Chapter 899: Old Man Old Spur

While Camp gambled on the Pelicans' character, the Spurs probably came out of grief and anger and came up with a Spurs' signature mid-range shot, and the Spurs chased the Pelicans point by point with their best mid-range shot.

The Spurs are stabilizing the offense, and the Pelicans' character may have really run out at this time, and the shot missed, which was clearly empty for Millsap, but Millsap didn't shoot, and he shot those difficult balls instead.

Things are a little weird, the Pelicans are weird, but the Spurs' shooting is also weird, Parker misses the layup, the basketball gently slides out, the Pelicans' backcourt rebound, there is still nothing to say.

Henson, who got the basketball, immediately used his genius long pass, and a pass was sent to Li Feng, who was in the Spurs' half, Li Feng got the basketball and withstood Leonard's defense's rapid crazy impact towards the Spurs' basket.

At this time, it was really Li Feng who used his body to defeat the Spurs, and Leonard had done his due diligence in defense, but he still couldn't carry Li Feng, and Li Feng flew up under the Spurs' basket.

Pressed by Leonard in the air with almost no angle, Li Feng picked up his arms in the air, and when his body was behind the rebound, he imitated Jordan's movements and made a rainbow layup.

Li Feng believes that with his character today, he may not be able to hit an ordinary layup, but this layup will definitely hit, and sure enough, after Li Feng's action was made, the basketball really got into the Spurs' basket.

The New Orleans Arena witnessed Li Feng's reproduction of Uncle Jordan's rainbow layup, and immediately the entire New Orleans Center applauded. Li Feng made a beautiful layup to government the New Orleans Arena and also conquered Joan Barry and Sean Kemp on the commentators.

"Hey, here's a, a replica of Jordan's moves."

Joan Bari says:

"It reminds me of those days, when we were champions."

When Joan Barry said this, Sean Kemp said half-jokingly and half-seriously:

"Joan, don't mention the past, I won't be able to stand it."

The Pelicans took advantage of a rainbow layup by Li Feng to launch a wild offense again. Got points one after another. Poor spurs were crushed underneath by the Pelicans.

At this time, the Pelicans replaced the bench, and the backward Spurs also replaced the bench players, but this time after the Spurs changed the bench lineup, Dior and Mills both performed very well.

The Pelicans' bench lineup can't even take the Spurs' bench players for a while. End of third quarter. The Pelicans led the Spurs by as much as 16 at 88-72. The Spurs are a bit decadent today, once the best team in the league, and now being beaten by an emerging powerhouse. It's a bit sad to have a complete lack of playback in the first three quarters, which is certainly due to the aging of the team, the departure of Gary Neire and Blair, and the Spurs' bench is also a huge flaw.

The Spurs' old men sat on the sidelines with stern expressions, but here with the Pelicans, these players looked elated, which further highlighted the tragedy of the Spurs' old men, who seemed to be Eastwood's old cowboys in the film.

It's tragic and heart-wrenching, and Popovich sits in his place and looks at the champions, who are veritable champions, and most of them have won championships before.

But now, they have left the team that has always been young to play without a fight, and at this time even Popovich himself is reluctant to believe this.

The veteran players sat together with some bitterness, and Popovich, as the team's head coach, said:

"Old guys, I hope you remember what we were like when we won the championship seven years ago."

"No matter what kind of course this game ends, I don't want to see people say we're an old team, we say we're a loser, I just hope that even if we lose, everyone will say they're Spurs.

What the Spurs represent, what they represent, what they stand for. ”

"So, no matter what the outcome is, play like a Spurs."

Popovich said it emotionally, because what he said was what he felt in his heart, he felt it, and now he will say it directly, the team has been up and down for two whole years, and the management has long been dissatisfied with him.

Popovich just wanted to say what he wanted to say, and at this time the Spurs players looked at each other, they have all worked together for many years, and these people are brothers on the court and in life.

The fourth quarter began, but the Pelicans' players with absolute superiority in personnel had a hard time opening the Spurs' defense, and the Spurs' defense returned to the crazy state of a few years ago.

