(8,000 words, so it's later)

In the first half of this game, the situation of the game was completely under the control of the Lakers, and the Spurs did not seem to have the slightest intention of confronting the Lakers.

This is a very dangerous approach, at least in the face of a team like the Lakers, the biggest possibility of such a wave is to be swallowed up by the Lakers' increasing monstrous waves, but surprisingly the Spurs did not appear in such a situation, this team actually withstood the Lakers' continuous acceleration with two twin towers, although by the end of the second quarter, the Spurs players played very embarrassed under the Lakers' continuous acceleration, but it did not collapse, This team completely relied on Kidd's one-pass ability and passing ability in the transition between offense and defense, and it was hard to block the impact of the Lakers when they were not as fast as the Lakers.

Of course, in the first half, the Spurs blocked the Lakers' devouring, but it was still the Lakers' rhythm that trailed the Lakers by as many as 12 points, which is still a huge difficulty for this team, and in this case, if the Spurs want to pull the game back in the second half, then they must change their style of play.

So almost after halftime, everyone knew that the real game of the Spurs did not start until the second half, no matter what Popovich did in the first half to let the Spurs completely give up the rhythm of the game to play with the Lakers, but if he still likes to win, he must show his biggest weapon in the second half.

"Kenny, do you think the two teams will attack like they did in the first half in the second half? The first half was the best I've seen this year, and these two teams played so well," said he said as the break drew to a close. The second half of the game is about to begin. Look at the Lakers and Spurs players who have come back to the court from the players' tunnel. At this time, Barkley, the commentator of TNT, asked his partner with some curiosity, but in the face of this question, Kenny Smith also frowned at this time.

"I don't know exactly how these two teams will play in the second half, but the Spurs probably won't play like they did in the first half, unless they don't want to win, in fact, the Spurs have played their strongest offense in the first half, and against the Lakers, their strongest offense was only 73 points in the half. This score is not low, but if it is against the Lakers, this score cannot win at all, in this case, they must contain the Lakers' offense, as long as the Spurs still want to win, they will not be like the first half" After Kenny Smith frowned, Barkley also shook his head helplessly, this is definitely not something that many fans want to see, but this is a fact.

After the start of the second half. The players on the court of the Los Angeles Lakers and Spurs have not changed, all of them are their starters in the first quarter. It's just that although the players on the pitch are the same, when the game starts, the pattern of the game is completely different.

"Is it finally slowing down?"

Looking at the Spurs organization guard Jason Kidd who was slowly dribbling not far away, Hardaway was a little awe-inspiring at this time, the Lakers players played very well in the first half, it was a game that completely belonged to the Lakers' own rhythm, in the locker room after halftime, although Zhuang Fei told them that the second half of the game must be different, these Lakers players also understood this, but when they saw that the Spurs were really different as Zhuang Fei said, these Lakers players were a little regretful.

In the NBA game, basically everyone knows that if you want to win, you must suppress the opponent's advantages to the greatest extent and maximize your own advantages, in this case, no team can say that they can play all the advantages in a certain game, and then play a hearty match-up game, after all, this is the NBA rule, but even so, the feeling of the game in the first half is also a good aftertaste for these current Lakers players.

"Now that the real game has begun, let's go all out" Although it is a little regrettable, Hardaway still adjusted his mood very well at this time.

The first offense in the second half belongs to the Spurs, at this time Kidd of the Spurs is controlling the rhythm, which is done according to Popovich's instructions, at this time the Spurs did not have the same offense as in the first half, and the Lakers' defense was naturally not as loose as the first half. The Spurs' point guard did not force a shot, nor did he face Hardaway's defensive breakthrough to break through in front of the attack, but easily hoisted the ball to Duncan on the inside, at this time, the Spurs leader after receiving Kidd's pass, without any adjustment, the basketball was standing on the right side of the basket in a half-hook posture, and the waist hit the 45-degree board to hit the first goal of the second half of the game.

The Spurs' interior offense was resolute, whether it was from Kidd's pass or Duncan's personal hook attack. This time, the Spurs' offense took a full 18 seconds, a completely different pattern than the first half.

