In the past, a super-center paired with a top-tier guard was considered the best combination to win championships, until the Red Bulls dynasty broke the pattern, but the narrative has remained a classic, but now, as the players on the court, or unknown responsibilities, have changed, a lot has changed.

Just like the current Knicks, in the history of the precedent, the interior center is mainly responsible for defense, rebounding, offense again, except for Bill Wharton, the center did not even organize this option, as for the backcourt players, in fact, their initial first priority is not to score, but to organize, followed by defense, and the offense is only in the third position. But basketball has developed so far, there have been a lot of big changes, for example, Iverson, although the scoring point guard is not the precedent he started, but it is indeed to him that it is really carried forward and accepted by the majority of fans, and then there is the strategy center, although Bill Wharton and Sabonis have become famous, but it is Divac who really wrote the term strategy center into the textbook.

The current Knicks have two players who are completely different from the traditional positional philosophy, one is the star of the team, the leader of the league, and the other is not a talented person, but has a future that many people are optimistic about. Mo Xi and Arenas are both typical offensive players, who have been in the league for four years, and Mo Xi's defensive strength has also come up, but whether it is from his own heart or from the actual performance on the field, Mo Xi is still the same Mo Xi, when he fully opens himself on the offensive end, he will return to the real self; As for Arenas, this one is more of a guy who sees offense as life, he is more like coming out of the court, but his way of playing is like a collegiate, traditional and modern, academy and street, perfectly combined with Arenas, using pure academic skills to play in a streetball way.

As a result, the biggest contradiction between these two people appeared, and the two people who both liked to score more got together. Although the two people have a close personal relationship and are accommodating on the field, this is not a good way after all, how to play 1+1 & amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; gt; 2, it has become a huge problem.

And the person who coaches them is precisely a person who likes a challenge, George Carr. Truth be told, neither of these two people is the type that George Carr is best at, they don't have a talent for running and jumping beyond the ordinary, they just have a heart that is obsessed with hard training. What may seem like a headache to others seems to be a little less difficult for George Karl, the master of attack.

After Mo Xi came on the court, he brought new instructions from George Karl, Houston went off the court and replaced Sprewell, and Wallace also went down and replaced Dale Davis, which may be the most impactful lineup for the Knicks.

The Knicks' possession, Popovich stood up and looked carefully at the Knicks' lineup, with the return of Moxi, Duncan also returned to the court, replacing Malik, and because Houston was off, Bruce Bowen was not put on the court, replaced by Stephen Jackson, who happened to go toe-to-toe with Sprewell.

Mo Xi didn't bring it up, but sank to the low post, it seems that this position is not a position that can form a tandem with Arenas, after all, Arenas and other offensive point guards have similar characteristics, they are more inclined to attack inside, even if he doesn't shoot inside, he must go to the position close to the basket first.

That's when Arenas kicked in, and he took advantage of Dale Davis' cover to circle around the wing and cut to the basket here, but the Spurs were quick and David Robinson quickly appeared in front of Arenas.

Arenas made a sharp stop, pulled the ball and dummered.

David Robinson was completely unmoved, he knew very well that if Arenas wanted to shoot in front of him, he would have no chance at all, and his greatest possibility was to use his speed to force him over, but behind him was Mo Xi, the basket was already crowded with Mo Xi and Duncan, and Arenas might not have any comfortable shooting space even if he went in.

Then David Robinson felt his crotch feel cold, as if a cannonball had passed under him.

David Robinson was crotched.

Arenas passed the ball to Moxi's hand with a crotch piercing that made it think was Nash's pass. Arenas's passing power was great, and with this force, Mo Xi leaned back, and Duncan's upper body involuntarily bent backwards, but there was no movement in the lower game.

At this time, another gust of wind swept by Robinson's side, and Arenas took advantage of Robinson's looking back and quickly thrust forward, just as Duncan's body bent backwards.

Mo Xi directly "nolook-pass" and pass the ball to Arenas with a hit.

Duncan quickly turned and lunged at Arenas.

Arenas turned out to be a coquettish crotch piercing at this time, and passed the ball to Mo Xi in the same way, and after Mo Xi received the ball, he turned around, blocked Robinson with half of his body, and then jumped directly to dunk.

Popovich watched from the sidelines, shaking his head, and sure enough, the firepower of these two people is really difficult to limit, as long as these two people are connected, it will be difficult to stop them. However, to Popovich's relief, Arenas has always been a player who likes to play around with the pass last, which means that this kind of cooperation is not particularly special.

Sure enough, the next round of attacking Arenas seems to have returned to normalcy somewhat.

Arenas held the ball on the wing and singled Parker, Arenas won himself a chance to explode with two simple changes of direction, Arenas strode forward, directly pushed Parker, and literally flew towards the basket.

Arenas' breakthrough attracted the attention of the Spurs' two interior lines, judging from the performance just now, Arenas is likely to take the opportunity to stuff the ball to the basket of Mo Xi, but in terms of personality, Arenas will not pass, Mo Xi and Arenas are on the same side again, which means that once Duncan moves, Mo Xi will be in an empty position, and Robinson must block Arenas alone.

The admiral stepped forward, Arenas rushed too hard, and it was not impossible for such a momentum to stop urgently, but few people's knees could withstand severe pressure for a long time, and Robinson subconsciously contracted to the basket.

However, Arenas raised his hand directly at this time, threw a throw, and the ball flew over Robinson's head and into the basket.

