NBA: Strongest In The History Of Holding A Large Ball

Although Popovich originally wanted to keep Wembanyama until Owen went off the court, but now that Drummond has been sent off, the other two substitutes on his team have just come down to rest, so they can only be forced to send Wembanyama on the court, and then improvise.

However, for the Mavericks, they can hardly find a substitute interior line after losing Wood, and McGee and Powell have been on the court for a while, so the Mavericks have to send a small lineup to continue the game.

But the small lineup is tantamount to giving away points against the Spurs team who have Wembanyama. Wembanyama had just come on the court when he used his height advantage to score six points in a row under the Mavericks' basket.

Originally, after Owen saw Wembanyama playing, he wanted to try to continue to break through Wembanyama's defense with his singles, but now Keldon, who is responsible for defending him, has rested off the court, and now he has nothing to do on the offensive end, so Kelden directly allocated all his energy and physical strength to defend Owen, which made Owen really entangled by Kelden for a while, and he was not even very good at receiving the ball.

At this time, the Mavericks can only rely on the performance of other players, but the overall feeling of the Mavericks team today seems to be a little sluggish, and when facing Wembanyama's attack that almost every ball must be hit, their response is indeed one after another.

Finally, as Wembanyama passed the ball on the inside, Sochan missed a three-pointer, and Irving seized an opportunity to switch offense, quickly dribbled to the Spurs' interior and scored two points on a layup, which helped the Mavericks stop the bleeding.

At this time, Coach Kidd called a timeout in time, and it seemed that he wanted to take advantage of the Spurs' lack of personnel to send Doncic to a direct showdown with the Spurs.

Popovich can naturally understand what Coach Kidd has in mind, but he is not worried, although his starters are missing Drummond, who specializes in sharing the dirty work for Wembanyama, but after all, his real duo - Chang Tiancheng and Wembanyama are still on the court, and they are not afraid of the Doncic Irving combination of the Mavericks opposite.

At the end of the timeout, the Mavericks really sent Doncic back on the court. He didn't have much rest either, but now this is the only chance the Mavericks have if they want to win.

Chang Tiancheng came to the front court of the Mavericks with the ball, and seeing that the opponent was still using a striker to defend Wembanyama, Chang Tiancheng immediately hoisted the ball high.

Wembanyama has been trained privately by Duncan since joining the Spurs, and one of the most important theories that Duncan has passed on to Wembanyama is to use as simple and efficient skill sets as possible on the offensive end. On the one hand, these moves can improve the hit rate through repeated polishing, and on the other hand, they can also help themselves save a lot of physical strength on the offensive end, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Wembanyama obviously took Duncan's words to heart, and after receiving Chang Tiancheng's pass, he immediately turned around and hooked his hand, completely ignoring who the defender behind him was, and threw the ball directly into the basket.

Chang Tiancheng saw Wembanyama's offense so efficient, combined with the fact that the opponent did not have any tall players on the court now, so he began to think about whether to help Wembanyama brush a new career scoring high or something.

However, the Eastern European combination is not vegetarian, although their ability on the defensive end is indeed a little criticized, but when it comes to the offensive end, both of them are historic, even if the two often need to float outside to shoot because of the weak win on the inside, they can still maintain a fairly good shooting rate.

Seeing that Irving was still being marked, Doncic began to continue to show his excellent singles skills. In the face of Chang Tiancheng's defense, Doncic first dribbled under his crotch, and then directly connected to a step-back three-pointer, a technique that many ball-holding cores like to use, whether it is James Harden before or Chang Tiancheng now. The reason is that this skill is simple and brutal to save physical strength, and the ball-wielding cores can use this skill to consume the ball infinitely and pile up three-point production, so as to improve their offensive threat.

Doncic naturally practiced this trick to perfection, Chang Tiancheng's defense seemed as if it didn't exist in his eyes, and he easily scored this goal against Chang Tiancheng.

Chang Tiancheng saw Doncic throw another three-pointer in his head, but he was not annoyed in his heart. After all, he is also a big ball-handling core, and he also knows very well that this trick itself has a high shooting rate, not to mention that Doncic used it.

After receiving Wembanyama's baseline serve, Chang Tiancheng locked his eyes on several players of the Mavericks, looking for a better offensive route.

However, after watching it for a while, Chang Tiancheng himself felt that he was doing this completely redundantly, after all, the opponent's defense was too lax, and there seemed to be flaws everywhere.

Wembanyama had already scored a lot of points before the combination, and Chang Tiancheng simply decided to let Wembanyama play alone until he started to feel tired.

After receiving Chang Tiancheng's pass again, Wembanyama's face had some surprise, and he confirmed to Chang Tiancheng with his eyes: "Dude, is it really possible?"

Seeing Chang Tiancheng nodded, Wembanyama began to single-handedly beat the Mavericks' forward Reggie Bullock behind him.

It stands to reason that Bullock is close to two meters tall, and it doesn't seem strange to play an inside line in the small-ball era, but in the face of a monster like Banyama who is nearly 230 cm tall, this picture looks a little strange all of a sudden.

Wembanyama still did what Duncan taught him, using as simple and efficient methods as possible to attack, and after taking a single step with his back to his back, he opened his arms and hit again with a hook hand.

Bullock made a gesture of spreading his hands towards Doncic, and he simply gave up defending this time, anyway, if Wembanyama kept attacking with hook hands like this, then it was all up to his feel whether the ball could score or not.

Obviously, he had a pretty good hand today and hasn't missed a shot so far.

Popovich looked at the scoreboard, Wembanyama had scored almost 30 points so far, and if the momentum continued, he could indeed break his career scoring record.

However, the Spurs' tradition is not to care much about the data, and it is estimated that Wembanyama himself has not thought about the scoring record, what he thinks in his heart is: since his point on the court is the easiest to score points now, it is okay to have more shots.