kingnovel Chapter 705 705. Sweeping the Spurs!
Chapter 705 705. Sweeping the Spurs!
Chapter 705 705. Sweeping the Spurs!
"This game was really unexpected. Leonard played really badly. If he hadn't played so badly, the Spurs wouldn't have lost so badly." Penguin Sports, Fatty Ke Fan said angrily.
Ke Fan is very advocating the Spurs system. He thought the series between the Lakers and the Spurs would be a battle between dragons and tigers, but he didn't expect Leonard to mess around, causing the Spurs to have no power to fight back against the Lakers.
"I don't think it's that simple. Popovich will not be stupid than us. If he thinks the Spurs have the strength to win the entire series, he will never let Leonard do so." Teacher Su Qun gave a completely different the opinion of.
"Mr. Su, what do you mean?"
"I personally think that the Spurs have a chance to win one or two games against the Lakers, but it is really unlikely to win the series. Even if they want to win, they have to return to the home court to rely on home court advantage. Nader can't replace Duncan's role in 2013 and 2014 for the time being. At least he doesn't have the level of Duncan in those years on the offensive end. One of the strongest insiders in the league. If Popovich thinks he can win the entire series and even win the championship, he will definitely stop Leonard at the beginning of the first quarter. We have seen many times when he called a timeout at the beginning of the game Yes, but he probably chose to hone Leonard in the playoffs. Of course this is just my opinion..."
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Just like the opinion of Su Qun, a professional commentator in China, the gap between the Lakers and the Spurs is actually bigger than people and even the Lakers themselves imagine!
Popovich knows this all too well. The troika still seems to have the power to fight, but their role is much worse than in previous years.
The newcomer David Westlian is quite old, Aldridge is great, even the strongest player in the Spurs, but he can't integrate into the Spurs system, he can only be a mid-range singles player, although Aldridge is still efficient, but his scoring often has little effect. He can only play a role in the stalemate, but he can't play the role of Duncan's successor that the fans expected when he first joined the Spurs.
The Lakers have almost reached the pinnacle of team history. The strongest year in the history of the Spurs is undoubtedly 2014. If the Spurs still have the strength of 2014, they are unlikely to rob the Lakers, at least they will start with 4-6. situation.
However, Popovich knows very well that they are not as good as they were in 2014. If they want to beat the Lakers in the playoffs, especially since the Lakers still have home court advantage, their chances of winning the entire series are quite slim.
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When: July 5.
Location: Staples Center.
Event: The Lakers win Game 109 of the series 95-[-].
After losing to the Lakers in the first game, Leonard calmed down and felt that he was not enough. Then he took the initiative to talk to Popovich, admitted his mistake, and then integrated into the team to play against the Lakers.
However, just like Popovich's prediction and Su Qun's analysis, the Spurs are indeed not the Lakers' opponents.
The Lakers are so strong, it's not much worse than the 2001 Lakers who were nearly invincible in the playoffs!
The Spurs used Parker's speed to keep up with Kobe's running position, which was done well. It was also very effective to use Danny Green to limit Clarkson. It was also good to use Duncan to defend Whiteside under the basket. Aldridge followed Green still has a head.
But Liu Ren's point is indeed beyond the Spurs' defense.
There are mid-range shots, three-pointers, and even weird but powerful low-post attacks around the basket.
Regardless of organizational ability, Liu Ren's personal ability may not be worse than James!Especially COSCO!
Leonard can guard James, but it doesn't mean he can guard Liu Ren, because Liu Ren is not afraid of him blocking the breakthrough. Compared with fighting inside, Liu Ren prefers the feeling of throwing his opponent to death. Curry's influence.
Leonard obviously couldn't guard Liu Ren by himself, and the rest of the Spurs didn't dare to double-team, so the double-teaming of the other Lakers leaked out.
In the playoffs, the players of the Lakers also played happily in the regular season, and began to make their own sacrifices and contributions in the playoffs. Everyone was constantly running around to create singles opportunities for Liu Ren. Throw the ball to Green or Gasol, Antetokounmpo, these three people can pass the Spurs' defensive system to collapse.
At this time, people discovered that the first game was not an accident, but that the Spurs really couldn't beat the Lakers.
This is going to the Western Conference finals, and people realize that the most popular team in the league is still the Lakers!They can hit the spurs!
The games between the Warriors and the Spurs are basically 15-[-], and the Lakers are completely showing weakness on purpose during the regular season!In addition to Liu Ren's [-]-game suspension, they deliberately shifted people's attention to the Warriors who happened to have an amazing record!
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From the astonishment of the fans, to the sudden enlightenment of the fans, to the slight expectation of the fans, to the exclamation of the fans in the end, the Lakers swept the Spurs 4-0 in one go!
The Lakers won all 4 games happily!
Liu Ren scored crazily, averaging 4 points per game in 38 games, and shooting 50.00% from the field. The most terrifying thing is that he averaged only 4 free throws per game. That is to say, Liu Ren shot the Spurs alive in the middle and long distances, and did not give it to the inside Given Duncan's opportunity to help defend, the Spurs did not dare to double-team the outside line, so Liu Rensheng shot the Spurs to death!
And the no-fly zone built by Whiteside's basket, Green and Liu Ren's continuous defense changes are the key points for the Lakers to lock the Spurs!
With the addition of Kobe, Nick Young, and Korver, three outside three-pointers who can be called top running shooters, as well as sharp cuts from LaVine, Clarkson, Antetokounmpo, and Green , Pau Gasol and other support insiders...
Not sloppy at all, the 4-0 Lakers took the lead in advancing to the Western Conference Finals with eight consecutive wins in the playoffs!
This was completely unthinkable before the series started, but after the entire series and the Lakers played a perfect dominant performance, people were not so surprised.
Isn't that what they expected from the Lakers before the season started?At that time, the Lakers ranked first in every power list. In order to attract attention, some ranking media directly wrote a word in the introduction of the Lakers' rankings, which was invincible.
It's just that the Warriors performed too well later, and the Lakers themselves played a mediocre record that was not satisfactory, so people turned their attention to the Warriors, and the Warriors took all the pressure.
And the Warriors, under the pressure of winning the championship and failing to win the championship, faced the Thunder, and something happened...
(End of this chapter)