One Guard - Chapter 798
Chapter 789 : Whose air pick?
Griffin succeeded in making himself the focus of the game, because the scene of the American Airlines Center Arena was replaying his embarrassing scene of being knocked to the ground by Yiyang over and over again.
Griffin’s face became very ugly, after all, anyone who encountered such a thing would be embarrassed. It’s just that Griffin’s white skin makes it easier to be noticed after he blushes.
Yiyang’s singles are still so strong, perhaps no one in the entire league can completely limit Yiyang in one-on-one. What’s more, Griffin is not a perimeter defender.
Yiyang’s goal boosted the Mavericks’ morale. After the game, the Mavericks gradually became better and slightly suppressed the Clippers. The Clippers, under Paul’s leadership, have not been easily thrown away.
In the last 30 seconds of the first quarter, Griffin made a dunk after elbowing Majori in a small motion at the basket. The Tunisian immediately appealed to the referee, but the referee ignored the rookie center.
Don’t think it’s the first time Majori has come to the NBA to play, but this guy will not be afraid of stars like Griffin. In the next round, Majori also made small moves, making it difficult for Griffin to move on the offensive end.
Griffin, who was already furious and frustrated, couldn’t bear it, turned around and pushed Majori away, and the conflict broke out instantly.
“It seems that this game not only smells like gunpowder, but both sides have completely caught fire.”
While Kenny Smith was talking, Majorie and Griffin were already nose-to-nose. Majori’s level of trash talking is not a “rookie” level. This guy was not well-known in Europe at the time.
Seeing that the two big guys were about to fight together, the intervention of Old Carter finally separated them. Carlisle reprimanded loudly off the court, and Majori was finally willing to give up.
Although the conflict has temporarily subsided this time, the seeds of the conflict have been planted. Every matchup between the Mavericks and the Clippers will never end peacefully.
After the first quarter, the Clippers trailed the Mavericks by 3 points 25-28. In the first quarter, both sides can be said to be equal, but Carlisle is confident to slowly recover the initiative of the game, as long as there are no accidents on the court, such as violent conflict!
“Your offensive performance in the first quarter was very good, and I want you to keep it! Actively sharing the ball and playing more blooming performances made the Clippers unable to catch the defensive focus. Everyone gave me a run, I Every one of you needs to have a chance to score!” Although Yiyang’s singles ability is very strong, but if it is not compelling, he will not let Yiyang use singles to solve the problem. It is always easier to score open opportunities through active running and passing the ball than direct singles.
The Clippers’ offensive strategy is the same as that of the Mavericks, because the five people on the Mavericks are all one-on-one defensive leaders. They must pass the ball to have a chance to score.
Therefore, after the start of the second quarter, both teams played very patiently in their offense. The rhythm is not fast and the number of rounds is not high. Instead, he is attacking and defending the position one by one, which looks incompatible with modern basketball.
After the game fell into a tough battle, the scores of the two teams could not be opened for a long time. Until the second quarter of the game was halfway through, the Mavericks only achieved a 5-point lead.
At this time, Doug Rivers called to stop the game, he didn’t want to chase behind the Mavericks’ **** all the time. Next, he wants to strengthen the connection between Paul and Griffin and Jordan, using simple screens to effectively score!
Air relay, which has always been a characteristic of the Clippers. A top-level point guard like Paul is paired with Griffin and Jordan Jr., and it’s very handy to play in the air.
Although Nowitzki was able to withstand Griffin’s offense near the three-second zone, Dirk would be overwhelmed if Griffin runs and fights.
Using mobility to attack the inside of the Mavericks, Rivers is confident. The only obstacle is Gobert, as long as that guy can’t interfere in time, the Mavericks’ inside line is open.
However, when the timeout was over, when Rivers saw the Mavericks replace the two rookies, Lance and Majori, the former champion coach was extremely happy! Carlisle changed two substitutes at this time, and he was digging his own grave!
The Clippers’ first offense, Jordan Jr. mentioned the high position for Paul to cover. After the pick and roll, Jordan immediately followed, Paul threw the ball into the air tacitly, and an air relay seemed about to be formed!
However, the basketball was only halfway through, and a white figure jumped out, intercepting the basketball before the little Jordan!
“Little Larry Nance! God, did you see his bounce and wingspan!?” Kenny Smith yelled in surprise, and Paul who was passing the ball to Jordan was also surprised.
