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Chapter 47 Losing

After a 15-minute halftime break, the Kings returned to the locker room.

In the locker room, the atmosphere is quite peaceful. In Cousins ​​and his team's opinion, it is enough to be able to compete with the Spurs like this!

Jiang Yan sat there trying to recover the energy she lost in the first half.

After a while, Smart also came in!

"The first half was good, come on in the second half!" After finishing speaking, he left with Viglis!
Jiang Yan sat there without saying a word.

15 minutes passed quickly.

The third quarter begins!
This quarter is still the same lineup a few minutes after the second quarter!

But the Spurs' lineup has indeed changed a lot!

The original two big and tall men, now only De Juan is left, and the other four are Parker, Ginobili, Danny Green, and Leonard.

This is obvious, like the Kings, this is a lineup of one big and five small!

Popovich does not lack the courage of the experimental lineup!

The Spurs attacked, and Parker slowed down the pace of the game according to Popovich's instructions, and played a positional battle with the Kings!

After halftime, Parker watched Jiang Yan staring at him from beyond the three-point line. After thinking for a while, he handed the ball to Ginobili on the other side.

Facing Thornton's defense, Ginobili didn't talk nonsense and directly made a breakthrough.

European step left-handed layup!
Peng, brush!
directly into the frame.

62: 73.

As soon as it came on the stage, this demon knife began to show its power!

Jiang Yan remained unmoved, maintaining her poker face!

He took the basketball from Cousins, said something in his ear, and then walked forward.

But this time Jiang Yan didn't intend to push forward at all.

Since the opponent is the same as our own, use a lineup of one big and four small.

Then let the king's big fight with the opponent's hard knock!
That's right, Jiang Yan is going to let Cousins ​​play DeJuan on the inside in this round. I just talked to Cousins ​​and asked him to take a position in the paint!
After Cousins ​​came to the front court, he went deep inside immediately, pinned DeJuan behind him, raised his right hand, and signaled Jiang Yan to pass the ball!
Jiang Yan naturally saw this scene!
He dribbles slowly to the left side of the court, and after being on the side of Cousins, he will not let him be intercepted in the process of passing the ball.

Only then did he pass the ball to Cousins.

After Cousins ​​got the ball, he first observed the situation on the left and right, and found that he and Judean were left in the area on the left side of the basket, Cousins ​​acted!

I saw him stick out his buttocks, push Hu Dean back, and then repeat this action!
Three seconds later, Ju De'an was crushed by him to the three-second zone, and after that, he could dunk with his hands straight!

Ju De'an knew that this could not go on like this, and the other teammates of the Spurs could not help, only by himself!
Based on experience, he thought that Cousins ​​would continue to hit him with his back. He kept counting, and in just two more seconds, Cousins ​​would have violated the five-second back singles violation!

But Cousins ​​was able to become last year's rookie team, but he didn't have any brushes?
When he found that De Juan's defensive power was not coming from his back, he turned his back decisively, broke into the basket, and with a light and small hook, put the basketball into the basket!
De Juan was dumbfounded. He was preparing to use all his strength to resist Cousins' next impact?

64: 73.

The Spurs attacked, and Parker once again played the speed of his little French sports car, directly turned on the highest gear, and rushed towards the King's backcourt.

Jiang Yan naturally pursued closely, but Jiang Yan's defense against Parker in this game was not effective!

Parker also knew that Jiang Yan had the advantage of long arms, so he had been avoiding Jiang Yan to fight.

No, Parker used a simple pick-and-roll to get rid of Jiang Yan, and Jiang Yan couldn't chase him yet!

The guy who can only turn around and defend the pick-and-roll!
This time the Spurs made a breakthrough combination.

First, Parker went deep inside and attracted enough defense before passing the basketball to Green, who had been ambushing for a long time!
Green is now the Spurs' highest three-point shooter!

64: 76.

The Kings were attacking, and Jiang Yan saw the Spurs' combination of sudden points. He also let the Kings come once, and directly passed the ball to Evans on the other side.

Evans broke through again against Green. This time Green did not defend, although he tried his best to block Evans' breakthrough.

But once Evans accelerates, it will not be so easy to defend!

Evans came to the basket, directly against the defense of Green and Judean, and made a hard layup!

It's a pity that the ball may be because Evans' wrist is a little stiff. The basketball spun a few times on the basket, but it still fell out!
Green grabs the rebound!
Instead of passing the ball to Parker, he tossed it upfield, where there was already a guy leaving everyone behind.

Back to five seconds ago, Leonard, who was standing at the top of the three-point arc, saw Evans insisting on a layup against Green and DeJuan, and he ran back consciously!
Sure enough, after Green saw Leonard's figure, he slammed it hard and threw it at Leonard.

The ball was actually passed too far, and it went directly to Leonard's front step!

But Leonard was quick, got the ball almost to the basket, and the Kings had no one around him.

Leonard directly made a standing high jump ground dunk!

64: 78.

Jiang Yan shook her head, she was really speechless for Evans, she only knew to blindly break through, if the ball just now was thrown to the other side to Cousins ​​who was already vacant, it would definitely be an easy opportunity to attack!
Jiang Yan dribbled the ball, came to the frontcourt again, turned off the tactic of letting Evans score suddenly, or just let Cousins ​​dig inside!

