I'm not a basketball bully

Chapter 460

However, the Knicks' such a collapse start also made the commentators not optimistic about the Knicks' next performance in this game.

"It feels like it will be difficult for the Knicks to win tonight."

"Yes, they have nothing to do with Nowitzki, and at the same time, there is too much pressure inside."

"Yes, although Jason Kidd is older now, his years of experience still allow him to perfectly connect the team and provide key assists."

"Although Su Ye's strong three-pointer is crucial, it does not quench his thirst now."

"It's hard to say that the Knicks can even the score difference in this quarter. I hope they can catch up with the huge score difference in the second quarter."

The fans were also stunned by the situation on the field.

The Knicks, who had high hopes for them, faced the old, weak, sick and disabled Mavericks, and were actually beaten by a double-digit point difference.

This caused a huge change in the mood of some fans.

There was a lot of discussion in the fan forum.

"Wait a minute! The Knicks won't overturn tonight!"

"Turn over? You really think the Mavericks are a weak team. This is the third team in the Western Conference!"

"Third, we won't be hit by a double-digit score difference!"

"Damn it, brothers, I can't bear to watch it, this game is too outrageous."

"Good boy, Knicks was killed indiscriminately like this?"

"Didn't you watch the Lakers game? The Mavericks were almost defeated by the Lakers!"

"Holy shit, Nowitzki is so powerful, he hits again! How many points did he score tonight!"

"10 points in the first quarter, now it's 14 points!"

"This efficiency is so ruthless."

. . . . . .

Nowitzki's performance on the court was invincible.

Now the Mavericks' perfect lineup system means that he does not need to consider any defensive issues. This allows this power forward who is incompatible with the entire league to pour out his offensive firepower with confidence.

Nowitzki's shots were like anti-aircraft shells, hitting the Knicks' basket again and again, and no one could defend them.

After all, the independent existence of Golden Rooster can be said to be similar to the skills of Tiangou.

A personal signature move.

Can this kind of action be prevented?

Can defend.

But it's a matter of probability.

It's not like you can just defend yourself casually.

On the court, no one in the Knicks could limit Nowitzki's performance.

This made the fans' eyes involuntarily focus on this "King Nuo".

But the Lone Ranger was also unable to stop Su Ye's attack.

Kidd, Caron Butler, Shawn Marion.

None of these three people could stop Su Ye for even a moment.

Su Ye couldn't catch any pressure from the outside and fired three-pointers one after another. Only halfway through the second quarter, Su Ye had already hit three three-pointers in a row, directly shortening the point difference to 3 points.

The Mavericks called a timeout.

Under the coach's instructions, they strengthened their defense on Suye's line, forcing him to score two points instead of more three points.

In the second quarter, relying on Su Ye's explosive performance, the Knicks shortened the score to 4 points and prepared to enter the third quarter.

During the halftime break, the commentators on the sidelines were discussing.

"I feel like the Knicks have no chance tonight, mainly because Su Ye is in really good shape today."

"It's really good. It's only been half a quarter and I've already scored 22 points. If nothing else happens, I will definitely be able to break 40 points today."

"The main thing is the third quarter. Can the Knicks withstand it? After all, the third quarter is very important. If they can overtake the game, they are likely to win the game in one fell swoop in the fourth quarter."

"It's hard to say. The Mavericks are in good shape today. I feel like the Mavericks will quickly widen the point difference in the second half."

"Who do you think will win?"

"The Mavericks, their performance today was so explosive."

"I'm a Maverick too, hahaha."

The commentators had been supporting the Knicks from the beginning, but now halfway through the game, everyone has switched sides.

Nowitzki's invincible performance convinced everyone present.

Even Nowitzki's various back-ups in the mid-range made the audience feel very helpless.

The game immediately entered the third quarter, and no one knew who would win between the two teams.

But on the Knicks bench, everyone's expressions were much more relaxed.

Coach Prosser applauded and shouted excitedly in front of the players.

