One Thousand Three Hundred and Eleven. Being Too Strong Can Sometimes Be a Problem

7th time in his career to score 20+ in a quarter, 4th time to score 50+ in three quarters!

On the Spurs side, Popovich doesn’t know what to do in the final quarter. Tactics are useless. Now he can only fight for performance!

If Ginobili hadn’t scored 15 points and 4 assists in the third quarter, and Duncan was not able to play at the level of a superstar in the second half of the third quarter due to fatigue and was only at the level of an ordinary star, they wouldn’t even have scored 29 points in three quarters.

Playing for more than 25 minutes in the first three quarters was indeed difficult for Duncan, but Duncan is Duncan after all. Even if he is not physically fit, he still has a huge impact on the team.

Popovich saw that Duncan didn’t want to rest, so he had no choice but to fight for performance.

Popovich felt that he was a bit like the old warrior in the story, facing the aggressive young people, trying to create miracles.

For the troika, the performance in recent years can indeed be described as a miracle, and Duncan’s double first team level this year can even be described as a miracle!

Let’s go for it!

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On the other hand, Nash ran for two sessions and got 5 points and 11 assists. His assists were flying… He had already surpassed Mark Jackson, so he could get as many assists as he could. Maybe tonight was the last regular season game. After playing half the game and getting 11 assists, Nash went down to rest happily.

Next, it depends on the performance of the young teammates. Nash has tried his best.

Sun Ce was able to score 42 points in the past two quarters, which is inseparable from Nash's organization of offense.

If Nash didn't organize the offense, he would have to consider passing the ball, and he would not have the opportunity to devote himself to finding shooting opportunities, and he would definitely not get so many points.

Sun Ce regretted that Nash seemed to want to retire after this season.

However, there is already one regret, so there can't be more regrets. This season, we must strive to defend the title! At least let Mr. Na win more championships than Kidd.

To defend the title, the Spurs are definitely the strongest enemy. To defeat the Spurs, the psychological advantage brought by the regular season confrontation is very important.

Neither team wanted to let go of this psychological advantage. Sun Ce sat on the bench and sipped a few mouthfuls of sweat before continuing to fight on the court!

Leading by 4 points, they had an advantage, but who knows whether Parker, Gay, and Ginobili, the three key players, will explode in the final quarter.

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Coach Hollins sent out a combination of Beverly, Sun Ce, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol Jr. to sharpen the defense.

The offensive responsibility fell on Sun Ce.

Compared to Tony Allen, who couldn't defend Parker, Beverly couldn't defend either, but he might be better at consuming the ball, and Beverly had three-pointers!

On the Spurs side, Parker, Danny Green, Gay, Dio, and Duncan played.

After the intermission, the Grizzlies attacked first.

After Beverley advanced to the frontcourt, Sun Ce wanted to back up in the high post, but was defended by Guy. Sun Ce wanted to score the first goal. If he could widen the gap to more than 5 points, the advantage would be clearer, so he took Guy out to receive the pass from Beverley two meters away from the three-point line.

Guy stuck to Sun Ce tightly. In the past two quarters, he almost didn't defend Sun Ce at all. Although he also scored 28 points, this blow was too strong and he wanted to regain his face.

Sun Ce failed to break through with a change of direction. The pick-and-roll was useless at this distance, so he chose to stick to Guy and force a breakthrough!

Guy stuck to Sun Ce tightly without losing his position. When Sun Ce rushed into the three-point line, his body leaned forward significantly, as if he was going to change direction. Guy suddenly stepped back and was ready to catch up at any time.

But Sun Ce, relying on his temporary explosive power, managed to pull his body back, grab the ball and retreat in small steps, and shoot a jump shot from outside the three-point line between the top arc and the 45-degree angle on the right...

This large-scale pullback made Gay's sudden retreat look stupid, and he was completely shaken!

Sun Ce's jump felt average, but his excellent waist and abdomen strength kept his shooting balance. Sun Ce tried to aim and shoot the ball... and it fell into the basket!

The fans at the scene cheered wildly with their almost hoarse voices.

98 to 91, the Grizzlies extended their lead to 7 points!

This ball, Gay's confidence suffered another critical blow.

He couldn't defend better, or in other words, no one could defend Sun Ce's ball.

Obviously, Sun Ce's retreat was incomplete, and no one would choose to shoot like this, but Sun Ce did it, and he made it!

When the Spurs attacked, Duncan leaned on Gasol to ask for the ball in the low post. Gasol thought that defending Duncan's low post back-up at this time was similar to defending Kwame Brown?

However, there is a difference between the top picks. Duncan didn't know where he got the strength from. He turned beautifully in the low post and passed Gasol, and slammed the ball into the basket with a backhand slam!

This ball was hard! And fierce!

When the background emperor was on the top five balls, he was finally not the background!

This year, Duncan dunked a total of 41 times, the same as Westbrook's dunks, and less than half of Kwame Brown's dunks.

But this ball was too beautiful. The favorite for the best defensive player in the low post back-up actually completed a turnaround slam dunk!

The Spurs did not give up! Duncan took the lead and set an example!

Sun Ce picked up the ball and passed it to Beverley. Although Duncan scored, it did not affect their idea of ​​​​pressing the positional battle. It is better to let Duncan back-up than to let Duncan easily cut in and score by feeling.

Just like this, one ball after another!

When Sun Ce got to the frontcourt, Gay was the main defender of Sun Ce's shot. Sun Ce took the opportunity to break through, and made a quick stop and shake off Duncan who was defending from mid-range, but did not pass to Battier who cut to the edge of the three-second zone. Sun Ce rushed into the basket and scored two points with one hand slam dunk.

59 points!

The fans at the scene were already excited!

One more point! Sun Ce can break the second record of 60+ points twice in a single season held by Kobe and Jordan, and occupy the second place in history, second only to Chamberlain's 15 60+ points in a single season!

There are more than 10 minutes left in the final quarter, and Sun Ce's surpassing Kobe and Jordan in the number of 60+ points in a single season is almost a foregone conclusion!

Popovich feels so uncomfortable now. Generally speaking, when an opponent's player scores more than 50 points, the team where the player who scores more than 50 points is basically leading by a large score.

But the Spurs were too strong. Sun Ce had 59 points, but the Spurs were only 7 points behind. He had no chance to lock Sun Ce and prevent him from scoring.

In Popovich's view, this was the most desperate thing in life. He could only watch his opponent create milestones.

There was still a chance for the Spurs. Popovich placed his hopes on Ginobili. Now, what they had to do was not to defend Sun Ce, but to try their best to score and keep the score close.

Having fought to this point, Popovich said he would never give up!

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