"Caron, stand away from him when defending, pay attention to his breakthrough......" Winnie Denag began to arrange Li Yang based on the information his team had, but Li Yang was a fresh face after all, and they could only arrange through the fact that Li Yang liked to break through in the first few games. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For example, let Caron Butler pay attention to Li Yang's breakthrough, you can appropriately put Li Yang some distance, such as Andrew Jordan to pay attention to the interior defense.

And Li Yang's two breakthrough points just now also left an impression on Vinnie De Nagro, so he especially emphasized that other players, especially outside defenders, should not shrink the defense at will.

Vinnie De Nagro's setup is a common defensive style for the average breakaway player, but it is also the best way for Popovich to defend Li Yang at this stage that he discussed with his assistant coach.

On the other end, Popovich continued to play tricks on Li Yang, well, no, it should be to continue to encourage Li Yang.

"Young, do a great job, get the ball and keep looking for opportunities to hit the inside, don't be afraid of their defenders, play more resolute and tougher. ”

Listening to Popovich's words, Li Yang nodded his head, but he felt a little strange in his heart, according to Popovich's style, shouldn't he adjust his tactics a little at this time?

For example, you can attack the inside line to attract the defense, and then pass the ball out in time, or distribute the ball to your teammates in advance when you break through with the ball, so as to create offensive opportunities.

But Popovich is now making himself more resolute and tougher, which seems to mean that he wants to attack more, what does that mean?

However, Li Yang soon thought that this might be Popovich's unexpected arrangement, so he didn't think much about it, anyway, Popovich asked him to attack more resolutely, so he played more resolutely.

The Clippers' offense was played, this time it was Butler who scored, when Li Yang was helping to defend other players, Butler received a pass outside the three-point line, Li Yang actively rushed out, but Butler rushed forward with the dribble at this time, dodged Li Yang's defense and hit a large two-pointer.

Popovich set up Li Yang to attack during the timeout, and after getting the ball, Li Yang immediately began to dribble and break through.

At this time, Li Yang also noticed a change in the Clippers' defensive strategy, and Butler was standing very far away from him, so although Li Yang had a change of direction when he started and was very fast, Butler still posted it in time.

Leaning on Butler and rushing to the inside, Li Yang also found that except for Jordan Jr., who was ready to help defend near the three-second zone, the rest of the players were unmoved.

Continuing to rush forward, Li Yang passed the ball to Duncan in the middle range when he was about to be caught by Butler and Jordan Jr. After receiving the pass, Duncan shot from mid-range and hit a two-point shot.

Seeing this scene, Vinnie De Nagro immediately shouted at the other party as Jordan Jr. ran past him: "Andrew, the time of the pinch is a little later, make sure he has to shoot himself and pinch again!"

In the next two rounds, Li Yang was unable to get the ball, and in one round, the Clippers attacked and Parker counterattacked after getting the ball, and directly went down the fast break to score 2 points. In the other round, Parker and Split blocked and passed the ball to Split, whose offense was interfered with by Jordan Jr.'s defense and failed to score.

When Li Yang got the ball again, the score was 13:16, and the difference between the two teams was only three points, and just the previous round, Billups hit a shot from beyond the three-point line.

Li Yang dribbled the ball outside the three-point line, and at this time it was still Caron Butler who was defending him, seeing that the opponent was a meter away from him, Li Yang dribbled towards the opponent while signaling Duncan to step forward to block and dismantle.

Compared with Split, Li Yang prefers to play blocking and dismantling with Duncan, although Split is now stronger than Duncan's ability to move, but Duncan's cover quality, and Duncan's strategy or offense with the ball after the blocking and dismantling is more than a little stronger than Split.

Duncan stepped forward to block and dismantle, Jordan Jr. followed, but he didn't completely pull to the outside, he chose a good position, such a position can not only return to the basket in time to make up for defense, but when Duncan receives the pass, it is not difficult for him to return to defense.

Li Yang also saw Jordan Jr.'s mind clearly, and with the help of Duncan's blocking delay, Butler was stuck behind the side, thinking of Popovich's advice to be more resolute in his breakthrough, Li Yang, who rushed to the basket with the ball, began to accelerate, wanting to leave Butler behind.

Butler is also very experienced, knowing that he can't stop Li Yang at this time, he quickly moved his feet and tried to stick to Li Yang's side, and continued to interfere with the time for Li Yang to break through the defense as much as possible.

When Li Yang was about to step on the three-second zone line with one foot, he completely threw off the defensive Butler, took a step forward to adjust his pace, and Li Yang immediately jumped up with the ball.

Little Jordan, who was already standing in the three-second zone, immediately jumped up in front of the side when he saw Li Yang attacking by himself.

Although he was worried about Li Yang's pass, Little Jordan's jump was a little late, and he couldn't directly stop in front of Li Yang to stop Li Yang's shot, but his defense was still timely.

"Porphyry!"

Although Li Yang could see that Little Jordan wanted to help defend, so when he jumped, he deliberately dodged a little to the side, but the bodies of the two inevitably collided together.

Little Jordan's physical fitness is indeed outstanding, although it is not a head-on collision, but Li Yang can still feel the excellent strength of the other party.

Maintaining the balance of his body in the air, Li Yang grabbed the ball with his right hand and made a layup, but under the interference after continuous physical confrontation, Li Yang obviously did not grasp the strength very well, and the ball hit the side edge of the basket after touching the basket and fell out of the basket.

The Clippers' real targeted defense was effective for the first time, and then, the Clippers resolutely implemented the defensive strategy of Butler in the front, Jordan Jr. in the back, and Li Yang to increase the physical confrontation.

In the next step, Li Yang had two more ball-holding breakthroughs, one was blocked again after rushing into the interior and the layup, and the other was a mistake when distributing the ball to Duncan and was stealed by Griffin.

Obviously, Li Yang's offense was blocked, and Li Yang's tactics of holding the ball on the court to launch an attack had also failed at this time, just at this time the game had been played for half a quarter, and when it was time for the Spurs to rotate players, Popovich waved his hand and replaced Li Yang with Ginobili.

Popovich sent Li Yang on the court for a good purpose, but that doesn't mean he will take a game win as a condition, and when he saw that the Clippers were going to overtake, he immediately sent Ginobili and Dio to enhance his outside shooting ability and change his offensive strategy.

Popovich's adjustment also worked, as Ginobili hit two three-pointers immediately after coming on the court, allowing the Spurs to maintain the lead again.