Legendary star

Chapter 267 Dangerous Spurs

"My tactical arrangement in this game? I don't think there is any problem with my tactics. After all, no one can predict that the free throw percentage in a regular season does not exceed 65%. In the last round of the series, half of the free throws were missed. Players who missed free throws can now have more than 8% shooting percentage." After the game between the Spurs and the Lakers, at the post-game press conference, the reporter asked the most about Phil Jackson cutting Meng Xu in the game. The tactical arrangement of Phil Jackson is also unanimously considered the biggest reason for the Lakers losing the game.However, when Phil Jackson was questioned by the reporters, he flatly denied it and refused to take the blame. After all, Phil Jackson is not a fairy. It can be expected that Meng Xu's free throws will improve so much in a few days .

"Meng's free throw? Meng is an extremely talented young man, and he trains very hard. In my coaching career, I have never seen a player take training as seriously as Meng Xu. In that game After the game, Meng Xu practiced his free throws in the team's training hall every day until 2 o'clock in the morning, and then he did not miss the team's training at 6 o'clock the next day, so I think Meng Xu's free throws have a certain impact. The improvement should be taken for granted." And when Popovich was asked by reporters about Meng Xu's free throw, Popovich also poured chicken soup on the reporters on the scene, so that Meng Xu's free throw suddenly improved. It sounds reasonable, and by the way, I also want to scare the KFC next to me, so that he will have some concerns in the next game and dare not attack Meng Xu again.Although he was very firm in his mouth, Popovich was still a little vain in his heart. After all, in the past few days of training, Meng Xu's free throws did not seem to have improved much.Therefore, Popovich now also thinks that Meng Xu just made free throws in one game, just like O'Neal has also made more than 80% or even 90% of his free throws in a single game many times.

"Meng Xu's free throw? I really can't explain this question. I think it is a very mysterious thing. You must know that in the game against the Mavericks, Meng Xu scored 21 free throws in the game and only made 10 free throws. But In this game against the Lakers, Meng Xu made 17 of his 14 free throws." After the first game of the series between the Lakers and the Spurs ended, the biggest news was that the two teams cut each other in the game Yes, but the lame free throw between Meng Xu and O'Neal that people were expecting did not appear. Meng Xu got 17 free throw opportunities in the whole game, but hit 14 goals, and the shooting rate exceeded 80%.And O'Neal shot more than 70 percent from the free throw line.The free throws of the two seem to have improved overnight. Perhaps after the end of this round of the series, the "shark-cutting tactics" and the newly born "cutting Meng tactics" will be swept into the trash.After this group of reporters failed to find the answers they wanted from Phil Jackson and Popovich, as the commentator of this game, Magic Johnson, the famous player in basketball history, was blocked by a large group of reporters after the game. in the parking lot.

"The X tactic is not a panacea. The Lakers can't pin their hopes of winning on Meng Xu's free throws. Similarly, the Spurs are the same. But I don't think there is any problem with the Spurs and the Lakers in the game. "After this game, the old Nelson, who carried forward the "shark-cutting tactic" and invented the "cutting Meng tactic" this season, has inevitably entered the vortex of public opinion, but the old Nelson talked the most Still, this tactic itself, the old Nelson has always avoided talking about the matchup between the Spurs and the Lakers, as well as the free throws of Meng Xu and O'Neal.

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Just after the first game of the Western Conference finals between the Spurs and the Lakers, the Eastern Conference semifinals are finally over. The two groups of the Eastern Conference semifinals this season, the 76ers and the Heat, the Bucks and the Raptors, are all full. After 7 games, and finally after 7 games, the 76ers eliminated the Heat, and the Bucks defeated the Raptors. The two teams with the best regular season records in the Eastern Conference successfully met in the conference finals.

The series between the Bucks and the 76ers is undoubtedly a very interesting round. Now that the results of the selection of the "Four Shooting Guards" have become increasingly obvious, Iverson has won the honor of being the scoring champion for consecutive years. The top trader among the "Four Great Shooting Guards", and Ray Allen, who was originally one of the candidates, has basically missed the selection because of his personal data, but in this year's playoffs In the middle of the game, Ray Allen suddenly broke out. In the series against the Magic in the first round and the series against the Raptors in the second round, Ray Allen's data was not inferior to the cousins ​​​​Carter and McGrady. For a better reason, some media are now starting to speak out in support of Ray Allen, and in this round of the series between the Raptors and the 76ers, if Ray Allen is on par with Iverson, then "four The "big shooting guard" will either be re-elected or will directly become the top five.

