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Chapter 866 Never underestimate the Spurs

Chapter 866 Never underestimate the Spurs

What everyone didn't expect was that the Thunder's summit in the West this time was only a short experience.Because, on the third day when they easily defeated the Magic, they were defeated by an old team!

The San Antonio Spurs are an amazing team.In fact, the Spurs have begun to go downhill in recent seasons.But just when everyone thinks they're about to start rebuilding, there's a resurgence of the Texas Big Three.You know, the San Antonio Spurs have not missed the playoffs for more than 20 consecutive years.

This season, the Spurs have not shown a bad state at the beginning.Compared with the Los Angeles duo, Houston, Oklahoma and other western teams that were widely discussed before the start of the season, their performance is indeed very good.But even so, everyone always believes that as the season progresses, the Spurs will be overtaken by the teams behind.Aldridge and DeRozan are both All-Star players, but one is old and the other is out of date.It is difficult to lead the Spurs to go further!Perhaps, the time to enter the playoffs in a row will be fixed at 21 years.

But it was such a team that defeated the No. [-] Thunder in the Western Conference.Moreover, their process of winning is not difficult!

In terms of feeling, the Spurs played particularly well every time they met the Thunder.Especially Aldridge!

At the beginning of this year, the Spurs and the Thunder fought in San Antonio. The combined score of the two sides reached 324 points!In that game, although the Spurs regretted losing in the end, they were able to score nearly 160 points under the defense of the Thunder last season. The state of the Spurs is really scary.On that night, Aldridge scored a career-high 60 points.

这一场比赛，阿尔德里奇再一次爆发。出场38分钟，砍下了43分6篮板4助攻1抢断2盖帽的数据。阿尔德里奇的表现，可谓是相当的炸裂！

In this game, the head coaches of both sides continued the starting lineup that played well before.

The Spurs are led by DeRozan and Aldridge, with Lyles on the inside and a combination of Murray and Forbes on the back.For the Thunder, Westbrook and Anlo lead Robertson, Gallinari and Adams.The Spurs still let Aldridge play the fourth position this season, and Donovan also took Robertson to the third position to limit DeRozan.

In contrast, the Thunder's strength lies on the perimeter. Although Murray and Forbes defend very well, they still lack a bit when facing a backcourt combination like Westbrook and An Luo.But the Spurs have an advantage inside.What Aldridge likes most is to face a slower insider like Adams.And in the fourth position, Gallinari does not have the ability to greatly affect him.

After the game started, the two sides played very fiercely.The head coaches of both sides are very aware of their strengths, so Aldridge and An Luo began to confront each other with several players.

The first wave of rhythm was played by the Spurs.When the two sides scored 12:12, Murray shot a cold arrow from outside the three-point line, which opened the prelude to the Spurs' opening of the score.Subsequently, An Luo missed a fadeaway jumper in the right elbow area and gave the Spurs the opportunity to continue to open the score.The Spurs didn't waste this opportunity either. DeRozan quickly advanced with the ball, rushed to the free throw line with a European step, bypassed Robertson who had returned to the defense, and scored the ball.

17:12

The Spurs opened the point difference to 5 points.

Afterwards, An Luo responded with a three-pointer, DeRozan turned around and made a three-pointer, and the Spurs firmly maintained the lead.

In the last 3 minutes of the first quarter, the two sides began to change their rotations.When Alexander, who came off the bench, made consecutive breakthrough layups, he helped the Thunder chase the point difference to only 1 point.At this time, Aldridge, who re-appeared, made another two pull-up jumpers to stabilize the situation.At the last moment, An Luo hit a three-pointer at the buzzer from the right wing, and the Thunder trailed 30:32 at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the Thunder won.In the first half, both sides were on the bench.And the Thunder can take the lead in this quarter, and the credit has to be credited to these players who came off the bench.The two guys, Alexander and Grant, have already stretched the Spurs and made it difficult to support them.Coupled with the flashes of inspiration from Noel and Ferguson from time to time, the situation is even more difficult for the Spurs.They could only send Aldridge and DeRozan to the field in advance. However, although these two players played well, they were still powerless under the internal and external pincers of An Luo and Westbrook.

At the end of the first half, the Thunder has completed the overtake.Of course, they didn't lead by much, after all the score was fixed at 59:54.

At the beginning of the second half, the Spurs launched the most violent attack.The first to raise the flag was Murray, a guard who entered the league in the same year as An Luo. Although he did not become an All-Star player like the latter, his abilities were honed to perfection.Subsequently, Aldridge began to play hard inside.Neither Adams nor Noel can restrict each other well.

In addition to being strong on the offensive end, the Spurs have also worked hard on the defensive end.Their strategy is to pinch An Luo, Forbes will defend closely, and DeRozan will double-team at any time.I have to say that the Spurs players may not be able to attack, but their defense is very good.Under the "care" of Forbes and DeRozan, even though An Luo has various scoring methods, it is difficult to use them.

Of course he can pass the ball, but his teammates don't feel very good.Especially Gallinari, this "Italian gun" couldn't find his aim throughout the game, maybe Aldridge put too much pressure on him!

At the end of the three quarters, the Spurs led by 90 points 86:4.

The Spurs' 4-point lead didn't seem like an advantage, but the Thunder only lost by 4 points in the end.

In the last quarter of the game, since An Luo played almost the entire quarter in the third quarter, Donovan was put on the bench for nearly 5 minutes.In fact, according to Donovan's idea, this time will be longer.But the situation on the court has become very unfriendly to the Thunder.

By the time An Luo played, they were already behind by double digits.

In the next few minutes, An Luo began to show off his might.He raised his hand and scored 4 three-pointers.But the situation has not changed much!Aldridge, DeRozan and Murray helped the Spurs stabilize their advantage. Whenever An Luo scores, one of these guys will always stand up and respond.

In the end, the Thunder lost the game 118:122 away.

(End of this chapter)