Nba: This Superstar Is Too Stable

With the arrival of April, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. On this bright day, many hot girls have begun to put on short skirts and suspenders exclusive to summer.

In a "high-end" place like Madison Square Garden, it is a gathering place for high-value beauties.

Before the Knicks host the Mavericks tonight, looking around, the stadium is full of spring!

In Anthony's words, that is: "Brothers, the best season of the year is about to begin.... Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the playoffs, let's use a wave of 23 Winning streak, let's meet the playoffs!"

The whole team is full of morale under the encouragement of Anthony!

That's right, the Knicks players have to go all out to give the finishing touches!

Of course, Anthony also pretended to be in front of the head coach after all. In order to prevent himself from being slapped in the face, he had to get nervous first.

The visiting Mavericks looked indifferent, ranking third in the Western Conference, they may be the least influential existence among the top eight teams in the entire league.

Looking through the daily basketball media sites, popular teams like the Heat, Lakers and Knicks are full of stories about their teams or players.

And the Mavericks, you can hardly find any news about them.

Even the Thunder, the fourth in the West, and the Magic, the fourth in the East, have more relevant reports than them.

There is no sense of existence in this way, and it is also defined by some fans as a "pseudo-strong team".

The players from both sides came on stage after the explosive home game.

[The Knicks start]

Point Guard: Bai Feng

Shooting guard: JR Smith

Small Forward: Carmelo Anthony

Power Forward: Amare Stoudemire

Center: Ronny Turiaf

[The Mavericks start]

Point Guard: Jason Kidd

Shooting Guard: De Sean Stevenson

Small Forward: Sean Marion

Power Forward: Dirk Nowitzki

Center: Tyson Chandler

The players from both sides came to the middle circle. Stoudemire, Dirk Nowitzki and Marion talked and laughed. After all, they were old rivals and old teammates, and they were quite familiar with each other.

After that, with the referee's whistle, the game began.

Tyson Chandler gets the ball for the first wave of offense for the Mavericks.

The Mavericks attacked. After Kidd dribbled the ball over the frontcourt, he handed the ball to Nowitzki, who was picked up from the top of the free throw arc.

It seems that Nowitzki is going to play as a supporter inside.

Speaking of the Mavericks' recently determined starting lineup, it's also quite strange.

Of their three perimeter starters, none of them attacked with the ball?!

When he was young, Jason Kidd was a very versatile point guard. At his peak, he led the Nets to the finals for two consecutive years, and was even called "the first point guard in the league" for a time.

However, even so, he still has another nickname called "base not attack".

As the name suggests, it probably means that Kidd is not a point guard who is good at attacking.

This is indeed the case. Although he averaged 18 points per game in his peak period, more points were obtained through breakthroughs after offensive and defensive transitions.

Kidd's energy in the game is mainly on organization and defense. His ability to attack the ball independently is really average among top defenders.

This is still the case at his peak, not to mention the 38-year-old old Kidd. Although he has more experience and is as strong as ever, the old Kidd no longer has the speed and impact of the year.

The Mavericks shooting guard De Sean Stevenson wears the label of "shooting guard" on the surface, but in fact his role is more on defense, and he has a precise top three-pointer. On the offensive end, He also doesn't hold the ball, and plays more of a role in opening up space.

As for Marion in the small forward position, he has a certain ability to hold the ball, but his ability to attack independently is also limited.

Marion is good at running off the ball and cutting sharply. He can make long shots, but his touch fluctuates greatly. Basically, he is a player who is stronger on defense than offense. He is such a feature in the Suns. Now that he has arrived at the Mavericks, it is no different.

The insider Tyson Chandler has the top frame protection ability in the league, but his ability to attack independently is very weak.

In the entire starting lineup of the Mavericks, only Dirk Nowitzki has the league's top scoring ability, but because of his "soft, weak" personality, he is still not regarded as a qualified attacker.

Of course, one reason the Mavericks have such a weird lineup is that their perimeter All-Star wing scorer Caron Butler is out for the season due to injury.

However, in fact, the Mavericks are not short of first-class scorers.

Jason Terry has been the most reliable No. 2 scorer around Nowitzki over the years, but the Mavericks like to play him as a sixth man.

The two-time three-pointer Pejastojakovic was also in the Mavericks, but he was not allowed to start.

In this way, the Mavericks' starting lineup with four defensive players for Nowitzki has made the media and experts very incomprehensible, but their recent record seems to be good.

