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Chapter 83 The X factor that determines the game

 The ball was sent from the Mavericks' backcourt, and Terry took the ball and came to the frontcourt.

Atkins walked forward slightly, stood there half-bowed, looking at Terry three meters away.

Terry stood there, as if he was casually waving the ball on the spot, but his eyes were watching the whole half.

Then Nowitzki, who was standing in the right horn position, took the pick-and-roll, and Kobe immediately understood what happened, looked back at the entire situation, empty Howard, who was outside the three-point line, took action in advance.

Just as Nowitzki rushed to Atkins quickly, Terry was like a cunning rabbit and moved to the center along the three-point line. Kobe inserted it out of the inside in time and blocked Terry's breakthrough line.

Tribble paused, and just as Kobe was about to put on his body, he suddenly accelerated again. After a break, his body changed direction again, and he jumped over from Kobe's other side with a big leap.

Kobe subconsciously made a foul and didn't want Terry to score easily. Terry got up and shot. Even with Kobe's interference, he still maintained a stable shooting posture. Even if Anderson had already made up his position and Zhang Wu's huge hands, Terry's move was still firm.

The wrist trembled gently, and the ball rolled away like a spiritually flying.

"Beep!" The referee blew the thug's whistle.

Kobe and Terry hugged each other in a mess and sat on the ground.

Terry immediately started to bounce back and yelled loudly. Two points are valid, and there is a penalty for one more time!

"Swish!" (106:111)

Terry turned around and ran towards his half, shouting loudly as he ran.

The Lakers attacked, Kobe received the ball, pulled it to the low post and forced Howard to take, attract Terry to hit the ball, and then passed the ball. Atkins received the ball and swung his body, dribbled the ball to the left, and his body, which was moving quickly to the left, suddenly stopped the moment he received the ball, spread his body, and without hesitation, he opened his hand and shot.

"Swish!" (106:113)

The Mavericks' offense, and it was the high pick-and-roll cooperation between Terry and Nowitzki. Terry firmly broke through and took Odom away, and returned the ball to Nowitzki at the free throw line. Nowitzki leaned against Kobe, turned around and leaned back to make a mid-range shot. (108:113)

The Lakers suppressed the Mavericks in this game. One of the important reasons is that the two wings of the team Kobe and Butler suppressed Josh Howard's singles. However, at the critical moment, the other scoring points of the Mavericks were still stable. Especially the pick-and-roll of Terry and Nowitzki, which is a killer weapon. Terry's offensive threat can bring the best offensive environment to Nowitzki.

Kobe received the ball in a low post, turned around, then shook his body violently to the left and right, and then turned his whole body with his left foot as the center axis, got up, leaned back, and shot out.

The basketball almost flew over the bottom line, rubbing the edge of the rebound high, falling like a basket. (108:115)

"Huh!" Sitting on the ground, Kobe looked at Howard, who was still in the cover position, slowly stretched out his right hand, raised his index finger and gently shook it in front of his mouth.

Howard looked back at the basket helplessly, as if he still didn't believe that the ball had entered, but immediately returned to his expression.

The Mavericks attacked, and the two wings ran repeatedly and pulled the formation. Nowitzki singled out Odom, and the fake action pointed Odom, without a strong breakthrough, and a time difference was used.

"clang!"

The ball simply hit the inner edge of the basket and bounced into the basket. (110:115)

Nowitzki raised his right arm high and clenched his fists tightly.

Every audience member had an excited expression on his face, and no one was immersed in the exciting game, and his breathing seemed to start to suck with every bounce of the orange basketball.

Under the leadership of their respective leaders, the offensive and defensive rhythms of both sides were extremely fast and smooth, and no one allowed every audience present to have a leisurely time to think about anything or care about anything. Everyone could only devote themselves to it.

"Bang!" After success in the attack, Kobe missed his first offense and failed under the attack of Starkhouse and Howard.

Nowitzki got the ball again and made only a fake move. He opened his hand and shot the basketball in his hand one step outside the three-point line on the right.

"Brush!" Another crisp sound, the score difference was narrowed to 2 points. (113:115)

The audience finally heard a unanimous shout: "MVP!MVP!MVP!"

Nowitzki is not as eager to perform as a local American player, he simply straightens his arms and greets the audience.