"Very good! Very good!"

"The difference is only four points, which is much less than I expected!"

"There is one game left, if we hold on for one more game, the victory will belong to us."

Randolph looked at Deron from the left and Jordan from the right, and stretched out his hand to fist bump with the two men.

Su Ye also walked over from behind the coach with a towel at this moment, wiping his sweat while laughing and teasing them.

"Hang in there guys."

"Especially the older guys on the team."

"I won't say who it is, but I know who it is."

Randolph and Deron looked at each other, turned to Su Ye and cursed "Fake".

Against a team like the Mavericks, the Knicks didn't have much to worry about from the beginning.

Facing the Mavericks, you are in two situations.

Otherwise, it will be a big loss.

Either that or an exciting comeback.

There is no doubt that the Mavericks are one of the few teams in the league with an extremely difficult offense.

This team's game before the fourth quarter can be described as extremely brutal.

Nowitzki's invincible singles.

Kidd led Marion and Chandler in various alley-oops.

Plus a solid rotation.

With such a luxurious lineup, most teams in the league cannot put together such a perfect lineup system.

But the Mavericks also sacrificed a lot for this.

The biggest sacrifice is also the most fatal point of the Mavericks team, and that is age.

All members are elderly, which means that their physical reserves are far inferior to those of young people.

You can't expect a group of professional players in their thirties to play the full 40 minutes like they did when they were young.

30 minutes is the limit for all the Mavericks starting players.

There are only three people in the team, Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, and Jason Terry, who have played more than 33 minutes.

The rest average about 30 minutes, or even more than 20 minutes.

It's not that they don't want to fight, it's that they simply can't fight.

The huge physical exertion caused them to exceed this time line. Every minute they were on the field, their competitive status was visibly declining.

Especially players like Nowitzki still rely on traditional back-up offense.

The technique of carrying the body is extremely physically demanding.

This means that as long as they survive the third quarter, the Mavericks in the fourth quarter have no way to guarantee that the original starting lineup will continue, and they can only replace the substitute lineup to force the time.

Compared with the original starting lineup, the defensive quality of the substitute lineup has dropped significantly.

There is simply no way to make up for Nowitzki's defensive holes.

In the league, most teams could not withstand the Mavericks' onslaught in the first three quarters.

Most of the teams that can beat the Mavericks to death can win the final game.

The game returned in the third quarter.

Everyone in the Knicks immediately changed their tactics.

Still chasing points, they were not in a hurry to continue their onslaught, but directly started a positional battle.

Defense is the focus.

Fast attack is the main method.

Whenever the Mavericks fail to score an offense, the Knicks will quickly launch a fast break.

This rapid fast break method gives the Mavericks a headache.

They can only quickly return to defense.

In the third quarter, fans originally thought that both sides would have a steady attack, but the Knicks started a sports battle.

In just six minutes, the two sides were still 4 points apart.

The Mavericks clung to the score, but called a timeout before the Knicks.

On the Mavericks bench, a group of people were sweating profusely and frantically replenishing water.

Especially Nowitzki, who leaned back on the chair and stretched his long legs forward, barely had the strength to hold a water bottle.

As he takes on all the offensive roles in the team, he is very physically exhausted at this moment.

Seeing that the score difference could not be widened, everyone in the Mavericks was very anxious.

When they returned to the court again, the fans suddenly realized that the rhythm of the game had changed.

The Mavericks, who had always had the initiative, are now starting to misfire.

Nowitzki failed to hit the fadeaway that he is good at in mid-range flips, but the Knicks continued to launch fierce attacks.

If it weren't for Shawn Marion's two desperate offensive rebounds in the third quarter, the Knicks would have evened the difference between the two teams.

Entering the fourth quarter, it was just as Su Ye and the others expected.

The Knicks changed their starting lineup system.

Nowitzki left the game early to rest.

Jason Terry replaced Kidd.

Peja replaced Marion.

Corey Brewer replaced Nowitzki.

