The growth of Xiao Ao's personal strength is obvious.

David Robinson's decline in strength is also obvious.

In the duel between the two last season, the admiral was still in an absolute advantage, and this season, Xiao Ao will be able to play some advantages......

Since Xiao Ao can play to the advantage, the Spurs basically have no chance to win if they want to win.

The Spurs have removed one of the twin towers, and it would certainly be unrealistic to expect Duncan to single-handedly take down the Trail Blazers Lions.

"Doot toot!" The referee blew the whistle and blew for a foul on Elliott, and Big Ben was sent to the free throw line.

"Doot toot!" Just thirty seconds later, the referee blew the whistle again, and this time it blew Cole's foul, and Big Ben was also sent to the free throw line!

Not long after the opening, the Trail Blazers originally had a 5-point difference, but because of these two free throws, they were directly chased by the Spurs to a two-point difference.

Big Ben made 4 free throws and only hit one of them in an embarrassing way!

……

"Doot toot!" In less than a minute, Johnson, the junior general, also sent Ben to the free throw line.

Richard would be a fool if he couldn't see what Popovich was up to now......

Chopping tactics.

Since the beginning of '97, Richard has been using shark-cutting tactics against O'Neal, and this tactic is now quite popular in the league.

Richard certainly wasn't the pioneer of this tactic, but at best carried it forward.

As a result, he carried it forward, and he didn't use it very often, but Popovich used it quite easily......

For example, in this year's Western Conference semifinals, the reason why the Spurs were able to win the Lakers so easily was due to the shark-cutting tactics.

O'Neal averaged an embarrassing 23 points per game in this series!

It seems that this score is actually a lot, but it is O'Neal, the big killer under the basket, O'Neal, who only averages 23 points per game, which can only be described as embarrassing.

Why are there so few points? One is the strong defensive strength of the Spurs' twin towers, which will definitely have an impact on O'Neal's play.

The second is foul tactics, in this series, O'Neal averaged 18 free throws per game in five games!

And of these 18 free throws, O'Neal can only hit 8 per game on average, which is less than 50% of the free throw shooting rate!

Such an embarrassing free throw shooting rate caused O'Neal to take a sharp decrease in the number of shots, with an average of only 16 shots per game!

At the critical moment, he didn't dare to catch the ball, so he could only let the outside players take shots.

As a result, Kidders and Glen Les both made more shots than O'Neal......

O'Neal lost quite unjustly, and it can be said that he was completely killed by foul tactics.

If he can shoot more than 70% from the free-throw line, it will be quite difficult for the Spurs to win against the Lakers......

Because of the four games that the Spurs won, the final score difference was only three or five points, and there was no big point difference.

It stands to reason that O'Neill should actually hate Popovich, but this thing is jealous of Richard, in his opinion, if it weren't for Richard, Popovich probably wouldn't have cut himself so frantically!

……

Richard looked at the situation on the field and frowned.

Popovich played a slashing tactic, which was really dark enough......

He didn't think that he was much darker than Popovich, and directly let O'Neal make a single-game free throw record in NBA history.

Big Ben was cut in a row, causing the offensive rhythm on the Trailblazers' side to be disordered, and the Spurs also took this opportunity to start chasing points, and they had already overtaken the score in a short period of time!

On the court, the Spurs lead by three points!

Trail Blazers fans were dumbfounded, the Spurs actually played the lead?! They are so violent......

In desperation, Richard could only replace the big book!

If you can't keep Big Ben on the court, if you continue to stay on the court, Popovich is estimated to definitely not be soft and can cut from beginning to end......

Big Ben went off, Rashid was pushed to the power forward position, and Richard put Bowen on the court again.

The situation has stabilized for the time being!

But without waiting for Richard to breathe a sigh of relief, Popovich directly started a new round of slashing tactics in frenzy.

Chop Bowen ......

Richard was speechless, you Spurs are so worried about Bowen, and Bowen going to the Spurs is basically a foregone conclusion, is it really appropriate for you to expose Bowen's flaws so much in this game?!

This is so urgent that I even cut my own people......

In desperation, Richard had no choice but to replace Bowen and put Nowitzki on the side.

This was quite uncomfortable, Richard's brow furrowed into twists, and he sat on the sidelines and pondered a plan to counterattack the Spurs.

Directly counterattack Popovich with slashing tactics?!

What is more embarrassing is that the Spurs have no targets that can be cut, whether it is Duncan or David Robinson, these two people's free throws use of slashing tactics, which is more than worth the loss.

It's hard......

Just a simple shark cutting tactic made Richard realize that the situation was not good.

In fact, it was not that there was no team before, and they wanted to use slashing tactics against the Trail Blazers.

But the point is that it's useless......

The Trail Blazers can win if they don't have Big Ben and Bowen on this lineup?!

It still doesn't seem to be able to win......

But the Spurs are different, there are 28 teams in the league except for the Trail Blazers, and the Spurs are the closest to the strength of the Trail Blazers.

They relied on shark slashing tactics to really hit something unexpected.

At least for now, Richard can't think of a good solution.

This ball can definitely be played.

But don't be sure to win!

Rashid defends well, but there is definitely a big gap compared to Big Ben, and he can't defend Duncan at all.

On the contrary, due to the direct opposition to Duncan, his own offensive efficiency has also declined.

The problem is a bit serious......

This game is definitely the biggest difficulty Richard has faced this season, and if you are not careful, it is really possible to lose!

"Do you want to use that point of fame?!"

"It's really reluctant......"

Richard lamented in his heart......

This is a famous point, he actually intends to prepare for Yao Ming in his heart, but now that the team is facing a predicament, if he does not improve his ability to shoot free throws, Duncan can't limit this point!

I must be quite reluctant in my heart, after all, this famous spot has the potential to extend Yao Ming's career for several years!

But now, it's no longer necessary, even if you are reluctant, you can only use it with your heart!

"I hope I can have a chance to get a spot in the future...... Richard thought heartily.

The only bit of celebrity he had at hand was put on Big Ben's free throw attribute!

The original embarrassing and explosive free throw attribute of Big Ben was immediately directly increased to seventy points!