3-of-13 shooting, including 0-of-5 three-pointers...... But there were 14 free throws on 12 of the field!

With 18 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 6 blocks in 37 minutes of playing time, Li Ao's overall performance tonight is much better than the previous two games against the Spurs.

It's just this data, he feels like he's gone to JDZ for further study.

After playing the Spurs, the next morning, the Clippers arrived at Dallas, the last stop of the Texas three-game tour.

Seeing that the players were in good spirits, Gentry communicated with the players and came to the American Airlines Arena at 3 p.m. for two training sessions.

The first two opponents, one of them was very restrained by each other, and the other, he thought about it for a long time and didn't know the reason why Popovich targeted Li Ao, maybe he couldn't get used to being handsome?

Therefore, he did not do targeted tactical training in the first two games, but practiced regular offensive and defensive coordination on the morning of the game, allowing the players to adapt on the field.

The atmosphere of preparation is relaxed, and it is easy to win the game, and he can feel that after winning 4 consecutive victories, it is like seeing the sun from the clouds, and the players have been swept away by the haze caused by 3 consecutive defeats, and they have regained the self-confidence they had during the 10-game winning streak.

Tomorrow's game, Gentry's attitude to the players is to win!

This time period is suitable for putting pressure on the players and pushing the players.

Of course, it's good to win, but it doesn't matter if you lose.

The only thing he worries about is that a certain No. 0 player will go out and make bold remarks and irritate the opponent.

He felt that the pressure and motivation for the players right now was just right, and any more could be counterproductive.

To his surprise, when their little spider was asked about the winning streak in an interview in the evening, he was only praising Margety, who has been playing well in attack recently, O'Neal Jr., who has become more and more defensive strong, and Boigins, who has been excellent in random scoring, and did not say anything else.

Gentry was in tears, and their little spider finally knew how to make a wave of strong enemies!

…

On March 16, at 7:40 p.m., the Clippers entered the American Airlines Arena in Dallas.

Li Ao looked at the starting lineup opposite on the big screen and glanced at the player evaluation report.

The Silver Horn Kings with a 90-rated rating, Finley with an 89-rated rating, Nash with an 82-rated rating, and Juwan Howard with an 83-rated rating on the bench.

has been hammered by the Mavericks 3 times in a row, and he is a Gou Gou.

If it's 10 wins in a row, he might roar two times and win 4 in a row, so forget it.

After the players of the two teams entered the stadium, Li Ao came to the opposite bench.

He was famous, and on the way over, the opposite side had already collectively stood up to greet him, and one by one he was ready to greet him, and Finley and Juwan-Howard greeted Li Ao...... Li Ao moved flexibly to bypass the two of them.

(O_o) (o_O)？？？

The two turned their heads to look...... Oh...... By the way, their team just came to a rookie who grows flowers.

Wang Zhizhi was a little at a loss when he saw Li Ao coming over.

It's been a week since I came to the Mavericks, I don't know the place well, although I took an English training class before I came, but I can't understand it very well, and I have almost no communication with my teammates......

Unfamiliar environment, language barrier, and a sense of disparity, he has been lonely and helpless every day these days, and he has already produced signs of autism, and now suddenly a person who may know him walks towards him, as if to say hello, his first reaction is to hide.

However, when the other party walked in front of him and saw the other party's sunny and cheerful smile, the suppressed emotions in Wang Zhizhi's heart were alleviated a lot.

The first to come was the seniors, Li Ao took the initiative to stretch out his hand to say hello: "Hey, I'm Li Ao, they all call me Spider-Man, the NBA face in charge, I've heard of you for a long time, I'm so happy to finally see you." ”

After Wang Zhizhi's suppressed emotions eased a little, he was just thinking about how to say hello when he was choked.

This little senior, such a stinky fart and narcissism!

His American agent is also Jeff Schwartz, from Schwartz's mouth, he already knows that Li Ao is not as violent as rumored, he is very easy to get along with, but he is very annoying.

Not to mention, his fists are a little tight right now.

If Li Ao wasn't so handsome, Wang Zhizhi would still think that the other party was joking.

The key is that this little senior is really so handsome, it sounds really narcissistic.

However, the other party's words attracted the attention of the people around him, and Wang Zhizhi, who was originally watched by many people, felt more relaxed.

He said in English that was not fluent: "I am Wang Zhizhi, and I am very happy to meet you." ”

"We'll talk after the game, I'll go back and prepare first."

"Ou Yu."

After a brief hello, Li Ao went to the technical table to wipe magnesium powder and prepared to go on the court to practice shooting.

