After New Year's Day, the Spurs' first game of 2013 was against the Bucks, and this game was still an away game, and the Spurs began a new round of their road trip. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the face of the Bucks, the Spurs won easily, they scored 7 double-doubles, Anxi scored 22 points, the Spurs team-high, the second-highest Tony Parker scored 20 points, and the rest of Kawhi Leonard, Duncan, Ginobili, Boris Dior and Mills all scored double-doubles, with this team performance, the Spurs beat the Bucks 117:100.

Then, the Spurs boarded the plane to New York, this away game against the Knicks, the Spurs took it very seriously, and the decline in the first half made the Spurs lose the first place in the West, so the Spurs must find a way to play back in the second half.

The Knicks have been in great form this season, and so far this season, they are 21-10 and second in the East. Carmelo Anthony's points per game average has always been in the top two in the league with Kevin Durant, either Anthony is first or Durant is first.

Against the in-form Knicks, the Spurs will have to put in more energy if they want to win this game.

Half an hour before the start of the game, CCTV's live broadcast room was already preparing for the game, and Yu Jia and Su Qun will explain the game.

"This game, in addition to the battle between the second in the West and the second in the East, should also be a battle between the best sixth man, Mr. Su, what do you think?"

Su Qun nodded: "Yes, Anxi and JR Smith are currently direct competitors of the best sixth man, in the new edition of the best sixth man selection prediction in the United States, JR ranks first, Anxi ranks second, this game can be regarded as a big battle between the two of them, who wins can occupy some small advantages in the selection of the best sixth man." ”

In the Spurs' locker room, Anxi quickly changed his jersey, Popovich stood in the center of the court, and he decided to make two small adjustments in this game: "In this game, our starting lineup has made two adjustments, the point guard is still Tony Parker, the scoring guard Danny Green, the small forward Cowhi Leonard, the power forward Tim Duncan and the center Thiago Split, Thiago, you enter the starting lineup in this game, pay attention to protect the backcourt rebounds." ”

The Knicks' progress this season, in Popovich's view, is nothing more than two reasons, one is the arrival of Jason Kidd and Raymond Filton, which activated Anthony and J.R. Smith, and the other is that newcomers Marcus Camby and Tyson Chandler together provide rebounding security for the Knicks' outside shooters.

So Popovich chose to put Split in the starting lineup to protect the rebound.

Split nodded in understanding, and soon the game began, and the players on both sides appeared one after another in the passionate voices of the DJs on the spot.

Madison Square Garden Arena is known as the Mecca of basketball, but for a visiting team like the Spurs, when they first entered, the Mecca Mecca was not at all like the Mecca Mecca, boosing, and even fanatical Knicks fans cursing at the Spurs players and coaches on the sidelines.

At the beginning of the game, the Spurs scored first and took the lead, and Tony Parker easily broke through the aging Jason Kidd and hit a shot.

However, the Knicks quickly opened the scoring with Anthony's back-to-back single, and Anthony seemed to be in good shape.

But then, Leonard's long-arm defense quickly put Anthony in a struggle, but Mike Woodson reacted quickly and brought J.R. Smith on the court, taking the pressure off Anthony at once.

In the seventh minute of the first quarter, another official timeout, Popovich was replaced by Manuginobili, but ...... and did not replace Anxi......

The reason for not replacing Anxi is very simple, because Leonard defends Anthony well, and there is no need for the Spurs to replace Anxi to disrupt the current defensive rhythm.

So Anxi can only continue to wait for opportunities on the bench, perhaps this is the worst point of the substitute players, the starters can play first, and if the state is good, the playing time of the substitute players will be compressed, such as Anxi in this game, no accident, Anxi doesn't want to play in the first quarter.

Sure enough, the game ended in the first quarter, the Spurs 25:22, leading by three points to end the quarter, Leonard's defense did a good job, and Anthony only scored 6 points in the first quarter, but the Knicks' sixth man, J.R. Smith, broke out, and after Mike Woodson replaced him, he scored 13 points in most of the quarter, helping the Knicks bite the score.

Before the start of the second quarter, Popovich started to make substitutions again, he glanced at Anxi, then thought about it, and said: "Ann, you come out to replace Tony, Manu to play point guard, Danny to replace Kawai, Ann you go to play point guard, against Jr Smith, Danny goes to play small forward, Boris comes on the court to replace Tim." "After a few substitutions and adjustments, the tragedy this time is Patrick Mills.

Originally, according to the Spurs' rotation policy, Patrick Mills should have played in the second quarter, but at the beginning of the second quarter, Popovich decided to let Anxi and Danny Green play together in order to maintain the defense on the wing.

"By the way, Ann, your next mission is to guard against J.R. Smith, but you also have to take care of the offensive end, understand?" Popovich turned to Anxi as if he suddenly remembered something.

"Got it, Coach." An Xi nodded, it is not difficult to defend against JR Smith, but it is difficult to take care of offense, after all, JR Smith is in hot form this season, and it is not so easy to defend at all. If Anxi puts most of his energy into defense, it will not be difficult to defend against J.R. Smith, but the most important thing is that Anxi also scores some energy to devote to the offensive end, which is not easy to do.

But thinking about it, it's a good thing for Popovich to let himself take care of the offensive end, so Anxi still nodded in agreement.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Anxi came on the court and faced J.R. Smith.

This is another match between Anxi and JR Smith after a season, Anxi also played against JR Smith last season, but at that time, JR Smith was not in such a good state as it is now, so Anxi easily dealt with him, and then pushed forward, the two were still in the CBA, and Anxi also stepped on Smith by preventing JR Smith from dying.

Now, the two are still competitors for the best sixth man, and although Anxi doesn't have any thoughts about the honor of best sixth man, J.R. Smith does.

So as soon as he got on the court, J.R. Smith kept an eye on Anxi.

The first ball in the opening game was the Knicks' possession, Jason Kidd slowly controlled the ball, although he was older, Jason Kidd's scoring ability was getting worse and worse, but Kidd's passing was getting older and more demonic.

After dribbling the ball, Jason Kidd made a direct pass, and then shouted: "(Little Smith)!" Catch! ”

Little Smith is the nickname of JR Smith, and JR Smith's teammates like to call him that, this shout, JR Smith went directly to the top of the arc to catch the ball, and then didn't look at Anxi, who came over to make up the defense, and went straight to a breakthrough.

Then an unreasonable shot, the basketball hit the basket from the top of Anxi's head!

The first ball was not blocked! J.R. Smith looked at An Xi when he returned to defense, and there was a bit of provocation in his eyes. (To be continued.) )