"Coax!"

At the FedEx Arena in Memphis, Grizzlies fans shouted excitedly when the Grizzlies defended an attack from the Spurs. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The first quarter of Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals had been played for 5 minutes, the score on the court was 0:9, and the Spurs were unable to score for 5 minutes after the game began.

"The Grizzlies did a great job defending today, they played with complete momentum today, and the Spurs seemed to have entered the bears and were suppressed by the ferocity of the Grizzlies!"

On the sidelines, it was ESPN who was in charge of the national live broadcast, Mike Brin commented at this time.

Brin's partner Van Gundy nodded in agreement and said: "Yes, the Grizzlies, who fell behind 0:2 in the first two games, did their best in this game, giving the Spurs huge defensive pressure, and the Spurs didn't score in the first 5 minutes, which is amazing!"

The opening of this game definitely surprised a lot of people, not just Spurs fans, but Grizzlies fans as well.

Most people expected that the Grizzlies would play better when they returned home, especially on the defensive end, at least not digging a hole in the first few minutes of the game, as they did in the first two games.

However, no one expected that the Grizzlies would do so well on the defensive end, fighting so hard, just as Mike Brin said, completely holding back a ferocious energy.

In the face of the Grizzlies' desperate style of play today, the old spurs have made various hits and mistakes in the past five minutes, and they have not scored a point.

Because of this, although the Grizzlies' score of 9 points in five minutes is not a high score, the atmosphere at the scene is more enthusiastic than wave after wave!

Li Yang sat on the sidelines, while looking at the court, he turned his head to look at Popovich from time to time, and what made him feel strange was that in such a situation, Popovich did not call a timeout.

Not only that, but Popovich didn't even get up on his feet, is it just because the difference between the two sides has not completely widened?

Judging from the feeling of contacting Popovich in the past few months, this is absolutely abnormal, and there must be a demon when things go wrong, and Popovich is either already confident, or he is angry to the extreme.

At this time, the Grizzlies on the court had scored again, and the score became 0:12.

On the other end, the Spurs finally scored, Parker hit a three-pointer in the corner, and halfway through the first quarter, the Spurs finally started scoring.

Soon, however, the Grizzlies on the other side fought back, with Marc Gasol responding high and Prince hitting a three-pointer after receiving the pass.

Parker's three-pointer didn't revive the Spurs' offense, and two minutes later, the Spurs only scored two points through Split's leak under the basket, while the Grizzlies on the other end of the end had risen to 19.

At 5:19, the first quarter of the game played for 7 minutes, the difference between the two sides reached 14 points, and the opening 7 minutes scored 5 points, which was also the Spurs playoffs, to be exact, the worst start of the season.

"Tick!" Popovich finally stood up and called a timeout.

Without taking the tactical board, Popovich looked at the five starters who walked off the court with a cold face, seeing him like this, all the Spurs players, including Li Yang, knew that Popovich was going to curse.

Sure enough, when several starters walked to the sidelines, Popovich, who had not had much expression on his face just now, began to roar.

"What kind of bullshit offense are you playing? 5 points, 5 points in 7 minutes? Find a senior basketball team to play better than you!"

"When you encounter a really tough defense, you're scared? You're weak? fu*ck, this is the Western Conference Finals, not the preseason, do you still want the other party to send you to score? You can't shoot basketballs, you can't grab rebounds, you can't break through, and you play like ****. ”

"Tim, are you scared of these two guys?

"You, Tony, what about your breakaway after the pick-and-roll, the turnover, the turnover, the dribble, the pass, you just hold the ball and stay outside the three-point line. ”

"A bunch of bastards, don't fight if you can't beat it, get out of here!"

Popovich yelled, and when he shouted for me to get down, the Spurs players thought he was angry, but soon Li Yang and others found out that Popovich really let several starters "get down".

"Matt, Burrese, Young, Manu, Cory, play. I warn you, if you fight like those bastards again, get the hell out of me!"

"What kind of **** offensive ...... to fight"

After a few more curses, it wasn't until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the timeout that Popovich turned and sat down.

Without any tactical explanation, Popovich called this timeout as if to scold, no, it should be said that there is one more, substitution!

Five up, five down! Bonner, Dior, Li Yang, Ginobili, and Joseph came on the court, and Popovich actually replaced all five of the starting players.

"It seems that I am not mistaken. When he stepped on the court, Li Yang muttered in his heart, Popovich didn't call a timeout just now, he wouldn't be angry.

Five up and five down, such substitutions are very rare on the basketball court, and even if there are, most of them are in garbage time, and there are almost no people like Popovich who played a few minutes and directly captured all five starters.

The two ESPN commentators on the sidelines were also slightly stunned at this time, and Mike Brin shouted in surprise: "Greg Popovich actually directly replaced the starter with five substitutes?

After a slight pause, Mike Brin then said: "No, no, we just saw that he didn't make tactical arrangements at all, he just kept scolding, it seems that he was too angry so he directly replaced all five starters." ”

"Jeff, did you do anything like that when you were coaching?" said Mike Brin as he turned to Jeff Van Gundy and asked.

"Nope. Van Gundy shook his head and said thoughtfully: "But I think Greg Popovich might do a good thing, and it's clear that the Spurs' problem right now is not tactics, but momentum." The Grizzlies were too strong at home today, using their ferocity to suppress the Spurs. ”

"So at this time, the tactical arrangement is already secondary, what the Spurs need to do is to resist the ferocity of the Grizzlies at the beginning, at this time it is not so important to send starters or substitutes on the court, the important thing is that the players dare to fight, and this point may be better than the starters. ”

Moreover, it would allow the Spurs' five starters to return to the court to cool down and get a rest, so that when the Grizzlies finish the first quarter and the morale of the players is not so high, the Spurs can start again. ”

When Jeff Van Gundy said this, Mike Brin kept nodding his head, and Van Gundy, who had been the head coach, obviously understood the situation on the field more deeply, including some of the coach's arrangements and moves.

Brin complimented, "Jeff, that sounds very reasonable. ”

Many Spurs fans in front of the screen also suddenly realized at this time, they really thought Popovich was crazy.

"The key now is whether the Spurs' bench players are playing hard enough and whether they can withstand the Grizzlies' ferocious defense and offense next. Van Gundy added. (To be continued.) )