Both teams started and the game was about to begin.

Spurs starters: point guard Jr. Avery Johnson, shooting guard Mario Arie, small forward Sean Elliott, power forward Tim Duncan and center David Robinson.

The Spurs are all at their best, and they have no intention of saving for the playoffs at all.

Qiao Hai smiled and thought it was very interesting: "The Spurs want to compete for the first place in the league, and it seems that they are going to work hard." ”

"The Jazz have half a win over them, but the Jazz have played 50 games, so as long as the Spurs win this game, they can surpass the Jazz and become the first in the league by virtue of their mutual record."

Jim Eden helped Joe Hay explain, and Byron Scott was stunned.

Qiao Hai continued to laugh: "Greg Popovich is very ambitious, his goal is to win the championship. ”

Byron Scott shrugged: "There's no one whose goal isn't a championship. ”

"No, I mean, before the season started, the Spurs weren't the favorites, but after one season, they're already the favorites, and Greg Popovich makes no secret of his championship ambitions......"

In fact, Qiao Hai has another level of view, a view that is affected by the future in his previous life.

In his previous life, after Qiao Hai had become a senior fan, Popovich had become a coach who didn't care about the regular season record at all, and was crazy and inconsiderate.

Therefore, now Qiao Hai is naturally a little surprised to see that Popovich will fight for the last game of the regular season for the sake of a league first and a playoff advantage.

However, it is not surprising that, strictly speaking, Popovich is still in the stage of pursuing fame and success, and a game that determines the first place in the league is naturally important.

On the court, O'Neal and David Robinson jumped the ball, and they will be direct opponents in this match.

It is worth mentioning that O'Neill and Admiral David Robinson also have a grudge.

David Robinson once used a brush 71 points to steal O'Neal's scoring title, which naturally goes without mentioning, in addition, O'Neal once told a small story.

In 1989, O'Neal, who was still in high school, waited at the door of the locker room after the Spurs game, but when he asked Robinson for an autograph, David's slightly disdainful refusal made O'Neal remember. Since then, he has secretly made up his mind in his heart: if he enters the alliance, he will definitely defeat the general.

But this little story, in Qiao Hai's memory, seems to have been refuted by O'Neill after retirement.

After retiring from football, O'Neal said that he made up the story and that he never went to the generals to ask for an autograph, which is just a better way to motivate himself to play against a super center, because he usually plays well if someone is upset.

However, even if the story is made up, the bond between O'Neill and David Robinson is still knotted.

In this game, the enemy and the opponent on the field saw each other, naturally they were very red-eyed, both of them worked very hard to jump the ball, and the flexible fat man faced the more and more aging admiral, who won and who lost.

Eventually, the referee's whistle blew and the basketball was thrown into the air.

O'Neal and David Robinson jumped together, and everyone looked up at the basketball in the air.

Suddenly, there was a pair of chubby, black hands in the air, Shaquille O'Neal! The Lakers won the opening ball!

The Lakers began to attack, Scott Pippen faced Sean Elliott, both are veterans at the end of their careers, veterans vs. veterans, the difference is that Sean Elliott's peak total rating is 85, but now the total rating has dropped to 75.

And Scott Pippen's peak total rating is 96, and now the total rating is also 96, it's been a month, and Scott Pippen has really returned to the top!

In the last game, Scott Pippen had a total rating of 94, 25 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists on 10-of-18 shooting, only because the team rested Kobe and O'Neal, and the Lakers lost to the Trail Blazers by 3 points.

Scott Pippen, who has a peak of 96 points, is obviously not something that Sean Elliott, who has a total rating of 75 points, can stop, and Pippen directly broke through and hit the inside.

Tim Duncan made up for the defense in time, this season, the Spurs' strength depends on the play of the teenager Duncan, whether offensive or defensive, the Spurs need Duncan to stand up and come up with wonderful play and performance, such as the current supplemental defense, in the face of the breakthrough of the peak Scott Pippen, Duncan directly made up for it.

This defense was very timely, because Scott Pippen did not stop the ball and raised his hand to shoot, but he collided head-on with Duncan's defense.

With a bang, Scott Pippen hit the iron with his first shot.

David Robinson lost the opening jump ball, a rebound he desperately wanted to grab.

He directly pressed O'Neal with his butt, accurately stuck the position, and grabbed the rebound.

The Spurs' offense, their style of play is very simple, directly by Avery Johnson holding the ball to the front court, and then handing the ball to Tim Duncan in the middle distance.

Duncan singled with his back and Robert Horry struggled to defend.

Duncan saw that the Lakers had no intention of wrapping him, so he immediately increased the intensity of the singles, advanced two steps to the inside, turned around and jumped, Robert Horry couldn't stop it, and reluctantly reached out to pull it, and pulled it directly to Duncan's hand.

There was a beep, the referee blew the whistle and the thug fouled.

Duncan walked to the free throw line, and in the cheers of the San Antonio fans in the court, Duncan hit one of two free throws, and the Spurs opened the scoring 1-0.

The Lakers' offense, Scott Pippen stabilized the rhythm, and when he missed a shot in the opening game, as a veteran, Scott Pippen knew very well that he couldn't be chaotic or anxious at this time, and he still had to look for opportunities slowly.

After a moment of control from the outside, Pippen took two steps inside, and Sean Elliott's defense struggled a little, but at the same time, Tim Duncan was watching from the sidelines.

Pippen knew immediately how to hit the ball.

He was another strong burst, Sean Elliott couldn't bear the pressure and asked for help from Duncan, Duncan hurriedly made up for it, and at the same time signaled his teammates to pay attention to Robert Horry's position to prevent the Lakers from playing a breakthrough shot and distributing it to the vacant Horry.

But Pippen didn't think about Horry, and with the Spurs' defense, it was still easy to take care of Robert Horry while Duncan made up for it.

And Scott Pippen's target is one of Kobe O'Neal, he attracted Duncan's help defense, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant can naturally get an absolute one-on-one single opportunity, whether O'Neal plays David Robinson, or Kobe Bryant plays Mario Arie, the Lakers have a great chance.

Scott Pippen took two more steps inside and made a direct pass to O'Neal.

O'Neal hit David Robinson hard, and Scott Pippen thought the ball was stable and quickly withdrew from the interior to make room.

But......

The Lakers and Scott Pippen really underestimated David Robinson!

After all, David Robinson is a former super center, although he is 33 years old this season, but he has not fully stepped into the peak, this season, David Robinson can still contribute 15.8 points, 10.0 rebounds, 1.4 steals and 2.4 blocks per game, the offensive end has degraded significantly, but the defensive end is still the top in the league.

O'Neal hit hard, turned around and made a layup, but was directly interfered with by David Robinson, and still didn't score!

At the beginning, the Lakers' offense was stubbornly blocked by the Spurs, and the difficulty of this game came......