Popovich's impression of Li Lei is very complicated. If Li Lei is under his command, his plasticity will definitely be higher than Parker. Although Parker's speed is stronger than Li Lei, Li Lei's arm span and basketball IQ are higher than Parker. This is an indisputable fact. However, Li Lei refused to go to the Spurs to try out since the beginning of the draft, which made him unable to bear it, who has Serbian and Croatian bloodlines. Since he cannot be a player under his command, he will let him know the outcome of offending the Spurs.

So this season, Popovich increased his training for Parker. He urgently hoped that Parker could grow into a rivalry with Li Lei. As an existence in the same year as Li Lei, Parker had no reason to be thrown away by Li Lei.

Popovich thought that the game would continue. Although Sam Gaod was level 4, the continuous use of this skill had greatly affected Li Lei's physical strength. So when Li Lei saw Parker and Bowen, he began to summon Chandler to help with the pick-and-roll. However, Chandler was not facing the kind of brainless forward, he was facing Duncan. Duncan's follow-up defense was very timely. Chandler came out and he also came out, which directly caused the pick-and-roll to abort.

However, Li Lei still found a gap between Duncan and Chandler. Parker's breakthrough was opened again, and he passed Stephen Smith in one step. Bowen touched up again. He aimed at a part of Li Lei. Li Lei's movement did not stop. He leaned back and avoided the disaster. Then he turned on Sam Gord, turned around again, passed Bowen, came to the near the basket, and threw the ball into the ring with his arm span. David Robinson was entangled by Brand and could not help defend at all.

In the first quarter, both sides were fighting in handicaps. Li Lei scored 2 points and 4 assists. He was really tired. Fortunately, the Bulls were the one who led the way, but the physical energy was so exhausted that it would definitely be difficult to play in the second quarter.

Li Lei did not play immediately in the second quarter. Ewing, Miller and Crawford came up, while Antonio Daniels, Mary Kross, Danny Ferry and others were on the Spurs. Ewing faced Mark Bryant, and he played comfortably. Although the opponent's weight was bigger than him, he was much worse in basketball skills.

Coupled with Crawford's sudden arrow from the outside, the Bulls still maintained this lead.

But Popovich did not sit idly by, so he chose to replace Duncan. Duncan only took action once in the first quarter, like Li Lei, and scored 2 points and 1 rebound. He completely acted as a green leaf for his teammates in the first quarter.

Duncan came up and faced the combination of Brad Miller and Ewing with a substitute. His first ball was directly against Ewing to complete the dunk, and then he blocked Brad Miller again in the defense, and Terryport scored the fast break. Duncan came up and the wind direction of the game completely changed.

"It's a wonderful contest. Under the influence of the Bulls, the Spurs actually started a fast attack. This game is interesting."

Li Lei looked at the time and the second quarter ended in less than 7 minutes. He chose to play, and there were other starters on the field.

After Li Lei came up, he assisted his teammates to get points. Popovich was not idle, so he also replaced the starter, that annoying guy Bowen.

Li Lei's mental power was highly concentrated because he didn't know what kind of conscience that Bowen would do under Popovich's instigation. It was always good to have a little more vigilance.

The two sides changed offensively, and Li Lei faced the Spurs' double-team again. Chandler was entangled by Duncan and had no way to pick-and-roll. Just when Li Lei was about to start Parker's breakthrough, Bowen appeared in front of Li Lei like a ghost. His target was Li Lei's crotch. Because of his high concentration of mental power, he discovered this before Bao Wen took action. Li Lei retreated back, stretched out a foot, and kicked Bowen directly with a bang. Parker had already broken the ball next to him, but the referee's whistle sounded. Bowen lay on the ground and kept wailing. Li Lei's body was as strong as a confrontation, but with the help of the golden finger, his strength was still possible. Bowen could withstand this full-strength blow, but it would definitely hurt for a while.

"Murder, this is murder, f.u.c.k." Popovich jumped around like a jumping god on the sidelines. Crawford ignored Popovich and looked at Bowen who was still on the ground.

Li Lei was very calm and even smiled at Popovich. This made the old silver coin really angry. He originally wanted to be so useless, but he didn't expect that Bao Wen was so useless and was actually being humiliated by Li Lei.

Bowen was kicked in the abdomen, and after a while he got up from the floor. Crawford discussed with several assistant referees and gave Li Lei a first-level malicious foul. Li Lei did not protest anything. Anyway, if you don’t deal with a villain like Bowen, he will definitely be arrogant.

Seeing that Li Lei had just received a malicious foul of Level 1, Popovich was unhappy again and angrily yelled at Crawford. Although there was no zero tolerance rule yet, the referee's authority still did not allow provocation. Crawford directly gave Popovich a technical foul, and the latter immediately calmed down.

After this farce, the game on the court became more intense. Duncan might have been stimulated by his teammates. In the next time, he completely took over the game, wiped the board, made layups, blocked shots, and steals. In such a situation, he, the Spurs' unscrupulous core, stood up.

Li Lei did not let Duncan be more beautiful than before. Bowen was kicked by Li Lei and became much more honest when defending, which made Li Lei feel much less pressure when facing the pincer attack. Taking advantage of Bowen's failure to double-team in time, Li Lei used Parker to break through and pass Parker. Parker had no way of doing this. Parker is an underrated point guard, but although he was not as bad as Nash in the point guard, he was not much better.

In the second half of the second quarter, it became a personal performance of Duncan and Li Lei. The two MVP contenders led their respective teams in the second quarter, and both played well. At the end of the second quarter, the Spurs led by 2 points. Duncan's data was 14 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, while Li Lei's side had 10 points, 10 assists and 2 steals. Li Lei was better in data, but the Bulls were the side behind. Although Atai did a good defense in the half game, his offensive efficiency was pitifully low. He made 0 of 5 in the half. If he scored one, the Bulls would not fall behind, but only 2 points behind in the half was acceptable for the Bulls. After all, the Spurs' bench depth was thicker than the Bulls.
Chapter completed!