I really can't handle the ball

Chapter 193 Attack and Defense Integration

At the end of the first quarter, the score on the big screen was 26 to 18, and the Mavericks entered the second quarter with an 8-point lead.

During the intermission, the Pistons were on the bench.

"Do you know how many points the Mavericks scored through defensive counterattacks? A full 14 points!"

Larry Brown looked at the embarrassed Pistons players and continued to roar: "Your defense has disappointed me. I don't want to see this again in the next game."

After criticizing and educating the Pistons players, Larry Brown began to arrange offensive and defensive tactics.

"In the next game, speed up the defensive speed, don't worry about the damn offensive rebound, focus on strength and confrontation, and make the cowboys of the Mavericks feel pain!"

After hearing this, the Pistons players looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Old guy, if you don't play on the court, you don't have to worry about anything. The Mavericks are not easy to mess with."

The players of the Pistons slandered a bit in their hearts, and nodded one after another, not daring to refute.

Seeing the cooperation of the players, Larry Brown quickly arranged tactics.

On the other side, the Mavericks bench.

"We played well in the first quarter. Keep it up. In the next game, we will still use Dirk and Lee as the core of the offense, speed up the counterattack, and disrupt the defensive deployment of the Pistons."

Old Nelson quickly arranged offensive and defensive tactics.

The Mavericks players nodded one after another, expressing their understanding that they are bound to win this game.

Not long after, the intermission ended and the second quarter began.

As soon as he came up, Finley used his personal ability to hit a mid-range jumper against Hamilton's defense.

Not to be outdone, the "Masked Man" responded quickly, and with the help of his teammates, he ran out of opportunities and made an emergency stop and hit the jump.

Subsequently, as the best sixth man of the Mavericks, Jamison took the opportunity to score quickly.

He has fully adapted to this role now, and he has a great time playing the game by abusing food and brushing data during the rotation stage.

When the second quarter played for about 3 minutes, Larry Brown took the lead in making personnel adjustments.

He didn't want to make substitutions so quickly, but the point difference was getting bigger and bigger, so he could only let the main players play in advance to stabilize the situation.

After the substitution adjustment, Billups made a quick effort and used a three-pointer and an assist to narrow the point difference to less than ten.

Seeing that the Pistons were about to start, Old Nelson waved his hand and replaced Li Xuan and others who had rested long enough.

After the substitution adjustment, the Mavericks have the ball.

Nash dribbled forward, came to the top of the arc to organize the offense, and directed his teammates to run.

Li Xuan quickly ran outside the three-point line, vacated the penalty area, and created space for Nowitzki to play singles.

The "driver" in the low position on the right leaned against Okur and reached out for the ball.

Upon seeing this, Nash immediately passed the ball.

After receiving the pass, Nowitzki leaned his back on Okur, and then used flexible footwork to shake Okur's center of gravity.

Okur is good at defending players of the big center type, but he is at a loss when he encounters a player with small forward skills like Dirk.

"Fuck! There are so many strange things in the Mavericks team, and it's hard to defend!" Okur complained depressingly.

An inside player just likes to float and shoot from the outside.

Another perimeter player plays like a brutal forward.

Dirk noticed that Okur's center of gravity was leaning back, and he immediately gave it a push, and then turned over to make a jumper.

Okur couldn't react for a while, it was already too late to rush forward to interfere.

Swish!Hollow into the net!

The audience burst into warm applause, and the fans cheered frantically, cheering for the home team!

"The tactics of the Mavericks are very clear, that is, one-on-one singles. As long as there is no double-teaming, the success rate is very high." Director Xu commented.

"The Mavericks' lineup has obvious flaws. If they encounter an inside combination with a strong offense, they will be suppressed." Director Zhang on the side analyzed.

Director Xu nodded in agreement and agreed.

"If the Mavericks solve the inside problem, they will definitely be the favorites to win the championship this year."

Director Zhang thought for a while, and thought that Director Xu's conjecture was very reasonable. The Mavericks that solved the inside problem were indeed stronger than the Lakers F4.

On the field, Billups dribbled the ball beyond the three-point line, beckoned, and let his teammates come out to play pick-and-roll cooperation.

Okur sprints forward to set an off-ball screen.

After the pick-and-roll was ready, Billups used the screen to break through to the inside, and passed the ball after encountering a switch.

Okur, who finished the screen and cut to the basket, received the pass and came to the front of the penalty area. Seeing the Mavericks' No. 10 retracting to the basket, he made an emergency stop and took off to shoot.

"Shh!"

The basketball is hollow into the net and hits steadily!
In the next round, the Mavericks made a turnover.

