"Hey, you'd better send a normal person to guard me."

Popovich's face changed rapidly, and finally looked at Bowen who was faintly aware of the impending disaster with a gloomy face, "Bruce, why do you think that rookie is so arrogant?" ”

Bowen accepts the reality that he will be sprayed no matter how he responds: "I don't know. ”

"Because you didn't restrain him!"

Here we go

Popovich counted Bowen down by a few minutes. During this time, Bowen just suffered in silence.

Soon, the Spurs lost again, and Yu Fei started a defensive counterattack and assisted Chris Whitney to hit a three-pointer, which stopped the Spurs.

27 to 25

The two sides are only 2 points apart.

Yu Fei's lead left the Spurs with little to build in the first quarter, and Popovich didn't dare to underestimate it, decisively swapping back Parker, Bowen and Duncan, and letting Duncan play center, bringing Marik Rose to his favorite swing four.

On the Wizards' side, although Collins has such and such shortcomings, he may be stronger than Popovich at this stage in terms of on-the-spot response.

He was keenly aware that Popovich would return to the main field and would replace the sloppy David Robinson, so he put Leitner in the No. 5 position and replaced Popeje Jones with Kwame Brown.

In terms of playing style, Collins still likes Yu Fei, but the adjustment of the lineup successfully guessed Popovich's response.

After the Spurs' three starters returned, the offense did increase a lot, starting with Parker, past Whitney like a stake, and Leitner struggled to provide Jones-like interior protection and was easily scored.

29 to 25

"Rookie, you made me scolded so badly." Bowen's tone remained the same, but the words he said made people feel chills in their hearts, "I won't let you go." ”

Hearing this, Yu Fei ran to the top of the arc to block Whitney, and the moment he pulled away, the ball came.

Since Parker did not change his guard, and Bowen's attention was also on Yu Fei, suddenly, the two formed a bag for Fei.

Yu Fei seemed to have to pass the ball to break the game, but he saw a gap in the middle between Bowen and Parker's bag, and as a man who was good at handling the ball, he knew what it meant to him, and it was an opportunity to break through the defense.

In an instant, Yu Fei turned sideways, slapped the ball into his crotch from behind, took a step towards the gap with his right foot, leaned forward, caught the ball with his left hand, and almost in the blink of an eye, Bowen and Parker's bag was torn apart by Yu Fei.

Duncan had to help defend, and the price of helping defended was to empty Leitner.

However, Yu Fei used his passing action to draw Marrick Rose's attention to Leitner, giving Kwame Brown a chance to get rid of the defense and finally catch the ball and eat a cake dunk.

29 to 27

"You can't prevent one of the two, are you serious?" Yu Fei did not forget to help Popovich pressure Bowen and Parker before returning to the defense, he believed that Popovich would be moved by this.

In fact, Popovich was already angry, and the bag of the two people he scolded most often in the team actually broke Yu Fei, which made him not know who to be angry at.

However, even Duncan's assistance in defending this ball failed to stop Yu Fei, and it can only be said that the opponent played well, and it is unnecessary to blame the players.

On the offensive end, the Spurs decisively pulled away and let Duncan single Leitner.

Yu Fei looked at Duncan's back punch seriously.

With his left foot as the axis, he suddenly pushed backwards, and Leitner, a soft egg, had no resistance at all, and was gently pushed away by Duncan. After testing the opponent's hypocrisy, Duncan decisively collected the ball, turned around and crushed Leitner with his body, and at the last shot, he pressed Leitner to put the ball into the basket.

From the audience's point of view, Duncan's ball was played very reluctantly, because Leitner was close to him, but Yu Fei could see it clearly on the court, if no one helped Leitner help defend and let Duncan play like this for 10 rounds in a row, the result would not change.

The offensive end must find Duncan, this is Yu Fei's idea.

If Duncan is not allowed to be frustrated on the defensive end, his determination and confidence to tear down Lightner and Brown on the offensive end will become unshakable and unshakable.

Whitney continued to dribble the ball through the half, and Yu Fei did the same as in the previous round, making a pick-and-roll for him and then receiving the ball.

The Spurs didn't wrap up like they did in the last round, nor did they make the optimal solution to the pick-and-roll — a switch.

Because Yu Fei has not shown enough shooting threat tonight, and maintaining the alignment by changing the defense to send the opponent to the wrong position is not in line with the current mainstream perception.

Not changing the guard will inevitably create an offensive opportunity for the side calling for the pick-and-roll.

Yu Fei decisively broke inside, and Bowen stuck to him after he was more than half a body ahead, and inside the three-point line, none of his elbows were safe.

Maybe that's why you don't need to change guards when you encounter an outside pick-and-roll?

One is that the ball carrier does not have the ability and habit of hanging and dismantling the opportunity to shoot directly from three-point shooting in the small-ball era, and the second is that the defensive system that allows the player to get started within the three-point line allows the defender to use his hands to delay the opponent when he loses most of his body.

The pressure brought by Bowen, a top defensive player in the league, makes Yu Fei's ability to shoot with a block and stop even more, but that is a matter for the future, not only do you need to train for this shooting rhythm during training, but you also need to use a lot of actual combat to find a feeling.

There's no way the Wizards are giving him a chance to practice at the moment.

All kinds of thoughts flashed in an instant, Yu Feixin was horizontal, carrying Bowen's interference and killing it in, hanging the opponent's body in the paint area, and finally causing a foul.

"You're really hard to deal with."

Every word Bowen said made Yu Fei wonder if it was a threat of imminent murder.

Yu Fei looked at him coldly, even if he hadn't done it yet, he still had a bad feeling when he used his elbow to hit his body just now.

"You're better than you think." Yu Fei responded.

