Chapter 734: Face

"Ervin, do you think the Spurs can continue to narrow the score, or even overtake it?" The Spurs played a 9-4 offensive climax for the Pacers at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and it stands to reason that the Pacers would have to call a timeout to adjust, but Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle is sitting on the bench on the sidelines at the moment, and seems to have not taken the Spurs' offensive wave to heart at all.

"Judging from the game just now, the Spurs players on the court seem to have found their touch, and they have a chance to continue to narrow the gap if the Pacers do not adjust their defensive strategies, but considering that Meng Xu is still on the court, the Pacers will not have a scoring drought, and they will not be able to maintain such a hot hand all the time, so the Spurs' hope of overtaking the score in a short period of time is still very slim." If you look at the normal trend of the game, the Spurs are really promising, but as soon as Magic Johnson sees the calm Pacer No. 5 on the court, he inexplicably doesn't expect too much from the Spurs.

"Rick Carlisle is too arrogant, the Spurs are not the belly and underdog of the Cavaliers and Wizards, the Spurs are a very tenacious team, and sooner or later Rick Carlisle will have to pay the price for his hubris and arrogance." Unlike Magic Johnson, Barkley has a clear stance to support the Spurs, but while saying these words, Barkley is still a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, there are really few teams that can turn the tables in the hands of the Pacers, but Barkley hopes that the Spurs can reverse the Pacers and let the Pacers taste failure.

Barkley's words just fell, and the scene that happened on the court made Barkley's old face red, in the attack just now, Meng Xu, who advanced to the front court with the ball, did not wait for the Spurs' bag to be in place, and directly stepped back in front of Brent Barry, and hit a three-point shot, widening the difference between the two sides to 10 points again.

"Charles, you're really unlucky, if this is the home of the Spurs, the fans in the stadium will definitely throw your shoes at you and yell at you, stop you fat man." Looking at Barkley with an embarrassed face, Reggie Miller finally couldn't hold back, and laughed, as one of the main broadcasters of the NBA, most of the games in the playoffs this season, TNT was broadcast, but unlike ABC's live broadcast, TNT's commentator was in TNT's studio hall to explain these games, but it was very unfortunate that in the several rounds of the series broadcast by TNT, all the teams that Barkley was optimistic about were eventually eliminated, and the first round of the playoffs, Barkley vowed that the Mavericks would sweep the Warriors 4-0, but the Mavericks were given black eight by the Warriors, and in the second round of the playoffs, Barkley unswervingly supported his old club Suns, but the Suns were eliminated by the Spurs again, and when it came to the division finals, Barkley was full of confidence in the Cavaliers, thinking that James would end Meng Xu's domination of the NBA, but the slap in the face was that the Cavaliers were directly swept by the Pacers.

"Hahahaha。。。。。。" After Reggie Miller's words fell, the surrounding Magic Johnson and Michaels also laughed insolently.

At this time, there is no choice but to support Barkley of the Spurs, even Popovich, who is standing on the sidelines, can only shake his head helplessly after Meng Xu's three-point shot, Brent Barry's height is shorter than Meng Xu, but Meng Xu, who occupies the height advantage, also plays a step-back jumper, how do you let Brent Barry defend?

Stepping back and pulling out the jump shot, it can be regarded as Meng Xu's specialty, the bounce is good, the armband is super long, those players who are not as tall as Meng Xu, will suffer very much when defending Meng Xu, and when Meng Xu attacks in the face frame, he will first top the defender, and then quickly retreat and pull out the jump shot, the jump height, the position of the shot, not to mention Brent Barry, a player who is less than 2 meters tall, is those big men who are 2.10 meters tall, when Meng Xu uses this trick, he can only look at the ball and sigh, As for whether to enter or not, it can only depend on Meng Xu's feel and luck.

"It feels pretty good." After the shooting, Meng Xu said to himself, since last season, in order to ensure the success rate of the offense and the shooting rate, Meng Xu's three-point shots have been greatly reduced, especially this kind of retreat in the face of defensive players, it is rarely used, but in today's game, the Spurs' continuous three-point shots made Meng Xu rise to the idea of hitting them back with three points.

After Meng Xu's three-point shot, Rick Carlisle, who was sitting on the sidelines, completely relaxed, Meng Xu's hand is not cold, as long as Meng Xu can keep his hand, even if the Spurs' outside players are crazy, the Spurs have no chance to turn the tables, after all, a role player will never be able to compete with a superstar like Meng Xu for scoring stability and continuity.

