Chapter 197: The Dark Side of the Spurs
The Spurs don't seem to know how to deal with Wei Xia.
If Wei Xia is the strongest player in the Lakers, they will not worry. They will play the joint defense against his unstable shooting, and then catch the problem that he will only go to the right when he takes the ball and breaks through.
But he is not the strongest point of the Lakers, and he can't even count the second strongest point of the Lakers.
Just looking at tactical status, Wei Xia may be the one with the least tactical status. He basically has no ball rights because Smash Parker is present.
Not playing point guard has the disadvantage of not playing point guard. With the Lakers' current positioning of him, he has many difficulties in touching the ball.
According to general circumstances, it is usually difficult for a rookie like him to be "arranged" by the head coach. Wei Xia does live in dire straits every day.
Kobe's challenge, fans' expectations, Los Angeles' own influence, Phil Jackson's careful supervision and review, plus every game with the mission of facing the opponent's arrows, and Jim Buss' restless off-court activities.
Various things harassed Wei Xia, but he still found vitality in many difficulties.
Currently, he averages 1453 per game, maintains his performance. Even if he does not improve, he is also a favorite candidate for the sixth man of the year.
For the Spurs, Wei Xia can do anything and fill in everything. The gameplay with a very presence on both ends of offense and defense has been carried forward, and Popovich has since remembered his name.
Ginobili had no touch in three-pointers, and his breakthrough also suffered from a loss of not being as good as Wei Xia's athletic talent and physical fitness. His condition was even worse than Duncan, who was 1 of 9 in the first quarter.
After the first quarter, the Spurs were 14 points behind the Lakers.
There is really no excuse for the defending champion to be labeled as such a virtue.
In the second quarter, Popovich replaced Ginobili and replaced Michael Finley. While fighting against Kobe, he actually asked Bowen to play against Wei Xia.
"Give that active rookie a little bit of pain." This is Popovich's original words.
Finley completed a jump shot as soon as he came up, which made Kobe realize that he was not here to play.
When the Lakers attacked, Kobe found out that the Spurs actually asked Bowen to defend Wei Xia.
Kobe, who averaged 34 points per game, was not careful, and asked Bowen to defend Wei Xia, who averaged only 14 points per game.
"What are they doing?"
Lakers' assistant coach Brian Shaw said in wonder.
"They want to kill wish?" Vaughan Weaver has heard of Bowen's reputation, of course the bad part.
Bowen is a typical player who is dragged down by reputation, just like the future person named Green. Many people only remember him chasing eggs and forget that as an all-round pocket inside player, he is the basis for the Warriors to set up a five-square lineup.
This is even more so when Bowen mentioned him, most fans only remember his sinister stories and rumors, making it difficult to comprehensively examine the player.
Of course, to defeat an evil person, you must completely deny him, even if it is his achievements, which is the same in any industry.
Bowen is an authentic grassroots player, using all cunning moves. He always stands at a standard position, bends his knees and picks up his arms, and moves more aggressively than his opponents. He looks very nervous and keeps twitching: stomping, stepping forward and backward, raising his hand to cover his eyes, waving his hand to interfere, jumping non-stop, often shaking his head and communicating with his teammates. This movement is not good-looking, making you feel that he is a scattered person, and he is very nervous at first, but this is his style.
Bao Wen understands very well: the defense in basketball games depends on details; whether the opponent's breakthrough is successful or not, in fact, the steps and positions of both sides have been determined by the moment before the breakthrough. Like Stockton, his expression is as dull as if he was wearing a mask, but his hands, feet or other parts are strangling the opponent's most uncomfortable area. This is probably his image in the history of professional basketball since then.
Wei Xia, who was facing Bowen for the first time, said that he was not nervous was a lie, so he was naturally worried that he was like the star players who were injured by Bowen.
Compared to those people, he couldn't even be a dish.
Like those previous seniors who did everything they want, Bao Wen has unusual ruthlessness and cleverness, mixed with insidious and meticulous cunning.
How to allocate physical fitness during playing time, communicate with teammates, and how to determine what to do in various emergencies, his every move is precise and proportionate.
Wei Xia wanted to deceive him with counter-running, but he almost couldn't get up. Seeing Wei Xia running, he chased him from behind, and verbally asked his teammates to delay Wei Xia's speed. He especially liked to rely on Duncan as a barrier to help him defend. He did not give his opponent any opportunity to take advantage of it, understand what different opponents hate the most, and also understand how to keep the opponent hated in the whole game.
Bao Wen, who thought he could easily ban Wei Xia, did not expect that he met the most stubborn man besides Mitsui Shou.
