In the next game, Artest could still receive a pass from Billups, but as long as Ji Guoqiu could pass it to the little fox, the basketball would never fly to Artest in the end.

Artest gradually became dissatisfied. Today, the team's strategy was to attack him, and the twins were responsible for restraining him, but now he gradually became an auxiliary, which made the beast's dissatisfaction that had accumulated for half a season began to explode!

**Vicci and Dunleavy also found something was wrong. Artest received the basketball and would force the ball without a chance, and would not pass the ball out again.

In the second quarter, 3 minutes and 55 seconds, with a score of 48:38, the Spurs called a timeout.

"I don't know what happened, but you try to double-team Artest and don't worry about others!" **Vic was not the head coach of the Clippers, but he found an abnormality with Old Dunleavy at the same time. It can only be said that the Spurs coach is still better.

As the team's head coach, Dunleavy also knew something was wrong. He was not sure what to do, but his intuition told him that Artest's emotions were wrong and his offensive choices were very debatable.

"Atester was in a one-on-one fight on the court. Should he replace him at this time?"

Old Dunleavy hesitated for a moment, glanced at the scores of the two teams, and decided to replace the beast who made the wrong offensive choices in succession. Although he didn't know what happened to Artest, Old Dunleavy knew one thing that this game was the top priority. Now the situation is dominant, and no accident on the court cannot happen. No matter who performs poorly on the court, he will be replaced and calm down.

The game started again, and the Clippers replaced: Billups, James Percy, Garcia, Ji Guohuo, Ji Guoqiu.

**Wich was a little embarrassed to see this. Old Dunleavy's on-site arrangement today was fast enough. His timeout was vain. Instead, the opponent took the opportunity to replace the player who performed abnormally. The deal was a loss.

Artest has scored 14 points, and his performance cannot be said to be bad. Now the Clippers are facing the same problem as the Lakers at the time, and a basketball is not enough to score!

No one in this world would think that he is not the protagonist. Artest now has the ability to average 20+ games, but the number of shots per game is far lower than his expectations. If it weren't for the contract year and his mind has matured a lot over the years, he wouldn't have been swallowing his anger!

When Artest was not on the court, Ji Guomomoto got enough power to take action. Billups did not value the data so much. His expertise was to allocate the ball, and the Clippers returned to normal.

At the end of the half game, the score was 55:44, and the Clippers entered the second half with an advantage of 11 points. This result made Old Dunleavy very satisfied.

Ji Guochou scored 8 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks, Ji Guomomiya scored 17 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks, Billups scored 12 points and 4 assists, Artest scored 14 points.

Duncan scored 20 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, Ginobili scored 13 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Parker scored 4 points, Finley scored 4 points, and Bowen scored 3 points.

The Clippers' shooting percentage in the first half reached 60%. The Spurs were only 50%. If Duncan had not played like a god-assisted player in the interior, the Spurs would have been scored more than 15 points.

Charles Barkley commented in midfield: "The Clippers' game is no different from the previous one. I watched their last game, although they used twice the speed of fast forwarding. I think the reason why they were leading today is that they feel good, and the second is that they pay attention to their fouls."

Kenny Smith also said: "The Clippers' defense was extremely oppressive and very strong. Many of the twins' defensive movements were very brutal. They wanted to use this to limit the Spurs' tactical core. Such defense did make Duncan play averagely. Duncan's touch in the first game was extremely poor, which has a lot to do with the Clippers' defensive strength. However, there are advantages and disadvantages. Their excessive defensive movements also received too many fouls. In the final stage of the final battle, the two brothers were sent off together, causing the Clippers to lose their first game."

Charles Barkley smiled and said, "The twins' fouls were well controlled today. They both made Duncan's touch hot!"

Kenny Smith said helplessly: "This is impossible. We have to make countless choices in every game. Just like your life, every decision you make will come at a price."

In the Spurs' locker room, **Vicci was expressionless, but he was thinking quickly about ways to turn the situation around.

This is a difficult problem. The Clippers can play too many cards, and they shouldn't be the eighth. **Vic felt that if he gave him such a card, he would have at least a hundred tricks to let the other party go home and fish.

In fact, Old Dunleavy's arrangement today left him helpless. No matter how powerful Duncan is, Shi Foguang has no choice but to fight the twins with two fists. Ginobili performed normally in the first half. In the last game, he encountered a big shot. Just like Duncan today, it was not possible to happen every game.

After thinking about it, **Vic knew that if they wanted to turn the tables, they had to stand up in the second half except Duncan's performance. It was obviously a delusion to expect the substitute to complete this task. They could only hope that Tony Parker would explode. If Ginobili performed normally today, then the French sports car's performance today would not even be able to achieve normal performance. If he performed normally, the Spurs would at least be evenly matched with the Clippers.

"Tony, you have a stronger breakthrough in the second half. Your nose is crooked and your leg is injured?" That's all Vic could say, Parker will stop doing it immediately if he was the other person.

In the face of **Vicci's kind-hearted sarcasm, Parker could only blush and replied: "My nose is not crooked, and my legs are not injured."

A burst of laughter suddenly sounded in the Spurs locker room. Duncan stepped forward and touched Parker's head. Ginobili quickly flashed to the side when he saw this. Duncan usually touched someone's head but didn't just touch one, but there were only a few hairs on his head. Boss, you should change someone to touch it!