In February, Schwartz told him that Wang Zhizhi was coming soon, he paid attention to this matter, and asked Schwartz to tell Wang Zhizhi his contact information, but the domestic basketball boss did not contact him.

Later, after he got busy, he forgot about it, after all, whether Wang Zhizhi came to play in the NBA or not had little to do with him, and he was not a teammate.

But I saw you today, of course, I had to say hello.

However, seeing the cramped appearance of the other party standing alone, he estimated that the other party might not be good at socializing, so he deliberately used English when greeting, not wanting Wang Zhizhi to have an additional 'special, but also foreign language' evaluation from his teammates.

When he was in school before, he met other international students from the flower family, and they couldn't help but communicate in Mandarin, and they chatted happily, but the classmates in the same room stood aside boredly, and complained to him afterwards, "I don't understand what you say, I'm still next to me, you all know English, why don't you talk without words that I can understand?" It always feels like you're talking badly about me."

He remembered that when he was in high school in China before, he also encountered a similar situation, and the person who felt 'xenophobic' that time was himself, two classmates from other places met and spoke in dialects, and he stood aside, or Ala Haining, Wu Nong's soft language was difficult to understand.

People don't actually say anything, but the third person will inevitably have ideas, so he will pay more attention to this.

After the greeting was over, he didn't care about Wang Zhizhi for the time being, and focused on preparing for the game, without delaying the pre-game preparation time.

On Wang Zhizhi's side, Nash asked him in surprise: "So you can speak English!" ”

Wang Zhizhi opened his mouth once, and he dared to open it a second time, and he compared the gesture of peacock dance: "Gaster search." ”

Nash patted him on the back and said, "It's okay if you don't speak English well, be bold, enthusiastic people will be popular, you see your flower planter's Spider-Man, the whole world loves him." ”

Wang Zhizhi glanced at the young seniors who were shooting on the opposite side as picturesquely and riotous...... He tried his best.

…

At the end of the pre-match preparation time, the two teams started on the field.

The Mavericks fielded starting lineups of Nash, Michael Finley, Edondo Nahoola, Nowitzki, Bradley.

Nelson Sr. looked at the starting lineup of Big Q, Li Ao, Matt Harplin, Odom, and O'Neal Jr. on the opposite side, and even a bold head coach like him raised a question mark.

Who is the second point of possession in this lineup?

At 8 p.m., the game began.

O'Neal Jr. beat the big bamboo pole to win the jump ball, and the Clippers attacked first.

Odom received the ball at the free-throw line and made a quick few steps forward, with Ao and Big Q blocked by Nowitzki, the former blocked by Nowitzki and the latter by Edondo Nahoola.

Seeing this, Odom's pace slowed down a bit, but he still maintained a fast pace of advancement.

When Odom advanced to the three-point line, the other four Clippers immediately started running, and the Mavericks players followed the defenders, but the Clippers ran for 3 seconds and stood in position.

Li Ao stood on the left side of the three-second zone with Nowitzki, Matt Harprin took Finley to the bottom left corner, O'Neal Jr. was on the right side of the three-second zone, Bradley guarded under the basket, Big Q was outside the three-point line on the right sideline, and Edondona Hula followed.

Nash, who was at the top of the arc, looked at the big man in front of him and couldn't help but exclaim: "Omaiga!" ”

Seeing Odom dribbling under his crotch, Nash attacked, pressing and pressing...... Odom threw the racket to his crotch with his left hand, pulled his body to the right, Nash pounced, and Odom rushed!

Nash has a lot of experience in being passed by, and he turned to chase after him at the first time.

He saw the ball fly towards his head...... No, it flew over his head!

He followed the ball, turned his head and saw Li Ao receiving the ball, immediately stopped, and together with Nowitzki, who was struggling to chase the defense, he sandwiched Li Ao one step outside the free throw line.

But Li Ao received the ball and stopped for a second, and then passed ...... Big Q moved from the right sideline to the right side to receive the ball at a 45-degree angle, Edondo Nahura made up for Odom, and Big Q made a three-point shot from an open position...... Hit!

3-0, the Clippers took the lead.

Nelson Sr.: (**)

This ball, what a ...... Daring.

Forcibly play the style of playing with a breakthrough high position and a high line three-point hand.

From a certain point of view, this can be regarded as solving the problem of not having a second control point.

He looked at Gentry, who was his fan......

Offense and defense transition, Mavericks offense.

Nash advanced to the frontcourt, and the Clippers players had already kept up with their respective defenders, and he was surprised to see the big spider guarding the top arc with his arms outstretched!

