Chapter 502: Substitute Battle
Popovich originally planned to replace Qin Yan and Duncan, but when the timeout was about to end, he suddenly changed his mind.
No, you can't fight like that.
I don't know why, but Popovich's instinct is that it can't be like that.
It's a terrible instinct that only a very experienced veteran coach can have.
"Wait, the tactics just now remain the same, but Hassan and Kowai are also down, let's change the lineup."
Old man Bobo spoke directly, and the Spurs players were also stunned for a moment, their own coaches rarely overturned after arranging the tactics, although the tactics were not repeated this time, but it is rare to change the people on the court.
Split, Dio, Green, Ginobili, Maddy, these five came on after the timeout.
The Nets on the opposite side also brought on the bench, Terry, Thornton, Plumlee, Brecher and Kirilenko.
"Substitute to substitute, yes." Qin Yan, who returned to the bench, held his cheeks, and his main task was to observe the AK47's playing style and see how the experienced Ginobili and others fought against Kirilenko.
Coming off the bench, the main players on the Spurs' side will be Ginobili and Maddy, since Maddy's condition is getting better and better, the core of the Spurs' bench lineup has one more, not to mention that after winning the championship, Maddy's career has been completed, he is no longer playing to make up for regrets, but seems to have found the passion when he first entered the league.
Although it is impossible to start at the Spurs and there is only one year left on his contract, if he can successfully defend his title this season, Maddy feels that he can retire without regrets.
The Spurs attacked, Maddie controlled the ball, and the others ran according to the assigned tactics.
Kirilenko came up to defend Maddie, like Delon, this is also an old enemy, when Jazz played Rockets, AK47 has always been the first choice to defend Maddie, although the defense was not particularly good back then, but I have to say that Maddie in order to deal with AK47, every game has to consume huge physical energy, and in the end, the body can't bear it, so as long as the seven grabs, the Rockets have never won.
Maddie looked at the AK47 with her hands outstretched and moved in front of her, and suddenly felt like she had reappeared yesterday.
It's really like going back to the time when I was still in the Rockets and Kirilenko was still in the Jazz.
Kirilenko's defense is very strong, and once he is entangled, it is difficult to break free.
But Maddie obviously won't be entangled so easily, and at the moment when Kirilenko rushed over, Maddie slammed a cat's waist, took a sideways step, and then accelerated to break through! Managed to dodge Kirilenko's entanglement.
That's right, it was at that moment that Kirilenko's defense was very strong, and as soon as he was entangled, it was over.
But as long as you dodge at that moment, Kirilenko's defense will have a flaw, you can understand that the amplification move has to have CD time, as long as Kirilenko's defense is not entangled head-on, then the effect is very average.
But if you want to dodge Kirilenko's move, you must know him well or anticipate his movements, otherwise you basically can't dodge.
So, don't think that Kirilenko's trick has this problem, the people in this league who can avoid his trick are all superstars.
Otherwise, how can people eat in the NBA for so many years.
Maddie went straight after passing Kirilenko, mainly because he was worried that if he was delayed on the inside for a while, it would be very troublesome for Kirilenko to rush back to defend.
Dry pull scored, and the Spurs scored two more points.
"Did you see it, Andrei's trick is to see if you can dodge, if you dodge, it's fine, if you can't dodge, it's very annoying to be entangled."
Duncan opened a small stove for Qin Yan off the court, today Qin Yan was indeed a little misguided in the face of Kirilenko's defense, he always felt that it was because he didn't use enough strength that he couldn't get rid of Kirilenko.
The Nets attack, Terry controls the ball, and this "old jet" still has a little oil, and it can still be pulled out to fight if necessary.
Now that's it, Ginobili is misplaced to defend Terry, and Maddy goes to defend Kirilenko. (Otherwise, there is too much difference)
Terry's three-point accuracy, the more critical the three-point accuracy, the more accurate the three-point point, and when he was in the Mavericks before, Terry was also one of Maddy's sufferers.
Hey, wait, in this way, many of the veterans of the Nets are rivals with Maddie!
Maddie really wanted to defend Terry by himself, but when he thought that Kirilenko's attack was not weak, Ginobili and Green were too short, and Maddie could only change the defensive position.
Terry didn't entangle with Ginobili, he was also old, not Terry when he was younger, and it would be too unwise to entangle with Ginobili at this time.
A long pass, the basketball flew over the heads of quite a few people to near the bottom corner of the three-point line, where a stocky black guy was waiting.
Marcus Thorton!
This is a scoring machine with some excellent three-point shooting ability and good breakthrough ability, he is really good as a substitute, and when he changes to some slightly weaker teams, Thorton has the ability to play the main scoring guard directly.
Thorton's only shortcoming is that his height of 1.93 meters belongs to the middle and lower reaches of the league's No. 2 position, which is indeed a bit short.
Coupled with the fact that Thorton is not the type of player who looks particularly strong and muscular, he just looks a little more fat.
Thorton received the ball, didn't adjust much, and threw a three-pointer directly with his hand.
Others don't know, Thorton himself knows very well, he also belongs to the kind of ghost who can't stop it, this time he just warmed up and felt good, but he didn't expect to score the first ball.
It was Green who defended Thornton, he also relied on three-point shots to play the world, and Green's supernatural god in the finals last year made everyone unexpected, if it weren't for him, the Spurs wouldn't have won those two games so easily.
Unlike Thornton, who is also sharp three-pointers, Green is a legendary "3-and-D player". You can defend at the same time as you have three points, and you can defend it really well.
It's just that Green didn't keep up with this ball, probably because Maddie Ginobili made Green a little confused after changing the defense.
Well? Who am I? Where am I? Who should I go for?
So the pot for this ball should not be Green's back, when he finally found out that he should go to defend Thorton, Greena also pounced directly from a distance, which shows how hard he worked.
Ginobili signaled everyone to calm down, and at the same time used the opportunity to confirm their respective defensive objects, and then they did not choose to change the defense, because from the height point of view, the two teams are actually about the same, and the current one-on-one defense is basically the most suitable two bodies against each other, if you change the defense rashly, it is likely to be messed up for a while.
“Go! go! go! After confirming the information with his teammates quickly and easily, Ginobili personally dribbled the ball across the half court, while constantly gesturing with one hand to signal his teammates to pay attention.
The battle between substitutes and substitutes has just begun!