Chen Zhi's role in the Mavericks is obviously irreplaceable, he is the team's main scorer, core point guard, and ranks second in average rebounds per game, second only to the main center Bogut, and even in recent times, Chen Zhi has begun to lead the team in the number of rebounds, more than Bogut, the starting center.

The Mavericks' dependence on Chen Zhi is obvious, and without Chen Zhi, the Mavericks' record of the Mavericks, who suffered a wave of injuries at the beginning of the season, would definitely be miserable, and there would never be the satisfactory record they have now.

From the preseason to the current ten regular season games, Novis has not played a few times due to an injury, and the Mavericks have gradually begun to be branded as Chen Zhi.

Coach Carlisle's eyes were blazing, quietly watching the situation on the court from the sidelines, and when Chen was resting off the court, although the Mavericks did not collapse, they were usually in a headwind, especially when facing the Celceltics led by Thomas Jr. at this moment.

This situation really makes Carlisle a little worried, and the Mavericks' dependence on Chen Zhi is indeed too great.

After the start of the second quarter, Thomas Jr. continued his performance at the end of the first quarter, and the gap on the court was gradually widening, but Carlisle never replaced Chen Zhi on the court, even though he noticed that Chen Zhi had looked at him many times, obviously thinking that he should come out to save his teammates.

After signing the demonic basketball prodigy Chen Zhi and putting up a 7-2 record at the start of the new season, Carlisle will inevitably have more to look forward to this season.

The more this is the case, the more Chen Zhi's health problems make Carlisle pay attention, once Chen Zhi's injury is affected, even if Nowitzki returns, it will be difficult to lead the team far in the playoffs, and it is likely to be a round trip.

Chen does not have the slightest health problem so far, but in the NBA, no one dares to guarantee that he will always be healthy. If you play too much minutes, the risk of injury will obviously be greater as fatigue accumulates.

There have been many cases of this kind of injury in the NBA, where players have not been in contact with anyone on the court, who have been injured unsteadily on the ground after dunking, or even inexplicably injured while running normally. These may seem like accidents, but in fact they are fatigue that cannot be completely eliminated.

Carlisle has decided to limit Chen's playing time appropriately, reducing his playing time from close to 35 minutes to just over 30. Chen Zhi really doesn't need time to guarantee his stats, because his stats are scary enough, even if he loses a few more regular season games, he must ensure Chen Dao's health.

"Coach, it's time for me to play." Seeing that the scores between the two sides were getting bigger and bigger, Chen Zhi couldn't help but turn his head and say to Carlisle.

"The second quarter has just begun, don't rush." Carlisle said flatly, as if he was just a spectator, and it was not his team that was playing on the field.

"The old man can just calm down!" Chen Zhixin said, so he had to nod and sit quietly on the bench and wait.

However, Carlisle was obviously not really calm about the widening point difference, and began to walk back and forth on the sidelines, even calling a timeout to adjust.

"I finally can't hold on, do you want to let Chen Zhi play!" Coach Stevens couldn't help but say when he saw the Mavericks call a timeout.

However, to his surprise, after the timeout, the Mavericks only replaced the slow-paced Mejri, and it was naturally the light-footed Powell who came on the court, while Chen Zhi still did not move at all on the bench.

Five minutes into the second quarter, Chen finally played again.

As soon as Chen arrived, the Mavericks immediately seemed to have a completely different momentum, and all the players on the court felt refreshed, as if they had heard the clarion call for a counterattack.

Chen Zhi looked at the scorer again, even if Curry Jr. hit a three-pointer just now, pulling the difference back to within 20 points, the difference was still as much as 18 points.

This point difference is not particularly big, but it still puts Chen Zhi under some pressure, his three-point shot is still very strong, but it is already limited to Curry, Thompson, Korver, these top three-pointers, far less outrageous than before,

It also makes him look more like a normal NBA player, and if that 90 percent shooting rate continues, it is estimated that some crazy scientists will have the idea of slicing Chen into a study.

In this case, tying the eighteen-point gap is by no means as simple as six three-pointers, and there is simply enough time now.

Chen Zhi began to attack with the ball, heading towards the Celtic half.

