"Reggie, how is my defense, doesn't it feel great?" When Meng Xu and Reggie Miller landed almost at the same time, Meng Xu rubbed his chest and said to Reggie Miller not far away.

And Reggie Miller, who was almost knocked over by Meng Xu in the air just now, just rolled his eyes, and rarely didn't fight with Meng Xu, but what Reggie Miller is thinking now is that this is San Antonio, if you were in Indiana, you bastard would have been whistled for a defensive foul.

When the second quarter was officially suspended, the Pacers finally began to wrap up Tim Duncan, and at the same time through the wheel defense, directly let Avery Johnson empty, if in the playoffs last season, Mario Elie and Sean Elliott with more than 42% 3-point shooting rate, proved that they can still be saved, then Avery Johnson can only be described as terminally ill, 11% 3-point shooting rate in the regular season, although it has more than doubled in the playoffs, but only about 25%.

The triangle offense itself will compress the point guard's possession time and touch opportunities, and for Avery Johnson, it's no problem to give up the ball, and it's no problem to run without the ball, but let Avery Johnson run to the bottom corner and wait to shoot 3 points, isn't that nonsense, and because of this, it makes it more difficult for Avery Johnson to really integrate into the triangle offense system than Meng Xu.

When the Pacers didn't wrap Duncan, they were hoping for the Pacers to wrap it, but when the Pacers did start wrapping Duncan, the Spurs faced a bigger problem. Therefore, in the second half of the 2nd quarter, Popovich replaced Avery Johnson with Jaren Jackson, who shot better, but after Jaren Jackson came on the court, the situation on the court was a little chaotic, although Avery Johnson shot poorly, but there was no problem with basic running and passing, and Jaren Jackson's ball quotient was much worse than Avery Johnson, even if Popovich repeatedly told him on the sidelines, this guy still couldn't find his place on the court, and the cuts after two passes all ran in the wrong direction.

And the head coach of the Pacers, Smiling Assassin Thomas, who has been fighting with Jordan for nearly 10 years, is also very familiar with the Bulls' triangle offense. Therefore, when Thomas made a targeted arrangement for the Spurs' point guard, the Spurs' triangle offense had no room to play.

In the end, when the half game ended, 47-42, the Pacers still overtook the Spurs by 5 points, and when halftime was suspended, Popovich also directly stopped the triangle offense, but resumed the regular two-tower tactics. Today's game is the Spurs' championship ring presentation ceremony, and in front of more than 40,000 fans and countless spectators around the world, this game cannot be lost under any circumstances.

In the third quarter, the Spurs, who switched to the two-tower tactics, directly rose more than one notch in the intensity of the defensive end, with David Robinson and Tim Duncan sitting on the two inside lines, the Spurs' basket directly became a no-fly zone, and O'Neal Jr. was directly locked by David Robinson and Tim Duncan, and after David Robinson sat in the basket, Duncan can defend without worries, and at the same time can better support Meng Xu, and Meng Xu can also change defense with Duncan, Putting the free throw line to the top of the three-point line arc is an airtight area of defense.

Also on the offensive end, after David Robinson came on the court, Avery Johnson regained control of the ball, and the interior combination of Tim Duncan and David Robinson was O'Neal, not to mention the Pacers' weak interior line. At the same time, Meng Xu, who changed to a shooting guard, ran without the ball with Shaun Elliott around Duncan and David Robinson, and at the same time waited for an opportunity to shoot 3 points on the outside, and Meng Xu in the off-ball state, the kind of coquettish running comparable to Reggie Miller, and the emergency stop jump shot after receiving the ball, were more threatening than Meng Xu in the triangle offense in the first half.

"Reggie, you're going to smash the basket." When David Robinson and Duncan were on the court at the same time, the Spurs' interior line was no longer a place where Reggie Miller could break into casually, so in the case of Duncan blocking in front of him and Meng Xu chasing after him, Reggie Miller was also getting more and more outside, and several shots in the third quarter were all completed 6 meters away from the basket, and the shooting rate was getting lower and lower, so when Reggie Miller missed the 3-point score again, Meng Xu, who was defending him, also mocked two sentences in a timely manner.

"Boy, it's normal to feel bad, have you forgotten when you hit 1 of 8 shots." For Meng Xu's ridicule, Reggie Miller not only did not feel the slightest unhappiness, but seriously hit back at Meng Xu, after Meng Xu just learned Larry Bird's skills last season, because he still can't master the feel of shooting, it is always a quasi-game, an iron one, and it is normal to shoot more than 5 3 points in a game on time, and when it is iron, 1 in 6, 1 in 7, and even 6 in 6 and 7 in 7 are also common. In Larry Bird's words, since you enjoy the thrill of crazy scoring and the cheers of the fans, you have to endure the embarrassment of continuous iron strikes, and at the same time have the mentality of being pointed at by a thousand people and not changing your face.

"It's only seven pieces of iron, and I'm still a long way from 3-of-20 shooting and 9-of-27." Dare to laugh at me for hitting 1 of 8 shots, see if I don't turn over your black history. To be honest, Meng Xu's face is quite thick now, not to mention that Reggie Miller mocked Meng Xu for 8 shots and 1 hit, even the boos of the away team fans Meng Xu could have been treated as cheers.

Hearing Meng Xu dig out his black history many years ago, Reggie Miller was stunned for a moment, and then scolded Meng Xu: "FACK, you little Bichi, you will hit 20 iron sooner or later." ”

When the Spurs sacrificed their strongest defense in the third quarter, after Jalen Rose was suspended, the Pacers, who lacked the ability to attack inside, could only keep floating outside, perhaps infected by Reggie Miller's hand, and the whole Pacers team from Jermaine O'Neal to Travis Best were crazy about iron.

"Reggie, you've hit 7 good irons in this game, and you're only the distance from Houston to Indiana to 30 irons."

"Reggie, this is your eighth iron of the game."

"Reggie, this is your ninth iron of the game."

"Reggie, this is your 10th iron of the game, and oh my god, it's going to be Indiana soon." In the following games, every time Reggie Miller missed, Meng Xu would run to his side and shout, and Meng Xu's continuous shouting also made Reggie Miller upset.

In the end, when the game ended in the third quarter, the Pacers, who only scored 11 points in a single quarter, trailed the Spurs by as many as 12 points at 58-70. 84-91, in the NBA opener of the season, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Pacers at home. And Tim Duncan, who achieved two consecutive FMVPs, was undoubtedly the best one in the game, shooting 13 of 23 from the field, 6 of 7 free throws, and scoring 32 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks. And Meng Xu also had 15 points, 7 rebounds and 2 steals.

"Reggie, you still owe me 18 pieces of iron, remember to pay me back next time." After the game, after Meng Xu and Reggie Miller hugged each other, Meng Xu said something that made Reggie Miller go crazy. In this game, Reggie Miller shot 9-of-21, 5-of-12 from 3-pointers, and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line, scoring a team-high 27 points for the Pacers, and was still a little short of the 30-point promise to Meng Xu at the start of the game.