The Spurs players soon discovered that Duncan's body exuded a rare murderous aura, which should have angered him by Zhang Mao's actions just now.

Mutombo sighed on the side, Zhang Mao's bastard is not on the inside, but he can feel the threat of the Spurs Twin Towers increasing every game, and he can feel that it is more tricky than before every time he fights, but Mason's help to him has been decreasing, doesn't this play make trouble for him?

This season, Mason has at most last year's eight successes on the defensive end, and he is afraid that he only has seven successes after the last injury, and if he picks teammates purely on the defensive end, then he would rather choose Ben Wallace, that guy's footwork can help him more.

Of course, Harris doesn't just think about defense, so Mutombo has to work more than he can, otherwise why should he be the best defensive player? And why did you average 10 points per game to be an All-Star?

The Lakers' starters today are still the same: Kidd (88), Jones (87), Zhang Mao (99), Mason (83), Mutombo (88).

Zhang Wei is confident to beat the Spurs because his own outside line is also very buggy, Kidd is not inferior to Duncan in terms of ability value, although it is not a glorious thing to take advantage of four years of experience, but now Kidd is indeed only higher than Duncan in terms of immediate combat power; Jones has also been more at home with the Lakers than with the Clippers, and his offensive advantage with the ball is more suitable for the Lakers than Finley; After Mason's return, the Lakers have the ability to break through with the ball from the No. 1 position to the No. 4 position, and even though the Spurs have twin towers, they are still very afraid of the Lakers' outside impact, because this is a historic outside lineup.

At the beginning of the game, Jones's two assaults on the flanks made it difficult for the Spurs who put the defense in the middle to stop Zhang Qi, now should we extend the defense?

The problem only bothered the Spurs for a minute, and when Kidd used Mutombo's cover to go straight into the box for a layup, Popovich knew he couldn't pile up his defense in the middle anymore, and Kidd and Jones were also threatening on the wings, and the Lakers could go around the middle and go straight into their box.

"Then I'll shrink into the restricted area."

Although Popovich knew that he had to change the formation, he still didn't want to loosen the tie on Zhang Mao, and immediately ordered the twin towers to go straight back to the penalty area after the flank was broken through, and lead the attack to the paint area and then snuff it out.

This is a risky move, which is a great test of the movement and anticipation ability of the two interior lines, because it is definitely too late to react after the wing is broken through, and the two interior lines must return to the basket when the wing is about to lose, so as to block the offense of Kidd and Jones in the dangerous area under the basket.

Popovich dared to play this way because he trusted the Admiral's experience and Duncan's consciousness that their twin towers were capable of accomplishing this knife-tip mission.

He wasn't wrong about the two, Duncan and Robinson did have this ability, but he underestimated Kidd's ability to break through.

Avery Johnson, 33, has a lot of responsibility to pay, as he was powerless to do anything about Kidd's breakthrough and didn't delay Kidd's advance for the Twin Towers.

This allowed Duncan and Robinson to get back to the box every time, but Kidd was able to get the ball out of the box every time and pass the ball to a position that made the Spurs players feel extremely uncomfortable.

Mason played a role in this link, and Kidd would pass the ball to him first on many occasions, and Mason usually moved to a relatively weak position for the Spurs' defense.

At the moment, he can attack on his own or pass to better teammates in other positions. The Spurs' defense is bound to be a bit scattered at this point, as long as he can pass the ball to the next threat area, the Spurs' formation will be more loose, and he is capable of doing just that.

Zhang Zhu finally started to perform, and while his teammates tore the Spurs defense into pieces, they also successfully released him from the encirclement, and Zhang Zhu played the role of a terminator at this time!

In the 8th minute and 43 seconds, Zhang Yu hit the first ball of the game, he had already run to the weak bottom corner when shooting, the Spurs' defense was already out of system, and it was Avery Johnson who was 178cm tall who rushed to him to make up for the defense, so he could only see the opponent's Tianling Gai when shooting.

Half a minute later, Zhang Yu received the basketball in front of Duncan, who was making up for the defense, and he deliberately waited for this stupid melon, because he wanted to see if this stupid guy's reaction was really so fast?

"Just kidding, with your stupid appearance, you can react in more than 0.2 seconds?"

