Chapter 1017: Old and Strong

All Spurs fans were angry when they looked at Kelly, the fans were booing him, and Danny Green, who was in charge of defending him on the court, also rolled his eyes.

Popovich also looked at Kelly super unhappy, when did this guy come up badly, but he came out when he was about to beat his opponent, and the celebration after this guy scored was so bad, it was simply unbearable.

Kelly's three consecutive three-pointers quite boosted the Pelicans' morale and returned to their own half, and the Pelicans immediately defended a 24-second game.

Returning to Roten, he also caused a foul on the Spurs, hitting one of two free throws at the free throw line.

Seeing the morale of the Pelicans, in the second half of the second quarter, they were actually taken up by the bench and began to chase the difference back to within 10 points little by little.

This situation was ugly for the Spurs, but it did not shake their determination.

Now Li Feng is still bored, which is the biggest victory for the Spurs.

The Spurs understand that as long as Li Feng can't play, the Pelicans' chances of winning will be greatly reduced, and now let the Pelicans' role players play, they can't beat people, at most it makes them feel more painful.

So now the Spurs are a little embarrassed on the field, but they are not shaken at all, and Popovich is also firmly seated in the Diaoyu Tai and continues to watch the game go on, compared to Van Gundy on the sideline.

The Spurs came back to attack, and Leonard was very cunning to cheat a foul and quietly score two points again at the free throw line.

Although the Pelicans have played very vigorously so far, hitting consecutive three-point shots, the difference has not shortened too much, and the Spurs have been taking advantage of some simple opportunities to keep scoring.

At this time, there was not much left in the second quarter of the game, and the situation on the court had also undergone slight changes.

Spurs can't do it again. The unscrupulous entrapment of Li Feng has also found a way to win in the constant confrontation with the Spurs, and the whole team must play a more team with the Spurs.

After Leonard's free throw, Li Feng arrived at the Spurs' half and finally seized an opportunity to score two points on a jumper from the free throw line.

Li Feng finally scored two points, and the second quarter was about to run out, and at this time, the Spurs began to play cautiously in order to keep the point difference.

Parker pushed in slowly, and the Spurs pulled the bottom line. Duncan, Leonard, and Split all stood on the free-throw line at the same time, and Danny Green wandered back and forth along the baseline like a ghost behind the three men.

Standing up, Parker came over and gave the ball to Duncan in the middle of the free throw line, at which point Leonard ran around Duncan towards the top of the arc, and Split cut through Duncan's hand to the basket.

The Spurs' running position formed a vortex line, and Leonard had a lot of options at this time. Allen in the bottom corner on the right, Parker on the left, and Split in the open cut are all chances.

But Leonard didn't choose these opportunities, but pulled them over and shot directly outside the three-point line.

Today's first half of Leonard's table was indeed very sluggish. It makes sense for him to jump out and play now, but today is really not a good day for him, and the basketball suddenly misses the shot.

The backcourt rebounding ball also fell into the hands of Li Feng, and Li Feng was free at this time. The Spurs' defense has not yet opened a wide net against him, Li Feng, who was finally free, took the ball and suddenly got up to speed, Danny Green was the first to come over to delay Li Feng, and Li Feng immediately left Danny Green behind him with a back dribble.

Shake off Danny Green. Li Feng took two more diagonal steps forward to reach the Spurs' three-point line, and Parker came to pounce on Li Feng.

Li Feng shook quickly forward, Parker hurriedly retreated, at this moment Li Feng's body quickly retracted, Parker's body moved backwards, his consciousness wanted to move forward, and his body suddenly lost control and knelt on one leg in front of Li Feng.

Li Feng also ignored Parker's respectful gesture, and withdrew his body to shoot a three-pointer directly outside the Spurs' three-point line.

Li Feng's three-point shot this time had an extremely flat arc, extremely fast speed, and great strength.

It hit the back edge of the basket with a "bang", and then "bang" hit the basket several times in a row before it landed in the Spurs' basket.

Li Feng didn't make a move, and as soon as he made a shot, he broke the ground, shook Parker, and quickly attacked three points, and Li Feng made the score of the two teams closer in an instant.

At the same time, Li Feng also declared that I have passed the dark period, and now I am back.

Of all the opponents who fought against the Pelicans, the first of their winning formula was never to let Li Feng pull up.

The Spurs had painstakingly suppressed Li Feng and preserved the momentum of victory, but now at the end of the first half, Li Feng was powerful, which made Popovich very uneasy, and he immediately called a timeout.

Li Feng's power can not only close the score, but the most important thing is at the end of the half.

