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Chapter 130 Spurs and Warriors with healthy Leonard

Can the full-body Spurs with a healthy Leonard defeat Cosmos Yong?
The answer to this question is forever marked with a flagrant foul by Zhaza Pachulia.

At this time, Zheng Long did not expect to have the opportunity to witness it with his own eyes after his rebirth.

On the court, the man nicknamed "Robot" was currently doing shooting training.

Zheng Long picked up a piece of chewing gum and put it in his mouth to chew.

If the Spurs can win Cosmos Yong today, then this man will be the biggest opponent he has encountered this season.

This season, due to the personal extreme heroism of Zheng Long, Westbrook, and Harden, the regular season performance is too impressive.

Many media and fans have ignored Leonard's personal strength and performance. Compared with Westbrook and Harden, he is the closest to Zheng Long.

With his own efforts and Popovich's training, coupled with his own historical level of hardware talent, he was selected for the first defense last season. Leonard, who was elected to DYOP, performed even better this season.

常规赛25.5分5.8篮板3.5助攻1.8抢断，投篮命中率48.5%三分命中率38.0%罚球命中率88.0%。

Against the Jazz in the first round of the playoffs, under a higher intensity confrontation, the data did not drop but increased.

场均31.2分6篮板3.8助攻2抢断，投篮命中率54.8%三分命中率48.2%罚球命中率96.7%。

Such data, in any period of NBA history, in any round of series, is definitely a super giant performance.

in other words.

For Leonard, the regular season is just practice, and Leonard in the playoffs is at full strength without Popovich's deliberate suppression.

The fact that the Spurs are now able to fight Yu Yuyong 2-2 in the first round also speaks for itself. The Spurs with healthy Leonard can definitely wrestle with Yu Yuyong.

do not forget.

Leonard, who owns the Raptors, was once the existence in the original history that ended the Cosmic Warrior Dynasty.

The admission ceremony ended, and the Tianwangshan battle between the Spurs and the Warriors officially started.

For the Spurs, Popovich sent Tony Parker, Danny Green, Kawhi Leonard, Aldridge, and Pau Gasol as starters.

On the Warriors side, there are Curry, Klay Thompson, Durant, Green and Zha Pachulia.

After Cole and Popovich tested each other in four games, they directly moved up their strongest starting lineup in the regular season.

The jump ball started amid the chants of the Warriors home fans.

The experienced Gasol won the jump ball for the Spurs. The Warriors did not rush back to the defense, but quickly found their matchups and methodically.

Because the Warriors know that the Spurs will not launch a fast break, but blindly retreating quickly and ignoring the formation will only allow the Spurs to find opportunities faster.

The Spurs landed on the floor, and Parker held the ball at the top of the arc to organize. His matchup was Curry. Compared with most teams in the league, facing the Spurs is definitely the team with the least defensive pressure on Curry. one.

Parker is old, and Popovich has already assigned the team's scoring responsibility to "Double Virtues", which is the mainstream tactic of the Spurs today.

The Spurs' running and pick-and-roll tactics are very complicated. The 24-second round attack time is very well decomposed and utilized by Popovich.

The basketball is constantly rotating in the hands of the Spurs players, and the Warriors are constantly switching defenses to adapt to the running rhythm of the Spurs players.

With 5 seconds left in the round, the basketball came to Danny Green who was positioned on the wing. The Spurs' double pick-and-roll tactics won Danny Green the space for this shot.

Even with Klay Thompson chasing after him, it was a turnover.

Tielin made a decisive three-pointer!

It's just that the iron forest is not iron today!Score the first goal!

Warriors 0 to 3 Spurs.

Zheng Long on the sidelines touched his chin. It seems that Popovich is going to play Danny Green first to warm up his hands today.

The Warriors who were scored chose to serve quickly, and Curry advanced quickly with the ball. The Warriors can be said to be the opposite of the Spurs in terms of offensive tactics.

The Spurs' offense is unpretentious, running, passing, running, pick-and-roll, and passing. They try their best to use dense pick-and-roll in the limited offensive time of the round to create a stable shooting space for the end point.

And the Warriors' offense is to highlight a fast!Run quickly!Simple pick and roll!Quick pass!Quick shot!
The long-range shooting ability of Curry and Klay Thompson makes the Warriors' pick-and-roll tactics very simple. The player with the ball looks for Curry, and the non-ball player blocks Curry as much as possible, and then sends the basketball to With Curry in his hands, everything will be handled by Curry.

