"It's a very intense defensive battle, the Spurs and the Pacers are playing very cautiously, the situation on the court is very depressing, and this year's Finals may be similar to last year." Last season's Finals were between the Spurs and the Knicks, and the two teams with the best defense in the league that season finally met in the Finals, and the ratings of that round of the Finals were also the lowest in the history of the entire league's broadcasting, and the Spurs and Pacers who entered the Finals this year played very dullly.

"In this game, perhaps apart from Chris Mullin, the other players of the Spurs and the Pacers are hardly outstanding based on their current performance." The current state of this game is really very surprising, even Magic Johnson, who was optimistic about the Pacers before the game, did not expect this game to play like this.

After the restart of the fourth quarter, it was somewhat surprising that Meng Xu actually appeared in the bench lineup, Trickert, Jaren Jackson, Samaki Walker, Antonio Daniels, in addition to Samaki Walker, Yishui's pitchers, and they are all pitchers with strong mobility ability, even Samaki Walker, who has the worst shooting ability in this lineup, also has a very good mid-range shooting ability.

"Popovich is finally going to take this step, and it seems that there is still hope for the Spurs in this game." When seeing the Spurs' lineup, Magic Johnson also showed a rare smile of understanding, and it seems that Popovich is finally going to try.

"I'm afraid I'm going to suffer." And Larry Bird, who was on the other side, frowned when he saw this lineup, because what he was worried about before the finals finally happened.

After Antonio Daniels dribbled past half court, he handed the basketball to Meng Xu, while he was looking for opportunities outside the left 3-point line, and the rest of the Spurs players also pulled away to create opportunities for Meng Xu to single Derrick McKay.

After a few shots on the spot, Meng Xu got rid of Derrick McKay with an acceleration, facing Dale Davis who pulled out from the inside to make up for himself, Meng Xu got rid of Dale Davis with a very easy change of direction in the opposite direction, and Meng Xu was in front of the basket that was already empty, at this moment, Chris Mullin gave up his defensive object and pounced towards Meng Xu who rushed to the basket.

After making a feint to go to the basket, Meng Xu directly hit the ground and passed the basketball to Tripbert behind Chris Mullin, who was unguarded, and after adjusting on the spot, he shot his first 3-pointer of the game.

After watching Tripbert shoot and celebrate, he high-fived Meng Xu in celebration, but Popovich on the sidelines rubbed his hands back and forth together, which was obviously a little abnormal.

"Meng Xu's breakthrough is very good, and he plays very smartly against defenders, and he doesn't force a layup, but passes the ball to teammates with better chances." If you don't blow it at this time, you have to wait until when you blow it, so when Meng Xu assisted Triebert to score, Michaels jumped out as soon as possible.

Only this time, his partner Magic Johnson did not refute himself, but nodded very rarely in agreement with his opinion: "Yes, Meng is a very smart player, judging from the pass just now, his vision on the field is also very good, this is a player who can make his teammates better." ”

"Erwin, I won't contradict you this time." After hearing the magician's appreciation for Meng Xu, Michaels also echoed the magician's point of view.

After assisting Kleebert to score, Meng Xu played more openly, and directly swapped positions with Antonio Daniels in the offense, and after seeing Meng Xu directly advance with the ball, Larry Bird's brows furrowed even tighter, although an offense doesn't mean anything, but if it is like this every time, then before the main force can play, the Pacers will be spent by the Spurs' bench supply.

And this time, under the instruction of Larry Bird, Derek McKay directly put Meng Xu one step away, which is very rare in this round of the series, who is Meng Xu? Meng Xu is the All-Star 3-point king this season, ranking in the top 5 in the league in 3-point shooting percentage this season, and has just broken the half-time 3-point shooting record in the playoffs.

But Larry Bird knows in his heart that Meng Xu's 3 points are good, the shooting rate is high, and it is impossible to guarantee that he will hit every time, and it is already his limit to score a goal in 2 attacks, but it is different to let Meng Xu break through, Meng Xu's breakthrough is very lethal, and after watching the series between the Lakers and the Spurs throughout the whole process, Larry Bird also has a new understanding of Meng Xu, this is a player with his own independent offensive system, and in his system, All the players will perform better without exception, which is why in this series, Larry Bird did not dare to relax his defense against Meng Xu no matter what. And if it is the main lineup, it is better, after all, the defensive level of the main lineup is much higher, and in the face of the substitute lineup that basically has no defense, once Meng Xu takes this group of substitutes to play smoothly, affected by the substitute lineup, I am afraid that the entire Spurs will slowly find the feel, whether you believe it or not, the feel of this thing will be contagious.

At the same time, for the Spurs, for Popovich, Larry Bird is also very envious, a team has two players with their own offensive systems, if Popovich successfully integrates these two systems, the rest of the teams in the league simply don't play. Take the Pacers as an example, the current Pacers are a strong force in the league, and they are the favorites for the championship every year, but every year the Pacers are so bad, the main reason is that the Pacers do not have a player with their own system, and the Pacers play a typical team system.

Retracted his thoughts, his eyes stared at Meng Xu on the court, this little guy did not choose to shoot by himself, but continued to break through to the inside line of the Pacers, that kind of weird breakthrough, Larry Bird rummaged through every corner of his mind, and did not find that it had appeared before, this kind of breakthrough from the sky to the anti-human way, let Larry Bird entangle his team at the same time, he was also worried that Meng Xu might end his career by this breakthrough one day.