NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

After a few rounds, the Grizzlies did not bring back the disadvantage of the score, but were pulled bigger and bigger by the Spurs.

This is definitely not good news for the Grizzlies. After all, their starting lineup has been playing longer and more physically than the Spurs' starting lineup, and if they continue to play like this, the Grizzlies will sooner or later fall into a greater disadvantage.

At such a moment of crisis, the leader of the team, Rose, stepped up.

He first faced Chang Tiancheng and responded to Chang Tiancheng's two-round offense with a dry pull-out three-pointer that ignored the defense, and then broke through with the ball from Sohan, who was stealing on the defensive end, and quickly counterattacked and made a layup.

A few years ago, this layup would probably have turned into a powerful dunk, but now Rose no longer dunks out of physical considerations.

After recovering five points in one go, the difference between the two teams is almost gone.

And driven by Rose's offensive rhythm, the defensive enthusiasm of the rest of the Grizzlies players also began to rise.

Smart even directly used his strong body to stick to Chang Tiancheng, making it a little difficult for Chang Tiancheng to even observe the situation while dribbling.

In desperation, Chang Tiancheng could only learn to dribble with his back like an old magician.

While pushing Smart against his butt and not letting himself be robbed of too much offensive space by Smart, he kept looking back to observe his teammates' movements.

At this time, he observed that Sochan, who had just been stolen by Rose, seemed to be a little unhappy at this time, and took the initiative to come over from the bottom corner.

Chang Tiancheng saw that there was no better choice, so he passed the ball to Sohan with the mentality of giving it a try.

After receiving Chang Tiancheng's pass near the middle distance, Sochan didn't even dribble the ball, and just turned around and pulled out the shot.

Although Rose really couldn't interfere with his shot, this kind of shot itself was very difficult for Sochan, and naturally ended in iron.

Adams jumped high, grabbed a defensive rebound with one hand, turned to find that Rose had started to play a fast break, and with a big swing, he threw the ball towards the Spurs' frontcourt.

Rose himself is a player known for his speed, and now he is the first to launch a fast attack, so naturally no one can chase him, so the Spurs can only watch Rose easily send the basketball to the basket.

At this point, the Grizzlies finally equalized the score.

Spurs head coach Popovich saw that the situation was not good and immediately requested a timeout.

"What are you doing? We're playing right now! The opponent could be our worst enemy in the playoffs! Can you be sober?!"

Popovich yelled at the five starters on the bench, who thought that the Spurs' mistakes were avoidable, but it was the players' hasty shots that led to the team being caught up by the Grizzlies.

The rest of the Spurs team didn't speak, especially Sochan, who actually knew very well in his heart that it was because of his own mistake and a random shot that the Grizzlies played a small shock climax, which made his heart actually full of guilt.

But Sohan is also a young man after all, and it is still a little difficult for him to admit his mistakes in front of him like this. So he just stood there and lowered his head and remained silent.

After Chang Tiancheng thought for a while, he said to Popovich: "You are right, coach, we were indeed careless just now, and I will definitely pay attention to it later." "

What's the use of your attention?!Aren't you being targeted by Smart?" Popovich's anger, once it comes up, won't dissipate for a while.

Originally, Popovich wanted Sochan to take the initiative to stand up and admit his mistakes and give the players on the team a wake-up call, who knew that he didn't seem to mean that.

At this moment, Popovich can't care so much, since Chang Tiancheng dares to stand up and answer, he naturally has to criticize it together.

Chang Tiancheng nodded: "Coach, I really didn't do a good job on the field." Smart didn't really get used to Smart's defense, but don't worry, I won't give him a chance to defend me in the next game.

When Chang Tiancheng said this, Popovich also realized that what he had just said was a bit serious, he coughed twice in embarrassment, and then continued: "I believe you can also see that what the Grizzlies are best at is positional warfare and defensive counterattacks. And their physical fitness and willpower are currently a little higher than ours, so I want to promise them... Well, often, you talk about what you should do if you want to win against the Grizzlies.

Chang Tiancheng knew that Popovich asked him to find a step for him, so he replied decisively: "Coach, I think if we want to beat the Grizzlies in the next game, the most important thing is to push the fast break." If you only rely on positional battles to grind ball by ball, you will fall into the rhythm of the Grizzlies.

After listening to Chang Tiancheng's words, Popovich nodded with satisfaction: "What Chang said is right, if we really want to win this game, we must launch a fast attack."

With that, Popovich walked up to Sochan, patted him on the shoulder, and said meaningfully, "Jeremy, you're going to have a lot of weight on your shoulder, no problem, right?" Sochan

knew that this was the time for him to show his attitude, so he patted his chest and responded, "Wrap it up on me, coach!"

Popovich smiled and then asked the referee for a substitution.

At the end of the timeout, five Spurs players returned to the court, and fans were surprised to find that the Spurs once again used their classic small-ball lineup from last season: Chang Tiancheng, Vassell, McDermott, Keldon, Sochan.

Wembanyama, the team's other interior core, was pressed directly to the bench.

Chang Tiancheng quickly dribbled the ball, and after making a high-post blocking and dismantling cooperation with Sohan, he directly hit the ground and passed the ball to Sohan down.

Although there is a huge physical gap between Sochan and Adams, the center of the Grizzlies, Sochan's speed is a few notches faster than Adams, and there is naturally no way to stop Adams from going down like this.

Sochan took advantage of the situation to complete a two-handed dunk.

In the next round, Smart of the Grizzlies wanted to give the ball to Bane, but suddenly found that he seemed to have a huge positional advantage on the inside, so he decisively gave the ball to Adams.

Adams singled Sochan with his back and easily ran in to complete a layup.