Oklahoma City, in the team training ground of the visiting Spurs, at this time, a group battle is underway. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On one side are Split, Duncan, Leonard, Green, and Young, which is exactly the starting lineup that Popovich is preparing for Game 4, and on the other side are Baynes, Dio, Belinelli, Ginobili, Mills, several of the Spurs' most commonly used rotation players.

This is the Spurs' second intra-team training game in these two days, and generally speaking, in such a high-intensity playoff game, the Spurs will generally only arrange one intra-team training between games, after all, it is necessary to ensure that the players have enough physical fitness to cope with the game.

But in order to make Li Yang better familiar with the point guard position, Popovich deliberately arranged two games, but the time was slightly shortened, and today's team training was put in the morning, and the confrontation was not so intense.

At this time, Li Yang in the court was controlling the ball, and after Duncan lifted the block, Li Yang entered the three-point line with the ball.

Li Yang pressed the speed, but maintained a state that could break through at any time, which made Baines and Ginobili who followed the defense have to be on guard.

At this time, Duncan found an opportunity to quickly cut to the basket, and when Duncan was about to enter the three-second zone, Li Yang made a through ball and sent the ball to Duncan's hands.

Duncan received the ball and was within range of attacking the basket, which attracted the other team's defense, and just as they shrank their defense, Duncan's ball was quickly thrown out and sent to Danny Green, who ran to the left three-point line.

"Huh!" took the ball and shot quickly, and Green hit a three-point shot.

"All right, boys, stop. After seeing Green shoot, Popovich clapped his hands to signal the end of today's matchup.

At this time, Popovich's heart is much more relaxed than yesterday, with the adaptation of yesterday's internal training game, coupled with the fact that Popovich pulled Li Yang to watch the training video last night, and also called Duncan and Ginobili to participate in the guidance, Li Yang's team training match today has made obvious progress.

Although it is a bit improvised to Li Yang's training, Li Yang is still very familiar with the Spurs' tactics after all, and his personal comprehension ability and ball control ability are very good, and his passing ability has also improved greatly this season.

Judging from the team training that has just ended, Li Yang's performance has made Popovich very satisfied, Li Yang's progress is very great, and his handling of the ball and his control of the rhythm are much stronger than yesterday.

So at this time, Popovich can be said to be more confident in the game coming in the evening, and he believes that the Thunder can't guess his own change of formation, which will make the Thunder very uncomfortable at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends after the game starts, after all, they didn't think about facing the Spurs with another "Parker".

Another thing that makes Popovich more confident is that several of the team's shooters in today's practice had a good shooting touch, especially Danny Green, who almost had a shot.

In fact, Green was also very hot in the first two games, but because the team's rhythm was disrupted, Green didn't get so many opportunities.

After seeing the Spurs players who were practicing shooting at this time and Popovich who was standing on the sidelines and talking to the assistant coach, the reporters quickly dispersed and began to look for their interview subjects.

"It's possible for Patrick or Corey to start, I'm still talking to the assistant coaches, they're just not used to playing on a stage like the Western Conference Finals, but there's no problem with their ability, and we're very convinced of that, so it's possible for them to start. ”

When asked by reporters who would be the starting point guard tonight, Popovich said with a serious face.

'We're going to try to get back to the rhythm we are comfortable with, which is important for us, because Manu, Thiem, Young and Burres need to take on more organising in the game because Tony is not on the pitch at the moment. ”

"Toney's injury has really affected us a lot, the Thunder have played really well in both games, and the next game is a test for us, and all I can say is that anyone can win the game. ”

'We're not going to let Toney come back early, we've got to think about his career. ”

Popovich answered the questions one by one, he did not shy away from talking about the evening game, nor did he deliberately leave Li Yang alone, in his mouth, it seemed that tonight's game was business as usual.

Popovich even kept turning the conversation to Mills and Joseph, leading reporters to think about who would start. Anyway, there was only one point, and Popovich didn't say a word about someone making a cameo as a point guard starter, and the reporters really didn't think of that.

The assistant coaches on the side couldn't help but walk away after seeing these reporters excitedly asking who would start the two point guards, and whether Ginobili or Li Yang would rotate in advance to ensure the team's offense, and they began to speculate about what these reporters would think when they saw the Spurs' starting lineup after the game officially started tonight.

Li Yang was also surrounded by several reporters, including Chinese and American reporters, but no matter where the reporter was, no matter how familiar the reporter was, his answer was almost the same.

'We had to play well and defend well in the evening, we had to learn to adapt to the games without Tony and in fact we could have done better, because Toni was out in the regular season because of injuries or rotations, and in those games we won most of the time. ”

The coaches and players of the Spurs were interviewed by reporters one by one, but no one revealed a trace of the adjustment of the starting lineup for tonight's game.

After the interview, many media outlets also made previews or predictions for the evening's game.

"Clearly, the Spurs are now struggling with whether they start with Corey Joseph or Patrick Mills, as neither of those two can replace Tony Parker. In the game, Greg Popovich will most likely bring Manu Ginobili on the court early to replace Danny Green, sacrificing some defense to organize the team's offense. ”

However, the Thunder have shown very good form in the last two games, they have done a very good job of moving the ball, Kevin Durant is still playing consistently, Russell Westbrook's performance in these two games has surprised the Thunder, and if the Spurs can't do better on the offensive and defensive end than in the first two games, it will be difficult for them to take a win from the Thunder's home court. (To be continued.) )