With less than three minutes left in the game, Adelman took the initiative to admit defeat, replaced the main team, and gave up the game, which means that the Spurs officially broke through the first round and entered the second round, against the Dallas Mavericks who had been waiting there.

Wells, who only scored 38 points and twelve rebounds, seemed very unwilling to give up when he left the court. He thought he could get 40 points, but he was a little unwilling to be replaced in advance. However, if their main players didn't leave the game, the main players of the Spurs would not end, and as long as Stephen was on the court, his scoring would not be too easy. [..com]

Stephen scored 26 points, eight rebounds and three assists in this game, which barely ensured that his average score in the playoffs was still more than 20. Among the rookie players this season, except for the Spurs, who are in Stephen, who entered the playoffs, others like the New Orleans Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, Uta Jazz, and Toronto Raptors did not enter the playoffs, so Stephen also became the only remaining playoff player in the best rookie lineup.

In this time, in the first round of the playoffs in the West, except for the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns who were still fighting, the others have already decided to win. After five battles between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Denver Nuggets, the Clippers finally won the game. After losing three games in a row, the Suns rebounded strongly and won two consecutive games. At present, the two sides have tied three to three, and the tiebreak battle is about to begin.

Now many experts and fans are looking forward to it. If the Los Angeles Lakers finally win, then the Los Angeles derby will be staged in the semi-finals, which is also the first time in history that the Los Angeles derby will be staged in the playoff semi-finals.

Except for the Detroit Pistons defeating the Milwaukee Bucks four-to-one in the East, only the New Jersey Nets and the Indiana Pacers decided the winner. The Pacers, who were seriously injured, finally bid farewell to this season in failure. The two rivals of Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Washington Wizards, Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls are still waiting for the start of the Sixth Games. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat are currently leading three-to-two.

Two days later, all the winners were decided in the first round. The highly anticipated Los Angeles derby did not appear in the end. The Phoenix Suns finally won the victory by relying on their superior strength. Nash also defeated Kobe in the regular season battle. Kobe, who both failed in the individual team, began his vacation in a lonely way. The Cavaliers and the Heat also laughed to the end and won the game.

The semi-final showdown first started between the two Texas teams of the Spurs vs. the Mavericks. The Spurs, who had been resting for two days, played against the Mavericks who had been resting for five days, which made many people not optimistic about the Spurs. Although the Spurs have home advantage, they are also two teams with relatively older average players. If you rest more, you will naturally have physical advantages.

In the pre-match interview, the master and apprentice of **Vicci and Avery Johnson also had a verbal battle, but neither of them was the kind of overconfident person, and they jointly adopted the style of praising their opponents' modestness. In the interview with the media, Avery Johnson desperately praised the current Spurs as the most powerful Spurs he has ever seen and the most powerful Spurs ever. In addition to having three champion players, Duncan, Ginobili and Tony Parker, he recruited All-Star players like Michael Finley this season, and selected outstanding players like Stephen in the second round. The Spurs are extremely powerful.

Speaking of physical strength issues, "Little General" Johnson said that rest is naturally important for players, but long rest time can easily cause players to lose their original state. For a team like the Spurs who are good at allocating players' physical strength, two days of rest time is enough for players to return to normal state. The implication is that their team's rest time is not necessarily a good thing.

**Vic is not as friendly to the media as "Little General" Johnson. He always speaks simple and clear. **Vic did not praise the strength of the Mavericks too much, but pointed out that the Mavericks are the only player among the sixteen playoff teams in the league to block the opponent. At the same time, for the issue of too little rest time, he turned his head to the league's event arrangements, believing that such intensive games will cause serious damage to the players, and he believes that the league should open the schedule a little.

Time is spent in this kind of verbal battle. Because there are gathering points and arguments, everyone feels that time passes quickly. The media all hope that if the two teams argue for a few more days, their topics will be richer and more attention will be added. However, the players of both teams are ready to wait for the start of the game.

The passionate and intense atmosphere of the SBC Center, which was already noisy enough, has added another layer. The enthusiasm of the fans has reached an unstoppable level. Logically speaking, fans who are used to the division finals and even the finals should not be so enthusiastic, but don’t forget that the Spurs have the law of winning the championship for odd years and the curse of not winning the championship for even years.

