"Toot-"

The whistle blew for a long time, and at the end of the third quarter, the Knicks and Spurs magically tied the score again.

71 draws, even in the finals, there are not many scenes like this, the two sides have never opened a score difference of more than three points from beginning to end, and even if they do, they will quickly return to the starting line.

Mo Xi put the towel on his head and threw himself directly on the chair, and the seven-foot-tall man of more than 240 pounds pressed on the small folding chair, which made him a little overwhelmed and made an ominous "crunch" sound.

Mo Xi didn't speak, took the water handed by Matt Barnes, and slowly replenished his energy.

Not only Mo Xi, but Duncan, who was sitting across the court, was also uncomfortable, he sat there, his big eyes, under the raging flames, full of exhaustion.

The performance of the two people in the entire third quarter can only be regarded as decent, because both of them know that the next fourth quarter is the moment that really determines the direction of the game, and it is the real desperate moment.

In order to be able to play perfectly in the fourth quarter without reservation, both of them began to conserve their physical strength very tacitly, but Rao is so, after experiencing the confrontation in the third quarter, the two people still feel a little tired, and the continuous battle without rest makes these two people have a feeling that their legs are filled with lead.

"Never underestimate the heart of a champion!"

This sentence vividly expresses the reason why the greatest performances of the legendary Flood Era, the Ancient Era, the Middle Ages, the Modern Era, and the Golden Age and even the finals of previous years are often staged and remain in people's hearts. (I'm not going to be shy about saying that I'm really a bit of a late-world, because I do prefer the old style of basketball, defense, confrontation, one-on-one)

And now, the same thing is happening, and the desire for a championship is sustaining the two big men to keep fighting.

George Carr looked at the big, yellow-skinned man sitting there quietly, with mixed feelings. George Karl likes players who share his temperament, and he always demands this from his top players, which is one of the reasons why many people feel that he has a bad relationship with his players. To be honest, he thought that he and Mo Xi were very different in terms of personality and it would be difficult to deal with each other, but in fact, in the Knicks, the person who can feel Mo Xi's heart the most is George Carr, and the person who can best understand George Carr's intentions is also Mo Xi. It's a strange pair of master and apprentice.

George Carr gently slapped Mo Xi on the shoulder and said to him, "Remember the subbook of our tactical manual? ”

George Carr's playbook inherited many of the Knicks' famous tactical set-ups, while adding many tactics full of his own personal style, but even so, there was still a sub-volume in the Knicks' playbook, which was once jokingly called "God's Hand of God" by Arenas.

Because all the layouts, tactical ideas, and running ideas in this have only one core, hand over the ball to Moxi.

In other words, this is the purely personal tactic that George Karl has created for Mo Xi, and it is a purely personal tactic in key moments. For a coach like George Karl, who believes in team offense and a talented offense and quick offense, let him design close tactics for a super center who is good at positional warfare, good at individual low post offense, and good at using back-to-back skills to solve battles.

But George Carr really designed such a booklet, which is full of nearly 100 pieces about the Knicks' tactical layout when he played alone.

The times create heroes, and heroes also create the times.

It is said that Li Mi is "the pioneer of the king", but a few people can tell whether it was because of that unbelievable era that Li Mi was created, or whether Li Mi officially opened that unbelievable era.

Mo Xi conquered the alliance with his performance, and he himself is a tactic, and the name of this tactic can be simply named "Mo Xi Singles". His hands trembled slightly, after all, he was really tired, but he was so eager to play.

Finally, the time for the break was finally exhausted, and the two sides returned to the field again.

George Karl, for his part, adopted the singles lineup with Mo Xi as the core, but with slight personnel changes, Ward, Sprewell, Witherspoon, and Rasheed Wallace. It can open up space, it has impact, it has tough defense, and it has rebounding.

The Spurs, on the other hand, have their true starting lineup, Duncan, David Robinson, Stephen Jackson, Bruce Bowen plus Tony Parker.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Knicks took the lead in attacking.

Ward slowly dribbled the ball across the halfcourt, hesitated beyond the three-point line, and first handed the ball to Sprewell at a 45-degree angle, who hoisted the ball in the direction to Mo Xi, who was asking for the ball in the low post.