This kind of madness, Van Gundy should be familiar with, because this kind of madness is what people brought to Detroit, and that's how he taught his team back then, and now the Spurs are using this kind of defense to contain their own team.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spurs' crazy defense did not allow the Pelicans' bench players to continue to expand the score, and the Spurs first changed the main player, but did not replace Split, but left the active Dio on the court.

The Spurs are back, the old Spurs are back, the fighting spirit is burning introvertedly in their hearts, the game of the Spurs is definitely not just a kind of machinery, in those mechanical tactics, there is also a kind of beauty, a kind of beauty that only the Spurs can find, that beauty is contained in the size of every cover.

Contained in every breakthrough layup of the Spurs, the beauty of the Spurs is not the league's popular dunks, three-point and fast breaks, it is a kind of high and low, for the persistent love of basketball will understand the beauty.

With a clean pass, extremely effective coverage, and a simple tactic, Leonard cut in like a ghost, got the basketball and quietly passed the ball to Duncan, who was standing under the basket.

When the basketball arrives at the Pelicans' basket, everyone will think that Duncan will attack under the basket, but it is unexpected. Duncan got the basketball without even looking at the basket, and made a beautiful backhand pass in the corner of the basket.

The basketball was sent directly to Ginobili in the bottom corner, who shot a three-pointer in the bottom corner and the basketball went into the basket without question.

As soon as the Spurs' main players returned, they played an extremely wonderful combination, and the Spurs completed the three-point shot when they were not noticeable.

At this time, the Pelicans still didn't realize that the iron-blooded Spurs had returned, Van Gundy was replacing the main players little by little, and the Pelicans' mixed lineup was in the Spurs' half. Very lightly shot a three-pointer is revenge. But it's a pity that the basketball didn't hit.

The Pelicans didn't shoot the basketball, and the Spurs immediately launched a counterattack, and the Spurs' counterattack was not as hot as the Pelicans, which could be seen at a glance. Spurs' counter-attack was restrained. Although now their hearts burn hotter than steel. But on the surface, Spurs' players are leaky.

They were playing the most passionate basketball with cold expressions, the kind of expressions that had ever appeared on the faces of the Celtics. It's been on the face of the Bad Boy Army, it's been on the Spurs' face, and it's been on their own face.

Now the Spurs are still playing the game the way George Gervin, and the Spurs are attacking the Pelicans' half-court injury with a mouth and steel, and their simple passes, light moves, and open up space.

In an instant, Leonard, who got the basketball, turned into a breakthrough knife and suddenly inserted it into the Pelicans' interior line, Leonard's layup was not very ideal, he was completely tilted in order to dodge Rose's defense, and finally could only use a flying hook hand to complete the offense.

But today Leonard got the job done, as an all-around small forward brought points to his team from the flanks, and the Spurs scored again.

At this time, when the Pelicans wanted to attack seriously, they found that the Spurs had not only become steel in the bench period, but now they were much more steel than before, tough defense, orderly and aggressive rotations, near-perfect defensive blocking, control the rhythm, and compress space.

The Spurs did the highest level a defensive team could do, and the Pelicans couldn't do anything with such an aging team, and Arenas could only try a three-point shot with just four seconds left.

But this kind of forced three-point shot, the hit rate is absolutely miserable, Arenas's three-point miss, the Spurs calmly picked up the rebound as if they were a machine, and then calmly pushed forward.

As mentioned earlier, the fighting spirit of the Spurs is restrained and hidden, and under that cold face is a fiery heart, they don't roar, they just use their bodies to express themselves, they don't roar, but they are proving it with their actions.

The Spurs are playing very well now, and the meaning of this very good is not that they are shooting a lot of terrible three-pointers, nor are they dominating the opponent's basket, but in a very concise way, it seems that they can tear apart the opponent's defense, which is a very difficult thing, but what the Spurs do is very simple.

This time, the Spurs chose to break through Duncan, who was miserable enough by Millsap in the previous game.

As for Shi Fotim himself, the honor he received is different from Duncan's own ability, according to Duncan, a player who can play inside and out, can play all game, is diversified in offense, experienced in defense, and has no problem defending Howard.

But his appearance is always tepid, and there are reasons for Duncan's character, but more often than not, Duncan is old, and the body cannot be used indiscriminately.

