'Control the tempo, avoid mistakes, share the ball more and be determined when you get the chance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

On the Knicks bench, Wang Zhuo spoke fluent American English and preached to the players passionately.

At the end of the timeout, the rotation lineup came in, with Gasol, Matt Bonner, Mills, Ginobili and Leonard on the Spurs, and O'Quinn, Porzingis, Jennings, Ray Allen and Vujacic on the Knicks.

The benches on both sides have their own merits, the Spurs rely on Gasol and Bonner, two big men, one inside and one outside, to play well on the offensive end, and the Knicks rely on Jennings' breakthrough and Ray Allen to keep creating open shooting opportunities, and the two sides have entered a tug-of-war.

Until the end of the official timeout in the second quarter, the score was 35-35 on the scorer, which was still very anxious, and after the temporary end, the main lineups of both sides came on the field and entered the decisive moment of the first half.

O'Quinn did a good job of defending Leonard, and Wang Zhuo temporarily decided to give him more opportunities to play, so the Knicks' lineup is still the top three inside, point guard Rose, and scoring guard Anthony.

Popovich was already prepared, the timeout was to adjust the offensive tactics, Parker carried the offensive banner, Leonard only focused on defending Anthony, Popovich's intention was obvious, wanting to rely on Parker's breakthrough to tear apart the Knicks' local defense.

Sure enough, there was a subtle change in the Spurs' positioning, Aldridge and Gasol began to go more outside, waiting for opportunities to catch the ball and shoot three-pointers, while defending in the empty box for Pakla, Ginobili also stayed on the court, both to share the pressure on Parker's break-through and to make three-point sheaths from time to time.

Since then, the Knicks' interior line has been hollowed out, the three-high lineup has become an ornament, and the local joint defense has been dismantled in an instant, especially Gasol, who has been practicing long-range shooting hard in the offseason, has made two consecutive three-pointers at the top of the circle, bringing the advantage on the court back to the Spurs.

Fortunately, Anthony stepped up and frequently hit key shots, otherwise at the end of the first half, the Knicks would have entered the second half with a double-digit disadvantage, and 30 seconds before halftime, the Knicks were still 6 points behind the Spurs.

Wang Zhuo called a 20-second short timeout to arrange the tactics of the last attack in the first half, and on the bench, Wang Zhuo sketched on the tactical board, and then asked the five players who were about to play one by one if they understood.

It wasn't until the players nodded resolutely that Wang Zhuo retracted the tactical board with confidence, walked to the sidelines, and observed the execution of the last attack.

In the last 30 seconds, the lineup on the Knicks court is the ace five, Porzingis, Noah, Anthony, Ray Allen and Rose, Porzingis sends the ball to the front court, Rose goes around the center line to receive the ball, and lingers at the top of the circle for time, Anthony stops outside the 45-degree three-point line on the left side, Noah stands near the free throw line on the right side of the penalty area, Ray Allen runs in the bottom corner of the left and right corners, and Porzingis is near the 45-degree three-point line on the right side.

Rose counted the seconds until the last 10 seconds of the 24-second offensive time remained, raised his left hand, signaled his teammates to start running, Porzingis suddenly ran back to the top of the circle, Rose stepped past and rushed inside, Anthony got rid of Leonard and ran back to the top of the circle.

Noah lifted it out slightly, received Rose's breakaway ball, and then had good passing vision, a high cross, and a reverse lob to Porzingis at the top of the circle, and at this time Anthony happened to go around behind Porzingis and borrow Porzingis' body to intercept Leonard.

Anthony took the pass from Porzingis, took a step to the right, just pulled out the gap, and directly pulled up a three-point shot, Aldridge, who defended Porzingis, understood that Anthony had already shot, and Leonard was even more out of reach, so he could only look at the ball in the air and pray not to score.

However, Santa Claus seems to favor Anthony, and at the same time as the red light comes on in 24 seconds, the ball breaks through the net, bringing the net to sound a "bang" friction sound.

With six seconds left in the first half, Parker used four seconds to advance to the front court, and in the face of Ray Allen and Rose's chase and interception, he barely broke into the penalty area, missed the throw, and the whistle sounded at the end of the half, and the two sides went into halftime.

"Mr. Wang, are you confident that you can beat the Spurs?"

During the intermission, a female reporter from ESPN stopped Wang Zhuo and asked him a question.

"No, you should ask Mr. Greg Popovich if he is confident to beat the Knicks, because the Knicks are the top of the league, are they? Merry Christmas, Hani! ”

Wang Zhuo's answer made the female reporter dumbfounded, but Wang Zhuo politely sent holiday wishes before leaving, and threw a flattering look at her, which made her very useful.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the cold wind blew away the scent of turkey, the snow covered Santa's footprints, and the only thing that was not taken away was the wonderful performance of the athletes, let us thank them with applause and cheers for the inspiring game."

Before halftime, Adam Shivall was on hand to deliver a Christmas message to the players, and after that, Shivall left quickly because he was going to Cleveland to give a speech for the Cavaliers and Warriors for the Christmas game.

"Charles, if you were the head coach of the Knicks, how would you deal with the old Spurs and Greg?"

Before the start of the second half, Miller and Barkley began to fight again.

"It's a tough question, but there's still a way, if I were a yellow-skinned coach, I'd secretly instruct Kyle O'Quinn to pretend to save the ball, pounce on Coach Greg, stun him, and it will all work out, uh...... Did I have some shitty ideas, will Greg complain about me, will the league punish me, well, I'd better keep my mouth shut. ”

Barkley gave full play to the talent of smearing blacks, and Wang Zhuo, Popovich, and the league were all spared.

The game entered the second half, the Knicks took the lead in attacking, and because the Spurs' adjustment in the second half of the second quarter achieved good results, Wang Zhuo made adjustments at the beginning of the second half.

In the first half, the Knicks worked the defensive end and achieved good results, and in the second half, they had to rely on offense to overtake the score and regain the lead, so in the first attack of the second half, Rose's offensive strength was fully utilized.

Rose took a step past the slower Kyle Anderson and went inside to engage Gasol in a simple physical duel, avoiding Gasol's long arm and hitting the board to put the ball in the basket to close the deficit to one point.

On the defensive end, Grant's defensive ability was superior to Rose, which caused a lot of trouble for Parker, causing the Spurs' offense to be slightly weak, Rose made three points from the outside, broke through inside, and a wave of 7-2 small climax, and overtook the score in only two minutes in the second half and regained the initiative.

With a dark cloud on his face, Popovich signaled the referee to pause, changed his tactics again, and vowed to fight with Wang Zhuo until he ran out of ammunition and fought until the last moment. (To be continued.) )