Chapter 784 The End of the Soaring Battle (14/63)(1/2)
Kawhi Leonard's laughter is different from Duncan's mistakenly expelled by the referee for laughter, so Wei Xia has no right to expel Leonard.
Moreover, he didn't think Leonard was laughing at himself.
Leonard's smile actually doesn't have that profound connotation. He is very happy. It is true. Although he was beaten up by Wei Xia, he is still happy.
Because he knew that all the offenses Wei Xia showed in the third quarter could be learned in Kobe's game video.
As Wei Xia said, most of his skills were learned from Kobe.
If Wei Xia can learn, he can do it too.
At that moment, Leonard laughed with joy when he thought that he might become a powerful player as strong as Wei Xia in the future.
Then, the high temperature caused by the air conditioner failure and the subsequent chain reaction made Popovich start a series of tricks.
His main trick was used on Duncan.
In most of the third quarter, the Spurs suddenly replaced Duncan and replaced Matt Bonner. For them, it was simply the end of the defensive end.
But they used the recovery attack to hold on.
One minute before the end of the third quarter, Popovich replaced Duncan and let him play until the start of the fourth quarter.
Then, take a two-minute break and replace Duncan again.
What's amazing is that during that time, the Spurs actually withstood Wei Xia's crazy attack.
Wei Xia's performance of 42 points and 9 rebounds in the third quarter failed to bury the Spurs. In the 10 minutes before the end of the fourth quarter, both sides led by 92 to 90, and 76ers.
Due to the failure of the central air conditioner in the venue, this is something that has never happened before, so there is no big fan - thinking that the old Boston Garden Inn, no matter how bad the equipment is, there are always fans. The Spurs don't even have this, making it seem like there has never been an accident in the AT&T Center.
Not to mention anything else, do bats fly in less? Just need any security measures without them. Both parties tonight will face severe tests.
Eight minutes before the end of the game, both sides tied and the temperature was hot.
Obviously, the temperature cannot cool down. Everyone has to complete the process in this environment, and the physical energy consumption will be far more than usual.
This is the real hero stage. The tactical operation is not as cautious as it was at the beginning. The nervous strings in the first three quarters were also released. The coaches on both sides discovered their strongest weapon, so they stabbed the weapon into the other party's stomach with a fierce look, and looked at each other with blood-red eyes. Whoever is a coward will fall down. Whoever is a real man and a fake man will come out as soon as he tries.
This was the situation 8 minutes before the end of the game.
Popovich could no longer play fancy rotation, Duncan must hold on in these eight minutes.
Due to the serious physical decline, Duncan's attack difficulty and weak protection of rebounds, the role he can play is just a deterrent on the defensive end.
At this time, Wei Xia went crazy.
Wei Xia faced Leonard's defense from the outside and ran continuously.
He ran for 22 seconds, allowing Leonard's temperature to rise to 38 degrees.
Then, he threw away the defense, took the ball and turned around, and took a buzzer-beating action.
A ruthless three-pointer!
Individual 47th point.
The 76ers led by 3 points.
This is not the end. The Spurs, who seemed to be destroyed by the temperature and exhausted, missed the mid-range shot. Wei Xia took the defensive rebound, pushed forward by himself, and made a quick break alone. He was still so fast and so energetic, as if the changing environment and indoor temperature had not had any impact on him.
Leonard, who was in charge of chasing, felt that he could not kick the ball, but Wei Xia ran faster and faster.
Leonard was thrown away by five meters, and Wei Xia rushed to the frontcourt. She could easily score with a layup and save energy, so she actually made a slam dunk.
The 76ers led by 5 points, and the Spurs called a timeout.
There are less than 6 minutes left before the end of the game.
No one knows what Popovich said to the players during the suspension period.
In this case, the 76ers, who had previously been invincible, have become a single-core team that needs to rely on Wei Xia to show their power.
The Spurs seemed to have made greater determination.
They have been lucky since 2007. Not to mention the series of Western Division Gods seasons, last season, they finally reached the finals, holding two match points but failed to catch them, and even let Ray Allen hit a mythical three-pointer that will appear in the album countless times in the future.
They are back this year.
Before the finals, Duncan's attitude represented the Spurs' thoughts: we won't mess it up this time.
