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Popovich hesitated for a while, whether to give up tactics completely and play a chaotic game with the Mavericks to thoroughly see how strong the Mavericks are in the chaotic war, but can a game be squandered? Disruptive battles are easy , but it will not be so easy to regain tactics.

But Popovich just hesitated, and sent Van Exel to the field. It's not that Van Exel doesn't know how to play the current tactics, but said that the most suitable style of play for him is chaotic warfare. However, because of Popovich's strict discipline, Tony Parker will no longer play out of tactics.

Popovich’s requirements should still be based on tactics. After all, the purpose of tactics is to find better offensive opportunities, and the method of chaotic warfare like the Mavericks has been trained by the old Nelson for several years before the Mavericks players adapt. Come on, not everyone can fight a random war well.

In addition to replacing Van Exel, Popovich looked at the others, and there was nothing to replace. Needless to say, Michael Finley was the core player of the Mavericks last season. Sky vacated the position of the team leader, and it would not be the year he was playing. At the same time, the contract was not expired and he was given up by the team. The Mavericks are very familiar with him, but he is more familiar with the Mavericks. familiar.

Stephen can't be replaced either. Regardless of playing tactics or disrupting battles, Stephen is a good player, and Stephen's defense against Josh Howard is very successful. Bruce Bowen really can't defend against that guy. As for the inside players, there is no one. There was nothing to change, so Popovich only changed Van Exel.

Perhaps it was the two consecutive timeouts of the Spurs that interrupted the offensive rhythm of the Mavericks, or maybe the replacement of Van Exel played a role, because against Jason Terry, he is still stronger than Tony Parker, two consecutive timeouts After defending against the Mavericks' offense, the Spurs stabilized the situation.

Then Duncan hit the board and scored two points. Stephen stormed Josh Howard and succeeded. Then Stephen stole from Nowitzki and played a fast break with Van Exel. It was scored, but it caused Adrian Griffin to foul. After two free throws, the Spurs finally tied the score at [-] to [-]. Anyway, the gap is not that big.

Then Nowitzki made a golden rooster independent shot, and Duncan returned back. Then Josh Howard failed to single Stephen, but the rebound was caught by Diop, and it was passed back to Jason Terry for an emergency stop jumper. However, Van Exel was not reconciled to being inferior. He played his true nature of a madman, shot directly after dribbling halfway, and hit a three-pointer.

The two sides kept coming and going like this. The Mavericks couldn't widen the gap, but the Spurs couldn't narrow the gap either. At the beginning, the Spurs' offense was still carried out according to tactics. Soon as the game progressed, the Spurs also began to attack. It has become a singles-based offense.

Towards the end of the first quarter, Van Exel made a three-pointer that was basically a buzzer, chasing the score to 29 to 26. The Spurs trailed by only three points. Van Exel and Stephen He was the biggest contributor to the Spurs in the first quarter, scoring eleven and nine points respectively.

With the beginning of the second quarter, both teams replaced the bench lineup. The Spurs' bench lineup was very strong, but the Mavericks' bench lineup was not far behind. Jerry Stackhouse, Devin Harris, Dampier, "German Chariot" Nowitzki and Josh Howard are still on the court, forming a lineup no worse than the starting lineup.

The Spurs are composed of Oberto, Robert Horry, Stephen, Ginobili, and Van Exel. This lineup is one of the important factors for the Spurs to win in the middle of the season. , no team is the opponent of the Spurs, but now they have met the equally powerful Mavericks, and they can only support them with all their strength.

But even with such a lineup, they are still not the Mavericks' opponents. The Mavericks' offensive play is particularly crazy, which may be due to physical reasons. After all, they rested three days longer than the Spurs. By the end of the second quarter, the Spurs fell behind. Six points were scored, equal to the second quarter. The two sides played against the bench, and the Spurs lost another three points.

This situation is very bad. During the intermission, Popovich sat there uncharacteristically thinking about how to deal with the current situation, whether to carry out the chaos to the end, or stick to his own tactics. Well, there must be a clear decision now, otherwise the players will feel at a loss what to do if they continue to swing back and forth like this.

However, Popovich also knows that now is not the time to hesitate, and he must make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise his own hesitation will affect the confidence of the players, so Popovich immediately decided to make major adjustments. Putting it on for the next game, and continuing to stick to his own tactics in this game, Popovich really couldn't believe it. The tactics he had worked so hard to figure out would not be as good as the opponent's chaotic battle.

