With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

Chapter 50
After the timeout ended, the players of the two teams returned to the field, and the atmosphere on the scene began to freeze.

The last more than 20 seconds will directly determine the final winner of this battle between dragons and tigers.

The Suns served the ball in midfield. After receiving the pass from his teammates, Nash did not rush to organize an offense. Instead, he stood at the top arc of the three-point line and quietly waited for all his teammates to take their positions.

He wants to compress the game time to the limit and try to leave less time for the Mavericks to counterattack.

The 24-second shot clock passed quickly, and at the same time, the Suns players on the field also began to act with time.

For the Suns at this time, all five players on the field can shoot three-pointers, so they all stand outside.

With this movement, the entire stadium appeared to be in chaos, with running players everywhere, making it overwhelming.

But there are still many people who find the most eye-catching and brightest figure in the chaotic crowd-Wang Chao, who has a yellow complexion that is completely different from other players on the field!

Wang Chao was also running, and behind him was Josh Howard, who was chasing after him.

Dior, who passed by Wang Chao, suddenly crossed his body to block Howard. The latter reacted quickly, and immediately dodged to avoid the pick-and-roll cover and was about to chase after him, but another Suns player, Bell, appeared in front of him.

Double pick and roll screen!

This scene made the hearts of all Mavericks members hang.

The head coach of the Mavericks, Avery Johnson, stood on the sidelines and nearly jumped up, shouting at the court: "Fix the defense!"

Terry, who was in charge of defending Bell, immediately chased after Wang Chao. Terry's reaction speed was very fast and very flexible. When Wang Chao ran beyond the three-point line and received a pass from Nash, Terry had already They rushed in front of Wang Chao, but when they stood in front of Wang Chao, everyone realized that this is Terry, Jason Terry!

There is no doubt that Terry's scoring ability is strong. At the peak of his career, he averaged 19.7 points and 4.9 assists per game, an absolute strongman.

But his defensive ability... It's not that Terry's defense is bad, it's just that Terry is 1 meters tall and mainly plays the shooting guard position. Terry basically faces players who are much taller than him. It is difficult to do What an efficient defense.

At this time, he was facing Wang Chao, who was 2 meters tall.

At this moment, Wang Chao didn't even have the thought of looking at Terry, he just ignored his existence, took off on the spot and aimed at the basket, and then threw the basketball in his hand towards the basket.

Terry, who is 1 meters tall, tried his best to jump up and raise his hand to interfere with Wang Chao, but his outstretched arm could barely reach the position of Wang Chao's nose, which was not an effective defense at all.

"It's done!"

This scene made D'Antoni on the sidelines happy.

Just like what he thought, although the Mavericks attaches great importance to Wang Chao's three-pointer threat, but at the same time they dare not let go of any player on the Suns field. The pick-and-roll players go to defend Wang Chao.

That's why he arranged for Bell to perform the second pick-and-roll for Wang Chao, with the purpose of going to Terry.

Terry didn't have any impact on Wang Chao's shot, and the basketball hit steadily without any suspense.

118:117!The Suns managed to overtake by one point!There are 4 seconds left before the end of the game.

The Mavericks immediately called their final timeout for the final play.

Although it only takes 4 seconds, the operability is still great. As long as you can hit a mid-range shot steadily, you can kill the game.

As for the Suns, after the timeout, the first thing D'Antoni did was to replace Nash and Wang Chao off the court.

The Suns are not a team that is good at defense. In this last and most critical first defense, it is natural not to allow too many defensive black holes to stay on the court.

Nash and Wang Chao are the two biggest defensive black holes in the Suns lineup. It is very dangerous to keep them on the court.

Therefore, D'Antoni decisively replaced both of them, replacing Barbosa and Tim Thomas.

In this way, Wang Chao and Nash sat off the court and watched the last 4 seconds.

After strengthening the defense, the Suns did a very good defense at least at this moment. The Mavericks almost failed to send the ball under the siege, and finally barely sent the ball to Harris, who was [-] feet away from the basket. A forced shot from the distance, the basketball missed the basket, and the whistle sounded at the end of the game.

After a thrilling game, the Suns finally defeated the Mavericks 118:117, winning the most critical Tianwangshan battle, turning the total score into 3:2, and getting the match point ahead of the Mavericks.

Nowitzki didn't even have a chance to receive the ball in the last attack, and the 4-second attack time was not enough for Harris to find the driver's position to pass the ball after receiving the ball.

The poor driver scored 52 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists, but still failed to help the team win the game.

For the Suns, Wang Chao was undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the victory of the game. He made 20 of 11 three-pointers and scored 33 points, second only to Nowitzki in scoring. The shooting percentage even matched Nowitzki's overall shooting percentage.

In this campaign, Wang Chao set a record for the number of three-pointers made by himself in a single game in the playoffs, and raised the record from 10 goals to 11 goals.

And standing up in this most critical tough battle is often the easiest way to increase your popularity.

This can be seen from the data performance of other Suns players.

除了王超的33分外，太阳队得分最高的是马里昂的24分10篮板，再下来是纳什的20分6篮板11助攻，随后是迪奥的16分9篮板……

Wang Chao, who seemed to be the weakest in the starting lineup, became the thickest thigh of the Suns at critical moments.

After the game, the head coach of the Mavericks, Avery Johnson, made it clear that they failed to limit Wang Chao's three-pointers well, which was the main reason why the team fell short and lost the game.

"Wang Chao's three-pointer has incredible magic power and is extremely lethal. We knew this, but we failed to limit his shots on the defensive end. If we are still like this in the next game, I am afraid that the finals Tickets are really going to leave us."

Mavericks forward Josh Howard, who was in charge of man-marking Wang Chao, was also speechless in an interview.

"That guy is like a tireless running machine. In my memory, he seems to have never stopped. I can keep up with him in the first half of the game, but in the second half, after a certain amount of physical consumption After that, I will be a bit powerless to keep up with his pace." However, Howard still made a promise. "In the next game, I will make a good plan for the distribution of physical fitness, try to follow Wang Chao to the maximum extent, and not give him such a chance to shoot a large number of three-pointers."

(End of this chapter)