Seeing Stephen appearing in the At&T Center Arena in formal attire, fans applauded extremely warmly, and the media reporters' eyes and cameras were frequently aimed at Stephen. It was impossible to tell at all that Stephen had just been suspended and the team deposed Stephen as worthless when winning streaks.

Even the fans who don’t understand the most have realized the importance of Stephen through their recent team performances. It seems that it is really not possible without this guy who is pretty good. After hearing the unreliable media, they thought it would be okay without this guy, but it turns out that it is still unreliable.

In comparison, Spurs fans have more confidence in **Victz than any player, and are not easily influenced by the media. However, **Victz has never expressed anything about this, which makes fans feel that Stephen may not be that important.

But they didn't know that **Vic already felt that the Spurs would not be able to leave Stephen after the end of the season, so they didn't want fans to have too high expectations so as not to attack the team stingy. Although they were indeed stingy, they didn't want people to say that.

At the same time, he really didn't expect that losing Stephen would cause such a great harm to the Spurs. Not only fans have this mentality, but also he has it. He was not influenced by the media. He still believed that I had coach Duncan, general Ginobili, Tony Parker, and tactical cooperation, so there should be no problem.

The reality surprised him. Without Stephen, his strength was greatly reduced on both ends of offense and defense. Without Stephen's ability to attack, when the team's tactics could not be played or contained, the team's offense fell to a standstill. Ginobili's sharp knife was already a little blunt because he had not played his role for a long time.

The team's defense decline is generally not visible, but when the team faces those powerful forwards and guards, Bruce Bowen's weakness will be infinitely amplified, and the intensity of competition this season is far beyond **Vic's imagination.

The Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference alone have caused a headache. Although the Spurs defeated these two teams in the semi-finals and the Western Conference Finals last season, the process was extremely thrilling.

The seven battles with the Mavericks **Vicci believes that the difficulty is even higher than the finals against the Heat. If it weren't for the fierce and hard baptism with the Mavericks, the Spurs' temperament improved and also inspired Stephen's form, the Spurs would be difficult for the subsequent games.

However, this season, the Mavericks have not changed much. The Suns' star Amarest Toddmeier returned to the team. Judging from this half season, injuries did not knock him down, but instead made his offense more mature.

For such inside players who can run and jump, the Spurs have never had any good solutions. If the Spurs want to break through the siege in the West, they must at least defeat one of these two teams. This has already made **Victz very nervous. If the Spurs are allowed to touch the Mavericks first and then the Sun, or touch the Sun first and then the Mavericks, **Victz really has to doubt whether they can rush over.

So the team eventually had to rely on the boy sitting on the sidelines. Unfortunately, the Spurs may not be able to keep that boy, and the boy's personality also made **Vicci a headache. Why did Stephen, who usually looks harmless, unable to control his emotions at that time?

This time he only beat the person seriously. If he beat him to death next time, he was afraid that he would have this possibility, but he forgot that with the lessons from Ricky Davis and Eddie Griffin in front, who in the league dares to rashly provoke Stephen?

Forget it, let's put aside this annoying problem for the time being. Let's face the game in front of you first. If the Spurs lose, they will fall out of the eight places. The later stages of the season, the competition for playoff tickets will become more and more intense. If the Spurs cannot improve their strength and condition, they will only retreat more.

This time, facing the Denver Nuggets, which was playing together for the first time for the "Golden Double Guns", **Victz attached great importance to it, because the Nuggets are now ranked sixth in the Western Conference, just overwhelming the Spurs. Even if the Spurs win this game, it is not enough to overtake, but it narrows the difference between the two sides' winning games to only half.

For the first time I cooperated with the opponent, Iverson and Anthony were a little uncomfortable. Both of them took care of each other's feelings. The ball was passed to each other in the hands of the two, but no one shot. The Spurs took advantage of this opportunity to attack and quickly led the Nuggets by nine points.

The Spurs played very resolutely, perhaps because Stephen was sitting on the sidelines, or perhaps after the All-Star Game, everyone was focused on the game and had an advantage on both offense and defense. At this time, Iverson took over the power to control the ball and began to play the ball in the way he was used to.

