Chapter Eighty-Five: Winning a Game
There is a fundamental difference between the home game and the away game, listening to the cheers of the fans around him, Wang Meng's mood is exceptionally good.
There are no changes to the starting lineup of both teams, the starting lineup of the Mavericks: Kidd, Stevenson, Marion, Nowitzki, Chandler Lakers starting lineup: Wang Meng, Kobe, Artest, Gasol, Bynum.
Bryant was on fire from the start of the game, and he scored the team's first seven points to give the Lakers the lead. Chandler made two dunks to close the score, Wang Meng scored a three-pointer, and Gasol hit consecutive jumpers, which stabilized the situation for the Lakers. But after the Mavericks traded Peja and Terry in turn, the Mavericks opened fire from the outside, with Peja, Kidd and Terry each hitting three-pointers, and a 9-1 counterattack wave put the Mavericks up 21-19. The two sides then scored four points each, and the Mavericks ended the first quarter with a 25-23 lead. Bryant scored 10 points in the first quarter.
The second quarter turned into a tug-of-war, with the two teams going back and forth and the score alternated between the two teams, with the Mavericks holding a slight lead and Nowitzki hitting both free throws to give his team a five-point lead. Kobi scored four straight points, and Terry hit a fast-break jumper to give the Mavericks a three-point lead. Odom made a layup, Wang Meng also scored 3 points, the Lakers overtook by two points, Bydam and Chandler had some small disputes at this time because they were too big to grab the rebound, Wang Meng hurried over to pull Bydam, so it is best not to dwell on these issues at a critical time.
The referee gave each team a technical foul. After the dispute, the Mavericks suddenly attacked dumbly, and the Lakers scored 5 points in a row under Wang Meng's tandem to extend the advantage to 7 points. Nowitzki made a layup, Odom shot the half-court ball 0.7 seconds before halftime, Terry sloppily fouled, Odom hit all three free throws, Nowitzki elbowed Artey when scrambling for a rebound, the referee gave Nowitzki another technical foul, Kobe hit a free throw, and the Lakers ended the second quarter with a 53-44 lead.
The Lakers' Kobe Bryant had 14 points and four rebounds in the first half, Wang Meng had 11 points and three assists, Gasol had nine points, six rebounds and five assists, and Odom had eight points and five rebounds; For the Mavericks, Terry had 13 points, Nowitzki had 12 points and five rebounds, and Kidd had three points, five assists and two rebounds.
The Mavericks continued to short-circuit after the start of the third quarter, Stevenson missed twice, and Kobe Bryant hit a three-pointer to end a 7-0 attack wave to give the Lakers a 16-point lead. The team finally recovered after Carlisle's timeout, and the newly named Brewer also played a role in the defense, and the Mavericks went on a 17-4 counterattack, and the Mavericks chased it to 61-64 with 5:20 left in the quarter, and Jackson reluctantly called a timeout. Kobe Bryant and Wang Meng both went out to power, and the two scored 7 points in a row to stabilize the situation, the Mavericks' Marion dunked, Kobe Bryant made a super long-range three-pointer, and Gasol made all four free throws, and the Lakers ended the third quarter with a 78-71 lead of 7 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Mavericks rained down another three-point shower, with Peja and Nowitzki's three-pointers pushing them to one point. Bryant returned to the court and hit a jumper, and Wang Meng also assisted Odom to score a layup, and the Lakers led 90-85 with 5:10 left before the end. The Mavericks then came close a few times, but they were never able to pull it off, and Bryant hit a pull-up jumper to give the Lakers a 94-91 lead with one minute to go. Nowitzki hit a breakthrough jumper, Kobe Bryant's breakthrough shot was cut off by Terry, Wang Meng's counter-steal failed to be whistled for a foul, and the Mavericks asked for a timeout with 20.3 seconds left before the end.
Gasol was fouled after a timeout, and Nowitzki hit both free throws to put the Mavericks up by one point at 95-94 with 19.5 seconds left before the game.
Wang Meng took a deep breath.
Phil didn't call a timeout, and the ball was ready to play on his own.
He dribbled and slowly walked to the top of the three-point line, Kidd pressed very low in the center, staring at Wang Meng, and at such a critical time, Kidd also began to work hard.
"Wang Meng! Give me the ball! Kobe Bryant looked at Wang Meng on the right side of the three-point line and beckoned for the ball.
Wang Meng glanced at Kobe Bryant, hesitated, and did not pass the ball, he felt that he was much more sure than Kobe Bryant now.
At this time, there were less than ten seconds left, Wang Meng's expression was solemn, and he launched violently.
Kidd hurriedly followed Wang Meng, and Wang Meng immediately pulled the basketball back the moment Kidd came up, and immediately widened the distance between the two a lot.
"Not good!" Kidd's heart tightened, Wang Meng's long-range shooting ability he had seen in these two games, he didn't dare to give Wang Meng a chance to shoot, and hurriedly jumped up with all his strength, wanting to block Wang Meng.
Wang Meng just made a show, saw Kidd jumping, and immediately dribbled into the inside again, Kidd had already jumped, and could only helplessly watch Wang Meng rush into the inside line single-handedly.
With three seconds left, Tyson Chandler immediately stepped up to make up for it, but he defended very carefully, and now if he gets fouled at this moment, it's all over, and two free throws can kill the Mavericks.
"Instant explosion!" Wang Meng didn't want Chandler to block it, and the instant outbreak started immediately, Wang Meng's speed instantly increased by a notch, and he directly relied on the advantages of speed and short stature to rush past Chandler.
Chandler passed, but there was still a Nowitzki behind Chandler, and Nowitzki stood motionless and firm in the three-second zone under the basket.
"Can that stop me?" Wang Meng smiled disdainfully, directly treated Nowitzki as an air man, and jumped up suddenly in one step inside the free throw line.
"Get me down!" When Nowitzki saw Wang Meng jumping, he couldn't care so much, so he immediately jumped up and blocked all of Wang Meng's offensive routes with his long arms.
Wang Meng may not be able to block even a center of tonnage like O'Neal now, not to mention that Nowitzki is a softer type of big forward, and the blockade of the two pairs of arms easily makes Wang Meng squeeze away, and at the same time, Nowitzki is also directly knocked away by Wang Meng's body in the air.
"Boom!" Heavily dunked the basketball into the blue, Wang Meng looked up to the sky and roared.
The Lakers are one point ahead, and with 1 second left on the clock, the chances of the Mavericks being able to turn the tables are slim.
The Mavericks called a timeout before the Lakers served at halftime.
Terry received a quick three-point shot from the basketball, and was directly covered by Kobe.
The full-time whistle blew, and the Lakers won another game at home 96:95 to chase the score back to 2:3.
In this game, Kobe Bryant had 36 points and 5 assists, Gasol had 15 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 block, Odom had 13 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists, Derrick Fisher had 5 points and 6 assists, he also had 2 steals, and Andrew Bynum had 8 points and 5 rebounds. Wang Meng's score in this game was not high, only 15 points, and he had 8 assists, but he contributed a quasi-slam dunk in the final quarter of the game, which directly led to the Mavericks' defeat in Los Angeles.