The players' expressions began to change, and after glancing at everyone, Fitch continued: "Now the opportunity is in front of everyone, we are going out to beat the defending champions now, and your name will appear in the major newspapers tomorrow, and we have to use our strength to let those who look down on us know that we are strong, we can beat any team, and we are also the masters of Los Angeles!" ”

Tiger stood up, clenched his fists and shouted, "We're going to knock out the spurs!" We're going to be the masters of Los Angeles! The other players were also encouraged to shout, and Coach Fitch nodded in satisfaction, opened the locker room door, and walked out first, and the players followed in high spirits. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Spurs and Clippers both changed to the main lineup, but apparently at halftime, Popovich deployed, Ginobili is a rookie after all, in the face of the Spurs' targeted defense, began to make frequent mistakes, the score was slowly chased back by the Spurs 76:70 The home team was behind, the Spurs were only 6 points behind, Coach Fitch called a timeout, replaced Wright and Skinner, Jackson continued to play small forward, Tiger appeared at the point guard position, and the point guard was still Bierups.

The team's lead was eroded, but Coach Fitch made a substitution that everyone didn't expect, and Coach Popovich was a little blindsided, but when the game started again, Popovich was completely furious. Birumps and Tiger began to take turns to break through the Spurs' interior, both for people, and after Tiger broke through again, he rushed directly into David Robinson's arms and threw the ball to the basket, although the ball did not go in, but it gave Robinson a fourth foul, so that Popovich had to replace Robinson.

In the third quarter of the game, David Robinson made 4 fouls and Duncan committed 3 fouls, and Tiger and Bierups used free throws to freeze the score at 88:79. At the start of the fourth quarter, O and Rodman were on the court at the same time, replacing Wright and Skinner, and Coach Fitch was ready to give the Spurs the final blow.

1 minute into the last quarter of the game, Birubs broke through to the basket, and the air thought of Robinson who was ready to block, the referee's whistle sounded, Duncan quickly raised his hand, but the referee ignored him and gave Robinson the fifth foul, the basketball stumbled on the basket and bounced a few times, and then fell into the basket, the referee announced that the goal was valid, plus 1 penalty, Birumps's 2+1 was played, Tiger and Birumps happily hit their chests to celebrate.

Coach Popovich on the sidelines was angry, shouted directly at the referee, the fans on the scene stopped doing it, and shouted loudly, at the home of the Spurs, the referee still gave the Spurs face, patiently explained a few words to Popovich, but did not change the penalty, Robinson was forced to rest again, taking advantage of the time of Bierups' free throws, Coach Fitch called Tiger to his side and told him not to make any more fouls, this is the home of the Spurs, and the referee's decision cannot offend the home team too much, Tiger nodded and said that he understood.

The subsequent game finally entered the normal rhythm again, and the Spurs team began to focus on taking care of Tiger and Birumps, which gave Jackson room to play, Jackson's first impression was that the defense was good, in fact, his offense was not weak, Jackson's offense can be said to be dead-end, after his teammates created space for him to attack, Jackson used his score to tell everyone that this year's Clippers are different.

Rodman 'took care' of Duncan more fiercely after Robinson went off, which allowed Ao Jr. to be released, and Jackson and O's inside and out, interspersed with Tiger and Birubs, wreaked havoc on the Spurs' basket. In the last three minutes of the game, when Popovich replaced Robinson again, the score had reached 109:97, and the two sides had a 12-point difference. In the last 3 minutes, Birumps began to control the rhythm of the game in a planned way, so that the Spurs' final comeback ended in failure.

At the end of the game, the Clippers defeated the Spurs 113:107, with a 6-point advantage, although in terms of the team's hard power, the Clippers are indeed inferior to the Spurs, but they used their advantages to make a good start to the new season. Controlling the pace of the game is what the Spurs do best, but today they overturned in the gutter, which made Popovich very angry, looking at the Clippers' Birubs and Ginobili, Popovich scolded the new manager of the Clippers in his heart. Smith. 'This bastard robber who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger. ’

For the Spurs, Robinson was affected by the foul and only had 14 points and 9 rebounds, while Duncan had 32 points and 16 rebounds, and his performance was still excellent. The Clippers played all 11 players in the game, the highest score was Ginobili's 24 points, Wang Zhizhi also scored 18 points, Tiger got 20 points, 16 assists and 6 rebounds, Birumps is also comparable, the two of them made too many free throws, and the whole team scored 7 double-doubles, completely playing a team basketball.

At the post-game press conference, Popovich still gave Bilfitch a lot of face, and did not say anything excessive, but only praised the performance of the Clippers. Bilfitch also praised the Spurs, calling them a strong contender for the championship. Both managers maintained a friendly attitude, but the reporters on the scene did not let the two go.

"You know our team, most of them are rookies, they need more games to get development and development, and Tiger HSD is only a sophomore, so I don't think it's a problem to keep him on the court and lead the bench games. Our Dennis, as the team's only veteran, didn't play a lot of minutes in this game, which shows that there are no problems with our rotation. In the face of the doubts of the media in San Antonio, Bill Fitch said calmly. Popovich beside him felt a burst of contempt in his heart.

"Our players are very young, there is a big gap between the strength of the team and the strong team, facing the defending champion Spurs, we played our own style, as for the foul tactics of Tiger and Chauncey against David in the third quarter, I personally arranged it, and the reasonable use of the rules is itself part of the NBA, I don't think there is anything wrong with this, I think many teams in the NBA have used this tactic, and the Clippers played a reasonable team basketball under the allowable rules." Bilfitch is very concerned about the protection of his players, and in the face of media doubts, he resists all responsibility.

"The team's goal? I said we're still a young team, it's all young and our goal this season is to get out of the bottom and finish second. Before the start of the season, all the media looked down on the Clippers, thinking that they would still be at the bottom of the league, so when asked about the goal of the new season, Bilfitch's answer depressed everyone in the audience. Popovich complained in his heart: 'F... k！ Just won against the Spurs, and what do you say about being the second to the last, what do you think of us? ’