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Chapter 720 San Antonio Night Talk
Chapter 720 San Antonio Night Talk
At two o'clock in the morning on the [-]th, the Kings special plane landed in San Antonio, and then took the bus to the hotel.
After finishing all kinds of messy things, it was already [-]:[-] when we officially settled down, but Su Yang took a nap on the plane before, and he didn’t feel sleepy for a while. He closed his eyes and forced himself to stay awake for a long time. He took out his mobile phone helplessly, Feel free to browse related news.
Coincidentally, he found that both Curry and Antetokounmpo were also online. He tentatively sent a message to inquire, and the two responded to the message in seconds, but they also did not fall asleep. They immediately met at the hotel's all-night restaurant and waited to arrive , All three are in pajamas.
The acquaintance chuckled, ordered some snacks and sat down, and the three of them directly talked about how the next game should be played.
"Defense, defense is everything..."
Antetokounmpo gritted his teeth slightly and stared: In my opinion, we won the fourth game by relying on defense. We let Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green miss many shots. They scored in a wave of the first three games. It often knocks me out of balance. "
Curry put down the fried chicken in his hand, clapped his hands and said: "I think so too. I had a review video on the plane before. The key to our victory in the fourth game was that after the second timeout of the Spurs in the first quarter, there was no Get their second unit to work."
Su Yang nodded frequently in response. The main reason for the king's victory in the fourth game was the successful and efficient acceleration. The reason for the acceleration was to restrict the Spurs' efficient shooting through defense. The big man was empty, and the weak side was defended'. In the opening few rounds, Gasol failed to score, which was very critical.
"The Spurs will definitely make changes in the fifth game. Our coaching staff has had preliminary discussions and thinks that it is most likely to use a BOX AND 1 strategy to deal with you," Su Yang looked at Curry and then at Antetokounmpo. "And use switching defenses to force you to make long-range shots, and try not to give you the opportunity to accelerate the sprint, and LaVine and Tatum, etc., they will use zone defense to force long-range shots..."
The voice fell, Antetokounmpo and Curry were silent at the same time.
If the situation is really as predicted, it will test the ultimate ability of the two as super giants-to throw the damn ball in.
Facing elimination games, the pressure is often very high, and technical moves are easily deformed, let alone the Spurs occupy the home court advantage.
For a moment, Brother Antetokounmpo stared and asked, "Then what should I do?" Curry also asked with a look on his face.
"If you use the way of coach Rivers to answer, it should be to continue to be yourself..."
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Su Yang casually joked, "Specifically, you should continue to give priority to maintaining impact, which is the biggest threat to your Spurs, and Stephen needs to boldly use the screen to shoot a three-pointer to force the Spurs to give up targeting you. Because if they use that method, the purpose is not to lock you up, but just to make you less efficient and unable to change the situation."
Antetokounmpo and Curry nodded again and again.
The topic turned to the defense of the Spurs. Looking at the past four games, the Spurs' routines have changed a lot, and predictions in advance are of little value. The three turned to talking about defense alone. Antetokounmpo and Curry lamented Leonard at the same time What a pervert.
It is a fact that the Kings defended Leonard very successfully in the last game, and it is also a fact that Leonard himself was a little impatient. The typical example is the fast break three-pointer in the first quarter. That is by no means the scoring method that Leonard said he is good at. Basically don't play like that normally.
Therefore, some people ridiculed that the king was lucky to win the fourth game. As long as Leonard recovers, it will be useless.
The issue of turnovers was also mentioned. The number of turnovers must be controlled in the fifth game, otherwise it is easy to be beaten by the Spurs.
Talking to 04:30, Su Yang said with a smile that Kobe had already gotten up and started training at this time, and then returned to the room to rest.
After waking up at noon, after having a light meal, he started to review the video of the fourth game with the whole team, followed by doing shooting drills to maintain his touch. Su Yang turned to chatting with Mike Brown and others on the sidelines. Di Brown joked that the early morning I didn't bring myself to the dinner party.
Chatting with Antetokounmpo and Curry is just a trivial matter, Su Yang didn't care about it, never thought that Di Brown would know.
