: Six hundred and fifty. Ending the Spurs' winning streak

Not only did Popovich fail to prevent Leonard from playing singles, he also created conditions for him.
The point guard was replaced by Patty Mills, who used Mills' air-cutting threat to give Leonard a better singles opportunity, Danny Green opened up space, and Aldridge and David West had scoring and support. ...
It looks like the Spurs lineup is a replica of the Lakers!
D'Antoni is an offensive madman. He naturally knows how to create the best singles space for Liu Ren, so he sent these players.
Popovich's offensive attainments are no worse than D'Antoni, and he has a similar style of play.
At this time, it was really time to fully fight Liu Ren and Leonard's personal abilities.
Liu Ren was puzzled, but he quickly entered the state. Leonard was taken by Leonard when he came back from the suspension. He became more motivated.
This kind of infinite one-on-one, Liu Ren's advantage is too big, defensively, he and Leonard are half-hearted, Leonard has better defensive habits, but Liu Ren has better physical fitness.
Leonard could not defend Liu Ren on the defensive end, and his teammates opened one-on-one without Duncan's help.
But Leonard's singles ability is much worse than Liu Ren. He can't guard Liu Ren, or even give too many restrictions, but Liu Ren can give Leonard a lot of restrictions.
Although I don’t understand why this happened, Liu Ren played very well. This style of play that only existed ten years ago, although very unscientific, is very backward in this era, but I have to say that super stars can play. It will be very cool, and the fans are also very cool. The reason why the group of stars ten years ago can have so many diehard fans is that their style of play attracted. The 03 generation also caught up with the last train of that era.
Why has Curry attracted fans so madly in recent years because of his shooting accuracy? Obviously not, Durant is equally accurate, but Durant’s popularity has always been okay, occasionally making the All-Star starter, but definitely not the top, Curry is different, Curry is already in the league’s top five Popularity star.
The main reason is that Curry’s style of play is too similar to the one that was popular ten years ago, and everything...
Once this one-on-one scored a goal, he would be very excited. Once he defended his opponent, he would be very excited. Liu Ren was so excited to catch Leonard and ravage him.
Leonard is the top two defensive player among the league's small forwards. In the evaluation of fans and the media, he and Liu Ren can't say who is better defensively, but it is impossible for the league's small forwards to defend better without them.
At the same time, both of them have an average of 25+ strength, which is a first-line scorer.
Two matchups between first-line scorers and super defensive champions at the same time, Staples Center fans were very excited from the beginning.
Although... it turned into Liu Ren's one-sided attack on Leonard, but it was the opponent who was blown up. Liu Ren's blow was the guy who might steal the first team of his best defensive team, the fans on site. Hey even more!
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"POP, Kawhi is going to be beaten and cry." Duncan said blankly.
"Oh," Popovich finally turned his eyes on the tactical board to Leonard, then lowered his head to continue looking for better singles tactics, and said casually, "Isn't this crying yet? Tell me again."
"Pop, your cold joke is very cold, Kawhi will be beaten by the kid opposite to lose confidence." The old man version of the poker face can't even make a worried expression, still expressionless, perhaps his only expression is that he will be The referee blows a technical foul smile...
"Really?" Popovich finally had a reaction. He glanced at Duncan and said, "He chose it himself. I'm meeting his requirements, isn't it?"
"Greg, Kawhi is still just a kid, he will be ignorant, but letting him be bullied by that kid on the Lakers like this will ruin him." Parker spoke more directly than Duncan.
"The boss of the Lakers is indeed much better than Kawhi," Popovich said without shy. "But it's okay, right, Tim, didn't you survive O'Neal back then?"
Duncan looked at the Lakers’ 17 championship flags above the arena, nodded and said,
Yes, I don’t think we need to worry. I was blown up by O’Neal before 99 years, but later in the playoffs. I won."
O'Neal and Duncan's regular season matchups are that O'Neal won 18 games and Duncan won 14 games, but in the playoffs, the winning rate of the two players is the same, and in general, Duncan eliminated O'Neal more times in the playoffs. .
"..." Parker didn't expect Duncan to betray the camp at once, and said anxiously: "Kawhi and Tim are different! You are the best player from the start, and Kawhi is not."
"Because of this, I have to let him go through these things. Tim needs to go through those things to grow up, let alone Kawhi?" Popovich finally became interested in explaining, "We take care of Kawhi. It’s great. He has never experienced being abused too badly by a player. We need to give him such an experience, otherwise he sometimes doesn’t know the importance of the team because he never lacks the team. I hope he can take it seriously. To this point."
"Besides, I don’t think he will lose confidence by being beaten by Chinese Liu. The last time he was beaten by Chinese Liu, he made a lot of progress and locked James in the finals. I look forward to what Kawhi will do after this time. That kind of progress..."
Popovich knew from the beginning of the game ~EbookFREE.me~ that D'Antoni had been overshadowed by D'Antoni. D'Antoni possessed such a super scorer as Liu Ren. After dug such a hole, he would naturally use it to the end.
At first Popovich really wanted to correct Leonard's thoughts, but after calming down, he gave up, and then asked Leonard to confront Liu Ren to give Leonard the best singles opportunity possible.
And Popovich did even better. Liu Ren played, Leonard played, Liu Ren rested, and Leonard rested.
Leonard is the core player on both ends of the Spurs' offense and defense. His role is irreplaceable by the Spurs. For now, even if Duncan retires, the Spurs can maintain their core as long as Leonard is there. The play is complete.
Resolutely, Leonard was abused by Liu Ren, and the abuse was very miserable. Liu Ren scored 45 points at halftime and scored 20+ in two consecutive quarters.
Leonard made 6 of 24 shots in the half and only scored 15 points.
In this way, Popovich succeeded in losing the game, and the Lakers led the Spurs by 22 points 65 to 43 at halftime.
Originally, Popovich didn’t want to lose to the Lakers in this game, but the current situation is very different. The focus of fans and players on both sides is not on the strength of the two teams, but on the personal abilities of Liu Ren and Leonard. on.
There is no doubt that Leonard's scoring ability is not as good as Liu Ren's, and his defense is also half-hearted. Leonard was pressed by Liu Ren and the Spurs fell behind and were about to lose.
Yes, the Spurs are going to lose, but people don’t think it’s the Spurs who lost, but Leonard is going to fight Liu Ren, causing the Spurs to lose. It will not affect the Spurs’ morale, but at the same time the Spurs. Another win was opened by the Lakers, and it won't be so conspicuous...
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