Double stars shine in Los Angeles

Chapter 220

The Los Angeles Lakers returned to Los Angeles with a record of four consecutive away games. After a day off, they will face the challenge of the San Antonio Spurs at their home court.However, just as the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers were looking forward to the team's ability to maintain their winning streak, the San Antonio Spurs broke their fantasy.

Since the San Antonio Spurs formed the "GDP" with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili as the core, they have always been a force that cannot be ignored in the league.The opponents of the San Antonio Spurs, such as the Phoenix Suns and Detroit Pistons, have already started their own road of reconstruction, and the San Antonio Spurs still follow their own unique path, saying that they are evergreen trees in the league. However, looking at the NBA arena for more than ten years, the performance of the San Antonio Spurs has been very stable, and there has never been a big ups and downs, which can be regarded as a good story.

Before the game against the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has arranged for Tim Duncan to rest for two consecutive games. Judging from their current record, they have no problem entering the playoffs.Not only Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich also intentionally reduced the playing time of Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, the young players trained by the team have grown enough, what is missing is the game experience and opportunities.For the Spurs coaching staff, they are also happy to give young people opportunities to prepare for the future of the team.

The starting lineup for the Los Angeles Lakers remained unchanged on game night.For the San Antonio Spurs, Tim Duncan, who rested for two games, reappeared in the starting lineup as a power forward. The remaining four starters were center Tiago Splitter and small forward Kay Leon. Nader, shooting guard Danny Green, point guard Tony Parker.

The Los Angeles Lakers got off to a rough start, being outscored 3-[-] by the San Antonio Spurs, and the only two points they got were free throws.In the first [-] minutes of the game, whether it was a positional offense or a sports offense, the Los Angeles Lakers did not score a point.Kobe Bryant called a short timeout, but Phil Jackson did not make any arrangements, but let the players adjust themselves. The game has just begun and there is still a lot of time.

After the timeout, the Los Angeles Lakers' offense still hasn't improved much, but the pressure on the San Antonio Spurs on the defensive end has increased a lot.Kobe Bryant held the ball on the weak side, turned two in a row, let Danny Green lose his position and then drove to the basket for a layup.

However, the San Antonio Spurs quickly fought back.Tim Duncan goes up to set a screen for Tony Parker, then catches the pass and immediately passes it to Danny Green who slips to the basket.Facing Li Yifeng's block, Danny Green distributed the basketball to Tony Parker, who cut in from the middle, and the latter ended the attack with a drop shot after an emergency stop.

Steve Nash dribbled the ball into the frontcourt and passed the ball to Lin Fengzhe after the pick-and-roll.After several quick dribbles in a row, Lin Fengzhe jumped up and was about to shoot. Facing Kaoey Leonard who jumped up and blocked the block in time, Lin Fengzhe pressed his wrist, changed his shot to a pass, and passed the basketball to the Li Yifeng at the basket, Li Yifeng did not turn around after receiving the pass, and directly dunked with his back, scoring his first two points in the game.

At the end of the first quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers at home trailed by five points, 24 to [-].It is very rare for the Lakers to score less than [-] points in a single quarter. It can be seen that the Lakers' shooting percentage is not very good.

In the second quarter, Lin Fengzhe remained on the court to strengthen the team's attack on the front line.Steve Blake got into the inside of the San Antonio Spurs with the ball in the frontcourt. The red light came on.Fortunately, Tracy McGrady's shot was made, which prevented the point difference from being further widened.

In the next few minutes, Lin Fengzhe turned into the initiator of the offense and frequently fed the ball to Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady.Josh McRoberts, who came off the bench, also had two excellent dunks.The Los Angeles Lakers slowly narrowed the point difference.Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called a timeout after Tracy McGrady hit a long [-]-pointer from the perimeter to tie the game and lead the game by one point.

After the timeout, the Spurs replaced Tony Parker, while the Lakers replaced Lin Fengzhe with Metta World Peace and Steve Blake with Darius Morris.

Back from the timeout, the defense of the San Antonio Spurs was significantly strengthened, while the backcourt speed of the Los Angeles Lakers was greatly improved because of Darius Morris' playing, which also added a lot to the Lakers' lineup. less vitality.The entire second quarter of the game gradually passed in the anxiety of the score between the two sides. When the whistle sounded at the end of the half, Tony Parker missed a three-pointer at the buzzer, and the two sides tied at 46.

