Healing Basketball

   Chapter 608 608. A little handsome general

  Josh Howard feels like the opposite superstar duo is playing him! He ran to the front court angrily, and when he saw the defender, his eyes lit up! Came to the right side of the three-second zone and took the initiative to lean on Liu Xiu and asked for the ball towards Terry!

   It's not easy to fight the warden with a double ugly, right? Big Ugly, does this have any special tricks... Terry passed the ball even though he was confused.

  Josh Howard is full of confidence. He has made great progress in the golden period of his career this season. He has averaged 16 points per game so far this season. Some experts say that he can change to a team that can be the main scorer. He can average 20 points per game.

When    and Cuban were talking about renewing the contract in advance, he boldly proposed a contract with an annual average of 10 million yuan that Nash did not want. Cuban did not refuse but just said that he needs to think about it...

   But after receiving the ball, he suddenly didn't know how to play!

   Don't want to do so much, just do it! Josh Howard was heartbroken. Like Thunder Allen just now, he tried to force out space through confrontation, and then took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's retreat and lateral shift to change direction and dash forward.

   But he squeezed Liu Xiu to fight, but he couldn't move! Instead, under the guidance of Liu Xiu, he burst to the right sideline of the three-second zone and was double-teamed by McDyess!

  The high pass line was cut by McDyess.

   Seeing that he was about to make a mistake, Josh Howard quickly lifted the ball and threw it to the basket..."Bang"...Iron, Randolph protected the defensive rebound.

Josh Howard, who was full of confidence, was beaten back to his original shape, and he remembered that Liu Xiu's perimeter with a lot of tonnage, strong confrontation, quick footwork, and active defense was the least he was good at dealing with. In the past two years, he encountered Liu Xiudu didn't play well.

   It’s just that he has made great progress this year, which gave him some illusions, and the last time they played against each other was too inexperienced. The whole team was afraid of Liu Xiubiao’s score that time, and it was a bad game.

Offensive and defensive transition, Liu Xiu advanced to the front court and gave the ball to Ray Allen. Ray Allen immediately started after receiving the ball. A beautiful horizontal pull changed direction and accelerated past Adrian Griffin to the left of the three-second zone. Made a pull-up jumper one step away from the side free throw line!

   Liu Xiu's eyes lit up, this was the control of the emergency stop distance and rhythm he wanted.

When the Mavericks attacked, Nowitzki turned back and ran for a few rounds, and finally started to catch the ball. The extrajudicial fanatics guarded carefully. Nowitzki cast a mid-range face-to-frame step-back jumper. The madman's leg jumped up like a spring was installed, covering his hand on the line where Nowitzki shot, forcing Nowitzki to lean back when he shot... The force was a little less, the ball hit the front of the basket, iron !

  Josh Howard and Adrian Griffin actively rushed to no avail, Randolph and McDyess got stuck, and Liu Xiu grabbed the defensive rebound.

   Using the players on the two front and back line to rush for rebounds, Liu Xiu saw the two towers on the opposite side that had already withdrawn from the center line, and expressed appreciation for the opposing coach's coaching philosophy of focusing on defense.

   But ideas are ideas, and games are two different things.

   After playing a few rounds, Liu Xiu made sure that even if the Mavericks are no longer startled, they will not be as impulsive in defense as they were in the last match. Their defense has declined for various reasons and has not changed.

Liu Xiu played more decisively. After taking the cover of McDyess, he broke into the inside line. Adrian Griffin and Terry both shrank to close range. Liu Xiu scored the ball from Ray Allen, and Ray Allen made a three-pointer... It's a pity Did not enter.

   But even if he didn't get in, the little general was so frightened that he stood up.

   Their defense tonight was even worse than usual!

Using Terry to defend Liu Xiu is a disaster. Adrian Griffin can't defend against Thunder and Allen's breakthroughs. Only Josh Howard can be used to defend Liu Xiu's top arc shots and one-on-one breakthroughs. It was restricted, but Ratliff's state avalanche, and Liu Xiu's pick-and-roll progress was so huge... Just as the general was afraid of, in the next three rounds, under Liu Xiu's pick-and-roll onslaught, the Blazers scored three goals in a row!

