After dunking a basket, Stephen fell silent again under Marion's full defense. However, the others had good opportunities, especially Duncan, facing the double-team of Tim Thomas and Dior, he still wanted to ask for it as if he had come to his back garden, and ignored the Suns' defense.

However, the Suns' three-pointers seemed to have been in the game one after another. They made four three-pointers in the first quarter alone, and only five two-pointers were scored. In addition, the Suns scored twenty-five points in a single quarter. Compared with their previous single-quarter score, this score was not high. But you should know that their opponent is the Spurs, and it is already very good to be able to get twenty-five points. The Spurs only scored twenty-three points, and they were behind by two points.

Duncan of the Spurs scored eight points, Stephen of the four points, Michael Finley of the five points, Mohamed of the two points, Tony Parker of the Spurs scored quite average, and there was no fixed scoring point. Although Duncan was more open on the side, after Duncan played a few times, he stopped playing hard, but actively passed the ball to his teammates.

Duncan knew very clearly that with his own physical strength, if he kept playing so strong, even if the opponent's defense was poor, he would be affected by his lack of physical strength, and the team needed to stay on the court as much as possible, so Duncan would not take action at will because of his opponent's ease.

After a quarter of experimentation, **Vicci concluded that the Spurs' defense is not as good as he imagined, but fortunately, it is not affected by the Suns and will not fall into the Suns' offensive rhythm. Once he loses the rhythm he is used to and runs with the opponent, the Spurs will suffer.

In the second minute of the second quarter, **Vic replaced Duncan as usual and replaced Robert Holly. At the same time, Mohammed came out, Nestrovic came out, Ginobili came out, Michael Finley came out, Van Exel came out, and Tony Parker came out. In the starting lineup, except Stephen, everyone else went off the court to rest.

The reason why Stephen is not replaced is that **Vic mainly considers Stephen's role in the field. With Stephen, he can basically restrain the opponent's main defensive player Marion. If Stephen is replaced, neither Bruce Bowen nor Brent Barry will play this role. In this way, it will be not so easy to score in the inside or break through to the basket.

Who knew that after playing for less than two minutes, Ginobili suddenly fell to the ground during a breakthrough, and then limped out of the court to rest. Stephen could not get out of the game. **Vic had to replace Brent Barry, and Stephen was the offensive core of the substitute lineup.

This position used to be Stephen, and Ginobili was just a distributor of the ball. However, in the later stage, as Stephen played more and more in the starting lineup, Ginobili began to take on more offensive tasks, and now he suddenly became Stephen, and everyone felt a little uncomfortable.

Ginobili's specialty is that his ball-holding attack, especially his spirit snake breakthrough is very sharp. This is because Stephen likes to run without the ball and then sneak attack at the basket. Stephen does not focus on breakthroughs. He prefers to play singles on his back. Of course, this is also related to his ball-control skills being inferior to Ginobili.

Breakthrough requires strong physical coordination and must be combined with ball control technology. Because before the start stage of three-step layups, you must get the ball away every step you take. Stephen has no problem with dribbling when playing singles on the back, but it is not easy to control the ball well during the breakthrough process of changing direction, changing speed, increasing force, and reducing force.

Stephen also knew this shortcoming and was ready to focus on solving this problem in this summer's training. Although it cannot be achieved overnight and can solve this problem in just one or two months of training, this special training can easily bring about the effect of seeing the pole, at least allowing himself to break through with his footsteps like before, rather than bullying people like now.

After all, after playing together for a long time before, this feeling of discomfort disappeared soon, and the Spurs were already six points behind at this time. As Barbosa broke through to the basket like lightning, he raised his hand and made a layup. While getting two points, he also caused Nestrovic to foul.

This time, Nestrovic made two consecutive mistakes. The first was that after Brent Barry lost his position, his backup defense was not active, which led to Barbosa easily entering the basket and scoring. The second mistake was that the opponent had already taken off the air and the ball was about to enter the basket. He still reached out to hit the opponent's arm and gave the opponent a free throw.

As a veteran who has been fighting in the league for several years, Nestrovic should not make such a mistake. If you don’t have time to make up for defense, you can choose to foul, but if you want to foul, you have to make a foul in advance. Send the opponent two free throws, and you can’t let the opponent score the ball. If you have already taken a shot, you will fly into the basket and still take action, that is, you will give the opponent points in vain.

