I feel hot in the NBA

Chapter 140
At the end of the third quarter, the difference between the two teams was still 3 points.

"This game is so good!" Zhang Weiping chatted with Yu Jia during the break. An old fan like him likes to watch this kind of anxious game the most.

Moreover, in the game between the Spurs and the Mavericks, it can be said that the offensive or defensive changes can be seen in a few rounds. It is almost a game from the coach to the players.

"It's so pretty, hey!"

Zhang Weiping muttered again.

One more!
Lin Yang, who was sitting on the bench, was drinking Gatorade, muttering to himself.

At the end of the third quarter, he steals one from Neil, and the task can be completed only if he steals one more.

Humans are very strange animals. In the final analysis, there is not much difference between the difficulty of one steal and two steals, but after completing the first steal and only one remaining, Lin Yang immediately felt that as long as he worked hard, he could still complete it.

But at this moment, Rick Carlisle suddenly yelled at him: "Lin, take a rest at the beginning of the fourth quarter!"

"Hmm..." Lin Yang nodded blankly, he didn't expect Carlisle to say such a sentence suddenly.

His playing time has always been very fixed, from the end of the first quarter to the beginning of the second quarter, and from the end of the third quarter to the beginning of the fourth quarter. Although the time is long or short, generally there will be no major adjustments.

Is this going to put me on the field late in the fourth quarter?
Lin Yang murmured something softly in his heart, but he didn't get too entangled. He continued to drink Gatorade. No matter what Carlisle thought, whether he was in the fourth quarter or not, he just needed to be ready!
As for the others, that is what the coaches need to consider.

"Huh? Lin Yang was placed off the field?"

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Yu Jia was a little surprised to see that Kidd was the No. [-] player.

"It should be the second half of the fourth quarter!" Zhang Weiping's guess was similar to what Lin Yang was thinking in his heart. He also thought that Lin Yang would play in the second half of the fourth quarter.

"Oh!" Yu Jia's tone became relaxed.

Kidd and Caron Butler, like Jason Terry, pose a huge threat to the Spurs on the perimeter.

Butler and Terry hit the ball consecutively, and in less than 2 minutes from the start of the fourth quarter, they overtook the score by 1 point.

It can be seen from this that a No. [-] player with excellent organizational skills is the best bond between these two guys. As long as there is such a bond, these two guys can play very impressive performances on the offensive end!
On the contrary, if there is no such a No. [-] position, they cannot be compatible.

Lin Yang mentioned the starting position before, and the performance of these two guys on the bench after Kidd was injured has proved this point.

The Mavericks had the upper hand, and Popovich could only grit his teeth and stomp his feet, bringing Tim Duncan and Tony Parker back on the court.

The Spurs are backed by three old guys again.

After today's game, it is estimated that they will collapse in the locker room one by one, or they will sleep in the locker room tonight.

Popovich looked at the three old guys running hard on the field, and couldn't express his distress. In fact, in the final analysis, this is a regular season. Winning or losing has no essential impact on the current Spurs. According to his previous temper, he gave up and gave up. But now the game has reached this point, and he has been fighting for so long. If he gives up now, it will inevitably damage morale.
Give them a rest in the next few games, and let them fight this time...

Popovich was already thinking about how to rotate the troika in the future.

Popovich should be the head coach who doesn't value the regular season record the least. Unlike the head coach of a bad team who deliberately loses for the management's wishes, Popovich doesn't care about winning or losing.

Of course, this is also related to the Spurs' regular season record being good enough!
People, they generally don't care too much about what they have. The Spurs have entered the playoffs for so many years in a row, so naturally they don't pay much attention to the regular season record.

The effect of the three veterans of the Spurs was immediate. The situation where the Mavericks had a slight upper hand was suddenly reversed by the Spurs, and it became their slight upper hand.

The two sides can be regarded as old rivals. Last year, the Mavericks were defeated by the "Black Seven" thanks to the Spurs. Before that, the Spurs were eliminated by the Mavericks in the playoffs.