Perhaps Wei Xia could one day say evilly like Mitsui Shou who had exhausted his energy after running out of three points: "My name is Wei Xia, and I am a man who will never give up."
Bowen wants to stop him from running out of the opportunity, the more he wants to run out of the opportunity.
His running was very fast, with a large amplitude and a long duration, and the angle of cutting in and out did not destroy the tactics. He just ran back and forth, moving left and right. As he ran out of the top of the arc, Odom's ball passed over.
Bao Wen's defense didn't keep up, and Wei Xia wanted this moment of opportunity.
He made a decisive move, and the three-pointer at the top of the arc was his most confident point.
"Swish!"
"The Lakers' rookie wish has scored 10 points. Can't even Bowen stop him?"
When Bowen saw Popovich's dissatisfaction, he knew that his despise of rookies would cause him to suffer.
He decided not to treat Wei Xia as a no-threatening rookie. If he really didn't have a threat, how could Popovich let him defend himself? If he wanted to defend, he would have to prevent him from death and prevent him from psychologically. If he was scared and vomited when he saw the Spurs' jersey in the future, it would be great.
The offense and defense of both sides alternate.
Kobe was dissatisfied with the Spurs' defensive arrangements, so he asked Bowen to defend Wei Xia and Finley to defend him. It was simply outrageous.
Kobe, who was unwilling to accept the situation, moved hard on the defensive end.
The consequence of the heavy move is that Finley can earn back 2 points for the Spurs at the free throw line.
"You'd better change someone to guard me!" Kobe shouted to Finley.
No one paid attention to him, which made Kobe even more empty.
The empty Kobe needs some points to fill his inner loneliness, and he wants to reawaken the Spurs' fear of him.
Kobe's attack wholeheartedly, while Wei Xia felt in advance how despicable the master-level defender was.
The referee's blind spot, Bowen scratched Wei Xia like a cat.
The scratches were very clear, and Wei Xia did not complain. He ran and prepared to get rid of Bowen again.
Kobe turned over and took action.
Wei Xia used the hypothesis principle - no matter who shoots, he assumes that he can't make the shot. Others stand in place and wait for Kobe to make the shot, while Wei Xia seems to see Kobe miss the shot. Before the ball reaches the highest point, he rushed to the basket and jumped up as fast as possible. His consciousness is ahead of everyone.
When it comes to predicting rebounds, he is not better than anyone else, he just wants to grab rebounds than everyone else.
The rebound that should have belonged to Duncan was intercepted by Wei Xia in the air.
Wei Xia grabbed the offensive rebound and was about to attack, Bowen launched an attack from his back.
When it comes to doing bad things, Bowen is like a psychologist. His judgment of fake moves, interference with the shooter, and predicting the opponent's running route. He can easily delay the opponent's position when defending without the ball. The ruler scale is generally accurate and detailed, and his body is soft and soft.
He studied Wei Xia for a few minutes and interpreted Wei Xia's preferences.
He thinks Wei Xia is a very easy-to-be injured player and his style of playing is too hard.
To guard against such a person, he must properly force him to walk into the assisted trap, make the most accurate pressing, and force his opponent to catch the ball in an uncomfortable place.
But Wei Xia seemed to have endless energy, which he could not understand or accept.
Wei Xia knew how to use the energy in his body to fight people higher and stronger than him.
Bowen, who was raiding from behind, failed to hold back, so he simply stopped accepting it, just to teach Wei Xia a lesson: Never leave his back to Bruce Bowen!
Bao Wen knocked over Wei Xia from behind who wanted to be strong.
The referee's whistle clearly reminded the audience.
The fans of the att Center gave Bowen a warm boo. Don’t think that they are clearly distinguishing between public and private affairs, and are not justifying Wei Xia. In fact, on the day when Bowen retires his jersey in the future, the fans of the Holy City also sent him away with boo. Yes, Bowen is the kind of player who enjoys booing.
Therefore, giving him booed at this time was exactly the encouragement to him.
Fans don’t care whether Bowen’s actions will hurt others or whether it will affect others’ careers.
Chris Meim wanted to help Weisha up, but Kobe rushed in from the outside and pushed Bowen away with his chest: "Bruce, you'd better come to me with these methods!"
Bowen used his acting skills that would never be outdated, innocent, strange, and puzzled. In short, he was right, Kobe was too excited.
The referee was fair and gave a malicious foul.
Wei Xia was not injured, but it was really dangerous just now.
"Thank you." Wei Xia thanked Kobe for standing up for him.
Chapter completed!