Offensive and defensive transition, the Spurs attack.

Liu Mang watched the rest of the Spurs quickly come over to take their positions, and Parker slowly advanced, knowing that the Spurs' slow-paced play had reached its limit.

This year's Spurs are similar to the Heat in the 2001-02 season. The pace is so slow that they currently average 89 points per game and concede 83 points per game. But the difference is that they have Duncan!

Because Parker was too fast, Liu Mang went up to take on the task of defending Parker, but Parker gave the first ball to the team's strongest scoring player and lobbed the ball inside.

Duncan caught the ball, the Spurs pulled away, and Duncan hit a single.

Facing Ratliff, with Rasheed Wallace eyeing him next to him, Duncan chose to rely on his feet, squeezed against Ratliff, turned around skillfully, stepped back and dribbled, and Ratliff quickly pounced.

Taking a step forward, trying to block Duncan's increasingly proficient turnaround jump shot, Duncan took advantage of Ratliff to pounce on him, took a step forward, left Ratliff behind and cut into the three-second zone.

Rasheed Wallace directly gave up on Nesterovich and rushed to cover the defense.

Duncan met Rasheed Wallace's defense, raised the ball high, half turned and leaned against Rasheed Wallace, and raised the ball with his right hand!

Rasheed Wallace rushed to cover the defense and was passive. Seeing that Duncan had judged the defensive half-turn position in advance, he had no choice but to watch as Duncan raised the ball and hooked...

Just when Rasheed Wallace pounced on him, Duncan predicted in advance that he turned around and got stuck. Rasheed Wallace fell into despair for a moment. Suddenly, Rasheed Wallace took aim at someone.

He quickly jumped up to block the shot. Duncan had already picked up the ball and could no longer dribble, so he used a better bounce than Rasheed Wallace, jumped higher, and threw the ball with a hook.

To the basket!

The hook is the most difficult to guard against. Duncan turned his body sideways and separated a huge space from Rasheed Wallace. It is basically impossible to block the shot one on one. Ratliff has already pounced and it is too late to defend back.

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Just when Duncan jumped up and threw the ball, the moment the ball just left Duncan's hand, Duncan stretched out an evil big hand from behind on his right side. As soon as the ball left Duncan's hand, it was slapped away!

Fortunately, Ginobili in the left corner reacted quickly, rushed up to grab the ball first, and hit a shot from mid-range, helping the Spurs score two points.

Duncan turned his head and stared at Liu Mang who landed on the ground with big eyes. He did not expect that Liu Mang actually came in and double-teamed him!

The Spurs also have three major shooters on the outside. Although Parker only has a 30% shooting rate, he dares to shoot. He averages 3 shots per game with such a shooting rate. Ginobili and Bowen are both top three-pointers in the league.

This season, Ginobili's three-point shooting percentage is as high as 36%. Bowen, a pure shooter, is the top fixed-point shooter with a three-point shooting percentage of up to 42% since 2000. Duncan usually has a lot of space in singles.

It was very open, at most one versus two. Unexpectedly, Liu Mang actually let go of Parker and double-teamed him!

Surprised, Duncan didn't react much after being blocked. He glanced at Liu Mang and immediately returned to defense. The Spurs quickly returned to defense and got into position to defend, leaving only Parker, who was faster than Liu Mang, to delay Liu Mang.

advancement.

Liu Mang looked at Parker, who had gained some strength this year and reached his peak speed of 95. He steadily protected the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. After Liu Mang passed the center line, Parker immediately went to guard his defender, Prince.

After Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, he saw the anger in Bowen's eyes. He was so frightened that he quickly asked his teammates to abuse the opponent.

Liu Mang made a gesture and directed his teammates to pull away. Rahim went to the middle distance on the left, and everyone else pulled away!

When Rahim saw Ginobili guarding him, he felt a surge of excitement in his heart. Liu Mang lobbed the ball toward the distance between Rahim and the basket. At the moment when Liu Mang lobbed the ball, Rahim

Pressing Ginobili and going directly to the inside, Ginobili saw the direction of Liu Mang's lob and wanted to jump up to grab the ball, but Rahim used his perfect height and wingspan to grab the ball and crush him all the way.

