But in the locker room of the Spurs, Popovich sat on the side with a gloomy face, listening to the team doctor report Leonard's injury, three ribs were broken, Li Feng did it on purpose, he did it completely on purpose, this was Li Feng's revenge, he guessed what Leonard was doing, so he was retaliating.

Leonard was carried into the infirmary, and Duncan walked over to Popovich's side:

"We didn't need him in the first place."

Duncan said, glancing at the infirmary door.

Popovich looked at Duncan with his own eyes, all the honors in his life were earned from Duncan, and San Antonio was also under Duncan's ability to become the current army.

But doesn't the team really need Leonard? Popovich is not sure, many times, he can play a role that no one can replace, at least not now, this season the Spurs are very full of positions in all positions, although not star-studded, but Popovich knows that as long as he controls it well, the team can win the championship.

"Tim, in many ways, reality is always dirtier than you think."

Popovich patted the back of Duncan's hand.

Duncan remained silent, and instead of answering Popovich, he stood up and walked to the other side alone, whispering to himself as if to leave:

"But we just want to play well and win the championship."

What happened at the end of the second quarter boosted the Pelicans' morale, a fortuitous event that made these guys feel like they were on the side of justice as if they were Jedi, and Spurs were evil as if they were the Fascist Empire.

Fans take advantage of halftime to go to the toilet, go to rest, some go to the bar, some take the opportunity to have a snack, and some take the opportunity to have a set with their girlfriends, this is the life of the fans, and the rise of the Pelicans brings joy to New Orleans. There is also passion, which can make them have a good memory, but for Li Feng, what basketball is is a dream, as if it is Zhou Gong's dream butterfly.

No, Li Feng's heart recalled Stephen Jackson's words, Li Feng, take us to the finals, the game starts now.

The third quarter of the game begins. As soon as the Spurs players walked into the court, they were booed by the New Orleans fans who had returned, and they had to pay the price, and Duncan still had no expression on his face, and Tony Parker was standing next to Duncan, his face was flushed.

The Frenchman, who is no longer young, looked up at the face of his big brother Duncan, he didn't know how long his big brother would be. We don't need to be like that, we're the best team, whatever it is, we don't have to suffer this shame at all.

The opening was a ball from the Spurs. But the boos at the New Orleans arena couldn't stop at all, and Parker felt like his ears were buzzing, sometimes the boos were just mockery, and sometimes the boos were just a means for the fans to communicate. But now that Parker clearly heard the disgust in the boos, it is estimated that after this, the Spurs will become the least popular team in the league.

The lineup used by the Spurs back in the third quarter was point guard Tony Parker. Scoring guard Corey Joseph, small forward Danny Green, power forward Duncan, center Split, while the Pelicans' lineup is point guard Rose, scoring guard Victor Oladipo, small forward Li Feng, power forward Thornton, and center Al Jefferson.

Parker opened the ball control offense, the Pelicans had been waiting for half court, the Spurs had a detailed plan for the Pelicans, they knew that Li Feng's most feared offensive method was empty-handed without the ball, because the defense without the ball could not be comprehensive, if the opponent wanted to run towards this position, you had no other way than to block his street ball route, and a little cover could get rid of the opponent.

Li Feng is now running with Parker in this way, one runs close to Parker, cutting off his receiving route, but when the baseline meets Duncan's cover, Li Feng can't run with him, and Parker suddenly disappears into Li Feng's defensive range.

Immediately after the basketball came to Parker's hands, Li Feng went to chase Parker, but it was another cover that blocked Li Feng, Parker got the basketball and flew towards the basket.

He drilled in at once, drilled forward, and scored two points lightly.

The Spurs played a bit dull in the third quarter, and the impact Leonard brought to them completely affected this section of the third quarter, the Spurs' play was dull, and the Pelicans' play became active.

The Spurs are one of those teams that are dominated by super control, and now that their team has suddenly lost that power, the scene is a bit chaotic all of a sudden, and the Pelicans have taken advantage of the chaos to take the lead over the Spurs in this period of time.

The Spurs' defense still has a lot of teams in the details, but they are not so good, a team like Spurs does not rely on the physical elements of the players to complete the game, but relies on the overall tactics, as well as the link of every detail.

Now after a lot of details are not done well, the Spurs' defense will not be able to do well, and the Pelicans' score is rising, and by the sixth minute of the third quarter, the Pelicans have led the Spurs by 11 points, 75-64.

When the Pelicans played a crucial third quarter, the Spurs did not fight with the Pelicans to a white-hot time, but instead made people look like a tired old man, and then fighting with a young man, obviously feeling out of breath.

