"Beautiful passing, Meng Xu and Duncan's cooperation this time is very perfect, it can be seen that Meng Xu's passing makes Duncan very comfortable, Meng Xu and Duncan still have a tacit understanding." For Duncan, Magic Johnson is also very appreciative, Magic has always liked those young players with high ball quotient, and Duncan is undoubtedly one of them.

And when Meng Xu and Duncan completed this cooperation, Malone and Stockton, the old pair, quickly responded to Meng Xu and Duncan in the same way, under Meng Xu's strict defense, Stockton, who had no chance, and Malone staged a very classic blocking and dismantling cooperation, after Malone who pulled up from the free throw line blocked Meng Xu, Stockton rushed to the basket with the ball, at this time, because Meng Xu was blocked by Malone, Duncan, who originally defended Malone, had to change Stockton, After seeing the Spurs switch to Stockton, Malone immediately began to run back and cut in, because Duncan went to defend Stockton, so Meng Xu had to defend Malone who was two laps older than himself. Although it was Duncan who defended himself, Stockton did not use his footwork and flexibility to single Duncan, but used a diagonal pass to hand the ball to Ma Long on the left side behind him, after Ma Long received the ball, he faced Meng Xu who was defending himself, and he squeezed it very easily, Meng Xu was out of position, and then Ma Long had repeated tens of thousands of mid-range shots on the court.

"It's a very wonderful pick-and-roll, Malone and Stockton really have a tacit understanding." For Malone and Stockton, this pair of partners who played together before they retired, Magic Johnson is of course very familiar, many times the other party knows that Stockton and Malone want to block and dismantle, and knows that Stockton wants to pass the ball to Malone, but there is nothing they can do, the more the team with a good defensive rotation, the more so, as long as it is a defensive player who is shorter than himself, Malone calls them ATMs, in the 10 years of Malone and Stockton's career, That is, the Bulls of the year could crack the Jazz's pick-and-roll.

It would be nice if Meng Xu and Duncan could have such a tacit understanding, after seeing the Jazz's offensive cooperation this time, Popovich on the sidelines is now a little envious of Sloan, Malone and Stockton are both superstars with their own systems, but the systems of the two are the same, or the two of them have their own half of the system, when the two of them are together, a complete system will be formed, if it weren't for Jazz in a small city like Salt Lake City, they can't afford a high salary, and no one wants to go, with the perfect cooperation between Malone and Stockton, As long as it can be paired with a few strong role players, the Jazz will already win N championships. However, when he thought of the championship, Popovich's eyes turned from envy to pity when he looked at Sloan, compared to Sloan, he can be said to be very lucky, he has won two championships in less than 4 seasons in charge of the Spurs, and it is expected that he can win more championships in the future. On the other hand, Sloan, who was called the best Mesozoic coach before him, has been coaching the Jazz for nearly 20 years, and he has changed from a middle-aged man to an old man, and he has not won a championship yet.

And at this time, Meng Xu looked at Stockton with a slight surprise, Stockton's pass to Ma Long just now, Meng Xu saw it very clearly, this guy didn't even look at it, he knew where Ma Long was, just because they had a tacit understanding formed by working together all year round? I'm afraid there is not only one reason, but another important reason is that Popovich once told himself in the system that the highest level of passing is to rely on his own passing to guide his teammates' movements, and Stockton has undoubtedly reached this mastery level.

With a little envy, Meng Xu once again advanced the ball through the half, almost the same as last time, Meng Xu blocked Stockton behind him with one arm, and then slapped the basketball on the side of Stockton, after Meng Xu forcibly turned around, Duncan had already pulled over to cover for Meng Xu, jumped up again, and passed the basketball from the top of Stockton's head to Duncan, Meng Xu suddenly felt that his little Ding Ding was like an electric shock, Meng Xu's body contracted suddenly, and he stumbled down from the air, At this time, Stockton looked at Meng Xu with an innocent face.

"John, if I were a glass, I would definitely choose to join the Jazz." Meng Xu had also heard of Stockton's reputation for a long time, and before the start of this game, David Robinson and Sean Elliott repeatedly told themselves to be careful of the guy opposite. Originally, Meng Xu thought that he was careful enough, but he didn't expect that the game had just started to fall into his way.

"Really? If you'd like to come to Jazz, I don't mind. Hearing Meng Xu ridicule himself, Stockton not only did not have any mood fluctuations, but still had a serious expression, and at the same time patted his buttocks.

"Hold on, hold on, you have to hold back." After seeing Stockton's movements and expressions, Meng Xu instantly understood, no wonder Rodman would scold him: "The lowly *river crab*." "This guy who looks like Sven really doesn't have a lower limit at all.

