In the 10 games since the All-Star break, the Spurs have gone 8-2, including a five-game winning streak.

However, Spurs coach Popovich was not "satisfied" with the result.

"Win too much!"

Indeed, according to the boss's plan, the team should show a similar feeling of inability to follow up at this time, so as to divert the opponent's attention and prepare for the playoffs.

But what? Now that the rest of the league is busy winning and fighting for the spot, the Spurs are at the top of the table, and they are not moved by these trifles, which is simply naked hatred.

We are working hard, but you are at ease, what kind of world is this?

Therefore, in the unusually strong fighting power of the West, although everyone is unwilling to meet the team with the highest regular season record in the first round of the playoffs, if the hatred reaches a certain point, many teams are willing to try to see if they can stage the Big Black Eight Miracle.

If you finish first in the regular season and are packed up in the first round of the playoffs, people will definitely remember the team that only made it to Black Eight.

The most typical example is the Mavericks at the beginning, all kinds of wins in the regular season, more than a dozen consecutive wins were staged several times, in the league it was a ride, and the second place couldn't even see their taillights.

But the result? Let's pull the hatred too much, the first in the regular season, the MVP of the star, the head coach won the best coach award, and the media praised the favorites to win the championship...... Then, in the first round of the playoffs, he met the Warriors led by the former head coach head-on, and he was decisively blackened!

That Black Eight made the Warriors famous, and it also made the Mavericks' star Nuo Tianwang infamy, and he carried it for many years, until 11 years when Nuo Tianwang single-core cleaned up the newly established Heat Triumvirate, which got rid of this infamy.

This is a lesson from the past, looking at the Mavericks' first-round elimination was the merciless ridicule of all parties, the Spurs should know that keeping a low profile is not a bad thing.

And it's not like they haven't experienced this kind of thing themselves, just a few years ago, they were also hacked! And the opponent is still the Grizzly Bear, who has just rebuilt.

How did the big fat Zach Randolph roll over? How did you go from a data cancer to a recognized star? It was the year that I took the Grizzly Bear Black Eight to the Spurs!

So, being number one comes at a price, especially when the kind of number one who is eager to break all records in the regular season is even higher. (I didn't see the 73 wins that have been ridiculed since then)

So, after a team training session, Popovich and his group of disciples held a discussion about how to release the water in the next game.

"Coach, isn't it good to win more?" Whiteside had clearly not yet understood the purpose of the lofty activity of releasing water.

"......" Popovich said that he refused to answer such questions that were not within the IQ range, and asked his teammates if he didn't understand.

"But coach, we've reached the limit, not only do we take turns to rest, but basically the main team clocks in in the third quarter, so we don't win when we play the opposite side, don't we blame us?"

Qin Yan scratched his head, what he said was right, judging from the lineup, the Spurs have done the limit of what they can do, if they release the water again, it will really directly pull the Austin Spurs over to play.

After Qin Yan spoke, he was suddenly silent, and the eyes of Popovich and several big brothers were instantly fixed on him.

Ahh Do I blame me?

Qin Yan was quite surprised in his heart, but on the surface, he still had to make an expression of "the baby doesn't know anything".

But he forgot that he himself "played a lot of credit" to the fact that those games that should have been released were won.

"Qin, have you forgotten that in order to compete for the scoring title, your kid has been scoring 30+ points in every game recently, you are so fierce, how can we lose?" Duncan's big hand rubbed directly on Qin Yan's head, and he said while sighing in his heart why this kid's hair is so hard and feels so rough.

"Hey, Tim, I just cut my hair yesterday!"

Qin Yan knew that Duncan's big hand was powerful, so he quickly dodged and looked at Ginobili next to him, his hair was touched like this.

"What are you hiding, your hair is so short, you think I can rub it for you?"

"That's not it, Manu was so handsome with long hair at the beginning, and now how embarrassing he is bald......"

In the gag, the atmosphere of the team also became very relaxed, of course, for Duncan said that his score was too high, Qin Yan also silently accepted, this is no way, who let him compete for individual awards this year, the scoring champion is the title that is the most unlikely to give up, the first scoring guard does not have the scoring champion, what kind of system does it become, it can't be said at all.

"Okay, Qin and Kehuai are exceptions, and the others say what to do?"

As soon as Popovich saw that the group of disciples were chatting and chatting, he was ready to crook the building, and quickly brought the topic back on track.

It is not unreasonable for him to "indulge" Qin Yan and Leonard, Qin Yan retired from injury in last year's finals, although the team won later, but the games won were all won by the hard work of the veterans.

And the future troika of the Spurs, one watched the play on the bench in the finals last year, and the other was deflated on the court, although it is also an experience, but it always feels a little insufficient.

No, if everything goes well this year, Popovich plans to directly delegate power to these three young men in the finals, anyway, in the old man's opinion, eighty percent of the eastern qualifiers are still some of the Big Three's Heat, and his three disciples just happen to be this kind of "two outside and one inside" configuration, in order to let them grow better, they must now be given enough rest.

No, Leonard and Whiteside have both been rested in rotation, and quite a few times. Although Qin Yan has not been rotated too many times, his playing time has also been strictly controlled.

"Coach, if you really can't do it, the main force will rest in full turn. Then transfer one or two people from the Development League to fill in the position, anyway, people often say that we are the Austin Spurs, so why just use their lineup? Then we can go up and take it with us. ”

Green made this somewhat reliable opinion, in fact, Popovich himself had the idea of doing it, but he had been thinking about it all the time, after all, playing like this is really playing big.

As the saying goes, "it's not terrible to lose, it's embarrassing to be missing", if you really let the main team relax themselves, in case you win with the lineup of the development league, it will really make the main force faceless.

But his disciples were quite active after hearing this:

"Agreed."

"Seconded."

"No comment."

……

The Spurs are lazy, since Green's opinion is okay, then use this, and it will take a lot of brains for others to think about it.

Popovich: "......"

It seems that the Spurs' next road to release water still has a long way to go!