The only thing the Spurs take as the cornerstone is defense, and when the Spurs' defense can't control the opponent's affairs, it is the beginning of the Spurs losing the game. In the first two games, the Spurs only knew that their defense could not prevent the Knicks from making adjustments.

But when the Spurs are 'exhausted' and have no way to limit the Knicks' victory with other means, the Spurs can only sacrifice their most fundamental means and let the real themselves decide the outcome of the game.

There's no such thing as useless defense when it comes to effective defense, and defense is the easiest and hardest thing for an NBA team to do.

Defense is a way to look at the quality of players, the attitude of players, and the tacit understanding of the team, but for the Spurs, defense has risen to the height of an art, but there are too few fans who know how to appreciate this art and are willing to watch the game for this art.

The Spurs' game is about efficiency, taking Duncan as an example, if you can score 20 points to win the game, you will definitely not score more points, and if you can use defense to strangle the opponent's game, you will not waste any energy in the offense.

What kind of offense is most effective, what is the Spurs' offensive choice, sometimes the shooting in the offense is not under their control, but the defense is within their control.

So when their offense can't match the Knicks, when the Spurs' overall defense can't defend the Knicks' individual ability, what the Spurs can finally do is to put on their strongest defensive mentality, and also send the people who are most sure to complete an efficient offense on the court, which is what the Spurs want to achieve most in this game.

For the Spurs' determination to play, no one can perceive it more clearly than the Knicks who are playing on the court, there is indeed a slight gap in strength between the two, but it is not so big that the Knicks can win if they relax their minds, in the unit round, the Knicks are strong in the overall offense of five people, but not so strong that the Knicks can win whatever they do.

At the point of the fifth game, what the two teams can take out has already been taken out, and the rest is really just a matter of the determination and physical fitness of both sides.

In Mir's mind, if the Knicks really have to rely on constant rotation to get a physical victory, Mill will have to make a new round of adjustments in the case that the team may be a turning point.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the game, the Knicks were already in a highly concentrated situation, and they were not taken away by the Spurs at the beginning, and they also showed their determination to end this round of the series.

The game was under unprecedented defensive pressure from the start, and it was also a situation where every ball was fought for and every attack was extremely focused.

The first quarter of the game ended with a score of 28-27 without a substitution or timeout.

Looking at the score, the two sides played not ugly, nor did they look ugly. There were no more strikes, no more falling to the ground, and each time it was a cliché to replicate your own attack.

The Spurs' offense started from the inside, and when he was in the opposite position with Yao Ming, Duncan rarely reflected that after every round of victory, he clenched his fists and cheered him up, and he did not show the same expressionless face as usual in the game, and it was rare that Duncan used offense to press the Knicks' offense.

It is true that Mill has already experienced Duncan's determination, but what Mill didn't expect is that Duncan's play has inspired the determination of the Knicks' main team.

In Mir's eyes, Yao Ming's abilities and shortcomings are very prominent, but this is also a common problem of tall players, and from the day Mir chose Yao Ming to become the cornerstone of the team, he has been prepared accordingly.

The embodiment of Yao Ming's ability in these three seasons also shows an aspect of Mir's excellent scouting ability, and it is not a loss that the Knicks are the second champion since Ewing.

In the tactical system, Yao Ming monopolized the most commonly used system of the Knicks, and under this system, the high efficiency embodied by Yao Ming is obvious to all, but what Mill did not expect is that Yao Ming's progress in winning and losing games and improving his organizational tentacles is showing a geometric growth trend.

From the first season in the NBA to show his ability to survive in the NBA and the potential to become a super insider, to the second season to become the strongest endpoint in the team, and then to the beginning of the third season, the combination of internal and external tactical ability is a perfect continuation of Malone's role in the team last season, Yao Ming's progress is slightly beyond the Knicks' overall expectations of him.

However, in this game, Yao Ming did not show the slightest timidity in Duncan's strong performance, especially in response to Yao Ming's offensive ability, and even showed a more perfect self under Duncan's strong oppression.

did not blindly go to Duncan alone, the moment Yao Ming held the ball was the core point of the team, and it was very common to hold the ball, but in such an environment, it reflected Yao Ming's self-confidence and ability.

It can be said that Mir's original idea was to stimulate the awareness of Gongfeng's offense, but in these two games, Yao Ming's performance was even more unexpected by Mir, after seeing Yao Ming stand up, the Knicks gradually returned to normal rotation and play, Mir stood up and sat on the chair easily, and then said a word to the assistant behind him, and then watched the game slowly fall into the rhythm of the Knicks.

After looking at Yao Ming's average of 24 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks per game in the first four games of the Finals, Mill shook his head, and Popovich didn't expect that changing his defensive style would make the Knicks' interior performance like this, right?

In this section of the game, except for Bosh, no one else has ever been off, and Mir also found that the cooperation between Yao Ming and Gong Feng is the most tacit, the two seem to know each other's every move, Gong Feng's irregular movement, and changeable tactical angles, Yao Ming seems to know where Gong Feng wants to catch the ball and where he wants to reorganize with Gong Feng with a single eye contact.

Yao Ming doesn't have strong jumping ability, but Yao Ming's scoring range is within the top of the NBA.

Yao Ming did not show a strong performance in this round of the game, he just wanted to do what he wanted to do in which position, but began to play guerrilla, Yao Ming's speed was a little slow, but Yao Ming's long legs and strides, the deterrent power shown was not something that ordinary people could experience.

Blocking, moving, and positioning, under the strong defense of the Spurs, Yao Ming's movement has become the most critical place for the Spurs, from the defense and finishing in the first game, to the strong internal outbreak in the third and fourth games, and then to doing what he can with ease in the fifth game, Yao Ming's performance completely attracted everyone's attention to himself.

In this game, Yao Ming played very excitedly, and even forgot some fatigue from the body, except for a seven-minute break in the second quarter, Yao Ming did not rest in the second half.

Although later, Yao Ming's physical strength also showed a feeling of exhaustion, but Yao Ming standing on the court is a deterrent, Duncan can't defend, Muhammad can't defend, and every time you break through, there is a pair of big hands shrouded in front of your eyes, such a feeling can definitely not be regarded as a wonderful, as for Yao Ming's deterrence, it is not surprising to let Ray Allen shoot eight three-pointers in the whole game.

If it weren't for the strong performance of GDP in this game, the game would have been spent a long time ago, and it cannot be said that the Knicks' outside defense was not good, in addition to the performance of GDP, Bowen scored three three-pointers, and other strong benches, Horry, Barry and the like only scored a total of 12 points, and the Knicks' defense has been very good.

It's just that no one thought that Yao Ming would get a quasi-triple-double record of 27 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists in this game, as if no one thought that the NBA might usher in the arrival of a dominant insider.

Of course, it's still a little early to say that it's dominant, but isn't it a very good start for Yao Ming to get FMVP in this round of finals?

As for when dominance will come, it just seems like it will take time to accumulate right now, doesn't it?

The moment Yao Ming lifted the trophy high, in fact, the future of the Knicks already had a beautiful outline, didn't it? (To be continued.) )