"MVP!MVP!MVP!" This time, the voice became louder and more crazy.

In the last three minutes, Ke Yan requested a timeout, and the score was only two points away, and the battle between the two sides became fierce.

After returning from the timeout, the Lakers completed the change of the team again. Barnes replaced Atkins, Ke Yan won the team's point guard on the court, and handed over the half-time task directly to Kobe and Odom.

This adjustment directly brought the Lakers height and body shape advantages. Odom was skilled in controlling the ball and had no big problems as a guest point guard. The Lakers' point guard Atkins also had no ability to organize offense. His main responsibility was to hold the ball across the half and then stand outside to pull up space.

Ke Yan's move directly made the Mavericks players lose the direction of adjustment. Terry gritted his teeth and went up to defend Odom, and was easily suppressed by the opponent and committed a foul.

The fans of the court made a huge boo to interfere with Odom's free throw. Odom, who lost his chain for a long time, withstood the pressure and made both free throws. (113:117)

It was also taking advantage of this free throw that the Mavericks players communicated with each other and rearranged the defensive tasks.

The Mavericks served in the backcourt, and Kobe led Terry to defend the whole game. Under extremely strong pressure, Terry dribbled in a deviation and smashed the ball towards Kobe before he was about to go out of bounds, barely retaining the ball.

However, this entanglement caused the Mavericks to lose 6 seconds, and the backcourt serve must be thrown to the frontcourt as soon as possible, otherwise it is easy to violate the rules in 8 seconds.

The Lakers continued to defend at high pressure. The five people on the field, including center Anderson, are all tall and long and have strong athletic ability. Nowitzki did not send the ball within five seconds and called a timeout in time.

Ke Yan made a prediction on the tactical board about the serving route that Johnson might have designed. With a short 30-second pause, he explained four possibilities, which also made Monty Williams next to him admire, "After all, it's from Europe, and it's so particular to serve a sideline ball!"

More importantly, Ke Yan was not talking about it on paper. In the next round, the Lakers' position successfully forced Nowitzki to make a mistake in serving. No one touched the ball, and the ball flew directly out of the other sideline.

On the surface, it was Nowitzki's mistake, but in fact, Terry was obviously more responsible for this goal! It was even said that this was not the worst result for the Mavericks. If the Lakers intercepted the ball and launched a counterattack directly, the score difference would be widened to 6 points, that would be troublesome!

The Lakers attacked, the Mavericks' defense was reasonable, Trie watched Barnes in the corner, Nowitzki pulled out to defend Odom, Starkhouse wrestled with Butler, and Howard, who had the best defense, was in charge of Kobe.

Kobe, who had already scored 44 points, went around to the right low post to receive the ball, single against Starkhouse, and flexibly shook howling to open Howard's defensive center of gravity. However, the subsequent turn and shooting power was not well grasped. Danpier protected the rebound and handed the ball to Terry as soon as possible.

Terry dribbled through the half-court and shook twice in succession, but still did not flash out the angle. Ko stood firmly in front of him like a rock. The ball was passed helplessly. After passing the outside guide two times, Nowitzki ran over from the right bottom line and caught the ball.

Odom was behind him, and Nowitzki did not stop his pace. He took advantage of the rush to squeeze into the inside. Kobe and Odom "closed" in time. Nowitzki turned into one step, jumped into the three-second zone in one step, rode a horse and shot an arrow, and threw the ball out.

The ball threw high, but before it reached its highest point, one hand appeared in front of it at the right time.

"Pan!" The hand and the basketball screamed loudly!

Anderson stood there and waved his "wings" again. At the critical moment, the birdman appeared in a critical position and gave a fatal block!

The Mavericks served on the sideline. After a large-scale run, Terry caught the ball and turned his hand to Howard in the horn position.

Howard leaned against Butler behind him, jumped sideways, forcibly got rid of Butler's defensive range, and leaned back to take action.

A hand appeared in front of it surprisingly again, and then once again ruthlessly covered the basketball.

Odom pushed Anderson heavily to express his joy, and other teammates also took a rest and stepped forward to slap Anderson to show encouragement.

On the sidelines, Ke Yan, who had always been calm, jumped up excitedly. The two consecutive blocks were so encouraging!
Chapter completed!
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