Chapter 642: Playing the Spurs Inside

But what Blair didn't expect was that Li Feng was actually very hard, and he didn't let himself completely cut into it at the first time, but pushed himself out of the way.

But Blair didn't give up, he flashed outside, and then immediately rushed forward again, this time Li Feng finally didn't keep up with Blair's footsteps, allowing Blair to pass himself.

It turned out that Blair forced the first step just now Li Feng used to resist Blair, but Blair's second step came too fast, and Li Feng had not adjusted his center of gravity, and Blair came the second time, so Li Feng's did not follow.

Now Li Feng has not kept up with Blair, who is very strong and fast-paced, so that Blair has passed himself all of a sudden.

Although Blair cut off Li Feng strongly, all his attention was on confronting Li Feng, and his wrist was a little worse when he went to the basket, so he didn't put the basketball in.

Blair didn't score a layup, on the one hand, Li Feng's defense, and on the other hand, he was also a power forward, and he was not proficient in the job of layup.

Blair missed a layup, Cousins picked up the rebound under the basket, and Cousins grabbed the rebound.

turned around and passed the basketball directly to Li Feng's hands, Cousins is an old guy, he can see now that Li Feng is state is completely here, and at this time, handing over the basketball to a madman who has come to this state is the most stable pass.

Li Feng received the basketball from the backcourt, and he immediately accelerated and rushed towards the Spurs' half court with the basketball.

The Knicks will not let go of any opportunity for fast break, and Li Feng will not let go of any opportunity for fast break, Li Feng has taken 5 balls in a row, and his eyes are already red, and there is only a basket left in his eyes.

At this time, the opportunity to make Li Feng face the basket directly, how could he not like it, Li Feng thought well.

But Blair, who caught up from behind him, stuck to Li Feng's body like a mad dog. made Li Feng particularly uncomfortable.

You must know that Blair is a big forward, and this strength is not at the same level as Li Feng.

In the league, this kind of player is usually sent to defend the opposing superstar, so that they will have a certain advantage in strength, height, and weight, so we can see Marion single defense Kobe, Josh Smith single defense LeBron such a counterpoint.

Now this kind of alignment has been extended to Li Feng's body, Li Feng is indeed very uncomfortable, and in addition to being uncomfortable, Li Feng is also angry and slammed into Blair with all his might.

Li Feng expected to knock Blair to the side like this, but the result was not ideal. Blair was indeed knocked away by Li Feng, but this distance was far from allowing Li Feng to do whatever he wanted.

There was experience in a collision, and the second time Li Feng immediately collided with Blair, Li Feng controlled the center of gravity, pulled the basketball backwards with his left hand, and took a step back to exchange hands, Li Feng knocked Blair away a little, and then Li Feng took a step back by himself, so that he and Blair had a certain distance. With this distance, Li Feng stepped on the Spurs' three-point line. Threw the basketball out with all his might.

Li Feng smashed the basketball into the black frame with great force, and then the basketball bounced back and fell into the Spurs' basket cleanly.

13 points! Li Feng scored 13 points in a row as soon as he came out, and even Blair couldn't stop Li Feng's scoring.

Seeing Li Feng continue to fight like this. The general trend is accumulated, and it will be even more difficult to control it next. And now in this way, the scores of the two teams have also narrowed in an instant, and now the score between the Knicks and the Spurs has become 23-28, the difference between the two teams. It's gone from 10 to 5.

Popovich was so angry that the loud-voiced old guy immediately called a timeout.

He felt that he couldn't let Li Feng go on like this. You can't let your team be in such a passive state.

You have to regain the initiative, master the rhythm of the game, and master the initiative to win the game.

Popovich called a timeout and began to readjust his tactics, he first made a move on defense to adjust the Spurs' tactics into a defense similar to the joint defense, used to contain Li Feng's low-post offense and breakthrough, in order to kill Li Feng, he even gave up part of the outside defense, you must know that the Knicks are a projection team.

Here he tried his best to kill Li Feng, but he didn't know that on the other side of the court, Taibodu, who had no appearance in front of him, played a beautiful substitution at this time.

When Popovich was overwhelmed by Li Feng, Tyberdu could quietly deduce the game in his heart.

His deduction method is very simple, what will he do if he meets a player like Li Feng.

The end result is the same, I'll stick to the basket! With this inference, when Popovich called a timeout, he replaced another inside player, and he changed Belineri to the court, putting Li Feng in the No. 4 position.

Tyberdu's idea is simple, I don't have a player to break your defense, but I can add a shooter to shoot you from the perimeter.

At the end of the timeout, the Spurs head coach looked back and saw that Tyberdu had been replaced with an outside shooter, and he had a bad feeling.

Soon his bad feeling turned into a bad fact, and Spurs came out of the game, and Blair took advantage of his physical advantage to score two points under the basket. But in a blink of an eye, Belineri, who had just come on the court, ran to the Spurs' half, and a three-pointer was also shot.

