r18novel Chapter 135
Chapter 135
After returning to the court, the Spurs players were obviously more positive than they had just been, but at the same time, they were also vigilant to prevent Giannis from making any more unusual moves.
Wembanyama and Giannis jumped the ball, Wembanyama could have jumped steadily to win Giannis, but after the incident just now, Wembanyama was a little afraid to jump, and finally Giannis easily grabbed the ball.
After winning the ball, Giannis immediately launched an attack on the Spurs' interior, and this time his movements were a little bigger than before, but it did not exceed the normal range of confrontation, which also made the Spurs players acceptable.
Collins and Wembanyama saw that Giannis had already entered the inside line, so they naturally insisted on the plan they had made before the start of the game and continued to adopt a brainless strategy against Wembanyama.
And Giannis didn't be polite to Wembanyama this time, after being sandwiched by the two, Giannis directly closed the ball, and at the same time slammed Wembanyama's chest with his shoulder, and forcefully hit Wembanyama's body unstable and took two steps back.
Giannis took advantage of this gap to score the ball with a slight lift of his left hand and a low layup.
In the next round, Chang Tiancheng attacked with the ball, this time he did not choose to let any of his team's insiders come over for his own blocking, after all, as long as he blocked a demolition, he would either let his two insiders face a not very rational Giannis, or he would like to face this irrational Giannis, it is better to attack by himself alone, and he can also bypass Giannis's hot-blooded defense at this time.
Chang Tiancheng faced Holiday on the outside, dribbling the ball with his right hand rather lazily, and then suddenly stabbed a step inside, moving Holiday's defensive center of gravity to the right side, and then directly pulled the ball back and made a move to shoot. However, Holiday is indeed very experienced in defense, and after seeing Chang Tiancheng pull the ball back, he immediately followed up and prepared to defend, but he was not shaken by Chang Tiancheng's shooting action, but just stretched out his hand to symbolically interfere. Because he knew very well in his heart that Chang Tiancheng would not shoot directly like this.
This point Holliday calculated is indeed correct, Chang Tiancheng originally wanted to be a little worship, and then tried to kill near the free throw line to throw, but seeing Holiday defending like this, he had to dribble the ball to his left hand, wanting to use the breakthrough space created by Holiday to defend himself and try to break through to the left side again.
But Holiday managed to keep up with Chang Tiancheng's movements this time. Even with the blessing of the system, Chang Tiancheng's breakthrough speed can not be regarded as particularly fast, and his breakthrough relies more on rhythm and strong shooting threat, so that the opponent does not dare to put himself too far away so easily. But Holiday was very experienced in defense at this time, and in the face of Chang Tiancheng, the defensive measures he took were to keep an extremely ambiguous distance from Chang Tiancheng as much as possible, so that Chang Tiancheng had the illusion of "I seem to be able to shoot at this distance", and then used his arm span advantage to interfere with his shooting when Chang Tiancheng shot.
In this way, Holiday successfully achieved the goal of blocking Chang Tiancheng's breakthrough line and limiting his three-point shooting at the same time.
Rao is Chang Tiancheng can see his defensive strategy, but with the blessing of his excellent physical talent, it is not so easy for him to break this defense, not to mention that as Giannis begins to fully enter the game, Holiday and his defensive distance are actually getting closer and closer, which makes Chang Tiancheng's shooting space even smaller. Although this is conducive to Chang Tiancheng's breakthrough, the Bucks' two interior players, Giannis and Da Lopez, are both masters of protecting the frame, especially Giannis, whose help defense may be the strongest in history, and he is not afraid of Chang Tiancheng breaking through to the interior at all.
Seeing that half of the attack time had passed, Chang Tiancheng knew that he couldn't drag it out like this anymore, so he had a plan and called Suo Han to block and dismantle it for himself.
This strategy can be said to be very useful, after bypassing Sohan's cover, Chang Tiancheng has to face the man who is already old - Middleton. Although he has not slipped particularly well on the offensive end in recent years compared to his peak, on the defensive end, the years have slowed down his pace, which also gives Chang Tiancheng room to attack.
Chang Tiancheng first relied on his speed to force a breakthrough through Middleton's defense, and when Middleton was chasing after him, he suddenly made a sharp stop in the middle distance, and then took a step back to shake the chasing Middleton far away, and then made an easy long two-point shot, and the basketball hit steadily.
The reason why he chose to shoot in the middle of the shot is essentially because Chang Tiancheng is very jealous of these two interior lines of the Bucks, to be more precise, he is afraid that Giannis will give himself a moment, although he can now directly repair the injury through the system, but after all, there is a limit to the number of times, and he really doesn't want to consume this precious opportunity in a regular season game unless it is absolutely necessary.
And if you shoot three points, with Middleton's height and reach, once Chang Tiancheng does not have the marksman skill of the trigger system, then the interference will still be relatively large. All things considered, mid-range shooting is probably the most consistent scoring method at the moment.
The Bucks attacked, and after Holiday dribbled to the frontcourt, he first gave the ball to Middleton, who received the ball at a 45-degree angle outside the three-point line, and gave the ball directly to Grayson Allen in the bottom corner without pause.
Allen received a pass from Middleton, first made a false shot, pretending that he was going to shoot a three-pointer, but looked at Keldon, who was a circle older than him, and still did not choose to shoot, but called Giannis to block for himself, and after he broke through to the Spurs' interior line, he gave the ball to Giannis, who cut inside.
At the moment when Giannis received the ball, Keldon and Wembanyama, who were supposed to defend Allen, once again formed a trap situation against Giannis. But this time the intention was somewhat obvious, as early as when Keldon was just showing this trend, Giannis observed Allen's position in advance, and after the double bag was formed, Giannis passed the ball steadily in Allen's direction even if he was disturbed by Wembanyama's big hand and long arm.
But Chang Tiancheng suddenly came out at this time, and when he found out that Giannis began to observe Allen's movement, he realized that Giannis might have to pass the ball, so he directly completed a steal.