NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

As he was talking, Chang Tiancheng seized the opportunity when the opponent couldn't shoot, picked up a long rebound, and then scored a counterattack three-pointer again.

At 52:51, Chang Tiancheng only played for less than a minute, and then led the Spurs to successfully overtake the score.

Nuggets head coach Michael Malone stood on the sidelines and kept shouting to the players on the court, signaling them not to be brought to his rhythm by Chang Tiancheng and trying to score one before the end of the second quarter.

Bruce Brown advanced with the ball, he followed the coach's instructions, tried to slow down the offensive tempo, and after halftime, he had a pick-and-roll with Jordan Jr., but he found that Chang Tiancheng was not completely blocked by Jordan Jr., but squeezed through the gap of the cover. So instead of rushing to break inside, he did two crotch dribbles and returned to the top of the arc.

At this point, Christian Braun, another backup guard for the Nuggets, went around the baseline from the bottom right corner to the left 45 degrees, and Brown waved the ball over.

Braun made an empty three-point shot, but unfortunately the basketball bounced out of the frame and couldn't score.

The second quarter of the game was about to end, Chang Tiancheng wanted to hold the ball and do one last fast break, but looked up to find that there was not much time left on the timer, and he could only grab a three-point shot in the backcourt. It's a pity that this shot didn't trigger the marksman's skill, and ended up smashing on the rebound.

After the break, both sides sent their respective starting line-ups to continue the game.

Murray still dribbled the ball past half court and then gave the ball to Jokic, who planned the offense.

Chang Tiancheng stretched out his arm and wanted to intercept Murray's pass, but Murray's pass was very fast, which did not give Chang Tiancheng a chance to break the ball, but made Chang Tiancheng lose his defensive position.

Seeing this, Jokic immediately passed the ball back to Murray, and after Murray received the ball, he raised his hand to make a three-pointer, and the basketball hit it steadily.

Murray's shooting ability so far is almost equal to Chang Tiancheng, who has the blessing of the system, which also makes Chang Tiancheng feel the gap in talent again.

Keldon gave the ball to Chang Tiancheng, who hoisted the ball directly to Wembanyama.

On the inside, Wembanyama's size advantage is still very obvious, I saw him first lift the ball high, look back at Gordon behind him, and then just dribble the ball on the ground, and then directly close the ball to the inside line, completing a right-handed hook shot.

Gordon jumped with all his might, but unfortunately it was still a little close, and instead of interfering with Wembanyama, he was blown a foul by the referee because his arm was on Wembanyama's elbow when he fell.

After Wembanyama hit a free throw, the score of the two teams came to 55:54, and the score difference was still very tight.

Jokic received a pass from Murray on the inside, and in the face of Drummond's defense, he first hit his back twice, and after feeling that he was still a little difficult against Drummond, he chose to give the ball to Porter Jr. first, and then immediately raised the high post to set up a cover for Porter Jr.

After Porter Jr. bypassed the screen, he was about to make a jump shot directly in the middle range, but found that Drummond had already pounced, so he had an idea, simply faked the real pass, and returned the ball to Jokic in mid-air.

After Jokic received the ball, he went straight to the Spurs basket and prepared to complete a dunk.

But he suddenly realized that his starting height was a little insufficient, so he temporarily adjusted his wrist position and switched to a finger-wrapping layup.

But this adjustment gave Wembanyama a chance to make up for the defense, only to see Wembanyama jump directly from behind Jokic, directly slapped the layup to the rebound, and took the rebound.

When Chang Tiancheng saw this scene, he immediately hurried. Wembanyama looked up and saw Chang Tiancheng in the middle of the game, so he threw the ball over directly.

After Chang Tiancheng received the ball, facing Pope, who was returning to defense, first dribbled the ball to the left and right, made a probing step forward, mobilized Pope's defensive center of gravity to his left front, and then directly dribbled the ball back to his right hand, and easily completed a counterattack layup.

At 57:54, after the second half of the game, the Spurs' offensive tempo looked slightly better than the Nuggets.

Jokic wandered outside the three-point line, received a pass from Pope, and faced Drummond on the outside, first making a three-threat move, pretending to break through Drummond.

But Drummond didn't eat it, he knew that Jokic's breakthrough speed was not fast, not to mention that there was a Wembanyama standing on his inside. Even if Jokic passes himself, it won't be easy for Wembanyama to finish the game.

Jokic observed that Drummond wasn't backing away, so he suddenly lifted one of his legs, forced a bit of shooting space between the two, and then shot a three-pointer with a high arc.

The basketball flew in the air for a long time and eventually fell into the hoop.

Jokic didn't take a lot of shots in this game, most of the time, he was assisting his teammates to score, and he would only choose to shoot when the team really needed his score to break the deadlock, or when the shot was very, very good.

This efficiency-oriented concept is very similar to Chang Tiancheng.

In fact, as early as when Chang Tiancheng was still with the Lakers, the Nuggets thought of trading him to Denver. It's just that as a backup point guard, he brings certain organizational attributes to the Nuggets' bench.

If Chang Tiancheng arrives at the Nuggets, although he can cooperate well with Jokic, neither of them will be able to play their best strength. Although the two men have very different positions on the court, one is an outside point guard and the other is an inside center, in essence, the two of them are the same kind of basketball players.

After the Lakers introduced Wei Shao in the first two seasons, they have not been able to find a good balance between Wei Shao and James, and even let Wei Shao play as a substitute later failed to improve this problem, so he had no choice but to trade Wei Shao away, which is equivalent to the Lakers' management office voluntarily admitting that this is a failed reinforcement.

The reason why Chang Tiancheng can form a good cooperation with Wembanyama is because Wembanyama himself plays the role of defensive core + offensive endpoint on the field, and the task on the field does not conflict with Chang Tiancheng.

Just like Murray of the Nuggets, although he is a nominal guard, he has little to no organizational tasks on the court, as long as he grasps every offensive opportunity and can rely on his personal ability to help the team open up the situation when the team's tactics can't run away.