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Following Manu Ginobili's three-pointer, with 3 minutes and 22 seconds left in the game, the Spurs led the Suns by as much as four points. D'Antoni looked at the time and then at the number of timeouts. Called a timeout, but issued instructions to Nash on the sidelines.

D'Antoni asked Nash to stabilize the rhythm instead of continuing to speed up. The Suns' offense just now was approaching the extreme. If it went any faster, it would be a random shot. In fact, it has already seen a significant decline, but the rhythm is so fast that people have no time to recall the ball, so they throw the ball in their hands again.

Now that it has been proved that the simple fast can't deal with the current Spurs, it is necessary to put the game on the rhythm that you are used to. The main players of the Suns basically played the entire game. In terms of physical strength, they still have Not as good as the Spurs have an advantage.

After Popovich saw that his team was leading, he also asked the players to stabilize their rhythm on the sidelines. After entering this stage of stalemate with advantages, the Spurs' prospects for victory became clear. The other team that is good at holding the ball is the Heat. Although the Pistons are the best team in the league this season, they rely on the airtight defense and the ability of players to cooperate with each other. Few teams can keep up with them, but when they do, they usually don't make it to the end.

Up to now, the Heat are leading the Pistons [-]-[-] just like the Spurs, and the process is just as Popovich expected. Once the opponent leads at the beginning of the game, the Pistons began to chase desperately, and finally caught up. When scoring, after a period of stalemate between the two sides, the Pistons will fall behind again, and the problem of the Pistons' lack of substitute ability slowly began to show.

Whenever chasing points is at a critical juncture, either the Pistons' main force is limited by their physical strength and cannot overtake the score in one go, or they are defeated by the Heat's new substitute lineup, and the Pistons' weaknesses have been studied. Such thoroughness made Popovich even more afraid of Pat Riley.

Many of Pat Riley's ideas are very similar to Popovich's. As the opponent most likely to meet in the finals, Popovich's research on the Pistons is very good. Focus on the Heat, but he still doesn't think the Heat can easily defeat the Pistons and break through from the East. Maybe the two teams are fighting so hard that it will be cheaper for him.

But now it seems that I still underestimated the old guy Pat Riley. It is one thing to be able to discover the weaknesses of the Pistons, but it is another thing to be able to grasp these weaknesses. Even if you can grasp these weaknesses, but Lacking the necessary execution ability, the players cannot provide the corresponding performance, even if they catch the weakness, it is tantamount to failing to catch it.

This Heat team is my confidant's big problem. Fortunately, I have the foresight to send people to collect information on the Heat team early in the morning. While watching the game on the court, Popovich is thinking about his next move in his spare time. opponent.

If it is Sanders, Popovich believes that even if his main lineup is not as good as the opponent, the substitute lineup is stronger than the opponent. As for the relationship between himself and Sanders, it is not that Popovich underestimates each other. He really wasn't his opponent.

But Pat Riley is different. An old coach who is dubbed a "magic fortune teller" has no shortage of experience and ability. He only played two games in a season, so he really didn't know enough about this guy.

In addition to Pat Riley, the Heat's lineup is also very worrying. No matter what kind of team, as long as he has O'Neal, he cannot be underestimated, let alone Mourning, Gary Payton and others in the lineup. In addition to veterans, there is also the new generation of Wade.

The coach has rich experience, no obvious weaknesses, the lineup is reasonable, the players have superb strength, and the substitute is not too bad. This lineup Popovich gives me a headache when I think about it. It feels like a replica of the Spurs. There is almost nothing weakness.

Now Popovich only hopes that the Pistons can entangle with the Heat to the end, not to mention wasting the opponent's physical strength, but also allow himself to observe more information about the opponent. As for the game against the Suns, the current situation on the field is changing. There's nothing Popovich could be dissatisfied with about going the way he wants to see it.

In these 2 minutes, the Spurs scored six points, while the Suns only scored four points. In other words, the Spurs have widened the gap to six points, and there is only 1 point left in the game. A little more than a minute, and the opponent seems to have no power to recover, of course Popovich is very stable in his heart.

