Chapter 734: Big victory over the Spurs, the Spurs are in trouble
"Tim, you can hold hands with your other four teammates and form a circle to guard against me! Don't worry, I can bear it."
Wang Zelin suggested, pretending to be friendly.
I really want to beat this guy to death!
Everyone at Spurs had a common idea.
Clay Bodhisattva still has three points of fire energy, and so does Duncan.
There is not much time left, the last attack of the third quarter.
frontcourt.
The ball went round and round, but finally ended up in Duncan's hands.
In the last 4 seconds, Duncan received the ball and took a step closer to Wang Zelin. His upper body strength of 92 and lower body strength of 96 are quite powerful. Coupled with Duncan's solid basic skills, he may have the highest football intelligence among all power forwards in NBA history.
Although he didn't finish knocking Wang Zelin away, he still found some space to take action. Then he immediately stood on tiptoe, grabbed the ball, and hooked from close range...
But how could Wang Zelin let him get his wish?
"Snapped!"
A nail-biting block shot, slamming the ball onto the backboard.
"I told you, your time is over!"
The moment he landed, time just ran out. At the end of the third quarter, Wang Zelin grabbed the ball and looked at Duncan coldly.
After the third quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Spurs by 11 points.
Especially the result of the last attack, Duncan was blocked, which was beyond everyone's expectations.
"Spare Tim, he is so pitiful." Reggie Miller shook his head and sighed.
O'Neal said: "The King was unstoppable today, it was like God came down to earth!"
Then he read out Wang Zelin's statistics: "Including 9 of 15 shots near the basket, 8 of 8 free throws, rebounds, 3 assists, 4 blocks, 1 steal, 2 turnovers and 3 fouls. With data like this in three quarters, it's no surprise that the Trail Blazers won."
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In the fourth quarter, the Blazers have the ball.
Duncan and Bonner almost gave up the offense and surrounded Wang Zelin on both offense and defense, trying to isolate him from the game.
Even the National People's Congress has repeatedly shorted Batum and implemented a 3+1 strategy against Wang Zelin.
This change made the game difficult to watch. The Spurs played like a defensive end on the offensive end. Without the gorgeous fast breaks in the first three quarters, without the heart-pounding rapid rotation of the ball, the rhythm of the game was quite fragmented.
But this stalking tactic did have an effect. The Blazers players who didn't touch the ball much in the first three quarters felt average and failed to score several open balls. The Spurs recovered in the first half and were still behind.
5 points.
After Wang Zelin, the core of both offense and defense, was restricted, the Trail Blazers only scored 11 points in the first half of the quarter. The weakness of role players' poor scoring ability was fully exposed.
The Blazers called a timeout.
Coach Terry made substitutions, replacing Beverley, Connett Lee, Carter, and Harrell, and the main lineup of Lillard, Barton, Batum, and Aldridge returned to the field.
Come back from timeout and start the second half.
The time for the final decisive battle has arrived.
The Trail Blazers attacked, and Aldrich pulled out and took Bonner away.
The Spurs players hesitated for a moment, and after getting a nod from the head coach, they continued to double-team Wang Zelin, and Leonard let Batum go.
After being surrounded, Wang Zelin chose to trust his teammates and passed a cross to Batum on the right baseline. The latter received the ball and shot an open three-pointer.
"Shua——!"
After scoring three points, the gap between the main players and the substitutes is obvious.
"well……"
There was a sigh at the scene. When the Trail Blazers shipped the goods first and then were on the court at the same time, they had too many offensive points and the Spurs were unable to defend them.
Off the court, Simavici held his hair with one hand and paced back and forth.
He is worried!
Although it can limit Wang Zelin's scoring to a certain extent, it also allows other Blazers to score easily.
If this continues, the Spurs will definitely be slaughtered, losing by 2 or 30 points.
This level of humiliation is actually no less humiliating than Wang Zelin scoring 50 points...
Right now, the Spurs have two cups of poison in front of them.
Either let Duncan continue to defend No. 36 alone, and there is a high probability that he will be beaten one-on-one by the latter, which is almost the same as giving away points.
Or they can only short the rest of the Blazers and choose to lock up No. 36, but in this case, they can only block the rest of the Blazers and cannot maintain the feel.
After a brief moment of hesitation, Sima Weici chose the latter.
The reason is simple. Some people have already paid a heavy price for choosing the first option.
who?
Current Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr!
In last season's Western Conference Finals, the Warriors, led by Cole, chose to adopt the Jordan Rules defensive strategy to target Wang Zelin.
As a result, that guy scored 65 points in three quarters, the highest score in the playoffs! Successfully broke the record of 63 points held by the God of Basketball!
Through the painful lessons of the Warriors, the head coaches of each team have understood one thing. As long as he dares to give the Blazers No. 36 a relatively comfortable space to score points, that guy really dares to destroy a team one-on-one.
When it came to choosing the lesser of two evils, Simawicz thought he had made a wise enough choice, because in this way the Spurs could gain a glimmer of hope.
However, the fact is that the Blazers' main players did not disappoint Wang Zelin, and they grasped most of the points after each double-team.
Except for the only two or three missed shots due to the Spurs' timely defense, Lillard and Patton combined for a total of 6 three-pointers from the outside in the second half.
By the way, Wang Zelin also got 6 assists, plus 1 in the first half, his assists tonight successfully reached double figures.
In the end, the Trail Blazers beat the Spurs by 17 points in an away game.
Considering that the opponent is the Spurs, a team that is traditionally powerful in the Western Conference, 17 points is indeed worthy of the description of a "big win".
In this game, Wang Zelin played a total of 39 minutes, the most playing time in the game. He had a triple-double of assists, 6 blocks and 1 steal, plus 3 turnovers and 5 fouls.
After winning the Spurs, the Trail Blazers finally ended their three consecutive road trips and successfully extended their winning streak to 9 games. In their next game, they will return home to face the Memphis Grizzlies, another powerful team in the West.
It is worth mentioning that with his 41-point performance in this game, Wang Zelin's personal scoring average has improved slightly, reaching a terrifying 39.4 points, continuing to lead the league.
The blocking data is also here, with a terrifying average of 5.1 per game, ranking first in the season blocks list.
On the rebounding list, although he grabbed 21 rebounds in this game and averaged 17.9 rebounds per game, he could not stand up to the emergence of Drummond, a rebounding idiot who was nicknamed "Contemporary Rodman" by many fans this season.
, this guy averaged an astonishing 19.2 rebounds per game in 8 games, including 20 rebounds in 5 games during this period...
That's not all. Behind the two of them is DeAndre Jordan, who averages 16 rebounds per game. This should be a rare situation in the NBA in the new century when three insiders average more than 15 rebounds per game at the same time.
Although it is early in the season, the data of the three will definitely decline as the season progresses, but it is already crazy enough.
This year's battle for the rebounding king is very likely to be the hottest in the past 20 years!