NBA Big Devil: I rule the league with defense

Two years ago, the San Antonio Spurs stepped on the corpse of the Philadelphia 76ers to win the championship. This year, it's time to repay the debt!

The 76ers players, especially the old 76ers who experienced the loss in the finals two years ago, were even more excited when they saw that the opponent in the finals would be the San Antonio Spurs. They could not wait to start the journey to the finals today!

But this was indeed a little bit beyond Han Mo's expectation!

Han Mo originally thought that without Bowen, the Spurs would have a hard time restricting the pick-and-rolls of Nash and Stoudemire, thus getting lost in the sun's stormy fast break!

The Spurs will lose to the Phoenix Suns because of Han Mo's transformation!

But Han Mo still underestimated the growth of Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili!

Today is different from the past. Two years ago, Parker and Ginobili were good enough, but this year they are no longer good enough. Although only looking at the statistics, it seems that there is nothing remarkable!

There are a lot of defenders who average 16 points per game in the NBA, but the gold content of the same 16 points in different teams and different tactical systems is very different!

Ginobili and Parker's reputation in the league at this time has not yet been revealed. In the eyes of most people, they are just followers behind Duncan!

When fans start listing the young defenders who have started to rise in recent years, the names of Parker and Ginobili are always habitually ignored!

Even if the Spurs fans have long been impressed by the smart performance of the two on the offensive end, non-Spurs fans will still stubbornly think:

"Who would know them without a Buddha like Tim Duncan?"

But Han Mo knows that in terms of achievements, GDP is complementary.

The three of them together created the legendary dynasty of the Spurs, but if you only talk about personal gains and losses, if you don't team up with Duncan, in terms of personal honor, Parker and Ginobili may benefit more!

After all, if Parker and Ginobili let go of the fight, they both have the level of single-core leading the team to the playoffs at their peak!

Of course, more importantly, Han Mo still underestimated Popovich. From the perspective of the future, Popovich is indeed a generation of famous coaches, but only at this point in time, the league's understanding of him is still:

What else can Popovich do besides fuck Duncan?Nothing!

In recent seasons against the Spurs, Han Mo has also been swayed by this idea invisibly, and has forgotten that Popovich will really become a generation of famous coaches in the future!

Without Bowen, the Spurs really can no longer cut off Nash's connection with other teammates like in the previous life, and let Nash fall into endless individual singles!

But Popovich dared to let go of Stoudemire and Nash, the league's top offensive duo, and let them do whatever they want!

Instead, it aimed at the third and fourth points of the Suns, which made Sean Marion and Joe Johnson, who had performed well in the previous rounds, deflated one after another!

The result is that Marion, who averaged 16 points per game against the Dallas Mavericks last round, averaged 6.7 points per game against the Spurs this round.

Joe Johnson, who averaged 19 points per game against the Mavericks, averaged 15 points per game in this round, but his shooting percentage was pitifully low.Joe Johnson, who has not yet achieved greatness on the offensive end, has touched the first experience of the future version of himself in advance. The Spurs forced him to take a ball and singled out the Spurs' iron barrel formation with one ball.

The result is that the data is good, but the effect of the play is completely acceptable to the Spurs!

But will this method be useful against us 76ers?

San Antonio

The next round will be against the Philadelphia 76ers. At this time, the Spurs will hug each other and celebrate the team's entry into the finals again!

Popovich was calm in front of his disciples, but he couldn't help but feel a little headache behind his back.

Does the 76ers still have a weakness?

This is indeed a problem!

Popovich couldn't help but fell into contemplation:

what happened?

How did the Philadelphia 76ers become invincible?

The San Antonio Spurs are 76-1 against the Philadelphia 1ers this year.

What is more paradoxical is that in the two matches this season, when Han Mo single-core led the 76ers, they beat the healthy Spurs, but at the end of the season, when the 76ers were all healthy, they lost to Parker. The remnant Spurs of the truce!

Such a result of the match made the reference value of the two regular season games themselves greatly reduced!

Moreover, Popovich knew very well that the regular season, playoffs, and finals are three completely different games, and there is no reference value in itself.

Instead of referring to the regular season, it is better to review the last finals match!

Looking at the starting lineup alone, although two years have passed, the main lineups of the 76ers and the Spurs have not changed much!

The starting lineups of both sides in 2003:

San Antonio Spurs: PG: Tony Parker, SG: Bruce Bowen, SF: Stephen Jackson, PF: Tim Duncan, C: David Robinson

Philadelphia 76ers: PG: Andre Miller, SG: Allen Iverson, SF: Han Mo, PF: Wang Zhizhi, C: Yao Ming.

Popovich's projected starting lineups for both sides this year:

Philadelphia 76ers: PG: Andre Miller, SG: Allen Iverson, SF: Han Mo, PF: Wang Zhizhi, C: Yao Ming.

San Antonio Spurs: PG: Tony Parker, SG: Manu Ginobili, SF: Hedo Turkoglu, PF: Tim Duncan, C: Rasu Nesterovic.

In two years, Bruce Bowen of the Spurs was permanently sent home by Han Mo due to a malicious foul. David Robinson entered the real estate market after retiring, and he has been playing very well!

The disobedient Stephen Jackson has been sent to the Indiana Pacers.

The Spurs pulled Manu Ginobili from the bench to the starting lineup, added Slovenia's big white bear Rasu Nesterovic in the interior, and replaced Stephen Jackson on the front line. Turkoglu of the intestines!

In addition to the fact that Manu's defense cannot be compared with Bowen, in other respects, especially on the offensive end, the firepower of the Spurs' starting lineup is already higher than that of 03!

Although Bowen is missing, Parker, Ginobili, and Turkoglu, as rising players, can be said to have stepped up step by step in the past two years, which is not what it used to be!

As for the substitute, there is a vote of more reliable veterans: Brent Barry, Glenn Robinson, Robert Horry, these are all veterans who have proven themselves in the league!

The big dog Glenn Robinson, when he was young, was also a generation of pride, averaging 20 points per game is like chopping melons and vegetables!

Brent Barry, an athletic three-point shooter who can fly and shoot, once proved to the world that white people can fly too with a free throw line take-off gliding dunk!

As for Robert Horry, that is even more terrifying champion compass, where to go, where to win the championship, and build a mobile dynasty by himself!

In the finals dominated by 8-9 rotations, Popovich is full of confidence in his lineup!

In Popovich's heart, if this Spurs team travels through time and space to face off against the Spurs team that won the championship in 03, they can win at most 4:2!

In the last finals battle with the Philadelphia 76ers, even without Bruce Bowen's criminals, Popovich firmly believed that the Spurs could win the final championship!

If this Spurs team were to face the 76ers two years ago, Popovich would be willing to put all his worth to bet that his team would win 4:0!

But if it is against today's Philadelphia 76ers, Popovich has no idea at all!