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Paying the price of multiple fouls to target Bowen, coupled with the improvement of offensive efficiency, the Lakers narrowed the point difference to 6 points before halftime.

Keyan's adjustments have achieved initial results, but the situation is still not good for the Lakers.The team scored consecutively on the offensive end, but Popovich will definitely find a way to deal with it in the second half. The key is that the Lakers' offense can only be launched from the outside.

Duncan guards the penalty area alone, and the Lakers can't get the ball inside. Looking back, Duncan can also suppress the Lakers' inside line on the offensive end, which makes Ke Yan even more headache.

Having played against various insiders, it can be said that Duncan is the one who makes Ke Yan feel powerless the most, surpassing O'Neal!

In the locker room of the Spurs, what Ke Yan didn't know was that Popovich also kept swearing about Ke Yan's strategy.Duncan put Ke Yan under pressure, and Kobe also made the Spurs helpless. This is also a black mamba that can really kill people!

After the halftime break, the starting lineups of both sides returned to the court. The Lakers served at halftime. Parker led the defense against Atkins and put a lot of pressure on him. Kobe responded in time, and Bowen's defensive pressure also came up. At the next level, the Spurs' defensive strength suddenly increased, and they were the first to catch the Lakers by surprise. Kobe took two steps forward, encountered a double-team and split the ball, and was cut off by Ginobili. Butler fouled the Spurs at the first time. Varsity into fast break, a wise choice.

However, in the next round of offense, Ginobili turned Butler's foul just now into a nightmare. He braked suddenly during the breakthrough and was hit by Butler who was following him. The referee whistled for a foul by Butler again. Butler's fourth foul!

Less than 30 seconds into the second half, the team's second offensive point was fouled twice in a row, which made Ke Yan very dissatisfied!Especially this second foul, this kind of sudden rear brake, Ke Yan only saw it on Tre Young later, how can the player follow up from behind after this whistle?

Ke Yan went to the referee to argue to no avail, so he had to replace Butler with Barnes, and at the same time conveyed his arrangement. Odomdo came back to meet Atkins, and the offensive end hit two inside. The referee may whistle at this moment. A little tighter, it would be great to be able to kill Duncan!

I don't know if Ke Yan's arrangement affected Odom's thoughts. Ginobili missed a free throw, Odom lost a backcourt rebound, and Duncan grabbed an offensive rebound and scored the ball.

Kobe made a mistake, Butler got two fouls in a row, Odom lost a backcourt rebound, the core players of the Lakers continued to work hard, and Ke Yan was speechless!

Without Butler, Barnes could only stand in the bottom corner on the offensive end. The Spurs' defense deliberately put further pressure on Kobe. It made the Lakers' smooth transfer of the ball futile and hindered the Lakers' offense.The point difference was stretched to 15 points in the first half of the third quarter.

Under the predicament, Ke Yan replaced Butler, who had committed four fouls, to make a final fight. Unfortunately, the game has entered the familiar mode of "boiling frogs in warm water" for the Spurs.

Duncan made Ke Yan feel stuck in his throat on both ends of the offense and defense. Whenever the Lakers saw a point in the Spurs' defensive system that could be used, they would immediately find that Duncan blocked this point!

"In a game, a player generally does not hold the ball for more than 12 minutes, and the 36 minutes without the ball determines what kind of player he is!" This is a sentence that Ke Yan learned in school. The performance of this game is the best interpretation of this sentence.

In the fourth quarter, Ke Yan made several adjustments, but he still couldn't fly Popovich's Five Fingers, or couldn't offset Duncan's suppression of the Lakers. He could only accept his first loss since his coaching career.

At 91:103, the Lakers lost at home and lost to the Spurs for the second time this season!Popovich shook hands with Keyan and expressed his appreciation to Keyan.

Both parties understand that the Spurs' victory is more about the team's huge advantage on the cards.If Ke Yan took Popovich's hand, who would win the game, that's especially obvious!

In the locker room, Ke Yan also comforted his team members.But it seems that he himself should be the one to be appeased.The locker room, including Kobe, didn't feel much about the loss to the Spurs.

Maybe this is where the rookie coach doesn't have a good grasp of the player's psychology?

For players, losing is no longer a depressing thing, even for players like Kobe who have a strong desire to survive.This is not difficult to understand, even if it is a strong team, they have to lose [-] or [-] games a season. If they lose one game, they will be depressed, do they have to suffer from depression?

Usually only rookies who have just entered the league will feel a little regretful about losing, or they will be killed at the last moment of the game, which may be difficult for some people to accept.An ordinary loss is nothing.

Having suffered the first loss of his coaching career, Ke Yan was not in a good mood, and the media repeatedly asked this question, which made Ke Yan's tone even more uncomfortable: "Do you expect me to never lose in my entire coaching career? Or are you pinning your hopes on the Lakers going 70-12 in the regular season?"

"The reason for our team's loss? I accounted for 90% of the factors, but I am not throwing the blame. I am speechless about Manu's foul on Caron at the beginning of the third quarter. Caron did violate Manu's shot, but Manu was not a normal shot at all, and if the league maintains this standard of calling, I can turn the game into a free throw shootout!"

Ke Yan bluntly stated at the press conference that Ginobili's rear brake foul changed the game, and also made the media and fans notice this action and analyze it.

From the videos from various angles, it is not difficult to see that Ginobili's ball is aimed at fouling.Caron Butler also did foul, this is unmistakable.The problem was the way Ginobili drew the fouls.

Spurs fans believe that "reasonable use of the rules is part of basketball, don't foul if you have the ability!"

The Lakers fans retorted, "Who doesn't know how to make fouls, if you do it like this, just make free throws to decide the game!"

The Spurs fans replied, "Kimi didn't turn the game into a free throw game!"

Lakers fans retort "Popovich was vague when he fouled O'Neal?"

The fans on both sides insisted on their own opinions, and started to complain on the forum, which had a great impact, and the league also came out to do things. Ke Yan received a $5000 ticket because of "inappropriate remarks on the penalty."

In the conscience of heaven and earth, Ke Yan said at the press conference that "it is indeed a foul move, but the move to get the foul is an abnormal move", clearly aiming at Ginobili.As a result, the league took the right seat and issued him a ticket. Ke Yan felt very wronged.

Fortunately, the boss Jerry Buss came forward and helped him claim the fine, preventing Ke Yan from losing the game and losing money!

It was after this incident that Ke Yan applied to Jerry Bass to supplement the teaching assistant team.