Chapter 171: The West Duel Begins!

The day after the Pacers eliminated the Knicks to determine the two teams in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Western Conference Finals kicked off first, with the Spurs hosting the Grizzlies. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

About this game, the media has reported on a large area before the game, and among them, the grudge of the Black Eight two years ago was naturally mentioned by many people, and the reporters wanted to use the grudge of the two teams to increase the gimmick of the game and attract higher attention.

In fact, even if the reporters don't, today's game is just as intriguing, given that there are only four teams left in the playoffs and that they've reached the Western Conference Finals.

At the AT&T center of the Spurs' home stadium, with the players from both sides walking onto the court, cheers suddenly rang out like a shock.

"Tick!" As the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, it also meant that the Western Conference Finals officially began.

The Spurs are fully staffed, and they have fielded their regular season starting lineup, with interior Split and Duncan, small forward Leonard, scoring guard Danny Green, and point guard Parker.

On the other side of the Grizzlies interior are their black and white duo, Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, and the small forward is Tyshawn Prince, one of the former Pistons Five, scoring guard Tony Allen, and point guard Mike Conley.

Mark Gasol jumped the ball to take the lead for the Grizzlies, and when he came to halftime, he played with Mike Conley and hit a teammate's split shot in the high post.

On the other side, Parker also played with Duncan, but Parker did not pass the ball back to Duncan, but directly took the ball to the inside.

As Popovich set up before the game, the Grizzlies were very attentive to their interior defense, and their defense immediately began to shrink after seeing Parker break through.

The Spurs players started to run aggressively, and Parker also kept Popovich's tactical arrangement in mind, and the ball was distributed to the bottom right corner, and Leonard received the ball and hit a three-point shot.

The Grizzlies attacked again, Conley and Gasol Jr. continued to block and dismantle, Conley tried to distribute the ball to Gasol Jr. again, but this time it was judged by Parker and he made a direct steal to complete the counterattack.

At this point, the Spurs began to show how well they were targeted before the game, and after Marc Gasol completed the first round of offense, the Spurs defended well on the next few Grizzly attacks.

On the offensive end, Duncan and Parker hit shots after blocking and pick-and-roll, and Danny Green took both shots by passing the ball and made a three-pointer.

At 6:15, five minutes after the game was played, the Spurs had a lead of nine points. The Spurs are hoping that their main players can get more rest, while the Grizzlies are replacing their sixth man, Jerry Bayless, in the hope of improving the offense.

However, it is clear that the Spurs' form today has captured the lifeblood of the Grizzlies on both the offensive and defensive ends, and the difference between the two sides has not narrowed after both teams have made adjustments.

At 10:21, when Li Yang came on the court with four minutes left in the first quarter, the Spurs' lead had reached 11 points.

Staying on the field with Li Yang are Bonner, Dior, Ginobili and Joseph, which is a pure substitute lineup.

The Grizzlies on the other end of the floor had two starters on the floor, Zach Randolph and Prince, and the other three players were power forward Darrell Arthur and two guards Jerry Bayless and Kenyon Doolin.

The Grizzlies attacked, and Bayless controlled the ball to the front court and tried to put it in Randolph's hands, but at this time, Randolph was entangled in front of Dio and couldn't receive the pass.

Landing in the bottom corner on the right side to defend Prince, Li Yang also paid attention to Dio and Randolph, who were on the left side, ready to return to the inside to help defend at any time.

Fat angel against fat black bear, in terms of strength confrontation, although Dio is also a fat man, but it is obviously not Randolph's opponent, but Dio, who chose to go around, almost sat on Randolph's body, which made Randolph very distressed.

Bayless didn't dare to throw the ball too high at this time, after all, Randolph's bounce was really not very good, and his flexibility was not too strong, once he threw it too high, Randolph was very likely to miss the ball and cause a mistake.

Randolph also knew that in order to receive the ball, he first had to get rid of Dio's entanglement, so after squeezing Dio, he quickly turned and stepped towards the basket, and at the same time reached out to signal Bayless to pass the ball.

Bayless did pass the ball at this time, but fearing that he would be intercepted by Dior, he obviously passed the ball a little higher, and Randolph had to take another step forward before reaching for the basketball.

But at this moment, a figure suddenly burst out of the air, and when Randolph was about to catch the ball, a pair of big hands had already taken the first step and lightly tapped the basketball.

Originally defending Prince in the bottom corner, he has been paying attention to Randolph's help defense, and after seeing Bayless's passing power is too strong, he quickly rushed to the inside.

Although he couldn't take the ball off Randolph's head directly, relying on his outstanding speed and bounce, Li Yang lit the basketball one step ahead of Randolph in the air.

After landing on the ground, he jumped up quickly, Li Yang showed his superhuman speed at this time, Randolph's side had not fully recovered his senses, he had re-jumped into the air, and picked up the rebound in one fell swoop.

After getting the ball, Li Yang quickly rushed to the other half with the ball.

The Grizzlies' positional defense is very good, so in the pre-game arrangement, Popovich emphasized the need to pass the ball more, and another point is to resolutely counterattack!

As a defensive powerhouse, the Grizzlies also do a great job of counter-attacking, with their players dropping back very quickly, except for Randolph.

Randolph, who was moving slowly, was left behind by Li Yang at this time, which also made the Spurs form a five-to-four situation in the frontcourt.

Such a good opportunity, Li Yang naturally will not let go, with the ball quickly advanced to the three-point line, and the speed did not decrease, and then he continued to kill the inside.

The Grizzlies chose to shrink their defense at this time, and the two players stopped directly in front of Li Yang, and seeing this, Li Yang quickly passed the ball back to Bonner outside the three-point line.

The ball was thrown outside the three-point line, and the two players who had contracted to defend Li Yang immediately rushed out to the outside, after all, at this time, all four players of the Spurs were outside the three-point line, and Bonner and Dior could both shoot three-pointers.

"Bang!"

In the face of Prince's pounce, Bonner's ball smashed out of the basket, but the scene still broke out into huge cheers at this time!

Several Grizzlies players pounced outside, but Li Yang didn't have it at this time, and after passing the ball to Bonner outside the three-point line, Li Yang continued to rush to the basket.

After seeing Bonner's shot smashing on the basket and bouncing up, Li Yang, who rushed to the basket, immediately jumped high.

"Bang!"

The right hand reached to the right side, grabbed the basketball that was about to fly to the side in his hand, Li Yang grabbed the ball with one hand and pulled it back violently, and pressed it directly back into the basket in front of him, and made up for it! )