Because Li Kaiming gave the rest of the Wizards a huge shot space in the first quarter, the Wizards entered the second quarter with a five-point lead at 27-22.

At the beginning of each series, there is a mutual temptation, so at the beginning of the second quarter, Sanders still rotated according to the regular schedule, allowing the substitutes to come on, and bringing one of the two starters, Leonard and Thompson, played about 3 minutes each.

Although the depth of the Wizards' bench lineup is among the top in the league, it is only the average level of the players, and although the Spurs on the opposite side can see one of the benches, this person is much stronger than the Wizards' bench.

This is the last Argentine Condor who led his national team to defeat the Emerica men's basketball team in the Olympics - Manuginobili!

Although Ginobili did not enter the starting lineup of the Spurs, everyone knows that this is a special arrangement by Popovich, from the perspective of strength, Ginobili is definitely second only to Duncan and Parker in the current Spurs team, and even plays no less role than Duncan in some key games.

Popovich put Ginobili on the bench, one consideration is that there is already a ball-handling offensive guard Tony Parker in the starters, and the other is that the Spurs' bench needs Ginobili to lead.

Although the Wizards also played Leonard and Thompson in the second quarter, these two can only be used as a catch-and-shoot and defensive knife, and cannot be the core of the bench at all.

The rotation lineup still has to rely on backup guard Kenny, but this guy only averages more than 4 assists per game, which is completely incomparable to the core of the bench like Ginobili.

After playing half a quarter of the game, the Spurs rotation lineup overtook the Wizards by two points 37-35 under the leadership of Ginobili, and Sanders saw that the time was almost up, so he immediately replaced Li Kaiming and others back, and let the starting lineup play against the Spurs' starting lineup on the court.

After coming up, the Wizards served first, Hinrich dribbled to the frontcourt, Li Kaiming went to cover, and after creating a breakthrough space for Hinrich, the latter changed direction and rushed into the three-point line.

Duncan was pulled out by Li Kaiming, so the Spurs were left alone in the penalty area, and Hinrich drove straight in, rushed to the basket and then changed his rhythm and made a three-step slow layup.

However, Hinrich's layup anti-interference ability was too poor, and Plitt just jumped on the spot without going to the premise, and Hinrich's layup missed the basket.

At this time, Duncan, who followed up, grabbed the rebound and handed it to Parker to dribble across the half court.

The Wizards players quickly arrived, Li Kaiming ran out with Duncan who was covering, Parker wanted to break through with a drill, but Li Kaiming saw the opportunity, stretched out his long arms, and then used his hand on the basketball a little, and the ball in Parker's hand was directly clicked down by him.

Then Li Kaiming grabbed the basketball and attacked quickly, and the Spurs wanted to catch up and deliberately foul, but after Li Kaiming started at full speed, even if he dribbled the ball, no one in the Spurs team could keep up with him, and finally Li Kaiming rushed to the front court, and he raised his arms to dunk the sky!

37 draws!

Fans in the audience shouted Mr. Li's name, and some began to shake a large sign with Mr. Li's photo in their hands.

Popovich pointed to Tony Parker on the court and said a few words of greeting, and the Spurs pressed the tempo to dribble to the frontcourt, this time the two flank shooters began to run around the interior line, and Parker chose to use his speed to force a break through Hinrich.

Fortunately, Hinrich's defense is very smart and never tries to make steals, and Parker, although he is half a position ahead, does not completely shake off Hinrich.

After breaking through to the middle distance, Li Kaiming next to him came over to swipe the card to assist in defense, Parker passed the ball directly to Duncan, and while Li Kaiming was not in place, Duncan took the ball and hit a signature 45-degree board!

39 to 37!

The Wizards served to the front court from the baseline, and Li Kaiming received a pass outside the three-point line with the help of his teammates' cover, and then directly pulled it up and threw it.

The Spurs had to let Danny Green, who switched defenses, come over to chase, but the height gap between him and Li Kaiming was too big to interfere with Li Kaiming's shot at all, and the basketball hollowed into the net, 39-40.

Popovich on the sidelines cursed in a low voice!

The Spurs' defensive system, what they are most afraid of is people like Li Kaiming, who can ignore defensive shots in any environment, but it is the type of James who blasts the restricted area, which Popovich is most willing to encounter.

Although Duncan is old, his under-the-basket defense is still top-notch, even in this season, Duncan is averaging 2.7 blocks per game, which shows how terrifying this guy's basket protection is!

However, this kind of terrifying under-basket defense, when encountering Li Kaiming, somewhat failed to exert its due power.

Although it can also reduce Li Kaiming's attacking basket, everyone knows that his biggest threat is still on the outside.

The Spurs served to the frontcourt, and Duncan first came inside to make a cover for Danny Green, and then ran out to cover Parker, which was like a perpetual motion machine on the court.

Hinrich was so tightly blocked by Duncan's wide frame that he couldn't find the space to squeeze through, and Parker comfortably burst into the middle range to face Li Kaiming, who was waiting for him on the inside.

