Guoshu basketball

Chapter 255 Li Du's Weakness

In Popovich's eyes, Li Du is a nearly perfect player, impeccable in terms of physical talent, skills and tactics, and what Popovich admires the most is that Li Du is also very good at seeing the overall situation and controlling the game , is a basketball player of his dreams.

However, Li Du is still a human being after all, as long as he is a human being, it is impossible to have no weaknesses, but Li Du's weakness is difficult to show at ordinary times.

At the start of the second half, the Spurs switched back to man-to-man.Li Du frowned when he saw this situation on the court. He didn't understand what Popovich was planning. He looked at the old Nelson standing on the sidelines. The old Nelson held his chin and couldn't figure out what the Spurs were trying to do.

Since you can't figure it out, let's play it first and then talk about it. This is the theory that everyone follows on the basketball court, so Li Du gestured to Curry to indicate normal play, and then Li Du ran to the court first. One side, waiting to see what the Spurs want to do.

Unexpectedly, the Spurs also defended normally. Parker faced Curry alone, Jefferson defended Crawford, and McDyess let Lagabel take a step, ready to help Duncan defend Yao Ming at any time.This defensive formation was used at the beginning of the game, and the effect was not very good. It couldn't suppress Li Du at all, so Popovich switched to double-team tactics later. Why did he change it back now?
Since it was playing normally, Curry did not stick to the ball. He glanced at Li Du. Li Du made a cross with Curry. Curry passed the ball back to Li Du, and then ran away with Parker.

As soon as Li Du received the ball, Ginobili first stood in front of him and put on a defensive posture.Li Du glanced at Ginobili, then looked at the others. He suddenly found that Duncan's defensive area was much larger than he imagined. If he broke through Ginobili, Duncan could step forward to defend at any time, and Gino Billy can also find a way to steal the ball when he passes to Yao Ming.

"Is this your strategy?" Li Du sneered in his heart. The Spurs still didn't understand the meaning of Yao Ming's existence. With Yao Ming inside, he didn't need to break through at all!
While Li Du was protecting the ball, he observed his teammates. Crawford and Curry screened off the ball on the baseline. Then when the two separated and ran to both sides, Yao Ming took a step back to block the chase. In front of the two defensive players!
Crawford ran out of the three-point line first, and Li Du's pass also arrived.Crawford caught the ball, turned around and jumped up to shoot. At this time, Parker, who had switched defenses, finally arrived. Although he was a step slower, Parker still jumped up with all his strength and stretched his arms, trying to influence Crawford.

After all, Parker was one step too late, and missed the ball when the defense came over.Crawford shot the ball, and the basketball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then hit the ring with a "clang" and bounced out.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Duncan grabbed the rebound one step ahead of Yao Ming, then passed it to Parker, and the Spurs began to attack.

In fact, the Spurs' offense has not changed much. They still rely on team tactics and tacit understanding among players to bypass Li Du, hit the weak point of the Warriors' defense, and continue to score.

The Warriors attacked, and Curry still passed the ball to Li Du first. The ball just now was actually played tactically, but in the end Crawford didn't make a shot, so he can continue to play.

It was still Yao Ming who screened for Curry and Crawford, blocked the defenders, and forced the Spurs to switch defenses. Curry and Crawford used this gap to run out of the three-point line, and the shooting space has appeared!

Li Du's pass was still timely, this time he passed it to Curry.Curry received the ball as soon as he was out of the three-point line. He shot faster than Crawford. Jefferson chased after him after switching defenses. He also had to try his best to take off and failed to touch the basketball.

Unfortunately, the result was still the same as the last attack. Curry missed the ball and bounced off the rim.Duncan withstood Yao Ming, McDyess protected the backcourt rebound, and the Spurs scored another goal.

Li Du and everyone were a little reconciled to failing to score twice in a row, but they didn't think too much about it. After all, it is impossible to require every goal in the game to be scored.The Spurs have already caught up with the score, and there is a tendency to overtake. However, the Warriors missed several shots in a row, and the situation began to be unfavorable to the Warriors.

Seeing this situation, Old Nelson decisively called a timeout.

After the players all came back, it was not easy for the old Nelson to ask them directly why they failed to make several shots in a row even though there were shooting opportunities.Asking directly like this is too hurtful, and it has a great blow to the pitcher's confidence.If a pitcher's shooting confidence is hit, he will be even more inaccurate!
So the old Nelson comforted everyone with a strong smile: "Don't worry, everyone. We have all shot opportunities, but we didn't make them. Let's take a rest first. After playing for a while, you can find your hand and you can make shots!"

Curry and Crawford blamed themselves. They missed shots one after another, and the score advantage that everyone worked so hard to build in the first half was eroded by the Spurs. Now the difference between the two sides is only one point, and the pressure of the game has come to the Warriors.Curry first said: "Coach, boss, I'm sorry, it's because I missed the shot that caused the team to be under so much pressure now."

The same goes for Crawford. Just as he was about to speak, Li Du and Yao Ming pressed their hands gently on the heads of the two of them. Li Du chuckled and said to Curry: "Silly boy, how can anyone make every shot?" What! Then why are you still playing, just give him the championship. It doesn’t matter if you miss the shot, our tactics are fine, as long as you stick to it, you can make shots!”

Yao Ming also said: "Everyone expects me to return, isn't it just to grab rebounds when I miss a shot! Don't worry, Li and I have already figured out a way!"

"Really?" Curry looked up at Yao Ming.

Yao Ming smiled gently and said, "Of course it's true, Xiao Du is a basketball genius! Isn't that right, Xiao Du?"

When Yao Ming said this, Li Du immediately understood what he meant, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, everyone, Brother Yao is a dominant center. As long as he exerts his strength, he can force the Spurs to double-team him. Our outside line There will be even more space for shots! Don’t worry about other things, just let go and shoot. It doesn’t matter if you can’t make the shot, isn’t there still Brother Yao!”

The old Nelson put Curry, Crawford and others on the court, let them play against the Spurs first, and don't want to keep the lead, as long as they don't get too many points from the Spurs.

After they left, Old Nelson sat between Li Du and Yao Ming, and whispered to them, "Li, Yao, it's not an option to fight like this. I can probably guess Greg's plan, but what to do is still up to you." Decide!"

(End of this chapter)