After he came on the court, he immediately pointed to his ears, and Li Feng's first action on the court made Van Gundy's brows flutter for a while.

In the Pelicans' tactics, fingering the ears meant playing a Princeton-like offense, which was not exactly Princeton-esque, but employs several of Princeton's signature tactics.

The first is Henson and Brand's high-and-low post strategy, and then there is the cross-cover made by Arenas and Victor Oladipo around Millsap, which is a signature style of play for Princeton.

Li Feng's idea is very simple, if the Pelicans want to break the defense of the Spurs with an opposition advantage, they need to create a misalignment, they need to create an open position, Brand and Henson do not have the conditions to play high post blocking and pick-and-roll, and there is no suitable sharp point player to play a triangle offense.

At this time, the best way for the Pelicans is to play this kind of offense similar to Princeton, the Pelicans suddenly put on such a position, the Spurs immediately messed up, and Li Feng passed the ball to Henson, who was like a beacon.

Henson is actually very suitable for this kind of work, after receiving the ball like a beacon, immediately transferred the ball to the weak side of Arenas, there is no defender in front of Arenas, after receiving the ball, he shoots, but unfortunately misses.

The basketball jumped out all of a sudden, the Pelicans and the two big men were outside the three-second zone, Split easily grabbed the basketball, and then turned back and passed to Parker, who was on the court with Li Feng.

Parker was like a little electric rabbit, running fast with the ball, and Li Feng suddenly found out. Now my team is completely bad at hand after falling behind for so long.

The Spurs, on the other hand, were still in the limelight, with Parker's quick pass to Danny Green. The shooter shot from beyond the three-point line and landed a fatal blow to the Pelicans' wounds.

The Spurs didn't give the Pelicans any chance after coming back in the second quarter, hitting another three-pointer.

As a result, the Pelicans players were nervous, and after Li Feng came back, he felt that he had to control the matter himself, and now the Pelicans urgently need to score, and they urgently need a stable score to control the situation with the Spurs.

So Li Feng controlled the ball and came over. was ready to single Leonard, Leonard defended Li Feng for the entire first quarter, and he thought that Li Feng's failure to score was his own credit.

But now Li Feng has to do it himself. After dribbling, Li Feng clearly sent a message to his teammates that he wanted to play singles, Li Feng gestured to singles, and the Pelicans players immediately pulled Li Feng out of the entire left half of the court.

At this point, Bill Wharton said:

"Li Feng is going to do singles with Leonard. He didn't have a decent shot for the entire first quarter. This time he's finally coming. ”

The New Orleans Center saw the Pelicans pull out the singles for Li Feng, and the whole court cheered, and the entire New Orleans Center was filled with cheers like this, Li Feng, Li Feng, Li Feng.

Li Feng knows that he now carries not only the hope of the team, but also the hope of 20,000 fans in the center of New Orleans. The hope of hundreds of thousands of fans throughout New Orleans.

Bending down, Leonard is very capable of confrontation. Direct confrontation is definitely not a good strategy, attracting him to confuse him is what he should do, Li Feng, who has made up his mind.

Suddenly dribbled forward, then contracted, attracting Leonard's attention, then turned and cut in, and waited for Leonard to stick to himself Li Feng turned around again.

Li Feng is like a butterfly flying in the middle of a flower, continuous rotation, continuous flying, Leonard, who is accustomed to direct confrontation, was quickly confused by Li Feng, and Li Feng turned around and approached the basket in a rhythmic and continuous way.

At this time, the Spurs' interior line was also completely attracted to this side, and Li Feng was in big trouble this time, but at such a time, he still suddenly turned around and faked to attract Leonard's attention.

Then immediately turned around and lowered his hand to make a layup, Li Feng's shot was very fast, not only deceived Leonard, but also drilled past Split's side, which was equivalent to passing two people in a row and sending the basketball into the basket.

As soon as Li Feng got the score, Magic Johnson immediately shouted:

"Beautiful!"

Li Feng finally temporarily stopped the bleeding for the Pelicans and got the points, but this is only to stop the bleeding, no team can rely on one person to continue to score, only the team's system can run healthily This team can really win.

"Li Feng, well done, it's really hard to believe that he is only in the second grade, and his appearance is as calm as an iceberg."

Bill Walton said at this point.

