Popovich voluntarily gave up
With the double overtime win over the Washington Wizards, the San Antonio Spurs' eight-game streak continues as they face the Miami Heat back-to-back. Unlike the prodigies who lacked major generals, the Heat can now be described as fully healthy, competing with Chicago as the first position in the East. For the Spurs, this is undoubtedly a huge challenge, and Popovich naturally understands this, so he took the rotation of Murray and Johnson and Peltel's three cores, and directly chose to give up strategically.
The Heat's offensive and defensive efficiency is ranked in the top ten of the league, which is a really strong team, not only strong, but also stable. So this game is less fierce for the Spurs, who are short of major generals. However, Popovich is only 2 games away from the first win in history, and the season is still very long, so this record should not have much suspense.
A cold sweat broke out in the heat
But what people don't expect is that the Spurs, who chose to give up strategically, the Spurs who played away, exploded 40 points in the first quarter, and what is more amazing is that the most scored is Vasell, but it is only 6 points. This section of the Spurs lets fans really know what real team basketball is. Although Butler had 13 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist in a single quarter, the Heat trailed the Spurs by as many as 12 points. After returning from the second quarter, the Heat began to show the temperament of a strong team, Adebayor blasted 10 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 2 blocks on 3-of-3 shooting from the inside, filling the data column and leading the team to 33 points.
The Heat scored 33 points in a single quarter, which is not commendable, and their success lies in restricting the Spurs who scored 40 points in the first quarter and only scored 18 points in the second quarter. So, at the end of the half, the Heat beat the Spurs by 3 points 61-58. The first half was such a big ups and downs, the second half was easy to fight again, the Spurs readjusted the rhythm, just such a lineup talent, Popovich had to fight with the Heat. The Heat scored 38 points in the quarter, while the Spurs scored 39 points, leaving only 2 points left.
After returning from the last quarter, the Heat once extended the lead to 16 points, and everyone felt that the Spurs were gone, but who could have imagined that Diop ushered in an outbreak, scoring 10 points and 3 rebounds on 4-of-4 shooting, Walker also had 9 points and 1 rebound, and the Spurs successfully narrowed the point difference to 4 points. At the crucial moment, the Heat scored five consecutive points to stabilize the situation, and there was only one minute left in the game.
In such a situation, Richardson made a basket, Randale also completed the basket, the Heat missed four consecutive free throws, Diop chased down the three points, narrowing the gap to 2 points, at this time there are 8.6 seconds left. Vincent took both free throws to help the Miami Heat win 133-129 over the San Antonio Spurs and win three straight.
Popovich is really unreasonable
The most interesting part of this game is that the Heat came up in the fourth quarter, once making the game lose suspense, Butler thought he was going to clock out of work, but he did not expect that the Spurs almost completed the reversal. However, the head coach of Spoo still showed his courage, determined not to play Butler, and finally won the game. Butler played 30 minutes and had 27 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists on 7-of-11 shooting, Adebayor had 36 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, Hiro had 27 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, and Lowry had 13 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists.
Although the Spurs lost the game, but in the case of three main players in the rotation, they almost reversed the Miami Heat, the first in the East, and on this basis, they are also worthy of the word "yurong". The Spurs scored in double figures with three scores, Diop and Vassell and Walker all scored 22 points, and the team also delivered 33 assists, you know, their core point guard Murray, did not play. Seeing this, you must give Popovich enough respect, no matter what materials are in his hand, he can cook delicious meals, which is really unreasonable!