"Quick, too fast, this game is definitely the fastest game I've seen in all the playoffs this season, the Spurs can keep up with the speed of the Lakers, it's amazing, but Kidd's passing is really good"

Excited, this is the mood of all the fans in the stands of Staples Arena after the end of the first quarter of this game, and it is also the mood of the two NBA commentators in the TNT commentary seat in the stands of Staples Arena, the process of this game made them extremely surprised, according to the prediction of almost all experts before the game, if the Spurs want to beat the Lakers, they must learn from the Timberwolves to beat the Lakers' model, and go all out to squeeze the Lakers' offense, based on defense, and then play their own offense.

The Spurs have the capital to imitate the Timberwolves, it can be said that this will be a not so good-looking game, at least in the eyes of many people, this game may be like the Celtics playing the Grizzlies in the Eastern Conference semifinals, but what is surprising is that after the start of this game, the Spurs did not intend to curb the rhythm of the Lakers, but played with the rhythm of the Lakers. Both offenses basically ended when the opponent's defense was not completed.

For many fans, this kind of game is very exciting, just like the current Lakers fans, and many basketball experts are also extremely excited, after all, the biggest problem of such basketball is the team's turnover rate, the faster the pace, the higher the error rate, which is beyond doubt, so this is why many defensive people always say that the so-called defense wins the championship. The intensity of the game increases. In the case of increased defensive pressure. The speed that offensive teams rely on will become a double-edged sword, while defense is the most conservative and least fallible.

It's just that in this game, at least from the first quarter, the two teams didn't have any mistakes at all, whether it was Kidd's kind of one-pass that ran through the whole court, or the Lakers' quick short pass cooperation with each other in high-speed movement, there were not too many mistakes, in this case, the game was played extremely smoothly. It gives people an extremely hearty feeling.

"Coach, this game is so cool, I like this rhythm of the game so much" When Kobe Bryant came down from the court after the first quarter of this game, the look on the face of the Lakers player can be described as red with excitement, and his excitement can basically represent the mood of all Lakers now, this is the basketball that this team has always hoped to play, in the past, although the Lakers also no matter how the other side defended, as long as they did not touch the Celtics or the Grizzlies. They're all capable of playing the fast basketball they want, but even so. The Lakers' opponents will not let the Lakers raise their speed, therefore, the Lakers played the Spurs today, which should be regarded as a rare time for the opposing team to cooperate so well with the rhythm of the Lakers team, and this kind of game feeling can indeed make the Lakers players very happy.

What's more, after the first quarter, the score is now 40-35, and the Los Angeles Lakers still have a five-point lead over the Spurs at home, which is definitely something to be happy for these Lakers players.

Although Zhuang Fei was full of doubts about this game from the beginning, at this time, seeing that most of the players of the Los Angeles Lakers were enjoying the game, it was impossible for Zhuang Fei to say something other inappropriate. For him, the state of the team's players at this time was brought out by the Spurs, and in this case, even if the Spurs have any conspiracy, it is impossible for him to pour cold water on his team players.

"What the hell do you want to do?" Although it is said that he can't pour cold water on his players, but at this time, Zhuang Fei's doubts are increasing, Popovich asked the Spurs to play with the Lakers, which is an unimaginable thing, and when the second quarter of the game started, Zhuang Fei turned his head to look at Popovich, the Spurs head coach's mouth The smile on the corner of his mouth also made Zhuang Fei a little worried.

Of course, no matter how worried Zhuang Fei is, the leading side on the court at this time is the Los Angeles Lakers, and in this case, Zhuang Fei really doesn't need to worry too much.

Now the Lakers players on the court at the beginning of the second quarter are led by Jackson and Paul, in addition to Jackson and Paul, the other three are Josh Smith, Mo Williams and Bobby Simmons, at present, this is the Lakers' strongest second team offensive five, as for the Spurs' bench lineup is Barbosa, Robert Hawley, Marry Cross, the former Bucks' leading player Big Dog Robinson, Glenn Robinson is a free agent who was cut this year, At the end of the regular season, he joined the Spurs, who became a little weak because Parker left the bench, and Robinson, the big dog in the playoffs this season, was not in very good shape, but his experience and ability were also able to help the Spurs, and in addition to these four people, another player in the Spurs bench lineup was Devin Brown, the Spurs' bench lineup was also known for its mobility, and the team was basically composed of guards and swing people.

In the current NBA, because Zhuang Fei came to the NBA from the NCAA, he likes to hoard a large number of offensive players or guards or forward players in his bench lineup, and many NBA teams have begun to imitate Zhuang Fei's approach in the past two years, or Zhuang Fei used to say, the bench lineup is a scoring lineup, and now it has been recognized by more and more teams, and the person who recognizes Zhuang Fei's statement the most is no one else. is one of Zhuang Fei's biggest enemies Popovich, although the Spurs head coach doesn't like Zhuang Fei very much, but he never blinks his eyes with things like Zhuang Fei, whether it is from the very beginning of the umbrella tactics, in the later small ball tactics, or after the run-and-bomb tactics and so on.

