super legend

Chapter 93 Disrupting the Spurs
The Lakers and the Spurs can already be called old enemies. From 99 to 04, they met in the playoffs five times in six consecutive years. The most exciting thing for Spurs fans is to witness the team's raging and luxurious Zijin Lakers. Therefore, even in 2014, the Lakers had become a team that could not enter the playoffs. Tickets for the Spurs and Lakers games were still selling hot, and they were basically sold out. Durant Westbrook's Thunder and James Wade Bosh's Heat.

Since they are old opponents, they naturally know each other well. How much trouble Kobe and O'Neal can cause, how much trouble GDP can cause the Lakers, Popovich and Phil Jackson knew it before the game, but the first game After that, the Lakers took advantage of the Spurs, and that was Sun Zhuo.

Not to mention that Popovich's Spurs don't know Sun Zhuo, even Phil Jackson, the head coach, doesn't know how big his potential is. Popovich originally wanted to win at home, but this primary goal has already It can't be realized.

On the Lakers side, Phil Jackson approached Sun Zhuo and asked, "Are your three-point shooting percentages in other positions not as accurate as the corner?"

Sun Zhuo nodded honestly, "Yes, I have a soft spot for the two corner positions, so I put more emphasis on the corner positions during training, and the hit rate of other positions is mediocre."

Phil Jackson said: "All your three-pointers in the first game were shot from the bottom corner. I guess Popovich also discovered this. In the next game, you will not have a good chance to make three-pointers from the bottom corner. , You can also try to shoot in other positions, it doesn’t matter if you can’t make a shot, if you make a shot, there may be unexpected effects.”

Zen Master thought of everything that Popovich was thinking of. Zen Master felt that Popovich must be very interested in knowing Sun Zhuo’s three-point shooting percentage in other positions. Scared Popovich.

Phil is absolutely confident in this series, even without Sun Zhuo, he can still win, so at this moment he already has the mentality of teasing his opponent.

On May 5th, the Lakers and Spurs continued to compete in the second game of the series at the AT&T Center.

The feeling of Sun Zhuo entering the arena this time is very different from the first time entering the arena.

When he came here for the first time, Sun Zhuo was regarded as a "lying winner". The Spurs fans ridiculed Sun Zhuo's ability, and they wished that Sun Zhuo could make more mistakes and assist the Spurs, but he did not expect that it was such an underappreciated player who led the team. The Spurs lost Game [-] of the playoffs.

Seeing him in the arena again today, the fans already have fear in their hearts. They are afraid that this mysterious Chinese will reveal some new tricks tonight. Once the game becomes 0:2, and it is still in the two home games If not, the series will be over.

For the Spurs, today must win!
"I feel like the series with the Lakers hasn't started yet, so why did they lose a game inexplicably? Sun Zhuo is really a good rookie." Duncan began to pay more attention to Sun Zhuo, a rookie. He didn't think that a rookie would be fine in the playoffs. Effect, Duncan itself is a good example. In his rookie season, Duncan averaged 21+12 per game in the regular season and entered the top five MVPs. Even in the playoffs, Duncan scored 32+10 in the first game, and Also won the ball.

Not to mention Magic Johnson, who won the FMVP in his rookie season, so we should not underestimate rookies too much.

But in fact, the current Sun Zhuo is really not at the level of Duncan and the magician back then. The Spurs must not overestimate Sun Zhuo's ability, otherwise...

At the very beginning of the game, Turkoglu stared at Sun Zhuo with [-]-point spirit, especially paying attention to whether he had a tendency to go to the bottom line. However, this time, Sun Zhuo did not insist on three-pointers from the bottom corner, but He came up and shot one at the top of the arc.

Catching the ball and shooting from the top of the arc is not as high as the three-point shooting rate from the bottom corner. Turkoglu has not completely got rid of it. Sun Zhuo has no confidence in this shot, but Sun Zhuo is lucky. The board went in.

"Oh, heck, he made another shot! His three-pointer is really good!"

As soon as Sun Zhuo made a three-pointer, the Spurs fans went crazy.

Popovich also had a gloomy face, "Sure enough, he is going to shoot three-pointers from other positions today. We must stop him and never let him score consecutive goals!"

Popovich rushed to the court and shouted, Turkoglu also received the order, and then he will follow Sun Zhuo every step of the way, not even giving him a chance to make a move!
When Sun Zhuo received the ball from the outside again, Turkoglu was really close to Sun Zhuo, just like how Stephen Curry was treated in 2017.

"I like this feeling of being valued." Sun Zhuo is very happy, and in places other than the bottom corner, he has no three-point threat. Now that the defender is close to him, isn't this helping him to break through?

Even if Sun Zhuo's speed value is not high now, he easily passed Turkoglu in just one step and went straight to the basket!

"A rare visitor!" Tim Duncan, who was sitting under the basket, couldn't help but feel very fresh when he saw Sun Zhuo coming with the ball. You must know that in the last game, Sun Zhuo didn't make a breakthrough with the ball in the whole game, and he was all in the bottom corner. shoot.

Tim Duncan's long arms are already hungry and thirsty. Other Spurs players such as Tony Parker and Bruce Bowen are as excited when they see Sun Zhuo come to the basket as if they are seeing the prey that comes to the door. Of course, they also have fear, because Sun Zhuo Zhuo's jumping ability is amazing, but they know that Sun Zhuo's ability to protect the ball is not strong, so they all want to cut Sun Zhuo's ball.

As soon as Sun Zhuo took the second step, he felt something was wrong. Why did he feel that all the defensive players were rushing towards him?Sun Zhuo was still wondering if it was possible to play a double-turn dunk, but now it seems that it is completely dead.

At this time, Kobe ran to the left corner and reached for the ball. Sun Zhuo had already seen Kobe's position, but deliberately pretended not to see it, staring at the basket in front of him, and then passed the ball.

"This guy...why doesn't he look at people passing the ball?" Sun Zhuo's pass was slightly off. Kobe complained after receiving the ball, and then hit a three-pointer from the corner.

The Spurs fans couldn't sit still now, and even let Kobe go?Sun Zhuo attracted so many defenses alone?

In fact, the moment Sun Zhuo successfully broke through, it was destined that a player on the Lakers would get an open shot. Even if it wasn't Kobe, others would still be able to hit it with a high probability.

The most critical issue is the defense of Sun Zhuo's three-pointer. If you stick so tightly, Sun Zhuo must attack you.

"I hate three-pointers. Why doesn't the NBA come up with four-pointers and five-pointers? Just turn into a circus!" After these words, now, Sun Zhuo asked him to speak out in advance.

Popovich has always hated the setting of the three-pointer. The three-pointer is too fast, and Popovich has to defend, but once he pays attention to the outside line, he will definitely lose in other aspects.

"There is still a shark inside who hasn't shown his power. It's really scary to think about it!" In the second game of the series, Popovich didn't know what to do.

"Coach, can you give me more chances in this game?" At this time, Ginobili suddenly stepped forward and said.

(End of this chapter)