NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

The crowd at the home of the Cavaliers began to hold their breath, after all, the situation on the court at this time was indeed more anxious, the scores of the two sides were always deadlocked, and the core players of both teams also had strong scoring ability, even if they now held a certain score lead, they did not dare to relax at all.

Chang Tiancheng faced Garland's defense at this time, first called Keldon to block for himself, and then continued to accelerate towards the opponent's penalty area. Mobley was close behind Chang Tiancheng, and seeing that he couldn't get rid of Mobley, Chang Tiancheng directly passed the ball to Keldon.

After receiving the ball, Keldon directly combined the ball to confront, pushed Garland away, and went straight to the basket. Seeing this, Allen, who was standing on the inside, immediately jumped and interfered with Keldon's layup, and the basketball deflected off the left side of the basket.

Just as Allen was about to protect the defensive rebound, as soon as he turned around, he saw Sohan soaring into the sky, viciously pressing the basketball back into the basket and completing a supplementary dunk.

The Cavaliers served in the backcourt, Mitchell advanced quickly, and passed the ball to Garland after halftime, Garland did not pause after receiving the ball, and directly attacked the Spurs' interior, facing the double defense of Sochan and Keldon, he chose to cross his body between the two and tried to pull the rod for a layup.

Although this layup action was very beautiful, it was still too reluctant, the basketball slipped out of the basket, and Sochan immediately protected the rebound in the front court and threw the ball to Chang Tiancheng, who was playing a fast break.

It's a pity that Allen hasn't been able to run to the front court to participate in the team's attack, and he has to turn back immediately to defend Chang Tiancheng. Seeing that Allen was completely attracted to himself, Chang Tiancheng made a big cross directly and threw the ball to McDermott, who followed up on the right, to help him hit a three-pointer again.

At 73:73, the difference between the two teams was erased. What worried the Cavaliers fans in the stadium still happened, and after a few rounds in the fourth quarter, the Spurs easily caught up with the score.

The head coach of the Cavaliers, Bickerstaff, saw that the team was tied and immediately applied to the referee for a timeout, intending to readjust the defensive strategy.

But from the coach's point of view, he also knows very well in his heart that it is useless to restrict the Spurs' seven-second fast break system, relying solely on blocking the opponent's interior offense and forcing the opponent to shoot on the outside, after all, this plan has been proven by the Hawks to be not useful, not to mention that the opponent's three outside lines look quite hot today.

If you want to really stop the Spurs from launching a fast break, the most fundamental way is to prevent the opponent from protecting the backcourt rebounds, after all, all the Spurs' fast break initiation points start from the backcourt rebounds, once you can't get the Spurs backcourt rebounds, then the Cavaliers can get a quick time to return to the defensive position, forcing the Spurs to enter the mode of positional battles, and erase the opponent's fast break rhythm.

But it's not easy to make the Spurs unable to protect backcourt rebounds, and trying to stop the opponent's backcourt rebounds is nothing more than two solutions: either your own players will increase their shooting percentage, or let your interior line rush for frontcourt rebounds. However, neither of these options will have an immediate effect, and they will also test the competitive state of your players. No one can guarantee that every shot will be made, and no one can guarantee that they will be able to grab a frontcourt rebound every round.

Coming back from the timeout, the Cavaliers' offensive tempo slowed down significantly. Garland slowly came to the Spurs' half court with the ball, this time he did not rush to call the interior players to come over to block for himself, but first tried to break through Chang Tiancheng, and found that he could not continue to break through after taking a step into the three-point line, so he simply slowly dribbled out of the three-point line and passed the ball to Mitchell on the other side.

After Mitchell received the ball, he first passed the ball to Mobley on the inside, and asked Mobley to eat Keldon alone. Mobley had just started to get into back-to-back singles mode when he was caught by Vassell and forced to close the ball. However, Mobley took advantage of his height and arm length to pass the ball back to Mitchell.

Mitchell adjusted his shooting stance, then shot a three-pointer from the open position and hit it steadily.

76:73。

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Cavaliers at this time are now deliberately slowing down their offensive rhythm to ensure a high shooting percentage, thereby limiting the Spurs' fast-break rhythm.

But now Chang Tiancheng has been very calm in the face of this situation. After halftime, Chang Tiancheng continued to single-handedly Garland as before, and finally chose to finish with a step-back three-pointer.

With the blessing of the marksman's skills, Chang Tiancheng almost missed the shot, 76:76, and the two sides drew again.

In fact, since the last game against the Hawks, Chang Tiancheng has been trying to single out the opposing defenders by himself, hoping to simplify the team's offensive mode as much as possible.

Once the team starts to play fast, you can frequently assist your teammates to score, and once the opponent drags the game into a positional battle and starts to fear their own passes instead of choosing to pinch them, then they can score by singles.

This idea also makes Chang Tiancheng's game mode more and more magical. Anyway, I have a marksman on my body, whether it is two points or three points, the shooting rate is about the same, and when there is enough space, it must be more economical to choose a three-point shot.

After the last game, Chang Tiancheng took advantage of the rest day to turn over the video of Harden's game, repeatedly observed and learned his step-back step skills, hoping that he could infinitely push the output of three-point shots through step-back, so as to lead the team to score points in positional battles.

Mitchell held the ball, he still maintained a slow pace, or handed the ball to Mobley on the inside first, after Mobley received the ball, seeing that the Spurs did not help defend this time, he began to exert his back force, trying to push Keldon to the Spurs' basket.

But Keldon's strength was enough for him to withstand Mobley's attack, and after a few hard shots to no avail, Mobley still chose to shoot a rollover and back-to-back jumper, with his height, this ball Keldon must not be able to defend, so Mobley scored two points again.

78:76, judging from the field, either side has no means to directly open the score, then it can only compete with the physical strength and willpower of the two teams, in this case, the game has nothing to do with tactics or skills, and the team that can't hold on mentally and physically will lose the game.

Chang Tiancheng held the ball and was about to accelerate, but suddenly felt a faint pain in his calf, but the pain quickly disappeared.

"It should be the steel and iron bones that automatically repaired my physical damage..."Chang Tiancheng thought as he continued to prepare for the attack.