Arenas seems to have found this position, and then he actually attacked from this side,

This time he chose to use Witherspoon's cover to kill from the wing, and Mo Xi was on the same side as him, at this time, Popovich also understood that the Knicks are the best defenders of the Spurs and always have to face the offensive pressure of the Knicks' two strongest scorers at the same time, taking care of one or the other, but fortunately, at this time, the Knicks' No. 4 position is Dale Davis, if it is Wallace or Wang Zhizhi......

Just when Popovich was thinking like this, Arenas actually shot directly, smashed the basket directly under Duncan's interference, and then saw Dale Davis push Robinson away, rushed forward, and directly made up the dunk.

Popovich's eyebrows jumped, Dale Davis, Witherspoon plus a Spreville, it turned out to be doing this, in terms of Arenas's character, this is really true, he thinks things too simply, this is simply a George Carr for Murphy and Arenas XJBD "shoot casually, have a board" tactical system.

However, this style puts Mo Xi and Arenas in a state of being at home.

Then Arenas handed the ball to Mo Xi, and he began to wander around the baseline, mainly focusing on the strong side where Mo Xi was.

Ink hits Duncan in the back.

Although Duncan has long made up his mind that if Mo Xi wants to pass the ball, then let him pass it, and he will defend against his offense, but there is a Arenas always wandering around, Duncan's heart is still a little annoying, the better the defensive players, the better their defensive awareness, they can always quickly and skillfully make up for the shortcomings of their teammates, but the better the defensive awareness, the more prone they are to a problem, because of the wide defensive vision, they can always put the whole court in their own eyes, Everyone's running positions and possible passing routes appeared in front of him like a computer game, and even though he was forced not to be distracted, Duncan was still involuntarily distracted by Arenas, and the consequence of this was that Mo Xi had a lot of fun.

Mo Xi suddenly turned around and retreated, it was directly a backward jump shot, this turn was too sudden, Duncan's body reacted, but the consciousness was not, when he reacted, the body had already pounced.

At this time, I saw Mo Xi's body leaning forward, resisting Duncan with his back, and then like a catfish, he slid into the basket, Mo Xi held the ball up with both hands and directly put the ball into the basket.

"Toot ~"

Mo Xi scored the ball and caused Duncan's defensive foul at the same time.

Popovich made a bold adjustment, he replaced Stephen Jackson with Bruce Bowen, let Bowen misplace to defend Arenas, Parker to defend Sprewell, Ginobili to defend Witherspoon, it seems that except for Parker, the Spurs' outside line has a great advantage, but things are not as simple as Popovich thought.

Arenas was still immersed in the order that George Karl had just asked him to play casually, even Mo Xi had a hard time getting the ball, Arenas resisted Bowen, smashed it inside, and then slammed a step back, Arenas jumped directly.

Arenas turned and stepped back too quickly, and Bruce Bowen had tried to defend as best he could, but it was already a step too late, and Arenas was already shooting when he put his hand up.

However, Bowen still interferes with Arenas, who strikes again.

Before Bowen could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard a thunderbolt of muscles colliding behind him, and when he looked back, he found that all four big men of the Knicks were crowded under the basket, and the Spurs were all squeezed out except for Duncan, but Duncan was also a little hard to beat...... Eight hands, Mo Xi quietly pulled Duncan's hand away, Witherspoon's eyes were fixed on the ball, and suddenly burst out, directly pulling the ball out of the air.

Knicks frontcourt rebounds.

Witherspoon flicked his hand and passed the ball to Arenas, who ran to the top of the arc, and Arenas made another direct shot, this time the basketball was perfectly hollow into the net.

Just when the Spurs were a little dizzy by Arenas, Mo Xi's side also started.

With the help of Arenas's implicit containment, Mo Xi began to call for wind and rain in the low position.

The contest between Mo Xi and Duncan was half a catty, and at the last moment of the last game, Duncan relied on his physical advantage to slightly suppress Mo Xi, and now, Mo Xi relied on Arenas to slightly suppress Duncan.

Mo Xi began to show off his big hook again.

Moxi's big hook hand allows enough space under the basket and on the outside, which also makes the Knicks' lineup a little more flexible, but the key to the problem is that Moxi's hook hand is strong enough, so strong that Duncan must concentrate on defending Moxi.

Mo Xi hit two hooks on Duncan in a row, Duncan's defensive attention was completely concentrated, but because of this, Mo Xi's hook hand changed a little, Mo Xi's hand grabbed the ball, swiped from the bottom to the top, his wrist suddenly flipped over, and with a bang, the ball was smashed out from behind Duncan, Arena cut the bottom line, ran from behind Duncan, and received the ball and went directly to the basket.

The Spurs' defense is starting to loosen up a bit, and this loose place is none other than Tim Duncan, who has been hailed as the best defensive player of all time.

The Spurs' system is team-oriented, just like the Knicks in the early days, they were more focused on defense and relied on the team's integrity offensively, and now, they are actually beaten by an inexplicably weird one-on-one tactic, and Popovich is watching straight to his feet off the court.

At this time, the Spurs needed heroes, but under Popovich's iron fist, only two people still retained excellent individual singles awareness, one was Duncan, and the other was Ginobili.

At halftime, the Knicks relied on a brilliant second quarter to lead the Spurs by five points at 47:42, which may not seem like a lot, but for the top five teams in the league to defend, it is simply terrifying.

Spurs have to make a move, too.