Seeing that Su Yang was slightly surprised, Di Brown said with a smile: "The hotel restaurant staff took pictures of you and tweeted them. Now everyone is talking about how much you want to win. Some Chinese fans said that you dialed at night. Use lights to study offensive and defensive tactics.”
"It's really..."
Su Yang felt very interesting, and regretted that he didn't find someone to take pictures. No matter what the final result was, that moment could be used as material for future documentaries, but he was unprepared on a whim at that time. It's okay.
"When we made a 4-3 comeback and advanced, what happened in the early morning can be called the San Antonio Night Talk in history, haha."
Mike Brown and others agreed one after another, saying that it might be the arrangement of fate, and it happened like a movie.
After training in the afternoon, the whole team had dinner and chatted as usual, and by the way, watched the situation of the other three teams in the east and west.
The Rockets play the Warriors in the other semifinals in the West. The two teams are currently tied at 2-2, and the match point competition is about to begin.That kind of result is not too surprising. The difference between the regular season records of the two teams is only 9 games. Harden's dismal performance is very surprising. His three-point shooting percentage is only 28.9%, relying on a lot of free throws and throws. Maintain scoring average.
In the east, the young Pacers failed to beat the Raptors in the first round, but the Raptors met the younger 76ers in the second round, and they are now tied 2-2, mainly because Embiid was overwhelmed in the paint , It is easy to create kills through free throws.
In another matchup in the East, the Cavaliers led 3-0 one-sidedly. The player with the highest score for the Celtics was Thomas Jr..
After the dinner party, Su Yang asked the whole team to take a good rest, don't panic.
In the afternoon of the next day, the fifth game of the second round of the playoffs between the Kings and the Spurs started at the ATT Arena in San Antonio.
Before the game, the whole team practiced together, and Brogdon was completely free to participate, and the team doctor Kaufman decided that he could officially come back.After weighing it over and over again, Su Yang removed Brogdon from the injured list and changed it to be able to play, but he had to see the situation on the spot to decide whether to make it.
Turning his head, Su Yang went to the media center for a pre-match interview.
A reporter from the "San Antonio Water Tower" asked: "Coach Bobo was interviewed just now and said that he would not change his offensive and defensive strategies significantly. He believed that the Spurs lost in the last game was mainly due to their lack of desire to win. How do you evaluate his answer? "
Su Yang thought I believe you, you are a bad old man, but he said: "I think Coach Popo is lying, I have never seen a stronger desire to win than Leonard I don’t believe that the Spurs will continue to use the previous defensive strategy, I guess they will come up with some new methods, such as BOX AND 1, and we are ready.”
Boldly make predictions, success may disrupt the Spurs' mentality, and it doesn't matter if they fail, it's just a matter of one sentence anyway.
07:30 in a blink of an eye.
The game officially started.
The fans of the Holy City shouted frantically, some scolded the king as a hillbilly city, some scolded Suyang Chin Chong, telling him to go back to China, and some put up slogans, accusing Suyang's MT company of cutting the ball through privacy and gradually controlling All of America.
The Spurs still started with Parker replacing Mills, the Kings started the same, and Gasol won the jump ball.
A few rounds were played quickly.
The Spurs' offense has changed significantly, probably because they suffered a loss in the last game. Instead of trying the wide-ranging transfer strategy they are best at, they used continuous pick-and-roll methods to find opportunities. Parker made an emergency stop and made a mid-range shot. Leonard started the three-pointer as soon as the opportunity appeared. Alder did not hesitate to make two points from the high position. The overall offensive efficiency was much higher than that in the fourth game.
As expected, the Spurs defensively launched BOX1 against Curry, switched defenses against Antetokounmpo to force COSCO shots, and used zone defenses to force COSCO shots against other Kings players. However, with Su Yang's countermeasures in advance, the Kings' offensive efficiency is not bad.
It's just that compared to Game [-], the Kings couldn't score consecutively for a long time, and the rhythm was always controlled by the Spurs.
With more than two minutes left in the first quarter, the Kings trailed 20-23. Taking advantage of the official timeout, Su Yang replaced Curry and Lopez with Rose and Nance Jr., while the Spurs replaced Mills. +Guy+George Hill, full speed.
