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Li Yang sat on the sidelines, but his identity was completely different from before, before, Li Yang was only a ten-day short-term contract player, and now, he is a full-fledged Spurs player.

Although he is no longer a temporary worker in terms of identity, in terms of role-playing, Li Yang is obviously not much different from before, that is, a player on the edge of the bench.

For example, now, in the middle of the second quarter of the game, Li Yang has not yet had a chance to play.

The Spurs' opponent in this game is the Chicago Bulls, a team that is famous around the world because of Michael Jordan, and since Jordan's retirement, the team has experienced a long period of slump until they drafted Derrick Rose with the first pick in '08.

In their first season after selecting Rose, the Bulls returned to the playoffs, but they were out of the first round of the playoffs for two years in a row until the summer of '10, when they brought in their current head coach, Tom Thibodeau.

In the 10-11 season, the Bulls once again became one of the most watched teams in the league, in this season, they overtook the Heat, who formed the Big Three, and ranked first in the East with a 62-20 record, which is also the first record in the league, and the second place is the Spurs, who finished 61-21 that season.

That same season, Tom Thibodeau was elected head coach of the year, and Rose became the league's youngest MVP.

Although the Bulls lost 1-4 to the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals, everyone is optimistic about the team's prospects.

In the following 11-12 season, last season, the Bulls once again became the best in the league with a 50-16 record, and their goal was to snipe the Heat in the East and reach the Finals, but in the first round of the playoffs, the team's leader Derrick Rose was injured and reimbursed for the season, and was eventually blacked out.

With a serious knee injury, Rose missed all games this season, and without the team's most critical players, the Bulls naturally didn't have the strength of the previous two seasons, but with excellent defense and other players, they still maintained a top-five in the East this season.

Prior to the game against the Spurs, the Chicago Bulls had a 30-22 record, and although they lost a lot of games, it was not easy for any team to beat them because of their excellent defense.

Facing such a Bulls right after All-Star Weekend, the Spurs were almost fully prepared, well, almost, because Popovich finally rested one player, Tony Parker.

Ginobili has returned from injury, and Popovich has rested Parker considering he played in two events in the All-Star break.

Because Parker was only rested, Popovich did not recall Joseph from the Development League, but directly replaced the starters with Nando De Collo, who has not yet been delegated, and De Colo has been on the team's activation list due to Ginobili's injury.

The Spurs have become accustomed to a rotation this season, and the lack of a starter has not affected most teams very much, even if Parker is the offensive initiator in the team's starting lineup today.

Although there was no Parker in the starting line-up today, the Spurs still had the advantage after the opening, and they played a wave of 8-2 in the opening game, but the Bulls quickly adjusted, relying on excellent defense, they limited the Spurs' offense, and then played a wave of 15-8 to overtake the score.

After the first quarter, the score was 23:22, with the Spurs trailing by one point.

After the start of the second quarter, the difference between the two sides still did not widen, and when the game was 5 minutes into the game, the score of the two teams was 36:33, and the difference was still 2 points.

The Spurs launched an attack, and at this time, the lineup on the Spurs court was Split, Leonard, Danny Green, Stephen Jackson, Mills, and after Mills dribbled to the halfcourt, the ball was taken by Stephen Jackson, who took the initiative to pick it up.

Just in the last round, Stephen Jackson had just hit a three-pointer, and when his offensive desire was strong, he didn't pass the ball after getting the ball, and after dribbling to the middle range, he faced the Bulls' starting point guard Marco Belinelli's defensive pull-up jump shot.

The ball bounced off the basket, which made Popovich, who was sitting on the court, frown slightly, and it was clear that he was not so satisfied with Jackson's shot, he didn't let the player single, but he didn't like the singles that didn't have any ball at all.

The rebound fell into the hands of the Bulls, and that's when Jackson made another mistake when he didn't catch up with his opponent Belinelli on the back guard, who received a pass from his teammate and hit a shot from beyond the three-point line.

At 39:33, the difference between the two teams was stretched to 6 points, Popovich stood up from his seat at this time, it was obvious that the situation on the court was not what he wanted to see, although the difference was not large, but Jackson's performance obviously made him very dissatisfied.

Recently, the relationship between Jackson and Popovich has been a little stiff, Jackson's inactive performance in training was severely criticized by Popovich, and Jackson has expressed his dissatisfaction with the reduction of playing time and scenes in training and games more than once, but the stubborn Popovich did not pay attention to Jackson's complaints

For example, in this game, Jackson didn't get a chance to play until two minutes ago, and perhaps because of this, Jackson wanted to prove himself more and more on the court.

If Parker or Ginobili had the ball on the court, they might have known that they couldn't give the ball to Jackson at this time, and Jackson's previous offensive and defensive performances, as well as Popovich's move to get up from his seat, meant that Popovich was unhappy.

However, Mills still gave the ball to Jackson when he asked for it, and I don't know if Mills didn't see Popovich's reaction on the sidelines, or because he didn't dare to refuse an old player like Jackson.

Once again, Jackson got the ball, and this time it wasn't Belinelli's defense that he faced, but the Bulls' starting small forward, Roel Deng.

Luol Deng is a good player both offensively and defensively, and the defense is a little better than the offense, and after Jackson got to the ball, Luol Deng directly posted it.

In the face of Rohr Deng's close defense, Jackson naturally did not have a good chance to shoot, leaning towards Rohr Deng, and after slightly squeezing away Rohr Deng, Jackson tried to dribble the ball and rushed forward directly.

However, Jackson's speed was not fast, and he did not have any advantage in terms of physical confrontation, and it was obviously difficult to break through Rohr Deng's defense, and the two entangled and rushed to the right side of the free throw line, and Jackson was forced to stop by Rohr Deng.

The Bulls' defense once again showed its might at this point, and almost at the same time that Jackson was forced to stop, Joakim Noah, the Bulls' starting center on the inside, had already stepped forward to wrap up.

Faced with the bag of the Bulls' two excellent defensive players, Jackson didn't even have a chance to shoot at this time, so naturally he would no longer have the idea of shooting.

At this time, Mills ran out to the back to answer, and Jackson immediately passed the ball when he found it, but what Jackson, whose vision was blocked by Rohr Deng, did not notice that not far away, Nert Robinson, the Bulls' point guard, had rushed over quickly.

The ball passed from Jackson's hand and did not fall into Mills' hand, but was tackled by Robinson, and immediately, Nate Robinson, the short dunk king nicknamed Little Potato, immediately dribbled and began to counterattack.

"Tick!" the referee's whistle blew quickly, and Robinson's counterattack was stopped, but for this, Danny Green also paid the price for the foul.

"Tick!" Immediately after, the referee's second whistle blew and the Spurs called a timeout.

Li Yang stood up from the bench and walked with his teammates to Popovich who was holding a tactical board, and looking at Popovich's gloomy face, he knew that the old man was going to get angry.