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At the beginning of the game, Wall passed Joey with his quick first step, and then made a gorgeous"180-degree aerial layup" against Split's defense.

Even though this was an away game, Wall's beautiful and air-staying layup still caused cheers in the ATT Arena.

"Hey Joey, can you give me some pressure, kid?"

Wall arrogantly walked past Joey with the"bully step", and did not forget to provoke his little brother.

The latter smiled. He naturally knew that his straightforward senior had no ill intentions. When he first met him in the Kentucky training hall, Wall spent an afternoon explaining and teaching him many tactical configurations of Coach Calipari.

He is indeed a good senior.

Soon, Joey responded in the next round.

With the help of Leonard's cover, Joey easily broke through to the three-point line, and then suddenly shot when senior Wall came up to defend closely. Seeing this, the latter hurried forward to block, but Joey took the initiative to"seek confrontation". The

Silver Power Terminator did not light up, but——

"Whistle!"

The basketball was thrown out without any touch. The referee blew the whistle and"Brother Wall" received his first foul of the game.

Joey smiled and walked to the free throw line:

"Hey John, this is what you taught me, remember? When your team can't open the situation, as the brain of the team, you have to find a way to create physical contact.……"

Swish!

Both free throws went in.

Wall smiled and patted Joey's butt, who had just finished high-fiving his teammates and was about to retreat.

"Rookie, who taught you to be so disrespectful to your seniors... I'm going to be serious!"

"The struggle between the"seniors and juniors from the same school" was completely launched at this moment.

After three years in the league, Brother Qiang, who has been criticized by fans for his"unstable shooting", had an excellent touch in this game. In the first half of the game, he made 6 of 11 shots over Joey, scored 15 points, 6 assists and 2 steals, and led the team to a temporary lead of 61:59.

Roy also played well. In this game where Duncan and Parker were absent, he had the ball in hand. While connecting the team and delivering 9 assists in the first half, his personal performance was also good. He scored 8 points on the offensive end and gave his senior two steals and a block on the defensive end.

If Green had not turned into"Zhang Tielin" today, Neil, who was promoted to the starting lineup, would have been firmly restricted by Ariza. The two made only two three-point shots out of 11 in the first half. If they had taken the lead at halftime, the home team Spurs might have been the winner.

During the halftime break, the old man made personnel adjustments for Green and Neal, who performed poorly in the first half, and asked Mills and Wusheng Jackson to serve as Joey's outside helpers in the third quarter. The average height of the Spurs' outside players suddenly increased.

Joey quickly understood what the old man meant.

At the beginning of the second half, Wall used an extremely difficult aerial pull-up to score a"2+1" under the triple-team of Joey, Leonard, and Jackson!

While causing a burst of surprise among the players of both teams, Joey couldn't help but sigh - this is Brother Wall who just returned from injury this year!

(On September 29, 2012, Wall suffered a stress fracture of his kneecap and was sidelined for 8 weeks, just in time for the third game of the regular season.)

Wall missed the free throw, and Dio protected the rebound.

Joey advanced quickly, wanting to make a fast break - in fact, this was very inconsistent with the old man's concept of positional warfare!

Leonard rushed to the Wizards' three-point line one step ahead and raised one hand to the sky.

Joey understood and lobbed the ball to the inside just after passing half court. Okafor, who was between the two, tried to block it, but when he jumped up, he found that Joey's pass, with the bonus of the alley-oop initiator badge, was just brushed against his scalp, as if it was intentional. Are you angry?

"Bang!

Leonard caught the ball in the air and dunked it with both hands!

The wonderful fast break made the Spurs fans in the ATT Arena scream with excitement. Since Joey joined the team, one or two wonderful goals like this can be seen in every game! In the long run, the Spurs' season tickets sold in advance during the offseason every year are expected to increase several times.

Wall watched the ball happen, and a word came to his mind:——""The more skilled, the more courageous"!

One dares to pass, the other dares to receive. The combination of young people is full of passion!

Shaking his head, getting rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind, Wall quickly advanced after receiving the serve from his teammate.

At this time, a black shadow flashed in front of him quickly. Before Wall could react, the ball in his hand had been cut away - it was Joey!

It turned out that Joey did not go far after completing the fast break. He waited for the Wizards to take a free throw, and then seized the opportunity to quickly"rob" the ball from the side and back.

The referee's whistle did not sound.

"boom——"

It ended with an ordinary dunk.

63:63, the two sides tied!

"Don't let your guard down during the game, that's what you taught me!"

Joey chuckled and shook his finger as he passed by Wall.

It seemed that he had met an acquaintance with whom he had a good relationship. He, who was usually taciturn, became"chatty".

Wall was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted and laughed and scolded:

"What a complete jerk!"

"Is this how you challenged Howard at the Staples Center?"

