manynovel Chapter 139
Chapter 139
Until this time, Chang Tiancheng finally reacted, the other party's purpose in doing this may not really want to drag the Spurs into a positional battle, but there are deeper reasons.
In fact, for NBA-level players, many players can get some points through fast breaking, like the seven-second fast break system that the Spurs showed last season before Chang Tiancheng's injury.
But the criterion that can really test the quality of a superstar is how well the star performs in the positional battle, and only the star who can play his strength as he wants in the positional battle can be called the top superstar of this league.
Like the previous James-led Heat team, the reason why it lost to the Mavericks in the Finals was essentially because in the Finals that year, James's positional offensive completely collapsed. Faced with the defensive line built by Tyson Chandler, the best defensive player of the year, James struggled to show his most common offensive tactic in positional warfare - breaking. That's why he was hesitant to play in that series.
At this time, Chang Tian's achievement is facing this problem: the Bucks now clearly want to cut off their connection with Wembanyama and other teammates, and are determined that even if they and Wembanyama, the inner and outer cores combined, they can't compete with Giannis as a star.
Thinking of this, Chang Tiancheng suddenly felt that the game had become interesting.
Chang Tiancheng was a bench player when he entered the NBA, and in order to be able to play more opportunities, he often could only show his most valuable point for the team in training games, that is, his organizational ability. This has led to his habit of playing the game as a priority for organization.
Even if he was traded to the Spurs, even though Popovich has personally promised to use him as the team's outside tactical core and continues his very high tactical status, he still feels that the strong man who can lead his teammates is the real strong. Therefore, in the game, he still maintains the habit of giving priority to helping his teammates find their touch.
Since Wembanyama's arrival, this habit can be said to have deepened further, and although Chang Tiancheng is known as the outside core of the Spurs, his average points per game has dropped a lot compared to last season. The reason is also very simple, in those occasions where the team's leading stars need to rely on their own ball-holding singles to open up the situation, he will often give this opportunity to Wembanyama, and at most he will occasionally shoot those "three-pointers" from the outside.
But at this point, Wembanyama has been able to cause some problems for Giannis on the offensive end, but it is clear that he needs to devote a large part of his energy to defending Giannis. This also means that Chang Tiancheng needs to shoulder the team's offensive responsibility at this time.
Chang Tiancheng saw that Middleton, who was on the other side, did not come over to wrap himself, but would rather give himself a relatively easy chance to shoot than let the Spurs play an overall offense, so he decisively seized this opportunity, shot in the middle, and hit it steadily.
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the other hand, after the Bucks found out that the Spurs no longer chose to pack Giannis, they really began to give Giannis the ball to him for interior singles.
Wembanyama was able to defend a few balls from time to time, but the reason for these balls was probably because Giannis didn't have the strength of his own hands right. Giannis's every attack can almost knock Wembanyama out of the way, which also makes Wembanyama's height and reach advantage impossible to exploit.
On the Spurs' side, after realizing that the Bucks were going to start playing this ace-to-ace strategy, Chang Tiancheng was no longer polite, his eyes began to become only the basket and no teammates, and the whole person was directly full of firepower, and after scoring the mid-range shot just now, he hit two three-pointers in a row near the halfcourt, allowing the Spurs to always maintain the lead.
After all, Giannis can only score two points even if his offense under the basket is stable, and Chang Tiancheng can almost bring three points to the team every shot, which is the benefit of outside shooting.
Giannis finally realized that his non-stop attacking interior line could not help the team achieve a stable advantage, although he could top Wembanyama, Wembanyama has become extremely good after the Spurs' training during this time, and even if he sees the opponent scoring a goal, he will not send fouls again.
The reason is very simple, Wembanyama sees it very clearly, after all, Chang Tiancheng's current scoring momentum is very fierce, as long as he tries to limit Giannis as much as possible, so that he is not so easy to score points, then Chang Tiancheng can naturally help the team win.
Chang Tiancheng attacked with the ball again, this time the opponent's Holiday had begun to notice the power of his half-court three-point shooting, so the defense was more compact, so it could be said that he was telling Chang Tiancheng with body language: I will let you have some breakthrough space now, but you don't want to score with shooting again!
Chang Tiancheng said that since you have done this, then I am indeed a little sorry for your hard defense, so he accelerated at his feet, and at the same time gave Holiday a confrontation with his body, and directly broke through Holiday's defense.
Although Holiday let Chang Tiancheng break through a position or so, he always stuck close behind him, the purpose of this is to let Chang Tiancheng know that as long as he dares to shoot without anyone in front of him, he will block him behind him.
But Chang Tiancheng didn't seem to have any intention of shooting, I saw him continue to break through near the three-point line, and he went all the way to the inside of the Bucks.
Seeing this, Giannis naturally couldn't let Chang Tiancheng come to his forbidden area so unscrupulously, so he immediately raised it and prepared to make up for Chang Tiancheng.
Chang Tiancheng faced Giannis who pounced, but he was not afraid at all, he directly opened his hand and threw a shot at Giannis.
The arc of this throw was extremely high, and even if Giannis jumped with all his might, he was a little short of blocking this shot.
But Giannis could clearly feel that Chang Tiancheng's shot, although it crossed his own defense, the arc was indeed completely off.
Thinking of this, Giannis turned around and prepared to scramble for a defensive rebound.