Don't look at Bowen's age is two years older than Finley, but Bowen, who has focused on defense throughout his career, is obviously much better than Finley in terms of defensive footwork.

This was vividly demonstrated in the first round of defending Wang Chao after Finley came on the court.

Wang Chao first ran normally from the bottom line, and Finley followed closely, but Wang Chao's sudden sudden stop and reverse run in the run directly made Finley unable to react, and when he stopped and chased Wang Chao again, Wang Chao had already run outside the three-point line and received Nash's pass.

The gap time for running back is very short, only less than 2 seconds of gap time, but it is these 2 seconds that Wang Chao is enough to catch the ball and shoot in one go.

This is the shooting posture that he has practiced hard for a long time, and the shooting speed of the Gunners is enhanced by the blessing of the Gunners' talent. Allen and other top scorers in the league can do it faster than him.

When the basketball in Wang Chao's hand flew towards the basket, Finley arrived late, and then watched weakly as the basketball fell into the basket accurately.

Over the next few rounds, Finley got a real sense of what Bowen was up against in the first quarter.

Although he is full of physical energy, he still can't keep up with Wang Chao, on the one hand, because his own pace is indeed slow, and on the other hand, Wang Chao's long-distance runner talent has been activated to the second layer of buff effect, and the speed of running gets a 5% bonus.

Although it is only 5%, because Wang Chao's current speed and agility have both broken through the 80 mark, the bonus effect is more significant on the basis of higher ability values, so his speed is not inferior to many defenders.

In successive rounds, Wang Chao was able to run out of open opportunities through running, Nash was never stingy with passing, and his 99 three-point ability value and sharpshooter talent were as stable as ever.

That led to a timeout for the Spurs to call a timeout just three minutes into the second quarter.

No, it's not called a pause.

In just 3 minutes, Wang Chao has made 3 of 5 three-pointers and scored 9 points, and the difference between the two teams has reached more than double digits.

Bowen had to re-enter the court after only 3 minutes of rest, but Bowen also couldn't keep up with Wang Chao after his debut because he was still very tired.

Wang Chao has the buff physical bonus of long-distance runner talent, but Bowen does not, which leads to his inability to walk as fast as Wang Chao on the field.

After two more rounds, the Spurs adjusted their defensive strategy again, allowing Ginobili to switch defenses with Bowen.

In fact, in the Spurs team, the most suitable player to defend Wang Chao is Parker, although Wang Chao's speed after the blessing of the long-distance runner buff is already very fast in the front line, but it is still much worse than Parker, Barbosa and even Nash, these top speed guards.

At the speed of a French sports car, keeping up with Wang Chao is simply a breeze, and there is no difficulty.

But the question is, what can you do if you can keep up with Wang Chao or even overtake in the corner in advance?

Parker is 1.88 meters tall, and he is also a relatively short type among the guards, facing Wang Chao who is 2.06 meters is completely misplaced, even if he stands in front of Wang Chao, when Wang Chao raises his hand to jump and shoot, it is difficult for him to form effective interference, after all, Wang Chao's interference three-point shooting ability value is also 99, unless it is directly blocked, even if the defense that completely blocks Wang Chao's line of sight cannot completely restrict his shooting shots, What's more, when both sides are jumping, Parker, a small guard who desperately stretches out his hand and is difficult to reach Wang Chao's nose?

I have to admit that excellent static talent can indeed make players like fish in water on the field, even the 2.06-meter-06 Wang Chao is still like this, and it is completely conceivable that Durant, who is more than 2.11 meters tall and has an exaggerated arm span of 2.28 meters, is less disturbed when shooting.

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As planned, Wang Chao was substituted after playing 5 minutes and 26 seconds on the field, although he did not play the full 6 minutes mentioned earlier, but the effect has made Wang Chao very satisfied.

In the few minutes when the Spurs replaced Bowen and asked Ginobili to change the defense, Wang Chao hit 1 shot twice at the three-point line, and scored 12 points on 4-of-6 shots in the first half of the second quarter, and his personal total score has reached 21 points, the highest in the game!

You must know that the game is not even over in half a year now, and Wang Chao's scoring explosiveness is completely comparable to Kobe, James, Wade and other top scorers.

But of course, it comes at a cost.

In just over 14 minutes of playing time, Wang Chao's physical fitness was almost completely drained, sitting on the bench panting, Wang Chao estimated that not to mention the remaining time in the second quarter of the game, even in the third quarter of the game, he was enough to recover to the extent that he could play.

Unlike those players who have the ability to attack with the ball, Wang Chao's current technical characteristics determine that he can only rely on running without the ball to run out of the open position to catch and shoot, because his accuracy outside the three-point line has made it easy for any team to let him appear empty.

Even if he has teammates to help him cover without the ball, Wang Chao still needs a lot of running to find opportunities, which is much more tiring than attacking with the ball.

With Wang Chao's 14 minutes and 21 points, the Suns managed to establish a double-digit lead on the court, and the offensive end completely pressed the Spurs to play.

In particular, Wang Chao's departure did not affect the Suns' offensive firepower, because with Wang Chao's departure, Dio was replaced on the court.

At this time, the Suns' lineup became Nash, Barbossa, Dio, Marion and Stoudemire.

The Spurs, who are steadily playing positional battles, are facing this ultimate run-and-bomb team, and the strong defense is like a punch into the air, and many times it is often too late to build a defensive position system with Duncan guarding the basket as the core, and the Suns' offense has arrived in advance, and they have no choice but to rely on the player's individual ability to defend alone, and the defensive efficiency is naturally greatly reduced.

Soon, the first half of the game was over.

The Suns scored further in the second quarter, scoring 36 points in the first quarter and 69 points in the half, while the Spurs were slightly better in the second quarter than in the first quarter, scoring 31 points, but still trailing the Suns in the first quarter, with the score of the two teams in the first half being 69:56, and the Spurs trailing by 13 points at their home court.

At halftime, the two teams returned to the locker room, and D'Antoni praised Wang Chao's performance in the locker room with a red face.

"Wang Chao did a very good job in today's game, successfully tearing apart the Spurs' defense with his off-ball running and three-point shot."

"However, although we are in the lead, we still can't relax in the second half of the game, the opponent is the Spurs, and Wang Chao ran too often in the first half, and I am afraid that we will not be able to play in the next third quarter of the game, we have to continue to work hard!"