Pause back, and the game continues.
The Spurs resorted to the common strange moves in the bench stage, a lot of outside pressure, a lot of fast-paced attacks, and Mills' weird moves to defend Antetokounmpo. It was no different from the previous four games, but they forced a 4-0 The offensive ends the first quarter.
Taking advantage of the break between quarters, Su Yang looked up at the replay dejectedly, and found that the Kings had hit all 2 shots and 49 forced errors in the last 5 minutes and 4 seconds of the first quarter. The Spurs scored 4 points.
"The Spurs will continue to use the previous offensive and defensive strategy during the bench stage. We need to stay calm and be bold. Don't pay too much attention to assisting defense, and don't pay too much attention to low-efficiency chasing three-pointers. Don't let them play easy passes..." Su Yang summed up the reminder.
The second quarter started immediately.
Perhaps it was because the Kings were too nervous, still making mistakes and hitting the iron, or maybe it was because they were too excited to return to the home court, and their execution became very strong. The Spurs continued their crazy performance at the end of the first quarter, especially Mills, who was almost 183 Duran special.
With Mills assisting Gay to make a wide-open three-pointer, the Spurs led 35 to 20, Su Yang got up and asked for a timeout.
The referee blew his whistle to stop the game. Popovich stood up excitedly and shouted at the Spurs: "BOYS! DEFENSE FUELS EVERYTHING! LETS KEEP GONING! FINISH THEM!"
The Spurs fans on the sidelines shouted, and soon the entire ATT Center shouted FINISH THEM in unison.
It's like a death execution scene in "Mortal Kombat".
Hearing this, Su Yang took a deep breath to calm his emotions.
The Spurs are qualified to shout like that, because from the last 2 minutes and 49 seconds of the first quarter to the last 8 minutes and 22 seconds of the second quarter, a total of 6 minutes and 27 seconds of game time, the King was defended by the Spurs without a point. It was really a defense decide everything.
If the king wants to escape from death and return to Saskatchewan, he also needs to start with defense.
(End of this chapter)
At two o'clock in the morning on the [-]th, the Kings special plane landed in San Antonio, and then took the bus to the hotel.
After finishing all kinds of messy things, it was already [-]:[-] when we officially settled down, but Su Yang took a nap on the plane before, and he didn’t feel sleepy for a while. He closed his eyes and forced himself to stay awake for a long time. He took out his mobile phone helplessly, Feel free to browse related news.
Coincidentally, he found that both Curry and Antetokounmpo were also online. He tentatively sent a message to inquire, and the two responded to the message in seconds, but they also did not fall asleep. They immediately met at the hotel's all-night restaurant and waited to arrive , All three are in pajamas.
The acquaintance chuckled, ordered some snacks and sat down, and the three of them directly talked about how the next game should be played.
"Defense, defense is everything..."
Antetokounmpo gritted his teeth slightly and stared: In my opinion, we won the fourth game by relying on defense. We let Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green miss many shots. They scored in a wave of the first three games. It often knocks me out of balance. "
Curry put down the fried chicken in his hand, clapped his hands and said: "I think so too. I had a review video on the plane before. The key to our victory in the fourth game was that after the second timeout of the Spurs in the first quarter, there was no Get their second unit to work."
Su Yang nodded frequently in response. The main reason for the king's victory in the fourth game was the successful and efficient acceleration. The reason for the acceleration was to restrict the Spurs' efficient shooting through defense. The big man was empty, and the weak side was defended'. In the opening few rounds, Gasol failed to score, which was very critical.
"The Spurs will definitely make changes in the fifth game. Our coaching staff has had preliminary discussions and thinks that it is most likely to use a BOX AND 1 strategy to deal with you," Su Yang looked at Curry and then at Antetokounmpo. "And use switching defenses to force you to make long-range shots, and try not to give you the opportunity to accelerate the sprint, and LaVine and Tatum, etc., they will use zone defense to force long-range shots..."
The voice fell, Antetokounmpo and Curry were silent at the same time.
