Doing cross-cover with Li Feng is a simple tactic that the Pelicans often use, and there will be such a match in almost every game.

Li Feng knew that this was a way when there was no way, but he didn't expect that after he and Oladipo cooperated, the Spurs quickly went out to defend Oladipo, and forced Oladipo to the outside, and the three-point shot was deflected.

The Spurs got the basketball instead, Duncan singled with the ball inside, and Ginobili hit a three-point shot from the outside, which suddenly made the Spurs hit a small high. tide, it's already 10-2, at this time Van Gundy finally couldn't sit still, he actually couldn't sit still for a long time, just waiting to see if Li Feng had any way to adjust, now he knows, Li Feng doesn't have any tricks.

The Spurs' own team is absolutely thoroughly researched, and at the beginning of the game, they contain their own teams in groups, and no matter what kind of change, the Spurs' players have targeted containment plans.

Now the team is facing the biggest crisis, Van Gundy muttered, this is not the responsibility of the players, this is their own responsibility, indeed this is their own responsibility, it is that he did not really study the other party thoroughly, did not let Li Feng defend Duncan and defend Parker, let alone help Millsap defend.

He knew that Millsap couldn't form an effective defense against Duncan, and he should have known it a long time ago.

Van Gundy grabbed the tactical board, in Van Gundy's career, he did a lot of hard work and got some results, but he still has an insurmountable gap with those super coaches.

Now it's time to test him, and the Pelicans players are feeling the pressure, the game is not as smooth as they imagined, and the previous games have not been as sad as they are now, no matter which team they played.

The Spurs are like a slimy net, sticking to the entire Pelicans, making every move of the Pelicans extremely difficult, and if you want to attack yourself, the Spurs will block all your paths. You want to let go, and the Spurs just grab which of your weakest points and keep playing, constantly widening the gap.

Playing with such a team, there is a feeling that you can't use the strength and the ability is not coming out, you are very depressed, but you can't even vent the feeling that you want to vent, which is not only depressed, but also makes you feel very unhappy.

Van Gundy had his players all sit in their rest seats, even though it was only two minutes into the game. They weren't tired at all, and Van Gundy said quickly:

"Al will play in place of Millsap in a minute, and I will allow you to foul in moderation."

"Now that's the tactic we're about to play."

Van Gundy said here and raised his tactical board, Li Feng glanced at the tactical board, and now he was finally speechless to Van Gundy.

This guy, he is really open-minded, but it is not easy to get things in this way, it turns out that this time Van Gundy made a strange move, that is, he replaced Al Thornton to play small forward. Completely turned everyone on the Pelicans' outside into a scoring weapon, and also made up for the loss of Millsap, after the basketball reached the Spurs' half, the Pelicans immediately pulled up and down.

Al Jefferson pulls up to the high post to catch the ball. Then the Pelicans did cross-cover and running back and forth around Al Jefferson's pillars, and released Li Feng as a weapon for the team to score, and in terms of the way he scored, Van Gundy asked Li Feng and Thornton to play the low post to be eaten. At that time, Li Feng may play Tony Parker, and Thornton may play Leonard, both of which have an absolute advantage.

This tactic, the Pelicans themselves have not run a few times. It was also never on the court, and it was originally just a tactic to play around Al Jefferson's playability, but now it was finally taken by Van Gundy to take a risk.

This tactical effect is not to be said, but it will definitely have a surprising effect on the Spurs.

Albert looked at the table at this time and said:

"The Pelicans are still too tender compared to the Spurs, I have been with the Spurs for a while, and I hate to understand their style, although on the surface they didn't do anything, but now everyone has seen that they have done a lot of research on the Pelicans, and the Spurs' mastery of the game is unexpected by others, I don't know what else the Pelicans can do?"

Although Albert is an authoritative commentator, you should know that Master Miller has no authority, and he says directly:

"Although I know that the Spurs are very good now, but please now that the game has just begun, I don't think that the Pelicans will be restrained, and the Pelicans will definitely fight back."

Although Walker usually doesn't like Miller's big mouth, even though he himself is a big mouth, he still smiled and nodded at this time:

"Yes, the game is far from over, even if the Pelicans have nothing, I still believe in that Li Feng, although he has rarely scored points by himself recently, but please believe me, he doesn't have to be bad with anyone, I believe this from the heart."

The Pelicans were back on the court, and the Spurs immediately felt something was wrong, as Li Feng passed the basketball to Oladipo after halftime, and Oladipo controlled the ball near the three-point line.

And Li Feng is running along the bottom line at this time, which is not the weirdest, the most bizarre thing is that Oladipo reached the three-point line and immediately passed the basketball to the hands of Al Jefferson who pulled up.

