The first game of the Western Conference semifinals between the Spurs and the Warriors, the Warriors brought a big surprise to the Spurs, when a new tactic appears, it will be difficult for any team to adapt in a short period of time, and this is the case with the Spurs now, although the Spurs have a very rich experience in dealing with small-ball tactical teams, but the Warriors are using today is a small-ball tactic that is different from the past, compared with the traditional run-and-bomb team pursuit of speed, the Warriors pay more attention to passing and running, especially in the control of details, The current Warriors far surpass the previous teams.

"Greg, the tactics the Warriors are using now is completely different from what they used before." As the assistant coach of the Spurs, Brett Brown also found the difference in this Warriors team after the Warriors' first offense, and the Warriors' change in tactics means that the Spurs' coaching staff, in the previous targeted research and arrangement of the Warriors, are all invalid, so Brett Brown wants to ask head coach Popovich for advice.

"It looks like we're not going to be very good in this series." Although all the Spurs' preparations before the game are now in vain, before the game started, Popovich was fully mentally prepared for the difficulty of this round of the series, so for the current situation on the court, Popovich is not panicked at all, the time of a game is not short, the opening rounds can change the trend of the game, but it cannot determine the final result of the game, and Popovich also wants to see if the Warriors can always play this exquisite cooperation just now.

And at this time on the court, the players of the Warriors, after the almost perfect end of the first offense, did not have any stay in the front court, and directly returned to the defense at a very fast speed, for many teams that play small-ball tactics, defense is always a hurdle that they can't bypass, in order to meet the requirements of speed, the center of the small-ball tactical team, the movement speed must not be slow, and the extreme also requires the center to be able to counterattack and break fast, so those traditional big centers that move slowly, They will never be able to adapt to small-ball tactics, because they can't be fast at all, and correspondingly, small-ball teams without interior barriers also have natural loopholes on the defensive end, and they are also the kind of loopholes that cannot be repaired, which is the bug that belongs to all small-ball teams.

Don't look at the Warriors in the offense just now, hit the Spurs by surprise, but for the Warriors, the real test has just begun, if you want to win in the playoffs, you can't just play beautifully on offense can solve all problems, although with the change of rules, those iron-blooded and suffocating defenses have become more and more useless to survive, but defense to win the championship will never be outdated, the so-called defense, in fact, is the control and grasp of details, This is also the biggest difference between a playoff team and a regular season team, the more detail-oriented the team, the easier it is to win the game, and those teams that play casually and not very detail-oriented, even if they can get a good record in the regular season, they can't go far in the playoffs.

The Warriors players who quickly retreated to the backcourt obviously learned the experience of the last defense, Andrew Bogut directly defended Duncan after Duncan arrived in the frontcourt, and Harrison Barnes did not wait for Meng Xu to receive the ball before taking defense, but after Meng Xu arrived near the three-point line, he directly pasted it, and it was obvious that in the case of obvious losses on the defensive end, the Warriors put the focus of defense on preventing the Spurs players from receiving the ball.

As a team that is on the bottom line, the Warriors naturally have their own extraordinary, and the traditional small-ball team that only focuses on offense and ignores defense, the Warriors under the coaching of Mark Jackson have begun to shift more and more towards offensive and defensive balance, and the old Nelson period scored more points, conceded more points, and often conceded more than 110 points per game compared with Mark Jackson after taking the helm of the Warriors, the Warriors have conceded an average of points per game this season when the offense is still sharp, It was unprecedentedly controlled below 100 points, although the Warriors' defense could never reach the level of the Spurs because of the lack of interior barriers, but the defensive enthusiasm of the Warriors players was not bad compared with the Spurs.

As a team that is often defeated, the Spurs also have their own irreparable shortcomings, although the addition of Meng Xu has directly improved the Spurs' key ball handling ability to a level, but the aging of the team's main lineup is still a hurdle that the Spurs can never overcome.

So since the second half of this season, Popovich has adjusted the tactics and playing style of the Spurs, intentionally or unintentionally, and the biggest change is the passing, according to Popovich's current requirements, no matter who it is, it is not allowed to hold the ball for more than two seconds, either to complete the attack within two seconds, or to complete the pass within two seconds, because this is undoubtedly more energy-saving than breaking through with the ball and constantly running to cut, and continuous passing can also play a role in tearing apart the opponent's defense. Even at the end of the regular season, Popovich almost perverted all Spurs players who couldn't shoot without completing more than ten passes in an offense.

Tony Parker, who dribbled through the center circle, began to speed up his dribbling speed after encountering Stephen Curry's defense, and made a posture to break through with the ball, but when Tony Parker was about to dribble to the top of the arc, he passed the basketball to Meng Xu, who had started on the right side of the three-point line.

Meng Xu, who received Parker's pass, began to accelerate along the three-point line, and after getting rid of Harrison Barnes's half position, Meng Xu looked at Tony Parker, but hung the basketball to Tim Duncan under the basket, and Tim Duncan, who received Meng Xu's pass, turned slightly halfway, and passed the basketball again after touching the basketball for a maximum of one second.

"Oh God, this pass from the Spurs, I'm getting wet when I see it." All the Spurs players on the court, in the case of almost no movement, passed through six extremely fast passes, and finally after Burrece Dior hit an empty three-pointer, Charles Barkley on the sideline commentary bench stood up from his seat excitedly, the Spurs' passing and receiving cooperation in this round just now is too tacit, from Parker's pass to Meng Xu, to Burreth Dior's shooting, six passes, it takes no more than 7 seconds, this tacit understanding to almost weird cooperation, Let Charles Barkley watch fascinated.