However, even so, the Spurs still firmly grasp the advantage. When Iverson was controlling the ball, Anthony could only be a pitcher, so his ability was almost negligible. Seeing this, in addition to despising the Nuggets' peers in his heart to make an inappropriate deal, **Victz was also glad that his team had a powerful opponent in the West. Stephen had another feeling on the side. It seemed that the role of two star players in one piece was not as simple as one plus one equals two. If there was no good chemical reaction, it was possible that less than two, not to mention greater than two. Looking back on his understanding of Iverson and Anthony, although the two positions and technical styles were different, the two people had a common feature, that is, they needed the right to ball, especially the power to launch an offense with the ball.

Iverson and Anthony both have the ability to shoot with one hand, but the most offensive threatening or representative of the two are breakthroughs and singles. Both of these events require the players to hold the ball firmly in their hands. The strength of the teammates only reduces your chances of being double-teamed, but these two people are not afraid of double-teaming.

In this way, one of them can always be threatening. For the defense, it is enough to focus on defending the ball. If Iverson has the current offensive ability and can pass a good ball like Nash, and Anthony learns to run without the ball and shoot when receiving the ball, Stephen couldn't help but shudder, and that lineup would be terrible.

It seems that if you have already found a teammate, you can't find a helper who relies too much on the ball. Does Stephen himself need to hold the ball too much, but he doesn't want his teammate to always hold the ball. It seems that if you want to go to a new team, you must find a good teammate who is willing to share the ball rights. This refers to an outside player. If it is an inside player, it is not a big problem.

If the inside line can be opened, the defensive pressure on the outside line will naturally be reduced. At the same time, if the outside line is better, the inside line will be more comfortable to attack. Being able to find a star-level inside line helper is also a better choice. Stephen thought of his own through the two of them.

Iverson and Anthony never could effectively cooperate, so the Nuggets' offense naturally came to a deadlock. While maintaining their own defensive intensity, the Spurs used their opponents' sluggishness to launch a crazy attack, which quickly widened the gap in the score to 12 points. Although while Iverson was not present, Anthony led his teammates to attack, he only narrowed the gap a little bit, and finally lost the game with a gap of fifteen.

After winning this game, the Spurs quickly set off and flew to the distant Atlanta. They played a back-to-back game. Stephen also stepped onto the plane with the team. He hadn't played away games for a long time, so he just thought it was adapting in advance.

In the game against the Atlanta Hawks, Joe Johnson scored 30 but still lost the game because the Spurs had more than Duncan scored 30 and nine rebounds. Ginobili didn't know if he felt the threat of Stephen's impending comeback, scoring 40 and eight rebounds and four assists. Although Michael Finley and Yudic did not score a single point, Bruce Bowen, Elson, Oberto, and Vaughan all scored only two points, and even Tony Parker only scored six points, but Duncan added Ginobili to 70 and Brent Barry's 18 points, he still easily won the game.

At that time, the Spurs returned to San Antonio in the evening, and then the three people who were rejuvenated in the second spring were forced to take them to celebrate their performance. Stephen also participated in this event and participated in such a group event again after many days. Stephen felt very good. It was really fun to have such a good atmosphere among his teammates.

After two consecutive victories, the Spurs came to the sixth position in the West. Seeing that the Spurs were still so strong, how terrible it would be if Stephen came back. Someone immediately intended to break the current good situation, fearing that the world would not be in chaos and raised the question of "Does the Spurs still need new forces to join"?

Regarding such a question, **Vic replied firmly: "It is necessary" and then, before they can make another move, the Spurs immediately lost the game against the Seattle Supersonics, making the materials prepared by them useless.

**Vicci didn't lose intentionally, at least Stephen couldn't see it. Moreover, at this critical moment of competing for playoff tickets, every game is extremely important. I believe **Vicci would not dare to give up a game on purpose to block the media's mouth.

The reason why people are suspicious is that in this game, both teams performed very poorly, and the Spurs performed a little worse, so the Supersonics won the victory. Although Ray Allen and Lewis did not score 20, the Spurs were the same.

Ginobili, who scored 40 in the last game, only scored eleven points, while Duncan, who scored 30, was even more pitiful, only scored six points, and Brent Barry was slightly better and scored nine points. Apart from that, the performance of other people was no different from the previous game.

"It seems that the catfish effect has lost its effect." **Vic said to himself on the sidelines, then turned his head to look at the human-shaped catfish next to him. It will take two games to wait for this kid to come back, alas!

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Thanks to Dugu Yiyeye for his support. For an author, there will never be too many red tickets and collections, so I would like to ask for it.


Chapter completed!