Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 127
Desagina Diop received his third personal foul after only three minutes on the field and returned to his familiar bench.

No matter who tries to attack the basket from in front of him, he will be defended with all his strength. Diop, who has always been bad at controlling fouls, left several red handprints on the arms of Duncan and Ginobili .

There are 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the score is 70 to 65, and the Lakers temporarily lead.

Popovich replaced a breathless David Robinson with inside meat grinder Malik Rose.

Zen Master also made adjustments, Brad Miller and Ben Wallace appeared together, and Garnett was replaced for a short rest.

Just a few minutes before Diop was on the court, Garnett became the main attack point of the Lakers, and successfully cooperated with Kobe in consecutive pick-and-rolls, while Diop played the role of Jazz Ostertag, wandering on the edge of the weak side three-second zone , Seeing Kobe and Garnett's two-person turn ready to make a shot, they squeezed desperately under the Spurs basket, making the general have to work hard to get him stuck outside, which consumed a lot of energy.

The Spurs didn't dare to replace Duncan, so they could only let the rest of the players take turns off the court. Claxton, Steve Smith and Malik Rose would come up for a while. The Lakers also didn't dare to let Kobe off the court. Billup Adams and Artest also only rested for 2 minutes at the end of the third quarter.

The two sides have fought each other in the playoffs year after year, saving a lot of steps to test each other. From the first minute of the first quarter of the first game, they went all out to fight for the opportunity.

With 6 minutes and 22 seconds left, the young French sports car suffered from cramps and had to be temporarily replaced.

Spurs backup point guard Speedy Claxton is known for his speed and dexterity in breakthroughs, but he is only 1 meters tall and weighs only 80 pounds.

Billups was 10 centimeters taller and 30 pounds heavier.

The Zen master immediately adjusted his tactics, focusing on Billups.

Brad Miller mentioned the high position, Artest and Big Ben stayed on the weak side, and Kobe reversed the ball to Billups who sank in the low post on the left.

After his teammates took away the defense, Billups began to crush Clarkston with his back. Compared with the thin defender, he was more afraid of Duncan's help defense.

Billups tentatively made a fake turn near the center line. Sure enough, Duncan moved a small step to the left. Claxton's defense was to put in the middle, block the bottom line, and drive Billups to where Duncan was. direction.

Seeing the narrow space, Brad Miller took a half step back and stepped on the three-point line. Kobe had just moved from here to the weak side, and Prince followed him.

Bryant suddenly started, and ran close to Brad Miller, who had just withdrawn, and ran beyond the three-point line on the strong side where Billups was. Miller understood, and a solid screen blocked Prince firmly. In place.

With Billups hitting the ball, Duncan's position is impossible to save and defend Kobe.

When Prince bypassed the screen, Kobe was already flying in mid-air, taking a calm shot and hitting a three-pointer.

73 to 65, the point difference came to a node.

Once the point difference is pulled to double digits, in such a hand-to-hand battle where every goal must be fought, the defeat of the lagging side will basically be announced.

Of course Popovich understood this. He made a decisive decision and called the team's third-to-last timeout. If he doesn't call it now, there is no need to stay later.

Parker reappeared after a brief treatment by the team doctor.

Prince was replaced, and Malik Rose went to the third position to deal with the same brute force Artest. Although Rose's lateral movement is not very good, Popovich believes that the Lakers will not hand over the offense to For Artest to break through.

David Robinson returns.

The Spurs' first offense was unexpectedly handed over to the soon-to-be 38-year-old general.

Facing Ben Wallace, who was two heads shorter than himself, the admiral chose a more secure post-up singles.

But this is not what he is good at. Compared with Duncan, the general is smaller in size. Although he has strong muscles, his lower body is not too stable, which makes his back attack not very lethal. The general at his peak, Usually choose the back to ask for the ball and then turn to the basket, relying on flexibility to defeat the opponent's center.

Big Ben lowered his center of gravity and resisted David Robinson's push.

Finding that he couldn't go any further, the admiral immediately chose to turn over and shoot. The shot was a bit hasty and the bullet missed.

Garnett took a quick step, jumped high and grabbed the backcourt rebound.

The Lakers counterattacked, Kobe took the lead, and Garnett handed the ball to Billups, who pushed straight with both hands and sent the ball accurately to Kobe.

Kobe took off, bent his body into an anti-bow, and scored a slam dunk with both hands. Ginobili, who was chasing behind him, was far behind.

Without saying a word, Ginobili picked up the basketball and quickly passed it to Parker who came back to catch it.

After Parker took the ball across half court, he handed it directly to Duncan who asked for the ball in the low post on the right.

Facing Garnett's defense, Duncan dribbled the ball with his left hand and pushed back inside.

Artest dropped Malik Rose and came to double-team.

Duncan took advantage of Garnett's lower center of gravity, and before Artest was in position, he directly shot with a half-hook with his left hand.

The ball fell firmly into the basket.

Duncan returned to the defense without saying a word, and Garnett slammed the ball on the ground behind him, annoyed at his defensive performance.

The Lakers attacked, and after Kobe attracted everyone's attention, he distributed the ball to Artest in an air cut.

Facing the seemingly empty Spurs penalty area, Artest cuts from the baseline for a layup.

The black figure No. 50 appeared, and David Robinson slammed Artest's layup to the backboard with all his strength.

Malik Rose grabs the rebound and throws it to Ginobili, who is already racing full speed into the Lakers half.

The long-haired demon knife was not afraid of Kobe who was chasing behind him, and he smashed dunks with his left hand, narrowing the score gap to 6 points.

The Spurs' bench jumped up, but the fiery atmosphere in the entire Lakers Arena was slightly stagnant.

Kobe picked up the basketball and gestured to Zen Master who was about to call a timeout.

Billups pulled to 45 degrees on the weak side, Artest sank in the bottom corner, Garnett was at the free throw line, and Ben was in the low post on the weak side, opening up a heads-up field for Kobe.

Fei Xia dribbled the ball slowly on the right wing with 8 seconds left on the shot clock.

Ginobili lowered his center of gravity, opened his hands, and stared at Kobe, ready to fight.

The rhythm of dribbling suddenly accelerated, and Kobe's left foot seemed to step on a booster, and he accelerated instantly, throwing away Ginobili, and forced a breakthrough in the direction of the baseline.

Although he was stepped over, Ginobili was not worried. There was their patron saint in the penalty area.So he just keeps moving laterally, ready to cut off Kobe's passing lanes.

Malik Rose came from the baseline, and Duncan and the general had already covered the basket.

Bryant takes a stride with his right foot, dashes past Malik Rose, collects with both hands, lifts, collects in the air, glides past Duncan, hunkers under the rim, straightens his right hand, avoids a David Robinson block, picks Basket hit.

Like a group of golden fireworks, after half a second in the air, gorgeous fireworks bloomed.

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