As the bald referee Crawford threw the basketball in his hand into the air, the fourth game of the finals between the Spurs and the Pacers officially kicked off.

"Jermaine, are you alright?" Seeing Jermaine O'Neal jumping the ball, there was obviously something unusual, Meng Xu, who was not far from Jermaine O'Neal, asked with concern when he retreated, in fact, in the last game, Jermaine O'Neal was injured in the collision with Tim Duncan, but in order to win the game, Jermaine O'Neal still persevered to the end, and in today's game, Jermaine O'Neal did not follow the advice of the team doctor to take a break, but chose to continue to play.

"I'm fine, it was just a momentary oversight." Jermaine O'Neal, who heard Meng Xu's question, shook his head with a smile at Meng Xu while retreating, signaling that he had no problem.

"It's okay, don't hold it up." After nodding at Jermaine O'Neal, Meng Xu ran to take care of his defensive object Bruce Bowen, Bruce Bowen's independent offensive ability is very weak, but his open three-point is still very strong, but in these games against Meng Xu, Bruce Bowen's scoring data is almost negligible, of course, Popovich never expected him to score many points.

After the start of this game, the Spurs, who took the lead in attacking, quickly showed a completely different tactic from the previous games, Tony Parker, who arrived in the front court with the ball, got rid of Tony Allen's defense through a pick-and-roll cooperation with Robert Hawley, and then Tony Allen handed the basketball to Tim Duncan, who was already waiting near the free throw line.

After Tim Duncan got the basketball, Jermaine O'Neal and James Posey immediately started to pack Tim Duncan, and Tim Duncan also handed the basketball to Manu Ginobili on the wing at the first time, and Manu Ginobili, who received Tim Duncan's pass, went straight to the basket and scored a layup.

From the first offense after the opening and the position of the Spurs players, it can be seen that after Manu Ginobili started, the Spurs' tactics have changed a lot, the most obvious is that the Spurs used a center and four pitchers in the previous games, has been completely abandoned, in the previous games, when Tim Duncan after the ball meets the bag, Tim Duncan will pass the basketball to the outside, and the player who has the opportunity will shoot outside the three-point line, and in today's game, Tim Duncan's first job was to take defenders off the basket to open up space for his teammates to break through, and then after catching the ball to attract the Pacers' bag, he created opportunities for Manu Ginobili's breakaway.

Although Rick Carlisle doesn't know what kind of changes the Spurs will make, Rick Carlisle still formulated the tactics of this game in advance according to his own ideas, especially the start of James Posey in place of N.N. Hilario, which released a very obvious signal that the Pacers are going to play fast today.

Therefore, when Manu Ginobili scored a layup, he followed Manu Ginobili to Tyshawn Prince under the basket, immediately picked up the basketball on the ground, and quickly sent a baseline ball at the baseline position, and Jermaine O'Neal, who received a pass from Tyshawn Prince near the free throw line, made a long pass to the front court as soon as he received the ball, looking for Meng Xu, who rushed towards the front court after Ginobili hit a layup.

"Erwin, have you calculated how long it took the Pacers to attack this time?" Watching the Pacers score a layup with Meng Xu on a fast break after only three passes, Barkley, who had not yet entered the state on the sideline commentary bench, subconsciously looked up at the timer on the rebound, Barkley played for the Suns, which can be described as the pioneer of small-ball tactics, and completing the shot in the shortest possible time is the eternal law of small-ball tactics, and the current Suns and Warriors are still following this rule, it is generally believed that completing an attack in 7 seconds is already the limit of small-ball tactics, But the Pacers' attack just now was absolutely not 7 seconds, and Barkley, who looked up at the timer, was surprised to find that after Meng Xu's layup, the timer was fixed at 19.6 seconds, which means that the Pacers' attack just now only took 4.4 seconds.

And the SBC center, which was still celebrating Manu Ginobili's first goal just now, was instantly quiet after Meng Xu scored a fast break, although in the SBC center, few people have been booing Meng Xu, but let them applaud and cheer for Meng Xu after Meng Xu's goal, they can't do it.

"It's a very nice counter-attack, the Spurs were very good in the first round, but the Pacers' counter-attack was just as good, and the Spurs need to respond appropriately to the Pacers' counter-attack." The changes of the Spurs and the Pacers today are very targeted, in order to crack the Pacers' bag of Tim Duncan, the Spurs changed Tim Duncan from an offensive point to a response point, and used the Pacers' bag of Tim Duncan to create scoring opportunities for other players, while the Pacers gave up playing positional battles with the Spurs, accelerated the speed of advancement, and hoped to use a way to speed up the pace of the game to drag down Tim Duncan, it can be said that whether it is the Spurs or the Pacers, Their tactical changes all revolve around Tim Duncan.

"Now it's up to the Spurs to slow down the Pacers." In the subsequent game, the Spurs still resolutely played a positional battle, taking advantage of the gap left by the Pacers to wrap up Tim Duncan, and Manu Ginobili opened the situation, while the Pacers were crazy to speed up, constantly playing the Spurs' counterattack, in this case, whoever can let the opponent enter the rhythm they are accustomed to first, then who can undoubtedly take the lead.

"The Pacers are pushing just too fast." After Rick Carlisle replaced Nn Hilario with James Posey, Magic Johnson had a hunch that the Pacers might speed up today, but to Magic Johnson's surprise, the Pacers were able to increase the speed of advancement to such an extent, even if it was the Suns and Warriors who played professionally and ran and bombed, it was nothing more than that.

"This damn fellow." The Pacers' almost flying speed made Magic Johnson and others on the sideline commentary stand fascinated, but Popovich, who was standing on the sidelines, was now on pins and needles.

Popovich is very familiar with the run-and-bomb tactics, the Spurs have encountered the Suns in the playoffs many times, although the Spurs have the last laugh, but if you want to talk about it in detail, the Spurs actually did not find a solution to the Suns' run-and-bomb, especially in the Western Conference semifinals this season, the Spurs were even dragged into the rhythm of the Suns to fight against the Suns.

So when the Pacers also began to use run-and-gun tactics to deal with themselves, Popovich's head instantly became bigger, and in the face of the Pacers' crazy entrapment and pressing, Tim Duncan's physical exertion was very large, and now, the Pacers are trying to use the method of speeding up the pace of the game to accelerate the consumption of Tim Duncan's physical strength, don't look at the Spurs still have the upper hand, but once Tim Duncan's physical strength is exhausted, what will the Spurs do to win? Count on Tony Allen and Manu Ginobili? Without Tim Duncan's containment, the two of them would have been locked up by the Pacers.