In the Clippers' locker room, Dunleavy was busy encouraging the players and praising the team's performance in the first half.

Artest sat in the corner of the locker room, the second highest scorer in the first half, but now he lowered his head and looked uninterested.

Billups saw that the glass of Gatorade was drunk in his hand, and brought another cup to Artest and said, "Ron. I know your nickname is 'Beast'. But I didn't expect you to have such a strong lethality in the low post. You performed well in the first half, like a real beast."

Artest barely smiled: "Your pass is comfortable, I did not perform well in the end and was replaced by the coach."

Although the Spurs' visiting locker room was not broken, it was not large in size. Old Dunleavy naturally heard the conversation between the two and thought about Artest carefully. Even if he didn't know the other party's true thoughts, he also heard that Artest was dissatisfied with being replaced.

The bystanders are clear, while the authorities are confused.

Dunleavy, the old man could see that in the All-Star Game, when Ji Guomeng and Durant were together, they would compete for the ball rights between each other, but when they were in their own team, they would not have expected Artest to have the same problem. If it weren't for the All-Star exchange for Billups in the future, Artest's data would have risen again, perhaps the latter's accumulated dissatisfaction would have erupted long ago.

At the beginning of the second half, the starting lineups of both sides did not change.

Old Dunleavy, let alone not be able to see the reason for Artest's dissatisfaction, even if he could see that he could not solve it, he still had to put the beast on the field.

Artest restrained his dissatisfaction in the second half. He is no longer the young man who beat fans during the Auburn Palace period. He now knows how to regulate his emotions and knows how to restrain himself.

But sometimes, Ji Guomo is a unique comparison that makes people angry!

In the first attack in the second half, Ji Guomo did not have the right chance to make a phone call, but the basketball did not come out again when it hit him. The Fox brother directly made a three-pointer from the outside and made a fury shot!

Ji Guoqiu and Artest rushed to the basket. Artest entangled Duncan's hand, which affected Shifo's jump. Ji Guoqiu used his advantage in jumping and grabbed the rebound between Oberto and Duncan, and then he became stronger again and caused the Argentine insider to foul.

**Vic roared at the referee. The referee didn't even call Artest a foul just now, which made the Spurs coach dissatisfied and vented on the referee.

The referee was sprayed with a spit on his face by **Vic. He originally wanted to show a technical foul on **Vic, but he looked at the big screen and the slow-motion replay allowed everyone to see the foul action on Artest's hand. The referee hesitated for a moment and did not show a technical foul on **Vic.

Ji Guoqiu scored both free throws amid the deafening booing from all the fans, with a score of 57:44.

The Spurs were not panicked by this goal. This is their team temperament. The Texas team is very resilient and is the least likely area in the league to be defeated.

Duncan moved to the online support, Finley ran without the ball on the wing, Parker and Duncan did not pass the ball after pick-and-roll, and directly jumped at the free throw line...

Ji Guoqiu switched to Parker for the ball, and the Panda brother blocked it in time, and a big yellow hand covered Parker's entire face.

However, Parker, who scored only 4 points in the first half, still successfully hit the game under Ji Guochou's perfect defense this time.

Old Dunleavy immediately made a joint defense gesture off the court. When the Spurs wanted to counterattack at the beginning of the second half, they would have to hold on to this wave of offensives. As long as they defended the Spurs' counterattack, they would have no chance to sing, and the Clippers' victory was basically put in their pockets.

The Clippers' joint defense is very strong, almost suffocating defense, with less than one meter away from the defensive players. The joint defense formation has also been expanded, leaving two twins in the interior, which is a strengthened two-three-way joint defense.

Parker and Duncan picked and rolled, and he could only break into a range of 15 feet and was immediately surrounded by the Clippers. French sports car chose to pass the ball quickly.

Finley received the basketball from outside the three-point line. The Spurs veteran wanted to pass the basketball to Duncan. At this time, it turned into Ji Guohuo defending Duncan. The Fox had already been put on the line and followed closely between Duncan and cut off the Spurs' passing line.

The Clippers players followed the ball, and Finley slowed down, and Artest and Billups immediately surrounded him.

Parker was empty at this time and no one defended it, but the basketball was not passed by the Frenchman, and the pass route was cut off by the Clippers players.

Finley saw that he was about to make a mistake, Parker rushed over to receive the response. After the former handed the basketball player to the French, the Spurs' offensive time was almost gone, and Parker could only shoot three-pointers two steps away from the three-point line. The result was of course outrageous!

**Vic immediately warmed up Ginobili, Finley is no longer suitable to start again. He obviously is not as good as last season in this series. Without Ginobili's involvement on the court, the Clippers' joint defense will completely lock the Spurs. Parker and Duncan alone cannot defeat the Clippers' joint defense. The GDP combination must stay on the court for a longer time to withstand the Clippers' offensive.

After Ginobili came on the court, the Clippers' joint defense began to be too careless. At this time, the Spurs could have too many points to dribble and could not cover a net. Old Dunleavy quickly canceled the joint defense and continued to hit and stare at people.

"If you want to stagger the playing time of GDP and keep the offensive firepower during the substitute period, I will not let you succeed!" Old Dunleavy's move is the real killer move today. As long as GDP is not present at the same time, they will immediately use joint defense, forcing the GDP combination to stay on the court at the same time.
Chapter completed!