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Chapter 549 It's better to sign him next season

If Tang Qian could hear Howard's words, he would definitely sneer at them, because it was obvious that he couldn't do it, so he wanted to "borrow a knife to kill someone", and he wanted to be obscene.For the rest of the second quarter, the two sides entered a stalemate, and the score was tied to death.

At the end of the second quarter, 48-50, the Spurs led by 2 points and entered the second half.

After returning to the locker room, Popovich looked at Duncan and said, "Tim, is that kid really that defensive? It made you almost give up the low-post attack and turn into a low-post turnaround shot?" Duncan took a sip of his sports Drink, and then said: "It's really good, much better than the last match, although the starting point is not high, but the growth rate is good." You must know that Duncan is the No. 4 in NBA history, even if he is not arrogant. , but pride is inevitable.So there are not too many young people in the league who can be praised by him as "good".

Greg Popovich nodded, and suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Then you can suppress him with full power?"

Popovich knows Duncan very well. After the age of 30, Duncan will basically pull back in the regular season and will not explode at full strength.The benefits of doing this are undoubted, it can better protect the body, prolong the career, and after entering the playoffs, you can have more energy to improve your state and explode.Of course, the most important thing is that the Spurs are as stable as dogs, and conditions allow Duncan to be a little "lazy" in the regular season.

邓肯现在只有场均17+得分，篮板也跌破了10+, 但看看他的场均出场时间，你就会发现，这组数据是在30分钟上下完成的。如果你把他延长到正常的36+分钟，那么场均数据就会变成了恐怖的接近21+12+3+3的攻防一体数据。

And the most frightening thing is that this season's 36+ minutes of data can reach 20+10+3+3 insiders, and only old Duncan has one.The rest of the players are either not up to the block and assist standards, or they are almost meaningless in scoring and rebounding.So Duncan really broke out and liberated himself. He is undoubtedly the number one power forward in the league this season.It's just that for the sake of the playoffs, for the championship, and for his career, he chose to stay in the second tier temporarily, instead of competing with a group of young people for the limelight in the regular season.

Well, even so, Tang Qian remembers that he still won the first-team and second-defense honors this season, which can be called a monster.

Those who can still hold a second defense at the age of 37, looking at the history of the NBA, are all top-notch existences.

That's why Popovich asked this question.

"Of course, it's not a big problem." Duncan said, his expression was neither flamboyant nor restrained, as calm as the surface of a windless lake.

In the Lakers locker room, Mike D'Antoni praised Tang Qian's performance in the second quarter. After all, he was able to suppress Duncan's shooting percentage below 4%, which is definitely good enough.You must know that Duncan's shooting percentage this season has exceeded 5%, and it has dropped by more than ten percentage points at once. Tang Qian's defense has contributed a lot.

The data of 4 blocks, 2 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist in a single quarter is also comprehensive enough.

So D'Antoni is not stingy with compliments at all.

Perhaps, we can really win this game and really make it to the playoffs, that's not necessarily the case.

Mike D'Antoni thought so, but in the second half, the Spurs gave the Lakers a blow.

In just 5 minutes, the Lakers were beaten to the ground.

The Spurs went on a 16-0 run that got the Staples Center fans booing.

Taking a closer look, in fact, San Antonio didn't have any spectacular individual performances, but everyone scored 2-3 points, and then the score was instantly pulled away.Howard has already made D'Antoni feel desperate. He thought that "Warcraft" could at least be used as a stable scoring point, but tonight... The overall defense of the Spurs inside made Howard and D'Antoni understand what teamwork is. defense.

With Tim Duncan as the defensive core, the rest of the team cooperated tacitly, allowing the Lakers to score inside. No, it was difficult for the inside shots.Besides, you know Howard, he has no sense of passing the ball at all, and this season has become even worse. As long as he holds the ball in the low post, there are three situations.

Either take a shot, or foul (including being fouled and your own offensive foul), or make a mistake.

Once the ball is in his hands, it is extremely difficult to pass it out.

The Lakers were originally precarious, close to falling apart, and the downwind ball was fine. Once they entered the headwind situation, the nature of the loose sand would be magnified wildly, becoming an absolute underdog in the NBA.Seeing that the score difference was widened to 18 points in an instant, Mike D'Antoni's heart instantly cooled down, extremely cold.

Sure enough... I still think too much.

As long as the Spurs get a little more serious, the gap between the Lakers and the Lakers will be as high as heaven and earth.

Now there is no independent offensive point on the outside, and Howard, the biggest reliance, has also been targeted and restricted. He feels that it will be difficult to win tonight.

In fact, when Steve Nash was injured, D'Antoni's tactical system, even if it basically disintegrated, was still able to win the game, but Kobe forcibly hung it in one breath to prevent the Lakers from dying.But when 24 also crashed down, what was left of the Lakers?
D'Antoni can no longer inject something into this team forcibly, he can only watch helplessly every time, and let the Lakers players decide their own fate.

