Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 346 Think about it

The poor performance of Devin Harris made the old Nelson scratch his head, but after traversing the bench, there is really no usable point guard.

After secretly slandering Mark Cuban's blind operation, the old Nelson could only replace Daniels and Van Horn, let Terry and Nowitzki rest for a few minutes, and replaced Finley at the same time. Suppress Harris' prehistoric power and stabilize the rhythm a little bit.

For the Lakers, Jim replaced Kobe, Garnett and Artest, and replaced Billups, who was off the court early, and partnered with Wade in the backcourt, with Battier and David Weiss in the frontcourt. Te and Nene.

Blake and Korver are mediocre defenses, Jim cut their rotation time in the playoffs, David West just got back from injury, and Haslem is doing well so was put on the bench as well .

Seeing that the Mavericks gave up Bradley, Jim became more determined to attack the inside. Van Horn's rim protection is like Steve Nash's dunk, which only exists in people's imagination. Marcus Daniels, but the Lakers have a ton of other offensive options.

David West and Billups played a two-man game. The small lineup of the Mavericks, neither Finley nor Stackhouse can stand up to West, the orthodox No. [-], and West You have to eat and drink, and you can score easily by rolling to the inside.

Fortunately, West is on the defensive end, and he can't guard them. Stackhouse has a good touch and hits consecutive three-pointers, which can be regarded as making up for his lack of defensive end.

Jim didn't make any adjustments either. The Lakers' offense was always going straight to the basket with sure-fire goals. The Mavericks' long-range shots needed continuous fiery touch to ensure the success rate. Too big a problem.

The success rate of both sides is very high, but the point difference has not been narrowed much as Jim expected.

When the two sides switched back to the main lineup, the rhythm dropped again.

Mark Cuban, who was sitting in the back row of the Mavericks' bench, looked gloomy. Obviously, the result of this game might not be optimistic, and the old Nelson, who was sitting on the coach's bench, was not as passionate as before, baring his teeth and claws. He yelled at the referee or the players, but sat in his seat without saying a word, and had no communication with the assistants. Only when Nowitzki scored a goal, he would open his mouth to give some instructions to the players on the field.

Wade's performance was amazing. He proved to the Lakers at the Staples Center that the impact of the injury on him has completely dissipated. He scored 9 points on 7 of 18 shots in the half, with extremely high efficiency, and upset the Mavericks' defense. The world was turned upside down.

The Lakers led 63 to 49 into the second half, and there was not much time left for the Mavericks.

"Look, we can't take it lightly. The third quarter is going to be tough. The Mavericks are going to be desperate to get all the energy out of the way. They're going to try a lot of threes, and we're going to stick to our game and defend the three. The point line and the basket, no matter what happens on the field, you must be clear about your mission, understand? Reduce mistakes when attacking, and when necessary, it is better to violate 24 seconds than to make a risky passing attempt. The team made arrangements for the second half.

Unsurprisingly, at the beginning of the second half, the Mavericks felt like they had been slapped with chicken blood. Nowitzki was double-teamed by Haslem and Garnett, forced to kill the inside line, and caused a foul.

After making two free throws, the Mavericks directly launched a full-court man-to-man defense.

Kobe sent the baseline ball and ran to the front court by himself. After Billups received the ball, Terry and Finley immediately came to double-team. Kobe rushed back to respond, but Josh Howard also rushed over.

Billups could only risk a long pass to Garnett, but with too much force, the ball flew out of the sideline.

Jim called a timeout at the first time, and the things he arranged just now were for nothing.

He pulled Bzdelik and specially arranged a set of tactics to break the double-team with a sideline ball. Just now Haslem and Artest ran to the frontcourt with their heads sullen. Kobe also sent a baseline ball and was ready to attack. .

The Mavericks attacked, and Nowitzki took a bow and arrow from outside the three-point line, shot Haslem, and pierced Yang with a hundred steps, narrowing the point difference to 9 points again.

The baseline ball was sent again, and this time the four Lakers players stayed in their own half, relying on conduction to break the Mavericks' double-team.The ball finally fell into Artest's hands. Artest was planning to play a shaky foothold, but Jim tried his best to signal him to calm down on the sidelines, and to play a tactic after his teammates settled down.

Artest suppressed the prehistoric power and gave the ball to Billups, and Garnett also took advantage of the opportunity to cover him.

The Mavericks switched defenses, Billups forced Dampier, and then split the ball to Garnett who followed up.

Nowitzki appeared at the basket for the first time to help defend.Garnett held the ball with his right hand and passed it to Haslem who was emptied.

Nowitzki's center of gravity was shaken, Garnett immediately received the ball, jumped over Nowitzki, and took off for a dunk.The movements are smooth and flowing in one go, just like a small forward.

The nervous Jim sat down safely.

The Mavericks gave the ball to Nowitzki, who was feeling hot. The German glanced at Garnett, and before he could help defend, he turned to the weak side immediately and used the unique golden chicken independent fadeaway jumper.

Haslem was out of reach, but a golden figure flashed out from the blind spot of Nowitzki's vision.

Kobe appeared behind him like a ghost, capped the ball, grabbed the floor ball at the first time, and pushed for a counterattack.

Josh Howard and Finley chased Kobe back to the defense one after the other, but Kobe had already taken off forcibly, stood up in the gap between the two, turned 180 degrees in the air, collected the ball, stretched out his right hand, and flew to the other side of the basket Picking the basket with a backhand on one side, the ball had a strong spin. After hitting the backboard, it turned into the basket.

The goal was exciting enough, and the referee's subsequent whistle blew up the hearts of the Mavericks fans.

Foul by Josh Howard, Kobe Bryant made an additional free throw.

This defense and attack completely broke the last fighting spirit that the Mavericks had just gathered. Until the end of the game, the point difference could not be narrowed to less than 10 points.

112 to 97, the Lakers defeated the Mavericks at home, eliminated their opponents with a total score of 4 to 2, and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals.

After the game, Jim and Mavericks coach Nelson Sr. shook hands with each other.

"Ready to go back to Oakland?" Jim whispered, the cameras were all focused on Kobe, Garnett, Nowitzki and others, not many people paid attention to them.

"How do you know?" Old Nelson asked suspiciously.

"Maybe, you can also consider coming to Los Angeles. Anyway, you have played here for two years."

"I think you've had enough assistant coaches."

"No, it's your assistant coach."

Old Nelson stared at Jim without saying a word.

"Okay, Don, you still have a few months to think about it. After 30 years as a head coach, it's time to get a championship ring, right?"

(End of this chapter)