ATT arena, Spurs host Thunder, Popovich stood in front of the tactical board, holding his chin and thinking about something. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the Spurs game began, the Heat's game was over, and the Heat won back-to-back games against the Hawks at home, winning 98-81, bringing the winning streak to 19.

The 19-game winning streak is just one game away from a 20-game winning streak, and once the winning streak reaches 20 games, it means that the Heat's winning streak will enter the next level.

Popovich frowned, the pressure on him from the Heat was overwhelming, of course, he was Popovich, he was not too messy because of the Heat's winning streak, at least preparing for the Thunder, the Spurs were still in an orderly manner.

"Okay, guys, let's talk about the starting lineup for this game, starting point guard Tony Parker, shooting guard Danny Green, small forward Cowhi Leonard, power forward Tim Duncan and center Thiago Split. Popovich clapped his hands, stood in the middle of the court, and began to lay out the specific play of this match. "Kawai, when you get on the court, you're mainly responsible for defending Kevin Durant, and Tim, expand your defense, pay attention to Russell Westbrook's defense, and don't let him easily enter the restricted area. ”

"On top of that, on the offensive side, we started with a hammer and opened up the offense with outside shots, guys, and I don't think I need to say more about the importance of this game, right?

After a short set-up, the Spurs showed up on the court and began to warm up.

Anxi shot a few three-pointers, and then stretched his muscles and bones on the side, recently Mike Prokpio made some training plans for him, including training to stretch his muscles and bones, if it weren't for Anxi's too many games and too busy during this time, Mike Prokpio was also ready to help Anxi sign up for a yoga practice class, because he found that Anxi's physical flexibility really needs to be exercised.

The backward jump shot is a technical action that tests the flexibility of the player's body, and the two most critical points are - upper limb strength and body flexibility, and Anxi's upper limb strength is not a problem, the problem lies in the flexibility, Anxi's waist and abdomen strength has, but the flexibility is not at all, without the flexibility of the waist and abdomen, Anxi's backfall will be very stiff, and the stiff backback will make the shot not as soft as imagined, and the shot will be difficult to hit.

With the help of the assistant coach, Anxi stretched for a while, and the game began.

This season's Thunder performance is quite inconsistent, in the first two months of the new season, they performed well, ranking first in the league, but since January, they have begun to lose all kinds of inexplicable games, and in February they were even blocked by the Heat, and the gap between Durant and James was also exaggerated by the media.

In this game, in the face of the Spurs, who played with all the main players, the Thunder performed a little hard, and Leonard on the defensive end did a very good job, limiting Durant to a certain extent.

For Adu, he is already a superstar in the league in terms of data, but in terms of performance in key games, he is far inferior to Kobe Bryant at his peak, and now James.

The same is true of this game, the key game of the competition for the first place in the West, Durant under Leonard's defense, the offense is a little difficult, and the Spurs gradually establish an advantage, until the last 2 minutes of the first quarter, the Spurs 21:16, leading the Thunder by 5 points, Scott Brooks also called the first timeout.

The Thunder took a timeout, and Popovich also began to make substitutions, he replaced Anxi on the court, replaced Split, and put Anxi in the No. 4 position, and at the same time replaced Danny Green with Manuginobili, so that the GDP three elders formed a joint force on the court.

Seeing Anxi playing, Director Zhang, who was commentating on CCTV in this game, said: "Anxi played, the playing time is still the same, playing in the second half of the first quarter, there is basically no accident, Popovich will replace Anxi in this time period." ”

Yu Jia also echoed on the side: "Yes, but looking at Anxi's position, it should be the No. 4 position, it seems that the Spurs are ready to play a small lineup." ”

Director Zhang nodded: "It should be ready to play a small lineup, but with An Xi's strength and bounce, there won't be any big problem in really playing the No. 4 position." ”

Yu Jia also nodded, on the field, the game has restarted.

Anxi Station to the inner line, with a long arm against Sergi Ibaka.

This season is Ibaka's fourth season in the league, and the big forward, who was born in Congo (Brazzaville) and later planned by Spain, has also made a lot of progress, he has developed a mid-range shot, and the three-point shooting is also a little bit better, and the power of the offensive end is not small.

So Anxi defended very seriously, basically trying his best to resist Ibaka, and using his strength to make Ibaka unable to free up his hands to catch the ball.

In Scott Brooks's tactics, the Thunder's offense was mainly completed by Dewey's second miss, so Ibaka had no chance here, and Dewey's second miss chose to come by himself.

Willis swam outside the three-point line for a moment with the ball, then suddenly accelerated past Parker and finally hit a jumper before Duncan could make a defense.

Wei Shao's jumper helped the Thunder close the gap, and it was the Spurs' turn to attack.

Tony Parker possessed the ball past halftime, and Anxi continued to face Ibaka and settle near the free throw line.

Tony Parker made an accelerated break, Anxi near the free throw line lifted up to deliver a pick-and-roll cover, and the French sports car that accelerated to the basket immediately attracted Ibaka's attention, and he followed Parker into the interior.

An Xi took advantage of this opportunity to run directly outside the three-point line.

In the next second, in the exclamation of Director Zhang: "Ball! Tony Parker's ball is given to Anxi!"

Anxi received the basketball in one step inside the three-point line, and Kevin Durant flew over to make up for the defense.

Anxi was about to throw, but Durant jumped directly and pounced.

An Xi stopped directly, then dribbled a few steps forward, shot a shot, and hit the basket cleanly.

"Good ball!" Director Zhang shouted, and those Anxi fans also shouted this sentence at the same time, this ball Anxi played smart, blocking and dismantling the cover to shake off Ibaka, and then a fake throw shook off Adu, and he dribbled two steps without hurrying, and after completely getting rid of Adu, who was making up for the defense, he easily threw in this 2 points.

In the first offensive round on the court, Anxi scored, and during this time, Anxi's offensive state was really hot, and after developing a pull-up jump shot, Anxi found that his offense became more and more handy.

With a 2-point shot, the margin returned to square one, but there was only a little more than a minute left in the first quarter, and Scott Brooks naturally had no intention of adjusting again, he stood on the sidelines with his waist crossed, and began to gesture to ask the team to speed up the pace of the offense in the final minute. (To be continued.) )