The basketball was in Duncan's hands, and behind him was Millsap, who was okay from the basket, and Duncan didn't use any of his dazzling arsenals, but according to his own feelings, he leaned against Millsap, and then looked Lai, jumped to the side, and hooked the basketball to the basket.

Duncan's shot rubbed on the rebound, and then easily fell into the Pelicans' basket, which is not pretty, but in the overall style of the Spurs, it is crisp and neat, and most importantly, he is two points.

Now Van Gundy has seen that the Spurs are now playing their best after three quarters behind, with a steely defense and a completely in-place offense, the Spurs' offense is not flashy, and even lacks character, if you have to use one word to describe it, it can only be in place.

Van Gundy started to panic and then started making substitutions, and he finally brought on all of his substitutes. He finally wanted to concentrate on eliminating the Spurs' group of old guys, his old subordinates, before sending his main team, Van Gundy kept telling his players to be careful, to be careful.

But his players are still careless, the Pelicans' main players, still want to play the same as the first three quarters, but at this time the Spurs are different, their defensive intensity. It's too much for a team like the Pelicans to start with defense.

Soon Rose made a mistake in basketball because of his youth. was quickly stealed by the Spurs, and the Spurs instantly launched a fast attack, but at this time they encountered the Pelicans, who were much more physically gifted than themselves, and the fast break did not come out. The Spurs immediately switched to an icy half-court attack.

Ginobili runs out of position without the ball and shoots. Spurs made a rare move. Dio gave Ginobili a cover at the top of the arc, and Ginobili broke through with the ball, which was a common move used by Ginobili when he was young. Later, it was used less and less.

But now at this time, when Ginobili walked around Dior's side and ran to the Pelicans' basket, even Van Gundy was in a trance, as if this was the tactic he had taught him.

Ginobili rushed in and was not finished, jumping in the air to dodge Henson, and then his thin body trembled in the air and threw the basketball to the basket, which rubbed the rebound, and then quietly went in.

Suddenly, there was a bad feeling in the center of New Orleans, a very bad feeling, that steel spur, the shocking spur seemed to be back.

An old spur, a group of old men, and a hot-blooded western seem to be being staged, which is a drama that the audience likes, but the Pelicans don't like it, because in this movie, they are villains.

The Pelicans are about to be devoured by the Spurs, and these old Spurs players are simply beating the Pelicans players to the ground.

A bunch of old guys play these guys with their hard-nosed defense and light offense.

At this time, Van Gundy could only call a timeout, and the Pelicans players returned to the bench, and Van Gundy looked at his players and taunted them:

"Hey, look, our young man, actually lost to a group of old men, and it's a group of old men with fouls on their backs, I really feel sorry for you, you are going to lose like this, and you are still going to lose to, the Spurs that once brought you disasters, it's unbelievable, you are going to end up like this."

Van Gundy was taunting his teammates, but he poked at the Pelicans' most vulnerable place at once.

Li Feng heard the number of fouls on the back of those guys on the Spurs, and at this time Li Feng blamed himself a little, if he was brave and played a little tougher, wouldn't things be very good.

The other players of the Pelicans were also stimulated enough by Van Gundy, and they really felt a little aggrieved when they lost to the old man Spurs, if they really let the Spurs catch up and let the Spurs complete a big reversal in the fourth quarter, things will become too interesting, and the Pelicans' face will be completely lost.

Van Gundy didn't explain any tactics, but kept stimulating his players with his own words, and Van Gundy stabbed the Pelicans in the chest like a needle in his own words.

As a result, after the timeout, the Pelicans' players, just now the Pelicans still had no way to take the Spurs' defense, but now after the Pelicans come over, even if the Spurs are a piece of iron, the Pelicans will tear the opponent apart with their teeth.

Li Feng slammed Parker from the outside of the Spurs, and then finally cut into the inside of the Spurs, Li Feng cut in and cut directly to the Spurs' basket from the wing.

Li Feng's idea is very simple, that is, to kill hard, but also to kill a space in the Spurs' half, Li Feng rushed in vigorously, and the Spurs' collective defense immediately quickly wrapped up Li Feng's body.

quickly sandwiched Li Feng in the small range of the bottom line, and in the small range of the bottom line, at this time, Li Feng was full of people in front of and behind him, and he felt that it was not a good way to fight hard.

