NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

During the break, neither coach made much of a change to the team's tactical play. They both believe that neither of them can limit their style of play, so they both choose to trust their players.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Popovich did not send a bench lineup as he did in the first two games, but continued to let the team's starting lineup play, in the hope that the starters could open up the difference as soon as possible.

The Cavaliers only replaced LeVert and sent their Turkish forward Chedi Osman, and the other four continued to play.

The Spurs served, Vassell came to the Cavaliers' half with the ball, and after a pick-and-roll with Sochan, a ground-hitting pass stuffed the ball into Sochan's hands, Sochan faced Mitchell, who was a little shorter than him, and made a decisive basket shot, but was interfered by Mobley who came from the defense and failed to shoot.

After protecting the rebound, Mitchell quickly advanced and made another three-point shot while the Spurs had not yet finished their defensive positioning, 28-25.

Chang Tiancheng held the ball and still chose to block and dismantle with Sohan, but after blocking and dismantling, he did not choose to cut inside or pass, but directly retreated, and shot three points against Allen, tying the score again.

The two sides went back and forth for a few rounds, and the Cavaliers' two outside players, especially Mitchell, were extremely hot today, almost never missing on the offensive end, and they had already scored 20 points just over halfway through the second quarter.

Although Chang Tiancheng is trying to respond to Mitchell, he is limited by the Cavaliers' defensive strategy, and he has never established contact with his teammates on the court, and he is unable to convert his individual offense into a team's offense. Therefore, the scores of the two teams have been deadlocked in this way, and there is not much gap between them.

Just as Mitchell hit another step-back jumper to score his 22nd point, Popovich took the lead and called a timeout.

As soon as the starting group on the field came, Popovich hurriedly walked in front of Chang Tiancheng and asked: "Chang, how is your physical strength now, can you hold on any longer?"

Chang Tiancheng's physical strength at this time has actually declined to a certain extent, although there is the blessing of steel and iron skills, but in the previous game, the Spurs' offense can basically only count on him alone, and no matter how abundant his physical strength is, a lot will be consumed.

However, looking at Popovich's eyes, he gritted his teeth and replied: "I'm okay coach, you just arrange it according to your ideas."

Popovich nodded: "Zach, you will come in exchange for Sochan in a moment." Diop, you come for Vassell. With

that, Popovich took the tactics board and began to lay out his tactics: "When you play, you will often still be in the number one position, and McDermott will still be in the third position, but Keldon, you will play the second position in a while, and Diop and Zach will be in the fourth and fifth positions respectively."

After listening to the tactical arrangement, Zach Collins and Diop, who were named by name, immediately went to warm up and prepare for the game.

Chang Tiancheng thought about it and probably understood Popovich's train of thought.

Since the seven-second fast break of the small lineup is not easy to fully play to its advantages in this game, it is better to directly convert the lineup to the traditional lineup.

Although the Cavaliers' outside offensive firepower is very fierce, the double guards are only less than 190 cm tall after all, and this lineup moves Keldon to the second position, so whether it is on the defensive end or the offensive end, he can rely on his physical advantage to eat the opponent's two guards.

And the appearance of Diop and Collins also made the Spurs' interior look less winning. Collins also has a height there as a base plate anyway. In the game just now, a large part of the reason why the Spurs had nothing to do with Mitchell was because of the height gap on the inside, so that Sochan and Keldon did not dare to make up for Mitchell at will, otherwise, even if they interfered with Mitchell's shot, they would definitely be grabbed by the Cavaliers' double interior to grab the offensive rebound to complete the second offense. With Collins here, at least Mitchell's breakthrough shouldn't be as unscrupulous as before.

After finalizing the idea of the game, the timeout was just over, and the Spurs entered the arena with a new lineup.

The Spurs had the ball, Chang Tiancheng advanced with the ball, and saw that Keldon had stuck Mitchell in the waist position at this time, so he quickly passed the ball over.

Keldon, who received the ball, first cut the basket into a face frame, made an Anthony-like tentative step, and then leaned on his body directly against Mitchell to kill the inside, Mitchell saw that the physical quality of the two was really different, so he instinctively wanted to reach out to cut the ball, but accidentally hit Kelden's hand, and Kelden made a shooting move.

The referee's whistle blew for a foul on Mitchell, and Keldon stepped to the free throw line and hit two free throws safely.

After Garland had a high post block with Mobley, Mobley went down, received Garland's pass, and wanted to complete the layup directly, but found that Collins, who was standing on the inside, had reached out and tried to block, so he had no choice but to jump up and transfer the ball to the outside again. But the force of the pass was too great, and the ball was thrown out of bounds.

Chang Tiancheng did the same and made a high block with Collins, but he didn't see Collins pass the ball directly, but collected the ball, and waited until Collins squeezed into the inside before passing the ball over.

At this time, Collins's position was very close to the basket, and the moment he received the ball, he directly turned to play the board and throw, and his posture looked like a famous player of the Spurs.

The ball was shot extremely fast and at a strange angle, so that Allen, who was thinking about helping defense, didn't even react before the basketball bounced off the rebound and fell into the basket.

Aaron was a little depressed and walked to the baseline to send the ball out. Mitchell, who received the ball, wanted to repeat the previous operation and go straight to the speed break, but was blocked by Keldon, and the situation returned to the first quarter, he could only transfer the ball to Garland on the other side.

Garland received the ball and broke through, got rid of Chang Tiancheng in disguise behind his back, and then directly jumped past McDermott who came from the defense and completed a throw.

Keldon received the serve, did not choose to pass the ball to Chang Tiancheng, but learned from Mitchell just now, and directly started to break through. With his physique, Mitchell basically can't stop it if he doesn't foul. Mitchell didn't want to pay for another foul because he had already committed a foul, so he could only watch Keldon burst into his own house, and then use his impact to fight Mobley in the air and score the ball.