At halftime, the Spurs entered the halftime with another 11 points from Jin Feng in the second quarter, 52:46 at halftime, leading by 6 points.

Jin Feng scored 22 points in the half, and his state was very good, but he used up a lot of shots, a total of 16 shots in the first half, hitting 8 goals, so when the team was not sure of victory, the old man chose to let him rest temporarily.

In the second half, the Timberwolves' defense collapsed a bit, and the high-intensity defense could not be maintained all the time, so the Spurs took the opportunity to open up the difference. The game lasted until the end of the third quarter, and Jin Feng had been sitting on the sidelines to rest, but the team had already won the game, so in the fourth quarter, Popovich did not arrange for Jin Feng to play.

In this way, Jin Feng, who scored 22 points in the half, did not get a minute of playing time in the second half, and the substitute in the Spurs bench finished the fourth quarter. There's no way, the old man is just this urine, he will definitely not give you an extra second if he can make the main force play for one minute less, no matter how good your condition is, whether you are willing or not.

In the end, the Spurs defeated the Timberwolves 101-83.

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On the same day, there was also a very focused game in the East, that is, the Celtics hosted the Orlando Magic, the "big dark horse" of the new season, and finally the Celtics narrowly defeated the Magic by 1 point at home, and the winning streak expanded to 10 games (a small tampering, in fact, more than 10 consecutive wins). That's right, it's 10 games, who would have thought that in the case of Hayward's season reimbursement, Kyrie Irving would be able to burst out with such terrifying energy and lead the Green Army to victory!

With 10 wins in a row, there's no doubt that the Celtics are getting better and better, and Kyrie Irving is roaring at TD Garden!

For the Western Conference leader Spurs, because of the "willfulness" of facing the weak team in the previous games, this allows them to now maintain the same record as the Celtics from the perspective of the entire league, and in terms of the West, it is only 0.5 wins ahead of the Warriors.

So, for Spurs, the next game will have to work hard, after all, it may be a bit unsatisfactory to give up the first place without any reason.

On November 14, 2017, the Spurs and Celtics had their next game at the same time, with the Spurs hosting the Trail Blazers and the Celtics hosting the Philadelphia 76ers.

Against the Trail Blazers, the mischievous Popovich was once again uncharacteristically unusual, unexpected, but acceptably heavily rotated, with Kyle Anderson and Gasol on the inside resting and Kawhi Leonard continuing to be sidelined due to injury, while Tony Parker was still on the active list, but he was not on the starting lineup.

Especially in Parker, some information is invisibly revealed, that is, the old gun car who has returned from injury may gradually have to play as a substitute, and Murray is still recovering from the injury, so it has become Jin Feng who replaced Parker in this game, that is, Jin Feng played point guard in this game.

This season's Trail Blazers are not weak in terms of strength, even if the recent record is not good for some reason, but it is definitely not easy to deal with, the Spurs sent a starting lineup composed of point guard Jin Feng, scoring guard Danny Green, small forward Rudy Gay, power forward Beltans and center Aldridge to deal with it, it seems that it has given the Trail Blazers a lot of ideas.

But in fact, Popovich's "big spending" rotation is not because he gave up the victory in this game, on the contrary, the old man believes that this game against the Trail Blazers, who have been in poor form recently, even if they rotate, there is a chance to win, and the next game with the Thunder is the most important thing.

So, he decided to rotate.

However, in the eyes of the outside mainstream media, if there are no accidents, the Spurs can still win this game, after all, only Gasol, Anderson and Leonard, who are absent due to injury, are rotated, after all, this is the San Antonio Spurs, referring to the record achieved by the Spurs at the beginning of the season in the absence of Parker and Leonard, they definitely have a good chance of winning this game.

Of course, the premise is that there are no accidents, but accidents still happen, and at the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Trail Blazers leader Damion Lillard began his outburst.

first quickly broke through Jin Feng's defensive layup, then grabbed the rebound and shot a three-point chase in the fast break, and then fired a series of shots from the middle range, and in just half a quarter, Lillard shot the Spurs alone.

He made eight shots in the first quarter, hit six shots, and scored 15 points, including three three-pointers, and most of the other mid-range shots were two-point shots, and the Spurs trailed by 10 points in the first quarter.

Popovich saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately made adjustments, Parker came off the bench, Danny Green, who was not performing well, was replaced, Tony Parker's appearance helped the Spurs stabilize the situation, and on the defensive end, Jin Feng blocked McCollum, who also had an explosive tendency, and the two on the offensive end also scored one after another, but the Trail Blazers were in good shape, and the 10-point deficit has not been narrowed.

At the end of the third quarter, the Spurs trailed the Trail Blazers by 15 points, without Gasol on the inside, LaMarcus Aldridge seemed a little powerless alone, and was attacked by Nurkic again and again, so the score expanded by another 5 points.

In the fourth quarter, Damion Lillard scored another 10 points and scored 35 points in the game, plus Nurkic with 26 points and McCollum with 23 points, the Trail Blazers directly used their best form to defeat the Spurs.

At the end of the game, the Trail Blazers defeated the Spurs 136-120, a sixteen-point advantage, and if it weren't for Jin Feng's all-out efforts on the defensive end, maybe the Spurs would have lost even more.

The Spurs lost, and a few hours later, news came from Boston that the Celtics beat the 76ers 102-93 at home, extending their winning streak and completing their comeback over the Spurs.

"Spurs upset loss, horror Celtics continue to win!"

"Ignite the fire, the Green Army's winning streak is unstoppable!"

"11 straight wins to book the Eastern Conference championship in advance? LeBron James and his Cleveland may be saying goodbye to the Finals! ”

The Celtics' crazy winning streak has made the entire league a world of the Celtics, and after leaving LeBron James this season, Kyrie Irving has become more serious and mature, but behind the seriousness and maturity is that flash of spirit.

Years of being suppressed by LeBron James once made Kyrie Irving lose his heart, and his career has fallen into a trough, even if they have been successful, so the idea of leaving has become stronger and stronger, and finally turned into action.

Not surprisingly, the first person to leave the league and stand on his own, he Kyrie Irving faced too much pressure, and he was also in a daze alone, whether he could withstand the pressure, but now it seems that at least it is not bad.

"We're going to keep on winning streaks, we've got to keep working hard and that's the only way we can do better in the playoffs!" After playing the 76ers, in the face of an interview with reporters, Irving also changed his previous low-key style and aimed at the playoffs.

There is no doubt that the Celtics won against the 76ers, the Spurs lost to the Trail Blazers, and now, the Celtics are the first in the league.

The Spurs' next game against the Thunder was the Thunder, and for the sake of the Thunder, the Spurs lost the game against the Trail Blazers, but Popovich didn't care, he knew very well that as long as there was a large rotation, it was normal to lose.

However, since they lost to the Trailblazers, the Thunder must win this battle.

However, everyone knows that this season's Thunder are not easy to bully.........