This is not a matter of ability or consciousness, it is a matter of enthusiasm and attention. Nestrovic did not put all his attention into the game. When he found a mistake, he hurriedly wanted to make up for the mistake with a foul. As a result, he was now like this, and he had to get another penalty if he was scored by the opponent.

With Barbosa hitting a free throw, the Suns widened the score to nine points in one fell swoop. This is a very obvious gap. Once an offensive team like the Suns gets them to widen the score, it will be very difficult for you to narrow it. So **Vic repeatedly emphasized before the game that the two tasks in this game are to stabilize the rhythm of the game and maintain the gap in the score when falling behind.

Van Exel moved forward after controlling the ball, Stephen covered him while running, and the two of them were communicating with gestures. As soon as halfway through the court, the two suddenly separated from left to right, and then Van Exel accelerated and ran to the basket. Nash could not stop his speed at all. James Jones hurried over to help defend. At this time, Van Exel suddenly passed the ball to the parallel side.

Just when the Suns' attention was basically attracted by Van Exel, who was accelerating first, Stephen also rushed in from the other side. Due to empty hand, Stephen was a little deeper than Van Exel's. At first, Marion was still defending him on one side, but he was soon thrown behind him.

Although the two men were one step away, Stephen did not dare to be careless at all. Marion's bounce and arm span were very suitable for this kind of chase block. Stephen did not want to be blocked by others and then appeared in the top ten balls. So after receiving the pass from Van Exel, he immediately took off and jumped to the highest height. He changed hands in the air, switched the ball to the other side's hand, and then extended forward and high.

Dior in front of him had already hid aside, and Stephen's flight was unstoppable. While he was flying, he felt that Marion also soared into the air, so Stephen did not dare to relax and carelessly even in the air. When he flew closer to the basket, Stephen's hand holding the ball pulled back and drew an arc in the air before putting the ball into the basket.

After Stephen scored the ball, James Jones missed the shot from outside the three-point line, but Marion saved the ball, which was still a nine-point gap. After coming back, Stephen broke through and suddenly passed the ball to Brent Barry in the right corner. Brent Barry Young shot a three-pointer.

The Suns' offensive initiator was still Nash. Facing Van Exel's defense, Nash accelerated and slowed down, and broke through Van Exel by relying on the change of rhythm alone. However, just after he ran to the three-second zone, Robert Horry from the Spurs hurried over to intercept it. At this time, Nash suddenly changed direction and ran towards the bottom corner.

But at this time, his hands were empty. At some point, he actually passed the ball to Dio at the basket. Dio did not force his attack against Nestrovic, but turned around and passed the ball to James Jones outside.

After James Jones made a pick-and-roll cooperation with Dior, he bypassed Nestrovic's defense and was about to jump up to take action. Stephen had already rushed over and grabbed the ball directly above his head. Just as he was about to look for Van Exel's position, Marion blocked him in front.

Marion's appearance delayed the Spurs' fast break, and then Marion ran back to prepare for defense. He has a huge role in the Suns' defensive system. He can be said to be the only two people who are serious in the Suns' defense. Lagabell is at best a single defense vanguard, and Marion has him at all times from the outside to the inside.

After Stephen handed the ball to Van Exel, he used Robert Horry's cover to block Marion while Marion was inseparable from being inseparable, and then directly caught the ball and took the ball. This shot was very fast. Stephen sideways and caught the ball, turned around and shot. The process was completed in one go, and the ball flew in without any contact with the ring with great face.

Stephen's shot narrowed the gap in the score to five points, and also opened the Spurs' score chase and started his own personal scoring show in this game. After Nash's archery-like score was reunited, Stephen came over and ran a wide range of no-ball on the court, and finally ran out of the gap. Robert Horry's pass came immediately. Stephen was outside the three-point line, still turning around and jumping out like he had just now.

The four-point gap turned around. In the Suns, under this tense and pressure atmosphere, Dior's pass made a mistake and passed directly to Brent Barry. Brent Barry immediately passed a long pass and ran the ball to Stephen's hand through the half. Although Marion was following Stephen, he did not dare to foul easily. Stephen leaned against his body and pushed the ball up.

This time, Nash scored himself, but the shooting was deviated. The basketball board was obtained by Nestrovic. The Spurs failed to make a fast break. During the positional attack, Stephen broke through to the basket. Just when everyone thought Stephen was about to take action, Stephen broke through without warning and passed the ball to Nestrovic under the basket. Nestrovic easily made a layup to equalize the score.

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