NBA: The start beat Kobe Bryant in his old age

Chapter 236 Tonight!let's end this round of the series

Brushing and brushing, the time has come to two o'clock in the morning before I know it.

Lin Tian had to catch a plane tomorrow, so Lin Tian didn't dare to stay up too long, so he quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, Oakland, Oracle Arena.

Dreaming Green was the last to arrive at the arena.

Seeing that his teammates were already shooting on the field, he shouted: "Guys! The plan has changed! Our opponent may become the Lakers!"

Dreaming Green watched the entire game between the Lakers and the Spurs last night.

He never expected that the Lakers would be able to score a big score of 3:1.

Facing what Green said, Curry, Livingston and others continued to warm up without looking back.

Only Steve Kerr said: "I have said long ago that our opponent may be the Lakers."

Thompson, standing beside him, made a three-pointer: "Whether it's the Spurs or the Lakers, what will they use to fight us?"

Iguodala also curled his lips: "I think we should watch more Cavaliers games. They will most likely be our opponents in the finals."

Harrison Barnes laughed loudly: "Andre, you are too confident!"

After saying this, other Warriors players turned their attention to Barnes.

Curry asked: "Harrison, do you think we can't make it to the Finals? Come on! Man! We made history in the regular season!"

"Yes!" Bogut also came over, "I can tell you clearly that other teams are not at the same level as us! The Warriors dynasty has begun to build!"

"Harrison! You need to correct your attitude! Now we are stronger than the Lakers at the beginning of the century. Our style of play has changed an era. No one can stop us from winning consecutive championships! Not even the Cavaliers led by James! Kyrie Irving and Love's defenses are so-so! We can tear their defenses apart at will! We can even kill them with three-pointers!" Green patted Barnes on the shoulder.

Barnes also realized that he had said something wrong, so he just nodded vigorously.

Steve Kerr just nodded with a wry smile. Being confident shouldn't be a bad thing, right?

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San Antonio.

When all the Lakers players came to the Spurs home arena again, it was obvious that the arena staff's attitude towards them was much indifferent.

The home team is about to be eliminated, and it is difficult for them to become enthusiastic again, even in the face of Kobe.

As an opponent, Lin Tian can naturally understand their feelings.

Fortunately, the Spurs staff did not stumbling them, allowing them to train safely in the home arena.

A day passed in the blink of an eye, and at 5 pm on May 10, the G5 battle between the Lakers and the Spurs was about to kick off.

When the Lakers players walked from the away locker room to the arena, the Spurs fans on both sides of the player tunnel exhaled frantically in order to stimulate them:

"Kobe! You are too old to walk! Why force Scott to start you!"

"We're going to tear your defenses apart tonight! Let you run back to Los Angeles in disgrace!"

"The rookie of the Lakers! You and James are very similar! Both are cowards who can only throw the blame at critical moments!"

"Damn rednecks! You're going to be beaten up tonight!"

Lin Tian has played so many NBA games, and he has long been immune to what these trolls say.

He's not Durant, and he won't waste his energy fighting these people, and there's no need for him.

Stepping onto the court, the players quickly entered the warm-up state.

Before the game started, the slogan "go spurs go!" was constantly ringing in the audience.

The translation of this sentence is "Come on Spurs", which belongs to the unique cheering slogan of the Spurs.

Since the beginning of the new century, the Spurs, who have never missed the playoffs, have a group of unique diehard fans.

Today they will spare no effort to cheer for their home team.

As a Spurs fan, the championship background accumulated by the home team over the years makes their voices louder and more oppressive.

This kind of oppressive feeling is something that Lin Tian can't feel at the Pisacek Energy Center, the Thunder's home court.

Even at this time, there are still many Spurs fans who think they will not lose to the Lakers.

When Lin Tian was warming up, he glanced at the Spurs bench.

I saw Popovich with a dignified expression, talking to his teaching assistant.

Tim Duncan, Leonard and others are meticulously practicing shooting.

Lin Tian took a deep breath. If the Lakers win tonight, then this should be the last game of Shi Fu Duncan's career.

