The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 186

The Mavericks' change really caught the Thunder by surprise.

But then it was still the Mavericks who suffered. After all, you held Li Pu down, but Durant floated up.

Fortunately, it will be the rotation stage soon. With Li Pu and Durant off the field, the Mavericks can finally take a breather.

Neither Lin Shuhao nor Harden performed very well tonight. Facing the two veterans, Terry and Carter, they failed to show their true strength.

It's a pity that the Mavericks didn't seize this opportunity. After a few minutes, the two sides scored very little, and neither of them scored much, let alone close the point difference.

Unknowingly, the championship stage passed like this, and the two sides returned to the starting lineup one after another. The Mavericks missed this best chasing period and faced the crisis of being opened up again.

At this moment, someone from the Mavericks stepped forward again.

Due to the excellent performance of Vince Carter on the bench, Carlisle left him on the court to defend Durant.

Who would have thought that the 35-year-old "half-human, half-god" still has fuel in the fuel tank.

When defending Durant, he kept giving Durant physical contact, and used his 218cm wingspan to interfere with Durant when he shot.

For two rounds in a row, Carter actually let Durant hit two irons in a row.

It's a pity that the Mavericks also performed poorly on the offensive end in this quarter, and obviously failed to grasp several open opportunities.

As a result, the Mavericks not only failed to narrow the point difference in this quarter, but were also widened to 9 points by the Thunder.

At 50:41 at halftime, the Mavericks' offense was far below the team's usual level.

However, the good thing is that they did not allow the Thunder to widen the point difference, and the point difference has always been within the traceable range, keeping the game in suspense.

Of course, this is already very bad for the Mavericks.

You know, the big score is already 2:0 at this time, if the game is lost again, and the Mavericks can basically be sentenced to death if they fall behind by 0:3.

However, in such a game that cannot be lost, the Mavericks were completely unable to take the initiative and could only struggle to support it.

The fans at the scene have seen this for a long time. The reason why they are not completely disappointed is that there is Nowitzki in the team. create a miracle.

However, this miracle seems to be more difficult than last year!

So many opportunities have appeared, and the Mavericks can't grasp it once, so they will definitely punish them in the end.

Shortly after the start of the second half, the point difference has been hovering around 10 points, and it seems that there is a momentum to break through double digits at any time.

In this case, Nowitzki, who performed poorly in the first half, took the initiative to stand up and ask for the ball. Obviously, at this time, when no one else could stand up and score, Nowitzki took the initiative to take responsibility.

This is what he should do as the boss of the team!

Nowitzki takes the ball at the top of the left paint area, with his back against Li Pu.

As the Mavericks continued to use a small lineup, Li Pu faced Nowitzki on the defensive end, and Marion was handed over to Ibaka for defense.

Nowitzki, who took the ball with his back, began to dribble back to Li Pu. However, the two backs did not help Nowitzki reach a deeper position.

Now Li Pu's confrontation is not the same as last year, and even Nowitzki can't please them in front of them.

Nowitzki knew this would be the result. After all, in the first two games, Lip defended him a lot.

But for Nowitzki, position is just icing on the cake. His back play doesn't need position at all, and the attacking area is all over the half court. He wants to create space for his golden rooster to shoot independently!
Sure enough, after dribbling twice, Nowitzki finally turned around and collected the ball.

Nowitzki knew this, the fans knew it, and of course Li Pu knew it too!
He was waiting for Nowitzki's moment!
At the same moment when Nowitzki turned around, Li Pu did not directly stick to Nowitzki, but moved one more step in the direction of Nowitzki's turn, and then quickly leaned up from the side.

Nowitzki's golden rooster independence, in addition to his soft touch and tall figure, is also related to his stretching feet when shooting!

When Nowitzki erected one of his legs and stood between himself and the defender, it undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the defender.

Therefore, if you want to defend the Golden Rooster independence, you need to bypass Nowitzki's foot.

So, when Nowitzki turned around to shoot, his high outstretched foot missed, because Li Pu approached Nowitzki from the side, not the front.

Of course, doing so is quite risky, because it means that Li Pu has completely given the other side to Nowitzki. Out of place.

Fortunately, Li Pu made the right bet!

Nowitzki made a fallback jumper, and then saw Li Pu standing in front of him.

Rao Nowitzki's own shooting arc is very high, and now he has added a few more points.

But even so, the basketball still touched Li Pu's middle finger!

Fortunately, this finger is often rubbed against, and the fingertip has already had thick calluses, so it is not afraid of the friction of the basketball at all!

When Li Pu landed, he turned his head and shouted at the basket: "Rebound!"

"Duang!"

Sure enough, the basketball bounced out of the frame and didn't go in!
Li Pu actually defended Nowitzki's golden rooster independence one-on-one in the front.

That offensive method that was considered unsolvable by the entire league was now cracked by Li Pu!
The height of the Mavericks is that it is difficult to protect even the backcourt rebounds, let alone the frontcourt rebounds?
Especially when Nowitzki came to the perimeter, no one was even taller than Durant at the basket!
In this way, Ibaka was stuck at the basket, Durant accepted the rebound, and then launched a counterattack.

Carter, who defended Durant well in the first half, faced Durant for the first time, but Durant made a huge change of direction and successfully got rid of it.

People often only care about Durant's shooting, but forget that this guy's physical fitness is also very good, obviously so tall?But so flexible, can move down quickly, dribble and change direction like a guard.

After passing Carter, Durant dribbled a step, one step inside the free throw line, and jumped directly to dunk!
Now, the difference between the two teams finally exceeded 10 points.

And with this goal scored, the situation of the entire game has become disastrous for the Mavericks.

Afterwards, the Mavericks attacked many times to no avail, but they were all turned into counterattacks by the Thunder, and the point difference quickly accumulated.

Soon, before the end of the third quarter, the point difference had reached 20.

Rao is that the Mavericks tried their best in this game, but it is still difficult to prevent the fourth quarter from becoming garbage time.

Thunder is really strong and terrifying!
In the end, the score was fixed at 105:79, and the Thunder beat the Mavericks away. The big score in this round of the series was: 3:0.

(End of this chapter)