"Greg, the team is in great shape right now, but compared to the last two games with the Lakers, Meng's state is not very good."

On May 22, 2ooo, after a day of rest in San Antonio, the Spurs rushed to Portland, and the first two games of this season's playoffs Western Conference Finals will be played at the Portland Trail Blazers' home Moda Center, five hours before the start of the game, the Spurs have entered the Moda Center in advance, and at the same time as the pre-game training session, they have also adapted to the game venue in advance.

"Oh, Meng's state is not good? Was it because you didn't have a break yesterday? "Since the second half of this season, the vicky has begun to adjust the game status of all players in an orderly manner, in order to reach the peak of the player's state in the Western Conference finals or finals, after 7 battles with the Lakers, the state of most of the Spurs' players has been gradually stimulated, but Meng Xu compared with the previous round, it has not improved but the state has fallen, you know, and the Trail Blazers series, Vicky can have high hopes for Meng Xu.

Although there is no David Robinson, with Duncan's ability, there is still no problem in dealing with the inside combination of Rashid Wallace and Arvidas Sabonis, but the key reason why the Spurs are blown up by the Trail Blazers every time is not from the inside, but from the outside group, so Vicky attaches so much importance to Meng Xu, with Meng Xu's ability in the last round of the series, and now Scottie Pippen can still do it, as long as the Spurs' outside line is not like before, it is still possible to be hung up and played, There is still a little hope for Spurs in this round of races.

After observing from the sidelines for a while, what made Vicky a little uncomfortable was that compared with the previous round, Meng Xu's state had declined not just a little, but a lot. Meng Xu, who is training before the game, is also very aware of his current state, after using two bottles of magic potion in a row, Meng Xu fell quickly from an extremely excited state, from yesterday to today, he is a little listless, and in the state of enchantment, Meng Xu's ability value is already very close to 9o, and many attributes are overflowing, but Meng Xu's current ability value is only 79, and the ability value of 79 and 9o are worlds apart, even if it is 89 Kobe, and 9o Kobe is not the same person.

For the opponent that the Spurs are about to face, whether it is Vicky or Mike Budenholzer, they are very clear in their hearts, after losing David Robinson, there is a qualitative gap between the strength of the Spurs and the Trail Blazers, the Spurs' interior line is now unavailable, and it has reached the point where Sean Elliott is going to play power forward, and the opposite Trail Blazers have 3 All-Star interior lines, as well as two strong benches, not to mention the outside group, if you just look at the paper configuration, the Trail Blazers should be the champion every year.

So at this time, seeing Meng Xu, who was doing running training on the field, whether it was Vicky or Mike Budenholzer, they all had a solemn and helpless look.

The remaining 28 teams in the entire league this season, the only one who can not fall behind in the face of the Trail Blazers is the Lakers, the Lakers' triangle offense is really playing the role of 112, so after thinking all night long, Vicky also pinned his last hope on the triangle offense, fortunately, when the Bulls dominated the league before, Vicky more or less studied the triangle offense tactics, and in order to deal with the Lakers, Vicky and his assistant started from the second half of this season, The Lakers' triangle offense was studied and cracked.

So now Vicky also hopes to transplant the triangle offense to the Spurs, Duncan will assume the same role as O'Neal, although the deterrence under the basket is still not as good as O'Neal, but it is enough to deal with all the interior Duncan in the league except O'Neal, and Duncan's ability to respond is not bad at all compared to O'Neal. And Avery Johnson is the Spurs' Ron Haber, although the understanding of the triangle offense is much different from Ron Haber, but in line with the principle of sufficiency, Avery Johnson can also adapt to this role, the last one is Meng Xu, in the Spurs' triangle offense, Meng Xu will assume the same tactical position as Kobe Bryant in the Lakers, Meng Xu's excellent breakthrough and the league's first-class outside shooting ability, may not be as good as Kobe in scoring continuity, but with Meng Xu's unrelenting character at critical moments, Vicky is also very much looking forward to whether Meng Xu can adapt to this role well. Once the Spurs successfully play a triangle offense, not only do they have hope of defeating the Trail Blazers, but more importantly, after David Robinson returns, the Spurs will have more tactical options, and they will not go the same way as before, with the twin towers and insideouts going the world.

The Spurs are now training the tactical running position under the triangle offense, in order to prevent early exposure, all the tactical running positions are carried out separately, and when the game is softened, through the observation in training, whether it is Duncan or Avery Johnson, they have adapted well to their new roles, and now the more troublesome thing is the cooperation between Meng Xu and Mario Elie, and there is always the problem of repetition of running between the two.

"Alright, let's take a break." Vicky and Mike Budenholzer took the tactical board, gathered all the players on the field, and began to re-explain the tactical movement under the triangle attack, especially Meng Xu and Mario Elie, who were guided by Vicky alone. Because it is in the Trail Blazers' arena, out of the principle of secrecy, the Spurs are now not only running training, but also tactical guidance is carried out separately.

"Meng, come and sit here." After explaining the tactics, Vicky pushed Mario Eli away, called Meng Xu to his side, and at the same time took a towel from behind him and handed it to Meng Xu: "How do you feel?" ”

"It's okay, but I'm a little tired." Meng Xu sat on the seat, took the towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"The playoff schedule is very intensive, so a lot of young players don't adjust their form and mentality, which is why a lot of rookies don't do well in the playoffs." After seeing Meng Xu nodded, Wei continued: "In addition to exploring the way to adjust the state, you can also ask those veterans for advice. ”

"yes, I see, Coach." While speaking, Vicky looked at Mario Eli and Sean Elliott in the distance, I don't know if it was because of the deliberate paddling and pretending to be dead, Mario Eli and Sean Elliott performed far better in this season's playoffs than in the regular season.

"Go ahead, Meng, adjust yourself, whether we can win this round of the series, you are the most critical point." Wei patted Meng Xu's shoulder: "I have always been very confident in you. ”

Although Vicky's statement is no different from the statement of Rockets head coach Tom Janovic's championship heart, this set of rhetoric is still very good for mediating the mentality of players.

It's just that although Vicky hopes that Meng Xu can learn the method of mediating the state, Meng Xu himself knows that it is not that he is in a bad state, but that today's somewhat drowsy state is really the sequelae of the magic potion, according to Anna, there is no way to recover without 5 days, I knew that the side effects of this thing are so big, I should be careful when I used it at the beginning.