Coach Lee

Chapter 312 Smart Nash
Courtside, Mavericks dugout.

"What's the matter with you? Dozed off at the beginning? Where did you throw everything you usually learn?"

Don Nelson offered a few words of relief.

"Then just follow our usual game rhythm."

"Give the ball to Steve, let"

beep!
The game is back again!

The Mavericks serve in the frontcourt!
This time, they came up with a small tactic of stacking sandwiches, and Nash easily got the ball.

Of course, it's so easy because the 76ers' defense is no longer aggressive.

Half-court offense, playing positional warfare.

What the Mavericks are best at is the pick-and-roll between Nash and Duncan.

In each game, they played a lot of counter-attacking fast breaks, and they also played a lot of pick-and-rolls in positional battles.

Facing his former teammate Iverson, Nash was not relentless at all.With the help of Duncan's cover, Nash went straight to the direction of Ben Wallace.

Nash still has some understanding of the 76ers' defensive system.

If he played outside the three-point line, then Ben Wallace immediately turned around and chased Duncan.

But this time, Nash chose to attack.

Ben Wallace tried his best to cover Nash, but Nash directly passed the ball from Ben Wallace's crotch and sent it to Duncan who followed up.

Facing Coleman who came to defend him, Duncan jumped up without any hesitation.

Tall and long arms, amazing bounce.

boom!
Duncan dunked the ball hard into the hoop directly over Coleman's head.

8-2
The Mavericks are finally opening.

"Wow! Good shot!"

The fans in the stands were full of excitement and thunderous cheers!
But Duncan and Nash gave a high-five as usual, neither happy nor sad.

They have played such a ball and do not know how many times.

For the 76ers, Snow slowly dribbled the ball across half court, holding the ball steadily.

The entire league is familiar with the 76ers' style of play, passing the ball step by step, running to find opportunities.

The Mavericks were also well prepared, and Finley followed Li Nan closely.

However, the 76ers didn't play like this today.

Snow suddenly gave the ball to Iverson.

Seeing Iverson staring at him with the ball, Nash knew that this guy had thoughts about him.

"Steve, I'm coming." Iverson reminded him kindly.

Nash was fully prepared mentally.However, he still couldn't prevent it after all.

Clearly knowing that Iverson was going to the right, but Nash was still passed by an acceleration.

step!
It's such an understatement!
Iverson's crossover is too powerful. Except for fouls, no one in the league can guard against his breakthrough alone.

Nash can only hold a candle to it.I can only watch Iverson calmly shoot in front of him.

Mid-range pull-up jumper.

With a bang, the basketball hit the inner edge of the basket and flew into the net.

10-2
Seeing Iverson go away in style, Nash is also admirable.

Iverson is really good.

Nash used to envy Iverson, envied Iverson's outstanding physical talent, envied Iverson's outstanding ball skills, and envied Iverson being favored by that old man.

However, it doesn't matter now.After all, that is a thing of the past.

Now Nash has his own pride.

The Mavericks backcourt fast serve.

"gogogo!"

Nash rushed up like the wind.

Although the 76ers tried their best to retreat, Nash still found a chance to chase and fight back.

With the help of Duncan's cover, Nash avoided Iverson's defense, and directly made a chasing three-pointer when everyone was unsteady.

Whoosh!
hit!

10-5
"yeah!"

The fans in the stands raised their arms and shouted!

Although Nash is not the team's top scorer, his shooting percentage, especially the three-point shooting percentage, is amazing.

"Steve was more than just passing the ball."

"Steve! Good shot, another one!"

"We can get Steve, this is still thanks to Philadelphia, thanks to Larry Brown. Otherwise, it would not be perfect without Steve."

However, when the audience was celebrating enthusiastically, the 76ers suddenly made a fast serve.

Iverson suddenly drove straight in, one dragon killed the past, and the other flew to the basket and succeeded.

12-5
After scoring the goal, Iverson did not forget to hit Nash on the shoulder.

Although he didn't say anything, the provocation in Iverson's eyes was full of meaning.

The fighting spirit came up in Nash's eyes.

"Go! Go! Go! Let's hit another one!"

Nash also shouted in his mouth, directing his teammates to follow up.

This time, he played a pick-and-roll with Duncan again.After taking advantage of the cover, Nash rushed in the direction of Ben Wallace, killed the place where there were many people under the basket, and strolled around the courtyard at leisure.

Iverson, Coleman, and Ben Wallace were a little at a loss.

When everyone thought that Nash was going to go out of the high position and reorganize the offense, Nash suddenly started and rushed to the basket.

An angry fake pass behind the back directly deceived Ben Wallace.

He jumped up and made a low hand layup.

12-7
The 76ers will naturally not let it go.

Iverson passed Nash directly and encountered Tim Duncan who was defending. Iverson assisted Li Nan who slipped in from the middle.

After Li Nan took the ball, he stopped for a while, leaned on Finley behind him, and then used his strength to start, two steps straight away, get up!An underhanded layup.

14-7
……

The game slowly opens up and the tempo gets a little faster.

You hit a ball, I'll give you one back.You do a dunk, I'll do an alley-oop.The offensive efficiency is not bad.

However, good offense means poor defense.

The Mavericks don't seem to "care" so much about defense.The offense against the 76ers is anything and everything.

They let Iverson break through Nash easily, never double-teaming.They let Finley chase Li Nan alone, and they didn't have the idea of ​​changing people in rotation.

Of course, it's not that the Mavericks don't target them, but that they don't know how to target them.

Their defense is really bad.All rely on personal strength to do our best.

All of these have a lot to do with coach Don Nelson's offensive style of play.

While the 76ers blocked the Mavericks' fast-break counterattack by quickly returning to defense, they seemed to have nothing to do with Nash and Duncan's pick-and-roll.

In the more than one season of Nash's previous experience with the 76ers, what he played the most was this kind of fast-paced basketball and pick-and-roll.

He was traded to the Mavericks last season, and under Don Nelson's training, Nash has grown even faster.

After cooperating with Duncan for so long, the tacit understanding between the two has grown.

Nash passed the ball well and shot accurately.He's always been able to pass amazing balls.

And Duncan has very strong finishing ability, tall and long arms, good jumping, and fast speed. Even Duncan, who is weaker in the mid-range shot, has been trained during the holidays.

This pairing of the two is simply not perfect.

...

Both teams played fast-paced offensive basketball just like that.

At halftime, the score between the two sides was 55-52, with the 76ers leading by 3 points.

Two team stats:

Mavericks:
Duncan, 17 points, 5 rebounds,

Nash, 9 points, 9 assists,

Finley, 9 points,
76ers:

Iverson, 18 points, 6 assists, 2 steals,

Li Nan, 18 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals.

(End of this chapter)