Chapter 208: It's time to take a break
At 7 minutes and 30 seconds in the first quarter, **Vic took the lead in calling a timeout. Even if Parker broke into the inside and scored four points in a row, their situation was still not good. The team felt cold after the start of the game and needed some adjustments.
The score was 11:6, and the Clippers led by 4 points.
Ji Guochou scored 4 points, Billups scored 3 points, Artest scored 4 points.
Parker scored 4 points and Oberto scored 2 points.
"Be careful of fouls. They have plans to create your fouls. Pay attention to the defensive action. Not every ball is blocked to be a good defense." After the timeout, Old Dunleavy first reminded the two brothers to pay attention to the number of fouls. They now have to make a foul once, and anyone will have to rest after another foul.
After the game between Duncan and Parker began, they were consciously trying to create fouls from the two brothers. They failed to do their best for the time being, but they also completed part of the plan. Both of them got a foul and a yellow alarm lit up.
"Damn! Duncan also made a foul. Let's see who will take care of who will take it first?" The little fox hasn't scored yet. He tried to break through Duncan twice, but all ended in failure!
The first time he was almost stolen, and the second time he hit the ball on the instep and kicked it out of the field, which made Spurs fans laugh until now.
Old Dunleavy did not criticize Ji Guohuo. His approach was right. The fox brother's mission was to consume and kill Duncan as much as possible. As long as this goal was achieved, the task was completed. Moreover, Shi Buddha's foul was caused by Ji Guohuo.
After the timeout, the Clippers did not substitution. The playoffs are different from the regular season. As long as their absolute main players have no physical strength, they will play for more than 40 minutes.
After the Spurs were timed up, they changed the formation first. Uncle Bao San got older. Although he entered the second defensive team, he was actually not good at defending power players like Artest. The beast did not jump at the offensive end, and his flying kick and black feet were useless. He did not have the ability to use Bowen against the Clippers.
**Vicci replaced Ginobili and planned to see if their demon sword is evil today?
Ginobili immediately showed his threat after coming up. He received a pass from Duncan from the basket. When he made a layup, he was slapped in the face by Percy, who was chasing behind him. Percy's foul action was almost catching up with Bowen.
The referee immediately came up and showed a technical foul at Percy. Ginobili lay on the ground for a while. I don't know if he was injured or pretending, but Ji Guomo felt that he was pretending, and both Argentina and Brazilians were actors.
"Mr. Referee, my teammate did it unintentionally. The technical foul was too heavy." Ji Guomo was harassing the referee while he was deliberately speaking in a voice that the Spurs players heard: "He is pretending, he is cheating you. He has a nickname called Argentina's best actor. This guy even used fake to throw the American team in the Olympics, and that's him."
Ji Guomo's provocation made the referee laugh and cry. The Spurs players, especially Ginobili, who was lying on the ground pretending to behave, was so angry that they wanted to vomit blood. The Dead Fox's words were too immoral.
"Okay. I understand." The referee did not warn Ji Guomo and only waved his hand.
Ji Guomomi went away immediately, and this virtue made the Spurs players want to catch him and beat him up!
With anger, Ginobili took two free throws and made one of two free throws.
The Spurs have the ball right, Parker dribbles the ball and looks for opportunities on the outside, Ginobili uses the positioning screening tactic to run out of an open space to receive the pass, and goes to the basket...
Ji Guoqiu was at the basket. He wanted to make up for defense but was blocked by Duncan. The experienced Duncan blocked Ji Guoqiu and created a breakthrough route for his teammates that was enough to travel. Ginobili made a layup before Ji Guomi's defense was repaired.
Old Dunleavy saw what the Spurs played off the court. They felt bad today and started playing the empty cut after the timeout without the ball.
Parker and Ginobili both have strong breakthrough abilities, while Duncan plays the task of covering and blocking the twins' defense for them. Shifo is experienced and can seize the advantageous position first. One of the two brothers of the card master makes their inside line not have time to defend. This kind of blocking is very disgusting.
Half past the first quarter, Dunleavy used Mobley to replace Percy to strengthen the team's outside offense.
**Vicci faced tit and immediately replaced Bowen. Uncle San has the most experience in dealing with a player like Mobley. He kicked you and saw if you die?
Ji Guoqiu was fouled by Shi Fo while defending Duncan's singles in the first quarter, and the two had to temporarily get off the court to rest.
**Vic finally smiled when he saw this. Parker began to be strictly guarded during this period. Ginobili broke into the basket continuously, but I don’t know if he was stunned by Percy’s slap. His layup was actually missed twice under the interference of Ji Guoqiu. The Spurs were even more passive. They are now in power and cannot score points.
Now that Ji Guoqiu has been defeated, the Clippers' internal defense capabilities have suddenly dropped by one level, and Ji Guohumiliation alone cannot take care of it.
The score was 16:10, and the Clippers were still 6 points ahead when Ji Guochou ended.
Duncan made a free throw, one of two free throws.
The Spurs were not even able to make free throws today. The smile that Vicci had just shown disappeared again. Their free throws have been bad, which was contagious by Duncan.
Ji Guochou's fate is that the Clippers' offensive end has little impact. They still have Billups. At worst, they can hand over all the organizational tasks to the key teacher. This is the benefit of more stars.
Spurs players thought Billups was about to start taking over the Clippers' organizational mission, and even Clippers players themselves thought so. Ji Guomeng and Mobley were running without the ball, and Billups suddenly accelerated and broke through at the top of the arc, using his strength to break away from Parker and forced himself into the inside.
Duncan immediately moved his defense horizontally, and Shi Buddha had a warning sign in his heart at this moment!
Billups jumped up at Duncan, collected the ball in the air and made a physical contact with Duncan. Although Duncan slapped out the final layup, the referee's whistle sounded at this time.