Nowitzki encountered double-teaming in low-post singles. Due to the blocked vision, he failed to find Li Xuan who was in the open position, so he could only find the position of other teammates to pass the ball.

But the Pistons didn't give the "driver" any chance. Big Ben cut off the basketball in Dirk's hand with quick eyesight, grabbed the basketball and passed it out immediately.

Prince pushed quickly after receiving the ball. He glanced back and saw that Finley was very close.

If he lays up directly, he may be blocked.

So, Prince passed the ball back, and Hamilton, who followed up, caught the ball and was ready for a layup.

At this moment, Li Xuan, who came from behind, slapped Hamilton's layup and flew it out of the baseline.

"Hey, Xiao Li successfully destroyed the fast break of the Pistons. This chase is really brutal!" Director Zhang commented with a smile.

After being taken off by Li Xuan, Hamilton felt very uncomfortable.

He wanted to vent a few words of trash talk, but when he thought that this was a god of death, he immediately took it from his heart.

He was worried that if Li Xuan got up and beat him up violently, the gain would outweigh the loss.

Li Xuan glanced at Hamilton, who dared not speak out, and deliberately high-fived his teammates to celebrate.

There is a good saying, build happiness on the pain of others.

Provoking someone's anger can distract them from sound judgment.

At the same time, Li Xuan whispered something in Nowitzki's ear.

"Lee, I understand." Nowitzki nodded in response.

The game continued, and the Pistons sent the baseline ball.

After receiving the ball, Billups reorganized the offense and directed his teammates to run.

Hamilton wanted to get rid of the defense with the help of Big Ben's cover, but was delayed by Li Xuan, allowing Lagabel to chase up again.

Maybe Hamilton was a little impatient. Without completely getting rid of Lagabel, he forced a shot after receiving the ball, as if he wanted to get back the ball just now.

Clang!
Under Lagabel's impeccable defense, Hamilton's emergency stop jumper hit the iron.

Li Xuan retreated to the basket to grab the rebound and pass it to Nash to advance.

The Pistons retreated quickly and orderly, failing to allow the Mavericks to make a defensive counterattack.

Attacking the position, Nash lobbed the ball to Nowitzki in the low post on the right, allowing him to play singles.

After receiving the pass, Nowitzki leaned his back against Okur and was double-teamed.

"If you still want to steal me, go ahead and dream!"

Immediately, the "Silver Horn King" pulled up directly and threw the ball out.

When Da Ben saw this scene, he felt a little puzzled.

"Why is he so brave!"

Big Ben didn't think much, and immediately took off to block the shot. At the same time, Okur also jumped up to interfere.

"Nowitzki's choice this time is too unreasonable... Huh? How could this ball be so outrageously biased, it shouldn't be!"

As soon as Director Zhang's voice fell, he saw a blue shadow rushing to the basket, soaring into the air, grabbing the basketball in the air, and dunking it into the basket with one hand.

"Haha, let me just say, it's impossible for Dirk to make such a mistake, and the pass is very reasonable." Director Zhang quickly rounded up his previous words.

Director Xu on the side admired Director Zhang's operation very much.

It is worthy of being the leader of the basketball commentary world!

On the field, after Li Xuan completed the dunk, he high-fived with his teammates who rushed over to celebrate, and then retreated quickly.

The ball is switched and the Pistons attack.

Seeing that Hamilton failed to run out of the opportunity, Billups did not pass the ball and prepared to play alone.

But when he saw Big Ben asking for the ball in the low post again, he hesitated for a while.

"Fuck! Has this guy's mentality been ruined by that rookie? Or is he unconvinced and wants to fight one?"

When Billups was thinking, Nash took the opportunity to cut the ball. Fortunately, Lupus reacted faster, otherwise he would have been taken away by Lao Na.

"Damn it! This guy actually engaged in a sneak attack."

After cursing secretly, Billups passed the ball out to avoid another accident.

After Da Ben received the ball, he gave Li Xuan a hard push, trying to elbow the arrogant kid when he turned around.

"Afro, who gave you the courage to play singles, could it be Liang Jingru?" Although Li Xuan defended very hard.

"Boy, you won't be arrogant in a while."

After hearing this, Da Ben cursed secretly, and found it very difficult to turn around, so he fought again, trying to squeeze out space.

Li Xuan was always paying attention to Da Ben's movements, he knew that this big man was not a good person, and he would definitely try every means to get back.

Seeing that the time for attacking was running out, Da Ben became ruthless, turned his back forcibly, and his elbow was quite dishonest.

Li Xuan, who had been prepared for a long time, failed to let Da Ben succeed, not only dodging but also hitting an elbow.

"Fuck! It hurts me to death." Da Ben felt a dull pain in his abdomen, and cursed secretly.

