On April 14, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and in an earlier playoff game today, the Hawks beat their opponents by 29 points, and the Hawks were able to win by their playoff experience and talent. The Pelicans and Spurs are both playoff rookies on the Western Conference side, and while Popovich has a lot of experience in the playoffs, the players have no experience, and the Pelicans are good to have a playoff regular CJ McCollum, who eventually beat the Spurs 113-103 under CJ.
The Pelicans can win this game, their talent is crucial, inline Ingram's offensive stability is unmatched by players such as Murray and Kelden, No. 5 Valanciunas crushed Collins and Bolt with his physical advantage, and although the Spurs are tough enough, even if they did not give up in the last minute, they still fell in the face of absolute strength.
In terms of data, Ingram shot 11 of 19, 2 of 2 three-pointers and 0 of 27 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, McCollum shot 12 of 23, 3 of 3 of 3 points, 3 of 3 of 3 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, CJ used to be a regular in the Blazers' perennial playoffs, and now faces the Spurs, which is a playoff shock, it is a dimensionality reduction blow, Valanciunas shot 9 of 14, 0 of 3 points, 22 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 2 blocks, in addition to Herbert Jones 12 points, Alvarado scored 12 points.
Triple-cut 81 points, this is the Pelicans leaders handed over the answer, this is still Zion did not come back, the Pelicans three core handed over the data, wait until Zion returns, someone between them will sacrifice the data, but it is conceivable that the Pelicans will definitely be stronger than now, but it is not known when Zion will return, whether he still has the ability of the peak period, if he can return healthily, the Pelicans are definitely worth looking forward to.
After watching the performance of the Pelicans tri-core, let's take a look at the performance of the three cores of the Spurs, Murray shot 5 of 19, 1 of 5 of three points for 16 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, Kelden had 15 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists on 6 of 20 shots, Lonnie Walker had 12 points and 1 rebound, the three did not have a lotto rookie, it can be said that they lost to talent, not every player can become Jokic, the scouts look at the player's vision most of the time is still very accurate, the Spurs rely on their current talents, The ceiling in the future will not be too high, even if the team system is good, it will be given in vain.
After the loss, the Spurs officially missed the playoffs, and one of the more concerned questions is where will Popovich go? The old man decided to continue coaching last offseason because he wanted to be the most winning manager in history, and this season his wish has been fulfilled, so will Popovich continue to coach? After today's game, journalists talked about this topic when interviewing Popovich.
Popovich said: "It is not appropriate to ask this question now", Popovich did not respond positively at all, but NBA star Marc Stein reported after the game that some people in Spurs circles believe that Popovich will coach another season, but they also say that only one person can know this exactly, and that is Popovich himself. I hope that Bobo can continue to coach, after all, next season may be the key to the Spurs' turnaround.
Why is next season the key to Spurs' turnaround? Because in several trades this season, the Spurs have won a lot of draft picks, plus a first-round pick of their own, this season's offseason draft, the Spurs have 3 first-round picks, for this matter the reporter also asked Popovich this question, he said: "When we see who we have chosen, I will get excited", Popovich's words you can listen to, he has always been "hateful" for journalists.
But one thing that's for sure is that Popovich must be very happy to see three first-round picks, and if they can get a lottery draw, according to the Spurs' ability to develop, we have every reason to believe that they can develop the next Leonard, and the difference between the Spurs and other teams is that the Spurs have always developed their own rookies and taught them how to play, while other teams are letting the players play how to play.
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