Chapter 137: The Old Driver's End (Part II)

"Golden Rooster Independence" is quite difficult to defend, requiring the bowler to have strong physical coordination, high shooting points, soft touch, and fast shooting speed, and Nowitzki has mastered all this to the extreme, which is one of the reasons why Nowitzki's physical fitness is average, but he can still rank among the league's superstars. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Nowitzki at his peak has almost no solution, I'm afraid that the only one who can come up with a tactic to defend against Nowitzki is probably the old Nelson, and Wang Zhuo is not confident that he can do it, of course, it will be different at the end of his career, and he is afraid of being less strong, not to mention that Porzingis's style of play is somewhat similar to Nowitzki, and he is tougher than Nowitzki.

After Nowitzki scored the first goal, the Knicks kicked off in the backcourt, Grant held the ball, Deron followed all the way, Grant's body was slightly thin compared to Delon, and it was slightly difficult to carry Deron and dribble to the frontcourt.

After halftime, Grant passed the ball to Anthony, Porzingis blocked high on the left side, Anthony bypassed the cover, feigned to rush inside, Rose quickly fell into the left bottom corner, attracting the attention of the defense, Porzingis took the opportunity to go to the top of the circle, Anthony broke through and was blocked, and the ball was distributed to Rose in the bottom corner.

When everyone thought that Rose would shoot three points from the outside, Porzingis had already cut to the inside without the ball, Rose jumped on the spot, deceived Matthews, faked the real pass, Nowitzki successfully defended Anthony, but did not expect that the Knicks' tactical endpoint was Porzingis, and it was completely impossible to return to defense.

Nowitzki had to pin his last hope on Bogut under the basket, but when he looked at Bogut, he found that Bogut was completely behind Noaka, and Porzingis was like no one, forming a perfect connection with Rose, and at the moment of jumping high, he caught the ball with both hands and smashed it into the basket vigorously.

"Bang ......"

Porzingis hit back at his predecessor Nowitzki with a powerful dunk.

The tactics were perfectly executed, but Wang Zhuo still sat quietly on the sidelines, seemingly aware of the trend on the field.

“fu–ck!”

Cuban couldn't sit still off the court and pouted and cursed, a far cry from Nowitzki's arm-beating cheers when he scored.

Compared with Cuban's uncalmness, Carlisle was expressionless, with his hands on his hips, pacing back and forth on the sidelines, deliberately releasing the pressure in his heart.

After the goal, Porzingis shook his fist and roared, and Wang Zhuo knew that Porzingis was not demonstrating to his opponent, but to improve his confidence in the opposite position with Nowitzki.

Then it was the Mavericks' turn to attack, and Deron once again passed the ball into Nowitzki's hands, as if he was going to deliberately kill Porzingis' arrogance.

"If the frontal jump doesn't interfere with Dirk's shooting, you can try to defend the lower handicap, jam his waist, don't let him shoot comfortably, as long as Dirk's back-to-back movement is not consistent, the shooting percentage will definitely drop."

When Porzingis faced Nowitzki head-to-head again, the words he had told him before the game how to defend Nowitzki came to mind.

After Nowitzki received the ball, he once again carried Porzingis to the inside line with his back, but Porzingis suddenly bent down his slender body, his arms were propped up at 90 degrees, and he was pressed against Nowitzki's waist, and his legs were stretched back and forth into a bow, stuck between Nowitzki's legs.

Wang Zhuo once asked the old Nelson how to defend Nowitzki, in the black eight season of that year, Al Harrington was ordered by the old Nils to defend Nowitzki, with this trick once made Nowitzki extremely uncomfortable, and then Nowitzki was angry and tried to be strong, and the golden rooster was trained independently to be more superb, and almost no one could defend against it.

Back then, Nowitzki lost in his youth, and now Wang Zhuo repeats his old skills, but he wants Nowitzki to lose in old age, and sure enough, Nowitzki has nowhere to borrow strength on his back, and his waist is held by Porzingis, even if he is forced to lean back, he is shooting in an extremely uncomfortable situation.

Not only that, but Porzingis's lower plate was stuck between his legs, touching each other too closely, and there was obviously not enough room to roll over and lean back, and the movement was not coherent at all, which Nowitzki didn't think was a problem at all, but now the situation is completely different.

The back can't shoot comfortably, and the frontal jumper doesn't work, Porzingis's height is more threatening, Nowitzki weighed it again and again, and finally chose to shoot "Golden Rooster Independence" in an uncomfortable situation.

Unable to keep up with the pace of his feet, Nowitzki tilted his jump shot a little low, but was interfered with by Porzingis, who was tall and armed, and the ball hit the front basket of the hoop and bounced out.

Anthony scrambles for the rebound, organizes a fast break, and the Mavericks are also fast in return, Anthony transitions the ball to Grant, and immediately passes it to Porzingis.

Porzingis shook his body, easily shook off Nowitzki in small steps, faced Bogut, hit the board and threw a small throw, the ball grazed the board into the basket, and hit another ball.

If the previous goal was due to the loss of the defensive position, then this time Nowitzki was completely unable to keep up with the footsteps of Porzingis, Nowitzki's defense has been criticized, and now even Nowitzki himself has to admit that he is really old.

A smile finally appeared on Wang Zhuo's face, Porzingis's growth rate was so amazing, he didn't expect that in just over a season, he would already be able to take charge on his own.

The game is going on in an orderly manner, Nowitzki still has a brilliant performance, but it is no longer a continuous output, in Wang Zhuo's view, such Nowitzki is no longer threatening, but on the defensive end, Nowitzki's old footsteps and weak defensive ability have become a colander in the Mavericks' defensive system.

Carlisle was extremely entangled in his heart, replacing Nowitzki would lose a strong offensive firepower point, if he didn't change, the overall defensive quality would not be able to keep up, and Carlisle was haunted by this problem in his mind throughout the game.

Mark Cuban stood on the sidelines with excitement and anger, spitting angrily, switching back and forth with the situation on the court, and if it was made into a meme, people who don't know why would think it was a moody madman, and fans who really loved basketball would really appreciate the charm of a boss who would go to the toilet with a championship trophy.

98-90, the Knicks killed the Mavericks away and took away a suspenseful game from the Center Arena of the route, Porzingis scored 29 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks, and Nowitzki, who was opposite him, had 15 points and 4 rebounds, and his performance was unsatisfactory, but he got two blocks in Porzingis's hands.

In the final moments of the game, Nowitzki sat on the sidelines, watching Porzingis running all over the court, his eyes were full of the shadow of his youth, and perhaps in the near future, he would also follow in the footsteps of Webber, Duncan and Garnett, leave the arena of hard fighting, and pass on the spirit of basketball to a new generation.