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Chapter 97 Defense can't win the game

Pepsi Center.

Today is the first game of the second round between the Mavericks and the Nuggets.

But before the start, Mavericks coach Carlisle is now arguing with offensive coach Solano because of a problem.

It's not that Solano is disrespectful to Carlisle. After all, Carlisle is the head coach. The reason for the dispute between the two is whether Wang Dachun played as a starter?

Dampier accounted for a very large proportion of the offensive tactics designed by Solano.If Dampier does not play, the Nuggets will put all the defensive pressure on Nowitzki.

Wang Dachun's defense did not have any problems.But not just defense without offense.Once targeted by the Nuggets.The point difference is easy to open.

Carlisle disagreed with Solano though.But Dampier's offensive position in the Mavericks' tactics is really important.

But he also had other considerations.What he needs is Wang Dachun's defense to limit the offense of Nene and Kenyon Martin on the inside of the Nuggets.

Both of these insiders belong to the "beast type" insiders.It's not an inside play in the traditional sense.More through sports warfare, forcibly hitting the penalty area and scoring dunks.

If there is only one Nene, he believes Dampier can handle it.But add another Kenyon Martin.Dampier must be overwhelmed.

Only sending Wang Dachun on the court can limit the scoring of these two insiders to the greatest extent.

The two argued for a long time, until the game was about to start, and finally decided to send Dampier to play first, and if they really couldn't defend the inside line, then send Wang Dachun to play.

The starting lineups of the two teams.

The Mavericks sent out,
Jason Kidd, Jose Barea, Josh Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, Eric Dampier.

The Nuggets sent out,
Chauncey Billups.Duntai Jones.Carmelo Anthony.Kenya Martin.Nene Hilario.

In the first quarter of the game, as expected by coach Carlisle, Dampier had no way to limit the scoring of the two inside the team.

At the same time, Dampier can't start the situation offensively, which also restrains Nowitzki's offense.

Carlisle didn't hesitate either. In the 1th minute of the first quarter, he directly replaced Dampier with Wang Dachun.

The score is now 10-16.The Mavericks trailed by 6 points.

Seeing Wang Dachun playing, Nene and Kenyon Martin cursed inwardly.

"Why did you send this guy up so quickly?"

The reason why the two attacked the inside so quickly just now.In fact, it was because of the restrictions placed on them after Wang Dachun played.

Both of them have already been a little psychologically shadowed by Wang Dachun's defense on the court.

The two teams have played 4 times throughout the season.Start with match 1.The two never took advantage of Wang Dachun's hands.

Especially Kenyon Martin.Was humiliated by Wang Dachun.The psychological shadow area is larger.

The game continued and the Nuggets attacked.

Billups took the ball across the frontcourt, continued to implement the previous tactics, and gave the ball to Kenyon Martin after the cut.Let him cooperate with Nene to beat Nowitzki on the inside.

Handing over the basketball to Kenyon Martin first is not to say that he is the main offensive point today, but that Cameron's touch has not yet opened up today. After hitting the iron twice from the outside, he did not take the initiative to ask for the ball.

The cooperation between Kenyon Martin and Nene in the interior has a very high success rate, so let them continue to attack the interior.

Kenyon Martin has just received the basketball and is preparing to play with Nene according to the previous tactics.

At this moment, Wang Dachun took the initiative to switch defenses with Nowitzki.He came to guard Kenyon Martin.

Kenyon Martin saw Wang Dachun sticking to his body to defend himself.I feel like scolding my mother a little bit.

"This guy is here to defend me, shall I fight or not?"

After struggling for a moment, he passed the ball back to Billups.

This stunned Billups for a moment. Kenyon Martin has always liked to fight for the ball in the team. Today he took the initiative to hand the ball to him, and he was able to pass the ball back.

Billups passed the ball to Nene, who was now defending Nowitzki.Although Nowitzki has a large tonnage, there is still a certain gap between him and Nene in terms of strength.

Nene chiseled Nowitzki twice.Push Nowitzki away, turn around and prepare to dunk.

But as soon as he jumped up, he saw Wang Dachun rushing towards him.

He was so frightened that he had already stretched his snapping posture in the air.He just forcibly changed his posture in the air, threw the basketball out, and didn't dare to dunk it.

On the outside, Billups almost missed this outrageous return pass.

Seeing that the attack time was coming, Billups had no way to organize the attack, so he could only forcefully throw the ball.It was no accident that the ball struck iron.

The rebound was directly picked off by Wang Dachun, and the ball was passed to Kidd.

The Nuggets' players retreated quickly, and the Mavericks failed to make a fast break.Can only fight positional warfare.

After retreating back.Taking advantage of the Mavericks players have not yet fully settled.Billups asked Kenyon Martin and Nene.

"What the hell are you two guys doing? Why don't you fight according to tactics?"

Kenyon Martin and Nene replied in unison.

"Afraid of being covered!"

billups......

Only then did he recall that the two insiders of his team never seemed to have taken advantage of Wang Dachun.

After Wang Dachun came on the court, the Mavericks' inside line was well protected. It was very difficult for Kenyon Martin and Nene to score inside.

But there's no way to help Nowitzki on offense.When the Mavericks were attacking, as long as the Nuggets guarded Wang Dachun on the inside, it would be difficult for Wang Dachun to have a chance to score.

And another insider went to pester Nowitzki.Nowitzki's shot space has been compressed, and his hit rate has been greatly reduced.

Wang Dachun's appearance made it difficult for the Nuggets to score points in the penalty area.At the same time, it limits the scoring of the team inside.

Can only rely on scoring from the outside to barely stabilize the score.

As the game time progressed, Nuggets coach George Karl also caught Wang Dachun's weakness, directly gave up the inside offense, and concentrated all the shots in the hands of Carmelo Anthony and Billups. .

And the feel of the two is getting hotter and hotter, especially Carmelo Anthony.Josh Howard simply can't limit his scoring.

Anthony relied on his own strength to keep scoring, and Billups played very smartly.Only shot in the middle distance, attracting Wang Dachun's defense.

If Wang Dachun dared to take a step out of the penalty area, the basketball would immediately be passed to the two insiders of his team, allowing them to score.

At the end of the first half, the score of the two teams was 54:43.The Mavericks trailed by 11 points.

In the second half of the game, coach Carlisle did not let Wang Dachun play again in order to chase points.

He knew that Wang Dachun had done a good job on the court, but what the team needed now was offense to tie the score.

But it is a pity that the Mavericks did not catch up with the score until the end of the game, and finally lost the first game of the second round with 104:95.

In this game, Wang Dachun scored 18 points in 4 minutes. 14 rebounds, 3 blocks and [-] assists.

The weak scoring on the court also made Wang Dachun want to get offensive ability as soon as possible!

(End of this chapter)