On May 2001, 5, after the two teams in the Eastern Conference finals were released, the second matchup of the Spurs and Lakers series also began. After the game started, the Lakers gave up the tactics in the previous game , began to double-team Meng Xu.Because the Lakers firmly double-teamed Duncan in the first matchup between the two teams, but did not make targeted arrangements for Meng Xu, Meng Xu scored the highest 21 points in the playoffs in the first game , So in this game, the Lakers gave up the 2-man double-teaming of Duncan, and changed to a strategy of single-teaming when they don't have the ball and double-teaming when they have the ball. At the same time, they focused on taking care of Meng Xu.

After the Lakers relaxed their defense against Duncan, Duncan also showed his dominance in this game. He contributed 40 points, 17 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks in the game. The Spurs team did not perform well in the game. Meng Xu, under the care of Kobe and Ron Haber, scored 25 points, but took 20 shots. Except for Meng Xu, the Spurs scored The highest is David Robinson's 7 points.In the second game of the series between the Spurs and the Lakers, the Spurs lost 2 to 81 at home. After losing this game, the big score of the two teams was tied 88 to 1.
On May 5th, after a short rest, the Spurs set off for Los Angeles. The next two games will be played at the home of the Lakers. After losing a home game, the Spurs must also win at Staples. Only one game can restore their home court advantage.But when the Spurs arrived in Los Angeles, the whole team was shrouded in clouds. First of all, Sean Elliott was injured at the last minute of the last game, and he was basically determined to miss the rest of the series. The head player, after boarding the plane, has been groggy, and finally after getting off the plane, Duncan was found to have the flu.

Compared with the sad Spurs, the Lakers are much more optimistic. After winning an away game, the Lakers already have home court advantage. At the same time, after entering the playoffs, Isiah disappeared. - Ryder is finally back now.After Glen Rice left this season, Phil Jackson is also looking forward to the newly signed Isiah Ryder. Even if Isiah Ryder, like Glen Rice, cannot integrate into the triangle offense, But there is nothing wrong with being a sixth man, but Isiah Leder has a weird personality and often misses the team's training sessions. After the playoffs started, Isiah Leder, who felt that the Lakers had no hope of winning the championship, It simply disappeared, but Isiah Ryder, who didn't know where to go on vacation, returned to Los Angeles after receiving a notice from his agent.

As for the Spurs, Derek Anderson, whom Popovich has placed high hopes on this season, has been struggling since entering the playoffs, especially in this round of the series against the Lakers. In the game, 6 points in one game and 3 points in one game, both offensive and defensive ends can be said to be useless.In this game, when Mario Eli was in poor form for two consecutive games, Popovich also arranged Derek Anderson into the starting lineup, and formed a backcourt partner with Meng Xu, hoping to share the burden for Meng Xu. Some offensive pressure, but in this game, Derek Anderson's performance still did not improve at all. After playing 6 minutes and contributing 5 points on 1 of 2 shots, he was directly pushed to the bench by Popovich up.

And Duncan experienced the outbreak of the last game, and at the same time he had some colds today. In this game, he was in no condition. After playing 30 minutes, he made 15 of 3 shots and scored 9 points. With 13 rebounds, this was the first time Duncan failed to score in double figures in a single game this season.In the end, Sean Elliott was absent due to injury, and Duncan and Derek Anderson performed poorly. Even though Meng Xu and David Robinson both scored 25+10 data, the Spurs finally lost 96 to 114 away. To the Lakers.After losing this game, the Spurs' situation in the entire series can be said to be very dangerous.

"After the Spurs lacked Duncan, although they still had Meng Xu and David Robinson, they were not enough to support the Spurs' defensive system. Although Meng Xu was already working very hard to make up for his teammates, the Spurs' defense still remained There are loopholes everywhere." When the game ended, Magic Johnson said with a sigh.In this game, Meng Xu performed very well on both ends of the offense and defense, but an outside defensive player has his own flaws inherently. With David Robinson old and Duncan out of shape, no one can. Limit O'Neill.

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