In fact, Bai Feng couldn't understand this lineup either. The last time he played against the Mavericks with the Knicks, it wasn't this lineup.

At that time, Butler was not injured, and Terry had not yet become the sixth man. The entire Mavericks' offense was very sharp. Only Stoudemire and his Knicks could not prevent the Mavericks from blooming more and lost the game.

But today the Mavericks line up such a lineup, Bai Feng even has some doubts, is their offense really okay?

Soon, the Mavericks gave the answer.

Stevenson and Marion played off-ball screens on the flanks, and Marion made a layup and scored 2 points after receiving a pass from Dirk Nowitzki with the help of the screen.

0:2

The Mavericks in the away game took the lead and took the lead.

From this point of view, the Mavericks' attack is a typical high-post support play, and Marion has also brought his fast air-cutting speed into full play.

However, Dirk Nowitzki is not Chris Webber in the Princeton system after all, his coping ability is actually not that strong, Tyson Chandler is obviously not Divac, the Mavericks can really give this system to Do you understand?

The Knicks attacked, and the excited New York fans were shouting cheers, hoping that the Mavericks would play their super-strong state against the Lakers in the last game and play another hearty victory!

Facing Kidd, Bai Feng always felt not at ease. To be honest, he seldom felt this way after playing in the NBA for one season.

At this point he dribbled the ball while observing Kidd's defensive position.

Sure enough, no flaws!

This alone is not the reason why Bai Feng is afraid of him.

In the last game against the Lakers, the old fish Fisher's defensive position selection was equally sophisticated, and it was difficult to find any flaws, but Bai Feng was not false, facing Fisher's defense in the audience, he still scored 31 points 20 assists for the super performance.

But the Kidd faced tonight is Bai Feng's first and only opponent who has let him fall into a defensive trap since he entered the NBA.

Bai Feng still had a fresh memory of that confrontation.

So tonight, he was somewhat apprehensive.

After reaching the frontcourt, seeing that Kidd did not have any obvious flaws, it happened that Anthony was asking for the ball again, so he passed the ball to Anthony.

Before the game and the coach said so confident, Anthony naturally has to show.

After he got the ball, he didn't expect that Marion immediately posted it and defended him closely.

Although a little surprised, Anthony is not false, if you dare to stick so close, then he will dare to break through!

After putting the ball sideways and forming a confrontation with Marion, Anthony chose to squeeze through hard and wanted to break through.

However, Marion may look a little thin, but he is actually very good at confrontation. Anthony did not get any advantage in this confrontation, but he still chose to fight again and then become stronger.

Marion's tough defense came up, and although it didn't cover Anthony, it confronted him.

In the end, Anthony's attack on the frame was not able to score, and Tyson Chandler protected the rebound and the Mavericks had the ball.

After Kidd took the ball through the frontcourt, it was handed over to Nowitzki, who was in high position.

In the last round, he was successfully cut by Marion, and he was successfully defended by him on the offensive end. This made Anthony a little embarrassed, so he returned to the defensive end, and he strengthened his defensive focus, followed by Marion, not Give him a chance to cut.

The high-ranked Nowitzki saw that his teammate's cover cut did not come out, so he turned halfway and shot from the mid-range. Although Stoudemire made a defensive block, but because of the distance, it could only cause slight interference. .

Swish!

Nowitzki hits a midrange shot from the free throw arc.

0:4

The Knicks attacked. This time, Stoudemire took the initiative to pick and roll for Bai Feng, but just as he ran out, the Mavericks had already completed the exchange of positions inside.

Nowitzki, who was originally marking Stoudemire, and Tyson Chandler, who was at the basket, quickly completed the transition. Chandler followed Stoudemire to prepare for the pick-and-roll, while Nowitzki went to the basket and confronted Turiaf. bit.

Bai Feng captured this very keenly, and instantly made him frown.

Just because at this time, he suddenly realized that the Mavericks team has changed their style of play.

In people's impressions, the Mavericks have always been a team with super-strong, but no defense.

But now, the team has completely changed to a defensive-minded team.

Kidd + Chandler, if this combination prevents pick-and-roll, Bai Feng has a hunch that they are not good at attacking!

Although he thought so, he still played a pick-and-roll with Chandler. The defensive strategy adopted by the Mavericks was to switch positions, Kidd resisted Stoudemire, and Chandler prevented him from giving Bai Feng a chance to shoot a three-pointer.

