Beep, the referee blew the whistle and Popovich called a timeout. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After more than eight minutes of the first quarter, the score was still 22:19, and the Grizzlies were only 3 points behind, and Popovich called a timeout to prepare for a substitution.

After a pause, Anxi wiped his sweat and was a little tired, but compared to other teammates, Anxi's current physical condition is the best, on the one hand, Anxi's physical fitness is already good, on the other hand, Anxi's task in this game is not heavy, just need to lock Rudy Guy, this is still very easy for Anxi, as long as there is no problem with his state, there is no problem in locking Rudy Guy.

Popovich looked at several starters, thought about it, and made the decision to make a substitution.

'Manu came on for Kawhei, Patrick came on for Toni, Thiago came on for Boris. Three up and three down, Popovich only kept Anxi and Tim Duncan on the court.

"After the substitution, Thiago, try to prevent Zach Randolph, Ann, you continue to lock Rudy Guy, Thiem guards the penalty area, Manu and Patrick, play fast and open up the difference as soon as possible. Popovich arranged another pass, with a clear purpose, to limit Zachrandorf, who had entered a violent state, as much as possible, and then open up the difference.

The Grizzlies also made substitutions, and in order to open up the offense, Lionel Hollins replaced Tony Allen with O.J. Mayo, and basically gave up the defense.

From this substitution, it can be seen that Lionel Hollins has fought hard, and he has nothing to do in order to win, and after replacing Mayo, at least the Grizzlies can activate their outside offense.

The game restarted, the two sides came on the court, and the Spurs attacked.

Manuginobili cut in with the ball, attracted the defense and then distributed the ball to Patrick Mills at the top of the arc, who received the ball and continued to cut in, rushing to the basket to complete a layup.

At 24:19, the Grizzlies served from the backcourt unhurriedly, and McConley took the ball across the half court, and then dribbled the ball steadily from the outside.

Marc Gasol trotted a few steps to the top of the arc and gave O.J. Mayo a cover before turning his back to the basket and taking the basketball from McConley.

After O.J. Mayo passed the screen, he ran directly to the basket, raising his hand to ask for the ball as he ran, and at this time, Marc Gasol's passing talent was revealed, and he passed a ground-hitting pass that can only be passed by a point guard, through the crowd, and directly into the hands of O.J. Mayo.

O.J. Mayo made a layup and scored two points!24:21, still a three-point difference.

The Spurs quickly sent the ball to the backcourt, Patrick Mills went straight to the front court with the ball, and did not stop in the front court, with the help of Thiago Split's block, rushed in one go, and completed the layup.

At 26:21, the Grizzlies were still unhurried, and Lionel Hollins shouted on the sidelines: "Control the tempo, control the tempo!" Obviously, he also understood that the Spurs just wanted to speed up the offensive tempo and disrupt the Grizzlies' current stable and rising positional offense.

McConley was reminded by the coach, so he naturally paid great attention to controlling the offensive time, slowly dribbling to the frontcourt, O.J. Mayo opened his hand to ask for the ball, and McConley passed the ball out.

Mayo holds the ball and faces Marc Gasol, this super high school student who was once known as Kobe Bryant's second generation is almost out of the blue, Mayo's biggest shortcoming may be sticky ball, as the saying goes, without Kobe's strength, he still wants to have Kobe's life, Mayo's way of playing is very similar to Kobe, so he was slowly given up by the Grizzlies when he lacked strength.

However, for the Grizzlies, the current O.J. Mayo is still an offensive player who can enhance the offense on the bench, so at this critical moment, Mayo was used by Lionel Hollins again.

In the face of Manuginobili's defense, Mayo used Marc Gasol's blocking and dismantling cover, rushed into the interior with an arrow step, and then made another emergency stop, shaking off the defensive Thiago Split, and made a jumper, and Mayo did not have any meaning of passing the ball in the whole process.

However, the basketball finally got into the basket, 26:23, the difference was still three points, and Mayo, who had just come on the court, scored 4 points in a row, perfectly completing the task given to him by Lionel Hollins, and the Grizzlies' inside and outside offense was alive at once.

In a few offensive and defensive rounds in a row, Anxi's presence was zero, but this does not mean that Anxi didn't do anything, on the contrary, Rudy Guy's dumb fire is the credit of Anxi, in the case of the Grizzlies firing inside and outside, Anxi defended Rudy Guy, giving the Spurs a sigh of relief.

The Grizzlies' offense came wave after wave, and the Grizzlies, who had no zone defense, only relied on single defense, and they couldn't prevent the Spurs' offense at all, and at the end of the first quarter, the Spurs were 33:30, and the lead was still three points, and the game entered the second quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the Spurs made another substitution, De Juan Blair replaced Tim Duncan, Zach Randolph as the main defense, Kowhi Leonard came on, replaced Patrick Mills, and O.J. Mayo as the main defense.

Obviously, Popovich's two substitutions are an attempt to end the Grizzlies' current offensive situation inside and outside through individual defense.

The game restarted with Spurs possession of the ball.

Manuginobili, who played as a guest point guard, brought the ball to the frontcourt, Anxi ran a position, received the ball and shot, hit a three-point shot, and finally missed a small face on the offensive end.

However, the Grizzlies' offensive Spurs still failed to defend, Marc Gasol responded highly, Mayo cut to the inside, received Marc Gasol's counter-hanging, and directly threw a shot, Kowhi Leonard could not defend, and the difference between the two teams became 4 points.

Then, Manuginobili missed a layup and Zach Randolph grabbed the rebound.

The Grizzlies break fast, Mayo bursts to the front court with the ball, a ground-hitting pass, McConley makes a layup, scores 2 points, and the difference is 2 points left.

Popovich couldn't sit still, and as soon as the second quarter began, the Grizzlies opened up the situation and seemed to be playing more and more easily, but Popovich was not in a hurry, he put his hands on his hips and supervised the game on the sidelines.

The Spurs' next wave of offense finally didn't make another mistake, Manu broke through to the inside and distributed the ball to Thiago Split under the basket, Split dunked directly to score two points, and the difference was extended to four points.

Then the Grizzlies' offense, McConley slowly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and then handed it to Mark Gasol who was mentioned in the high post, Gasol Jr. held the ball with his back to the basket, twisted his head and looked at it a few times, and waited until Zach Randolph was in a good position in the middle distance, a light pass passed, and Zach Randolph got the ball in the middle distance.

Defending him was DeJuan Blair, Zach Randolph played back, after a few hard hits, one turned his back, faced the basket, shot in the middle, the basketball crossed a high arc, drilled into the basket, 2 points.

The Grizzlies just relied on the successive scores of O.J. Mayo and Zach Randolph, plus the response of Marc Gasol and McConley, to bite the score, not counting the first game between the Grizzlies and the Spurs, this is the first time that the Spurs have played so anxiously in the playoffs.

Even in the first game between the Spurs and the Grizzlies, the Spurs have been behind, unlike this game, the Grizzlies are obviously at a disadvantage across the board, but with the good condition of the players, they bite the score to the death.