Chapter 390 Shouldn't a player like me get full marks?
Nowitzki grabbed the rebound and passed it. Marbury passed the ball to Josh Howard in the middle of the court. The latter held the ball in singles, quickly changed direction and passed Richardson for a layup.
11 to 6
Josh Howard is the Mavericks' wonder player, a man who could have replaced Nowitzki as the Mavericks' boss.
In Lu Yu's previous life, Josh Howard was selected with the 29th overall pick in the first round of the 2003 draft.
After he was signed by the Mavericks, he became a starter for the star-studded Mavericks team that year. He also helped the team reach the Finals and became a Western Conference All-Star.
In the 2006-2007 season, he averaged 18.9 points, 6.0 points and 8 rebounds per game.
Josh Howard's low post play is very strong, and ordinary small forwards cannot guard him. Shorter power forwards cannot match his wingspan, and they are still beaten.
He also contributed more on the defensive end, marking the outside forward and swingman. He was extremely fast. His vitality brought unlimited offensive power to the Mavericks and supported the defensive system.
He also has stable shooting and sharp breakthroughs. He is an excellent offensive firepower with machine-like stability.
Josh Howard started out as a defender, and then gradually developed shooting and breakthrough. When he was on the team with Nowitzki, he even outshone Nowitzki. Head coach General Johnson once wanted to trade Nowitzki.
Let Josh Howard be the team's first offensive point.
However, Nowitzki has stronger self-discipline than Josh Smith. The old king lives a clean life, and there is rarely any bad news.
But looking back at Josh Howard, after earning a big contract, he gradually began to be tempted by various temptations, and he couldn't resist it. He had frequent gossips, was at odds with his teammates, and had problems with his knees and injuries.
He was completely retired after playing just a few seasons.
Self-discipline is sometimes the most difficult thing for a player to master.
Especially after making money.
When I have no money, I can still train my whole life. After I have money, the young model in the club can fly.
D'Antoni originally wanted to wait for the ball to die before making substitutions, but now he didn't want to wait anymore. He called a short timeout and did not plan any tactics after coming down. He just replaced Battier and Nash. He wanted to end the game within three quarters.
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Therefore, it is particularly critical for Nash to lead the bench in the second quarter.
Of course, confronting the Mavericks is more critical.
After playing, Lu Yu passed the ball to Battier in the bottom corner. Battier raised his hand and dropped the three-pointer. Haslem got the ball and the basketball fell into Marion's hands. Marion back
Finlay singles.
Marion's post-up play looked awkward. After two attempts, he turned and entered the penalty area. Nowitzki helped defend. Marion passed the ball to the middle. Haslem cut through and hit a layup. 13-6
In this round of offense, Lu Yu just distributed the ball to Battier from beginning to end, and then had nothing to do with him anymore. Just like him, there was Quentin Richardson who was as invisible as him.
Sometimes Richardson's presence in the game is not very strong, but at every critical moment, he will give his opponent a fatal blow.
When Marion was playing singles, Lu Yu did not interfere. Although Marion's post-up singles were not very good, he still had offensive ability. When his teammates took the initiative to play singles, Lu Yu would not run over to ask for the ball to attack his teammates.
Be proactive, you cannot always have the ball in your hands, you must also give your teammates a chance to perform.
And if his teammates are open, he will face fewer flanking attacks.
Only if the teammates play better together and the whole team blossoms more, can the Suns go further in this year's playoffs.
The Mavericks attacked, and Marbury found that the defender in front of him was replaced by Richardson, and Josh Howard's defender was Battier. He felt insulted.
Shouldn't the Mavericks' strongest point in perimeter offense be themselves?
How do you let a defensive warrior like Battier defend Howard?
What does Suns head coach mean?
Who do you look down on?
Marbury changed his style of play and played a pick-and-roll with Nowitzki. Against Haslem, Haslem was also very good at guarding pick-and-rolls. He moved quickly and was very maneuverable. Marbury could only pass the ball to the center.
, Richardson switched defenses and defended Nowitzki alone.
The Suns' lineup allows unlimited defense changes.
Because except for Lu Yu, the other four players are all about the same height, and Lu Yu can wait for the opportunity to choose whether to flank or not, which is the four-mark combination mentioned before.
This set of defensive tactics with unlimited defense changes is not actually a simulation of Lu Yu's five death tactics in his previous life. The earliest prototype was actually the Suns back then.
Including many tactics of the current Warriors, you can see the shadow of the Suns in 2005.
