Chapter 61: Walking with the Flowing Water and Moving with the Breeze (Part 2)
On January 9, 2004, the Mavericks' running style of play at the American Airlines Center Arena made their game much more enjoyable, and it is now one of the most attended courts in the country. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Pacers are now the team in the league that has the most surprising style with the Mavericks, and many are looking forward to whether their defense is more successful or the Mavericks are sharper offensively.
The game officially kicked off at 8 p.m. Dallas time.
The Pacers' O'Neal Jr. easily defeated Nowitzki with a jump ball, and the Pacers slowly entered the positional battle.
Is Anthony, the starting point guard for the Pacers? Johnson, who dribbled the ball past halfcourt and waited for his teammates to get into position, the Pacers followed the line to focus on the interior.
Liu Han's defense is eyeing Artest, and today Nelson let Josh Howard start the game, in order to strengthen the team's confrontation ability, after all, the Pacers are famous for their iron-blooded bravery, and the confrontation in today's game must be very fierce.
Josh Howard showed a positive attitude as soon as he got on the court, and he kept an eye on Anthony? Johnson, who defends very closely, makes it almost difficult for the opponent to move.
At this point, the Pacers players are basically in position, Anthony? Johnson hoisted the ball into O'Neal Jr. on the inside.
O'Neal Jr. leaned on Odom with his back, relied on his strength to squeeze away from the opponent and then turned around to shoot, the ball hit the board into the frame, simple and practical actions, O'Neal Jr. is stronger in height and weight than Odom, which is a big dislocation, this alignment is something that the Mavericks have no way to do, Jamison is not tall, and he can't limit O'Neal Jr. at all, so he can only rely on Odom to top it.
As soon as the ball fell from the basket, Nowitzki immediately took the ball and exited the baseline serve, and what the Mavericks do best is to play back and play.
Liu Han approached the baseline to receive the ball, but Artest only forced Liu Han's position, forcing Liu Han to be unable to receive the ball smoothly to slow down the Mavericks.
But Nowitzki was very clever in passing the ball to Josh Howard, who also had the ability to control the ball, and Josh Howard got the ball and accelerated past Anthony who tried to risk a steal? Johnson, the Mavericks' pace has rushed up at this point.
But Josh Howard had just handed the ball to Odom, who was running in front of him, and the Pacers' starting center, Jeff? Foster didn't hesitate to stop Odom's progress with a direct foul.
Odom had thought that the game had just started and that the opponent would not be so quick to foul, but now it looks like he was wrong.
The Pacers' starting center, Forster, is a pure blue-collar player, and his biggest task of this game is to try to stop the Mavericks' rhythm at the beginning of the game as much as possible.
The Mavericks sent the ball to the frontcourt, but the Pacers had taken the opportunity to get back into place.
Falling into a positional battle looks quite bad for the Mavericks, after all, although their interior line now has a certain strength, it still can't compare to the Pacers.
However, Liu Han started his performance after receiving the ball on the sideline, his dribbling speed is actually not fast, but the rhythm of the center of gravity movement is very unpredictable, which makes Artest very painful to defend, he weighs more than Liu Han, and the movement of the center of gravity is more difficult, but if he does not keep up with Liu Han's rhythm, he is likely to be accelerated by the opponent and break through.
Liu Han's continuous disguise in front of the body and dribbling behind the back made Artest have no chance of being close, so he could only follow Liu Han's rhythm, but now Liu Han is like a leaf fluttering in the wind, and the defender can't predict what he will do next.
After another left-handed front shaking in disguise, Artest finally lost his center of gravity, and Artest, who was almost on the ground, tried to directly foul and pull down Liu Han, but Liu Han stepped back lightly at this time to jump to the three-point line.
The basketball arc is very high, and it does not touch the basket and enters the frame at all.
Liu Han's series of wonderful performances made the fans in the arena of the American Airlines Center stand and cheer excitedly, and the ball is a purely personal performance, which is a performance of the rhythm of basketball to the extreme.
Artest's swarthy face could not see the change in color, but Artai himself knew how hot his face was at this time, and he was completely humiliated.
Liu Han's weight did increase compared to before, but due to the peculiarity of his body, his muscle groups and body quickly adapted to this change, and now facing a heavyweight defender like Artest, his agile style of play naturally makes the opponent miserable.
The Pacers' defense is indeed very good, but Liu Han's defense on the perimeter is still mainly based on Artest's single defense, after all, it is impossible to wrap a player outside the three-point line, which will make the team's formation completely confused.
But now Artest's single defense Liu Han is completely played, which is completely uncontrollable.
The Pacers gathered their mood and started to attack, still in a step-by-step positional battle, but this time they encountered the Mavericks' defense.
The Mavericks' sudden change of defensive mode caused the Pacers' offense to fall into a certain amount of chaos, but Jiang is really old and spicy, Reggie Miller opened Jamison's defensive catch-and-shoot when the offensive time was about to expire, although he was old, but he can still have a certain role at the critical moment.
Next, the Mavericks did not try to chase the ball again, but slowly advanced to the front court, still Liu Han dribbled, and the others pulled away, this time Artest planned to get close to Liu Han one step earlier, relying on his own strength to make Liu Han lose his rhythm and make mistakes.
But Liu Han once again tricked Artest with his magical performance.
When Liu Han came up close to Artest, he first took a step to the right with his left hand behind the back, attracting Artest to move to the left side of his body, and then Liu Han took a step to the left with his right hand behind the dribble again, and continued to retreat with Atai's movement.
Just when Atai thought that he had forced Liu Han into a dead corner this time, Liu Han received the ball with his left hand and hit the ball from behind his crotch to the ground, and at the same time his right hand followed with his backhand and twisted the basketball to break through to the right side of his body.
At this time, Artest was attracted to the left side of Liu Han's body by Liu Han's previous dribble, and there was a huge hole in his defense, Liu Han easily accelerated past Artey, and Artest was once again teased.
This ball Liu Han played smoothly, he let Atai cut in like a stream of water, while he flowed from both sides.
Liu Han, who passed Artest again, did not hesitate to hit another three-pointer from outside the three-point line, and the Mavericks once again led the score.
The two defensive stalwarts made the Pacers' faces gloomy, and the Mavericks fans stood up and applauded happily once again.