Chapter 577 I Am Very Confident About Saint Bowen!
"Is this really San Antonio? Is this really the AT and T Arena?"
"Malik thinks he's in the wrong place?"
More than just feeling like I'm in the wrong place!
Malik Rose really doesn't know what to say now.
As a former Spurs player, Rose stayed with the Spurs for more than seven years, from 1997 to 2005.
It can be said that he grew up with Duncan and Vicky.
If he is still with the Spurs, he will be one of the purest players in the Spurs.
It can also be said that he is one of the players who understands the Spurs culture best.
In the Spurs, because the team boss Duncan is a person who is unwilling to be above others, there is no player in the Spurs who can be above the team.
In other words, there is no real so-called franchise player in the Spurs.
Duncan is unwilling to be a franchise player, and it is impossible for others to be above Duncan. Naturally, the Spurs will not have that kind of recognized franchise player.
But now...
The Spurs actually have a franchise player!
The fans and the team actually gave Bowen the privilege!
Damn it, I was actually shouted out ‘Saint Bruce! ’ slogan.
This is going crazy!
The cheers from the live DJ that just hit my ears were from St. Bruce, not St. Tim.
If it weren't for the familiar big bald head, Malikros really felt that this Saint Bruce was not the Bowen he knew before.
He knows what Bowen did in the Spurs, and the whole world knows it. How could he, a former Spurs player who has always followed the Spurs, not know it.
What Bowen did with the Spurs moved him very much. This is inevitable.
Anyone who can do what Bowen has done for a team will be touching.
But,
That’s not enough for Bowen to get such central treatment!
Even if Duncan is not willing to stand in the center, the Spurs player standing in the center cannot be anyone else!
Even if the fans are temporarily moved and are willing, can other Spurs players be willing?
Just when Malikros was curious, the other Spurs starting players also came out one by one.
The final one is still Duncan, but the one leading the Spurs players to shout slogans has become Bowen...
This is ridiculous...
Seeing Bowen leading the Spurs players to raise his right hand high, Malikros even felt like he was dreaming.
Not only Malikros, but Ye Si was also quite surprised.
Bowen's current status in the Spurs is indeed so high that he finds it incredible.
He really never thought that Bowen could have such a high status in the Spurs.
What's happening now with Bowen in the Spurs is really beyond his previous plans.
And it's not an ordinary excess, it's far beyond his plan.
"I heard that every time Bowen played in our game, he could accurately predict Yes' performance and the result of the game, almost exactly!"
As the most well-informed person in the Sonics team, David Lee's face was filled with admiration.
"Bowen is now more than just an ordinary player with the Spurs."
After David Lee finished speaking mysteriously, Rondo snorted with an unhappy look on his face.
Where’s the mysterious Nima!
Can't you speak properly?
What does it mean to be more than just a player? Could he be the behind-the-scenes controller of the team like Coach Long?
Although other Sonics players were a little confused by David Lee's words, Ye Si opened his mouth slightly and understood.
Can you predict every game I play?
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Ye Si's face.
Obviously, the reason why the Spurs players are willing to pursue Bowen in this way is because they regard Bowen as their only hope to defeat the Sonics.
The Spurs have had a miserable encounter with him in the past two seasons. The Spurs have been very strong in these two seasons. Without him and the SuperSonics' interference, the Spurs would have been one of the favorites to win the championship in the past two years.
Even with his disruption, aren't the Spurs one of the only three teams in the league that can win 70 games this season?
If the Spurs hadn't lost to the SuperSonics three times before, the Spurs would have definitely won 70 games this season!
In other words, if it weren't for his obstruction, the Spurs this season would be a team on the same level as the Suns and Rockets.
The Spurs have such strong actual strength, and the Spurs are not fools. Whether it is Vicky or Duncan, they must all feel how powerful they are.
But he is so powerful, he can defeat the Rockets and the Suns, the Lakers, Nuggets and Grizzlies are no problem, but he just can't beat the SuperSonics!
This is uncomfortable and confusing.
