r18novel Chapter 136
Chapter 136
After grabbing the ball, Chang Tiancheng directly used his full speed to rush towards the Bucks' half, the purpose was to get rid of Giannis's defense and score the ball before he could make up the defense.
But Giannis obviously didn't want to give this opportunity, he saw that his pass was stolen by Chang Tiancheng, and directly chased Chang Tiancheng with his long legs, and caught up with Chang Tiancheng in a few breaths, ready to give him a chase block.
Seeing that Giannis was chasing so closely, Chang Tiancheng naturally did not continue to go to the basket to finish, but quietly observed the position of Wembanyama's follow-up, and then jumped directly on the spot and made a layup.
Seeing this, Giannis immediately jumped in sync with Chang Tiancheng, waved his arm and smashed it in the direction of Chang Tiancheng's shot.
Chang Tiancheng immediately passed the ball from the back of his head to Wembanyama outside the three-point line, and his arm was slapped hard by Giannis.
After Wembanyama received the ball, he stood outside the three-point line, turned into a tower battery, and shot directly without hesitation for a three-point shot, and the basketball hollowed into the net, and the Spurs added another three points.
With his head down, Giannis walked over to pick up the ball and give it to Holiday . At this time, there were less than twenty seconds of offensive time left before the end of the first quarter.
Chang Tiancheng looked at his red arm while returning to the defense, gritted his teeth, and couldn't help but think in his heart: This is just a regular season, Giannis dares to play like this, what will he become if this is the playoffs?
The Bucks obviously don't want to give the Spurs another chance to attack, they want to play the last offensive time. Several outside players kept backing the ball from beyond the three-point line.
The Spurs didn't care if they could have one last offensive time, nor did they come forward to press their passes.
In the eyes of the Spurs players, as long as the ball doesn't get to Giannis anyway.
After a long time on the outside, these outside players of the Bucks also knew that the ball passed to Giannis was not easy to play, so in the end, it was Middleton who found an opportunity to shoot directly outside the three-point line, this time feeling good, and hit the three-pointer to get back three points for the Bucks.
During the break in the first game, since Coach Popovich had been ejected, the tactics could only be arranged by the assistant coach. However, the game tactics are rarely constantly adjusted with the progress of the game, basically the team gets up early in the season to establish a set of systems one after another, and then let the players repeatedly polish it, so even if the assistant coach is on the spot to make arrangements, the effect is actually no different from Popovich himself standing here, the only difference is in the on-the-spot command, but the current Spurs score is still ahead, so there is no need to make any major tactical changes, as long as the players play step by step.
Therefore, at the beginning of the second quarter, the Spurs still routinely sent their own bench lineup. Due to the promotion of Collins from the center of the previous second team to the first team, the overall strength of their second team has declined a little, but relying on the Spurs' strong team basketball tactical system, they are still a very competitive bench lineup. And the Bucks' bench lineup is not bad, after all, they were the No. 1 team in the East in the regular season last season and one of the strong contenders for the championship. The bench lineups of the two sides can be said to have played back and forth in the second quarter, and by the end of the second quarter, if you only look at the bench scores, the Bucks are actually a little higher than the Spurs.
In the entire second quarter of the game, Chang Tiancheng did not sit on the bench to watch the game, but went to the locker room alone to check the arm he had just been slapped by Giannis.
It was just a little red, but now his whole forearm is a little swollen, and it can even affect his ball control and projection.
Although Chang Tiancheng could feel that his system was constantly repairing his damage through the steel and iron skills, it seemed that it would be difficult to recover to the best state for a while.
Originally, Chang Tiancheng thought that he would make more shots in the third quarter, so that he could help Wembanyama share some of the pressure. After all, even if Wembanyama carefully studied how to fight Giannis before the game, if Giannis keeps playing in this way, even if Wembanyama can still score, I am afraid it will increase the probability of him being injured. So the most reliable and safest plan is for him to join forces with Keldon and Sochan to shoot as many three-pointers as possible on the outside. In this way, Giannis, who is growing in defense, can not play to his strengths, which can have the effect of breaking down the Bucks' defense.
But in this situation, I don't know if I can still play the third quarter normally.
Just as Chang Tiancheng took out the towel that he had placed inside from the ice water and wrapped it around his wrist to make a simple ice compress for himself, Wembanyama walked in.
"Chang, I didn't see you just now, I didn't expect you to come here. Wembanyama sat down next to Chang Tiancheng, "What's the matter with your hands? Why do you still make ice?"
Chang Tiancheng sighed: "I was slapped by Giannis just now, and now it's a little swollen..."
Why didn't you tell the referee directly?" Wembanyama's eyes widened, "Are you going to let him continue to behave like this
?" "What's the use of looking for the referee?"
"That can at least be considered a violation of sportsmanship, right? He can be regarded as a beating!" Wembanyama began to feel a little annoyed when he thought that he had just been thrown to the ground by Giannis, and even dragged on the ground.
"What is the violation of sportsmanship? People are actively defending, in the process of defense, they lose their strength, and their movements are a little bigger, where is it violating sportsmanship?" Chang Tiancheng said, laughing out loud, "Okay Victor, can't you see it? Coach Popovich has been directly expelled, how much bargain can we get from the referee? It would be good to continue to stay on the court to play!"
After speaking, Chang Tiancheng took off the towel and walked in the direction of the court: " Hurry
up and keep up, the third quarter is about to start, right?" "Can you do this arm?" Wembanyama stood up and trotted to keep up with Chang Tiancheng's footsteps, "If it doesn't work, just apply to leave, I can hold it."
"What's wrong with that? You see, it's all swollen. Chang Tiancheng stretched out his arm and showed it to Wembanyama.