The Knicks' string of crazy performances during the regular season was terrifying, but it was not without opponents, many teams have beaten the Knicks, even the Knicks who are in great form. During the Van Gundy coaching period, the Spurs defeated the Knicks, who were still attacked by Mo Xi at the time, ending the Knicks' winning streak, and later although the Knicks also completed a revenge, but that time, under the deliberate guidance of Popovich, how much was true is unknown. After George Karl coached, the Knicks' momentum skyrocketed, and the opponents they met were often taken away in waves, but Rao, the Knicks did not win all of them in the second half of the regular season, and several typical battles gave Popovich full inspiration.

Under the tutelage of George Karl, the Knicks have an extremely fast offensive pace, much like the Kings, except that the Kings are "a small team with excellent defensive ability", while the Knicks are "a bombardment team with excellent pressing ability". Although the Knicks' interior scoring and even back scoring are very large, it is a real bombardment team, which also makes many people puzzled, does George Karl really have such a magic to link traditional offense and bombardment?

Instead of George Karl connecting the two, it was Murphy and Wallace, who were born in the wrong era to fuse tradition and ultra-modernity, and there would never be another combination of twin towers in the first twenty years and the next twenty years. (I did the math, the Pelicans are three centers and one coach after all, which is not the same as this.) ）

For the Knicks, Popovich didn't have much to prepare for Arenas, and most of his tactics were aimed at the twin tower combination of Moxi and Wallace, but seeing the current situation, it seems that he has to change this plan slightly. And as he scribbled on the tactical board, the conversation between his disciples gave him some inspiration.

"How did it feel to defend that zero in the first half, I felt a little struggling." That's when Bruce Bowen said.

Ginobili said calmly: "It's okay, that kid doesn't play very orthodox, a bit of xjbd, and it's still a bit difficult to deal with him in a normal defensive way." ”

Parker next to him also said: "yes, yes, I really don't know when he will make a move, I feel that he can shoot anywhere, anywhere." ”

Popovich's eyes flashed, and he took it seriously.

Good! That's it!

Popovich clapped his hands, gathered all the Spurs players, and began to make tactical arrangements.

"In the second half we had to change the way we defended, remember the three defensive tactics that we practiced? Now, we're going to use a third defensive set, but we're going to make some small changes to him. Most of our arrangements in the second half remain the same, but for Arenas' arrangement, we have to make some adjustments, remember, Tony, in the second half you defend Arenas, but remember, don't let him break into the interior, don't give him a chance to threaten the interior players, give him a chance to shoot, let him shoot casually, but be careful, when Arenas holds the ball, you must cut off his connection with other people, he is not a point guard who likes to pass the ball, when he finds that he doesn't even have a passer, He's going to be very decisive to play on his own, but you should have seen his performance in the first half, not to mention anything else, just his offensive options, I think your newborn child is no different from him, we use Jordan's rule against him in the second half, but remember, we don't deal with him like this because he is as good as the number 23, just because he lacks a string in his head! ”

Popovich put an end to his tactical set-up, and in his opinion, the best defender is not any center or power forward, but his teammates. Mo Xi is actually a ball bully to some extent, because he will only exert his most terrifying power when the ball is in his hands, and his off-ball offense and defense can only be done to an excellent degree, and the ball control given to Arenas from the Spurs is a disguised weakening of Mo Xi's ball possession, so that Mo Xi's power is inexplicably reduced.

Sure enough, five minutes after the start of the second half, Spurs erased the score and even overtook the opponent by one point.

Mo Xi looked at the situation on the field a little blankly, he was a little overwhelmed, he hadn't received the ball on the offensive end for a long time, it's not that he didn't pass, but the Spurs' defense was too tough, and the probability of passing the ball to Mo Xi to lose the ball was too great, and in this case, Arenas chose to solve it himself almost every time. For Mo Xi, the most uncomfortable thing is that he finally fought his way out of the muscle jungle, but when he looked up again, he found that his teammates had already made a move, but on the contrary, there was nothing wrong with his teammates doing this, but the hit rate was a little lower.

