NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 180

at the same time.

Spurs video analysis room.

Popovich called the whole team to come to the video class.

The video analyst was talking on the sidelines, pausing from time to time for some explanations.

When the analyst is in timeout, he will say which players are not doing well, and these will be said.

Popovich also sat next to the analyst with a stern face, and the feeling of oppression was quite great.

The Spurs can make jokes in their spare time, but Popovich, as a disciple of Larry Brown, still has the sternness of an old-school coach more or less.

When he was in serious class, Popovich's overall atmosphere was very serious.

The whole class was stressful, with everyone paying attention to what the analyst said they were falling short of.

But Popovich didn't interrupt during the whole class, so he let the analyst talk there and didn't bother.

For Popovich, the last game was a shame for him.

It's not just about the players, as Popovich admits he has issues.

Popovich is a very introspective coach. Speaking of players taking video lessons, Popovich is also re-analyzing the video.

Video analysts are primarily there to correct problems for players, not coaches.

Speaking of it, the video analyst is still a subordinate of the head coach, and he is not qualified to dictate to the head coach.

For example, Heat coach Spoelstra was a video analyst at the beginning of the Heat, and then became Riley's disciple and gained Riley's trust before he succeeded in taking the position.

Video analysts don't dare to give Popovich lectures, so Popovich is not talking much, and he is also conducting his own inspection of himself.

The recording session is finally over.

Seeing that the video analyst said that the class was over, the players felt that the atmosphere eased a little.

However, as a person who made more mistakes on the court, he is still not in the mood at this time, such as Danny Green.

At this time Popovich finally stood up.

"If the media sees you like this, they will write that the Spurs have lost confidence in this series. This is G1."

Popovich looked at the crowd and said.

After hearing Popovich's words, the atmosphere finally eased up a bit.

Although the Spurs are a strictly disciplined team, they are not the kind of team that loses and the whole team is very depressed.

It has always been the Spurs' habit to find a way after losing a game.

"We will win the next game."

At this time Duncan stood up and said.

As the leader of this team, Duncan also played a role at this time.

"Tim is more than you, I will help you."

Parker also stood up at the same time.

"We are the same. We will not let the Timberwolves steal the victory from our home court again, and we will definitely win it with all our strength."

At the same time, other Spurs players also expressed their views.

For a moment, the atmosphere that was somewhat depressing became high-spirited.

Turn stress into motivation.

At this point, the Spurs will go all out in the next game.

San Antonio.

The G2 of the Spurs and Timberwolves will start again tonight.

Tonight, all the members of the Spurs, from entering the arena to warming up, all looked high-spirited.

After losing a game at the same time, the Spurs fans reacted one by one and became very angry.

The Spurs fans tonight are also exceptionally strong, and the overall atmosphere is even more oppressive than the previous game. This is the real home pressure of the Spurs.

The Spurs more or less underestimated the enemy in the last game, although Popovich has tried to overestimate the Timberwolves after losing to the Warriors last season.

But the Spurs, from coaches to players, from players to fans, still have a more or less clear view of the Timberwolves.

After being won by the Timberwolves in the last game, the Spurs knew from top to bottom that the Timberwolves were not an easy opponent.

The Timberwolves, who were able to reach the Western Conference Finals, really didn't rely on the outside world to analyze those miscellaneous problems.

The Timberwolves are still a very capable team.

And everyone now has a new understanding of the striker's strategy of unlimited defense changes.

This sense of cognition is the same as the three-point system brought by Su Chen when he was in the Warriors last season.

Even in terms of impact alone, the Timberwolves' striker's unlimited defense system this time is even more shocking.

There is a saying in the league that offense wins the audience and defense wins the championship.

However, the Timberwolves' defense played a pleasing feeling. The smooth rotation and extreme speed of the infinite rotation made people feel that the defense was gorgeous.

The word gorgeous is basically used in offense in the league.

Whether it's the gorgeous King Princeton or the gorgeous Sun's seven-second offense, these can all be called gorgeous.

But now the Timberwolves' unlimited defense changes, described as gorgeous, don't even feel that it is against harmony.

After the league has a new understanding of the Timberwolves, the outside world has begun to have a new view of this game.