This combination makes Mavericks fans very worried.

They have been watching this lineup system for a whole year.

While no one on the outside is defensive, the offense is also very convenient.

Stephenson, who was also present, suddenly showed his desire to attack.

He can't beat Marion.

But if you say you want to beat an old Peja, this guy can still do it.

Peja himself is slow, and when he meets Stephenson, who is a fancy dribbler, he has no way to stop the opponent's attack.

Stephenson succeeded in two consecutive attacks and directly tied the score.

Before Stephenson could be happy for too long, the Mavericks directly replaced Marion.

Stephenson was completely misfired.

But within three minutes of the fourth quarter, Su Ye and the others also returned to the field one after another.

Su Ye, who was playing again, looked at Nowitzki who was also playing in front of him, and instead smiled and asked a question.

"Can you win?"

Nowitzki, who had little energy left, smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Just do your best."

Nowitzki, as the team boss, knows it very well.

If the Knicks haven't been defeated by the fourth quarter, it's basically in vain.

Sure enough, as soon as he returned to the court, Su Ye showed everyone why the Knicks couldn't lose in the fourth quarter without him.

Needless to say, Su Ye was able to perform perfectly against other teams with strong defense.

Now that the Mavericks can't even get a few defensive players in the starting lineup, Su Ye is completely crazy.

On the offensive end, Su Ye passed Marion who was defending him in one step.

Drive at full speed and drive straight to the basket.

As the Mavericks' only inside support, Chandler himself wanted to restrict Su Ye a little.

But seeing Su Ye take off directly in front of him, Chandler began to regret deeply that he came up to defend Su Ye.

In the camera lens.

Chandler tried to block the shot while dodging.

However, Su Ye completed the dunk straight in the air.

This goal completely ignited the enthusiasm of the fans and spectators.

However, just after this goal, Su Ye's performance was truly amazing.

On the outside, facing Marion's defense, he hit consecutive mid-range hits.

Although the Mavericks were still resisting, the score was quickly opened to a 4-point difference.

And this is just one side.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Mavericks' scoring efficiency showed a visible decline.

In the first three quarters, they scored 24 points, 27 points, and 31 points respectively.

But entering the fourth quarter, after the first 6 minutes, they only scored 9 points.

On the contrary, the Knicks were completely stunned.

With Su Ye taking the lead, he hit key points repeatedly.

With 5 minutes left in the game, the point difference was quickly widened to 7 points.

In five consecutive possessions, the Mavericks only scored four points.

Two of the points came from free throws caused by Su Ye accidentally hitting Marion when attacking.

Mavericks fans were heartbroken on the court.

They couldn't believe that they, who had always had a favorable wind, would finally collapse completely in the fourth quarter.

In the last two minutes of the game, Su Ye hit a three-pointer and completely killed the game.

The 10-point difference gave the Mavericks no hope of a comeback.

Tonight's special guest commentator Kenny Smith was bragging from the sidelines.

"What did I say!"

"What did I say on the show?"

"You can always trust the Knicks, they can always create miracles for you."

"The unstoppable Mavericks team in the league has been beaten to death by Su Ye and the others."

With one minute left in the game, the Mavericks saw that there was no hope of chasing points, so they hastily replaced the starter.

The starters on both sides had already rested. Su Ye wiped his sweat with a towel and came to the technical table to chat with Nowitzki.

Nowitzki leaned lightly on the technical stage, looked at the score in the sky, and complained with great annoyance.

"Damn it, why can you win?"

Su Ye joked lightly.

“Do you want to ask God?”

Nowitzki lightly punched Su Ye on the shoulder.

"You boy!"

Seeing that their star player has a good relationship with the league's No. 1 player, Mavericks fans are also in a good mood.

This season, the Mavericks have Nowitzki leading the team, and they haven't lost any ugly games yet.

The few games we lost were all bloody battles with the opponent to the end.

But judging from the state of the Mavericks this season, although they can enter the playoffs, no team in the league is optimistic that this team can win the championship.