Al Jefferson has always been a point in the Pelicans' system that almost never gets attention, and at this time, what is Al Jefferson doing with the ball?

What does Al Jefferson do with the ball? Almost no one in the world knew that Al Jefferson's ability to play the ball was always like a meteor in the game, and almost no one noticed it.

Now Al Jefferson received the basketball, but the moment the basketball touched Al Jefferson's fingers, a magical change occurred, Al Jefferson and Ben did not hold the basketball firmly in their hands, but flicked their arms and lined up the basketball into the Spurs' interior line as if it were a volleyball.

This speed is surprising, although Split is also a high-intelligence player, but he didn't even react, and the basketball was in the hands of Li Feng, who was slipping the bottom line.

Li Feng received the ball at the baseline and plugged in, Parker chased behind, and there was only Duncan under the basket, at this time it was a 2-on-1 situation, and Li Feng did not jump directly by himself. Instead, he pounced on the basket so that Duncan could only pounce to defend.

At this time, Li Feng gently sent the basketball to Duncan's back, and the basketball went to Thornton behind Duncan, who was a fierce general, got the basketball behind Duncan, and smashed the basketball to the basket without hesitation.

Thornton's ferocious dunk hit Duncan staggered several steps under the basket, but the good-natured Duncan didn't say anything.

But Antoine Walker, who was in the commentary seat, laughed:

"Several of the Pelicans players this year have a very hot temper and look vicious. Miller, they're much more vicious than you, and they won't suffer in a fight. ”

Miller has grudges with Jordan and Kobe Bryant because of his big mouth, and many teams in the NBA have grievances, and when he heard Walker bring up the old story again, he didn't say anything:

"But today Stern won't allow anyone to find fault on the pitch."

The New Orleans Arena court also cheered because of Thornton's dunk, and a change, Popovich began to stand up, and the first thing Popovich had to figure out. Is this an accidental style of play for the Pelicans, or is it a style of play that the Pelicans will stick to for a period of time, and if it is the latter, he should adjust it immediately.

Spurs are different from the traditional giants in many ways. The Spurs don't believe in players adjusting on the court, nor do they use a tactical idea that seems to have a philosophical sense, and the Spurs are an army. An army of Popovich, ordered to be forbidden.

Wherever Popovich will point, his army will go. Without hesitation, they will never back down and be timid, and as long as the other party has a little bit of wind and grass, even if it is just a little bit, the Spurs will adjust quickly by themselves, this is the Spurs.

Popovich stood on the sidelines and asked his assistant coach:

"What do you think?"

The assistant coach certainly knows what Popovich is referring to:

"It shouldn't be accidental, Li Feng passed the ball very early and ran to the position."

Popovich nodded, and then he looked at the court, after the Pelicans changed Thornton, Duncan did not change his tactics, he was still playing the Pelicans No. 4 position, in Popovich's heart, the Pelicans' No. 4 position that seemed to be full this season was actually the weakest point for the Pelicans.

The two guys took turns in a position, just a weakness that the Pelicans covered up very well, if you want to bite a bite from the Pelicans' seemingly monolithic lineup, the best way is to start from the No. 4 position, Popovich is convinced of his own judgment, so in this game he did not use the current Tony Parker as the pioneer of the road, but used the veteran Duncan.

If you know Popovich, you should know that in the heart of this old coach, he loves this big man even more than he loves this team, he trusts Duncan more than a qiē, and the San Antonio Spurs have gone from an obscure small city team to two super big men to get to where they are today.

It didn't happen overnight, with Admiral David Robinson and Duncan pushing a small team to the top of the pack now.

Popovich watched Duncan start to play Thornton alone, Thornton is the kind of player who is very tough and explosive, Popovich has seen a lot, but they can't stop Duncan, Popovich deeply believes this.

Duncan himself believed that he could, but he underestimated Thornton's bravery, Thornton was like a small sandbag, crawling on Duncan's body, letting Duncan make moves, he was constantly using small movements to destroy Duncan's rhythm, Thornton was so brutal, and finally let Duncan miss, Duncan who didn't hit looked at Thornton very depressed, and then looked at the referee.

Thornton's action was very big and should have been punished for a foul, but Thornton came up with such a big action to defend, unlike Millsap, the referee thought that Thornton was such a defensive force, so he ignored Duncan.

Popovich was a little angry, but he also knew that the referee's scale for Thornton was like this, which was very unfavorable for Duncan, and he needed to improve on the offensive end while observing the Pelicans' actions on the defensive end.

His assistant coach really didn't make a mistake at all, after the Pelicans ran back, they still played the same routine as before, and Li Feng gave up the right to control the ball early and handed over the basketball to Oladipo.