Some media said that the Spurs could not adapt to the Timberwolves' infinite defense system, and the Timberwolves might be able to win the Spurs again in this game.

At the same time, those gamblers outside couldn't hear this, and seeing the attractive return ratio of the Timberwolves, many people directly beat the Timberwolves.

They want to get back what they put on the Spurs in the last game, and earn back the Timberwolves in this game.

Soon, the game started.

Su Chen didn't make too many changes, mainly continuing the defensive strategy from the previous game.

But the Spurs' video research for so many days was not for nothing.

After the Timberwolves still adopted the strategy of the previous game, the Spurs also arranged more deployments, and many balls began to be confusing.

At the same time, Butler was also taken care of by the Spurs.

Leonard basically stared at Butler, and the others still let the mid-range shots go, but he didn't let Butler's mid-range shots go.

Leonard is basically a more luxurious version of Butler, and Butler seems a little powerless in the face of his luxurious version.

Although Butler's athletic talent is not bad, and his confrontation is not bad, but his wingspan has always limited his upper limit.

Facing Leonard, his athletic ability is not inferior to him, and he is not inferior to him in confrontation. At the same time, his wingspan still crushes his existence.

Butler couldn't play even if he wanted to.

At the same time, in this game, all the Spurs went all out with great momentum.

And I don't know if it's because of the noisy home atmosphere. The Spurs have a more obvious home whistle, and the referee's whistle is slightly more biased than the previous game.

Butler was strictly guarded, and Su Chen planned to let Giannis Antetokounmpo take on the main task.

But the Spurs are still relatively mid-range. At the same time, Duncan mainly defends Giannis Antetokounmpo, and also defends Giannis Antetokounmpo a little temperately.

Although in terms of athletic ability, the young Giannis Antetokounmpo is faster than Duncan today, but Duncan is experienced and stuck with Giannis Antetokounmpo's breakthrough route.

Even in the CIC, Duncan didn't just let Giannis Antetokounmpo go to the CIC or throw.

Not letting Leonard guard Giannis Antetokounmpo, but letting Duncan guard Giannis Antetokounmpo also showed a little disappointment for the Timberwolves.

After halftime.

The Timberwolves trailed by 11 points.

This time the Timberwolves were much more passive. Compared to the previous game when the Timberwolves were holding the score, this time Su Chen didn't dare to play too long in the rotation due to chasing points.

The main force spends more time playing.

Just like the Spurs in the last game, they fell behind and did not dare to make a long rotation, and then they lost more and more physical strength than their opponents.

Su Chen was also a little helpless on the sidelines.

Although he really wanted to do something, but [Hawkeye] skill was overloaded and used too much in the last game, which made Su Chen's mental strength not very sufficient for this game.

Moreover, the momentum of the Spurs in this game is too strong, even if he uses [Hawkeye] again, the players will fight regardless of their physical strength.

It may not be possible to win this Spurs.

If you want to change the situation, you still need to make more breakthroughs, and you can't keep shooting mid-range shots like this.

But this time the Spurs were home whistle. The Timberwolves made many breakthroughs in the first half, and the referee didn't even blow the whistle when players were pushed down from mid-air.

The Timberwolves' players were pushed down, and then the Spurs were able to play a quick transition offense. The Timberwolves' rushing inside was simply asking for fun.

After the start of the third quarter.

Su Chen simply used the long rotation to see if the substitute players could break the situation.

Of course, it's not that Su Chen is too aggressive, he just wants the players not to overdraw.

There are still so many games in the series, and the Spurs have already won a home game. Even if they don't win this game, the Timberwolves still have the advantage.

However, seeing the Timberwolves let the bench lineup keep playing at the beginning of the second half, many gamblers who overwhelmed the Timberwolves immediately began to scold.

Speaking of which, the Timberwolves team has dominated the existence of gambling dogs since the regular season.

When you think the Timberwolves are not good enough, he is good again.

When you think this Timberwolves team is going well, he immediately loses to you.

Some gamblers who have been tricked by the Timberwolves, even if they see the attractive rewards of the Timberwolves this time, they dare not bet.

