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Chapter 196 The Low-key Flying Devil

Chapter 196 The Low-key Flying Devil

Duncan seems to be a floor player with unpretentious movements. In the impression of many people, this is only used by players with poor physical fitness, such as Randolph, but when he was in Wake Forest Duncan has a nickname called "Flying Devil".

This nickname is enough to show how good Duncan's physical fitness was at the time. Before 2000, his style of play made many NBA insiders feel extremely aggrieved and fearful. How can anyone have better physical fitness than you but always use basic movements? Bullying you, whenever you think you have blocked his offense, he can always easily take off again and press the ball into the basket. This is a huge blow to an inside player. Is such a person evil?

But after Duncan's knee meniscus problem in 2000, his athletic ability inevitably declined, especially after Duncan suffered from plantar fasciitis last year, he gradually ceased to be the one who can rule at will. The "flying devil" in the audience, his offensive position is gradually wide, and his defensive position is deeper, but it is such a Duncan who is almost at the end of the peak of his career and can still jump the ball to win the peak of his athletic ability. Stoudemire.

The Spurs still started with the high pick-and-roll between Parker and Duncan, but this time Parker dribbled to the free throw line, called up Diaw, and then directly passed the ball to Duncan who was in the basket. Parker immediately passed the ball. Command teammates to pull to the other side to give Duncan singles.

Gao Tian on the other side watched Duncan gouged Stoudemire twice with his left hand dribble, then leaned on Stoudemire, wiped the board with a simple hook, and scored two points. Stoudemire could only watch Duncan score the goal. , and he couldn't move.

The Suns hesitated between helping and not helping, and then Duncan scored the goal. After all, this is the home of the Spurs. They dare not bet on whether the bad touch of the Spurs players in Phoenix will be brought to San Antonio. Moreover, D'Antoni's arrangement before the game was to lock the Spurs' outside line and prevent them from finding the touch. They also thought that Duncan, who originally thought it was a feint, would shoot directly without hesitation.

This is a completely different signal from the previous two or two games.

D'Antoni looked at Popovich who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. He knew that today's Spurs are absolutely different from those of the previous two days. How terrifying is a Spurs with full firepower?

Just ask the Suns and the Mavericks to see the faces of their main players.

Duncan, who scored the goal, didn't react in the slightest. He still stared blankly and signaled his teammates to take their positions. Facing the Suns' offense, the Spurs chose a two-three defense, but this two-three defense is not a very standard. Because Bowen left his original position from time to time to stick to Gao Tian, ​​even if it would destroy the space of the Spurs' zone defense, he would not hesitate, which made Gao Tian very speechless, and glanced at the naughty old man, Gao Tian knew that this game might be another fruitless game.

Gao Tian himself doesn't care much about his statistics. If the Suns can win every game, it doesn't matter if he plays soy sauce, but he knows that Popovich is insidious, and he can be sure that Popovich is going to make trouble. At this point, he will definitely not sit still, and the previous game is very likely to be a trap, a trap from an excellent hunter.

It's just his intuition so he didn't tell D'Antoni. He didn't know if D'Antoni was aware of the conspiracy left by Popovich, but it seems that D'Antoni didn't think so much, because now he is wondering whether to Annoyed by flanking Duncan.

Do you want to see how the Spurs' outside players feel?

Hesitant D'Antoni watched as Duncan scored another 2+1 as if he was in no man's land. He couldn't bear it anymore. If he didn't flank, I'm afraid the Suns would be blown up by Duncan alone. The previous false flank You can't fool Duncan at all, so you can only see how the Spurs players feel, and hope it's still as bad.

The Spurs Suns' defense is extremely fierce. Their defense today is completely different from the defense in the previous two games. Now this defense is frantically testing on the verge of fouling. Fortunately, the referees at home also gave Popovich a face. , The referee basically did not blow the fouls that can be blown or not. It is conceivable how bad the hand feeling of the Suns players facing such an intensity in the away game is. The situation on the court is firmly controlled by the Spurs, and D'Antoni's face is extremely It's ugly, and fortunately, the Spurs' outside touch is not much better than that of the Suns players. Most of Duncan's inside singles opportunities went to the outside and were wasted by the Spurs' outsiders one after another. So although it seems that the Spurs occupy Taking the initiative on the field, the Suns were not powerless to fight back. Although Stoudemire was firmly held down by Duncan, Nash was beyond his consideration after all. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Nash made several consecutive layups to stabilize the score.

The audience in the AT&T Center Arena watched the Suns hit a ball and then the Spurs unceremoniously followed up with a ball. This kind of feeling of seeing opportunities but the team has been unable to score is really bad. is maddening.

The situation on the court is so anxious, but what is strange is that the head coaches of both sides did not show any nervousness, and they all sat calmly, as if they were waiting for something.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spurs' perimeter players suddenly fired.

The Spurs' first ball was still handed over to Duncan. Duncan, who attracted double-teams after the strong play, still carried out Popovich's arrangement without hesitation, and passed the ball to Holly, who was unattended outside. And in the expectant eyes of the Spurs fans, the most accurate outside player of the Spurs directly chose to shoot a three-pointer and then hit it.

coming!

The corner of Popovich's mouth twitched. He felt that the Spurs players' confidence had returned. Although Manu Ginobili and Parker's shots were all ironed out afterwards, he knew that this was only temporary. As long as the players' confidence returned, then It won't take long for their touch to come.

D'Antoni looked at the unstable situation on the court, he was silent, and sighed in his heart, he knew that it would be difficult to guard against it, he struggled for a while under Nash's questioning eyes, and nodded, in the end he still He didn't dare to let the Spurs' outside line blossom. He knew very well that the inside line could not be defended.

He would rather be beaten by Duncan than to be shot by the Spurs outside. Once they find the touch, the Spurs will really find their true feeling.

Hitting the board at 45 degrees, hooking, and hitting hard at the basket, Tim Duncan explained to everyone in the last half of the game what is the number one power forward in history. In the last 15 minutes, the Suns only scored 8 points inside. Duncan had 5 of 5 blocks in this game. The key block in the last few minutes, he himself cut off the sun's hope of counterattack.

In the end, the Spurs defeated the Suns 104:96. Duncan scored 38 points, 12 rebounds and 5 blocks in the peak performance of this game. They made consecutive hits, but the most important thing is that the sun still lost the game unfortunately. The Spurs successfully pulled back a game at home, keeping hope, and the series score returned to 28:5.

　The pitiful little Pujie asks you big guys to count the votes~

(End of this chapter)