"Tim's hook is so beautiful" After Duncan scored the first goal of the second half against Webber, even the Lakers assistant coach Stephen Green in front of the Lakers bench was a praise, for the current Lakers, the Spurs' low-post offense is inexplicable.

"Yes, it's really beautiful" After Green finished speaking, Zhuang Fei also echoed with some thought, but unlike Green, Green only focused on the strongest Spurs player Duncan, but Zhuang Fei saw that the last offense was in the moment of Duncan's shot, and the basket squeezed away Hill and grabbed the rebounding position in the front court, even if Duncan didn't hit the ball, the rebounding of this ball was in the hands of the Spurs. And this also reminds Zhuang Fei of the last round of the series against the Raptors, when Anthony and Kwame Brown's interior offensive twin towers caused a lot of trouble for the Lakers, this time. This is an upgraded version of the twin towers. If every attack of the Spurs is like this in the future. It's a huge test for the Lakers' rebounding protection.

"It seems that the Spurs are really ready to start defending in the second half," Kenny Smith said with some emotion after the Spurs scored the first goal of the second half.

Such a low pace is naturally to limit the Lakers' fast attack, for this Laker, there is basically no secret to anyone, and several magic weapons of offense are basically clear to everyone, the No. 5 tactics and 1-4 tactics and ordinary blocking and dismantling tactics when attacking and defending, the fast break when switching offense and defense and the extremely mysterious and not very commonly used Terminator tactics, for Terminator tactics. Basically, most teams will choose to ignore it, after all, the Lakers are generally not very commonly used, and positional offensive and defensive tactics like the No. 5 tactic are treated like other triangle offenses or other positional tactics, after all, as long as every team is willing to play positional offense, it can only be defended if this team runs a positional offense, and it can't be said that the opponent is not allowed to play positional offense, and fast offense is different, as long as it is done well, it is true that the opponent can't play fast offense. So for a lot of teams. Facing the Lakers, they are all pinching the team's fast break.

Just like the Spurs now, when the Lakers can't play a fast break. This team was forced to play a positional battle with the Spurs, in this case, although the Lakers' positional battle is also one of the best in the league, but they really want to rely on positional offense to harvest the game, unless the Lakers play the Terminator tactics, even the No. 5 tactic can't do the depth of the game in the face of the Spurs.

Of course, although it is difficult to use their positional offense to play the Spurs to death, the Lakers can also cause enough problems for the Spurs, just as the Spurs use their twin towers to cause problems for the Lakers.

However, what is more surprising is that although it was not invincible in the regular season, at least the almost invincible No. 5 tactic encountered some trouble in the second half when it was running for the first time.

"Good fast rotation speed" Webb is backed by his old opponent, the current NBA's best interior Tim Duncan is a little shocked in his heart, just now, Kobe Bryant has obviously run out of an opportunity, and he is also preparing to pass the ball to the basket behind the back, just because of Duncan's departure and a trace of space under the basket, this time has been made up by Howard, the speed of this kind of defense is surprising, in this case, Weber reluctantly stopped the ball at the free throw line, and the Lakers' first offensive tactics did not play. And he himself is now a little embarrassed to stand at the free throw line, unable to advance or retreat, so he can only start organizing tactics again.

"Just the right defense, the Spurs' defensive rotation is very good, Howard is very good at Duncan, Webb is difficult to do now" Kenny Smith was also a little surprised at this time, the Spurs' defense did quite well this time.

It's just that when the TNT commentator finished speaking, the Lakers' home inside line was backed by Duncan, and an extremely irregular pop-up jumper at the free throw line threw the basketball in his hand, obviously Duncan didn't expect Webber to end the offense in this way, after all, Webber didn't shoot reluctantly most of the time this season, which is why he just averaged 14 points per game in a season, and Webb's offense this time was a very reluctant offense, Although he has such ability, although this ball is very difficult to play, but because Duncan did not defend in place, the basketball flew straight into the basket after breaking away from Webb's right hand, and at this time, after Webb scored this difficult shot, the Lakers fans in the audience gave a huge cheer, and it was obvious that they also saw that the Lakers' offense was indeed in trouble.

