Brown certainly didn't care what Popovich was thinking, even if he was his own protégé. There are no mentors and apprentices on the field, all you need to do is hug each other after the game, and neither side will show mercy to each other's men. So at the break, Brown only gave the players one instruction, which was to further strengthen the breakthrough and try to stretch the gap to 20 points at the end of the first half, which is a very big advantage on the highest stage like the Finals.

Whether Popovich wants it or not, he can only watch his defenders being ravaged like crazy on the field. Parker can still be trusted compared to Porter, who is about to retire, and Popovich can only selectively ignore his lack of experience, after all, a young point guard does not have problems because of speed and physicality, and it is difficult to say that a veteran is difficult to say.

But Parker, who is trusted by the head coach, is in a turbulent situation on the court, and his inexperienced weaknesses are being infinitely magnified. In fact, in a sense, the finals are indeed the best stage for rookies to grow, and they can quickly complete their transformation under the strongest pressure. Parker's potential can certainly do that, but the Spurs may have to pay the price of losing games, and only the kind of epic point guard can help the team win a championship in his rookie season, like the Magic.

Yes, Parker continued to learn from experience on the court, but it wasn't enough for him to fend off Iverson's attack. What's worse is that Brown will continue to use substitutions to switch styles, Parker thought that he could find a little room in the face of the rookie in the same class as him, but what he didn't expect was that Arenas's breakthrough made him more uncomfortable than Iverson, and the heavy blow not only came from the ball skills and scores, but also from Parker's heart, he didn't expect that Arenas, who was also the tail of the first-round crane, would be better than himself.

When he participated in the draft before, Arenas, as probably the most unruly rookie in the class of 2001, had not been exposed in a few news, and Parker had heard some things about him. At the time, the media portrayed Arenas as a megalomaniac who was obviously average but always pretentious, so in Parker's mind, he was better than Arenas.

It's not that the Spurs haven't played against the 76ers before, but Arenas usually comes on the court when the two sides come off the bench, and there are not many direct conversations between the two, and at that time, the 76ers' main focus was on breaking through the ball, although Arenas often rushes inside, but he still passes the ball out, which causes Parker to have no intuitive impression of his finishing ability under the basket. It wasn't until this game was officially played that Parker was surprised to find that the guy who entered the league in the same class as him had grown to this extent, and he was obviously the one with a higher rank, could it be that the 76ers' training should be stronger?

If the 76ers knew what was going on in his heart, they would surely proudly give him an affirmative answer. In fact, they have been training under Chang Wei for almost the entire season, especially Arenas and Daimpoter, and in Chang Wei's opinion, the two of them play a very important role in the team's tactical system, so the training for them is extremely bad and the thickest.

It's understandable that Parker can't do Arenas, although the overall gap between the two in the previous life is not big, and Parker's honor is more than Arenas, but in terms of soaring points and one-on-one, Arenas is obviously much stronger than Parker. Coupled with Chang Wei's targeted training, it became a natural thing that Arenas was stronger than Parker, and Parker didn't need to be surprised at all.

The only thing the Spurs players can be thankful for is that Parker didn't have a much higher draft pick than Arenas, and he's not the kind of talented point guard who was fired before the draft began, otherwise Arenas might be a little more combative. As such, Arenas' performance has made Brown not even want to let him go, after all, the youngsters need more time to develop.

However, the 76ers did not live up to Brown's expectations at halftime, and they "only" led the Spurs by 13 points, all because Durham Porter couldn't carry Duncan's back-to-back singles on the inside. Recalling the scenes of Durham Potter being scored by Duncan on the head, Chang Wei couldn't help but sigh, it seems that systematic training really can't replace the talent of the players, no matter how targeted the training for Durham Potter is, he still can't compare with Duncan.

But a 13-point lead was not bad, and Popovich didn't even look at the scoreboard, so he immediately got into the players' tunnel, leaving his coaching staff to comfort the embarrassed players. He really didn't know what tactics he should come up with to deal with the 76ers' huge advantage on the guard, and with his habits, he couldn't take all the guards out.

At halftime, Popovich still couldn't find a way to cope, which was incredible for him. The whole league knows that Popovich is very creative in terms of tactics and can often come up with a puzzling but very effective lineup, but this time, he couldn't do anything because he simply didn't have the cards in his hand to deal with such a situation.

Of course, if it were ten years later, Popovich could have asked Duncan to be the playmaker of the team, after all, Duncan was old at that time, but all skills were perfect, so it didn't matter if he didn't let the point guard go. But now he had a gloomy face, just told the players to hurry up and recover their strength, and just stood by without saying a word.

In the away dressing room, Brown didn't praise his players for their first-half performance, which he thought the players should do, and it was his long-standing credo not to win until the last minute of the game. Like Popovich, he also asked the players to seize the time to rest and face the second half of the game with the fullest attitude.

Iverson and Arenas, in particular, combined for 32 points in the first half with a strong breakaway, but at the same time they were not a small drain. Although the Spurs' guards didn't hinder them much, Duncan and Robinson still put a lot of pressure on them after coming to the basket, and physical confrontation was essential, and now they urgently need to replenish their energy in order to continue their light or fast breakthroughs in the second half of the 24 minutes.

At this time, Chang Wei would secretly sigh to himself, if the system allowed the use of magic drinks in the game, wouldn't the recovery state be nine out of ten? But that seems to be the case that would ruin the balance of the game, right?