"Defensive foul!"
The referee's gesture pointed at the Spurs' halftime and ordered Duncan to commit a foul at the basket.
Shi Buddha's eyes widened, his hands spread out, and looked at the referee expressionlessly.
Although Duncan had no expression at this time, everyone knew what he meant: "Referee, are you blind?"
The little fox immediately came up and helped Billups up. Then he slapped not far from Duncan and said loudly: "Well done. The man with facial paralysis was beaten by you!"
Ginobili was furious and came up to Ji Guomeng and whispered: "You should learn to respect your predecessors."
Ji Guomo retorted: "Winning the championship is not about who is older, and not even if there is no hair on his head, it does not mean that he is old. Maybe he is old."
Ginobili was about to get angry, Duncan quickly pulled away the bald man in Argentina and took the opportunity to touch Ginobili's head again to calm the Argentine.
"If you don't have hair, you won't have hair. What's so great about it? At least it's cool in summer." Duncan thought to himself.
Ji Guohuo belongs to the kind of guy who angers others and is in good condition, referred to as a bitch! After he successfully angered Ginobili and made the Argentine even more inaccurate, the little fox himself immediately became in good condition. He ran to the outside line to catch the ball and hit a three-pointer in a picturesque posture.
After scoring the goal, Ji Guomeng specially opened his hand to celebrate at Ginobili, which made the latter even more angry and his head was about to get angry.
Led by Billups, Ji Guomo and Artest, the Clippers unexpectedly beat the Spurs at home after Ji Guochou and Duncan both ended up with fouls in the first quarter.
The first quarter ended with a score of 24:16. The Clippers led by 8 points to finish the first quarter.
Mark Jackson was a little incredible after the first quarter. He watched the replay and said: "The Clippers' star appearance today is good. The shooting percentage is exactly 50%, and the three-point shooting percentage is 40%. The Spurs need to increase the pressure on the defensive end. The Clippers' offensive end is not enough."
**Vic also made the arrangement after the first quarter. The Clippers opened fire fully on the offensive end in the first quarter, so it would not work.
In the second quarter, Duncan and Ji Guoqiu were sent by the coaches of the two teams at the beginning. They both committed two bluffs in the last five minutes of the first quarter. In the second quarter, Dunleavy and **Vicci did not plan to let them rest.
The Spurs' second quarter lineup: Ginobili, Michael Finley, Bruce Bowen, Cork Thomas, Tim Duncan.
The Clippers' second quarter lineup: Brevin Knight, Cartino Mobri, Garcia, Tim Thomas, and Ji Guoqiu.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Spurs veteran Michael Finley hit the middle distance one after another, narrowing the score gap to four points.
On the Clippers, Mobley and Thomas began to take turns playing singles on the outside, but the two who performed well in the regular season had a low shooting percentage today under the Spurs' high-intensity defense.
Singles are the most inefficient attack method in the playoffs, but both of them have adapted to this inefficient attack method and can't be corrected for a while. There is no hidden danger when playing like this in the regular season. That is because the defense intensity is not strong enough. It is difficult to use such an attack in the playoffs. Even Ji Guohuo tried his best to make his moves reasonable today and did not dare to make a fuss.
At 9 minutes and 30 seconds in the second quarter, the Clippers only relied on Ji Guoqiu's tip-in at the basket, and Old Dunleavy immediately called a timeout.
The score was 26:22, and the Spurs narrowed the gap by veteran Finley's mid-range shot.
"Catino and Garcia exchanged defense targets, we played low posts, and if there was no chance, you would strengthen your off-ball cuts and reduce singles on the offensive end."
Old Dunleavy first made Mobley, who was frequently scored by Finley into the middle distance on the defensive end and changed to Bowen. The 37-year-old Bowen had no attack power, so Old Cat should be able to defend. Now the first thing to solve is the offensive end. The singles efficiency of Mobley and Thomas was too poor, which made Old Dunleavy want to replace both of them.
Before the game, the two of them were the key to the old Dunleavy's plan to widen the score difference during the substitute period, but they did not expect that the score difference would be narrowed by the opponent.
The game started again, Ji Guoqiu received the basketball from the low post on the left, and Tim Duncan defended him.
The Panda Hero shook his place twice, but the latter did not react. He could not take this trick in front of Shi Buddha.
Ginobili came up to double-team, and Ji Guoqiu quickly turned around and took action before being double-teamed...
Ji Guochou's shot was a bit off track under Duncan's defense, but the giant pandas were lucky. The basketball hit the rebound and rebounded several times between the baskets, and finally fell into the goal net!
"Damn it! Their luck is always so good today." **Vic was very uncomfortable on the sidelines. Such a ball appeared twice today. Artest had a similar goal before.
Duncan turned his head and wanted to beat Ji Guoqiu, so it would be better to fight Panda Brother again.
Ji Guoqiu restrained his defensive action on the defensive end. Duncan suffered little defensive pressure on this ball, but the Spurs were not very accurate today except Finley and Parker, and Duncan was no exception. The ball also rebounded several times between the rebound and the basket, but eventually fell outside the basket.
"Did you have been resting for a long time?" **Vicci felt a little regretful at this time, and felt that before the playoffs, the GDP combination seemed to have rested...
Brother Panda grabbed the rebound at the basket, but the Spurs' offense failed.
At 8 minutes and 30 seconds in the second quarter, Dunleavy replaced Mobri and Thomas, replaced Artest and Ji Guomeng, and the lineup on the field became: Brevin Knight, Garcia, Artest, Ji Guomeng, and Ji Guomeng.
After Ji Guomeng came on the court, he said to his teammates: "The coach said that we will play together while their shooting is not accurate." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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