Chapter 167 Popovich's distress
After taking down the Nuggets, the Spurs came to Portland again. In the first quarter, the scores of both sides were not enough to be 30. In the second quarter, the Spurs Stephen and Ginobili jointly launched a large counterattack, scoring 36 points in a single quarter, widening the gap between the scores to more than 15 points in one fell swoop.
As soon as the fourth quarter began, the Portland Trail Blazers replaced the main force and announced their surrender. The game entered garbage time early. After winning the Trail Blazers, after a day's rest, the Spurs came to Seattle again to challenge the Seattle Supersonics, which were known as the Northwest duo along with the Portland Trail Blazers.[]
The Spurs, which had been leading the way in the second half of the fourth quarter, was a little slackening in spirit. At this time, Ray Allen suddenly showed his power, and after two consecutive three-pointers, he caused a foul by Ginobili, who made both free throws and overtook the score in one fell swoop. The Spurs only relied on Stephen's inside attack to score two points.
**Vic called a timeout and re-arranged the tactics, but before the Spurs' tactics were improved, Ray Allen and Lewis made three-pointers from outside, widening the gap to five points in one fell swoop. There were only two minutes and thirteen seconds left in the game. **Vic had no choice but to call another timeout.
After returning to the court with the timeout, Duncan used the role of a sneak attacker and successfully scored two points. However, when he returned to the Supersonics half, Ray Allen had another unreasonable three-pointer. He only made one three-pointer in the first half of the game, and scored four three-pointers in less than five minutes.
Finally defended the SuperSonics' attack, and then Ginobili made a three-pointer from the outside. Back in the whole game, Ridno, who had not made a three-pointer in the whole game, made a three-pointer like a downpour, extinguished the victory fire that the Spurs had just ignited.
With Ray Allen, Lewis, and Reedno three-melter, the Supersonics won the game. The Spurs hated Seattle. Stephen also had a strange nightmare on the plane flying out of Seattle. In the dream, Stephen was constantly hunted by three strange guys, and the tools they chased were all red and orange balls.
After being woken up by the staff, Stephen was awakened by the staff and made up his mind to practice three-pointers after going back. Such three-pointers are really terrible. They are simply a magic weapon to chase points, and the Yitian Sword Dragon Slaying Sword that widens the gap.
Stephen spends less than one-third of the training time outside the three-point line every day. In **Vic's words, three-pointers cannot be eaten as a regular meal, but can be used as dessert or red wine for dinner. Therefore, Stephen has never paid much attention to the training of three-pointers. Now it seems that three-pointers can also be shot to death.
After another day of rest, the Spurs faced the challenge of the Clippers at home. Last time, they lost to the Clippers first, and then started their own three-game losing streak. The Spurs naturally played with a revengeful heart. From the first quarter to the end of the game, they never gave the Clippers a chance to overtake.
Due to the lack of hope of victory, Clippers head coach Dunleavy gave Coupard a lot of playing time and mobile phone opportunities in the third quarter. Coupard did not disappoint the head coach's trust, and scored nine points and seven rebounds in a single quarter, gaining an advantage in the confrontation with Oberto.
Cooperd has excellent physical fitness, but under Stephen's teaching and influence, Cooperd does not rely entirely on his own body to play. His playing style is very smart. In addition, he has been in contact with Sam Kassel, so many tricks on the court are also vivid.
"How did you teach him? How could he play as bad as you?" After Oberto left the court, he asked Stephen, who was sitting there smiling without saying a word, and then showed his back midfielder to Stephen. Cooperd secretly hit Oberto's back midfielder with one elbow. Oberto took the initiative to ask for an end.
"This is not what I teach, it was that guy." Stephen quickly shook his head and denied that he had not taught Koopard this trick. It seems that Koopard said on the phone that he often trained with Kassel, and it seems that he had learned these things. Seeing that Stephen pointed to Kassel, Oberto didn't say anything anymore. Everyone knows that although Kassel is not very famous, he is also famous in the league and is not easy to mess with.
After the game, Cooper was willingly blackmailed by Stephen, with Cassel and Robert Horry accompanying him. Both of them were heroes of the Rockets' two consecutive championships. They boasted about the past, and they all looked glorious and vicissitudes. Neither of them was the core figure of the team, but they were both important pieces of the championship lineup. Moreover, neither of them was a type of particularly good physical fitness, and they all relied on their skills and wisdom to play.