"Beautiful shot, Webber's jump shot is beautiful, but it's not the Lakers' regular offensive mode" Webber's score embarrassed Kenny Smith, who just praised the Spurs' defense, but he was right, this is not the Lakers' regular offensive mode.

So after Webber hit the ball, Spurs head coach Popovich on the sidelines actually clapped his hands to the Spurs players on the court to signal that the defense was very good, and it was obvious that he was very satisfied with the Spurs' No. 5 tactic of blocking the Lakers' cut to the basket.

"I will prove to everyone again that I can beat you once and beat you a second time" At this time, the head coach of the Spurs looked at Zhuang Fei, who was frowning a little on the side, and thought very comfortably, at this time, the head coach of the Spurs had thought of six years ago, which was also in the Western Conference Finals. He and Zhuang Fei faced each other. In the end, he defeated Zhuang Fei. And this time, he also wants to beat Zhuang Fei, he has this confidence, six years ago he won the victory he touted as the league's No. 1 offensive Timberwolves to defend the Timberwolves to less than 100 points per game, and this time the Lakers are once again called the league's No. 1 offensive team, the history is strikingly similar, only this time, the Spurs are stronger than six years ago.

“fvck。 It's too hard to get it."

After Webber hit that difficult goal, the Spurs soon started their second offense, this time Kidd did not deliberately dribble the ball through the half court as deliberately as last time, but although the pace is not slow, but it is not fast, and finally the Spurs' offense is still launched by the inside twin towers, but this time it is not Duncan who attacks but is replaced by Howard, this rookie player is obviously a little helpless in the face of the shrinking Lakers and Hill behind him, and he doesn't know how to attack, this position is some distance from the basket. The hook hand doesn't seem to be very suitable, after all, he is not Wang Zhizhi. He doesn't know how to hook the sky, and he doesn't shoot the basketball, and in the end, the somewhat nervous rookie reluctantly threw the ball out, which is using his height to bully Hill, which also makes Hill, who has always been a gentleman, burst out of his mouth with a national curse.

However, after the ball jumped out of Howard's hand, it did not fly into the basket but smashed directly into the front of the basket and finally bounced out, and the rebound was picked up by Szczebiak. And at this time, after seeing Szzerbiak grab this backcourt rebound, the Lakers fans on the scene stood up like crazy again.

As for what the Lakers will do after getting the backcourt rebound, everyone knows very well that the next step for this team is a tidal wave of fast-break counterattacks, which is why many teams would rather attack for 24 seconds than in uncertainty when facing the Lakers, such as Larry Brown's Celtics, which is recognized by the league as the best team to defend the Lakers, and they do this when they face the Lakers, if they don't have an absolute chance, they would rather not attack for 24 seconds.

It's just that after the Lakers fans at the scene were boiling, soon, the strangeness on the court directly cooled the enthusiasm of these Lakers fans as if they had been poured a basin of cold water.

The Lakers' fast offense, which everyone was expecting, did not appear, and the Lakers on the offensive end once again became positional offense, not because the Lakers didn't want to break fast, but because the Spurs' retreat defense was already in place.

"So fast" Hardaway looked at Kidd in front of him and Duncan who was already in place under the basket, at this time the Lakers' basketball had to stop, because the best offensive opportunity was gone, Szebiak on the right was watched by Eric Williams, Kobe Bryant on the left was entangled by Ragabel, and Hill, who had already cut in, and Webb on the free throw line stood next to Duncan, a famous one-defense and two-master in the league, and what was even more terrifying was that it didn't take long for Hill to cut in, Howard, who had just failed to attack, actually came over, you know, this guy's defense speed is not much slower than Hill's, and when he comes back, all the Lakers' fast-break routes are blocked.

At this time, Zhuang Fei, who had not had much expression at the beginning of the second half, showed a surprised expression on the sidelines at this time.

"I see, Popovich ran with the Lakers in the first half not only to measure where the Lakers' highest offensive ceiling is, but also to test where the Lakers' fastest offensive rhythm is" At this time, even Kenny Smith in the TNT commentary bench was a little surprised or refreshed after seeing the Spurs' return to defense.

