"Mark Jackson, is this iron-hearted Meng Xu?"

If Mark Jackson's set of offensive tactics tailored for Stephen Curry at the beginning of this game made everyone's eyes shine, and they couldn't help but praise him for his tactical genius, then his defensive strategy for the Spurs from the second half of the second quarter was a little incomprehensible, especially when Meng Xu scored again and again, and always insisted on not wrapping and assisting Meng Xu in the defensive strategy, which made several commentators on the sidelines shake their heads again and again.

"Maybe Mark Jackson has his own reasons and intentions, maybe he can't say." Looking at Mark Jackson, who always looked calm on the sidelines, Kenny Smith felt that it was very likely that Mark Jackson deliberately did not contain Meng Xu, although Meng Xu has always maintained a high offensive efficiency, but the difference between the Spurs and the Kings has not been opened too much.

If it is really as Kenny Smith guessed, this is done by Mark Jackson on purpose, then Mark Jackson is too bold, because Kenny Smith knows that most of the head coaches in this league, including Popovich sitting on the Spurs bench, will change their defensive strategy when faced with this situation, after all, the team is behind the score, and a player on the other side has maintained a very high scoring efficiency at this time. It's easy to be tragic.

Several commentators on the commentary bench have never been able to see through what tricks Mark Jackson is playing, but Popovich on the Spurs bench has already guessed a clue at this time, Meng Xu has retired for four years, and the pattern of this league has also changed a lot, and Meng Xu After his comeback, after experiencing the crazy performance at the beginning of the season, it has gradually become dull, because Meng Xu has been integrated into the Spurs' tactical system, and the Spurs' tactical system is a system of one for everyone and one for me, Under this system, there is no need for one person to take on too many scoring tasks, and after Meng Xu was integrated into the Spurs' system, he almost never entered the scoring mode again.

In the first round of the playoffs with the Lakers, Meng Xu's average points per game were even less than 20 points, whether it was scoring efficiency or efficiency at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, it was also possible that Mark Jackson miscalculated Meng Xu's strength.

Similar to Popovich's conjecture, Mark Jackson did underestimate Meng Xu's strength, because when the Warriors were formulating the game strategy for the division semifinals and conducting targeted research on the Spurs, the game reference was the series between the Spurs and the Lakers, and as for the regular season, everyone in this league knew that the data and performance of the regular season had little reference value.

Of course, there are a few more important points, one is Meng Xu's physical strength, the Spurs are now, in the key ball handling at critical moments, it is basically completed by Meng Xu, and Meng Xu is now a 33-year-old old guy, so let Meng Xu go to single-handedly Green and let Meng Xu overconsume his physical strength in the first three quarters, which is also one of the reasons why Mark Jackson arranged this.

However, the most important point is that Ma Xu holds the ball and singles Green, which will make the Spurs downgrade from a team tactics team to a team that relies on superstar singles, although the Warriors' tactics are essentially around Stephen Curry's tactics, but compared to pure superstar single tactics, the Warriors' tactics are undoubtedly much more team, single against team, Mark Jackson does not believe that Meng Xu alone can soar over the entire Warriors team.

Although Meng Xu's ability to continue scoring in this period was indeed a bit unexpected by Mark Jackson, Mark Jackson is not panicking at all now, because Mark Jackson feels that everything is still under his control.

"This old guy is still real and long-lasting!" Mark Jackson is as steady as a mountain on the sidelines, but Green, who is defending Meng Xu on the court, is now a little exhausted.

When Meng Xu was on the left side of the arc, leaning sideways on Draymond Green, and receiving a pass from Tony Parker again, behind Meng Xu, he lowered his body center of gravity, and almost put all his strength on Meng Xu's waist to prevent Meng Xu's sudden force, although under the existing rules, Green's defensive action is easy to eat defensive fouls, but he has done everything he can, but Green, who has no way to take Meng Xu, can no longer care about fouls or fouls at the moment. At the same time, Green also maintained a high level of concentration, always staring at Meng Xu's shoulder.

And Meng Xu, who was resisted by Draymond Green, really appreciated the fighting spirit of the other party at this moment, although Meng Xu had defeated Draymond Green countless times in one-on-one, and when this kid moved his crooked mind, he taught him a few times with more hidden and tall small movements, but this kid did not have the slightest sense of frustration, but gave Meng Xu the feeling of becoming more and more frustrated, in this era, there are fewer and fewer players who can have this mentality.

Although Draymond Green's defense against Meng Xu is now very fierce, Meng Xu still has many ways to get rid of him, just the kind of feint that even Meng Xu himself doesn't know which direction he will turn in the end, it is enough for him to drink a pot, although Draymond Green's defense is good, and he has both strength and speed, but after all, he is from the inside line, and there is still a big gap between him and the outside players in terms of physical flexibility, so as long as Draymond Green eats Meng Xu's feints, Then there is no chance of redemption for him.

So this time in the face of Draymond Green's defense, Meng Xu leaned sideways on Draymond Green twice with the ball in one hand, and after feeling that the center of gravity of this guy's body was indeed very stable, he directly half-turned and turned towards the right side of the body, first distanced himself from Green, and then half-turned when he was halfway through, and then retracted his action and turned towards the left side of his body.

When Meng Xu turned around for the first time, Draymond Green, who had only moved a little, and when Meng Xu made a second turn, he quickly took a step to block Meng Xu's turning route in advance, and then just after Green took a step, he saw that when Meng Xu turned around halfway through, he pulled his body back again, and Green, who had no way to retract his steps, could only watch Meng Xu get rid of himself again.

Meng Xu, who got rid of Draymond Green, stepped into the three-point line and took two more steps, Meng Xu made a stop-and-go jump shot before David Lee, who was on guard, rushed over.

After Meng Xu finished shooting, he turned around and chased after Draymond Green, watching Meng Xu shoot and hit the ball, he raised his right hand in a celebratory posture, and the expression on his face was really like ashes.