"Meng's passing is good, but the vision is still too poor. "Looking at the team's first few minutes www.biquge.info of the first quarter, Popovich shook his head with a little disappointment, after controlling the ball, Meng Xu played very cautiously, even a little hesitant, and it seemed very unreasonable in handling the ball, and Meng Xu still has weaknesses such as not having a broad vision and not breaking through well, and now Meng Xu has not learned how to connect the team. What makes Popovich a little relieved is that Meng Xu and Duncan cooperate very tacitly, as long as Duncan has a good opportunity, Meng Xu will pass the ball over as soon as possible, so far Duncan has scored 4 goals, 3 of which are assists from Meng Xu.

Anthony Walker attacked with the ball again, after being pushed away by Anthony Walker twice in a row, Meng Xu also changed his defense against Walker, gave up the close defense of Anthony Walker, let him take half a step, defended the breakout and did not shoot, let him shoot and then defend him with blindfolding, it seems that the effect is not bad, so far Anthony Walker has only shot 2 of 6 and scored 4 points.

After the official timeout in the first quarter, Popovich replaced all the starters on the court, and the rest of the first quarter became the stage for the benches. Although the Spurs rotated 3 main players in this game, the cooperation between the players was not unfamiliar at all, and the game was also very smooth. After the end of the first quarter, the Spurs also led the Celtics by two points at 24-22.

After the start of the second quarter, the Spurs became a big and four small tactics, and the team's tactical initiation point changed to Tim Duncan again, and on the offensive end, Tim Duncan forced the inside, and the other four pulled away to look for opportunities. This set of tactics originated from the Rockets in the 9394 season and the 9495 season, after the Rockets relied on this tactic to complete the championship, the league also began a period of frenzy to study the tactic, Popovich is no exception, with two strong interior Spurs, when using this set of tactics, it also has unique conditions.

After Antonio Daniels dribbled past half court, in order to get rid of Anthony Walker, Meng Xu made lateral moves along the 3-point line, and when Antonio Daniels advanced to near the 3-point line, Duncan reached out from the right side of the paint area to ask, no room for points, Antonio Daniels quickly handed the ball to Duncan, Duncan held the ball and singled Vitaly Portapanko, Walter McCarty directly gave up his defender and implemented a trap on Duncan. Perhaps hearing Bob Cousy's sarcasm at himself, Rick Pitino also arranged a bag for Duncan after the start of the second quarter.

Meng Xu, who was at a 45-degree angle on the right side of the 3-point line, cut into the position of the bottom line on the right side, and after going around the front court for half a circle, Meng Xu also got rid of Anthony Walker, and Duncan, who was trapped, directly passed the ball to Meng Xu in the bottom corner, and before Anthony Walker arrived, Meng Xu threw the basketball out.

"This little guy's shooting stance is really very similar to that guy." Seeing Meng Xu shoot a 3-pointer, Bob Cousy also frowned, the guy in his mouth was naturally Larry Bird, calling Larry Bird that guy, which shows the depth of Bob Cousy and Larry Bird's prejudice.

"Well, that's true." Tom Heinsohn on the side also nodded.

"What a fat man, don't you like to shoot 3 points very much, why didn't I see you shoot in this game." After Meng Xu's shot landed, Anthony Walker had just arrived, and Meng Xu, who still maintained his shooting posture, said to Anthony Walker a little provocatively. This goal is also Meng Xu's first shot in this game, Meng Xu in the first quarter, his mind is full of how to brush assists, and he didn't even make a shot.

Looking at Meng Xu's expression of under-beating after he hit the basket, Anthony Walker was also angry. I just kept silently reciting in my heart, "Calm down, calm down... "I didn't have a hot head.

"Boy, wait and see." Anthony Walker dropped a harsh remark, turned and ran to the frontcourt. Before the start of this game, after learning that the cardinal was going to come to watch the game, Anthony Walker also held his breath and wanted to show his face in front of the cardinal.

After Meng Xu shot a 3-pointer, the Celtics quickly sent the baseline ball, Paul Pierce received the ball near the 3-point line, and after being defended by Jalen Jackson, he directly passed the ball to Anthony Walker, Walker rushed to the front court with the ball directly, and when the dribble advanced to near the 3-point line, Meng Xu blocked the breakthrough route in advance, Walker hesitated for a moment, looking at the empty Spurs inside, Anthony Walker decided to continue to break through.

After Walker moved sideways with the ball, he chose to cut to the bottom line, Meng Xu squeezed Anthony Walker near the sideline, and was about to dribble out of the sideline, Anthony Walker made an emergency stop and took a step back, and Meng Xu also followed closely.

Seeing that he couldn't get rid of Meng Xu's defense, Duncan had already returned to the defense, and Anthony Walker jumped directly on the spot and threw the ball. Although Meng Xu is only 3 cm shorter than Anthony Walker, the difference between the two of them is more than one level in the bounce and air, after Anthony Walker jumped, Meng Xu also jumped up, and a big hand covered Anthony Walker's face very accurately, blocking his vision.

With a bang, the shot was a little off, the basketball hit the side edge of the basket and bounced out, and the rebound was collected by Samaki Walker.

"This is Anthony's fourth season, so nothing has changed from previous seasons." In the box at the North Shore Garden Arena, the cardinal said to Bill Russell, who was on crutches. Anthony Walker is the successor of Larry Bird, who was handpicked by the Cardinals, and in his second season in the league, he scored 22.4 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 3.3 assists All-Star data, which is very close to Larry Bird's 25+10+5 data, but this year's data is not only not growing compared with before, but declining in all aspects.

"Have you been blaming me in your heart, why do you have to be so persistent?" Seeing that Russell didn't speak, the cardinal glanced around at the Celtic legends.

"Times have changed, the league of the future is a league of outside players, and your philosophy is no longer suitable for today's basketball." After the cardinal finished speaking, some people who felt guilty unconsciously lowered their heads. An old man in his late teens pointed to a group of descendants in their 50s and said to them, "You are old and can't keep up with the times." Even so, no one dared to contradict the cardinal, to question the cardinal's statements.