Meng Xu and Duncan's 'anser-ball' ran through the first half of the third quarter, the two of them fought more and more, and the audience at the scene was also fascinated, cheers and applause wave after wave, this duel was forced to stop until the official pause.

"After the timeout, let's go on the small lineup, Manu, you replace Mike, Robert, you replace Tim." As soon as the players on the field came off the court, Popovich couldn't wait to make changes to the Spurs' next lineup.

"Tony, you have to be decisive, understand? Breakthrough, breakthrough understand? Don't always go around outside, OK! After arranging the next lineup and tactical arrangements, Popovich pulled Tony Parker to scold his face, as for Tim Duncan, who was already sitting on the bench, Popovich didn't bother to pay attention to him, of course, Popovich couldn't scold Duncan like he scolded Parker.

"Meng, do you have a problem with your physical strength?" is completely different from the atmosphere on the Spurs bench, after several players on the field got off the court, the first thing Rick Carlisle said was to ask Meng Xu's physical condition, after all, in the half-quarter game just now, Meng Xu alone shot as many as 9 times, and most of the shots were under the opponent's bag, so Rick Carlisle must understand Meng Xu's physical condition before arranging the next lineup and tactical arrangement.

"I'm okay, nothing serious." Taking the towel handed over by Rick Carlisle, Meng Xu wiped the sweat on his head while panting, in this half of the game just now, Meng Xu's physical exertion is still very large, but Meng Xu's physical recovery speed is also very fast, sit on the bench for a few minutes, take a walk after playing, cross your waist for a while, and recover more than half of the physical strength consumed, so Meng Xu never has to worry about his physical strength, and the reasonable distribution of physical energy or something does not exist in the face of Chamberlain's infinite energy.

"Well, that's good." After hearing Meng Xu say that his physical fitness was fine, Rick Carlisle swallowed back what he wanted to say, Meng Xu didn't want to rest, and there was nothing he could do, but fortunately, the Pacers are still 2 points ahead of the Spurs, so let Meng Xu be in the waves for a while.

"What's going on?" After the game restarted, Meng Xu discovered a very strange thing, Tim Duncan actually sat on the sidelines to rest? What is this operation? It's not time to get on the bench now, and with Meng Xu's understanding of Duncan, Duncan won't have physical problems now.

"That's for sure." Turning his head to look at the Spurs' bench and looking at Popovich standing on the sidelines, Meng Xu can guess a rough idea, Meng Xu has played under Popovich for two years, and he still knows Popovich well, what Popovich hates the most is that a certain player gets a high score on the court, when Meng Xu is still playing at the Spurs, many times he almost scores 30 points, but he was pressed to the bench by Popovich after a pause, even Duncan is no exception, with Duncan's scoring ability, Meng Xu believes that as long as Duncan is willing, it is still very easy to score 30 points in a game, but in the Spurs, under Popovich, Duncan has scored 30 points in a season, unless it is a very important and very anxious game, otherwise Duncan doesn't even think about it, and in the first half of the game, Duncan made as many as 10 shots, 7 of 10, 3 of 4 free throws, and cut 17 points.

With a schadenfreude mentality, Meng Xu rushed to Duncan, who was sitting motionless on the bench with a towel on his head, and kept squeezing his eyebrows, look, let's sit on the cold bench again.

"You bastard, play your game well." Watching Meng Xu squeeze his eyebrows at Duncan while walking, Popovich, who was not far from Meng Xu, finally couldn't stand it anymore, and scolded Meng Xu for a while, and Steve Cole, who was standing next to Popovich, immediately hugged him after seeing Popovich pointing at Meng Xu and scolding, and at the same time slandered in his heart, you are going to eat a technical foul if you do this!

"Hahahaha." Looking at Popovich's angry appearance, Meng Xu suddenly felt very happy, but Meng Xu also gave Popovich face, and after Popovich yelled at him, Meng Xu sped up and ran towards the front.

After Meng Xu arrived in the front court, Tony Allen still handed over the basketball to Meng Xu as usual, but this time Meng Xu did not choose to play alone, but after attracting Manu Ginobili and Bruce Bowen's bag, he passed the basketball to Tyshawn Prince, who had not touched a basketball for an unknown amount of time, was stunned when he received Meng Xu's pass, and then shot steadily.

Tyshawn Prince hit a three-point shot, and Rick Carlisle, who was still sitting on the bench, immediately stood up and applauded Tyshawn Prince, of course, this applause was also given to Meng Xu, who assisted Tyshawn Prince.

"Greg, what are we going to do? Why don't you call a timeout and change your defensive strategy? The Spurs replaced Duncan, and Meng Xu on the opposite side did not play recklessly, but passed the ball as soon as he encountered the bag, and the evil thing was that Meng Xu could pass the basketball to the teammate in the empty position every time, so Steve Kerr, the assistant coach who commanded on the sidelines, began to ask for the opinion of head coach Popovich, and at the same time turned his head to look at Tim Duncan who was sitting on the bench behind him.

"Not yet." Popovich with his hands on his chest directly rejected Steve Kerr's suggestion, the reason why Popovich put Duncan on the bench was to let Duncan sit down calmly and calmly, to teach him a lesson, and secondly, to practice the new tactics, the current Spurs are no longer the Spurs of the previous two seasons, after the baptism of the finals last season, whether it is Tony Parker or Manu Ginobili is enough to be alone, Therefore, it is already an urgent matter to transform the Spurs from a single-core team to a multi-core team, and the lesson of Meng Xu's departure is vivid, so Popovich naturally does not want the players he has worked so hard to cultivate to leave like Meng Xu again.

"Tony is doing very well." After Popovich rejected his suggestion, Steve Kerr shifted the conversation to Tony Parker, and after Duncan went down, Tony Parker replaced Duncan's position and became the offensive core of the Spurs.

"Well, it looks like we're going to be able to give Tim more rest in the future." It's clear that Popovich is happy with Tony Parker's performance on the court, and as long as he can keep it up, then Tim Duncan won't have to be both a dad and a mom like he did in previous seasons.