Because even if there is only a gap-like shooting space, Curry can complete a long-range shot with a good hit rate.

The same goes for replacing Curry with Klay Thompson here.

"Curry came to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Green at the top of the arc."

"Green holds the ball at the top of the arc, waiting for the pass."

"Green passed the ball to Clay who ran out from the wing, and Clay also chose a three-pointer after receiving the ball!"

"This ball. Got it!"

"After Danny Green scored a goal, Klay immediately returned one!"

"This kind of response ball is really beautiful!"

After Clay's goal, without warning, the home fans of the entire Oracle Arena burst into cheers at the same time.

Both Zheng Long and Lin Bao were taken aback.

Lin Bao quietly asked Zheng Long: "They won't be so enthusiastic every time they score a goal, right?"

"I'm afraid so." Zheng Long smiled helplessly: "The Warriors fans are famous for their enthusiasm, especially in the playoffs. Every goal of the Warriors can make them excited."

"Then we are also wearing Warriors jerseys. Wouldn't it be too strange not to shout together?"

"will not."

"Ah? Why?"

"Because their eyes are only on the court, they are the most devout believers of the Warriors at this moment."

Lin Bao felt that what Zheng Long said made sense, so he turned his gaze back to the court.

Exactly at this time.

After the Spurs failed an offense, the Warriors, who protected the defensive rebound, launched a fast break. Curry staged an ultra-long chasing three-pointer, and made a cool shot at a position of one and a half meters from the three-point line!

"Ahhhh!!!"

Oracle Arena burst into cheers again!

Compared with Clay's goal, it is obvious that Warriors fans are more excited about Curry's goal. Even when Curry chose to shoot, many fans stood up at the scene, raising their arms and preparing to cheer.

Zheng Long said, "Oracle Bone Inscription Devil's home game is well-deserved."

It's no wonder that the Warriors' home win rate and away win rate are quite different. I'm used to such enthusiastic cheers at home, but when it comes to the away game, a player like Curry who loves the most excitement will definitely feel uncomfortable.

Curry and Clay felt very good today, and they opened up the situation for the Warriors not long after the opening.

"Curry feels so hot today."

"Score two three-pointers in a row!"

"If you change to an ordinary team, you can't stand it anymore."

"But the Spurs are obviously prepared. Even though they are 7 points behind now, they still organize the offense in a leisurely manner."

Zheng Long couldn't help turning his head to see Popovich not far away. Since he was not far from Popovich, he could clearly see Popovich's expression.

Popovich just watched the game indifferently.

This legendary head coach has a composure that young head coaches don't have. Of course, he is not without gaffes on the court, and he himself is not a very good-tempered person.

Just such a backwardness is obviously not enough for Popovich to take any action.

If the Wharton Lakers fell behind at the start, they would probably be anxious to scratch their heads on the sidelines.

Wharton: Dragon, are you polite?
The game continued in the first quarter. As the Warriors missed two rounds of three-pointers, the steady Spurs seized this opportunity and continued to steadily send the basketball to the most correct end point and into the basket. .

This is Popovich's simplest idea.

You Curry Thompson can shoot.

You can't ignore the defense and hit 100% again and again, shoot me alive!
of course.

If you can do it.

So when I didn't say it, I handed over the victory of this game.

Don't let me come next season, let the aliens come and fight Curry.

At the same time, Leonard also hit a shot in a one-on-one round with Durant.

"Leonard flanks Durant."

"Attack time is about to end."

"Leonard took the ball and chose to play Durant in singles. After dribbling and taking a step back, he shot directly!"

"Have it!"

"The arc of this ball is really high!"

"So Leonard can shoot like this in front of Durant."

"A duel between long-handed monsters!"

When the game entered a timeout, with 1 minute and 30 seconds remaining in the first quarter, the Warriors beat the Spurs 23 to 22, and the point difference had been narrowed by 1 point by the Spurs.

Under normal conditions.

At this point in time, it is necessary to replace the rotation players and let the starting players take a good rest.

But Popovich continued to keep Leonard and Aldridge on the court, and the rest replaced Mills, Ginobili and Warriors veteran David Lee.

