unfinished glory

Chapter 55 The New Year

The beginning of the new year, the Spurs suffered a blow in Sacramento, they lost 84:90 to the Kings.

Tonight's Stojakovic was so radiant that neither Bo Wen nor Li Chongxiao could hold back.He personally scored 36 points and 9 rebounds, and made 10 of 7 three-pointers.And there are gains in every quarter, and the touch continues until the end of the game.

With Webber, Bibby and Brad Miller all scoring in double figures, the Spurs had to accept the defeat in the first game of the new year.

Li Chongxiao took four shots, all three-pointers, and hit two of them, scoring 6 points.The other teammates lost collectively, and the overall shooting percentage was only 38.6%.

At the end of the game, Li Chongxiao peeked at Popovich's livid face, and knew that there would always be a rainstorm after the dark clouds.

In Game 2005 against the Lakers in January [-], the Spurs had to win, old and new.

第一节比赛马刺就以33：18，领先了15分。科比7投3中，湖人17投7中都表现正常，但是马刺21投13中，命中率超过60%。

Kobe played extremely poorly, and what made him furious was that his teammates couldn't grasp the opportunity.He passed a few balls, and his teammates were stunned. The Lakers only had 1 assist in the first quarter, while the Spurs had 12.

The Spurs' large-scale ball movement made the Lakers' players dizzy and unable to find the north, so the defense line was wide open, allowing Bowen to make 6 of 4 three-pointers and score 12 points in a single quarter.

第二节科比领衔湖人开启打铁模式，他个人7投1中，罚球2罚1中，只得到3分。其他队友15投也只有3中，湖人单节命中率只有18.2%。

The Spurs' shooting has dropped but still has 55%. In this quarter, it was Li Chongxiao's turn to play. He made 3 of 3 three-pointers and 2 of 2 mid-range shots. He easily scored 10 points.

这节马刺又打了湖人一个30：14。半场比赛，马刺就以63：32领先了31分。

In the third quarter, Kobe played only half of the game, made one of four shots, and after scoring five points with free throws, he never played again.

After seeing the technical statistics after the game, Li Chongxiao smiled and said to Bowen that, as expected of Kobe, he made 26 shots and hit 18 in 13 minutes.You can't prevent his shots, and you can't prevent his strikes.

At this time the score was already 77:40. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, Tomjanovich quickly withdrew all the main players.

Popovich was not good enough to kill them all. In the next round, he replaced all the main players and the main rotation lineup, allowing the substitutes to finish the remaining quarter and a half of the game.

The final score is not important anymore, Li Chongxiao really wants to see Kobe's expression.In the two-choice question, after checking him, will he lead the team to glory again, or will the Lakers management be reduced to a laughingstock like the Magic management back then.

After being weak in front of the King and venting on the Lakers, the Spurs returned to normal.

In the home game against the Pacers, with 71 points in GDP, the Spurs won the game with more than three minutes left in the game, and finally won the game smoothly with 115:95.

Jermaine O'Neal scored 32 points, but without Artest, they were no longer title contenders.

The next digging, Jazz and Bucks are not opponents of the Spurs. After losing to the Kings, the Spurs have another five-game winning streak to welcome the upcoming two Texas civil wars.

In the home game against the Mavericks, the two sides fought to the last minute.The Mavericks' Nowitzki, Finley and Stackhouse played 47 minutes, 46 minutes and 45 minutes respectively.

The Spurs are relatively calm here. Nesterovic played the least in the main force, and only played 20 minutes. This is a tactical reason.

李冲霄和鲍文的上场时间都超过30分钟，平时不到30分钟上场时间的吉诺比利这次出场了36分钟。加上邓肯的38分钟和帕克的37分钟，双方拼到了筋疲力尽。

Until the last 30 seconds, with Li Chongxiao's three-pointer, the score was overtaken to 95:93.

Then Jason Terry missed a shot, and the Mavericks had to foul with 14 seconds left, and Ginobili made two free throws.

The Mavericks called a timeout to deploy tactics. After Finley missed a three-pointer, Nowitzki stubbornly grabbed an offensive rebound and scored.

But time was running out, with only 2.9 seconds left, and the Mavericks had no timeout.

The Spurs also ran out of the last timeout. Li Chongxiao ran back to get the ball, dribbled two steps and then held it still, waiting for the Mavericks to foul.

After he made two free throws, the time was only 1.3 seconds, and the Spurs led by four points to win the game.

It's a pity that it's a third party who gets the cheapest.

After playing the Mavericks, the Spurs rushed to Houston to challenge the Rockets away before they had a good rest.

Although San Antonio is not far from Houston, the players are still a little tired after yesterday's high-intensity game.During the warm-up training, everyone's mental state was not good.

Only Parker and Li Chongxiao performed normally in the game. One scored a team-high 21 points, and the other scored 12 points.

The former is because the defender is "Mickey Mouse" David Wesley, a shooting guard with an official height of only 1.8 meters.

The latter is a stamina monster.Ginobili expressed his envy for Li Chongxiao's physical strength more than once. In this game, he only played 15 minutes and surrendered 6 of 1 shots. He fell to the ground in the fight and was diagnosed with a slight sprain. He is expected to rest Three to five days.

Duncan was the third Spurs player to score in double figures, with 18 points and 12 rebounds, but only 19 of 7 shots.

The Rockets' MM combination was not much better. McGrady scored a game-high 28 points, but only made 28 of 10 shots.Although Yao Ming made more than 50% of his shots, he was troubled by restricted fouls. He only played 28 minutes and scored 15 points.

Instead, the old Mutombo on the bench chatted about his teenage madness and scored 15 rebounds, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back and helped the Rockets win the game 73:70.

In this game, Li Chongxiao's playing time exceeded 30 minutes again.Although he appeared with Bowen, most of the time, he was defending McGrady.

McGrady's 35.7% shooting rate shows that he has done a good job defensively.

After more than two months of competition and training, Li Chongxiao changed his previous mentality that I just want to prevent you from dying.Facing outside superstars, he is more concerned about how to make the opponent feel uncomfortable.

Especially for super giants like Kobe and McGrady, he no longer fantasizes about stealing the ball, blocking shots, or preventing the opponent from breaking through or shooting, and he is no longer obsessed with being able to defend most of the opponent's balls one-on-one.

Instead, use some small skills, such as defending against the ball in advance, blocking the opponent's offensive line, defending against breakthroughs from the preferred side, and forcing the opponent to shoot in non-hot spots, etc., to make the opponent play very awkwardly.

In addition, he played more overall basketball, calling his teammates to double-team from time to time, or deliberately leaving a breakthrough path to lure the opponent to send a cap to Duncan, fully relying on his teammates to help him defend.

When he played against the Lakers before, Kobe was determined by himself before he tried many routines.This time Li Chongxiao put his defensive strategy on McGrady, and the effect was really good.

This made Li Chongxiao realize that some things need not only to be practiced, but also to be comprehended.Thinking without learning is perilous, learning without thinking is dead!
(End of this chapter)