"Donald is really bold, do you plan to defend Meng Xu like this in normal games?"

In Game 5 of the series between the Spurs and the Mavericks, from the second half of the second quarter between the two sides, the Mavericks began to cover and assist in the whole process of Duncan, the core of the Spurs. As for Meng Xu, another core player of the Spurs, it is a symbolic defense throughout the whole process, but as soon as Meng Xu's hand improves, the old Nelson will immediately call a timeout to interrupt it, so although the Mavericks' defensive intensity against Meng Xu has not been large, Meng Xu's hand feeling is generally tepid. So when the third quarter ended, the Mavericks still led the Spurs by five points on the road.

"Now it looks like you're a little bit better than that kid from the Lakers, and you can still control your offensive desire in this situation." When the third quarter of the game was over, after handing over the task of arranging tactics to his assistant coach, Nelson Sr. sat on the bench with a smile all the time, thinking about the situation on the court.

In the previous game, in the face of Nash's careless defense, Meng Xu impulsively made a few consecutive shots outside the 3-point line, and felt that the Mavericks' defense of himself might be a trap, because today's Mavericks are completely different from the Mavericks in the previous games, the Spurs are now completely unable to limit their offense, and Nowitzki's current scoring efficiency is too high. After all, he is an outside player, and under normal circumstances, if he competes with a super inside player for the hit rate, he is definitely looking for death. So after the two timeouts of the old Nelson, although Popovich didn't say anything, Meng Xu still calmed down, and this kind of continuous offense consumes a lot of physical strength, after all, no matter how against the sky your physical strength, you can't take the opportunity to shoot the whole game. Therefore, Meng Xu began to take the initiative to change his offensive choices after shooting more than 10 times, but after the end of the third quarter, Meng Xu still shot 11 of 22, 7 of 16 3-pointers, and 3 of 5 free throws, scoring 32 points.

However, unlike what the old Nelson expected, Meng Xu's shots are still a little too few, as long as they have watched the classic battle between the Spurs and the Lakers between Meng Xu and Kobe Bryant, most people will agree with the view that Meng Xu and Kobe are the same kind of people in their bones. But under the deliberate indulgence of old Nelson, Meng Xu and Kobe's performance was different, in the last meeting between the Mavericks and the Lakers in the regular season this season, the Mavericks' strategy against the Lakers was to wrap O'Neal and let Kobe Bryant go, and in that game Kobe also completed the 5th 50+ in a single season, but in that game, Kobe Bryant scored 52 points, but he shot 41 times, more than half of all the Lakers' shots, so the Lakers also unexpectedly lost to the Mavericks in that game, And in this game, the old Nelson wanted to repeat the old tricks on Meng Xu, originally in the old Nelson's expectations, in the 3rd quarter of the game, Meng Xu had to shoot about 30 times, and then score 40 points, but after the end of the 3rd quarter of the game, Meng Xu's shots were almost 10 times worse than the old Nelson's expectations. Therefore, in the old Nelson's opinion, Meng Xu is a little calmer than Kobe, and knows how to control his offensive desire.

"It seems that this great gift I have prepared for you will still come in handy." Looking at the difference between the two teams on the scoreboard, and at the same time glancing at the back of the Spurs No. 5 in the distance, the corners of Nelson's mouth raised a strange smile.

When the Spurs and Mavericks bench lineup played on the court for 6 minutes, the main lineup of the two teams returned to the court, relying on the excellent play of Reeve Lafrentz and Derrick Anderson, the Spurs' bench lineup helped the Spurs chase the score to only 1 point in the 6 minutes, the score of the two teams is now 88-89, but this score, whether it is for the Spurs or the Mavericks, is acceptable.

"Won't you continue to let me go?" After the game restarted, when Meng Xu stood at the top of the arc with the ball, this time it became Edondo Nahura who defended Meng Xu, and looking at Edondo Nahula's situation, in the last few minutes, the Mavericks did not plan to continue to release Meng Xu.

"Boy, you won't be arrogant for long." After hearing Meng Xu speak, Edondo Nahura said with a disdainful expression while putting his hands on Meng Xu's waist.

"Sample, even if you rely on you, you dare to speak out." After hearing Edondo Nahula's sarcasm, Meng Xu immediately wanted to give him some color, and after carrying Edondo Nahura with his arm, Meng Xu directly moved a step sideways to the left side of his body.

Just after Meng Xu started, the referee behind him blew the whistle, and Meng Xu looked at the referee and Edondo Nahura with a forced face, is it because he pushed Edondo Nahura, did the referee whistle on himself? However, when he saw the referee signaling Edondo Nahura to foul the defense, Meng Xu was also relieved, but when he saw Edondo Nahura's indifferent look, Meng Xu felt uneasy in his heart.

Meng Xu made two free throws to help the Spurs equalize, but Meng Xu didn't have the slightest joy at the moment, because when he retreated past the Mavericks bench, he found that the head coach of the Mavericks, Old Nelson, was smiling at him, and the smile on his seemingly kind face made Meng Xu feel creepy, the famous name of the old Nelson, Meng Xu still knows, this is a head coach who likes to disgust others and disgust himself at the same time, looking at the smile of the old Nelson, Meng Xu guessed in his heart, Is this old guy trying to find a way to disgust himself?

And the next attack quickly proved Meng Xu's guess, when Nowitzki helped the Mavericks overtake the score again through a mid-range shot, Meng Xu just held the ball through the center circle, and Edondo Nahura, who defended himself, directly fouled Meng Xu.

