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Chapter 641 The Competitive Second Half of the Season
After the Spurs defeated the Trail Blazers, they went on a strong five-game winning streak.

It's not that the Spurs are not low-key. In these five games, Qin Yan and other main players are basically the kind who clock in and get off work in three quarters.

They are also very distressed!
Uncle Duncan has been very comfortable recently. Although his average data in the last five games has become 16+9, this is based on the fact that he only played 26 minutes!

That's right, for the first time in so many years (excluding injuries and rest), Uncle Duncan averaged less than 30 minutes per game, and the 26 minutes of playing time basically only played half a game.

Not only Duncan, Parker's playing time is gradually shortening, the purpose is to save energy for the playoffs, prevent injuries and the like.After all, the Spurs now have young people, and the young people are playing well. These veterans only need to keep them in shape, and there is no need to let them play desperately.

The team currently has the longest playing time. One is Qin Yan and the other is Leonard. Both of them played 34 minutes. It's the longest stretch for the Spurs.

It can be seen that Popovich is now deliberately training the abilities of these two guys, especially training the cooperation between the two. When Qin Yan and Leonard are on the court at the same time, the main thing is to complete the two. Human tactics.

As for the guy Whiteside, for the time being, he still has to eat his cakes obediently and just do a good job of defense. Now is not the time to assign him specific tactics.

And when the Spurs played games recently, sometimes the lineup was really incomprehensible. Popovich, you can really pull out the Wannian bench to form a team, or just keep one or two main players. Then with the bench lineup, it's no wonder that many people say that Popovich is coaching the Austin Spurs instead of the San Antonio Spurs.

But this legendary "Spurs three-team lineup" is actually able to wrestle with many opponents in the league. If they hadn't met the Pacers after five consecutive victories, the Spurs might have continued their winning streak.

In the game lost to the Pacers, the Spurs rested Whiteside, Leonard and Parker as the three main players, McGrady and Diaw as the two substitutes, and Duncan still got off work halfway through the game.

No way, 5 important people were rested at once. Qin Yan could only be a father and a mother at the same time. The audience staged a one-on-one PK with his good buddy George. The two were fully fired, and George scored 30+5 With the comprehensive data of +4+2+3, Qin Yan was not to be outdone, and responded with a quasi triple-double of 35+9+9, but Popovich rested too many people in rotation, and it was difficult to support him alone!
In addition to George's strength, the Pacers can win. Someone in the team happened to explode. Steffenson actually threw 8 three-pointers in the audience!Green, who made the Spurs alive by throwing three-pointers, felt extremely ashamed.

No way, who made him only make 4 three-pointers in the game, only half of others...

After the match against the Pacers, Qin Yan took a break and sat on the bench to watch the team's match against the Knicks. After the game, he said that this was the first time he had been so leisurely watching the game on his own bench.

why?Because the Knicks' Anthony was completely locked up by Leonard in this game, he ranked third in the scoring list this season. Anthony, who averaged 31.8 points per game, made 24 of 5 shots in this game!It's so hard!If it weren't for free throws, Anthony wouldn't even score 20 points today!

In addition to Leonard, the "Iron Forest" who was humiliated by Stephenson in the last game also proved his strength today. Today, if Green has a divine help from beyond the three-point line, he only took 13 shots in the game, all of which were three-pointers. And there were no free throws, but he made 10 of them abruptly!Scored 30 points and became the leading scorer in the Spurs game!
And the Knicks may really be in a bad state this time, and they were directly beaten up, and they may not even know how they lost in the end.

The Spurs went well in the second half of the season, but in the entire league, the battle between other teams in the second half of the season intensified.

The Heat suffered a three-game losing streak in the East. The Knicks have been unstable recently, and then the Pacers, who were originally third, took the opportunity to rush to the first position.

Other than these three, the other teams in the East have not changed much. The Eagles are still the dividing line. This year, they have turned into four crazy monsters. They are more than enough than the bottom, and they are guarding their fourth position.

The remaining 4 playoff places in the East will be a big fight. If you don't pay attention to the last 4 places in the East, you will change the order.

Even if the East is like this, the more competitive West is even more terrifying. Apart from the Spurs, even the second-ranked Thunder can hardly keep their position!
In the West, except for the Spurs who won too much in the first half of the season and were unable to catch up for a while, from second to eighth, the difference in wins is within two games, especially No.6 to No.8. The winning percentages of the three teams are now exactly the same!And the difference between the ninth and the tenth and the eighth is only one game or a half. To be honest, the Western Conference can now refresh the leaderboard once a game is over, and refresh it again after the next match. In the ranks of the playoffs, the afternoon has become the ninth or tenth that must be fought.

Moreover, the winning rate in the west is generally high, which is indeed a bit cruel.

The competition between teams is fierce, and the competition between players is also becoming fiercer.

On the scoring list, Qin Yan has averaged 33 points per game, but he still cannot guarantee this year's scoring champion, because Durant, who ranks second, averages 32.4 points per game!Anthony ranked third with 31.8 points!As long as the two of them put down their shame and score points, it will not be difficult to surpass Qin Yan! (The main reason is that these two played a lot of time. Both of them played 38-40 minutes. Qin Yan's 34 minutes is really incomparable)
Not to mention the MVP list, Qin Yan, James, Durant, Anthony, four people have not yet decided the winner, and the various prediction lists are also quite chaotic. Sometimes this person is the first, sometimes that person is the first. One, there is no confidence at all.

Moreover, now George and Lillard have also entered the MVP rankings, these two are just below those four, but now that the Pacers have rushed to the No. to the top three.

However, this kind of chaotic situation is what the alliance hopes to see. A group of heroes fighting for hegemony is definitely better than a single family. After so many years, this kind of scene of a group of heroes finally reappeared again. This made Xiao Hua, who was about to succeed him, quite excited. Seeing that this alliance is going to a higher glory in my own hands!

"Sure enough, it's wise to support that Chinese kid." Xiao Hua made up his mind. After taking office next year, he must give the Spurs some convenience. If they can also complete the three consecutive championships, then they will be praised as the third richest team in the league!

But now no one cares about what decision the future president of the league has made in their minds. What they care about at the moment is whether they can snatch a playoff spot in this fierce competition!
Of course, for the Spurs at the top of the list, what they think is how to release water...

(End of this chapter)