Chapter 881
In the area just inside the free-throw line, Duncan and Nesterovic also stepped up, as if ready to surround and suppress Su Yan at any moment.
What is going on?!
Five people surrounding Su Yan from the very first possession of the game?!
Is there any need to be this crazy?!
"Five-man coverage right from the start, are they even letting people play? This is just too inhumane, isn't it?!"
Pippen complained from the bench.
Coach Skiles smiled, "When my opponent has a player who can average 60 points, 6 steals, and 6 blocks on the stage of the Finals.
I think... I would also double-team him without hesitation.
It's just that... that is Su Yan, after all; such double-teaming might not really be useful!"
"Are they crazy?"
Su Yan saw that the entire Spurs team was staring at him, while his teammates were wide open everywhere.
What should he do?
Should he be tough, force his way through the 5 Spurs players to attack the rim and score, and completely shatter their mentality in one go?!
No need, really no need.
Before the three of them could surround him, Su Yan made a bounce pass to Iguodala at the left arc, who caught the ball and immediately threw an alley-oop toward the rim.
Under the basket.
"Boom!"
Da Yao easily finished with an alley-oop dunk.
In the very next possession... the Spurs still applied 5-man level defense on Su Yan, dead-set on locking him down.
Hinrich, in the left corner, also got a very easy three-point opportunity, like a practice shot.
Even though this was on the stage of the Finals, he could still capitalize on it.
"Swish!"
A clean swish.
The Bulls' first two possessions were too easy; Su Yan felt that the Spurs' crazy behavior had no benefits.
He thought they would choose to give up after two possessions yielded no results.
Who knew... in the next Bulls offensive possession, the Spurs still applied airtight defensive intensity on Su Yan.
"Still at it?!"
Su Yan was quite surprised, "This means you won't let me attack, letting my teammates score more easily; what good does that do you?!"
While thinking, Su Yan passed the ball to his wide-open teammates.
Even on the stage of the Finals, when a point guard reaches a certain level, even role players can capitalize.
"Uh..."
Su Yan watched Iguodala finish a very stylish gliding dunk, then rubbed his chin and fell into thought.
"The Spurs are dead-set on me, hoping I'll get hot-headed, force an attack against their 5 men, and thus commit turnovers and mistakes?!
Or is it... they just won't let me attack, betting that my teammates won't score, and then wait for their own offensive possessions to play steadily and make every shot.
Confident that even if they let my teammates attack at will, the points they get won't be as many as the points they score, thereby gaining a lead bit by bit?!
I feel the latter is more likely!
Because... I definitely won't get hot-headed.
Since that's the case, I'll simply not attack for now.
You want to win with more mature offense, then I will use more overbearing defense to break your offense.
That way.
My teammates can score, while you struggle to attack, and the scales of victory will inevitably tip toward me."
Thinking this, Su Yan's mind became clear.
No more attacking.
As long as the Spurs used their unsportsmanlike "3+2" full-team coverage on him, he would decisively pass the ball to his teammates.
Then.
He would put even more effort into the defensive end.
First, he pinned Parker's layup off the backboard during his spin move.
Then... he caught up to Ray Allen, who was running off-ball, and intercepted the ball in mid-air before his teammate could pass it to him, disrupting the play.
"Manu" Ginobili, who came up during the rotation, had his "snake-like breakthrough" also under the insight of Su Yan's 【Eye of the Heavenly Emperor】.
What?!
Completely useless.
Either a steal or a block, "Manu's" offense was completely ineffective in front of Su Yan.
And even the rock-solid "Stone Buddha" Duncan, when he posted up Su Yan in the low post, didn't get any benefit.
First, his physical confrontation couldn't move Su Yan at all.
Second, when he wanted to force an attack, Su Yan, having predicted it in advance, could not only keep up but also use 【Intermediate · Rubber Catapult】 to jump with a vertical not inferior to Jordan's, causing him massive interference.
In this way.
The Spurs' GDP + Ray Allen, these four people, all struggled to score under Su Yan's fierce defense.
The wheels of the Spurs' four chariots were all removed by Su Yan alone... and they were falling into the abyss step by step!!!
End of Chapter