However, the opponent they face is no longer the Heat Big Three.
No longer the number one in the league.
But someone who always needs to prove himself - Wish!
He is a strange player. His legendary performance in the 2008 finals allowed him to snatch FMVP from Kobe. His two classic finals performances have surpassed many legendary superstars. But the Lakers did not match his contract because of his ACL tear and his salary cap health considerations.
He left.
After leaving Angel City, the world soon forgot what he was like.
A year has passed, and everyone only remembers that he is Kobe's most capable helper, a member of the 2008 champion Lakers, performed well in the finals, and then what? He was unfortunately injured and was abandoned by the Lakers. The hometown team opened his hands and hugged him. He went home.
He also needs to prove himself.
The first season, fishing.
In the second season, he lost to the Bulls who were in full swing.
Season 3 and 4 were out of the Heat.
He led the team alone and lost again and again, but everyone considered him the most capable player. It seemed that he could not succeed again after leaving Kobe. Until this year.
He got a team that could match him, so he swept the East and came to the Spurs.
Everyone's life is not going well.
Everyone needs this champion to prove themselves.
No one, no one will retreat at this moment, even if the temperature in this arena has exceeded 34 degrees.
After the death fight that was suspended, Wei Xia felt the heat hidden deep in his chest. He had experienced countless seventh games in the Celtic dynasty, and he had experienced the sixth and seventh games in 2008. He knew what such a game needed.
The rotation and tactics of both sides are already in chaos, and now they are fighting hard. The more they fight, there is no tactic available, the more they have to fight to decide the outcome. Therefore, the more they seem to be ruthless, Wei Xia, Ginobili and Duncan are cruel.
The most obvious failure of the air conditioner were Duncan and Ginobili, but they both stood up when the Spurs needed them to stand up, but they only encountered Wish, who had somehow retreated.
The Spurs scored a goal, and Wei Xia had to find a way to play back no matter what.
Whether he scores himself or helps his teammates score.
His energy, his enthusiasm, his fighting spirit, and his tenacity to refuse to surrender led his teammates. When competing for this kind of spirit, young people are always more able to resist than old guys.
A moment when the winner is decided, two minutes before the end of the game.
The 76ers led the Spurs by 4 points 107 to 103.
Wei Xia ran and Leonard followed.
Leonard's face was so tired that he was gasping for breath and was about to fall to the ground at any time, but he still had to follow Wei Xia.
Wei Xia ran for 20 seconds at full speed, and Leonard followed for 20 seconds.
The moment before the ball was received, Wei Xia stopped urgently, ran back, and shook Leonard away. After receiving the ball, he saw Leonard fall to the ground and directly took a three-pointer.
"Swish!"
Wei Xia was about to return to defense, and then heard the referee stop the game.
The Spurs players surrounded Leonard, and the 76ers didn't know what was going on.
It took half a minute to find out that Leonard had a cramp in his legs.
With his figure, he followed Wei Xia like this, and the temperature in the arena, his physical fitness has bottomed out, so it is normal to have cramps.
But Leonard's cramps at this time undoubtedly gave the Spurs, which could no longer limit Wei Xia's death.
"Wish has played 40 minutes tonight. Including the three-pointer just now, he got it..." Sean Elliott said in horror. "He got 56 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists! He should be more tired than Kawhi, but what we see is that Wish stands tall and Kawhi is cramped!"
The glorious moment for the 76ers has arrived, and their persistence and waiting have all been achieved.
The Spurs missed a three-pointer, and Wei Xia once again participated in the counterattack at a speed that others could not imagine - it took him 15 years to have everything from nothing to everything, but what allowed him to support him in this environment still came from John Haflicec.
His body, his heart, his desires, and his pursuits all come from this.
run!
Then run!
“Wish completed the counterattack!”
"He got 58 points!"
The depressed San Antonio man, looking at the score and timer in despair.
The increasingly hot arena is like a ruthless executioner, constantly destroying the will of the players.
Now, the Spurs are close to collapse.
One minute later, they still didn't score a single goal.
With 90 seconds left before the end of the game, the 76ers were 115 to 103, leading the Spurs by 12 points.
To be continued...