Spurs are a terrible team, but the scariest thing is that he can always be three or four points ahead of you, but he is only limited to these three or four points, which is out of reach, you try your best to chase it, but until the last second, you will find that you are still three or four points behind.

This is the mood of the Knicks now, after the second half, the Spurs quickly suppressed the Knicks a wave, and have been steadily pressing the Knicks' four-point difference, which is the most annoying point difference, because you always feel that the gap is not big, but in fact, you need at least two successful attacks to catch up or overtake, and the Spurs rarely give you such opportunities.

"Drop~" A whistle sounded, the Knicks called another timeout, there were more than eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Knicks were 78:82 behind the Spurs by four points, at this time Mo Xi had played thirty minutes, cutting 21 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 block, and Duncan on the opposite side was not far behind, scoring 20 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, even if there was no gambling game of Barkley and others, both of them could be called the focus of the whole court.

Looking at his beloved disciple, Van Gundy said, "Mo, you rest for two minutes first, and then you play in the last six minutes to recover your strength as soon as possible." "Sometimes, when there is a top or even superstar in the team, the team's performance often has some unavoidable situations, that is, relying too much on the individual ability of the player, and when the core is restricted, the team's performance will involuntarily fall into trouble, and the current Knicks have a faint tendency to dominate the team's offense, and sometimes even organize offense instead of just an offensive finisher, which also makes his physical consumption a little large.

Mo Xi looked at Van Gundy's eyes and nodded, he didn't want to say anything more, at this time, even the physical strength to speak is precious, Mo Xi's physical fitness is different now, although he is full of physical strength, but Mo Xi doesn't want to overdraw his physical strength just because of a regular season.

In the few minutes after Mo Xi left the game, the Spurs decisively put Duncan on the court, hoping to quickly open the score, but there are still two guns in the Knicks, Houston and Sprewell took over the offensive banner and threw a bloody way on the outside, because the Spurs' outside firepower is not good, only Steve Smith can do something, and the Knicks actually recovered a point.

With six minutes and forty-three seconds left in the game, Mo Xi returned to the court, and the Knicks clung to the score at 83:86.

At this time, both sides returned to the starting lineup, and the first thing Mo Xi did after coming on the court was to force the ball in the low post and play Duncan alone.

He had just come up after resting, and his physical strength was going to be cheap, although it wasn't much of an advantage, but for Mo Xi, it was enough.

Sure enough, Duncan didn't expect that Mo Xi would look for him as soon as he came up, and he was a little caught off guard, and was pushed to a deep position by Mo Xi.

Seeing that Mo Xi was stuck in position, Mark Jackson quickly hoisted the ball to Mo Xi, and Mo Xi took the ball off the air.

Mo Xi began to play Duncan with his back to his back. When the strength is about the same, the attacker is obviously more dominant, because the defender is too passive and has to be led by the attacker all the time. Mo Xi began to push his back, first lightly topped, and then suddenly vigorously chiseled inward twice, suddenly the force was weak, followed by a strong blow, Duncan was completely squeezed into the basket this time, Mo Xi turned around is a small hook hand, directly hollow hit.

During this period, although the end of the attack began to gradually move outward, the most effective way to attack was undoubtedly the inside attack.

Duncan did not choose to directly return the favor at this time, but continued to rely on the team to stabilize the situation, but as a team aiming for a championship, it is not surprising that what happened to the Knicks.

Mark Jackson, who was really blown up by Parker in this game, suddenly broke out, his eyes were quick, he stepped forward, and snatched the ball from Parker's hand, Jackson knew that his speed could not advance the Knicks' fast break, so he simply passed the ball back to Sprewell's hands, and the Knicks began to break fast.

Sprewell advanced quickly, Bruce Bowen followed, but speed was not his strong point, and if it weren't for a slight hindrance from Tony Parker in front, Sprewell could have scored this ball directly.

Sprewell entered the three-point line, and suddenly a back pass was given to Houston, who was keeping up, but Bowen was a little unable to keep up with Sprewell, so he had been in the position of half a step behind him, and when he saw Houston to receive the ball, he went up with an arrow step and grabbed Houston, Houston was forced by Bowen to almost lose the ball, and at this time, Houston felt a vibration on the floor, and looked back, the two giants had "clanged" and ran over.

