Chapter 39: Encounter with the Timberwolves
With the win over the Suns, the Mavericks are on a four-game winning streak to 13-2, and they are still ahead of the rest of the league. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although the strong teams in the east can occupy a certain position in the league, in general, the overall record of the eastern teams is not as good as that of the west.
And the overall tactics of the Eastern teams are conservative, except for the Nets, who also play offense-oriented tactics, the other teams in the East are defense-oriented, such as the Pistons, such as the Bulls.
After the Phoenix tour, the Mavericks didn't return to Dallas, but went straight to the highland city of Denver.
The Nuggets' home stadium is Denver, which is close to the Rocky Mountains, at an altitude of about 1,600 meters, and compared to other teams, Denver's altitude is quite high, and some teams will be very uncomfortable coming to Denver.
The Mavericks previously defeated the Nuggets by 28 points at home, and Anthony was completely frozen by Liu Han in that game, and Anthony only got some points when Liu Han was off the court.
Anthony's temper is relative to LeBron, who has experienced hardship since childhood? James and Dwyane? Wade is a little more narrow-minded, he has hardly experienced much failure since he came into contact with basketball, and his temperament has become more arrogant and self-conscious, but at the same time he lacks the attachment to certain things.
Now that Anthony has encountered an unprecedented blow to Liu Han, it is natural that he feels more and more resentful of Liu Han.
So when the game between the Mavericks and the Nuggets officially started, Anthony directly found Liu Han, he first provoked Liu Han in various ways, but Liu Han was not moved at all, and at the same time relied on the behavior on the court to make Anthony retreat, but what Liu Han didn't expect was that Anthony's next behavior was a little out of line, he first deliberately elbowed Jamison who came over in the attack, and then tried to make small moves for Liu Han, pinning his legs to Liu Han's travel route.
Liu Han was finally angry at Anthony's excesses, and when Anthony deliberately stretched his leg to say goodbye to Liu Han, Liu Han first crushed Anthony's knee and made the opponent fall to the ground in pain, and then humiliatingly stopped dribbling and looked down at Anthony who fell to the ground, so the players on both sides were directly pulled together on the court, causing a lot of chaos.
Afterwards, Liu Han received a technical foul for his provocative behavior, and although Anthony was not injured, the stiff knee injury still made his head sweat.
After that, the game completely fell into the rhythm of the Mavericks, the Nuggets originally lacked peripheral firepower points, Anthony is one of the few peripheral projection points of the Nuggets, and now after being unable to play for a while, the Nuggets' offense was restrained by the Mavericks' joint defense, and the Nuggets' defense couldn't hold the Mavericks' offense.
At halftime, the Mavericks led the Nuggets by 21 points.
Anthony came back in the third quarter, but at this time he didn't dare to scream in front of Liu Han anymore, his character disadvantages were undoubtedly revealed, Anthony, who was originally called an offensive kaleidoscope by the media, could play from the No. 1 position to the No. 4 position, but his character will limit his growth and development.
In the end, the Mavericks basically locked up the victory at the end of the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter, the Mavericks replaced the bench and rookies, and Josh Howard and Xue Yuyang also performed well.
In the end, the Mavericks defeated the Nuggets by 24 points again, Anthony completely became the laughing stock of the media, and even some fans of the Nuggets were disgusted with Anthony, he was like a child who didn't grow up, always felt that he was an adult, but in fact, he was completely immature.
After the game against the Nuggets, the Mavericks players rushed back to Dallas overnight, and they had to play back-to-back, but back-to-back at home.
Liu Han returned to the home court and then met an old enemy, and this old enemy had a grudge quite early, when Liu Han first participated in the basketball training camp set up by Mr. John Wooden, Liu Han was not very harmonious with the other party, and later in the NBA, the other party repeatedly found trouble with Liu Han in the game, and even had physical conflicts with Liu Han.
Kevin? Garnett is now quite happy with the Timberwolves, he signed a contract with the Timberwolves for hundreds of millions, and the team also made him the boss of the team, the team's record in the past two years is quite good, even if Marbury left, but the Timberwolves are still one of the strong teams in the West.
Garnett has repeatedly shown his toughness in his teammates and enemies, and his experience of becoming a laughing stock because of Liu Han has long been forgotten by many people, and even the name Liu Han has long been forgotten by Garnett, but now he has to face this name again, this person.
The Timberwolves had a relatively mediocre record, but a nine-seven record was enough to keep the team in the top eight in the West.
The Timberwolves did decline in strength when they lost Marbury, but since the "alien" Cassel came to the team, the Timberwolves' ball distribution has become more rational, after all, Cassel is the person who won the championship with Olajuwon, with him, the "madman" Sprewell will not be too brute, these three have reformed the "new big three" of the Timberwolves, the team has reached the playoffs in the past two years, but unfortunately they were all eliminated, They need more bench depth and more integrated tactics to go further.
Head coach Bernie Sanders has been pursuing a balanced offensive and defensive strategy since he took charge of the team in '95, but the Timberwolves seem to lack some big roots, Minnesota's bad weather makes it difficult for them to keep star players, and it is difficult to build a big club in a sparsely populated city with a scorching summer and extremely cold winter.
The lack of appeal makes the offensive and defensive balance pursued by Timberwolves head coach Sanders seem to be a bit rootless, although Garnett has the attributes of offensive and defensive balance to some extent, but in the current increasingly competitive league, it is difficult for him to play a big role alone, even Jordan, it is only with the help of Pippen that he was able to create a dynasty for the Bulls.
The Timberwolves players who came to Dallas are also tired, they also just finished the game against the Grizzlies the day before, and the team won 102-98 over the Grizzlies in overtime, so facing the league's No. 1 Mavericks, even the usually outspoken Garnett looks very low-key, although Garnett is eager to provoke Liu Han before the game, he feels that this can show his toughness.