Against the Mavericks, the Spurs ultimately lost, losing their seventh game of the season. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Losing the game, the Spurs flew overnight to Minnesota to prepare for the third game in three days.

Before the game, Popovich spoke to the media, and said that he was helpless about the back-to-back schedule that the Spurs encountered for the first time, and he did not understand why the league would arrange such a schedule.

"Our players are tired of playing three or four games a week, and now we are playing three games in three days, I can't figure out why the league arranges the schedule like this, and I really suspect that the league staff who arrange the schedule have a lot of in their heads!"

Popovich erupted, talking a lot more than usual, and the reporters got excited, writing on the headlines of the newspapers: "Spurs coach slams the league, says staff have in their brains." ”

On the Timberwolves' side, head coach Rick Adelman also echoed Popovich's statement that the Timberwolves' schedule in the past few days is slightly better than that of the Spurs, three games in four days, but this schedule is also quite terrifying, but they have an advantage over the Spurs, that is, in these four days, the day of rest is exactly yesterday, which means that the Timberwolves have a day off.

The game started in the target center arena, and Anxi was the starter in this game, but the position changed, and he pushed to the position of the power forward, facing Kevin Love.

To say that Kevin Love, since last season, he began to break out, these two seasons are in his prime, last season averaged 15.2 rebounds per game, won the rebounding king, and this season, Kevin Love's offense has evolved in an all-round way, and began to exert power on the offensive end, the game has played so far, Kevin Love can average 26.8 points per game, ranking fourth on the scoring list, so in this game, Anxi's strong shield was put into the position of power forward by Popovich.

As soon as the game began, the two teams began to fight offensively, both teams are offensive teams, Rick Adelman is the Princeton master, but he just started coaching the Timberwolves this season, and the Timberwolves' Princeton tactics have not yet fully formed, but in previous seasons, the Timberwolves have always played a triangle offense, so the Timberwolves' offense is still very good.

In the last game, the main force of the Spurs was rested, Tony Parker, Manuginobili, Kawhi Leonard, Anxi and Tim Duncan started in this game.

As soon as the game began, the Spurs dominated the game and organized waves of offense to impact the Timberwolves' weak defense. Rick Adelman frowned, if he continued to fight like this, it would be very bad......

The situation of the Timberwolves this season is not good, there are many injuries, the Timberwolves originally invited Rick Adelman, the goal is to rush to the playoffs, but so far in the season, the Timberwolves have a record of only 23 wins and 24 losses, with a winning rate of less than fifty percent, and are currently ranked tenth in the West, behind the Rockets and the Suns.

If the Timberwolves want to get back into the playoffs, then the winning percentage must return to a 50% winning percentage, which is at least.

The winning percentage of the eighth and ninth places in the West in recent years says it all, the Rockets have been ninth for two consecutive years, and their winning rate is exactly 50% every year, so if the Timberwolves want to rush in, the winning rate must be more than 50%.

Therefore, Rick Adelman has always hoped to win this game with the advantage of the schedule and return the winning rate to 50%, but at the beginning of the game, the Spurs beat the Timberwolves in a daze.

The starting lineup of the Spurs in this game should be regarded as the strongest five players in the Spurs, Tony Parker's organization and scoring, Manuginobili's spirituality, Anxi's top single defense, Kawhi Leonard's assistance defense and Tim Duncan's interior dominance, with all their strength, the Timberwolves are indeed difficult to resist.

With 1:02 left in the first quarter, the Spurs were already leading by 14 points, and with a dead ball, Anxi and Tony Parker were replaced.

They had to rest and stagger their playing time with the other three.

"Well done, Ann, Tony, you guys have a good rest, we're going to clock in at halftime for this game, and we're going to play both of you in the second quarter. "Mike Budenholzer personally delivered towels to Anxi and Parker.

As Mike Budenholzer said, in this game, the Spurs' goal is to clock out in two quarters, because in three days and three games, the Spurs' physical strength is close to exhaustion, and this game must be decided quickly. Because of this, the Spurs will use all their strength, play high-intensity offense and defense, and quickly open up the difference.

The Spurs under full strength, against the injury-ridden Timberwolves, the point difference was very fast, and when Anxi reappeared, the difference had reached 22 points, and it was only the 5th minute of the second quarter.

Popovich tasked Anxi and Tony Parker to extend the margin to 30 points before halftime.

It's not difficult to say, it's easy to say, in fact, the Spurs only need to defend Kevin Love, and then do a good job of attacking.

The Timberwolves' offense, Anxi resisted Kevin Lefu in the high position, for Kevin Lefou, Anxi also learned about it through the team's videographer, this is a big forward with a very stable chassis, the bounce is not very good, but the lower body is very powerful, and the offensive end is extremely good at three-pointers, so the threat on the offensive end is still quite big.

Facing Anxi's defense with his back, Kevin Lefu was still very miserable in this game, opening his hand to pass the ball from Riqui Rubio's hand, Kevin Lefu made a feint with his back, stepped out, and turned around to make a jumper.

However, Anxi has already sealed the angle of the shot, and the ball is iron.

Kwame Brown grabbed the rebound and handed the ball to Tony Parker, the Spurs rushed to the frontcourt, without any stop, Anxi went around the corner, and then quickly ran back, ran to the other side 45 degrees, received a pass from Tony Parker, made a three-point shot, and hit!

The Spurs continued to widen the point difference, the Timberwolves, who were already short of major generals, were unable to resist, and before the end of the second quarter, Anxi and the Spurs had already completed the task, with 1 minute and 22 seconds left in the second quarter, a three-pointer from Tony Parker, and the Spurs' lead extended to 32 points.

In this way, the Spurs successfully completed the task of punching in at halftime, and in the second half, the Spurs, who were leading by a large score, slowed down the tempo and slowly ran out of time in this game.

In the end, the game ended, the Spurs won the Timberwolves by 17 points, and Anxi also scored 16 points in this game, and the relaxed rhythm of the second half made Anxi brush a lot of points, 16 points is the highest score of Anxi after the All-Star, according to the media, Anxi's offense hit the rookie wall after the All-Star, and the defense hit the rookie wall.

After winning the game, the Spurs didn't stay too long, they left the target center directly and boarded the plane back to San Antonio.