He thought that it would be Da Q who would defend him, this rookie has a lot of defensive talent, and he has a lot of trouble, but it is not difficult to deal with.

But the ...... in front of you Nash, who averaged a double-double in points per game for the first time in his career, was not very confident, and he hesitated and passed the ball to Finley.

Big Q struggled to defend Finley, and the rest of the Clippers began to cut off the passing lane.

Finley singled the big Q and hit the shot in the emergency stop!

Li Ao took back to pick up the ball and serve, and praised "worthy of being the successor of the first Jordan", although at the peak of 27 years old, he was also at the edge of the All-Star level, but the singles mid-range shooting is really beautiful.

The movements are clean and neat, jumping high, hitting the point high, and leaning back to maintain stability.

The face frame singles are as hard as Jordan and Kobe.

Odom received the serve and advanced, and this time the Mavericks didn't mess up their defensive positions, Finley followed Li Ao, Nash followed the big Q, Nowitzki followed Matt Harprin, and Edondo Nahura was at the top of the arc.

Odom continued to break through singlely, relying on cross-step changes to get half a position, and pushed through the active Edondonahura to break inside!

Big Q ran halfway through the line, turned around and retreated to the right sideline, Nash didn't turn to chase, but went up towards Odom, stood still, protected his crotch, and closed his eyes...... The impact didn't come.

Li Ao went around to the free throw line and received the ball smoothly, Edondo Nahura made up for the big Q when Nash made up for Odom, cut off the passing and receiving line, and Finley also followed Li Ao tightly.

Not to mention that Nash's switch of defense Odom made an offensive foul and chose right or no, the Mavericks' wave of rapid rotation defense kept up!

Just when Finley was concentrating and preparing to seize the opportunity to make a steal, Li Ao once again quickly hit the ball...... Mistake!

The ball is passed out of the line!

Little O'Neill let out a frustrated sigh and slapped his forehead with a fist towards Li Ao, indicating that the ball was his.

Bradley was shocked into a cold sweat!

Just now, Odom broke through and was blocked by Nash, and to Li Ao's pass out of bounds, it was actually a matter of 3 seconds.

Nash's move to replace Odom was a surprise for the Mavericks' defense, and Bradley stepped out of the reasonable dash zone.

Bradley is tall and long-legged, and he can go back to cover O'Neal Jr. in one step, but Li Ao's second pass is too fast, and he doesn't even react, let alone turn around to cover O'Neal Jr.'s shooting space.

That is, this ball came too suddenly, and even O'Neill Jr. didn't expect Li Ao to be so bold.

But it was a perfect match for the manager who said, "We have to be bold in this game to have a chance to win".

The elder Nelson looked at the head coach across from him who had repeatedly said he was a fan, and his heart was a little tickled.

But no, this is not the era of his best coach three times in 10 years.

Times have long since changed, long gone are the days when a team averaged 120 points per game, and it was a rare time for a team to average 100 points per game.

When it came to the Mavericks' offense, Finley continued to get singles opportunities, hitting mid-range singles for the second round in a row.

4-3, the Mavericks outscored the Clippers by 1 point.

The performance of the two teams at the beginning of the game is obviously that the Mavericks are more stable.

The Clippers don't have a second point of possession, and after Odom gets the ball, the Clippers receiver has to make a quick decision, throw or pass.

Li Ao, the main contact point, decided to be decisive and avoided being tackled by Finley, but the error rate was quite high.

And the Mavericks relied on Finley's singles to score steadily.

It's just that, after fighting, old Nelson found a problem.

The other side doesn't seem to want to rely on this strange lineup to hit them on the offensive end!

Although Li Ao has a higher pass error rate, and some teammates can't react, as long as he receives the ball, it is basically a good shooting opportunity.

Since Nelson Sr. knew that Gentry admired him, seeing this, he had a preconceived idea that Gentry was learning from him to play offense with an unexpected lineup of his opponent.

But after watching a few more rounds, he realized that he had been fooled!

The opponent's lineup is purely for defense!

Finley singled with a good head, shooting 3 of 5 in the opening game, but after 5 rounds of defense in the big Q, he began to stick to the defense, and the anti-throw did not prevent the breakthrough.

After Finley burst into the inside line, he grabbed the ball and divided the ball, but he didn't get out, Li Ao waved his arm to collect it from the free throw line, Finley slapped the ball again in a panic, and made a mistake in the second dribble!

Today's update is a little late.,I went to karaoke and sang with friends in the afternoon.,There's still a chapter in the early hours of the morning.,Strive to update around 12 o'clock.。

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