With Leonard here, the two sides played evenly until they survived the bench time, and the main forces of both sides were slowly replaced back on the field.

Although Thomas's presence is destined to be a defensive hole for the Celtics, it is irreplaceable by the rest of the team in the offense, and it is a double-edged sword to endure his defense with his offense.

Coach Stevens tried several ways to close Thomas' defensive holes, but it was too much to meet a team like the Spurs that had all the ability to shoot and pass.

Instead of wrapping up Thunder Water and giving others an open shot, it is better to give Thunder Water a back shot to Thomas.

Lei Shui can be said to be in demand during this time, relying on the height advantage, as long as he dares to wrap the clip, a pass is immediately an empty opportunity, not wrapping, holding high, shooting is as easy as training.

At halftime, although Thunderwater had good book stats: 24 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists, and 4 blocks, the Spurs only led by 6 points.

The reason is Thomas, although the defensive end suffered a loss of Thunder Water, but the offensive end made Parker also suffer a lot of losses, the advantage of strength and speed largely made up for the lack of height, and he could easily open or pass the defense to create scoring opportunities.

Old man Bobo also communicated with a few assistant coaches, and finally decided on a strategy specifically for Thomas: "In the third quarter, the defense of Thomas should be targeted, Tony should not think about completely restricting Thomas, from now on, prevent the burst, drive him to the basket, as long as he gets to the basket, two people can wrap him... Ray, continue to chisel him, the bit can be a little deeper! ”

After halftime, the game continued, Lei Shui continued to block Parker, no matter whether the defense was changed or not, Lei Shui quickly adducted, occupied an absolute advantage under the basket, and succeeded in attacking again and again.

On the defensive end, Parker stared at Thomas's left hand side, forcing him to break through, and as soon as he got to the basket, Gasol stepped forward to wrap up, Gasol's huge height and arm span advantage had a great impact on Thomas's vision, making it very difficult for him to pass and shoot, 3 passes and 2 turnovers, allowing the Spurs to seize the opportunity to extend the difference to double digits in one fell swoop.

Stevens saw that Thomas couldn't be effective on the offensive end, so he had to replace him with Smart.

This adjustment immediately had an effect, first crushing Parker to get a free throw opportunity, and then directly defending Lei Shui on the defensive end, Lei Shui is used to the height and intensity of Thomas and Bradley, Smart is higher than those two people in terms of height and intensity, Lei Shui wants to resist head-on, and the strength is still a little disadvantaged, and after a physical collision with Smart, Lei Shui knows that the flesh of the iron egg is really as hard as iron, and he does not move when he hits it, in order to avoid the head-on confrontation, Lei Shui chooses to turn over and shoot backwards, But Smart missed the shot under the close press.

Thunderwater failed to hit the basket twice in a row, and the Celtics took advantage of the opportunity to quickly close the score to 6 points.

The old man Bobo took advantage of the fact that the Celtics had not yet gained momentum, and called a timeout to adjust: "Ray, don't play inside, now Kehuai and Ray you two are covering each other without the ball in this position on both sides, once the cover is completed, immediately separate, Ray retreats, Kehuai cuts inside, Tony must find the right time to pass, this tactic can be used all the time, add a pass every time, be sure to remember the position of the run." ”

After the timeout, Parker held the ball at the top of the arc and signaled the start of the tactics, Thunder Water stepped forward to cover Leonard, Leonard used the cover to cut through the inside line from between the two, Parker hoisted the ball, Leonard rushed to the basket, and the lever dodged Horford's block and hit a layup.

Horford immediately responded with a mid-range shot.

After coming back, the Spurs repeated the old trick, Leonard cut in again, this time as soon as the ball went in, it attracted three Celtics players, just waiting for the cap Leonard, Leonard dribbled once, and then a jump, as soon as the shooting feint came out, it was immediately covered, Leonard's series of actions were all to attract the attention of the defense, and when the defense was all on him, he immediately turned around and passed the ball to Lei Shui, who was in a big space outside the three-point line at this time, and easily shot a three-point shot.

Horford was once again in power, forcing a feint under the basket to make two free throws, and when he returned to defense, Coach Stevens was already loudly reminding his players to pay attention to defensive problems.

This time it's the same tactic, when the ball is passed to Thunder Water, someone immediately defends it, and Thunder Water is transferred to Ade, the Celtics' defensive rotation speed is really fast, I originally envisaged that this opportunity would come out of Ade, but I didn't expect that there was someone defending in front of Ade, Parker reacted quickly, and immediately cut around Ade, and Ade also understood, hand-to-hand pass the ball by the way on a screen, Parker' Smart rushed over from the side to block the block, and when he landed, Smart's knee hit Parker's knee from the side, only to hear Parker scream, and fell to the ground with his left knee.

Everything happened too fast, and everyone didn't react, seeing that Parker had been falling to the ground, everyone hurriedly gathered around, only to see Parker's expression painful, his hands tightly covering his knees.

After the team doctor conducted a preliminary examination, he signaled that Parker could not play anymore, and several people hurriedly stepped forward to pick up Parker, Parker's left leg was no longer able to exert force, and two people needed to stand off the court, and it seemed that the injury was not light.

Old man Bobo looked at Parker's back from the court, frowned, and quickly called a timeout, there were still a few minutes before the rotation time, someone had to replace Parker first, Lei Shui wanted to play point guard, but Old Man Bobo thought that Thunder Water would play a greater role in the position of point guard now, so he used Murray to play point guard.

The game continued, and Thunderwater hit a free throw first in place of Parker.

Murray has been on the bench time, and when he starts the first time, he is very excited and ready to go, but when the confrontation really begins, Murray suffers.

It was Bradley who was opposite Murray, it was better, who knew that Coach Stevens saw Murray and immediately gave instructions, after several changes, Murray faced Smart, Murray's thin little body was resisted behind Smart with a turn, and then scored a layup against Murray.

From defense to offense, Smart seemed to have eaten Murray, and constantly gave Murray physical confrontation, Murray finally passed the half, and wanted to hand over the ball quickly, but he didn't think that Smart's physical suppression directly made Murray lose his balance, Smart took the opportunity to break the ball successfully, and rushed to attack quickly.

Although Smart's speed is not fast, his body width is there, and he constantly blocks the pursuing Murray with his body, Murray is eager to defend and can't block, but he is beaten 2+1 by Smart.