Marion's foul was just right. Stephen had not had obvious offensive moves yet, so there was no need to be awarded a penalty. It was just an ordinary defensive foul. The Spurs served again, leaving only seven seconds left for the Spurs' offensive time.

After the ball was sent to Ginobili, Ginobili shook his body and pretended to be attacking, but in fact he secretly passed the ball to Robert Horry behind him. Robert Horry looked up and took action. The ball drew a beautiful arc and fell head-on into the basket. [..com]

This is the normal Spurs. The offense is full of flowers and is not limited to one player. The Suns still insist on their own style of play and continue to attack and attack. However, this time, Kot Thomas' mid-range shot missed the basket and the rebound was taken by Stephen.

This offensive goal finally came to Stephen's hands. Stephen saw that the basket was tightly protected and did not choose to go to the basket, but instead bullied forward one step. After the oppressed Marion retreated for a moment, he suddenly retreated and jumped to shoot.

But just as Stephen was about to take action, he suddenly felt a huge force coming out of the ball. The ball in his hand was hit to the ground with a snap. Then Marion quickly got the ball and threw it to Nash, and Nash launched a fast break to score.

This was only the first time and did not attract Stephen's attention. Although **Vict noticed it was a bit unusual, he just thought it was a ** incident. However, he still called Stephen's name on the sidelines to remind Stephen to pay attention to his previous instructions.

Stephen shrank his neck, let's see, he would be scolded for making a mistake and would not even let him take action. It was such a tragic life. After half the game, Stephen began to compete with Marion. Under Stephen's entanglement, Marion could not even connect the ball, and was forced to the side of the court by Stephen.

Stephen devoted all his strength to defense, and the defense immediately rose to a higher level, especially when he retaliated against Marion's defense, and even made it difficult for Marion to connect the ball. Of course, no matter how strong a person is, it is impossible to maintain such a level of defense throughout the game. Stephen is a retaliatory defense.

The Suns' offense was not completed in the end. Just as everyone thought Stephen was defending Marion with all his might, Stephen suddenly came out and blocked Nash's pass route to Tim Thomas, intercepted the ball and completed a steal.

After coming back, although Stephen got the ball, he suddenly passed the ball back to Ginobili when the breakthrough was about to be completed, and then interspersed between Ginobili and Lagaber, creating space and opportunity for Ginobili's attack. However, Ginobili's attack failed. Fortunately, Nestrovic grabbed the rebound and handed it to Robert Horry, who made a easy shot.

The strategy of focusing on Stephen's focus on the game that D'Antoni arranged before the game seemed to be a bit bankrupt, but D'Antoni had no choice. The Spurs' substitute lineup is so strong. The result of not focusing on defense is the game. It is still difficult to say how the focus of defense will be. Perhaps there is still a possibility of success.

After returning, Nash made a shot to stabilize the situation for the Suns. The Spurs were still attacking on the offense by Ginobili. After Ginobili and Stephen made a cross-running cooperation, the ball came to Stephen's hands at the same time. Stephen turned around and was about to take action, but Marion rushed over again, and slapped Stephen's hands, and the ball flew out again.

The referee still did not give Stephen a free throw, but asked the Spurs to continue serving off the court. Is this a tactical foul specially made by the opponent? To completely limit Stephen's point to death? **Vic was thinking about it. The Spurs served again and directly sent it to Stephen, not far from the basket. After receiving the ball, Stephen was about to jump and dunk, but was pulled down by Cott Thomas.

This time it was finally Stephen's turn to make a free throw, but Stephen accidentally missed both free throws. After the miss, Stephen slapped his hand in annoyance. What's wrong with his luck today? Why is it so bad that he can miss the free throws? Seeing Stephen's mood fluctuations, Robert Horry hurried over to comfort him and calm him down.

The opponent's foul is to calm down, so that the less you hit, the more anxious you will be, the less you will be. Stephen also understands this principle, but Stephen just wants to try it out, what's wrong with his own touch? So when the Suns scored on the offensive, Stephen continued to attack, but Marion saw through the ball path and destroyed the ball in advance.

Now, Stephen can understand this without saying anything. Perhaps, maybe, the other party has done a key research on himself, just like he used to study others, and studied his offensive routine thoroughly, so he could limit himself in this way.

