"After this quarter, I don't think I'm going to need to say anything, this year's Lakers are much better than last season and are the biggest threat to us this season."

After the first quarter of the game, as the team's head coach, Popovich also used this timeout to give some tactical instructions to the team.

"I don't need to say more about O'Neal's strength, Tim and David must have a deep understanding, in the next game, David and Tim began to wrap him, and you should pay attention to controlling the number of fouls you as much as possible."

"Meng, your defense was successful in the first quarter, and the next game will continue to maintain the defensive intensity of the first quarter, as long as you can cut off the Lakers' internal and external cooperation, even if Kobe Bryant scores 40 points, it doesn't matter." In the first quarter of the game, in the face of Meng Xu's defense, Kobe Bryant shot 4 of 9 and scored 8 points, just from the data, Meng Xu's defense of Kobe Bryant was not successful, but if you take into account the tactical level, Kobe's too many singles undoubtedly destroyed the original intention of the Lakers' triangle offense, then there is no doubt that Meng Xu's defense is very successful.

"Meng, I hope you can shoot more outside shots in the next game, you don't need to worry too much about Mario and Avery's feelings, as long as you have the opportunity, you can shoot that damn basketball into the Lakers' basket, understand?" In the end, Popovich suddenly became stern, and the corner of his eye swept over Avery Johnson and Mario Eli, who saw the gaze in Popovich's eyes, and did not dare to look directly at Popovich, but reflexively lowered their heads.

"Understood." Because the system gains experience in the mode, the score is the lowest, and Meng Xu's mid-range shooting rate has always been not very good, even if he shoots in the open position, he has little confidence, so Meng Xu's mid-range shots per game are also very few, and the 3 points on the outside, since the game with the Raptors, is a quasi-game, an iron game, the opponent is afraid when the opponent is up, and he is afraid when the iron is up, when he really kills a thousand enemies and loses eight hundred, compared with the score, Meng Xu now prefers steals, blocks and rebounds, In order to gain more experience points, Meng Xu is now trying his best to defend the opposing player and try to grab every rebound. So far, he has averaged 22 minutes per game, 7.5 points, 6 rebounds, 3.8 steals, 2.5 assists, and 1.4 blocks per game, and has also entered the top 10 of the best rookie rankings in this draft year when there are not many fierce men.

"Be louder, Meng." Hearing Meng Xu's answer, Popovich was a little dissatisfied. Popovich has always been very satisfied with Meng Xu's attitude towards training and games, and even his private life, the only thing that is a little dissatisfied is his character, he is too modest, as long as his teammates ask for the ball, he will never refuse, even if he has run out of the vacancy. And in the game, although Meng Xu's performance on the defensive end is impeccable, and he can always exceed the tasks assigned by himself, but his defensive actions are too clean, and he rarely uses these small actions to pull the top of ordinary players in defense, you must know that a pure person can't mix in this league for too long.

"Understood." Meng Xu raised his head and shouted loudly, which immediately attracted the attention of countless fans behind him.

After the start of the second quarter of the game, both teams made certain adjustments, Kobe Bryant no longer held the ball alone, but quickly passed out after receiving the ball, cut without the ball himself, looking for opportunities, and the Spurs also began to wrap O'Neal, as long as O'Neal received the ball, Duncan would drop AC Green to wrap O'Neal. At this time, AC Green, who was standing unguarded on the outside of the penalty area, was also embarrassed, although he was out of the vacancy, but he didn't have the courage to ask O'Neal for the ball.

O'Neal pouted his ****** and pushed twice behind him, and the aging David Robinson lost his balance in an instant, and after a quick turn, he was more than two meters away from the basket, facing Duncan, who jumped up to block himself, and dunked towards the basket.

"It's brutal, Shaq's dunk is so brutal, and in this matchup, Shaq won the game, not only scoring this goal, but also causing a foul on Tim Duncan." When O'Neal shook off Robinson and blocked Tim Duncan in the cheers of the audience, the on-site commentator Magic did not hesitate to praise O'Neal.

Before the magician finished speaking, O'Neal fell from the basket and danced his signature celebration in front of Duncan, the overlord step, and the basketball hoop behind him, which was still shaking violently, seemed to tell everyone the great power of O'Neal's dunk, and Duncan ran to the court with a blank face, as if nothing had happened.

After Johnson dribbled the ball over half court, he directly handed the basketball to Meng Xu, after watching Johnson nod at himself, Meng Xu also smiled and dribbled the basketball laterally, facing Rick Fox's defense, Meng Xu made a breakthrough feint and shook him away, and then a direct pass stuffed the ball into Duncan's hand.

Meng Xu was also very angry at the almost provocative celebration that O'Neal blocked Duncan and made in front of Duncan just now, hoping that Duncan could directly fight back against the big fat man. After Meng Xu entered the team, perhaps because the two were alumni of Wake Forest University, Duncan also took great care of Meng Xu, and bullied the rookie players with the old players of other teams, which did not appear on Meng Xu once, and still remembered the scene when Meng Xu went to the Spurs for the first time, in front of all the Spurs players, Duncan directly put his arm around Meng Xu's shoulders and said something that Meng Xu would never forget: "Let me introduce to you, this is my brother Meng." ”

When Duncan held the ball, the rest of the players on both teams also automatically pulled away, letting the two bigwigs go heads-up, knowing that their strength was not as good as O'Neal, Duncan did not choose to play with his back to the single, but chose another offensive means that he was good at, Duncan lowered his body center of gravity, and directly held the ball to break through from the flank, although O'Neal was huge, but the movement speed was not slow at all, after seeing Duncan's choice, he moved directly in the direction of Duncan's breakthrough, trying to block Duncan's route to the basket in advance, Just after O'Neal successfully occupied the position in advance, Duncan made an emergency stop and jumped up directly in front of O'Neal, facing O'Neal who hurriedly jumped and blocked, Duncan leaned towards O'Neal in the air, threw the basketball, and the basketball that flew out hit the board directly, and caused O'Neal's defensive foul.

After scoring this goal, Duncan did not show too much excitement and excitement, and Meng Xu did run over to celebrate with Duncan excitedly, as if the goal just now was scored by himself.