69novels Chapter 154
Chapter 154
With Keegan Murray and Sabonis Jr.'s pick-and-roll partnership once again successful, the Kings seem to have found a way to deal with the Spurs' defense.
But Chang Tiancheng didn't care about this, anyway, under the small-ball lineup, even if his own defense failed to defend the opponent, as long as the offensive end was more ferocious than the opponent's offense.
Chang Tiancheng and Suo Han made a high-level blocking and dismantling cooperation. This time, the Kings opted to let Fox squeeze past Sochan's pick-and-roll to chase Chang Tiancheng.
Seeing this, Chang Tiancheng saw the move, and directly passed the ball to Sohan, who cut in, with a ground pass. And although Sabonis Jr. behind him tried his best to chase, he was still a little away from Sochan after all, and Sohan completed a two-handed dunk directly in the penalty area.
Seeing that the first quarter was coming to an end, the Kings wanted to press the time to play and try to give the Spurs as few offensive rounds as possible. After all, the Spurs are usually dangerous on offense, and the Kings can't expect Sabonis Jr.'s three-pointers to be consistent with them.
Keegan Murray took the ball slowly, dribbled in place for a while, and then passed the ball to Fox on the other side.
As soon as Fox received the ball, he first pretended to break through Chang Tiancheng and attracted Chang Tiancheng's defense, and then pulled the ball back, passed directly to the right side, and passed the ball to Barnes on the baseline.
With only six seconds left before the end of the attack, Barnes decided to take it upon himself. So, he first picked up McDermott with a false move, then took a step inside and paused in the mid-range position as if he was deliberately waiting for McDermott's defense.
When McDermott actually came to the defense, he tapped the floor again, made a step-back, and then pulled up and shot a long two-pointer.
But this shot is also out of the box, and it can be seen that Barnes did not feel good in the first quarter, and this often means that he may not play much in this game.
Chang Tiancheng picked up the long rebound, and then quickly dribbled the ball to the front court of the Kings. Fox naturally would not lose to Chang Tiancheng in speed, and chased after Chang Tiancheng with a slight acceleration.
But Chang Tiancheng didn't seem to see Fox, he didn't plan to pass the ball, but directly broke through to the King's interior line against Fox's defense.
Although Fox tried his best to block Chang Tiancheng's breakthrough route, Chang Tiancheng, who had the blessing of steel and iron skills, was no longer able to stop a small guard like Fox at this time.
Fox was just like that, and he made a layup directly. Although the referee did not make any blows, in the eyes of Fox, this was obviously a great shame for him, and he was actually crushed by a guard of about his own height.
Although he couldn't swallow this breath, the whistle of the first quarter of the game was also blown at this time, and Fox had to go off the court first, but he secretly made up his mind in his heart: "You must teach Chang Tiancheng a lesson!"
Chang Tiancheng sat on the bench chair and took a sip of sports drink, and then he took the towel handed by the caddie and wiped the sweat on his head.
"I don't know how that kid is doing now?" Chang Tiancheng muttered in his heart, "I don't know if Coach Popovich will let him play." Although he is fine, with the old man's character, I am afraid that he will not be allowed to directly suspend this game.
But this time, Chang Tiancheng was wrong, and Wembanyama soon returned from the infirmary. His wrist was wrapped in a thick medical bandage, but there didn't seem to be any signs of treatment anywhere else.
"Victor, what did the team doctor say?" Popovich asked, seeing that Wembanyama had returned.
"The team doctor said that there was nothing serious, it was just a normal sprain, and this game can be continued. With that, Wembanyama looked at Popovich, "Coach... Look at me..."
"Alright, don't talk about it!" Popovich interrupted Wembanyama, "Since the team doctor has said you're okay, I'm definitely not going to stop you from playing, if you want to play, you can play in the second quarter in a while
!" "Good coach!" Wembanyama nodded excitedly, although the coach meant to let him take the benches to play in the second quarter, but as long as he could play, it was enough for Wembanyama, who had been worried that Popovich would refuse to let him return for this game on the grounds of protecting him.
The game began quickly in the second quarter, and the Spurs naturally sent a bench lineup led by Wembanyama and Collins, and the Kings also sent a bench lineup.
Chang Tiancheng is still sitting next to Popovich, and this position is also specially instructed by Popovich to be left to Chang Tiancheng, the purpose is to discuss the situation on the field and the design of techniques and tactics with Chang Tiancheng when he is resting.
At this point, Popovich has always admired Chang Tiancheng. He believes that Chang Tiancheng's overall view as a point guard has actually reached a very high level, at least in Popovich's mind, the only players who can wrestle with Chang Tiancheng in terms of technical and tactical design are Chris Paul and LeBron James.
This is also because Chang Tiancheng has always been a substitute player before, and he has no chance to play, basically sitting on the sidelines to watch the game, and he will keep watching the game video when he goes home, and almost all of his energy is spent on studying skills and tactics.
"Chang, why do you think Victor was elected champion?" Popovich looked at Wembanyama, who was cooperating with Graham on the court, and suddenly asked Chang Tiancheng.
Chang Tiancheng was also a little confused by this sudden question, and after a little thought, he responded: "It's because of the historical-level static talent and super ball sense." Together, these give him almost unlimited potential.
"That's just a small part of it, often. You think about the rest. Popovich said with a smirk, "What you said is something that everyone knows, and it is the easiest to see." After all, his body is there, as long as he is not blind, he can understand the reason for this. It
seems that what Popovich wants to discuss with himself is not this aspect of Wembanyama's talent, but something else, so what could it be?