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Chapter 1493 Lan Shengli's Transformation (Part [-])
Harden, Brewer, Butler, Love, Kaman.

Lan Shengli completed the "active change" after two days of "closed-door" research.

The third game between the Clippers and the Spurs is about to begin.

"It's just a bluff, it's just an operation of changing the soup without changing the medicine~, nothing to be afraid of~"

However, Popovich didn't think very highly of Lan Shengli's transformation, and he didn't seem to care.

"Just treat this first quarter as the rotation time of the second quarter~, they are all players you are familiar with, and you should be able to adapt quickly~"

Popovich reminded the players.

"With Kaman, the Clippers will be very aggressive inside after the start. We must pay attention~"

On the contrary, the assistant coach of the Spurs spoke more cautiously.

"Well~, let's see the situation first, if it doesn't work, just reduce Dio's playing time~"

Popovich responded.

"Anyway, I really admire Bruce's courage. After playing in the playoffs for so many years, I have never met a coach who dared to change the starting lineup in such a critical moment in a series. The spirit of daring to change is commendable~”

Popovich nodded, sighing.

Soon, the game started.

Here, Kaman and Diao's jump ball from the inside line of the floor is also very intense. You dial it, I pick it, and the ball is still near the center line.

"Crack!!"

At this moment, Butler suddenly jumped up and rushed to grab the first wave of possession.

Just when the Spurs thought Butler would pass back to Harden to organize the first offense, Butler made a very shocking move.

I saw Butler, after dribbling the ball forward twice, suddenly used the movement of passing the ball with both hands in front of his chest, and threw the ball towards the basket.

The Spurs haven't finished positioning yet, so it's not clear who Butler is going to pass the ball to.

But Butler knows all too well.

I saw that Brewer suddenly appeared near the bottom line of the Spurs' backcourt, aimed at the ball flying in the air, and flew towards the basket along the bottom line.

All the Spurs players, including Popovich, looked at the ball in the air as if they were watching meteors streaking across the air.

Then at the end, what they saw was Brewer leaping high, catching the ball, and directly pouring the ball into the basket.

As soon as the Clippers came up, they completed an alley-oop that looked at half court.

It was Butler and Brewer who had just arrived in the starting lineup to complete this operation.

The two used practical actions and outstanding performances to prove that Lan Shengli's evolution was correct.

Only through replays.

It turned out that after the jump ball started, Brewer was on the sideline. When everyone was paying attention to who could control the ball, Brewer had already completed the fast play secretly. At the same time, Butler also saw Brewer's position immediately passed the ball.

No one expected that the two of them would make such a wonderful blow after the opening~
"This is a tactic you arranged~?!"

Seeing this, Harper immediately asked Lan Shengli.

"No, I can only say that Butler and Brewer have a stronger desire to win~"

Lan Shengli responded.

"Crack clap clap!!!"

"Come back to defense~!!, back to defense~!!"

Here, Lan Shengli didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately clapped his hands to remind the team members.

Butler and Brewer's opening "offensive", can be said to be very successful.

Popovich was unmoved, sat there, said nothing, did nothing.

Watch the Clippers' first defense.

Here is Harden chasing Danny Green and Brewer defending Parker.

All other positions are counterpoint.

"Do you want to use Brewer's height to limit Parker~?! It's a good idea, but it's not realistic~"

Seeing this, Popovich secretly sighed.

Popovich didn't seem worried about Lan Shengli's defensive changes.

I saw that the Spurs here are still running the ball as a team. Almost every player has to participate in the half-court offense, and every player will touch the ball once.

Parker and Duncan's pick-and-roll is still the core.

But here, because of Brewer's slender body, Brewer directly passed through the gap in the pick-and-roll, and continued to form a chase and defense against Parker.

Here Parker also felt the pressure from Brewer from the rear, so he didn't choose to layup directly, but wanted to pass back to Duncan.

"Crack!!"

Love, however, disagreed.

I saw that Love made the correct prediction in advance and cut off Parker's pass.

The Clippers' first defense was also successful.

"That's right, that's it~, using Brewer's height advantage to pose a threat to Parker's breakthrough, forcing him to choose to pass the ball, and according to the probability, it is more likely that he will pass back to Duncan. So, just defend like this, as long as Parker and Duncan’s pick-and-roll tactics are broken, our position defense will be much easier~”

Lan Shengli sighed secretly.

Here, Love gave the ball to Harden, and Harden quickly dribbled the ball into the frontcourt.

Here Harden quickly gave the ball to Butler.

Butler was dribbling the ball, looking at that posture, he was preparing to single Leonard.

As a defensive leader on the outside, it is difficult for Leonard to be directly broken by Butler.

But here Butler is dribbling the ball, signaling to his teammates to open up space is false, and passing is true.

I saw Brewer running over here again.

Brewer first pretended to want to cover Butler, and then suddenly made a counter-run, throwing off Danny Green's defense in an instant.

Another reason why Danny Green was dumped by Brewer was that he wanted to double-team Butler.

But it was too late, Butler directly made a long-distance ground pass to Brewer who was cutting towards the basket. The ball flew towards the basket.

Seeing this, Duncan wanted to make up the defense, but felt that it was a bit late, so he immediately avoided Brewer.

"Duang~!!!"

Watching Brewer complete the dunk.

It's the connection between Brewer and Butler again, and Brewer's "go straight to the dragon", which is very exciting and the tacit understanding is very high.

Such a smooth offense was really rare in the previous two games.

"I didn't expect these two people to have such a good chemical reaction after they came to the starting lineup~"

Here Harper sighed immediately.

"Dum~!!!"

The very cautious Popovich rushed into the court in an instant and called a timeout.

Although only 4 points behind, the Clippers' game state is very different from before.

Popovich's timeout also proved from the side that Lan Shengli's transformation was successful.

(End of this chapter)