"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 the Spurs had a common idea.
Mud Bodhisattva still has three points of fire energy, and so does Duncan.
There was not much time left, the last attack of the third quarter.
frontcourt.
The ball went round and round, but it was still 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 extremely 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, 87:76, 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 is unstoppable today, it is like God descending to earth!"
Then he read out Wang Zelin's statistics: "In 28 minutes, he made 14 of 22 shots, including 9 of 15 near the basket, and 8 of 8 free throws. He scored 36 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 blocks, 1 steal, 2 turnovers, and 3 fouls. Three quarters like this. Data, it’s no surprise that the Trail Blazers won!”
In the fourth quarter, the Blazers had the ball.
Duncan and Bonner almost gave up 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 and 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 Trail 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 regained 6 points in the first half. 93:98, still 5 points behind.
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 final moment of 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.
"Wha—!"
Three points scored, 101:93, the gap between the main team and the substitutes is obvious.
"well……"
There was a sigh at the scene. When the Trail Blazers shipped 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 and may lose by 20 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.
Either 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 their touch.
After a brief moment of hesitation, Sima Weici chose the latter.
The reason is simple. Someone has already paid a heavy price for choosing the first option.
who?
Current Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr!
In the Western Conference Finals last season, the Warriors, led by Cole, chose to adopt the Jordan Law 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 63-point record 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.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, Simavici thought he had made a wise enough choice, because only in this way could the Spurs 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 Button threw 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 121:104 on the road.
Considering that the opponent is the Spurs, a traditionally powerful team in the Western Conference, 17 points is indeed worthy of the description of a "big victory".
In this game, Wang Zelin played a total of 39 minutes, the most playing time in the game. He scored a triple-double of 41 points, 21 rebounds, 10 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 increased 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 has also arrived, 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 5 games with 20+ rebounds...
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 since entering the new century when three insiders average more than 15 rebounds per game in a single season.
Although it's early in the season, the three's numbers will definitely drop as the season progresses, but it's already crazy enough.
This year's battle for the rebounding king is very likely to be the hottest in the past 20 years!
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