They have already lost 11 games before the two seasons have been played. The Spurs were not as miserable as the Lakers when they beat the ok combination.
With such a miserable record, it is impossible to say that there is no psychological shadow on the Spurs.
In this case, he and the Sonics are likely to become what the Spurs head coach and Spurs players think is the biggest obstacle to reaching the top of the NBA.
For these people on and off the Spurs, their own strength can defeat any opponent, but they cannot defeat the Sonics.
And the only one who can allow them to defeat the Sonics is Bowen!
It can be said that Bowen's status in the Spurs is as high as the Spurs' record against the SuperSonics.
The Spurs were really frightened by their 1-11 record.
This is actually more than just Ye Si's speculation.
Ye Si remembered that the Spurs' **Vicci always liked to say in interviews outside that he had found some ways to deal with himself, but since the Spurs were killed by him during consecutive three-pointers, **Vicci Qi never mentioned finding a way to deal with him again.
**Vicci certainly hasn’t given up on the idea of dealing with him.
But **Vicci has given up on the fair and honest method of defeating him.
In **Vicci's mind, he has become an enemy that cannot be defeated by normal means.
In this case, even if **Vicci had a way to deal with him, it would be impossible to say these somewhat disgraceful ways.
For example, now **Vitch and the Spurs have put all their hopes on Bowen. They can't say, all our hopes are on Bowen, right?
This is too embarrassing for the famous coach and the championship team.
It’s true that you can’t say it, but you can still do it.
And Bowen's strength has indeed been recognized by them.
This veteran who he played can play in a dream, when he encounters offensive players who can't get rid of him with speed and talent, he can simply defeat those offensive players!
Whether it's Kobe, McGrady or other offensive players, as long as they rely on their skills to stand and fight Bowen, no one can be Bowen's opponent!
In the previous game between the Spurs and the Lakers, Kobe insisted on beating Bowen one-on-one in the triangle offense.
After playing hard for a whole game, Kobe was even a little suspicious when he was defended by Bowen.
“No loss of position, no mistakes, and even enough aggression!”
"I saw a defensively aggressive Yes in Bowen!"
In the past two seasons, Kobe, who has always had the advantage against Bowen, was indeed underestimated. However, after the game between the Lakers and the Spurs, such underestimation disappeared directly.
After the game with Bowen, Kobe seemed to get to know Bowen again.
Many people in the league seemed to get to know Bowen again after playing against him.
According to ESPN statistics, after Bowen's efforts this season, the defensive players he faced shot less than 30% in a one-on-one situation with him!
what does that mean?
This means that after Bowen returned, the Spurs allowed their opponents to score below 70 points in seven games in the second half of the schedule, and their opponents' average score was only 84 points!
The league's current statement about who is the strongest defensive team in the league, the Spurs and the Rockets, is that the Spurs are the strongest defensive team in the NBA, and the Rockets are the team with the best defensive talent in the NBA.
And all of this stems from Bowen's comeback!
After Bowen came out of the tunnel, Ye Si never took his eyes off Bowen.
This ATM that he almost destroyed actually evolved!
And it evolved to the point where he almost didn’t recognize it.
At this time, Yes was looking at Bowen, and Bowen was fighting for his teammates one by one.
He looked like the true leader of the Spurs.
"Tim, as long as you can make Yes stop, I will make him doubt his life!"
"Understood."
Duncan nodded slightly.
Let Yes stop?
Control the rhythm of Yes, force Yes and Bruce to play more one-on-one, suppress Yes' off-ball movement, and let Yes be completely locked up by Bruce's god-level defense like Kobe Bryant in the last game!
As an All-Defensive Player level defensive player, Duncan knows exactly what level Bowen's defense has reached.
Stand and defend, Bruce is number one in the world!
"Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!"
"Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!"
"Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!"
Listen to the wild cheers of the Spurs fans and feel the adoring eyes of your Spurs teammates.
The look on Bowen's face was solemn.
His defensive strength is improving, and he believes that this season he is no longer the same as last season.
