On May 29, 2000, in the away team locker room of the Alamo Stadium, the head coach of the Trail Blazers, Mike Dunwilly, stood at the door with a solemn expression, making the final tactical arrangements, the importance of this game is self-evident, if you win, there is still a glimmer of hope, and if you lose, you can only make the final struggle in the Moda Center.

Obviously, this result is undoubtedly the last thing Mike Dunwilly wants to see, if he can choose, Mike Dunwilly naturally hopes that the Trail Blazers will eliminate the Spurs, enter the Finals and then win the championship, but obviously this idea is very unrealistic, but even so, Mike Dunveley also hopes that the Trail Blazers can hold on to the last game, and at the last moment, even if they lose, they will lose with dignity.

"I won't say much else, what we need now is a win, win, OK!" When Mike Dunwiley finished arranging his tactics, he was also in the locker room, shouting the slogan of victory.

It's just that although he shouted loudly in the locker room, when the door of the locker room opened, when he saw the first player coming out of the locker room of the Spurs opposite, Damon Stoudemier, who shouted the loudest just now, instantly coaxed, and even his calves began to shake uncontrollably.

When the Spurs' locker room opened, Meng Xu, who was the first to come out, was also a little stunned, it seemed that he came out a little early today, but Meng Xu still greeted the players of the Trail Blazers on the opposite side: "Mr. Little Squirrel, hello." ”

"Hmph." Ignoring Meng Xu at all and shaking his arm, Damon Stoudemire, as the first player to play on the Trail Blazers, walked into the players' tunnel and walked in the direction of the court, leaving only Meng Xu, who was still standing at the door, with an embarrassed face.

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In this game, the Trail Blazers' on-court lineup made a lot of changes, the most important point is that Detreve Schramf replaced Steve Smith into the starting lineup, and it seems that the Trail Blazers are going to play a three-inside lineup. And the rest of the positions have not changed, the center is still Avidas Sabonis, Rashid Wallace appeared in the small forward position, and Scotts Pippen's position on the court is a scoring guard, the point guard is still Damon Stoudemire, the Trail Blazers' lineup in this game is very interesting, except for the flying squirrel, the rest of the four, all over 2 meters tall, this change of the Trail Blazers will be an important test for the Spurs. ”

In order to limit Duncan's singles and Meng Xu's breakthrough to the greatest extent, Mike Dunwilly also came up with the three inside tactics ingeniously, such a non-mainstream tactic, but the three inside tactics strengthen the inside defense at the same time, the outside defense must be a very big hole, this game is also a very big test for Scottie Pippen and Damon Stoudemire's outside defense, you must know that the Spurs' outside four irons, now in addition to Avery Johnson, The remaining three all shot over 42 percent from three-point range in the playoffs, and the first game of the Trail Blazers and Spurs series was mainly a three-point rain loss to the Spurs.

When Michaels and Magic finished reading the starting lineup list of the two teams, the pre-game warm-up of the two teams had ended, and the main players had all entered the court.

Perhaps it was the effect of Duncan's prayers, and in this game Duncan beat Rasheed Wallace and easily won the first wave of possession for the Spurs.

After Avery Johnson dribbled the ball into the halfcourt, he looked at the three interior lines of the Trail Blazers who had been in place, and after making a block with Shaun Elliott and getting rid of Damon Studemier, who was defending himself, handed the basketball to Shaun Elliott down the edge of the paint area, but because the Trail Blazers placed three players near the paint area, plus Duncan, who was fighting for position with Avidas Sabonis under the basket, the basket is now very crowded. And now the ball with Sean Elliott is also very difficult to do, in the pre-game tactical arrangement, there is no need for Sean Elliott to hold the ball to attack, only need him to open up positions for Duncan in the left and right corners, create singles opportunities, and then he is waiting for the opportunity to find a vacancy.

Just after Shaun Elliott hesitated for a moment, Rashid Wallace had already appeared in front of him, and in desperation, Shaun Elliott had to pass the basketball back to Mario Elli, who was unguarded behind him.

After the start of this game, the defense of Duncan became a white center Detreve Schramf, because of the height and strength are more disadvantaged, so Detreve Schramf's main way to defend Duncan is to go around the front, while Avidas Sabonis sits on the other side of the basket, staring at Meng Xu who is trying to slip the bottom line while waiting for an opportunity to support Schramf, and the highly mobile Rasheed Wallace is cruising near the free throw line. This kind of defensive tactic is completely a copy of the Spurs, David Robinson and Duncan sit under the basket, Meng Xu swept almost all areas from the free throw line to below the 3-point line, but the slight difference is that the Trail Blazers' 3 interior lines are still a little behind the Spurs' players in terms of movement speed, so the range they can defend is far less than that of the Spurs.

The Trail Blazers' defensive rotation after the opening was still very good, Mario Elie just received the ball on the left side of the 3-point line, Pippen's defense was already in place, and after the Trail Blazers used a three-inside strategy, Pippen's defensive pressure was undoubtedly the largest among several players on the court.

Mario Elie turned sideways to protect the basketball in Pippen's hand, and at this time, Meng Xu had already circled from the left side of the court to the right side, and ran to the 45-degree angle on the right side of the 3-point line again.

Seeing that this attack had consumed 20 seconds, Mario Ely, who was suppressed by Pippen and did not have any chance to shoot, directly passed the ball horizontally to Meng Xu, who was unguarded in the distance.

After receiving the ball, Meng Xu did not hesitate, faced Rachid Wallace who rushed over, jumped up directly, and threw the first shot of the game on the right side of the 3-point line.

With the hollow ball thrown by Meng Xu into the net, the entire Alamo Stadium suddenly boiled.

"It's going to be difficult for the Trailblazers." Meng Xu's first-ball law, Magic Johnson also heard about it recently, although he scoffed at this kind of mysterious thing, but after carefully reading Meng Xu's technical statistics for each game, the magician also had to believe that this law seemed to really exist.