Because Kidd blocked the line of Xia Shun, Stoudemire was blocked, but he still moved to the area closer to the basket. Bai Feng didn't think much, and immediately gave the ball to Stoudemire.

It stands to reason that in such a near-basket area, Stoudemire's dislocation attack of the opponent's defender can't be a catch?

Stoudemire also thinks the same way. According to past experience, he is going to use his weight to lift the defender's center of gravity a bit, and then use his height to bounce up to shoot a half-hook.

However, when he hit the top for the first time, he was surprised to find that he didn't move?!

He is approaching 210 in the inside line, but he can't stand a guard with a height of more than 190?

This surprised him a little.

Of course, because Kidd played in the East most of the time before, Stoudemire didn't play against him much. Therefore, it is not clear how strong Kidd's defensive confrontation is.

Stoudemire thought it was because he was not exerting enough force, so he prepared to exert force a second time, but found that Kidd's center of gravity was on his thigh, making it very uncomfortable for him to exert force.

Naturally, this confrontation didn't get too good results, so that the final half-hook shot didn't go well.

Nowitzki protects the rebound

The Mavericks had another successful defense.

The Knicks fans at the scene were a little strange after failing to score twice in a row.

What the hell, Stoudemire couldn't hit an old guard who was almost 40 years old? Really, is he in such a bad state today?

"That's it, Anthony almost got blocked by playing Marion who was not at his peak? These two guys must have gone out last night. It is said that the paparazzi in New York took a video of the two people throwing money crazy in a nightclub the night before. .

"What's all the fuss about, which NBA star doesn't go to nightclubs? He won't celebrate if he wins, so what's the point of winning, if he doesn't spend his money, can he take it to the coffin?"

"It's normal if the state is not good. After all, in the Lakers game, everyone was too fierce. It's impossible to ask them to be like that every game. If they really want to be like that, then the other teams in the league don't need to play."

The Mavericks attacked, or Nowitzki's high-position support. This time his teammates all pulled away. Nowitzki faced Stoudemire alone.

Although Dirk Nowitzki shoots accurately, but the speed of holding the ball is slow among power forwards. How could Stoudemire with excellent mobility allow him to easily break through and immediately block his breakthrough route.

Nowitzki, who was blocked, immediately changed to his back, followed by a left-handed dribble. He wanted to go to the other direction and then break through. Stoudemire immediately blocked it.

At the moment when the two formed a confrontation, Nowitzki, with the strength of the confrontation, suddenly took a step back to the left, leaned diagonally, closed the ball, and threw the ball with a very exaggerated backward shooting posture.

Stoudemire reacted very quickly, immediately saved, and jumped up to block.

But in the face of Nowitzki's exaggerated leaning back, he couldn't cover it at all.

Swish!

Most importantly, the ball flashed in!

0:6

Now the fans of the Knicks (Mano Zhao), the original fanatical atmosphere has cooled down a lot in an instant.

The team was 0:6 behind in the opening game. More or less, the players have not warmed up, so don't worry.

But the opponent's difficult goal of the fairy made them a little shocked.

"I'm going, this back is so difficult to get in? Too lucky?"

"How can a guy in the paint make that kind of shot? And still be so accurate?"

"Fake! Fake! Fake! It's too fake, it must be fooled."

Because the Mavericks are not popular enough, the fans in the East naturally don't know much about them, so they don't know very well what kind of player Dirk Nowitzki is, and they probably only know from some reports. , he is a "soft egg"

However, if you are a Western fan, you probably won't have this idea.

The one-legged super fallback shot is a stunt that Nowitzki has practiced hard in recent years. Dallas fans call this move "Golden Rooster Independence."

This is what Nowitzki has learned from his hard work and hard work after two dark seasons.

Although statistically, he is not too different from the Mavericks of the Troika era, and will be the top ten scorer in the league every season, but his scoring methods are undergoing huge changes!

When he was young, Nowitzki rampaged, and all kinds of dunks and iron-blooded fouls were also commonplace, so he had the title of "German chariot".

But now, his shooting has become more proficient, and he has developed a set of mid-to-long-range shooting techniques that are enough to change the ecology of power forwards.

At this time, I happened to meet Rick Carlisle and Jason Kidd, and they said that they would help Nowitzki come back to life!

Yet the entire league doesn't seem to take notice of this team with great potential.

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Looking at the Mavericks' defensive formation like an iron barrel and Dirk Nowitzki's fiery touch, Bai Feng felt that this game would be difficult to play!