Don't look at the GDP trio this season, they have not averaged more than 20 points per game, but in fact, their offensive firepower should not be underestimated, whether it is Duncan on the inside or Parker and Ginobili on the outside, they all have their own unique skills. So after calling a timeout, Popovich seized the time to teach his disciples that now is not the time to play a tug-of-war, and the Spurs need to quickly tie the score or even overtake, which requires some different tactics.www.biquge.info

"We still have to play more efficient basketball, but I don't think it's a good time to spread the scoring points," Popovich said solemnly, as he nervously drew on the board. After the timeout, Tim, Toni and Manu have to take on the team's offense, Ian, you take Antonio's place, I need you to add some energy and momentum to the interior and free Thiem from the defensive end. As for Richard, you're going to have to stay on the pitch because I don't have anybody to replace you, and your task is important, to pester that Chinese kid and don't let him pass the ball, that's fine. ”

The adjustment had an immediate effect, with Masimmi's arrival freeing Duncan to focus more on the offensive end while he worked diligently under the basket as a blue-collar interior player. And under the instruction of Popovich, the GDP trio after the debut was full of firepower, hitting consecutive shots, and the difference was only 2 points in an instant. This speaks volumes about how terrifying these three old guys are, and they simply play with the attitude of the key moments in the fourth quarter of every game. But there's a glaring weakness that the Blazers can exploit: the stamina they've built up after the game is quickly squandered.

McMillan, who also changed to the starting line-up, signaled the team to attack with all their might, which was the only way to win. The Trail Blazers did a good job defending in the first quarter, largely because they made up for the lack of defensive ability with their passion, and the Trail Blazers' defensive system could not make a huge impact on the Spurs. For them, the defense only needs to maintain a relatively positive attitude, and the attack is the key factor in the team's victory. Under the leadership of Ye Feng, the Trail Blazers players began to run like crazy on the court, and even Aldridge, the only inside liner, gritted his teeth and followed behind everyone.

The Trail Blazers players are all capable of running and playing, and they seem to have given up all tactics and positioning, just running and running like crazy on the court, using their running to get shots, using their running to grab rebounds, and using their running to pull the Spurs' defense. And the most frustrating thing for the Spurs is that every time they find a great shot and hit the ball in a very rigorous manner for nearly 24 seconds, in the blink of an eye, the Trail Blazers will start sprinting from the moment they serve from the baseline and then send the ball to the basket in less than 10 seconds. This means that the Trail Blazers can score the same amount of points in less time than they do.

Such a sharp run is a big burden for the Spurs, and it is also psychological. Every time they struggled to create shooting opportunities through the transmission of the ball, the Trail Blazers had no trouble smoothing out their goals, and everyone would have been a little frustrated. This is also the Spurs, and if you change to a slightly younger team, such as the Nuggets, it will easily collapse directly. That's why the Suns' "seven-second offense" is the only thing in the league, they score so fast that they can do what an opponent can do in 24 seconds in 7 seconds.

And under Ye Feng's scheduling, the Trail Blazers players are not running around the court in a swarm, they can always find the weak points in the Spurs' defensive system under Ye Feng's command, and their speed makes the Spurs players tired. The Spurs' defensive system can't rely on Jefferson and Masimmy alone, although Popovich wants GDP to take over the offense, but they still have to contribute their own strength on the defensive end, especially Duncan, in a sense, Duncan is also a player with his own system like Garnett, the Spurs' interior line is supported by him alone, if he gives up defense, Marcinmy's interior line may be burst into a sieve by the Trail Blazers' players, and they have the ability to kill the Spurs' interior line.

Therefore, Duncan is the first player in the GDP to feel physical fatigue, of course, this is normal, he is a big man, his own physical burden is far greater than that of small guards like Parker and Ginobili, and he also focuses on supplementing Masimmi on the inside, which invisibly makes him lose a lot of physical strength. Ye Feng was keenly aware of this, he saw that Duncan often ran slowly through the half court when the Spurs were fast attacking, and knew that he hoped to recover more physical strength on the court, but Ye Feng would not give him a chance, the so-called taking advantage of your illness to kill you is the rule to be followed in professional games.

Jefferson couldn't prevent Ye Feng's breakthrough at all, so as long as Ye Feng broke through, he would directly find Duncan, and whether he could score or not was secondary, mainly to consume Duncan's physical strength more and reduce the pressure on his teammates. Ye Feng is very cunning, he either uses his speed to break through directly, forcing Duncan to speed up his movement to contain him, or he reduces his speed, but he doesn't use technology to break through, but instead takes the initiative to find a physical confrontation, which is to aim at Duncan's point and beat him hard. Bayles, Roy and even Batum all follow the same example, as long as they break through with the ball, they must find Duncan, and for a while Masimmy seems to be an insignificant little man, staying under the basket and not knowing what to do.

In desperation, Popovich could only replace Duncan with Blair, and the height of the Spurs' on-court lineup dropped instantly. This is also something that can't be helped, Duncan's physical fitness is obviously squeezed dry, and he must be rested, which requires Popovich to choose whether to take care of offense or defense, because no one on the Spurs' bench interior can contribute to the team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

But he ignored one point, Blair is not wrong to eat by height, but when defending one-on-one, he faces Batum, who is taller and more flexible than him, and still plays as a small forward, so for a while, the Frenchman became the coolest person on the court in the whole Trail Blazers team, and there was no one.