Just like the script back then.

Everyone thought the Heat could defeat the Mavericks in the finals.

The Mavericks achieved an extremely rare single-core championship.

Prior to this, the only teams that could win the single-core championship were Dameng and Duncan.

The Rockets led by Dameng completed the first single-core championship in history.

Back then, Duncan led General Robinson, who had become a marginalized figure, to win his first championship.

The same is true for the Mavericks now. No one is optimistic about this team, but no one will underestimate this team.

……

At the end of the night, the Mavericks were on the hot search list because of their overturn in the battle with the Knicks.

This makes the Mavericks team even more considered by most fans to have no potential.

After leading for such a long time, they were unable to widen the point difference, and were even overturned by their opponents.

This led to a rapid decline in the Mavericks' popularity.

Originally, this team was not very popular in the league back then, and now it is even worse.

On the contrary, after the Knicks won, the Knicks received more praise from the media.

The playoffs are getting closer and closer, and many teams have begun to give them the title of "capped championship."

Everyone also wants to witness the emergence of another three consecutive championships.

After this game.

In the next five games, the Knicks won three and lost two.

One of the two games they lost was against the Bulls. Rose was in such an explosive state that no one in the Knicks could completely restrict this guy.

Su Ye even tried to defend for two waves, but found that it was meaningless.

Rose will use his speed to get rid of himself directly from the backcourt, and then complete the fatal finish at the basket.

The result of guarding this guy was that he could only cause a foul.

In the other game, the Knicks simply didn't perform well, causing the team to lose.

But Jordan's rapid growth in the second half made Knicks fans happy.

From being a rebounding freak at the beginning, to now two-thirds of the season, Jordan's number of blocks has quickly climbed from eighth in the league to fifth in the league.

When the previous data of several players are almost fixed, DeAndre Jordan can start to overtake in the second half, which can prove how explosive DeAndre Jordan's condition is.

The media even listed that after the All-Star Game, Jordan was one of the best players in the league.

While averaging 18.7 points and 15.6 rebounds per game, he also contributed 1.0 steals and a terrifying 3.7 blocks.

DeAndre Jordan, who averaged four risks per game, made everyone in the Eastern Conference feel a special no-fly zone inside the Knicks.

But the good times didn't last long.

The next two games gave fans painful expressions.

Not to mention the fans, even the Knicks were in mourning.

Even Su Ye looked at the schedule in his hand and sighed.

"It's back-to-back games instead..."

"hiss."

"It's troublesome."

Back-to-back, as the name suggests, two games in two days.

An NBA team will have up to 12 to 15 back-to-back games in a season in the league.

The fans are certainly happy to see this kind of game.

The players felt like they were in hell.

My body has not recovered from playing the game the day before, and I have to start a new game the next day.

Back-to-back games are grueling games for any team.

It's okay if you play against a weak team.

You can water ski for at least two days.

But if you encounter a strong team, you may not know which side will suffer a bloody blow.

What makes everyone in the Knicks miserable is that.

They played back-to-back games against the Spurs, the second-place team in the Western Conference.

And they beat the Spurs twice in a row.

This season the Spurs seem to have returned to their glory days. While they are blooming more, coupled with their many years of playoff experience, they can be said to have taught the new forces in the Western Conference a hard lesson.

Especially this year's Spurs, their style of play is even more boring than in previous years.

The teams they faced rarely scored more than 90 points at the end of the game, and most of them scored around 85 points.

Even the NBA officials are not very willing to broadcast this kind of uninteresting team.

They prefer to give more shots to dark horse teams such as the Clippers, Thunder, and Pacers.

But the Spurs, who were so silent, relied on the team to directly determine the second place in the Western Conference.

Second only to the Lakers, they are first in the Western Conference, and the two teams are very close to each other in terms of wins.

The Spurs are even expected to complete the comeback before the end of the season and secure the No. 1 spot in the Western Conference.