Chapter Thirty-Six: Shaking New York City
After the Mavericks' main center Bradley was injured, Nelson simply promoted Nowitzki to the center position, although he was in the fifth position, in fact, Nowitzki was still in the offensive mode of the fourth position, and for the Mavericks, there was no impact on the offensive end.
As soon as the game began, the Mavericks gave the Knicks a dismissal.
Originally, Mo Xi jumped to the ball first, this is a wave of Knicks' quite good offensive rhythm, Houston directly shook off the defenders with the help of Thomas's high-quality cover, Mark Jackson instantly found Houston's position, accurately sent the ball to Houston's hands, Houston turned directly after receiving the ball, and raised his hand is his signature mid-range shot, Houston started the game with a wave of real men who never looked back at the goal, and the Knicks' first shot seemed to show an excellent feel.
But what people didn't expect was that next, the Mavericks came with a bigger rhythm.
Nelson Sr.'s team has always regarded offense as life, and now, this Mavericks can almost be regarded as the pinnacle of Nelson Sr., each position is a player with great offensive talent, Nelson Sr.'s fast-break tactics value the player's spirituality on the offensive end, and the current Mavericks are undoubtedly full of talent in this regard.
The Mavericks quickly advanced to the frontcourt, and Nash was only responsible for carrying the ball across half the court, and then quickly passed the ball out and pulled himself to the sideline.
At this time, Finley held the ball in the high post and made a block with Nowitzki, both of whom pulled back, and Mo Xi had to pounce on the outside.
The Knicks' basket was directly withdrawn, Finley hit the basket, suddenly stopped the jump shot, and missed, but at this time, Juwan Howard and Thomas began to compete under the basket, even if both of them are pure blue-collar players, but in terms of peak state, it is still Juwan Howard who is superior.
In a fierce scramble for the basket, Juwan Howard pulled the ball out of Thomas's hands, turned around, and passed the ball to Nowitzki outside the three-point line.
At this moment, Nowitzki is being closely guarded by Moxi, Nowitzki barely catches the ball, takes a big stride forward, and is a pull-up jumper, Moxi follows closely, raising his hands to interfere with Nowitzki, fortunately, the game has just started The young driver's hand is not too hot, this ball is iron again, this time Sprewell also rushed back from the outside, hugging this backcourt rebound.
Just when the Knicks breathed a sigh of relief and felt that they had prevented the Mavericks' offense, they didn't know how the Mavericks' offense could be so simple in the West.
The Knicks turned around and attacked, launched from the inside, and then passed to the outside Sprewell, who missed the shot, Nowitzki took the rebound, and the Mavericks immediately launched a fast break.
The Knicks can also be regarded as a good player at switching offense and defense, but now in the face of the Mavericks' fast attack, they actually have a slight feeling of powerlessness.
Nash received Nowitzki's pass, did not dribble forward at all, but directly on the spot with a long pass to find Finley, who had already run to the frontcourt, Sprewell followed Finley inch by inch, did not let the latter get the space to shoot, just when the Knicks thought they had put the opponent's fast break, Finley turned around and passed, Nash received the ball, followed up and hit a three-point shot in a fast break.
Mark Jackson wasn't the kind of person who moved fast even when he was younger, and it was difficult to form an effective limit against the young Nash, the son of the wind.
When the Knicks attacked, Mo Xi wanted to play Nowitzki on the inside, but the opening rhythm was too fast, and Mo Xi was inadvertently led away by the Mavericks' rhythm, and couldn't help but speed up the offensive rhythm, hook the shot was too hasty, and the basket came out.
The Mavericks are another wave of fast breaks, and Mo Xi can't help but think, is it possible that the Mavericks' tactical arrangement after getting the defensive rebound is only fast break? Even if it's not a fast attack, a strong attack is fine!
Even if Mo Xi's feet are not slow, Mo Xiyi is a center, and there are few centers who like to attack quickly, whether it is the opposite side or their own.
This time the Mavericks gave the ball to Nowitzki's hands, Mo Xi had just returned to Nowitzki at the moment, and his foothold was not stable, as long as Nowitzki moved slightly, he could pass him very easily, but what Mo Xi didn't expect was that Nowitzki was going to shoot directly.
Mo Xi kept an eye on it, took a half step forward, and stretched out his hands to interfere with Nowitzki.
Nowitzki saw Mo Xi step forward, and suddenly put the ball down, Mo Xi was frightened and took a step back, only to find that Nowitzki made a tentative step, then straightened up, and suddenly passed the ball out when Mo Xi was about to step forward and let go.
It's Juwan Howard. The young Juwan Howard was able to defend all the way to the No. 3 position because his feet were moving fast enough that Thomas couldn't keep up, and Juwan Howard received the ball and went straight to the basket and dunked.
Next, Mark Jackson originally wanted to stabilize the rhythm on the court, but the Mavericks were always creating traps for the Knicks, and even experienced people such as Mark Jackson were a little uncontrollable, and the pace of the game fell into chaos.
Once again, the Knicks launched a swift offense, without the rigor or dragging of the past, the ball only went through two passes, and Mo Xi found a gap in the Mavericks, and directly penetrated a very penetrating pass to find Thomas.
Thomas pushed up against Juwan Howard under the basket and couldn't score, but it caused Juwan Howard's foul, Thomas hit both free throws, and the Knicks showed some signs of recovery.
It's just that Thomas seems to be just a Band-Aid at this time, and soon, the Mavericks turned around and Novisky made a three-pointer.
The Mavericks are playing faster and faster, like a wild horse on the loose, while the Knicks are like a cowboy (the Mavericks usually mean cowboys in the United States), but this cowboy is about to lose the reins in his hand.
Although Mark Jackson can barely maintain the rhythm on the court, but the speed is really a hard injury for him, and he was dumped by Nash, and Van Gundy had to take advantage of the technical timeout to rush to replace Ward on the court.
But where is it so easy for the calves who have already played the flowers to be dragged by people, this time it is Nowitzki again, Nowitzki really doesn't seem to plan to go to the basket, this time after blocking and dismantling with Nash, Nowitzki moved a few steps to the side, received a pass from Nash's ghost, and turned his back to Moxi.
At this time, Nowitzki had just begun his road to golden rooster independence, but his power was far less incomprehensible than that of his peak.
But at this time, Mo Xi had never seen such a turn-over back-to-back jumper, and he was caught off guard for a while, and the Mavericks scored another goal.
More than four minutes into the game, the Mavericks led 12-6, a small difference, but this offensive rhythm made the Knicks very uncomfortable. Shortly after the technical timeout, the Knicks had to hand over another timeout to slow the tempo.