Basketball: Man in 08, three months left before the Olympics

The reigning champion San Antonio Spurs’ dominance this year has not diminished, although they did not finish first in the West in the regular season.

But this has a lot to do with Popovich’s strategy of rotating the main players at the end of the season.

In the first round, against Nash and the Suns of Junior, they easily won 4-1.

The calm black main color of ATT Center Arena is also very similar to the style of this team, their style of play is unpretentious but extremely efficient, and even the magical and cool appearance ceremony of other teams has been simplified here.

Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Michael Finley, Bruce Bowen, Fabricio Oberto, five main players appeared one by one and were welcomed by the home fans.

It is worth noting that Manuginobili, the Spurs’ classic GDP combination, was placed on the bench by Popovich this season to lead the team’s second team as a super sixth man.

In the NBA, there are some unique players who are perfectly capable of being the main starters, but when playing as a substitute, they tend to play better.

Ginobili is one such player.

On the Mavericks’ side, after several big games with the Hornets in the first round, head coach John Xun has established Pei Yun’s starting point guard position, and they sent a lineup of: Pei Yun, Jason Kidd, Josh Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, Eric Dampier.

Before the game, the young general John Xun was very troubled about how the Mavericks lined up the starting lineup.

Spurs head coach Greg Popovich is a veteran coach, and in the past decade, the Mavericks and Spurs have become almost rivals and are very familiar with each other.

Popovich is certainly well aware of the problems the Mavericks have faced lately.

So they put out a double high on the inside, and on the front line they sent the Mavericks’ former “big brother” Michael Finley.

Young General John Xun certainly guessed that the Spurs would line up like this, so he would have to put Dampier and Josh Howard, who had underperformed in the first round, back on the court.

The Spurs are not young Hornets, who play with Queen Paul and a passion for blood, although the Mavericks were almost overturned by the incomprehensible Queen Bee.

But at least the manager of the young general can find a way to crack the Wasp, but some of the main players are obviously out of form and have not been able to complete the tasks he set before the game, so the first five games are quite passive.

The Spurs are different, their players are not only full of talent, but also have old foxes like Popovich.

The little general was in the clouds and fog when he competed with him, and he couldn’t guess what set the old fox had given them.

Every time at this time, the young general would ponder what his mentor Nelson Sr. did when he faced Popovich.

“Responding to change with no change”.

The young general could not reach the realm of the old Nelson, and he still changed formations with the Spurs’ lineup.

Fortunately, recently, the little general won Pei Yun’s trump card again, but after the Hornets, in this more difficult series, it is unknown whether Pei Yun’s card can continue the state of divine courage in the previous round.

The players from both sides were very friendly on the court, and before kick-off, the old rivals Novitsky and Duncan hugged and greeted on the court.

Buying his former club, Michael Finley also constantly talks and laughs with his teammates who have fought side by side.

After all, although the Mavericks and Spurs are often rivals, they have not formed a grudge, they are more like two sympathetic enemies.

In contrast, Pei Yun, who only broke out recently, has no intersection with the Spurs players, so he became the one who was left out.

The game begins, and both sides jump the ball in the middle circle.

Duncan got the first wave of the ball for the Spurs.

Parker had the ball in possession of the front court and faced Kidd’s defense.

Tony Parker, nicknamed “The Sports Car,” is incredibly fast and is known for breaking through turn-top baskets for layups and one-handed distance shots.

However, in the ’06 matchup against the Mavericks, Parker was sanctioned by the Mavericks’ more terrifying Devin Harris, who set the NBA’s record for the fastest halftime and held it for many years.

Today’s Mavericks, Devin Harris has been reimbursed for the season due to injury, and can only sit on the bench in a suit to cheer on the team.

However, Jason Kidd is also a defensive and experienced veteran, and Parker, although he has absolute speed, is not that good at playing.

Spurs interior lineman Oberto came near the three-point line to cover Parker, but Parker did not choose to do this blocking.

Instead, he hung the ball to Duncan, who was well positioned on the inside.

Duncan successfully got the ball and singled Dampier of the Mavericks one-on-one.

Dampier is tall and strong, and has a good ability to guard the frame, but his technique is rough and his ability to move is insufficient.

Faced with such a defender, Duncan gave up the back basket and thus singled Dampier in the frame.

After two consecutive tentative steps, Duncan directly looked up in place.

Hit the board!

0:2

This is one of Duncan’s signature ways of scoring, and in the entire NBA, no player prefers to score by scoring with a cricket.

During the attack and defense, Dampier’s weaknesses were also exposed, and his defense became very stiff in the face of Duncan’s practical technique.

Duncan shot on his head, but he could only watch Duncan score.

Of course, this can’t all be blamed on Dampier, in some senses, he is indeed the “second center in the West” outside of Dayao.

However, Duncan, who experts call the most powerful forward in history, has super offensive ability, not to mention that Dampier does not have any defensive moves, once he pounces on the defense, it is likely that Duncan will pass him in one step and then come to a one-arm explosive frame dunk.