Of course, Popovich also knows that the chaotic play style invented by old Nelson is actually different from random play. This kind of play style of old Nelson has also been gradually formed in his dozens of coaching careers. It can be said that his style of play is also a style of play that directly points to the essence of basketball, but in Popovich's view, it still has some deviant taste.

Popovich inherited teamwork and defense-oriented tactical concepts from Larry Brown, but Popovich learned the true meaning of basketball offense when he was taught by the old Nelson. In Qi's tactical concept, defense is indispensable at all times. At the same time, defense does not have as high requirements for player talent as offensive players. However, Popovich knows very well that the current situation of the Spurs cannot attract high-level players. Players with offensive talent arrive.

So Popovich's idea is to use tactics to make up for the lack of talent, and the Spurs won several championships, which proves the correctness of Popovich's idea. This belongs to his tactical belief. If he believes in his own tactics If you can't fight the opponent's chaotic battle, then your faith has been shaken.

This is absolutely unacceptable for a Westerner, especially for someone like Popovich. Who is Popovich? He was born in the US military and is also a professional intelligence officer. Once, everyone knew that his basketball career started at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was a basketball player, but also a soldier. After graduating from the Air Force Academy, Popovich was dispatched because of his Serbian and Croatian ancestry. To Europe as an intelligence officer.

According to the normal life trajectory, Popovich will enter the CIA after five years. But as if he couldn't bear to watch a basketball genius go down, the river of fate took a slight turn when it came here.

At that time, it was the Cold War period, and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union could be said to be all-consuming, and the basketball of the Soviet Union was also very good at that time. Since the Olympic regulations at that time were that professional basketball players were not allowed to participate, the perennial Olympic basketball champions It was obtained by the Soviet Union.

At this time, the Pentagon thought of an idea to form a basketball team of the three armed forces, to go to the military bases in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the name of basketball exchanges for a basketball friendship trip, and at the same time be responsible for the task of intelligence collection.

And Popovich was chosen as a teammate of this basketball team because of his basketball ability and his status as an intelligence officer. It was after this friendship basketball trip that Popovich made a decision to give up his military service. The development of the world, focus on basketball.

Someone once asked Popovich about this matter, including media reporters who were also very concerned about this aspect, but Popovich told them very clearly that all of this is not allowed to be leaked, unless it is He wants to die.

It was during this basketball trip that Popovich discovered that there were so many basketball geniuses in Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, that were not inferior to American basketball players, so after he entered the Spurs, he immediately applied to the boss. Go to Europe to Taobao.

At this time, the Soviet Union has become history, and the main body of Soviet basketball has become Lithuania. When Popovich came to the home of the later "King of Europe" Jaskovicius, he found the son of Nelson Jr. Been sleeping on the sofa at Jascovicius's house for a few days.

And although he can speak fluent Serbian and Russian because of his ancestry and occupation, he is not as good as Little Nelson who communicates with the other party fluently in Lithuanian. Although neither side has achieved the goal, the collision began at that time up.

Both teams prefer to recruit international players, such as Tony Parker and Ginobili of the Spurs, Dirk Nowitzki of the Mavericks, and even distant China. The Mavericks selected Wang Zhizhi, The Spurs recruited Battelle.

Coincidentally, the Rockets, who are also among the top three in Texas, selected Yao Ming. If the three can stand here, the Chinese fans will probably be more excited, but this is another story, and Popovich is sure of himself If your tactical concept is not worse than the opponent's chaotic warfare, then it is not as good as the opponent, it is a problem of the player's execution ability.

So in the next time, he yelled at the players, asking the players to play strictly according to the tactics, must control the rhythm, and not let the opponent lead into the chaotic battle, and at the same time must be defensive. More resolutely, the biggest threat to the Mavericks to the Spurs is Nowitzki. Popovich asked Stephen to switch defenses with Michael Finley, and then Stephen's attention should be placed on Nowitzki. Once Nowitzki shoots from the outside , When Duncan can't keep up, Stephen must resolutely go to defend.

Popovich allows Duncan to devote more energy to the offense. Duncan has a foot injury. If he is allowed to run around with Nowitzki, who is more mobile, he will easily It will be dragged across. After the tactics are arranged, the second half of the game also begins.

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