1,360. The Spurs Ignored Their Strongest Feature

It is the habit of NBA head coaches to keep using successful routines.

Moreover, most head coaches who continue to use successful methods are often successful; while most head coaches who change their playing style and routines every few days are unsuccessful.

But similarly, a head coach who always uses a routine may always lose, such as Mike D'Antoni; there are also those who are more changeable and good at accepting new things, and are still successful, such as Rick Carlisle. It can be clearly seen that Carlisle has three different coaching styles in the Pistons, Pacers, and Mavericks. It's a pity that he was unlucky in the first two times, one time he was picked peaches, and the other time he was lost to his old club Auburn Hills.

The successful experience of the second game made Popovich very confident to continue using the tactics in the third game.

Theoretically, few teams can beat the Spurs in the second game against the Spurs. In the second game, if Nash hadn't organized the Grizzlies' offense in the second half and played for 21 minutes to help the Grizzlies narrow the gap to 4 points, there would be no chance for Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Randolph, and Larry Sanders to score 11 points in the last three minutes to almost turn the game around.

Even the Heat, Lakers, and Thunder have little chance to find a way to beat the Spurs in the Spurs' style of play.

The Spurs have very good tactics, good enough stars, and outstanding enough key players... They have all the necessary conditions for success.

In other words, facing such an opponent, few teams dare to play differently, and they are all worried that they will go astray if they are not careful.

But the Grizzlies are different... After the Grizzlies had a certain unnamed No. 3 player, the style of painting has always been very biased, doing whatever they think of.

And they, the Grizzlies, have many players who can play!

Well prepared, when the Spurs played defense in the first quarter, the Grizzlies immediately changed to a defensive lineup without hesitation. When the Spurs wanted to defend the Grizzlies by sacrificing some offense in the first quarter, the Grizzlies responded in time and defended to the end!

16 to 20 in the first quarter, the Grizzlies played the game with the least first quarter deficit since playing against the Spurs this season. At the same time, in the 7 times they played against the Spurs this season, the Spurs scored less than 25 points in the first quarter for the first time.

After the success in the first quarter, the Grizzlies continued to strengthen their defense in the second quarter, while the Spurs successfully limited the Grizzlies to only 16 points in the first quarter, but the consumption was almost the same. The Grizzlies were able to limit this score to this score, thanks to the joint efforts of Duncan, Danny Green, Gay, Kwame Brown, and Split and George Hill who came off the bench.

Duncan had to rest for most of the second quarter, which made the Grizzlies score 21 to 20 in the second quarter. At the end of the first half, the Grizzlies were 3 points behind 37 to 40.

In this half of the game, the Grizzlies used various lineups to fight with the opponent on defense. The main reason was that the Spurs gave up their most advantageous offensive style at the beginning of the first quarter and wanted to play a routine, but ended up trapping themselves. In order to maintain the defensive targeting, Nash only played for the first two minutes in the first half, and Sun Ce and Randolph only played for 11 minutes.

In the third quarter, the Grizzlies suddenly changed their style. After consuming the opponent's half, Sun Ce and Nash, who were protected in the first half, came up with Klay Thompson, Randolph, Larry Sanders, and the rotating Yi Jianlian and Jimmy Butler to play a single quarter score of 34 to 23.

Popovich's characteristic of not being good at dealing with unfavorable situations remains unchanged. They are only good at playing games with advantages. They want to play routines and give up the biggest advantage. As a result, their own pitchers were consumed in the first half. The Grizzlies relaxed their defense in the third quarter, and the Spurs' rotation lineup only scored 23 points in the third quarter.

After three quarters,

the Grizzlies successfully overtook by 8 points with 71 to 63.

In the last quarter, the Grizzlies played the entire quarter with a lineup of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Yi Jianlian, and Gasol. This lineup is okay in offense, and the defense of 4 to 1 is not bad. Although they are not as good as Battier or Prince in defense, these two played too long in the first half. At this time, Yi Jianlian, who is more mobile and has the ability to cut in, is slightly better than Randolph. The main effect is that he can follow Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, and Paul George to counterattack when the opponent's shooting is not good after the decline of the opponent's touch.

After a score of 26 to 24 in the final quarter, the Grizzlies successfully defeated the Spurs by 10 points, defending their first home court and making the score 2 to 1!

Yi Jianlian only scored 4 points in the first half, but 16 points in the second half; Paul George played 20 minutes in the first half, and fought hard with Tony Allen. He only scored 6 points in the first half, but 15 points in the second half; Klay Thompson played 15 minutes in both the first and second half and scored 22 points;

Sun Ce was the opponent's key defensive target, and he and his teammates took advantage of this. Sun Ce himself didn't care much about the data when he could play an advantage. This was his impressive advantage in his early years. Tonight, he almost shot and received the ball. He made 4 of 14 shots and played for 35 minutes. He scored 13 points, 17 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks and 3 steals. He did a very good job in defense, receiving the ball, and passing the ball. With Nash's 6 points and 8 assists, the two teamed up in the second half to help the team play a 60-47 counterattack. They each led their teammates to play a good game and successfully defeated the Spurs.

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After this game, the Grizzlies continued to hold a post-match meeting.

In the meeting, the coaching staff and veterans Nash and Battier all pointed out that there was a luck component to winning this game, such as the successful consumption of the opponent's outside shooting. In the first 8 playoff games this season, the opponent had more than 10 three-pointers in 6 games, but only 4 were made tonight.

But luck is also part of strength in the game. The Spurs were consumed in the first half and failed to regain their touch in the second half, which was because the Grizzlies defended well.

Their two major pitchers Klay Thompson and Paul George were also consumed in the first half, but in the second half, the two of them worked together to make 6 three-pointers, plus Yi Jianlian's 1 three-pointer and Nash's 1 three-pointer, 8 three-pointers in the half, proving that their adjustments were more in place.

It also proved one thing, that the Grizzlies' rhythm change ability is still the strongest!

They don't have any special tactics, but they have a strong ability to change rhythm, and this time they used this very well.

However, Sun Ce knew that although they won, the most crucial game is coming soon!

Winning the fourth game is the real use of the home advantage that has been regained!

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