Leonard defended well, and now he was so angry that he was beaten so easily by the opponent.

Parker is fast with the ball, and once the pace is not fast for the Spurs, Parker's organizational pressure here will be very great, and now Parker has to face Li Feng's defensive pressure.

Li Feng tried to use his long arm to break the ball once in the process of Parker's dribbling, but the opponent was very alert, and the speed of change was also very fast, Li Feng just moved, the other party pulled the basketball back in his hand, Li Feng did not touch the basketball at all, Parker was also very surprised, the other party's harassment ability was so strong, his pressure suddenly became greater.

He hurriedly called Tim Duncan's cover, Parker and Duncan did the block and pulled it towards 45 degrees, and Li Feng and Brand took advantage of this time to quickly exchange defenses.

As soon as Parker saw that Li Feng had changed back, he hurriedly threw the ball into Duncan's hand, and Parker was only able to change his chances, and Duncan, who got the basketball, glanced at Brand, who had eased up.

Brand Sr. still has a strong defensive ability, but now that Duncan Tong Guò and Millsap are fighting, his hands have become hot, and his confidence has risen, it is as if the car has been speeding over, and it is difficult to contain it.

As soon as Old Brand came over, Duncan didn't care much at all, and looked up slightly at the head of the catch. Given a very freehand feint, Brand didn't jump, but his attention was also attracted.

Duncan followed up with a quick cut. Duncan was not good at cutting, and he didn't break through very neatly this time, but he still left Brand behind.

Brand turned around to defend, and his movements suddenly became bigger, hitting Duncan with his shoulder, and Duncan took advantage of Brand's strength, and his body was crooked. Then came a very short run.

The arc of the basketball shot was also very flat, but with the referee's whistle, Duncan's ball still went in.

2+1。 Duncan's continuous offense, Millsap couldn't defend, and Old Brand couldn't defend when he came up, and the whole Duncan looked like a god was killing God. The Buddha came to kill the Buddha. There was simply no one to stop him.

Duncan didn't think about it at first, he just wanted to cheat a foul, but as soon as he saw the basketball go in, he immediately laughed, which is really funny.

Duncan was there smiling smirked, catching the basketball and hitting the free throw at the free throw line.

At this time, Van Gundy sighed, but the pressure on the Pelicans was getting heavier, and the Spurs were there. It does look like it's getting smoother, Duncan, the rookie. It's clear that it's already starting to erupt.

Li Feng also felt very pressured to receive the ball from the bottom line, what should I do at this time, the Spurs are pressing step by step, do you have to solve it by yourself, Li Feng is looking left and right, and Arenas is looking at Li Feng's face at this time.

Arenas is longing for Li Feng to pass the basketball over, he is longing for his friend's trust in him, at this time Arenas believes that he can do something, although he meets an opponent similar to himself for the first time, but Arenas still believes in himself, he hopes that Li Feng can also believe in himself.

So as soon as it was halftime, Arenas immediately ran up and shouted loudly at Li Feng:

"Ball, give me the ball."

Li Feng saw Arenas rushing over, he seemed to see what Arenas wanted to say to himself, he quickly threw the basketball into Arenas's hands, Arenas received the basketball and swung it gently.

Li Feng came over to make a cover for Arenas, and saw that Arenas suddenly changed his previous rhythm of ball control.

Suddenly an acceleration and rushed towards the basket, Arenas's sudden change really deceived Danny Green, and deceived everyone, he got under the Spurs' basket in one head, and Arenas had a chance.

But his choice of breakthrough route is not very good, shooting is about the timing of shooting, breaking through is about breaking through the route, one needs time, and the other needs space.

Arenas has problems with the mastery of time, but Arenas is still a novice in the mastery of space, and he collides with Split head-on, and the space for sale is suddenly gone.

Throwing the basketball to the rebound, which turned out to be no threat at all, Duncan took his kind of thief smile and loved the rebound, and then sent the basketball to Parker's hand at a rapid pace.

This time it became the rhythm of the Spurs, fast, and fast, Parker rushed up with the ball, Li Feng hurriedly delayed Parker's fast attack rhythm, but Parker, who had a specific understanding of Li Feng, did not make direct physical contact with Li Feng at all, but used the cover of his teammates to play hide and seek with Li Feng, preventing Li Feng from catching him.