Zhang Wei never believed Duncan's reaction results, and it happened that Duncan was a beat slower to fill in this time, and he deliberately waited for the opponent to pounce in front of him, and then closed the ball to break through.

"Isn't it going to trick you around now?"

Zhang Wei felt that the inside players were played by him like this, and they must not be able to react.

But unexpectedly, Duncan quickly completed the emergency stop and turned around, and followed from behind.

This is by no means a reaction, obviously there is a prediction that Zhang Yu will break through when he pounces, and he did not fly out to block in desperation.

Duncan does have a plan in his heart that Zhang Yi will take a breakthrough, he has played for so many years, of course, he has encountered similar tricks, and he has a memory after suffering a loss, and this is the power of great players, they will really transform experience into consciousness.

But most players will be played with the same trick over and over again, which is not to say that they have no brains and no memory, but when they react and realize that they have been fooled, the opponent has already succeeded most of the time, which is the real quick reaction.

Zhang Qi seems to have some misunderstandings about "reaction", Kidd's reaction speed is only mid-grade among point guards, but he can be better than most point guards, this is because his brain spins fast.

Duncan's ball is a typical example of "the brain spins fast" is more important than "the body reacts quickly", otherwise he should fly over and block without a brain, and the result is either Zhang Zhu's three-point success or Zhang Zhu's fake action to easily break through.

But then there will be no future all-time number one striker, and that is the "bug killer" Swift.

In front of the TV, a little Lori with an instant noodle head was holding a guitar and playing a few bullets, and her brain-dead brother happened to press the remote control to the dynamite table, so instant noodle Lori immediately sneezed, and her eyes just glanced at the TV, and the host was screaming like a pig at the moment - "The koala baby is in, Duncan is still following closely behind him, he has not lost his defensive position, will Leon be covered?" ”

"God, this dunk is so handsome!"

Instant noodle Lori soon yelled with her brainless brother, both of them saw Zhang Yu as if she had long eyes in the back of her head, facing the basket is a cheating 360-degree turn, stunned to the other side of the basket, and then pressed her hands hard on the back of her head, "bang", and the basketball was smashed into the basket.

Duncan jumped with Zhang Zhu and saw Zhang Qiu's 360-degree turn clearly from behind, but the basketball was always placed in front of Zhang Qiu, especially when the koala glided to the other side of the basket, no matter how long his arm span was, it was impossible to cover the ball.

Zhang Yu made a handsome move at this time, he did so many movements in the air, and still landed before Duncan, and then he didn't look back, and ran towards his half of the court with a drift, the expression on his face was like he had just done something insignificant.

Duncan felt deeply humiliated again, he felt that Zhang Zhu turned back to demonstrate to himself after dunking, then his heart was better, but now people don't even bother to look back at him, this blow is too big!

"So handsome!"

As instant noodle Lori fell into a nymphomaniac, Zhang Fu's task system rang again. Of course, he didn't bother to see what mission had been accomplished. Because now he has enough young ladies or something, and he can't tell which one is more beautiful, and if he continues like this, he may not be interested in the opposite sex.

The Spurs' home court became silent after Zhang Mao's dunk, and Duncan couldn't slow down the entire dunk.

At this time, don't say how good the psychological quality of the stupidity is, the current No. 21 is really a rookie, he has not yet been aware of being a 10,000-year-old background board, and he is not accustomed to this kind of humiliation, and now he is a "flying devil".

Duncan's core was denied by Zhang Zhu, and the operation of the Spurs began to go wrong.

Zhang then seized the opportunity to use his individual ability, and began to use frequent singles to force the Spurs defense, and always broke in the direction of Duncan, but also had good gains.

After Popovich saw that the Lakers overwhelmed the Spurs in morale and state through this dunk, he knew that it was irrational to go to the tough match now, and they had to wait until the Lakers' state began to decline, Duncan and the Spurs eased up, and then launched a counterattack to have a chance, and they could only take a defensive position at this stage.

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led the Spurs by six points at 27-20, Zhang scored a game-high 10 points, and Kidd dished out a game-high four assists. The Spurs' top scorer was the general, who scored seven points. Duncan didn't play well, not only had two turnovers in the quarter, but also contributed only two points on the offensive end.

In the second quarter, Zhang Mao only rested for two minutes, and continued to strengthen his attack after coming on the court, whether with or without the ball, the Lakers' offensive arrows were always on him.