Still all opened up, allowing Cousins ​​to play singles inside.

…………

With 37 minutes and [-] seconds left in the third quarter, the official paused again, and this timeout was counted on the Spurs!

For more than five minutes in the third quarter, under the arrangement of Jiang Yan, the Kings resolutely implemented Cousins' inside singles tactics.

As for the others, they opened up space for Cousins ​​on the outside!

The Spurs are resolutely implementing their breakthrough tactics. In the view of the Spurs, the Kings can't defend their breakthrough with only one Cousins ​​inside!

What's more, if the Kings shift their defensive focus to the inside, Green and Leonard on the outside will have a chance!

At the time of the official timeout, the score was 78-95.

The home team is in front, the visiting team is behind!
In the past 5 minutes, the rest of the Kings were not very tired, only Cousins ​​was very tired, just look at him panting loudly now!
Inside singles is very tiring, and he is not only responsible for offense, but also responsible for the team's rebounds, no wonder he is not tired!
Smart looked at Jiang Yan and the others, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Cousins, take a rest later!"

Cousins ​​wiped his sweat and nodded!

Then Smart said to Johnson on the periphery: "Wait a minute, you go on the court, remember your task is to grab rebounds, grab those damn rebounds!"

In just 5 minutes, because Cousins ​​put most of his energy on offense, the Kings' rebounds were not as good as the Spurs in the second half.

The 2-minute break passed quickly, and Jiang Yan and the others set foot on the court again!

As soon as I played, I found that the Spurs' lineup had also changed!

Jude'an is off, Duncan is on!

Parker was dribbling the ball, and instead of speeding up like in the first half of the quarter, he played at a slower pace!
Jiang Yan knew very well that the opponent wanted to play inside like the Kings did in the first half of the quarter!

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan couldn't help feeling vigilant, raised her hands high, and came to Parker, preventing him from passing the ball to Duncan.

However, Jiang Yan forgot that Parker is a breakthrough master. When Jiang Yan moved forward, Parker directly dribbled the ball under Jiang Yan's right and passed by Jiang Yan's right!

At this time, Jiang Yan's center of gravity was still unstable due to her striding, so she could only watch Parker ride away!
Seeing this, Johnson looked at Parker as if he was facing a formidable enemy. He had to prevent Parker from passing the ball to Duncan behind him, and he also had to guard against Parker's throw!
Parker didn't think too much, and made an emergency stop jumper one step inside the free throw line!

Johnson pounced on it subconsciously, while still howling ghosts and wolves!

Johnson's pounce was nothing, but the wailing and howling from his mouth made Parker's hand tremble directly.

Shoot the iron!

Johnson was overjoyed to see this, but he obviously forgot that there was a Duncan behind him!
When Duncan saw Parker strike the iron, he just jumped up and pushed the falling basketball into the basket again!
78: 97.

The Kings attacked, Jiang Yan no longer looked for the inside, but asked Garcia to play a pick-and-roll with him!

After the pick-and-roll, Jiang Yan was facing Jackson, but Jiang Yan couldn't afford to hesitate at this time. He gritted his teeth and came to a crossover directly. With the first step, he passed Jackson.

Seeing this, the Spurs quickly came to help defend, and it was Green of the Spurs.

He came to help defend from the top of the arc to defend Thornton.

Jiang Yan will not play forcefully, because that will neither increase the success rate of scoring goals, nor put herself at risk of injury.

After taking Green a little deeper, he passed the ball back directly to the top of the arc.

Thornton is empty there!
This is the Spurs' breakthrough tactic!
Jiang Yan also used the Spurs' tactics at this time!
After Thornton got the ball, he threw the basketball in his hand into the basket precisely like an aiming hand!

81: 97.

Next, the Spurs' offense will all revolve around Duncan, whether it's a pick-and-roll, or an inside single, or a sudden score!

The Kings' offense relied on Jiang Yan's timely breakthrough to combine sudden points!

What's more, the Spurs have also strengthened their defensive strength.

The Kings, as a belly team, quickly collapsed under this intensity!
Even if Jiang Yan still tried her best to break through to the inside of the Spurs, even if Jiang Yan passed the basketball to every player very accurately!
But it still can't change the fact that the point difference between the Kings and the Spurs is getting bigger and bigger!
At the end of the third quarter, the score directly changed to 88:104.

The Kings have Jiang Yan up and down, no one believes that there is still a chance to comeback!
The most direct result is that Smart arranged for water dispenser players to play in the fourth quarter, that is, Olot and the others!

Seeing this, the Spurs naturally let the starters off the field slowly!
In the last quarter of the game, the audience also gradually left the field!

Twelve minutes later, the game ended, with the Kings and Spurs at 105:124.

Lost the game by 19 points!

Jiang Yan was very depressed. Strictly speaking, this was his first loss in the NBA!

Even this time he scored 6 points and 14 assists!

In the locker room, Evans and Cousins ​​went to the post-match press conference. Seeing Jiang Yan sitting there with a frustrated face, Olot came over to comfort him and said, "Yan, are you unhappy because of the loss? It's okay." , is there anyone in the NBA who doesn’t lose?”

There was one more thing he didn't say.

You will also get used to losing in the future!

This is the conclusion of his two years in the king!
(End of this chapter)