In Lu Yu's previous life, the Suns' defensive strategy in the 2005-2006 season unfortunately lost to the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals. Stoudemire did not play that time, Kurt Thomas was also injured in the playoffs, and the Suns lineup was seriously untied. They relied on swingmen to form a large lineup.
He made it to the Western Conference Finals and beat the Mavericks twice.
So when Lu Yu proposed this tactic, D'Antoni's eyes lit up, as if this was the tactic he had thought of.
The strength of the current Suns' lineup is definitely far superior to that of the previous team in the 2005-2006 season.
Nowitzki originally wanted to attack directly, but seeing Lu Yu ready to make a move, he could only pass the ball again. When 24 seconds were about to run out, Marbury changed direction on the right to single out Haslem, passed by and hit an emergency jumper.
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Although they lost points, the Suns players defended well and there were no obvious loopholes.
The Suns attacked, Lu Yu signaled, Haslem went to the side to cover Richardson, and he singled out Dampier in the middle.
He dribbled the ball from his hip to the left and entered the three-point line. After being followed, he held the ball with his left hand and leaned against Dampier. He swayed his left shoulder to the center. At the same time, he lightly tapped the basketball with his right hand and gave it to his left hand, making a gesture
A fake move to turn around in the middle.
Dampier's center of gravity shifted slightly, and he quickly turned to the right with the ball in his left hand and successfully passed the ball.
Lu Yu made an emergency stop jumper at 45 degrees and scored a goal, 15-8, his 7th point.
Lu Yu is the biggest killer of the Suns. As long as the Mavericks players don't double-team, he will have a chance to single out anyone!
After playing in the past few seasons, Lu Yu has confirmed his own strength. He is not joking to lead the Suns to win the championship this season. It is really what he wants to do.
There is an old saying in China: once you gain momentum, it will weaken again, and then you will be exhausted.
Now the atmosphere has been heightened to this point. If we cannot lead the Suns to win the championship this year, it will become more and more difficult to win the championship next year, the year after, and the years after.
And with the current strength of the Suns, they have the ability to suppress all the strong teams in the league.
In the second half of the first quarter, since Battier came on the court, the Suns have been suppressing the Mavericks. The style of play is not too complicated. On the offensive end, Lu Yu is misplaced to attack. If there is a flank attack, Lu Yu will pass the ball to the shooter or
Find Haslem on the cut.
On the defensive end, the Suns are constantly switching defenses. Even if Dampier is switched to Richardson as the main offensive point, Richardson can withstand it.
The Mavericks can only grit their teeth and attack. Every point they can score is a point. They can't defend themselves anyway.
But facing the Suns, who were constantly switching defenses, their efficiency dropped significantly whether it was a pick-and-roll with the ball or a screen without the ball, and it ended up being all kinds of one-on-one situations.
In the first quarter, the Suns led the Mavericks by 18 points, 39-21.
Lu Yu scored 13 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds, beating Marbury's 5 points and 1 assist.
Lu Yu took a break in the second quarter, and the Suns entered the rotation time of the playoffs. Nash led the rotation, and Nash led the bench to suddenly speed up and compete with the Mavericks.
The substitutes of the two teams competed and were evenly matched.
The Mavericks have a deep bench. Logically speaking, the Suns bench should be full of teeth. Daniels, Bradley, Stackhouse, and Devin Harris can all be used as such a lineup.
The weak team's starting lineup.
The biggest problem of the Suns is the substitute lineup, the substitute players are not strong enough.
However, the bench lineup led by Nash launched a run-and-gun strategy and, by speeding up the game, actually matched the Mavericks' deep lineup.
This almost made young general Johnson angry to death. He stood on the sidelines and became furious. Compared with Popovich, Johnson was more like Nelson. He was more passionate and would point at the player's nose and call the other player a fool.
Especially after the Suns sent Haslem, who had already rested, the Mavericks couldn't even protect the rebounds.
What a huge rip-off, Bradley didn't steal Haslem's 203.
Makes a person mad.
Bradley's size earned him the nickname "The Big Bamboo Pole." The most talked-about scene of Lu Yu in his previous life was when he was dunked by Rockets star Tracy McGrady while playing for the Mavericks, which became one of the classic NBA scenes.
But Bradley is pretty miserable.
On January 20, 2021, while Bradley was riding his bicycle at home, he was accidentally involved in a car accident and became paralyzed.
Bradley also talked about his mental journey after paralysis, especially when talking about the idea of suicide. He said, "I don't know how to alleviate the pain in my heart. If everything ends like this, maybe it will be better."
