basketball hero

Chapter 597

For the Spurs, Duncan singled Aaron Gray in the low post, and the latter gave a tough physical confrontation without flinching.

Duncan really looks a little old. He can misplace the opponent's small or short insiders, but a blue-collar big man like Along Grey plays very hard, and he feels that he has more energy than energy.

Duncan missed the hook, and after Ying Xiong grabbed the rebound, he counterattacked directly from the backcourt.

The Spurs returned to defense very quickly, Dior was delayed, the old sports car and Danny Green in the backcourt quickly returned to defense, and Leonard on the wing immediately came to defend Yingxiong.

Ying Xiong turned away from Dior with his big butt, and faced Leonard with long arms and big hands, his speed soared to the red line.Leonard's speed is not slower than the average small forward, but compared to Ying Xiong, in this kind of open court, the gap is revealed.

Ying Xiong overtook Leonard and went all the way to the frontcourt.

"Here comes, my God, what is he going to do?" Van Gundy exclaimed.

Ying Xiong went directly to the front court without passing the ball. Facing Danny Green who was constantly retreating, he decelerated at high speed and then changed direction. He immediately accelerated, passed the opponent, and went directly to the basket.

Ying Xiong went to the basket, facing the old sports car Parker, completely ignoring the opponent's effort to take off and block the shot, and directly jumped high, smashing the dunk with a one-handed tomahawk!
The Spurs fans at the scene gasped for a moment, wow, this kid doesn't take Tony Parker seriously at all, he completely treats him as air!
Parker is naturally not air, he wants to prove his existence, he slashes hard on the arm of Ying Xiong's dunk.

But——Ying Xiong's dunking arm didn't change its direction at all because of Parker's blow, and still dunked the ball steadily into the basket. All the movements were done in one go, which was simply unstoppable.

With a whistle, 2+1 is achieved!

After Ying Xiong came down, his eyes were like knives, and he took a deep look at Parker, which made the latter feel a chill down his back.The Raptors' bench was naturally cheering and elated.This ball was really wonderful, from grabbing the rebound in the backcourt to dunking under the basket, scoring 2+1, almost passing through the defense of 4 opponents.

Cole and Van Gundy in the commentary booth just looked at each other and smiled.The two of them don't need to say too much about Xiangxiong's excellence, because they have already said a lot before.

Popovich immediately requested a timeout!He didn't allow such a crucial game, during the confrontation between the two sides, to boost the opponent's morale.

"Greg is still cautious, but I think it is necessary to request a timeout at this time. There is nothing wrong with being cautious!" Van Gundy said.

"The score in this game may not be high!" Cole said suddenly.

"Of course it can't be high. The offensive rhythm is so slow. If I remember correctly, the fast break just now was the first fast break scored by both sides since the start of the game." Van Gundy said.

After returning from the timeout, Ying Xiong walked to the free throw line and made the free throw steadily.

此时场上的比分为8:5，猛龙队凭借着应雄的2+1，将分差暂时领先到3分。

In the next few rounds, the offense of the two teams picked up, but no one could easily open the score.Soon, the Raptors replaced DeRozan with Gay and Jeremy Lin with Lowry.The intensity of the game is very high, and the physical energy consumption of the players on both sides is also very high.Yingxiong was replaced by Terrence Ross with 1 minute and 56 seconds left in the first quarter.

The Raptors used Bargnani cautiously in this game. When the Spurs replaced Splitter, they only replaced Bargnani, and then let him match up with Splitter.

Coach Casey's intention is very clear, let me guard the player with the worst inside defense against your weakest inside singles player, so as to minimize the side effects of Bargnani's defense.

Ying Xiong appeared at the beginning of the second quarter. At this time, the other four players of the Raptors were Bargnani, Gay, DeRozan and Lowry.

The reason why the Raptors dared to use such a big and four small offensive lineup at this time is to deal with the big and four small (Split, Joseph, Neal, Yaodao and Danny Green) lineup.

"Both sides are on a small lineup. This is the first time this has happened in the finals." Van Gundy looked at Cole and said.

Cole nodded and said, "We should play early and match Andrea. It seems that Devin deliberately arranged it this way. Greg also used one big and four small ones to match. It seems that he did so helplessly."

Leonard's physical condition is not as good as Yingxiong, and Popovich doesn't want to overdraw him, so after Yingxiong played early, he can only let Danny Green defend Yingxiong.

For the Spurs, Neal's mid-range jumper was blocked by DeRozan.

Lowry held the ball and counterattacked, and the counterattack was given to DeRozan who followed up, and the latter missed a mid-range jumper.

But Ying Xiong has rebounds!
Ying Xiong picked up the rebound on Splitter's head, and made a strong move under the basket to cause the latter's foul.

"Tiago's rebounding awareness is not good. The big center didn't hold his position well. Instead, he was grabbed by an outside line from the opponent and was fouled. It's too bad!" Van Gundy shook his head and said.

Yingxiong stepped to the free throw line and made one of two free throws (the second free throw was missed), but Gay hit the ball.

Ying Xiong got the ball again, but he didn't dribble, so he directly pulled up the jump shot-accurate hit!
Ying Xiong scored 3 points with two attacks, widening the point difference to 5 points-this is the biggest point difference so far in this game.

Popovich on the sidelines excitedly yelled at the players on the court. He naturally didn't want the team's second team to dig a big hole before Duncan and the main players came back.

But then the two teams entered the offensive drought again, and soon, the sidelines entered a timeout, and after the timeout came back, the main players of both sides returned one after another.

After the return of the main players of the two teams, the offensive rhythm of the game immediately slowed down a lot.Both teams played half court and played slowly.The Raptors wanted to speed up, but Along Gray and Amir Johnson inside couldn't keep up.Moreover, the opponent's defense was very fast, almost giving up the offensive rebounds, and the turnovers were well controlled.

The game was a little drowsy, even with the physical intensity on the court.

At the end of the half, the Raptors led the Spurs by 44 points at 40:4.

After the first half, Popovich's face was serious.Of course he knew what kind of medicine was sold in Case's zucchini. The game had been played for two quarters. If he didn't know, he would really have lost his reputation as a magical coach.

Casey's purpose is to use two blue-collar insiders to match the Spurs' starting inside combination Duncan and Diozi, give up the offense of the starting inside, and completely hand over the offense to the outside three-man team (mainly Yingxiong).

(End of this chapter)