NBA: Defensive master, averaging five doubles per game

In the first round against the king, Long Fei was still one of the brightest players on the court!

The data of four double-doubles in two games made him look like a star player.

But after entering the second round, his statistics and performance have declined tremendously, especially in the first half of G2 tonight, Long Fei is even similar to those fringe players in terms of participation and data presentation.

The most important thing is that this makes Long Fei very uncomfortable.

The situation that caused this huge contrast, in addition to the Rockets' "marginalization" strategy, was the Mavericks' change of formation tonight.

But the reason is because Long Fei is not in the core position.

In this way, Long Fei was thinking about a question: "It seems that if you want to become a superstar, you have to become the core of the team in the first step!"

Long Fei was right, to become a superstar, you need enough honors, and enough honors require strong data presentation.

And for a player to have enough stats, he needs to have enough possession on both ends of the floor,

and on the offensive end, like Nash and Nowitzki, he either has enough possession or has enough shots.

As a defender, you need to play against the ball carrier consistently.

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Obviously, in the first half of this G2, Long Fei was not used by the team as the defensive core of a team.

Of course, it's not that Long Fei's team thinks Long Fei's defensive ability is not good, it's just that the team decided not to play defense and play an offensive strategy.

But think about it the other way around.

There are strong players like

Long Fei, and the team doesn't even play defense? Thinking about it, Long Fei still feels that the coaching staff doesn't seem to pay special attention to him, at least they don't use him as the core to build the team's tactics.

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Of course, as a rookie player and joining a top team like the Mavericks, it is certainly impossible for the team to have a rookie as the core.

Long Fei thinks about the future.

Well, first gain a foothold in the Mavericks, and it's better to fight for the core position.

If not, we'll talk about it then.

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What Long Fei didn't know was that in fact, in the Mavericks' coaching staff, there was an assistant coach who highly respected him as the core of the team

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! At halftime, Nelson Sr. praised the Mavericks players for playing well in the first half and encouraged them to build on in the second half.

It seems that the old Nelson intends to fight the offense to the end.

Soon, the half-time break ended, and the second half came.

In the third quarter, the two teams played the same style as in the first half, and they still played against each other.

The difference is that compared to the first half, both teams have seen a slight drop in form, and their shooting percentages have declined.

It was exactly 29:28 in the first quarter.

At the end of the third quarter, the Mavericks still led by 13 points at 90:77.

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This situation is obviously unfavorable for the Rockets who are playing away from home.

After all, as time goes by, they are behind by double digits, and they will become more and more eager to chase points.

And in the second half, especially in the second half, with the loss of Da Yao's physical energy, their absolute advantage on the inside will be slowly weakened.

Relatively, for the Mavericks, the advantage is getting bigger and bigger.

From the current situation, it seems that winning tonight is already a sure thing.

In this way, the fans on the scene are already excited.

"Defeat Team Rocket with offense, drown them with the tide!" "

Sure enough, we still have to play offense, this is the most familiar thing.

"Nelson Sr. is a legendary coach, this kind of on-the-spot change is too bold, and most importantly, it is very effective!"

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In the first half of the fourth quarter, the Mavericks still maintained a lead of about 15 points.

And the Rockets were caught by Long Fei and Nowitzki by Da Yao, so they could only rely on Maddie to score.

Although Maddie has scored 28 points against Finley, it is clearly not enough to chase the score.

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However, as the game entered the final six minutes, a substitution from the Rockets changed the course of the game.

Van Gundy replaced Sula and Bowen with two three-point shooters, Mike James and Joan Barry.

They don't want

to defend either! They can't defend anyway, so let's fight with the Mavericks to attack completely!......

The move worked wonders, and as soon as they got on the court, Joanbarry and Mike James combined to shoot three three-pointers, directly narrowing the margin to only single digits.

But at this time, the old Nelson didn't believe in evil at all, he didn't call a timeout, nor did he make any tactical changes, insisting on letting Long Fei and Dirk go to the pinch of Da Yao, and not give him a chance to play easily under the basket.

As for the role players of the Rockets, they may be able to get one or two shots, but can he be accurate all the time?

If not, then the Mavericks' steady offensive scoring can still win the game in the end.

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But soon, Mavericks fans realized that something was wrong.

Joanbarry's three-pointer did hit the mark, but in the next round, David Willis followed up, and he even hit Nash's second!

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Such a dense back-to-back three-point shot is not the style of the Rockets at all.

Fans even have the illusion that the Mavericks and the Rockets have swapped identities, and that the Mavericks should be the team that shoots three-pointers like this.

But the Mavericks' three-point shooting in the fourth quarter was mediocre, and it can only be said that at the passing line, they relied more on Dirk and Terry's mid-range shots to score.

At this time, Long Fei, even if he wanted to rely on his personal defense to help the team keep the victory, he couldn't do it.

On the one hand, he has to carry out the task that Nelson Sr. assigned to him to pinch Da Yao, and once he frequently leaves the defensive area, the Rockets will definitely hit the ball under the basket.

On the other hand, because the Rocket team is multi-point flowering, even if Long Fei can make room to help defend the outside, he does not have a clear goal.

Joan Barry, David Wesley, Mike James, and even Maddie could all go and shoot the ball in one of the offensive rounds.

In the final analysis, today's Long Fei, although the individual defense is at a historical level, there is no good way to face this kind of collective team attack.

What's more, it's still a situation of tactical constraints.

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In this way, in the last few minutes, Mavericks fans experienced a "nightmare" that they could not have imagined.

The originally stable score advantage was lost by a group of role players of the Rockets.

In the final stage, the scores of the two teams were anxious, and the Rockets grabbed Nash, Finley and Terry, three players with limited defensive ability, to play and shoot.

And they all shot in very magically

! Even if they called a timeout, they couldn't stop the Rockets' fiery shooting touch

! In the end, the Rockets shot an exaggerated 44 points in the final quarter!

And the Mavericks also lost to the Rockets 116-119 at home, so the total score came to 0:2

and lost two home games in a row, and the first place in the league was already in jeopardy!