I really can't handle the ball

Chapter 88

The timeout ends and the game continues.

Li Xuan saw Duncan coming to the field, ran over quickly, and apologized: "Tim, I'm so sorry, I let you get the technical offender."

"Li, it's not your fault, it's all the fault of that nasty bald referee."

Duncan glanced at the bald referee Crawford, saw that he was not paying attention to him, and continued: "If you are really sorry, you can let me touch your head again after the game."

After hearing this, Li Xuan quickly returned to his defensive area. He didn't want to satisfy Duncan's habit.

Duncan glanced at Li Xuan's leaving back, and sighed, "I don't know when I'll be able to touch that cut cut that feels so good."

The game continued, the Spurs had the ball, and Parker dribbled the ball unhurriedly and advanced beyond the three-point line, hoisting the ball into the interior.

Duncan hit Nowitzki with a low back on the right side, pushed back a few times, and found that Li Xuan came to help defend, and quickly transferred the ball out.

Ginobili, who came forward to respond, immediately passed the ball after receiving the ball.

Turkoglu, who was outside the three-point line on the left, got an open chance. He hesitated for a moment, remembered the instructions of the head coach Popovich, moved to the three-point line, and shot a long-range jumper.

Due to Turkoglu's hesitation, Li Xuan was given a chance to rush back to defend, and immediately rushed to interfere with the shot.

Bang bang!Fight with anger!
The Mavericks defended the rebound, and Nash dribbled the ball quickly and launched a defensive counterattack.

Parker blocked Nash's breakthrough route, delaying Nash's advancing speed and making the Mavericks' fast break impossible.

Nash slowed down, came to the top of the arc and made a tactical gesture, calling his teammates to come out and play pick-and-roll cooperation.

Li Xuan ran forward to cooperate with the pick-and-roll. When Nash went around the screen, seeing that Parker was not behind him, he immediately stopped and shot a three-pointer.

Parker knew he couldn't squeeze the pick-and-roll, so he chose to go around the screen and chase the defense. Unexpectedly, Nash shot directly. There was a Li Xuan between him and Nash, so he couldn't interfere with the shot at all, so he could only pray that he wouldn't make it.

Swish!Hollow into the net!

47: 33!

"Xiao Li's screen quality is very high, allowing Nash to get an open shot. This cooperation is too tacit." Director Zhang explained with a smile.

After watching nearly half of the game, he can let go of his hanging heart. Before, he thought that Li Xuan would have a very difficult game against a strong team. Now that he saw Li Xuan playing with ease, he was very happy. There is a star of hope rising.

In the transition between offense and defense, the Spurs played extremely hard under the strict defense of the Mavericks. After going around, they still had to hand over the basketball to Duncan inside.

Although relying on Duncan's strong personal strength to stumble into the ball, it is extremely difficult from the perspective of the overall offense.

Even Barkley in the on-site commentary could not help but mocked: "The Spurs, who were able to easily eliminate the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals last season, seem to be having a very difficult time facing their old opponents this season. It seems that Lee's Joining instantly tipped the balance of victory."

As soon as Barkley's words fell, the Mavericks' tactics succeeded again.

Nash and Nowitzki's pick-and-roll cooperation attracted Duncan's defense, and the ball assisted Finley who cut to the basket and scored a layup.

The Mavericks' offensive tactics are too rich, and they can score a lot. The Spurs restricted Li Xuan's off-ball running, so they couldn't help defend against Nowitzki's low singles, and Nash and Li Xuan or Nowitzki The pick-and-roll coordination is very difficult to defend.

On the other hand, the Spurs only had Duncan as an offensive point. Parker and Ginobili couldn't break through and enter the penalty area at all.

Moreover, the Spurs players found that the Mavericks' defensive system seems to have been revitalized by Li Xuan alone. The penalty area is almost impenetrable. What's more frightening is that he doesn't seem to be tired, and he quickly defends and assists on the court without panting Rough, a proper stamina monster.

For the rest of the second quarter, the Spurs have been playing the role of chasing points. Every time the point difference is within ten points, they will be suppressed by the Mavericks.

In the last attack before halftime, the Argentine, who was suppressed for halftime, finally found his place.

Facing Finley's defense, Ginobili changed direction in front of him and passed Finley, took a rhythmic European step, broke through to the basket and confronted Nowitzki physically, and threw his left hand when he lost his balance. hit.

At the end of the halftime game, the score on the big screen was 52:40, and the Mavericks entered the second half with a 12-point lead.

Don't underestimate these 12 points. In the period when the three-point shot was not popular, it was impossible to recover such a point difference by a wave of flow. A team like the Spurs who are good at defense will not know by slowly grinding. When to grind.

After the intermission, the third quarter began.

Not long into the third quarter, the old Nelson standing on the sidelines saw the Spurs' tactical arrangements.

Popovich directly asked the players to give up the opportunity to compete for the frontcourt board, resolutely retreated, and did not give the Mavericks any chance to play a fast break.

This is also his helpless move. He obviously has the advantage inside, but it is difficult to implement it.

Fortunately, Popovich has good adaptability on the spot, can bend and stretch, and is not like other coaches who go all the way to the dark. In order to win, even the defending champion must make corresponding adjustments.

When the Mavericks faced fewer opportunities for fast breaks, Nelson also used the most popular pick-and-roll tactic of this era.

Compared with fast break tactics, the Mavericks' pick-and-roll tactics are more changeable. After all, all five players on the field have baskets, which cannot be easily missed.

The Spurs have also been prepared for a long time, and have deliberately studied the Mavericks' pick-and-roll tactics, but in actual combat they found that the tactics formulated before were even more useless.

It is impossible for Parker or Ginobili to forcefully squeeze past Li Xuan's off-ball screen. They found that Li Xuan's physical fitness is too good. He obviously doesn't look strong, but he just can't squeeze, and finally makes himself hurt all over. .

Through cooperation, Nash got a lot of excellent shooting opportunities, and his shooting percentage exceeded [-]%. Even if he encountered a defense change, he could pass the ball to Li Xuan who cuts outside or inside, or passed the ball to Nowitzki in the low post. , anyway, he has a lot of choices.

In this way, the Mavericks scored another 24 points in a single quarter by relying on pick-and-roll tactics, while the Spurs only scored 20 points. At the end of the three quarters, the Mavericks led the Spurs by 16 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spurs began to counterattack under the leadership of Duncan, playing a wave of 8-2 attacks.

But it didn't take long for Li Xuan and Nowitzki to suppress him with three points each, and the point difference returned to more than ten points.

The Spurs lack the means to quickly chase points, and it is simply unrealistic to rely on Duncan to slowly back up in the low post.

Coupled with the fact that the Mavericks have experienced Nash, they firmly controlled the rhythm of the field in the final stage of the game, reduced mistakes, and did not give the Spurs any chance.

In this way, the Mavericks maintained their lead until the end of the game.

With the sound of harsh beeps, the opening game came to an end.

In the end, the Mavericks defeated the Spurs 92:78 and won two consecutive victories.

(End of this chapter)