Chapter 877 The ‘Familiar’ Nowitzki!

In the KeyArena, in front of the Dallas Mavericks' bench, Rick Carlisle, who was standing on the sidelines, was so angry that his hands, feet, and even his whole body were shaking!

If he didn't have a strong enough mental quality.

Rick Carlisle has really rushed into the court now!

For this game, he and his Mavericks have made a lot of game plans.

Each game plan shows how hungry they are for this game and how uncomfortable they were in the last game!

In this game, they want to let the Supersonics and Durant know what cruelty is!

After being defeated by the black eight, the Mavericks have never been so high-profile.

After the black eight, low-key has become a gene engraved in the blood of the Mavericks.

In the past two days, the Mavericks have been incredibly high-profile!

But!

This game made Rick Carlisle and his Mavericks feel even more uncomfortable than the last game!

Carlisle's current state is very unstable, and the assistant referee next to him certainly noticed it.

Assistant referee: "Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, if you are impulsive, I can only blow the whistle on you too!"

Carlisle:...

Damn it!

The NBA's always impartial referees actually sympathized with him like this!

To be honest, the assistant referees and the referee on duty were very sympathetic to the Mavericks' experience in these two games.

Durant's foul was a mockery of their refereeing work.

Damn, we didn't blow the whistle, and you went to the free throw line, what does this mean?

Yes, celebrating in advance is a mockery of the defensive players.

Damn, you make a foul and mock your opponent, why do you mock our referees? !

To be honest, the referees also wanted to beat Durant in these two games, but because of the NBA's refereeing rules and regulations, they wanted to beat Durant severely, but in the end they had to blow the whistle!

This is uncomfortable.

According to the current NBA rules, Durant's foul is a shooting foul with two free throws.

Rick Carlisle is not satisfied, and they are unhappy, so they have to blow the whistle like this.

After Durant suffered an injury and went undercover on Yes, he was like a different kind of mudslide!

James and Durant, the two geniuses in the undercover world, are now using their own ways to keep Yes away from the focus of news and the wind of public opinion.

In the East, James played the tricks on the Heat and Wade to the extreme, and even the Celtics players felt sorry for Wade.

And Durant suddenly changed his style in the West, and played the tricks on the Mavericks to the extreme, and even the referee sympathized with the Mavericks in the game.

The Dallas Mavericks came to Seattle with a very tenacious fighting spirit in this game.

Such tenacious fighting spirit allowed Kwame Brown to beat Kwame Brown again in a jump ball.

However, such tenacious fighting spirit disappeared directly and turned into greater resentment when Durant caused Afflalo to foul in the first attack of the opening, and caused Afflalo to foul again in the third attack of the opening.

The Mavericks vowed to make the Supersonics and Durant play well in this game, but Durant fouled the team's core player on the perimeter twice after just two minutes of play. This is really no way to play!

Even if you are not a Mavericks fan, you know how important Afflalo is to the Mavericks.

During the regular season, Afflalo was considered by experts and reporters from various media in the United States to be the boss who is more like the boss than Nowitzki!

Such a player is more important than Kwame Brown in the offense and defense of the Mavericks.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

On the defensive end, Afflalo is the only defensive spearhead on the perimeter of the Mavericks.

The Mavericks do not have an outstanding defensive spearhead on the perimeter. It is Afflalo's responsibility to defend against Yes, Wade, Kobe and other top players on the perimeter of the league.

Of course, some of these top players can be defended by Afflalo, and some of those who cannot be defended will be double-teamed.

If there is no Afflalo, the Mavericks can't even find a defensive player to double-team on the perimeter!

On the offensive end, it goes without saying that Carlisle's latest offensive system was created based on Afflalo.

When Afflalo was in a foul crisis and had to leave the court, the Mavericks' offense became disordered and their defense became messy.

Kwame Brown was still on the court, and the Mavericks' inside defense was indeed still strong.

