bdsm-fiction Chapter 141
Chapter 141
Although Giannis's projection ability is much better now than when he first entered the league, this kind of shot is still too reluctant for him, and the basketball naturally bounces out of the frame and fails to shoot.
Giannis lowered his head, returned to the Bucks' bench and sat down, putting a towel over his head so that people couldn't see his expression.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, both sides sent their bench lineups, and both teams knew that their starters had played the entire third quarter, and it would certainly not work well if they wanted them to play the entire fourth quarter. It is still necessary to let the bench come up first and wait until the decisive time in the second half of the fourth quarter to send the starting lineups of both sides.
The Spurs' bench lineup, on the other hand, learned the lessons of the second quarter, and was more attentive to some details, while slowing down the offensive tempo and playing as much as possible on every offense to reduce the number of rounds. In this way, even if the Bucks' bench is still stronger than their own side, they will not be given too much lead by the opponent.
In this way, the two chasing teams came to the second half of the fourth quarter, the score on the court was 107:103, and the Spurs had a slight lead, but everyone also knew that in the fourth quarter of the game, in fact, the four-point difference was not enough to kill the game, not to mention that the opponent also had a physical recovery Giannis.
After a brief pause, the starters from both sides returned to the pitch one after another, ready to draw a final end to the game.
With the ball for the Bucks, Holiday found Giannis to block for him at the beginning. It seems that the Bucks have figured it out, and it is still a little difficult to rely on Giannis alone to compete with the Spurs' twin stars for star quality.
This is not to say that Chang Tiancheng + Wembanyama is already greater than Giannis, but because Giannis's own offensive means are still too lacking, no matter how he overturns the river and the sea on the inside, it is only two points.
Chang Tiancheng frequently made difficulties outside the three-point line and kept hitting back with three-point shots, which led to the Bucks gradually being pulled away by some scores.
Once Giannis mentions the upline and wants to defend Chang Tiancheng by himself, then Chang Tiancheng will immediately pass the ball to Wembanyama and let him settle the battle.
In fact, if this set of tactics had been placed a year ago or two years ago, it might not have been so useful, and the reason why Chang Tiancheng dared to take the Bucks' moves on the court and fight with the Bucks for the quality of stars was essentially because Chang Tiancheng saw the decline in the strength of the Bucks' current role players.
Aside from Giannis, the Bucks' most consistent player right now may be Da Lopez, but to be honest, there's a limit to what he can do. As for Holiday and Middleton, although they were in excellent form during the championship season, they could not escape the erosion of the years in the past two years.
The situation on the Spurs' side is the opposite, the starters are all young lads, still in the dual technical and physical upswing, and the firepower is more than the Bucks. And Giannis himself can't strengthen the inside and outside offense and defense at the same time, which leads to why the Bucks can't bargain in the round of positional battles for star quality.
After Holiday bypassed Giannis's cover, he found that the Spurs did not choose to switch defenses, but let Chang Tiancheng force his way past Giannis's pick-and-roll cover to catch up with Holiday
In fact, at this time, Holiday had a certain amount of room to make a move, but he didn't make a move. Because he still wants to pass the pick-and-roll cover, give the ball to Giannis and let him finish down.
Although he quickly reacted to the ball and seemed to be able to shoot it on his own, many decisions on the basketball court were instantaneous, and this time was enough for Chang Tiancheng to stand in front of him again.
Holiday saw that this block and demolition failed, so he decided to plan and directly force Chang Tiancheng. Just when he wanted to use his physical advantage to push Chang Tiancheng away, he suddenly found that Chang Tiancheng's body was much stronger than he imagined, and he couldn't directly break through to the inner line.
This puts Holiday in an awkward position, with his whole body stuck near the free-throw line and unable to find a chance to get out of the ball, and it seems that his only option is to force a mid-range shot.
Fortunately, at this time, Middleton still came out to clear the siege for him, only to see Middledu directly bypass Sochan's defense and run in front of Holiday so that Holiday could pass the ball to him with his hands, and then he quickly dribbled the ball outside the three-point line.
But at this time, the offensive time has been consumed, Middleton glanced at the timer, his legs tensed, jumped straight outside the three-point line, faced Sochan's defense, and forced a three-pointer!
107:106, the difference between the two teams was only one point.
Chang Tiancheng quickly dribbled the ball to the Bucks' half, he first glanced at the Bucks' interior position, and then chose to let Collins block him. The reason is simple, if he calls Wembanyama for his block, even if he can attract the opposing side to change the defense, he will not be able to face Giannis's defense and score the ball.
But after calling Collins as a cover, the opponent switched to his own is Da Lopez, and this one can be directly forced by his speed advantage.
After bypassing Collins' cover, the Bucks really let Lopez come over and switch to defend themselves. And the reason why the Bucks did this was because of a series of three-pointers in the third quarter.
The Bucks believe that Chang Tiancheng must be on fire right now and will definitely continue to shoot three-pointers, and Lopez's height and reach are just enough to interfere with him.
But this time, Chang Tiancheng did not continue to choose to shoot three-pointers, but directly broke through the defense of Da Lopez and went straight to the Bucks' basket.
Seeing this, Giannis hurried over to make up for the defense, he didn't want to give Chang Tiancheng such an easy chance.
The moment Chang Tiancheng noticed Giannis rushing towards him, he exchanged glances with Wembanyama standing under the basket, signaling that he would pass the ball.
After making a feint layup to attract Giannis to jump in sync with him, Chang Tianguo broke off and stuffed the ball from under Giannis's arm to Wembanyama.
After Wembanyama received the ball, he dunked with a crisp two-handed dunk to complete an offensive finish.
At 109:106, the Spurs stretched the margin to three points again.
In the offensive round of the Bucks, Holiday did not choose to cooperate with Giannis this time, but chose to call Da Lopez to block and dismantle for himself, and then bypassed Da Lopez's cover, found that the opponent changed defenses, and when he faced Collins and Da Lopez faced Chang Tiancheng, he decisively passed the ball back to Da Lopez.