NBA Absolute Flood Dam

Chapter 137

"Listen, Dirk, watch out for that rookie." Old Nelson said, staring at Dirk Nowitzki.

"Okay, Don, I'll be careful," Dirk Nowitzki said.

"Do you know what to watch out for?" Old Nelson asked.

"This... blocks and steals," Dirk Nowitzki said after thinking for a moment.

"Dirk, have you paid attention to the five best goals during this period?" Old Nelson asked.

"I see..." Nash suddenly realized: "He knows where the ball is without looking at it, Don, is that what you mean?"

"Correct!"

Nodding, the old Nelson continued: "So, he reacts faster than others, because you have to watch the ball. This is the key factor for his strong defense. He is one step faster."

"Then how?" Dirk Nowitzki and Nash asked at the same time.

"Steve, your passing route should be far away from the hammer." After telling Steve Nash first, the old Nelson said to Dirk Nowitzki: "When you shoot, you must be decisive, don't do it. Fake moves, your fake moves just now didn't fool him. I saw that his activation was even faster than yours."

"I see," Dirk Nowitzki said.

Pause back, Mavericks attack.

Dirk Nowitzki ran to the left-wing three-point line this time.

Nash at the top arc suddenly accelerated, broke through Marbury, and entered the paint area.

At this time, Dirk Nowitzki squeezed Liba, trying to get into the three-point line, but he didn't squeeze, so he had to go around.

But his strength cannot be compared with that of Li Ba. Li Ba turned around, faced the basket, stared at Nash who was going to the basket, and at the same time blocked Dirk Nowitzki with both arms. Outside the point line, and completely blocked the route he received the ball.

At this time, Nash's breakthrough was in the end, either a layup, a point, or a change of direction.

Li Ba turned around and defended Nash.

If Dirk Nowitzki got rid of his defense just now and entered the wing, Nash's ball might have passed out.

Under the basket is Zako Kabakapa, who has been forced into a reasonable collision zone by Nash's breakthrough.

"Cover him!"

Li Ba let out a roar that shook the arena.

I don't know what Kabakapa's reaction was. Nash's reaction was to change direction directly and run to the right wing. At the same time, his basketball was also handed over to Finley on the right wing.

Finley took the ball, shook his shoulders, and made a breakthrough gesture.

The defensive black hole Joe Johnson immediately stepped back half a step, ready to block.

At this time, Finley immediately took off to shoot and hit a mid-range two-pointer.

At 2:6, the Mavericks trailed by 4 points.

The game progressed to the sixth minute and 50 seconds.

Li Ba has been following Dirk Nowitzki, adopting the same defense as he did against Dayao, cutting off and interfering with the latter's reception.

Although Dirk Nowitzki is flexible, his movement speed is really mediocre. He has the same problem as Dayao, and he is a little restrained by Li Ba.

The Mavericks didn't let anyone come over to help Dirk get rid of Li Ba. Under his full defense, Dirk Novis rarely participated in the offense.

In the 7th minute, Dirk Nowitzki took advantage of consecutive pullbacks and received a pass from Nash on the left wing and inside the three-point line.

After catching the ball, he burst into joy, and his beard trembled.

This time he used the back hit.

His current back hitting ability is actually mediocre, but in order to prevent being blocked by Li Ba, this is the best way to attack.

"Bang bang..."

After dribbling the ball twice with Li Ba on his back, he suddenly turned around and took a step back to jump up.

Li Ba couldn't block it. If he turned his back and took a step back, and then leaned back, no one could block it.

He knew that Dirk Nowitzki would try his best to catch the ball next, and even use the pick-and-roll tactics to catch the ball and then hit him with his back.

As long as Dirk can receive the ball, his current defensive ability, whether to score or not, depends only on his touch, and this is Dirk's horror.

But he jumped up as best he could, stretching his long arms, doing his best, resigning himself to Dirk Nowitzki's face.

"Whoosh!"

Dirk Nowitzki's vision was blocked, but it couldn't stop him from shooting the basketball. He was convinced that he had the ability to make this shot.

"boom!"

Confidence is not doomed, the basketball bounced off the rim, and after rebounding, the rebound was taken by Li Ba.

After the pass to Marbury, Li Ba saw that Dirk Nowitzki in front of him was bending over to touch his left ankle without returning to defense.

"Hey Dirk, any questions?" he asked.

"Unlucky, twisted a bit." Dirk Nowitzki said helplessly.

Li Ba was speechless, why are you like Marion, you can get hurt even if no one touches you?