In short, there are too many stories to tell between the Spurs and the Mavericks.

"beep!"

With Duncan hitting the game-winning goal, the Spurs tied the score, Rick Carlisle called a timeout, and replaced the main players such as Nowitzki and Lin Yang.

There are 8 minutes and 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

Rick Carlisle made a substitution at this time, obviously he was going to fight to the death.

"Lin Yang is playing!" Yu Jia's voice was slightly louder than in the previous commentary. He was a little excited because Lin Yang was really replaced. Although Zhang Weiping had already guessed this result before, seeing is believing. Seeing Lin Yang playing with his own eyes made him finally feel at ease.

This guy really played at a critical moment in the game!

This can explain the problem very well. After all, Lin Yang was abandoned at the last critical moment of the Mavericks' home game. This time, he can appear at the critical moment, which shows how much his status in Carlisle's mind has improved.

Lin Yang followed the main force to play, and there was still 8 minutes and 30 seconds left for him. As long as he could get another steal during this period, he would be able to activate the "hot hand" mode, and basically it would be activated immediately.

It was also for this reason that Lin Yang was not nervous when he came on stage at such a critical time, but more excited. He was looking forward to completing a big show!

The Mavericks played the main force, and the game entered the final 8 minutes and 30 seconds.

Mavs possession of the ball.

Lin Yang took the ball to the frontcourt, and didn't have much thought about facing Parker. Now that the two teams are evenly divided, there are only a few minutes left in the game. The ball must be handed over to the person who is most sure of scoring.

Naturally, the Mavericks finally grasped the goal and it was Nowitzki.

Dirk singled out Duncan with the ball. Instead of shooting, he directly leaned on Duncan for a layup and scored the ball. Duncan gave up his weight for speed this season.

Leading by two points.

Rick Carlisle watched Nowitzki score this goal and couldn't help but nodded. He was excited for Nowitzki's performance at a critical moment.

So stable!
So stable!
This season, all the media reporters and experts are saying that Nowitzki’s performance at critical moments this season surpasses any previous season. Carlisle has never had any personal feeling, mainly because he has seen too many times when Nowitzki saves the team. In his impression, Nowitzki is not the "soft guy at critical moments" that the outside world thinks. He has always believed that Nowitzki is a qualified leader!
But in this game, he finally realized that so many people said that Nowitzki has changed beyond the past, that is, as long as the ball is given to Nowitzki, he feels that the ball will definitely score!
That's how Rick Carlisle felt just now.

Duncan served the ball from the backcourt, and Parker, who received the ball, moved towards the Mavericks penalty area, and at the same time said to the Spurs players: "It's only two points, we can directly chase it back!"

Parker is not in a hurry, he has experienced too many things far worse than this.

For the fans watching the game at this moment, it is a critical moment, a moment when a single ball may change the situation of the entire game, but for Parker, the game really starts from this moment!

He patiently commanded his teammates to move tactically. After the other players were in position, Duncan came up and set him a pick-and-roll as usual.

Parker managed to get rid of Lin Yang, but after bypassing Duncan, he was blocked by Chandler and failed to rush up.

Duncan opened the distance very experienced and started to move to the lower right. At the same time, Parker also lobbed the ball in front of him very tacitly.

Duncan turned around to catch the ball, rushed to the basket in two strides, and dunked.

Just like the Mavericks who gave the ball to Nowitzki at the critical moment, what the Spurs trust most at the critical moment is the pick-and-roll between Parker and Duncan. There is nothing that this tactic can't solve. If it fails once, then twice!

Once again with the same score, there was a burst of warm cheers from the Spurs auditorium at the scene.

Yu Jia couldn't help sighing: "The Spurs are so stable!"

Every time he sees the Spurs' tactical execution, he secretly wonders when the Huaxia men's basketball team will be able to play such a match!
When Yao Ming was around, the tactics of the Huaxia men's basketball team were generally that the ball holder tried his best to give the ball to Yao Ming, and then stood on the outside with his hands on his hips and watched Yao Ming score the ball with his personal ability.

