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The Pistons' starters in each game are basically certain, Billups controls the ball, Hamilton "runs like crazy", Prince "bares his teeth and claws", Wallace only annoys free throws, and Oku is left, and he runs outside when he has nothing to do. (Ah, I'm so talented)

With a fixed starting lineup and a fixed tactical idea, you can see Larry Brown's paranoia and strictness from this point.

Compared to the Pistons' routine, the Mavericks made some minor changes to the starting lineup today, and the veteran Allen McGee did not start, but replaced the faster and more passionate Josh Howard starter, whose task is to keep running with Hamilton and try to interfere with the league's No. 1 player in the field of running without the ball.

The Mavericks have suitable counterparts in other positions, Odom is a more suitable counterpoint for Prens, and Nowitzki is a good matchup? Wallace has an advantage other than a lack of strength, Ben? Wallace claims to be two meters and six meters tall, but in fact, his real height is only a little more than two meters. Wallace was a lot shorter.

As for Oku, the Turk's defensive problem, there is no big problem with Jamison, Oku is an alternative center, which has actually always made Larry? Brown was frustrated, and the Mavericks weren't expecting much of a defensive effort to do so, building their team with the idea of scoring more goals than their opponents.

At the start of the match, Nowitzki defeated Oku, who was bouncing about the same as him, in a jump ball.

Nowitzki jumped the ball to win, and the first to move was the Pistons, who almost sprinted back to defense, for fear that the Mavericks would take the opportunity to counterattack, and even Oku, who failed to jump the ball, rushed to Josh Howard who grabbed the ball for the first time, intending to hinder the Mavericks' passing and slow down the opponent's speed.

But instead of launching a fast break today, the Mavericks pushed steadily, which made the Pistons shake off a lot.

Josh Howard handed the ball to Liu Han after half time, and the Pistons immediately launched a formation defense, and Prince pounced on Liu Han for the first time, and now everyone in the league knows how far Liu Han's range is.

However, this time Liu Han did not make a sudden move, Odom and Jamison made continuous covers for Liu Han, and the Pistons rotated very quickly, and when Liu Han cut in along the right 45-degree angle, it was Wallace who defended in front of Liu Han.

Wallace tried to use his power to block Liu's breakthrough, but Liu Han suddenly passed the ball from behind his back to Jamison at the top of the arc with his right hand.

At this point, Oku, who was defending Jamison, was blocked by Nowitzki, and Jamison appeared vacant and calmly hit a two-point shot.

The Mavericks' offense seems simple, but it is a collective teamwork that has a bit of a Kings flavor.

The Pistons sent the baseline ball, and Billups just advanced to the front court with the ball, but at this time the referee blew the whistle, and Josh Howard rushed to Wallace's side as soon as possible, pulling the opponent's arm while waving to the referee for a foul.

Nelson was very shameless in using foul tactics from the start.

There was a burst of boos from the Pistons home fans, who themselves knew that Ben? How bad Wallace's free throws were.

Since Wallace joined the NBA in 96, his free throw shooting rate has never exceeded 50 percent, which is much lower than O'Neal's, O'Neal is only because of his own fame and the Lakers and Spurs in the Western Conference Finals after Liu Han left the league, Popovich's foul tactics against O'Neal caused a big discussion and made O'Neal's free throw problem seem to attract the world's attention, but when it comes to free throw shooting percentage, there are still many guys in the league who are not as good as O'Neal, which is unfortunateWallace is one of them.

Nielsen is known as a "mad scientist", he sometimes doesn't care about the unspoken rules of the league or the overt rules, and if he can find a tactic that is beneficial to him, Nielsen will not hesitate to use it.

The Mavericks have shocked the entire league with the continuity and intensity of their attacks this season, once the Mavericks take the lead, many teams will have no way to turn the tables after that, because the rhythm has been brought up by the Mavericks, and now facing Larry Brown's Pistons, Nelson will naturally use foul tactics to let the team lead the score first, and then keep suppressing the Pistons.

Root? Wallace walked to the free-throw line with shame, and when he missed the first free throw, Larry Brown was already a little surprisingly angry, angry at Nelson for being so shameless, and angry at Wallace for only working on his muscles and not his brain.

Next, Wallace's second free throw also popped out of the frame in a trembling frame, the Mavericks grabbed the rebound and launched a fast break, Liu Han hit a three-point pull-up jumper in the high-speed breakaway, stretching the difference to five points, and the Pistons players and fans wanted to cry without tears.

Larry Brown was still hesitant to replace Wallace, but the Mavericks' second wave of fouls had already begun, this time by Jamison, and the Mavericks' opening tactics had largely succeeded.

After Wallace was lucky to hit a free throw, but then the Mavericks relied on Liu Han to break through to the basket to make two and one, and after the free throw was added, the Mavericks had established a seven-point lead in less than three minutes of the opening game.

At this time, Larry Brown hurriedly replaced Wallace, but the team was already at a disadvantage, his team was not good at offense, and with a 7-point difference, it was obviously difficult to catch up with the Mavericks.

After that, the Mavericks started the normal game step by step, and Nelson also started to deploy early, and the Mavericks maintained a 7 to 9-point lead, and even once relied on the Pistons' interior protection to expand the difference to double digits by Nowitzki's strong attack.

Larry Brown was angry with Nelson and wanted to vomit blood, but there was no way to do it, his team had almost no offensive strength inside, relying on the "crazy" Hamilton and Billups to attack, but now the two are being targeted by the Mavericks, and the Pistons can be said to be more and more depressed.

Larry Brown glanced at Milicic sitting next to the water cooler, but still didn't replace the inside big man with outstanding offensive strength.

By the end of the half, the Mavericks had basically established the victory, and the 17-point margin was an insurmountable difficulty for the Pistons, who lacked offense.