Chapter 682: Spear and Shield
This one is misplaced! Seeing that he was going to fight this kind of big man, Jay Clauger also came to the spirit, Jay Crowje is small, but bold, it can be said that the bigger the man, the more he wants to challenge it, and now that he has met John Henson, he is energetic again.
Jay Crane rushed into John Henson's arms with one acceleration, John Henson was okay with the defense, and now he met Jay Crane and immediately didn't know how to step at his feet.
The difference in rhythm between the two was too great, John Henson mixed garlic at his feet, Jay Crauger drilled through John Henson's thigh at once, flew straight to the basket and came, Paul Millsap came to help defend, Jay Crauger in the air changed hands to dodge, and then a beautiful pick-and-roll scored the first point for the Mavericks.
The Mavericks finally got their points! Carlisle, who was on the sidelines, breathed a sigh of relief, and Jay Crowje, who scored the first point, was suddenly excited.
This little man got such a point, as if he had killed the Pelicans, and he was beating his chest and roaring on the sidelines.
Jay Clauger's passion also infected the American Airlines Center at once, and many fans cheered and shouted on the sidelines. At this time, Joanbari said on the side:
"I just like players like that. Being a player without passion is simply unthinkable. And this little man's passion is far beyond ordinary people, and it's easy to get excited to watch him play. ”
"Yes! This guy is a good backup defender and I like guys with a lot of personality. ”
Bill Wharton also praised Jay Krauje.
Jaykrauj is very good in the eyes of fans and ball critics, Jaykrauj himself is also a very character player, but it is said that Jaykrauje's personality is not very easy to get along with, which makes him not too popular among his teammates, so it also makes Jaykrauje's career very drifting after that.
The Mavericks finally scored points, the Pelicans turned around, and Li Feng took the ball in the backcourt and immediately yelled twice with the whole team.
'We still have a nine-point advantage and we have the attack. Steady the attack! ”
Li Feng yelled twice, he took the ball to the Mavericks' half, turned around and knocked down Scarter twice.
Carter is now completely old, and was leaned near the penalty area by Li Feng twice, although the Mavericks did not wrap Li Feng at this time, but their attention was on Li Feng.
At such an instant, Li Feng sent the basketball to Arenas, who cut in from behind, and Arenas took the ball and threw it through Marion and easily scored two more points.
Although the Mavericks themselves scored, they still couldn't defend. Can't stop the Pelicans from continuing to score.
The Mavericks' current lineup is not without defensive potential, and now the Mavericks are not good at defense or not in mentality and defensive tactics, which is similar to the Suns in the last game.
The Mavericks turned around, and Vince Carter also used the cover to shoot one from mid-range.
The Mavericks' offense began to basically enter a relatively normal situation, and the Pelicans' offense did not stop at this time.
And today's Pelicans entered a very team situation, Li Feng shot a basket in the first quarter and scored 2 points, and the rest of the time was organized, in this case, the other players of the team also had sufficient firepower, scoring points again and again. There is no intention of surpassing the calf at all!
When the first quarter ends. The Pelicans still led the Mavericks by 10 points at 32-22.
The Pelicans led by 10 points in the first quarter when Jay Crowger and Vince Carter went off in the third minute of the second quarter.
The Mavericks' offense is running into problems again. The Pelicans seized the opportunity at the line, and Paul Millsap hit three three-pointers in a row to extend the gap to 20 points.
In the first half, the Pelicans led the Mavericks by 20 points, and Li Feng still scored 2 points in the first half.
This situation gives the feeling. It's as if the Pelicans and Mavericks are teams at two levels.
The Pelicans' absolute core doesn't even need to play much to lead you by 20 points. The Mavericks suffered this humiliation on their home court, and it was also dejected to walk into the locker room at halftime.
Van Gundy once led the Rockets to a back-to-back playoff finish by the Mavericks, and today slaughtered the opponent in the first half. On the one hand, he was proud in his heart that the defensive effect he had arranged was good, and on the other hand, he was also secretly vigilant, and he couldn't be satisfied or careless because of this.
Van Gundy has seen too many comebacks and 20 points is nothing for 24 minutes in the second half.
Van Gundy is an old Jianghu and a boiled old ginger, but the Pelicans' group of players are all young men who are arrogant in their age, and they slaughtered the Mavericks by 20 points in the first half, so they naturally look down on the Mavericks in their hearts. felt that the Mavericks were a team below them, and everyone laughed and laughed when they returned to the locker room.
Li Feng played lightly and comfortably in the first half today, and he didn't sweat, and basically his teammates solved the problem.
Li Feng likes this kind of competition, when he encounters a first-class opponent, his teammates can solve the problem, isn't Li Feng a lot easier? So Li Feng was also very happy at this time. Sitting in the locker room and joking with his teammates.
