Keynes made 2 of 2 free throws, and under Popovich's scolding, Duncan naturally went off the court obediently, and the Spurs' lineup changed, but what the Spurs did not change was their defense.

The Spurs offense, also Mason, a player with little offensive ability, hit a three-point shot from the bottom corner. I don't know why, almost all of the outside defenders in the league have a good three-point hand.

The Warriors attacked again, and Mason pressed on Curry step by step, and Curry could barely open any space.

Seeing this situation, people inevitably thought about Lin Fei's previous game. Mason defends Lin Fei, which is definitely one of the few classic duels in the league. At the beginning, many teams in the league specially introduced players with extremely fast speed in order to be able to defend Lin Fei, and Mason was cultivated in this situation. And Mason is also one of the few in the league who doesn't suffer much in speed when defending Lin Fei. However, Lin Fei not only relies on speed, his strengths are also extremely fast disguise and extremely fast shots, which also makes Mason's defense an impossible task, but, relatively speaking, he is indeed the best player in the league to defend Lin Fei.

Curry had no choice but to pass the ball to Keynes again, and this time, Mason followed the ball quickly to defend Keynes.

How is this defended?

For the Spurs, the defense is generally clear and methodical, so what's wrong with that? Just let the defender follow the ball?

Keynes catches the ball and Mason reaches out to defend.

Keynes's eyes sank violently, and a murderous aura erupted in an instant. This made Mason realise that Keynes was about to attack. Mason's first reaction was that Keynes would burst into force, just like he had just fouled. So Mason hurried back half a step. Center of pressure. Be ready to start at any time.

But it seems that at the moment when Mason lowered his center of gravity, Keynes bent his knee and jumped immediately.

Pull-up jumpers?

Depend on! Why has this kid become so confident? It seems that I haven't seen this guy use a pull-up jump shot for a long time, if it is changed to before, when there was Lin Fei, Keynes often played this action, at that time. Keynes's shooting percentage is also quite good, but since Lin Fei retired due to injury, Keynes has rarely played such chic moves, and his more style of play is to impact the inside, because this is the most effective way to ensure offensive efficiency. But now, Keynes has actually pulled out a jumper again?

The action of the pull-up jump shot is actually quite talented, not only requiring one's height, but also arm span and bounce. There are certain requirements for the arc of the shot and the arc of the back. Maddie, the scoring champion of the year, relied on this trick to eat all over the league. After Maddie, few people played, and Keynes may be one of the few.

When the ball goes into the basket, it's like falling into a river, making a little splash.

Lin Fei on the sidelines was extremely excited, everything was so familiar.

After Keynes scored, he looked at Lin Fei, as if to tell Lin Fei, you are back, the former me is back, I will dominate the stadium with you again!

Popovich took another timeout, which was definitely forced.

The Warriors played with confidence, and the explosive combat power directly made Popovich a little scared.

In fact, not only the Spurs, but any team with the idea of winning the championship may be paying attention to this game, because both teams in this game may be their potential opponents on the way to the championship.

After the timeout, the Spurs swapped the players on the court into a large and small lineup. What kind of play is this? Want to fight with the Warriors for speed?

You must know that the Warriors are the most popular team in the league to fight for speed and offense, while the Spurs are a team that prefers positional battles and rhythm, isn't the Spurs doing this to meet the Warriors' strengths with their weaknesses?

However, as almost everyone knows, Popovich had his own considerations.

The Spurs lineup has changed, and Warriors head coach D'Antoni is not a fool. Now the Spurs are 1 big and 4 small, and the Warriors lineup is just the opposite, almost except for Curry, other players, Clauderson, Jobs, Ex, and Keynes are all of good height, so it is obviously not a big problem for the Warriors to eat the Spurs inside.

Sure enough. The Spurs' interior defensive intensity plummeted, and they adopted a joint defensive approach, but the defensive formation did not shrink to the inside, but spread out, because the Spurs also had some concerns about the Warriors' accurate outside shooting.

The Warriors slowed down a bit, with Steve Jobs at the top of the arc as the center axis, distributing the ball, Ax on the baseline ambushing, and Keynes and Curry running automatically. Keynes looked at the time and tried to squeeze in through the gap of the Spurs' joint defense, and the five people of the Spurs seemed to have a heart, and the two of them contracted violently, directly squeezing the space of Keynes, and it was almost impossible to receive the ball, but at this time, Curry on the outside was empty. Jobs quickly turned over, Curry received the ball, and immediately hit a three-point shot.

