No matter from which point of view, this is a unique Finals, there has never been a time in history that the teams of both sides of the Finals can play such a wonderful game, even if Stern does not want to see the Spurs, he has to admit it, but in terms of ornamentation and intensity, except for the yellow-green battle of the year, no one can compare to them.

It's not that the Bulls dynasty doesn't play well, it's just that no matter which team it is, it's a style of play that advocates more individual heroism, and the current Knicks and Spurs are slightly different, combining superstars into the overall tactics of the team, or in other words, the tactics on both sides are actually based on superstars as the most basic part, with superstars as the core to create a team tactics, but undoubtedly, this is still a pure team tactical style, such tactics, so that fans who have been accustomed to superstar singles feel very novel, There's a huge interest.

Although Stern has always admired the superstar policy, he was also distracted when he saw such a game, and he whispered to Xiao Hua who was looking at the report next to him: "You look at the current game, after I leave office, this will be the direction of your vigorous development." ”

Xiao Hua listened, looked up at the game, nodded, but then focused his eyes on the report in his hand.

Stern sighed softly, he didn't know if it was the right thing to hand over the league to Xiao Hua, Xiao Hua had the ability, but he lacked a lot of things, such as enough respect and love for this league and the sport of basketball.

Business belongs to business, basketball belongs to basketball, if Xiao Hua can't understand this matter......

Stern shook his head slightly, fortunately, the time is still long enough, and he can still work for a few years, and he will take the helm of this future alliance with him in the next few years.

Stern returned his gaze to the field as the game remained deadlocked.

Mo Xi and Duncan both sat on the sidelines to rest, and the confrontation between the two has risen from pure tactics, skills and bodies to the level of consciousness, which is a real all-round duel.

At the moment, with Ginobili leading the way on one side and Arenas on the other, these two people who are accustomed to the lawless way of playing have played each other on the field during the time when the boss is off the court.

Arenas is more inclined to individual offense, and the Spurs point guard who remains on the court is still Parker, but the current Parker is very strong offensively, but defensively, although he is much stronger than Arenas, but he is not on the line of a first-class defender, and now he is really a little weak to defend Arenas.

Arenas relied on Wang Zhizhi's blocking and dismantling to directly impact the basket, in fact, Arenas preferred Wallace and Wang Squeak's blocking and dismantling to Mo Xi's blocking and dismantling, because the latter two can open up offensive space for him, but Mo Xi does not have such a large offensive range, which makes Arenas play a lot less space.

After Arenas and Wang Zhizhi blocked and dismantled, they went straight to the basket without looking back.

The Spurs' defensive system was very fast, and as soon as Arenas passed Parker, the interior players immediately stepped forward to fill in the position.

Arenas didn't go up and made a pull-up jumper.

Arenas was very decisive, but very undisciplined, but he was fucking in!

Arenas shook his fist and ran to the backcourt.

George Karl looked at the waist, a little happy, but also a little helpless, this is a double-edged sword, now Arenas is still very weak, so he does little damage to his own people, but once he grows up and grows to the All-Star level, it is different, no first-class player goes back to actively choose to be a blue-collar who can only defend, only grab rebounds, and only pass.

The Spurs attacked, and Parker trusted the man who had only played with him for a year on the court, and he handed the ball directly to Ginobili.

Ginobili looked like a hanger after receiving the ball, almost ignoring Popovich's roar on the sidelines, regardless of his teammates' blocking, and directly forced Houston.

Houston was completely defenseless under Ginobili's strange change of direction, and staggered back.

Ginobili sneered and glanced at Houston, then turned straight and drew the attention of all the Knicks' defenders on the right side.

Just as the Knicks' defense began to shrink, Ginobili suddenly dribbled with his back and passed Houston again.

Houston was completely stunned this time, this, what is the operation?

Immediately afterwards, I saw Ginobili wrap the ball behind him, and then passed the ball out of his crotch, and by the way, he also passed through the small door of Houston.

On Ginobili's passing path, Parker showed up, and Parker shook off Arenas and caught the ball and went straight to the basket.

Popovich yelled at Ginobili, "Do you play like that?" Cub, you come down for me!

Arenas forced another offense, only this time he couldn't get the ball in, and the Spurs took the rebound.