After the start of the second half of the game, the Los Angeles Lakers finally found the feeling of the game when they won the winning streak before. There were many points on the inside and outside, and there was no obvious offensive strength, which suddenly increased the defensive pressure on the San Antonio Spurs.Fortunately, on the offensive end, Tim Duncan, who scored only four points in the first half, began to explode. He succeeded in singles against Pau Gasol and scored two plus one twice. At the same time, Danny Green made three of four three-pointers from the outside. Scored [-] points in the single quarter, which kept the point difference from being widened by the crazy offensive Lakers.

The offensive efficiency of both sides in the third quarter was very high. The Los Angeles Lakers scored 35 points in a single quarter, and Kobe Bryant scored 29 points and [-] assists alone.The San Antonio Spurs also scored [-] points, with Tim Duncan scoring eight points and three rebounds in a single quarter.

In the final quarter of the game, the San Antonio Spurs put Tim Duncan and Tony Parker on the bench when chasing points. The second half of this quarter is the time when Tim Duncan is most needed.Boris Diaw shrugged off the slow-moving Pau Gasol to run beyond the three-point line, received a pass from Stephen Jackson, and made a long-range three-pointer. This was his second three-pointer of the game ball.

For the Lakers, Steve Nash and his teammates broke through after covering, and then passed the ball to Pau Gasol.However, Pau Gasol hesitated for a moment, did not shoot immediately, and gave the Spurs time to double-team him, so he had to pass the basketball to Metta Shiping in the right corner for a long three-pointer, but the referee's whistle , pointing to Danny Green to signal a thug foul.

Ci Shiping stood at the free throw line and only made one of three free throws. The point difference was narrowed to two points by the Spurs.However, the Lakers did not call a timeout. Phil Jackson just got up and went to the sidelines and shouted at the players on the field to control the rhythm, and then sat back to meditate.

Steve Nash dribbled the ball slowly, put the tempo of the game down, broke through with 12 seconds left, and passed the ball to Darius Morris in the corner.Darius Morris swayed away and Tony Parker slid to the bottom line to break through. Boris Diaw made up the defense in time. Darius Morris scored the ball to Pau Gasol who cut in from the middle.

In turn, Boris Diaw, in the same position, with the same style of play, hit a three-pointer again, and the difference between the two teams was only one point.

Steve Nash was double-teamed by Stephen Jackson and Gary Neal in the frontcourt and made a mistake. The basketball was grabbed by Stephen Jackson. Gary Neal was almost down, and Stephen Jackson passed the basketball with two dribbles Gary Neal, two-on-one in the frontcourt, Gary Neal made an easy layup to overtake the score.

Halfway through the fourth quarter of the game, the starting players of both sides returned to the court. The game officially entered a fierce stage. The point difference was always hovering at one or two points. Because the action gradually increases, it becomes full of gunpowder.

Kobe Bryant asked for relative gestures, signaling his teammates to pull away, and he wants to play singles.Manu Ginobili is like a dog skin plaster, almost stuck to Kobe Bryant's body.But even so, Kobe Bryant still insisted on playing on his own, breaking inward against Manu Ginobili's defense. Just as Danny Green came to help defend, Kobe Bryant suddenly passed the ball to Lin Fengzhe made a mid-range jumper.

With the last 20 seconds left before the end of the game, the score was tied at 99 and the ball was in the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers.Except for Li Yifeng and Pau Gasol, the Lakers are all located outside the three-point line.With six seconds left in the clock, Kobe Bryant made an emergency stop and made a jumper when he was one step inside the free throw line. Getting into Kobe Bryant's eyes still didn't stop the opponent from scoring.

With less than three seconds left for the Spurs, Gregg Popovich immediately called a long timeout, set up the team's final drive, and replaced Tiago Splitter with Obviously it's going to be a three-pointer.Back on the court, Danny Green served from the sideline and Tim Duncan blocked Steve Nash, who was guarding Tony Parker, allowing Tony Parker to receive the pass, but Kobe Bryant's help was quickly in place .

Tony Parker made a lateral pass to Boris Diaw for a shot from beyond the arc.Almost as soon as Boris Diaw made a shot, the red light on the backboard came on, and all eyes were on the basketball flying in the air, watching him slowly fall into the basket... Spurs bench boiling...

The referee went to the side of the technical statistics table to carefully watch the replay video of the game and finally ruled that Boris Diaw's three-pointer at the buzzer was valid.This is also Boris Diaw's cleverness. When Tony Parker passed the ball to him, he had already taken off, caught the ball in the air and shot immediately without making any adjustments.

(End of this chapter)