champion heart

Chapter 18 18. Fiasco!

As soon as the game started, the Spurs quickly scored 2 points with lightning speed!
This is not a good signal for the Lakers.

Over the years, the Spurs have always played team basketball, and the way they won games has never been based on individual offense.

But if Parker is allowed to open at the beginning, coupled with the Spurs' team offense, then the Lakers basically don't have to fight!

Just surrender and that's it!
It was the Lakers' turn to attack again, Blake steadily brought the ball across half court, and Tang De opened his hand for the ball from outside the three-point line!

Blake understood and handed the ball to Tang De immediately!
Kawaii Leonard defended Tang De firmly. With previous experience in fighting, he seemed to know that Tang De's breakthrough ability was not very good, so he adopted a close-fitting defense method against Tang De.

For such a pressing defensive method, Tang De can't find any good scoring methods at all!
Helpless, Tang De had no choice but to dribble back a few steps!
It is impossible for Tang De to expect Howard to come out and help him in the pick-and-roll.

Because Howard has never known what a pick-and-roll is, and he will never let go of his superstar status, so he has always been reluctant to play pick-and-roll tactics.

Howard's positioning for himself has always been that he will always be the end point of the offense!
In the future, he will be in the Rockets because he is unwilling to play pick-and-rolls, so he will be slowly abandoned by the Rockets.

And his substitute Capela is completely opposite to him, because Capela has always been a marginal player before, without any idol burden, so he is willing to do any dirty work!
Later, as a matter of course, Capela directly replaced Howard and became one of the most suitable centers for the Rockets in the small ball era!

"Kahuang" has since become famous all over the world!
Tang De gestured to Gasol with his eyes, and Gasol quickly stepped up and made a pick-and-roll for Tang De!
During the two or three seconds that Leonard was blocked by Gasol, Tang De quickly moved sideways to make a space!

Make a decisive three-pointer from the outside!

For Tang De, this kind of open three-pointer is easy to catch!
The ball drew a perfect arc in the air, without any struggle, it obediently got into the basket!
3: 2!

The Lakers responded strongly!

Popovich, who was sitting on the sidelines, frowned slightly. He felt that Tang Dede's goal was too easy!
Popovich has always been a very obvious coach with this style, and it is precisely because of his characteristics that he has made him great!

It doesn't matter if his team has a little problem with offense on the field, but if there is a problem with defense, even a little bit of problem, he can't accept it!
In most cases, as long as the team has a defensive problem, he will immediately call a timeout to adjust!
But nothing is absolute.

Popovich did not choose to call a timeout this time!
The game continued, Parker suddenly scored the basket, and Duncan easily succeeded in the basket!

In the final analysis, Duncan is the big killer of the Spurs. Even though he is 36 years old, he is still the absolute core of the Spurs in terms of tactical status!
Starting from this scoring, Duncan was unstoppable!

Howard scored 3 consecutive baskets!
Because Duncan has a middle distance, and Howard can't pull it out, so facing Howard's defense, Duncan handles it very well!
In less than 2 minutes, Duncan made 4 of 4 shots and scored 8 points in a row, directly stopping the Lakers!

D'Antoni couldn't sit still, Howard was just too annoying.

It doesn't matter if there is no contribution on the offensive end, but there is no attitude on the defensive end!

Knowing that Duncan has a good mid-range, Howard just doesn't want to defend it!
D'Antoni decisively took Howard and replaced him with Jordan Hill!

Although Jordan Hill does not have Howard's talent in offense, at least he is active in defense!
After taking Howard, Duncan also changed his response.

He deliberately went to match Gasol, instead of going to the basket to fight with the Lakers inside!

Jordan Hill let it take its course and handed it over to Split!
This is the brilliance of Duncan. When it comes to golf quotient, Duncan will definitely do his part!

It is because Howard has been staying at the basket and refused to come out, so Duncan gave up Gasol and took the initiative to find Howard at the basket!
Under Duncan's offense and Parker's tandem, as soon as the first quarter ended, the game tended to be overwhelmed!
The Spurs scored 28:16 in a single quarter!
And that three-pointer was Tang De's only goal in the first quarter!
The fans in the ATT Center were not only not very excited, but a little calm and unreasonable!

Maybe it's because, in their hearts, they don't regard the Lakers as a decent opponent at all.

Thinking about it, Tang De is also embarrassed, the former Zijin wealthy family has now fallen to this level!
But there is no way to do this. No matter how strong a team is, there will always be times of decline and times of rebuilding!
For more than ten years, Kobe has been their totem. Now that the totem has fallen, they must learn to adjust and face it calmly!

The first quarter of the game has already established the trend of tonight's game. After playing a game with live ammunition on the court, Tang De really realized how big the gap between the Lakers and the Spurs is!

Compared with the playoffs, the intensity of the regular season is far worse!
整场比赛打完，湖人以79：96惨败给马刺！唐德的发挥还算合格，全场比赛拿下了20分5篮板5助攻2盖帽的数据！
But the hit rate is only less than [-]%!

Obviously, under the highly targeted defense of the Spurs, it is still very difficult for Tang De to perform as before!
In the whole game, the Lakers had 8 fewer assists than their opponents and lost 10 rebounds!
To put it bluntly, this was a complete fiasco. Under the tough defense of the Spurs, the Lakers had no room for a backhand!

When the final whistle sounded, D'Antoni shook hands with Popovich blankly, and then left the arena!

Although he knew before the game that the team had a high probability of losing, it was hard for D'Antoni to accept the fact that the team was beaten helplessly!
Tang De just greeted his teammates casually, and then returned to the hotel without hesitation!
After all, no one wants to lose, and the feeling of losing is always uncomfortable.

Howard was the first to leave the arena, and he didn't know where he was fooling around. He didn't care about losing at all!
Happy Beast's off-site life cannot be described with random words...

Anyway, he will definitely leave the Lakers next season. Although he is still in the Lakers now, the life and death of the Lakers is already irrelevant to him.

He doesn't worry about not leaving the team, as long as he announces that he is leaving the team, he believes that there will be many teams rushing to get him.

But Tang De is not in the mood to play at all, he is really not willing to lose like this!

But so what?Tang De has no good way, and he can't find a way to win...

(End of this chapter)