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The occurrence of such a thing made the negotiations between the Spurs and Stephen stop immediately. Just after they decided to use Stephen to build the future of the team, Stephen made such a thing, which made the Spurs start to hesitate whether this decision was correct.

Both Holt and Popovich are from the military, and they pay great attention to the maintenance of team discipline. Although Stephen's move is a counterattack under extreme anger, the strength of the counterattack is still beyond the scope of the court. If it wasn't for the opponent to strike first, Stephen would definitely be punished by law.

If a player has constant problems off the court, but as long as he is diligent and conscientious on the court, and at the same time does not violate the general discipline of the team, like Iverson and Zach Randolph, some teams It's acceptable, as long as they perform well on the court, they don't care about them off the court, but in the Spurs, this is absolutely not allowed.

Everyone must participate in the training organized by the team, except for injuries, and the collective actions of the team must not be absent without normal reasons. Like Francis, in order to watch the super wrist game, he almost dared to go to the away game. Delay, it is absolutely impossible for the Spurs to have such a thing happen.

However, players who can't control their emotions on the court and rush to counterattack in the face of provocations are even more troublesome, especially for Stephen, who always devotes himself to the game in normal times, and his performance is quite dazzling. Make less mistakes like distraction, and deal with ordinary trash talk or small actions very well, but I like to do things like this, and the problem of not cleaning up after doing it always exists.

Popovich also understands this very well. There are too many thorns in the army. Obviously I have abilities far beyond ordinary people. Why do I still have to be bullied by you? It’s good if I don’t bully you. This is Stephen This kind of people's thinking, so when people like them make a move, the consequences will be particularly serious.

It is understandable but not tolerated. The military must have strict discipline, and on the basketball court, this discipline is extended into rules. Your every move on the court must abide by the rules of the court. This is not a professional wrestling arena. It's not an unlimited free fighting arena, and it's not a street, it's not a place to compete who can fight better.

If Stephen has been so unable to control his emotions, then his achievements will be limited to this, because as long as the opponent knows that he has this weakness, they will keep finding someone to attack him, especially in important matches middle.

Popovich doesn't want his team to play in the finals. The core players of the team suddenly fight with others, and then get suspended. Can the core of the team be compared with ordinary players, so if you use Stephen as the core, you have to take such a risk, which Popovich absolutely dare not bear.

So on the night when the incident happened, he sat down with Holt, Buford and others to discuss it. The two of them also felt that it would be too risky to tie the team to such a character. But I was a bit reluctant to give up, and I couldn't make a decision after discussing for a long time.

"Not good." Popovich suddenly thought of something, picked up the schedule and counted it to Holt and Buford and said: "Look, after the 35-game suspension is over, it is already the beginning of March next year. We won't be able to come back until the second game, and it's past the trade deadline, and we have to wait until the end of the season to make a decision."

Holt and Buford looked at it, right? By the time Stephen comes back, the trade deadline has already passed. This means that unless the Spurs are desperate to match Stephen’s contract after the end of the season, otherwise it will be tantamount to putting Stephen handed over to someone for free, without getting any return.

Now the Big Three of the Spurs have no choice. They cannot trade during the suspension period. After the suspension period, the transaction will end. The only choice left for the Spurs is to choose whether to match other teams for Stephen after the end of the season. Contracts.

"Forget it, since the matter has developed to the present, it is useless to think more, Pope, you don't have to worry about these things, just direct the game well. As for Stephen's matter, let Buford follow up first." Stephen's agent will keep in touch, and other matters will be discussed after the end of the season." Finally Holt spoke.

No one expected such a thing to happen, and they all felt that the trade deadline was still far away. Who knew that such a thing would break through, and the league was suspended for such a long time, but since things have been said so, let’s put the game in front of us first. Let's talk about it.

After the game against the Timberwolves, the Spurs had already won six consecutive victories, and then in the next day's game, although Stephen was missing, they still won the New Orleans Hornets without any risk. , Manu Ginobili scored 24 points and also sent six assists, while Brent Barry and Bruce Bowen also scored [-] points and [-] points respectively, which played a substitute role.

In the ensuing game against the 76ers, although the deal about Iverson had not yet started at this time, it was already under negotiation. In order to protect Iverson from injury and affect the deal, he was not arranged to play at all. The Spurs Under the leadership of Duncan, Ginobili, and Tony Parker, the team has achieved its own eight-game winning streak like a rainbow.

