Golden One Arena, in the players' locker room.

David Jogle looked at the group of players in front of him, his face full of pride and joy, this is his second time as a head coach of the team, unlike the team left over from the last time he coached Hollins with the Grizzlies, the players sitting here are all hand-picked by him.

"How do you feel?" David asked casually with his hands on his hips.

Justin wiped his sweat with a towel and said, "I'm so nervous, I'm sweating all over my body now, and NBA-level confrontations are really different."

"What? Isn't there no avaii yet? Last night's extra practice didn't work? Zhang Feng was curious.

Before Justin could answer, Carter slapped him on the back, "Then you are expected to pee your pants against LeBron!" ”。

"Haha" The players in the locker room all let out hearty laughter, and Justin wittily said: "I'll call my mom first and tell her not to worry about me." It was humorous enough that the players laughed again.

David took over the topic, "In the first half, everyone played well in the position, although we had a little trouble on the inside, but we managed to limit the Spurs' easy scoring, in the second half we need to continue to work hard, the first win is waiting for us."

After David finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Feng and motioned for him to stand up and say a few words, this is the first game of the new season, and it is an excellent time for team leaders to cultivate leadership and increase team cohesion.

"In the second half, we kept defending and won the game, and I invited you to dinner," Zhang Feng said as he got up.

"Okay" Justin took the lead in shouting, and the locker room was lively again, and David nodded happily.

Away team dressing room.

The atmosphere of the Spurs behind at halftime was relatively low, the key was that no one spoke, Ginobili was lying down to rest, Dejounte was looking at his phone, and Kawaii was recovering from the excited expression of the interview, with a "sluggish" expression. Popovich didn't say a word, his hands folded on his chest, pondering how to deal with the king.

The strategy of using Patti Mills to consume Zhang Feng did not work well, Aldridge and Gasol's inside scoring was blocked, Danny Green had a poor hand today, shooting less than 40%, and Popovich had a headache and couldn't think of how to deal with it for a while.

"Coach, I have an idea, I don't know if to say it or not," Pau Gasol said suddenly.

"You say!" Popovich values Gasol's advice, after all, he's a two-time NBA champion insider.

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In the TNT live broadcast room, the live broadcast screen showed the cheerleaders beauties leaving, and after halftime, the Kings and Spurs returned to the court.

"Shaq, Charles, what adjustments do you think the Spurs will make?"

"Again, it's useless for the Spurs to make any adjustments, no one can stop Zhang Feng," Barkley said, patting the table.

"The way you look now, reminds me of your earliest evaluation of Zhang Feng, this comparison is too exaggerated, have you also become a fan of Zhang Feng since the summer league," O'Neill pointed out Barkley's transformation.

"Oh? I'm telling the truth, not blowing. I don't think that Zhang Feng is invincible, and kawaii can limit Zhang Feng very well, so I said at the beginning that kawaii is no more, and the Spurs will lose" Barkley said eloquently.

"OK, let's see if the Spurs can't stop Zhang Feng without kawaii," Kenny said.

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The game between the two teams resumed, with the Spurs continuing to use Patty Mills and Ginobili's backcourt lineup, while Danny Green was put in the small forward position, with Aldridge and Pau Gasol still on the inside.

On the Spurs' side, Giles returned to the court, Papajanis was replaced by Costa, Carter also played small forward, and only Bogdan and Zhang Feng in the backcourt remained unchanged.

The king attacked, and after Zhang Feng got the ball, Danny Green posted it directly. In the face of this forward defender who was once selected for the best defensive team but had a very high voice, Zhang Feng was unhurried, controlled the ball steadily, and waited for his teammates to run.

However, the Spurs' defense changed in the third quarter, and the interior duo all chose to go around the front defense, and Giles, who returned to the court, had no chance to receive the ball at all, and the other players were also tightly guarded and locked. For a while, Zhang Feng couldn't pass the ball.

That being the case, Zhang Feng decided to go it alone, and he tried to step back to open up the distance, but Danny Green was with him. Letting go of the sudden and not letting go, Zhang Feng can see the Spurs' defensive strategy, which is to force Zhang Feng inside. After several attempts, Zhang Feng successfully broke through Danny Green's defense, killed inside, and forced a layup against the defense of the Spurs' interior duo.