After being fouled by Edondo Nahura again, Meng Xu was directly stunned, although his 3-point shooting rate has always been one of the best players in the league, but Meng Xu's free throws have always been a short board, in the Spurs' team, Meng Xu's free throw shooting rate is worse than Duncan's, so when the Mavericks directly fouled Meng Xu and sent Meng Xu to the free throw line, Meng Xu suddenly felt the malice from old Nelson.

Chopping tactics from ancient times, is a sharp weapon against those players who do not shoot free throws, in the hands of the cardinal this tactic once became Chamberlain's nightmare, and as a disciple of the protagonist in red, the old Nelson put his master invented this tactic, and made further improvements, now called "slashing shark tactics", and as the disciple of the old Nelson's disciple, Popovich is also very skilled in this tactic, but when one day this tactic is used against the players under Popovich, I don't know how Popovich feels at the moment.

"Meng Xu's expression now is really interesting." After seeing Meng Xu miss the first free throw, Magic Johnson was also amused, the shark cutting tactic was mostly used to deal with O'Neal in the past, but I didn't expect it to be used by the old Nelson to deal with Meng Xu today.

"Meng's free throws are so bad, it's really hard to imagine that a top shooter like Xiang Meng can make free throws worse than a center." When Meng Xu's second free throw turned around on the basket and fell into the basket, Michaels also shook his head, really can't imagine a player with the top 3-point ability, the free throw will be so bad, you must know that in addition to Meng Xu, whether it is a top shooter like Reggie Miller or Ray Allen in this league, their free throw shooting rate is not lower than 85%, and their free throw shooting rate has exceeded 90% most of the seasons, and Meng Xu is obviously a special existence of the wonder.

However, this is just the beginning, in the next game, as long as Meng Xu holds the ball through the half, Edondo Nahura will foul Meng Xu, until Edondo Nahura came off the court because of the accumulation of 6 fouls, Meng Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief, but after Edondo Nahura went down, the old Nelson sent Greg Buckner to continue to foul Meng Xu, and finally in this continuous foul, the unbearable Popovich called a timeout, in the first 3 minutes of the game, Meng Xu had as many as 16 free throws, but only less than half of them were hit, and the Mavericks took the opportunity to stretch the score to five points again, and after a timeout, Popovich replaced Meng Xu with Jaren Jackson. And when Meng Xu was on the field, he looked at old Nelson looking at him with a smile on his face, and for the first time felt how much this seemingly kind guy was.

"Donald is so crazy that he can think of using the shark cutting tactics on Meng Xu, maybe no matter whether the Mavericks can turn the tables in this round of games, the Spurs will become more difficult in the following games." Just like some teams that meet the Lakers, as long as they reach the last moment of the game, they will foul O'Neal, and the current Spurs have also exposed this weakness, if the Spurs eliminate the Mavericks and the Lakers will meet in the West, and after the game between the two teams is in the final moments, there will be a situation where the Lakers cut Meng Xu and the Spurs cut O'Neal, it will be really funny.

In response to the old Nelson's hacking of Meng Xu, Popovich also began to cut Sean Bradley after the timeout, and the free throws of the big bamboo pole are the worst among the main players of the Mavericks at present, and it is also very unstable, so Sean Bradley also experienced the feeling of being treated as O'Neal today. Because of the reason why the two teams cut each other, this game has not been coherent since the official pause in the 4th quarter, and this kind of strange game of you cut me and I cut you also made all the spectators stunned.

"I'm now kind of looking forward to the Spurs quickly knocking out the Mavericks and the Lakers in the Western Conference finals." Magic Johnson has always been very disgusted with the special tactic of "cutting sharks", but when today's game saw that the two best coaches in the league who used the "shark cutting tactics" were slashing each other, Magic Johnson felt very happy, and in the heart of the magician, he even thought very darkly that it would be good if Popovich and Nelson Sr. could continue to cut each other like this.

"It's a crazy must-play." At the end of this game, Meng Xu did not continue to play, and was cut beyond recognition by the Spurs when he lost the Mavericks who lost the target of the slash, and in the last 2 minutes of the game, Duncan, who did not play much on the offensive end of the game, directly took over the game, relying on Duncan's 8 points in a row at the last moment, the Spurs defeated the Mavericks 108-104, thus eliminating the Mavericks with a score of 4-1 and entering the Western Conference Finals. And when he took the technical statistics of the whole game and watched the two teams make more than 80 free throws combined, Michaels was also a little speechless.

And after this game, Meng Xu was also left by Popovich, when to finish the 1,000 penalty shots, and when to go back to sleep. And Meng Xu was also wailing on his lips and cursing in his heart, after the 1,000 free throws, he didn't drag his tired body back to his apartment until 3 o'clock in the morning.

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"I've watched this game, and you know we've made it to the Western Conference Finals early, so we need to be eager to know who our next opponent is. For the Spurs and Mavericks in this game, I think this is the most interesting game I have ever seen in my life, I think Meng Xu should be able to deeply understand what they did to me last season, and in the next game, we will definitely let that kid feel it again. For a long time, as a direct victim of the "shark slashing tactic", O'Neal jumped out immediately after this game, gloating while complaining about the Spurs' evil deeds last season.

"Did you find a way to beat Spurs? We've always been confident that we can beat the Spurs, and you have to know that we're not the Spurs, and I'm not Popovich and Nelson Sr., so this kind of no-IQ tactic isn't going to be one of the Lakers' playlists, but I don't mind trying it out in the next games. After the Spurs eliminated the Mavericks, a reporter with good things immediately ran to interview the head coach of the Lakers, Phil Jackson, and when the reporter asked if he would cut Meng Xu in the game with the Spurs, this guy was also very pretending, first saying that our noble Lakers disdain to use this kind of ugly and dirty tactics, but at the end of the talk, he said, if you want to see it, I don't mind giving it a try, so as to satisfy your curiosity.