radicalducati Chapter 143
Chapter 143
At 117:109, the Spurs were just two points shy of stretching the margin to double digits. And now there are just over a few minutes left until the end of the game.
Giannis was already in a hurry, waving his hand and signaling Holiday to move forward, while he ran to the baseline to catch Lopez's serve, apparently trying to score two points for his team by breaking through with the ball.
After Giannis received the ball, he began to accelerate forward directly in his own half, wanting to use his physical advantage to directly kill the Spurs' interior.
However, Wembanyama's defensive attitude was very firm, and I saw that he stood directly on Giannis's breakthrough route, making it clear that he would not let Giannis get up easily.
When Giannis saw this, he gritted his teeth, his heart was ruthless, and he actually crashed straight towards Wembanyama. At the same time, his elbows were also secretly propped up, as long as Wembanyama really dared to stick his body up, and wanted to slow down his breakthrough, then he would immediately elbow him.
But Wembanyama has already suffered a loss on Giannis before, so naturally he has learned to be smart. This time, in the face of Giannis's breakthrough, when Giannis was about to hit him, Wembanyama suddenly flashed sideways, and then directly stretched out his big hand to grab Giannis's arm.
Giannis was originally traveling at high speed, and after being pulled by his arm like this, the whole person spun around in a circle directly in place and was forced to stop the ball.
Although the referee blew Wembanyama's foul in time, the move also completely angered Giannis. I saw him slam the ball to the floor hard, but he didn't make any further moves, just glared at Wembanyama viciously, his eyes full of resentment.
It can be seen that Giannis's temper has actually grown a lot, at least now when facing this situation, he will not directly clash with the opposing player, because he knows that even if this is his home stadium, once he takes the initiative to start a conflict with the opponent, then the best result is that he and the opponent are both expelled from the field, which is not what he wants to see.
After standing still for a moment, Giannis regained his sidelines and played the ball to Holiday but soon returned to his own hands.
Giannis held the ball on the outside to face Wembanyama's defense, used a forward change of direction, and then went straight to Wembanyama from the right side.
This time, he didn't think of any crooked moves, but honestly shook off Wembanyama through the speed advantage, and then dunked the ball into the basket against Collins before Wembanyama's big hand block arrived!
Even Chang Tiancheng, who has always been calm, was shocked by Giannis's shot, and now there is no one else in the league who can complete such an end except Giannis.
At 117:111, there is still a six-point difference between the two sides, and there are more than 50 seconds left in the game.
Chang Tiancheng knew that he should slow down the pace to play at this time, killing the opponent's time as much as possible, and of course he knew that the other party would not give him this opportunity.
Sure enough, as soon as Chang Tiancheng received the ball, the opponent's Allen and Holiday stood directly in front of him, wanting to cut the ball off his hand directly.
These two are already the best outside defenders of the Bucks, but Chang Tiancheng is still very calm, he holds the ball high with both hands, and then steadily gives the ball to Keldon.
When Keldon received the ball, he knew he would soon face the bag, so he took the ball to the opponent's three-point line as fast as he could, and then gave the ball to Wembanyama on the inside.
After Wembanyama received the ball, he first made a tentative step in the face of Giannis, he wanted to use a breakthrough to respond to the opponent's impact dunk, so after a simple tentative step, he broke through two steps directly to the inside, and then closed the ball, raised his right hand high, intending to complete the layup directly.
But Wembanyama obviously underestimated Giannis's fighting spirit and combat effectiveness at this time, and saw that Giannis jumped high the moment Wembanyama made a move, and directly shot Wembanyama's shot.
Fortunately, the ball finally fell to Chang Tiancheng, who happened to follow up outside the three-point line, and the Spurs were able to get a chance to regroup.
At this time, there were more than forty seconds left before the end of the game, and the Bucks knew that if they couldn't get the ball again, then the game would probably be lost, so Allen and Holiday once again launched an encirclement defense against Chang Tiancheng.
Chang Tiancheng passed the ball directly to Keldon, who was in the vacant position, when Allen ran in his direction.
Keldon received the ball from beyond the three-point line and made a decisive shot, but the shot missed the basket and missed it.
Wembanyama originally planned to grab the frontcourt rebound to make up for the embarrassment that he had just been blocked, but Giannis turned around and stuck Wembanyama. He didn't jump himself, but watched Lopez take the defensive rebound safely.
Giannis took the ball from Da Lopez and quickly launched a counterattack, at this time for the Bucks, even Giannis's breakthrough is stable and cannot be used as a shooting point, because if the Bucks want to win this game, they must shoot three-pointers at this time.
Giannis certainly knows that, and while he wants to help the team complete the comeback on his own, he has no choice but to give the ball to Holiday and let his other four teammates with three-point shooting ability settle the battle.
This is one of Giannis's few weaknesses, that is, when the Bucks need to rely on three-pointers to win games, he can only help his other four teammates do the work of defense, blocking and other blue-collar players, which makes him always a little bit away from the real historical superstar.
After all, in this era, any interior player who can be the core has the ability to shoot three-point shots, and even is very stable. Whether it's Jokic, the strongest interior player in the league at the moment, or Embiid, last year's MVP, or even Towns of the Timberwolves, they can all help the team through projection.
But Giannis lacks the ability to do so. But if he is really traded to Dallas, then all the problems will be solved, after all, Dallas has a super strong outside Doncic.
The Bucks' offense ended with Middleton's three-point shot, and after each side missed a three-pointer, there were less than 20 seconds left before the end of the game, at which point the Bucks had no choice but to drag the game into a "penalty shootout".