After losing the big score, the Spurs players were ready in the locker room to meet Popovich's anger.

But unexpectedly, Popovich did not get angry, but instead said some moving words in front of the team members.

"Each of you has done its best. No player will be blamed tonight. The responsibility for losing is with me and the coaching staff. If someone wants to leave the team in the end, that person will only be me."

After saying this, the Spurs players suddenly felt a little ashamed.

Even they felt that being able to make Popovich speak like this shows how disappointing they are.

"Old man, we will win back the outcome."

Duncan spoke out rare.

Generally, he only uses this name in private. He calls old man Popovich like his father, and Popovich calls him a boy.

And he made a promise even more rare.

"I didn't defend Deyang, and I must have tried my best to defend him."

Before Popovich could speak, Ginobili took the initiative to stand up and said.

"No, it's my responsibility."

"mine."

...

Next is Parker, Bowen...

Other members of the Spurs stood up and took the initiative to take responsibility.

Popovich's words received unexpected results.

After the big defeat, the Spurs' morale reached its highest point since the series.

Popovich nodded, and he saw what he wanted to see.

Sima's words have always been well versed in the ways of people's hearts.

Of course, only those who happen to the Spurs after the game know about it in the locker room.

After a big away victory and regaining home advantage, Mavericks fans are already eager to start the next game.

After all, the Spurs seem to have no way to play singles tactics against the Mavericks.

It is not an exaggeration to say that even if you let Auerbach come now, he will not be able to reverse the situation in front of him.

Because the Mavericks play in this way, it may only be a matter of time before the latter is eliminated.

At this moment, the fourth game between the Wizards and the Nets in the Northeast started at the Nets' home court.

In previous series, the Wizards had already rewritten the big score to 2-1.

Yao Ming's strength, coupled with the team's overall strength, gave the Wizards the initiative in the series.

After the fourth game started, everything also developed as fans expected.

After the first half, the Wizards led the Nets by 10 points 48-38.

However, in the second half, the game changed suddenly.

That kind of change is not about ability, but about momentum.

The Nets' players have various physical battles on the defensive end, crazy defense, or mad dog-style defense.

The referee's verdict against confrontation is relatively loose in this era, which also allows the Nets to use this defense to frequently launch defensive counterattacks.

As a result, the Wizards only scored 35 points in the second half, but the Nets scored 46 points based on their defensive counterattack!

No more or less, and in the end, the Nets defeated the Wizards 84-83 by 1 point.

After the Nets won this game, the two sides tied 2-2 in a big score!

The game of bo7 becomes bo3, and both sides return to the same starting line.

Who can advance in the end is full of suspense.

In this game, the league president David Stern was also on the scene.

While fans celebrating the Nets' bloody battle, he frowned and pondered.

Such a competition...is too low to watch.

Especially for outside players, all kinds of elbows look very savage and rough.

If you keep playing games in this way, it will become difficult for NBA to promote globally.

He has to gradually make the game civilized, and first of all, he has to regulate the defense of the outside players.

A plan was already brewing in his mind, but it would definitely take some time.

Of course, no matter what he is going to do, that's next season, or something further down the line.

On the second day after the Wizards and the Nets played, the fourth game of the Spurs and the Mavericks also kicked off in San Antonio.

The Mavericks continued to use the singles tactics of the previous game, and the Spurs still had no choice.

This tactic is too targeted, and unless the Spurs give up their existing defensive system and start over, this kind of restraint will always be there.

But it is not easy to change the defensive system, it is definitely impossible to do it in two days.

However, the Spurs showed fans another thing about them, offense.

That's right, it's attack.

Everyone thought the Spurs were a defensive team, and in fact it was, and always.

However, as the strength of the outside line increases, its offense has actually been improving.

Whether it was playing against the Lakers in the Western Conference semi-finals in this year in history or playing against the Kings in reality, they had at least two or three games in 110 games.

This ratio is actually very telling.

They win games on defense most of the time, but if they want to attack, they can do it now!

After both European emperors, Sun Hao and Bodyloga, performed one after another, the third European emperor, Ginobili, broke out in this game.

He scored 25 points on the bench, setting a new single-game high in the playoffs.

Added to Duncan's 32 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists, Parker's 19 points, and Jackson's 17 points.

The Spurs blossomed across the board, and narrowly defeated the Mavericks 119-113 in the end, and tied the big score 2-2!

In the Eastern Finals and the Western Finals, all the two sides were tied.

In other words, they will usher in the battle of Tianwang Mountain in the fifth game!

The game of bo7 becomes bo3, and the person who wins one game directly gets the match point, so Tianwang Mountain is named.

The intensity of this battle will not be less than a life-and-death battle.

The Mavericks and Spurs have played in the playoffs for the third consecutive year, but after the first two games, they scored 3-1 in four games.

The first year was the Spurs 3-1 Mavericks, and the second year was the Mavericks 3-1 Spurs.

A closer score also shows closer strength and also represents greater pressure.

If you want to talk about two teams, both the coaching staff and the players are under great pressure.

The Mavericks have tactics that the Spurs can hardly defend against, but they lose the fourth game and the fourth game, and naturally they may lose the fifth game.

Although the Spurs won the fourth game, they scored a full 119 points before winning.

Their scoring ability is indeed more advanced than before, but it is obviously a bit unrealistic to ask them to score like this in two consecutive games.

The pressure is huge.

In Dallas, the Mavericks players are conducting game-5 preparation training.

For them, the good news is that their regular season record is better, and the battle of Tianwangshan will be held at home.

This can give them more confidence in the game.

After some simple training, Sun Hao sat on the sidelines and started to "rest".

Others enter the system and start targeted three-point training.

After obtaining [Shooting Talent], his shooting ability limit was improved.

But as analyzed earlier, to realize that part of the upper limit, he needs more training.

This was what he knew in advance.

What he didn't know, or what unexpectedly surprised him was that the speed of this training was much faster than he thought.

In fact, it is normal to think about it carefully. He has been trapped in this bottleneck period for a long time.

The system takes 1 to 3, one year is three years.

So it's like a dam that opens the gate, it gushs out in an instant, and the speed is naturally fast.

The main thing that has been improved is actually his super long three-point ability.

This is also the reason why he was able to hit several extremely long three-pointers in the opening game against the Spurs.
To be continued...