Under normal circumstances, Paul’s open passes are difficult to intercept. For one thing, most of the opponent’s insiders are too late to react, and secondly, even if the opponent reacts, they may not be able to jump so high.
But the little Nansi is an exception. This guy is 2 meters 06 tall and has a wingspan of 2.17 meters! And little Nance perfectly inherited his father’s terrifying jumping ability. The perfect combination of jumping and wingspan allowed Larry Nance II to intercept Paul’s pass with an incredible height!
Little Jordan hangs the frame vigorously, but he doesn’t have a basketball in his hand. After the steal, Nance wanted to find Yiyang directly. But Paul has a lot of experience. He stuck to Yiyang at the moment of a pass error, not allowing him to easily get a chance to fight back.
Helpless, Nance had to hand the ball to Wade. Seeing his aerial pick tactics fail the first time, Rivers gritted his teeth with anger. If Dirk was just there, Jordan had already scored!
God **** Larry Nance, Rivers had to comfort himself over and over again in his heart, that rookie forward who was useless except for jumping was just lucky!
Wade had just taken the ball over the half-court and then handed the ball back to Yiyang. Little Nance came from the backcourt to cover for Yiyang, and Yiyang waited for an opportunity.
Paul tried to get rid of Nance, and Griffin also subconsciously leaned to Yiyang’s side. Yiyang took off directly in the encirclement of Paul and Griffin, but not to shoot, but to pass!
In the air, Yiyang threw the ball lightly. Griffin turned and looked around, it was too late.
Little Nance caught the basketball with one hand and buckled it straight into the box! Little Nance’s dunks may not be fancy, but his long arms and great power always make his dunks full of violent beauty.
“Nice aerial cooperation, the height of the little Nansi is very scary! As expected of the son of the dunk king, his dunk seems to have brought me back to the last century!”
Little Nance fell to the ground with his arms open, and it seemed that the dunk was effortless.
Destroyed the opponent’s air relay, and returned the opponent’s air relay, Xiao Nance’s performance made all the fans scream for it.
In the subsequent attack, the Clippers’ air-receiving tactics still failed. With the same mobility forward as Nance Jr. watching Griffin, it is difficult for Griffin to get the space to sprint.
After blocking several times, Paul did not find a pass, so he had no choice but to play alone. But under Yiyang’s interference, Paul missed a shot and the Clippers’ offense failed for the second time!
When grabbing a rebound, Griffin used small moves to interfere with Majori. The Tunisian wanted to turn around and punch him, but he still held back his anger, tried to get stuck in his position, and protected the defensive rebounds without any risk.
This time, no one can stop Yiyang. After receiving the pass from Majori, Yiyang sprinted forward with all his strength, and the offensive and defensive transition was formed in an instant!
An angry Majori gritted his teeth and ran behind Yiyang. He was eager to use the goal to give Griffin some color.
Paul affixed Yiyang to death, and has been constantly confronting Yiyang with his body. If Yiyang chooses to layup directly, it will be very difficult.
“Pass the air relay, I’m behind you!” Megari yelled at Yiyang in Arabic. Of course, Griffin beside him couldn’t understand what the Tunisian was saying.
Yiyang hit the basket, looked back for less than a second, and then directly took off!
Paul leaped up the cover, but his arm slapped empty. After Yiyang sent the basketball up, the basketball didn’t fly to the hoop at all, but just hit the backboard!
“Boom!”
With a muffled sound, the basketball rebounded sharply. Paul looked back, and a tall figure stood up from the ground, holding the basketball tightly with both hands, and then exhausted all his strength to slam the ball into the frame!
Majori pulled hard at the basket and let out a loud roar! The entire basketball hoop sank because of this, and the referee even worried that the basketball hoop would be overthrown by the Tunisian! This dunk is powerful! It seems that Majori does not look like an insider from the European League at all!
“Smash the board, two consecutive air relays! Hahahaha, the Clippers were beaten by their most familiar cooperation, so they couldn’t find a beating!” Barkley raised his fist and stood up. He didn’t expect Megeri to be this. The mobility of the big guy is so amazing!
After Majori dunked and landed, he was very excited and patted Yiyang **** the back, almost spitting blood out of Yiyang.
“I said he understands Arabic, I can use Arabic and also speak tactics, hahahaha!” The Tunisian shouted happily with words that only he could understand.
Carter on the bench shook his head, now even he himself is not sure whether Yiyang really knows Arabic.