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Chapter 289 First Battle
After a series of links such as admission and DJ introducing players' names, tonight's game will finally begin.

Yang Ke stood in front of the Spurs bench, looked around the packed arena, and looked at the familiar white jerseys on the fans and spectators.

Thinking of the cheers of more than 18000 people at the scene when the DJ introduced himself, Yang Ke experienced the fiery atmosphere at home in the playoffs for the first time.

Holding a glass of orange juice in his hand, Duncan walked up to Yang Ke, put his hand on his shoulder, and asked with a smile, "How is it? Is it completely different from the regular season?"

Looking sideways at Duncan in casual clothes, Yang Ke nodded and said softly: "Indeed, it's a bit shocking."

While smiling, Duncan suddenly noticed that Yang Ke's shoulder was shaking constantly.Looking down, he found that Yang Ke's hands were trembling slightly.

Realizing the key to the problem, Duncan moved his right hand down slowly until it reached the elbow of Yang Ke's right arm, pressed his arm with a little force, and then asked, "Yang, are you nervous?"

"Nothing."

Yang Ke quickly denied it, and even explained with a smile, "I'm excited. You are not here. It's all my chance to perform. Maybe I can still get a big star contract based on my performance in the playoffs." .”

"Then wait for you to sign the contract and treat us to dinner."

Duncan is an old fritter, of course he could see that Yang Ke was pretending to relax, but he didn't expose it because he was very satisfied with Yang Ke's reaction.

After all, in the face of pressure, individuals are more or less nervous.Not to mention the fledgling Yang Ke, even Duncan, who has been playing for more than ten years, will be nervous at some critical moments.

Now, Yang Ke is really nervous, but Duncan can see that he is trying to control his nervousness, which is a good start.To know that in a sense, the appropriate tension will only promote a person to do better.

Accompanied by the sound of electronic prompts and the cheers of the home fans, the starting players of both sides of the game slowly stepped onto the court.

"Clay, long time no see!"

Yang Ke stood beside Thompson and greeted him with a smile.

"Ah."

Thompson nodded to Yang Ke.

Thompson's indifferent reaction was within Yang Ke's expectation. In addition, he only wanted to relieve the tension by greeting him, and he had no intention of chatting with Thompson at this time, so he didn't care.

The referee walked to the center of the court with the basketball, and talked nonsense as usual.Then he stood between the two big men, bit the whistle with his mouth, and at the same time he blew it, he threw the basketball in his hand high into the air.

Participating in the jump ball were David Lee and Splitter. The former grasped the timing better, overwhelmed the latter, and allocated the ball to their own side, allowing the Warriors to obtain the ball.

Yang Ke retreated to the defensive half while paying attention to White's running position.Early in the morning, Popovich handed over White's defensive duties to him.

"Crack! Crack!"

Pushing the ball across the half court, Curry frowned as he watched Leonard waiting for him in front of the three-point line.

He has also experienced Leonard's defense before. His positive attitude, excellent defensive awareness, and outstanding physical fitness make him a difficult opponent for Curry.

Stopping from a distance, Curry stopped to watch the situation on the field.When he saw that Yang Ke was defending White, he couldn't help being a little surprised. He couldn't understand why the Spurs actively dislocated defense.

"Stephen passed the ball to White, which is a very smart choice. White's physical advantage is obvious, and he can rely on his body to force Yang."

Cole explained the game quickly, and at the same time added some of his own opinions, "However, according to my understanding of the old man, since he dared to make Yang Lai misplaced to defend White, it means that he has a countermeasure, just look at it."

Yang Ke watched White's profile before the game, and knew that he is a player whose defensive ability is far superior to his offensive ability. On the offensive end, he mostly relies on his excellent physical fitness to play, and his mid-range shooting percentage is very unstable.

So in view of the information, Yang Ke did not choose to defend closely, but gave way.Although this gave White some room to make a move, it gave Yang Ke enough time to react to his breakthrough.

Lowering the center of gravity of the body, leaning the upper body forward slightly, Yang Ke opened his arms, raised his right arm backward, and placed his left arm below.

Seeing Yang Ke's defensive posture, White took a tentative step with his left foot.Yang Ke didn't respond to this, and still stabilized his defensive position.

Seeing this, White did not intend to try again.Initiate a breakthrough directly, and cut into the penalty area in front of Yang Ke.

Because he knew that his body was not dominant, Yang Ke did not post it to confront White head-on.Instead, he kept stepping backwards with both feet, using small steps to follow White closely, keeping pressure on him at all times.

Failed to get rid of Yang Ke, White did not continue to rush towards the penalty area, and directly stopped and shot a mid-range jumper.

Due to the disadvantage of height, when White made a shot, although Yang Ke reacted in time, he did not interfere with him.But the good news is that the basketball bounced out of the frame.

Seeing that the rebound was steadily taken off by Splitter, Marv Albert sighed: "This was originally a good opportunity, but it's a pity that I didn't make it!"

As a former sharpshooter, Cole's focus is different from his partner, and he said slowly: "Dorrell's shot just now was a bit stiff, maybe because he rarely shot like this?"

"Actually, I think Dorell can continue to rush to the penalty area just now. Once he rushes to the basket, he can have more and more confident choices!"

Luckily I didn't get in!

Seeing that White missed the shot, Yang Ke couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time praised the team's technical staff.

Yang Ke still remembers the evaluation of Dorell White by the technicians in the pre-match materials: Dorell White is a shooting forward, but because of his lack of solid foundation skills, his long-range shots are not stable.And because his personal skills are still flawed, his breakthrough options and threat are very poor.

In all fairness, you must know that if you were the starting forward of other teams in the league, Yang Ke would definitely be eaten to death in this round just now.But then again, it is precisely because the opponent is White that Popovich will let Yang Ke defend.

Offensive and defensive transition, the Spurs' offensive round.

Mills has the ball, and Yang Ke is in the bottom corner on the right.Playing the No. [-] tactic, Diola came out to set a screen for Mills, who used this to get rid of Curry who was defending him, and dribbled the ball from the right to the three-point line.

After just two steps, Mills met Mitch Moore's encounter delay.Facing the defense of the big man, Mills did not choose to play hard, and directly passed the ball back to Diaw with a backhand.

Reaching out to receive the pass, facing Curry who was misplaced to defend him, Diaw played very easily, carrying Curry in two steps, and then shot a jumper on the spot.

After the basketball crossed an arc, it fell into the net.

(End of this chapter)