Marcus Smart, who was on the field at this time, was obviously a little excited, and before Chen Zhi arrived in the midfield, the guy had already watched Chen Zhi lean down from a distance and put on a defensive posture.

Chen Zhi came to the frontcourt, was quickly stopped, and glanced at the defender in front of him, the Moxican-style hairstyle matched the bandit smell on his body very well, at least the yellow-dyed Kill Matt hairstyle made him at least look more sturdy visually.

Bradley and Crowder are both Celtics' defensive giants, but if you want to say that the defender who is the most headache for the opponent, it is better to lose Smart, Bradley's defense focuses on skill, Crowder's defense relies on strength, and Smart has both, and his defense is more aggressive than those two, and he has more fierce gangsterism.

Seeing that Chen Zhi began to change direction and find rhythm with the ball in front of him, Smart had a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, not only did he not keep a proper distance to prevent a breakthrough, but he got close to it, and reached out towards the ball.

After a crisp snap, Chen Zhi's rhythm of ball control was immediately chaotic.

The referee on the sidelines not far away heard it clearly, and probably finally couldn't see Smart's scratching, and directly whistled Smart for a defensive foul.

Chen Zhi raised his left arm that was holding the ball just now and looked at it, and there were several clear red finger marks on the yellow skin, and there was a hot pain. It's not even a minor injury, but it's really annoying, and steals aren't such a robbery!

"Are you Biao!" Chen Zhi glanced at Smart and snorted angrily, subconsciously using Huaxia language.

Smart paused for a moment, "What did you say!" ”

Chen Zhi smiled when he heard this, "I said you Biao!" It's still Chinese, but the tone is very flat, and it's commonplace in the NBA to not take this little thing seriously.

After saying that, Chen Zhi turned around and walked away, ready to catch the ball again and attack.

Smart was stunned at first after Chen Zhi turned to leave, and then laughed, even if he couldn't understand Huaxia, he could still distinguish Chen Zhi's tone just now, and what he said was definitely not a good thing.

Smart wasn't angry at all, anyway, his purpose just now was to give Chen a dismount, it would be better to provoke him, defense is a psychology, and this is also part of Smart's defensive theory.

However, Chen Zhi's next performance quickly made Smart understand that it was better to defend Chen Zhi.

Chen went to the sidelines to catch the ball and quickly made a gesture. Powell, who wanted to step forward to block the pick-and-roll, immediately stopped when he saw it, and the others also moved outside the three-point line to maximize the space on the court.

Do you want to play singles! How could Smart not know the truth when he saw this. But it was useless to know, Chen Zhi quickly held the ball and shook it, immediately broke through, and directly squeezed Smart's left body and rushed over.

Smart feels like an old house, a demolished old house that has been crushed into ruins by a bulldozer! In the face of Chen Zhi's bulldozer with full horsepower, there was not even a trace of room for resistance, his body turned directly half a circle, got out of the way, and almost didn't stand firm under his feet!

After breaking through Smart, before someone came up to make up for it, Chen Zhi directly stopped and shot, and hit!

In the next round, it is still a breakthrough in a hurry, and the shot is stopped in a hurry!

Smart felt that his defense was useless at the moment, this strength was too strong!

Attacking again, Chen Zhi raised his hand again and made a move to open up the space.

Still fighting singles, Smart couldn't help but swallow when he saw this action. Is this to humiliate yourself with three consecutive step-by-step breakthroughs! I won't let you succeed, when I can't deal with your breakthrough!

Seeing that Chen Zhi showed signs of attacking, Smart raised his lateral movement speed to the extreme this time, he wanted to grab his position, stand up in advance, and create an offensive foul!

However, Chen Zhi's strength does make him very jealous, if he hits a strong one this time, even if he has rough skin and thick flesh, I am afraid he will be very embarrassed.

Chen Zhi really intends to break through again, this time not only to shoot, but even to go straight to the basket and score the ball under Horford's defense, which will boost the morale of the Mavericks and hit Horford's self-confidence.

For Horford, Chen Zhi had no ill intentions, but he had to hit him, because Chen Zhi scored four points in a row, but the score difference on the court did not decrease in the slightest.

However, the changes on the basketball court are really unpredictable, and Chen Dao, who wanted to rush to the basket to dunk, had to make another mid-range shot.

If your opponent lies down directly in front of you, it is definitely questioning your projection ability! I'm sorry if I don't vote for him right away!

That's right, Smart, who had a haircut that killed Matt, lay down.

When Chen Zhi habitually shook and launched a step-by-step breakthrough, Smart moved very quickly and took a small step to stand still, Chen Zhi still stepped out with his right foot, and this time he naturally failed to step to Smart's side, but stepped in front of him.

Chen Zhi had leaned forward, his left foot had been raised, and he was almost in front of Smart, but his big stride was changed to a small step halfway, and he suddenly stopped his body, and he was very close to Smart.

Chen Zhi stopped, but Smart fell straight back! Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Zhi jumped up and shot directly the moment he found Smart falling backwards at the beginning of the game! The moment Smart fell to the ground on his back completely, the basketball was already flying in the air!

The referee's whistle, which reacted one beat slower than Chen Zhi, sounded, and No. 10 Chen Zhi committed an offensive foul, and the goal was invalid!

The Celtics home fans immediately cheered loudly for their defensive stalwart Smart! When the Mavericks' demonic player was playing arrogant singles in a row, Smart successfully created the opponent's offensive foul!

There are even some fans shouting MVP at Smart! It's just because he successfully prevented Chen Zhi at this time!

However, those Celtic fans in the front row, naturally did not cheer, they saw the truth.

As for Chen Dao, he just stood in place and looked at Smart with a faint smile, because from the corner of his eye, he saw that the sideline referee who was closer to the two had signaled to the bottom line referee who was blowing the whistle that this was not an offensive foul, and at the same time, the sideline referee signaled to kill Matt to fake a fall!

As soon as this decision was made, the North Shore Garden Arena immediately resounded with boos.

The two referees made inconsistent judgments, and went to the technical station to retrieve the game video for verification, and after the multi-angle replay, Smart's fake fall evidence was conclusive!

Soon the referee announced the conclusion that Smart had been warned of a fake fall, and Chen had scored a valid goal because he had not committed a foul and the shot was indeed made before the referee's whistle.

O'Neal in the TNT live broadcast room looked at the slow-motion replay of Smart's fall to the ground, and laughed back and forth with Barkley, there is no doubt that Smart's shot will inevitably appear in the new episode of the Big Five!

The Celtics home fans were still booing the referee after seeing the final decision, but those Green Army fans who knew Smart's history lamented in their hearts, Smart's name means "smart", why is he so biao, he has been on the Big Five embarrassments before because of fake falls, and this time he is here again, do you want to become the Big Five Embarrassments together with McGee!

The most speechless thing is that it is clearly displayed on the big screen at the scene, Chen Zhi didn't touch you at all, at least a little contact and then fell to the ground, and the acting skills are too exaggerated!

Smart didn't feel ashamed of this fake fall when he was caught, after all, in the NBA, fake fall is at least a technical job, and a high level can even be wrestled into art, and superstars of the level of James and Harden are not the same as fake falls.

The game on the field continued quickly, Chen Zhi did not continue to break through Smart, although there was no problem with breaking through him, but Smart is indeed very powerful, every time he forcibly breaks through him, it is not as simple as it seems, the force is mutual, Chen Zhi feels that if he breaks through with brute force like this, his shoulder will be injured sooner or later.

However, even if it is a technical flow, Chen Zhi still has a lot of opportunities to pass Smart, not to mention that blocking and dismantling is also an offensive method that Chen Zhi is very good at.

After Chen Zhi played a few rounds, Carlisle replaced Bogut on the court, Horford wanted to continue to wreak havoc under the basket, but it was not that simple, and Chen Zhi's sharp performance in the blocking and dismantling also made Horford's role in the high blocking and dismantling greatly reduced, and the point difference began to shrink.

With Chen Zhi hitting a three-point shot against Smart's whistle before the end of the half, the Mavericks tied the score again!

Coach Stevens couldn't help but shake his head, although this Chen to three-point shooting rate has a downward trend, but as he grows taller, his three-point shots are becoming more and more difficult to block!