Ray Allen didn't mess up because of one shot, and his shot was still stable. He scored the second catch and shot; Randolph scored a catch and turned hook. Although Liu Xiu didn't get an assist, Randolph did It was easy to rely on Liu Xiu to pull Dampier out and pass the ball firmly into his hands; another ball was returned to McDyess for a high mid-range shot.

   After the opening 6-2, the Trail Blazers played another wave of 7-3 and stopped the Mavericks 13-5 at the start!

  …

   entered the timeout stage and played for 4 minutes at the start. The opponent scored 13 points on 6 of 7 shots. The general saw the frustrated expressions of the players when they walked back to the bench, and at the same time felt the mocking eyes of the clown again.

   In normal times, the general would be angry, but tonight, he is only unwilling.

  Like the team members, the last time they played against each other, because Kobe just scored 75 points, when he met Liu Xiu, the general was also astonished.

   But this time was different, this time he started with rage, eager to take the opportunity to slam the Blazers.

   is this opponent!

  He, who just became the head coach last season, is in the rising stage, but in the playoffs of last season, the opponent in front of him gave him a midsection, and his coaching career was almost ruined by this opponent!

In fact, he did not give up this season, but he has been working hard, just like Liu Xiu clearly felt that the Mavericks' offensive and defensive strategy this season is based on defense. At the beginning, Dampier defended the pick-and-roll and directly pressed it to confrontation, which is to follow the small general. The strategy of playing defense at the beginning, the tactics have always been like this, but they are not well played.

   In addition to objective reasons, there are also personal problems of the general.

For example, in the adjustment of the lineup, he hopes that the Mavericks this season can have a more powerful bench lineup like the Blazers, so he did not start the obviously better Dampier in the starting stage, but continued to let Ratliff play the bench. seat.

   Last season, he promised to start Daniels in the new season, but in order to ensure the firepower of the bench, he did not mention Daniels as a starting position, which made Daniels feel betrayed.

  Daniels, he has everything written on his face, and he doesn't work hard. Anyway, after his rookie year, he got a full middle-class salary of $34 million for 6 years, and he often made speeches to ridicule the little general.

   The little general has only retired for two years. He is only in his 40s, and his life is not going well, so he got into trouble with Daniels without explaining it.

   It wasn’t until he met the Blazers again a few days ago and lost another game, and the general was called by Cuban to talk for an afternoon, and he didn’t really realize the seriousness of the matter.

   He doesn't want to give up, he has his dream of coaching, he has his ambition, he has been working hard...

   At this moment, he made up his mind and took the initiative to come to Daniels.

  Daniels looked at the little dwarf in front of him, his face even more mocking, as if eager to fight.

   "Marquis, I'm sorry, I broke my promise and didn't let you start."

   The general's voice was not small, and the team members all focused on him and Daniels when they heard the words.

  Daniels looked like he had changed his face, his expression was a stunned one.

For the sake of face, the little general first threw it away, ignoring the strange eyes of others and continued: "I actually intend to strengthen the strength of the bench lineup, I think you are the most perfect candidate, your ability is no worse than the starting guard of any team, I think our loss in the playoffs last season was related to the weakness of the backup guard, and no one is a match for the Momo.

Jerry is already having a hard time dealing with Raheem up front, can't bring more help to the back line... but I feel like now, I shouldn't think about it that much, we have more problems to solve, strengthening the bench. It's not the most important thing for us at the moment.

   The most important thing for us tonight is to beat the Blazers!

  I promise that from the next game, Marquis, you will return to the starting position. We have many difficulties this season, and we will work together to overcome these difficulties! "

  Daniels stared blankly at the little general, he is a straight man, he can just talk about some things.

   Before, he thought the little general was disgusting, but at this moment, he actually felt that the little dwarf was a little handsome!

Before the other players could react, Nowitzki took the initiative and said: "Marquis, go up and form the strongest perimeter combination with Jason and Josh, I will help you open space on the perimeter, throw in and pass out. ball!"

   was just stunned before, Nowitzki said this, and Daniels went down directly.

