Defending champion

Chapter 92 Matador

After Jack's successful goal, the momentum of the Hornets rose.What is important in playing is momentum, and the Hornets completely overwhelmed the Mavericks in terms of momentum.The Hornets also played a 9-0 spurt. The Hornets led by another 8 points from the second half and regained their lead.

The Mavericks quickly called a timeout to make adjustments.

After returning, they didn't just rely on Nowitzki on offense, but also on defense, they not only wanted to create trouble for Chris Paul, the starting point of the Hornets' offense, through flanking.Also, they forced Jack, who was very active just now, to stay away from the basket and not let Jack get close to the basket easily.At the same time, the Mavericks also reduced their turnover.

After this one adjustment, due to the Hornets engine being limited.The Hornets' offense was not as smooth as before, and their shooting percentage was also greatly reduced.However, the Mavericks are not much better.

However, this situation did not last long before Jack broke the deadlock.

The Mavericks' singles master Jerry Stackhouse missed a mid-range shot.

Jerry Stackhouse, a talented student from North Carolina, a famous basketball school, is Jordan's younger brother, and is also known as one of the successors of the trapeze.But that's the past tense after all.

Relying on the advantages of height, arm length and jumping, Jack won the rebound with Nowitzki and Hilton.

Hornets attack.

The Mavericks' defense has been strengthened. Seeing that there is no chance, Paul immediately asks Jack inside for a pick-and-roll.Jack immediately knows to come out from the inside and pick and roll for Paul.

Although Devin Harris' speed is very fast, there is a wall of Jack blocking him.Even though Harris has the ability to reach the sky, he was not able to keep up in time, so Paul got rid of him like this.

After getting rid of Harris, Paul dribbled straight in without any scruples, his eyes fixed on the players who helped defend him.Because Harris was blocked, Paul got a chance for a dislocation singles.

On Jack's side, after Jack finished the pick-and-roll, he didn't just stand there stupidly.Follow Paul and go down quickly, always keeping a certain distance from Paul.

After Harris saw that he was blocked by Jack, he also bypassed Jack and chased after Paul.This child is also a child who refuses to admit defeat.

However, in this way, Jack has a chance to open up.Paul didn't even look at it, and just returned the ball to Jack.Jack has a wide-open shot.

However, even so, Nowitzki still did not step forward to interfere with Jack's shot.This is the strategy of the Mavericks' defense of Jack--letting go and not letting go.As long as Jack is not close to the penalty area, then he can shoot from the outside.The Mavericks also paid a very heavy price for this.

Jack didn't care whether there was anyone in front of him. After taking the ball, he directly pulled it up, raised his knife and dropped it.After kissing Jack's fingertips lightly, the basketball rolled out and drew a rainbow in the air, which was very beautiful.

"Swap" the basketball into the net with a bang, simply and neatly.Jack glanced at Nowitzki with provocative eyes, and sprayed a trash talk at him: "Oh, I forgot to tell you, my mid-range shots are also very accurate, you have to be careful."

Nowitzki gritted his teeth with hatred, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, which one of you just now must have been deceived."

"Then you just have to wait and see." After speaking, Jack retreated quickly without losing his head.

The Mavericks handed the ball to Jerry Stackhouse in the low post this time, and he deserves to be known as Jordan's successor Jerry Stackhouse.Relying on his own tonnage and height advantages, the defensive Butler was squeezed infinitely close to the basket with his back to the basket, and a turnaround jumper ate Butler raw.

The Hornets still use a small-scale pick-and-roll tactic, and it is also a pick-and-roll cooperation between Jack and Paul.This trick has basically become the Hornets' signature tactic.Not only the Hornets, even many other strong teams in the league use this trick as their tactic for training.Because this tactic is very practical and skillful, it is no exaggeration to say that the pick-and-roll tactic is one that cannot find flaws.

What's more, this set of tactics is in an unsolvable position, and there is no way to crack it in the alliance. All that can be done is to suppress it to the greatest extent.

After Paul's breakthrough, the ball was still Jack. The same position was also emptied. Of course, Jack would also put the ball into the basket.

With a sound of "shabu", the basketball entered the basket.It’s okay once in a while, but if you can continuously input requests, then the problem will be very big.Two consecutive, mid-range shots.Enough to get the Mavericks' attention.

"Hahaha... how about Dirk's ball? Will you let me shoot next time?" Jack sarcastically said.

"Hmph, don't be complacent, you won't be so relaxed next time." Nowitzki also countered unceremoniously.

Jack didn't answer his words this time. Jack knows the trash talk you said, no matter how powerful it is, but you need to use your true strength to defeat him to be correct.

In the following time, Jack did not get an easy shot.However, even against Dirk's defense, Jack was still able to throw the ball into the basket.In the third quarter, Jack made 6 of 4 shots and scored 8 points.

Due to Jack's excellent performance in the third quarter, the Mavericks' tactical deployment was completely disrupted, and some of the tactics prepared before the game were not available at this time.Because the problems that occurred at these two points in Jack and Paul were not resolved clearly, and the Hornets had a surprisingly high shooting percentage in the first half of the fourth quarter.

Of the team's 18 shots, 12 of them were hit, making the Mavericks feel that this is the home court of the Hornets.

In the fourth quarter, all the members of the Mavericks seemed to start sleepwalking, making mistakes and mistakes again, and the outside line could neither get open nor dare to shoot.Basically every offense allowed Nowitzki to play singles, but Nowitzki missed consecutive shots, and even Jerry Stackhouse rarely shot out of the basket.All in all, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Mavericks had a quadrant of collapse, and the collective was sluggish.The previous 12 throws hit 5 of them, and also gave the opponent 5 frontcourt rebounds.

On the contrary, the Hornets are bigger and better. At the last moment, Jack still staged a good show of the return of the king.After receiving an assist from Paul, he scored a dunk at the basket.There was also a mid-range hit against Nowitzki's defense, which also caused a foul by Nowitzki's thugs, and he scored with an extra penalty.

The game really entered garbage time this time. In the end, the Hornets scored 120 points and 91 points, beating the Mavericks by 29 points, and their revenge was successful.

In this game, Jack scored the highest score in the Hornets team with 22 points, the highest 13 rebounds, the highest 4 blocks and one assist. The most important thing is that Jack did not make a single mistake.

And Dirk Nowitzki, who was facing Jack, only scored 11 points, 7 rebounds and blocks, and also had a team-high 5 turnovers.Nowitzki is in a completely blown position in Jack's matchup.

Jack also received generous rewards from the system for this wonderful game: 10000 mid-range shooting experience points, 3 life points, and the host has the option to activate other skills.

(End of this chapter)