But there are still many young gamblers, and some stubborn gamblers, who still choose to beat the Timberwolves.

Soon, after the third quarter, the Timberwolves were already 16 points behind.

And in the last quarter, if the game wasn't blown up too early, the two sides replaced the substitutes in advance.

The Timberwolves' substitutes caught up with some points, and the Timberwolves' point difference in this game will be even bigger.

Dududu~!

The buzzer at the end of the game freezes the score.

Spurs 109:92 Timberwolves.

The Spurs defended their home court with a 17-point difference.

Big score to: Spurs 1-1 Timberwolves.

Duncan's performance in this game can be described as crazy. In the case of the Timberwolves, he scored 27 points, 15 rebounds and 6 assists.

Parker also attracted enough defense because of Duncan's crazy performance. He scored 23 points in this game and scored 50 points with Duncan.

Butler, who played well in the last game, seemed to have hit a rookie wall this time, scoring only 11 points in the game.

Giannis Antetokounmpo still performed similarly to the last game. The young dual-core of the Timberwolves played together this time.

It's not that Su Chen doesn't care about losing this game, but at least he can accept it.

On the surface, Su Chen's expression was still calm, just like the losing team was not the Timberwolves.

Seeing Su Chen's expression, the gambling dogs cursed one by one, asking whether Su Chen bought it or not.

"The Spurs adjusted quickly. In this game, the Spurs found themselves again, but the Timberwolves played at a loss many times."

"Facing Leonard and Duncan, the core of the Timberwolves can't exert their strength at all under their defense. The young core of the Timberwolves still needs more growth."

Johnson summed up the game.

"It seems that the worry about Popovich's last game is purely superfluous. Popovich used this game to tell the young Su Chen on the opposite side why the Spurs have been able to maintain a strong team for so many years under his leadership."

Kenny Smith also continued.

"Indeed, Popovich's adjustment is very clever."

"Although it is still a mid-range shot, but if I hold Butler, who was the most confident mid-range player in the last game, the rest of the Timberwolves' mid-range shots don't have Butler's star-level mid-range shooting ability."

"In the last game, Su Chen personally said that the Spurs were weak in the mid-range defense. It was a face-to-face challenge to Popovich. This is Popovich's counterattack."

At this time, O'Neill said with a smile beside him.

O'Neill's words immediately reminded many people of what Su Chen said in an interview last time.

At that time, Su Chen directly said that the Spurs' mid-range defense was very weak, so the team played a lot of mid-range, and then won.

Su Chen won the last game, and he did win in this way.

Although the Spurs fans feel uncomfortable, after all, the Spurs lost the last game, and the outlet is not on their side.

There will be many Spurs fans who will mock Su Chen a lot.

"After the last round of the series, there are many Timberwolves fans or Su Chen's personal fans. Why are Popovich and not Su Chen the best coach this season?"

"So in this game, Popovich also told those people why Popovich is the best coach of the season."

Kenny Smith continued.

"Hey, the series is still 1-1. Speaking of which, the Timberwolves still won a home game against the Spurs."

"What you said makes it look like the Spurs have already defeated the Timberwolves in the series."

Barkley couldn't see it anymore.

What Barkley said is of course true, but this game did demonstrate Popovich's extremely high tactical quality.

Post-match press conference.

Obviously, a reporter immediately asked a question about the previous game.

"Coach Su Chen, last game you said that the Spurs' mid-range defense was weak, what do you think now?"

The questions raised by the reporter were very sharp.

Su Chen glanced at the reporter's microphone. If he remembered correctly, it was the sign of a local media outlet in San Antonio.

Apparently, this reporter had been planning how he would ask questions if the Spurs won the game at the beginning of the last game.

"This question is very good. The Spurs' mid-range defense was weak in the last game. This time the Spurs' mid-range defense is very organized."

"I think Popovich is doing a great job, really."

Su Chen smiled and said to the reporter's question.

The reporter was obviously taken aback when he heard Su Chen's answer. What kind of answer is this?

Although what Su Chen said is the truth, how does it feel, Su Chen doesn't care about this answer at all.

Su Chen lost the game, shouldn't he blame himself?

(End of this chapter)