And because Arians broke through very deeply, except for Wang Zhizhi, the Knicks were all behind, which was an excellent fast break opportunity for the Spurs, but Popovich didn't let this fast break start, he directly called a timeout, replaced the dissatisfied Ginobili, and put Duncan on the court.

George Karl also smiled as he watched Popovich's mysterious maneuver, and he decisively put Mo Xi back on the court.

With more than five minutes left in the second quarter, the two interior lines began to meet again.

Duncan, who returned to the court, did not immediately attack Moxi, but first started to guide the team.

At this time, the Spurs replaced David Robinson on the court with Malik Rose, but the No. 4 position on the Knicks' side is not very strong, it is Wang Zhizhi, at this point, no one can take advantage of anything, and Malik Rose is not good at offense, in the case of Mo Xi sitting under the basket, Malik Rose is of little help to Duncan, and Duncan can only focus on his teammates on the outside.

Parker appeared first, and he walked around Duncan's side twice, Duncan and Mo Xi were unmoved, and Parker was just a decoy. For two people with extremely high basketball IQs, this kind of confrontation of awareness and judgment is the winner and loser of both sides.

Suddenly, Duncan moved.

Mo Xi was immediately engrossed, his body tense, ready to move at any moment.

Duncan lifted the ball above his head, then slowly turned around and dropped it again.

Stephen Jackson came out from the side, broke free from the defense of Witherspoon, who came off the bench, and received the ball near the free throw line.

Jackson passed the ball out again and hit the ground straight to Parker, who cut into the basket from the side.

Although Wang Zhizhi's interior defense is not very good, Wang Zhizhi's excellent height is there, and Parker is still a little stunned.

Parker turned around and passed the ball to Malik, who was next to him.

Malik didn't choose to shoot, but acted as a stopover, passing the ball out again.

Stephen Jackson took advantage of Duncan's cover to come out from this side again, received the pass, and shot directly.

Here he is absolutely open, relying on Duncan's excellent vision and cover, Jackson finally got the opportunity to shoot in the open position, which is also the style of play that Popovich has always emphasized.

The Knicks went on offense.

ACCORDING TO POPOVICH AND DUNCAN'S THOUGHTS, SINCE MO XI IS BACK ON THE COURT, AND SEEING THIS CONFIGURATION ON THE COURT NOW, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IT SHOULD BE A SET OF "IN-OUT" TACTICS, AS WELL AS ALL KINDS OF RUNNING WITHOUT THE BALL, OPENING UP SPACE TO SEEK OUTSIDE SHOTS, AND IN THEIR EYES, MO XI IS DIFFERENT FROM ARENAS, THIS IS A PLAYER WHO PAYS ATTENTION TO THE TEAM.

However, Mo Xi immediately slapped them in the face.

Mo Xi directly asked for the ball in the low post on the left side, this position is not very deep, there is still a long distance from the basket, according to the previous confrontation between Mo Xi and Duncan, it is still a little difficult for Mo Xi to score this ball.

Duncan was quite focused on defense, and the moment Mo Xi received the ball, his muscles began to tighten, and he lowered his center of gravity and pressed his elbow on Mo Xi's waist.

Mo Xi looked up sharply and used his back to push Duncan, forcing Duncan to meet Mo Xi with his chest.

Immediately afterwards, Mo Xi suddenly exerted his strength, flicked his arm, and directly shook off Duncan, and the whole person limped in, turned around, and started.

Duncan immediately took a step sideways, blocking Mo Xi's path to the basket, and at the same time carefully retreated in the center of his body, guarding against Mo Xi's possible turn and leaning back.

But as if he didn't care about Duncan's defense, he took another step along the path Duncan had left for him.

Duncan woke up suddenly.

Hook!

Mo Xi raised his knees, held the ball with his right hand, and drew a big circle on his side.

This is a big hook close to the free throw line, Mo Xi's movements are very graceful and stretched, Duncan reacted a little late, he has no energy to charge, it is difficult to block Mo Xi's hook hand that is a little higher than him.

With a "bang", Mo Xi scored the ball.

