r18novel Chapter 124
Chapter 124
Chang Tiancheng had already quickly run to the opponent's half at this time, and after receiving a long pass from Wembanyama, he directly combined the ball and made a layup in three steps.
After Chang Tiancheng's quick transition offense, the other players on the floor seemed to be less relaxed than before, and they all began to adjust their defensive attention a little.
After Doncic brought the ball to the frontcourt, he planned to continue to single Booker, but seeing that James was still standing outside the three-point line, and the defender was still Chang Tiancheng, Doncic still chose to pass the ball to James.
James played this friendly game completely as a scoring guard or small forward, and he would not choose to stop the ball after receiving the pass, but continued to break through Chang Tiancheng directly with the ball as he had chosen before.
Of course, Chang Tiancheng can't defend a James who only needs to think about how to break through, even if this James is almost forty years old and does not have the ability to tear apart the opponent's defense as unscrupulously as when he was young.
James made an easy layup. Wembanyama quickly grabbed the rebound, and was thinking about launching a fast attack again, but found that this time the opponent's retreat was very fast, and Wembanyama, who couldn't find a passing opportunity for a while, could only compromise and give the ball to Chang Tiancheng's hands conventionally.
After Chang Tiancheng came to the front court with the ball, he asked Wembanyama to make a blocking and dismantling cooperation with him. This time, the opponent did not choose to let James forcibly squeeze through the block, but directly let Giannis switch to Chang Tiancheng.
Chang Tiancheng knew that he had no way to use this mismatch advantage to break through Giannis, and his purpose in doing so was mainly to pull Giannis out of the interior, so that Embiid could play a little on the inside.
Seeing that his plan was achieved, Chang Tiancheng immediately made a base pass and passed the ball to Embiid on the inside. After Embiid received the ball, he directly began to hit the opponent's Ayton with his back alone, Ayton naturally couldn't fully withstand Embiid's offense in the low post, and was soon hit by Embiid again under the basket.
In the next round, James did not give the ball to Doncic this time, but chose to hold the ball all the way to the frontcourt, seeing that the opposing team still planned to let Chang Tiancheng defend himself, James still directly broke through Chang Tiancheng's defense as always, and killed the inside.
But Embiid, who had just scored a goal in the low post, was full of enthusiasm at this time, directly letting go of Ayton behind him, and facing James to block his layup.
James, who has faced this situation countless times in his long career, calmly glanced at Ayton's position and then shoved the ball straight under Embiid's arm to Ayton.
After Ayton received the ball, he was about to get up and complete a two-handed dunk, but was covered by Wembanyama directly from behind.
Seeing this, Embiid immediately turned around and accepted the rebound and passed it to Chang Tiancheng.
After Chang Tiancheng took a few steps forward, he used a two-handed pass on his chest to give the ball to Booker, who was fast without the ball. Booker received the ball and volleyed straight into the air with a one-arm dunk that buzzed the basket.
Doncic's offense this time was to choose to give the ball to Giannis, who had been stuck in the low post to ask for the ball. After Giannis received the ball, he knew that he might be directly taken away by Wembanyama using his reach, so he still used his back to push inside twice. Wembanyama's current body is still difficult to support Giannis's monster-like body, and Giannis has opened a gap by Giannis.
After Giannis pushed Wembanyama away, he was afraid that Wembanyama would adjust his body and come back and continue to use his long arms to interfere, so he immediately shot the basketball.
But Embiid reciprocated Wembanyama's defensive block just now, suddenly appeared in front of Giannis, and directly took Giannis's layup down.
The reason why Giannis didn't choose to dunk but went to the basket was actually to leave some caution. Originally, Giannis watched the situation on the field become more and more intense, so he wanted to save a little physical strength, and then directly open the score with the opposing team through his own wave of play.
But I didn't expect to be caught by Embiid this time and complete a head-on block.
Chang Tiancheng picked up the rebound, quickly advanced to the frontcourt, and continued to hand the ball to Booker to deal with. Today he was very clear about his positioning, which is to help the rest of the team find their touch.
After Booker received the ball, he saw that Jaylen Brown behind him was still desperately chasing back, so he suddenly stopped outside the three-point line. Jaylen Brown, on the other hand, was affected by inertia and ran straight to the basket. Just when Jaylen Brown adjusted his position and rushed in front of Booker, Booker had already completed this three-point shot.
Basketball hollow into the net. Looking at Booker's hot offensive state today, Chang Tiancheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Even if there is a systematic bonus, my offensive performance on the court may be worse than Booker." Although he can better connect the team through his passing ability, his individual singles ability at critical moments is still very important.
"I'll be able to watch more of Booker's tapes when I get back." Chang Tiancheng secretly made up his mind in his heart.
James took Doncic's pass and was just about to break through, but when he looked up, he found that the person defending him in front of him had become Wembanyama. James knew that it would be difficult for him to face Wembanyama directly to complete a one-on-one attack, so he straightened up and observed the situation on the court.
It turned out that from this round onwards, Wembanyama came out to lead the defense of James, while Giannis on the inside was handed over to Embiid to deal with, and Ayton was defended by Sabonis Jr.
In the previous game, because it was only a friendly game, several people did not communicate much about the position, and when defending, it was actually Jaylen Brown who let Sabonis Jr., an interior player, defend the outside, and let Wembanyama fight with Giannis on the inside.
Although Wembanyama has played for the Spurs this season in the No. 4 position, he is actually more of a No. 3 on both offensive and defensive ends. At the moment, he is defending James, Devin Booker is defending Jaylen Brown, and Chang Tiancheng is defending Doncic, all of which show that their temporary team has begun to take this friendly game seriously as a regular game.
James looked at the opposing team's adjustment of the defensive lineup, and naturally understood what the other party was thinking, so he passed the ball to Doncic, wanting Doncic to go to Chang Tiancheng alone.