And in this season's playoffs, the team that can do five players in its own rotation lineup, except for Zhuang Fei's Lakers, is Popovich's Spurs.

Even in this game, this team is still five up and five down, which is extremely confident in the ability of their team's second team, and it is also extremely confident in their own team and extremely accurate planning for the game to do this.

"The Spurs' second lineup would have been good. Barbosa was sharp in his regular season against the Los Angeles Lakers. This Spurs' bench lineup is dynamic. On the other side, the Lakers' second team is known as the best in the league, so in this comparison, the Spurs are slightly worse, but in this case, it is hard to insist on five up and five for the next game, Popovich's boldness is amazing, and at this point he is much stronger than the fierce head coach Sam Mitchell" Kenny Smith said with some emotion after looking at the rotation lineup of the two sides in the commentary seat.

Just like Kenny Smith thought, the Spurs' bench lineup is pretty good. But compared with the Lakers, it is still a little powerless, although because of Barbosa's breakthrough and Hawley's three points and the personal ability of the big dog Robinson will not make the team's second team fall too behind, but in the middle of the second quarter, when the two sides sent the main starters again, the Spurs' point difference changed from five points behind in the first quarter to 8 points behind, although the difference is not very high, but it is not too low.

"It seems that our bench is really worse than the Lakers" After seeing Duncan and them back on the court, Popovich on the sidelines also frowned a little and thought that this game has so far met his expectations, eight points behind. In the rhythm of the Los Angeles Lakers, the game was only 8 points behind at this time, and the Spurs' performance was incredible enough. It's just that Popovich is not very satisfied with this, meeting expectations is in line with expectations, but satisfaction or not is another matter, if the team's second team can be stronger, then they will fall behind less, at least most of these 8 points are lost after Barbosa came on the court, that is, after the Spurs started to rotate, the score has been evenly matched before the two sides start to rotate.

So from this point of view, the Spurs play in the rhythm of the Lakers, the two sides don't use the last secret weapon, the strength of the two sides is truly balanced, and the corners of Popovich's mouth are also slightly skimmed when he thinks of this, and a smile slowly appears on his face.

"I don't think this is all of your abilities, take all of your abilities out of this game, it's too late to have this opportunity," the Spurs head coach finally muttered to himself as he looked at the Lakers players on the court with some contempt.

At this time, Zhuang Fei couldn't hear Popovich's muttering, and if he could, he would probably be able to analyze something from the Spurs head coach's words.

Of course, at this time, it is true that not many people will pay attention to what Popovich says on the sidelines, after all, after the starters of both sides came on the court, the game was anxious again, and the Los Angeles Lakers, who had the advantage, now handed over the advantage again.

"Spurs are so fast"

Kobe Bryant looked at Eric Williams, who was speeding towards him, a little speechless, just now the Lakers offense scored a goal with Hill's dunk, and before Hill got off the basket, the Spurs' offense began, in the past, this kind of fast baseline ball fast break could only be Lakers beating others, but I didn't expect this game to be chased by the Spurs.

Although he was a little depressed when defending, Kobe Bryant liked this rhythm very much, although Kobe Bryant's defensive position was not firm at this time, and the other Lakers players had not even returned, and there were only two of him and Eric Williams below the huge free throw line, but for Kobe, he was still confident that he could block Eric Williams, but when Kobe Bryant recycled back to the basket and prepared to defend Eric Williams to break through, the Spurs small forward actually stood up high in front of him.

"Oops, fooled" When Kobe Bryant found that he had retreated too much and was fooled and pounced forward, Eric Williams had already shot far from the free throw line, and for this kind of open shot that was almost undefended, Eric Williams hit it steadily.

The Spurs counterattacked, and the Spurs have fought back more than once.

"The Spurs' offense in this game is really decisive, if it is in the regular season, I believe that Eric Williams will definitely wait for his teammates to come up and stabilize himself first" At this time, after Eric Williams scored this goal, Kenny Smith wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said: "What kind of trick is Popovich playing?" Is he really ready to follow the pace of the Lakers in this game? ”

Faced with Kenny Smith's doubts, Popovich naturally could not answer. And it's different from Kenny Smith's entanglement at this time. Barkley on the side was so excited about this almost flying game that he didn't even sit in his seat. When Kenny Smith brushes off his partner, there are times when he is really envious of his partner.

"It's great to be simple" Finally, the TNT commentator looked at the Chinese and Popovich on the side of the court, and said with emotion in his heart, guessing that the thoughts of these two people is the most difficult thing.

"Coach, the Spurs have been following our rhythm right now, now do you want to speed up and get them out of the way?"

