On June 10, 2013, the Spurs rushed to Golden State to prepare for the two Western Conference semifinals that will start there, after the first two rounds of games, the Spurs became the only team to take a 2-0 lead, and the rest of the matchups, the Thunder and Grizzlies, the Heat and the Bulls, the Pacers and the Knicks, all played 1-1 after the end of the two rounds, and after the Thunder, the Heat, and the Knicks with home-court advantage all lost their home-court advantage, The situation in the semi-finals has also become confusing.

Although there are seven games in a series, the first two away losses do not mean anything, but the situation that the Warriors are facing now is not very optimistic, originally before the start of the playoffs, Mark Jackson was preparing for the second round of the game, otherwise Mark Jackson would not have carefully planned the new tactics of the half season, left in the series with the Spurs.

However, Mark Jackson, who was ready to surprise the Spurs, had to face an embarrassing reality after the first two games of the series, that is, in the two games lost, the Warriors had no chance of winning at all, in the first two away games, the scores of the two sides did not look big, and the difference in points in no game was more than ten points, but in these two games, the Warriors basically fell behind at the beginning, and in the whole game, the Warriors were ahead of the Spurs for almost no period, Or it was overtaking the score, especially in the second game of the series, and it was pulled by the Spurs throughout the whole game.

If you don't look at the score, but watch the process of these two games, the Warriors can be said to be hung by the Spurs, and the Warriors are the side suppressed by the Spurs throughout the game!

It's hard for any manager to be hung up and played two games in a row, because it means he doesn't see any hope of winning, even though there are seven games in a series and two games are just the beginning, but the feeling of not seeing any hope is very scary.

After the end of the first game, Mark Jackson's team was studying how to deal with Meng Xu, but in the second game, even though the Warriors defended Meng Xu throughout the game, Meng Xu still scored 46 points with great efficiency, and when the Warriors never figured out Meng Xu, everyone knew that the Warriors' hopes of winning this series were very slim.

However, in the third game on June 11, the Warriors who fought at home brought a surprise to everyone, unlike the Warriors who pursued the balance of offense and defense in the previous two games, in the third game of the series, the Warriors almost gave up all their efforts on the defensive end, no longer focusing on Meng Xu, but according to their own rhythm, began to speed up crazy on the offensive end, and in the first half of the game between the two sides, all the spectators on the scene had only one feeling, that is, the Warriors of the old Nelson era are back.

"Oh, that's crazy, the Warriors scored 62 points in the first half, especially in the first quarter, they scored 39 points!"

"It's kind of unbelievable, if before this game, I would have believed that the Spurs scored 62 points in the first half against the Warriors, but if someone said that the Warriors would be under the Spurs' defense and score 62 points in the half, I would definitely scoff at that claim."

After the end of the first half, several commentators on the sidelines were amazed by the performance of the Warriors in this game, the team that scored 64 points in the first half of the game in front of the Spurs is rare in the history of the Spurs in the last ten years, and the Warriors did it today, their mercury-like offense, at the end of the first half, they established a 17-point advantage.

The Warriors are not a team that is good at defense, so they played a balance of offense and defense in front of the Spurs in the previous game, and wanted to rely on defense to gain an advantage over the Spurs, which is tantamount to the opposite, so after thinking about it for the past few days, Mark Jackson decisively gave up the practice of limiting the Spurs' offense, and was ready to use the offense that the Warriors are best at to make a final fight.

In today's game, the Warriors, who changed their style, caught the Spurs off guard after the opening, especially the Warriors' star Stephen Curry, who shot 6 of 8 three-pointers in the first game, scoring 26 points in a single quarter, leading the Warriors to beat the Spurs 39-24 in the first quarter of the game, laying a score advantage for the Warriors in one fell swoop.

At the end of the first half, they led the Spurs by as many as 17 points, which was an unbelievable thing for the Warriors fans on the scene, you must know that in the first two games, the Warriors were rarely able to lead the Warriors in the game, so at the beginning of the second half of the game, the Warriors at the Oracle Coliseum were all full of interest and frantically cheering for the team they supported.

However, in the third quarter of the game, the Warriors failed to continue the hot hand in the first half of the game, under the influence of the Spurs' sudden strengthening of defense and the ultra-slow pace of playing for 20 seconds almost every round, the Warriors' speed has never been able to improve, and at the same time, in the absence of rebounding guarantees, it is difficult for the Warriors to play the Spurs' counterattack, so the rhythm of the game on the court is also in this case, gradually out of the control of the Warriors, and when the third quarter of the game is over, The difference between the two sides has been narrowed to just 10 points.

Although they couldn't narrow the margin to single digits before the end of the third quarter, the Spurs were still rejoicing after the end of the third quarter, because they saw the hope of turning the game around, although there was only a glimmer of hope, but it was enough to arouse their fighting spirit.

Inspired by the third quarter of the game, and the difference between the two sides was still dangerous, so after the start of the fourth quarter, the Spurs continued to send all their main forces, ready to make persistent efforts after the start of the fourth quarter and get back the score in one fell swoop.

On the Warriors' side, naturally they will not give the Spurs such a chance, and in the face of the Spurs that have already risen, the 10-point difference is not very safe in Mark Jackson's view, so after the fourth quarter of the game, the Warriors are also the main force, as long as they hold on for a few minutes, the victory belongs to the Warriors, and as long as they win this home court, the Warriors can not only stop the current decline, but also see the hope of winning this round of the series.

The Spurs still insisted on their slow pace, while the Warriors were bent on speeding up and making the game fast, just like that, the Spurs and the Warriors each insisted on their own style of play, and the two sides always maintained a gap of about 10 points.

Watching the remaining time of the fourth quarter of the game getting less and less, Mark Jackson's nervous heart gradually calmed down, and by the time the official timeout of the fourth quarter came, and the difference between the two sides was still 9 points, Mark Jackson and the Warriors had already seen the dawn of victory.

However, after the official timeout in the fourth quarter, the situation on the court changed dramatically, Meng Xu, who came off the bench, hit two three-pointers in a row in just 30 seconds after the official timeout, narrowing the difference between the two sides directly to 3 points.

However, Mark Jackson's timeout did not play a role, and the Warriors, who replaced all the main forces, not only failed to stop Meng Xu's scoring momentum, but also overtook the score by the Spurs two minutes later.

In the second half of the fourth quarter, in order to interrupt Meng Xu's hand, Mark Jackson had to call a timeout every minute on average until the Warriors' timeouts were all used up, but Mark Jackson's timeouts not only failed to interrupt Meng Xu's hand and help the Warriors stop the decline on the court, but after each timeout, the situation would worsen a little.

"How so? How so? When the full-time whistle blew and the scoreboard was 125-118, Warriors head coach Mark Jackson turned pale.

Not only Mark Jackson, but all the Warriors players, and the Warriors fans in the field, after the game, looked at the scoreboard on the sidelines, all with an expression of disbelief, they couldn't figure out how they lost this game with a 17-point lead at the end of the half, and a 9-point lead at the official timeout in the fourth quarter!

"Coming back from 17 points down at half-time, I have to say that Spurs did a miracle today!"

"28 points in a single quarter, 53 points in the whole game, 45+ in three consecutive games in the playoffs, a 33-year-old veteran, Meng Xu once again set a record in the playoffs!"

Behind the miracle of the Spurs and Meng Xu's record, there are extremely sad warriors, because after losing today's game, the Warriors, who have fallen behind 0-3, basically have no chance.