Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 330 The Legendary Stepping Stone
In the second quarter, the Lakers' offensive focus shifted to Wade, and the Mavericks also deployed rookie guard Devin Harris, who is also known for his speed.

However, although "Pluto" is fast, the confrontation is far inferior to Wade, who has played for a year more than him, has more experience, and is physically stronger. He matches Kobe's offense and defense every day in training. Wade's singles skills have improved. The rapid progress is not like relying on speed in the rookie season, but adding more rhythm changes. To deal with Harris, Wade chooses to fall to the low post and use his back as a starting move to force Harris. Soon, Harris was fouled three times and was depressingly replaced by veteran Darrell Armstrong.

Mark Cuban outside the court was already furious. In his view, Harris' defensive actions were normal physical contact, but in the view of the referee, Harris could only prevent Wade from scoring by violating Wade's cylinder. .

The Mavericks' inside line in the second quarter is the double-soft combination of Sean Bradley and Van Horn. Although they have obvious advantages over Haslem and Nene in terms of height, they are far inferior in toughness and passion for playing. , although the cold touch of the Lakers outside is still contagious, and even Battier can't make a damn open three-pointer, but Nene and Haslem grabbed offensive rebounds in a row, so that the Lakers have more shots. .

The Lakers relied on Wade and the performance of the two insiders, while the Mavericks relied on the performance of the two uglies. Howard and Daniels took turns attacking the inside, Van Horn pulled outside the three-point line, and Bradley cruised on the weak side.

No matter how soft the big bamboo pole is, he still has a terrifying height of 2 meters and a wingspan of 29 meters. Standing on the ground, he can dunk on his tiptoes. As long as he is near the three-second zone, Nene must always pay attention to his movements. .

So the young and strong double ugliness took turns to force Shane Battier, and the referee also gave him face. Soon Battier also received 3 fouls and was replaced with an innocent face.

Nocioni's defense looks much stronger than Battier's, but the effect is more than one notch worse. Jim knows that Nocioni's defense against this kind of breakthrough striker is just like that. Pass Haslem and let him let go of Van Horn at the right time to help defend the inside.

As the saying goes, behind a Nowitzki, there are countless Van Horn, Bargnani and Adam Morrison. At this time, the latter two have not entered the league, but Van Horn's reputation has been confirmed. After confirming that they missed the No. 97 pick in [-], Auerbach and his team crazily advocated Van Horn's strength. According to the media, this University of Utah scoring master seemed to be Larry Bird coming again. Popovich had a short-circuit for a moment, but Popovich recognized Duncan, and there was no one else in his eyes.

As a result, Van Horn got a big open space with a radius of 5 meters at the top of the arc. Josh Howard distributed the ball. Van Horn calmly aimed at the basket and fired. Unfortunately, he was unlucky and the ball landed on the basket. After turning twice, it finally fell outside.

Accompanied by the sighs of the audience, Nene overwhelmed Bradley, grabbed the rebound in the backcourt, and slammed Wade in the frontcourt. After the Flash received the ball, he used an exaggerated European step to return to the defense of Darley Armstrong shook to petrification on the spot, then jumped on one foot, and succeeded in a domineering dunk.

The sighs of the audience turned into exclamations.

On the first shot, Van Horn missed, so when he got open the second time, Haslem didn't give him much thought.

Van Horn took a glance and shot.

The trajectory was very positive, but it hit the back basket.

The ball collapsed far away, and Van Horn planned to grab the rebound. Unexpectedly, Wade reacted a step faster, grabbed the long rebound, and passed the ball by himself. Armstrong's interception finally distributed the ball to Blake, who stretched his bow and arrow outside the three-point line.

Blake's open three-pointer is trustworthy, and he hit the needle, and the Lakers tied the score.

When defending, Haslem even started shouting loudly on the field.

"Don't worry about Van Horn, he can't make the shot!"

Of course, the Mavericks players also heard this sentence, but out of trust in his teammates, Armstrong still distributed the ball.

When the ball fell to the wide-open Van Horn for the third time, his shooting confidence didn't seem to be that strong either.

The ball drew a weird arc, didn't even touch the basket, and hit the backboard directly.

Bradley was taken aback, as if he didn't expect Van Horn's shot to be so outrageous. The rebounded ball passed in front of him and was snatched by the Lakers again.

Armstrong has rich experience and immediately made a tactical foul to stop the Lakers' fast break. Mavericks coach Nelson also called a timeout to prevent the Lakers from starting.

After the timeout, the Mavericks replaced Nowitzki and Van Horn, who was in a trance, and Terry returned to the court.

"We will use Jason Terry as a breakthrough point. Since we can't limit his touch on the offensive end, let him pay the price on the defensive end!" Jim quickly determined the next style of play.

Billups did not appear, and the remaining four starters were replaced.

Wade holds the ball, Kobe and Garnett set a double screen for him in the high post, and then Kobe suddenly cuts inside with Garnett's off-ball screen.

Terry, Stackhouse, and Nowitzki are not players known for their defense. After a series of screens, there was a little confusion in the defense. Kobe went straight to the unguarded Mavericks penalty area, and Wade threw the ball high. Throwing it up, Dampier over there thought about whether he could block Kobe's dunk if he chose to protect the rim, and came to a depressing conclusion.So the second center finally chose to give up defense and watched Kobe explode in the alley-oop.

Kobe returned to the defense blankly. Several Mavericks players looked at each other and asked each other with their eyes, "Why don't you defend?"

The Mavericks attack and the ball goes to Stackhouse.

The tension between Stackhouse and Kobe has long been forged.As a No. 95 show in 76, Stackhouse was originally trained as a future star in Philadelphia, but that summer, a Philadelphia high school student came to the [-]ers' training hall.

The two singled out a few rounds, and the outcome was not decided, but the 76ers assistant coach John Lucas stopped the duel because he knew that if the game was allowed to continue, it would definitely not be the high school student who would lose face.

Lucas' original intention was to let this matter pass quietly, but with the help of people with good intentions, the rumor that Stackhouse was blown up by Kobe Bryant in high school immediately spread wildly all over the world.

Stackhouse of course strongly denied this, but over the past few years, Kobe has quickly become a hot star in the league, but he can only exist as an inefficient single player. The performance of the two cannot be believed.

Therefore, every time he faces the Lakers, Stackhouse wants to prove his strength to the world.

It's a pity that the sky didn't come true, and Kobe easily saw through Stackhouse's false and real turnaround jumper. When the ball was taken, Kobe cut the ball away and passed it to Wade for a fast break.

Cuban's face is almost the same color as the Lakers' away jersey.

(End of this chapter)