Popovich's strategy soon paid off, and the old and strong Duncan let Boozer know that although he was old and powerless, as the greatest power forward in the history of the league, he was still unbeatable once he got serious.

Although the score was not much, Duncan, with his old experience, quickly caused Boozer to be fouled twice, and Thibodeau could not do it, so he had to replace him.

Of course, the Bulls' strategy isn't ineffective. It was the repeated strong attack on the inside that attracted more attention from the rest of the Spurs' players, which gave the Bulls a chance on the outside. Sun Xiaotian and Lu Erdeng's three-pointers also made repeated contributions, and the Bulls also took a temporary lead 15-11.

Thibodeau replaced Boozer, and surprisingly, instead of Gibson, he was replaced by an outside player, Belinelli. It's clear that Thibodeau wants to try one big and four small, and wants to bring down the Spurs with a quick tempo change.

Popovich did not respond to Thibodeau's change of formation, and he responded with a starter

Sun Xiaotian held the ball, and Lu Erdeng came out to catch the ball at 45 degrees. This time the bottom line Belinelli and Jimmy. Butler doubled to cross screen, and the two men slipped into the two corners. Ruhrdeng observed the situation on the court, and he immediately handed the ball to the right baseline Jimmy. Butler's hands.

Defending Butler was none other than Duncan. Duncan actually found out at the first time, but after all, he is a big player, and he is old, Duncan is a little hesitant in his actions.

Jimmy. Butler seemed to hesitate after receiving the ball, and when he saw that Duncan did not come, he made a decisive shot.

"Huh!"

The ball goes into the net.

Excellent off-ball running, bright rhythm, and slowly the Spurs with Duncan on the floor gradually became a little unsupportable.

The Bulls are getting braver and braver, and Sun Xiaotian is in control of the Bulls' offensive rhythm on the court. With five minutes left in the first quarter, the Bulls extended the deficit to 21-13.

Even so, Popovich still did not call a timeout, and if it weren't for the official timeout, I'm afraid Popovich would still be indifferent sitting there.

Bo Shuai is not thinking about how to pull the score back, the so-called first win is not a win, he is now thinking about the rotation of the whole team, and the first consideration is Duncan's rest time.

Duncan's average playing time per game has hit a record low so far this season, and Boshuai is arranging his playing time with the team as a whole in mind, generally speaking, he plays about 6 minutes in the first quarter, more than 5 minutes in the second and third quarters, and he will play more than 9 minutes in the fourth quarter, especially when the score is deadlocked.

Good steel needs to be used on the blade, as long as the team is difficult to solve with the opponent in the fourth quarter, Duncan will stick to it even if he grits his teeth-

During the official timeout, Popovich looked at his watch, felt that the time was almost up, and resolutely replaced Duncan. Not only that, but during this pause, Boshuai also took the initiative to adjust the lineup for the Bulls' strategy.

Parker needs to play a little longer, Gary. Neil replaces Dante. Green, Ginobili replaced Duncan, Leonard played in the fourth position, and Dio replaced Split.

Boss is sometimes different, and this lineup is much shorter than the Bulls. As for the Bulls, Thibodeau only replaced Noah with Gibson. In this way, the two sides completely put together a small lineup.

When the two sides arrived on the field, the rhythm was immediately different.

Parker dribbled quickly to the frontcourt, and this time Dio got the ball high up. At this time, all the Spurs players, including Parker, kept interspersing and detouring.

In the end, Ginobili came out to get the ball, and Ruhr Deng hurriedly followed.

Truth be told, Ruhr Deng has no score in mind, and he knows how much courage it takes to defend Ginobili in this league.

Ginobili suddenly made a shooting feint, and Lu Erdeng's body immediately got up, but his foot did not leave the ground. But just like that, Ginobili clinged to Lu Erdeng's body like a snake and rushed to the inside.

At this time, it was Sun Xiaotian who came to assist in the defense. Sun Xiaotian stood dead outside the reasonable collision area, and he stood firmly, just waiting for you to collide.

But who would have thought that Ginobili suddenly took a European step, directly attached to his shoulder, and made a basket, with extremely elegant movements, and easily scored two points.

At the moment when Manu got the hand, Xinrich sent Sun Xiaotian the baseline ball very quickly. Sun Xiaotian held the ball and advanced quickly, wanting to play the Spurs with an unstable foothold.

Sun Xiaotian passed to Jimmy, who was about to go. Butler, however, when Butler received the ball, Leonard was already standing firmly in front of him.

Butler had no choice but to return the ball to Sun Xiaotian of the top fox. Sun Xiaotian originally thought that no one was guarding him, and he was still thinking about preparing to shoot! However, at a fixed glance, Parker had changed his guard in a dislocated position and appeared in front of him.

When Sun Xiaotian wanted to find teammates with space again, he found that the Spurs' front was all in place, and he had no chance to attack quickly.

There was no way, Sun Xiaotian could only reorganize.

But as soon as he saw that it was Parker who was defending him, Sun Xiaotian decisively decided to eat Parker alone.

Sun Xiaotian suddenly turned his back to Parker, and used his body and strength to sit on Parker and hit inside.

Although Parker also has an obvious physical advantage among point guards, he seems to be a little bullied when facing Sun Xiaotian.

Parker had no choice but to use his nimble footsteps to harass Sun Xiaotian.

After Sun Xiaotian took two steps forward, he suddenly turned around and wanted to make a back-back jumper. But at this time, Ginobili jumped out of nowhere, and at the moment when Sun Xiaotian turned around and lifted the ball, Ginobili was quick and stole the ball directly.

“Oh！ Shit！！！！！！！！！！！！ Sun Xiaotian scolded.

As soon as Ginobili made a successful steal, the Spurs players ran to the front court like a wind. Ginobili dribbled the ball to the sideline, and suddenly, he made a long ball through the field with one hand, and the ball reached the hands of Dio on the right side of the field.

Di'O hit him twice, and he was thinking about getting ready for a layup, but Hinrich kept harassing him by his side. However, Dior is a French magician after all! He slammed the ball behind him, and it seemed to have eyes, and it reached Gary who was behind him from beyond the three-point line. In Neil's hands, Neil showed no mercy and opened his hand to hit

For the rest of the first game, the Spurs really showed the Bulls what a team can play defense and bombard. The Bulls were thoroughly brought into the rhythm of the Spurs.

At the end of the first quarter, the Spurs outscored the Bulls by four points, 35-31.