Popovich on the sidelines was no longer angry that Bao Wenming had already posted that Yu Fei would have to pay the price for the foul.

He found that although Yu Fei was young, he was really difficult to deal with.

That height combined with this dribble that rivals that of a point guard is incredible.

Generally, no matter how good the dribbling skills of a big man are, he can't stabilize the center of gravity and the ball when he encounters a high-intensity defense, but Yu Fei not only stabilized it when he was pressed by Bowen closely, but also caused a foul.

Popovich believes that Bowen has defended Yu Fei as an opponent at the level of Kobe, Carter, and Maddy, but the game of basketball has developed for more than 100 years, and when it was born, the defense was advantageous, but professional basketball always has to accommodate the offensive side for commercial needs, and today, more than 100 years after its birth, the offensive side is already the strong side in the game.

Although the league felt that it was not enough, it was really strong.

It's so strong that a top defender like Bowen can't use legal means to stop an attacker who is already close to him within the limits of the rules.

When this attacker is under defensive pressure, he can really do whatever he wants.

The problem is that very few attackers can withstand this pressure.

But Yu Fei can.

Although the Spurs' coaching staff hasn't studied it in detail, a rookie who can do it alone has proven how strong he is on the fly, and his age means he has unlimited potential.

Then, Duncan leaned in on Leitner and beckoned for the ball.

Popovich's heart relaxed.

The future of the NBA lies in the Flyer's generation, but the current NBA is ruled by Duncan's group.

Duncan exerted his strength.

Leitner was crushed again, and he gave up when Yu Fei took the initiative to step forward and get blown again in the next defensive round.

It was clear that the referee didn't want him to "touch" Duncan, and since that was the case, he didn't touch it.

After all, he is not the only one who can help defend Duncan.

What people didn't expect was that Duncan always found the optimal solution, whether it was one-on-one or one-on-two, and his effortless way of playing was reminiscent of Jokic.

However, he is completely different from Jokic's ball-handling center style.

Everyone who watches the Nuggets game will be impressed with Jokic, and Duncan doesn't dominate the ball a lot.

Yu Fei, who didn't want to pay for fouls again, was bent on attacking Duncan by calling the No. 5 block on the offensive end, but Duncan was completely different from the opponents he had met before.

Duncan would follow, but not in one step like those clumsy insiders.

Duncan will always stay in the right position, giving Yu Fei the space to shoot but interfere with himself. As long as Yu Fei doesn't have the feel of hitting the shot with interference, it can bring a series of chain reactions.

Every time he came to the away game, the good habit of warming up in the stadium a few hours in advance did not allow Yu Fei to find the best feeling at this moment.

He needs practice so much.

After Yu Fei shot 1 of 3, he gave up on his own to impact Duncan, and instead used Lightner's excellent shooting ability in the fifth position to punish the Spurs' defense, although it had a certain effect, but he was not the kind of gun that completely degenerated into a space five in the small-ball era, and his shooting was not stable, while Duncan's singles success rate was almost 100%.

The Wizards have no one to stop him.

At halftime, 55-47, the Spurs had an eight-point lead.

In the second half, Jordan did not return, according to the team doctor, he has gone to the hospital, and the Wizards also couldn't find a solution to Duncan.

They can't be blamed for this, even the Lakers have no solution to Duncan.

O'Neal suppressed Duncan at most, but most of the time it was a mutual explosion, and the reason why the Spurs couldn't beat the Lakers was because the Lakers had a Kobe Bryant on the outside, and the king and the king canceled each other out, and no one could control the little king, so the situation was naturally unbalanced. This is also a problem that the teams in the league have no solution when they meet the Lakers.

However, when he didn't meet the Lakers, Duncan was just as inexplicable to other teams.

In the second half, Yu Fei changed his thinking, challenged Duncan with throws, and then called a large number of guards to block and dismantle the Spurs' small men, all of which worked, but in the end they needed to return to Duncan.

If you can't solve Duncan, you can't win the game.

In the fourth quarter, Yu Fei tried hard, but ended up paying another foul on Duncan.

107 to 95

Tonight, Duncan's problem was unsolved, and the Wizards lost to the Spurs by 12 points on the road.

Post-match interview

"It's a very personal question, I'll know the answer, but I don't know yet. Michael is being examined in the hospital, so please keep an eye out for our official news. —Doug Collins responding to Jordan's injury.

"I know Michael can play, and Michael knows that if he can't play, he won't play." - Doug Collins' second response to Jordan's injury.

'I don't know, Michael is out of training sometimes, but he's Michael and we all know he's not a normal guy and injuries don't bother him. —Doug Collins' third response to Jordan's injury.

"I don't want to answer that question." - Richard Hamilton was asked how he would help Jordan on the court.

"I'm not happy, it's an ugly game, we didn't play well, especially defensively, and when I see the number 44 stats, I'll have the urge to trade Bruce." – Greg Popovich on tonight's game.

"It's just a normal game." – Tim Duncan on his thoughts on the game.

'Number 44 is a tough player to play against, he gave me a tough night, we won but I didn't win and I'll do better next time.' - Bruce Bowen on his counterpoint with Yu Fei.

"Fry, do you know about Michael's tenosynovitis?"

"Oh, I think I probably know."

"But you said you didn't know, and you said that anyone who suspected Michael had tenosynovitis was a scheming bastard."

"Do you want me to be responsible for everything I say? Sorry, can't do it. ”

"What do you think of Michael's situation?"

"Can you stop old Mike Mike? The rest of us played the next three quarters, we worked hard, we didn't win, but we played with all our might, don't you even have a problem related to the game? Can I hear some questions unrelated to Michael's tenosynovitis? ”

"When Michael comes back, what will you do on the field to help him?"

"I'm !!!!"

- Yu Fei's post-match interview.

(End of chapter)