The next game process is also like this, Tim Duncan with a group of benches to keep chasing points, and Meng Xu is you into one I will return one, when Meng Xu shot three threes in a row, the Spurs couldn't stand it, in the face of huge pressure, Brent Barry actually shot a three-way without defense.

After Popovich called a timeout, Brent Barry walked off the court with a look of chagrin, just a few minutes was definitely a torture for Brent Barry, Meng Xu used shooting shots again and again and different styles of trash talk, constantly destroying and hitting Brent Barry's body and mind, with Meng Xu's continuous hits, the pressure in Brent Barry's heart also increased sharply, and finally after throwing a three-no-stick, Brent Barry almost collapsed.

"Hey!" After the pause, Popovich replaced all the main players, ready to make the last fight, and after all the main players came on the court, Popovich kept staring at Meng Xu not far away, and sighed in a low voice, several main players of the Pacers, the biggest threat is undoubtedly Meng Xu and Jermaine O'Neal, Jermaine O'Neal Popovich has a way to deal with him, but for Meng Xu, Popovich really has nothing to do, in today's game, Popovich tried several ways to defend Meng Xu, but all failed.

"Meng Xu's three-point shot hit again, this is already Meng Xu's fourth three-pointer in the fourth quarter!"

"Tim Duncan received the ball under the basket, the Pacers were very resolute, Tim Duncan split the ball, Robert Hawley hit a three-point shot, and the difference between the two sides came to 10 points again."

"Meng Xu received the ball, and it was the same action as just now, oh God, Meng Xu hit a three-point shot again."

"Spurs possessed the ball, Tony Parker passed, Tony Parker turned, Tony Parker turnovered, Tony Allen steals Tony Parker's pass, Pacers launch a fast break, Tyshawn Prince scores on a layup."

"This game is over." When Tyshawn Prince scored on a fast break and directly widened the gap between the two sides to 15 points, even Barkley, who has always supported the Spurs, began to shake his head: "Meng Xu's scoring explosiveness and continuity are too strong, the Spurs have no players who can compete with Meng Xu at all, or in this league, there are no players who can compete with Meng Xu to score, especially in the scoring ability at critical moments, maybe only Michael at his peak can compete with him." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, Meng Xu should have scored 59 points, only 1 point away from the finals 60+, and now there are less than 7 minutes before the end of the game, Meng Xu has enough time to improve his score to more than 60 points."

When Barkley announced the end of the game, the live broadcast camera just rightly swept the expressions of every Spurs player, there were less than 7 minutes of game left, a 15-point difference, even if Jordan came, there was no way to help the Spurs get back the score, and Reggie Miller and Michaels also began to discuss the next game between the two sides, but Magic Johnson began to calculate Meng Xu's single-game score.

Hearing Magic Johnson say this, Reggie Miller and Michaels also stopped talking, and Barkley even went directly to the technical desk to ask for the technical statistics of the game. Just after Barkley got the technical statistics sheet, the live DJ at the Banker's Life Arena also hoarsely broadcast the news of Meng Xu's 59 points in a single game.

And the audience, after hearing the news, almost all stood up from their respective seats and shouted Meng Xu's name in unison, obviously they all hoped that Meng Xu could make persistent efforts and achieve the feat of 60+ in the finals again today!

However, to the surprise of everyone at the scene, Meng Xu actually stretched out his hand to Rick Carlisle on the sidelines and motioned for him to call a timeout.

"Meng Xu, is this giving up the chance to score 60 points?" After Rick Carlisle called a timeout, Meng Xu, who walked to the sidelines, put on his coat and sat on the bench directly, seeing this scene, Michaels was also puzzled, 60 points in the finals, how many players dream of it, but Meng Xu gave up directly when he was 1 point away from 60 in the finals.

"Meng Xu will really save face for the spurs." Different from Michaels's doubts and puzzles, Magic Johnson immediately thought of the reason, the Celtics who were cut by Elgin Baylor 60+, and the Lakers who were cut by Meng Xu 60+, until now are still background boards, every time the finals single-game scoring record is mentioned, these two teams will be pulled out to criticize, and the Spurs were further away from being with these two teams, but Meng Xu opened the net.