Basketball myth

Chapter 221 Against the Spurs
"The game will have such a result, most of the reasons are mine! I didn't tell you what the Spurs did! I didn't expect the Spurs to deal with our Lakers like this!" Thomas said during the intermission , Take the responsibility on yourself for the first time, and persuade the players to calm down!Forget about temporary failures!
"Next! I have to make some adjustments! Fisher, you are not in a very good state today, take a rest next time! Mobley, you play! The first thing is to use your impact to hit Avery! This This guy plays a huge role in the Spurs team, we can’t let it go anymore!”

"Carter, your opponent is the weakest link in the Spurs, and it is where the Spurs try to stop you! I want you to organize our offense, not charge! On defense, I want you to help defend Duncan , In this team, only you know Duncan's potential and strength very well! You are also capable of doing this!"

"The next thing is the key, who will defend Duncan? Barkley, you take a break! Big Ben! You go on the court, against Duncan, don't easily hit the ball, you don't have the ability yet, I want you to be ruthless behind the back Firmly block Duncan's position! Just don't let him take it easy, and you have to trust your teammates for the rest!" Thomas told Ben very seriously!

"O'Neal, you are the key! I want you to attack with all your strength and beat David to me! At least don't let him interfere with the team's offense! Interfere with other teammates! Duncan's playing time, you already know, Duncan's You also know the strength, the core of the current Spurs is completely relying on Duncan, you are our core, what should you do, don’t let me talk about it? Unless you admit that you are worse than Duncan!”

"Hill, Elliott has been completely revived this season! We must pay more attention to him on defense! Especially his connection with the inside, I want you to cut it off! At least understand it! I want you to use your full strength when defending! This guy's defense is still quite weak! Use your offense to replace the defense!"

"Guys, in fact, the Spurs have been setting a trap for us, allowing our forwards to constantly break through them, and then reduce our shooting percentage due to the interference of Duncan or David. Hill, Carter, you all understand this. ! Then we don’t want to directly attack! We have to shoot! Let the inside become a fighting place! As long as one person in the Spurs’ inside can’t support it, we will win! This depends on O’Neal, you and this team. Already!"

"Of course our goal this season will be the championship. The Spurs are our strongest opponent. It can be said that we will be the championship if we dominate the West! This is the situation now! I want you to be in this game Come on, force out your own potential, and force out all of the other party! Do you understand?"

"Understood! Don't worry, coach! I just dozed off in the first half! Look at our 15-point comeback in the second half!"

"Then let's play!"

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"The defensive style of the Lakers has changed! It can be said that it is particularly important to Duncan! Other players have no way to launch their own offense under this defensive method! There is no gentleman like the first half, or Said the Lakers are even more brutal!"

"This is what Thomas has taught for nearly a season! It is also Thomas' personal efforts! The Lakers have become a team where everyone will make sacrifices for the collective! You can see that O'Neal's aggressiveness in the second half is even stronger! The Spurs Facing the Lakers like this, there is no other way! The Lakers use their strongest point to counter the Spurs' defense! For the Spurs, Hill and Carter can reduce their shooting percentage, but for O'Neal Just say it! O'Neal is also an unsolvable existence for the Spurs!"

"You see, 5 minutes have passed, and the Lakers have also caught up with 5 points. According to this level, the Lakers may not necessarily reverse! However, Popovich called a timeout, and it seems that the old coach has found it." There is a way to stop the Lakers from playing!"

"What method do you think Popo will use?" Thomas asked the assistant coach next to him. As for the conversation with the players, it is over!The winner will not change his tactics easily!

The meaning of asking the assistant coach next to him is that Thomas needs another kind of thinking, and it also means a kind of investigation.At this time, the assistant coach was no longer the young man who contradicted Thomas!It was a guy who seemed to have experienced wind and rain. After the middle-aged man heard the question, he didn't say anything immediately, but thought about it carefully. It didn't take long, at least it gave people the feeling that he had thought about it !
"Coach, I don't think the Spurs have a good solution! Our loss in the first half was because the Spurs have become a collective that can threaten our Lakers collective. If they die, they will be about the same as our Lakers. Impossible So much ahead of us at the end of halftime! The lead they got just made our Lakers' offensive shooting rate drop, and their own offense was normal under the leadership of Duncan!"

When Thomas heard such words, he turned his head and looked at him carefully, nodded, signaling to continue! "In the second half, we used the method of the Spurs in the first half. Our offense began to recover, which reduced the offensive efficiency of the Spurs. This is also the key to our slow pursuit of the score! Popo called a timeout, and he must have found us Offensive shortcomings, reducing our offensive efficiency, as for the others, I haven't thought of it yet!"

"Very good! I don't care who you are, who is behind you! From now on, you will be by my side and be my personal assistant coach!" Thomas is very grateful that at least the management of the Lakers gave him I found myself a relatively good assistant!The middle-aged man was very calm when he heard this, but looking at his tightly clenched hands, he knew that his heart was not so peaceful anymore!

"After returning to the field, O'Neal and Big Ben are in trouble! I'm afraid, they will make a fuss about their free throw percentage! Haha! Our Lakers are going to suffer a game in this game!" Thomas seemed very indifferent Said!In this game, Thomas already knew what Popo wanted to do!

"Teacher, don't you just want other teams to consume us? Whether it's the Trail Blazers or the Timberwolves, you don't care very much. Just reduce the sharpness of our Lakers? Haha! I'm like You wish! However, Coach Z is not a person who would sacrifice his future! Your calculation was wrong from the very beginning!" Thomas thought silently in his heart after watching his players enter the field!
Sure enough, the players on the Spurs began to double-team O'Neal, completely giving up Big Ben's defense!As long as Big Ben gets the ball in his hand, it is a vicious foul!The same is true for O'Neal, Bobo used constant fouls to stop the Lakers' offensive rhythm!It can be said that Bobo succeeded!As for what this nationally broadcast game will look like, Popo won't think about it!
The Lakers still have no way to use the Princeton tactics they learned against the Kings, because Duncan is not Webber, and David is not Divac. When O'Neal uses unskilled Princeton tactics when playing against such players, it is courting death!
Thomas quickly replaced Big Ben with Barkley and strengthened his offensive ability!But Duncan went on to show off!The Lakers' three-pointer feeling is very bad today, plus O'Neal's desperate efforts at the basket!The Lakers' offense is only 2 points away!As long as it is two points, Duncan will not be afraid of anything!Your Lakers score a goal, and I, Duncan, just score a goal!
Yes!This is the strength and pride of an FMVP player!O'Neal is the same, so is Duncan!This situation continued until the 4th minute of the 5th quarter!
Thomas looked at Hill off the court, and looked at the situation on the court!He suddenly said to Hill: "Are you resentful that I locked you up! Your statistics have dropped a bit this season! And at this time, with you on the court, our situation will be better! You say Woolen cloth?"

(End of this chapter)