When the first quarter of the game is over, if you only look at the data, Meng Xu's performance is still good, 2 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 steal, for an organizational guard, this kind of data is quite competent, but Meng Xu is behind sending 5 assists but 3 mistakes in a single quarter, in front of Stockton's top knees, stepping on the surface of the feet, kicking the ankles in front of various amazing small actions, especially as long as Meng Xu jumps together, Stockton will stroke his river crab, which makes Meng Xu very uncomfortable, At the same time, it also made Meng Xu deeply realize that there is a mountain and a mountain high, originally in Meng Xu's eyes, Avery Johnson's small movements were enough, but it was not until Meng Xu met Stockton today that Meng Xu deeply realized how small the small actions that Avery Johnson taught him were pediatrics, and compared with Stockton, the blackest Avery Johnson in the Spurs was simply a white lotus.

"Although Meng's performance looks good, with 5 assists in a single quarter, 1 more than Stockton, it is also obvious that compared to Stockton's fluid passing, Meng Xu still looks very stiff, and he has a lot of mistakes, and he really needs time to adapt to his new role." When Michaels got the game data of the first quarter of the two sides, he was also a little surprised, Meng Xu actually sent more assists than Stockton, an orthodox point guard, but this does not cover up Meng Xu's many problems after changing to an organizational guard, the most obvious problem is that Meng Xu still has a lot of problems in grasping the timing of passing, Meng Xu's first pass choice is always Duncan, which is why Meng Xu can have so many assists, Duncan's efficiency in the first quarter was too high, and under Malone's defense, Duncan scored 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 2-of-2 free throws in the first quarter.

"Meng, you're doing well." After getting off the court, the assistant coach on the sidelines, Mike Budenholzer, patted Meng Xu's shoulder and smiled, although Meng Xu still has many problems on the court, especially too many mistakes, but from the point of view that Meng Xu knows to feed Duncan, Mike Budenholzer is still very satisfied, in the eyes of Mike Budenholzer, as long as Meng Xuken plays around Duncan, whether he is Jordan or Bird Miller, there is no problem.

After the start of the second quarter, the Spurs sent their own bench lineup, organizing guard Derrick Tial, scoring guard Derrick Anderson, small forward Malik Rose, power forward Samaki Walker, center Reeve Lafrentz, after trading Avery Johnson for an orthodox backup center, the Spurs' bench lineup became more reasonable. Not to mention that compared with the Lakers, at least facing the Jazz's bench lineup is still easy and pleasant. The Jazz's main lineup fought hard to build up a two-point advantage in the first quarter, and it came to naught after the bench lineups of both sides came on the court, not only that, but when the game reached the official timeout in the second quarter, 36-30, the Jazz had trailed the Spurs by 6 points.

Looking at the performance of this group of substitutes on the court, Sloan could only shake his head helplessly, compared with the Spurs, the Jazz's main lineup is actually not bad, and the biggest gap is on the bench. The Jazz's main lineup is getting older and older, in order to keep them in good shape, they must be given enough rest, but the Jazz's group of substitutes is really unreliable, every time the Jazz loses the reason is to lose on this group of substitutes, Malone and Stockton are brave, they are useless, as long as this group of substitutes is on the court, they are blown up by the opponent, and reversing the score is commonplace.

When the second quarter of the game was over, the bench lineups of the two teams returned to the court in the third quarter, the game was already decided, and after the third quarter of the game was 56-70, the Jazz trailed the Spurs by as many as 14 points. This is even more impossible, even if Malone is an iron man, he can't bear it, and this is just an ordinary regular season. After last season's failures, Sloan also decided to learn from Popovich this season, and on the premise of ensuring that he can enter the future tournament, he will have the conditions to lose some tough games, and at the same time reduce Malone's playing time in the regular season to ensure that Malone's rest time can be ample. Although he is 37 years old, Malone still played all 82 games in the regular season last season, and his average playing time per game reached 36 minutes.

In the end, 79-88, the Spurs defeated the Jazz at home and won four consecutive victories, and after this game, the Spurs also won 6-1 and temporarily topped the first place in the West. In this game, Meng Xu also contributed 15 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals. Although Meng Xu was more careful in the later games, he was still caused 3 mistakes by Stockton's defense, and the 6 mistakes in the whole game also refreshed Meng Xu's number of mistakes in a single game.

"Erwin, maybe like you said, this league will once again have a player as special as you." This is the last thing Michaels said in front of the live camera after the game, and Michaels's partner Magic Johnson was smiling, looking at Meng Xu who began to leave, and at the same time thinking about his old buddy's look after losing to him, he can finally win Larry Bird once, the old guy who drags all day long, won't be proud for long.