This is definitely the sadness of the head coach, but... what can he do now?

He is the head coach who took over halfway, and he hasn't even had a full training camp with the team, so he has tried his best to be able to play like this.If Nash is still there, then D'Antoni can still think of a way, but Nash is gone, and he can't do anything with just one Steve Blake, and he can't use any magic.

Or, if he is allowed to lead the team from the beginning, and there is a complete pre-game training camp to inject the Lakers with their own tactical system, then there is still a way.But now, it's too late to say anything.

The donkey is poor and powerless, which is the truest portrayal of Mike D'Antoni's mood at this moment.

"Mr. D'Antoni, please change, Howard can't do it, let me go." Just as D'Antoni was feeling ups and downs, a voice sounded beside him.D'Antoni turned around and said in a daze, "Hot? Is it you? Can you change all this?"

I thought I would get a silent or negative answer, but unexpectedly...

"Of course, sir, I won't let the Lakers out, and I won't let you out." Tang Qian said seriously, which made D'Antoni stunned for a few seconds before continuing: " You, why are you so confident?"

"I'm not confident, sir." Tang Qian blurted out, "I just promised many people, so I have to work hard and win."

For some reason, Mike D'Antoni suddenly remembered a short story about Jordan.

It's about Jordan and former Bulls head coach Doug Collins, roughly as follows:
In the opening game of the 1986-1987 season, the Bulls played against the New York Knicks. It was also this season that the head coach of the Bulls changed from Stan Albeck to a young Doug Collins. The team's first "opener".So Collins was a little nervous after seeing New York lead the score in the fourth quarter. He may be afraid of losing the first game of his new team.At this time, it was supposed to be the head coach who came to comfort the players, but he didn't want the Bulls to suddenly walk up to Collins on the 23rd and said a very famous sentence in the entire NBA, saying: "Don't worry, coach, I won't let you lose. Lost the first game."

Then Jordan really swept away the last 11 points of the team and took away the game with 50 points, allowing Doug Collins to win a precious victory in his first game coached by the Bulls.

Doug Collins was only 35 years old this year, and Jordan was even younger, only 23 years old, but this conversation became a classic topic that the NBA talked about later.For some reason, Mike D'Antoni suddenly thought of this. Looking at the tall figure of No. 29, he gave the substitution order that he later felt was "extremely fortunate".

Howard went off and Tang Qian came on, which once again reduced the playing time of "Warcraft".

Howard looked very annoyed, but in front of Tang Qian, he could only look ugly, "dare not speak out".

As soon as Tang Qian came on the court, the Lakers changed. The main reason was that No. 29 played extremely selflessly and didn't stick to the ball at all, which doubled the chances of outside shots immediately.However, the Lakers' outside shooting percentage is not very good. The Spurs failed to defend well on several shots, but they also failed to shoot the basketball into the basket.

However, Tang Qian's playing has strengthened the strength of the Lakers' offensive rebounds. Without Duncan on the court, only Thiago Splitter, who averaged 6+ rebounds per game, could not stop No. 29 at all.So through several offensive rebounds, although the Lakers did not shoot high, they still used the number to score 2 three-pointers.

54-66, the Lakers finally broke the scoring drought in this quarter, narrowing the score difference by 6 points in one go.

The Spurs made an inside shot, which was strongly interfered by Tang Qian. Even if he didn't slap the hat, it destroyed the shooter's original rhythm. Gasol pressed Matt Bonner to protect the defensive rebound.Against Bonner, who is only 208cm tall, Gasol still has a great advantage.Not to mention that Bonner is averaging only 1.9 rebounds per game this season.

Bonner has been able to hang out in the NBA for so many years. Of course, he has his ability and reason. However, he has never had a good time in rebounding. It would not be too biased to describe him as a failure.So it's okay to let him be the best rebounder. Going to compete with Gasol, who averaged 8+ rebounds per game this season, will only be overwhelmed.What's more, Gasol's rebounding ability seems to have declined this season. In fact, he was completely hindered by his tactical position. Tang Qian knew that even in a few years, he would be a strong guarantee for averaging 11+ rebounds per game.

So the defensive rebound suppresses Matt Bonner, that's a matter of course.

The Lakers attacked again. Gasol got the ball and made an inside shot. Thiago Splitter defended the ball very hard and judged the jump well, so it really hindered the Spaniard's shot.The basketball slides out of the basket.

Well, defend one!
Just when Parker was about to catch the ball and push it quickly, the rebound was taken by... No. 29 of the Lakers.

Then pass the outside Steve. Blake three-point shot.

Dang~Steve Blake is the most accurate three-point shooter for the Lakers on the field. Ding Dang's three-pointer is also a good game in his career, but unfortunately this shot is still a little bit off.