Even when moving without the ball, the two are not missing some physical contact, and neither is actually the kind of pure body flow inside, but at the moment, both are happy to establish an advantage for themselves through physical contact.

Suddenly, Mo Xi paused slightly, as if he was about to make an emergency stop, but this is outside the three-point line, a center stopped here, does he want to shoot three points like Ranbir? Duncan didn't dare to think nonsense, no matter what happened to him, he only needed to do one thing, so that Mo Xi would not score, Duncan posted it.

And at this time, Mo Xi 1 long arm pulled, as a result of Houston's return pass, the Knicks' fast break played further and further, Mo Xi held the ball at the top of the arc to face Duncan, do the two super interior players plan to solve the battle in the way of outside players?

Mo Xi did think so.

Cross step, forcibly pull away half of the body, use his body to block Duncan to break through to the inside, these two super inside lines at this time showed no less than the speed of the average team's starting forward players, and they rushed in, Mo Xi did not go to the basket in three steps, but just dribbled to the basket, Duncan has been interfering with him in front of his side, and when he got to the basket, Mo Xi stopped again, turned his back, raised his hand and shook it, and then turned back, hooking his hand sideways.

Sometimes the shaking is not just to confuse the opponent, but also to find your own rhythm.

Although Duncan saw Mo Xi's feints, Mo Xi was taller than him, and with the hook hand, Duncan could only barely interfere.

Mo Xi went in again, and this time, the Knicks overtook him.

Popovich had to call a timeout with a black face.

After the game resumed, Duncan also stepped into the core of the attack, and the two of them started the final showdown of the game at the No. 4 position.

However, this time, Mo Xi held a one-point lead, but took the lead in the duel. The duo showed exceptional striking skills in the final five minutes, and the duo dragged the bout into the final round.

The interior duel eventually turned into a defensive battle.

In the last 30 seconds, Mo Xi attacked with the ball and singled Duncan with his back in the waist position. Mo Xi hurriedly squeezed Duncan, and then suddenly turned his back and cut into the bottom line, straight to the basket.

Duncan quickly turned around and pasted Mo Xi and forced the latter out of bounds, but Mo Xi started first after all, and had an advantage, Mo Xi did not choose the Mo Dream Dance that he had been very proficient in recently, but went directly to the basket, and sometimes the direct action was also a kind of feint.

However, Duncan's defense was very thorough, and he was already fully engrossed, and he leaned in and pressed Moxi's layup from behind.

Van Gundy quickly called a timeout to rearrange the tactics.

The Knicks had four seconds left on offense, and after a timeout, Sprewell missed a hasty shot under Bowen's tight defense, and the Spurs had one last chance to attack.

With fourteen seconds left in the game, the Spurs trailed by one point, and this time, the Popovich handed over a timeout.

The Spurs' offensive tactics are obviously more diverse, Duncan and Robinson all came to the high position, Steve Smith was ambushed in the bottom corner, Parker received the ball and handed the ball directly to Duncan, the two made a hand-to-hand cooperation, Parker quickly cut into the inside, Mo Xi had to change defense and retreat into the inside, but at this time Parker suddenly gave the ball to Smith in the bottom corner, Smith kept passing the ball to Duncan, Mo Xi was shocked, Mark Jackson's height can't prevent Duncan, just when Mo Xi pounced, Duncan passed the ball directly to Robinson, and this time, Ewing couldn't keep up with Robinson, and Robinson was about to go inside.

Mo Xi's heart tightened at this time, and he forcibly turned back, supported the ground with his hand, reflexively pounced, and pulled the ball down from behind Robinson.

Robinson also didn't expect Mo Xi to have such a hand, and he couldn't contain his momentum and rushed out of bounds.

Duncan hurriedly pounced and tried to fight for the floor ball with Mo Xi, but Mo Xi had already fallen to the ground, and Duncan had to press it hard, intending to ask for a scrum.

However, Mo Xi didn't even want to hand over a scrum, and threw it directly out, forming a pseudo-fast break for the Knicks.

However, this ball was passed too far away, and no one received it, and it went straight out of the opposite bottom line.

The Spurs couldn't get past halfcourt on serve, Parker missed a long-range three-pointer, and the Knicks won the first game of their trip to Texas.

But what they didn't expect was that this win didn't matter, and for many people, another gamble was the most important thing.