But Josh Howard and Monta Ellis's double-teaming of Yes, or Monte Ellis and Terry's double-teaming of Yes, was simply a joke, and it was a very eye-catching joke!

In the six minutes after Afflalo left the court, the Dallas Mavericks let Yes score 12 points in these six minutes. In the eighth minute of the game, when the Mavericks were 16 to 26 and Afflalo was really necessary, the Mavericks were actually in a state of collapse on the court.

Letting Afflalo play was a gamble by Carlisle, and it was also a gamble that had to be done and there was no other way.

Afflalo was fouled by Durant in this game, and he accepted it, but he couldn't stand watching the Dallas Mavericks lose and be defeated like this!

With Afflalo on the court, the Mavericks, who had collapsed, revived.

The 10-point difference on the court was once again caught up by the Mavericks because of the tactical changes of the Supersonics on the court.

Afflalo did not play, and the Supersonics' tactic was to take advantage of Afflalo's absence and try to widen the gap.

Afflalo is on the court, and he is in danger of fouling. If he doesn't foul Afflalo, will he be worthy of Durant's mudslide-like talent?

To be honest, Nelson really didn't plan to continue to make the Mavericks foul in this game.

Kwame Brown is almost immune to it.

He also doesn't believe that with Carlisle's level, Carlisle will not let other Mavericks players pay attention to and practice against Durant's foul-making talent.

However, no matter how much they calculated, Nelson and Carlisle didn't expect it.

Durant's talent for foul-making is really not immune to a few words of technical guidance or experience guidance. This requires actual matchups and actual operations to experience.

Kwame Brown has indeed been instructing other Mavericks players on how to fight against Durant's foul-making these two days.

But in this game, Durant's arm swing against Afflalo and his arm swing against him are completely different.

After all, Kwame Brown is an inside player, taller than Durant, while Afflalo is an outside player, shorter than Durant, and much shorter. The experience summed up by Kwame Brown is useless to Afflalo!

And Kwame Brown's height is not what Afflalo can have.

In this case, Durant has such an advantage over Afflalo, how could old Nelson give up?

Not to mention that old Nelson will not give up, Yes will not give up!

Without Afflalo, the Mavericks have become disordered on the offensive end. Terry and Monta Ellis stand on the outside, that is, the rhythm of going it alone to the end!

And Yes likes this rhythm very much!

His touch in this game is still not so good.

I don't know if it was because he won the last game against the Spurs too much.

According to the recent domestic sayings about his character, he hurt his character in the series against the Spurs, and his character in this series is a bit low.

Judging from the touch in this game, which is even lower than the last game.

If Afflalo was still there, Yes would have had a harder time than the last game.

But Afflalo was absent for most of the time, so Yes was a little reckless.

It doesn't matter if the touch is not high. When Terry and Monta Ellis double-team, there is a 20% touch bonus of "I just want to gank you", plus Zhu Fangyu's "One second four-star card" 20% three-pointer attribute improvement bonus.

108 three-pointer ability plus the 20% touch bonus of "I just want to gank you" is still very powerful.

When facing Afflalo, Yes really didn't dare to use Zhu Fangyu's one second four-star card, and the shot was 100% slow, waiting to be blocked.

But facing Terry and Monta Ellis, Yes is really fearless!

Originally a game with a very bad touch, Yes played a game as if his touch exploded.

It must be said that Durant's foul on Afflalo in this game was really awesome!

Carlisle committed two fouls on Afflalo but still played in the first quarter. This was a fight and a gamble.

As for the final result of the gamble, did he win or lose?

At the end of the first quarter, the Mavericks, who had been 10 points behind, caught up with the score at the end, 34 to 34, and the two teams were tied!

But Afflalo's fouls went from 2 to 4.

At first, it only took Durant 2 minutes to foul Afflalo, but later it took 4 minutes to foul Afflalo 2.

Afflalo is slowly becoming immune to Durant's fouls.