He is not the only one who is stable. The Spurs bench is very stable. Even though they are about to win the Western Conference championship, the Spurs players still have no excitement. The new players who joined this season came to the Spurs for the dream of a championship. What is so exciting about winning the division championship.

They are about to see the victory, and their side is naturally very stable, but the Suns side is different. Seeing that the team is about to lose slowly, all the players on the bench stood up, as if to celebrate Victory, but seeing the tears in their eyes, you know that the result may not be so happy.

On the high stands, a fan named Putarata had tears streaming down his face into the lush lake, and gradually disappeared. The son in his arms was hurt by him, and he couldn't help struggling. Only then did Lata come to her senses, and hastily let her son go.

"Dad, why are you so sad?" the six-year-old son Putarata asked puzzled. Putarata is an Englishman who moved to Phoenix from London because of work. At first, he liked football. But here he can't see the football game he likes live.

The name of football is actually rugby. With a relaxed and casual mind, he chose to watch basketball games. Tickets for basketball games are slightly cheaper, and the basketball venue is small, so he can watch the games up close. Now that he has to give up football Then, find a sport that is the most different from football.

After watching a lot, he gradually fell in love with this kind of sport. Although the excitement of scoring goals is not as strong as that of football, the visual enjoyment is very exciting. Slowly, he learned the rules of basketball and How to analyze a basketball game, and he gradually fell in love with the Suns.

When he came, it happened to be the decline period of the Suns, and then he watched the Suns prosper step by step, so he naturally had deep feelings for the Suns. Falling behind, the expectation of a season was in vain, and I was naturally very unwilling, so I told my son with a bitter face: "The team we support is about to lose, so Dad is sad."

"Is it the one in white?" Putarata asked curiously when he followed his father to the arena to watch the game for the first time.

"Yes, this is our team." Putarata nodded, but he was thinking in his heart whether he would bring his son over to watch the ball more often in the future, so as to cultivate his son's affection for the team. Unfortunately, here The tickets for the game are a bit expensive, and the security is very strict. Unlike a football field, children can easily get in. He is a fan of Leyton Orient. Here, it turns out that it doesn't work at all.

"But I prefer the guy in black." Little Putalata pointed to Stephen who was jumping up and preparing to dunk, and said to his father. Putalata hurriedly covered his son's mouth in fright, and he came The stadium rarely communicates with people. I feel that there are all home fans here. If you like an away player, what if someone hears it.

"That guy is really good, and I like it very much. It's a pity that our team missed it. Otherwise, if there is him, we must be the winner now." At this time, the person sitting next to Putarata suddenly He opened his mouth, and stretched out his hand to rub Little Putarata's head.

This guy was wearing Amare Stoudemire's No. [-] jersey, his hair was dyed as red as fire, he wore earrings on his ears, and he had a hideous monster tattoo on his neck. In Putalata's impression, this The well-dressed guys are generally those bad people, Putarata hurriedly hugged his son tightly, without noticing it, and expressed his friendliness to the direction.

"Yes, yes, I think so." At this time, Putarata agreed to the other party in a hurry. Knowing that this aroused the other party's interest, the young man named Karibak told him very excitedly that he I'm from the same school as Stephen, and both graduated from the University of Southern California. Unfortunately, it's hard to buy Stephen's college jersey, and he doesn't want to wear a Spurs jersey.

While they were chatting, the Suns had already lost the game by six points. After chatting with Karibak, the sadness in Putalata's heart suddenly disappeared. Not sad, could it be that I no longer like this team?

"Okay, I hope to meet you here next season. Goodbye, very cute guy." Karibak rubbed Putarata's head again, and left very easily, looking around Most people have a relieved attitude, and Putarata once again feels a little different from football.

Since this is an away game, the Spurs did not celebrate their entry into the Finals. Instead, they left the arena in a hurry after being interviewed, and took the bus to the airport. Not to mention, it is not the time to celebrate yet. Formidable opponents, it is not time to relax, only the Suns players are still immersed in sadness and loss, but some of them have already prepared their vacation tickets and luggage, just waiting With this failure.