Basketball's best forward and guard

Chapter 35 35 [Lonzo Ball]

The game started soon, and no one expected that the Lakers would be the main opponent, and they beat the Spurs 29:14 in the first quarter!

15 points difference.

Popovich was angry, and with a big wave of his hand, he removed all starters.

This kind of operation is simply commonplace for him, but because of the special reasons of tonight's game, many fans still sweat for Popovich.

The starter digs the hole, and the substitute fills it.

Perhaps the Spurs are such a team. After five downs and five ups, the Spurs' bench did not disappoint Popovich. The bench players headed by Bertans played a wave of 29:14 throughout the second quarter !

Therefore, at the end of the first half, the two teams actually had no point difference.

"We can see very clearly that the overall state of the Lakers is very good tonight, perhaps because there is no record pressure. The Lakers' style of play has brought problems to the Spurs. If the Spurs want to win this game, they cannot The second half of the game continued to rely on substitutes, and the starters must stand up."

During the intermission, the performance of the Spurs' starting lineup in the first half of the game became the focus of everyone's heated discussion.

Strictly speaking, this is not the Spurs' starting lineup that staged such a digging scene this season.

However, in this special game tonight, they staged such a drama, and it seemed to everyone that they were playing with fire.

"China Jiang, who averaged 20+ per game in the last few games, also misfired tonight. He only scored 2 points in the first half, which is not normal."

Since the last game against the Cavaliers, Jiang Hao seemed to have opened up the two veins of Ren and Du. His performance on the court has become better and better, and he has become the team's second only to Aldridge's scorer.

This surprised many Spurs fans. Although Leonard still failed to make a comeback, Jiang Hao's strong rise seems to have taken Leonard's place very well.

Frankly speaking, if it weren't for Jiang Hao's outstanding performance during this period, it would be impossible for the Spurs to still have hope of advancing to the playoffs.

Originally, the game against the Lakers tonight, everyone felt that under the leadership of Jiang Hao, it must be a very easy game, and the final winner will also belong to the Spurs.

But I didn't expect Jiang Hao to be lost tonight, with 2 points in the half?
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have believed that this was Jiang Hao's half-time data.

In the Spurs locker room, Jiang Hao stayed in the innermost part alone. He felt that he was too tired during this period, which made his performance just now extremely poor.

But having said that, the substitute players are very good, which gave him a chance to adjust.

He felt that he would definitely get back to his form in the second half of the game.

"All fucked up hard"

Popovich is always so unrestrained, he has saved enough face for the starters tonight, this will just be a tantrum in the locker room, if it is left in the past, he will even broadcast it live.

"A bunch of listless things, if you lose the game tonight, don't even think about the holidays, give it all to me and go back to the training hall after the game"

Jiang Hao and the others shuddered.

This old man lost his temper, lost the game and practiced more?

Who can bear this.

But no one dared to take this sentence as a deaf ear, because everyone knew that Popovich could really do this kind of thing.

Jiang Hao shook his head. Although he is a training fanatic, he might not be able to accept such an arrangement. Therefore, tonight's game must be won.

The Spurs home commentary desk, today is not only Matt Bonner who is responsible for the commentary, but also a special guest, he is the famous Spurs-Admiral Robinson.

The admiral, who has retired for many years, has obviously been paying attention to the situation of the Spurs. He will often appear in the arena to watch the Spurs' games and maintain communication with the Spurs management. Sometimes he even goes to the training hall to guide young players to play.

It's like a week ago, he was invited by the Spurs management to communicate with Leonard.

Tonight, I came to the commentary stand to sit as a special guest. Frankly speaking, he and Matt Bonner are in the same mood. They are both worried about the current situation facing the team.

Of course, at halftime, he and Matt Bonner naturally talked about Leonard's injury.

"Injury is the natural enemy of all professional players. Under normal circumstances, with Kawhi's injury, he should be on the court, but you know, everyone's specific situation is different"

Everyone can hear at least one thing from Robinson's words, that is, Leonard should appear on the court under normal circumstances.

Many fans felt that Robinson's remarks were openly questioning Leonard. For a while, the confusing news about Leonard's injury was mentioned by more and more fans.

On the contrary, everyone talked a lot less about this game.

All this did not change until the second half of the game officially started.

"Let's put our focus back on the game field. This game is far from over. The two teams played inextricably in the first half, and the score was never drawn, especially for the Spurs. The performance of the game starters will be very important.”

Matt Bonner immediately brought the topic back to the game.

Like Jiang Hao, the starting point guard of the Lakers, Lonzo Ball, is also a rookie this year. Moreover, he is much more famous than Jiang Hao. This is due to his father, but also because of his own talent.

But obviously, in front of Jiang Hao today, Lonzo Ball, who is the second most expensive player in the list, no longer has any capital to be proud of.

Lonzo Ball looked good for the Lakers this season, but there is still a certain distance from people's expectations, and his shooting has always been a big problem.

Take this game as an example, Jiang Hao only scored 2 points in the first half of the game because of poor form, but Lonzo Ball was different. He only scored 4 points in the half, but only 5 shots in total , In other words, Lonzo Ball is deliberately reducing the number of shots he takes.

Why did he do this?

There may be many reasons for this, but there must be one reason, that is, he doesn't want to continue to be chased by people and he can't shoot badly.

Since everyone is complaining about my shooting, okay, then I just don't shoot.

However, when facing Jiang Hao tonight, Lonzo Ball was honestly not at peace. Donovan Mitchell, the No. The round show also showed this trend. The Spurs No. 13 in front of his eyes also didn't look like a first-line fuel-efficient light.

In this case, he really wanted to have a good fight with this yellow face in the third quarter.

Even in terms of shooting, as far as he knows, the Chinese player's shooting in this game is also very bad.

(End of this chapter)