In the last confrontation, he was very confident that he could break Yes' performance as him. He even thought he could reverse Yes' performance!
But the final result was very mediocre.
Yes's three-pointers have been hiding their strength!
This made all his plans for that game fail.
Last season, when he defended Yes, the defensive pressure on Yes was almost zero every time.
In the last game, when he defended Yes, the defensive pressure on Yes could reach a certain value every time. Yes could no longer play him so carelessly. Although Yes was under his defense, every time he took a shot There is 80% space, but at least it is not the 100% space and 0 defensive pressure before.
And now, he is stronger than the last time the two sides met!
During the time when he was paralyzed in the hospital bed, he had been playing in a dream. The experience of playing in a dream needs to be absorbed through actual games.
After more than two months of absorption, he could no longer completely control his own strength.
If the maximum defensive pressure he put on Yes was 20% before, now, he is confident that he can give Yes at least 40% of the defensive pressure!
His defensive strength in terms of skills has even doubled!
As long as Duncan and his Spurs teammates can stop Yes from running off the ball and stop the two of them from playing, even if Yes wants to play him, it won't be that easy!
Putting 40% pressure on Yes means that Yes has a 60% chance of making a move every time. This chance is still very high.
However, this is when he comprehensively defends Yes's various offensive skills, but in this game, he will not defend all of Yes's attacks!
The whole world has been deceived by Yes!
Yes is a three-point shooter with excellent physical talent and excellent ball control!
The whole world was deceived by this guy and actually thought he was a more perfect player than Jordan.
Yes's methods can deceive the whole world, how could they deceive him!
His various offensive methods to defend Yes can give Yes 40% of the defensive pressure.
If he focuses on defending Yes' three-pointers, then he can give Yes's three-pointers at least 60% of the defensive pressure!
In other words, Yes's three-point shot chance is not even 40%!
This is still a high probability, but he doesn't believe that Yes can use a 40% three-point chance to defeat the Spurs with a team like the SuperSonics!
As long as the Spurs beat the Sonics in this game, he will let Yes know that he is completely out of his control.
And not only was it out of his control, after the Spurs defeated the SuperSonics, at the end of the game, he would stand in front of Yes and thank him personally!
Without Yes, he wouldn't be so strong!
If his body is still at its peak now, he even feels that he is a god on the defensive end!
The feeling of playing thousands of games and understanding everything is a feeling that guys like Yes will never understand!
It was a god-like feeling!
Thanks to Yes for allowing him to touch the realm of God!
When the players from the two teams finished each other's shooting training and stood together in the center circle, the entire arena let out a shocking roar.
"The whole arena is roaring for Yes and Bowen to stand together!"
"When these two people stand together, it means they are a legend!"
“These are two living legends who keep making legends!”
Bowen felt the madness of Spurs fans, and Yeos also felt Bowen's madness.
After the game started, Ye Si clearly felt that Bowen had indeed become stronger!
It's no wonder that Kobe suffered such a big hidden loss without paying attention.
"This game is indeed a defensive battle!"
Feeling the growing excitement among the Spurs fans around them, Kenny Smith and Barkley on the sidelines were not surprised.
Although the Spurs lost the last game, and Yes won the game, anyone who watched the last confrontation between the two teams knows that Bowen controlled the rhythm of the game!
Bowen used his defense to control the entire game, allowing Yes to score zero points in the first quarter!
And this game...
"Bowen's control and dominance on the defensive end are even stronger!"
When Barkley and Kenny Smith looked at the halftime score of this game at 36-36, their faces were really shocked.
If we talk about the last confrontation, Yes's zero points in the first quarter had a lot to do with Yes's lack of action in the first quarter.
So in this game, Yes took 10 shots from beyond the three-point line in the half and only made two hits!
"Yes, I've caught you!"
Be surprised, be afraid, be angry!
In this game I will make you regret everything you have done!
Bowen looked at the other side with a cold face and confidently led the Spurs players into the tunnel.