On May 6, 2009, at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, the second game of the Western Conference semifinals between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Dallas Mavericks is about to begin.

Because of the easy big win in the last game, this made the Mavericks fans on the scene extremely enthusiastic.

As the leader of Mavericks fans on the sidelines, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is now very excited to dance with Mavericks fans on the sidelines.

In the commentary bench on the sidelines of the American Airlines Arena, Kenny Smith and Barkley were communicating relatively easily.

"Charles, let me ask you a very hot question recently, which of the two poisons will you drink Durant and Ibaka?"

Durant and Ibaka are two cups of poison, yes must drink one cup of poison, this Dallas Mavericks super substitute Jason Terry said in an interview as soon as the metaphor appeared, it was exaggerated by those troublesome coconut powder media and neutral media.

Kenny Smith, this kid is bad!

Barkley cursed inwardly.

As a coconut fan, even if you know that Durant and Ibaka are poison, it is impossible to say it!

Durant was instrumental in winning the Yes and SuperSonics championships last year.

And Ibaka went undercover for six and a half games in the last round of the series, but in the second half of the ten consecutive games, he also provided great help for the superSonics' Black Eight promotion.

Both are hypersonic heroes.

It's a hero, how can it be poison!

"I personally don't think there will be superSonics and fans who treat these two as poison except for the SuperSonics and others, Ibaka is on the defensive end against the offensive type, and the Mavericks who are the kind of singles offensive type are struggling, but he can contribute to the SuperSonics on the offensive end, and he feels like his shooting has improved a lot after the series against the Spurs."

"And KD, he does have a big problem with his offense now, but his defense is very important to the Mavericks, although the SuperSonics lost the last game, but when the Mavericks tried to play Durant infinitely alone for the whole team, it was not easy for anyone else to single Durant except Nowitzki, his performance on the offensive end in the last game was terrible, but on the defensive end, KD's contribution cannot be ignored."

"KD and Ibaka are two different styles of players, they can both help the SuperSonics, they're not perfect, but both are important."

Damn fatty!

Kenny Smith really thinks that Barkley's IQ has really been growing up in recent years!

"So does Charles think this game, the Seattle SuperSonics can win with the contributions of Durant and Ibaka?"

Forehead......

Kenny Smith's eyes narrowed.

Barkley, on the other hand, was a bit of a stagnant.

You said these two people so well, then the superSonics should be able to win this game, right?

Winning?

Win a hairy ball!

This old!

"The strength of the Mavericks is very strong, but the SuperSonics are indeed not without a chance to win, as long as Durant can find his form on the offensive end, even if it is not the state of playing the Rockets in the playoffs last year, but a slightly worse state, the SuperSonics have a chance to win the Mavericks, so relatively speaking, it is indeed more appropriate for Durant to start."

"Is it because Durant's offense can be expected, and Ibaka's defense can no longer be expected?"

"Well, so to speak."

Barkley nodded a little scorned.

He was trying to look normal and calm, but the look in Kenny Smith's look next to him that you think I'd believe it made him really feel the urge to hit someone.

What are you looking at me like that?

I also know that Durant's offense can't be expected just as much as Ibaka's defense!

But what do you make me and the coconut fans think?

Could it be that it is impossible to beat the Mavericks if the supersonic give up this round of the series.

Is this possible?

Of course it's impossible!

It's like your hype of Durant and Ibaka are two cups of poison.

If you have to drink one of these two cups of poison, of course, you still choose to drink Durant's cup!

Durant's offense has indeed reached a very high level.

It can still be expected.

And Ibaka, his defense, especially the single defense, has always been a rookie.

And......

It's not just supersonic fans who think so, hypersonic tactics are also arranged like this!

In the last game, Durant's performance was so bad, when the two teams started this game, Durant still appeared in the SuperSonics starting lineup.

The second game of the Mavericks and the Hypersonics.