Mo Xi's card position this time was very hard, it can be said that it was directly on the throat of the Spurs, Duncan was behind Mo Xi, and behind Duncan was the basket.

Rao is like this, Mo Xi didn't dare to be careless, as soon as he entered the fourth quarter, Mo Xi and Duncan were like a different person, fighting for every inch of land, it seemed that Mo Xi's position was very deep and he had an advantage, but only he knew that it was difficult for him to even turn around, Duncan's card was too tight.

Mo Xi grabbed the ball with both hands and put it on his chest, and slammed his back hard, although he clearly heard Duncan behind him let out a muffled snort, but Duncan's body didn't move, Mo Xi didn't have any space for him to operate, and after stopping for a second or two, Mo Xi started to move again.

He used his hip to push it straight back, and Mo Xi's hip was also the number one weapon of mass destruction, although not as terrifying as Barkley, but it was also a rare weapon.

After receiving Mo Xi's hip attack, Duncan forced himself to bend over and stick himself on Mo Xi's back.

At this time, Mo Xi quickly stretched out his left foot, dotted it, and then shook his shoulder, feint, swept his right foot back, turned around, and raised his hand, which was another feint.

Duncan straightened up the moment Mo Xi turned around, and his hands were stretched straight.

Moxi's first feint failed.

However, Mo Xi did not expect to succeed in one shot, and after completing the turn, Mo Xi quickly retracted the ball, put it down, and moved the ball to the side and forward.

Duncan's eyes were quick, and he immediately reached for the knife ball.

But Moxi's dribbling is just a spectacle, his real purpose is not to dribble for the sake of dribbling, he just wants space to move.

At the moment when Duncan slashed the ball, Mo Xi took another sharp step forward, then suddenly stopped, and then took a step, retracted the ball, half turned, facing the basket, held the ball in both hands, and looked up.

This time, Mo Xi didn't even make a feint, just glanced at the basket, but Duncan felt a strong crisis, and he couldn't care about it, so he immediately moved a step sideways to block Mo Xi's offensive line.

Mo Xi suddenly pulled his body back and threw a backward jumper, and Duncan jumped directly.

But when Duncan flew higher and higher, Mo Xi restrained the momentum of leaning back, and his body suddenly loosened forward, and the whole person crossed Duncan's body, leaned out from under his armpit, and sent the ball into the basket with one hand.

The dreamy footsteps are reproduced in the hands of a New Yorker, and I don't know whether this is an irony or a challenge.

Moxi's flashy offense made the San Antonio invisibly sweat for the Spurs.

Moxi's offense is over, and next, it's Duncan's offense time.

Wait and see, he also asks for the ball in the low post, but he wants the ball higher, closer to 45 degrees, and farther away from the basket.

The difference between Duncan's back-to-back attack and Moxi's is that Moxi is used to attacking directly with his back, while Duncan is used to attacking with his half-back, with only half of his body facing the enemy.

Duncan faced Mo Xi sideways, holding the ball in one hand, carefully observing Mo Xi's posture and standing.

Mo Xi didn't leave a bottom line, because he knew that Duncan was better at cutting into the bottom line, although it was dangerous to release a frontal offensive line, but it was better than being attacked from the back.

Duncan obviously saw Mo Xi's plan, but the nickname of "Great Basic Skills" was not for nothing, Duncan raised his hand and clicked twice, Mo Xi was unmoved, and then Duncan directly crossed the step, and suddenly started to pull to the oblique side.

Duncan is about to break through the frame, go to the side direction at a 45-degree angle, if he is blocked by Mo Xi halfway, he will first turn around, try to get rid of Mo Xi's defense to the other side of the basket, one-handed split, if not, then he will turn to the back again, but the back under the basket, but it is more deterrent than other positions.

Now Duncan has not yet reached the realm of "heavy sword without edge, great skill without work" in the future, now he is still a player with the greatest athletic ability, but he has also initially shown Shi Buddha's skills, even if you know his next move, there are very few people in the entire league who can guard against him.

