area51novel Chapter 169
Chapter 169
Roy threw the basketball toward the basket during a fast break.
The basketball bounced a few times on the basket and fell into the basket.
2+1!
Ginobili covered his head in regret. He only thought about fouling and didn't control Roy's hand when shooting.
Roy waved his arms excitedly.
The audience in the stands cheered enthusiastically.
Roy easily made the free throw.
The gap between the two teams became 11 points.
Popovich stood up from his seat.
"Tim, you watch him and Manu all the time. Foul him harder!"
Duncan nodded expressionlessly.
Ginobili touched his smart head.
Wisdom is taking over the high ground. His black hair is about to become sparse.
This is Pampa The peak of the Eagles' looks, after this year, took a sharp turn for the worse.
From a handsome Argentine to a bald man in the eyes of Chinese fans,
It is said that Ginobili's hair was plucked out by Duncan's repeated head-touching.
Roy thinks this is just one of the reasons, and it should be the most important reason.
From the beginning to now, Roy has seen Duncan touching his head more than once.
Another victim is the French trot Tony Parker.
Both of them failed to escape Duncan's head-touching.
The three of them are called the GDP combination, and their relationship is full of gay love.
The Spurs continued to play with a high success rate. Ginobili slowed down the offensive rhythm and waited for Duncan to cross the half court.
Duncan always finds a good position at the most appropriate time and place.
Roy has undoubtedly become the busiest person on the Nets.
He is the main player on offense, and he has to face players like Duncan on defense. The hardship in the middle can be imagined.
As expected, the Spurs gave the ball to Duncan again. Even Roy's half-circle defense could not stop their pass.
After two consecutive passes, the ball was in Duncan's hands.
It was still the familiar singles. Roy occupied a good position in one round and his attitude was even tougher.
If you want to catch up, you have to prevent the opponent from scoring.
Otherwise, you score one goal and I score one goal, which can only be regarded as a counterattack, not a chase.
Time is limited. You can recover the difference in points as soon as possible by preventing the opponent from scoring and counterattacking the score inside and outside.
Duncan tried two back-to-the-basket shots and found them somewhat difficult.
Unexpectedly, Duncan suddenly turned around, and Roy positioned him accurately, leaving Duncan no room to cut inside.
Duncan dribbled the ball and took a step back, as if he was going to accelerate and use inertia to break through to the basket.
Roy was also ready to defend Duncan's move.
But Duncan in front of him did not move.
Then Duncan suddenly tiptoed and shot a jump shot.
Roy could feel that the basketball was crooked when he shot it.
Rebound!
Roy's first reaction was,
Roy turned around and tried to position himself, but surprisingly, Duncan did not seem to have any intention of grabbing the rebound.
But his shot was clearly crooked.
The basketball hit the backboard, and then Roy's eyes widened in disbelief as the basketball bounced into the basket.
A word popped up in Roy's mind:
Backboard jump shot!
Duncan's signature shot is a very practical technique to shoot at a 45-degree angle and use the rebound angle of the basketball to score a goal.
But this technique is difficult to master, and it is much more difficult to practice than direct shooting.
The advantage is that it makes it difficult for the defensive players to accurately judge whether the ball is a shooting error or a pass.
Duncan is obviously the best among them.
This move is his signature. Mastering this move will have a more stable hit rate than direct shooting.
Roy knows that Duncan rarely uses this move in the regular season.
Even in the first two encounters, Duncan did not use it.
No wonder this is the finals. The bottom of the box is always used in important places.
Originally, Roy had defended this ball very well. If Duncan still planned to use a small hook shot,
Roy was confident that he would treat Duncan to a Chinese hot pot at the moment of shooting.
As a full-level player with great basic skills, you never know how many treasures your opponent has in the bottom of the box.
Even Frank, a coach who is strict with Roy, has nothing to say about this kind of ball.
The opponent is a superstar in the top 10 of history. Roy is not discouraged, but more excited.
Duncan is stronger than he thought, the kind of ridiculously strong.
In the next round, Roy started to ask for the ball on the offensive end.
He was excited to play against the best power forward in history.
This time Roy used the face-to-frame technique. As for the low-post technique, Roy can only be said to be very strong, but not at the top level.
Facing a top low-post defender like Duncan, it is obviously a bit powerless.Heart,
Those who can beat Duncan in the low post are undoubtedly historically strong men,
Take O'Neal in his early years as an example. The Shark in his peak period is a unique existence in history,
But he only fought back and forth with Duncan in the interior, instead of unilaterally beating Duncan,
Winning still depends on the advantage of the lineup. A man known as Peter Pan became the nightmare of the Spurs in that series.
Another one is Zach Randolph, the blue fat man of the Grizzlies in the later period,
But the Duncan he faced was already 35 years old at that time,
Since being eliminated by the Grizzlies in the eighth place, Duncan has seen the Grizzlies once and abused them once, and has never lost to the Grizzlies in the playoffs since then.
And now he is only 29 years old, at least in Duncan's peak, no one can beat him!
Roy took a tentative step facing the basket, and Duncan kept a distance in front of him.
He found an opportunity for Duncan to turn sideways, dribbled and started to break through. The long stride dribbling made Duncan a little overwhelmed.
He no longer had the lateral speed of his youth.
After Roy got rid of Duncan and got half a body of layup space,
I thought it was a one-on-one situation, but veteran Horry stood up at an inopportune time.
He made up for the distance that Duncan couldn't keep up with, and also blocked Roy's shooting angle.
Roy looked around in mid-air.
McInnis in the bottom corner had a huge shooting space because of Horry's help defense.
After receiving Roy's pass, McGinnis took a step back and looked at whether his toes were on the line.
Then he shot a three-pointer!
Spurs' Horry regretted it after Roy passed the ball.
He rushed to McGinnis.
Although the two were far apart, McGinnis took too long to adjust.
At the moment of shooting, Horry's fingertips almost poked his eyebrows.
This shot was too dangerous.
The basketball flew in the air, passed over the heads of Roy and Duncan,
and plunged into the basket!
10 points, the score difference was only one step away from single digits.
Everything seemed to have hope again. The Nets' role player, with Roy's persistence, finally scored the first three-pointer of the game.
McGinnis wanted to celebrate with Roy.
Roy slapped the idiot on the back of his head.
Pointing to the score on the field, he said:
"Stupid, you did a good job, but we still have 10 points to chase, you have to hold on!"