At this time, Li Feng passed the basketball quickly in an extremely small space, passing the basketball from Duncan's crotch to Henson's hand behind him, Li Feng completed the assist in the small space.

Henson, who got the basketball, was behind Duncan's back, gently hooking his left hand, and the guy's movements were very light and fast, like a cat stealing something.

The basketball quickly drilled into the Spurs' basket from one side, and the Pelicans came back not only playing hard. And there's that kind of cunning in toughness, which is very difficult to deal with.

The Spurs expected that after the Pelicans timeout, there would be an improvement, so they also carefully arranged their own tactics, and the Spurs' tactics were still so well played, and a run and a pull were so appropriate.

The Spurs scored again in their own way, mid-range shots, mid-range shots, and the Spurs continued to score calmly, throwing the pressure back on the Pelicans.

Li Feng takes the ball on the baseline. Tong Guò's attack just now was successful. Li Feng concluded that if you want to play spurs, you must be fierce, but if you are blindly fierce, it will not help solve the problem, you need not only to be fierce, but also to have cunning tricks.

Otherwise there is no uselessness. After Li Feng experienced this. It's settled, and the attention is still to start with a fierce attack. When it came to the Spurs' half, he still called Millsap to help him cover.

Then Li Feng withstood Parker's defense and Leonard's co-defense, and hit the Spurs' basket desperately. Li Feng rushed in at this time, but still brought in a lot of defense.

The Spurs concentrated the vitality medicine to eliminate it, but Li Feng was thinking about how to do a small scheme, in the crowd of Spurs, the only trick Li Feng could think of was to pass the ball around people that was very common on the street.

Thinking of this, Li Feng simply jumped out and faced Duncan, his hand stretched out from Duncan's chest as if it was a low hand, but his one-handed hand circled Duncan's chest, but instead sent the basketball to Henson's hands behind Duncan again.

Henson almost replicated his last goal, a brisk little hook that easily hooked the basketball.

Li Feng played Duncan for the second time, and the first time Li Feng played Li Feng, he also used a ground pass that was easier to be accepted by the heat and dribbled quickly, but this time Li Feng was premeditated from the first shot, playing Duncan.

Joanbari sat in his place at this time and said with a smile:

"Li Feng, he played Duncan again, he just went to play streetball, they played violent dunks in the first half, and they started to play magic passes in the second half, Li Feng really doesn't know how long he is going to play."

The Pelicans had two extremely wonderful assists in a row, but the Spurs here in the final quarter they really did a feeling like a stone, not moved at all, and still came over, playing like a machine, as punctual as a clock.

The way to score is also a simple mid-range shot in the Spurs-style, but this time the mid-shot person is a bit special, Dior's mid-range shot, and he simply got two copies from the Pelicans.

The Pelicans can play the basketball very hard and dexterously, but the Spurs just play the basketball very well, as if it is as accurate as a machine.

The Spurs got the score, Henson under the basket was very smart and fast, he quickly passed the basketball to Li Feng's hands, Li Feng saw the basketball flying over, he glanced ahead, and there were really people running desperately towards the Spurs' half, and they were running very fast.

Li Feng simply used one hand to quickly click the basketball, and the basketball was just clicked by Li Feng with his hand, and then immediately flew out to the front.

Basketball runs straight to the front of Rose, and when the Pelicans are defending tightly, they still use a fast baseline ball, one that is not a pass at all, and hits the Spurs for a chase offense.

When Rose caught up, the Spurs only had one Ginobili run in the half, and it formed a one-on-one situation.

Rose cut inside with the ball quickly, blocking Ginobili behind him, and then staggered the rhythm a little bit, blocking Ginobili behind him, and extending his arm was a delicate layup.

Rose made a clever layup, and at this time, the Pelicans had just been pressed down by the Spurs, and the Pelicans hit three morale-boosting goals in a row, and the momentum of the Pelicans began to pick up.

At this time, the Pelicans and Spurs have reached a sharpest point, both teams have reached one in morale and state, and the rest is to fight each other, whoever can hold on and kill the opponent, he is the winner, and the one who is killed will be the loser, and suffer greatly in morale and scores, and this is the last wave of battle in the fourth quarter, this wave of battle determines the final victory or defeat of the two teams. (To be continued......)