"Haha, Charles, are we going to call you Charles-Wet in the future?" Reggie Miller, who has always liked to quarrel with Barkley, immediately seized the opportunity after hearing Barkley's train-like emotion and gave Barkley another nickname.

"The Warriors and the Spurs are showing an unprecedented style of play now, whether it is the Warriors' extremely complex coordination and the whole team revolves around Stephen Curry's tactics, or the Spurs' passing tactics, in essence, it is a very team-oriented tactic." Compared with the excited Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith is still a little calm, but Kenny Smith still agrees with Barkley's words, and the Spurs' cooperation just now is really beautiful, which cannot be described as smooth.

"Can you still play basketball like this?"

The tactical coordination of the Spurs has really refreshed everyone's cognition, this kind of tactic in which all players almost stand still, but use the pass to tear apart the opponent's defense, which has indeed never appeared before, so the reporters in the press box on the sidelines are now all with unbelievable expressions.

"An old fox is an old fox!" Mark Jackson, who thought he had succeeded, instantly got a big head after watching the Spurs' offensive cooperation, the Warriors had reservations in the first round of the series, and now it seems that the Spurs are obviously reserved, although the Warriors' elevator door tactics caught the Spurs off guard, but Mark Jackson knows that as long as Popovich is given enough time, he will definitely find a strategy to crack, but the tactics that the Spurs are using now, Mark Jackson will never find a strategy to crack in a short period of time.

Standing still and passing the basketball around, it seems to be an extremely simple and brainless tactic, but the premise of completing this tactic is that several players on the court need to have an extraordinary tacit understanding, just like Meng Xu just watched Parker pass the basketball to Duncan accurately, this is definitely not something that can be done overnight, and this tactic of the Spurs is definitely the nemesis of most teams' defensive system at present, because in today's prevalent joint defense, mark-to-ball defense has replaced mark-to-man defense and has become the mainstream. So Mark Jackson can now predict that the Spurs' offensive tactics will definitely make those teams that focus on the ball suffer, and how other teams deal with the Spurs' tactics, Mark Jackson can't take care of it, and what he urgently needs to solve now is how the Warriors deal with the Spurs' tactics.

Although Mark Jackson on the sidelines always frowned after the Spurs' offense was completed, racking his brains in his mind to think about how to crack it, but the Warriors players on the court didn't care about it, just regarded it as an ordinary defensive failure, and then quickly sent out the baseline ball and advanced towards the frontcourt, after all, what is the level of their defense They also know in their own hearts that it is normal for them to not be able to prevent the opponent's offense.

After reaching the frontcourt with the ball, Stephen Curry did the same, and after completing the block with Andrew Bogut, he handed the basketball to Draymond Green, who ran to the free throw line to respond, and he continued to run according to the running position of the elevator door tactics with the players who defended him, but this time, Curry found that the Spurs' defense also changed, and Cowhi Leonard, who had been following him in the last defense, When Curry was close to the paint zone, he switched guards with Tim Duncan, and Tim Duncan went to greet Stephen Curry.

After Kawhi Leonard switched to Andrew Bogut, even if Curry continued to pass through the gap between Andrew Bogut and Draymond Green according to his previous run, Curry would not get an open shot, so when Kawhi Leonard and Tim Duncan switched guards, Stephen Curry decisively reached out to Harrison Barnes, who was already holding the ball near the top of the arc, to ask for the ball.

Stephen Curry, who is 1.91 meters tall and weighs only 190 pounds, does not have an advantage in the face of most guards, but when facing a big guy like Tim Duncan, Stephen Curry's shortcomings are strengths and advantages, and the misplaced offense is the easiest means to score in addition to empty shots.

After receiving a pass from Harrison Barnes smoothly, Curry was like a dancer, in front of Tim Duncan, slapping the basketball very lightly and completing the turn, and then hunched over Tim Duncan's side, and after the next two steps, the basketball in Curry's hand was thrown into the net.

"Tim is turning too slowly right now." After watching Stephen Curry misplace and single Tim Duncan, Kenny Smith on the commentary bench could only shake his head helplessly, if it were Duncan five or six years ago, Curry's breakthrough just now would have been nailed to the board by Duncan's big hat, but there is no way, Tim Duncan is now 37 years old, and his movement speed has long been unable to keep up.

"The Spurs' defensive rotation just now is actually quite successful, but now Tim Duncan is no longer the omnipotent Tim of the past." After Kenny Smith, Mr. Charles Wet also sighed with regret, thinking that Tim Duncan alone could seal the Spurs' basket airtightly, and now, hey, the face is easy to age, and the hero is twilight!

"As long as Stephen is around, we have hope!" Unlike Kenny Smith's exclamation, Mark Jackson, who has been standing on the sidelines, clenched his fists and showed a relaxed smile on his face after seeing Stephen Curry's single Duncan, Curry's every score is a kind of enjoyment for Mark Jackson, and Mark Jackson also believes that as long as Curry is there, his team can get through all difficulties, cross all opponents, and he can win everything.

Mark Jackson has a lot of faith in Stephen Curry, and Stephen Curry, who was successful in singleing Tim Duncan on the court, is also high in confidence, and the Wake Forest duo is an idol for a whole generation and a role model to surpass.