NBA Absolute Flood Dam

Chapter 903 Dirk, your playoffs are dangerous!

In fact, the reason is very simple. In the current period of expansion of the football market, it is very unpopular for a team to lose on purpose despite its strength. Therefore, no one dares to do that. The team owner and management will be the first to allow it. Neither will the league.

Even if the main players of each team take a rest, that is, each person will take one or two games a month, and then control the playing time, and will not take a long and multiple rounds of rest.

The Suns had a difficult start to the season. They even hit strong teams and were loose in the middle, but at the end, the schedule tightened up again.

After playing the Mavericks tonight, I have to fly to Memphis overnight to play back-to-back against the Grizzlies tomorrow.

The Grizzlies are only the first game of this wave of away games. After the next two away games, they have to fly to Los Angeles to challenge the Lakers.

After playing the Lakers, they will return to the home court to face the Lakers again, and they will play against the Lakers in three days.

Regardless of whether they are playing against the Mavericks or the Grizzlies, or the last two games against the Lakers, the Suns dare not lose, because even if they are number one, the winning percentage is too close. If you lose a game and someone else wins a game, the ranking may be reversed. .

After the Mavericks arrived, Li Ba invited Nowitzki and Dazhi to dinner.

"Your playoffs are very dangerous!" Li Ba said.

Nowitzki's face was a little serious and helpless, and he had nothing to talk about.

He is indeed in a bad mood. Now he is entering his peak period, but the team's record has never been able to make a breakthrough. It has been swept by the sun in a row, and this year's playoffs are not enough.

Announced before the game.

Mavericks: Dampier, Stoudemire, Nowitzki, Josh Howard, Terry.

Suns: Li Ba, Marion, Battier, Ginobili, Rondo.

Both teams are going all out to win this game.

Jump ball, Suns attack.

After a season of training, the basic tactics of the Suns on the offensive end have been confirmed. The outside line is opened, allowing Li Ba to play one inside and four outside tactics under the basket.

But it's not complete, because Rondo can't pull away, and Marion's three are not real shooters, and the ability to pull apart doesn't really meet the tactical requirements.

But this tactic can allow Li Ba to control the offensive basketball, increase the chance of a second attack, and help improve the offensive efficiency of the Suns, so the team has been firmly implementing this not perfect tactic.

Li Ba ran to the basket, Dampier and Stoudemire immediately double-teamed without any hesitation.

As for the other three Mavericks, Nowitzki faced Battier on the left-wing three-point line, Josh Howard with excellent athletic ability defended Marion, and point guard Terry kept up with Ginobili.

Rondo is embarrassing, he was completely vacated and is now in free agency.

"This time the Mavericks' defensive tactics have changed again. They just let Rondo go. I don't care if you want to shoot or pass. I will defend other players who can score. I will double-team the Hammers in advance."

Zhang Lili shouted immediately.

Rondo took the ball to the edge of the paint and missed an open jumper.

Dampier tried his best to contain Li Ba, and Stoudemire took the opportunity to get the rebound.

"Rondo only hit [-]% of the last two points. It's not surprising that he missed the shot." Yu Jia complained.

The Mavericks attack and Terry advances.

As Li Ba settled down, he shouted loudly at Marion, "Sean, double-team the ball holder."

Marion immediately lost Stoudemire and rushed towards Terry.

Rondo also started to get close, creating opportunities for double teams.

After another half a season of tempering the main control position, the rookie's defensive strength has improved a lot, and he has more experience, and his close defense against Terry is also in place.

Marion rushed from the left, and Rondo mainly blocked the front and right sides. While blocking the front and right passing lines, he drove Terry to Marion.

On the right-wing three-point line, Nowitzki suddenly pulled out, shook off Battier and asked Terry for the ball.

In the paint area, Li Ba suddenly rushed towards Nowitzki.

He starts it at this time because Terry can only pass the ball to the right wing at this moment, and Terry's attention will not be on him. This is his best chance to implement a defense from the outside.

Sure enough, all of Terry's attention was on dealing with Rondo and passing the ball to the right wing, and he didn't pay attention to Li Ba's actions at all. He passed the ball to Nowitzki before Marion came up.

As soon as Nowitzki received the ball, he was blocked by Battier, and then he noticed that Li Ba was not far away from him.

It's too far from the basket here, and he wanted to pass back to the center, but Rondo had already cut off the passing line, and he couldn't pass it for a while.

So, he took a risk and passed the ball to the basket, over Li Ba's head.

At this moment, Li Ba, who was only two steps away from Nowitzki, reacted quickly. He saved the last step in an instant, then jumped up, stretched his arm, and caught the ball with one hand.

After landing, Li Ba rushed past Nowitzki, took the ball over the center line, and rushed to the frontcourt.

"This ball can't be defended!"

Zhang Lili shouted excitedly.

Li Ba took two steps and then dribbled the ball. There was no one in front of him. He threw the ball three steps away. After he took four steps and entered the top of the front court to the left, he caught the ball back with one hand. After two more steps, he soared into the sky, raised one arm high, and accelerated down to smash. Amidst the cheers of the audience, he smashed the ball into the basket.

"Beautiful! The whole court dunked one-stop, and only dribbled once on the way. This kind of fast break is too strong!" Yu Jia shouted excitedly.

Mavericks attack.

"Pay attention to receiving the ball from the outside! You must control the hammer under the basket, and you can't relax for a moment." The little general Johnson shouted loudly from the sidelines.

On the last ball, he was very disappointed with Dampier and Stoudemire. He actually let Li Ba get out of the paint so easily. What was he doing?
Next, Dampier and Stoudemire stepped up their control of Li Ba in the paint area, making it impossible for Li Ba to help defend the outside line smoothly.

But the Suns also did a good job of consistently double-teaming the Mavericks' ball-handler on the perimeter.

Overall, the Suns have some advantage on the boards.

Especially on the offensive end, Rondo did not attack by himself, but chose the pick-and-roll tactic and let others shoot. After scoring two three-pointers in a row, Terry was forced to return to defense, allowing Li Ba to get a single at the basket. Opportunity.

Li Ba controlled the offensive rebounds, and the Suns had more second offenses and higher offensive efficiency. At half-time, at 12:19, the Suns led by 7 points.

If the game continues like this, the Mavericks, who have a lower offensive efficiency, cannot escape the fate of losing.

At this time, General Johnson called a timeout. He wanted to increase some interior offenses, and see if the interior two-on-one, and a dunker and face-up master like Stoudemire, can compress the Suns' defense and force Marion to return to defense. basket.

The timeout ends and the Mavericks attack.

Terry took the ball to the frontcourt. At this time, Stoudemire, who was active under the basket, suddenly withdrew to the left, while Dampier was still under the basket.

Dampier didn't control Li Ba, because he didn't need it. If Li Ba wanted to guard Stoudemire, he couldn't guard him at the basket, and if he wanted to guard him, he couldn't follow Stoudemire.

In this way, Stoudemire can attack facing the basket outside the paint area, and he can attack under the basket, making Li Ba's defense in a dilemma.

In the low-post one-on-two, the young general Johnson wanted to compress the Suns' defense through the inside offense and let Marion return to the paint area, thereby releasing the Mavericks' outside pressure.

(End of this chapter)