Parker swept all the way to the scene, first saw that Leonard was in a good position, but Parker didn't make a pass, it was obvious that he didn't trust Leonard, and then Duncan appeared from behind.

At this time, Parker passed the basketball to the past, and when Duncan is now hot in his hands, it is obvious that Parker really trusts Duncan on offense.

Tim Duncan plugged in the middle to receive the ball, faced the oncoming old Blandford to a dribble in the heart of the ball, as if it was a spinning top, completely twisted the veteran behind him.

Then I saw Duncan generously stretch out his hand and come to a beautiful layup, another two points, Duncan got another two points, and all the points at the beginning of the second quarter of the Spurs were scored by Duncan.

And it's a bullet, Duncan completely exploded, and this kind of outburst is still the kind of ubiquitous, Duncan after scoring a goal, touching his goatee and laughing.

To be honest, Duncan's smile was ugly, but there was no way that Duncan was really starting to rampage now.

The Pelicans' offense still hasn't been solved, always intermittently unable to score consistently, and the Spurs have a Duncan here, no matter where they get the basketball. You can almost score.

Duncan, who has never been good at three-pointers, even shot a three-pointer, so you can imagine how hot his hand is, and at this time the Pelicans have no way to take Duncan at all. Brand couldn't defend, Henson didn't have that much range of motion, Millsap wasn't tall enough, and he searched all the Pelicans' interior players, none of whom were suitable for Duncan.

At this time, Duncan's hand was still unusually hot, which was simply adding insult to the Pelicans.

Duncan scored 17 points in the second quarter alone, and the gap between the Pelicans and the Spurs was completely widened in this quarter.

51――33。 The Spurs led the Pelicans by as many as 18 points, and such a big score was completely beyond everyone's expectations. The entire New Orleans Center didn't expect that their team would be beaten so disgraced by the Spurs on their home turf.

The halftime whistle blew and the Pelicans players walked into the locker room dejectedly. Arenas' face was also unusually unsightly. After that unsuccessful layup, he launched three consecutive offenses, which turned out to be ineffective.

It's not just Arenas, Victor Oladipo, Henson, and Brand's collective dumb fire, but everyone in the Pelicans today is very uncomfortable offensively, as if it is contagious if it is not good.

Li Feng's shooting today was also shaky. The hit rate is also not high, in such cases. When everyone walked into the locker room, they were in a depressed mood, and Arenas threw his clothes into the locker as soon as he entered.

Victor Oladipo even said:

"Today is really unlucky, my hands are cold as if they are ice cubes, and no matter what I do, I have a feeling that it is like someone has choked my neck, and there is no room to play at all."

"Yes, today's game makes people feel instinctively unhappy, they don't know what happened, anyway, they are uncomfortable."

DJ Augustin also had a bad first half, and he started to grumble as he sat on a stool in the dressing room.

Although the Spurs are a strong team in the league, the key is that the current Pelicans are restrained by the opponent in some aspects, and the sharpest part of the opponent happens to stab the weakest part of the Pelicans.

And today's Pelican's performance is not very good, the two situations together make the Pelican's play very weak, which should be regarded as that kind of powerless resistance.

Li Feng also sat there, he had completely experienced the entire first half today, the opponent's performance was great, it happened that his performance here was very poor, and in the half-time battle, his team seemed very weak.

There is nothing to counterattack in the attack, what can be done, just as Li Feng was thinking, Van Gundy pushed the door and walked in from the outside.

Van Gundy now saw the gloom in the locker room, and he clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention to himself.

"My boys, what's wrong? Everyone was sad. ”

When Van Gundy did this, everyone focused their eyes on Van Gundy.

'Yes, we're down a lot of points now, and we could even suffer our first defeat since the start of the season, but that's the game, any team has a time when we don't have to sigh, we have to face it, we have to find a way, now let's analyse our opponents.

With that, Van Gundy walked to the small blackboard in the locker room and pointed his finger at the very top of the blackboard.

The Spurs are a very fast-paced and defensively good team, and these two points are difficult to put together, but once combined, they will have a very strong offensive system.

Both the Nets and the Spurs are teams with this offensive system, and we don't have a good offense right now, and there's only one way to win games, and that's defense.

