Before the start of this game, when Popovich saw the starting list of the Los Angeles Clippers, although he was afraid of Jermaine O'Neal's comeback, he didn't have much thought, and about a week before the start of this game, there was news that Jermaine O'Neal had returned from injury and began to practice with the team. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The twin towers tactic was not the first to be invented and used by the San Antonio Spurs, but the twin towers of the San Antonio Spurs were used very well and were also very famous, and the San Antonio Spurs were very familiar with this tactic, so Popovich did not give in at the beginning of the game, and also submitted the starting lineup of the San Antonio Spurs in advance, which is to show a posture that we are not afraid of you, is a kind of psychological warfare.

However, after the start of the game, just two offensive and defensive conversions, Popovich can not be calm, Jermaine O'Neal's play has exceeded his estimates, in the league for so many years, there are many physically gifted interior players, such as: Los Angeles Lakers Shaq O'Neal, he himself is a bug existence, in terms of strength and technology, have reached the peak of interior players, is a unique player, is a giant under the basket, even if Olajuwon at his peak meets to avoid three points, However, Shak O'Neal also has his own shortcomings, that is, his movement speed and huge body make Shak O'Neal have a great limit in speed, and the activity area is very limited, and he can control the part under the basket.

Another example: Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Kevin Garnett has a super talent that has been rare for decades, his jump shot is also a kind of bug, it is difficult to defend, Kevin Garnett's height and arm span are very good, especially the arm span is far beyond ordinary people, and the bounce and speed are much stronger than the average interior player, but Kevin Garnett also has his own shortcomings, that is, Kevin Garnett plays more outside, often floating outside the three-second zone to shoot, although the ball style is tough, but he doesn't like to fight under the basket, In terms of strength, compared with interior players, it is not dominant, and it lacks the support of pace under the basket.

Jermaine O'Neal has the aura of the youngest draft player, after joining the NBA, he has been playing as a substitute for the Portland Trail Blazers, although he has shown good potential, but he has not received much attention, after all, there are too many such players in the NBA, and there are very few who really play, but after Jermaine O'Neal was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, he began to show little by little, super basketball talent, and he has also received a lot of recognition, but it is only recognition, there are not many such interior players in the league, But he hasn't reached the level of a superstar, and no one has spotted him as a place to surpass other interior players.

Today, Bill Fitch combined Jermaine O'Neal and Jason Green, in the eyes of many basketball insiders, it is a luxury burden, two excellent interior players, appearing on a team at the same time, may be able to use a two-tower lineup to put the two on the court at the same time, but the characteristics of Jermaine O'Neal and Jason Green are still relatively similar, and they are also young, so two players together, more often there will be irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts, after all, in the game, there is always only one basketball.

Even the twin towers of the San Antonio Spurs, when they were formed, were not completely smooth sailing, if it weren't for David Robinson's aging and near-retirement, but he never touched the championship trophy, there would be the rise of Tim Duncan, and if David Robinson was 5 years younger, then it would be difficult to say between the two, or that sentence: one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.

Popovich knew he was wrong, he misestimated the strength of the Los Angeles Clippers, and also misestimated Bill Fich's ability, the two people who looked almost the same, after Bill Fich's tactical changes, but completely developed all of Jermaine O'Neal's athletic talents, from now on in the league, there will be a small bug again, his name is Jermaine O'Neal, he not only has no less than the bounce and speed of an outside player, but also has good basket skills and strength, the most terrifying thing is that Jermaine O'Neal and Jason Green are perfectly integrated into a lineup, and this year's Western Conference playoffs are even more difficult to play.

The expression on Popovich's face is getting more and more ugly, but he is still unwilling to lose this game, and now although the San Antonio Spurs are only one win behind the Los Angeles Clippers, if this game is lost, the gap between the two sides will be widened to three, and there are not many games left in the regular season, and the gap of three games is almost impossible to overtake.

The game on the court is still going on, the San Antonio Spurs players seem to have been accustomed to Popovich's behavior of yelling on the sidelines, and they are still very patient when attacking, and when they can't find too many breakthrough opportunities on the outside, they pass the basketball to the inside as much as possible, David Robinson and Duncan take on a lot of offensive tasks, so that although they are not dominant on the court, but in terms of score, there is not much difference.

The Los Angeles Clippers attacked again, this time the San Antonio Spurs didn't dare to stay longer after completing the offense, and quickly began to defend back, when the Clippers' basketball passed outside the three-point line, most of the San Antonio Spurs players had returned to the defense in place, but Tiger didn't see that he had lost the fast break opportunity, and once again passed the basketball to Jermaine O'Neal near the free throw line, Duncan had appeared in front of Jermaine O'Neal, Jermaine O'Neal faced Duncan, holding the ball in both hands, Stepping with his right foot to make a feint of probing, Duncan was not deceived, and Jermaine O'Neal did not care, retracted his right foot, stood up straight, raised the basketball high with both hands, stopped for about 1 second, and flicked it with his left wrist, the basketball left Jermaine O'Neal's hand and went to the right, at this time, the San Antonio Spurs players on the right side of the court immediately focused on Stephen Jackson standing in the area between the three-point line and the free throw line on the right side of the court, which was already within Stephen Jackson's shooting range.

Stephen Jackson really jumped up as expected, but he didn't catch the ball in the air, but slapped the basketball in the air, and the trajectory of the basketball appeared closer to the basket, which is now empty, just between Jermaine O'Neal and Stephen Jackson, a red figure appeared in the air, received the ball, and did not land, so he used his right hand in the air to shoot the basketball, the basketball hit the rebound, and bounced back into the basket. (To be continued.) )