As a result, yes, this thought quietly emerged in my mind, and it was really real. I couldn’t imagine myself dealing with these thoughts, but I definitely had suicidal thoughts.”
No one who lives half his life wants to become a disabled person.
Lu Yu sympathized with him and even wanted to tell him not to ride a bicycle in the future.
But there are some things that if you tell him now, he probably won't believe it and will regard himself as a lunatic, just like Lu Yu suggested to Kobe Bryant not to buy a helicopter in the future when he was eating.
In the second half, Haslem continued to start the game with Lu Yu, and he did a perfect job of defending Nowitzki alone or in the pick-and-roll.
The Suns' starting lineup made the Mavericks a bit unable to take care of themselves. The constant defensive counterattacks almost destroyed the confidence of the Mavericks players. Lu Yu only had the ball, and the five Mavericks players were nervous, but Lu Yu rarely used it by himself.
Taking the initiative to attack means throwing the ball to whoever has the opportunity.
Under Lu Yu's organization in the Suns, as long as the Mavericks dare to flank him, he will be able to find his teammates in open positions, and his teammates only need to stand in their familiar shooting positions.
At the end of the three quarters, the Suns led the Mavericks 99-69, leading by 30 points.
At the beginning of the last quarter, D'Antoni originally planned to call it quits, but saw that Johnson still sent all the Mavericks' main players, with no intention of surrender, so he continued to send in the starting lineup for the first quarter, and Nash replaced Bass.
Thiel.
Zhang Weiping commented: "Since Battier came, Nash's playing time has become less. The Suns' reliance on Nash lies more in his leadership of the second team."
Sun Yiping smiled and said: "It's a pity that Nash didn't come on the bench, otherwise he would have been the best sixth man of the season. D'Antoni replacing Nash has actually given the Mavericks enough face. If they continue to use Battier, the Mavericks will
I guess there won’t be any fights.”
Zhang Weiping nodded: "Now it depends on whether Johnson is willing to give up this game. Logically speaking, this is the first game of the series. When losing by so many points, most coaches will choose to give up... Lu Yu is really great.
, it’s a pleasure to watch him play.”
The huge butterfly effect caused by Lu Yu changed Zhang Weiping from Weiping Bryant to Weiping Lu. Now every time he explains a Suns game, he always feels uncomfortable if he doesn't praise Lu Yu twice.
The Mavericks couldn't catch up with the score, and the game entered garbage time early. Lu Yu also sat on the sidelines and started to rest early. His statistics were fixed at 32 points, 11 assists, 9 rebounds and 3 steals. It was a pity that he did not get a triple-double.
In fact, it is easy for Lu Yu to get a rebound statistic. Haslem intended to let Lu Yu get a rebound to get a statistic, but Lu Yu did not grab it. He was not interested in getting a statistic.
D'Antoni also decided to replace Lu Yu after seeing Lu Yu's unwillingness to improve statistics.
Six players from the Suns team scored in double figures, Haslem with 21 points, Richardson with 17 points and Marion with 19 points.
The Mavericks also had three people score in double figures, but it was not Nowitzki who scored the most, but Marbury's 22 points and 4 assists. Finley and Nowitzki both scored 19 points, and Marbury scored both.
Nash got it when he was on the court, but it became much more difficult for him to score after being replaced by Richardson.
This made him never underestimate Richardson again.
Everyone originally thought that Richardson got the championship ring by following Lu Yu. Everyone called him Lu Yu's sword-carrying bodyguard. Unexpectedly, the sword of this sword-carrying bodyguard seemed to be a bit sharp.
In fact, Richardson is a typical top 3D player.
There is defense and there are three-pointers.
Except for the occasional flaw that it needs a little reward mechanism, everything else is perfect.
For example, this time, Lu Yu promised to give him a game console.
"ESPn NBA 2k5" released last year adjusted Richardson's rating to 86 points. He was very happy. He has become a bit addicted to playing 2k recently.
Lu Yu promised him that as long as he can win the championship this year, he will give him a game console to play 2k.
2k has become so popular recently. Lu Yu plans to use the name of the magazine to cooperate with 2k next year. Why can espn cooperate but my magazine cannot?
However, magazines will eventually be eliminated with the advent of the Internet age.
Lu Yu once played a game with Richardson and found that his score was only 98. He suddenly felt that this game company was not good.
Why is it only 98 points?
Don’t players like me deserve full marks? This chapter has been completed!
