Chapter 32: Two consecutive defeats
A loss is nothing for an NBA team with 82 regular season games, but the Mavericks were unexpectedly defeated by the league's fish belly team Grizzlies, which is not a small thing, after all, judging from the Mavericks' previous situation, winning the Grizzlies by twenty or thirty points is the same as playing, but now the winner is the Grizzlies, which is worth most teams to study this game. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The reason why the Grizzlies were able to beat the Mavericks in this game was not because of their absolute defense, they arranged a tight defense against Liu Han and a more relaxed defense against the rest of the Mavericks. The Grizzlies are not high-intensity close pressing, but a continuous, cutting defense, players like Liu Han, if the defense is too close, maybe the opponent will find a hole in the defense, but this kind of continuous, cutting defense will make Liu Han slowly lose the rhythm of the game in the continuous scoring or help.
Although the Grizzlies' defensive strategy has a certain amount of chance, because in this case, maybe any player of the Mavericks will break out and make the Grizzlies doomed, but I have to admit that James Posey and Sean Battier did make Liu Han's efficiency decrease.
Although Coach Nelson harshly criticized the Mavericks players in the game, after returning to Dallas, he did not comment too much on the game, and the team's various training plans and individual training for each player are still going on as usual, which makes the Mavericks players inevitably worried, especially Nowitzki, he can be said to be taught by Coach Nelson, he is actually afraid of Nelson in his heart, and he did not perform well in the last game, and missed more open shots, Naturally, I was nervous now, and if Nelson scolded him at this time, maybe Nowitzki would feel better.
Nelson's cold treatment of the team made the big guys start to think about themselves, including Liu Han himself, who was also thinking about whether he did something wrong in the last game.
After all, the old coach is the old coach, and he has a very good grasp of the psychology of the players.
After returning to Dallas for a day off, the Mavericks had their next regular-season game against the Trail Blazers, known as the "Portland Gang."
The current Portland Trail Blazers team can be said to be a very strong team, but unfortunately the team is not so harmonious internally, a group of unruly personalities, and like to cause trouble, naturally there will be nothing good when they get together, whether it is Rashid?" Wallace, or Zach?" The scoring is mine, and the rebounds are mine." Wells, who are all well-known "bad elements" in the league, can make such a team still functional, head coach Morris? Cheeks is indispensable.
For this game, Nelson is still a regular style of play, and even the team's lineup has not changed much, you must know that the opponent is a well-known inside team in the West, although the absolute height is not high, but the above three thorns have their own set of kung fu in the inside, and they are well-known inside teams in the entire West.
If the Mavericks play the Trail Blazers with this lineup now, the interior line will be blown up by the Trail Blazers.
But Nelson just didn't make any changes and still played according to the previous regular lineup.
Sure enough, after the game started, the Trail Blazers attacked the Mavericks' interior with all their might. Wallace drew the defense in the high post, Zach Randolph was quite strong in the low post, and Bunch Wells relied on his weight and physical advantage to crush Odom, and these three points alone made the Mavericks extremely uncomfortable.
The offensive Mavericks were able to pick up the speed, but after the opening, the Mavericks players felt collectively cold, and only relied on Liu Han's strong attack on the outside to let the Trail Blazers pull away the score.
Liu Han tried to add breakthroughs in the attack, but unfortunately the opponent's protection of the inside line was really too good, Bunch? Wells, Zach? Randolph took turns to cover and defend Liu Han, and at the same time, "Little Squirrel" Damon? Stoudemire actively roamed around Liu Han again, trying to cut off Liu Han's connection with other teammates, and the Mavericks' previous smooth offensive coordination could not be played.
The Mavericks' lineup also has a big problem with the protection of rebounds, Nowitzki has stunts on offense but is not aware of defense, and the protection of rebounds is even more inadequate, so he can only rely on Jamison and Liu Han to protect the rebounds, but under the active scrambling of "data brush" Randolph, the Mavericks lost a lot of backcourt rebounds in the first quarter.
By the 8-minute mark of the first quarter, the Mavericks were six points behind the Trail Blazers.
Nelson made an adjustment and replaced the bench early, Liu Han was still on the court, the Mavericks began to play regular tactics, and high school forward Bradley regained the opportunity to play.
After Bradley came on the court, the Mavericks' rebounds were guaranteed, but the offense was still problematic, Liu Han could be fearless and the other side, but he was just one person after all, and the attitude of other Mavericks players became weaker and weaker.
By the end of the first quarter, the Mavericks had trailed the Trail Blazers by 10 points.
In the second quarter, the Mavericks' performance was still not good, and the Mavericks' offense was completely stagnant after Liu Han got off the court, and everyone else wanted to recover their hand as soon as possible, so they hit the iron on the outside, which made the Trail Blazers have more rebounds.
By the end of the second quarter, the Mavericks had trailed by as many as 18 points.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Han used consecutive three-pointers to narrow the gap between the two teams to 12 points, but then the Trail Blazers took advantage of the Mavericks' mistakes to play another wave of 10-2 small climax, and they once again stretched the gap to 18 points.
After entering the fourth quarter, the Mavericks became weaker and weaker, Liu Han was powerless to return to the sky alone, the team finally exposed the loophole at this time, the pursuit of the ultimate speed made the players ignore the protection of some other aspects, the lack of rebounding made the Mavericks fall into a state where the "engine" could not ignite, no matter how high-speed the offense, no matter how strong the attack was, it needed to be launched, if it couldn't even start, it would not be able to make this "high-speed trot" start after all.
In the end, the Mavericks lost to the Trail Blazers by 22 points at home, and although Liu Han scored another quasi-triple-double and scored 43 points at the same time, the team lost by a large score, and the Mavericks suffered two consecutive defeats.
Nine wins in a row were immediately followed by two consecutive defeats, and the Mavericks began to be questioned more and even Liu Han was suspected by some media, who commented that Liu Han was a data brush and useless for the team.