The Knicks are running in front of the four small men, and there is always one to be missed, and the Knicks' small man lineup is becoming more and more proficient, and now even the Spurs have suffered a loss.

Next, although the Spurs contracted the basket, Li Feng was indeed stopped, but a few shots from the Knicks' outside line, J.R. Smith, Belineri and Li Feng each shot a three-pointer.

In this way, at the end of the first quarter, it was true that Cheng DΓΉ contained Li Feng, but his own team was also tied by the Knicks.

At the end of the first quarter, the two teams were tied at 34-34!

It couldn't have been better for the Knicks, who were behind when the game started. Now after the second half of the first quarter, the two teams have been tied, which means that the Knicks and Spurs are still on the same line in the second quarter, so the Knicks are still not satisfied.

But the Spurs felt very breathless, the Knicks, a team that was clearly several grades worse than them, was now holding up under their noses, and Li Feng still scored 13 points on them in the first quarter.

This feeling makes the Spurs feel very bad! It feels like swallowing a fly.

But for Spurs. The bad luck was not over, and the second quarter of the game began, because the first quarter was already a little easy to shoot.

J.R. Smith returned to the court and made a three-pointer that smashed straight into the Spurs' basket.

The Spurs were a little blinded by such a three-point shot, I don't know what's going on! Here's where J.R. Smith scores.

J.R. Smith's easy scoring was also due to the Spurs' lineup being adjusted, with Ginobili playing point guard in the second quarter, Leonard playing point guard, Dio playing small forward, and Blair playing power forward. Duncan stepped into the center position, and Popovich also set up a small lineup in order to deal with the Knicks' small lineup. But now that the team is just coming up, the defense is a little uncomfortable, and J.R. Smith has a chance here.

J.R. Smith threw a three-pointer and hurriedly yelled to the side, reminding his players to focus.

Ginobili drove in with the ball, Duncan helped him block in front, and then suddenly cut inside the Knicks' inside. Blair, who had been waiting on the inside for a long time, immediately covered Duncan and then pulled out, and immediately turned back to Duncan, who had gone deep into the low post, after receiving the basketball.

Duncan played against Cousins at this time, and at this point Duncan can play hard, and the Knicks are ready to wrap up. But just when all the attention was on Duncan.

At the free throw line, Leonard suddenly took advantage of his teammate's cover and ran to the free throw line, where there was an open space, and Duncan immediately passed the ball to the open space and gave up his strong play. However, Leonard missed an open shot from the free throw line.

As soon as Leonard threw the basketball away, Li Feng grabbed the rebound in his hand, and then turned around and ran towards the Spurs' halfcourt.

Now the Spurs and Knicks are small lineups. So the running speed was quite fast, and Li Feng came all the way to see that Blair and Leonard had the intention of wrapping themselves together.

Li Feng hurriedly threw the basketball into the hands of JR Smith in the bottom corner, and at this time JR Smith was standing in front of Ginobili, but he didn't seem to see Ginobili as if he had made a shot.

Coming back, instead of recovering the lead, the Spurs let the Knicks take the lead all of a sudden, which really shocked the rest of the people.

Looking at this situation on the court, which did not match the strength of the two teams, Popovich was even more angry, and he shouted at the stadium in a dumb voice regardless of it.

For the Spurs, the scene is a little too ugly!

As a result, the Spurs played more seriously in the Knicks' half, Ginobili pushed over, and Dior, who had penetrated the bottom line, suddenly ran outside the three-point line, using Duncan's cover to jam Li Feng behind, and at this time he happened to reach the three-point line to catch the ball.

The penetration in front, the pass, the cover, and even Dior's shot were good, but the moment it came to the shot was broken. Dio had such a good chance, and he didn't shoot the three points.

The rebound was easily grabbed by Cousins under the basket, and then the Knicks immediately attacked.

This time the Knicks came over again, and the Spurs finally didn't dare to shrink under the basket, but expanded the defense all at once. As a result, the space near the penalty area suddenly increased, and Cousins also found an opportunity to ask for the ball directly in the low post.

Li Feng saw that the space on the inside line was so large, and Cousins had the ball again, this was an opportunity to cut in the air!

Li Feng thought about this, and immediately ran back to Cousins along the bottom line, Li Feng suddenly came in, Duncan and Blair couldn't figure out whether Li Feng was going to open up the space or attack, so that Blair, who was originally slower than Li Feng, was even slower, so that Li Feng had a chance at the moment when he got to the basket.

Cousins was very thoughtful in responding to the ball, Li Feng's opportunity came The basketball in his hand instantly arrived in Li Feng's hands, Li Feng jumped up directly to Duncan under the basket and went to the basket, seducing Duncan to reach out to block it, but Li Feng came to a light lever in the air, changed hands to the other side, and hooked the basketball into the Spurs' basket.

Spurs once the space is opened. stopped playing joint defense, and Li Feng immediately scored. And Li Feng scored this time, and it was useless, he just seized the opportunity, ran to the right position, and played Duncan a little.