George Karl looked at the situation on the court and also felt a little bad, he frowned, touched his chin, thought for a while, and simply changed to the "casual shot, board" lineup at the end of the first half.

Watching George Karl's adjustments, Popovich smiled knowingly, and this was the situation he wanted to see the most.

The Spurs intentionally or unintentionally began to ignore Dale Davis and Witherspoon, both of whom appeared around Mo Xi from time to time, which made Arenas' shots more reasonable, but no matter how good the Knicks' frontcourt rebounds were, they couldn't guarantee to grab the rebounds every time.

By the time George Karl reacted, it was already too late, and the Spurs built a four-point lead heading into the fourth quarter.

George Carr realized that Popovich seemed to have found a weird way to crack the Knicks' characteristics, and he didn't have a clue for a while. George Karl gritted his teeth, simply launched a ruthless attack, and made a big adjustment, Arenas came on the court with a substitute lineup, didn't you use Jordan's rule on Arenas? Come on! George Carr is also a big gambler, and at the moment he can't think of anything particularly good, so he simply does the opposite, putting the victory or defeat on the player.

The Spurs also made some player rotation at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and Popovich wanted to make his starters play the fourth quarter in the best condition, but Popovich was not as big as George Karl, just the main players Duncan and Ginobili sat on the sidelines to rest.

It seemed that the third quarter was completely warmed up, and Arenas, who entered the fourth quarter, opened up his hand and scored six points in a row in an instant, smoothing out the direct point difference between the Knicks and the Spurs again.

Popovich's face is a little ugly, Jordan's law is a double-edged sword, it can crush the opponent or it can crush itself.

With nine minutes left in the game, both sides switched to the deciding lineup, and Popovich thought twice and still didn't use David Robinson, and the current "Admiral" could not help the team much.

But the Knicks made a small change, with George Karl pinning Arians off the court.

Arenas looked unhappy, he is now the highest scoring player on the Knicks' side in this game, without him, he has scored twenty-four points, and seeing thirty points is no longer a dream, you know, in this game, the Knicks' second-highest scoring Mo Xi is now only eighteen points, Arenas feels that his condition is quite good.

The old man's explanation of Arenas's anger is very Mi-chi.

"Don't you think it's cool to be on a last-minute stage?"

So, although he already knew that this was George Karl perfunctory himself, or rather comforting himself, Arenas accepted it very happily.

Ward came on as a substitute for Arenas.

George Carr's adjustment was targeted, and he was about freeing up the Knicks' twin towers, and the Knicks began their double-low post strategy of dominating the pack in the regular season.

Suppressed by Popovich for too long, the rebound of the two men was so strong that Duncan alone could not suppress these two excellent back-to-back attackers. Coupled with Ward's ability to defend the perimeter and his steady three-point shot, the Knicks bit the score.

However, because Mo Xi and Wallace are completely using their super individual ability to fight against the defensive system that Popovich has carefully built for these two people, the Knicks' scoring efficiency is still somewhat inferior to that of the Spurs, but the gap is very small.

In the last three minutes, George Karl lined up Arenas again, and the Knicks' firepower skyrocketed, but correspondingly, the Spurs freed up Parker's offensive power.

Gradually, the Knicks trailed by two more points, and at this point, the game was still more than a minute away.

This goal is critical, the Knicks will not have the right to the last attack in terms of time, and Mo Xi must ensure that this goal is scored, so that the Knicks have a chance to push the Spurs to the edge of the cliff, and for these two teams, the victory or defeat may be completed in an inadvertent breath.

Mo Xi went straight to the top of the arc and took a step down to block Arenas.

The two of them split in an instant and attacked the basket at the same time.