At this time, Van Gundy came in, and Van Gundy had been through the storm and now he was happy in his heart, but he was silent. After coming in, he knocked on the tactical board twice and said:
"Lads! In the first half, your table was good. ”
"I congratulate you on that! But one more thing you have to remember is that we can win each other so much. It's on defense! So even if we win by 20 points in the second half, we still can't relax in the slightest, and my request is for you to have a 30-point lead over them in the third quarter. We must beat the other party to death in one breath, and we can't turn over when we fight, so that we can relax, otherwise we can't relax no matter what. In the third verse, we beat them to death! ”
When Van Gundy viciously said that he was going to kill the Mavericks, Carlisle was angry and yelling at his players in the Mavericks' locker room.
Carlisle was not a hair dryer originally, he was a head coach who could deal with the players very well, but today's game Mavericks played too badly, so Carlisle didn't scold, Carlisle scolded here, but there were still people in the locker room who were dismissive of Carlisle, which weakened the effect of Carlisle's scolding.
The calf's side is still immortal, according to common sense. At the beginning of the second half, the Mavericks should have been killed by the Pelicans, who lost their armor.
But at the beginning of the second half, the script did not develop in this direction, and the Pelicans, who wanted to kill, ran into trouble as soon as the second half began.
In the first half, they shot smoothly from the outside, and their shooting percentage plummeted, and by the beginning of the second half, the Pelicans missed three shots.
The so-called closing the door and beating the dog, the Pelicans lost their own offense on their own side, and finally gave the Mavericks a chance to breathe.
Samuel Delham Porter, who had been silent for a long time, saw an opportunity and hit two mid-range shots in a row to bring the two teams closer.
Seeing that the score is being brought closer. The Pelicans, on their side, also stepped up their offensive and defensive efforts, but the luck is gone.
Looking back, Li Feng made a jumper at the free throw line, but missed. Li Feng had a cold half in the first half, and now he wants to score points, and he suddenly has no feeling.
Li Feng missed a shot, and the Mavericks immediately rebounded, and Marion on the inside quickly passed the ball to Monta Ellis, who took the ball and ran up. wanted to use a feint in front of Li Feng to pass Li Feng.
Li Feng went up and accurately clicked the ball of Monta Ellis, but Monta Ellis was so lucky, Li Feng touched the basketball in time and still pointed the basketball to a position in favor of Monta Ellis.
Monta Ellis went up and grabbed the basketball. Facing Li Feng, a super long-distance low-handed layup.
Li Feng harassed him in the past, but he didn't play a defensive role, and the basketball wiped the rebound and fell into the basket.
After the Mavericks had been silent for so long, Montaelis finally gave the team a wonderful goal.
At this time, the Mavericks' morale finally eased up a bit. Van Gundy noticed the situation on the pitch from the sidelines. He immediately spotted that the calf was about to pick up again, so he immediately called a timeout.
Coming back to the sidelines, he began to seriously set up a more stable rhythm for the team, and Van Gundy hoped to stabilize the rhythm of the half-court attack through Guò. Let the game re-enter the Pelicans' control.
After the timeout, Li Feng teed off the sideline and threw it to John Henson, who picked up the ball at the free throw line, and John Henson took the ball.
Paul Millsap was in a horizontal position and went to the basket to get into position, but John Henson didn't take the opportunity to pass the ball and could only pass the basketball horizontally to Arenas, who was pulled out on the other side.
Arenas took the ball again, Paul Millsap repeatedly asked for positions, and finally stuck the position, Arenas passed the ball to Paul Millsap's hands.
Paul Millsap took the ball and played Samuel Delham Porter cleanly, dribbled and then immediately rolled over and threw a right hand to send the basketball to the basket with ease.
Van Gundy redesigned his half-court tactics and came back to stabilize the situation, and Paul Millsap scored two more points in the low post.
The Mavericks immediately hit back, the Mavericks played small balls, the tactics were loose, and there was no good chance to push over.
Devin Harris came up and Samuel Daimler, Porter blocked high and caught the Pelicans' attention, and immediately passed the ball to Monta Ellis on the side.
Montaelis had just hit Li Feng with a ball, and now he was already playing with confidence and taking the ball to face Arenas.
Montaelis bumped his opponent with the shoulder, then spying on the step, stretching the distance, and then getting up and throwing a mid-range.
Montaelis took a shot against Arenas' defense, and the ball went in!
Seeing that Montaellis's state was coming up, Van Gundy, who was on the sidelines, hurriedly shouted at Arenas:
"Look at him, watch him, you must defend desperately."
Van Gundy began to give orders to Arenas, and then Montaelis was not so easy to defend.
Montaelis is a very physical and well-rounded player, and Arenas also struggles to defend Montaelis.
Seeing that the Mavericks' offense was improving again, the Pelicans, who were in the lead at this time, came over and began to seek stability and began to play the team's interior advantage.
This time, Rose took control of the ball and immediately passed the ball to Li Feng on the side, Li Feng took the ball and watched Arenas and Rose run up as a cross-cover without the ball, and he passed the ball to Arenas.
Then he went down quickly, and at the same time, Arenas broke through and came in and passed the ball to Li Feng, who received the ball near the baseline.
When Li Feng got the ball, it was not far from the penalty area, and the Maverick's defense was not very tight, so Li Feng took the ball and dribbled with his back to take a step, turned over and jumped into the Maverick's penalty area, and threw a throw directly.
