Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 49 Foul Explosive Power

In the 99 playoffs, the second-year rookie Tim Duncan averaged 29 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2 blocks per game. With the general who averaged 13 points per game, Elliott, the kidney fighter, is now sitting on the bench for the Lakers. ·Jackson and the young general Avery Johnson, the kiss of death Mario Avery and others, swept the playoffs in the season. After a large-scale personnel change, the team was finally led by the famous backer Kurt Rambis Lakers.

A year later, the Lakers made a comeback. However, when Duncan was injured, the Spurs were eliminated in the first round by the Suns who also lacked Kidd, and failed to meet the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals.

Another year later, the OK combination reached its peak, while the old Spurs were only supported by Duncan. The Lakers swept the Spurs in the playoffs and avenged that year.

In addition to this year's regular season, the Spurs have lost 5 consecutive games against the Lakers. Neither Popovich nor Duncan can allow their team to lose to the same opponent so many times in a row.

At the beginning of the second half, Popovich completely gave up Charles Smith, who was unable to attack and defend, and sent Malik Rose to mark Mason. Open up the situation, let Kobe and Steve Smith go heads-up, and admit it when they are beaten to death.

Kobe held the ball and waved his hand to open the space for Ben Wallace who came up to pick and roll. He decided to take Steve Smith head-on.

Hold the ball, swing right and cut left!

Smith lowered his center of gravity and slid quickly to keep up.

Stop suddenly at the crotch and change to the right!

Smith turned back hastily, barely trying to interfere.

Step back and pull back the fadeaway jumper!
Smith has been shaken two meters away, and he can't even touch the corner of Kobe's clothes.

No surprises, Hollow hits.

For the Spurs, Duncan relied on the pick-and-roll cooperation with Parker and made a mid-range shot.

Back on the defensive end, the Spurs began to move more. Malik Rose got a foul for pulling his jersey in the box with Mason. Mason's jersey was torn and he had to go to the sidelines to change a new one. of.

Kobe continued to play singles with the ball. This time, Steve Smith, who had suffered a disadvantage, did not give Kobe room to take a calm shot. When Kobe made a fake move, he cut directly with a fierce hand knife.

Didn't cut the ball, but cut directly on Kobe's wrist, and the ball fell.

When Kobe Bryant turned his head to complain to the referee, Steve Smith picked up the basketball and prepared to play quickly. The referee hesitated, and finally called a foul.

Kobe rubbed his right hand, which was hard.

The Lakers continued to serve, and Fisher lobbed the ball to O'Neal inside.

Malik Rose directly gave up on Mason, who was his main defense, and came up to double-team O'Neal. He dribbled the ball with both hands and scratched fiercely, regardless of whether his actions had crossed the foul line.

The referee called another foul, and the Lakers had to serve another sideline.

The Spurs made personnel adjustments, replacing David Robinson with Mark Bryant, the patron saint of drinking fountains.

The 36-year-old Mark Bryant has averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds per game in his career. With such bleak statistics, he has been in the league for more than ten years. It can only be said that he still has some advantages, although it is not obvious and not easy to be noticed by everyone. arrive.

At this juncture, Mark Bryant, who had never played before, was obviously not expected to be a surprise player on both ends of the offense and defense. Bryant, who came up with a mission, was a slap in the face to O'Neal as soon as the Lakers sent the ball. bear hug.

In just over a minute into the third quarter, the Spurs had fouled four times. What a terrible explosive foul.

Now everyone knows that Popovich is going to kill the shark.

O'Neal, who hadn't played yet, made two free throws and the Spurs got the ball.

When Tony Parker and Steve Smith's inward and outward shots were at a loss, the Spurs' simple and crude solution was to hand the ball to Duncan. Step right big skyhook hit.

Ben was at a loss what to do about this, Duncan used his physical ability to be proficient, compressed his take-off space through reasonable confrontation, and then relied on his height and wingspan to make unimpeded shots.

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly, and something that made him scratch his head came again soon.

As soon as the ball from the baseline was sent to Fisher, Mark Bryant hugged Ben Wallace here.

Big Ben grabbed the basketball and stood on the free throw line, made a bad free throw posture, took a deep breath, smashed the ball to the ground three times, raised it above his head, and then used his upper limbs to work together to throw the ball.Every muscle seemed extremely stiff.

The ball drew a parabola high, but the falling trajectory was one meter closer than ideal.The ball fell directly into the hands of the baseline referee without even touching the net.

The home audience sighed, this free throw was even more outrageous than O'Neal.

A little frustrated, Big Ben took the basketball from the referee, hit the ground a little more this time, aimed at the basket for two more seconds, and used a little more force.

The arc of the ball is much flatter than before, and the strength is enough.

It's just that the direction was a little too skewed, and the ball hit the outside of the white frame directly and bounced off.

Duncan received the rebound and the Spurs attacked.This time, Parker made a mid-range shot after borrowing the screen.

One of the purposes of hacking the shark tactic is to let the opponent attack in the least proficient way, so as to force the opposing coach to replace important players, but the essence is to let the opponent continuously enter the defensive rounds, and the continuous defensive rounds will kill the enthusiasm of the players. , Disrupt the rhythm of the attack, and the feel will become colder and colder.

After several consecutive rounds of hacking the sharks, O'Neill made 4 of 2 free throws in total, which is still a pass, while Da Ben, who was under special care, only made 8 of 2 free throws.

Mark Bryant completed his historical mission, scored 4 fouls in 6 minutes, and left the field with honor.The Spurs took this opportunity to close the score to 55-58.

The Zen master seems to be betting with Popovich, that is, not to replace Big Ben and O'Neal, to see how long Popovich can cut and how many people are still available.

The Spurs replaced another nuclear weapon, Cherokee Parks, and continued to chop the sharks and chop the great cause.

Duncan took the ball, and Mason also let go of Malik Rose, who was facing him, and came to double-team.

Duncan quickly gave the ball to Rose, who was cutting to the basket. Rose looked at O'Neal who was guarding the basket, but without any fear, he took off and tried to block the dunk with one hand!
O'Neill takes his territory very seriously, and anyone who dares to challenge his dignity must be prepared to be overthrown.The shark, suffocated with anger, exploded on the spot and slapped the 260-pound Rose from the air with the ball.

Rose fell to the ground on his back, and Duncan hurried to pull him up.

O'Neal got a flagrant first-degree foul.

Zen master didn't dare to let O'Neal stay on the court anymore. If he was sent off, the loss would not be worth the loss. He hurriedly sent Okur to replace O'Neal who was a little out of control. At the same time, he replaced Stephen Jackson and pushed Mason to the power forward position. superior.

The Spurs duly traded Cherokee Parks back for David Robinson.

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