Instead of sending Duncan at the beginning of the second quarter, Popovich put Robinson on the court in the hope that he could create some rest for Duncan. I have to say that Robinson is worthy of being one of the four centers of the year, and he is still in good competitive condition at the age of forty, and Dalem Porter, who came off the bench, is like a rookie who has just learned to play basketball in front of him.

However, Robinson is not obsessed with self-hosted offense, and he knows that he is no longer the top center who can score 71 points in a single game and win the scoring title. So after engaging the defense, Robinson very selflessly began to make the ball to his teammates, and both Rose and Daniels enjoyed his assists. That's exactly what Popovich wants to see, and the team can maintain the No. 5 strategy for the entire game and keep the opposition under pressure.

Brown's tactics surprised Brown, who knew that his disciple was deeply influenced by his defensive philosophy, and although he had previously served as an assistant coach alongside the offensive maniac Nelson Sr., he was generally a head coach who leaned towards defense. However, this time he chose to use the No. 5 tactic to play against the 76ers, and the effect was also very good.

Actually, Popovich himself was surprised, since he got Duncan in the 1997 draft, he had made the twin towers his regular tactics and never thought of taking them apart, but this time he clearly found a new world.

But Popovich can't use it anymore, Robinson has long announced that he will choose to retire after the end of this season, regardless of whether the team wins the championship or not, so from next season the Spurs can only rely on Duncan alone. Of course, Popovich will still bring in a big center to partner with Duncan, but it will still be difficult to reach Robinson's level.

The 76ers' bench lineup for this series is quite strong, and Robinson took a lot of effort to hold the starters off the rest with a bunch of benches. The Spurs also trailed 55-60 when Duncan came on, but Robinson had done everything he could, and Popovich couldn't have asked too much of him.

Fortunately, Duncan came up and made two consecutive mid-range shots to stabilize the situation, not allowing the 76ers' bench to stretch the score too much. Yes, now Brown is not a starter at all, and is still using the bench to maneuver with the Spurs. This made it hard for Durham Porter, who had to endure Duncan's back-to-back singles under the basket. As a rookie, the gap between him and Duncan is still quite large, let alone preventing Duncan's offense, even if he can cause interference to the other party, it is commendable.

Seeing that the Spurs had tied the score, Brown decisively changed to the starting lineup, and the previous games have proved that this strange starter can be trusted. But when they got on the pitch, it turned into a tug-of-war between the two teams, with back-and-forth scoring. It can be seen that both sides feel good today, which invisibly reduces the difficulty of the 76ers to grab rebounds. After all, there are no rebounds to grab, so the Spurs' advantage in rebounding is compressed to a minimum.

By the end of the first half, the 76ers had 75 points, but the Spurs also had 73 points, which was undoubtedly a huge improvement for them. Although it was a bit humiliating to concede nearly 80 points at halftime, the Spurs returned on the offensive end, and Popovich proved that defensive teams can play beautiful offense with his own strength.

Of course, Brown was not dissatisfied with this scoreline, he didn't expect to rely on this strange set of starters to take advantage of this game, but the players' performance still gave him a big surprise. At half-time, he praised all the players in the dressing room, but said that the team might not have been so lucky in the second half, and that opportunistic things could steal a win, but never a second, and everyone had to give 200 per cent.

In Brown's view, there are still a lot of things that need to be improved in the first half of the players' performance, such as running can be more aggressive, and passing does not need to be too complicated.

As for the defense of Duncan and Robinson, Brown thinks there is nothing to say, after all, with the strength of the Spurs' twin towers, the 76ers have no interior players on the roster who can defend them, so they can only watch them continue to score or give assists to teammates. In fact, this is also the sadness of the 76ers, their outside attack group is very luxurious, but the interior can only dominate in the East, and they have not encountered any teams with strong interior lines in the previous series. Now that the Spurs' twin towers are hitting their underbelly, it looks like Brown should continue to stock up on interior players this summer.

At the start of the second half, everyone tried to pull the difference, but no one could pull it away. The 76ers' side is mainly limited by rebounds, although defensive rebounds can be swarmed up to scramble, but the offensive iron can only be abandoned. The Spurs are not accurate enough to make three points from the outside, and in fact, their outside players are aging, so it's no wonder they drafted Parker in last year's draft, but a rookie is completely inadequate for the Spurs. Watching several veterans run the field, Chang Wei understood why Popovich would hurry up to bring the Argentine demon knife Ginobili to the United States in his previous life.

But now that Ginobili is still playing in Italy, he can't save the Spurs' aging lineback. Thankfully, the Spurs still had twin towers, and Popovich put Duncan and Robinson on the court at the same time with just over two minutes left in the fourth quarter to try to activate the team's offense together. His strategy clearly worked, and Duncan and Robinson's high-and-low passes sent the Spurs into a 6-0 mini-climax, and when these two big men were in the high and low positions, it would be hard to guard against them. This small surge also allowed the Spurs to turn the tide, not only erasing the point difference, but also overtaking by 2 points by the way, and leaving the 76ers with 10.3 seconds.

After serving from the halfway line, the 76ers struggled to get the ball to Reed, and in front of him still stood Bowen's dogskin plaster. Reid could have borrowed a cover to find space to shoot, but time was running out, and he had to make that shot with difficulty under Bowen's defense. Although Bowen stretched out Shen Chi's hand and did not touch the basketball, it still caused Reed to interfere, causing the three-pointer to smash out of the frame under the watchful eyes of the fans.

In the end, the Spurs narrowly won the second game 102-100, and the two sides tied 1-1.