The Spurs attacked, and Patty Mills was no longer responsible for the organization, and he concentrated on playing pick-and-rolls, in order to prevent Zhang Feng from interfering with Ginobili's pass. A meat shield is blocked at all times, and Bogdan is not good at delaying, Zhang Feng can only watch Ginobili easily pass the ball to the Spurs inside duo.

After Aldridge got the ball, he began to do whatever he wanted in the first quarter, backhitting Giles like chopping melons and vegetables.

Back and forth for a few rounds, the Kings attacked, Zhang Feng was forced into the interior by Danny, and then faced the Spurs duo, Giles and Costa did not shoot, and the distance to receive Zhang Feng's pass was not effective; When the Kings defended, Patti Mills pestered Zhang Feng wholeheartedly, allowing the passing master Ginobili to easily pass the ball to the inside, and then the Spurs "abused" the inside.

Even if the king replaced Randolph and did not receive results, Aldridge played Gasol, occasionally the outside line was not well defended, Ginobili also secretly made a serpentine breakthrough, although Zhang Feng's shooting rate is also high, but every time he scores, it consumes great physical strength.

That went on and on, with the Kings heading into the fourth quarter with a six-point deficit.

"Charles is going to be slapped in the face again, Zhang Feng is blocked, he can't connect with his teammates"

"I don't agree with you, the Spurs have done a very successful job of defending Zhang Feng, but this is not the credit of one person, they used the defensive system to limit Zhang Feng, but it was only to prevent Zhang Feng from passing, if it wasn't for the king's poor interior shot, the king would not have fallen behind at all, so Charles was not slapped in the face" O'Neal said seriously.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Kings also made a change, Zhang Feng changed to shooting guard, Frank Mason was in charge, Carter was replaced, Bogdan was pushed to the small forward position, and the interior became Papa and Costa.

The purpose of this lineup is obvious, to rule the body of others in the way of others, the Kings can't prevent the Spurs from the inside two, and the Spurs can't prevent the Kings from the outside three. Danny Green followed Zhang Feng, but Patimmels couldn't keep up with Bogdan, Zhang Feng and Bogdan crossed each other, and whoever had space would shoot.

In this way, the Kings shot 12 three-pointers in a row, hitting 7 of them, and the Spurs scored 12 points on 100 percent shooting inside, but Danny Green only made a 3-pointer. On a 21-16 run, the Kings managed to tie the score with a three-pointer like crazy, and Popovich called a timeout to try to make a last-ditch effort.

"With two minutes left in the game, we can't let the Spurs go out with an easy three, so Rama and Paul defend a little bit outside and look for opportunities to pack or block. Danny changed his defensive strategy to defend against their first ball handler, Manu and Patti, who only watched the ball and tried their best to cooperate with the steal. Is it clear that the outside line does a good job of defending and the scoring is handed over to the inside line? "Popovich arranges the final tactics.

The whistle remembered that at the end of the timeout, the Spurs found that Frank Mason was no longer playing, but was replaced by George Hill, the powerful starting point guard who was the last to play in order to give the Spurs a blow.

George Hill, who has played for the Spurs for three years, understands the weaknesses of the Spurs' main players, and under his interference, Ginobili's pass is no longer as smooth as before, and it was not until there were 4 seconds left on the offensive time that the ball was passed to Gasol, and in a hurry, Gasol hit the iron.

With 2 minutes and 40 seconds left, Zhang Feng received a rebound from Randolph, turned on the superrun mode, and scored 2 points in the chaotic army of the Spurs defense. The Spurs attacked again, the king directly covered the whole court, Manu Xiu made a mistake in playing a long pass, and the basketball went directly out of bounds. The Kings served, George Hill dribbled to the three-point line, faked a pass to Zhang Feng, and hit a 3-point shot after attracting attention.

In less than a minute, the Kings scored five points, the Spurs missed the first attack after the timeout, the second attack was wrong, and the third attack took another 20 seconds, but turned his head and Bogdan hit the shot. After a long timeout, Popovich couldn't do anything about it, and after a battle of wits and courage, the Kings narrowly defeated the Spurs 106-100.