At the same time, he heard the shouts of his teammates.

"Ben, what are you doing, the time is almost up, hurry up!"

Big Ben reacted and could only shoot the ball against Li Xuan's defense.

Bang bang!Fight with anger!
Li Xuan quickly turned around and grabbed the rebound, passed it out immediately, and shook his head at Da Ben when he ran to the front court.

"Basketball never lies, your skills are too bad, you can't beat me, man!"

"I'm the gate of the penalty area. It doesn't matter if you have offensive ability or not. It's enough to lock you up." Big Ben responded, and then quickly chased and defended.

The Pistons developed a strategy against the Mavericks' defensive counterattack, and once again successfully stopped the fast break.

Nash slowed down, dribbled forward without rushing, and came to the top of the arc to observe the positions of his teammates.

Li Xuan ran quickly without the ball and received a pass from Nash near the middle distance on the right. He wanted to make a jumper, but saw Daben rushing over quickly.

Immediately, he made a shooting fake to try to shake Big Ben away.

Daben has rich experience and did not take off, but just raised his hands to interfere.

The plan failed, Li Xuan held the ball with one hand and responded.

But it was found that the Pistons' defense was very good, and the teammates were stunned and failed to run out of opportunities.

At this time, Li Xuan saw Dirk running up, as if he wanted to cover himself.

Big Ben also noticed this, and immediately retreated a certain distance, ready to go around the cover.

When Daben retreated, Li Xuan immediately started to break through to the basket.

Big Ben was unexpected, because in past experience, Li Xuan rarely broke through with the ball.

It was too late for him to move laterally to block, so he hurriedly turned around and chased back, trying to make up for his mistakes.

With Li Xuan's C-level ball-handling attribute, he didn't dribble the ball on his feet, broke through the basket, and staged a windmill dunk without anyone guarding him.

There was thunderous applause in the auditorium, cheers and shouts filled the arena, and the enthusiastic atmosphere reached its peak.

"Good shot! Li Xuan's ball-handling skills have improved a lot, not bad." Director Xu praised.

Director Zhang on the side was also very happy.

Both Li Xuan and Dayao are the future hopes of the men's basketball team and have given great expectations.

On the court, Da Ben, who rushed back, saw Li Xuan passing by, smiled at him, and clenched his fist.

He was about to explode, but was stopped by Billups.

"Ben, have you forgotten what I told you before the game?"

"Basketball games have to be solved in a basketball way." Billups said quickly.

After calming down, Big Ben said, "I'm sorry, Chauncey, I will control my emotions."

On the sidelines, Pistons head coach Larry Brown breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted to the field: "Chauncey, play number two!"

Billups nodded after hearing this, expressing his understanding.

"It's finally time for me to act."

In fact, Billups is a combo guard. He can play both point guard and shooting guard, and has a strong offensive ability without the ball.

The Pistons attacked. In this round, Billups dribbled the ball to the top of the arc to organize the offense and handed the ball to Ben.

Then, Billups suddenly ran to the right, as if preparing to step forward to meet him.

Nash followed immediately, but he didn't expect that Billups would suddenly turn around and come to a counter run just a few steps away.

Nash reacted and quickly turned around to chase, but turned around and bumped into Prince, and Billups was lost in his vision.

"Fuck! Does it need to be so complicated? I can't defend one-on-one!"

After Billups successfully got rid of Nash, he ran to the right outside the three-point line to receive the pass, and immediately took off to shoot.

Bang bang!Fight with anger!
"Fuck! Wasn't this guy defending Daben just now? When did he make up the defense? Why didn't I see it!"

Billups looked at Li Xuan speechlessly, and roared unwillingly in his heart.

"Xiao Li's supplementary defense was very active. He successfully blocked Billups' shot and blocked the attack." Director Zhang explained.

At the basket, Nowitzki grabbed the defensive rebound, found Nash immediately, and passed the ball.

After Nash received it, he dribbled a bit, and seeing Billups blocking him, he immediately passed the ball out.

"Damn guy, it's not easy for me to get assists."

Since Li Xuan blocked Billups' shot, he immediately went on a fast break.

At this time, he had already ran beyond the three-point line. After receiving Nash's precise pass, he immediately pulled up and threw the basketball in his hand.

The basketball draws a perfect arc in the air.

Swish!Hollow into the net!

"Good shot! Li Xuan's signature chasing three-pointer hit, once again widening the point difference. If the Pistons don't make some adjustments, this game will be impossible." Director Xu analyzed the situation on the field.

On the sidelines, Pistons head coach Larry Brown immediately requested a timeout, allowing the players to return to the bench to adjust, while interrupting the Mavericks' offensive rhythm.

(End of this chapter)