Chapter 878: Shoot slowly

Qin Yan would never have thought that there would still be people who had the idea of grabbing his name as the number one scoring guard.

And it's actually Klay Thompson, who has nothing to do at the moment.

If he had known what Thompson was thinking, he would have asked him:

Big brother, you've only been the main force for a year, are you so self-motivated?

Gossip aside, at least now on the Spurs bench, everyone is in no mood to joke, and Old Man Bobo is also serious.

"Fortify your defense! The defense in the first quarter was still not good enough! Don't play against them, although we are not afraid, but their three-point shot is the main weapon, and it is not wise to let them play to their strengths unscrupulously! ”

After all, he was thrown into eight three-pointers in the first quarter, which was a rare occurrence in Popovich's coaching career.

"Coach, we're still ahead, aren't we, it shows that the tactics in the first quarter are still working."

"Playing against each other and then taking the lead, when did our team have this kind of routine? Offense wins the game, defense wins ......"

"Overall Champion!"

In order to prevent the old coach from continuing to nag, the Spurs will quickly put on an expression of "listening attentively".

"At the beginning of the second quarter, we made substitutions, Nikolai, Kyle, get ready to warm up, and you're going to play in a minute."

Jokic and Anderson were stunned when they heard this, what the hell? Are we going to play?

They're not fools who don't know anything, and judging by how intensely the first quarter was played on both sides, it's likely that the rookies won't be playing in this game.

But now, Popovich actually said that he wanted to let the two of them play, which is simply unbelievable.

"Coach, is it me and Kyle?" Jokic felt that he should have heard it wrong just now, how could he possibly let himself play in such a fierce game?

"That's right, it's the two of you, hurry up and warm up!"

Popovich deserves to be an old handsome, and on this occasion, he dares to play two rookies at the same time!

Jokic and Kyle Anderson looked at each other and were excited.

At the beginning of the second quarter, as soon as the lineup on the Spurs' side appeared, it was a bit unexpected.

Mills, Green, Anderson, Jokic, Duncan.

This lineup is clearly for Duncan to teach young people how to play.

The Warriors also came up on the second lineup, Livingston, Thompson, Rush, Speight, and Azeli.

Tsk, from the perspective of talent, the Spurs' talent should be better, but now Jokic and Anderson are rookies, and although the group of people on the Warriors' side is only Livingston and Thompson with high talent (Livingston is not injured, that achievement is unimaginable), but the running and jumping ability of a group of people is not bad, and it is more than enough to play fast break, it seems that they still have to speed up.

"Nikolai, are you nervous?" Sledgehammer and Mr. Yoo are communicating, as companions in the first round of the countdown, the relationship between the two is very good, and now the two are on the court at the same time, and they are cheering each other on.

"Sort of, what about you?" Jokic is honest.

"Me too." Sledgehammer is more nervous than Jokic to be honest, after all, Jokic got Qin Yan's "feeding move", although it is only once, but after all, it is also the team's future boss who gives him an olive branch, at least there is no problem staying in the team.

On the other hand, he has not yet been "summoned" by any of the bigwigs, so Anderson needs a chance more than Jokic.

Duncan stretched out two "sinful" hands, one on each side, and rubbed their heads fiercely.

"Don't be nervous, rookie, welcome to the NBA, just look at me for a while."

The Warriors saw that the Spurs actually brought two newcomers up, and they were suddenly very unhappy, is this naked contempt? Actually let the two rookies play together, you are only 6 points ahead, that is, two three-pointers, do you think you have the chance to win now?

Of course, the Spurs don't care what the Warriors think, they just know that they have to play according to the coach's arrangement, otherwise it won't be good if the coach goes crazy for a while.

The Spurs possessed the ball, and under the command of Duncan's eyes, Mills did not play by himself, but chose to pass, and rookie Sledgehammer Anderson got the right to the first offensive end!

"Oh my God, hit me the first ball?"

Anderson was a little excited, it turned out that I was also very important, and he actually let me play the first offense in the second quarter, and it seems that the coach and teammates also recognized me very much!

"Kyle! Don't be in a daze! ”

Probably because there was no action at the first time when he got the ball, Popovich shouted directly off the court.

Anderson quickly came to his senses at this point, and he faced Thompson's defense, and then began to dribble and prepare for the offense.

That's right, the first ball, he intends to attack one directly with the ball.

Anderson's offense with the ball is very distinctive, that is, his rhythm is terrible, and among so many people who play in the league, he alone has the most special rhythm.

Slow! And it's not generally slow! It's a slowness that transcends the boundaries of time!

Qin Yan knew that later, Anderson relied on this unique rhythm change to trap many people, and many people watched Anderson shoot when they finished their defensive moves and didn't have time to change their moves.

Even Durant later had to admit that Anderson was a difficult opponent to defend.

Thompson's basic defensive skills are very good, and now he plans to beat Qin Yan through his performance, so he is even more engrossed in defense.

Well, this rookie dribble is very basic, and the freestyle dribble is not too difficult, the next step should be to prepare a cross-step and then burst to his left side, right?

Thompson feels like he's really being underestimated, what does Spurs mean by that? Let a rookie play himself, and he is also a rookie with such average offensive skills with the ball!

See how I break your balls!

Thompson took the lead, blocking Anderson's breakthrough route at the moment when he was about to dribble, and then stretched out his big hand to the place he predicted, in his mind, this time, he should be able to directly cut off the rookie's dribble and have a high probability of launching a fast attack!

Yes, if Anderson hadn't changed the direction of his dribble and just crashed into it so hard, he would have been cut off.

However, when Thompson posed for this position, he was surprised to find that his hand did not touch anything!

How is this possible?!

Thompson was taken aback, it shouldn't be, this guy doesn't look like the kind of guy who dribbles particularly fancy, how can he dodge his steals?

But when he looked at Anderson, he suddenly found that this guy was still preparing to break through, and he hadn't started to break through as he imagined!

Depend on! What the heck! Did someone hit the pause button? A breakthrough move, you actually held it for so long!

Just when Thompson changed his action and pounced, Anderson stepped sideways in the other direction unhurriedly, and miraculously dodged Thompson's pray!

Then, slowly collect the ball and jump on the spot.

He wasn't fast at all, he was even very slow, but he still skilfully dodged all the defenses and threw himself into the middle range in an open position!

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The first point of Anderson's career, the Spurs, widened the gap again!