In the last round, he was stealed by Li Kaiming, Popovich pointed at Parker's nose on the sidelines and scolded, of course he had anger in his heart, but his anger was not aimed at Popovich, but at Li Kaiming in front of him.

He's going to have to call one back this time!

Parker was firm in his heart, and then he accelerated and leaned on Li Kaiming to rush to the inside line, and after reaching the vicinity of the reasonable collision area, a change of rhythm shook Li Kaiming slightly.

So Parker decisively chose to hold the ball with his right hand, ready to find the direction of the rebound, and made a layup.

In terms of his shooting percentage of layups under the basket, as long as the ball is not blocked, the goal is basically eight or nine out of ten.

However, Parker still underestimated the length of the Chinese man in front of him, although Li Kaiming was shaken off a little, but he made up for the backward space with his bounce speed and reaction speed, and his height and arm span allowed him to complete this beautiful block.

Syllable!

As if it was a smash on the volleyball court, Li Kaiming slapped the ball on Parker's body, but the latter didn't react, and the ball smashed into his leg and rolled out of the baseline.

The referee's eyes on the bottom line are like torches, and the Wizards have the ball in the backcourt!

As he stepped back, Parker kept his head down and didn't dare to look at Popovich's face.

The Wizards' offense came to the frontcourt, and Li Kaiming encountered the inside defense after receiving the ball and breaking through this time, so he threw the ball directly to the basket, and Blatch, who was waiting to be fed under the basket, slammed the dunk with both hands!

39 to 42! The Wizards have the meaning of opening up the point difference.

The Spurs chose to let Duncan play alone on the inside this time, and after Duncan received the ball with his back, Li Kaiming used his torso to resist the former in the back, while reaching out his right hand to interfere with Duncan's vision.

Li Kaiming still remembers the first time he met Duncan in his rookie season, although he was gorgeous in the final statistics, he was still taught by this guy on the court, and the most important thing is that the Wizards also lost.

So in his heart, he has always had an obsession with this round of the series, that is, to get back what he lost in his rookie season together!

Of course, Duncan didn't know that the young man he was in front of him had so many thoughts in his heart, and after observing that no one on the Wizards team came up to help defend, he decisively got off the ball and arched his back twice, and then leaned on Li Kaiming, using a strong power advantage to turn around from the baseline direction.

Li Kaiming tried his best to resist Duncan, but this old guy's strength is really great, even if his strength attribute has been increased to 90 points, he is still not Duncan's opponent.

Duncan squeezed Li Kaiming away hard, wanting to make another throw, but after Li Kaiming was squeezed away, he quickly rushed up again, and then jumped hard to interfere with Duncan's throw.

In the end, the throw smashed on the rebound, rebounded, rolled around the basket, and fell again.

On the opposite side, Blatch grabbed the rebound and dribbled to Hinrich over the half court, Li Kaiming and Hinrich made a cover in the high post, and then turned directly to the down, Hinrich hit the ball to him, and Duncan and Morris Jr. on the Spurs side pounced on him.

But Li Kaiming did not choose to kill directly on the inside, but rushed towards little Morris after changing direction.

Little Morris saw Li Kaiming coming towards him, secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then gritted his teeth and leaned in, but the expected impact did not happen, and Li Kaiming did not hesitate to pull it up and throw it after he arrived in front of him!

As if he was standing on the spot, Morris Jr. could only raise his hands and symbolically defend, as for the effect......

Li Kaiming advanced again in the middle distance, 39-44!

Popovich on the sidelines called a timeout with a curse.

Don't look at the old man Popovich's gray hair, I think he is a very good person, but every player who has played for the Spurs knows that Bobo's strictness is famous, even if it is the core GDP of the team, it is often a mistake on the court is a scolding of the face!

Now that the Spurs are playing like this, Popovich is naturally very dissatisfied, and during the pause, even the spectators sitting around the bench can hear Popovich's roar!

After returning from the game, sure enough, the Spurs' tactics were much smoother.

On the Wizards' side, except for Li Kaiming, the scoring efficiency of everyone else is not high enough, this is Popovich's defensive philosophy, if you have the ability, you can kill me alone, I will never let you drive your teammates.

After playing for a while, Li Kaiming also found out that forcibly passing the ball to his teammates would only put the team in a difficult situation, so he had to open it himself first and hit the Spurs to take the initiative to contain him.

So in the remaining minutes of the second quarter, Li Kaiming switched to a single mode, whether it was three points with the ball on the outside, three points without the ball, or a mid-range turnaround jumper, all eighteen weapons were displayed.

Steve Cole on the commentary bench sighed, "It's really a pleasure to watch Lee play, he is proficient in all offensive techniques, and every move is dazzling." ”

Under Li Kaiming's individual play, the first half ended, the Wizards led the Spurs by 4 points at 53-49, and he scored 24 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal in the half.