Maybe like Kwame Brown, Afflalo also became completely immune in the next game, but this game...

In the first quarter, his outside core had four fouls. Damn, at the end of the first quarter, Carlisle really couldn't play and beat people, but Carlisle turned around and kicked his stool hard!

Maybe at that moment, he saw the stool as Durant.

Durant's foul-making style made the Supersonics only score 8 points in 4 minutes.

The tactic of letting Durant commit fouls has a huge impact on the Supersonics' offensive system.

But whether facing Kwame Brown or Afflalo, it is worth it.

These two are the pillars of the Mavericks. It may be a loss for other Mavericks players, but for these two, it is a short-term loss and a long-term gain.

Isn't it just a 10-point lead in the first quarter?

As long as Afflalo is completely out of the game, it will be no problem to get a few more points!

In fact, it is true.

In the first quarter, Afflalo was fouled four times, and Carlisle had no intention of winning this game.

He and his team had only one goal in this game, that is to beat Durant hard!

While Afflalo is still on the court, beat Durant as much as you can!

Afflalo's organization of the Mavericks team to beat Durant was very effective.

I have to say that Afflalo is really suitable to be the core of the organization. He was so badly fooled in this game, but he was still able to organize his teammates to beat Durant in such an orderly manner. Ibaka, who was watching from the side, felt a chill in his heart.

When Durant was not there, Afflalo organized the Mavericks players to beat him like this.

Kwame Brown, Nowitzki, Terry, Alice, Josh Howard and Afflalo himself...

Every strong player of the Mavericks has left a mark on him that he will never forget.

Durant is miserable now, but he is much better than he was before.

It has to be said that it was right to replace him as the starting player as soon as Durant returned.

In just a dozen minutes, if he stayed on the court, the Sonics would probably collapse directly!

KD was beaten badly, but he held on!

Not only did he hold on, but he also fouled Afflalo six times one minute before the end of the first half!

The Mavericks surrounded Durant on the offensive end.

And on the offensive end, the Sonics helped Durant chase Afflalo all over the world.

This style made the American media, reporters and many experts on the sidelines want to laugh and cry.

Compared with another divisional semifinal in the West, the match between the Sonics and the Mavericks was really a fight between novices from beginning to end.

No wonder, as time goes by, more and more people think that the Nuggets and the Lakers are the teams that represent the breakthrough in the West.

The Mavericks and the Sonics really have a lot of problems!

Afflalo tried very hard not to be fouled by Durant.

But he had four fouls in the first quarter, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't last until the third quarter.

Although the Mavericks led the Supersonics 60-55 in the first half.

But in the third quarter without Afflalo, the Mavericks were already 5 points behind at the end of the third quarter.

In a single quarter, the Mavericks, who worked so hard and were so tenacious, still lost 10 points in a single quarter without Afflalo.

The final score of the game between the Supersonics and the Mavericks was 122-109. The Seattle Supersonics won another game at their home court, tying the score to 2-1!

The victory of this game is not just as simple as letting the Supersonics lead in the big score.

More importantly, the probability of supporting the Supersonics to advance suddenly increased from 20% to 70%!

"I swear, in the next game, Durant will definitely target Nowitzki!"

"Durant's tactics are too cheap!"

"It's too cheap, but invincible is really invincible!"

"I can't think of anyone who can stop Durant's targeting right away!"

On May 10, 2009, Dallas Mavericks fans turned on the TV with anxiety and trepidation.

But when the game was over, every Mavericks fan in front of the TV was opening their mouths.

121 to 112!

Dallas Mavericks win!

What's more shocking is not the victory.

But Nowitzki's data on TV...

12 of 15 shots, 80% hit rate

24 of 24 free throws, 100% free throw hit rate

93.9 true hit rate and 48 points!

"Another game of QJ failed and was C..."

Is this still the familiar Nowitzki?

In the silent KeyArena, Barkley stared blankly at the sweaty Mavericks No. 41 on the court...