In the end, the finals between the Spurs and the Pacers also ended with the Spurs beating the Pacers, 90-78, the Spurs won their first home court, and made a good start in the best-of-seven games.

In this game, Reggie Miller, the leader of the Pacers, was trapped in a foul crisis and only played 25 minutes, shooting 5 of 9 from the field, 2 of 4 from 3-point range, and 8 of 9 from the free throw line, scoring 20 points, 3 rebounds, and 2 assists.

"Mr. Greg, congratulations on your team's victory." After the game, Larry Bird took the initiative to walk over to Popovich to shake hands.

"Thank you, Mr. Larry, your team is very good." Although Larry Bird and Popovich are both big mouths, it still makes sense that same-sex attract, at least the current conversation between Popovich and Larry Bird is completely sympathetic.

"Mr. Greg's vision is truly amazing, and he can choose such an unlimited player as Meng with the 29th pick." Since the Pacers had the first record in the East and fourth in the regular season last season, the Pacers only had the 26th draft pick. And because last year was a draft year, so for last year's draft, Larry Bird didn't pay the slightest attention, just asked the assistant to choose a guard casually, although this defender's current performance is okay, but when he thinks that he has the opportunity to choose Meng Xu before the Spurs, Larry Bird will regret it for a while.

"Thank you for your appreciation, in fact, to be honest, I didn't expect Meng's growth rate to be so fast." Originally, when Popovich was in the draft, his requirements for Meng Xu were a substitute and an outside defensive gate, but with Meng Xu's continuous improvement this season, Popovich was already worried about Meng Xu's growth too fast, although this was a happy trouble, but it was enough to give Popovich a headache.

"Mr. Greg, I don't think this kid can use all his abilities under you, and he will be the source of Spurs' turmoil at any time, so consider my suggestion." Thinking of Popovich's use of Meng Xu in this game, Larry Bird's heart was dripping blood, and from the beginning of the game, Larry Bird has been shouting in his heart: "It's a pity, it's a pity." Although the Spurs and Meng Xu are still their opponents, Larry Bird is unabashed about some things.

"No, I'll find a way." Looking at Larry Bird's distant figure, Popovich gritted his teeth and said. And Larry Bird's rhetoric also strengthened Popovich's determination to try, but even if he wants to try, he will not act rashly in this season's finals, but in the regular season next season, even if he fails, there is a chance to try again, and in the finals, he must not play with fire.

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After the first game of the two teams, the second game of the finals between the Spurs and the Pacers began on June 8, 2000, in this game, as the best head coaches in the league at present, Popovich and Larry Bird have played a change of formation, the Spurs first played a half-court combination of internal and external tactics, and then played a quarter of bombardment, and even picked up the triangle offense to play, and now for Popovich, the two teams are still in the stage of testing each other. On the Pacers' side, Larry Bird first tried three interior tactics and bombardment tactics, and even tried the tactics of combining inside and outside, although the Pacers did not have an interior line that could take on a big responsibility, but I have to admit that Popovich and Larry Bird are really good at playing.

And the trajectory of this game is basically the same as the first game of the two teams, although in this game Larry Bird replaced Jalen Rose to defend Meng Xu, but soon Jalen Rose was put on the bench by Meng Xu, in this case Reggie Miller had to play in person, and Meng Xu and Reggie Miller once again opened the mutual injury mode, and finally the two also successfully exchanged each other, in the last quarter Meng Xu only played 3 minutes, and was graduated by Reggie Miller 6 fouls, and Reggie Miller also carried 5 fouls, Played cautiously in the final quarter, although in the last minute of the fourth quarter, Reggie Miller scored 8 points in a row, but still unable to recover, 81-89, the Spurs won their second home court, led the Pacers 2-0 in the big score, and have seen the dawn of the championship.

When the second game between the two teams ended, Larry Bird on live TV still had a calm face, and he couldn't tell that the Pacers were already two games behind. Looking at Larry Bird's confident Fan, I didn't know that I thought it was the Pacers who led the Spurs 2-0. Although from the point of view of the score, the Pacers seem to have been forced to a dead end, but due to the problem of the Finals format, the side with home court advantage, even if it has a 2-0 advantage, sometimes can't have the last laugh, because the Spurs will go to Indiana to play 3 consecutive away games, and the slightest mistake will be pulled 3-2 by the Pacers.

Having said that, when the Spurs won two home games in a row and led the Pacers by a large score, almost all Spurs fans were already dreaming of the championship, knowing that as long as they won one of the next three away games, then back to the Spurs' home court, the championship was basically in the Spurs' bag.

"Tim, thank you, and Meng, thank you, thank you." Now the most excited in the Spurs team is Tipbert and Steve Kerr, two veterans, in order to win a championship at the end of their careers, both of them took a pay cut to the Spurs to hug their thighs, Steve Kerr is a little better, but he also followed Joe to create a dynasty, and Tylibert is fighting for his first championship. Although he has not yet won the final championship, at this moment, Levert can no longer hide the excitement in his heart, and has begun to babble nonsense in the Spurs' locker room, and even rushed to Duncan and knelt on one knee to express his admiration for Duncan.

"Okay, okay, don't make a fuss, everyone pack up and disperse." Watching the bigger and bigger performances in the locker room, assistant coach Mike Budenholzer hurriedly came out to stop their fight, if this kind of scene was seen by the head coach, he would definitely not run after a few hours of practice.