Basketball's best forward and guard

Chapter 9 [The biggest failure]

The Spurs' offense, like the first half, Jiang Hao's first landing point is still the right corner, waiting for the arrival of the pass at any time.

However, with Mike Conley following the defense, he didn't seem to have a chance to catch the ball.

In this situation, if you want to continue scoring, you must actively seek opportunities, so Jiang Hao moved, he tried to pass through the basket from the right bottom corner along the edge of the baseline, and ran to the other side.

Mike Conley was obviously aware of Jiang Hao's actions, and immediately followed.

However, at the basket, Mike Conley was slightly blocked by Aldridge's card position.

This slight barrier is simply a great opportunity for Jiang Hao. When Murray's pass came quickly, an emergency stop jumper was instantly completed in Jiang Hao's hands.

hit.

Jiang Hao and Murray finished the high-five celebration, and then quickly turned to defense. It seemed that his attention on the court was absolutely focused, and he would not get carried away just because he hit a shot.

All of this happened to be captured by Popovich on the sidelines.

As the point guard of the Memphis Grizzlies, Mike Conley turned around and responded quickly on the offensive end after failing on the defensive end. He hit a difficult three-pointer against Kyle Anderson's defense.

The Spurs' defensive handling of the ball made Popovich very dissatisfied. In Popovich's view, if the help defense just now could be more in place, Mike Conley would not have a shot.

In fact, in the absence of Kawhi Leonard this season, the Spurs have not played well on both ends of the offense and defense. Many people say that the Spurs with smooth offense and defense in the past are gone.

In fact, there is no way around this. As the new leader of this team, Leonard plays an irreplaceable role on both offense and defense. His absence will indeed affect the normal operation of the team.

.........

As far as the current stage is concerned, Jiang Hao's offensive ability with the ball is very poor. No, in the next offensive round, when Pau Gasol's high-post support pass is handed over to Jiang Hao, facing Mike Conley's defense, Jiang Hao Hao was directly intercepted.

His ball protection ability, ball-handling skills, and ball-holding options are all very poor. It can be said that through this steal, Jiang Hao basically exposed his shortcomings at a glance.

"This is the rookie"

On the Spurs bench, Messina smiled and shook his head. He was not surprised by Jiang Hao's mistake just now. To be honest, he has seen this kind of scene too much.

"Of course, as long as he continues his excellent touch, that's enough," Messina continued.

Jiang Hao felt a little angry at this time. On the one hand, it was very annoying to be harassed by Mike Conley and the anti-harassment during this period, and on the other hand, the forced steal just now made his heart completely smoke.

So, he decided to have a proving confrontation with this Mike Conley.

When Jiang Hao received the pass again, his position was on the left side of the top of the arc outside the three-point line, and Mike Conley was still defending him.

Jiang Hao has self-knowledge. He knows that he does not have the ability to attack with a lot of money, so when facing Mike Conley's defense, he directly relies on his height advantage to throw the ball to the basket with open hands. He is betting on himself Feeling hot.

brush!
"Damn it" Dave Jogel swears directly, what the hell is this yellow-skinned player, how can he make shots no matter what?

After Jiang Hao hit the three-pointer, in fact, it wasn't just Dave Jogel who found it a bit incomprehensible.

Even the Spurs players are a little unbelievable at this time.

They basically know what kind of player Jiang Hao is. Even if the feeling is overwhelming tonight, it can't be so scary, right?

However, after the unbelievable, everyone's inexplicable desire to win this game quickly became stronger.

Especially for Aldridge, who had a bad touch in the first half, when he saw that the most marginal teammates in the team were making as many shots as possible to help the team score at this time, he was instantly full of desire to attack.

In the absence of Leonard, he must carry the entire team forward.

hit!

Again!

The mid-range shot is Aldridge's unique skill. In the next few offensive rounds, when Aldridge hit several mid-range shots in a row, the point difference was finally widened.

79: 68!

The Spurs at home expanded the point difference to more than 10 points for the first time in this game.

The third quarter was officially suspended, and Jiang Hao was finally replaced by Popovich to rest. When he left the field, he was applauded and cheered by many fans.

Obviously, everyone understands that Jiang Hao tonight is so important to this team.

"This may be a foreshadowing. Dave Jogel's starting point is good. He gave China Jiang enough attention from the beginning of the third quarter. We must also admit that Mike Conley has always been a very good defensive point guard." Wei, but using him to deal with Jiang is obviously a failure."

"That's right, when Jiang's hand continues to be hot, the disadvantages of the small defense will be infinitely magnified, not to mention that Mike Conley has invested too much energy on the defensive end, which has caused his influence on the offensive end to decline rapidly. That's why the Grizzlies were split instantly."

Matt Bonner was smiling all over his face at this time, and began to analyze logically. When the team had expanded the point difference to more than 10 points in the middle of the third quarter, he knew that the game was basically stable. up.

Because in the entire league, few teams can complete a comeback in the hands of the Spurs, especially when the game is in the third quarter.

What's more, the team's main scorer Aldridge's touch is back.

Jiang Hao did not play again for the rest of the third quarter, because Rudy Gay also found the crosshairs on the offensive end after returning to the court.

In this case, Popovich has no reason to let him return to the court. After all, as far as Popovich is concerned at the moment, Rudy Gay is far more important than Jiang Hao in Popovich's heart.

In the fourth quarter, Jiang Hao got another 3 minutes of playing time. However, he did not hit another shot, but missed a three-pointer for the first time in this game. Before that, his three-pointer was Four of four shots, [-]% hit rate.

And when Jiang Hao missed the first three-pointer, many fans also breathed a sigh of relief. They were very emotional. Tonight, this "surprise soldier" finally returned to the mortal world. After all, this is a three-pointer, not a mid-range shot. , Not to mention a breakthrough layup, Stephen Curry, who is the most accurate three-pointer in the league, does not have such a perverted shooting rate.

Although Jiang Hao missed the last three-pointer, the Spurs fans are gratified that the team finally ended their losing streak tonight.

That's right, 114:106!

The Spurs won the game.

(End of this chapter)