"Jalen, give me the ball." In the second half of the first quarter of the game, both teams changed their main lineups, and in order to let Meng Xu find his touch as soon as possible, Popovich still kept Meng Xu on the court and led the bench with Mario Elie. The opposite Lakers had a great advantage, and Phil Jackson simply sent a group of pure bench lineups.

Since the second half of this season, that is, after Sean Etellio's comeback, as Mario Elie has been put on the bench, the Spurs bench lineup is generally led by Mario Elie and Meng Xu in turn, and the bench lineup basically has no tactics, that is, the XJBD tactics based on Meng Xu and Mario Ely.

Just after half of the game, I heard Meng Xu's shouting, Jaren Jackson was also stunned, and then handed over the basketball to Meng Xu, in the main lineup, Meng Xu basically played without the ball, and in the bench lineup, Meng Xu likes to show off his passing ability, as the team's substitute point guard, Jaren Jackson even when he is on the bench, he doesn't have much ball, whether it is Meng Xu or Mario Elie in the bench lineup, they are the masters who like to stick the ball. In the bench lineup, Jaren Jackson also likes to cooperate with Meng Xu the most, because as long as he can run out of opportunities, Meng Xu will definitely pass the ball to him as soon as possible, and because of this, Jaren Jackson and Meng Xu's personal relationship is also very good.

Seeing that Meng Xu wanted to attack with the ball, Mike Budenholzer also glanced at Popovich with some dissatisfaction, Meng Xu's ability to attack with the ball was very low, and Popovich also knew, even so, Popovich still tolerated Meng Xu's messing around with his own temperament in the bench lineup, in Mike Budenholzer's opinion, Popovich was too indulgent to Meng Xu, which was not in line with Popovich's character and style at all.

"Is Meng ready to attack with the ball? Although the Spurs have no chance in this round of the series, Meng can't mess around, as we all know, Meng's off-ball offense is very good, but he basically has no ability to attack with the ball. Seeing the situation on the court, Kenny Smith, the commentator of this game, was also a little puzzled.

"Meng is not an impulsive player, and he does this, I think he naturally has his intentions." From Michaels' words, you can hear that this guy is already incorrigible.

At this time, Meng Xu began to accelerate directly near the middle circle, and took two big strides out of Meng Xu to the position outside the three-point line, and then Meng Xu lowered the center of gravity of his body.

"How can you play like this?" Seeing Meng Xu's offensive options, Mike Budenholzer was also a little helpless, Meng Xu's movement speed is very good, but you start to accelerate so far away, obviously you have no experience in attacking with the ball.

Originally, when he saw Meng Xu start to accelerate in the middle circle, Brian Shaw, who was opposite Meng Xu, also secretly screamed as a rookie in his heart, but when Meng Xu put the center of gravity of his body very low after accelerating, Brian Shaw realized that he was in trouble this time, as an old ruffian who has been in the league for more than ten years, Brian Shaw has already practiced the ability to know which player is more difficult to deal with at a glance.

At this moment, Brian Shaw greeted him, the rookie in front of him was so fast, it was basically certain that he wanted to break through in a straight line, and a straight break was the most demanding for physical fitness, and it was also the most non-threatening way to break through.

"What!" Just when Brian Shaw stood in advance and wanted to rely on experience to make Meng Xu attack fouls, he found that Meng Xu threw himself off with a very easy change of direction, and before he could turn around, this guy had already run behind him, and this guy didn't slow down at all when he changed direction.

"It's such a weird change of direction, I don't think there is any other player who can maintain such a fast pace when changing direction, but Iverson is a defender, and Meng is a big man, this way of breaking through is unbelievable."

At the moment when Meng Xu broke through Brian Shaw, the Lakers' substitute center Tyrese Stedt pounced directly, facing the attacking Tyrese Knight, Meng Xu still did not have the slightest intention of slowing down, but continued to rush forward along a diagonal line, just when he was less than half a step away from Tyrese Knight, Meng Xu changed direction in the opposite direction just now, and slipped directly from the edge of Tyrese Knight's arm, and Brian Shaw, who chased from behind, almost collided with Tyrese Knight.

After wiping Tyrisknight, Meng Xu changed direction in the opposite direction again, and at this time, Meng Xu's eyes were already a smooth road, from Meng Xu's body to the area under the basket was completely unguarded.

After taking a big step forward, when he was still about three meters away from the basket, Meng Xu jumped up directly. When Meng Xu fell from the basket, the entire Alamo Stadium was boiling.

"This kind of breakthrough and dunk is so morale-boosting, if I had Bryan Shaw, I would definitely have to fight for a foul and wouldn't have let Meng dunk successfully." Seeing a group of high-morale Spurs players on the court, Kenny Smith also joked.

"Kenny, you butcher, God won't forgive you."

"Here we go again, here we go again." While Michaels was still joking with Kenny Smith, Kenny Smith let out another exclamation.

This time Meng Xu is basically the same as the breakthrough trajectory just now, he also changed direction to get rid of Brian Shaw first, and then changed direction to break through Tyrese Knight, which is slightly different from last time, this time Meng Xu piggybacks on even AC Green, three times to change direction to break through the Lakers' three defenders, after Meng Xu scored 4 points in a row in this way, pulling the score of the two teams to 21-18, Phil Jackson called a timeout as soon as possible.

"Greg, you already know that, don't you?" After seeing Meng Xu's strange breakthrough, Mike Budenholzer, who was still a little dissatisfied with the wayward Meng Xu, excitedly grabbed Popovich's arm and shook it constantly.

"Mike, pay attention to your demeanor, there are so many spectators in the back, and your words and deeds represent the image of the Spurs." Holding back his excitement, Popovich pushed Mike Budenholzer away. Although Popovich is also very surprised by Meng Xu's strong breakthrough ability that he has to show now, but Popovich is still mentally prepared for all this, from Meng Xu's excellent movement ability and reaction speed, although in training, Meng Xu's breakthrough ability is very lame, and pure fragmentation is to break through in a straight line by speed, but Popovich knows that Meng Xu will develop his own breakthrough method sooner or later. For this reason, Popovich even had some disobedience to Meng Xu on the field when he was on the bench, as long as it did not affect the team's results, Popovich would turn a blind eye, and Popovich also specially arranged for Avery Johnson to teach Meng Xu the experience of breakthroughs. Originally, Popovich expected that Meng Xu would take at least two to three seasons to undergo qualitative changes, but he didn't expect that it was only one season, and Meng Xu brought him a surprise.