NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

Popovich looked at the time and saw that the third quarter was almost over, so he was ready to switch to the bench to play the third quarter.

At the end of the timeout, the Nuggets also sent a bench lineup.

Both sides found themselves unable to completely win each other in the third quarter, so they decided to save the chance for the showdown in the fourth quarter.

After all, if the opponent sends a substitute and continues to maintain the starting line, once he fails to open up the point difference, it is easy for the opponent's starter to score too many points from his substitute in the fourth quarter.

The bench lineups on both sides played well in the final minutes of the third quarter, and neither gave the opponent a chance to pull away.

In this way, the outcome of the game will depend entirely on the performance of the starters of both teams in the fourth quarter.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Nuggets' offense seemed to be very dynamic, presumably because Coach Malone gave them a lot of psychological counseling during the break at the end of the third quarter.

Murray didn't pass the ball to Jokic as he did before, but broke through with the ball himself.

Jokic, meanwhile, blocked and picked up Murray's pass.

But the Spurs handled it very smartly at this time, they didn't choose to switch defenses, but directly let Chang Tiancheng chase Murray, and Drummond got stuck in front of Jokic to stop his down.

But after doing so, although Jokic's offensive line has been stuck by the Spurs, Murray has distanced himself from Chang Tiancheng and used it to break through to the Spurs' basket.

Seeing this, Wembanyama knew that Gordon was waiting behind him to cooperate with Murray, but he still had to step forward to block Murray's offensive line.

Seeing that Wembanyama had already lifted it, Murray tossed the ball into the air, and Gordon behind Wembanyama was ready to jump.

But Wembanyama didn't seem to really stop Murray's attack from the start, and the moment Murray threw the ball, Wembanyama quickly turned, as if he had expected him to pass the ball, and stopped the pass directly from mid-air.

Wembanyama, who got the ball, gave the ball directly to Chang Tiancheng.

Chang Tiancheng quickly advanced with the ball, and at this time, the only people who could defend the Nuggets were Porter Jr. and Pope.

With Jokic still tangling with Drummond and Gordon and Murray near the baseline, it's unrealistic to have them involved in the backline.

But the Spurs had three people on the fast break at this time, a simple three-on-two, Chang Tiancheng first pretended to break through to attract Pop's defense, and then passed the ball to Sochan who cut inside.

After confirming that Porter Jr. was defending himself, Sochan threw the ball directly to Keldon, who ran near the bottom corner.

After receiving the ball, Keldon was about to shoot, but Pope was very active defensively, and immediately turned his head to stop Keldon's shot after he had just defended Chang Tiancheng.

Keldon faked a real pass and gave the ball directly to Chang Tiancheng at a 45-degree angle.

Chang Tiancheng got up and down with a knife and hit a three-point shot.

Once on the court, the pace of the game was still on the Spurs' side.

Jokic advanced with the ball from the backcourt, faced Drummond's defense, first pretended to play the ball to Murray with his back, but in fact, when he was about to pass the ball out, he suddenly retracted it, made a turn and breakthrough, and bullied Drummond not fast enough.

Drummond gritted his teeth and chased back, but was always one position behind Jokic.

Jokic broke through to the free throw line, Wembanyama had been waiting for a long time, just when he raised his hands high, and was about to jump to block Jokic's shot, but Jokic directly threw a super high angle shot, and the basketball slid past Wembanyama's fingertips and entered the basket steadily.

Chang Tiancheng continued to dribble the ball, and after blocking and dismantling Wembanyama in a high position, he confirmed that the opponent chose to change defense this time, and decisively returned the ball to Wembanyama, who was playing outside.

Wembanyama faced Murray, who was much shorter than him, and made a decisive three-point shot. However, this time he was not able to trigger Chang Tiancheng's point guard god skill, so the basketball bounced out of the hoop after jumping twice on the basket.

Gordon grabbed the board with one hand and then passed the ball to Murray.

Murray saw that the Spurs' defense was a little inactive at this time, so he immediately pushed the fast attack, and at this time, Keldon and Chang Tiancheng wanted to catch up, but found that he had pulled away a certain position, and could only watch Murray add two more points to the Nuggets.

In the next round, the Spurs still chose to let Wembanyama solve the game, Wembanyama faced Gordon's defense, and still chose to shoot with a hook hand on the left side, not giving Gordon any possibility to defend.

But there were some problems with his hand this time, and his left hand, which he had never missed before, failed to score as before.

After Jokic protected the defensive rebound, he observed that Porter Jr. had begun to play a fast break, so he directly used a powerful two-handed pass to send the ball to Porter Jr.'s hands.

And Sochan, who is responsible for defending Porter Jr., although he successfully caught up with Porter Jr., Porter Jr.'s fighting layup skills are already extremely proficient, he stuck Sohan's body, and directly came to a three-step basket with three slow steps, and scored the ball steadily.

In this process, as long as Sochan dares to reach out and try to break the ball, he will definitely be fouled by Porter Jr., so Sochan never chooses to make further physical contact with Porter Jr.

Through a few rounds of offensive and defensive transitions, the Nuggets once again took the initiative on the court into their own hands.

Chang Tiancheng still didn't look anxious, but Wembanyama, another core of the team, was a little anxious at this time.

He hung his head, thinking to himself that if he could score that goal just now, maybe he would be able to stop the Nuggets' offensive rhythm.

Chang Tiancheng looked at Wembanyama's appearance, and wanted to pass the ball to him, but he was a little worried about the impact of his hand mentality at this time, and he couldn't play his due effect on the offensive end, so he lowered his center of gravity and began to make a posture ready to break through.

Murray saw Chang Tiancheng's posture, and his center of gravity also lowered, also as an excellent offensive defender, he knew that according to Chang Tiancheng's current appearance, most of them were about to break through.

But Chang Tianzeng's next move didn't look like he wanted to break through, I saw him dribbling the ball slowly, although the center of gravity was still very low, but his expression seemed very relaxed.

Just when Murray was still thinking about what Chang Tiancheng was thinking about at this time, Chang Tiancheng suddenly pulled up and made a three-point shot directly outside the three-point line.

The basketball hit steadily, and in the end, Chang Tiancheng led the Spurs to start counterattacking the Nuggets' offensive rhythm.