20 [Offensive Options]
Spurs: Tony Parker, Danny Green, Jiang Hao, Pau Gasol, LaMarcus Aldridge.
Warriors: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Garnett, Draymond Green, Zaza Pachulia.
The game has not started yet, and the atmosphere in the ATAT Center is a little quiet. Looking at the Warriors' starting lineup, everyone is really not excited. This is simply a predictable result.
The director of the home field swung the camera back and forth over Jiang Hao's body. Under people's gaze, this childish yellow face was about to usher in his first start.
Perhaps because his mentality was affected, Pachulia's performance in the jump ball was seriously abnormal. He jumped higher than Aldridge, but threw the basketball into Jiang Hao's arms. Then Jiang Hao transferred the ball to Parker.
The game officially begins.
Overall, Aldridge has played well this season. In the absence of Leonard, he has played a good role as the team leader, often using his signature mid-range to help the team score.
No, in the first time the Spurs attacked, he completed a mid-range fadeaway jumper, helping the team score the first 2 points.
Turning around, Jiang Hao faced Kevin Durant on the defensive end, a superstar who is currently strong enough to rank among the top five in the league.
Although he has made great progress in all aspects during this period, Jiang Hao is still a little nervous at this time. Although he did not start the game last time, he did play against him briefly. Frankly speaking, the pressure is really great.
On the left side of the paint area, Jiang Hao followed Durant closely, trying not to let Durant have a chance to catch the ball, but Durant obviously lied about his height. Jiang Hao, who is 202, looks even taller in front of him.
Half a head shorter, Curry's pass finally came to Durant's hands.
Jiang Hao felt that Curry, a fake white man who looked like a primary school student, definitely did it on purpose. After passing the ball to Durant, he directly led other Warriors players to pull away, making it clear that this was for Durant to play alone.
Without his height advantage, Jiang Hao could only rely on his position to interfere with Durant's shot selection.
But this is not a big offensive test for Durant, who has a pair of long arms. After simply making a test step, Durant directly chose to pull up.
The moment Durant took off, Jiang Hao also jumped with him, but he did not touch the ball and could only watch the basketball go into the basket.
Jiang Hao was a little helpless. Leonard might not be able to defend against such a ball.
Without time to think too much, Jiang Hao immediately rushed to the frontcourt. After rushing into the penalty area from the left side of the top of the arc, he and Aldridge made a cross move and immediately came to the right side of the paint area. This is his favorite.
In the mid-range position, Parker was obviously familiar with his habit and immediately threw the ball to him.
Jiang Hao completed the shot before the Warriors' defense could catch up.
brush.
A burst of applause erupted in the arena. Those fans who were worried that Jiang Hao would swallow duck eggs again breathed a sigh of relief. Winning or losing didn't matter, as long as Jiang Hao stopped swallowing duck eggs. The fans were very cute.
In the next round, Jiang Hao took the initiative and chose to switch defenses with Danny Green. Compared to him, Danny Green had better defensive experience. It was better to let Danny Green deal with Durant than to waste his ability to open up on the offensive end.
The players in the situation are a little more cost-effective.
Jiang Hao faced Curry on the defensive end. Looking at Curry with a harmless expression, Jiang Hao did not dare to be careless at all. This guy's three-point shot was very accurate.
Curry is definitely one of the players with the best ball-handling ability in the league. Facing Curry with the ball, Jiang Hao didn't think about forcing himself to try to complete the steal. He knew that this would have little effect, and the best way to defend was
Stay close to Curry and don't give him an angle to shoot or break through. As a result, Curry can only choose to pass the ball.
Jiang Hao's defensive strategy worked at least in this section. After dribbling the ball a few times and finding that there was no good shooting angle, Curry chose to pass the ball. Then Klay Thompson's shot failed to hit, and the Warriors' attack was declared over.
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In turn, Jiang Hao made very decisive decisions on the offensive end. He took advantage of the gap between Curry and Thompson's movements to instantly break through the perimeter defense and go straight to the basket. Draymond Green's defensive awareness was very good, and he gave up directly with Aldridge.
Entangled and directly cooperated with Pachulia to form an encirclement against Jiang Hao.
However, at this moment, Jiang Hao suddenly slowed down and chose a throw. After the basketball bounced on the basket for a few times, it still got into the basket.
"Well done. China Jiang's offensive ideas were very clear. He knew that Drummond and Pachulia had already formed a siege on him, so he decisively chose to attack on the spot."
The atmosphere at the ATAT Center has become lively, and Jiang Hao's performance seems to be pretty good so far.
After playing several waves of slow-tempo attacks at the beginning, the Warriors chose to speed up. Curry, the engine of the team's offensive round, knew very well that it was definitely unwise to fight at a slow pace with veterans like the Spurs, so he had to speed up.
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Curry quickly proved his determination with actions. After advancing to the frontcourt with the ball, he hit a three-pointer directly towards Parker. For Curry, he often does this in games.
shot selection.
Danny Green didn't seem to have a good touch on the offensive end tonight. Parker broke through and passed the ball to him who was unguarded in the left corner, but he missed the shot. Fortunately, the aging Gasol used his height advantage to grab the offensive rebound.
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This time, Jiang Hao, who was also in an open position, did not disappoint everyone again. He raised his knife and hit his first three-pointer of the game.
The Spurs fans couldn't hold it any longer. Under the leadership of the on-site DJ, they began to cheer for the home team crazily. Everyone found that the team played very well in the opening stage, especially the starter Jiang Hao, who made 3 of 3 shots and had already won.
The score was 7 points, which is completely the performance of a star player. If we were to rate it, with a full score of 10, everyone felt that Jiang Hao could get at least 9 points.
In the next few waves of attacks, the Warriors strengthened their defense against Jiang Hao. They found that they could no longer let Jiang Hao take such comfortable shots. It was obvious that this Chinese player was very evil. His shooting percentage was surprisingly high tonight.
In this way, the first quarter of the game entered an official timeout. At 19:18, the Spurs, playing at home, not only did not fall behind, but also maintained a slight advantage of 1 point. This is very rare.
There is no doubt that Jiang Hao, who has scored 9 points, has become the focus of heated discussion. Before the game started, some fans felt that Popovich's decision to let Jiang Hao start tonight was a very risky choice. This may not only
Just the question of winning or losing may have an impact on Jiang Hao's mentality. After all, he is a rookie.
Chapter completed!