With the end of the game with the Lakers, in February, all the games of the Spurs have officially come to an end, which also means that the NBA's annual Spurs ~ away cowboy tour is officially over!

Every February, the annual Stampede Festival in the United States is staged in Texas, where cowboy culture is most prevalent. amp; amp; amp; At the center, the Spurs had to travel far away for a long time, so this is also known as the Spurs' cowboy tour. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info (To be precise, since 2003, the Spurs have started to use AT& amp; amp; amp; After the T Center Arena, the "Cowboy Tour" belonging to the Spurs officially began)

In addition, the Los Angeles Lakers also have a similar road trip in the league, and the Grammy Awards, a music festival in February, occupies the Staples Center, so the Lakers' road trip is also called the Grammy trip.

More than a dozen seasons of cowboy journey, which also made the Spurs summarize some rules, or use the word "peep leopard" to look at the Spurs' cowboy journey in a season can accurately predict how far the Spurs can go in the end that season. That is, if the Spurs are strong overall in the Cowboy Journey, then their prospects are very promising!

Of course, the strength mentioned here does not only refer to the record, but also refers to other aspects, such as the ability of players to cope with consecutive away games, the degree of improvement of team chemistry, etc.!

This season, the Spurs started their fifteenth cowboy journey with a victory in Memphis, and throughout the eight games of the cowboy journey, the Spurs performed very strongly, seven wins and one loss, what a terrible record, it seems that since the "cowboy journey", the Spurs have never achieved such a terrible record!

But more important than the seven-one-one record, the Spurs have learned something else during this period!

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This season has been a very strange one for Spurs for many reasons. The team lost their cornerstone and brought in several new faces (three of them were even rookies, including Jin Feng). The Spurs have played 60 games so far, missing at least five games per starter.

If you look at Spurs' season this way, their games are very different. Spurs lost just one at home last year, and have lost six at home this year. They also had a couple of surprise defeats to teams in the bottom half, a rarity for a team with a winning tradition. However, the Spurs have also won quite a few games in crunch time, relying heavily on Kawhi Leonard and his ability to finish games in crunch time. This is also the reason why many times people think that today's Spurs mainly rely on Leonard!

Despite a lot of changes and injury worries, the Spurs have been winning.

They hold the league's No. 1 record with 50 wins and 10 losses, accelerating the pace of another 60-win run for the Spurs. The Golden State Warriors are stronger than the biggest favorites to win the championship, and winning is like eating and drinking for the Spurs. The Spurs, who have stepped into the cowboy journey, don't seem to have left their injuries behind, and they have players missing almost every game due to injury. Of course, sometimes you can also understand that Popovich deliberately made them "hurt".

Leonard is absent, the Spurs win, Tony Parker is absent, the Spurs continue to win, it seems that the Spurs that have progressed to the current season have let people see the Spurs who broke up the Big Three with peak team basketball in the 2013~2014 season!

And at this time, people have to sigh, this season's Spurs are really very strange, you say he won with Leonard, then, when Leonard is out, he still wins, you say he has a strong home record, but he has lost a lot of games at home......

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In fact, for the Spurs, the cowboy tour has other functions! For example, team culture building!

'The camaraderie between the players is very important, especially when the players are new. The team members ate together, chatted about their parents' shortcomings, and became more familiar with each other. It will bring the players closer together. Parker said in an interview.

"I feel like we've had a great experience together, man, and it's definitely going to make us trust each other more...," said Jin Feng, who was experiencing the "Cowboy Tour" for the first time.

In addition to this, the cowboy tour is also a personality test. The players will spend a full month together, playing eight away games in seven cities over 20 days. During this time, the Spurs will learn more about themselves.

The most important thing for Spurs now is how they will cope with the loss. The intensity of back-to-back road games is comparable to that of the playoffs, and maintaining a consistent win on the road in eight consecutive road games has helped the Spurs win another championship. And the Spurs' response to the defeat was clearly fantastic. The Spurs have a number of former championships, and they're getting used to getting things done the "Spurs way."

For youngsters like Jin Feng, the cowboy tour is even more meaningful, and if they can gain confidence from themselves and their teammates in the cowboy tour, the Spurs can go to the next level.

So for the Spurs' cowboy journey, to a certain extent, the Spurs don't value the record, after all, for the Spurs, who are sure to qualify for the playoffs, the record is not a big deal.

Looking back at the Spurs' cowboy journeys over the years, especially the four championship years, the results of the cowboys' journey seem to have little to do with the ownership of the championship. What really matters is the race after the cowboy tour.

In the 13-14 season, the Spurs' last championship season, they had a 6-3 record on the Cowboy Tour. And after the Cowboy Tour, the Spurs won 19 games in a row, ending the regular season with a 22-4 record.

In the '06-07 season, the Spurs' cowboy journey was 4-4, and then 11 consecutive wins. The only difference was in the '04-05 season, when the Cowboy Tour was also 4-4, but the rest of the game was only 18-11. However, at that time, the Spurs team had Ginobili and Duncan, who would care about the record?

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According to Popovich's "convention", when the 20-day Cowboy Tour of each season ends, the main players or veterans on the team will have more opportunities to rest, or they will be preparing for the playoffs from this time.

At the same time, with the veterans more or less absent, the other players will be given more playing time to build confidence. For the Spurs, this is a great opportunity to finally hone their roster, and perhaps the problem that has plagued them all season (how to put together the roster) will be solved.

It doesn't seem like it has much to do with the road trip, what really matters is the way the team deals with the road trip. Sometimes it's a better way to take a loss, torture yourself and find a solution.

Overall, the cowboy god is more than just an eight-game game for the Spurs.

Judging from Jin Feng's feelings, the Spurs after the end of the cowboy journey appear more mature and spicy.........