Li Feng is easy to run and play, but it is not easy for the Spurs! In the second quarter, J.R. Smith made two consecutive three-pointers, and Li Feng cut in the air. Spurs didn't get a point.

This is the beginning of the second quarter of the Knicks played an 8-0 small climax, this small climax also happened to hit the Spurs when they wanted to move back to face, isn't this the more they want face, the more they are slapped in the face?

Spurs couldn't help it again and called out for another timeout!

The Spurs took a timeout, but Tim Hardaway laughed in the commentary box at this time:

"I must have been very depressed today! He definitely didn't expect that he would encounter such difficulties today, and now it looks like the Spurs are a weak team with a lack of soldiers and generals, while the Knicks are a strong team with multiple All-Stars! ”

"Yes! Now the scene is for Dallas. It's a bit embarrassing! So Tim, what do you think is the main reason for this? ”

Gary Payton can't figure it out, how can the Spurs fall behind?

"The main one? It's very simple, but I didn't find an effective way to deal with Li Feng. Nor was there a systematic strategy for dealing with the Knicks. Just now, he was a headache doctor and a foot pain doctor, in the end, he still despised the Knicks and Li Feng before. So now this result is a lesson he has learned for himself. ”

Gary Payton didn't expect that. Cousins gave Li Feng such a high evaluation, listening to Cousins, if you want to guard Li Feng well, you still need to have a special strategy? This is a treatment that only phenomenal players have.

Popovich was also on the bench towards his own player. With a roar, the faces of the players on the Spurs' side really changed, and they were obviously scolded.

The Spurs returned to the sideline of the court to tee, and they were a lot tougher in terms of play, and they were a little desperate.

Leonard got the basketball at the top of the arc, and he was not polite to Jr Smith, and directly bullied Jr Smith with his body and rushed up to the basket with a breakthrough. The Knicks' defense shrank slightly, and he immediately passed the ball to Dio at 45 degrees on the left, and Dio made a resolute three-point shot, and the basketball simply fell into the Knicks' basket.

After the pause, the Spurs really played resolutely and ferociously, Leonard broke through fiercely, and Dior's three points did not hesitate.

The difference between shooting and whether there is hesitation at the moment of shooting is huge, and if you focus without hesitation, you will be more accurate in focusing. If there is hesitation in my heart, I can't shoot accurately, and just now Spurs hesitated a lot, and I didn't completely focus on it mentally.

Now the Spurs are back and finally starting to focus.

The Knicks thought that it was as light as the offense just now, and the Spurs' defensive intensity suddenly increased this time, and they began to press the Knicks from the backcourt.

The Knicks had just finished eating the dumplings, and now when they were mentally slackening, they were not prepared at all, and Livingston, who was in possession, accidentally broke the ball by Ginobili who was following his butt.

Ginobili, who broke the basketball, quickly rushed towards the Knicks' half of the court, and the Knicks' players suffered a major change and hurried back to defend.

Ginobili took the ball but didn't use his best pull-up jumper, but broke through the middle and compressed the Knicks' position. The Knicks' position had just been compressed back, Duncan was just outside the three-point line, Ginobili passed the ball easily, and Duncan received the ball for three points.

Duncan's three-point shot is particularly high, and his hands are particularly beautiful, like the beak of a white crane.

The basketball flew high, gently fell and brushed the three-pointers, the Spurs came back from a timeout, Dior scored three points, Duncan three-pointers, and in less than a minute, the 8-point chase was left with two points.

The Spurs' offensive sharpness is still there! Once you go berserk, it's still terrifyingly tight.

The Spurs scored six points in a whirlwind instant, and Tyberdu rushed onto the court on the sidelines, yelling at his players.

Tyberdu wanted to make his team play more effective and stable, but he forgot that now he has a small lineup, and it is easier to play more flexible, and it is more difficult to play more steady.

And the Knicks are not an old team like the Spurs and Pistons, the players are all old skins, have patience and experience, can withstand polishing, and the back and forth pass error rate is also low. The Knicks want to be flexible, and there are ways to do it, but if they want to play steadily, they want a group of monkeys to sleep in, which is a difficult thing.

When the Knicks arrived at the Spurs' half, they wanted to stabilize and pass a lot, but they actually made a mistake! The basketball was suddenly stealed by Blair, and then immediately passed to Leonard, who received the ball and made a fast-break layup.

Eight points, a little more than a minute, all chased back!

The Knicks and Spurs are your side singing and I will appear, and the two teams will take turns in feng shui, so that the two teams are tied again, which seems fair!

But Tyberdu immediately called a timeout! Calling out all the players to the side of the bench, Tyberdu began to say:

"We have to score steadily, we need a support point, Li Feng, you continue to play low!"

Taberdu made this decision because he felt that the Knicks lacked a tactical support point, that is, the core, the starting point of the tactics. And now that the Knicks can do this, only Li Feng is in the Spurs lineup. (To be continued......)