Just because there are few doesn't mean no one can prevent them, but unfortunately it's not among them.

Mo Xi followed the first step, even when he came to the basket, he followed, but then Duncan pushed him up, and then suddenly turned around and came to the other side of the basket, this step, Mo Xi was a little difficult to get better.

Duncan squeezed away Mo Xi, directly split the dunk with one hand, and caught up with the score again.

Knicks serve quickly,

Mo Xi quickly settled down, came to the free throw line, received a pass from Ward, pressed his center of gravity, and then jerked up, suddenly raised his hand to shoot, and looked like Arenas's unreasonable style of play to push back the San Antonio man's ridicule.

Mo Xi just scored a goal.

The Spurs are attacking again, and it's still Duncan.

Duncan took the ball at 45 degrees, and then hit it twice in a row, seeing that Mo Xi was still unmoved, he suddenly raised his body suddenly, jumped and threw directly, and scored a cricket ball at 45 degrees.

More than four minutes into the fourth quarter, Mo Xi and Duncan each shot four times, all of them hit, and no one could stop anyone, so they slashed each other alive, and both of them were covered in bruises.

The competition has entered this stage, and it can be said that it is really white-hot.

The match goes into an official timeout.

Now the situation on the field has been steaming with the hard steel of the two bigwigs, and the coaches of both sides did not hesitate to change to their hardest lineups.

Arenas and Houston played, Ward and Witherspoon played;

Stephen Jackson is off and Ginobili is on.

During this timeout, George Carr made it clear that the team does not need to continue to pick up the pace and leave the whole tempo to Moxi, but Moxi should also be careful to leave the back door in the singles for Arenas and Sprewell to support at all times.

After playing again, people didn't see another duel from the two bigwigs at the first time, but let a small character take the lead.

The first thing Arenas did when he came on the pitch was

Try the feel first.

Slowly dribbling forward, Arenas came to a position one step outside the three-point line.

Parker didn't even dare to leave the distance of a step in front of him because he wasn't even unreasonable, in fact, if it weren't for worrying about Arenas' excellent strength, Parker would have even wanted to get closer, because to be honest, Arenas may not be faster than Parker in terms of speed, or even inferior, Parker feels that he is fully capable of catching up with Arenas, but for now, it's better to be safer.

But even if Parker was so proper, he still didn't expect that there was a kind of person in this world called a little rascal.

Arenas suddenly activated, moved laterally to the top of the arc, and raised his hand.

After that, there was no then, and Arenas made a drifting three-pointer.

Parker was completely confused at this time, how could there be such a brazen person in this world.

Arenas shrugged and bounced back.

The Spurs' next offense missed, and after Parker covered with Duncan, because of the presence of Rasheed Wallace under the basket, he could only choose to shoot from mid-range, but Parker's mid-range still needs to be strengthened, and the ball was completely crooked, Sprewell stepped forward to grab the rebound, and the Knicks directly switched offense and defense to play fast break.

Houston received a pass from Sprewell, and together they were in the dust, and went straight to the Spurs halfcourt.

Seeing that Houston was about to make a layup, a short-sighted No. 20 appeared. He snatched it skillfully and cut the ball in Houston's hand with two points in a row.

Fast offense counter fast offense, the Knicks, who have been transferred to a fast offensive formation, quickly retreated as a whole and switched from offense to defense.

The Knicks' defense was too fast, and everyone was on the way to the fast attack, but after Houston's ball was sadly cut, the Knicks stopped the momentum in an instant and immediately turned into a defensive posture.

Spurs missed a chance to score.

But opportunities are often created.

Seeing that there was no way in front of him, Ginobili did not slow down, but instead sped up by one point, he pushed directly along the three-point line of the wing and then pierced his crotch.

During the march, Ginobili wore the crotch of two people and handed the ball to Parker, Parker did not hesitate to raise his hand directly to the layup, Mo Xi made up for the defense, but he was a step slower, and Parker made a foul, but fortunately, when Mo Xi realized that he had fouled, he directly made a ruthless move, and Parker was likely to become a 2+1 ball, and it became two free throws.

Parker hit one of two free throws and the Spurs trailed by two points.