This trick was originally a trick of Li Feng. But as soon as he shot today, Li Feng felt bad.
The basketball rubbed against one side of the basket and fell straight down.
Li Feng missed the basket? That's enough to annoy the Pelicans.
Marion's backcourt rebound was firmly protected, and he immediately made a short pass to Devin Harris, who quickly advanced to the Pelicans' halfcourt and looked back to see Samuel Delham Porter cut up at 45 degrees and was open again.
He immediately passed the ball to Samuel Delham Potter, who saw Paul Millsap one step away from him to defend himself, and he immediately got up and threw a long-range shot.
This long-range shot missed, but the spot that flew out fell into the hands of the little AI Iguodala. Raising his hand with the ball, Li Feng was in front of him, so he directly sent the basketball to Monta Ellis, who came up in the bottom corner.
Monta Ellis is half a step from the three-point line. Pick up the ball and throw a three-pointer straight away.
Monta Ellis' three-pointer got into the Pelicans' basket like a bomb, and Monta Ellis scored seven straight points.
Suddenly narrowed the difference between the two teams to 11 points, at this time Van Gundy was really anxious, and the Pelicans' players were also a little hairy, and the Pelicans were going to lose if they continued to play like this! The advantage of 20 points is lost by 10 points in a blink of an eye, and this speed should not be too fast.
Li Feng is also anxious on the sidelines, the team must suppress the Mavericks now, and if they don't suppress it, I'm afraid they won't be able to.
Li Feng also realized that this was a turning point in the game. He ran over with the team, and when he was about to attack with the ball, he suddenly saw the Mavericks make a double defense and come towards him.
Li Feng led the two-man defense towards the top of the arc, and looked inside to see that John Henson was unguarded in the middle of the basket. This is not a good time for an aerial relay, Li Feng immediately threw the basketball in his hand towards John Henson, intending to let John Henson relay in the air.
John Henson also soared into the air and looked at a beautiful one. The morale-saving air relay came, but at the critical moment, John Henson actually dunked on the hoop. He dunked the basketball away.
Suddenly, even if this was the Mavericks' home court, there was a sigh, and to make matters worse, the Pelicans wasted the opportunity, and the god of fate immediately changed hands and gave the opportunity to the Mavericks, and the basketball that the Mavericks flew out was picked up by Vince Carter.
Vince Carter was fast, swayed left and right with the ball, and quickly chased to the Pelicans' halfcourt, Li Feng was about to go over to help defend, but saw Vince Carter facing the three people who the Pelicans chased back inside, he jumped up all of a sudden, and flew in the air, Vince Carter was sideways in the air, and he deliberately fell to the ground.
In this posture, the fairy couldn't block his Vince Carter, only to see Vince Carter at a short distance from the ground, hooked his right hand, and actually hooked the basketball into the Pelicans' basket at once.
UFO Vince Carter fell to the ground and scored two points, reducing the gap between the two teams to nine points.
The point difference became a single digit, which put a lot of pressure on the Pelicans, and Van Gundy immediately jumped out and yelled at the team to stabilize and score points no matter what.
At this critical moment, the Pelicans also immediately handed over the basketball to Li Feng to deal with, Li Feng took the ball and saw that the Mavericks were about to come to cover him at any time, and he called for cover 2 steps away from the three-point line.
John Henson ran out quickly, covering Li Feng outside the three-point line, Li Feng took advantage of John Henson's cover, and rushed to the Mavericks' free throw line in two steps, when the Mavericks' inside line was about to save, Li Feng stepped back sideways and dribbled a step, and got up to make a mid-range shot, this time Li Feng finally hit it.
Stretching the gap back to 11 points, the Pelicans and Mavericks battled it out.
Everyone knows that once this balance is broken, anything can happen, and at this moment the Pelicans' defensive intensity is also rising.
The Pelicans also began to desperately defend their victory, and in the face of the Pelicans' strong defense, the Mavericks finally missed another round.
The Pelicans defended the Mavericks and improved on the defensive end, and when they turned around, Li Feng took the ball and rushed to the basket to make a foul, and Li Feng walked to the free throw line.
After Monta Ellis briefly launched a wave of offense, the Pelicans immediately led the team to counterattack with Li Feng, and it seemed that the situation had been stabilized.
At this time, Carlisle was naturally unwilling, he knew that once this wave was suppressed, the Mavericks would be finished, so at this time, Carlisle was desperate and replaced Marion with guard Jay Crowje.
The Mavericks' lineup suddenly became a big and four small, Jay Clauger, Monta Ellis, Vince Carter, Andre Iguodala, Dirk Nowitzki.
Rick Carlisle brought in the strongest attacking lineup.
When Li Feng hit the free throw, Bill Walton, who was on the commentary bench, immediately smiled when he saw Carlisle's lineup.
"The Mavericks look like they're going to fight hard! Replace all the players who can score, basically don't want defense, and don't want rebounds. The next two minutes will decide the direction of the game. ”
Joan Barry also looked at it on the side and said:
"This kind of lineup is probably Carlisle's ideal! I think Carlisle is definitely better suited to coach a squad like that, but if they play offensively, it's okay not to defend. (To be continued......)