If the situation is really as predicted, it will test the ultimate ability of the two as super giants-to throw the damn ball in.
Facing elimination games, the pressure is often very high, and technical moves are easily deformed, let alone the Spurs occupy the home court advantage.
For a moment, Brother Antetokounmpo stared and asked, "Then what should I do?" Curry also asked with a look on his face.
"If you use the way of coach Rivers to answer, it should be to continue to be yourself..."
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Su Yang casually joked, "Specifically, you should continue to give priority to maintaining impact, which is the biggest threat to your Spurs, and Stephen needs to boldly use the screen to shoot a three-pointer to force the Spurs to give up targeting you. Because if they use that method, the purpose is not to lock you up, but just to make you less efficient and unable to change the situation."
Antetokounmpo and Curry nodded again and again.
The topic turned to the defense of the Spurs. Looking at the past four games, the Spurs' routines have changed a lot, and predictions in advance are of little value. The three turned to talking about defense alone. Antetokounmpo and Curry lamented Leonard at the same time What a pervert.
It is a fact that the Kings defended Leonard very successfully in the last game, and it is also a fact that Leonard himself was a little impatient. The typical example is the fast break three-pointer in the first quarter. That is by no means the scoring method that Leonard said he is good at. Basically don't play like that normally.
Therefore, some people ridiculed that the king was lucky to win the fourth game. As long as Leonard recovers, it will be useless.
The issue of turnovers was also mentioned. The number of turnovers must be controlled in the fifth game, otherwise it is easy to be beaten by the Spurs.
Talking to 04:30, Su Yang said with a smile that Kobe had already gotten up and started training at this time, and then returned to the room to rest.
After waking up at noon, after having a light meal, he started to review the video of the fourth game with the whole team, followed by doing shooting drills to maintain his touch. Su Yang turned to chatting with Mike Brown and others on the sidelines. Di Brown joked that the early morning I didn't bring myself to the dinner party.
Chatting with Antetokounmpo and Curry is just a trivial matter, Su Yang didn't care about it, never thought that Di Brown would know.
Seeing that Su Yang was slightly surprised, Di Brown said with a smile: "The hotel restaurant staff took pictures of you and tweeted them. Now everyone is talking about how much you want to win. Some Chinese fans said that you dialed at night. Use lights to study offensive and defensive tactics.”
"It's really..."
Su Yang felt very interesting, and regretted that he didn't find someone to take pictures. No matter what the final result was, that moment could be used as material for future documentaries, but he was unprepared on a whim at that time. It's okay.
"When we made a 4-3 comeback and advanced, what happened in the early morning can be called the San Antonio Night Talk in history, haha."
Mike Brown and others agreed one after another, saying that it might be the arrangement of fate, and it happened like a movie.
After training in the afternoon, the whole team had dinner and chatted as usual, and by the way, watched the situation of the other three teams in the east and west.
The Rockets play the Warriors in the other semifinals in the West. The two teams are currently tied at 2-2, and the match point competition is about to begin.That kind of result is not too surprising. The difference between the regular season records of the two teams is only 9 games. Harden's dismal performance is very surprising. His three-point shooting percentage is only 28.9%, relying on a lot of free throws and throws. Maintain scoring average.
In the east, the young Pacers failed to beat the Raptors in the first round, but the Raptors met the younger 76ers in the second round, and they are now tied 2-2, mainly because Embiid was overwhelmed in the paint , It is easy to create kills through free throws.
In another matchup in the East, the Cavaliers led 3-0 one-sidedly. The player with the highest score for the Celtics was Thomas Jr..
After the dinner party, Su Yang asked the whole team to take a good rest, don't panic.
In the afternoon of the next day, the fifth game of the second round of the playoffs between the Kings and the Spurs started at the ATT Arena in San Antonio.
Before the game, the whole team practiced together, and Brogdon was completely free to participate, and the team doctor Kaufman decided that he could officially come back.After weighing it over and over again, Su Yang removed Brogdon from the injured list and changed it to be able to play, but he had to see the situation on the spot to decide whether to make it.
Turning his head, Su Yang went to the media center for a pre-match interview.