Popovich can see that his defensive strategy today is not wrong, the Lakers are counting on Zhang Zhu's individual ability to open up the situation, and others play the role of support and defense, is it trying to save the physical strength for the second half?

Harris played this calculation, in the first half the Lakers used superstar tactics to open the situation, and in the second half, the Lakers used team tactics to defend the advantage, which is a more suitable tactic in the case of the right time, place and people are not dominant.

Popovich thought about it, and there seemed to be no way he could interfere with the Lakers' tactical intentions, because it was all about my style of play — I didn't even think about how to restrain you, I just wanted to play my own game.

This made Popovich very entangled, he found that he and Harris have a completely different tactical philosophy, he thinks about far more things than the opponent, and Harris seems to only think about how to play his full strength, and rarely think about how to limit the opponent's strength.

Is it more important to limit your opponents, or is it more important to focus on yourself?

I guess there will never be an answer to this question, because everything is important, depending on what cards you have in your hand.

In the second quarter, there was a problem with the Lakers' more focused on their own style of play, and the state of any player could not climax forever, and Zhang Fu's state began to fall back in the second quarter, and the Lakers' lead was immediately narrowed by the Spurs.

The Admiral stepped up again during this time, and he helped the Spurs play an 18-6 offensive wave in the first half of the quarter, and the Lakers only scored six points in that time.

Duncan's contribution on the defensive end was ignored, and fans didn't see him play much offensively, but Duncan, who regained his composure in the second quarter, began to exert his power on the defensive end, but unfortunately people only remembered Zhang's violent dunk on him in the first quarter, but ignored the number of times he successfully interfered with Zhang's shooting in the second quarter.

In this quarter, Duncan let Zhang Mao's breakthrough score in the first half of the game, and all the shots that burst into the vicinity of the box were missed. But even Spurs fans aren't much aware of Duncan's contribution. In the eyes of most people, this quarter is the Admiral leading the team to score points, he is leading the Spurs to take the lead in one fell swoop, and Duncan is still invisible.

At the 5:12 mark of the quarter, the Spurs led by seven points at 42:35 as David Wesley hit a breakaway layup.

Duncan's side adjusted quickly, and Zhang Zhu's side was not slow.

After the pause, Zhang Fu found his touch again, first hitting outside the three-point line, and then hitting the basket with Duncan to score the ball, and finally completed a 2+1.

The Lakers also overtook the score 43-42 after an 8-0 attack wave.

This made 99% of people forget Duncan's previous successful defense of Zhang Zhu, and they only remember that Zhang Qi scored two consecutive goals to blow up Clifford and Duncan, and successfully led the Lakers to overtake the score. The conclusion is: the performance of these two people is naturally scum, and the Spurs have not been opened up by the Lakers by relying on the generals, so the young people are unreliable.

Zhang scored a total of 12 points in the quarter, basically in the second half, and the Lakers led by one point at 49:48 after the first half.

Duncan's side was much worse, with only 5 points and 4 rebounds in the first half, and not even an assist or block.

In the halftime interview, Zhang Qian will certainly not be let go by reporters, even if it is away.

"Leon, you scored 22 points in the first half, and that dunk even gave me the illusion that I was watching a dunk contest, what do you want to say to poor Tim at this moment?"

This reporter didn't look like it was from a local TV station, so of course he didn't care whose home it was.

"I'm going to say to him: If you've been playing cards for half an hour and still don't know who's a rookie, then you are."

Zhang Yu did not let go of the opportunity to humiliate Duncan, he saw Duncan's potential from this game, this defense in the second quarter made him feel that Mutombo was defending himself, although he was still a lot worse in experience, but a guy who far surpassed Mutombo on the offensive end, but had the same potential on the defensive end, will inevitably become a threat to himself in the future, and he must be suppressed if he has the opportunity.

There is another reason why he didn't think about it himself, that is, Duncan actually adjusted it in the second quarter when his mentality was unbalanced by him in the first quarter, which should be the most terrifying thing about that dumb guy, he is too durable!

On the other side, Duncan was also stopped by a local reporter at the door of the home team's locker room, and he said of the first half, which was not very impressive: "I kept telling myself: I'm a rookie, I'm a rookie, but another voice is saying, I'm a cruel lion, I'm hungry." ”