Chapter 755: Win or Lose? Popovich’s Heart Is Bleeding!
In the match between the Spurs and the Supersonics, under the stunned eyes of the fans, after Harden and Ginobili were "shot" and fell to the ground, Popovich immediately called a timeout again.
The "gentle and easy-going" Popovich was so angry and asked for a timeout again in such a short time, of course not to praise the Spurs' substitutes for their excellent performance on the court.
In fact, the Spurs' substitute lineup performed quite badly on the court.
"Manu, have you degenerated to the point where you need to play this trick with a rookie player?!"
"What the hell did you do on the court just now!"
Ginobili really wanted to cry after being sprayed in the face by Popovich's saliva.
Damn, he was really wronged!
He is a champion player, a big man with some cards in the NBA. Is it necessary to use such means against a garbage rookie who is the second blackest in the NBA?
He really wasn't shot first just now!
It was that guy who leaned on him and was about to fall back to the ground after being shot, so in order not to suffer a loss, he subconsciously threw the ball and fell to the ground after being shot.
Damn, that guy's defense is really really bad for him!
His absolute speed is not that fast now, and his sprinting power is not that high. He plays with his brain and dodges.
But on the court, he always feels that his dodges can be predicted in advance by James Harden.
If the person standing in front of him is not really a person, he would doubt whether this kid is the kind of single-celled animal paramecium that seeks profit and avoids harm!
It's okay that this kid always guesses his black heart of playing tactics. If he really wants to play tactics, he is not afraid of anyone. Just now, he won the game. James Harden once again felt the danger and came up, which was fooled. When he was about to break through this difficult kid, this kid actually played this trick on him!
After this kid played this trick on him, he actually stood up from the ground with a sincere and confused look on his face, as if he had no idea what happened. In the end, the referee even called an offensive foul on him!
It would be fine if he committed an offensive foul on the court, but he had to be served by Popovich's hair dryer off the court!
This life is so damn hard!
Ginobili closed his eyes with a sense of despair.
If he had known this, he would not have been scared by Yes and would have practiced more fake fall skills with his teacher. He had always thought that Yes and the Supersonics were a group of sophisticated people, but he didn't expect that there was a guy who was even less sophisticated than him.
Popovich was really unhappy with Ginobili playing this kind of trick with James Harden on the court!
This is certainly not because he is a gentleman.
Although he is elegant and easy-going, he has nothing to do with a gentleman.
The main thing is that the Spurs need to take advantage of Yes's absence to grab points at this time. Why are you, Ginobili, entangled with a garbage rookie?
Look at the silly beard, dull eyes, and simple and honest chubby face of the rookie from the Supersonics. Isn't this stupid little fool your favorite opponent, Ginobili?
Just crush him!
"Manu, in the next game, I don't want to see your boring bad tastes anymore. I want to see you crush that simple and honest kid who looks like a fool!"
Simple and honest?
Idiot?
Ginobili, who was originally alone and hopeless, came back to his senses and looked at Popovich in disbelief.
Coach, do you have any misunderstandings about this kid?
This kid,
is more evil than me!
Ginobili wanted to explain, but seeing Popovich's murderous eyes, Ginobili finally swallowed his saliva and nodded.
The Spurs were very angry.
The Seattle Supersonics were much more relaxed.
After the rotation of the second quarter, James Harden's performance surprised Yes.
This season, Yes did not let James Harden attack, but used his attribute of seeking advantage and avoiding harm to develop his defensive ability first.
James Harden's defense is now somewhat polarized.
He is still easily distracted without the ball.
His defense with the ball has improved a lot, but he is still clumsy when defending those players with strong offensive power, strong destructive power, and who don't reason with him. If the level of "harm" of his attribute of seeking advantage and avoiding harm is too high, he will subconsciously retreat uncontrollably and be afraid.
But when defending those players who are not so fast, physically gifted, and offensively destructive, James Harden's defense is really a bit airtight.
Now Ginobili's offense seems to have hit the muzzle of James Harden's defense.
And James Harden's basketball IQ and acting skills are really good, which actually made Ginobili suffer.
In this game against the Spurs, the team's performance and James Harden's performance really surprised and pleasantly surprised Yes.
He always thought that James Harden's attribute should play a greater role on the offensive end, but he didn't expect it to be on the defensive end.
He is only in his first year, but he can limit Ginobili on the defensive end.
He really didn't expect that old Nelson could break Popovich's tactical system so much!
He knew that old Nelson always had an advantage when facing Popovich, but he didn't expect the advantage to be so big.
This allows him to give Bowen more benefits when cooperating with him, so that even if he curses in his heart, he will become more and more honest physically about this kind of cooperation.
Under the use of old Nelson, Ibaka has become the nemesis of the Spurs' tactical system, and old Nelson has also suppressed Popovich again, which is a surprise.
James Harden can slightly solve some of Ginobili's problems, and also make him not so busy in the game. He was originally going to rest for three minutes and then continue to play.
Bruce Bowen's progress is really huge.
He needs enough physical strength to suppress the increasingly powerful Bowen. If possible, he hopes to put more physical strength in the control and counter-control of Bowen. Rondo can limit Parker, and Harden can limit Ginobili. This is what he really wants to see.
The current Supersonics are not the strongest time, but the current Spurs make the Supersonics seem to be really that strong!
After the timeout, the Seattle Supersonics and the Spurs played again.
The Seattle Supersonics did not replace Yes, and the Spurs did not replace Bowen.
So all the cameras on the scene were focused on the two protagonists on the court just now, James Harden and Ginobili.
And the cameras on the scene were very interesting, and they were all aimed at close-ups of the two people's faces.
At this time, James Harden had a silly smile on his face, and his dull eyes were blank, as if he was very honest and stupid.