Van Gundy said this, putting his hand on his chest, when our team is weak offensively, what we need is defense, only defense can save our team, only defense.

Van Gundy's strategy is correct, and defense is a necessary medicine to save the team at all times, and at this point, Van Gundy continues:

"The reason why the Spurs were so sharp on offense in the first half was not how well they did on the team, but that their Duncan was completely out of control."

"At this time, if we want to control the situation, the first step is to control Duncan, and no matter where he is, we must trap two people against him."

Van Gundy said here. There is a thousand pride, and now the Pelicans want to change the game, if they want to change the situation of the Pelicans. Strong measures are needed.

The third quarter of the game restarted, and in the memory of fans, the third quarter has always been relatively boring, because the first quarter brought them a new feeling, and it was still early in the fourth quarter when the final winner was decided.

But a lot of the game ended up turning around during this period, with the interruption of the third quarter and the first half of the fourth quarter being Popovich's favorite time to change the tempo.

Now the Pelicans are doing the same, and the rhythm of the Pelicans in the opening game has completely changed, and they have also made a big change in personnel. Ronnie Brewer was replaced at the shooting guard position and Kaloon Butler at the power forward position.

Van Gundy appears to have diminished the height of the power forward position, but has actually increased the range and flexibility of the position.

As soon as he started, Li Feng used the cover to crash into the inside line of the Spurs. Li Feng hit Duncan's head like a meat egg, and then passed the basketball into Ronnie Brewer's hands, and Ronnie Brewer received the basketball, even though there was no defender in front of him at all. But he still didn't break through.

Instead, he chose to be the second batch of daredevils. Then he broke through to the Spurs' interior line, and was attacked by the Pelicans one after another, and the Spurs' interior line was immediately chaotic, when the Spurs line collapsed.

The Pelicans' offense is still running in an orderly manner, and the Warriors are also playing this kind of breakthrough pass strategy, but when the Warriors play, you always feel like the interior is in a mess, but now the Pelicans don't have such an effect.

The first batch of Li Feng rushed forward without success, and immediately quickly retreated to the side. Pull people away and keep the space. Let the second group of people who come up still have room to break through, so that there will be no chaos on the inside line, and there will be no room for breakthrough.

On the contrary, in this way, no matter which wave of offensive players breaks through, there will be plenty of room to break through, it was Leonard who defended Li Feng just now, and it is Parker who defends Ronnie Brewer now.

This time Parker suffered a loss in height, Ronnie Brewer broke through in two steps, which caused Parker's foul, followed by the Pelicans' ball, and finally Henson still picked up a bargain on the inside and scored two points.

The changes in the Pelicans after the start of the third quarter were very obvious, so Bill Wharton said directly:

"In the second half, the Pelicans changed their strategy, and now they are ditching all the flashy combinations and starting to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Spurs, which is ugly, but really the most effective way."

"yes, and it looks like the Spurs played too well in the first half, and now they're a little bit unaccustomed to hand-to-hand combat."

Magic Johnson also began to speak.

The Spurs did not like it, they played too smoothly in the first half, Parker and Popovich They thought they could easily clean up the Pelicans, but they didn't expect that at the beginning of the second half, the Pelicans played hand-to-hand basketball with themselves completely shirtless.

The Spurs, who lost the score, immediately came over to counterattack, but as soon as Parker came over, he found that the Pelicans' defensive level had improved all of a sudden, and Li Feng pounced on himself like a mad tiger.

Even if he used his teammates to bypass Li Feng, the Pelicans players behind him were also pressing very closely, Parker felt a little busy here, and Parker felt that the defensive pressure on his body was getting bigger and bigger.

Hurriedly transferred the ball to Duncan, who scored 23 points in the first half and was in great shape, and Parker didn't go to Duncan to find one at this time.

Duncan received the ball with confidence, because now it was Calon Butler who was defending himself behind him, and Karon Butler was even shorter than Millsap and physically weak, playing such a person, Duncan felt that he was simply handy.

If it was a one-on-one fight, Duncan would have been able to get a hand-to-hand match, but Van Gundy didn't want to take a Caron Butler and Duncan to do a one-on-one match, Duncan just got the basketball here.

Victor Oladipo in the back immediately stood with Kalombbutler and formed a wall, and immediately stood behind Duncan, a wall of two people. (To be continued......)