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Jokic held the ball, shook his body, and slowly dribbled from the backcourt. He seems to be careless, but he has actually seen the offensive lines of every teammate.

Outside the Spurs' three-point line, Jokic pouted his ass to push off Drummond's close-fitting entanglement, handed the ball to Murray, and then turned and ran directly to the Spurs' basket.

Seeing this, Murray hoisted the ball over. As soon as Jokic receives the ball, he has to go straight to the low hand to make a layup.

Wembanyama immediately stepped forward to make up for the defense, and just when he thought he could treat the two-time MVP to a big hot pot, Jokic suddenly lowered his hand and sent the ball out of Wembanyama's side.

Gordon received Jokic's pass, jumped with all his might, and completed a two-handed dunk.

While Gordon was still hanging from the basket to celebrate, Sochan quickly picked up the ball from the floor, and then directly served from a long distance, throwing the ball with one hand to Chang Tiancheng, who was playing a fast break.

Chang Tiancheng took three steps directly, and was about to complete a simple layup, but he felt as if a gust of wind was blowing behind him. It turned out that Porter Jr. was chasing after Sochan the moment he sent the ball, and was about to block his layup directly from behind Chang Tiancheng. So Chang Tiancheng used his legs hard, added some jumping height, and finally scored this goal with a change of hand lever.

And when Porter Jr. saw the ball, he also laughed and clapped his hands hard, indicating that he did his best to defend.

The two sides are fully in the rhythm of the attack. Although the Nuggets are not as good at using the small lineup to push the pace of the offense as the Warriors, under the organization of Jokic, they methodically execute the tactics they have practiced again and again, and the offensive efficiency is extremely high.

The Spurs' interior twin towers Ven Banyama and Drummond were a little dizzy in the Nuggets' passes again and again, and with Murray and Porter Jr. coming from time to time with two strong shots, the Nuggets finally opened up the difference with the Spurs with a wave of offensive climaxes at the end of the first quarter.

At the end of the first quarter, the Spurs trailed the Nuggets by 10 points, 30-40.

Although there is such an offensive machine as Chang Tiancheng, the Spurs' offense has always been less fluent than the Nuggets. The most fundamental reason is that this group of Nuggets players have been fighting together for a long time, and the Spurs' lineup has just been formed this season, and they have played less than five games together when they are full, and they are far less tacit than the Nuggets in terms of cooperation.

During the break, Popovich didn't look like he was going to coach the starters, and the game had just started anyway, and the situation wasn't even critical.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Spurs sent their own bench lineup and began to slowly recover the score.

The Spurs' bench lineup has actually been running in a lot of games last season, and they usually rehearse the Spurs' team basketball system when the starting lineup is training, so the situation on the court is reversed.

Although the Nuggets' bench has also played together for a long time, they still lack a stable playmaking point to promote the team's tactical system.

But on the Spurs' side, Vassell has gradually become familiar with the role of playmaker. He and Graham have been able to play well at the back of the bench on a regular basis.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Spurs relied on flowing team basketball to turn the score into 46:51, trailing by five points.

At this time, Popovich suddenly said to Chang Tiancheng: "Chang, you go to warm up, you are ready to play."

Chang Tiancheng asked puzzledly: "Why coach, aren't they playing very well? It's better to let the five of them fight a little longer. "

What, haven't you rested enough?" Popovich turned his head and glanced at Chang Tiancheng, "If you want to go, you can go quickly."

Chang Tiancheng was helpless, knowing that he couldn't resist the old man in front of him, so he had to honestly run to the side to warm up.

After the Nuggets' Jeff Green forced a layup on the Spurs' interior and caused Collins to foul and make a free throw at the free throw line, Popovich asked the referee for a substitution and took Vassell off.

With Jeff Green missing two free throws, Chang Tiancheng once again stepped on the court.

Vassell sat on the bench, wiping the sweat from his face with a towel and asking Popovich, "Coach, is there anything I didn't do well?"

"No, Vassell, you just played well. Popovich offered to hand Vassell a bottle of sports drink and said with a smile.

"Huh, then why?" Vassell wondered why he had been substituted since he hadn't made any mistakes on the field

, and Popovich didn't answer him, just motioned for him to look at the court.

After Chang Tiancheng returned to the court, the other four teammates suddenly became a little unable to play, and they originally paid great attention to team cooperation, but now they always want to pass the ball to Chang Tiancheng.

Chang Tiancheng stood at the top of the arc and first received a pass from McDermott on the right side. He didn't let the ball stay too long in his own hands and passed it straight to Graham in the bottom left corner.

After Graham got the ball, he hesitated for a moment and gave the ball to Collins on the inside, who in turn passed the ball back to Chang Tiancheng.

In desperation, Chang Tiancheng had to make a gesture, signaling Collins to come over to block for him, and then faced Jeff Green, who came over from the defense, and directly shot a three-point shot.

Basketball went into the net 49:51, and the Spurs trailed by just two points.

"Victor, can you tell me why I'm going to change to normal at this time, even at the cost of sacrificing team basketball. Popovich asked, with his hands on his chest, standing near the bottom line, without turning his head.

The surrounding Spurs players have also set their sights on Wembanyama, and they are also curious to know why Popovich made this choice at this time.

Wembanyama pinched his chin with his hand, thought seriously for a moment, and replied, "Is it because of the explosiveness of the score?"

Popovich turned around and didn't speak, just smiled.

Seeing that Popovich did not refute, Wembanyama continued: "Although our bench players can slowly recover the score through team basketball, according to the current progress, I am afraid that by the end of the second quarter, there will be no way to tie or even overtake the score." And if Chang Tiancheng is sent at this time, then he has a chance to play another offensive climax before the end of the second quarter. "