One Guard - Chapter 763
Chapter 756 : Don’t guard me, let me vote 1 here
When Dirk Nowitzki appeared on the basketball court, ESPN’s live photographer deliberately gave him and Drummond Green a split-screen shot. Green’s big mouth is well known, no matter what level of team the opponent is, he will do it right. Even Nowitzki is so harmless to humans and animals.
Before the game started, ESPN reporters found Green again on the sidelines. But Green’s attitude has not changed. Perhaps his excellent performance in the final game of the Western Conference semifinals has given Green’s confidence soared.
“I must remind that Dirk Norwich has the most total points scored among active players.”
“I know, but it’s not the most scoring this season.” Green spread his hands, disapproving.
In this season’s playoffs, Green’s double-double data of 13.7 points and 10.1 rebounds per game is very gratifying, but Green’s biggest role cannot be reflected with personal data, that is, a half-life defense.
From No. 1 to No. 5, Green seems to be able to guard. His rough style and tough attitude are his greatest value.
In Green’s view, Nowitzki is no longer a super scorer, so there is nothing terrifying about such a veteran who is almost 37 years old.
“It seems that you are full of confidence, Drummond Green. Then, I wish you good luck in the game!” The reporter finished speaking, leaving the scene. This also means that everything is ready before the game, just waiting for the referee to kick off.
During Green’s interview, Dirk has been practicing his jump shots in various positions. Careful Mavericks fans will find that Dirk did not miss a single shot when he warmed up today!
At eight o’clock in the evening, prime time, the referee on duty personally threw the ball into the air. As a floor-flow center, Bogut’s height and jumping are not dominant, so the basketball is easily contested by Gobert.
The moment Yiyang started to control the ball, Mike Brin’s heart beat wildly. This high-profile battle of the century has finally begun!
But after halftime, Yiyang immediately discovered the caution of Steve Kerr. The person in front of Yiyang is Klay Thompson, who has excellent defensive skills, and Curry followed Wade. In other words, Cole didn’t plan to let Curry defend the star point guard Yiyang at all. He perfectly hides the greatest weakness of the Warriors’ defensive end!
“Huh, smart.” Yiyang curled his lips. Klay Thompson was indeed a relatively difficult defender.
Why is it “relatively difficult”? Thompson’s defense is very regular and does not lose his position. Since the beginning of the rookie season, he and Curry have always been the harder players to defend on the opposing backcourt. But in fact, as far as single defense is concerned, Clay’s footsteps are not fast, his strength is not enough, and he doesn’t have a strong sense of oppression.
With people like Iguodala, Tony Allen and Yiyang, against them, offensive players generally have to be very careful because they may steal the ball at any time. In addition, the pressure they exert on the defensive players is also very huge.
And Thompson’s defense does not give the attackers these pressures, positively, he can avoid being easily shaken, not being cleaned, and not easily losing position, but that’s all.
Yiyang didn’t even call for cover, directly a large arc crossover, swaying a little space, and then using speed to overtake Thompson half of his body.
Thompson was indeed not completely shaken, nor did he lose his position. But for a top scorer like Yiyang, half of his body is more than enough!
Yiyang slammed the inside, then stopped suddenly, pulled his hips back, and withdrew a jumper! Thompson tried to block it, but the timing was still a bit late. Yiyang will not let this opportunity go easily.
As soon as the game opened, Yiyang used his strong singles to score first. In fact, this is also a signal sent by Yiyang to Cole-don’t think that changing your personal defense will limit me!
Yiyang’s “opening show” did not disappoint the fans and commentators. This high-profile game immediately climaxed. Of course, the Warriors’ offense also cannot allow Xiao Xu. The Mavericks want to guard the Warriors, but it’s not easy at all.
Curry calmly controlled the basketball in his hand in front of Yiyang, as if glue was put on his palm. After the basketball was shot, the center of gravity would always “stick” back. Yiyang tried to take a few balls, but Curry avoided them flexibly. This time, Yiyang almost lost his position because of the ball. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately blocked Curry’s breakthrough route, otherwise it would really cause a big mistake.
