The scene of the game, the home of the Mavericks, the American Route Center Arena.

After the on-site warm-up, it is customary for the home team's players to enter the stadium.

After the players' tunnel, Dirk. Nowitzki specially greeted Xue Ding.

"Hey, Xue, it's nice that we finally met in the playoffs." Nowitzki said with his trademark smile.

In response, Xue Ding also responded with a smile: "Yes, but we will take a victory from here, Dirk, you have to pay attention." ”

"Haha, I'm not going to let you succeed rookie, this is the American Airlines Center, not the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, not only can you take away a win from here, on the contrary, we will definitely take away two games in the Rose Garden." In the face of Xue Ding's provocative response, Dirk responded not to be outdone.

"Haha, huh? Let's wait and see, I can't wait to stand up to you on the court. ”

"Come on, lad, I'll show you what the real playoffs look like, rookie."

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Before the game started, Xue Ding and Nowitzki had already started to talk in the players' tunnel, but the two talked and laughed so that others didn't think it was right at all.

The clock was 9:29.

The starting lineup of the home team Mavericks is Dirk. Nowitzki, Sean. Marion, Eric. Dampier, Jason. Terry and Jason. Kyd.

The starting lineup on the Trail Blazers' side is Xue Ding and Brandon. Roy, Nicholas. Batum, Blake and Chandler.

Near the halfway line, Dampier and Blake jumped the ball.

"Beep!"

There was a few whistles and the referee threw the ball into the air.

Blake jumped first, grabbed the ball and passed it to Roy.

The whole Trailblazers team immediately passed the half, Roy shook the ball twice, and then handed the ball to Xue Ding, wanting Xue Ding to complete the first attack of the playoffs.

Because now that Ade is injured, the only stable scoring point in the Trail Blazers team is Xue Ding, so it is necessary to help Xue Ding find his touch at the beginning of the game.

Xue Ding took the ball, and Marion, as the team's defensive spearhead, was naturally the first to come up.

Marion pushed Xue Ding's lower abdomen with one hand, and half-lifted with the other, ready to take out the ball in Xue Ding's hand at any time.

Xue Ding took the ball and wanted to single Marion.

But just when Xue Ding was controlling the ball at the top of the arc to find a sense of rhythm, Kidd suddenly appeared behind Xue Ding, took the ball out of Xue Ding's hand, and then quickly started to the frontcourt, and completed a two-dozen zero cooperation with Terry, and Kidd got an assist.

Seeing that Kidd easily stole Xue Ding, the Mavericks fans in the American Airlines Center Arena cheered, and even some fans who were entering the arena couldn't help but stand in the passage and wave their fists and cheer when they saw this scene.

Because in their opinion, it is undoubtedly perfect to start the game in such a way, and there is a good chance of winning this game today.

After Xue Ding was stealed, Roy hurriedly came over to comfort Xue Ding and said, "Stay focused, it's not a big deal." ”

Then Roy held the ball again and handed it to Xue Ding after half the court.

"Xue, believe in yourself, shoot with confidence, Blake and Chandler will grab the rebound for you." Roy encouraged.

With Roy's encouragement, Xue Ding received the ball and went directly to the middle to break inside, relying on Marion to make a layup.

Unfortunately, the layup was missed, and Nowitzki was picked up for the rebound.

Nowitzki passes the ball to Kidd.

The Trail Blazers quickly retreated to their own half, and the defense was in position.

As one of the top point guards in the league today, after Kidd passed half the court with the ball, he didn't look for others, but directly found Xue Ding and wanted to play Xue Ding alone.

Maybe it was because of the steal of Xue Ding just now, which greatly increased Kidd's confidence.

Kidd slowly dribbled in front of Xue Ding, looking for an opportunity.

And Xue Ding made a mistake and missed a shot, and he already had some bad emotions in his heart.

Now Kidd took the initiative to hold the ball over the half court to singled himself, which made Xue Ding a little dissatisfied, thinking that Kidd didn't take himself seriously, although he failed to attack twice, but this does not mean that he is a soft persimmon.

Kidd showed off his dribble in front of Xue Ding, looking for a sense of rhythm.

Then suddenly a dry pull out of the hand.

Xue Ding also jumped up at the same time.

Just as Kidd was about to make a move, Xue Ding covered the ball from Kidd's hand with great force.

After Xue Ding covered Kidd's ball, before the other players on the court could react, Xue Ding had already rushed to the front court with the ball and directly dunked under the empty basket of the Mavericks!

Xue Ding's violent slam was a response to Kidd, wanting to tell him that not everyone could show acrobatics in front of them, and no one could show acrobatics in front of him.

After Xue Ding scored this goal, his teammates on the bench of the Trail Blazers stood up and applauded, waving towels.

After Xue Ding finished dunking, he happened to have a face-to-face with Kidd when he walked back to his own halfcourt, and Xue Ding said to Kidd while walking: "Jason, not everyone can shoot casually in front of me." ”

Kidd glanced at Xue Ding, but didn't respond.

From then until the advertising timeout in the first quarter, neither side achieved anything on the offensive end, and it was difficult to say that it was difficult to score a single point.

Mainly because the Trail Blazers have strengthened their rotation defense, it is difficult for the Mavericks to get open opportunities to make easy shots.

On the Trail Blazers' side, it was mainly because of the poor feel that affected their scoring.

Therefore, after the first half of the quarter, the score of the two sides was only 9-7, and the Mavericks temporarily led the Trail Blazers by 2 points.

"It can be seen that the defensive intensity of the two sides has come up at the beginning of today's game, and neither side has scored more than 10 points in the first six minutes of the game, which is relatively rare." In the CCTV studio, Su Qun explained.

"That's right, the reason why the scores of both sides are so low, in addition to the improvement of defensive intensity, the shooting touch of both sides is not good, especially Xue Ding, perhaps the reason why he played the playoffs for the first time, I feel that he is a little tight when he is on the court, and he can't let go.

You see, the steal that was just opened by Kidd, if it was placed in the regular season, Xue Ding would not have made such a mistake, and that layup, this is the performance of the player's tightness.

I hope that through this pause, Xue Ding can adjust, he didn't score in the first half of the quarter. Director Zhang followed.

"Yes, now that the Trail Blazers are reimbursed for the season, the only one who can be counted on the offensive end is Xue Ding, like other Chandler and Roy, it is more difficult to expect them to score more than ten points a game."

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