In 73 minutes, a big chapter came out, and Oye, continued to persevere, and continued to change the plan. I got home at 10 o'clock and sat down to code words, and it has been 73 minutes now. I'm going to sleep for a while, it's really sinful to come with liquor and beer, and I'll continue tomorrow~

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Liu Ren took to the court with his starting teammates as the series of two super-popular teams was about to begin.

Liu Ren thinks that even Popovich did not expect it, or Popovich, who just played a new system five years ago, definitely did not expect that the Spurs would one day become a popular team.

But unlike many new popular teams, many teams that have not been popular before suddenly have a high popularity, and there are more struggles between players, such as the Wizards during the Arenas period, and the Nets during the Kidd period, they suddenly have superstars, suddenly have a strong lineup, and then inexplicably infighting.

The current Thunder also has that trend, since 2012 to the finals, after the future superstar of the three young people started, there began to be some fights between them, maybe because of their good relationship, there were no conflicts, but in terms of data, now the competition is getting more and more fierce.

In fact, after the salary rose sharply in the 90s, unless it has a deep championship heritage, such as the Lakers, Celtics, and Bulls, it will be because the history of this team is so glorious, and it is natural to achieve high popularity in such a team.

Even if a team occasionally wins the championship, it is basically impossible to remain strong for too long, such as the Mavericks and Pistons, and after winning the championship, they are going downhill in an almost straight line.

And the Spurs, in Liu Ren's view, are a clear stream among the new strong teams, from the first time they won the championship in 1999 to the present, they have always been developing obscenely, and they have slowly had the feeling of a giant.

If Popovich can coach for another 20 years, it is estimated that another giant in the NBA in addition to the Lakers and Celtics will be born, but unfortunately Popovich is 66 years old, and a super coach like him who is enough to compete with the Zen master and the cardinal for the best coach in history is only three in the entire NBA history, and it is almost impossible for the Spurs to get another Popovich if they want to be so lucky.

The scariest thing about the Spurs is their calmness, for example, last season, they started off to a terrible game, but they still played calmly, slowly survived Duncan's physical collapse after two consecutive years of excessive consumption last season and last season, and then entered the top four in the West in the second half of last season, but unfortunately was dragged to death by the Clippers.

What the Lakers are most worried about about the Spurs is their eternal calmness, so as early as a week off, Liu Ren got an instruction from D'Antoni to find a way to make the Spurs players unable to calm down.

That's why Liu Ren said that in his pre-match press conference.

As for the effect, Liu Ren himself doesn't think it has much effect, but how much effect it can have.

However, Liu Ren clearly underestimated how deep Leonard's obsession with wanting to defeat him was......

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At 7:30 p.m. on the 5th Los Angeles time, the bloody battle between the Cavaliers and the Celtics ended.

The Cavaliers defeated the Celtics with great difficulty, and for the Celtics, they desperately hope that the two teams will not win the championship, the first is of course the Lakers, and the Lakers will surpass them to become the most winning team in NBA history.

Then there is the team led by James, the Celtics have not won against the team led by James since 2010, and the two teams have played each other almost every year in recent years, and they have lost every time, and there is also the fact that Ray Allen jumped to the Heat, making the team led by James the second target that the Celtics want to kill.

The first series between the Cavaliers and the Celtics is about to fight, and they have already formed a new bond again last year.

In the end, the Cavaliers were stronger, and with the home court advantage, they still won the first win in front of the Celtics' obvious black hands and black feet.

James is so tired, look at the Knicks playing the 76ers' triangle offense against the mini small play, that's called a wonderful, look at the Warriors' offensive battle against the Thunder, that's called a scolding everything, that's called a gang, and the scene is called a good-looking.

However, James also has one point of pride, that is, the Warriors and the Knicks have lost!

The Thunder pulled the Warriors off the ground in the first away game and snatched the home-court advantage when everyone was not optimistic.

