"Tim, I think you need to be a little tougher, the Mavericks' interior looks like a bunch of soft eggs, and you're not acting like an MVP at all." Sitting on the bench, with a towel wrapped around his head, watching the substitutes fighting on the field, Meng Xu, who felt a little bored, pushed Duncan who was in a daze in the distance, this guy didn't pay attention to himself after Meng Xu mentioned those Chinese meals, and even when he got out of the game in the third quarter, he deliberately avoided himself and didn't sit with him.

"You..." Duncan turned his head and glared at Meng Xu with a serious face, he wanted to say something, but he held back. Duncan did play a little unpleasantly in this game, but it was not because he failed to play earth-shattering statistics in the first game after being crowned MVP, but because the team's current performance was really not satisfactory to Duncan. Data is the thing Duncan cares about the most, Duncan is now the first person in the league, for Duncan, only the team's victory is what he cares about the most, regardless of the team's victory, forcibly brushing data for the sake of his superstar face, no matter when, Duncan can't do that kind of thing.

Just when Meng Xu and Duncan were staring at each other, Popovich was now thinking about the tactical arrangements at the end of the fourth quarter, and the Spurs' problem now is that Mario Elie and Sean Elliott have never been able to find their touch, as for whether they can recover their touch at the last moment of the game, no one can say this, so Popovich is now thinking about whether to continue to let them play when the substitution comes, after all, in the remaining minutes, there is no time for them to adjust again.

And now Popovich is thinking about replacing one of Derrick Anderson or Samaki Walker on the court, so as to free one of Meng Xu or Duncan, but who to replace, Popovich has not yet made up his mind. And Popovich has always had some concerns, whether the old Nelson still has any backhand, otherwise, when the Mavericks have been lagging behind, the old Nelson can still be so calm.

"Tim, you need to be a little tougher now。。。。。。" In the end, after careful consideration, Popovich decided to replace Sean Elliott with Samaki Walker and let him contain Juwan Howard and free Duncan.

When he heard that Popovich was similar to what he had just said to Duncan, Meng Xu directly lowered his head and covered his mouth and laughed, although the voice was very small, but the surrounding Spurs players still heard it, and Duncan also glanced at Meng Xu with some embarrassment.

"Meng, and you, you also need to fight more decisively." Looking at Meng Xu, who was snickering on the side, Popovich immediately walked over and said angrily.

"Alright guys, you guys did a great job in the previous games, but in order to take a win away from here, we need to change our tactics a little bit next." After the official timeout in the fourth quarter, although the Mavericks still trailed the Spurs by four points, Nelson Sr. did look like he was winning. After praising the players who had just left the game, Nelson Sr. gathered all the important players of the Mavericks, took the tactics board and began to rearrange the tactics: "Steve, in the next game, you have to raise the pace of the game as much as possible, as fast as you can, understand?" ”

"Understood." Nash, who was standing straight, was also very excited after hearing the coach's arrangement, and it was finally time for him to show his talents.

"Victory, victory。。。。。。" When Nelson Sr.'s tactics were arranged, several Mavericks players also hugged each other on the sidelines, shouting loudly, cheering each other on and encouraging each other.

When the timeout ended and the starting lineups of both sides returned to the court, unlike the slight adjustments on the Spurs' side, the Mavericks' on-court lineup can be described as upside down, the Mavericks' 3 interior lines, after this timeout, went down to two, Nowitzki was pushed directly to the center position by Nelson Sr., while Michael Finley started power forward, small forward Vernon Maxwell, scoring guard Howard Easley, and playmaking guard Steve Nash.

"Maverick, this is going to run away?" Seeing the changes after the Mavericks paused, Michaels was also puzzled, he had just played a positional battle and fought well, why was it going to run away in a blink of an eye?

"Donald is trying to disrupt the Spurs' deployment by speeding up and speeding up the pace of the game, or even drag the Spurs down." This change for the old Nelson was indeed unexpected by Magic Johnson. Originally, Magic thought that in this first game, Nelson Sr.'s arrangement was just testing the Spurs, after all, there are 7 games in a one-round series, unless the difference in strength is too great, in the first two games, both sides of the game will not show their hole cards, but you punch me and kick the first temptation, but when Nelson Sr. made a change of formation at the end of the fourth quarter, Magic Johnson understood that Neelson Sr. really wanted to win this game.