The momentum of the game will set the tone for the second half of the game, and Popovich strongly dislikes Li Feng's setting the tone for the Pelicans.

At this time, Bill Wharton also very much agreed with the timing of Popovich's timeout, and he also said at this time:

"Popovich's timeout is very timely, and many times the timeout should not look at the score and time, but the situation, the situation has changed, and the timeout should be called."

After the timeout, the Spurs came back and wanted to score points and try to save the situation.

The whole team was very energetic, and Parker handed the basketball to Leonard as soon as he opened the game.

Leonard took the ball from beyond the three-point line and leaned Granger's body, pushing Granger to the side.

Leonard is the kind of player who can also rely on you to generate power and make movements, his movements look a little sticky, but the confrontation ability is very good, even Granger can't suppress Leonard's play.

Leonard was tough against Granger, suddenly accelerated his body, took a step towards the right side of the dribble, brought Granger over, and then retreated his body back, completed a step back, and dodged Granger at once.

Leonard then jumped to his hands with ease and hit a two-point shot over Granger's head.

Leonard isn't hot. But the style of being able to fight, not jumping high, but being able to shoot on the head is based on Leonard's confrontation ability and rhythm control, which is also unique in the league.

After Leonard shot, Albert, who was on the commentary bench, also said playfully;

"You can't fight kawaii."

Normally, the San Antonio side would say this after Leonard hit a good shot.

After the Spurs took a timeout, they scored two points with Leonard's strong play, which is an attitude of the Spurs, and they want to regain control.

After the Spurs scored, it was the end of the first half. There were only more than 50 seconds left, and at this time the Pelicans pushed forward again, and Luo Teng still handed the basketball to Li Feng first.

Li Feng took the ball and dribbled to the right side, and when he saw that the Spurs were sandwiched up, Li Feng immediately passed the basketball horizontally to Luo Teng's hands.

Rotten seized the opportunity and forced himself up to stick to Parker and threw the ball into the Spurs' basket.

Now Li Feng also has experience in dealing with the Spurs' defense, and he saw two people coming over the moment he took the ball just now. The ball was out in an instant, and it was on the spot.

Coming back from the timeout, both teams scored two points each, a situation that was tantamount to no problem for the Spurs. They still haven't achieved their goal of suppressing the pelicans.

At this time, because the half is almost over, many fans are walking out, seizing the favorable terrain for eating and selling.

The fans at the scene were sparse. The atmosphere was a bit cold, but at this time, the Spurs and Heat began to compete for luck in the final 40 seconds.

The last 40 seconds of the game was a key juncture. If the Pelicans' morale is raised, the Spurs will inevitably be difficult to play in the second half. The Spurs' key singles ball has always been played by Leonard, who has two stunts, one is the floor flow of the ball, and the other is his extraordinary ability to create fouls.

He had just finished an attack with a floor flow, and now Leonard was playing his second specialty.

Immediately after breaking through with the ball, he created a foul on Granger, and Leonard stepped to the free throw line and made both free throws.

As a foul-making expert, Leonard's free throws are quite steady.

After Leonard's free throws, when the basketball was back in the hands of the Pelicans, there were 35 seconds left in the first half.

This should be the last offensive opportunity for the Pelicans, and this is when the Spurs suddenly stepped up their defense in the final critical period.

In the second half, he came up to press Roteng, and Roten was almost snatched away by Parker, which made the old Roten angry.

After the elder Rotten picked up the basketball, he directly pressed Parker with his body, knocking Parker all the way to the Spurs' half court.

Old Rotten and Parker fought out a real fire here, one old and one young two point guards fought together, when the two of them were fighting for their bodies, Li Feng suddenly saw an opportunity, and now the Spurs' attention is on old Rotten, isn't this his chance.

Li Feng thought about it, and suddenly ran towards the Spurs' basket and shouted at Luo Teng.

"Ball!"

Luo Teng's body was already strong, and he had almost bullied Parker, and suddenly saw Li Feng cut up.

He immediately passed the ball to Li Feng, Li Feng received the ball on the Spurs' inside and outside joint, and the moment he received the ball was uninhabited, but once he got the basketball, Duncan immediately saved from the inside.

Li Feng did not face Duncan at this time, but turned his back to Duncan, and flew over diagonally, when Duncan stretched out his hand, Li Feng just shrank and dodged the block, and then Li Feng glided to the side of the basket, with the basket as a cover, Li Feng made a backhand layup with his back to the basket in the air.

The basketball slipped out of Li Feng's hands and hit the rebound twice before it landed in the Spurs' basket.