Stephen Green thought for a moment and then looked at his teacher with some suggestions, obviously. Judging from the situation in the first half, the Spurs are ready to stick to the Lakers, just like the first game of the playoffs between the Lakers and the Raptors, when the Lakers posted the Raptors throughout the first half to adapt to the feeling of their game and then adapt to the rhythm of the Raptors' game, in this case, the Lakers who suddenly made a force in the second half abused the Raptors by nearly 30 points.

Now the Spurs seem to be repeating their old tricks, but the Lakers are not the same as the Raptors, the Lakers' self-regulation ability is stronger than the Raptors, if the Spurs are really ready to stick to the Lakers' rhythm of the game, Green is confident that he can make the Spurs steal chickens and rice, and finally he was dragged down by the Lakers.

So for myself this advice. Green was extremely confident that his teacher would accept it. And in fact, in Green did not wait long. On his side, Lakers head coach Zhuang Fei nodded.

The Spurs' intention now is obvious, that is, to play with the rhythm of the Lakers, as for why Popovich did this, Zhuang Fei does not know, but anyway, the Lakers now need to change.

"I want to see how long you can follow" Zhuang Fei looked at Green, who was already shouting to the court on the sidelines, and thought with some expectation in his heart, Zhuang Fei was extremely confident in the speed of the Lakers.

From the beginning of this game, both the Lakers and the Spurs played very anxiously, although the Spurs lost a lot of points in the rotation time, but after the starters of both sides, the two teams were once again in a very dynamic balance, and the point difference between the two sides was not opened, of course, it did not narrow, it seems that the rhythm of the two sides seems to be unified, but soon, such unity was broken. After the Lakers' assistant coach shouted a few words from the sidelines, the tempo on the court was raised another notch.

"FVCK, it's fast again"

Howard is very depressed at this time, although the offense is cool in this game, but the defense is like a sieve, it can be said that this game is in the first half, this is the most dissatisfied with his defense after entering the NBA, at this time, seeing Kobe Bryant, who has just bypassed him and Hill to complete the aerial relay and is now hanging on the basket, he can't wait to go up and directly drag this Laker No. 8 down. It's just that this thought is only fleeting, because he knows that if he does, Popovich will definitely kick him in the ass, and will tell him viciously, why don't he pull it down when he is about to dunk?

After coming to the Spurs, Howard has always felt that he has come to a black den, especially the head coach of this team is different from all the head coaches he has been with before, that guy will tell him how to play black, will tell him what kind of defensive small moves are okay, what kind of offensive small actions are okay, and will also tell him that as long as he can get the opponent off the court and he stays on the court, then this is his victory, as for this victory, he can use any means, This is another door to basketball for this very childish and naïve high school rookie. And he was terrified of the manager who taught him to do anything to win, and even the young center would be woken up by Popovich's appearance when he slept at night.

Of course, Howard also knows that his coach is very vicious to him, but he also attaches great importance to himself, but what Howard doesn't know is that the reason why Popovich attaches importance to him is that he hopes to cultivate a player like Duncan, Duncan is Popovich's most trusted player, and it is also an eternal pain in Popovich's heart, after all, this is a player cultivated by his biggest enemy, he hopes to be able to cultivate a player who belongs completely to himself and follows his basketball philosophy, and he finally chose Howard, The young man does have this potential in Popovich's opinion.

Like Howard, there are many Spurs players who are speechless about their defense in this game, no matter how well their offense plays in this game, and how closely they chase the Lakers, this is not their normal game rhythm after all, this is the rhythm of the Lakers' game, they are now a little uncomfortable with the Lakers' faster and faster speed, although they did not collapse as Zhuang Fei and Green expected, but after halftime, the Lakers still led the Spurs by as many as 12 points, and the score of the two sides was 85-73.

The two teams scored more than 150 points in the half, close to 160 points, which is not common in the playoff stage, especially in the division finals, and neither team is such a defensive sieve team, in this case, it is definitely not easy to play such a half-time score.

"It's crazy," Kenny Smith said after half-time as he looked at the scores and shots of both sides, wiping his cold sweat a little. In this game, as far as the half is concerned, there are few rebounds on both sides, a lot of assists, few free throws on both sides, and a lot of shots, which is a typical statistics of small-ball teams when they hit each other, of course, for the Lakers' half-time lead of 12 points, what surprised Kenny Smith even more was that the Spurs were able to fight with the Lakers in this situation without being dragged down, and scored 73 points, which is simply a miracle.

"Popovich and the Spurs are really hidden," Kenny Smith said at the end, too, with a deep look at Popovich.

"It seems that this is your limit, but that's it" Unlike Kenny Smith who lamented the madness of the first half of this game, Spurs head coach Popovich on the sidelines did not make him unhappy when his team fell behind by 12 points at halftime, but with some smiles on his face.

"It's rare that they were in the first half just to test our attacking ceiling"

Compared with Popovich's backward smile, Zhuang Fei seemed to have discovered something at this time.

"That's a funny guy" (to be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )