Chapter 357: The Brave Win
Wu Huang opened the game by showing Kidd and the Mavericks that he was different from Westbrook, and in the eyes of the Mavericks, this bastard was even more difficult than expected, and the most experienced and reassuring of their team was Kidd. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Although everyone knew that he might be beaten a little worse in this series, he didn't expect to suffer such a big loss as soon as he came up.
Westbrook said that he would not go to the finals after being eliminated, but Wei Shao, who was sitting in front of the TV at the moment, had a complicated look in his eyes, he really didn't want to watch this series in his heart, but he knew that he had to watch it, and only by seeing the reasons for his success from his opponent could he find a way to deal with him.
After the Thunder was eliminated by the Mavericks, all the media and fans were criticizing him for being brainless, but this kind of natural brain fever is not something that can be easily changed the day after tomorrow, which is the reason why he will never lack passion, but it is also his biggest flaw, only when experience and frustration accumulate to a certain extent, will he have a qualitative change in his whole person.
Now Wei Shao, who has just suffered a major setback, is obviously still in the dormant period, and his potential has not yet been developed, but it is difficult for ordinary people to persist until the day of success like him, because the days after failure are too difficult, even a big-hearted guy like Wei Shao does not dare to read newspapers and magazines at the moment, and can only secretly watch the finals at home to study, and also have to learn how the opponent he hates the most is doing, is there anything more uncomfortable than this?
Nowitzki decided to help Kidd get back face, and it was a bit unrealistic to expect the 38-year-old Kidd to come back on the offensive end, and although Kidd was a little angry at this ball, it wasn't really a fight. The old monster of this age will not have too many psychological fluctuations even if he is blown up, he knows very well what his task is, his task is mainly to sort out the team's ball and control the rhythm, these two points he doesn't feel that he will be blown up, he will tell Wu Huang like a lesson Wei Shao, what a real point guard is like.
Xiao Si faced Nowitzki on the defensive end, and at the beginning of the game, neither team came up with a killer feature, and the game was the default routine. So in the one-on-one session, Xiao Si's defense was like air, and he was easily found a turning opportunity by Nowitzki's back shaking, and the German's forced layup in the restricted area finally caused O'Neal to foul the assistant defense, and the basketball drilled into the basket, which was a 2+1.
It's just an attack, but D'Antoni already feels bad, although the last round of Xiaosi's defense of Bosh was not very successful, but at least it didn't make Bosh too presumptuous, and it was barely qualified.
Bosh, like Xiao Si, is the No. 4 position who is good at face frame breakthrough and jump shots, and the footsteps of the two are not too different, so there is no such thing as who restrains whom, and the play of these two people is also half-hearted. But today's action against Novitsky, although it is not fancy, but the practicality is extremely high, and the basic skills are solid, Xiao Si's single defense is a little unbearable.
The German's back is not only capable of turning and jumping, he also has a very good ability to turn and break through, and even the face frame can be protruded, and relying on his solid basic skills, Nowitzki's various playing styles have a very low error rate, which is a clearly underrated all-round inside.
Nowitzki and Yao Ming's physical qualities have always been underrated, their general dynamic talents, speed and bounce are not good, but their static talents are very good, height, arm span, shoulder width, core strength, and even touch, ball sense, coordination, etc., these physical talents are excellent, and these are the most needed by interior players. But insiders like Xiao Si and Bosh who have excellent dynamic talents are a bit of a showmanship, not only have a short peak period, but also have little tactical role, and are especially not good at playing hard battles as the core.
A core player is not about how good you are at scoring, but about how well you play a role, whether you can cope with different opponents and defenses, and whether you can play the best role in the team at all times, which is the foundation of being a core player.
If Xiao Si and Bosh are the core, it will be difficult for this team to enter the playoffs, and even if they do, it will be a round because their tactical role is too one-dimensional and too easy to be targeted.
Wu Huang kept attacking Kidd, and today he completely used his speed to force the opponent, at most adding some tentative steps and feints. But unlike Wei Shao, who rushed to the end, he often passed the ball halfway, or made a stop-and-go jump shot. The difference between him and Wei Shao is that one has his head down when he breaks through, and the other has his head raised and looks for passing and shooting opportunities with his thief's eyes.
Wei Shao lost confidence a little after watching the first half of the game between the two teams, he couldn't understand how Wu Huang could still observe the surroundings so calmly when he broke through quickly, and how could he concentrate on finding space and loopholes when he was so distracted?
Of course he can't understand it, this is the embodiment of talent.
Wu Huang's visual field analysis in high-speed travel is a bit perverted, nine out of nine normal people are staring at a target, his attention can not be distracted to observe the surrounding targets, if you don't believe it, you can try to play the game when staring at an enemy, to see if it is not possible to look at the people around him, and it becomes blurred, and their movements will be difficult for you to notice.
But there are always some talented people in the world who can see the six ways and listen to the eight directions, such as Xiao Radish has such an ability, otherwise she would not be so slippery in CS. But people like Taylor Swift often can't find what is right under their noses. Emperor Wu had seen that this stupid girl was looking for the mobile phone in the center of the coffee table, just because there were many other items next to the mobile phone that distracted her. That's the difference between the eyes, it's also an athletic talent, don't underestimate it, the eyes are important for all sports.
Nowitzki, on the other hand, showed his shooting talent, hitting both of his first two shots in the opening stanza, while O'Neal didn't show much under Chandler's defense. The boxing champion is much faster than O'Neal at the moment, from the beginning he was defending in front of him, and as soon as his long arms stretched out, Wu Huang didn't dare to pass the ball in, and if this situation was passed low, it would definitely be broken, and it would not be possible to pass high or pass in advance, because the current O'Neill is too slow, and he can't receive this kind of advance ball.
Ten years ago, O'Neal encountered this kind of defense, with a strength that surpassed his opponents by several levels and the footwork that was not inferior to most people, he could easily create his own receiving opportunities, but now he can't grab the position at all, which is the reason why Wu Huang can't do anything.
After O'Neal went off the court, the Knicks began to use Collins against Nowitzki. The mustache didn't dare to use the young Monroe at all, but Nowitzki still had a way to attack, and he began to frequently use the frame to test the step and back play to find shooting opportunities, which was to bully Collins, who once reported being 210cm tall, but was only 203cm tall.
The first quarter was 4 minutes and 40 seconds, and the score was 19:17, and the Knicks took a two-point advantage at home.
The Mavericks' defensive routine is clearer, they limit their shots close to the basket, force Wu Huang to shoot from mid-to-long range as much as possible, and even give him some opportunities to shoot three-pointers.
Wu Huang could feel that he was not under a lot of defensive pressure, as long as he didn't break through to the area of the free throw line and wouldn't be trapped, but Chandler and Nowitzki kept an eye on him, and as soon as he got into these areas that were dangerous for the Mavericks, he would be surrounded by more than one person.
It's not hard to guess that since they don't dare to use the combination defense they are good at, move the defense inside and prevent Knicks players from shooting in the mid-range and in the box with a higher scoring success rate. If Wu Huang's mid-to-long-range shooting and three-point shooting can shoot them to death, it can only be said that he is too awesome, and there is nothing to say about this situation, but he can't prevent it.
But if Emperor Wu can't kill them, the calf will have a chance to fight back!
Nowitzki is ready to use all of his offensive firepower to try to neutralize Wu Huang's damage in this series, and the likes of Terry and Barria are ready to play their own threat on the offensive end. Kidd, Marion, Chandler and others have a simpler task, they have to defend the Knicks' players with all their might, stick to their own middle and bottom two lanes, try to minimize the Knicks' points, and get a chance for their teammates who are responsible for the offense.
Everyone works together, everyone tries to do their best in the link they are responsible for, they are happy to win, and they only complain that their skills are not as good as others when they lose, as long as they do their best and do not leave regrets.
The Mavericks' mentality as a whole is very good, and with this clear mentality and strategy, they play very aggressively on the court and have a higher tactical execution than the Knicks. The only reason why he is lagging behind now is that Wu Huang is also playing, and his tactics with Kidd as a breakthrough are also very successful, even if the old monster can judge Wu Huang's intentions, but he just can't stop it, this feeling of powerlessness is very depressing.
But the problem with the Knicks is that they don't have a strategy and thinking as clear as the Mavericks.
"Tactics" and "strategy" are different, they have always played as they pleased, perhaps this is a strategy in D'Antoni's mind. Let the players play freely, which is a bit of a "no trick to win" awesome artistic conception in it. But Wu Huang always felt that this set of concepts was too taken for granted, but he couldn't say what the problem was.
But no matter where there is a problem, Wu Huang has not felt good about playing so far, 13 of the 19 points the team got are his direct or indirect contributions, this kind of freewheeling style of play makes him too dazzling, which is not a good thing, indicating that his teammates are a little unable to keep up with his thinking and rhythm, and the degree of participation on the offensive end is not enough, in case his hand feels down later, what should he do at that time?
On the other hand, the Mavericks, who let go of wild words before the game, Terry came up and scored a three-pointer to prove that he was not talking big before the game.
This guy has been shooting 3-point percentage in the playoffs this year, and even with a slight dip in the series against the Thunder, he is now averaging 45% three-point shooting per game. That's a terrifying statistic, a notch above Gallinari's 40 percent three-point shooting.
Wu Huang began to take the initiative to change the routine at the end of the first quarter, but he did not blindly feed his teammates with the ball, two years of NBA experience made him understand that helping teammates play in shape is not just to feed them the ball, this is a relatively low-end approach, and the clever means should be to play a certain advantage or pass the ball after the momentum to come naturally.
This is still a problem he found from James's lesson, always feeding teammates sometimes makes them unable to withstand the pressure, just like the current balance of power, role players will definitely have pressure to shoot, it's okay to shoot, if you can't shoot, it will collapse!
Mavericks' Tyson Chandler is feeling just right now, O'Neal has defended it, and it has worked well after switching to defending Smalls.
Stoudemire was in big trouble today, Chandler's pace was no slower than him, but he had an advantage in height, arm span and strength, which made Xiao Si's breakthrough a little embarrassing in the Mavericks' strategy of concentrating on the interior defense, and now he only had 2 points and 1 rebound, and he couldn't find a scoring opportunity.
This time, Chandler saw Xiao Si go out to block and dismantle with Wu Huang, and he still focused on his defender Xiao Si, so when Barria, who came on as a substitute, was broken into the threat area by Wu Huang, Nowitzki could only come over to make up for the defense.
"That's what I'm waiting for!" Wu Huang still looks down on the Germans a little in his heart, although he also thinks that this guy is a little underestimated, but under the influence of the media, he still thinks that this guy should be very soft, so he is ready to score a wonderful goal on Nowitzki, and he will make a foul at the very least, no matter which plan is successful, it can improve the team's morale.
However, Nowitzki was not as soft as he imagined, his assistant defense was half a beat slower in this ball, and the advantageous position was grabbed by Wu Huang, who was fast-paced, and the German immediately judged that it was easy to foul Wu Huang and make Wu Huang play two plus one, but seeing this bastard's menacing appearance, if he didn't stop it, it was obviously a violent dunk.
The most fearful thing about playing away from home is not the opponent's home whistle, but the momentum of being played by the opponent's wonderful dunk, the home fans are the biggest support of the home team, and few people can not be affected by the overwhelming noise. Even though Nowitzki felt that he could be unaffected, his teammates couldn't, so the German made a move that made Wu Huang curse in his heart, and he directly hit Wu Huang's dunk against the wall with a sledgehammer charge.
"Poof"! Wu Huang, who had just opened up, lost his balance in the air and fell to the ground hard, this ball he fell no less than the last round when he was hit by James, this kind of fall that lost balance in the air is the most easily injured action.
Nowitzki took the initiative to raise his hand after the foul, he couldn't run away when he got a technical foul on this ball, but the malicious foul should not be enough, after all, the Mavericks are at a disadvantage, and the referee will not send him off so easily for the sake of the excitement of the game.
Wu Huang was still lying on the ground at the moment, his reaction was relatively fast, and he adjusted the position of his body in time, plus the strength and muscles he had exercised in the past two seasons well protected his joints and bones, although this fall shocked him enough, but he did not feel pain in his joints. Wu Huang knew in his heart that he was not injured, but his excellent acting skills made him immediately show a painful expression, which was very realistic.
Little Kolo was so frightened that he covered half of his face with his hands at the moment, and the New York fans were also panicked at the moment, it didn't matter if Xiao Si died, but Wu Huang must not have an accident, otherwise the Knicks would have no hope of winning the championship.
There was a gasp in Madison Garden, followed by an overwhelming curse, and some fans on the sidelines were eager to rush in and beat Nowitzki, a soft egg, and the eighteenth generation of Germans was scolded all over again!
Nowitzki and the Mavericks players hope that Wu Huang will hit the street like this, and that's great! But I don't know if Wu Huang's acting skills played a role again, the referee was very dissatisfied with this kind of malicious hurtful action in the first game, David Stern, who was watching the game at the moment, looked very dignified, Wu Huang and Nowitzki's duel was shaped by him into a confrontation between Asia and Europe, and the priority of these two regions in the game time also shows that the theme of this finals is a rare "yellow and white confrontation", which is simply a new era. So whether it's Wu Huang or Nowitzki, if any of them are injured in the game and are sidelined, then the ratings of this finals will hurt.
The referee who can preside over the finals today naturally knows the intention of the above, so he did not hesitate to make a gesture of "a malicious foul", which is the third malicious foul that Wu Huang has encountered in this year's playoffs, which shows how hateful and threatening he is in the eyes of his opponents.
Nowitzki complained to the referee that his foul was unintentional, and he regretted the two-penalty, which seemed to be a little more costly.
Wu Huang pretended to get up and regretted it a little, now the harvest is indeed greater than he thought before, but such a desperate play is not in line with his concept, if you always fall like this, sooner or later there will be a day when you hit the street, if you want to live longer, you still have to coax it.
New York fans are relieved, Wu Huang's acting skills have even deceived them, just now he didn't roll on the ground but just covered his shoulders and sweated, which really made people can't see that he was pretending to be garlic.
"This dead ghost's acting skills even lied to me!" Emma Watson and Christine, as Wu Huang's acting instructors, found themselves so easily surpassed by their students at this moment, are their acting skills really so bad?
After the actor-level Wu Huang hit both free throws, his harem and fans knew that this guy was challenging Oscar again, and then Wu Huang broke through with the ball on the inside again, and the move of killing Nowitzki was shouted "good job" by all commentators and industry insiders, because his choice was too wise.
Nowitzki didn't expect Emperor Wu to be so aggressive, he was still angry at his malicious foul just now, and in a blink of an eye, Emperor Wu rushed at him again, which made him a little confused.
The Germans are not the kind of fierce people in their bones after all, and if Ben Wallace, Garnett, Artest, etc. are replaced in this ball, they will definitely be ruthless again. But Nowitzki is not such a character, although he has changed a lot in defense in the past two years, but he still did not make the right reaction in a moment, Wu Huang this time after Xiao Si pulled Chandler out of the basket, and finally staged a big windmill slam dunk with a round arm in front of Nowitzki's eyes!
"Madison Square Garden" exploded instantly! Countless New York fans with throat lozenges in their mouths once again let out a tsunami of cheers, interspersed with all kinds of taunts and insults at Nowitzki, and the big guys still remembered the dangerous malicious foul just now.
Yao Ming laughed and said in the CCTV commentary seat: "The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and this time Emperor Wu defeated Nowitzki." Then the little giant said with emotion, "If you look at the best defensive players in history, they are all fierce and vicious, Ben Wallace, Garnett, Dwight Howard and so on. When defending, you can't be a gentleman, if that's the case, it's only going to end up being eaten alive. Obviously, Nowitzki understands how to survive the playoffs, and I've noticed that he's used a lot of small moves to distract opponents this year, and while it's not above board, the court is so brutal that only the strong can survive. But this time he was not resolute enough to defend, Wu Huang's goal took up all the momentum, and this goal may be the turning point of this game. (To be continued.) )