Then Oladipo was not a candidate for that organization, he immediately sent the basketball to Al Jefferson who pulled out the high position, and after Al Jefferson got the basketball, he looked back and saw that Split didn't follow him at all since he was still in it.

Obviously, I just went out with me. Duncan White 2 to 1, now Split doesn't dare to follow, Al Jefferson is empty alone, what is needed at this time is the power of decision.

If you don't dare to shoot, the other party will still not follow you to defend you, if you dare to shoot and hit, then the other party will estimate you, Aljefferson is very smart, he knows this deeply, so he doesn't have a trace of melancholy. Shot in the middle of the shot, his position is concentrated in the classic horn position.

Unguarded, it's a jump shot area, and Al Jefferson usually has an average shooting percentage, but today he hit it with one hand.

This time, it was clear to the Spurs up and down that the big man had a shot, so Popovich's timeout had to be called.

"Al Jefferson hit the mid-range shot. The Pelicans easily broke down the Spurs' defense twice in a row, and the Spurs' defense was ineffective, and now Popovich called a timeout, and it looked like this part of the game was going on. The confrontation between the two teams is still very intense, with variations and specificities on each other. ”

When Hubbie Brown saw this, he was very relieved and continued:

"At least for now, the Pelicans and Spurs are in a good match, and they're doing well overall."

Li Feng returned to the rest seat. However, Popovich immediately began his own arrangement, and since the offensive end, the Pelicans have carried out a relatively strong defense against Duncan. Then you might as well think differently and think of Duncan as a target to attract the opposing defense.

Defensively, the Pelicans used a Princeton-like tactic, so Split had to contain Al Jefferson's pass and not give him a lot of room to move.

The two teams returned to the court, the Spurs began to attack, Duncan became a target to attract the defense, and Ginobili fired and hit.

And here for the Pelicans, although Split delayed Al Jefferson, Al Jefferson passed the basketball to Thornton's hands with surprising passing skills, and Thornton was much stronger than Leonard in terms of physique, and directly hit a single shot with his back.

At this time, both the Pelicans and the Spurs have entered, another stage of the game, but it is the extension of tactics, the main tactics of both sides have been clear about the core, but they are within the scope of the core, extending their tactical intentions around.

The first quarter ended in such an extension and temptation, neither team burst out with all their strength, nor did they put the focus of the entire team on the first quarter.

The Pelicans and Spurs are not teams in the first quarter, this kind of team with strong impact likes to beat the opponent to pieces in the first quarter, while the Pelicans and Spurs are the kind of long-running, slow-heating type of teams.

These two teams prefer to adjust the rhythm in front and sprint back to the game, which is the rhythm they like.

In the last two points of the first quarter, the Pelicans began to play gradually off the bench, but Oladipo remained on the court.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Van Gundy put Arenas on the court, and Van Gundy was still not at ease at this time, because Arenas suffered too much in defense, so he added a little lesson to Arenas before Arenas came on the court.

"Gilbert, you can try to provoke your opponent, you can use trash talk to get his attention, which will reduce the pressure on your defense!"

Arenas, who had been washed away, was a smart fellow, and he knew what his manager was talking about, and he nodded happily and said:

"I know the coach."

Running from the sidelines to the court, Arenas was first deployed on the wings to defend, with the Spurs' Corey Joseph.

Arenas defends him, the pressure is not very great, the main thing is to keep an eye on it, Joseph doesn't have much ability to attack with the ball, and if he doesn't let Joseph shoot well, it seems to have completed the defense, that is, because of Joseph's play, Van Gundy let Arenas play.

The Spurs now have the ball in possession, and their bench lineup is point guard Mills, scoring guard Joseph, small forward Danny Green, power forward Boris Dio, and center Bonner.

The Spurs are known as a nursing home, and they are all filled with a group of old men, and their playing style is old and slow, but you don't underestimate the Spurs' nursing home team, they can't help the general team that broke out.

Sure enough, although Dio was a lot older, he still easily scored two points under the basket.

Now that the second quarter of the game has just begun, Drexler naturally asked Reggie Miller:

Arenas spewed trash talk while sneaking against Cory Joseph and penetrating towards the spur's 45 degrees:

"Little one, I really feel sorry for you, how was your stay in the nursing home, your grandfather Duncan upstairs didn't spit on you."

Joseph was very angry at listening to this junior's nonsense, but he was not good at trash talk, just when Joseph was thinking in his mind, did he find two-flavored curses to deal with each other, one was infiltrating Arenas who pushed him with his hands, and suddenly grabbed his arm with both hands and shook it, and then at the same time Arenas rushed out like a rocket, he ran out at a speed like a rocket, but in the crowd, it seemed to be an eyed swallowfish in the middle of the aquatic plants, Flattened his body and slipped through the narrow man. (To be continued......)