Now that Yao Ming is gone, he really doesn't know how to play this game.

Anyway, in his opinion, the situation will definitely not be good.

Expecting the rest of the team to play team tactics, Yu Jia only has four words in his heart, wash up and sleep!
In the next round, Lin Yang continued to pass the ball to Nowitzki, and the "German Chariot" made a slight fake move this time and shot directly.

"Shh!"

Come on!

damn it!
damn it!
"What about the pressure? How about the strength of the defense? Do you think this is a vacation center?" Popovich was so angry that he swears.

Duncan walked back with his head down. Last season, he was able to limit Nowitzki very well, but this season, with his weight loss, his previous defensive skills are no longer useful, and some of his previous defensive experience are no longer useful. He himself is still adapting.

He is also very helpless!
Why would I have to compromise my bodily functions if it made me five years younger?
Even if he is as calm as a stone Buddha, every time this time comes, he will think of the Spurs starting power forward who called the wind and rain in the paint!

However, although he failed to defend on the defensive end, Duncan's discouragement also passed in a flash, and soon he refocused. If the defensive end failed to defend Nowitzki, let's make up for it on the offensive end!

Or Parker and Duncan's pick-and-roll cooperation...

Parker was stopped by Chandler again, and Duncan began to go down on reflex.

Parker waited for two seconds, and when Duncan ran to the passable range, he still gave the lob to the past.

Duncan turned around to catch the ball, but when his hand was about to touch the ball, there was a burst of exclamation from the audience, and then Duncan saw a guy wearing No. 8 flying out in front of him, one step earlier than him, and intercepted the ball with a jump ball.

"Lin Yang predicted the ball and completed the steal!"

Before Lin Yang touched the ball, Yu Jia had already yelled. Zhang Weiping was actually still bragging at this time. He was taken aback by his voice, but he quickly recovered: "Good shot!"

Lin Yang was surrounded by two Spurs players as soon as he landed.

"Pause, pause, pause, pause!"

Lin Yang also reacted very quickly, holding the ball and shouting a few timeouts.

The referee rang in the next second, and the timeout was successful!

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Lin Yang threw the ball to the side, clenched his fists excitedly and kept waving. Of course, he didn't need to be so excited just for one successful steal, but this successful steal plus the previous completed one is two steals!

Two steals and his mission is done!

You can turn on the "feeling hot" mode!

"Nice!"

The players of the Mavericks ran over to give Lin Yang a high-five when they were off the court. His steal gave the Mavericks a chance to open up the point difference. With less than 7 minutes left in the game, this is definitely a steal that can affect the entire game.

This is so critical!
"Good job, Lin, just for this steal, I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow!" Caleb also joked beside him.

"Okay, I want a vegetable salad, hot dog sausage, and a glass of skim milk for me!" Lin Yang was not polite, and directly reported the food he wanted to eat.

"You boy..." Caleb couldn't laugh or cry.

After the joke, Carlisle seriously arranged a tactic. Although this timeout was called by Lin Yang to protect the ball, returning to the court was a good opportunity to open the score. How could Rick Carlisle waste it!
Seriously arrange offensive tactics here.

Popovich over there also arranged defensive tactics seriously, and the ball must be defended.

When Parker and Duncan were listening to the old man explaining the tactics, they kept their heads down. They blamed themselves, because the ball went wrong when they cooperated, and they should bear all the responsibilities.

This also made them secretly hold a breath in their hearts, and they must defend against this attack when they play later, and make up for it!

The game resumed after a pause.

Lin Yang held the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt. Facing the Spurs' defensive formation, he didn't say anything, and shot directly one step beyond the three-point line.

"??? Is this how I arranged the tactics?" Carlisle.

"??? Just cast like this?" Popovich.

"???" Parker: So the No. [-] position can still shoot like this?

"Shh!"

Go in!

The whole place was silent.

Then the Mavericks' bench erupted into cheers comparable to hundreds of people.

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(End of this chapter)