Get inside!

The Spurs tightened their defense, and Parker, who was guarding Prince, caught up from the left corner. Duncan, who was guarding Ratliff, let go of Ratliff and came to the left side of the three-second zone to block Raheem.

The moment Rahim was double-teamed, he threw the ball behind him!

Prince catches the ball in the corner!

Bowen's defensive awareness is really good. Putting aside the threat of black feet, he is still an All-Defensive Team-level defensive player, and the Spurs' team defense is also very good. When the Spurs form a double-attack defense and miss people,

Bowen switched defense toward the baseline. After Parker double-teamed and put pressure on Rahim, he immediately rushed towards Liu Mang in the top arc. When Rahim passed the ball to Prince,

Nesterovich, who was guarding Rasheed Wallace in the corner, also shrank back to trap Ratliff. After Rahim passed the ball, Duncan immediately took a step outside the three-second area on the right side of the basket and made a pass.

Can guard Rasheed Wallace in the corner, and can also stay there for subsequent defense.

Nearly perfect defense switch!

When Prince received the ball in the left corner, Bowen was already in place. In theory, he saw Rasheed Wallace in the other corner, but he did not have the passing ability.

, he has no individual singles ability, and Bowen is one of the best defensive perimeters in the league. He can only throw towards the top arc.

Liu Mang took a step back and received the ball from outside the three-point line. Unexpectedly, he turned around and the ball returned to his hands. The Spurs' defensive rotation was simply terrible.

Liu Mang's first reaction after receiving the ball was to pass it to Rahim or to make a strong breakthrough from the weak side on the right side of the basket, but Duncan's position can not only cover the breakthrough, but also go to the bottom corner to defend against Rahim.

De Wallace, and Rasheed Wallace is already very good as an off-ball shooter. It is basically impossible to expect him to run and catch and shoot like an outside player, just like a big shooter in the future.

For fixed-point shooting, the defense may be okay, but for running shooters, basically don't expect them to have the strength to defend.

The Spurs' defense is really terrifying!

Liu Mang found that the ball had been traveling for a long time, but in the end he had to play singles by himself!

This is the Spurs' consistent defensive strategy, which is to isolate the opponent's top scorer and let the opponent's top scorer play in isolation without allowing the opponent to organize the offense.

Popovich firmly believes that one person cannot kill a team. As for the iron guy in Los Angeles... no, he is the iron-forged king of the Western Conference Finals. Popovich thinks it is an accident, because beating other teams is so...

All defenses are very easy to use, but there will be a little surprise when facing No. 8.

Liu Mang had no choice but to see that the time was reduced to only 5 seconds by the Spurs' defense. He looked at the Spurs' defensive position and continued to play singles!

Everyone had given them a chance. Wouldn't it be too disrespectful not to play alone? Liu Mang rushed towards Parker from the right side of his dominant hand. Parker quickly moved to the left to block Liu Mang, but Parker was only 70 in the league average.

With his strength, he was pushed away by Liu Mang, who forced his way to the basket!

The Spurs' team double team is back!

After Liu Mang rushed to the basket, Ginobili, Duncan and Parker double-teamed Liu Mang, especially Duncan, who blocked all the space in the right corner of Liu Mang's pass. He could only force the shot but missed. Fortunately

It was Ratliff who pushed Nesterovich away, and Rahim had no one to block him and pointed the ball back to the basket.

Leading by two points again, the Eagles were still in the lead.

But although the Spurs couldn't defend it, they brought the rhythm in the direction they wanted. Just now, Duncan hit the ball in isolation, and it took 21 seconds for Ginobili to pick up the ball and make a mid-range shot.

After Liu Mang finished his attack, it took 23 seconds until Rahim succeeded in tipping the ball!

And since it is not the last two minutes of each quarter, if the ball is not scored by two plus one, the clock will not stop when serving. After the shot is made, there is a five-second serving time. The Spurs always reach five seconds.

The ball was released just before the second serve violation ended. Parker relied on his speed to interfere with the Eagles' serve when transitioning from offense to defense.

That is almost one attack and defense round. If you fall into position, it will take almost 50 seconds to attack!

