"Greg's use of Yang today is a bit strange, he didn't even replace Yang in the entire first quarter, even after Kevin Durant's consecutive points at the end of the first quarter, leading the Thunder to close the point difference, Li Yang still sat on the court. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

As the two teams walked to the sidelines at the end of the first quarter, Mike Brin said with a puzzled look on his face, and Jeff Van Gundy immediately followed.

"It's a very rare rotation for the Spurs, with Greg Popovich pinning the best scorer off the bench and the defender to the bench for a full quarter. ”

"Yang, play!"

Just when the two were so confused, Popovich called out Li Yang's name, and Li Yang, who had already stood up, was ready to play.

Putting Li Yang into the second quarter of the game before playing was indeed a pre-game arrangement for Popovich. At the beginning of the second quarter, the Thunder will have a period when Durant and Westbrook are not on the court, and in Popovich's opinion, this period is the best opportunity for the Spurs to pull away.

In addition, Popovich is also preparing to let Li Yang play the whole quarter in the second quarter, maintaining a strong killing against the Thunder's interior line, especially against Ibaka.

It's just that the progress of the game in the first quarter was a little beyond Popovich's expectations, and he didn't expect Durant to suddenly explode in the opposite position with Leonard at the end of the first quarter, and the two veterans of Caron Butler and Derrick Fisher also found their offensive feel and hit consecutive three-pointers, allowing the Thunder to chase the difference to 27:39 after the first quarter.

But even so, Popovich did not change the plan he made before the start of the game, after all, although the Thunder were close to the score, the lead was still the Spurs.

When the second quarter of the game began, Popovich immediately replaced Li Yang on the court.

Duncan, Li Yang, Belinelli, Ginobili, Mills, this is the lineup on the Spurs' side after the start of the second quarter. The Thunder on the other end of the spectrum are also a big and small lineup at this time, with Ibaka as a big man on the inside, and then partnered with Caron Butler, Jeremy Lamb, Reggie Jackson and Derrick Fisher.

The Spurs took the lead in attacking, and after Mills controlled the ball to the half, the ball was immediately handed over to Li Yang, and Duncan also mentioned blocking and dismantling for Li Yang in the high post.

With the help of Duncan's blocking, Li Yang dribbled the ball to the inside, and Butler, who defended Li Yang, was interfered by Duncan's blocking and dismantling and couldn't keep up with Li Yang's footsteps, so Ibaka immediately moved his steps to make up for the defense.

"Good time!"

Seeing Ibaka step forward, Li Yang secretly shouted in his heart, what he hoped was to be able to confront Ibaka and cause damage to the opponent, but he didn't expect that this first round would come true.

rushed to the basket with the ball, Li Yang did not completely use the speed to throw Ibaka away, but slightly pressed the rhythm, just pressed Ibaka half of his body, and after rushing into the three-second zone, Li Yang jumped up with the ball.

Seeing that Li Yang was about to make a layup in front of him, Ibaka jumped up directly almost without thinking, and reached the top of Li Yang's head with his arm, trying to directly reward Li Yang with a big hat.

However, Li Yang's ball was clearly aimed at the opponent, how could he let the opponent easily complete the block.

Leaning forward, Li Yang put the ball forward, but it was not too far away from Ibaka, which made Ibaka's body can't help but follow forward.

Feeling the power pressed from behind, the corners of Li Yang's mouth raised slightly, his arms stretched, and completely avoided Ibaka's palm to pick up the basket, and at the same time, his body fell towards the bottom line with the power that Ibaka came from behind.

"Tick!"

Almost at the same time as Li Yang rushed forward after falling to the floor, the whistle of the referee on the baseline sounded, and at the same time, the basketball picked out by Li Yang gently touched the rebound and fell into the basket.

Two points scored!It also caused a foul on Ibaka, two plus one!

"Well done! Young used his breakaway to complete a layup and caused a foul on Serge Ibaka. ”

Mike Brin shouted, and Van Gundy, who has led many teams with a lot of experience, reacted immediately, shouting:

This is not good news for the Thunder, Sergi received his second personal foul after the start of the second quarter, and it is clear that the Spurs will continue to attack the interior in the next game, Sergi Ibaka will have to control his defensive moves if he wants to stay on the court, but it is very likely that the Spurs' interior offense will be fully opened, after all, the Spurs have two of the most lethal players on their team right now, Tim and Young. ”

Thunder coach Brooks on the sidelines also reacted, he realized Ibaka's foul crisis, and the best thing to do at this point was to have another interior player come on the court to replace or share Ibaka's duties.

However, when the Spurs put out a big four small lineup, if the Thunder team also has to play a big four small lineup, only Ibaka can play the inside line, the starting center Perkins is too slow, and the backup inside Steven Adams is too fast, but too young, Brooks is not at ease to send him on the court. As for the other insider, Nick Collisson, there is almost no defense.

So at this time, Brooks didn't dare to replace Ibaka easily, he just took advantage of Li Yang's free throws to tell Ibaka to pay attention to controlling fouls and protect himself.

After Li Yangjia hit a free throw, the Thunder attacked, and Fisher broke through the ball and passed it to Reggie Jackson, who shook off Belinelli and made a pull-up jump shot. The ball was pretty good in both posture and rhythm, but the ball did not obediently enter the basket, but turned around on the basket and fell out.

Li Yang rushed into the basket to grab the rebound, and the Thunder's retreat was not slow, but Li Yang did not intend to give the ball to Ginobili to stabilize the rhythm, and he rushed up with the ball.

In the face of Li Yang, who rushed up from the field, it was obvious that few people could stop him, and neither could Caron Butler, which allowed Li Yang to rush all the way into the three-second zone on the other side.

Ibaka retreated to the half court early, but it was clear that he didn't dare to make too many moves in the face of Li Yang, who was completely up and down, because if he wasn't careful, he would receive his third personal foul.

"Bang!" Thunder was unguarded inside, and Li Yang directly ended the attack with a violent dunk.

In the next few rounds, in almost every round, Li Yang would rush inside in various ways, either attacking the basket or passing the ball to Duncan to attack the basket.

Ibaka was worried about receiving his third personal foul too early, so he didn't dare to make much action to defend, which made Li Yang want to take it.

7 points and 2 assists, in just three minutes after playing, Li Yang handed over 7 points and 2 assists, helping the Spurs to play a wave of 11:5, widening the original 3-point difference between the two sides to 9 points.

(To be continued.) )