Curry has attracted a lot of defense, resulting in little defensive investment on Thompson.

Coupled with Richard Jefferson's three-pointer, it's not something that can be put on the air, and people have to watch him.

Thompson suddenly moved, passed directly past Draymond Green, and came to pick up the ball with a hand.

After receiving the ball, Thompson jumped high directly at the top of the arc and made a quick shot to complete this mid-range shot.

Brush!

Spurs 63: 73 Warriors.

Ten points!

The atmosphere on the field has changed subtly.

For the small ball era, as long as the momentum is up, 10 points can be quickly tied.

But even if the score has improved in this era, it is still very stretched compared to the era of data explosion.

Not to mention, what the current Spurs are good at is a steady offensive basket in positional battles.

Leonard's role now is more on the defensive end, and he is now averaging 12 or 3 points per game on the offensive end, which is a supporting role next to GDP.

Leonard's offense is more based on hard training later, and only his offensive talent is excellent in static talent, and the others are average or even poor, otherwise he would not have been selected with the fifteenth pick.

Danny Green's three-pointer isn't bad, but Popovich won't have a team-wide three-point game in his arsenal right now.

As long as the Warriors lead by more than ten points, and then maintain the efficiency and the Spurs slowly grind, it is even possible to really control the game in the third quarter.

Popovich's mentality has also changed a little bit now.

Popovich could only call another timeout while increasing the defensive intensity again.

After Popovich's timeout, the Spurs ramped up their defensive intensity, and the Warriors followed suit.

The intensity of the game has increased again.

There was even a two-minute scenario where both teams didn't score.

In particular, the Warriors' offensive efficiency has dropped a lot.

Leonard spent all his energy on the defensive end in the third quarter, and now it's up to him to defend Thompson with all his might.

The all-out defense would be a hassle even for James, let alone Thompson.

If it weren't for Curry's attraction of defense, Thompson would have had a hard time even connecting the ball, and even the shots were difficult to shoot.

However, Su Chen did not adjust his strategy and continued to let Thompson make a move.

Although Thompson's difficult three-point shooting rate is not high, it is okay to be able to hit, after all, the Spurs' offensive efficiency is also low.

His purpose in this section is actually to feed Thompson the feel, especially the difficult three-point feel.

Although Thompson had a shot in the first half, the shot was occupied by Curry too much, and the shooter still needed to shoot more to find his touch.

With three minutes left in the third quarter, Su Chen finally let Curry go down to rest.

But Su Chen didn't go to Jarrett Jack, but to Barnes.

Jarrett Jack was on the second quarter for two minutes, and the rest of the time was mostly DNP.

And according to Su Chen's plan, Jarrett Jack also had no plans to play in the final quarter.

Su Chen felt that he was too extravagant to DNP the main scorer who averaged 17 points per game in the playoffs, but Jarrett Jack was indeed not suitable for playing.

Facing Ginobili and Parker's dual-ball breakaway lineup, Jarrett Jack is the ATM.

And even if it is the opponent's substitute, Popovich has a tactical way to target Jarrett Jack.

and David Lee, a star player who entered the All-Star this season and averaged 18+11 per game, did not play a few minutes in the whole game.

Because David Lee's blue-collar attributes are very poor, especially defensively, he is a big colander.

In those three minutes, without the gravitational pull of Ku to attract the defense, Thompson's efficiency was further reduced.

However, because of Curry, Thompson, Barnes' backcourt, as well as Draymond Green and Richard Jefferson's frontline, and Bogut's interior rim guard.

This defensive intensity matches the Spurs' offense.

In the small-ball era, pure forward teams generally did not perform well, such as the Raptors after Leonard ran away.

But it is undeniable that the defense of the heap forward line is strong.

There was a defense to resist, and although he was pulled closer by a few points, he still maintained the lead.

End of third quarter.

Spurs 75:82 Warriors.

The Warriors maintained a seven-point advantage, which meant that the third quarter was not decided.

If Curry hadn't been played, he might have taken the lead by a little over 10 points, but that would have been too much.

He is not an evil capitalist, he can't be a bull if Curry is a child laborer, and letting Curry rest for three minutes is Su Chen's gentleness.

Facing a 7-point lead, Su Chen felt that he could accept it.

"I'll give Curry a break later, and then use a staple drink on Curry."

Su Chen took a look at his virtual warehouse.

[Reusable Stamina Drink (Medium Bottle): After being used on a player, it can restore a certain amount of stamina, which can be used once in a normal game, and will be automatically recharged after the next game starts. 】

"It's so cool that each one can be reused."

Su Chen looked at the drinks in the warehouse and smiled.

That's why he can use Curry as a bull, although he doesn't know the effect yet, but he will definitely recover his physical strength after using it.

Su Chen was very satisfied with the 7-point lead, and Popovich on the other side was also very satisfied with the point difference.

The reason why he was able to make a big comeback by Thompson in the last game was because of the inaccurate understanding of Thompson, who had only used Thompson as a 3-and-D shooter before.

Suddenly changed the core style of play, and hit the Spurs by surprise.

But through rigorous analysis in the past few days, it has been seen that Thompson's ability to shoot with high difficulty is indeed good, but his shortcomings have also been analyzed.

Unlike Curry, Thompson's ability to dribble and shoot three-pointers with the ball has not yet been developed.

It's more about tactical movement and then catching the ball and shooting.

But such a single offensive method is destined to be easy to defend.

In the third quarter, Thompson was made to shoot because he wanted to guard against Curry, and Curry was not simply squatting on three-pointers, but was in a running position.

played almost the first half, and played most of the third quarter, and Curry's physical strength is basically bottoming out now.

Without Curry's threat, just defending Thompson, Popovich has absolute confidence!

In short, for such a score, the coaches of both sides are very satisfied.