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Chapter 85 Spurs (2)

Jiang Yan saw that the Spurs' internal and external integration was so good, and she turned around in her head about the Spurs' weaknesses.

However, it was discovered that the Spurs are simply both offensive and defensive. On the offensive end, they have a mature offensive system. On the defensive end, except for the weak defensive ability of the center and point guard, there are no weaknesses at all in other positions.

Although the Spurs have two positions with weaknesses, the Kings' lineup is completely unable to do anything about such weaknesses!
Because these two positions are also the team's weakness!

To a certain extent, the Spurs' lineup completely restrains the Kings' lineup!
Even the Kings are belly fat!

Jiang Yan still let Aldridge single-handedly fight Duncan this time. In Jiang Yan's view, as long as a tactic is effective, he will continue to use it until the opponent changes!
Still the same as before, let Aldridge play Duncan alone on the left side of the basket.

This time Aldridge turned around and shot a jumper after bumping Duncan back once.

This caught Duncan by surprise.

Duncan thought Aldridge would continue to beat him back, but he didn't expect Aldridge to be such a thief!
5: 4.

The next round of the Spurs' offense was stymied. After Parker broke into the inside, he continued to pass the ball to Green, but this time Green shot directly, but it was slammed!

The Kings attack, Jiang Yan still let the Kings play positional battles, let Aldridge singles out Duncan!
This time Aldridge also missed, turned around and hit the jumper, but Cole Aldridge overwhelmed Splitter, who was taller than him, and took the offensive rebound.

Then pass it back to Jiang Yan.

After Jiang Yan received the ball, she didn't continue to pass it to Aldridge, but gestured to Aldridge that he wanted to pick and roll!

Seeing this, Aldridge no longer stuck with Duncan, but came to the top of the arc, and Jiang Yan picked and rolled.

Block Parker, and then the two separated.

What Jiang Yan was facing was her senior, Duncan who came up to defend him.

As for Aldridge, he faced Parker.

Jiang Yan was not in a hurry, but pulled Duncan to the three-point line, allowing Aldridge to come to the inside again.

The difference this time is that Aldridge singled out the Spurs point guard Parker.

Duncan also wanted to go to chase and defend, but the information given by the Spurs showed that as the season progressed, his junior Jiang Yan became more and more accurate in outside shooting!
Now has a hit rate of 31%!
For outside players, it has reached the passing line!
The Spurs can't block Jiang Yan's bad touch, so they can only let Parker defend Aldridge alone.

Facing Parker's defense, Aldridge is different!

This time he used a complete post-up single.

Pushing Parker directly to the inside, Splitter was also ready to move when he saw this, he wanted to make up for the defense!

But Cole Aldridge is cleverly stuck in Splitter's position, preventing him from stepping forward to help defend!
In the end, Aldridge pushed the ball out of the three-second zone through a bulldozer-like post-up single, and then scored with a small hook.

Standing on the sidelines, Popovich lamented Jiang Yan's offensive choice. This round directly strangled the Spurs' weakness!

Parker's defense is terrible!
In the next game, neither side could defend the other's offense. Whenever the Spurs scored a goal, the Kings would return a goal.

So by the time of the official timeout, 7 minutes and 34 seconds into the first quarter, the scores of the two teams were still deadlocked.

17: 16.

The home team is at the back and the visiting team is at the front.

All the fans in the Arco Arena were very surprised, because the current Kings were able to form a balance of power with the powerful Spurs in the West in the first 8 minutes, which surprised them.

Surprisingly, the cooperation between Aldridge and Jiang Yan was perfect. With Jiang Yan's teamwork, Aldridge gave full play to his advantage of accurate shooting and directly scored 8 points in 11 minutes!
As for Jiang Yan, she got three assists in 8 minutes!
In fact, if it weren't for Aldridge's post-up singles, Jiang Yan could get eight assists in 8 minutes!

During the timeout, the bench of the Kings was very quiet, because Vigelis was neither good at filling chicken soup, nor was he good at coaching!

So seeing that Jiang Yan had nothing to say, the Kings' bench was naturally very quiet!
In stark contrast to the Kings is the Spurs on the other side.

Popovich held the tactical board and kept saying something to Duncan and the others.

Don't think about it, this must be the arrangement of the Spurs' defensive tactics!
Although the Spurs have transformed from the comprehensive defense of the Duncan and Robinson era to the current offense, it is very pleasing to watch.

But in Popovich's heart, defense is still the first!

And this season, the Spurs have truly achieved a balanced offensive and defensive development, ranking fifth in the league in offense and fourth in defense.

Only the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder can compete with it.

Due to the presence of the Big Three, the former's offense is too against the sky, while the latter's Wang Zha combination is really too difficult to defend!

