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Paying the price of multiple fouls to target Bowen, coupled with the improvement in efficiency on the offensive end, the Lakers narrowed the point difference to 6 points before halftime.

Ke Yan's adjustments have initially yielded results, but the situation is still not good for the Lakers. The team has continued to score on the offensive end, but Popovich will definitely find a way to deal with it in the second half. The key is that the Lakers' offense can only be launched from the outside.

It’s too monotonous, and it also takes too much advantage of Kobe and Butler’s touch!

With Duncan guarding the penalty area alone, the Lakers were unable to move the ball inside. Looking back, Duncan was able to suppress the Lakers' inside on the offensive end, which gave Ke Yan even more headaches.

Having played against various insiders, it can be said that Duncan is the one who makes Ke Yan feel powerless the most, surpassing O'Neal!

In the Spurs locker room, what Ke Yan didn't know was that Popovich also kept swearing at Ke Yan's strategy. This was also recognition of Ke Yan. After all, no one would get angry for someone who is not a threat. Duncan asked Ke Yan

Under great pressure, Kobe also left the Spurs helpless. This is also a black mamba that can really kill people!

At the end of the intermission, both teams returned to the court. The Lakers served at halftime. Parker led the defense for Atkins, putting a lot of pressure on him. Kobe responded in time, and Bowen's defensive pressure also stepped up.

At this level, the Spurs' defensive intensity suddenly increased, catching the Lakers off guard. Kobe took two steps forward, encountered a double-team and then passed the ball. It was intercepted by Ginobili. Butler fouled immediately and prevented the Spurs from doing so.

Playing fast break is a wise choice.

However, in the next offensive round, Ginobili turned Butler's foul into a nightmare. During his breakthrough, he suddenly braked and was hit by Butler who was following him. The referee called Butler for a foul again. This is

Butler's fourth foul!

Less than 30 seconds into the second half, the team's second offensive point was fouled twice in a row, which made Ke Yan very dissatisfied! Especially this second foul, this sudden rear brake, Ke Yan only saw it on Trae Young later.

I've been there before, how can players defend from behind after this whistle?

Ke Yan went to the referee to argue to no avail, so he had to replace Butler with Barnes. At the same time, he conveyed his arrangement. Odomdo came back to assist Atkins, and the offensive end hit two inside. The referee may whistle at this moment.

It would be great if it was a little tighter and could kill Duncan!

I don’t know if Ke Yan’s arrangement affected Odom’s thinking. Ginobili missed the free throw, Odom actually missed the backcourt rebound, and Duncan grabbed the offensive rebound and scored the ball.

Kobe made a mistake, Butler got two fouls in a row, Odom missed a backcourt rebound, the core players of the Lakers made continuous adjustments, and Ke Yan was speechless!

Without Butler, Barnes could only stand in the corner on the offensive end. The Spurs' defense deliberately put further pressure on Kobe. They unscrupulously restricted Odom's ball play, flanked Kobe, and used their own defensive rotation to provide help.

This made the Lakers' smooth ball movement in vain, hindering the Lakers' offense. The point difference was widened to 15 points in the first half of the third quarter.

Under the predicament, Ke Yan replaced Butler, who had committed four fouls, in advance for a last-ditch effort. Unfortunately, the game had entered the "boiling a frog in warm water" mode that the Spurs are familiar with.

Duncan gave Ke Yan a feeling of being stuck in his throat on both offense and defense. Whenever the Lakers saw an exploitable point in the Spurs' defensive system, they would immediately find that Duncan had blocked it!

"In a game, a player generally holds the ball for no more than 12 minutes, and the 36 minutes without the ball determines what kind of player he is!" This is a sentence that Ke Yan learned in school. Duncan Ben

The performance in this game is the best interpretation of this sentence.

In the fourth quarter of the game, Ke Yan made several adjustments, but still couldn't fly out of Popovich's Wuzhishan, or could not offset Duncan's suppression of the Lakers. He could only accept the first defeat in his coaching career.

91:103, the Lakers lost at home, losing to the Spurs for the second time this season! Popovich shook hands with Ke Yan and expressed his appreciation to Ke Yan.

Both sides understand that the Spurs' victory is more about the team's huge card advantage. It's especially clear who will win if Ke Yan takes Popovich's hand!

In the locker room, Ke Yan also comforted his players. But it seemed that he was the one who should be comforted. In the locker room, including Kobe, no one felt much about the loss to the Spurs.

Maybe this is where the rookie coach doesn’t have a good grasp of the players’ psychology?

For players, losing is no longer a depressing thing, even for a player with a strong desire to survive like Kobe. It is not difficult to understand that even a strong team has to lose twenty games a season.

Thirty games, if you lose one, you will be depressed, don’t you get depression?

Usually only rookies who have just entered the league will feel a little regretful about losing, or some people may find it difficult to accept if they are defeated at the last moment of the game. An ordinary loss is nothing.

After suffering the first defeat in his coaching career, Ke Yan was not in a good mood, and the media repeatedly asked about this issue, which made Ke Yan even more unhappy: "Do you expect me to never lose in my entire coaching career?

Or do you place your hopes on the Lakers to achieve a regular season record of 70 wins and 12 losses?"

"The reason for our team's defeat? I accounted for 90% of the factors, but I am not blaming the blame. I was speechless about Manu's foul on Caron at the beginning of the third quarter. Caron did violate Manu's shot, but

Manu was not a normal shooting action at that time. If the league maintains this standard of whistleblowing, I can make the game become a free throw shootout!"

Ke Yan bluntly said at the press conference that Ginobili's rear braking foul changed the game, which also made the media and fans pay attention to this action and analyze it.

From the video from all angles, it is not difficult to see that Ginobili’s goal was to cause a foul. Caron Butler did indeed foul. This is unmistakable. The problem is that Ginobili caused the foul.

method.

Spurs fans believe that "reasonable use of rules is part of basketball. If you have the ability, don't foul!"

Lakers fans retorted, "Who doesn't know how to draw fouls? If you do it like this, let's just throw free throws to decide the outcome!"

Spurs fans replied, "Kimi didn't turn the game into a free throw contest!"

Lakers fans retorted, "Popovich was vague when he fouled O'Neal?"

Fans on both sides insisted on their own opinions and started to complain on the forum. The impact was so great that the league also came out to do something. Ke Yan received a $5,000 fine for "inappropriate remarks about the penalty."

As a conscience, what Ke Yan said at the press conference was "It was indeed a foul, but the action to get the foul was an abnormal action." It was clear that he was targeting Ginobili. As a result, the league responded and gave him a ticket.

,Ke Yan felt very wronged.

Fortunately, boss Jerry Buss came forward to help him claim the fine, preventing Ke Yan from losing money when he lost the game!

It was after this incident that Ke Yan submitted an application to Jerry Buss to supplement the teaching assistant team.