NBA: Starting with James Harden

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Player tunnel.

Nowitzki kept high-fiving every teammate who passed by!

When it was Li Zhen's turn, Nowitzki gave him a hug.

"Lee, you did a great job in the first half, keep it up in the second half. Nowitzki smiled shyly.

"You are not bad either." Li Zhen smiled.

Nowitzki is a very friendly and honest boss. He is always sincere to people. Both players and staff like him very much. Li Zhen also admires Nowitzki.

After entering the NBA, Li Zhen understands the difficulty of loyalty and concentration.

NBA is a commercial league, and it is difficult for players to stay in one team for a long time.

For ordinary players, the initiative lies with the team, and for superstars, the initiative lies with the players.

Nowitzki has always held the initiative, but he has never thought about leaving the Mavericks. He has deep feelings for the Mavericks and is loyal to Dallas.

Even when his career was at its darkest, Nowitzki never thought about taking shortcuts. All he did was to stick to it silently, constantly improve himself, and help the team attract strong players to join! The reward for this is that the boss Cuban also respects Nowitzki very much. At the end of Nowitzki's career, Cuban never thought about trading Nowitzki, and he even forced him to sign a big contract.

As long as Nowitzki is willing, he can do any position in the Mavericks after retirement.

Compared with Packelly and Ainge.

Li Zhen can feel the preciousness of this friendship.

In addition to loyalty, focusing on basketball is also Nowitzki's characteristic.

It's hard to believe that a superstar like Nowitzki has no agent and almost no endorsements.....

To this reason, Nowitzki replied:"The money I earn from the court is enough for my lifetime expenses. I just want to focus on basketball."

Maybe it's because Li Zhen himself can't do without making money off the court, so Li Zhen admires him very much.

"Your dunk on Tim was so domineering. I wanted to do it but couldn’t."Nowitzki laughed

"Haha, next time I'll feed you a cake, you try it." Li Zhen replied

"No, no, he will pull me down."Nowitzki waved his hands quickly.

Duncan would not have any reaction to Li Zhen's dunk, but he would be really angry if he dunked on him.

Nowitzki is known as a wimp in the league and is also Duncan's long-term enemy.

Li Zhen and Nowitzki joked on their way to the locker room. The Mavericks were leading by 20 points. There was not much pressure for both of them. The situation of the game had been completely controlled by the Mavericks. As long as the Mavericks did not commit suicide in the second half, there would not be a big problem in this game.

"I think Popovich will focus on solving the defensive problems during this halftime break. The Mavericks scored too easily. Their defensive rotation was not fast enough. It was obvious at the beginning of the second quarter that they were not eager enough to win this game."Smith said

"Hey, this problem may not be easy to solve. It will be difficult for them to reverse the situation today." Barkley made a judgment.

Kenny Smith's analysis was indeed accurate. Popovich did begin to emphasize defensive rotation in the second half. In the first round, Parker broke through and passed the ball to Ginobili, who scored a goal from mid-range.

Afterwards, the Spurs switched defense to defend the Mavericks' first wave of offense. Li Zhen made a mistake, and his teammate missed the pass because the pass was too sexy.

The Spurs' offense still revolved around Duncan!

Duncan singled out Nowitzki, turned left and made a layup!

The Spurs chased 4 points in a row in the second half.

The Mavericks attacked, and Li Zhen took the ball to signal a steady rhythm. Now it was Li Zhen and T. Partner in the basket!

After playing a tactic, Li Zhen didn't dare to mess around. He passed the ball to Marion on the right, and Marion lobbed the ball to Nowitzki!!

Nowitzki was not in a hurry to play against Duncan alone, but kept observing the running positions of his teammates. The leading score made Nowitzki very calm!

Nowitzki also turned around and passed Duncan to the basket, and Duncan turned around to chase.

Duncan thought that Nowitzki would most likely make a layup at the basket.

But Nowitzki didn't, but threw the ball from the inside to Li Zhen outside!

The defense line was shrunk inside.

Li Zhen was about to shoot from outside the three-point line.

The one who rushed towards Li Zhen was Jefferson

""Don't jump!" Ginobili shouted, but Jefferson could no longer control his body. Li Zhen's fake move was too realistic.

Li Zhen directly bumped into Jefferson.

"Bang!"

After losing his balance, Li Zhen took advantage of the situation and launched a three-pointer!!

""Beep!"

The referee raised three fingers to indicate that there was a foul outside the three-point line.

Li Zhen didn't expect the ball to go in, but it went in.

""Shua!!"

48 to 67.

The referee pointed three fingers at me fiercely, the three-pointer was valid, and there was an extra penalty.

3+1!!

"Ooo...

"plum、、、"Zhen!" DJ screamed crazily.

The fans who were just worried about whether the home team would be attacked by the Spurs in the second half immediately cheered!

Li Zhen immediately responded to the Spurs!

Li Zhen, who was lying on the ground, stood up with the help of Nowitzki and Terry.

After celebrating with the two, he walked to the free throw line.

"OMG"Jefferson looked regretful. He didn't expect that he would be the victim.

"This was a wonderful three plus one. Jefferson was not on guard at all. Li Zhen didn't commit many fouls in this game, but it doesn't mean he didn't have the chance to commit fouls. As long as there was a good opportunity, he would not miss it."Barkley said

"Fake, what did you do?"Popovich rarely yelled at Jefferson on the sidelines!

Popovich's mood is very unstable now. He can catch up with the score by scoring continuously.

But a three plus one directly destroyed this hope.���

How to play?

Compared to Popovich's rage, Carlisle was very excited and high-fived the assistant coach.

Others thought that Li Zhen's shot was largely due to luck, but Carlisle didn't think so.

Li Zhen is the player with the best body balance ability in the Mavericks, no one else. Even if he loses his balance, his sensitivity to the basket is higher than other players. Nowitzki is not as good as Li Zhen. This is what Carlisle observed during training.

On the court, Li Zhen made a steady free throw

""Swish!"

48 to 68.

This four-point play directly suppressed the Spurs' momentum to catch up.

This scene is also a microcosm of the second half of the game.

The return of the Mavericks players' overall state made the Spurs suppressed every time they wanted to gain momentum.

Nowitzki!

Terry!

Even Kidd!

Not only Li Zhen, every time the Spurs wanted to catch up, one of the Mavericks would stand up.

With 2 minutes and 20 seconds left in the game, the score was 88 to 106, and the Spurs were still 18 points behind.

The stubborn Popovich did not want to Asking the Spurs players to catch up, he replaced the players with substitutes and raised the white flag of surrender!!

According to the unspoken rules, Carlisle also replaced the substitutes who had not played, and let them use up the time on the court.

Li Zhen kept cheering for the players on the court with Barea off the court.

This game did not take too much of Li Zhen's energy.

Compared with G1, it was too easy to win tonight.

Beep!!! With the referee's whistle, the score was fixed at 95 to 110.

Popovich didn't even shake hands with Carlisle, turned around and left.

The 0-2 deficit made him lose his grace. Popovich

's departure made Carlisle, who went to shake hands with him, spread his hands and smiled.

Carlisle was not angry about this. As an old rival in the playoffs, this scene is not the first time it has happened.

""Ka, ka, ka" The reporter also recorded this scene!