"Meng, how is your physical strength?" After the official timeout in the fourth quarter, Meng Xu on the bench wiped the sweat on his forehead with a towel, and Popovich stood in front of Meng Xu and asked with concern.

"Coach, I'm fine, no problem at all." Meng Xu only rested for less than 3 minutes in this game, if nothing else, Meng Xu will still play in the remaining games, which is a huge test of Meng Xu's physical strength, you must know that Popovich In order to protect Meng Xu, Meng Xu has not played such a long game this season.

Although he already felt very tired, especially in the last few minutes just now, he had to attack, defend Kobe, and help defend O'Neal by the way, but Meng Xu still wanted to persevere.

"It's fine. Meng, you played very well in this game, and I hope you can play more aggressively in the next game. Popovich patted Meng Xu on the shoulder, took out the tactical board sandwiched under the other arm, and began to arrange tactical tasks.

For Popovich, the current Spurs can trust the players, that is, Duncan and David Robinson, Johnson and Meng Xu are barely half, in this situation, David Robinson is absent, Duncan is troubled by fouls and cannot play, Johnson is possessed, and now he can only rely on Meng Xu's play, hoping that Meng Xu can open up the situation for the Spurs on the offensive end.

Just when the Spurs were arranging the next tactics, Phil Jackson on the opposite side was not idle, but the team's boss O'Neal now has a black face, and he seems to be very dissatisfied with Phil Jackson's arrangement.

In the last two rounds before the official pause, O'Neal will be caught by the Spurs' two interior lines as long as he holds the ball, Jaren Jackson and Marry Cross, if it is just these two small shrimps, O'Neal still doesn't care about it, but the Spurs' No. 5 is not so easy to deal with, this thin guy will always appear behind him very appropriately and punctually when he wants to shoot, and two consecutive back blocks make O'Neal lose face. After getting off the court, O'Neal was also angry at his teammates, thinking that their containment and threat on the outside were not enough, especially Kobe Bryant, who was opposite Meng Xu, was beaten down by O'Neal, although he was dissatisfied, Kobe Bryant could only choose to swallow his anger.

"I've already got a vacancy, you don't pass the ball, and you're embarrassed to talk about me." Of course, this is just Kobe's thoughts, and now O'Neal is still angry, and he doesn't dare to say it.

After reassuring O'Neal, Phil Jackson began to lay out the next tactics, and O'Neal would be off for a few minutes before coming on at the last minute. In the next few minutes, the Lakers will present a new tactic that they developed at the end of the regular season, the run-and-shoot. To say that Phil Jackson's assistant coach Jim Clemens is really a bull fork figure, from the Bulls to the Lakers, Phil Jackson's team tactical training is handed over to Jim Clemens to complete, this guy is not only good at triangle offense, but also has a good study of running and shooting, inside-out, these tactics that have appeared in the league as long as they have appeared. Originally, the Lakers practiced running and bombing, firstly, to prepare for O'Neal after he got off the court, and also to use it as a killer feature, but in the first round of the playoffs, the Suns, who played the authentic running bomb, were made so miserable by the Spurs that the Lakers were embarrassed to use the running bomb to beat the Spurs. However, now that the two interior pillars of the Spurs are gone, and O'Neal also needs to rest, Phil Jackson also has the intention of trying it, and sacrificed the run-and-gun tactics with Kobe and Glen Rice as the core, and Ron Haber, who is older and can't run, was also replaced by Fisher.

After the game restarted, Duncan did not play and was still resting on the sidelines, and it seemed that Popovich and Phil Jackson were playing the same idea.

"The two teams played really fiercely in this game, the Spurs interrupted the Lakers' triangle attack, and the Lakers also suppressed the Spurs' inside-out, but so far, neither team has been able to pull away the score."

"The Lakers' outside players in this game, except for Kobe, were very disappointing." The game has begun, but the on-court commentator Kenny Smith and his partner are still chattering about the whole game.

When the players of the two teams came back on the court, the pace of the game on the field also increased suddenly, and after losing their interior pillars and big men respectively, the defensive intensity of the two teams also dropped by more than a notch.

"Kobe Bryant wanted to get rid of Meng's defense, but he couldn't find a chance. Beautiful shooting, after Kobe Bryant and Robert Holly blocked and shot, shot directly near the free throw line, and the Lakers equalized the score. ”

"Beautiful passing, Mario Elie got rid of Kobe's defense, Meng Xu jumped in front of Glen Les and passed, Mario Elie received the ball and shot, and hit three points."

"Fisher dribbled, Avery Johnson stepped forward to press, Fisher passed, not good, Fisher made a mistake, Fisher's pass to Kobe Bryant The ball was cut off by Meng Xu."

"Is this kid going to dunk again?" Since the second half of this season, more and more Meng Xu has appeared in the top ten balls every week, one after another with difficult dunks, so that some good people say that it is a pity that Meng Xu did not participate in this season's slam dunk contest and compete with Carter.

After stealing Fisher from near the three-point line, Meng Xu directly accelerated to the Lakers' half, but at this moment, Meng Xu did not have the urge to dunk, dunking is too wasteful of physical strength, with Meng Xu's physical strength and current situation, it is undoubtedly self-inflicted to dunk with physical strength.

Soon Meng Xu crossed the middle line, and Fisher, who lost the ball, chased all the way back, but the speed was too different from Meng Xu.

"Meng, be steady, be steady." Mike Budenholzer on the sidelines yelled at the court with excitement on his face, if Meng Xu scored this goal and had a 5-point advantage, the balance of victory would be tilted in favor of the Spurs.

"One more free-throw line dunk." The reporters on the sidelines couldn't wait to raise their cameras, ready to record this historic moment, in the first round of the playoffs between the Suns and the Spurs, Meng Xu's free-throw line dunk undoubtedly shocked many people, Meng Xu's dunk was far ahead in the NBA's official website of the top ten balls of the season, and the reporters and fans who missed the scene all beat their chests, shocked by Meng Xu's physical fitness, and also hoped that Meng Xu could stage a free throw line jumping dunk again, and now is undoubtedly a very good opportunity.

It's just that this time Meng Xu didn't let those good reporters get their wish, when Meng Xu dribbled to a step outside the 3-point line, Meng Xu jumped up with a ghost, and his body seemed to be completely out of his control, until Meng Xu hit the 3-point landing, Meng Xu still felt that his brain was blank.