Chapter 222: The First Victory

The Timberwolves' tactical strategy is simple, which is to guard against Nowitzki and not give the German tank an easy chance to receive the ball.

Dek Nowitzki is the offensive core of the Dallas Mavericks, and today's Dallas Mavericks can be said to be still a single-core team, their core is clear, that is, Dek Nowitzki, the German tank plays well or badly, and can generally directly determine the outcome of the Dallas Mavericks' game.

This is the case with a single-core team, as if the most important core is out of whack, or if his performance is not yet able to influence the game, then the only way to wait for this team is to lose.

Nowitzki has been consistent and efficient in recent years, almost as much as the Spurs' No. 21 rookie, and in fact, Nowitzki has been one of the most underrated power forwards in the league.

In terms of performance, Nowitzki is not inferior to Duncan in any way, but in terms of evaluation, Nowitzki is always a head shorter, and even the wolf king Garnett can't compare. In fact, the wolf king Garnett is thin and weak, and he is not resistant to the inside players, and his style of play is even softer than Nowitzki, but relying on the violent dunks and roars from time to time, these highly qualified experts in North America have very "naturally" classified Garnett as a tough guy.

Nowitzki, who has the status of a foreign player, has been labeled as a "soft egg", which has to be said to be a very unfair thing.

In the minds of American fans, Nowitzki's soft egg image has been deeply rooted, and even Chris Bosh, who has a style of play like him, is obviously not as strong as Nowitzki, but because of his identity as a local player, his image is much brighter than Nowitzki.

Today's Dallas Mavericks team looks like a strong lineup, but in fact. They are still significantly different from teams like the Los Angeles Lakers, the Dallas Mavericks are still a single-core team in nature, and Terry and the aging Kidd can only be regarded as excellent "role" players.

Terry has averaged 16.6 points per game for the Dallas Mavericks this season, but in terms of strength, he can only be considered a role player. He can't even match the strength of an All-Star, and Terry can get a high score because he knows how to play correctly, but also because he has the buff effect of the tactical system.

As for Jason Kidd, the former No. 1 point guard in the league, he has long been old, riddled with injuries, and was originally a player who was not outstanding in offensive ability at his peak, and now it is difficult to contribute too much firepower on the offensive end.

In Dallas Mavericks games, you can often see Jason Kidd stealth. This has a lot to do with his low offensive efficiency.

The Timberwolves are guarding Novitzki while trying to cut him off from the rest of the Dallas Mavericks and not give the Mavericks a chance to connect inside and outside.

As soon as Nowitzki received the ball, the Timberwolves immediately sacrificed a wrap-and-wrap strategy, making Nowitzki miserable in the first quarter.

This situation continued into the third quarter, and the Dallas Mavericks still still did not come out of the decline.

The Dallasians' sluggish form hasn't changed for the better with more game time, and Jason Kidd is a well-known rhythm guru in the league. When it comes to controlling the tempo, he can be said to be a veteran in the league. Few can match him in this respect.

But in tonight's game, Jason Kidd found that the Chinese kid on the opposite side actually showed the demeanor of six or seven percent of the top point guards, although it was only six or seven percent, which still surprised Jason Kidd.

In terms of the level that Li Shihao showed tonight, the strength of the league's first-class point guard. In particular, the grasp of controlling the rhythm is not far from the veteran players in the league who have been immersed in this way for many years.

Lee Se-ho's sense of smell for the game really shocked Jason Kidd, and he couldn't do it at the same age.

This Chinese kid is far more terrifying than he imagined!

There was only one thought left in Jason Kidd's mind. Tonight, he tried to use the pass several times to reorganize the team's offensive to rekindle the fighting spirit of the Mavericks, but Li Shihao accurately grasped the key timing of Jason Kidd's rise every time, disrupted it, and broke the momentum of the Dallas Mavericks' counterattack several times.

That's what's terrible about this kid!

Jason Kidd was originally in the All-Star period, looking at Nowitzki's face, and at the same time, he has also changed his personality in recent years and began to take care of some junior players, because of these reasons, Jason Kidd was not stingy and taught Li Shihao a lot of experience and skills, but he didn't expect Li Shihao to learn so quickly, and immediately put what he learned into practice and used it in the first round of the playoffs.

This is really shooting himself in the foot, Jason Kidd now said in his heart that he has no regrets is false, if he hadn't taught Li Shihao these valuable experience and skills, he would not have encountered such a difficult Timberwolves in the first round of this year's playoffs, it can be said that this difficult Timberwolves were largely brought by the Chinese kid opposite.

Now, the Timberwolves have become a boulder in the Dallas Mavericks' way to the playoffs, and if they can't get past it, this year's Dallas Mavericks will be 108,000 miles away from the final O'Brien Cup.

The suspense of the game never happened, the Dallas Mavericks in the first three quarters because of the sluggish state, the score behind too much, more than 20 points, so that the Mavericks coach Carlisle was very disappointed, he did not expect that the Dallas players would play so badly tonight, and finally he changed to the bench lineup and gave up the game.

When the whistle blew, Li Shihao and their faces were both happy and incredulous, the second in the West in the first round of the playoffs faced off against the seventh in the West, and they won the first game like this?

Before the game, countless media outlets unanimously predicted that the Dallas Mavericks would win the game, and the young Timberwolves had little chance of surviving from the iron heel of Dallas.

Even many bookmakers in the United States are extremely unoptimistic about the Timberwolves in terms of the odds for this game, who would have thought that such a player who was not optimistic about anyone before the game would snatch a victory at the opponent's home court.

However, the Dallas fans are not in a good mood, they paid a lot of money to buy tickets to the playoffs tonight, but they watched a fiasco here, and the originally sunny mood may be rainy at the moment.

They don't have the psychology of New York Knicks fans looking for abuse!

After this game, the Dallas Mavericks became the center of the national media firestorm due to the failure of the prediction.

(To be continued.) )