Joey didn't reply, but just smiled and retreated.

Wall shook his head.

In the next few rounds, he continued to use his organizational skills to help the team score points. Bill, who played for 17 minutes in the first half but only scored 4 points, got a lot of opportunities.

This year's No. 4 pick was very competitive, and it seemed that this year's No. 3 pick should have been him. In the third quarter, he suddenly broke out. Facing the forward-sized Wu Sheng, he made 5 of 7 shots and scored 11 points in a single quarter, helping the team enter the fourth quarter with a three-point lead.

In the fourth quarter, Popovich replaced Mills with Danny Green. The average height of the Spurs' lineup on the field has reached more than two meters. The Wizards' 8-man rotation was already a little exhausted due to the anxious rest time. The Spurs were well rested and played a 17:7 offensive wave in the last quarter, taking away the Wizards.

The electronic prompt sounded at the end of the game in the ATT Arena, and Joey led the team to hand the Wizards, who came from afar, their thirteenth loss of the season with a score of 95:103.

Joey himself also had the last laugh in this"Kentucky Alumni" battle. After the game, Joey took the initiative to find his senior Wall and asked to exchange jerseys. The old senior naturally happily agreed.

In this game, four Wizards players scored in double digits. Wall scored a game-high 27 points, and this year's No. 4 pick Beal scored 21 points. The two of them accounted for nearly half of the team's points.

Ariza scored 11 points, Nene scored 13 points, and other than them, no one on the Wizards scored in double digits.

On the Spurs side, they continued their usual team style and blossomed in multiple areas. Joey scored a team-high 23 points, and also sent out 15 assists. He also scored on the defensive end. He had 4 steals and 2 blocks.

His scoring, assists and steals all set new career highs.

At the same time, 15 assists is also the highest number of assists in a single game for the 12th rookie class so far.

Leonard and Manu scored 15 and 19 points respectively. The main rotation players Mills, Blair, Green and others also played well. A total of seven Spurs players scored in double digits in this game.

Joey was also named MVP of the game.

After the game ended in the evening, Joey took Wall to a Chinese restaurant on the banks of the San Antonio River and asked the senior to experience the charm of Chinese food.

The next day, after seeing off the senior and his group at the San Antonio International Airport, Joey drove to the training hall. Tomorrow, November 28, the Spurs will be visiting the Amway Arena, the home of the Orlando Magic.

………

The entire Spurs team flew to Orlando at night and landed at Sanford International Airport at 1 a.m.

After a brief rest, Leonard and Joey met at the training hall at 9 a.m.

At noon, Joey, arranged by the agent team assigned to him by Bill Duffy, went to participate in a local business event in Orlando. The content was a press conference of a well-known Chinese luxury fashion product of Milijia announcing the spokesperson for a series of the brand.

Unexpectedly, Joey himself is very popular in Orlando, and the press conference was surrounded by enthusiastic Orlando fans.

The game was held on time at the Amway Center Arena, and the auditorium that can accommodate 17,000 people was crowded and full.

The Magic management, which entered the"post-Howard era", quickly determined the team reconstruction plan with Nikola Vucevic as the core.

Unfortunately, the weapons are not very powerful. With the help of Harris, Afflalo, Oddie, Fournier and other outside attackers, and Gordon, Channing Frye and other partners inside, they only led the Magic to the playoffs once in the eight seasons from 2012 to 2020.

There is almost no suspense in today's game, even if Popovich stopped pretending and showed his cards."GDP"The Big Three were all rested, and only Joey, Leonard, Joseph and other new stars of the team were sent to start the game. In the end, the score was 91:83, and they easily won the game from Orlando.

The old man's move still has a"deep meaning", because tomorrow they will be away to challenge the current league leader - Miami Heat.

The old Big Three of the Spurs"GDP"VS the Heat's Big Three who started the league's peak grouping!

Stern spent a lot of money marketing four games for a month, namely Thunder vs. Heat, Spurs vs. Heat, Pacers vs. Heat, Knicks vs. Heat!

The five teams with the strongest lineups in the league all met in the first month of the regular season, and all four games involved the Miami Heat, which shows how much the league's top management attaches importance to the defending champions, the Heat's Big Three.

Almost every game is broadcast live across the United States, and that's all green dollars!

Now that three of the four games have been played, there is only the finale of the Spurs vs. Heat, and the latter has currently achieved the best record in the league with 14 wins and 2 losses.

Except for the Knicks led by Anthony and the Clippers led by Paul, who brought two losses to the Heat, the Heat's Big Three are aiming for the first place in the regular season!

(Note: The fourth and last regular season MVP of the deputy GOAT's career. The Heat's 27-game winning streak also occurred in this season, from the Heat's 100-85 away victory over the Raptors on February 4, 2013 to the Heat's 108-94 away victory over the Magic on March 26, 2013)