In fact, it cannot be said that Stephen is restricted. If Stephen has unlimited attack power, he will continue to take action. In just this time, Marion has already compensated twice for fouls. Cott Thomas once made a foul. Stephen doesn't believe that they will have countless fouls to use. For example, if Marion takes another foul, he will have to restrain his actions even if he doesn't go off the court. At that time, Stephen can take action as he pleases.

However, Stephen of the Spurs does not have this treatment. Whether in the starting lineup or in the substitute lineup, Stephen usually only accounts for one-third of the team's shooting rights. This is based on others' bad touch, otherwise Stephen would not even have one-third. The reason why he scored high is because his offensive style has a high shooting percentage and he also has a long playing time in his youth.

Moreover, this time the coach also gave special instructions to prevent Stephen from forcing his move, but to cooperate with Ginobili. Therefore, although Stephen was unwilling to accept it, he still lowered his move and strengthened his defense. On the offensive end, he gave Ginobili a cover and pass.

Although Stephen did not take action, his threat was still greater than others, and Marion still followed him unremittingly and did not dare to relax at all. In this way, the Spurs' attack power was greatly reduced. As Nash was still on the court, the Suns still had an extremely sharp attack like the opening. The Spurs not only did not narrow the score, but also made the gap even bigger.

Seeing this, the first person who couldn't stand it was **Vic. If the substitute lineup could not close or overtake the score, would it be possible to wait for the main players to play? Although Nash stayed on the court, was he just watching the score behind because Nash stayed on the court?

Stephen only tried to make a move in a try once in the past few minutes, because he didn't have much confidence in himself and was not determined to take action. After seeing the ball missed, he never made another move. Instead, he assisted three, assisted Ginobili once, and assisted Robert Horry twice.

After seeing Stephen's almost no move, the Suns naturally relaxed their defense against him. Marion even went to make up for defense for his teammates twice in a row, one almost successfully stealing from Robert Horry, and the other time it caused Ginobili to fail in the breakthrough.

If Stephen is not allowed to attack, then Marion cannot be restrained. Marion can exert his coordination ability and cause trouble for other people's offenses. Moreover, if Stephen's point is not played, relying on the performance of other people alone will not be able to effectively kill. Thinking of this, **Vic immediately called a timeout.

**Vicci didn't say much about his previous strategy, and told Stephen directly to let Stephen pay attention to his offensive choices. The opponent probably did a special study on you. You should choose the most confident offensive method. Even if it fails, it will cause the opponent to foul. Don't just cooperate and not take action, that won't work.

Stephen didn't ask the coach why he had to go back on his word. Anyway, he just wanted to let himself take action. It was really uncomfortable to hold it in this way. It felt like there was a burst of air in his chest, and the air was still growing. I felt like it would be broken sooner or later. Now that I can vent.

After returning to the court, the Spurs served on the sideline. As soon as Stephen received the ball, he immediately rushed to the inside. Although the dribbling posture was a bit clumsy and his footsteps were a bit sturdy, he went to the basket very steadily. Cott Thomas hurriedly blocked Stephen, and Marion also made the idea of ​​blocking at any time.

Stephen knew that the other party had studied him, so he deliberately did not use the offensive method he used to use. Instead, he suddenly turned around when he reached the basket, leaned against Marion's body and jumped, threw the ball in his hand into the basket. Faced with such an offensive method, Marion had no choice.

Stephen made a brilliant move, broke the ball from Lagabele's hand, then launched a quick attack and rushed to the basket, jumped and dunked, and scored two points again. However, after coming back, Nash assisted Tim Thomas to shoot a three-pointer, which was already the fifth three-pointer that Tim Thomas made in this game.

When Stephen attacked again, he cooperated with Ginobili. The two exchanged their respective defensive players, and then the ball came to Stephen's hands. Facing Lagabele, Stephen raised his hand and shot directly. Lagabele hurriedly jumped up to block.

But after he jumped up, he found that Stephen had made a fake move and deliberately lured him into the trap. After he reached out, Stephen handed his hand over. Although the ball was not shot and there was no chance of two plus one, the two free throws were definitely sent into the basket.

Stephen changed his offensive method. Although it was not so easy to cause Marion foul, Marion did not dare to make any effort to defend other people. As soon as Stephen's threat came up, Ginobili's defensive pressure dropped. Coupled with Robert Horry's performance, the three people in the substitute lineup worked together, and soon narrowed the gap in the score to only three points.

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