In this way, Dirk Nowitzki played 7 minutes in the first quarter, made 2 of 0 shots, made 2 turnovers, fouled once, went off, and never came up again. (This is his real data for this game)

And in this game, because of the lack of Dirk Nowitzki, the Mavericks were completely defeated. They were beaten by the Suns 90:111, and the Suns won by 21 points at home. (The real score is 90:121)

The feel of the main force and the substitute was completely opposite to that of the previous game, scorching hot.

Barbosa got a lot of possessions from the bench, 10 of 4, and scored 10 points. He didn't even want to be in the starting lineup.

首发阵容中，李坝上场28分钟，7投6中，罚3中2，拿下了14分12篮板3助攻3抢断4封盖的数据。

His seven shots, because no one inside the Mavericks can compete with him, so all of them were low-post shots, and Ba's lobs were useless.

Marbury made 18 of 8 shots and scored 21 points.

Joe Johnson made 15 of 10 shots and scored 23 points.

James Posey increased his shot count, scoring 13 points on 7-for-18 shooting.

Kabakapa, who started the game, also made a big profit, scoring 11 points in 6 of 17.

10胜4负，太阳越过10胜5负的小牛，成为了西部联盟的No.3。

After the game, before leaving the locker room, Li Ba's phone rang.

"Hi, I'm Li..."

Li Ba didn't pay attention to the caller ID, and said after answering the phone.

"Do you dare to finish speaking, and I will kill you if we meet?" Dayao hurriedly interrupted Li Ba's words, and growled.

"Haha, it's Dayao, I said I'm used to it, don't be angry, haha!" Li Ba laughed awkwardly.

"Is the Jazz so hard to play?" he asked after laughing.

The Mosaic team played the same game today, and just after the game, they lost to the Jazz 76:83 away.

He remembers the time he was suspended, the Suns also lost to the Jazz.

The Jazz's record can only be said to be average. They won the Mosaic team tonight and only had 8 wins and 6 losses, ranking outside the top eight in the Western Conference.

The Mosaic team lost this game, and their record is better than that of the Jazz, with 9 wins and 5 losses, and they are 7th in the Western Conference.

"Hey, our Boss Felix was soft today, with eight turnovers in one game. Also, what the hell, the Jazz has two monsters who are stronger than you. One person has five blocks, and the whole team has eleven blocks. They were almost blocked to death. , I didn’t dare to go in in the end, and threw them all outside.” Dayao said depressedly.

"Kirilenko, there is another..." Li Ba laughed silently as he asked.

"Greg Ostertag. This guy, he took medicine today, and he's not usually so fierce. I was blocked by him in the second minute, which made me hit two irons in a row."

Dayao continued to be depressed and authentic.

"Haha..." Li Ba laughed uncontrollably.

"What the hell, Li Ba, what are you laughing at? I'm almost done gaining weight now, next time we meet, I'm sure I'll blow you away!"

Dayao cursed depressingly.

"Hahaha..." Li Ba continued to laugh, unable to suppress it.

"Laugh to death you bastard!" Dayao hung up the phone depressed.

Li Ba then checked Dayao's stats for this match, and it was actually pretty good, just right, 20+10.

It's just that the shooting rate is a little low, 15 of 3 shots, 16 free throws and 14 of them.

"If only I had Dayao's free throw percentage." Li Ba imagined.

In fact, he was still a little brooding about losing to the Nuggets in the game.

Based on defense, he should have taken a little more shots, which not only increased turnovers, but also increased the chance for the Nuggets to send him to the free throw line, which should be avoided.

He felt he should have a tighter grip on his attempts before his free-throw percentage improved.

Use those shots to feed Joe Johnson and build a third scoring point, and that would be the best.

But in the final analysis, his defensive area is still not far enough. If the defense range can be extended to the mid-range shooting area, then there will be no problem.

CIC, for the offensive side, is actually a sharp weapon against inside defensive players. It can force the defensive area to spread out, leaving the paint area under the basket empty, thereby breaking its defense.

That's why he didn't dare to go out, because if he went out, the basket would be empty, and the opponent's pass and cut could directly blow up the basket.

But he has to guard against going out. If you don’t guard against going out, once the opponent’s hand is hot, like the Nuggets, the outside mid-range shot can directly kill you.

Now the team's No. [-] and No. [-] defenses are okay, mainly because there are loopholes in the No. [-] and No. [-] defenses. This is where he needs to help defend.

And these two positions are too far away from his defensive area, and he can't defend at all now.

"I don't know who the management will trade to come in, but the current lineup, as long as Marion and Marbury are not absent, they can still play."

(End of this chapter)