NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

After hearing Popovich's words, Chang Tiancheng nodded, and at the same time simulated the situation that Popovich just said in his heart.

If you replace yourself with Keldon, then the physical advantage of the Spurs is very obvious, after all, Keldon also has a height of nearly two meters and extremely strong muscles, once this lineup is on the court, the Spurs' interior impact ability will be very terrifying, not to mention that the five people on the court also have a certain three-point shooting ability.

The only problem is that once such a lineup is chosen, then the organizational pressure on the Spurs will all be on Keldon alone, and Kelden himself is not a guard, but an orthodox small forward, and even played for the Spurs as a power forward for a long time last season. As a result, his playmaking skills are not actually to the point where he can sustain an entire team.

This is why the Spurs have obviously sent such a theoretically strong lineup before, but it has never been effective, in essence, because the whole team lacks a real organizational core, and it will become a scene where five people rely on their individual abilities to attack in the back.

And now that the team has an organizational expert like Chang Tiancheng, Popovich has more reverie about his lineup. Although Chang Tiancheng's height is less than 190 cm, the scene where he used his body to forcibly eat Ivey just now is still vivid, which shows that his physical fitness is actually much better than he imagined, and maybe he can also rely on this to continue to gain the advantage of alignment.

At the end of the timeout, both sides made certain adjustments to the players on the field.

The Spurs naturally followed Popovich's previous tactical arrangement and sent a quasi-big lineup of Chang Tiancheng, McDermott, Sochan, Diop and Collins.

The Pistons, on the other hand, replaced Ivey and Wiseman, and now have a lineup of Burks, Joseph, Bojan, Jalen Duren and Bagley, who killed all sides in the first quarter.

Due to Wiseman's previous walking violation, the ball is now in the hands of the Spurs.

Chang Tiancheng gestured with his hand to make a V, signaling McDermott and Diop to stand in the bottom corners of the left and right sides, while Sochan and Collins stood on either side of the top of the three-point arc on either side of the three-point arc.

Casey was shocked when he saw Chang Tiancheng's tactical arrangement.

He is all too familiar with the formation in front of him, it is the famous V-shaped offensive system of coach Mike D'Antoni before, that is, the seven-second offensive bombardment system that the Suns led by Steve Nash are best at, and it is the prototype of all today's small-ball tactical systems.

The so-called seven-second fast attack means that a round of attack is solved within seven seconds. On the offensive end, the two shooters will be positioned in the bottom corner, while the two interior players will quickly settle down and pursue a direct impact on the opponent's basket.

If the opponent has already taken up the defensive position, then the two interior lines will do a high block with their ball-handling core like the current Sochan and Collins. Because the shooter has opened up the space, the two inside lines can get a very wide space for activities, and once the opposing player chooses to pinch the inside line, it is bound to miss the shooters in the bottom corners on both sides, at this time, Chang Tiancheng as the team's ball-holding core will definitely be able to pass the ball to the hands of the bottom corner shooter.

On the defensive end, the seven-second fast break system will adopt a contraction-style defense, striving for the opponent to reduce the number of attacks on the team's interior. It will even allow the opposing team to shoot some outside shots to a certain extent to get rebounding opportunities. After the interior player grabs the rebound, he will quickly find his own ball-holding core to hand over the ball, and then quickly attack the opponent's half to achieve an offensive loop.

In this way, the opponent will experience both physical and mental torture in a steady stream of offensive firepower and switchback runs, and then naturally lose.

It can be said that this tactical system relies only on the shooting percentage of shooters, the finishing efficiency of interior players, and the individual ability of the team's ball-carrying core. Once there is already a ball-handling nucleus in the team, then the team management can follow this template to quickly build the team with minimal money.

It is precisely because of this that many teams, such as the Rockets in previous years or the Mavericks and Hawks in recent years, the overall lineup is actually not expensive, and the main salary of the whole team is basically focused on the ball-handling core and high-quality 3D players.

And such a lineup is naturally not without its shortcomings. While a seven-second break can make a team invincible in the regular season, once you enter the playoffs, the opponent's defensive intensity increases, which slows down the offensive tempo of the entire team and eventually falls into unfamiliar territory of positional warfare.

In the traditional sense, the ability of the ball-holding core to solve the hard problem in positional warfare is relatively poor. Because they are accustomed to the efficient tactical execution of the ball in hand, the ball-holding core often chooses to shoot when they are 90% sure, such as misalignment, vacancy or miss.

Once they are only 50% sure, such as in a normal alignment, in a helping defense, or in a one-to-many situation, they will instinctively choose to pass.

It's arguably a common problem of all playmakers, who seem to have a very high shooting percentage and efficiency, but it can't help the team win in the playoffs.

A more typical example is Chris Paul when he was younger. Although he is known as the god of point guards, although his stats seem very "team", but that is because he is actually the distributor of all offensive rights in the team, once the opponent starts to defend fiercely, or when the shooting percentage of teammates starts to decline, it is difficult for Paul to rely on his individual ability to support the team's offense for a whole game.

However, with the Spurs' current record and staffing, naturally there is no need to worry so much, since there is such an organizational star as Chang Tiancheng, it is natural to choose the offensive mode that best matches it.

After the two goalscorers crouched in the bottom corner to open up space for the team to attack, Chang Tian's achievements began to flourish. He bypassed Collins' cover, and at the same time his eyes had already found Sochan, who had turned and sprinted to the opposing basket, so with a flick of his wrist, he passed the ball between Bagley, who had switched defense, and Burks, who had just squeezed past Collins' pick-and-roll.

Sochan caught the ball, jumped up, and completed a crisp dunk with both hands again.

At 44:42, the Spurs once again closed the gap to two points.

Popovich on the field saw this scene and nodded with satisfaction. As an old opponent who has played against the Suns many times in the playoffs, Popovich naturally knows very well how devastating this seven-second offensive system can be if it is used in the regular season.