Chapter 713: Cousin Brotherhood
Because Duncan was active after he came on the court, the Spurs did not continue to be suppressed, and they withstood the Grizzlies' offense.
Although the team is in a backward state at the moment, no one thinks it is too much of a problem.
After all, the Spurs, although it is said that they have been habitually solving the battle in three quarters since this year, and beating the opponent in waves, but don't forget, their traditional way of playing is to silently lag behind the opponent in the first three quarters, but not too much behind, and then achieve a big comeback in the fourth quarter!
Now, the Grizzlies are just forcing the Spurs back into their traditional winning mode.
The Grizzlies called a timeout, and they now have a six-point lead, which is not a safe score, and the Spurs' scorers can easily chase that deficit back.
The Spurs players returned to the bench and rehydrated, and the Grizzlies played very well today, they felt very good, and many times the Spurs did not have defensive misalignment, but the Grizzlies were still able to score the ball against the defense.
However, the Spurs didn't care too much about this situation, who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year, the Grizzlies are usually not very accurate, and it is normal to be accurate once in a while, and the Spurs don't believe that the Grizzlies can always maintain such a high shooting rate.
"Manu, Danny, Tracy are ready to play, Qin, Kowai and Hassan are down and resting."
Popovich began to make substitutions, since the Grizzlies are so powerful today, then he has to accompany them through two moves, Whiteside, Leonard and Qin Yan have been playing for a long time, it's time for them to rest.
At the end of the timeout, the Spurs returned to the court, and their lineup became GDP plus Maddy and Green, which is a rare lineup this season, in this case, is Maddy going to the power forward position?
The Grizzlies also changed lineups, with the Black and White Bears and Tony Allen going down to rest, Kouvers coming up to play center, then Carter and Miller coming up, and Prince going to power forward.
The lineups of the two teams are surprisingly similar, they are all big and four small, and the four small are all people with very good outside firepower, the only difference is that Duncan is an all-round offensive and defensive player, and Kouvers is just a defensive blue-collar.
Maddie and Carter embraced, the audience fell silent, and even the referee specially gave them a little time, after all, they had waited for so many years, and finally waited for the moment when the two met on this kind of big stage.
From the East to the West, no one could have imagined that the playoff matchup between these two would have waited so long and crossed such a long distance.
Carter is no longer a "half-human and half-god", and Maddie is only at the peak of his five successes, and when they meet again, looking at their respective beards and faces that have begun to vicissitudes, the pair of gifted cousins are relatively speechless, they are no longer young, and this alliance has long since fallen out of their minds.
Now, none of them are the main players of their respective teams and can only play the role of a veteran in the team, but Maddie is lucky, he is attacking for the second championship ring of his career, and Carter is still working for the first championship of his career.
It's a belated matchup, as two superscorers who were once considered the league's future finally meet at the end of their careers on the stage of the divisional finals!
"Brother, if you hadn't left in the first place, would we have been tired of the stage of the divisional finals?"
"It's a pity that there aren't so many ifs, otherwise, I'm also looking forward to working with your cousin."
"I'm not going to let you, I'm going to fight for the first ring on my own."
"I'm sorry then, my goal is to retire with two rings."
"Come on!"
"You too!"
Maddie and Carter parted in the applause of the fans, and the encouragement to each other was finished, and the next thing was the real showdown!
"Tick-"
The referee blows the whistle and officially signals the game to continue!
Sure enough, the Rockets directly let Maddie control the ball, and Parker began to run without the ball, to be honest, Parker also likes this style of play, especially now that he is the youngest in GDP, and his desire to score is also the strongest among the three, it must be better to score a little more points.
Maddie was in possession of the ball, and somewhat surprisingly, it was not Carter who was defending him, but Pulis, much to the disappointment of the fans at the scene and in front of the TV, especially the fans of Maddie and Carter, who were ready to scold their mothers.
MMP, we've been waiting for so many years, and we've finally waited for the pair of cousins to fight in this big scene, what are you Prince out of here to make trouble? The current script is not you, the old Pistons, single-handedly taking revenge on the Spurs, but a brother war, did you get the wrong script? Hurry down, get down!
The fans at the scene began to boo Prince, and when the little prince heard this voice, he was stunned at first, and then suddenly understood.
Damn, I accidentally lay down the gun.
Maddie looked at Prince, to be honest, there has always been a grudge between him and Prince, although the regular season has been calculated once, but now it is the Western Finals, and it is difficult for Maddie not to recall the scene of the playoffs when he meets Prince again at this time.
"Hey, you heard the boos too, hurry up and leave, my opponent today is not you."
Although I still want to abuse Prince and get rid of that breath completely, Maddie still controls her emotions, her main target today is her cousin, this guy should wait until next time to clean up.
"Huh." Prince smiled helplessly, "You are a power forward now, and so am I, and your opponent is me." ”
In fact, Prince doesn't want to spoil the duel between their brothers under the pressure of so many fans, but the problem is that leaving Maddie to Carter to defend is actually very problematic.
Among the four quarterbacks at the beginning, although Iverson was short, he was the steal king and tough defensively; Maddie entered the league as a defensive player, but later became the core of the team and focused more on the offensive end (also related to the inability of the body to balance offense and defense after injury); Not to mention Kobe, who has always targeted Jordan (helping the owner at the same time for many years), and his defensive ability is also very good.
However, Carter is the only one who is a little different, Carter was regarded as the core of the team as soon as he entered the league, his style of play is very eye-catching, and he even made a name for himself with a dunk (All-Star vote king).
However, under these auras of Carter, there is one problem that is masked, and that is Carter's defense, which has actually been average all along.
When opponents face Carter, they are often frightened by his fame, and then watch Carter easily cut 20+30+, all kinds of flying, all kinds of show-offs.
But when the game is over, no matter whether you win or lose, as long as you look at the data table, you will be surprised to find that the person who is Carter's main defense is often not bad in this game.
No matter how many points Carter scores, he can basically get the score back from Carter in the end, so Carter's deterrent power has always been the weakest of the "Big Four", after all, if you only rely on "dunk", you can't dunk the game!
Although the old Carter's defense is much better than before, Prince is not at ease to let him directly defend against Maddie, so Prince is exploring the way for Carter!
However, it is clear that Maddie has no interest in tangling with Prince, and since he is not in the right position when attacking, he will see him when defending.
Maddie shook his hand suddenly, and the ball was ready to be passed to the severed Duncan through two people, and Duncan took the spot to dunk with one hand!
Anyway, I've already met the teacher, so I'm afraid I won't have a chance to align myself?