NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

And on the Spurs' bench, Popovich was attached to Wembanyama's ear and was saying something to Wembanyama.

Wembanyama's expression was serious, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes from time to time.

And the Lakers on the court, once again, took advantage of the thick eyebrows to force a goal and caused Sochan's foul.

Davis adjusted his breathing, but missed the free throw.

At 34:30, the Spurs trailed by four points.

Chang Tiancheng came to the frontcourt, and this time, he commanded Kelden to crouch in the bottom corner, and moved the thick eyebrows' defense to the bottom corner together. He played a high block with Vassell, and then faced the defense of Rivers, who switched over, and hit another three-pointer.

James held the ball and started with all his might, although the Spurs' retreat was very timely, but in the face of James who rose into the air, Sochan didn't want to pay for another foul, so he could only watch James complete a dunk.

After the dunk, James glanced sideways at Sochan, who had been spraying him on the Internet in the offseason.

Chang Tiancheng attacked, and after blocking and dismantling Suohan, he used his speed advantage to directly throw off Bamba behind him and completed a light layup.

Although Bamba tried his best to jump and block, his long arm and Chang Tiancheng were still a little staggered after all.

At 36:35, the score of the two teams was very dead.

After receiving James' pass, Thick Mei faced Keldon, who was a head shorter than him, and directly turned over and leaned back, adding two more points to the Lakers, which incidentally caused Keldon's beater foul.

Just before Bushy was ready to make a free throw, the Spurs requested a substitution, replacing Vassell and bringing Wembanyama back on the court.

Thick eyebrows were not in good form for free throws today, and missed the free throw again.

The Spurs attacked, Wembanyama did not rush to the inside to ask for the ball this time, but kept hovering outside the three-point line at the top of the Lakers' arc, looking ready to block and dismantle with Chang Tiancheng at any time.

Chang Tiancheng understood, bypassed Wembanyama's cover for him, and then rushed to the Lakers' interior with the ball again.

Wembanyama followed up, which made the thick eyebrows, who could have helped Bamba to defend together, have to focus on Wembanyama behind him.

After all, Chang Tiancheng used this kind of follow-up to complete an aerial relay with Chang Tiancheng in the last game of the Lakers.

After Chang Tiancheng found that the thick eyebrows did not follow up, he continued to complete the attack with a low hand layup as before.

In the Lakers' offense, thick eyebrows faced Sochan's defense, which was still acceptable, but Wembanyama standing behind Sochan made thick eyebrows a little jealous. If he continues to force the Spurs' interior line, I am afraid that he will suffer a lot of interference from Wembanyama.

After thinking about it, he still chose to roll over and fall back to shoot a jumper.

But Sochan was still much taller than Kyledon, and he jumped with Thick Eyebrow, reaching out to interfere with Thick Eyebrow's jump shot with all his might.

Wembanyama took the rebound, gave the ball to Chang Tiancheng, and then quickly sprinted to the frontcourt, as if he wanted to cooperate with Chang Tiancheng to play a seven-second fast break.

But Chang Tiancheng understood and after a high block with Wembanyama, he stuffed the ball directly to Wembanyama, who cut inside.

Wembanyama received the ball, faced James who switched defenses, and directly used a left and right throw.

With this height and reach, and with throwing, James can only watch the basketball go to the basket.

In these few rounds, Bamba obviously couldn't keep up with the Spurs' small-ball offensive rhythm, and was a little physically exhausted by the high-speed offensive and defensive transitions.

In the Spurs' two offensive rounds just now, he didn't have enough fitness to get back into his defensive position quickly.

When Coach Ham of the Lakers saw this, he asked the referees for a timeout, ready to let his players rest first, and he also had to make some tactical adjustments.

After the timeout, the Lakers replaced Bamba and brought in Hachimura, who was traded from the Wizards last season, to push Davis to the No. 5 spot.

The purpose of this was obviously to keep up with the pace of the Spurs' small-ball offense, but what Ham didn't expect was that Popovich actually changed McDermott in the lineup, sent Drummond, who had rested, and changed the lineup back to the original twin towers.

Ham was fooled, it turned out that from the beginning, Popovich's purpose was to let Chang Tiancheng impact with a set of small-ball lineups, forcing Bamba to not be able to stay on the court, and after he replaced Bamba, he immediately replaced the lineup with twin towers.

Although the Lakers' lineup is a little smaller than before, considering Wembanyama's running speed, they can't do the same brainless speed as the Spurs just now.

But once it falls into a positional battle, then the interior line composed of Davis + Hachimura is somewhat unable to compete with the twin towers of the Spurs' Wembanyama + Drummond.

After carefully observing the situation on the court, James chose the most stable style of play - continue to play with his back to Chang Tiancheng.

Chang Tiancheng of course knew that James would make this choice, and before James hit his back, he deliberately gave up a certain distance to let James shoot.

But James naturally won't fall for this, he knows very well in his heart that directly hitting Chang Tiancheng is a more stable scoring method than shooting himself.

So, he quickly pushed Chang Tiancheng to the restricted area, and then turned around and stuck Chang Tiancheng firmly behind him. As if he knew Wembanyama was coming to make up for it, he lit Wembanyama up again with a feint, and then put the basketball firmly into the hoop against Drummond.

When the Lakers were at a loss on the offensive end, James relied on his personal ability to continue to maintain the difference between the two teams.

But in the next few rounds, Hachimura was the most uncomfortable.

Defensively, he tried his best to disrupt Wembanyama's offense under the basket, not to mention that he wasn't known for his own defense.

On the offensive end, the singles he was proud of were completely unused in front of Wembanyama. After all, they are nearly 20 centimeters taller than you, and if you put your arm in front of you, you won't be able to see the basket.

Thick eyebrows are also bitter and can't say, the person he originally had to deal with was Sohan, but now he has to face Drummond, a tall and strong guy.

If it was Drummond in previous seasons, the thick eyebrows could still seize his slack on the defensive end to play two, but now Drummond's attitude on the court is like playing chicken blood, and his serious defense makes the thick eyebrows unable to find any offensive angle.

At the end of the day, the Lakers' offense can only count on James.