"Kenny, what do you mean" It's just that Buckley, Kenny Smith's partner on the side, doesn't quite understand what his partner means.

"To put it simply, Popovich found out how much room he can make mistakes under the Lakers' strongest counterattack ability through the first half and the Lakers' firepower, and from the perspective of the Spurs' offense, even if Howard doesn't score, the Spurs can block the Lakers' fast break, if Howard doesn't score this time, the Lakers' fast attack will be successful, then the next attack Spurs will definitely not be handed over to Howard, but can only let Duncan deal with it, In other words, now the Spurs have calculated that they can bear the consequences of Howard's offensive miss through the first half of the confrontation with the Lakers, so that the next game will be difficult for the Lakers" After Kenny Smith finished speaking, Barkley also understood after being stunned for a while,

"Are you saying that the Spurs will let Howard and Duncan take turns testing the Lakers' defense?" Finally Barkley shouted with some exclamation. If the Spurs let Duncan beat the Lakers alone in order to suppress the Lakers' counterattack. This will have a big impact on Duncan's physical exertion. So if there was a Howard to share with Duncan, it would definitely be a different situation.

"It's not just that, if the Spurs know where their room for error is, then they can have more offensive options, and this outcome option is not just Howard, but everyone else, as long as they can choke that point in time, so that the Spurs' offensive restrictions will be lifted to the maximum" A lot of teams will always be constrained when they are facing the Lakers. After all, no one can say that their offense is 100% scored, as long as they don't score, they will let the Lakers break fast, this kind of thing can definitely make anyone crazy, but if they know where their mistakes are, let them know what kind of offense they can not let the Lakers catch counterattacks, this will definitely liberate their offense.

After all, like the Celtics, in order to prevent the Lakers from counterattacking, they gave up the offense and played for 24 seconds, which is definitely a matter of killing 1000 and losing 800, obviously. Popovich had no intention of learning from his teacher.

"This guy is much more cunning than Larry Brown" Finally, Zhuang Fei looked at the Lakers who were once again in a position with the Spurs on the court, Zhuang Fei's face was not very good-looking. In the end, the Lakers head coach also glanced at Popovich on the side viciously, but when Zhuang Fei didn't expect it, Popovich seemed to have known that Zhuang Fei would look at him, and the head coach of the Spurs was actually looking at him with a smile on his face, which also made Zhuang Fei a little angry and funny.

"Don't be happy too early, you kid, we won this game" Zhuang Fei finally glared at Popovich when he thought of this, and after Zhuang Fei stared, Popovich also glared back as if he was respectful, and said to Zhuang Fei, let's see.

And Green, who had been watching Zhuang Fei at this time, also had a chill when he saw Zhuang Fei and Popovich playing this very childish game of staring at each other, and these two people who were more than 80 years old together still played such games.

Of course, after the start of the second half of this game, the Lakers and the Spurs played very tangled, after all, at the beginning of the third quarter, the Lakers, who were very rich in offensive methods, can only play positional offense now, which makes the team's current offensive power greatly reduced, and the Spurs on the other side, obviously, this team did not completely accurately find where the error space of their offense is in the third quarter, in this case, the Spurs' offense is also a little awkward, in this case, the two sides played very tangled in the third quarter, When the third quarter ended, the Timberwolves, who scored 85 points in the first half, only scored 28 points in the third quarter, which was because the Spurs made some mistakes when testing their offensive error space, allowing the Lakers to catch some counterattacks at the end.

The Lakers scored only 28 points in the third quarter, while the Spurs were similar, with the score at 113-100 after the first three quarters, with the Lakers leading by 13 points.

With one quarter of time left, the Lakers only led by 13 points, which is definitely not a score that can be rested upon, especially when the Spurs seem to be getting better and better at controlling their offense, in this case, when the main force of the fourth quarter of the decisive battle between the two sides played less than five minutes, and the Lakers' lead shrunk from 13 points to 7 points, Zhuang Fei had to ask for a timeout again.

And when the timeout ended, the players on the Lakers' court became Kobe, Jackson, Hardaway, Hill and Szzerbiak, which is the staffing of the Lakers' Terminators, and when these five people appeared on the court, everyone knew what the Lakers wanted to do.