Duncan and Kobe are like opposites, one is paranoid to madness, and the other is low-key to admirable.

After Lin Tian casually threw a warm-up ball, Kobe walked over and said loudly: "Lin! It's tonight! Let's end this round of the series! There is nothing more attractive than beating an opponent in an away game!"

Nick Young also came over: "Yes! It's time to end, we can't let the Warriors rest for too long!"

Lin Tianzheng nodded: "Where did this round of the series start, let it end there."

Soon, came the player introduction session.

After the live DJ introduced the five starting players of the Lakers, the lights went out and the Spurs started.

The first to appear was Danny Green, followed by Tony Parker, Aldridge, and Leonard.

Tim Duncan, the soul of the team, was the last to appear. The DJ stretched out his voice: "Next, let us welcome Tim from Wake Forest University, who has won five championships in his career and was selected as an NBA All-Star 15 times... Duncan...!"

A beam of bright light fell from the sky above the arena, just covering Duncan.

Accompanied by the most enthusiastic cheers from the audience, Duncan trotted out and high-fived his teammates one by one.

After the appearance ceremony is over, the game officially begins.

The two teams still maintain the starting lineup of the previous game.

Tonight's jump ball, Duncan hit the ball first than Howard and patted the ball into Leonard's hands.

Leonard has a strong desire to attack, and the first ball is shot against Lin Tian's defense, but the shot is crooked.

Howard was about to grab a rebound, but Duncan took the lead and completed a second attack in the air.

Fans cheered enthusiastically, they did not expect the first goal will be completed by Duncan.

The Lakers served the ball, and Lin Tian held the ball and pushed forward. Before he could figure out how to deal with the ball, Leonard and Green rushed over.

Their pincer attack was so decisive and fast that before Lin Tian could get out of the ball, he was cut off by Leonard and completed a fast break.

While Lin Tian made a mistake, he also knew very well that today's Spurs have gone all out.

Popovich on the sidelines was also applauding the Spurs players.

After Howard served the ball, Lin Tian made an attack himself, hit the basket, and the rebound was grabbed by Aldridge.

Aldridge immediately passed the ball to Tony Parker.

Tony Parker quickly dribbled the ball forward, easily passed Nick Young, and scored a layup.

The score was beaten 6:0 by the Spurs at the beginning of the game.

Lin Tian thought it was only temporary, but the Lakers failed to grasp the next few shots and wasted all the opportunities.

The Spurs seized the opportunity and continued to play fast breaks.

When their ball is running, the Lakers don't have much way to stop it.

The score was beaten to 11:0.

The home fans also ushered in their most exciting moment.

Scott called a timeout rather anxiously.

The Lakers players headed by Lin Tian returned to the bench.

Lin Tian had a bad start today, even if he made a mistake, he made 0 of two shots.

The Spurs' high-pressure defense put him under a lot of pressure.

Scott rearranged the team's offensive tactics with the tactical board, and then returned to the court. Lin Tian finally made a three-pointer.

Then there is the long chasing time.

After halftime, the score between the two sides was 6050, and the Spurs led the Lakers by 10 points.

They dealt with Lin Tian by flanking, assisting and joint defense.

Leonard and Danny Green almost used their defensive abilities to the extreme, which made Lin Tian feel uncomfortable throughout the first half.

Even so, under the extreme defense of the Spurs, he scored 20 points in the first half, which was extremely difficult.

After the start of the second half, the Lakers changed their strategy. They saw their moves, and in many cases, Nick Young played Lin Tian's pick and roll.

In this way, Tony Parker always passively defends Lin Tian.

Everyone knew that with such a small physique, it was impossible for him to guard against Lin Tian.

So the Spurs had to arrange for someone to defend Lin Tian again.

At this time, Lin Tian was always able to safely pass the ball to his teammates.

Kobe, Nick Young and Tucker all opened up their three-pointers after the start of the second half.

On the contrary, it was the Spurs. As the playing time became longer and longer, the physical strength of Duncan and Parker dropped significantly.

Lin Tian also took out the most focused defense to mark Leonard, which can be regarded as restricting Leonard.

