the great gatsby

Chapter 364 Are You Ready? "

Coach Carlisle made a change. He had to let more people participate in the offense. The singles efficiency is the highest.

Whether it's Kidd or Marion, they all rely on Nowitzki's ability to attract flanking attacks. 80% of the Mavericks' offense relies on Nowitzki's opportunity to come out after attracting flanking attacks. When the opponent doesn't care about Nowitzki When Ji played alone, the others were caught blind!

If you don't rely on Nowitzki's attractiveness, the offensive threat of Terry/Marion is really not too big, at least the Knicks have enough ways to deal with it.

Carlisle finally understood that to beat the Knicks, the only way to go on offense is to use defense!
But to be honest, the Mavericks' zone defense is a must, and man-to-man talent and age are their biggest enemies.

Kidd is 38 years old, and his legs and feet are already as slow as those of an old man. He only relies on experience and teamwork;

Nowitzki's defensive rebounding is good, but the defense is really not good, especially when the big defense is small;
Marion is a switch monster and can defend anyone he encounters.

However, the Mavericks who are out of the zone defense, without Chandler's leak checking and filling, without Chandler's absolute defensive core, the Mavericks' defense is like a piece of paper to the Knicks, which can be broken with one poke. !
Especially when the Knicks have so many offensive resources, just one Gatsby is enough for them to be exhausted.

Gatsby is different from all the opponents they have encountered before. He is a player who can really cover the entire half of the offense. Whether it is Kidd or Nowitzki, it is like a sieve when they meet Gatsby. Forget it, the problem is that a team like the Knicks can't zone defense at all!

Coach Carlisle didn't even dare to try. Of the five Knicks on the court, four of them had three-pointers. No matter how they defend, once they do zone defense, it will rain three-pointers!

What coach Carlisle is looking forward to now is the Knicks' three-point shooting percentage. This is their only chance to win. It is not unrealistic to say that this wish is not unrealistic. Crash, for example, the Rockets in the future will always fail to make three-pointers at critical moments when encountering the Warriors.

But the Knicks are not rockets. The three-pointer is just one item in their arsenal. The Mavericks don't have Chandler to protect the rim.
After three quarters, Carlisle found desperately that the Mavericks' defense had collapsed!

It can only be regarded as a fluke that this Mavericks can reach this point. Without Chandler, being able to defeat the Lakers is a God-given way of survival. If this Mavericks meets Miami, they will definitely not make it past six games!
At the end of the game, the Knicks won by 14 points.

The game was very exciting, with the two sides fighting fiercely, and the score was 115:129, but the people watching the game were a little dissatisfied. Why, because the intensity of the game was not enough!

The game between the Knicks and the Celtics is almost a scene of hell like grinding teeth and sucking blood. There is still more to say, but the game between the Knicks and the Mavericks... was beautiful, especially when Gatsby and Nowitzki scored soaring points. When the third quarter came back, the Knicks played a soul-stirring counterattack .

However, on the whole, the strength of both sides is insufficient. The Knicks' defense has improved. There is no way to prevent Nowitzki, but the Mavericks' defense feels too weak. Kidd and Nowitzki turned into big colanders, and anyone who met Gatsby was overwhelmed. The Mavericks' inside line seemed to be undefended, and Gatsby penetrated several times.

After watching the game, people's question is-how did the Mavericks enter the finals?

Of course, someone will come out to explain this kind of problem soon. Jeff Van Gundy specially wrote an article to explain why there is such a strong and weak finals. He watched the game live, and his article is quite authoritative. He is So to speak.

"Dallas is not without strength, otherwise they would not be able to score 115 points in the hands of the New Yorkers, and it is not that New York's defense is not good, but they have adopted a more correct defense.

As we know, Dallas is a team with everyone including Nowitzki, Terry, Kidd, Stevenson, Marion, etc. They rely on Nowitzki, a super scorer. , played team basketball, which is why Dallas was able to advance all the way to the finals.

The Knicks' defense is targeted, aren't you all soldiers?
OK, then break the relationship between you and the core, I will not pinch you, but block the connection between other people and Nowitzki, so Nowitzki scored 45 points, but Marion, Kiev The performance of De, Terry et al. fell sharply.

And the Mavericks' defensive collapse started when they couldn't defend Gatsby. Whether it was Kidd or Nowitzki, as long as they were switched to Gatsby, they would have no way to defend them. Facing Nick Si, the alliance they are good at is also useless.

The biggest weakness of Dallas is that they don't have an insider who can really protect the frame, neither Dirk Nowitzki nor Haywood can do it. Against a player like Gatsby, if there is no center forward who can really protect the frame, the penalty area is his back yard!
This is why the finals look like the regular season, the Mavericks are not that weak, but the Knicks are too strong!
The reason why the Knicks are so strong is not only because they have the deepest bench in the league, but also because their leader Gatsby, an epoch-making player, is ahead of this era, so that the coaches of this era simply don’t know how to limit he!

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Gatsby's era has arrived, league teams, are you ready? "

In this game, Gatsby scored 42 points, 18 assists and 6 rebounds. The Mavericks' defensive line was almost torn to pieces by him!

There are also other experts who came forward to criticize the Dallas Mavericks. What they criticized was not Dirk Nowitzki, who is a German softie, because there is no need to question Dirk Nowitzki's excellence. What they criticized was the general manager of the Mavericks, Nelson Jr. Questioned Nelson's team building ideas. While he built such a strong team, he actually left such a big hidden danger for the team. The most critical center position did not find a real pillar, but let Novus Base to take on the defense of the inside, this is simply looking for death!
What can Jaron Collins, a center who averaged only 6 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, do? Carlisle didn't dare to let him play, but let Haywood on the court.

They didn't know that it was because Gatsby changed history. If it wasn't for Gatsby, they would naturally be able to find Chandler, but Chandler had already been signed by Gatsby. The Mavericks not only lost an inside barrier, You have to bear the bonus Chandler brought to the Knicks!

(End of this chapter)