Li Feng suddenly came to such a magical and difficult layup at this time, and he immediately defeated the powerful defensive posture carefully created by the Spurs before.

The Spurs' final arrangement was in vain.

The players on the Pelicans' bench cheered, and Van Gundy kept touching his chin on the sidelines with a smile on his face.

Although he also has opinions about Li Feng, he also has to admit that Li Feng is a wonder boy who is good at creating miracles.

Now in the last high-intensity defense of the Spurs, Li Feng still scored such an incredible goal,

This can be said to be the final finishing touch of today's second quarter game, although the Spurs' defense is good, but it can't completely block the magical Li Feng.

After that, the Spurs used the last 20 seconds to play the Pelicans' position, but Leonard missed the shot under the Pelicans' high-intensity defense.

The first half of the game is over. Although the Spurs still have a point lead, the Spurs are hurt in momentum.

In the last two rounds, the Spurs suffered losses, and their players were not psychologically comfortable, even Bill Wharton, who was sitting in the commentary box, was also unhappy.

Bill Wharton concluded his way to the commentator:

"The Pelicans broke away from the Spurs' control in the final stages of the first half, and the Spurs' priority in the second half was to suppress the Pelicans' counter-attacking arrogance."

"So for the Pelicans, the first task in the second half is to overturn the Spurs' press."

Albert followed Bill Wharton with this sentence, and Bill Wharton was not lightly choked.

Albert's biggest hobby seems to be working against his old partner.

Albert was right, though. The Pelicans' first task in the second half must be to break away from the Spurs' defensive quagmire and change the existing pace of the game.

In the Pelicans' locker room, Van Gundy also said to his players:

"Spurs are a strong team, we don't have many chances against them, now is our chance, we have to take it, knock them down in one fell swoop, otherwise we may not have a chance. The third quarter was the perfect time for us to fight back. ”

Van Gundy agitated his players to topple the Spurs' control in one fell swoop.

The Spurs, on the other hand, were in the locker room, plotting to stabilize the situation, and the strategies of the two teams began to be extremely opposed. This also makes the coming conflict even more acute.

The fans had fun for 20 minutes, the players had a 20-minute break, and the two teams returned to the pitch in the second half.

The opening was the Spurs' ball, and at this time the Spurs still wanted to push forward steadily.

They suddenly discovered. The Pelicans played a familiar defense, and Popovich also had a pupil, only to realize that this was our way of defense!

The Pelicans actually imitated the Spurs and played a chain defense. This is how it feels to Spurs, just like Guan Gong saw someone playing a big knife at his door, and Bruce Lee saw someone screaming and playing Jeet Kune Do at his door, he was angry and funny!

But when the real spurs came, they couldn't laugh.

The Pelicans' imitation is not a simple imitation, although their tightness and tacit understanding are not as good as the Spurs', but they are more tough and aggressive.

The Spurs went back and forth around the Pelicans' half for a while, but they couldn't get into it and had nowhere to put their mouths.

In the end, Parker could only take the risk of giving Duncan a drop ball, Li Feng was next to Duncan, he saw that this situation could not be spared, he flew up and intercepted the basketball, and after intercepting the ball, Li Feng immediately passed the ball to Granger.

The Pelicans' fast break flew all at once, and Popovich jumped to the sideline and shouted at the defense as soon as he saw it.

The Spurs' defense was really good, and the Pelicans flew in general, but the Spurs still defended back.

Granger couldn't break through, and immediately turned around and passed the basketball to Li Feng, Li Feng took the ball and stood on the three-point line, and Danny Green, who was responsible for defending Li Feng, was in front of Li Feng, which was not a chance to shoot in any way.

But at this time, Li Feng was shooting, holding the ball very steadily, and the rhythm was very clear, and he pulled it out directly, and shot it on Danny Green's head.

Danny Green stretched out his hand to cover Li Feng's face, but it was useless, Li Feng's confidence was extremely resolute before he made a move, without a trace of hesitation, nor a trace of fear, when he made a move, Li Feng felt that there was nothing in front of him at all.

This feeling of concentration to the extreme has raised Li Feng's shooting percentage to the highest level.

The basketball flew out with a "swish" and simply landed in the Spurs' basket.

All of a sudden, all the Pelicans players cheered, and Li Feng even threw three fingers deep into the sky.

At this time, there was a burst of boos in the ATT Center Arena, but because most of the fans had not returned to entertainment at this time, the boos were not loud.

The Pelicans played a tough defense at the beginning of the second half, and Li Feng made an extremely decisive shot, which was already very clear, and the Pelicans wanted to be furious.