After the start of the third quarter, the point difference has been slowly narrowed by the Lakers.

As the head coach of the Spurs, although Popovich was anxious, there was nothing he could do.

In these days against the Lakers, even as a master tactician, he is somewhat at the end of his game.

When the two sides were at a stalemate, it was the Spurs' inside line that opened up the situation.

Aldridge succeeded in singles pj Tucker again and again.

Duncan also often used his outstanding low singles skills to teach Howard how to behave.

As Howard, who has won two DPOY trophies, facing the 40-year-old Duncan, he didn't have much to do.

Unable to open the outside line, Popovich knew that the inside line was a breakthrough, so he kept directing Aldridge to play singles.

Aldridge was also polite, facing the short Tucker, his offense was very aggressive.

Tucker's speed is enough, but the height is not enough.

If Aldridge hit him back, he could only fight desperately.

The tough confrontation also made the referee keep blowing the whistle.

Before the third quarter was over, Tucker had already received 4 fouls.

Today he was troubled by foul again.

In Lin Tian's view, some ball referees can brag or not, but today's referees are obviously more inclined to the Spurs, as long as they catch the Lakers with a little foul suspicion, they will never let it go.

Tucker was irritated, and his mood became more and more unstable.

Scott had to replace Tucker with Channing Frye, who had made great contributions in the previous game.

But when Channing Frye played, he was undoubtedly sending points to Aldridge and Duncan.

At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers were still 12 points behind the Spurs.

When the Lakers players returned to the bench to rest, Kobe was surprised: "That old guy Tim has scored 16 points today!"

This kind of thing is unacceptable to Kobe, who hasn't scored so many points yet.

Lin Tian wanted to smile bitterly. If Duncan didn't work hard in this game, it would be the last game of his career. Naturally, he played very hard.

He offered to Scott: "Coach! I don't need to rest later."

Already accustomed to Lin Tian's temper, Scott nodded in agreement without thinking too much.

After the players took a short break, the fourth quarter began.

The Lakers led by Lin Tian with Clarkson, Nick Young, Nance Jr. and Channing Frye.

The Spurs took the lead in playing Ginobili, Danny Green, David West and Tim Duncan.

Compared with the Lakers, they sent more main players on the field, obviously not wanting the Lakers to chase points.

After Lin Tian returned to the court, he said directly to Duncan: "Tim! Are you not tired? Today you have been the longest player in your team!"

Duncan's debut time has exceeded 30 minutes!He hardly rested in the first three quarters.

Facing Lin Tian's question, Duncan, who had already grayed his sideburns, smiled innocently: "I'm not tired, rookie, are you afraid?"

Lin Tian also smiled: "Yes, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that after you lose this game, you will never dare to go back to the court again."

Hearing this, Duncan only felt a "click" in his heart.

In fact, since the middle of this season, Duncan has decided in his heart to bid farewell to the NBA after this season.

But this matter is just a secret in his heart, and he has never mentioned it to anyone, even Popovich, who has the closest relationship with him, does not know about it.

The celestial rookie in front of him seemed to be able to penetrate his own thoughts.

Although he was extremely shocked in his heart, Duncan remained calm on the surface: "Don't dream, rookie, you will lose today!"

Beep! !
The referee blows the whistle and the Spurs serve from the baseline.

As soon as the fourth quarter started, Ginobili made a breakthrough to Clarkson, and he still used his good European step to complete the layup.

After the Lakers returned one, the Spurs began to attack the inside again.

Aldridge played Nance Jr., and Duncan played Channing Frye.

Young Nance Jr. was beaten helplessly by Aldridge.

Channing Frye was also played around by Duncan's gorgeous footwork around the basket.

Many fans were almost moved to tears seeing the old Duncan succeed in singles again and again.

If it weren't for the Lakers' presence of Lin Tian, ​​the game would have been ruined long ago.

It is absolutely impossible to fight like this!Seeing that Nance could not defend, Lin Tian chose to change positions with Nance, and let him defend Aldridge.

(End of this chapter)