Soon, the restarted Daniels ignited directly, his mind became more agile, and said: "Dirk, you can wait patiently, wait for the high school student who is guarding you to get tired, you have a chance, tonight they have another chance. A high school student is not there, no second person can guard you, you weigh 20 pounds more than him, you can actively consume him..."

  As a player with a rectal character, Daniels said that he was on the line.

  Little General silently stepped aside. As the head coach, he really couldn't hold his face in such a low voice.

   But fortunately, the clown's aura was full, attracting the attention of the players.

   The general looked at the group of players, and he had a headache - the most powerful players in the team were actually Daniels and Terry...

  …

   came back from a timeout, and Liu Xiu came to the court with his teammates after the rotation.

   The start was easier than expected. The Blazers were surprised, to be precise, a surprise.

Starting today is a wave of 5 days and 4 battles. Their goal is not just to beat the Mavericks tonight, but to have such a big opening advantage. Maurice Cheeks replaced Ray Allen and McDyess and put them on Fred Jones and Raheem, Randolph moved to center with a stubborn look.

   Liu Xiu looked at the players on the opposite side, Terry, Daniels, Josh Howard, Nowitzki, Dampier... The strongest players in every position in the Mavericks were replaced.

Daniels isn't Adrian Griffin's kind of guard who just needs an inside move to prevent a cut, but their prison captain's scribbled coach anticipated the opponent's rotation and replaced it with a small forward guard. Raheem, can make him warden back to the back line defense.

   Liu Xiu's feeling is just one word - steady!

   The same goes for my teammates, who feel like victory is just around the corner.

   14-game winning streak, only beat the Mavericks a few days ago, and started 13-5 with an 8-point lead. The Blazers were a bit floating from top to bottom.

   Then, for the next 5 minutes, the Mavericks went wild!

Terry scored two three-pointers and 6 points and 1 assist in more than 5 minutes under Liu Xiu's defense; Dirk Nowitzki's flank received a three-pointer and scored 1; Josh Howard and Dampier ate cake Get two points each.

   The Mavericks got these 13 points, and the Blazers were not surprised.

   But the person who helped his teammates get 13 points in more than 5 minutes surprised the Blazers players - it was Daniels!

   The Joker Daniels, who was one of the Dallas double-uglies who was slammed by the media this season as a 'cancerous tumor' who played a few blind times last time!

  Daniels scored 4 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists and 1 steal, and helped the team get 17 points in more than 5 minutes!

   This is not the biggest help Daniels brings to his teammates after he comes on the court. The biggest help is the actual role of defense.

   With Daniels to defend Liu Xiu, Josh Howard was liberated.

  Josh Howard's ability to assist in defense and defense has been compared by Popovich to Sean Marion, and his ability is evident.

The reason why the Mavericks were so badly beaten by Liu Xiu's pick-and-roll breakthrough in the opening stage, Liu Xiu easily got 4 points and 2 assists in 4 minutes, was because Josh Howard was forced to top the arc to defend Liu Xiu, and the two starting guards were top notch. Can't stop Liu Xiu directly breaking through. Liu Xiu doesn't need a pick-and-roll to hit those two people, and he doesn't even need too many direction changes. Josh Howard can't defend against Liu Xiu and has no chance to make up for it. Moving ahead is equivalent to giving the law. Outsider or Ray Allen open shot.

  It's different now. Although Daniels can't guard Liu Xiu, he can give Liu Xiu the minimum limit. Josh Howard has the opportunity to help defend from the middle distance, making it more difficult for the Blazers to play.

  Terry's flanking defense and rushing, Dampier's supplementary defense within the three-second zone, Nowitzki's frame protection... were all ignited.

  These abilities, the Mavericks have always had them, just because of record, because of conflicts within the team, etc., they have not played it, and now, at least at this moment, they are all back!

   In addition, the contempt of the Blazers after they started with an 8-point lead also gave the Mavericks players a chance to regain their self-confidence.

   In the past 5 minutes, the Blazers not only failed to defend the opponent, they were scored 17 points by the opponent, and they only scored 8 points.

   At 9 minutes and 52 seconds, the Mavericks overtook the Blazers by 1 point 22-21, stopping the Blazers!

   (end of this chapter)