overlooking the pitch

Chapter 369

"Hmph! Use Ann's personal ability to delay the first quarter, but young people, you don't want to pass the second quarter so easily." Gregg Popovich's face was livid, and the second quarter just now He was not satisfied with half of the game. Obviously, he wanted to play a winning pursuit at that point in time just now, so Tony Parker and Kawhi Leonard played the entire first quarter, but the score But it didn't go as he expected.

Yes, at the beginning of the second quarter, Anson did not appear in the Clippers lineup. It was very simple. With back-to-back and full first quarter, even an iron man like LeBron James has to get down and rest now.
"Boss, can you do it! I don't want to lose this game!" An Sheng wiped his sweat with a towel while still speaking stiffly. Although he lost his physical strength, his presence on the court was of great significance to the Clippers' game. .

Brad Stevens still had a smile on his face: "Hey, Ann, you have to trust your teammates."

Chris Paul, Ray Allen, Jason Richardson, Kenyon Martin, Anthony Davis, that's the starting lineup for the Clippers in the second quarter, and it's obviously a small lineup.

"Strangle Chris, don't let him play the ball easily, the Clippers lineup is the only one who can hold the ball." Gregg Popovich commanded seriously off the court, and he also attached great importance to this game.

However, the Clippers' style of play in the second quarter completely surprised him. In the first attack, the Clippers handed the ball to Ray Allen at a 45-degree angle after Chris Paul dribbled the ball. , The basketball never returned to his hands. Several other members of the Clippers played a perfect pick-and-roll movement. Finally, Jason Richardson at the top of the arc put the ball into Anthony Day. In the hands of Weiss, the latter has no defensive pressure at all in the paint area at this time, and directly ends the round with an easy two-handed dunk.

"No! It shouldn't be!" Gregg Popovich's face was even more surprised than seeing Anson's crazy performance in the second half of the first quarter. Chris Paul's duo, in the last season, no matter how well Jason Richardson played and how many points Blake Griffin scored, there is no doubt that their starting point is these two.

He thought that the Clippers would have a new system under the new coach, but he didn't expect that the formation of this new system would not be slow at all. Although it is still immature, his current lineup is not the main lineup. I have a little regret. I tried to play a wave in the second half of the first quarter but failed. As a result, I fell into a passive state now.

He looked at the pair of mentors and apprentices who were talking and laughing on the bench, Brad Stevens and An Sheng. The score difference had been narrowed to 5 points. It was hard for him to understand whether the current situation was right Just like what the pair of mentors and apprentices just thought, if it is true, it will be a little scary for such a long time. A young player with super personal ability who is only 20 years old, a young player who has just come to the NBA to coach, even if he counts himself It is foreseeable that they will become the biggest obstacle for the Spurs to win another championship in their coaching career.

After 3 minutes, when the score was narrowed by the Clippers to only two points, Gregg Popovich finally couldn't help calling out his first timeout.

"Why do you give the opponent so many open opportunities, why do you let the opponent play so comfortably after watching Chris, if you have always been this defensively aggressive, then you will always be only as a substitute." He said It exploded instantly like a powder keg.

Up and down!This is a practice that Gregg Popovich can often see when he is dissatisfied with the game. Sometimes he is really angry, but sometimes it is indeed tactical. At this time, he believes in his starters It can still play a role in the construction of the defensive system and the acumen of the defensive end.

However, at this point in time, the Clippers have gone through the most uncomfortable period of their back-to-back, and Anson has returned. This year's No. [-] pick feels that he still has a lot of strength on his body, and Chris Paul has also begun to recover. hit his head.

"Hey, Charles, do you know? This is the first time, the first time I've seen Greg, an old fox, be so deflated in front of other coaches except Phil. There is no doubt that he was slapped." Sha Quell O'Neal smiled happily like a child. After all, when he almost dominated the paint area under the basket, it was the old man in front of him who came up with a shark-slashing tactic, so that his lethality did not know Rui At the same time, he was also his biggest opponent in his peak period. In his peak period, he lost to the Spurs in at least a few series.

Charles Barkley also has the same feeling. At the end of his career, he left Houston for the last championship ring. Similarly, this old man brought an old admiral and a young No. 21 rookie Blocked himself out of the finals again, and at that time, the old man had just become the head coach of the Spurs.

In the second quarter of the game, the two sides did not use any other tricks in the hands of the other party. It was the strongest collision between offense and defense, and this was also a collision between the offense and defense systems of the two teams. Obviously, Greg Popovich can see that the opponent's system has made great progress compared to last year's Western Conference Finals, but it happens that the young coach has only met his players for more than a month.

48:46, Anson's last beautiful breakthrough directly passed Kawhi Leonard to help the Clippers take the lead for the first time in this game. This is the first time he passed directly by speed in this game Without Kawhi Leonard, two quarters of the game have been played, and the physical advantage at the beginning has disappeared for the Spurs.

The Spurs fans at the ATT Center did not expect that they would be overtaken by the Clippers at the end of the halftime of this game after such an excellent start, and it can be clearly seen from the Clippers' game Every time they meet a strong team, they may fall behind at the beginning, but they can always show a strong tenacity, just like facing the Lakers in the opening game, it is also completed in the second and third quarters Overtake.

(End of this chapter)