"The Spurs players in the third quarter, I felt like they were tired, they seemed to be playing at all."

Hubbie Brown shook his head with a regretful expression.

"yes, they weren't very enthusiastic defensively either, and this team didn't know what was going on?"

Admiral David Robinson shook his head incessantly.

But the real situation is really like what David Robinson said, I'm afraid not, Antoine Walker, who was sitting on the other side of the court, said bluntly:

"Those San Antonio guys, I think they repent now, Leonard's actions were exposed by the camera, I think not only did it affect the reputation of the Spurs, but even the players felt uncomfortable."

Antoine Walker did talk about the psychological side of the Spurs right now, and the Spurs players now have a sense of guilt. That feeling is holding them back, and that's when the New Orleans arena is crying out "beat the Spurs, beat the Spurs." But the voice was getting louder and louder.

Popovich frowned, the reason why the Spurs wanted to be invincible was because of the Spurs' rock-solid military spirit, at this time the Spurs' military spirit was shaken, and Popovich felt that he should make adjustments immediately.

Unable to let his legion collapse psychologically, he called a timeout and the Spurs players sat on the bench. Looking at Popovich seriously, they thought that Popovich would raise the tactical board and then lay out the tactics to them.

But this time Popovich did not raise the tactical board, but seemed to be waiting for something, but he was waiting for the call of the New Orleans Arena, and sure enough, there were bursts of shouts from the stands of the New Orleans Arena.

"Beat the Spurs, beat the Spurs."

Hearing this, Popovich said:

"Do you hear what those New Orleans people are shouting? They want to defeat us, and you, are you still ashamed of Leonard? Don't you think you don't need someone like Leonard? ”

"Now. It's just to prove it to me now, I know you know how to play, we already know those things, and now I want to see that. What are you going to do with the situation, if you lose, it's clear that I'm right to do so. ”

Duncan sat there in silence. The black jersey and the shadows on the field combined in a qiē, and he was still silent, so the entire Spurs player bench was silent.

"We deserve to win, whatever it is, to play, to win, it's our responsibility."

Duncan said that he stood up, and a lot of times a team and core would represent the style of a team, the will of a team.

Duncan stood up at this point, and the Spurs' will was unified, and although there was no shouting and no celebration, this was the San Antonio way.

The Spurs are back on the court, and this time they are the same Spurs again, Duncan is constantly moving between the high and low posts of the team, playing the low post, organizing the whole team, Parker, who is rising to the middle of the platform, interspersing back and forth, not missing every opportunity to attack the basket.

So the Pelicans' ball was difficult to play, Li Feng didn't expect the Spurs to come back so quickly, so he had to push out many singles by himself and withstood the Spurs' wild attack, from the balance of the team, the Pelicans are indeed inferior to the Spurs.

Since they are inferior to the other party as a whole, they can only rely on their individual ability to pull the game back.

The Pelicans and Spurs launched a battle of offense in the second quarter, but in the third quarter it became a contest of wills, the Spurs used the overall play and strict tactics, and the Pelicans used more singles jumped out of Li Feng in this quarter, and it seemed that Li Feng had already put the whole team on his shoulders at this time.

At the end of the third quarter, the Pelicans stared at the pressure from the Spurs and kept the score at 10 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, both teams used bench lineups, and the Pelicans' lineup was point guard DJ Augustin, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Ronnie Brewers, power forward Al Thornton, and center Brand.

On the side of the Spurs are point guard Mills, scoring guard Ginobili, small forward Danny Green, big forward Boris Dio, and center Bonner.

But at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, the Spurs caught the Pelicans off guard, and the Spurs used a lot of projection at the beginning, and the Pelicans didn't suffer in shooting, but Arenas played too well in front, and the rest of the Pelicans didn't get any chance to shoot, and they didn't open their hands.

After a while, the Spurs began to score, Bonner first fired at the baseline and scored 3 points, and then Danny Green, just when the Pelicans' Arenas hit another magical three-point shot, Mr. Key Dior also came out, and his shot was also a three-pointer.

A few three-pointers smashed down, and the Pelicans' 10-point lead instantly became a pitiful three-pointer, Van Gundy glanced at Li Feng on the sidelines, and it was still a little early to replace his own general.

But if it goes on like this, Van Gundy is really a little worried, Li Feng saw Van Gundy's worry on the sidelines, the key Cheng dù and the difficult Cheng dù of this game are far beyond Li Feng's expectations!

At this time, Li Feng felt that he still had a lot of potential in physical fitness, so he immediately came to Van Gundy's side and said:

"Boss, let me go, my current body is like a bull, even if I give me 10 blonde beauties, I can deal with it. Don't talk about the Spurs guys. ”

Van Gundy nodded and replaced Arenas with Li Feng, because although Arenas can provide points, he will be used by the Spurs as an offensive point at any time, Li Feng high-fived Arenas before he came on the court and said:

"Man, I'll do your job."