The world-famous center hook hand was suddenly used by Mo Xi, and for a while, the audience was a little silent, as if they saw the royal family of the Song Dynasty beat the Taizu long fist to the tiger and conquer the Quartet.

Although Duncan is a little weird, he doesn't think deeply, after all, Moxi's singles are also an important part of the Knicks' tactics, and even Duncan himself has a large proportion of the Spurs' tactical system.

The Spurs turned around to attack, but this time the Spurs' running failed to tear the Knicks' defense apart, and they needed someone to smash a hole in the reinforced concrete wall like a madman, and unfortunately, the madman had just been pressed off the court for offending the contractor of the construction team.

The Knicks began to switch offense and defense, but the Spurs' defense of the fast break was not much better than that of the Knicks, the Knicks didn't get any good opportunities, Arenas was about to force a shot, suddenly heard a shout behind him, quickly stopped, turned around and looked, but it was a pity.

Arenas was in a state of panic, and Mo Xi had fallen to a high position, and asked for the ball again.

In the high position, even if Duncan's defensive ability is very good, but there is also a little worry, not to mention anything else, Mo Xi's famous stunt turned back to the ball in this position, one-on-one is definitely a hegemon, fortunately, this trick wins in suddenness, Mo Xi can't use it as a conventional weapon.

Mo Xi poked his back and felt the pressure from Duncan behind him. Mo Xi slammed his buttocks, and then took advantage of Duncan's bending over, quickly turned around, and walked outside to the bottom line.

Mo Xi played a space to borrow and forcibly opened a small step away from Duncan, which is the best defensive distance for defenders, but for Mo Xi and Duncan, this small step is fatally tight.

Duncan embellished with Mo Xi, but he couldn't catch up after three steps, and at this moment, Mo Xi suddenly stopped.

Duncan hurriedly moved his body, and Mo Xi made a sudden stop in this position, it would never be a pull-up jump shot, he was going to turn around!

Sure enough, Mo Xi turned around, he turned out, and turned in the direction of the basket, Duncan predicted accurately, and directly blocked Mo Xi's offensive line.

But Mo Xi's movements did not stop, Mo Xi's shoulders were pushed forward, and his right hand was pulled again, drawing a big circle behind him, and it was a big hook.

At this time, Duncan suddenly realized that Mo Xi had changed his offensive strategy.

Mo Xi and Duncan are inseparable in terms of technique and even body and even consciousness, but among the skills of the center, there is one thing that is specially designed for this situation, and that is the hook.

Everyone knows that the hook is good, but there are still few people in the entire league who can really use it as a conventional weapon, even among the four major centers, only O'Neal and Ewing's hook is historical, Olajuwon's can only be regarded as excellent, his best way to score is the backward jumper, as for David Robinson, the number of his hooks is like the number of 23 passes.

It is always said that Mo Xi inherited the inheritance of the beasts of the east, and there is a hook in it.

Duncan is also a good hooker, but it is not as good as Mo Xi, his hand is soft, and his movements are also very stretched, but under the influence of various factors, Duncan is not very keen on hooking, but this time in the face of Mo Xi's hook challenge, this makes the old Deng Tou can't help but feel a little hot in his heart.

This is the real classic basketball matchup, and the two big men began to fight it off with hook hands on the inside.

Compared with the two, Duncan's hook hand is indeed slightly inferior, but fortunately, Mo Xi's defensive ability is not as strong as Duncan, and Duncan does not seem to be left behind, but Duncan himself knows in his heart that this is only temporary, and Mo Xi's hook is too good.

Mo Xi is the same as Duncan, all the offensive skills on the inside line are perfect, and no one has ever thought carefully about which skill Mo Xi is his strongest one, but now, Duncan has found it.

Hook hands, especially big hook hands, is the killer feature of Mo Xi in the true sense.

In the five-minute exchange between the two, Mo Xi used the hook hand to shoot six of the eight shots, and cut points on Duncan's head one after another, and Duncan used the hook hand, only four shots and two hits, fortunately, all the spirit of Mo Xi was focused on the hook hand, but Duncan used various skills and strategies to make the Spurs successfully overtake in the second quarter.

After halftime, the Spurs led the Knicks by one point at 47:46.

But obviously, at this time, people are still immersed in the unpredictable hook hand of Mo Xi just now.