The Brooklyn Nets, who were still called the New Jersey Nets last season, have begun to show their deep pockets since they were bought by Prokhorov, Russia's richest man, and in addition to moving to Brooklyn for a new arena, the Nets have been in contact with various teams for two years to seek big deals. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

first poached the Jazz's leader Deron Williams, and then took advantage of the Bobcats to rebuild to trade the former Bobcats Gerard Wallace, and in the summer in exchange for the former Hawks leader Joe Johnson, it has the meaning of bringing together all the leaders.

This season, the Nets, who are still in the run-in period, have a 29-21 record, which is a big improvement over the previous two years, but this record is obviously not too satisfying for the Nets owner, and there are reports that he intends to seek a big trade before the trade deadline, and if it is not successful, they will make big moves in the offseason.

The Spurs are facing such a team in this game, and in terms of record, the Spurs have a certain advantage, but considering that Ginobili is still unable to play in this game, and Popovich has taken Duncan off again, from the strength on the books, the Spurs do not have a too obvious advantage.

Since being black-eight by the Grizzlies in '11, Popovich has learned the hard way and decided to reduce the use of the GDP duo of Ginobili, Duncan and Parker in the regular season to avoid the situation where both Ginobili and Duncan had to play with injuries in the playoffs that year.

Last season, the Spurs began to rotate several key players at the end of the regular season, and this season, because of the early start of injury, Popovich's rotation time against the Spurs' main players has also been advanced.

Because it was a consecutive away game, Popovich let Duncan, who had just played a game after the break, take a turn again, of course, on the other hand, Popovich also considered that Duncan was going to participate in the All-Star Game, so he let Duncan rest enough in advance.

Duncan was rested, and the Spurs' starting lineup changed to inside Thiago Split partnering Burres Dior, small forward Kawhi Leonard, and two guards, Danny Green and Tony Parker.

On the Nets' side, Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, and Gerald Wallace, who have been introduced in the past two years, occupy the first, second, and third positions in the starting lineup respectively.

In addition to the three, the starting center is Brook Lopez, a low-post traditional center with good offensive skills and not too good physical fitness, who entered the NBA in '08.

Starting power forward Chris Humphries, a blue-collar interior with excellent physical fitness and rebounding ability, about him, the most famous is probably the flash marriage with Kim Kardashian in 11 years, the two got married that year, the wedding cost tens of millions, but they divorced after only 72 days of marriage, and some media calculated that their marriage was worth $138,888 a day, which once caused a sensation in the American entertainment and sports circles.

At the referee's whistle, the game officially began, and thanks to better bounces, Split gave the Spurs the first offense.

After halftime, Split and Parker completed the blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, cut inside to receive Parker's pass and hit a layup.

The Nets, on their side, were also pick-and-roll, with Williams assisting Brook Lopez on a mid-range two-point shot.

In the next few rounds of offense, the Spurs were almost all initiated by Split and Parker playing pick-and-rolls, taking advantage of Lopez's slow movement speed, Split continued to get direct opportunities to attack the basket after the pick-and-roll.

On the Nets' side, after being beaten by Split for two or three in a row, Lopez was also very unconvinced, and he took the initiative to pass the offensive rights, either playing blocking and dismantling with Deron Williams, or playing alone in the low post, which was also a continuous offensive success.

The stalemate at the start set the tone for the first quarter of the game between the two teams, and although both teams made tactical adjustments afterwards, the score never pulled apart.

At the end of the first quarter, the Spurs had a 7-0 spurt to take a five-point lead, but then the Nets hit two three-pointers, especially Joe Johnson, who hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer before the end of the first quarter, to bring the two teams back to almost the same running line again.

At 25:26, after the first quarter of the game, the difference between the two teams was only 1 point, and the home team Nets took the lead.

After the start of the second quarter of the game, the Spurs arranged for substitutes to be on the court as usual, and a starter was not placed on the court, however, the Spurs are strong at this point, although no starter was present, but with Stephen Jackson's good play, after playing more than three minutes, the Spurs did not let the difference open.

The two teams then returned to the court to compete, but as in the first quarter, the game continued to be deadlocked.

The game time continued to go by, and in the blink of an eye, the second quarter was halfway through, and on the court, the Nets were attacking.

After possession of the ball to the halfcourt, Deron Williams continued to call for his teammates to block and pick-and-roll, and under Jazz predator Jerry Sloan, Deron Williams was trained to become one of the league's best pick-and-roll plays, and he still maintains that style.

This time, Deron Williams didn't call Brook Lopez to block the pick-and-roll, but Humphries.

Humphries is a completely different style of player from Brook Lopez, with a worse shooting ability but better physicality. So after blocking the pick-and-roll for Deron Williams, he immediately cut to the basket, because he is only a threat on the offensive end if he rushes to the basket.

Deron Williams is really good at blocking and pick-and-roll, after completing the block with Humphries, he didn't rush to pass, dribbling the rhythm against Parker to move inside, he looked like he was really planning to attack himself, just when Matt Bonner, who was defending Humphries, just moved his feet to help the defense, Williams passed.

A ground-hitting pass, Williams sent the ball to Humphries, and seeing this, Bonner immediately shrank the basket and returned to the defense.

Unable to stop Humphries from catching the ball and jumping, Bonner chose to stand in front of Humphries with his hands held high, hoping to create a foul.

"Tick!" When the two bodies collided, the referee blew the whistle, but he blew not for a Humphries foul, but for Bonner, who was awarded a foul for stepping on the line of a reasonable collision zone.

On the sidelines, after the referee blew Bonner for a foul, Popovich immediately began to prepare for a substitution, and Bonner had a lot of fouls today, and the substitute only played less than a quarter of the game, and Bonner had already received three fouls.

Popovich turned his head and subconsciously wanted to call Dio on the court, but when his gaze swept over Li Yang at the end of the bench, he suddenly beckoned to Li Yang.

"Young, get ready to come on and replace Matt. ”

Hearing Popovich's voice, Li Yang reflexively stood up with a "whoosh".

But then, Li Yang wondered if he had misheard, Popovich actually asked him to play in the second quarter, and it wasn't garbage time.

"I'm playing...... Now?"

Li Yang almost asked this question directly, but fortunately, when the words were about to rush out, he reacted and took it back.

Not only Li Yang, but several assistant coaches of the Spurs were also a little surprised, but Popovich obviously had his considerations, and while Humphries was preparing for a free throw, Popovich said to Li Yang who came to his side: "Yang, the group of guys on the other side are not familiar with you, now you need to take advantage of this opportunity." ”

"You need to run aggressively to get them beyond the three-point line so those guys think you want to shoot threes, and then all you have to do is look for an opportunity to run back and cut to the basket. ”

"When you have the ball......

Perhaps thinking that it was not enough to just tell Li Yang alone, after Humphries made the first free throw, Popovich asked the referee for another timeout, and then quickly paddled on the tactical board as the players came to the sidelines.

"Tick!"

The referee blew the whistle for the end of the timeout, the players of both teams returned to the field, and Li Yang also ushered in the opportunity to play for the first time not in garbage game time.