The Warriors are known as the strongest outside combination in the league, which is really not blown, even without Lin Fei, Curry and Keynes can almost play all over the league.

However, the Spurs are still methodical, neither fast nor slow, which makes people a little unable to find the north.

In the blink of an eye, the Warriors relied on the advantage of the interior to lead the score to 10 points.

For a two-digit point difference, it was relatively safe, and the Warriors took a timeout and changed the lineup.

At this moment, the fans in the stadium began to shout Lin Fei's name.

It seems to have become a habit, a habit that seems to have been lost for a long time.

However, D'Antoni is obviously not affected, or he has not sent Lin Fei, it seems that D'Antoni is not very optimistic about this former trump card. There are many stories of former aces in the league, but there are almost never successful cases, especially those who have been injured, such as Iverson and Francis of the Rockets. Therefore, objectively speaking, it is reasonable that D'Antoni did not expect much from Lin Fei.

The Spurs lineup was also adjusted.

actually sent all the starting lineups, it seems that they want to chase points. After all, a two-digit margin is a difficult gap to overcome.

The Spurs' starting lineup faced the Warriors' half-main and half-bench lineup.

Duncan was pressed to the bench for a while and came back, like a chicken. Parker burst in, reversed Duncan, and faced the Warriors' relatively empty basket, Duncan shook off Jobs, strode to the basket, and dunked head-on. Directly stunned everyone.

This is a violent dunk for a veteran who is almost 40 years old. In the official competition, how many veterans can complete the violent dunk at the age of 40? Duncan's stride is actually not fast, but the speed of the movement is quite high, so that Jobs has no way.

The Spurs all high-fived each other.

At this point, Warriors head coach D'Antoni seems to be aware of something, which may be a coach's perception.

Did the Spurs use the bench to beat me and then use the main force to bench me?

The Art of War? Could this old guy Popovich also use such a trick?

The direction of the game seemed to fulfill this, and the Spurs quickly narrowed the score to 2 points.

The Warriors had no choice but to send the main lineup again, and the Spurs withdrew the main lineup at this time. Almost switched to an all-substitution lineup.

What should I do?

In fact, in terms of talent, the Warriors at this time are not inferior to the Spurs, even if it is a substitute lineup, the Warriors will not be inferior to the Spurs, but there is one thing that the Warriors are difficult to do, that is, the gap between their main lineup and the bench lineup, the strength of the Spurs lies in the fact that the combat quality of their main lineup and bench lineup is quite high. This also makes the difference between the combat effectiveness of the substitute lineup and the main lineup not too big.

However, the main lineup of the Warriors is still a little bit better after all.

Slowly opened the score again.

The players on and off the court of the Warriors are getting more and more excited the more they play. There is no way, they are facing the Spurs, and they can basically keep the lead all the time, which is not easy. Winning this game will also allow the Warriors to gain home-court advantage.

The Spurs' style of play is already clear. It is to use the main lineup against the Warriors' bench lineup, and use the bench lineup against the Warriors' main lineup, because of the gap, so the score difference is almost widening and narrowing, and so on and so on. However, the Spurs never overtook the score.

However, at this time, Popovich on the sidelines did not have any expression, and he did not look in a hurry. This and the head coach who went furious at the slightest foul on Duncan didn't look like a person at all.

By the fourth verse.

Popovich once again made a decision that stunned everyone, and he almost completely removed his main players.

Did the Spurs give up the game?

If it's a regular season, it's not hard to understand. Because the Spurs have a large number of veterans, head coach Popovich let the main players rest by himself. Especially in back-to-back games, the veterans basically take one game off. However, this is a playoff game, and the regular season is not a game of confrontation intensity, and the importance is not a level of competition, so Popovich and the Spurs gave up so easily?

Perhaps, the Spurs will also send a main lineup later in the fourth quarter.

But people didn't see it.

What everyone saw was that the Spurs' original point difference was within reach, and it widened point by point.

Duncan, Gillobili, Parker, Leonard, these main players are expressionless off the court, and they can still vaguely feel their unwillingness. Perhaps they also have a little difficulty understanding how Popovich, as the head coach, gave up so easily.

Basically, with the point difference all the time, the Warriors won the eventual victory, and there was almost no suspense.

When the Warriors gave up attacking at the last moment, the Warriors all cheered, of course, including Lin Fei off the court, although Lin Fei was a spectator throughout the game, but he felt at home and a sense of victory. (To be continued......)