On the other side, Ginobili, when his hair was still lush, really looked like a handsome young man, which made people feel good.
As for Ginobili, who is now bald...
"Josh, who do you think was faking a fall just now?"
"Of course it was Ginobili, Ginobili is not a good person at first glance, James Harden is so honest!"
Now the commentators on TV are talking about the scene where Ginobili and James Harden were shot just now. As a 13-year-old boy who hates evil, Josh Hart is of course on the side of James Harden. The referee just made a just decision on the court!
Josh Hart's sense of justice made his partner, who is a Spurs fan next to him, a little embarrassed.
Manu was not the bad guy who was sneaky and cunning at first glance...
That beautiful boy...
Looking at the bald Spurs on the court, and finally looking at Duncan who was touching his head, the boy sighed.
In this game against the Supersonics, Popovich played very, very hard.
Originally thought it was a counterattack, but in the end found that everything was calculated, but in the end, it was not calculated that the team's players, except Bowen, were collectively dragged down again!
In order to increase the team's offense, Bonner has always been the power forward of the Spurs this season.
This directly led to Duncan's heavy responsibility in the interior being heavier than before.
Bonner is really not an interior player who can help Duncan in all aspects.
In other words, in this game, Duncan was not facing Milicic alone most of the time, but also Millsap!
Milicic + Millsap, this really made Duncan uncomfortable.
Popovich could clearly see that Duncan was not so comfortable on both ends of the offense and defense in this game. Although he was not too bad, Duncan could not expect too much in this game.
Duncan could not expect too much in this game, and others could not expect even more.
It can be said that Popovich was very clear after the first quarter that if the rotation lineup could not get enough advantage, the Spurs would really lose this game!
Ginobili's advantage over James Harden is really very important.
This season, the Spurs' bench lineup outside is two carriages, Ginobili and this year's Spurs first-round pick, former University of Washington guard Justin Duntummon, but in this game, in order to maximize Ginobili's advantage over James Harden, Popovich used Duntummon to the minimum. Duntummon did not have much advantage against Barea, who is also known for his speed.
But damn, Popovich finally found that Ginobili did not have much advantage against James, who was honest and easy to bully!
When the second quarter was halfway through, looking at the score of 34 to 28, Popovich really felt like what was wrong with the world.
Ginobili, who was as cunning as a vulture and whom he had high hopes for, actually failed to control the stupid and dull James Harden in these six minutes!
What was wrong with the world?
The black-bellied man couldn't beat the natural guy?
Popovich really wanted to beat the Seattle Supersonics, and really wanted to beat Yes.
Facing Yes and the Supersonics, he really encountered too many humiliations and background moments. Even if he discarded those humiliations and background moments, just the previous record of 11 wins and 2 losses between the two teams, he was eager to beat Yes and the Supersonics.
If the gap between the Spurs and the Seattle Supersonics was really big, so big that the Spurs had no chance at all, or had very few chances, he wouldn't be so anxious, nor so uncomfortable, nor would he be very tormented.
But in this game, the Spurs can really win!
In the first quarter, the strongest player of the Supersonics, Yes, made 5 of 13 shots and scored 16 points under Bowen's defense!
In the second quarter, under Bowen's defense, Yes's offense continued to decline, and he only made 2 of 7 shots and scored 9 points!
In the third quarter, Bowen's defense against Yes was still excellent. Yes made 5 of 12 shots in the entire third quarter, and only scored 15 points with 12 shots!
In the fourth quarter, Bowen's defense against Yes even reached a new height. Yes took 10 shots in the entire fourth quarter and only hit 3 times, scoring 10 points. This was the first time that Yes's score did not exceed the number of shots!
How incredible is it to be able to defend Yes in a single quarter so that his score did not exceed the number of shots?
Yes did not have no desire to attack in this game!
In this game, Yes took a total of 42 shots, which is quite an incredible offensive desire, but he only hit 15 of the 42 shots!
15 of 42, a hit rate of less than 36%!
Although it cannot be said that Bowen defeated Yes in this game, there is no doubt that Bowen still used his single defense to block the strongest Yes for the Spurs, creating the greatest possibility and opportunity for the team to win!
However, looking at the score of 94 to 90 on the sidelines, Popovich's heart was really bleeding!
Such a good opportunity!
As long as the other players of the Spurs can get their usual average points in this game, they can easily beat the Supersonics.
But the Spurs' score of 90 points in this game is 15 points lower than the usual average score of 105!
94 to 90!
Looking at the score on the scoreboard on the sidelines, Popovich is really going to explode now, it's really just a little bit short!
The other players of the Spurs are really sorry for Bruce!
The game between the Seattle Supersonics and the Spurs ended, and the weaker Seattle Supersonics defeated the Spurs with a very small advantage of 4 points away from home.
This disappointed those who had expected the Seattle Supersonics to fall out of the top eight after a three-game losing streak in this southwest trip.
After the Seattle Supersonics defeated the Spurs in this game, no matter what the result of the next game against the Mavericks is, the Seattle Supersonics will not fall out of the top eight after these three games.
After the game between the Supersonics and the Spurs, Yes and Bowen were still the focus of the court.
Especially these two people are always so dramatic, because at the end of the game, the two just stood together, and then they just looked at each other.
Looking at the two people looking at each other on the court, many people were amazed.
"Yes won the game and scored 50 points in the game."
"Bowen made Yes miss 27 times in this game, and his hit rate was less than 36%. He became the first person in NBA history to complete the pre-game talk to Yes."
"So, who won this contest?"
At the end of the game, Barkley raised this question, which became the most discussed topic on the entire network for a while.
"It's very simple, Yes won, Bowen didn't lose, and the Spurs lost."
The first fan's comment was not the fifteenth but the second one, which received the most likes.