The Spurs returned to San Antonio for a full day before departing for Los Angeles the next day to take on the Lakers.

This season's Lakers officially began the rebuilding work after Kobe Bryant's retirement, invited Wharton Jr. as the head coach, and the lineup tends to be younger, and Wharton learned a lot from Kerr in the Warriors last season, and now what he has to do is to build the Lakers into a team with a fast pace similar to the Warriors, it seems that the effect is still good, from the beginning of the season to the present, it has achieved a winning rate of more than 5%.

Because the Lakers have changed a lot, the style of play is completely different from last season, so the coaching staff's previous tactics and experience against the Lakers will be invalidated, but the Lakers themselves are currently an inexperienced team, so the Spurs coaching staff is still very confident of winning, and got a good news before the game, that is, the Lakers' starting point guard Russell will miss the game due to knee soreness.

This makes the Spurs' point guard position a lot easier, although Russell's emotional intelligence is worrying, he often acts like an imbecile, and he doesn't speak through his brain, but the ball quotient is still there, plus he is young, Parker may have some difficulty in defense, originally Bobo Old Man also wanted to let Thunder Water replace Parker as the starting point guard to limit Russell, so there is no need to put Thunder Water in the small forward position, you can limit Lore Deng.

The Spurs' starters are center Gasol, power forward Ade, small forward Thunderwater, point guard Leonard, and point guard Parker.

The Lakers' starters are center Mozgov, power forward Randle, small forward Deng, point guard Young, and point guard Calderon.

This lineup, it can be said that the Spurs are not at a loss in terms of interior height and technology, and it is relatively easy to defend, mainly aimed at the Lakers' outside line, in addition to Yang and Deng, there are two scoring masters on the bench, one is Louis Williams, and the other is Jordan Clarkson, they are both very impactful, and they always play a scoring climax in rotation time, which needs to be guarded against.

At the start of the jump ball, Gasol still had a long arm and won the first possession.

First of all, the Spurs still blocked and dismantled through the inside line, Gasol was misplaced against Randle, with a height advantage, Gasol worked hard to get the position, and he wanted to eat alone, although Randle was not as tall as Gasol, but after all, he had weight and strength, and Gasol was on the plate, Gasol was getting closer and closer to the outside, and finally he could only come to a backward jumper and miss.

Lakers offense, because now Wharton emphasizes the fast pace, so Deng a single block cover on the shot, Lei Shui through the cover of the person stretched out his arm to interfere, due to the speed and height of Lei Shui, Deng was not prepared, so the ball only lightly touched the front of the basket, a lot shorter, but this kind of unexpected rebound Randle is better at it, using mobility and prediction, after winning the rebound, quickly take advantage of the chaos to throw it to Yang, Yang received the ball and missed.

Seeing the inside switch, Gasol couldn't take advantage of the strength, so he changed to the outside cover position, Leonard covered Parker and changed Calderon to front of him, Leonard took advantage of this advantage full of misposition, directly received the ball and turned over a jumper to score the first goal.

The Lakers sent the ball, Randle, as a big forward, dribbled directly across the half court and waited for an opportunity, which must have been agreed by Wharton, probably to copy the role of the Warriors Green, but after all, it was still not enough, and the dribble was stuck as soon as it reached the three-point line.

Looking back, it was Leonard who hit Calderon in a misplaced position and made a jumper, and the Spurs pinched the Lakers Calderon's defensive weakness this time.

Originally, the Lakers could also play Parker's defensive weakness, but the Lakers didn't, after blocking and dismantling, the big man caught the ball and hit the basket, and then distributed the ball to the outside shot, this move obviously still has the shadow of the Warriors, but after all, the people who use it are different, the effect is very different, Mozgov rushed in slowly, and slowly came out, Yang received the ball, the defense was already in place, in the face of Leonard, there was no chance to shoot at all, he could only break through, but the breakthrough along the bottom line was looked at by Lei Shui, Immediately had a meat sandwich with Leonard, and the two clamped Yang to death, causing Yang's pass to make a mistake and hit out of bounds.

The Spurs served quickly, Parker quickly advanced and forced Calderon, the old guy burst the old guy, they were a little hard under their feet, Calderon couldn't keep up, but Parker was also tired under his feet, and a throw was a lot shorter.

Randle took the rebound and advanced quickly again, this time using his speed to shake off Ade, and distributed the ball to Mozgov in the middle distance, Mozgov missed the empty shot, and Lei Shui won the rebound, which was also directly dribbled.

Lei Shui rushed across the three-point line, seeing that he could start directly after getting rid of Deng, the fast retreating Randle immediately stepped forward to wrap up, Lei Shui immediately slowed down to protect the ball, squinted and saw that Gasol in the middle was just coming, and immediately turned sideways, grabbed the ball with one hand with his right hand, and passed the ball from his crotch to Gasol.

Gasol was slightly faster than Mozgov at this time, and with a light touch on the ball, Mozgov flew out from behind him, because the action was too slow, and the excessive weight was not good for braking, so it was difficult for Mozgov to come back once he was shaken away, Gasol calmly aimed at the basket and hit a ball as easily as a free throw.

At this time, a trace of envy flashed in Randall's eyes, it is also a middle distance, why is the gap so big, and Mozgov's salary this season is higher than Gasol's, but the role is one heaven and one underground.

The game continued, Calderon single-block cover shot one, still missed, Spurs immediately counterattacked, Lei Shui received the ball and missed a three-point shot, but the ball collapsed far away, Lei Shui rushed in and jumped high, picked up the rebound with one hand, and then dribbled and jumped to avoid the defense, grabbed the ball with one hand and scored the basket, Lei Shui completed the whole process with one hand from grabbing the rebound to dribbling and jumping to receiving the ball and then to picking the basket, and the palm of the hand firmly sucked the ball like a suction cup, and the whole action was very beautiful.

As soon as the goal was scored, Wharton immediately had to take a timeout, scoring only 2 points in the opening 4 minutes, and urgently needed to solve the offensive problem.

As soon as Lei Shui got off the field, Ginobili stepped forward and high-fived: "Boy, yes, that action is so beautiful!" ”

Lei Shui said: "During training yesterday, I watched Ke Huai catch the ball with one hand and play it once, and I looked very practical, so I learned to use it." ”

Leonard said in a daze: "I just dare to play like this when I am training, and I really don't dare to use it in the game, if I make a mistake, I must not be scolded by the old man for being bloody." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man Bobo threw a sentence: "Thunder, you played well!" ”

Leonard immediately whispered to Lei Shui: "I mean I don't dare to use it, you can fight as much as you like." ”

Lei Shui shrugged his shoulders and thought, it seems that the old man really didn't say it casually when he said that he liked me.