The starting lineup of the SuperSonics is center, Milicic, power forward Millsap, small forward Durant, scoring guard Yees, playmaking guard Rondo,

On the Mavericks' side, there are center Kwame Brown, power forward Nowitzki, small forward Josh Howard, scoring guard Afflalo, and playmaking guard Monta Alice.

The starting lineup of the Mavericks and SuperSonics in this game is still unchanged from the previous game.

Seeing the starting lineup of the SuperSonics in this game, Carlisle nodded and said that there was no surprise.

Durant and Ibaka? He would also choose Durant.

Not only Durant's offense can also be expected by a 1 in 10,000 chance.

What's more, defense is the cornerstone of everything.

In the last game, Durant did cause the Mavericks a lot of trouble on offense.

Durant's defense, especially the single defense, one-on-one heads-up, really has two brushes, except for Nowitzki, no one can take advantage of him.

The Mavericks have encountered supersonic speeds before, and they can win by catching Ibaka.

The winning code was so simple that Carlisle didn't even have to think about it.

But now, after Durant starts, it's not so simple for the Mavericks to win easily.

At the very least, the Mavericks' previous unsolvable attack on supersonic is not unsolvable now.

Therefore, it is really thanks to Durant's offensive problems, otherwise the supersonics are really not easy to play.

The Mavericks are flawed at the small forward position, Josh Howard's offense is good, but the defense is almost mes, and with Afflalo and Monta Alice, his good offense has become a bit chicken, and it is still useful to play a team with obvious defensive flaws like Ibaka.

But there is only one Ibaka in the NBA, and most of the teams that won the championship with the Mavericks are not Ibaka at the small forward position.

When facing James, or Anthony, or Artest, or even Pierce, Josh Howard is quite at a loss.

Even in the face of Durant, who only defended in the last game, Josh Howard could not take advantage.

If it weren't for the unexpected exit of the Spurs this year, and the problems of other strong teams, Carlisle would not dare to dream of winning the championship.

The Mavericks' current strength is still some distance from the championship team.

The starting XI for both teams has not changed much from the previous game, but the process since the start of the game has changed from the beginning.

In this game, SuperSonics center Milicic defeated Mavericks center Kwame Brown to grab the first wave of the game.

After winning the championship and getting a big contract, Kwame Brown's confidence has improved a lot, and this very emotional player has improved his strength this season very much.

The reason why Durant was so miserable in the last game was mainly because Kwame Brown's help defense was really good.

There is no one in the Mavericks who can stop Durant's offense, Durant's offense is very comprehensive now, and he can still make a breakthrough with a meteor if he doesn't have a good shooting touch.

Although the rhythm of the breakthrough also needs to be found, if the Mavericks interior assistant defense players are not good, Durant will definitely not be able to make seven turnovers in the last game, and it is impossible to be forced to shoot 11 three-pointers on the outside, and throw only five free throws from 33 shots.

Because of Kwame Brown's presence, Durant was almost blocked under the basket in the last game.

This season with the Mavericks, Kwame Brown and Oden, along with Howard and Chandler, are known as the league's four most defensive centers.

It can be said that in a team like the Mavericks, which is strong in offense and weak in defense, Kwame Brown is the pillar of defense, similar to Howard's position in the Magic, one person supports the defense of a team.

And that's why the Mavericks' outside defense always likes to use Afflalo as the main defender to pinch players like Yes, like Rose, who have strong killing ability.

is to protect Kwame Brown, without Kwame Brown, the Mavericks' current defense will collapse directly.

At the same time, this is also the reason why Afraro is so important in the calf, and is considered by many media experts and reporters to be the true nucleus of the calf.

Afflaro is a defensive powerhouse on the outside of the Mavericks, and with him, Kwame Brown doesn't have to worry about being killed, and the Mavericks don't have to worry about defensive collapse.

If the defense does not collapse, use your own offense to hammer others to death!

This is the Mavericks' winning code.

A lot of people can figure it out with just a little research, let alone a strongman like Nelson Sr.

