super small forward

Chapter 252 252. Western Conference Finals 7
Back on the bench, Leonard looked at Dior, who looked unhappy, and some teammates who seemed to disregard the Lakers, and sighed silently in his heart. Will Liu Ren have conflicts with Kobe?Leonard believed it, but he was even more convinced that even if there was a conflict between the two's personalities, it would not explode on the field!It's not okay to be careless like this!

"La la la, I'm a little expert in selling newspapers." Liu Ren hummed the newspaper selling song he learned when he was a child, and ended up satisfied.

"Speed ​​up and run." D'Antoni said only this sentence about the tactics during the timeout, and then replaced Johnson with Marshall.

Back on the court, Marshall made a free throw for a technical foul.

Popovich let Diaw rest for a while, and replaced the Spurs' important signing of the summer, Marco Belinelli.

Belinelli was once a member of the Warriors' bombardment team. He has a lot of offensive methods and can do everything. However, his biggest feature is catching and shooting, which is very in line with D'Antoni's style of play.

D'Antoni tried to get him in the summer, but Belinelli chose the Spurs, the most popular champion.

Buford signed him originally to deal with Ray Allen in the Finals, wanting to fight fire with fire.

Leonard played the entire first quarter, constantly picking and rolling, running, and helping the team attract defenses, being a father and a mother like James when he was young.

No, seeing Mills about to pick and roll, Leonard immediately ran over.

Leonard helped Mills block Marshall. What Leonard and Mills didn't expect was that neither Marshall nor Nick Young cared about Leonard. Marshall bypassed Leonard to chase Mills, and Nick Young blocked it first. Prevent Mills from entering the paint in front of Mills.

Seeing this, Mills immediately passed the ball to Leonard.

Nick Young saw Leonard catch the ball and immediately ran to the defensive position.

Leonard made a shot fake and wanted to point to Nick Young who was sprinting over, but he didn't expect Nick Young to stop two steps away from him.

Leonard is now one step inside the three-point line, and Nick Young is about to stand about the distance from the basket to the free throw line.

Leonard hesitated. His shooting has always been his biggest technical shortcoming. Although his long-range shooting and three-point shooting percentage look good, it is because of the small number of shots. He is not the 15- The top five scorers in the league in offensive efficiency in the 16 season.

breakthrough?Leonard saw Liu Ren and Whiteside who were eyeing inside, he finally chose a jumper.

Miss!

Liu Ren grabbed a defensive rebound over Belinelli's head, passed it to Marshall, and ran forward without looking back.

As the ball handler, Marshall resolutely carried out D'Antoni's instructions, advancing rapidly the moment he received the ball.

Except for Whiteside jogging slowly behind, the other four people all started running.

Liu Ren came to the opponent's basket first, and only the young Mills and Leonard were able to defend the Spurs. After halftime, Marshall threw the ball to the backboard. Mills' first reaction was to block Liu Ren, but he There was a crisp dunk sound from behind.

Wesley Johnson!A guy with muscles looking like he's about to explode comes off the hoop.

Liu Ren was just a bait. After Liu Ren completed that beautiful dunk just now, the first reaction of the Spurs in this situation was to block Liu Ren's lob. Marshall made perfect use of this.

It took only 3 seconds from Liu Ren grabbing the rebound to completing the fast break. Whiteside hadn't even run out of the three-point line, and the pace was terribly fast.

The Lakers' style of play was completely different from their leisurely play in the first quarter. They suddenly picked up speed and caught the Spurs by surprise.

The Spurs attacked, and Belinelli pulled out a long-range shot, but the Lakers didn't respond at all, and immediately served and counterattacked.

The Spurs who had just scored a goal immediately ran with the Lakers, but except for Mills and Leonard who were young, strong and fast, no one else on the Spurs could keep up with the Lakers' combination of big four and small.

The Lakers played 3 to 1 in the frontcourt, and Marshall received a pass from Liu Ren for a layup.

In the few rounds after the timeout, the Lakers played fast, and the Spurs couldn't defend at all. Not only that, but the Spurs' own offense also followed suit. This is not in line with Popovich's requirements. Popovich is a forbidden person , he doesn't like his players to make their own decisions.

With 3 minutes left in the second quarter, the Lakers have led 64 to 52 by 12 points.

The Spurs called a timeout again. Popovich saw that the lead was gone and he was already behind by a large score. He was not furious or anxious, but calmly replaced Diaw and Duncan.

The Lakers responded immediately, replacing Whiteside with Gasol and Antetokounmpo for Wesley Johnson.

Gasol took a break and dunked Diao violently in the first quarter.

Dior may have rested off the court for too long, and his touch suddenly disappeared. Facing Liu Ren's defense, he fell back for a three-pointer and directly made a three-point shot out of bounds.

"You'd better go inside and play, your shooting is so bad." This time it was a dead ball serve from the backcourt, and the serve had to go through the hands of the referee, so there was no chance for a fast break.

So Liu Ren followed Dior and ran to the front field slowly, talking trash while running.

Although Liu Ren said so, he really hoped that Dior would continue to shoot from the outside this time, because it seemed that Dior was not very good this time, either in terms of touch or mood. Before that, he hoped that Dior would play inside because Dior was too accurate at the time. , although he could carry Dior, he was very tired.

"It's up to me to beat me however I like, shut your fucking mouth." Dio was really fooled.

After halftime, Marshall handed the ball to Liu Ren who was one step outside the free throw line, and the defender of Liu Ren became Dior!And the inside defense of Gasol became Leonard.

It turned out that Diaw couldn't take it anymore after being beaten by Gasol. Gasol scored 12 points in the first quarter, 6 of 5 shots, 4 of 2 free throws, all of which were forcibly cut off on Dior. .

"Oh, you're scared, but do you know that our strategy is to defend whoever we are and attack. The whole world knows your defense that is softer than toilet paper." Liu Ren said to Dio while dribbling the ball.

Sure enough, when Dior heard Liu Ren's words, he immediately became furious. He didn't continue to speak, and immediately posted it on Liu Ren's body to defend. He knew that his trash talk was not as good as this kid. In his opinion, Liu Ren's trash talk seemed to be like Kobe Bryant. Yes, Dior tried it several times during the trash-talking days before Bryant's two consecutive titles.

If Liu Ren knew what Dior was thinking, he would definitely jump up and say, "This is created by the uncle himself. Can that old man compare with me?"

Dior is now sticking to Liu Ren's body, his movements are very big, it seems that his sanity is about to disappear, and he doesn't care about the foul at all.

Liu Ren now has many ways to score from Dior's head, he can run over Dior in various ways, enter the paint and dunk, Liu Ren doesn't want to do that, he wants to beat him in the way Dior is best at.

(End of this chapter)