Zhiba NBA

Chapter 220 (210) The Runaway Harris

The next day's training, the Rockets players were so relaxed that Adelman suspected they were too relaxed.At this time, he was very worried that the Rockets players had some thoughts of underestimating the enemy.After all, the regular season was played too smoothly, and the first game was easily won by a big score.

The 20-point defeat is not the true strength of the Mavericks, but they fought too hard with the Spurs before and consumed too much.After 2 days of rest, their condition has improved significantly during training, and they are just waiting to defeat the Rockets in a full battle. .

The second game on May 5 started under such circumstances.The Mavericks are relatively conservative this time, and they replaced Dampier as the starting lineup. The forwards are the unshakable Novak and Howard, and the back line is still Terry and Harris.Among the five, Nowitzki is a famous superstar, Terry was the big brother in the Hawks before, Dampier called himself "the second center in the West", and Howard has become an indispensable important figure for the Mavericks after several years of training. Only Harris is an unknown person.

Devin Harris is only 23 years old, the youngest player in the Mavericks rotation.He was ambitious at a young age, broke the school history scoring record in high school, and then enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, becoming the second player in school history to secure a starting position from his freshman year.He was also selected to the All-American Second Team in his junior year.But his development after entering the league was not smooth.Harris is an extremely fast offensive guard, but the Mavericks are full of talents and do not lack scorers.On the contrary, the experienced Terry shot accurately and was more suitable to open up space for other teammates, so Harris was suppressed without much opportunity to perform.

Gold always shines. In the first round of the game, the original starting guard Adrian Griffin performed poorly and finally angered coach Johnson.The little general has a short temper, so he made a decisive decision when Griffin was relegated to the bench.Harris got the chance to start. After averaging only 9 points per game in the regular season, he had more possessions in important games against the Spurs. He averaged 12.7 points per game and won the trust of the coach.Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, veteran players may be afraid of powerful rockets, but second-year Harris is not afraid.He will go all out to repay the trust of his mentor Johnson.

The Rockets' first ball was exactly the same as in the first game. It was still handed over to Bosh. This time he missed a jumper.

The Mavericks were organized and handed over to Howard on the outside, and he missed a three-pointer.Nowitzki bravely grabbed the offensive rebound and was about to make a tip-up when Jefferson came back to defend and fanned the ball out with a big cap.The ball just landed at Harris' feet, and he took advantage of the chaos around the Rockets' basket and the disordered defensive formation to forcefully pick the basket and hit it.

Yao Ming sat on Dampier, dexterously swayed his opponent with a footstep under the basket, turned around and shot a jumper, but unfortunately missed.

"Look at how reasonable the shot was, but it's a pity that it didn't make a shot. If it didn't make a shot, it should be played like this!" Zhang Weiping commented.

The Rockets seemed to have heard Director Zhang's comments, and they kept attacking the inside line.Here Terry hit the iron, Bosh immediately forced Dirk Nowitzki to cause a foul, and he made one of two free throws.

Nowitzki missed a layup, but this time Yao Ming still beat Dampier forcefully, and even caused a foul. Unfortunately, he missed an additional penalty, 2:3.

"What happened? No free throws!" The bench players complained.Many inside players' free throws are not allowed, but Yao Ming and Bosh are exceptions.This season, Yao Ming's free throw success rate is as high as 85.3%, and Bosh also has 81.6%.But there is no way, everyone will occasionally make mistakes.

Harris made an astute back run to get rid of Billups. He caught the ball in an air cut and made a layup. He also caused Yao Ming's foul and made an additional penalty!
Billups did not show weakness, and after breaking through, he scored the ball to Yao Ming at the basket.The little giant dunked easily, 5:5 tie!
Harris became more and more courageous, and he assisted Nowitzki to make a successful mid-range shot.Then he steals Jefferson's pass and makes a fast break layup.

"Chauncey, keep an eye on that kid!" Jefferson yelled after his two-pointer, embarrassing for the fumble.

"It seems that I underestimate you." Billups raised the corner of his mouth, showing a provocative smile, "Let me see your ability!"

"That's exactly what I meant!" Harris had a lightning-fast start, and the first step was extremely fast.Billups was thrown halfway away at once, and he had to reach out to pull.But Harris made an emergency stop and shot a jumper.

The ball goes into the whistle, and a free throw is added!Billups, who had just been selected to the second team of the All-Defensive Team, was tricked by an unknown junior.

Although the penalty was missed, Harris has already played with confidence.In this quarter, he made all 6 shots and scored 13 points himself.Driven by him, the Mavericks led the Rockets with 36:28.

"Chauncey, Harris' three-pointers are only 23.8%, and his long-range shots are also poor." Yuan Fei immediately reminded: "You have to focus more on blocking his breakthrough. As long as you prevent him from going to the basket, he will not be much of a threat."

"I know it too, but this kid is really so fast that it's hard to stop."

"Then the shot will be more thorough, even if you give him a distance of 3 steps!" Yuan Fei said decisively.

"Three steps? Wouldn't that mean he just voted?" Billups was surprised.

"Yes, he played very confidently before, we just want to dampen his self-confidence!"

(Small knowledge: Devin Harris successfully applied for the Guinness World Record in 09. It took him only 3.9 seconds to dribble from one end of the field to the other. He is the fastest person in the world to dribble across the field.)
This trick really worked. Harris played with confidence before and saw the opponent shoot again and again.It's a pity that the hit rate is not high, which actually dragged down the Mavericks' offensive efficiency.The Rockets were able to gradually recover the point difference.With only 49 seconds left in the game, Billups assisted Bosh to make a mid-range shot, rewriting the score to 114:115, and the Rockets finally achieved a go-ahead!

Seeing that Johnson was overtaken at the last minute, he could only fight.He boldly replaced Stackhouse and Van Horn, who had better shots.

This substitution really had a miraculous effect. Stackhouse broke through and gave the ball to Harris, who was running without the ball on the other side. The latter made a layup and scored his 26th point of the game.With 38 seconds left in the game, Yao Ming got the ball in the low post for singles. He skillfully swung past his opponent and was about to shoot, but Van Horn suddenly regained his center of gravity, forcibly jumped up and slapped the ball!
The killer Yao Ming accidentally ate a cap of Van Horn from the colander!The ball flew out, and Stackhouse jumped up desperately to grab the ball. Seeing that his body lost his balance and was about to go out of bounds, he hurriedly called the ball back to his teammates.But he made a mistake in his busy schedule, and Bosh broke the ball.

Billups steadily consumed the time, and when 24 seconds were running out, he broke through and scored the ball to Yao Ming.Dayao made a short mid-range shot and hit, 116:117!

In the last 4 seconds, the Mavericks failed to form a threatening attack under the strict defense of the Rockets. With Howard's desperate shot, the Rockets narrowly beat their opponents by one point and led 2-0!

　It's November, and this book is coming to an end this month.Here I would like to thank every friend who has supported this book, and the poisonous tongue will carefully write the ending.

　　This book puts too much effort into science popularization, so that it is very tiring to write.Writing a chapter requires searching a large amount of information, which often consumes the time and energy of 2-3 chapters of other books.In terms of storytelling, it seems a little weaker, so I would like to thank everyone for your tolerance and support.

　　I promise to write a very interesting, strong story, still a basketball work.

　　
　
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