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Chapter 219 God Can't Take Victory

As soon as the third quarter came up, Totoro made a set of combined punches. The inside line took advantage of Duncan's unsteady foothold and staged a strong dunk first, and then fired twice from outside the three-point line. He scored 2 points in a row within 8 minutes, directly putting the The point difference has pulled to more than double digits.

But the Spurs were still not overwhelmed. Shifu didn't show his power in the second half, but the French sports car Parker started to roar, and made three consecutive mid-range hits to keep the point difference at around 10 points, preventing the Totoro from directly killing the game.

They have been waiting for an opportunity, so at 7 minutes and 43 seconds of the third quarter, this opportunity finally came, and the situation of the game changed instantly.

Led by Totoro, his outside shooting seemed to be blinded by flash bombs. How did he make some baskets in the first two and a half quarters? From this moment on, it seemed that Totoro was cursed. , Lost thousands of miles, and at this time Totoro thought of passing the basketball to the players, but maybe he himself has been occupying the touch, or it may be because of the success of the Spurs' "Jordan tactics", the Rockets have no one except Totoro. The Rockets scored 4 points in the first 13 minutes of the third quarter, but the Rockets only scored 7 points in the last 5 minutes. On the contrary, the Spurs troika fired one after another. Ginobili took over the offense before Parker ran out of energy. Daqi, incarnated as Jordan in the half quarter, is omnipotent in shooting from inside and outside. Before the end of the third quarter, Shi Buddha stood up again, making two hooks and two wipe shots to make things worse. The wave of attacks at 31:13 directly stunned the Rockets, and the leading points in the first half disappeared instantly.

"Hold the grass, did you make a mistake! I didn't play in three quarters, and I scored 48 points in a single quarter. This team is 11 points behind. The rest of you are playing snakes!"

Totoro took a sip of Gatorade in the last few minutes of the third quarter, but the situation on the court made him feel uneasy at all. In fact, his anger was not unreasonable. His 48 points in three quarters is absolutely phenomenal Performance, and the shooting rate is close to 50%, so it can't be said that he is a wild shot, but apart from him, only Yao Ming scored 10 points, and none of the other teammates scored in double figures. The bench that has performed exceptionally well in the past The gangsters are all misfired today, so who doesn't scold their mothers?

But his complaint seems unreasonable from the other side. So far, Totoro has taken 28 shots and Yao Ming has taken 7 shots. The two of them accounted for 70% of the team's shots, and the rest The 7 people in the team shared the pitiful 30% of shots, and the average was less than 4 shots per person. It is unreasonable to want them to perform in this situation. After all, substitutes are also human, and they need to be wasted. A few balls to find the feel, they are not plug and play in the microwave oven, how can you expect him to help you at a critical moment if you don't trust him?

And these substitute players are also under a lot of pressure. Playing next to the star, they are always blamed if they lose. If they receive a pass from the boss and don’t shoot, they will be criticized by the boss. If they receive a pass from the boss and miss a shot, they will be criticized by the fans. The halo is not on him when he loses, but the focus is always on himself when he loses. Who would be comfortable with this?Especially after the first few shots were missed, they felt more pressure as they went to the back.

At the end, even Battier, who was the most stable in the team, was not very good at playing. He was turned around by the Spurs with a simple pick-and-roll on the court, showing a look of "Who am I? Where am I? Who am I playing?" ? Who's hitting me?" with a pained expression, and in this desperate situation, Totoro's youthful flaws were exposed again, and his mentality was also under pressure under the huge point difference. He didn't trust his teammates, and started to act recklessly with the ball. During the timeout, he didn't take the initiative to create conflicts, but he didn't comfort his teammates to gather momentum like a qualified leader.

This is the gap between him and Duncan, the cornerstone of the Spurs. You must know that the Spurs have been behind the team by three and a half quarters since the beginning of the game. It will also help Popovich to boost morale together, and he is even more of a leader on the field. There is no such thing as a leader who looks like a younger brother. The boss trusts himself so much and takes the initiative to put the pressure on his shoulders. The other members of the Spurs team How could it be possible to perform poorly?
At 103:87, Totoro’s last hateful three-pointer prevented the Spurs from winning by 20 points. At the same time, it also increased its single-game score in the playoffs to 63 points, no more, no less, just ahead of Joe’s season. Recorded one point in a single game in the post-match, thus becoming No.1 in the history of this record.

There is no doubt that today is a great night for Totoro, it is hard to imagine that a record that has been dusty for nearly 30 years will be broken by a first-year rookie, or that Totoro is no longer a rookie now. In front of him, no one will remember his age.

But just like the night when Mr. Joe scored 62 points, Totoro God possessed him but he didn't take away a victory. He lost the most critical game of the series, and the Rockets were only one breath away from being out.

"He's a great player, and if he wants to score, I don't think anyone in the league can stop him."

After the game, Duncan, who scored 34 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists with the same luxurious data, praised. "So we had to make a trade-off, let him score or let his teammates score, we chose the former, and luckily it was the right choice."

"He is very strong. From the fact that he can fly over my head and dunk the dunk, it can be seen that he is not like a yellow person at all, or he is not a person on earth at all."

Ginobili, who scored 23 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists today, half-jokingly said that his clever self-deprecation not only made the reporters burst into laughter, but also avoided the embarrassment of waiting for someone to ask him this question. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone. He's better than everybody on our team and we're a better team than the Rockets, it's a team game and it just proved to us again."

"Tonight, God descended on a Chinese man wearing the No. 7 jersey." Tony Parker, who scored 26 points and 13 assists, took Ginobili's microphone and said, "But this is the earth, so God can't take it away." victory."

(End of this chapter)