In the Spurs' locker room, the silence is not too strange, but the silence of the atmosphere at this time is a little strange. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Spurs' second game against the Warriors had just ended, and the score ended up being 100-91, with the Spurs losing by nine points.

Popovich stood in the middle of the locker, with an expression on his face as if the Spurs had lost by 90 points instead of 9 points.

In fact, in Popovich's opinion, it was a fiasco.

In the last game, the Spurs played fairly well in the first half of the game, but in the third quarter of the game, they dug a hole for their team, and finally with the play of the fourth quarter of the game, the Spurs successfully climbed out of the pit.

Although the Spurs won in the end, from the perspective of the field, many times the Spurs are actually at a disadvantage, and it is precisely because of this that Popovich arranged the tactics at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends before the second game, hoping that the Spurs can seize the initiative of the game more in the second game.

However, what Popovich didn't expect was that in this game, the Spurs completely fell into passivity in the first half of the game.

After the start of the first quarter, the Spurs did not show very good form in the game, especially the outside shooting felt very bad.

Fortunately, after the start of the first quarter, the Warriors rushed to attack, and the pressure on the Spurs on the defensive end was not too great, but even so, the Spurs only scored 23 points after the first quarter.

On the other end, the Warriors' offense is very fluid, and their shooting touch is very good, especially the team's two core guards.

Curry 11 points, Thompson 12 points, even in the face of the Spurs' normal defense, the two of them still play very freely, and the score of only two of them has been tied with the score of the Spurs team.

The score of the first quarter was 28:23, and after the start of the second quarter, the Spurs naturally tried to save the situation, but what they didn't expect was that the Warriors performed better than the first quarter.

With 14-of-23 shooting and 5-of-8 three-point shooting, the Warriors scored 34 points in a single quarter. It is worth mentioning that 17 of these 34 points, which is half of them, came from one player - Klay Thompson.

After the previous game, the Spurs paid great attention to Curry's defense in this game, especially when they saw that he had a good shooting hand in the first quarter, and the Spurs could be described as a strict defense against Curry.

But then Klay Thompson stepped up again, and exploded on the offensive end.

With 6-of-8 shooting, including 5-of-6 three-pointers, Klay Thompson wasn't as crazy as Curry in the third quarter of the previous game, but it wasn't much the same.

There were a few balls, and the Spurs' defense was completely in place, but Thompson forced a shot and hit it directly.

When encountering this kind of explosive situation of the opposing player, the defense is very weak, and you can only think about whether you can make up for it on the offensive end.

But the Spurs' shooting was still as bad as it was in the first quarter, nay, worse to be exact, with 0-of-4 three-pointers and less than 35 percent two-pointers.

Their shooting touch seems to have been sucked away by the Warriors, who keep scoring on the other end, but the Spurs players can't find their sense from the outside.

In the case of not being able to shoot from the outside, the Spurs can only rely more on scoring under the basket, but the Warriors also know at this time that you can't shoot, so the defense shrinks very much, even if the Spurs can find offensive opportunities through some cooperation, but this kind of score is too far from the opposite side of the three-point rush.

With 20 points in a single quarter, relying on the inside scores of Duncan and Parker, the Spurs barely reached 20 points, but losing by 14 points in a single quarter allowed them to trail by 19 points after halftime.

62:43, such a score was not expected by the Spurs before the game, and at halftime, Popovich was furious and scolded the Spurs players so that they couldn't raise their heads.

Popovich's scolding was effective, and after the start of the second half, the Spurs picked up significantly, and in the third quarter of the game, they scored 29 points in a single quarter, narrowing the gap to just 11 points.

It looked like a replay of the previous game, trailing by double-digit points before the start of the final quarter, and keeping the Warriors unable to find an offensive touch after the start of the fourth quarter.

However, unlike the previous game, the experienced Warriors strengthened their defense, and in the face of the Warriors' strong defense, the Spurs' offense began to stall again.

The leading Warriors struggled to attack at the start of the fourth quarter, so they focused more on the defensive end, and although they only scored 17 points, their aggressive defense managed to limit the Spurs' scoring to 19 points, and the Spurs' desire to reverse the game was in vain.

Li Yang's performance in the game was not too good, only scoring 6 points, the Spurs players in this game were too poor in their outside shooting, and the Warriors' defense was shrinking greatly, and Li Yang's style of play was naturally very limited.

Li Yang's performance is a microcosm of the Spurs team, and after the game, the team's highest score was Duncan with 23 points, and he also became the only player on the team to score 20 in the game.

Duncan has rarely scored the team's top points this season, which shows how poor the rest of the Spurs have been in this game.

And this is the reason why Popovich's expression was extremely ugly after the game.

In Popovich's view, his team played too ugly and loose in this game, which reflected the fluctuations in the minds of the players within the team, which annoyed Popovich.

Perhaps the 4:1 victory over the star-studded Lakers was too easy, which loosened the internal thinking of a team like even the Spurs, so after facing the Warriors, the players subconsciously despised it, and the state was naturally not very good.

In the previous game, the Spurs had fallen into passivity, and if there was no reversal, maybe the Spurs players would have been more vigilant, but in the end they succeeded in reversing, so this created a false impression for the Spurs players, that is, the Warriors are like that, and we can reverse when we are serious.

Although Popovich didn't listen to any of these emotional fluctuations, he was able to feel it through some details of the game, which was obviously more difficult for Popovich to accept than the Spurs loss.

Popovich's gaze swept over the players, especially the relatively young ones, causing the Spurs players to bow their heads.

Popovich didn't scold, he knew he didn't scold at this time, and he was more able to put pressure on the Spurs players.

In fact, in my heart, Popovich is not as angry as he was at halftime, the Spurs have gone a little too smoothly this season, and there are many young players in the team, such a loss may not be a bad thing, at least it can make the young players more vigilant, which is much better than a loss in the Western Conference Finals or the Finals.

Of course, Popovich can't show such thoughts, all he has to do is to put pressure on the Spurs players, especially the young players, and make the whole team reflect on it.

"Humph!"

Popovich snorted coldly, did not speak, and then turned around and left the locker room, Popovich's move also made the Spurs players feel shocked.

Oops, no, the old man is really angry.