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Chris Paul gritted his teeth and struggled, under the pressure of the Grizzlies inside double bears, Blake Griffin has been dumbfounded, and Tony Allen's defense has also made Chris Paul's offense more and more difficult.

It's very difficult to win the tiebreaker, but Chris Paul still hasn't given up, what did he join the Clippers for? Isn't it just to go one step further in the playoffs? In the first round of the playoffs, Chris Paul played, and Chris Paul also played in the Western Conference semifinals, but after coming to the Clippers, can't he play in the Western Conference semifinals? Is the floor of the Western Conference finals so difficult to touch?

Chris Paul had a drop of sweat on his cheeks, and he pulled up a three-pointer, boom!

"The Clippers are going far!"

The Grizzlies inside double bear began to exert force, Chris Paul looked at Blake Griffin, who was completely dumb on the offensive end, and a helpless expression appeared on his face, the game ...... It's over......

"In the battle of the seventh, the Grizzlies won! They used a millstone-like defense to prevent this series!"

"Congratulations to the Grizzlies, they've advanced! and their opponent, the Clippers, deserve our applause, both teams put on a great series!"

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San Antonio, the Spurs players watched the tie-break in the locker room, the two tie-breakers in the West have all ended, not surprisingly, the Lakers defeated the Nuggets to advance to the Western Conference semifinals, while the Clippers were killed by the Grizzlies in the first round of the playoffs.

Then, the Western Conference semifinals matchup is out, the Spurs' opponent is the Grizzlies, their old rival, and the Thunder's opponent will be the Lakers, and the declining Kobe Bryant will take the Lakers against the young Thunder four less.

What Anxi doesn't know is that his little butterfly has more or less begun to affect history, for example, in the original history, the Heat did not sweep the Knicks, and the Knicks grabbed a win in Game 4 and refused to sweep;

In fact, the reasons are all related to Anxi, why did the Knicks not refuse to sweep, the reason is very simple, in the original history, the Knicks also had intra-team contradictions, but they have been hidden in the dark, but because of Anxi, the Knicks' intra-team contradictions broke out and became very serious, and a team with serious intra-team contradictions is difficult to beat a super strong team like the Heat in the playoffs, even if it is only once.

As for why the Grizzlies were able to beat the Clippers, it was actually related to Anxi, but this kind of connection happened in the shadows, and no one found this, except for Popovich, of course, Popovich would not feel that this change in the Grizzlies would be related to Anxi.

Popovich was in the office watching the Clippers and Grizzlies tie-breaker, and amid the excited roar of the commentator, the TV snapped and was turned off by Mike Budenholzer, and several Spurs assistant coaches sat around the office.

Popovich was silent for a moment, then he tapped on the table and said, "Did you notice a change in Grizzlies' tactics?"

"Defensively?" Brett Brown was a little uncertain until Popovich nodded.

"Do any of you have made this discovery?" Popovich asked again, in fact, he just wanted to verify whether the Grizzlies' defense had changed like this.

"I also found that it seems that the Grizzlies' defense is more systematic than last season. Chad Falcier said the same, but more than Brett Brown.

And after he finished speaking, Mike Budenholzer and the others also nodded, and Popovich was convinced that the Grizzlies' defense had indeed changed.

"Brett, tell me about it. Bret Brown is now responsible for the construction of the defensive system within the Spurs, and Popovich motioned to Brett Brown to talk about the Grizzlies' defensive changes.

"The Grizzlies' defense, in fact, we have always said before, Lionel Hollins in the Grizzlies is to create a kind of interior-oriented, blocking the restricted area, controlling the three-point line, and maintaining physical confrontation, this is the old defensive system, but because they have Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, so Lionel Hollins has succeeded in the Grizzlies relying on this old defense, and last year he also defeated us who had just transformed. ”

However, this season, the Grizzlies' defense has obviously changed again, and their defense no longer seems to be dominated by the interior. Brett Brown paused. "They began to use the single defensive ability of Tony Allen and Mike Conley on the outside, starting to defend from the perimeter, and the two interior lines plus the bench also began to move outside, through the control of the outside of the penalty area, a lot of physical confrontation, delaying the opponent's position, and finally forming a kind of meat grinder-like defense, and we can be sure that the Grizzlies' defensive system has just been formed in the second half of the season. ”

"For example, in this game against the Clippers, because of the Grizzlies' crushing defense, Blake Griffin was dumbfounded, Chris Paul also struggled to find opportunities, and the Clippers lost the game like this......"

Bret Brown said in detail, in fact, neither Popovich nor anyone knew that in fact, the idea of Lionel Hollins' defensive system transformation came from the Spurs.

This season, the Spurs' defensive system is actually composed of Anxi, Kawhi Leonard, Danny Green's outside defense, and Tim Duncan's interior defense, so this gave Lionel Hollins a little inspiration, and he made a makeover on the Grizzlies to create an upgraded version of the Spurs' defensive system.

Lionel Hollins replaced Anxi and Kawhi Leonard with McConley and Tony Allen, and Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph in place of Tim Duncan, and the combination of the two created the Grizzlies' current defensive system.

For the Spurs, the upcoming Grizzlies will be a formidable opponent on their way to the championship, and this defensive system alone is worthy of Popovich's attention to the Grizzlies.

Several Spurs assistant coaches discussed how to break down the Grizzlies' defensive system in Popovich's office.

In the locker room, the Spurs players watched the tie-break battle, watched the league's official live broadcast for a while, and another award was released.

At the press conference, David Stern announced that the winner of the Sixth Man of the Year in the regular season this season was James Harden of the Thunder!

As a result, there was a burst of laughter in the Spurs locker room, and naturally these jokes were directed at Manuginobili.

"Manu, you lost to James Harden, do you have any thoughts as the best sixth man of the older generation?" Matt Bonner, pretending to be a reporter, interviewed Manu Ginobili.

What's more, Tony Parker, for example, sings a duet directly to Matt Bonner: "Hey, Matt, you should come and interview me, not a loser, okay?"

Then, Matt Bonner came over to interview Tony Parker very cooperatively, and Tony Parker continued to say seriously: "Manu lost to the bearded James Harden, which is normal because James Harden has a beard, and Manu ...... No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't grow James Harden's beard because he didn't even have hair!"

There was a burst of laughter in the locker room, and Anxi couldn't stop laughing, and it is worth mentioning that Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard also showed their teeth with laughter.