Chapter 181: It's Spurs' Turn to Strike
The Grizzlies' last offense was replaced by their most attacking lineup of the game, Gasol Jr., Randolph, Prince, Bayless, and Conley. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Spurs also adjusted the lineup accordingly, with two starting interior players Split and Duncan, and on the outside, Li Yang, Leonard, and Green, three of the Spurs' best outside players, came on the court.
The Spurs gave the Grizzlies 10 seconds in the previous round, and after the Grizzlies sent the ball out, Conley held the ball at the top of the arc, and it was Li Yang who stopped him.
Lee Yang defended Conley, Green went to play against Bayless, who prefers to run, and Leonard played against the experienced Prince.
Conley quickly got the ball into the hands of Gasol Jr., and was running aggressively.
Although Conley handed the ball into the hands of Gasol Jr., and Gasol Jr. did play a very good game, Li Yang did not relax his vigilance and still chose to follow Conley closely.
In terms of the choice of the final offense, except for those who are the top in the league, the outside player is always the best choice for the coach.
Sure enough, after running towards the basket, Conley quickly stopped and ran outside the three-point line.
Conley received the ball outside the three-point line, Li Yang also followed closely at this time, and saw Conley, who was holding the ball, lifting the ball to shoot, Li Yang immediately took a step, but Li Yang did not completely pounce.
At this time, the 5-second countdown has just begun, and in Li Yang's mind, it is unlikely that Conley will be in such a hurry to give the Spurs time for the last attack, so the opponent's action can also be explained, that is, ...... Feints!
Li Yang's prediction was right, after lifting the ball and making a shooting feint, the next moment, Conley bent over and dribbled to the left side.
In front of Conley, Li Yang quickly stuck to the defense and blocked in front of Conley's side.
"Squeak!"
Obviously, Conley couldn't break through Li Yang's defense directly with his body, and seeing that there was little time left for the offense, Conley, who rushed into the free throw line, suddenly stopped and jumped.
"Whoosh!"
After seeing Conley jump, in front of him, Li Yang flew into the air with lightning speed, his long arm reached forward, and Li Yang's huge palm directly touched the basketball that Conley raised above his head.
"Mike Conley shoots the ball, Young is on the defensive ......"
Conley also felt the defensive pressure brought by Li Yang and accelerated his shot, Conley tried to avoid Li Yang's block, but still failed to succeed.
"Smack!"
When the basketball just flew out, Li Yang's palm instigated it, and although he didn't fan the ball directly, he also swept most of the basketball!
The basketball was less than half in the air before it began to fall, and then it was time for Gasol Jr., but by this time, the game time was over!
"Block! Young blocked the Grizzlies' game-breaker, overtime! Spurs dragged the game into overtime!" Mike Brin shouted from the commentator's box.
On the sidelines, at this time, it was two days of ice and fire, and on the Spurs bench, a cadre of Spurs players jumped up excitedly, raised their arms and cheered!
On the other side, the Grizzlies bench players sighed with regret along with many Grizzlies fans.
At this time, the Grizzlies fans have completely lost the excitement of the first quarter of the game, but every second is worrying, in the last two quarters, the Grizzlies relied on extremely excellent defense to consume the Spurs, but on the court, the Spurs seem to be ready to complete the turnaround at any time, which makes Grizzlies fans suffer.
And now, the game is going to go into overtime, which means that the Grizzlies have to work hard to defend the Spurs' attack for 5 minutes, which suddenly makes Grizzlies fans extremely worried.
"The team has already defended the opponent's four-quarter game, and overtime will definitely be prevented!" At this time, Grizzlies fans could only secretly read in their hearts.
On the Spurs bench, Popovich encouraged his Spurs players with similar but completely opposite words.
"The guys on the other side were on the verge of collapse, they defended the whole game seriously, they had tried their best for the first 48 minutes, and they couldn't even run, so next, our chance came!"
"Attack! Attack at the start of overtime! Defeat them in one fell swoop!"
Popovich put his pen on the tactical board and shouted confidently, and his words immediately boosted the morale of the Spurs.
Li Yang's eyes are also bright, Popovich is right, after defending the whole game like this, the morale of the Grizzlies has been almost worn down at this time, and it cannot be compared with the first quarter of the game, and the physical consumption of the Grizzlies players is also very large for the high-intensity defense of the whole game.
Especially Gasol Jr., the core of the opponent's defense, he has been playing for 44 minutes in front of him, and has been taking on a lot of defensive tasks in the game, I believe that at this moment, his physical strength has reached the limit.
So at this time, Popovich's strategy is simple, attack the inside!
"Tick!"
At the referee's whistle, overtime officially began, with Split beating Gasol with a jump ball and the Spurs taking the lead in attack.
Split, Duncan, Li Yang, Ginobili, Parker, this is the Spurs' lineup on the court at this time, Leonard and Danny Green played almost the entire quarter in the fourth quarter, so they stayed off the court at this time, and Li Yang, who was excellent in interior attack in this game, got the opportunity to play.
Split and Duncan fell in the low posts on both sides, which was very similar to the offensive cooperation that the Spurs played a lot in the last game, but no one cut in at this time, and the ball was handed directly to Duncan alone!
Duncan singled out Marc Gasol, a tactic that didn't work very well for most of the series, and it looked like the aging Duncan was having a hard time impressing young Gasol Jr.
However, that was when Gasol was in good shape and Duncan was reserved!
"Porphyry!"
With a heavy back, Duncan finally exerted all his strength at this time, and the result was that little Gasol was squeezed back a step!
Duncan leaned again, Gasol retreated, and little Gasol, who was already tired, couldn't resist Duncan who was using all his strength!
At this time, Duncan had squeezed to a position close to the three-second zone, turned around, and Duncan used his strength to completely suppress Gasol, holding the ball with one hand and preparing to attack.
"Tick!" Gasol Jr., who was behind him, tried to make some resistance, but was directly whistled for a foul by the referee.
But even so, it didn't stop Duncan's goal, hitting the board with one hand, hitting a two-point shot, 2+1!
Duncan, who completed the goal, didn't roar or throw a fist, he just glared at Gasol Jr. with big eyes, and then walked to the free throw line.
But it was such a scene that excited the Spurs players and the Spurs fans in front of the screen, and Duncan used his actions to tell everyone that after being grinded by the Grizzlies for a whole game, it was now the Spurs' turn to wield!) )