NBA's strongest prince

Chapter 224
"There is a lot of pressure now, we are out of shape, and even lose our courage. We feel depressed, and there is no smile on the faces of our teammates." Nowitzki said sadly, "I am disappointed with the team's performance today, but we still have hope Reverse the game. As long as the series is not over, it should not be given up."

Relatively speaking, Russell can be said to be proud of his spring breeze. He told reporters: "We are still one game away from reaching the Western Conference Finals. We are going step by step, and the Mavericks missed a shot at a critical moment... that is because of our team. Defensively in place."

The media said that the Mavericks have lost their rhythm in the game against the Suns. They are always exhausted in order to contain their opponents, and they will say goodbye to them in the playoffs.

As for a comeback, it's not impossible, it's just that there is no precedent, and it's endlessly close to zero.

Moreover, the Suns didn't rely on luck to win the match point. The Suns haven't been completely desperate yet. They are powerful, a group of talented young people, and the lineup is invincible.

Only this time, the sun was not able to sweep across.

In the fourth game, Nowitzki scored 50 points and led the team to a narrow victory over the Suns. The Mavericks finally kept a home game.

After the game, Nowitzki said sternly: "The post-match video summary worked. I didn't find the rhythm on the field. No matter what happens today, I have to play harder. We need to counterattack. I told my teammates, let me go Shooting, driving, organizing counterattacks, all I need is victory."

"We bid farewell to the previous bad game, and now we have to focus on the next game. The series is not over, everything is not over. I hope that the players will continue to play like this one."

Russell just said lightly after the game: "We didn't stop Nowitzki, we lost nothing to say, but we have to move on, this kind of thing will not happen in the future."

Two days later, the Suns returned to Phoenix.

It's not that they didn't pinch Nowitzki when they played, but that the superstars went crazy and had no choice but to throw into the defense from outside the three-point line. It was difficult to interfere with Nowitzki's height.

After the fifth game, the Suns seriously rehearsed their tactics against Nowitzki.

Everyone is very serious, Russell has almost contributed more than half of the Suns' offensive power, if they can't lock a Nowitzki, what is their value?

The Mavericks came to the home court of the Suns, and finally changed the starting lineup, and the fifth position became Diop.

The little general Johnson trusted Van Horn a lot, or expected it, but this buddy really couldn't do it.

At the beginning of the game, the Mavericks let Nowitzki exert his strength again.

This is already their regular program, because there is no way, and they don't have a good organizer. It is difficult for other players to display a strong combat effectiveness, and only Nowitzki can do it.

Therefore, no matter how much the Suns research on tactics, they should. As the strongest team in the league, the Suns don't have any arrogant thoughts, so they attack directly.

This time, they directly flanked the three-point line, which is so realistic.

Isn't Nowitzki awesome? He can throw a three-pointer against the defense, so he won't give a chance at all.

Anyway, Diop didn't attack, and Harris didn't have a three-pointer anyway, so let it go.

Harris saw that no one cared about him, and his mentality was about to collapse.

In the NCAA, Harris relied on speed to play casually, but it was different in the NBA.

He is not shooting now, except for the good mid-range feel in the first game, which is now the background board.

The importance of shooting will be clear as long as you have been in the league for a few years.

Unless you are not self-motivated and just want to be a role player with a single function.

This kind of role player is black and tough and may continue to mix. It really depends on whether the team needs the outside line.

The Mavericks were a little shocked by the Suns' determination to flank Nowitzki, or they didn't want to believe it.

They have already led by a big score in the series, so it has to come up and that's it.

The Mavericks must have considered this situation, but they had no other good tactics but to use it.

But there is really no good way to crack the Suns' defense, because all available tactics have been tried before, and none of them are good.

Their best performance is when another star steps up to take over the offense and score points in isolation while Nowitzki attracts the defense.

As a result, Terry's side ended before it started, because there was a small conflict when defending Joe Johnson, Terry quickly received two fouls and left the court to rest.

Going back to the Suns' home court, the visiting team will definitely suffer a bit in a confrontation of the same scale.

When the Suns were at the Mavericks' home court, they fouled more, but they still won. This is hard power.

The Mavericks replaced Stackhouse, but this buddy looks very good now.

He tried singles and was blocked by Joe Johnson as a blacksmith.

Joe Johnson doesn't look surprised on offense and defense, but in fact he is very good on both ends of the offense and defense. He is an absolute All-Star, but he has not reached the top.

Stackhouse's nerve knife, including the younger Terry, would not be able to take advantage of Joe Johnson if he didn't go crazy.

You know, in the league, there are only a few stars like Kobe who can play against Joe Johnson.

Stackhouse can't, the Mavericks can only let Howard come.

Howard can play, after all, this is his peak period, and it can be considered an All-Star level overall.

Facing the strong defense of the Suns forward, his efficiency in singles is not high, and he cannot help the Mavericks to bite the score.

So the Mavericks had to make substitutions, and the young general Johnson still asked Van Horn to try it out. The Mavericks' inside line is only for him to open up space.

But after playing for a while, coach Johnson couldn't bear it and replaced him.

Still can't attack and can't defend, what's the use of him, it feels like an undercover agent.

I thought he was a bit like Nowitzki, but it turns out that Nowitzki's weakness is an appearance, and this softness is real.

The game entered the rotation, the Mavericks let Nowitzki and Howard play against each other, and tried various other positions to see if anyone could bring some surprises.

Their current tactic is to let Nowitzki fight, score if he can score, attract defense if he can't score, and let the Mavericks try to attack at other points.

After entering the rotation, the Mavericks played well, mainly because they replaced some defensive players to limit some of the Suns' offense.

Wallace can't limit the rotation players of the Suns. It can be said that he is more restrained by the Mavericks. Barbosa and Martin play normally. Martin has no regular season explosion, and he is still weaker in confrontation.

Thomas is limited, but it doesn't matter, the Suns can use him less.

They go small next, and Russell goes up and picks and rolls with Wallace.

This trick is still very useful for the Mavericks. Not only Wallace can hit the Mavericks' basket, but Marion and Iguodala also found opportunities to hit three-pointers from the baseline. The Suns are in a good situation.

(End of this chapter)