'Pausing substitutions at every turn' is a superficial phenomenon of the Nuggets' tactical adjustments, and its essence is to keep trying to find out how to better deal with the Kings. In this regard, Malone can be described as ruthless and decisive, daring to put Jokic, the strongest fighter, on the bench when the team's score is behind by double digits.

The key is that he changed like this, and it really worked, and the Nuggets didn't even chase 4 points, and the momentum completely came back.

But Zhang Feng, like Coach David, did not feel the slightest panic, to put it mildly, the Nuggets' tactical adjustment was nothing more than 'a punch on the cotton – a mistake'.

Why? Because, Zhang Feng and Randolph are also sitting off the court, the King is missing the two strongest points on the outside and under the basket, and Rose and Love can lead the team to attack but the defense is a lot worse.

In the blink of an eye, the game reached the second official timeout in the second quarter, the Nuggets successfully tied the point difference, and the cheers of the Pepsi Center almost broke through the arena, but David still did not replace Zhang Feng and Randolph, but arranged for Love to rest and let Willy go up to the position of power forward.

On the Nuggets side, except for Jokic, everyone else is still the starting lineup, and before halftime, they scored 5 more points to overtake the Kings, Nuggets fans flew happily, but Malone's face was solemn and did not have any excited expression.

At halftime, in the away locker room, David called the Kings to set up their tactics.

"After the start of the second half, the Nuggets will be 100% strong, don't relax, don't think that Millsap and Jokic didn't play well in the first half and think they are not good."

"Randolph, you have to keep an eye on Jokic the whole time, I don't care if you use the front or the card position, I can't let him receive the ball easily."

"Love, you're going to provide the most firepower threat in the low post and in the short corner, forcing the Nuggets to not wrap up our perimeter."

"Zhang Feng, what you have to do is to tear up the Nuggets defense at the first time and pass the ball to teammates who have a chance at the first time."

"Giles and Bogdan, you have to bite each other like mad dogs defensively, you have to be like a pushpin offensively, and you have to be able to play anytime and anywhere."

"Do you all understand?"

"Understood! Coach"

From emphasizing the background to arranging all the tactics, David spoke 6 sentences in a row, in one go, without question, and it took less than a minute before and after.

The whole team of the Kings returned to the court early to shoot and warm up, and Randolph leaned over to Zhang Feng and muttered: "Is the coach stimulated by our conversation just now, and he has to play a ruthless role......

Zhang Feng blinked, "It should be, but the coach is even more ruthless, and he actually arranged a tactic to kill the Nuggets, which is simply terrifying."

"Do you think you can do it? I don't think it's easy, the atmosphere of the Nuggets is like in Game 7 of the Finals," Randolph shook his head.

"It should be no problem, I'll shoot fewer threes and shoot a few more, as long as your shooting percentage is still passable......"

Before Zhang Feng finished speaking, Randolph hurriedly interrupted and said: "You are actually more ruthless than Coach David, he just thinks about it and plans to try, you really think you can do it ......."

The two chatted for a while, and the game continued in the second half, with the Nuggets switching to Millsap and Jokic.

In the first attack, Mori advanced with the ball, handed the top of the arc to Harris, and Bogdan defended directly without saying a word.

Unable to make a breakthrough, Harris passed the ball back to Mori, who raised his hand to make a tactical gesture and Jokic raised his hand to cover the right elbow.

Finally got rid of Zhang Feng's pursuit, Murray dribbled straight to the basket, but was stopped by Lefu halfway, and wanted to pass the ball to Chandler under the basket, but the route was blocked by Zhang Feng, and he had no choice but to look back at Jokic.

But Jokic's condition is not very good, Randolph stuck him to death, and there is no space to receive the ball.

Forced by the situation, Murray stepped back and took a shot.

Hitting the iron, Zhang Feng grabbed the rebound against Chandler, landed and turned around to play a fast break, but found that even Chandler was about to return to defense, and he could only honestly take the ball through the half court.

After crossing the halfway line, Zhang Feng dribbled the ball to the left side of the three-point line 45 degrees, and in the face of Mori's defense, he pretended to go left but actually went right, and deceived Murray to rush to the basket with a false dangling.

As soon as he rushed outside the paint area, Millsap stepped forward to wrap up, and Zhang Feng made another fake pass, rushing to hit the ball to Lefu before Mori closed the circle.

Millsap also wanted to defend back, where would Lefu give him a chance, and directly forced his hands to score a violent dunk.

The Nuggets attacked again, and after several hopeless attempts, Jokic blocked and dismantled for Morrie at the top of the arc, who uncharacteristically pulled out a 3-pointer, Zhang Feng didn't have time to chase the defense, and Randolph didn't expect it, so he could only watch the basketball fly to the hoop.

'Smack', Mori 3 points hollow hit, Zhang Feng helplessly spread his hands, and Randolph shook his head.

Fortunately, when the Kings attacked, Zhang Feng immediately seized Harris's defensive running mistake and assisted Bogdan to respond with a three-pointer.

After a few rounds, the Kings relied on Zhang Feng's accurate passing to overtake the score efficiently, and the Nuggets had to call a timeout to rearrange their tactics.

After returning to the court, the Nuggets abandoned the tactic of letting Jokic organize the offense from the outside, and instead let him play double-high hand-to-hand combat with Millsap on the inside.

This once made Love and Randolph uncomfortable, causing the Kings not only to lose points under the basket one after another, but also to be unable to score inside on offense, which made their outside offensive pressure very high.

Fortunately, Zhang Feng reacted quickly enough, and without waiting for David to call a timeout, he took the initiative to change his style of play and turned all the assists he sent into impacting the inside, and after he broke through to the basket in a row, the Nuggets were forced to strengthen the interior defense, and Bogdan and Giles were easily liberated.

As soon as Bogdan was released, he hit two 3-pointers in a row, and the Nuggets had to step up their defense against him.

After going back and forth, the Kings forced the Nuggets to evenly distribute the defense at each position, and Love and Randolph were completely liberated, and the Kings took the opportunity to play a wave of 22-14.

Entering the fourth quarter of the game, the Nuggets used all their moves, but Malone made a crazy all-out singles tactic with a big wave of his hand.

This tactic was first executed by Harris, who singled Bogdan twice in a row, and the effect was remarkable.

But immediately afterward, the Kings switched on Garrett Temple as shooting guard, and Harris' one-on-one advantage was instantly negated

Subsequently, Mori had no chance of winning against Zhang Feng, and was completely blocked by Zhang Feng in two consecutive singles; Wilson-Chandler played five against Giles to make three; Millsap couldn't beat Lefu at all, and from time to time he was caught by Galette-Temple and lost a ball; It was Jokic and Randolph who played a 55.

It can be said that this time the Kings faced the Nuggets, not only reflecting the tactical suppression of the coach, but also the talent suppression of the players.

In the last 1 minute of the game, the Kings had a 15-point lead, but the Nuggets players still made tactical fouls according to Malone's arrangement, and the Kings had to go to the free throw line continuously, and the end of the game was postponed.

During this period, no one from the Nuggets fans at Pepsi Center left the court, and they kept applauding every offense, every defense, even every tactical foul, they also cheered.

But the King won in the end, and when the whistle blew at the end of the game, Malone walked quickly to David's side, and the two shook hands, not wanting Malone to turn around and leave, saying: "Today's game loss is convincing, but we haven't lost yet, see you in the playoffs."

David smiled and didn't answer, and Randolph on the side shook his head again and again, "It's like this, you still have to say cruel things, you deserve to be a famous ruthless person, but who cares?" We have won 24 in a row, third in history, and the glory belongs to the king."