Basketball's most talented forward is on the left

After Curry dribbled the ball past half court, he quickly gestured to indicate the tactics of tonight's first attack. However, he encountered a big test. He was guarded by the former number one point guard in the league, and even the number one in history in the eyes of many.

Point guard, Jason Kidd!

As fans of later generations know, Kidd's top ability is his passing ability. His excellent vision, regardless of the overall situation, allows Kidd to find every teammate on the court and lead his teammates' offense by passing the ball. Together with Kidd

When playing ball, as long as you know how to move, you don't have to worry about the ball not arriving. The ball really comes when the person arrives, and the ball even arrives just one step ahead of the person.

The Nets were able to feed Kenyon Martin into an All-Star and reach the Finals twice, which is enough to show Kidd's passing ability.

He has 12,091 career assists, ranking second in history.

But, if you think that Kidd can only pass the ball, you are totally wrong!

In addition to passing and organization, Kidd's most impressive thing should be his strong defensive ability.

Kidd's defense is mainly based on physical entanglement and oppression. He has strong individual defense ability and good awareness of assist defense. His 2,684 career steals rank second in history. Moreover, Kidd's steals are not gambling steals. They are all personal defense or assist defense.

A steal that presses the opponent's mistake.

The biggest difference between Kidd and Nash is also here. If the passing between the two is a momentary success, then defensively, Nash cannot see Kidd's taillight.

Of course, Kidd is more than that. His rebounding sense is one of the best among all point guards in NBA history. He averaged 6.4 rebounds per game in his career, catching up with many forwards.

Kidd, who combines the above three abilities, is also the current triple-double king in the league. He has often contributed miraculous performances of 101,010 this season, making him the most economical triple-double king in history.

Even though he is 37 years old now and his strength is not as good as before, his experience and defense can still help the Mavericks.

Isn't that right? If Curry hadn't been so clever on the first shot, Kidd would have almost missed it!

However, by a hair's breadth, Curry passed the basketball to Zuo Li's hands without any risk.

After a Crssver, Zuo Li successfully broke through the defense of hacker Sean Marion. Although Marion was not as high as Zuo Li, he was not as fast as Zuo Li.

Bang-dang——!

"It's so confusing! Zuo Li scored the first goal for the Knicks! A perfect start!" Yu Jia shouted.

On the Dallas side, King Nowitzki also completed the Bulls' first attack.

Swish——!

A simple fadeaway jumper, Randolph followed up, but couldn't block it.

The exaggerated arcs and soft feel seem to remind New Yorkers, don’t worry, we have superstars too!

"Ha!" Zuo Li naturally would not sit idly by. In the second round, Zuo Li once again challenged Marion. On the offensive end, he made a fadeaway jumper from the top of the arc and a three-pointer that made the hacker doubt his life.

5-2, Zuo Li scored five points in a row in the opening game!

"Hey! Awesome! It started with two unreasonable singles. Carlisle must have wanted to use Marion's speed to fight Zuo Li. After all, the others couldn't keep up. Chandler was pulled out and the rest of the game was over. But

I didn’t expect that Marion couldn’t keep up,” said Director Zhang.

"I can't stop it." Coincidentally, Marion was also saying the same thing to Dirk.

Tonight, the Mavericks naturally understand what is the top priority. How to defend Zuo Li is the key to their victory. After all, they feel that compared with the Knicks, their role players and substitute players are not inferior. If they play

Okay, we can also respond, but if Zuo Li goes crazy, it will definitely be impossible for the gods to save him.

However, the Mavericks' technical analysis team also understands that with the current lineup structure of the Mavericks, it is impossible to restrict Zuoli. Not only can they not do it, but no one in the league can completely restrict it on the defensive end.

Zuo Li, because Zuo Li is almost 100% a super insider with no blind spots, his dynamic and static talents are unparalleled and even difficult to copy.

If they insist on using their inside line to defend Zuo Li, they will easily be overwhelmed by Zuo Li, so after much deliberation, it is more appropriate to use Marion to defend them.

First of all, Marion was fast enough. Back in the Suns, if Marion hadn't been fast enough, it would not have been so easy to succeed in running and gunning.

Secondly, Marion's defense is not bad. Even though he has never been on the best defensive team, his defensive ability is definitely underestimated.

Because in terms of defensive comprehensiveness and applicability, Marion is absolutely top-notch. First of all, Marion can not only compete with Duncan and Garnett in the interior, but also compete with Kobe on the outside. In several seasons with the Suns, Marion averaged

Sending 1.4 steals. With his long hands, any player must be careful with him. Secondly, Marion also has a super wingspan and excellent jumping ability. Marion basically maintained an average of ten rebounds per game in his peak seasons.

, and can also send out 1.5 blocks per game.

So it would be inappropriate for him to defend Zuo Li.

But these two rounds shattered Marion's confidence because he found that he was neither high enough nor fast enough in front of the left winger.

"It doesn't matter, you do your best and leave the rest to me." Dirk nodded.

Of course he knows how difficult it is to defend Zuo Li. Don't look at Zuo Li's breakthrough and three-pointer just now, but this is just the tip of the iceberg in Zuo Li's arsenal. Marion will probably cry when he uses them later.

So the only thing they can do is actually respond offensively, and Dirk sees this even more clearly than the coaching staff.

So Dirk immediately used an inside pick-and-roll to hit a three-pointer from the wing at 45 degrees.

5-5, both sides tie!

Randolph also had his hands on his waist and shook his head helplessly.

Although the big black bear is big enough, has a decent height and wingspan, and has good frame protection ability, it is really difficult for him to guard Dirk.

Dekna's independent golden chicken and covering the entire three-point scoring area also gave Randolph a headache.

In fact, Zuo Li originally wanted to defend Dirk, but D'Antoni thought about it and refused.

Although Zuo Li is indeed a better defensive choice, Zuo Li is too important to the Knicks' offense. If he spends a lot of energy on the defensive end and affects the offense, it will not be worth the gain for the Knicks.

"There's more than one game," D'Antoni persuaded.

So Randolph became Dirk's defender, and he faced almost the same problem as Marion.

If the two of them communicate at this time, they might become close friends.

The offensive is not over yet.

Standing in the low post on the left, with fantastic steps, he can easily get away from Marion and hit the board.

7-5!

And Dirk also responded in the low post with the unique stunt of turning around and golden rooster.

7-7!

Both players scored 7 points in a row in the beginning.

"Awesome! The response is great, the two insiders are strong enough." Yu Jia said with emotion, this game is exciting, it is a duel between the two generals from the beginning!

But just when the fans were waiting for the two to have a real fight and decide the winner, Carlisle suddenly called a timeout to interrupt the confrontation between the two!