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Chapter 186 Reimbursement for the regular season
"The core of the king is nothing more than Thomas and Cousins. Cousins ​​is very easy to deal with. Let him play badly and be affected by emotions!"

Seeing that everyone was focusing on him, Borrego immediately began to explain the arrangements. There was not much time left for the timeout, and he had to seize every second.

The voice paused for half a second, Borrego raised his head, stared at Yang Ke, and asked slowly: "Yang, can you effectively restrict Thomas?"

"Of course, give him to me!"

Nodding affirmatively, Yang Ke gave an answer in an instant.At the beginning of the game, Thomas' touch was very hot. After pulling out the space, he hit several goals in a row.

But even so, Yang Ke is still confident that he can restrain Thomas, and even freeze him.After all, in the face of Yang Ke's tight defense, Thomas' dexterity and speed will no longer have an advantage, and he has basically lost the opportunity.

Borrego chose to trust Yang Ke unreservedly, without any thought, and continued directly: "Defensively, we just need to strangle the cooperation between the two of them..."

"Di!"

"On the offensive end, we adopt conventional offensive tactics, try to pull Cousins ​​out as much as possible, and let the opponent's inside vacate, so as to create opportunities."

Amidst the referee's urging whistle, Borrego licked his thirsty lips, and then stated the offensive arrangement very concisely.After all, even if Parker is off the court, the offensive power of the Spurs' lineup has not weakened.

After a while, Yang Ke followed his teammates and finally set foot on the court again.Since the offensive ball is in the hands of the Kings, Yang Ke sits on his own three-point line and waits for Thomas to advance.

Bang!Bang!
Stopping one step outside the three-point line, looking at Yang Ke in front of him, Thomas also knew that he had no advantage, so he appeared very cautious.He gestured directly to Cousins ​​on the inside and asked him to come out and make a pick-and-roll for himself.

Watching Thomas' movements, Yang Ke gradually narrowed his eyes. When he began to seriously defend his opponent, he hated a tall center forward who blocked him from behind.

As a pick-and-roll tactic, the Spurs have made a perfect existence, and Yang Ke often uses pick-and-roll tactics in the game.So it is clear that after the pick-and-roll, the two offensive players cut at the same time, which is undoubtedly the worst result.

And as an extremely good defensive existence, Yang Ke also knows very well that it is almost impossible to accurately figure out the opponent's mind every time.

Therefore, the best way is, no matter whether the two of them dismantle or not, only attack one of them with all their strength. After all, you can't have both.If you want to guard against both of them, unless there is not much difference in their heights, it is absolutely impossible.

And Borrego had ordered not long ago that Cousins ​​should not play well, so the choice was obvious.

After following Cousins, seeing that he had already blocked Yang Ke, Splitter just stretched out his arm, delaying Thomas by a step, and then quickly retreated to Cousins, not leaving any room for him. Space.

Due to his weak mid-range and long-range shooting, Thomas immediately stepped forward with his feet and rushed to the three-point line with the ball after seeing that the basket was extremely open.

But just when Thomas rushed near the free throw line, Yang Ke quickly caught up from the right side, faster than him.In this way, if you continue to run forward, there is a high possibility that you will be blocked by Yang Ke.

After an instant of weighing, Parker chose to stop and shoot a jumper near the free throw line.The basketball bounced twice on the rim, and finally slipped down under the watchful eyes of the people, and was easily picked off by Duncan who had already stood on the side.

In the pick-and-roll tactics, the guard with the ball plays an absolute role.Through the pick and roll of his teammates, he can get enough space to shoot, pass, and attack the basket. It can be said that everything in the offense is initiated by him!
But in this game, Thomas couldn't pass the ball at all because his teammates were all stuck tightly.And Yang Ke's speed is much faster than when he holds the ball, and the success rate of going inside to attack the basket is greatly reduced.

Therefore, even if Thomas and Cousins ​​complete a perfect pick-and-roll cooperation, the effect it can achieve is very limited, unless Thomas now lights up his medium and long-range shooting package.

After restricting the opponent's offense, the Spurs, under the joint leadership of Yang Ke and Duncan, played steadily and created many opportunities for shots by constantly pulling space.

The Spurs played very smoothly from the outside today, not to mention Green's five three-pointers, and even Leonard also hit three three-pointers astonishingly.In the end, when the outside line was completely fired, the point difference was gradually opened to more than double digits.

At the end of the game, without the starting point guard Parker, the Spurs beat the Kings by a score of 105:88.After the game, everyone in the Spurs did not celebrate, but rushed back to the locker room.They wanted to visit Parker earlier, but found that he was not here at all.

After asking the staff, I found out because of the seriousness of the injury.When the game was in the third quarter, Parker had been transferred to the hospital.

Not long after, at the press conference after the game, Duncan, who scored 34+7+8, followed Borrego to deal with media reporters.The other players had already changed their clothes and went to the hospital where Parker was.

The moment they arrived at the hospital, Yang Ke and others got the specific news from Popovich that the quadriceps tendon in Parker's left leg had ruptured after an MRI examination.

"How did the game go?"

Looking at the worried-looking players in front of him, Popovich nodded in satisfaction. Being able to come as soon as possible after the game shows that the team spirit he has been cultivating has been very effective.

"Big victory."

Opened his mouth, Ginobili said succinctly, "Duncan won the most valuable player of the game, because they have to attend the press conference, they won't come until later."

"That dude Duncan is really dependable!"

Nodding expressionlessly, Popovich was not surprised by this result.Even among the GDP trio, Duncan is the most reassuring existence for him.

Looking at the closed treatment room behind Popovich, Yang Ke stepped forward and quickly asked, "Coach, how is Parker? How long will he be out?"

"He is undergoing related operations. According to the doctor, even if the operation is successful, he will not be able to participate in the rest of the regular season this season."

Sighing, with a helpless gleam in his eyes, Popovich said depressedly, "As for whether we can make it to the playoffs, it depends on the degree of postoperative recovery and how far we can go before we can fully confirm."

(End of this chapter)