And at this time, Spurs head coach Popovich, who was on the sidelines, was also full of expectation in his eyes at this time. It was clear that he was also waiting for this time.

There are 7 minutes left in the game, the Lakers are leading by 7 points, and at this time the Spurs forced Zhuang Fei to take out what he pressed at the bottom of the box, and it can be said that the Spurs have won the Lakers in the regular state in this game.

Of course, for the Lakers' use of the Terminator tactics, as the most important player in this tactic, the Lakers' leading player Kobe Bryant is extremely excited, in the first quarter and a half he played too aggrieved, Ragabel and Duncan's combined defense reminded him of the original Timberwolves, at that time Bowen and Garnett's combined defense made him almost collapse.

Although Kobe Bryant, who feels that he has improved again at this time, is not as embarrassed as that game, but it is not much better, at this time he has already prepared to teach Ragabel and Duncan a lesson, he does not think that these two can block his terminator tactics like Garnett Bowen, in fact, even if it is replaced by Garnett and Bowen now, he does not think that these two can still block him.

In fact, when the Lakers used the Terminator tactics, Duncan and Ragabel were really uncomfortable, and the Spurs, who had been chasing points, were slowly opened up by the Lakers again.

"Beautiful passes, Duncan and Howard bumped together, Hardaway's pass was so weird, Kobe Bryant got a chance to shoot from mid-range, huh? Beautiful, Kobe Bryant did not shoot in the open position but cut directly to the basket to complete the dunk, at this time the Lakers player's roar seemed to tell everyone that he was the master of this place, the Lakers stabilized the situation with the Terminator tactics, the Spurs looked a little embarrassed, and now time is running out, and the Spurs need to find another way to win. ”

The game is very intense now, at least for Kenny Smith, he didn't think that this game would be like this, the regular Lakers lost to the Spurs and were forced to use the Terminator tactics, and at this time the feng shui took turns, and the embarrassed team became the Spurs, but what surprised him a little was that at this time the head coach of the Spurs, Popovich, still seemed to be calm.

"Is this the Terminator tactic? Sure enough, the weird passing route, the incredible passing route and the extremely vague sense of position and running of each player, such an offense almost has no defense in theory" Looking at the formation on the court, Popovich also said with admiration: "But theoretically, when the player really executes it, the player is not a theoretical thing, but real, as long as the player is not invincible, then the tactics are not invincible"

Finally, looking at Kobe Bryant, who gave up his mid-range open shot and cut to the basket for a dunk, Popovich smiled meaningfully.

Although the Los Angeles Lakers played a home game, it was extremely difficult, and when the game was over, Lakers fans were secretly relieved to see the scoreboard score of 145-131 on the court, anyway, it was finally a win.

"Hehe, I won this game" After the end of this game, Zhuang Fei also smiled at Popovich as if he was angry, looking at this somewhat 'villain' Zhuang Fei, Popovich snorted coldly, and seemed to say "I see you still laughing in the next game".

At this time, looking at Zhuang Fei and Popovich, who were fighting with each other, Green on the side also laughed. After all, for him, it is not common for Zhuang Fei, who has always been extremely majestic, to appear in such a scene, except for when he sprays Popovich, basically no one can make Zhuang Fei have such an emotional performance.

Of course, Popovich on the other side is not much different, and the two NBA coaches play a game of staring at each other until the players of the two teams on the court come down, at this time Zhuang Fei is congratulating his teammates, and Popovich is comforting his players, at least on the surface.

"Tim, how do you feel about the Terminator tactics?"

"It's perfect, but it's not perfect," Duncan said with a smile in the face of his coach's question, and Popovich also smiled after Duncan finished speaking.

"I think the next game is going to be fun," Popovich left with his team's players and handed over the stage to the Lakers and their fans who had won.

"It's really a wonderful game," Kenny Smith in the commentary box said with some emotion while looking at Popovich's back as he left and Zhuang Fei who was interacting with the fans at the scene.

There is still a lot of suspense in this game for him personally. (To be continued......)