Liu Mang returned to his own half and waited for Parker to push forward. From the time Rahim hit the tip-in to when Parker passed the half court, it took 11 seconds. Liu Mang felt that the Spurs were really crazy!

The time was consumed by Parker with only 8 seconds left, and the ball was still handed to Duncan. Duncan is 27 years old this year. Although he has begun to be affected by the injury to the sole of his foot, he started treatment after playing with the Nets last year, resulting in further decline in explosive power and so on.

He is the best player in the league. Only O'Neal and Nowitzki can be said to be better in offensive ability than him in the interior. He continues to dominate the interior.

Liu Mang still decisively gave up on Parker and went to double-team inside. Duncan passed the ball to Parker in time, and Parker shot from outside the three-point line... really tough! He was so tough that he missed the right side of the basket and Liu Mang grabbed it.

Upon reaching the defensive rebound, the Spurs quickly returned to defense and controlled the Hawks' counterattack.

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt amid Parker's interference. With the experience of the previous round and Liu Mang's impression of the Spurs' defense ability, Liu Mang suddenly thought after seeing the Spurs' defense in the last round.

Come on, except for the 2000 playoffs when Duncan was eliminated by the Suns in the defending season when he missed the playoffs due to injury, from 1998 to 2008, during the 11 seasons when Duncan was still at his peak, only Malone, Nowitzki, and Kobe were the three.

The mid-range singles master has defeated the Spurs, and other teams have been beaten to death by the Spurs' team defense.

Others might be crazy and want to target the Spurs from the two defensive weaknesses of Ginobili or Parker, and then be beaten to death by the Spurs' team defense. Liu Mang doesn't think so much anymore, and is determined to attack Bao.

arts.

Keep playing Bowen alone!

Being forced into a double-team in the last round was completely unexpected. There were only a few minutes left. He was stuck on the outside and couldn't shoot. He didn't have such a big rebounding advantage against the Spurs. Rasheed Wallace even pulled out and forced a shot.

It was not cost-effective, so Liu Mang could only choose to rush in and attract Duncan away.

This time it was different, Liu Mang had enough time to fight Bowen.

Facing Bowen, Liu Mang accelerated to the left again!

Bowen believes that the ball just now was definitely an accident!

When Liu Mang played against the Rockets in the last game, the first three quarters were so difficult, and he kept attacking from the right side. Bowen has studied all the videos of Liu Mang this season in the past two days, and is very sure that Liu Mang's left-handed offense is terrible. He firmly believes that he just did that

The ball was an accident, so we continued to use the same strategy to defend against Liu Mang.

Liu Mang stopped and started again, once again shaking Bowen wildly. Fortunately, this time Bowen had the experience from the last time and did not fall after throwing himself to the left.

But when Bowen stood firm, Liu Mang had already moved to the inside. Even though Bowen maintained a brisk pace of 86 kilograms, he couldn't keep up even after he stood firm with an unstable center of gravity!

Seeing Liu Mang rushing in, Duncan came up to defend him expressionlessly. At this moment, Duncan's face was calm and composed, and he was already cursing in his heart. Seeing Liu Mang charging towards him, Duncan was not as stubborn as Bowen, so he wouldn't

Thinking that Liu Mang's switch to his left hand just now was an accident, he chose to take a step forward to block the attack in advance.

Just when Duncan stepped out of the reasonable collision zone, Liu Mang grabbed the gap where Duncan was not standing in the reasonable collision zone and could not take care of both the front and back. The hand that was about to take off again with his left hand suddenly lifted the ball from bottom to top.

Holding it in his hand, the moment Duncan stepped in front of him, he swung it from Duncan's right waist to behind Duncan...

Exquisite inside pass!

When Liu Mang's sight was blocked by Duncan's body, he distributed the ball to Ratliff in time!

Ratliff stepped in to receive the ball, jumped up and smashed the ball into the basket!

Duncan didn't expect Liu Mang to pass the ball with his left hand this time! His left arm was already prepared for Liu Mang's movement from the center to the inside, and he didn't expect Liu Mang to pass the ball with his left hand!
To be continued...