Because of Wallace's existence, the Spurs' interior line did not dare to step forward at will, and now, it is pure king to king, will to general, Arenas to Parker, and Mo Xi to Duncan.

Both of them are advancing fast, just in the blink of an eye, the two of them are already only one step away from the basket, which will be the key point of the game, and everyone is engrossed.

Arenas pulled himself out, passed the ball or shot, and it looked like Arenas didn't even have to pick because he was Arenas. But now he has a teammate named Mo Xi.

Mo Xi burst out violently, separating Duncan with one hand and reaching out with the other hand flat.

Arenas jumped to his feet, and Parker immediately leaned over and jumped to the block.

But when he was in the air, Parker found that Arenas didn't seem to want to shoot, he wanted to pass the ball!

Arenas' actions fooled almost everyone, even Duncan was looking at the basket.

It was in this situation that Mo Xi received a half-high ball from Arenas.

When the ball fell into Mo Xi's hands, Duncan had already secretly screamed bad, and hurriedly pasted it, trying to hold Mo Xi down.

But at this time, Mo Xi was like a fierce beast, roaring and flying up, just above Duncan's head, Mo Xi completed a slam dunk.

"Drop~"

Whistle sounds, ink pity 2+1.

Walking to the free throw line, Mo Xi steadily scored the ball, and the Knicks took a one-point lead.

The Spurs attacked, in order to ensure that they had the right to the last attack, the Spurs precisely controlled the time, they had to shoot within ten seconds, and strive to score this goal, if not, only to draw a wave of defense.

Parker started quickly, and the Knicks replaced Arenas on their side, and they could keep up with Parker, but the quality of defense did drop a bit.

Parker gritted his teeth and forcibly accelerated, hitting the Knicks' interior like the wind.

Sprewell was going to step forward to make up for the defense, but he was directly passed by Parker's speed, followed by Wallace, Parker turned around and passed Wallace at high speed, and at this time, there was no one between Parker and the basket.

Parker pushes up with both hands, and Parker's small throw is made.

Parker's trick was tried.

However, this is a hundred and one time!

In the corner on the side, Mo Xi pushed away Duncan, who was entangled with him, stepped forward, and saw Parker pass Wallace, he jumped directly without hesitation, predicted Parker's shooting route, and slapped him directly.

Parker was blocked.

Mo Xi clicked the ball down. Mo Xi's strength was just right, and instead of smashing the ball directly out of bounds, it fell in front of Wallace next to him.

The Knicks controlled the ball and switched offense and defense.

Mo Xi felt that he was in very good shape, and continued to ask for the ball in the low post, only this time, he was stuck in a half-body position, and he just pressed Duncan with his shoulder.

Arenas decisively passed the ball to Moxi.

After receiving the ball, Mo Xi directly pushed Duncan, and did not push Duncan away, but used this power to slide into a face frame, and then directly turned around, used his shoulders to push Duncan, and dribbled to the basket.

Thinking that Mo Xi was going to hook his hand, Duncan's defense pressed very forward, but just when he was about to get to the basket, Mo Xi suddenly turned around again, and his shoulder was another one, opening up a space, and then raised his hand and shook it up.

Duncan was rarely shaken, and Mo Xi raised his hand to split it directly.

Turn around, step up, turn around again, Mo Xi's movements are done in one go, without stagnation, Mo Xi turned around twice in a row and squeezed out a bloody way out of the inside line of the Spurs, no one can stop him, Mo Xi scored easily under the basket again, in just one minute, Mo Xi scored five points in a row, and instantly locked the win.

Popovich immediately angrily called for a timeout and set up a foul tactic.

Unfortunately, the Knicks' free throws have always been among the best in the league, and with Arenas hitting both free throws, the Knicks won the second game and tied the score at 1:1.

Mo Xi walked back to the away locker room with some ease, he looked back at Duncan with an expressionless face, and said seriously: "I'll wait for you in New York." ”