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Chapter 158 Under the coach's confrontation

Seeing Green waving his arms excitedly and gesticulating to the bench, the home fans instantly became dissatisfied. With their efforts, the entire American Airlines Arena booed harshly.

"Forehead."

Amidst the boos of the audience, Yang Ke, who was drinking orange juice, froze for a moment, looked at the scene in front of him, shook his head wryly, and said to Parker beside him: "It seems that the fans thought that Green show off!"

Laughing heartily, Parker put the towel on his shoulders, and then said heartlessly: "Haha! That's what he deserves, he only scored a three-pointer, and he wants to explain it to us so urgently!"

Seeing the Spurs overtake the score again, James was very unhappy, and he even yelled at Cole and Chalmers for this.

Then during the offense, James vented all his unhappiness on Dior, like an invincible tank.Directly crushing Dior's defense, he rushed into the inside line abruptly, scored two points with a small hack dunk, and at the same time caused a defensive foul by Splitter who was supplementing the defense!

"boom!"

Landing on the ground, James slapped his chest excitedly, and with this 2+1 split dunk, the atmosphere of the fans on the scene was mobilized instantly, and they chanted James' full name neatly!

"Leonard, come here!"

Seeing this scene, Popovich lowered his face, turned around and called Leonard who had just rested for a long time, pulled his head, and whispered: "Go up and replace Jefferson and defend James. The heavy responsibility is entrusted to you!"

Nodding affirmatively, Leonard didn't say much, turned around directly, took off his warm coat, walked to the technical table, and re-boarded the court in an instant before James made an additional penalty.

In the team, Leonard has the strongest single-defense ability, and he also has excellent speed, jumping ability and physical confrontation ability, so he can cause certain obstacles to James. As for how far he can limit James, Even Popovich doesn't know.

Next, it was the Spurs' offensive round. Once halftime passed, Ginobili passed the ball to Diaw, playing the latest pass-blocking tactic.

And then Ginobili and Green began to cooperate vertically. A few seconds later, the Heat's perimeter defense was torn open. Ginobili cut to the three-point line, received a pass from Dior, and made a jumper near the free throw line. Shot hit and scored two points.

The transition between offense and defense was slow. After Chalmers brought the ball across the half court, James held the ball without any surprises. Looking at Leonard in front of him, thinking of the trouble he caused him in the first quarter, he immediately became nervous. frowned.

However, James can be regarded as a top superstar. Facing a young rookie, although Leonard is really difficult, he will never back down. Amid the cheers of the fans, he launched a strong attack.

Steady control of the ball, James is used to taking a step back, and then after a quick dribble, relying on his excellent physical fitness, he forced a breakthrough with the ball, carried Leonard with all his strength, took two big strides, and succeeded Get close to the free throw line.

James' layup is known as the "crab step". According to basketball rules, only two steps on the ground are allowed for a layup, and the third step requires a jump.

However, James' crab step uses visual errors to give people the illusion of his four-step layup. James usually has a fake move before making a three-step layup.

But because James knows how to use his body to the extreme, he can shake his body without moving his feet. At this moment, facing Leonard's defense, James has already taken two steps.

When he was about to sway his body and feint without moving his feet, so as to gain some space for a layup, Diaw came from the side to help defend.

Looking at Dior, who was stalking him, James knew that he was already in a pincer state, so he passed the ball at the first thought. After all, he had already attracted the attention of the defense, and no matter how hard his teammates were, there would be an open space.

But under a slight panic, the foot that James had never moved moved a small step, and this scene was deeply watched by the referee Crawford.

"Di!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Crawford blew the whistle in his mouth and made a walking gesture at the same time!

Immediately there was boos without any surprises. This time the target of the boos was changed to the referee Crawford, and James, who was whistled, did not go to argue with Crawford at all, but shook helplessly. Shake your head.

It's not because he really walks, but because James knows that Crawford is a willful referee, as long as it is the result he believes, he wants to force him to change?Well, the result can refer to the time he sent Duncan out because Duncan laughed on the bench.

And just taking advantage of this time of dead ball, the Heat made another substitution. Spoelstra replaced Chalmers with Bosh, allowing James to return to the small forward position, and at the same time relieved him. The pressure on the offensive end.

With Bosh's debut, James was completely liberated in this lineup, with no one to help Leonard with some threatening defense.

James, who tried his best, firmly gained the upper hand in the confrontation with Leonard.All kinds of breakthrough layups, grabbing rebounds to complete the second offense, etc. Even if he is double-teamed, James can pass the ball out and assist teammates like Bosh to score.

Fortunately, under the internal and external connection of Diaw and Ginobili, the Spurs clenched the game tightly. Even if they were always behind the Heat in the next game, the point difference did not exceed double digits.

And until the last minute of the second quarter, the two teams did not make any more substitutions. The first confrontation between Popovich and Spoelstra also came to an end. This consumed the Heat's main physical energy and bought time for their main players to rest.

And Spoelstra also barely achieved the goal, allowing the Heat to take the lead in the score. The fly in the ointment is that the point difference has always been within double digits, but the cost is that James' physical exertion is too much.

58 seconds before halftime, Spoelstra used Wade and Chalmers to replace James and Cole through a dead ball.

On the other side, Popovich, who saw Spoelstra making a substitution, looked back at his own bench, hooked his fingers, and replaced Ginobili and Green with Yang Ke and Parker. .

The reason why the two teams made substitutions was not only to let the players enter the rest state in advance, but also to hope to perfectly end the last minute of the first half.

Stepping onto the court, the Spurs have the right to attack. Yang Ke slowly ran to the left three-point line and settled down, while Parker controlled the ball and looked for opportunities to attack.

　I originally planned to change twice a day from the beginning of the summer vacation, but I never thought of going back to the driving school. Now that I have passed the second subject, I have much more free time for the third subject than the second subject, so I started not long ago Twice a day.

　　
　
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