The Pelicans, who were in a frenzied state, were decisive on offense, and they were also extremely tough on the defensive end, Danny Green came up and ran without the ball, and there was still no chance to pass the ball to Duncan, and finally the basketball died in Duncan's hands.

He couldn't pass the ball if he wanted to. The intensity and hardness of the Pelicans' defense skyrocketed all at once.

Duncan also played a real fire in the end, and Shi Buddha desperately made a foul on Al Jefferson.

On the free throw line, Shi Buddha hit both free throws, and in the end, although the Spurs scored, the offensive rhythm was nothing.

Looking back, the Spurs' defensive intensity has also improved, desperately sticking to the Pelicans' players, it is difficult for the Pelicans to hit near the opponent's penalty area, at this time Li Feng ran out of the three-point line directly to receive the ball, took a step around Pau Gasol to cover, and directly got up a three-point shot.

Li Feng made a three-point shot for the second time in a row, and this three-pointer came out. Li Feng didn't wait for the ball to reach the basket, and stretched out three fingers towards the sky.

The fans in the ATT Center Arena were about to boo Li Feng, but in the next moment, Li Feng's three-point shot was hit again.

This time, the Pelicans' bench jumped up, and Luo Teng also came over and high-fived Li Feng fiercely, and the Pelicans played like a rainbow at the beginning of the second half, as if Van Gundy said that he wanted to overturn the Spurs in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the pelican's morale was burning like a fire.

The Spurs are also in a hurry. Leonard wanted to play hard when he came up, but Pau Gasol was not polite to Leonard, and directly fouled Leonard at once.

Now the confrontation between the two teams is extremely fierce, and many times it is better to foul you than to score.

Leonard went to the free throw line to score two more points. In terms of scores, the Spurs didn't stop, they kept scoring free throws, but in terms of morale, they were far from the Pelicans, who were surging three-pointers. They relied on free throws, which had a completely different effect, and there was no athletic scoring. How can you feel refreshed?

The confrontation between the two teams has increased, the game has become more intense, and when it comes back, the Pelicans are also unable to attack.

The Spurs' chain defense gave the Pelicans no chance to attack at all, and Li Feng, who even hit two three-pointers, was even more difficult to touch in basketball.

At this time, the Pelicans had no choice, Granger could only shoot from a distance, but he was a person who did not have a shooting button, and the basketball flew out far at once, at this time Li Feng was a little lucky to point the basketball first and point the basketball out to Luo Teng.

Luo Teng took the ball but hoisted the ball directly behind Li Feng, Li Feng only landed at this time and saw the ball coming again.

can only desperately fly over to grab the basketball, the moment he grabbed the basketball, Li Feng saw Luo Teng's pass was very good, so he moved himself to the position under the basket, got up and threw it directly, and Li Feng scored two points again.

The Pelicans were in the midst of the chaotic battle, and Li Feng went to the next city.

This hurt the Spurs, and the San Antonio fans also booed Li Feng.

However, Li Feng scored 8 points in a row in the second half, obviously starting to exert power, once Li Feng starts to exert power, it will drive the morale of the entire Pelicans to rise, and both offensive and defensive ends will be more tough.

The Spurs turned around and tried to play a skillful combination to score two points, but they couldn't play it in the Pelicans' pressing defense.

The Spurs couldn't play the cooperation they relied on for a living, and in the end, Parker could only rely on luck to shoot from a distance, but he missed under the interference of Roarten.

Back to Paul Gasol got the rebound, and the Pelicans' fast break chased the Spurs and killed it.

At this time, Roten bravely rushed to the inside of the Spurs, and then suddenly turned back and passed to Pau Gasol, who was following up.

Pau Gasol originally wanted to find Li Feng when he took the ball, but he made a pass here, and Duncan immediately flew out sensitively, which gave Pau Gasol a chance, and as soon as he saw that he was empty, he immediately got up and made a mid-range jumper.

The basketball came out of Pau Gasol's hands and simply fell into the Spurs' basket.

I don't know if it was infected by the atmosphere of the game, Pau Gasol, who has always been calm, was very excited, and after hitting the middle shot, he immediately shook his fist and screamed.

Then he rushed over and hit Luo Teng's chest hard, Pau Gasol yelled so aggressively, giving the Spurs veterans the feeling that it was a bit of a fuss, but it was a morale boost for the Pelicans.

Pau Gasol yelled, so that the hearts of his teammates were also infected by his passion, what is youth and invincibility, and now Pau Gasol's expression is to be old and strong. (To be continued......)