And Cole continued to keep Durant and Clay on the court, put Green at the 5th position, and replaced Livingston and Iguodala.

For the Spurs, compared to the Warriors, there are more available players. Ginobili on the bench is also a great weapon, but Popo did not feel at ease to replace Shuangde.

Without the "Double Virtues", the Spurs would not have a stable offensive point on the court, and the "Double Virtues" all have the ability to play singles with the ball.

And Cole replaced Curry, who was the most exhausted in the first quarter. Without Curry, Durant and Clay can still play. Without center Pachulia, just let Green go to the top and it's over. up.

This can also be regarded as the first "confrontation" between the two sides, a confrontation on tactical substitutions.

Without Curry, the Warriors' fluency on the offensive end has obviously dropped a lot. Green, who came to the 5th position, focused more on the defensive end, and his organizational function on the offensive end declined.

then.

The Warriors' main finishing method has become Durant's ball-handling singles, while Clay is closely following Durant's side, serving as a three-point end point from the outside at any time, helping Durant attract part of the defense.

in the regular season.

The Warriors used Curry and Durant as the core of offensive firepower one after another, allowing the firepower to pour in continuously, hammering the opponent without any chance to breathe.

Curry finished playing, Durant played, Durant was tired, and Curry rested again.

how to spell?
Fuck you, I'm not playing anymore!
I'm afraid this is also the inner thoughts of many teams when they first learned about the formation of Universe Yong.

The facts of this season have also proved that the Warriors with Durant joining are hanging!

You are right.

Just can't play!
However, apart from the Lakers, the Spurs are one of the few teams that can continue to play with the Warriors.

The reason is Leonard.

When Curry was on the court, Leonard closely followed Durant, who occasionally took a walk and fished, but he still couldn't see the key to Leonard.

When Curry went down, Durant started playing singles, and Leonard's key came.

Durant can easily deal with the defense of 90.00% of the players in the league, and Leonard is that one percent.

Under Leonard's defense, Durant's singles ability was completely restricted.

Even though he is slightly shorter than Durant in height, Leonard's big hands and long arms give him the capital to defend Durant, plus DYOP's defensive awareness and footwork.

Durant played extremely uncomfortable.

His forced shots have a dismal hit rate. He passed the ball to Klay. Without Curry on the court to attract firepower, Klay's shot space is also quite narrow.

In the 1 minute and 30 seconds of the first quarter and the opening 2 minutes of the second quarter, during the 3 minutes and 30 seconds of Curry's absence, the Warriors' offense fell into a relatively stagnant state.

Ginobili sent by the Spurs is like a demon knife, constantly causing damage to the Warriors on the court.

"I'm coming!"

"Ginobili's classic Eurostep!"

"In the end, it stuck to Klay's arm and put the ball in the basket!"

"The Spurs successfully relied on this 2-pointer to take the lead!"

"Cole call on hold."

"The situation is wrong, Curry cannot continue to rest!"

Zheng Long looked up at the scoreboard. With exactly 10 minutes left in the second quarter, the Spurs beat the Warriors 30 to 28.

Really anxious.

The players from both sides took a break, and Durant lowered his head and remained silent, obviously not very satisfied with his performance just now.

Reminiscent of the previous four games, the two sides decided the final outcome almost at the last moment.

It seems that today, the two sides are going to entangle each other to the end again.

The phone rang, Zheng Long looked down, it was Butler's private message.

"Zheng Long, I heard that you went to watch the game between the Spurs and the Warriors at home?"

"Well, what's the matter?"

"We're watching too."

"You're not looking for me just because of this."

I know Butler is a kid, and he goes to the Three Treasures Hall for everything.

"No, Zheng Long, I want to bet with you again, just bet on who can win, [-] dollars! You can guess first!"

Zheng Long was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Butler to come out like this, it seems that he has been holding back his stomach before.

Bet thirty thousand?
Want to pay back this once!
Let yourself guess first?

A complete gambler indeed!

But I was able to win before because I was able to "predict" and make sure that I won't lose money.

This time, do you still want to bet with Butler?
After all, the strength of the Warriors and the current Spurs is indeed too close.

"Zheng Long, why don't you reply to me? Could it be because you are afraid?"

Scared?

Zheng Long smiled slightly.

"Then I'll bet...the Spurs can win."

(End of this chapter)