108-102, the Thunder prevented the Warriors' three-point shooting rate to only 35 percent, but the Thunder themselves shot 51 percent of their three-point shooting, and the Thunder used what the Warriors do best to knock the Warriors over at home!

The Knicks lost the game 119-125, and the 76ers, a 175 small point guard and a rookie two-way guard, blew up the Knicks' Louis Williams and Wade.

Louis Williams and Wade are so strong offensively, but the defense is called a disaster, Louis Williams, the best sixth man's defense, is really a pit, Wade doesn't think about how good his defense can be at this age, it's like an ATM, and the 76ers' two backcourts are already poor in defense, and it is normal to be blown up, and their role is to blow up the guard line of all opponents.

The Knicks are now only Shanport, and then Isaiah Thomas and D'Angelo Russell combined for 70 points and were forced to death by the two.

The only thing James can be happy about is that they won! But the next few games were bloody wars one after another.

After the first bloody battle between the Cavaliers and the Celtics, the game between the Lakers and the Spurs officially began.

There is no way, the two games broadcast live all over the world have to wait until one game is played and the other game is played, and the NBA makes money from these, which is the business league.

Because the game between the Cavaliers and the Celtics dragged on too long, long and smelly, the Lakers and Spurs waited for more than ten minutes, and the on-site hosts didn't know what to do.

The starters of both teams were waiting impatiently, and suddenly the tiger body was shocked, standing near the center circle, and the game officially began!

The Lakers started Clarkson, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, and Whiteside.

Spurs start Tony Parker, Danny Green, Leonard, Aldridge, Duncan.

The referee blows the whistle and throws the ball into the sky!

Duncan and Whiteside jump ball.

To say that 12 years ago, Duncan was still the Wake Forest flying devil, and now he has become the old man of the court, and when he saw Whiteside struggling to rack the ball away, he could only sigh that the years were unforgiving.

And the rest of the Spurs have already returned to defense, and they have long been not expecting Duncan to jump the ball, just like the Lakers side if it is Gasol or Monroe jumping the ball, without any expectations.

Clarkson received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, gesturing to block the pick-and-roll.

Liu Ren came up to help Clarkson block Danny Green, and when Clarkson cut in with a pick-and-roll, Liu Ren turned around and cut inside at the same time.

Clarkson's impact is very strong, and although the explosive speed is not the strongest in the league, it is regarded as a poor version of Westbrook by expert media fans, proving that he broke through that step really fast.

Danny Green definitely can't keep up with Clarkson's breakthrough after the pick-and-roll, so Liu Ren thinks that Leonard will definitely switch defenses, and if Danny Green says, Liu Ren doesn't care about his defense at all, just run over.

Liu Ren has already figured out how to deal with Duncan, a long-armed monster old man's defense, after cutting into the inside line to receive the ball, and the Spurs are also ready to assist Liu Ren on the inside.

However, to everyone's surprise, Leonard did not block Clarkson, but ignored Clarkson, who went around the inner line, and still stood in front of Liu Ren!

Danny Green is ready to switch to Liu Ren, and now it has become Leonard and Danny Green who are sandwiching Liu Ren without the ball!

Clarkson entered the three-second zone from the right unimpeded, and Duncan was already holding Whiteside with one hand, facing to the left to help defend Liu Ren.

Duncan was already 40 years old when he was fighting with the Grizzlies last month, this step is really not good, his defense is the best preparation, this situation suddenly changed, he had no way to turn around and come back to make up for Clarkson, but was turned around by Whiteside to press him down, Clarkson easily layup to score two points.

Duncan's eyes widened and he glanced at Leonard, but he didn't speak, and then he regained his wooden expression and ran to the front.

"him XXX......"

Popovich exploded directly on the bench, and in just the first round, he could see that Leonard was mentally unbalanced by the Chinese kid opposite.

Whatever others say, no matter how ugly it is, Leonard is unlikely to have psychological fluctuations, Popovich is very confident in this, because Leonard was cultivated by him and Duncan together, not to mention anything else, even if he lost the championship in 2013 because of two free throws, he was still calm in the Finals the next year when facing the same team, which is what Leonard frightens opponents the most.