The two teams played again, but Jiang Yan did not appear on the field. For the sake of Jiang Yan's physical strength, Vigelis directly let Jiang Yan take the lead to rest.

The Spurs played the best sixth man Manu Ginobili, replacing Splitter.

In this way, Duncan became the only big man on the Spurs and moved to the center position.

Tony Douglas (point guard) comes on to guard Parker.

The Spurs attacked, Parker directly handed the ball to Ginobili standing outside the three-point line, let him attack!
The current Ginobili is not the 40-year-old Ginobili in later generations. Although his current strength has declined from his peak period, he is still more than enough to deal with ordinary defenders.

Garcia is to defend Ginobili!
Ginobili directly relied on his own breakthrough, passed Garcia, and then went straight to the basket guarded by Cole Aldridge!
Although Aldridge is very fat, but fat also has the advantage of being fat, that is, it has a greater psychological shock to the offending players!

This was the case with Ginobili. Seeing Cole Aldridge pounced on him, he passed the ball directly behind his head and passed it to Parker who was still at the top of the arc outside the three-point line!
After Parker got the ball, he made a quick breakthrough, and Jiang Yan couldn't defend at all!
After Parker broke into the inside, he did not attack by himself, but passed the ball again to Ginobili who quietly came to the bottom corner!
"brush!"

Ginobili is relentless, receiving the ball is a three-pointer!
Douglas dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and did not pass the ball to Aldridge, who was in a good position. Instead, when Parker thought he was going to pass the ball and take a step back, he shot a cold arrow and made a three-pointer!

"Swipe!" A direct hit!
The Spurs attacked, and this time Parker broke into the inside and caused a foul by Lamarcus Aldridge, who had to execute two free throws!

Taking this opportunity, Popovich replaced Duncan and Leonard with Boris Diaw and martial artist Stephen Jackson.

The former Martial Saint won his first championship with the Spurs, so in the Spurs system, he has no discomfort at all!
Besides, Jackson has improved a lot compared to before!First of all, he was just a defensive role player before!

But this season in the Spurs is the second scoring point in the bench.

The first is of course Ginobili!
Parker made two free throws and the Kings attacked. With Aldridge attracting most of the Spurs' defensive attention, Douglas directly broke through Parker with his strong body, and then came to the basket, facing Duncan's supplement Defense to a layup!

Although Duncan interfered with Douglas' shot, Douglas was lucky. The basketball just weighed a few times on the basket and fell into the basket!

23: 25.

The home team is behind, the away team is in front!
In the following time, Popovich let Parker off the field and replaced him with the little man Mills.

Then under the crazy leadership of Mills, the king's score fell behind by five points from the original lead of two points!
The first quarter is over.

The Spurs won the first quarter with a five-point lead!

Duncan, who was sitting off the court, was still a little surprised that after the Kings traded, the strength and style of the team directly changed a lot!

And this ESPN live room commentator Steve Kerr praised the Kings.

It can be said that Patrik's mid-season deal can be called A+ level!
As for another commentator, Byron Scott, he sang the opposite tune.

He believes that the reason why the Kings can compete with the Spurs is only due to the dividends brought by the transaction.

"Think about it, this transaction of the Kings has directly changed the team's lineup, which makes the teams that have studied the same in the first half of the season have no idea what tactics the Kings play!" Scott talked eloquently ground analysis.

Cole responded silently, but he also knew what Scott said was true.

To verify how Patrik's deal is, it depends on the next game of the Kings.

But in this game, the Kings played very well!

After a few minutes of rest, the second quarter continued.

Jiang Yan was still put on the bench by Vigelis.

Regarding Jiang Yan's playing time, Vigelis has a plan. He believes that Jiang Yan's playing time cannot exceed 30 minutes, because once this time is exceeded, Jiang Yan's risk of injury will increase.

Jiang Yan sat on the sidelines, watching the hard work of the substitutes.

In fact, the Kings' substitute is really not the opponent of the Spurs. In just 3 minutes of the second quarter, the point difference between the two teams widened from the original five points to eleven points!
Especially the little man Mills, who directly transformed into Curry of the Warriors, under the organization of Ginobili, scored by running and catching the ball!
In the 5th minute, Vigelis finally put Jiang Yan and Aldridge on the field, and replaced Douglas and Patterson!

The Spurs also changed their starting lineup except that Splitter was replaced by Ginobili, the situation of the two teams is on the verge of breaking out!
Jiang Yan dribbled the ball to the front court, and when Aldridge was in a good position, Parker couldn't help but take a step back, so he made a direct pull.

But it's a pity, maybe because of the long rest time, Jiang Yan's hand feeling is not good, this ball hits the iron directly!
And the backcourt rebound was won by Duncan.

(End of this chapter)