15 rebounds, Parker scored 10 points, Dior scored 11 points, and the team scored double-doubles.
On the Clippers side, Chen Lei had 16 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, Paul had 18 points, 8 assists and 2 steals, Griffin had 30 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists, and Jordan Jr. had 8 points and 16 rebounds.
Griffin's beautiful quasi-triple-double was naturally extremely happy, especially with the victory in this game, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and on the way to the locker room, he snapped his fingers and hummed a famous song in his mouth, which made the eyes of those who passed him widen and leaked a look of horror. (To be continued......)
PS: Is it humming a Shenma tune?