A reporter from the "San Antonio Water Tower" asked: "Coach Bobo was interviewed just now and said that he would not change his offensive and defensive strategies significantly. He believed that the Spurs lost in the last game was mainly due to their lack of desire to win. How do you evaluate his answer? "
Su Yang thought I believe you, you are a bad old man, but he said: "I think Coach Popo is lying, I have never seen a stronger desire to win than Leonard I don’t believe that the Spurs will continue to use the previous defensive strategy, I guess they will come up with some new methods, such as BOX AND 1, and we are ready.”
Boldly make predictions, success may disrupt the Spurs' mentality, and it doesn't matter if they fail, it's just a matter of one sentence anyway.
07:30 in a blink of an eye.
The game officially started.
The fans of the Holy City shouted frantically, some scolded the king as a hillbilly city, some scolded Suyang Chin Chong, telling him to go back to China, and some put up slogans, accusing Suyang's MT company of cutting the ball through privacy and gradually controlling All of America.
The Spurs still started with Parker replacing Mills, the Kings started the same, and Gasol won the jump ball.
A few rounds were played quickly.
The Spurs' offense has changed significantly, probably because they suffered a loss in the last game. Instead of trying the wide-ranging transfer strategy they are best at, they used continuous pick-and-roll methods to find opportunities. Parker made an emergency stop and made a mid-range shot. Leonard started the three-pointer as soon as the opportunity appeared. Alder did not hesitate to make two points from the high position. The overall offensive efficiency was much higher than that in the fourth game.
As expected, the Spurs defensively launched BOX1 against Curry, switched defenses against Antetokounmpo to force COSCO shots, and used zone defenses to force COSCO shots against other Kings players. However, with Su Yang's countermeasures in advance, the Kings' offensive efficiency is not bad.
It's just that compared to Game [-], the Kings couldn't score consecutively for a long time, and the rhythm was always controlled by the Spurs.
With more than two minutes left in the first quarter, the Kings trailed 20-23. Taking advantage of the official timeout, Su Yang replaced Curry and Lopez with Rose and Nance Jr., while the Spurs replaced Mills. +Guy+George Hill, full speed.
Pause back, and the game continues.
The Spurs resorted to the common strange moves in the bench stage, a lot of outside pressure, a lot of fast-paced attacks, and Mills' weird moves to defend Antetokounmpo. It was no different from the previous four games, but they forced a 4-0 The offensive ends the first quarter.
Taking advantage of the break between quarters, Su Yang looked up at the replay dejectedly, and found that the Kings had hit all 2 shots and 49 forced errors in the last 5 minutes and 4 seconds of the first quarter. The Spurs scored 4 points.
"The Spurs will continue to use the previous offensive and defensive strategy during the bench stage. We need to stay calm and be bold. Don't pay too much attention to assisting defense, and don't pay too much attention to low-efficiency chasing three-pointers. Don't let them play easy passes..." Su Yang summed up the reminder.
The second quarter started immediately.
Perhaps it was because the Kings were too nervous, still making mistakes and hitting the iron, or maybe it was because they were too excited to return to the home court, and their execution became very strong. The Spurs continued their crazy performance at the end of the first quarter, especially Mills, who was almost 183 Duran special.
With Mills assisting Gay to make a wide-open three-pointer, the Spurs led 35 to 20, Su Yang got up and asked for a timeout.
The referee blew his whistle to stop the game. Popovich stood up excitedly and shouted at the Spurs: "BOYS! DEFENSE FUELS EVERYTHING! LETS KEEP GONING! FINISH THEM!"
The Spurs fans on the sidelines shouted, and soon the entire ATT Center shouted FINISH THEM in unison.
It's like a death execution scene in "Mortal Kombat".
Hearing this, Su Yang took a deep breath to calm his emotions.
The Spurs are qualified to shout like that, because from the last 2 minutes and 49 seconds of the first quarter to the last 8 minutes and 22 seconds of the second quarter, a total of 6 minutes and 27 seconds of game time, the King was defended by the Spurs without a point. It was really a defense decide everything.
If the king wants to escape from death and return to Saskatchewan, he also needs to start with defense.
(End of this chapter)
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