Chapter 166: Advance to the Western Finals! (7/10 Subscription Requested)
'Strengthen the ball's conduct, Stephen, you need to be more of a run off the ball to find attacking opportunities, they defended so well today and we need more patience. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Klay, increase dribble breakouts, dribble more to find shooting sensations. ”
'We need to defend better, especially against the counter-attack, and we have to make fewer mistakes. ”
In the home dressing room, Mark Jackson kept shouting, and he was already feeling the pressure at this point. Today's performance of the Spurs is really good, on the defensive end, several offensive cores of the Warriors are defenseless, and on the offensive end, as long as there is a little flaw in the Warriors' defense, they will be caught immediately.
After Mark Jackson completed the tactical set-up, the Warriors' players also came to the court early to warm up early to find a shooting feeling.
The Spurs' defense was so pressurizing today that it was impossible for them to look for shooting sensations through the game, and the Warriors players wanted to find their feelings by warming up before the second half.
Especially Curry and Thompson, they also know that if their shooting from the outside is not explosive, the game will be very difficult today.
The half-time break passed quickly, and with the referee's whistle, the second half officially began.
Mark Jackson's set-up in the midcourt and the Warriors' early warm-up obviously worked well, and after the start of the second half, Curry and Thompson both hit their first three-point shots, directly narrowing the original 9-point gap to just 5 points.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Popovich quickly called a timeout to set up the defense, even though the second half was less than a minute into the game, and he was very unhappy with the slackness of his players after the start of the second half.
At the same time as calling a timeout, Popovich also directly adjusted the lineup, Li Yang replaced Dio, and Popovich at this time would rather sacrifice the interior than let the Warriors find a shooting feeling on the outside. Replaced by Li Yang, Li Yang's movement speed and super mobility can greatly reduce the Warriors' blocking and dismantling threat.
Popovich's move really worked, after Li Yang came on the court, Curry and Thompson didn't dare to find Draymond Green to block and dismantle, because in this way, Li Yang would take the initiative to change the defense, and they also needed to face Li Yang's defense, which was no different from no blocking.
When Curry and Bogut played blocking and dismantling, the Spurs directly wrapped Curry and let Curry pass the ball to Bogut, while Li Yang stayed inside at this time and let Draymond Green go.
If Bogut rushes into the inside line, Li Yang will make up for the defense, and Bogut's two games have been covered by Li Yang's heart, and the offensive effect is extremely poor.
And if Bogut chooses to split the ball, the Spurs are to fill in with excellent rotation defense, although it also allowed Draymond Green to shoot a three-pointer, but such an offense can't really kill the Spurs.
The Warriors attacked again, and at this point, Draymond Green fell to the low post, and behind him was defending Li Yang, which was the Warriors' latest tactical adjustment, trying to attack Li Yang with Draymond Green's misposition.
Li Yang was behind Draymond Green, he didn't feel too much pressure, Draymond Green's strength is outstanding, better than Li Yang, but the back fight is not a simple strength competition.
Draymond Green has empty strength, but his back hitting is really not very good, and his power skills are very average, and he can't push Li Yang, who is used to fighting Leonard, out of the way.
After a few unsuccessful pushes, Draymond Green turned and leaned on Li Yang and rushed to the basket, trying to attack the basket directly.
But how good Li Yang's movement speed is, Draymond Green's turn was not able to shake Li Yang off at all.
Rushing into the basket close to Draymond Green, Li Yang also jumped up quickly when the opponent jumped to the basket.
Leaping into the air, Draymond Green noticed a long arm hanging over his head, sealing his shot.
Trying hard to pull the ball to the side, Green tried to dodge Li Yang's big palm, but in vain, but because of the fall of his body, he was capped by Li Yang, who was perverted in the air.
"Smack!"
This dull sound undoubtedly hit the hearts of every Warriors fan on the scene, and also hit the hearts of Mark Jackson, because it meant that the Warriors' adjustment was invalid again.
When the Warriors' offensive tactics start to fail repeatedly, it means that they will be completely passive, as has been fully demonstrated in the previous games.
As a result, the gap between the two teams, which had just narrowed, began to slowly widen again.
7 points, 9 points, 11 points...... 15 points, late in the third quarter, the Spurs once widened the gap to 15 points.
After that, Curry finally hit two unreasonable three-pointers, but even then, after the third quarter, the difference between the two teams was in double digits again.
In the third quarter, when Curry shot 3 of 5 three-pointers, the Warriors not only did not narrow the difference, but continued to keep the difference in double digits, which cast a shadow on the hearts of the Warriors fans at the scene.
In this game, Warriors fans really saw the horror of the Spurs, and only then did they understand the horror of the Spurs, which were still able to occupy the first place in the West for a long time, despite the constant injury of players in the regular season.
With excellent ball transmission on the offensive end, almost flawless rotation and teamwork on the defensive end, the Spurs' performance was so perfect that the Warriors despaired.
In the blink of an eye, the game had entered the final stage, and there was only a little more than a minute left before the game, and Popovich was on the court at this time with what he considered to be the strongest defensive lineup, Duncan, Leonard, Li Yang, Green, Ginobili.
Li Yang is serious and focused on defense, he knows that as long as he guards against this minute, his team will enter the Western Conference Finals, 1 minute 41 seconds, 9 points difference, the Spurs still maintain an absolute advantage.
The Warriors fans were all on their feet at this point, and they were desperate for the Warriors players on the court to pull off miracles, and they were eager for Curry and Thompson to suddenly burst into the game, shoot those completely unreasonable three-pointers, and then help the team win.
However, as time went on, their hearts became more and more desperate.
"Bang!" When Curry's three-point shot smashed out of the basket, and Li Yang jumped high inside to grab the rebound, the fans at the scene knew that it was over, this game was over, and this series was over.
"Toot!"
As the whistle blew at the end of the game, Li Yang threw the ball directly on the floor, 100:89, 11 points, the Spurs won the game and advanced to the Western Conference finals!
(To be continued.) )