Chapter 691: The Second Battle Begins
For the Trail Blazers, losing the first game was not too unacceptable.
After all, you have to play four games, and you can lose one.
However, it is possible to lose one game, but the second game must not be lost again.
Originally, their tactic was to grab home advantage, and they only had to win one game here.
So for the second game, the Trail Blazers are really bound to win.
Lillard didn't want to say a word before the game, and even in the face of media interviews, he was silent, after all, it is easy to be ridiculed when he always stands up.
Especially the kind of "grievances and hatred" between Lillard and Qin Yan is already that kind of cliché, always stirring up a news, and it is not interesting to fry it for a long time, and Lillard shouts "Down with Qin Yan" every day, "I am the first person in the 12th session", but he has never led the team to win against Qin Yan, which is a little embarrassing.
If it weren't for his usual behavior and relatively low-key, I'm afraid the media would give him the nickname of "braggart king".
Lillard decided to use the facts in this game to prove that he was not blowing it out, but really playing with strength!
The Spurs obviously didn't know that Lillard was going to go on a rampage in this game, and after seeing Qin Yan and Leonard's new combined moves yesterday, the Spurs were actually very relieved about the opponent's outside threat.
Anyway, as long as it's not too perverted, it can't break the combination of Qin Yan and Leonard.
The main tactics of the Trail Blazers today are one big and four small at the beginning, Lopez Jr. did not play, CJ McCollum and Lillard formed the Trail Blazers' backcourt double gun, and Batum, Wright and Aldridge formed the frontcourt.
Wright is the winner who can cosplay Maddie in the Maddie jersey, and with a height of 206 cm, he can play the No. 3 and No. 4 positions, which is a typical player who can "three can four".
However, his personal ability is not outstanding, the only thing to say about the advantage is that the long-range shot and three points are okay, saying that he "can be three and four", in fact, it is more exaggerated, his type of player, it should be said that "not three or four" is more appropriate.
I don't know what the Trail Blazers coach wants to do by putting Matthews and Lopez Jr. on the bench? Is it intended to substitute the twin towers of Lopez Jr. and Leonard? And then let Matthews take the bench outside?
Popovich directly saw the plan of the opposite side, if it was a twin tower, it would be specially used to deal with the five-small lineup.
It's just that the quality of your twin towers is a bit inferior, do you really think that you can say that you are a tower by just finding two big men? Well, even if it were, that's the kind that pushes and falls......
CJ McCollum has been in good shape recently, and he is becoming more and more like the main player, and the combination of him and Lillard is more lethal, because he has better offensive ability with the ball, if Matthews and Lillard are on together, then he can't hold the ball, otherwise it will be a waste of Lillard's role, just be a shooter.
But McCollum is different, he is also very good at breaking through, and although the three-point firepower is not as stable as Matthews's, he can create more damage.
The Trail Blazers' tactical goal today is to beat Whiteside down first and make him foul!
As long as Whiteside goes down, and there is one old Duncan left, hum, the Trail Blazers have their own way to deal with it.
Whiteside didn't know he had become a big target for the Trail Blazers today, and he was gearing up for a big fight today.
Anyway, it's a mutual explosion, so it depends on whose data is good.
The Spurs are still on the regular lineup today, there is no suspense in Whiteside and Aldridge jumping the ball, Parker pressed the rhythm after receiving the ball, and signaled everyone to take their time.
First ball, to Duncan!
Parker passed to Uncle Deng, and after Duncan received the ball, he found that it was Dolaire Wright who was defending him behind him!
You are looking down on veterans nakedly!
Duncan doesn't know what to say, I'm getting this old?
With a simple turn of his back, Duncan directly pressed Wright behind him, Wright's height and weight of 206 cm were only 100 kg, and Duncan directly pressed Wright and couldn't eat it at all.
But the Trail Blazers' interior defense is still very fast, and Aldridge has been waiting for Duncan on the inside for a long time.
Duncan burst in and prepared a one-handed layup, but this time he didn't guard against Aldridge, so the layup was directly capped by Aldridge.
Duncan was taken aback, there was such an operation, no wonder they would rest assured that Wright would defend himself.
McCollum picks up this to the ball that was struck, and then rushes forward!
Qin Yan directly blocked it, just kidding, let you casually rush me without losing face?
McCollum is the first time to go head-to-head with Qin Yan, and now he is not the qualified starter who averaged 20+ per game later, but he has initially shown the potential of an excellent scoring guard.
McCollum shook his body quickly, changed direction in front of the body, and then shook left and right to prepare to pass past Qin Yan.
How could Qin Yan let him pass, and the two sliding steps directly forced McCollum to stop.
McCollum sweated on his head, he had stopped the ball, and if he didn't pass the ball out, it would be over.
"CJ, CJ, pass!"
Lillard yelled on the other side while running over quickly, and McCollum passed the ball in time to avoid an eight-second violation.
Lillard didn't dribble much after receiving the ball, and threw the ball straight out with a long throw.
The ball was passed directly to Wright, who was pulled out of the inside line, and Wright adjusted it and shot directly with a three-point shot!
"Bang-boom-"
Wright hit a three-pointer and the Trail Blazers took the lead.
The Spurs served, Parker held the ball and commanded, and a crowd poured through the half court like a tide!
The Trail Blazers are waiting for the battle, and the three-point just now has an element of luck, if it weren't for Duncan's failure to defend it in time, it would be a big question whether Wright could score this ball.
Parker passes the ball and Whiteside comes up to play an off-ball screen.
Leonard catches the ball, and then Parker starts running inside, and after Whiteside blocks for Parker, he continues to prepare to block for Leonard.
Leonard used Whiteside's block to run quickly, Parker rushed to the Trail Blazers' interior line has already disrupted the Trail Blazers' interior defense a bit, this kind of running directly opens up the space of the interior line, and Leonard can fish in the water when he rushes in at this time.
This is also Whiteside's mid-range shot, otherwise it will be over if you give Whiteside a mid-shot.
Leonard burst in! Duncan also pulled Aldridge out in time, and now Leonard and Wright on the inside are one-on-one!
Good opportunity, start Europe!
It is estimated that this trick was learned from Ginobili, but Leonard's European step is not very slippery now, and it looks a little reluctant, and Wright also saw that Leonard's move belonged to the kind of temporary cramming, so he raised his hands and pasted it!
This is not good, Qin Yan frowned, shook off Batum who was defending him and ran inside!
Right-handed layup, under Wright's interference, Leonard stumbled to complete the European step layup, but it was a pity that the ball didn't go in after a circle on the basket and fell off the side!
"Get in!"
The Trailblazers stood a lot under the basket at this time, just in case, Qin Yan jumped when the ball had not completely fallen, and when he fell from the highest point, the ball finally fell!
Stretching out his hand and lightly touching the ball, Qin Yan silently recited in his heart, and then landed very carefully.
The ball that fell was replenished by Qin Yan's volley, and although it was a little reluctant, it still got back two points for the Spurs.
The second battle, up!