Wang Tu Baye

Chapter 273 Fierce battle against the Spurs

The Golden State Warriors, who were busy preparing for the regular season again, ushered in the San Antonio Spurs at home. This is a tough nut to crack. Every time Verus sees the Spurs with facial paralysis, his teeth are a little sore.

Gregg Popovich's Spurs, you can know how they will play without looking at the players on the field. No matter which player is on the Spurs, the Spurs will always be the Spurs, and you know that you can't beat them.

Only players adapt to the Spurs, and no Spurs have ever matched any player. Even if the basketball god goes to the Spurs, he probably has to be a hardworking bee honestly in the pick-and-roll.

In this season's NBA West, the Sacramento Kings lead the way, followed closely by the Lakers, Spurs and Mavericks.

The Warriors and the Minnesota Trailblazers are in the second echelon with similar records, and the Clippers and the Suns have a winning rate of less than 50%. Unless they work hard in the second half, they will definitely miss the playoffs.

If Verus is given a position, he will definitely choose fifth or eighth in the Western Conference without hesitation. The Kings are basically no suspense in the Western Conference this season. It is reasonable for the Lakers and Spurs to be second and third. Five is the same, because the first round of the playoffs is fourth against fifth, and it is nothing more than who has more home court advantage.

If the Warriors finally rank sixth or seventh in the West, then the playoffs will definitely have to play the Lakers and the Spurs consecutively. If you win the Lakers, you will have to beat the Spurs. It is an impossible task.

Don't look at the king's success in the regular season, ranking first in the entire league, but the playoffs are completely different from the regular season. The king may seem to have a great advantage playing any team now, but it is not a match at all in the playoffs. That's it.

The tradition of the Spurs and the Lakers is that they have some reservations in the regular season. They don’t need to prove themselves, as long as they enter the playoffs and rank relatively high. Whether they are first or second or third, it doesn’t make much difference to them, and there is no need. For the sake of fame, he injured and damaged his own star. The Sharks in the playoffs and O'Neal in the regular season are completely different players.

The Golden State Warriors under Lenny obviously did not use their three-pointers. Yao Mingcai was relatively immature in his first season. McGrady could play more beautiful statistics, but he has been consciously suppressed by Lenny, while the other Warriors Players, most of them are also in a state of hunger and thirst, looking forward to playing.

Some NBA teams have no one to play, and the main team will feel very painful. There are 82 regular season games, and each game has to play 40 minutes. What is this concept? You must know that the regular season starts at the end of October and ends in mid-April Excluding the holidays such as the Christmas All-Stars, it really only looks like 10 months.

Playing 100 games in more than 82 days, basically one game in 2 days, what is the concept of 40 minutes, nba stars can lose a few kilograms after a game, one can imagine the intensity and intensity of confrontation.

You are exhausted with scars today, and you may not even have the strength to move your little finger when you go back to bed, but you will still have to play vigorously to fight your life in a back-to-back or the day after tomorrow in the regular season. Young players may recover well, but old players are old. With old arms and legs, it is difficult to go all out for every regular game.

"Spurs coach Popovich has always had a very poisonous vision. The French rookie he selected this season, Tony Parker, is 1 meters tall and weighs 88 kilograms. He is a very ordinary and thin European player, but Popovich directly put him Included in the starting lineup, the original main point guard Antonio Daniels is reduced to a substitute, and will be sent away next season without accident, allowing Parker to secure his starting position."

"To be honest, Parker, a freshman, is definitely not as good as the seasoned Daniels. Daniels, who has been with the Spurs for four seasons, is lacking in scoring, assists and rebounds. This may be the main reason why he cannot stay in the Spurs. What the Spurs need is a team player. Pass first, not score first."

"Popovich's lineup is not rigid. He has deployed a lineup of two towers and three guards, Tim Duncan on the inside and Admiral David Robinson on the outside. Three little guys, Steve Smith, Charles Smith, Tony Parker."

"Well, the age structure of this Spurs is relatively reasonable. There are only two old guys. The Admiral is 37 years old, and the scorer Steve Smith is 33 years old. It will provoke the Spurs' glory for the next ten years."

"You asked me how I was so sure. I can tell you that it is so sure. The strongest NBA team in the first decade of the 21st century will always have the Spurs among them. The other Lakers, Kings and Mavericks, are sometimes better and sometimes not. It's worse, only the Spurs are stable, just like Duncan's data, the first year is 21+11, and it may still be 21+11 in the tenth year."

"Lenny is also addicted to playing the Twin Towers. He also used the Twin Towers against the Spurs Twin Towers this time. The Warriors' insider No. 11 Yao Ming partnered with No. 15 Paul Gasol, two big men over 7 feet, and competed against the Spurs' famous team. Inside Twin Towers."

"The Warriors also have three musketeers on the outside, No. 1 Tracy McGrady, No. 33 Grant Hill, No. 4 Chauncey Billups. Lenny hopes to beat the Spurs to a dismount. To deal with the Spurs, you always have to be one step ahead. If you fall behind, you want to chase. almost impossible."

"In the first quarter, the young Warriors were very excited to play at home. Gasol dared to do physical confrontation. Neither Duncan nor the 37-year-old Robinson used their bodies to bully others. European insider Gasol is the most afraid of others and He plays technology."

"McGrady and Hill continued to show off three-pointers from the outside. The Warriors played soul-stirringly in the first quarter. They led the Spurs at 28:34 at home. To score so many points in front of the Spurs in one quarter, the Warriors are rare and valuable, not to mention the only one. .”

"In the second quarter, Popovich made substitutions without haste. The original main point guard, Daniels, came on. Parker sat on the bench with a melancholy face. He knew that the possibility of him playing again was very small. Terry Burt and Danny Ferry and other veterans have made appearances."

"The Spurs have never lacked old guys, but their veterans are not the same concept as the Trail Blazers' veterans. The Trail Blazers' veterans are all big-name stars with big contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, sitting comfortably on the sidelines. Wait until you retire."

"The Spurs generally give these 35-year-old guys or even older guys a one-year or two-year short contract, depending on performance before deciding whether to renew the contract. The old players are good, not at all the state of the Blazers who are dead and rich."

(End of this chapter)