Shi.t!None of this came in!Damn it!

Steve Blake shook his hand angrily, as if he was very depressed.

However, the rebound was taken off again by No. 29 of the Lakers. On the defensive end, in order to control the Lakers' scoring, Popovich asked Tiago Splitter at No. 5 to match Gasol.This is a very correct tactical fine-tuning, because the independent offensive ability of No. 29 is almost negligible, far from being as strong as Gasol, so let Splitter, who is taller and better defensive, defend the Lakers' No. 4 , understandably.But what Popovich didn't expect was that the defense against Gasol was successful, but the rebound...

Although it has been said before that offensive rebounds are about 4 times harder to grab than defensive rebounds, but Bonner is too weak to stand up. He averaged 3+ rebounds per game in his career, and this season is even more pitiful, with no 2+ left.Even if this is a quadruple, it is not the Lakers' No. 4 opponent.Just kidding, if this kind of matchup is the whole game, then Tang Qian probably will blow up the Spurs' rebounds.

So don't say that 100% of the offensive rebounds are grabbed, at least more than 80% every time, this probability is simply bullying children.

So Tang Qian took the rebound again and threw it to Steve Blake in the corner.

This time Blake did not disappoint the fans in the audience. He raised his hand and hit a 3-pointer, and the Lakers took another 3-pointer!

Seeing this, Popovich immediately called a timeout. He wanted to make lineup adjustments and interrupt the Lakers' momentum.

57-66, the advantage of 18 points suddenly became 9 points, only half left.

This made Popovich a little unhappy, and said: "What's going on? I know your rebounding ability is not high, but Matt, you can't protect all of your defensive rebounds, so it's a bit unreasonable? Don't you Is it really not as good as that Oriental guy?" Matt Bonner was also very wronged, although he usually doesn't rebound well, he can still get a few defensive rebounds, so he won't be completely blown like a dog like tonight.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I..."

"Forget it, Greg, don't embarrass Matt. It's not that Matt didn't try his best, but he really couldn't stop that Eastern center." Duncan sat on the bench and interjected: "After all, he is the second on the rebounding list this season." The player, Matt went to match up, and the rebounding was really bad." Popovich said: "How much do you think his rebounding ability is? Is it comparable to Howard?"

Duncan thought for a while and said, "No, I think that Howard is not his opponent in rebounding now. Although it seems that the rebounding list is 0.1 more than the latter, he also plays more time than the latter. In this conversion, he is not as good as this Oriental." "Where is the peak Howard? Has he reached that level?" Popovich's eyes are vicious, but after all, he is a coach, so he still has to ask the players on the field Intuitive feeling, more precise and more comprehensive.

"It's hard to say." Duncan said: "You need to know about rebounds per game. It doesn't mean that the more you play, the more you will explode. If you have too few, of course it will increase with the increase of playing time, but after a certain degree , it’s not about competition. Most of Iron is playing against the bench, and his ability is likely to be maximized. But..." Duncan paused, and then said: "I think his average rebounds per game The ability is already comparable to the peak Howard."

On par with the pinnacle Howard?Duncan's words made everyone on the Spurs pay attention.Because with the further decline of the center, now averaging 12+ rebounds per game can dominate.But howard at the peak, he averaged 14+ per game, and unlike the "big brush" Love, his average rebounds per game, very few non-confrontational rebounds, most of them are confrontational rebounds.This shows that the peak Howard is an inside player who truly has rebounding dominance.

At least in this day and age, that's right.

Otherwise, how many do you think Love and Peak Howard are stuck at the basket at the same time, competing for rebounds, how many can he get?
The pinnacle Howard is so explosive that the former mother will not know him.

This is the real power of 14+ rebounds, which is far from what Love can compare to.

And Duncan actually said that No. 29's rebounding ability is comparable to that of the peak Howard?Isn't this a bit appalling?

"Tim, isn't this too exaggerated? Is he rebounding better than you were at your peak?" Corey Joseph of the Spurs asked in disbelief.Duncan smiled and replied: "During the regular season, I am definitely not as good as him, but in the playoffs, he is still not at the same level as me and Howard. Of course, you must know that I am talking about the peak period, not the peak period." Now."

Duncan's words, everyone present understands that some people will not let their state explode too quickly in the regular season, so as not to be weak in the playoffs.And the playoffs are the stage where the difficulty escalates. Many people who are good at rebounding in the regular season, in the playoffs, average rebounds per game, and their performance is far worse than in the regular season.

This is the so-called "playoff state". Duncan was a monster who averaged 15+ rebounds per game all the way to the finals in his peak period!In this regard, Tang Qian is not as good as him for the time being.

But that was Duncan many years ago, and now he has long since lost that peak state.

"So, are you still going?" Popovich asked.

"Of course, I want to try him, if possible..." Duncan suddenly said to Popovich, "I want the Spurs to sign him after the season is over."

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