Since these games were all played at home, it gave the home fans a feeling that even without Stephen, the Spurs are still extremely strong, just like what an unknown expert said. His shooting rights and playing time are distributed to others, and others can achieve similar results.

This argument not only rose among Spurs fans, but also appeared in many media. For a while, Stephen became a standard stat brush, just like Zach Randolph's season average of [-] points plus [-] points per game. Like rebounds, they are extremely lacking in gold content.

Stephen didn't pay attention to such arguments at all. His injury was not serious, and he left the hospital in less than three days. Although the doctor told him not to do strenuous exercise to prevent the wound from rupturing again, Stephen could not come out of the hospital. In 10 minutes, I arrived at the training ground and started training in sweat.

Stephen made up his mind that he must take advantage of the two months or so to make up for the lack of summer training, improve his shooting level and offensive ability, and when he comes back, he must let those who look down on him or belittle him Look, every time Grandpa stings is a huge improvement.

In addition to training subjects, Stephen also arranged a large number of game videos ready to watch, including clips of "Magic" Johnson, "Big Bird" Larry Bird, "Flying Man" Jordan, "Bad Guy" Barkley and others, as well as a classic This is what Stephen is going to use to improve his basketball awareness and basketball IQ.

After defeating the 76ers, the Spurs rested for three days. Duncan and the others came to see Stephen. They were planning to come to comfort Stephen. They were afraid that Stephen would give up on himself during such a long suspension period and not train well. It was later discovered that Stephen was far more proactive in training than they were.

Originally suspended players also needed to act with the team, but after knowing that Stephen was going to take advantage of this time to train and improve himself, Popovich put Stephen on the injured list, so that Stephen could not be with the team We acted together.

In the ensuing home game against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Spurs won again. This is already the Spurs' nine-game winning streak, tying the record of a four-game losing streak at the beginning of the season and then a [-]-game winning streak. The Dallas Mavericks surpassed the Phoenix Suns, which had won [-] straight games.

But in this game, the Spurs' performance was not so impeccable and invincible. The Spurs fell behind in the first quarter, although in the second quarter, the Spurs put on a Tony Parker, Ginobili, Michael Finn Lee, Robert Horry, and Elson's strong offensive lineup scored [-] points in a single quarter, leading the Grizzlies by [-] points.

But in the third quarter, the Grizzlies also had a big explosion, scored [-] points in a single quarter, and recovered the score by [-] points. Throughout the fourth quarter, the Spurs have been stalemate with the opponent, relying on the front The six-point advantage obtained persisted until the end. After winning the game with great difficulty, all the players of the Spurs felt particularly tired.

It’s been a long time since I’ve felt so hard. It’s all about defense. After winning ten consecutive victories, the Spurs are already exhausted. Duncan and Tony Parker’s playing time in this game is both It has been nearly four and ten minutes, which has rarely happened in the past year or more.

After a day's rest, the Spurs faced the challenge of the Houston Rockets again. At this time, Yao Ming was not injured, and he alone exploded all the insiders of the Spurs. The Spurs began to fall behind from the first quarter. , He fell behind until the end of the game. If Duncan hadn't worked hard for a while in the last quarter and scored five points, he would not have scored in double figures in this game.

The Spurs eventually lost the game 78-97, and the winning streak stopped at [-], although Yao Ming injured his calf in the game against the Clippers the next day.

The Spurs then worked hard to beat the New Orleans Hornets on the road, avoiding a losing streak, but then lost to the Milwaukee Bucks at home. Ginobili was stuck with a calf injury and did not play. , The Spurs lacked a key scoring point, especially when the bench was on the court, which made the fans miss Stephen very much.

Fortunately, the Spurs then won the Utah Jazz and the Atlanta Hawks. People thought that the Spurs had passed the adaptation period without Stephen and returned to the normal way of winning, but they lost consecutively to Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Dallas Mavericks.

In the game against the Cavaliers, James scored 32 points. Looking at the unstoppable James, Popovich could only sigh in his heart. The loss to the Timberwolves was only a one-point loss. Losing to the Dallas Mavericks was a big defeat of more than [-] points. After the three-game losing streak, the prospect of the Spurs' three-peat winning dynasty began to dim. Some people began to doubt whether they could even enter the playoffs. At this time Stephen was still sweating profusely during his own training.

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