Before the start of this game, the Spurs officially announced that the team's starting power forward Pau Gasol will be rested, while point guard Dejounte Murray will not play in this game because of an ankle injury during training.

If you want to say who is the least credible in the NBA, there is no doubt that people will say that it is Popovich.

The old man's long-term flickering mode has made everyone form a consensus that Popovich can't believe a single punctuation mark when he says it.

This naturally includes the problem of players missing the game due to injury, such as the problem of Murray being absent due to injury in this game, many people said that this must be Popovich looking for an excuse to rest the players again, of course, it is no wonder that everyone does not believe it, after all, the old man has done this kind of thing before.

However, what people don't know is that the news released by the Spurs official this time is true, Murray is indeed injured, and it is not Popovich who is fooling people again.

In fact, Murray's injury was an accident, or rather, an inevitable accident.

Since the start of the new season, Dejounte Murray has performed very well in the first few games, showing very good potential, and at one point people thought that he was the undisputed successor to Parker, and even after Parker's return, Murray had already taken his starting position.

However, as the season progressed, especially into November, Murray's performance became more and more ordinary, and he was rarely seen in the game.

For this, the outside world may not know the reason, but the old man and Jin Feng inside the Spurs know the reason.

Not surprisingly, today's Murray is the same as Jin Feng at a certain time last season, that is to say, he is now stuck in a bottleneck period, a bottleneck period that cannot be crossed by everyone else.

Every player has experienced this kind of bottleneck, but in the end, very few can cross it perfectly, and once he can cross it perfectly, his achievement is destined not to be too low.

Because of this, this bottleneck can often only be relied on by the players themselves.

Murray is a fantastic player, and in the words that Popovich secretly communicated with general manager Buford, "In my plan, the Spurs' new big three should be Kawhi Leonard, China Jin, and Dejounte Murray".

Therefore, everyone within the Spurs believes that Murray can successfully get through this special bottleneck period, but for Murray himself, he is still a little worse than Jin Feng, at least from a mental point of view, he is not as good as Jin Feng at the same age, which makes him a little anxious during this bottleneck period, and this anxiety needs to pay a price.

In order to be reborn, Murray chose to train as a mad devil, but the unscientific training made his body a little unbearable, so he was injured, he sprained his ankle in training, and he had to pay for it, and maybe he would not be able to play again for the next two weeks.

Of course, Murray's injury did not make Popovich panic, after all, on the guard line, as long as Jin Feng is there, he Popovich will not panic, and in two weeks, the Spurs can afford to wait.

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Over the past 20 years, the Spurs have proven to everyone that they are the league's undisputed winners, and for the past 20 seasons, they have maintained 50+ wins in each of them, except for the shortened season.

However, although the Spurs are an out-and-out winning team, they will never deliberately win because they are chasing some records, and they will not ignore the playoff championship competition in order to get the most wins in history like the previous Golden State Warriors.

This means that they will inadvertently lose some inexplicable matches.

It's like losing to the Bulls.

That's right, in this game against the Bulls, the Spurs lost, and they were almost in a situation behind the whole game.

It's definitely a big upset, because if you look at the Bulls' roster for the new season, you can see how unlikely it is for the Spurs to lose to a team like the Bulls.

The Chicago Bulls in the new season have undoubtedly booked the fish belly team in advance without playing a few games in the season.

Jamie Butler left, Dwyane Wade left, Rajon Rondo left, and the Chicago Army, which was known as the Big Three last season, fell apart in the blink of an eye.

Now the team's new core should be dunk king Zach LaVine, but unfortunately he is still recovering from injury, and in the absence of a leader, the worse situation is that the team is full of internal contradictions, and Mirotic and Potis are fighting to make the Chicagoans worse.

So, it is such a team, but it finally defeated the Spurs, who are now in their prime, on the road, which is a joke to a certain extent, although there is a saying that there is no weak team in the NBA, but it is definitely a difference in strength that cannot be bridged.

It's just that they lost, and Spurs just lost, which surprised the fans who followed this game, and of course, they also chose to adapt after the big surprise, after all, this is not the first time this has happened to Spurs.

Of course, although the Spurs lost this game, Jin Feng still performed well in this game, and he scored a game-high 28 points.

After the game, unsurprisingly, people didn't see the frustration on the faces of the Spurs players, and perhaps, for them, losing a game or two once in a while really didn't matter.

"I don't want to talk about Jin anymore, I've gotten tired of answering questions like this for the past week, and it's clear that he's a San Antonio Spurs player, Week of the Week? It was just the result of him taking the salary the team paid him and doing what he had to do, and in my opinion, the most important thing for me right now is to get a nice nightclub and have a few drinks."

The old man was naughty again, after the game, when the reporters wanted to hear from him about Jin Feng getting the honor of the best of the week, the old man directly told all the media on the scene "seriously" that Jin Feng just did what he had to do, which was not worth making a fuss about.

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A day later, the Spurs went to the Dallas Mavericks, and then they will play against the Mavericks, before this game, many people were speculating whether Jin Feng would continue his excellent form in the upcoming game, after all, before this game, he had cut 25+ in six consecutive games, and people were speculating whether Jin Feng could continue this record in this game, and finally, everyone came to the conclusion that Jin Feng could continue this record because of the Mavericks' mediocre strength.

However, when there were still 4 hours before the start of this game, a news officially announced by the Spurs instantly made many people want to chop Popovich with a knife, because the official news announced by the Spurs was: China Jin will miss the game with the Mavericks because of stomach discomfort!