However, Curry also took advantage of the moment when Yiyang’s center of gravity was messy, bypassing Green’s pick and roll and walked to the right horn position, and quickly shot in the gap where Yiyang’s defense came up!
Seeing that Curry completed the shot without any interference, Yiyang instantly felt cold. Sure enough, the sound of the Nets tumbling came immediately behind him, and Curry hit a three-pointer!
“Curry’s three-pointer, as soon as he opened the game, he used his own assassin! The Warriors and Mavericks are the best teams in the league in pick-and-rolls, but they have the ability to shoot three-pointers with the ball after the pick-and-roll. , Even Yiyang didn’t! The three-pointer is the Warriors’ biggest advantage. Coach Cole seemed to emphasize this at the beginning of the game!
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The Warriors and Curry’s response did not disappoint. A clean three-pointer after borrowing the pick and roll, Yiyang could only shook his head helplessly. As long as the interference doesn’t go out for the first time, Curry will be able to throw the ball in almost all cases!
3 to 2, Curry and Yiyang both use their individual ability to score in singles, regardless of their abilities. To be able to respond to Yiyang’s goal so quickly, in the position of point guard, apart from Paul, maybe Curry can do it.
In the subsequent attack, Yiyang remained aggressive. He stretched out his hand to call Nowitzki to cover, and then used the cover to get rid of Thompson. Thompson’s anti-pick-and-roll ability is actually not bad, but Yiyang is really too fast, but before “Tang Shen” has time to get around again, Yiyang went to the inside.
“It seems that from the beginning of this series, Yi and Stephen did not intend to have reservations!”
Seeing that Thompson couldn’t keep up for a while, Drummond Green immediately pressed his strong body against Yiyang!
Yiyang became unable to move in an instant, and this fellow Green was definitely a strange thing. Although the height will be two meters, but the strength is much stronger than most tall insiders!
But Yiyang was not stopped at this point. The Mavericks are so powerful not only because of Yiyang, but also because of the other people on this team!
Yiyang passed the ball from behind without giving any look. Nowitzki did not wait outside the three-point line, but cut in along the middle. This pass from behind just fell into the hands of Dirk who cut inward.
Nowitzki is no longer the flexible and slender man who was similar to Durant’s playing style when he was young. Although he can’t force his opponents with speed, he can’t use beautiful dribbling fakes to sway him. But Nowitzki relied on his tonnage and leaned on Thompson to make a slow three-step layup!
Nowitzki’s layup is like a slow-motion replay, but the victory is particularly solid at every step. At the last shot, Dirk was actually a little far away from the basket, but the German’s soft touch still hit the ball steadily!
“Pretty, how long have we not seen Dirk break through from the front to get points? In previous games, Dirk either made fixed-point shots or played in low singles. However, the goal just now reminds me of Nowitz before 2007. Kee. Although, it’s a bit slower.”
Dirk was naturally praised by all commentators. After the goal, Dirk deliberately glared at Green. Green was naturally angry, but if he hadn’t been constrained by Yiyang just now, where would the old guy’s turn be rampant!
In the subsequent offense, Green deliberately stayed outside the three-point line after covering Curry. He knew that traditional big men like Gobert and Nowitzki were difficult to guard against.
Curry really understood it, and followed Yiyang with a breakthrough point. The basketball was assigned to Green. He didn’t hesitate to catch the ball and shoot!
In the regular season, Green was still able to shoot 33.7% of the three-pointers that reached the qualifying line, but in the high intensity of the playoffs, Green’s three-pointers instantly dropped to an appalling 26.4%. While his shooting percentage has dropped so much, Green’s three-pointers have not dropped.
It can be seen that Green’s long-range shooting ability is actually not as scary as people think. He can only make a shot, but he may not make it. In this point alone, Green is no different from Aminu on the Mavericks bench.