Duncan pushed Michael Finley away and slammed the dunk with one hand. Nowitzki quickly sent the baseline ball, Steve Nash received the ball and passed the ball to Vernon Maxwell, Vernon Maxwell dodged Mario Elie's interception, the blue ball was handed to Howard Easley, Howard cut straight to the basket, Meng Xu had chased it back, Howard passed back, Michael Finley hit the shot. ”

In this offense, when Duncan dunked and scored, the Mavericks launched a fast attack at a very fast speed, from Nowitzki sending a baseline ball to Finley shooting, the whole process did not exceed 8 seconds, and on the Spurs' side, except for Meng Xu's return to the defense in place, to Duncan and David Robinson had just passed the middle circle, and the Mavericks' attack had already ended.

"I see." Popovich on the sidelines showed a relaxed smile after seeing the Mavericks' lineup change, if the Mavericks' hole cards were just running and shooting, then the Mavericks were not enough to defeat the Spurs. Although the Spurs players are likely to be consumed a lot of physical strength in the last 2 minutes due to too much switchback and running under the super fast pace of the Mavericks, especially David Robinson and Mario Elie, the two veterans, but the Spurs also have their own ways to deal with it, the Spurs now have two players who can control the rhythm, as long as they are given a minute to adapt, they don't have to arrange it themselves, Meng Xu and Duncan will slow down the rhythm on the court.

And Meng Xu didn't think much about it after seeing the change of the calf, but continued to implement the tactics arranged by the coach before, and continued to play positional warfare, and the slower the better, in the past, Meng Xu would always dribble the ball through the middle circle within 5 seconds, but this time Meng Xu took 7 seconds, just in time for 8 seconds before the violation, dribbling through the middle circle, in this offense Meng Xu did not directly hand it over to Duncan, but deliberately pressed the time, after seeing that Duncan and David Robinson were both in position under the basket, only then passed the basketball in, and at the same time signaled that Samaki Walker, who had already pulled away, was ready to grab the rebound, while he stared at Nash tightly.

"What a smart little guy, it seems that I still underestimate him a little." In just one round, Meng Xu's evaluation in the old Nelson has directly gone up a notch, the old Nelson, who has been coaching for more than 20 years, can be said to be well versed in the hearts of the people, for these young players in the league, the old Nelson also thinks that he can understand their psychology, but this time for Meng Xu, the old Nelson has miscalculated.

I have to say that Meng Xu is still very useful to keep an eye on Nash this time, when Duncan successfully singled Finley again, the Mavericks still want to replicate the last offense again, but this time when Nowitzki sent the baseline ball, Meng Xu immediately stuck to Nash, and just when Nash was about to hand over the ball to Howard Easley, Meng Xu stretched out his big hand and directly grabbed Nash's pass in his hand. After Meng Xu steals Nash, he did not hand over the ball to David Robinson, who was still under the basket, but after running out of the 3-point line with the ball, he waited in place for the Mavericks players who had already run through the middle circle to return to defense.

"Hahaha, Vernon is so hilarious." Michaels, who was on the commentary seat, looked at Vernon Maxwell, who was still standing near the center circle, neither advancing nor retreating, and laughed directly.

"I didn't expect Donald to make a mistake, Meng Xu's ball quotient is too high, and he doesn't need the coach to make any arrangements at all, and he can make the most suitable choice on the court to deal with the situation on the court." Since the official timeout, Magic Johnson has been waiting for Popovich to call a timeout, and then make targeted arrangements for the Mavericks' run-and-bomb tactics, but he didn't expect Popovich to make any arrangements, Meng Xu has already understood how to deal with the Mavericks' run-and-bomb, and now it is not the Spurs that need to call a timeout, but the Mavericks, but the game has only passed for 1 minute, and it is difficult to determine that the Mavericks' tactics are now a failure.

"Meng's ball quotient is really high." After hearing Magic Johnson's praise for Meng Xu, Michaels also glanced at Magic, Magic Johnson is recognized as the player with the highest ball quotient in NBA history, even a little better than Jordan, and now Magic Johnson has publicly praised Meng Xu's ball quotient, which also makes Michaels feel a little incredible.

"The calf is in danger." When the Mavericks' players all returned to defense, Meng Xu handed the ball to Duncan under the basket again after almost 20 seconds of dragging, and Duncan scored this goal, 69-61, the Spurs have led the Mavericks by 8 points, and with more than 4 points left in the game, the Mavericks are basically in a desperate situation now.