In the last game, when the Mavericks used Afralo and Monta Alice to pinch Yes, Nelson Sr. tried to get Durant to break through the kill of Kwame Brown, and finally ended in Durant losing 7 times and hitting iron 26 times.

And in this game, the tactical thinking of the supersonic is still unchanged.

It's still looking for a chance to win from Kwame Brown.

Old Nelson still didn't let Ye Si force the pinch.

After playing the Spurs' round series, since he has the strength to forcibly break through Bowen and Jackson's sandwich, he naturally also has the ability to forcibly break Avlaro and Monta Alice's sandwich, but it is clear that it is difficult to expect a high hit rate with such an unconventional shot, and a miracle cannot be regarded as a regular tactic that can be replicated.

And if Ye Si really had such a conventional ability, he would have asked for a strong attack, but he didn't, so in Nelson Sr.'s view, Ye Si's ability and Kobe's ability are the same, sometimes killing the enemy, sometimes killing himself.

Therefore, in order to break the Mavericks' system, Nelson Sr. is still ready to start tactically, rather than relying on Yes's personal ability.

Since it is tactical, of course, it is to kill Kwame Brown!

In the last game, the supersonic used the method of Durant killing, and in this game, the supersonic method was Milicic's strong attack to create damage!

The first attack of the supersonic, the supersonic did not seek the opportunity to attack quickly as usual.

After Rondo's slow dribble past half-court, he waited for Milicic to get Kwame Brown in place, then hit the ball inside, ready for Milicic to kill Kwame Brown alone.

"Sure enough, I still want to kill and injure Kwamei, and sure enough, I use Darko!"

Carlisle's eyes twinkled on the sidelines.

On the court, Milicic, who was making a lot of physical contact with Kwame Brown behind him, forced Kwame Brown's eyebrows to wrinkle.

He only sat down twice before Josh Howard, who was defending Durant, came back to break his ball.

However, thinking of the old Nelson's arrangement before the game, and looking at Durant who was outside with his hands open for the ball, Milicic gritted his teeth and forced the reincarnation to press on Kwame Brown's body to complete a small throw before Josh Howard retracted.

Brush it up!

Hit, but did not result in a foul on Kwame Brown.

"Now David Stern and the league are interested in letting go of the intensity of the foul, as long as they don't start, the physical confrontation basically won't cause a foul, this time the confrontation between Milicic and Kwame Brown is fierce, but Milicic doesn't have enough time for Kwame Brown to lose his position."

"Rick Carlisle is a very good manager, he's an underrated coach who did a good job of protecting Kwame Brown in advance, and he did a great job!"

Kenny Smith is full of praise for Rick Carlisle.

Nelson Sr. also admired Rick Carlisle, a junior who studied under Bill Feige, an academy coach.

In the current NBA, there are fewer and fewer academic head coaches, especially not so many excellent academic head coaches.

Playing against such an academic coach always gives Nelson Sr. a very strong sense of fun, like the series when he swept Carlisle's mentor Bill Feige with the Bucks 25 years ago with the Bucks, and finally knocked Bill Feige out of class.

The sweep that took the Bucks against the Celtics 25 years ago was really the most glorious series of his coaching career.

After all, in addition to being the head coach of the Bucks, he is also a legendary player of the Celtics, and when he swept the Celtics, there were a bunch of brothers and sisters sitting on the sidelines, such as the master cardinal and Russell...... Unparalleled!

The feeling he felt back then was definitely the same as the feeling he felt now, right?

On the court, Kwame Brown, who had just been forced by Milicic to score two points, immediately returned the color when he turned around.

After helping Afflalo cover on the three-point line, Kwame Brown, who went down, received a pass from Afflalo, and the trend was a violent dunk that ignored Milicic's block behind him!

"Flow Attack!"

Looking at the connection completed by Afflaro and Kwame Brown on the field, the old Nelson's face that had been remembering showed a look of admiration, surprise and amazement.

He is much better than his master!