"Referee, isn't this guy's shooting action a foul? You can see that his knees are almost on the heads of our players, which is an extremely dangerous move! ”

When the Mavericks passed a pick-and-roll cooperation again, and then Dirk Nowitzki hit a mid-range shot, Rick Carlisle, who was standing on the sidelines, immediately ran to theorize with the assistant referee on the sidelines. So Rick Carlisle, who has a lot of complaints about this, went straight to the referee theory.

"Sir, please calm down, I will record what you say, and then after the game, I will report to the league." Among all the coaches in the league, Rick Carlisle is a well-known hob meat and big mouth, so the assistant referee on the sidelines has nothing to do with him, and in this level of competition, the referee is not good to blow him a technical foul directly because of this, the penalty in the last game caused a lot of controversy after the game, and the referees who would have continued to officiate the fifth game of the finals have now been disqualified from blowing that game by the league, for these referees, how much are they paid, However, it is directly related to the number of penalty games, so after Rick Carlisle protested to the assistant referee, the assistant referee could only persuade with good words.

From the second half of the second quarter, relying on the blocking between Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry, and Dirk Nowitzki's almost inexplicable step-back jumper, the Mavericks finally brought the situation on the court back, although there will be no way to reverse the situation on the court for a while, but the Mavericks are now on the same level as the Pacers.

I have to say that the Mavericks with Nowitzki and the Mavericks without Nowitzki are completely two levels of teams, when Nowitzki is not on the court, or is not too involved in the offense, the Mavericks don't talk about maintaining the situation with the Pacers, and even the smooth team cooperation can't play, and when Nowitzki participates in the offense, the Mavericks immediately upgraded from a single team with chaotic tactics to a team with blocking and pick-and-roll tactics as the core.

"Dirk has already started to play? Why does Meng still not have any desire to score? ”

When the main players of both sides began to play inextricably in the second half of the second quarter, as the core of the Pacers, Meng Xu still did not want to attack by himself, but continued to focus his energy on defense and organization, so Michaels on the sideline commentary bench asked Magic Johnson next to him with a puzzled face.

"What is this kid waiting for?" After hearing Michaels' question, Magic Johnson was also embarrassed, because he didn't know what Meng Xu was preparing to do, saying that he didn't feel good and wanted to give up the opportunity to his teammates, but he only shot a total of 5 times today, and it would be even more unlike to say that he was paddling to save his physical strength, because Meng Xu didn't have the slightest slack on the defensive end, and he had 5 steals in less than half a game. Magic Johnson really couldn't guess anything.

47-44, after a counterattack in the second half of the second quarter, at the end of the entire first half, the Mavericks had narrowed the gap between the two sides to only 1 point, so when the players on both sides left the court, the Mavericks fans on the scene were also in a high atmosphere, cheering for their home team and their favorite players with continuous applause and cheers.

At the end of the half, the players on both sides returned to the locker room, but looking at the back of Meng Xu walking into the players' tunnel, Magic Johnson was thinking about what Meng Xu was waiting for, or what Meng Xu wanted to do today.

The criticality of today's game is self-evident, the team that loses this game will have a greatly increased probability of losing the finals, so both sides have done their best today to win this extremely critical game, but as the most important member of the Pacers, Meng Xu is very calm today, and only scored 7 points after the half, which is too unusual for a player who can easily 30+ or even 40+ in a single game.

"Do you want to get four pairs again?" After getting the technical statistics table handed over by Michaels, Magic Johnson had a sudden sense of enlightenment, 7 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 6 steals, 2 blocks, Meng Xu, who got this kind of data in the half, is really likely to score a quadruple-double again at the end of the game.

"This kid, it's all this time, and he still has the heart to play like this." After figuring out what Meng Xu did, Magic Johnson shook his head with a smile, the play in his mouth was naturally alluding to Meng Xu's intention to brush data in the finals, in this level of competition, there is still the mind to brush the data, and dare to brush the data, and finally it can be successful, Magic Johnson has only encountered two, one is naturally Meng Xu, or one is Michael Jordan, who is known as the first person in NBA history, in the last finals of Magic Johnson, Jordan and himself brushed the assist, Until now, Magic Johnson still remembers it vividly, because that Finals was a Finals in which Magic Johnson handed over his scepter and stepped down from the throne, and since then, the NBA league has entered the era of Jordan.

Looking back on the past, reminiscing about the past, after a moment of contemplation, looking at Meng Xu who walked out of the player tunnel again, Magic Johnson laughed thoughtfully, the 80s belonged to the era of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the 90s belonged to the era of Michael Jordan, and the decade of the new millennium undoubtedly belonged to the era of Meng Xu.

After the game started again in the third quarter, the Mavericks and Pacers changed their respective rotation lineups again, but unlike the bench lineup led by Jason Terry in the first half of the second quarter, Avery Johnson sent Josh Howard to lead the Mavericks' bench lineup this time, and the bench lineup on the Pacers' side did not change much, with NN Hilario and Salunas Jascovy Hughes pressing, the Pacers' rotation lineup did not suffer any loss.

Less than 3 minutes into the third quarter, the Mavericks successfully overtook the score, and Josh Howard, who came off the bench, successfully connected the Mavericks' offense, although Josh Howard only scored 2 points in these three minutes, but under his tandem, the Mavericks' bench lineup blossomed in full bloom, especially Jerry Sterkhouse, who could only follow the switchback when Jason Terry came on the court, and scored 5 points in a row, leading the Mavericks to play a 9-5 small climax for the Pacers, helping the Mavericks successfully overtake the score, What a group of main players couldn't do with their old lives, they did it in a bunch of substitutes.

"Looks like it's about time." After the Mavericks overtook the score, Meng Xu, who was still sitting on the bench chatting with James Posey, sat up in an instant and was ready to play.