Every even years, the lineup is also very reasonable and the players are in no problem, the Spurs always have various abnormal situations and will be eliminated. Judging from the winning rate of the regular season, the Mavericks are the real second in the West. Under the coach of Johnson, the Mavericks, who are already attacking like crazy, have learned to defend as solid as rocks and become a team that is both offensive and defensive. It can be said that in the West, the team that poses the greatest threat to the Spurs is the Mavericks.

**Vicci attaches great importance to the Mavericks, but in the playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Mavericks did not show any difference from the regular season, which made **Vicci complain that the Memphis Grizzlies are too poor. Not to mention that they were swept, even the Mavericks' real strength was not forced out.

In this way, the Spurs can only prepare for this game according to the regular season Mavericks. Just like against the Kings, the Spurs still set up their starting lineup to see the Mavericks' reaction. There is no change in the Mavericks, and there is still center Diop, power forward Nowitzki, small forward Josh Howard, shooting guard Adrien Griffin, and point guard Jason Terry.

The Mavericks' lineup is very strange. It is the only lineup in the league without an orthodox point guard. This is to increase the team's attack power. The lineup that appeared in the old Nelson era, "Little General" Johnson inherited all this.

The Mavericks in the regular season do not have any decent offensive tactics. Their offense basically relies entirely on the team's own singles ability. In the era of old Nelson, they could call the Dallas Mavericks singles. After Johnson's hands, he did not make adjustments to the offense, because the Mavericks' offense was originally at the top level in the league, and he just tailored a set of defensive tactics for the Mavericks players.

For such a team, no matter how capable you are, you cannot design targeted defense, because the opponent has no offensive tactics at all, and you cannot suppress your opponent at the tactical level. Until the game is about to start, Vicky thought that perhaps Avery Johnson had no playoff tactics at all, so he would just deal with it according to the regular season.

This is actually the idea of ​​"Little General" Johnson. Since I can't play you anyway, we can't just play tactics. Let's just not play tactics and fight a mess. Anyway, our players are used to fighting a mess. If it's a mess, we will definitely take advantage of it. **Vic just thought too much and kept thinking about what new tactics the Mavericks will have, but in the end we have wasted all preparation time.

However, this is just **Vic's guess. When the game started, **Vic immediately confirmed this idea. The Mavericks really had no tactics and were fighting randomly, but they were even more chaotic and crazier than the regular season. The Spurs were really not prepared to deal with such an offense. They were in a hurry for a while and couldn't handle it.

In two and a half minutes, the Spurs were beaten by the Mavericks 2-8. Seeing that this was not good, **Vic hurriedly called a timeout. On the one hand, he arranged a response strategy, and on the other hand, he used the timeout to interrupt the opponent's crazy scoring momentum.

Anyway, the opponent is singles and has no cooperation. **Vic asked the players on the court to do their own defensive tasks, especially the opponent's offensive points, such as Nowitzki, Terry, and Josh Howard. For one of his own attacks, **Vic asked the players to stabilize and continue to play the original tactical cooperation, and must not fall into the opponent's trap of chaos.

The Mavericks want to use their own chaotic offense to drag the Spurs into the chaotic battle, so that the Spurs lose their strongest tactical advantage, because the players of both sides can influence each other. The fast can drive slower, and the slow can drive fast, but it depends on who has better execution ability and who can better grasp his own rhythm. The relationship between chaotic battles and tactics is the same. If players fight on the defensive end, they will easily enter chaotic battles on the offensive end.

**Vic's timeout was only more than one minute after calling. In this minute, the Spurs insisted on their own offense and defended the opponent's attack. Both sides each scored two points. However, after one minute, this frequent exchange disorder made the Spurs players lose themselves again, and were once again played by the Mavericks with a six-to-two offensive. As a last resort, **Vic had to call another timeout.

Before the players could get off the court, **Vic yelled on the sidelines, especially when Tony Parker walked by him, he grabbed Tony Parker and shouted Tony Parker a lesson from the sidelines. Tony Parker was beaten three times by Jason Terry on the defensive end, but forgot his own rhythm on the offensive end. After **Vic yelled him, he turned his eyes to Van Exel sitting on the bench.

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