NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

After Looney received the ball, he was about to dunk strongly, but he found that a big hand appeared in front of him and slapped the ball directly from his hand.

After Chang Tiancheng received the ball, he launched a fast attack, taking advantage of the gap between the Warriors and the defensive formation, and threw the ball directly into the air, and Keldon, who followed up from the wing, received the ball in the air and dunked the ball directly into the basket.

Green took Looney's serve and attacked with the ball himself, while Curry and Thompson ran to a 45-degree angle on either side.

Green stood at the top of the arc and used his body as a cover to hand the ball to Curry, who shook off Keldon's defense from the right side through an off-ball run.

After Curry received the ball, he found a little space to shoot with the help of Green's cover, and decisively shot a three-pointer, and the basketball went into the net.

5:3, both teams showed a rather fierce offensive state at the beginning of the game

, and in the next round, Chang Tiancheng concocted the ball to Wembanyama.

Green, who took the initiative to ask for help, was still unable to give Wembanyama any interference on the defensive end, and Wembanyama hit another easy shot overhead.

And Thompson was not to be outdone, turning his head and returning the favor with a three-pointer, 7:6.

Chang Tiancheng continued to lead the team to attack, and just when Curry thought that Chang Tiancheng would go to Wembanyama before he entered, Chang Tiancheng did the opposite, using speed to break through directly to the Warriors' interior.

Curry was caught off guard by this change and was thrown out of position by Chang Tiancheng.

Wiggins, who was on the side, immediately tried to make up for the defense, but Chang Tiancheng found his defensive loophole and sent the ball directly to Sochan, who was on the bottom line, to help him add another three points to the Spurs.

At 10:6, the Spurs cleanly dragged the game into the rhythm of the two teams' offense.

The Warriors have no defensive strategy against Wembanyama on the inside, and the Spurs have plenty of outside firepower today, which also makes the Warriors have no way to defend Wembanyama and can only accept that the game is dragged into a situation where the two teams are attacking.

But Thompson and Wiggins of the Warriors didn't feel good today. Except for a three-pointer in the opening game, Thompson hit none of his next shots, and Wiggins scored nil. The entire Warriors are now the only one with Curry who can provide outside firepower.

However, the Warriors' interior offense is almost zero. Although Looney has strong rebounding ability, he has no advantage of Drummond at all, and Green's offense is negligible.

In such an offensive rhythm, the Warriors were quickly pulled apart.

Kerr quickly called a timeout, put Poole on the court to replace Thompson, and Kuminga came on for Rooney, pushing Green to the center position.

Popovich touched his chin and watched Kerr's wave of adjustments, and he chose to respond to the changes with the same and let the existing lineup continue to play for a while.

And the Warriors' adjustment worked, and after Poole came on the court, he quickly hit two three-pointers in a row and began to help Curry share the offensive pressure.

But the shortcomings of this lineup were soon exposed, after the Warriors' only interior long, Looney, went off the court, Wembanyama completely opened the matchless mode on the inside, and under his leadership, even Drummond, who had not made a shot before, began to actively attack the Warriors' interior.

With Drummond completing a two-handed dunk on the ground from a regular pass, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first quarter.

The Spurs ended the first quarter with a 42-30 score and a 12-point lead.

Wembanyama scored 15 points in the first quarter and can be said to have fully fulfilled his talent in the game.

And Drummond also scored 8 points, and in Looney's absence, neither Green nor Kuminga had a good way to eat cake after facing Drummond's block.

But the fans at the scene are very clear that the reason why the Spurs' two interior players can turn the river and the sea in the Warriors' restricted area is not only because of the Warriors' own lineup configuration problems, but more importantly, because of the strong containment brought by Chang Tiancheng on the outside.

Although Chang scored just six points in the first quarter, both shots came when the Warriors were trying to trap the Spurs' two interior players. This made the Warriors decisively abandon the idea of packing, after all, Chang Tiancheng's three-point shooting percentage was still a little terrifying last season.

And Chang Tiancheng's more terrifying thing is that he has 8 assists in a single quarter, perfectly completing the organizational tasks assigned to him by the coach, switching between positional battles and fast attacks freely, and he doesn't look a little uncomfortable at all. Keep the Spurs always one step ahead of their opponents in the pace of the game.

This made Popovich, who was sitting on the sidelines, feel that he was really discerning and found a top playmaker.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Kerr sent the strongest form of the Warriors' five-small lineup: Curry, Poole, Thompson, Wiggins, and Green. He knew very well in his heart that according to the previous rhythm of the Spurs, if he couldn't erase the 12-point difference in the second quarter, then the game would be over.

Popovich, on the other hand, had no intention of going toe-to-toe with Kerr and deciding the outcome of the game in the second quarter. He leisurely sent a set of substitute lineups, so that the main players who had played a full quarter of the game before could rest off the court.

This made Cole's punch feel as if it had hit cotton. The offensive pressure on the Warriors has become unusually high at this time, and if this lineup can't overtake the Spurs' bench lineup, then when these players get off the court, the Spurs' starters will return to the court to face the Warriors' bench lineup, and the score will be more than in the first quarter.

Curry held the ball from beyond the three-point line with a serious look and hit a three-pointer after a fancy dribble shook off Vassell's defense. At 42:33, as soon as the second quarter came up, Curry pulled the score back to single digits.

The Spurs' offense was unhurried, with Vassell firmly controlling the ball at the top of the Warriors' arc and then passing the ball to Collins on the inside.

Against the Warriors' Green, Collins had a huge height advantage, but he did not choose to beat Green with his back, but lifted the ball high on the inside, pretending to turn around and shoot, and successfully attracted Thompson's help defense. Seeing this, Collins immediately passed the ball to McDermott, who was open on the outside.

After McDermott received the ball, he first picked up Thompson, who was coming back to pounce, and then confidently shot a three-pointer.

At 45:33, the Spurs' offense continued.