However, the same rookie in 2011, the same guy who was extremely unfavored at the beginning, and the same guy who was ignored at the beginning, can affect Leonard's mentality.

Popovich: That's a grudge! If Liu Ren was given a contract that he couldn't refuse, this is not the case now, maybe he will be able to complete the dream of defending the title that he has never completed, and it is not that he can't squeeze out the money at that time, but who told them not to do that?

Offense and defense switch, Spurs offense.

The Spurs' offense has changed since 2010, and before 2010, Duncan singled out Parker's singles, Parker singles played Ginobili singles, and Ginobili singles played Duncan singles...... Infinite loop.

Since 2010, the Spurs offense has become a team that can pass the opponent to death, and all kinds of passes tear the opponent's defense apart.

So after Parker pushed in, the Lakers' defense was not tight, but a 1-3-1 zone defense.

The Spurs' position is outside, even Duncan has pulled it out, and there is basically no one under the basket, because Popovich also knows that they have no players who can sit under the basket and play strongly, there was originally a Dio, but Dior is now focused on his musical dreams, and after winning the championship, he took a 3-year 21 million fat contract, and it is impossible to get a new contract when he retires after playing, and he has long lost his ambition, and he only has 5 points, 2 boards and 3 assists in the regular season this year, and the shooting rate has fallen below four, which is already useless.

The Spurs' main way of scoring right now is Danny Green and Leonard's three-pointers, Parker's open cuts, and Aldridge's and Duncan's mid-range shots, so their style of play is to open the space, use the pass to tear the space apart, and then find an opportunity to shoot.

If the Spurs' tactical execution is only the second in the league, it is estimated that the team with the first tactical execution in the NBA has all crashed and died and the team has been disbanded, so their offense is actually very incomprehensible, when all of them play with all their strength, their offense is unstoppable, even if it is the Warriors, Lakers, and Cavaliers, they can only rely on offense to solve the problem.

There is a good example of this style of play, which is the rugby-style play of the Grizzlies, who forced them to tie seven in the first round this year......

The Lakers naturally disdain that style of play, and they want to win the dignified!

Thanks to the veteran coach of Bickerstaff, it took him two years to finally find the best defensive tactic against the Spurs, an improved version of the 1-3-1 zone defense.

Whiteside sits in the three-second zone, Clarkson and Kobe Bryant, two defensive rookies, go to the 45-degree angle on both sides to standby, their task is to have someone on both sides at a 45-degree angle or the bottom corner to catch the ball to interfere, nothing else, even if someone cuts in, just prevent the 45-degree angle to the bottom corner of the three-point shooting area.

Green defends at the top arc, using his best defensive player-level defense to cover the entire top arc, Liu Ren is in the free throw line area, it is his business for someone to break through, someone to cut in and he to defend, and someone in the middle distance wants to play alone or he goes.

Liu Ren and Green's defense can switch positions at any time, as both can defend from the No. 1 position to the No. 4 position.

This defense looks unreliable, but when the Spurs' system first came out, it was also seen as unreliable, and at one time it was seen as an improved version of the run-and-gun, the kind that was considered impossible to play in the playoffs, and after they were black-eight by the Grizzlies, this statement continued until the Spurs almost won the championship in 2013.

The Spurs have a bizarre style of play that looks like they rely on touch, but in the end, they have a majority of their mid-range and under-the-basket scoring.

The Lakers' defensive tactics also look weird, almost like an offensive position, with a feeling of pushing both wings in the middle.

This tactic was specially used against the Spurs after two years of research by Bickerstaff, and other teams use this tactic to find death.

But the Lakers' defensive formation was put out, and Popovich on the sidelines stood up directly, and this defensive tactic of directly separating the half court made him feel faintly uneasy!

Half of the court was completely cut open by the Lakers' defense!