Kassel only dunked once on the separate occasion, but he once said: "Jordan is the only one who can beat him in half of the basketball team in the league." Although it was a little exaggerated, he knew that what he said was a matter of words because no one stood up to refute or laughed at him.
Needless to say, Robert Horry is the ring that is dissatisfied with one hand. Just a shiny finger, one hand can definitely make Malone, Payton, Barkley, Ewing and others faint, especially Malone and Payton, who lowered their salary and gave up their heads, gave up their position as the boss of the team, just for a championship ring, and the extremely brilliant "Four Heavenly Kings" were beaten by the Pistons 4-1. At this time, Horry had already joined the Spurs and helped the Spurs win the championship the second year. Many experts commented on the Lakers' failure that year. Although there were various factors, the lack of shooting power from outside the three-point line was also a very important factor.
Not to mention the ancient times, the winning lineups in recent years have all had stable and efficient three-point shooters, such as Steve Cole of the Bulls, Robert Holly of the Rockets, Robert Holly of the Lakers, Elliott of the Spurs when the first championship, Danny Ferry and Bowen of the second championship, and Bowen and Robert Holly of the third championship.
Look at the appearance of these names several times. Robert Horry is called "Key Mr. Finals" and it is not for no reason. With his three-pointer, countless teams fell down, including Moth Team, Seventy-Six, Trail Blazers, Kings, Pistons, and even the Spurs were his victims.
When hearing these bold words full of glory and sentimentality, Cooperd showed a look of respect, admiration and longing. Only Stephen was unmoved. Robert Horry and Cassel looked at each other a little. It seemed that Cooperd's achievements were only as great as brother, and Stephen's future was absolutely unlimited.
The degree to which a person can develop depends first on how high his ideal is. After listening to the deeds of the two people, he feels that it is worthy of admiration and admiration. So many achievements are limited to this. Stephen doesn't think these things are so glorious at all, which means that he is not only in his heart.
Of course, they didn't think about it. Just for Stephen's current development momentum, it was not just a role player. No matter how great a role player is, he was a role player, an all-star, and a superstar. That was Stephen's ultimate goal. The two of them sighed in their hearts and said nothing.
After sending off the Clippers, the Spurs ushered in the challenge of the Los Angeles Lakers, the Clippers' arch-rivals. In recent times, Kobe's crazy scoring momentum has slowed down, and the Lakers' record is on the verge of the playoff team, so the Lakers' victory is also particularly strong.
However, Kobe couldn't control his shots when he wanted to win the top. With Stephen and Bruce Bowen taking turns to defend, Kobe made nine shots in 29 times, even with less than 30,000 shots, and even made 6 three-pointers. He almost squandered half of the Lakers' phones alone. How could the Lakers in this state be the opponent of the Spurs? Although the Spurs' offense is relatively weak, it is much better than the Lakers.
It seems that even a player, even a star, cannot be controlled to this extent. Faced with Kobe's crazy move, Phil Jackson seemed to have not seen it. Sitting there was like a clay-shaped stone sculpture, probably not daring to care.
Although Stephen envied such treatment in his heart, reason told him that this approach was not the way to win. In ancient times when basketball skills and tactics were not yet developed, Jacky Cheung's ability to defeat the sky could not win. To this day, basketball has been a time when it was time to win by simply fighting alone.
Stephen also saw that when a person loses his mind, even a player who has almost the ultimate shooting skills like Kobe will perform such an extremely poor shooting percentage. Especially under the successive defense of Stephen and Bruce Bowen, Kobe was forced to score seven mistakes, which were all turned into the Spurs' score, and the Spurs won almost the same score as this.
After defeating the Lakers, the game in March ended. There were only ten games left before the end of the regular season. At this time, the Spurs were ranked first in the Western Conference. It looked like they were surrounded by mountains and glorious, but **Vicci was full of vigilance.
After adjusting for a season, many players on the team have problems in their condition, including Bruce Bowen. After today's game, his body reacted abnormally again, and Ginobili and Oberto's condition did not recover from the fatigue of the Copa America. Van Exel's health has not improved. The substitute can only rely on the useless Yudic. In addition to Nestrovic's self-deprecating depravity, the current lineup is far from **Vic's idea.
Fortunately, Stephen, who was originally planning to be a spare tire and successor of Bruce Bowen, was far beyond his imagination. Now, just looking at the data, he is already the second-ranked team and threatening Deng Ju's position. From reality, he is also the fourth player in the team. The good thing is a bit too good, exceeding **Vic's expectations, and it also bothers **Vic.
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