Judging from the two teams as a sideline break, the Spurs' physical decline is still worse than that of the Rockets.

Popovich should not be a hard-nosed coach, and although the team is still ahead, he is not happy with the chaotic performance of his players for part of the first quarter.

"You guys summarize the performance of the first quarter yourself, and I'm adding after you finish speaking!" Popovich glanced at everyone and motioned for everyone to get started.

"My fault in the first quarter, I didn't control the overall rhythm well!" Parker, as the commander of the team, immediately took most of the responsibility on himself.

"I defended Harden and didn't completely limit him, but I still let him get a lot of points or assists!" After Parker finished speaking, Leonard also began to say that the first quarter was not done well.

The starting five tigers said some of their shortcomings in the first quarter one by one.

Popovich nodded, "You can improve after recognizing the shortcomings of the first quarter, what I said, not these, why were we pulled back the score smoothly by the Rockets in the middle of the first quarter, have you thought about it?" ”

"We walked into their rhythm!" Parker said.

"Then why did we get into their rhythm?" Popovich glanced at everyone and said solemnly.

After a pause, seeing that everyone didn't speak, Popovich continued: "Our rebounds are not well protected, this is one, and the other is that our players, after competing for rebounds, did not defend at the first time, giving the Rockets a lot of opportunities to break fast, and then, their rhythm was disrupted all of a sudden!" ”

Popovich hit the nail on the head to point out the Spurs' biggest shortcoming in the first quarter.

"We didn't protect the basket well!" Aldridge and Gasol said at the same time.

"The offensive performance of the two of you in the first quarter was still very good, but the position under the basket was not well stuck, giving the opponent Capela a lot of opportunities to grab rebounds." Popovich first praised the two, and then said what the two didn't do well.

When the offense is excited, it is easy to appear less active when defending.

"In the second quarter, you rest first, Ginobili, you take the substitutes to play first!" When all was said and done, Popovich looked at Ginobili and said.

"No problem, Coach!" Ginobili touched his bare head and nodded.

The starters can hold on to this time to cool down and then seize the time to recover.

The strength of the Spurs' bench is definitely not weak, not to mention Manu, there are also powerful players such as Guy and Murray, the bench strength on paper is not weaker than that of the Rockets, plus Ginobili is in charge, at any time, it may play a beautiful outburst.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Popovich kept Aldridge on the court, and the other four were all substitutes.

As for the Rockets' side, De Shuai has already made arrangements, and he is even more bold than Popovich, and he directly came with a wave of five up and five down.

So far this season, De Shuai has used the form of five up and five down several times, which is enough to prove his trust in his group of substitute disciples.

"The coaches of both teams are very bold, usually the substitutes are two or two like this, you, one of them is on four, and one is directly on all, just like I'm playing a 2K game!" Barkley laughed.

"Both teams have enough trust in their substitute players, which has the advantage of greatly avoiding unnecessary injuries caused by fatigue of the main players!"

"But, no matter how you look at it, it's the Rockets' bench who has the upper hand now! Ginobili is old, Murray is too young! ”

"It's hard to say," Van Gundy Jr. shook his head and said his opinion, "Don't forget that last season there were also people who said that Ginobili was old, but what about the result?" Before the critical moment, he could stand up in time, as for Murray, you see, in the previous games of this season, didn't he still sit in the starting position! ”

While the two commentators were talking about their opinions, the game on the field began.

As soon as he got on the court, Murray showed the attitude that a young man should have, relying on speed and body, and directly passed Blake, looking like he was killing under the basket.

When he hit near the free throw line, he looked back at the moon for a while, and passed the ball back to Ginobili who was ambushed on the outside, and Ginobili directly tried to score three points.

Boom... It doesn't feel very hot in the hand, and the iron is struck.

Ginobili's three-point shooting this season is not very good, but no one dares to let him go easily, even if he doesn't score ten shots in the front, but, at critical times, he will still hit the nail on the head, which is his ability.

However, the Spurs' benches learned from the unfavorable situation of the main team's poor rebounding protection, and the two of them actively stuck in the basket and actively scrambled, and they won the rebounds in the crowd.

The ball was passed to Murray's hands on the outside again, slowed down the tempo, and began to pass the ball unhurriedly.

Eventually, after a few passes, the ball was in Ginobili's hands again.

Ginobili made an extremely realistic duffle, and Gordon made a small jump, then broke through with the ball in his left hand and cut inside.

If this had been put in the past, Ginobili had passed, and you wouldn't have thought about chasing him, but now Ginobili is still old, and his speed is slow, although he passed Gordon, but, after a few steps, he was still caught up by Gordon.

Ginobili is not a person who can be guarded down so easily, one crotch disguised during the march, and then one and a half turned, the speed does not look fast, but the rhythm is first-class.

When Gordon came up, he half-turned and immediately pulled back, and it turned into a frontal breakthrough again.

In the middle of this, he once again created an opportunity for himself.

No longer giving Gordon a chance to defend himself, Ginobili leaned over and came with a small hook to score the ball.

"Worthy of being a rhythm master, this kind of game is really one less game! I don't know if I'll be able to see Ginobili perform in the arena next year! Barkley sighed.

Generations of talented people come out, and a generation of new people replace the old!

Harden sat on the sidelines and watched Ginobili's shot, and he also smiled from the bottom of his heart.

As the most representative player of the sixth man, Ginobili was also Harden's idol at the beginning, and it is also a happy thing to see that his former idol can still play like he is now.

"Brother Deng, Ginobili's goal is more elegant than you!" Cheng Lei also complained about Harden.

When Cheng Lei first came into contact with the NBA, at that time, the Spurs were really strong, and Ginobili was also known as the demon knife, all kinds of goals, extremely elegant, at that time, Cheng Lei tried to learn Ginobili's skills, but found that he couldn't learn it at all!

Ginobili's goals have no pattern, he can shoot anywhere, in any position you can't think of, and then he can score the ball.

When he led Argentina to defeat the United States and win the championship by himself, he knew how strong Ginobili was.