NBA: Fusion of two talents to dominate the entire league

While warming up on the court, Roy once again saw the familiar figures of the Spurs' troika.

In the original world, the Spurs will win the third championship trophy in team history this year.

Among them, the one Roy admires most is the Spurs' white jade pillar that supports the sky and the purple gold beam that spans the sea - Tim Duncan.

In the same position, it would be a lie that Roy doesn't pay attention to him. Duncan has always been the main object of Roy's daily video study.

As the most recognized powerful forward in history, there is no one else.

In the eighth year of entering the NBA, he now has 2 championships and 2 MVPs. He has been in the best first team for 7 consecutive years since his rookie year. This year will be the eighth time.

7 best defensive teams, including 5 first team and 2 second team. This year will be the sixth time in the defensive first team.

As for the best rookie and the All-Star MVP, they have already been won.

In just eight years, he has won all the honors a player can win.

This is only the first eight years of his career, and this player who gets better with age has a career of up to 19 years.

I remember when he announced his candidacy, nine teams in the league collectively played badly to get him. You know, he is an older rookie who has finished four years of college.

But there are teams willing to wait for him, because he is the cornerstone of the team that all teams dream of, a super genius that may not appear once in decades.

Nicknamed Stone Buddha, he is serious and unsmiling. Later, he was affectionately called Dai Dai by fans. He is one of the best background boards in the league and the founder of the original windmill.

But no one can underestimate him. There is no player of the same generation who does not praise him.

As a man who conquered an era, he is as quiet as a child, warming up with his teammates.

One of the only stains in his career may be that he rubbed Ginobili bald and polished Tony Parker's head.

In short, these two guards have suffered a lot from the big brother.

He is the challenge that Roy will face tonight, and he may also be the strongest opponent he has encountered in his career.

This year's Spurs are extremely strong.

Point guard French trot Tony Parker has grown into a first-class offensive point guard in the league.

Shooting guard Argentine Pampas Eagle Ginobili defeated the Dream Team head-on this year and won the Olympic gold medal. Although he entered the league at the age of 25, he is now 28 years old and is the strongest period of a shooting guard.

Small forward Bruce Bowen is known as the dirtiest player in the league. His existence is to help the Spurs do dirty work.

He is mainly responsible for defending the opponent's sharp knife. Only with his escort can the Spurs have the capital to fight against that kind of super guard. The only thing that makes some people unhappy is that he has no limit to his reach and has black feet.

The center is Nesterovic from Slovenia, a hardworking blue-collar player and a good partner of Duncan.

On the bench sits Robert Holly, a lucky player with 5 championship rings, three-point shooter Brent Barry, Udrih, and Malik Rose, all well-known bench bandits.

The current Spurs team is composed of most international players, and both the starting lineup and the bench can be regarded as talented and extremely strong.

At the beginning of the game, the Spurs fans used deafening cheers to suppress the Nets.

This year, the Spurs are ambitious, with the first defensive efficiency in the league, averaging a net win of 9 points over opponents.

Although Tyson Chandler won the ball fight with Nesterovic,

his jump ball was intercepted by Ginobili.

The French trot dribbled across half court at an extremely fast speed, and before Kidd returned to defense, he made a mid-range shot near the free throw line.

The start of the game gave the Nets a head start.

Except for Tony Parker, who scored the goal, the Spurs players had no expression on their faces.

Kidd looked at the opponent in front of him with a complicated look.

You should know that last summer, Kidd was very close to the Spurs and verbally agreed to join the Spurs, but he didn't go in the end for various reasons.

But thinking back, the current choice is not without a chance to fight.

Parker put pressure on Kidd to defend. Because of his natural advantage in speed at a young age,

He can unscrupulously defend Kidd all the way.

In the past two years, he has always been very excited when he meets Kidd, just to show the Spurs that they did not keep the wrong person.

Kidd passed the ball to Carter outside the three-point line.

In recent games, the pick-and-roll between Carter and Roy has become the most efficient opening line for the Nets.

The Spurs directly chose to switch defense. Carter took Duncan away and passed the ball to Roy.

It was the first time for Roy to face Bruce Bowen, who has 8 All-Defensive Teams, alone.

But Roy has no idea how many times he has played against a smaller team.

Bowen's sticky defense tightly attached to Roy, not allowing Roy to dribble.

Unable to move, how to crack it?

Bruce Bowen showed a look of success, which was also the tactic arranged by Popovich to limit the Nets' pick-and-roll tactics with a high success rate.

Popovich sneered and said to himself: "Young man, let's see what you can do?"

Roy smiled slightly, turned his back to Bowen, and used his weight to carry Bowen step by step into the restricted area.

Bowen wanted to interfere with Roy's dribbling, but Roy's long arms and height made him desperate.

"Mark Jackson?" Kidd laughed.

One plan failed and another one came up. Bowen suddenly retracted his hand on Roy's back, removed Roy's center of gravity, and let Roy fall backwards.

But Roy did not really rely on Bowen with all his strength. Bowen removed his defensive hand and directly made room for Roy to turn around.

After half a turn, he stood on one leg, and Bowen could only watch the basketball fly into the basket.

2 to 2

Popovich frowned with his arms crossed. The defense against Roy was not as effective as he had imagined.

Roy responded maturely without showing any panic, and easily resolved the trap he had carefully set.

Ginobili picked up the ball and passed it to Tony Parker across half court.

Parker tried to break through, but Kidd's defense blocked his way to the inside.

Parker had no choice but to pass the ball to Duncan in the waist position.

Roy faced Tim Duncan alone for the first time!

Duncan, who was facing the frame, did not dribble the ball between his legs in a fancy way, but shook the ball twice.

After finding that Roy was unmoved,

he suddenly stood up and made a direct jump shot.

"It was crooked" was the first feeling that Duncan gave Roy when he shot.

It was crooked, but the basketball rubbed against the backboard and bounced into the basket!

The signature of the Stone Buddha, a 45° angle shot, with a very high hit rate.

This is a real skill that can be applied to the game, and I am afraid there will be no one who can do it again.

After Duncan finished shooting, he returned to the half court without looking back. In his opinion, this ball was no different from eating and drinking water, so what was there to celebrate?

Roy later recalled how he felt when defending Duncan for the first time.

"I just felt nothing. He shot and I raised my hand to defend. I thought he shot the ball wrong, but it ended up hitting the backboard. That was the situation at the time."

Back to the Nets' offense, Carter once again performed a high pick-and-roll with Roy.

With the help of Popovich, the Spurs switched defenses again.

It was still a familiar feeling. Roy dribbled in after receiving the ball. The difference was that this time, Parker interfered with Roy's dribbling nearby.

All of them were resolved by Roy without any danger.

Seeing Roy half-turned to shoot again,

Parker directly gave up defending Kidd and rushed over to double-team Roy.

Roy said, am I afraid of double-teaming? During the gap between the double-teaming, Roy had already seen Kidd in the open space and passed the ball to him at close range.

Kidd hit a three-pointer from an unattended position on the three-point line!

Although he told Kidd not to attack, it doesn't mean he won't shoot in the open space!