Originally the three-pointer was unstable, and the moment Green shot, Nowitzki rushed out desperately! You know, in terms of height and wingspan, Nowitzki is more dominant! Green didn’t expect Dirk to pounce so aggressively. In order to avoid blocking, his only way is to increase the arc.
However, when the arc is adjusted, the range is shortened. I saw the basketball flying high, but when it fell, it fell directly into Gobert’s hands and did not touch the basket at all!
“Airball! Nowitzki’s defense is really positive!”
After Nowitzki finished the interference, he rushed to the front court immediately. Green was stunned. Was this old guy beaten up today?
Gobert wanted to start a fast break with a long pass from the backcourt, but the Warriors retreated quickly. They couldn’t make the Mavericks so easy to counterattack. So Gobert gave up this idea, handed the ball to Wade, let Wade control the ball for half the time, because Yiyang had just ran over.
Wade’s ball control is equally stable, but at his current speed, it is difficult to use fake moves to sway Curry and break himself. Just after halftime, Wade handed the ball to Yiyang. “The Flash” knows very well that now is not the time to play singles with the ball.
Yiyang stopped outside the three-point line to observe his teammates’ running positions. Wade got rid of Curry with a reverse run, and Yiyang then passed the ball.
The basketball was delivered accurately, and Wade stopped a jump shot after receiving the basketball. Unexpectedly, Curry was very active defensively this time, he leaped high and completely blocked Wade’s sight.
Wade shot and hit iron under Curry’s serious interference. Everyone thought this offense had failed, including Yiyang, because he had already started to retreat into the backcourt.
Green just turned around to grab the board, but a tall figure turned sideways and stuck Green behind him! You don’t need to look at it, it’s Nowitzki!
As a result, Nowitzki caught the offensive rebound in the muscles of Bogut and Green against the madman! After landing without hesitation, Dirk threw the ball directly beyond the three-point line!
Yiyang was between the three-point line and the center at this time. He reached out and grabbed Dirk’s pass. After receiving the basketball, Yiyang grabbed the ball with his left hand, and stretched his right hand to the front and pressed his palm to the outside, signaling his teammates to slow down. But this action looks like also very much like the action of a traffic policeman on the road calling a stop.
The dramatic thing is that Clay, who wanted to defend himself, really stopped after seeing Yiyang making this action. Of course, he didn’t listen to Yiyang’s order, but he was afraid that he would be overtaken by one step if he stuck it too tightly.
But the fans couldn’t see Clay’s thoughts. From a visual point of view, it seemed that Yiyang made him stop.
After Yiyang signaled the team to press the rhythm, he looked up at the timer on the backboard and found that there were only 7 seconds left in the offense. Now I can’t organize much, Yiyang simply jumped and shot!
As a result, people saw Yiyang make a gesture to make Thompson “stop” and directly shoot a three-pointer from a long distance! The most frightening thing is that basketball is still hollow into the net! Dramatic, sometimes it’s just such a coincidence.
“Hahahahahaha, also, the action of reaching out to stop before shooting is really showy! Make a gesture before shooting, tell your teammates not to panic, and tell Thompson not to come up, and then hit a three-pointer! This is just over half of the game. Two steps away, a super long three-pointer!” Mike Brin shouted, believing that this scene will become a classic shot in the history of the NBA Western Conference Finals.
After that, the game was interrupted by the referee. Because the timer has malfunctioned, it was time to return to the watch. However, the three-pointer and the classic picture of Yiyang’s mistakes have been retained.
“Damn it!” Seeing Nowitzki and Yiyang so brilliant, Green gritted his teeth!
Yiyang shrugged. After he got the ball, he wanted to steadily hit it again, so he made a palm-pressing gesture. He only took a three-pointer when he saw his teammate reminded him that he didn’t return to the table. Who knows, Yiyang accidentally created the most exciting picture of the game.
But this kind of unintentional pretense is the most deadly.
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