"Alright, let me see how you get out of position."

Arenas slapped Li Feng's big ass and said.

Li Feng was said by Arenas, and he suddenly felt that he should be able to do it like Arenas, running without the ball, which is an almost forgotten tactic. There are very few teams that have an idea of that now.

Unless their own stars are looked at to death and are not allowed to receive the ball, those coaches will think of these things to ensure that their stars can receive basketball, and all the stars in the league now can only play with the ball, and if they are not allowed to hold the ball, they can't do anything.

Li Feng knows that the Spurs must have put a lot of defensive strength on his body, and if he goes out now, let his teammates give him a chance to run without the ball. Maybe it will work.

So Li Feng walked onto the court and said to DJ Augustin:

"DJ, just think of me as Arenas, I'm going to start running."

"Really."

DJ Augustin yelled at Li Feng in surprise as he dribbled the ball.

"Of course."

Li Feng knew DJ Augustine's doubts. But now Li Feng wants to make DJ Augustine believe in himself.

"Oh well, what the hell."

DJ Augustin muttered as he dribbled, but Li Feng was using Arenas's running routes at this time.

"Li Feng is back now, but what is he doing? He's in the corner, does he think he's a shooter? ”

Antoine Walker was pleasantly surprised by Li Feng's return, but Li Feng's position made him very puzzled.

What happened next made him even more puzzled:

"Oh. Oh my God, I saw Li Feng running along the route of Arenas just now, he took Ginobili behind him to run between the Pelicans players, but unfortunately this is not a suitable fighter for Li Feng, as long as Li Feng can get through the obstacles, the Ginobili behind him will definitely be able to get through"

That's the way it was, when Li Feng began to run along Arenas' route, he found a nasty thing, the burly body, when it came to executing this tactic, was an obstacle.

Li Feng didn't get rid of Ginobili at all, but looking at Li Feng's very diligent face, he safely received a pass from DJ Augustin, and Li Feng, who passed the ball on the street, didn't get here, so he became his own style.

Instead, he catches the ball, and then, as if it were Arenas, dribbles the ball down and goes around a small corner, the Spurs' inside line, which is a trick prepared for Arenas who fails to catch the ball, intended to attract the attention of the opponent, and then pass diagonally to the weak side or the bottom corner.

But now that Li Feng has replaced Arenas, this tactic has a new content, Li Feng is much more threatening than Arenas, Li Feng drilled into the inside, and the Spurs hesitated a little whether to pinch or not.

Li Feng changed his style of play and dribbled a step, suddenly turned over, hooked his left hand, Bonner and Dior are not physical zhì type of inside, neither of them can bounce, they can only watch Li Feng send the basketball into the basket.

As a result, Popovich immediately began to make substitutions, the Spurs went on Duncan, Duncan came up and began to toss on the Pelicans' interior and got free throws, at which point Van Gundy also began to make substitutions, replacing Al Jefferson and Thornton.

The Spurs and Pelicans began to replace the main players on a large scale, but Van Gundy did not change the Pelicans' backcourt combination for the time being, that is, the part of DJ Augustin and Li Feng, and Van Gundy's doing this also shows one thing.

In the last quarter of the game, the Pelicans are going to start using Li Feng as a scoring guard, and in the last quarter of the Pelicans, the most critical period for the Pelicans, Van Gundy still trusts Li Feng the most.

At this time, Li Feng began to experience the fun of being a running point guard, Li Feng desperately ran around the half-court, quickly transferred, although this kind of movement could not bring Li Feng an empty spot, because where he could run over, even if others arrived later, they could run through it reluctantly.

However, this can ensure that Li Feng can get the ball comfortably, and then use the curl cut smoothly to cut into the opponent's inner line, this kind of thing is getting more and more difficult for Li Feng now.

And Antoine Walker uses the running position without the ball, but it can be very simple, easy to achieve such a goal, Li Feng, who cuts in, has more choices, you can choose to play by yourself, or you can choose to pass the ball to both sides, so that the Pelicans, who were originally defending well by the Spurs, were suddenly poked a big hole by Li Feng on such a whim.

Li Feng uses himself as a shooting guard, and Popovich simply if you want to be a shooter, I will fulfill you, protect the restricted area, and let you shoot from the outside.

Li Feng didn't expect Popovich to be so distrustful of himself, but at this time, Li Feng had already played with confidence after running for a while, and it was a three-point shot outside the three-point line. (To be continued......)