ATPnovel Chapter 530 Victory Unchanged
Chapter 530 Victory Unchanged
Chapter 530 Victory Unchanged
Crawford and Jeff Green did play well, better than the main lineup.
The Clippers have obvious weaknesses in their scoring strengths. Paul is not aggressive and Redick needs his teammates to help create opportunities. If it is really a pure ball offense, Crawford is really good.
But the two of them didn't play at a super god level, and there was nothing they could do about it, that kind of situation was really too rare.
The Nuggets' defense is not fake either. They can just shoot from the outside.
It is so difficult to play against a team in the league.
In the last 5 minutes of the game, the score gap between the two sides was still so large, and the Clippers were a little discouraged.
Next, they deliberately looked for three-pointers, but facing the Nuggets' defense, they only surrendered 7 of 2 answers.
Back to back, lack of inside substitutes, all these are just minor troubles. If you want to win the Nuggets, you must have a strong combat power yourself, and it is impossible to take advantage of it.
After the game, Clippers coach Rivers chattered and expressed his dissatisfaction, thinking that the Nuggets were taken care of by the referees.
Whether he wanted to divert attention to help the players or really thought so, it was useless for the losing side to say anything.
Some Nuggets players made sarcastic remarks, but Xiang Chu did nothing.
To be honest, the Clippers are no longer their opponents in the West. This team with a good lineup actually has obvious flaws. They can still play in the regular season, and they can only be younger brothers in the playoffs.
The Nuggets have a day off and have another away game, but it's better to go to Dallas if it's closer.
The distance between the away games is also different. Some places are too far apart and I really feel rushed.
That is to say, they are a group of people with strong physical fitness. If ordinary people let alone play games, it will be very tiring to walk around.
The Mavericks' record this season is neither good nor bad, and they have been like this for several seasons.
To be honest, the Chandler, Matthews and others they spent a lot of money on in the past two seasons are not very good.
Nowitzki is aging day by day, and it is not easy for them to keep their place in the playoffs.
Although there are still more than 20 games in the regular season, if there is no accident, the top five in the Western Conference are already stable, while the sixth to tenth in the Western Conference are not stable.
If the Mavericks don't play well later, it will take minutes to fall out of the top eight, so their teams at this stage dare not take it lightly.
In fact, every season reaches the final stage of the regular season, and the most competitive players are also marginal players in the playoffs.
For strong teams, many of them are preparing for the playoffs, sometimes they will pull back, and the competition may not be so intense.
The Mavericks' lineup is actually not bad. Their problem is a bit similar to the Clippers on the offensive end. Their strengths are not strong enough, but the Mavericks are more because of the aging of Dirk Nowitzki, and on the defensive end. Belongs to the type that is not strong enough to defend.
If the goal is only the playoffs, they can't be said to be bad, but in the West where there are many strong players, the Mavericks are not enough. Their young players are indeed not good enough.
The old guys who can play in the team are much worse than the Spurs.
To face Xiang Chu, the Mavericks also arranged for Pachulia as a meat shield. If Pachulia defended against him, he would barely be able to do so. Even this Xiang Chu, who moves too slowly and is full of magical skills, would fight casually.
Xiang Chu's strength lies in the fact that there is no insider in the league who can face him, and there are fewer insiders who can slightly restrict him. This is more domineering than James and Curry.
Although the two, including Durant, can't be completely restrained one-on-one, there are still some players who can be restrained a little bit. With the contribution of the defensive end, Xiang Chu is the only one.
The center forward is in decline now, but his control over the game is hard to match in other positions.
The Mavericks' starting strategy is to let Nowitzki play, and the Nuggets don't mind, just let Jokic consume the opponent.
Nowitzki no longer needs to flank, it is better to cut off the connection between him and other teammates, and Nowitzki does not have the physical strength to explode the whole game.
Nowitzki’s efficiency in the first quarter was not bad, but the rest of the Mavericks didn’t feel good, while Xiang Chu for the Nuggets crushed Pachulia. The outside players didn’t feel very good or bad, anyway Simply ahead.
During the rotation period, the Mavericks slowly stabilized on the offensive end.
The Mavericks' bench lineup is okay. Felton, Barea, Harris and David Lee are all capable of fighting. The Nuggets are still affected without Nurkic.
The main problem is the defense. It will be much easier for Xiang Chu to go down and the opponent will attack the inside line, but Jojic's defense will not work.
However, the offensive power of the Nuggets' bench lineup is not bad. Not to mention Jeremy Lin, David West, and Gary Harris, Dudley and Ingles are also becoming more and more stable. enough.
And other people have no chance for the time being. After training with the Nuggets for most of the season, whether it is a few rookies or a fringe player like Curry, they have shown their own advantages.
Therefore, when the Mavericks' rotation lineup played well, the Nuggets were not overtaken by the opponent.
In the second quarter, the Mavericks had an inside crisis. They tried to let the undrafted Mejri come up and down, but this tall player couldn't keep up with the strength of the fifth position. Niu chose to play a small lineup.
Xiang Chu found that the current small lineup in the league is still a panacea, which can be used for any problems.
The reason is that small lineups are easy to form, and there are too few good big men.
This trend has given some players opportunities and also reduced the possibility of big centers appearing. It can only be said that one version of one generation of gods.
After the main lineups of both sides played again, the Nuggets extended their lead to double digits.
The Mavericks' main lineup played really poorly in the first half, and everyone except Nowitzki was sleepwalking.
A Nowitzki who is no longer at his peak is definitely not the opponent of the Nuggets. It is normal for the Mavericks to fall behind.
Carlisle can be regarded as a relatively calm head coach, and now he wants to scold his mother after seeing the team's performance.
Then after entering the locker room, he really started cursing. The team made zero three-pointers in the first half, believe it or not.
The Mavericks must adjust their play style, but the Nuggets have no such plan. The Mavericks don't need to pay special attention to that player, they just need to do a good job of team defense.
In the third quarter, the Mavericks still let Nowitzki play, but Nowitzki's efficiency has begun to decline.
Just when the fans thought the ball might be spent, the situation changed.
Chandler suddenly opened up, hit consecutive shots from outside the three-point line, and began to crush Gallinari on both offense and defense.
Maybe the Mavericks themselves didn't think of it, but the situation just happened, and the Mavericks narrowed the score of the two teams to single digits.
(End of this chapter)