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The future of Wang Zhi is exciting, but Popovich does not want to give up the victory in front of him!

Although Wang Zhi scored 23 points in the first quarter, the Mavericks had almost no advantage. At 32:31, they only led by 1 point.

Wang Zhi played the entire first quarter, and the Spurs gave the main players a break in the last three minutes.

In the final analysis, the defense of the Mavericks is indeed not Excellent. The Spurs' extremely targeted offense combined with their good state today, so the two sides played inextricably.

Of course, apart from the Mavericks getting rid of Wang Zhi, it has a lot to do with the bad feel of the rest of the players.

Throughout the first quarter, Dirk Nowitzki made 1 of 3 shots and scored 2 points.

Michael Finley made 1 of 4 shots and scored 3 points.

Steve Nash was 1 of 5 and only had 2 points.

Van Exel scored 1 and 2 of 3.

The main firepower is so weak that Wang Zhi is almost fighting alone. To some extent, he can still lead the Spurs by 1 point, which is already considered very good.

However, now comes the problem.

Wang Zhi played the entire first quarter and always had to rest, so how will the Mavericks spend the first half of the second quarter?

This question was quickly put in front of the fans.

The Mavericks' rotation is played by Nick Van Exel with Raja Bell and Sean Bradley. Without Wang Zhi, the entire lineup is counting on the nerve knife Van Exel to drive.

Unfortunately, the cheers from the fans at the scene did not help him find his shooting touch. The consecutive singles misses gave the Spurs a chance to overtake the score.

Mali Cross, who was severely taught by Wang Zhi in the first quarter, will calm down after taking a rest and receiving psychological counseling from the coaching staff. The bench lineup that led the Spurs once overtook the score and opened it to 5 points.

Seeing this situation, the Mavericks fans at the scene became a little discouraged.

"What's wrong with our players, are they in such a bad state today?"

"Oh, it couldn't be that I ran out of touch in the last game..."

"Wang Zhi wasted such a hot state today, he played like a swindle in the first quarter, but we are still behind.

The anxiety of the fans is not without reason. This is the Mavericks' "Devil's Home Stadium", the venue with the highest winning percentage in the entire NBA regular season.

Playing at home, the players of the Mavericks can always shoot well. Even if one or two players have no touch, other players will explode. It is very rare for 730 to perform almost collectively at home today.

But there is no way, this is the limitation of the jump shooting team, the whole process of the game is closely related to the team's shooting percentage.

And no one knows when the feeling will come.

Finally, with eight minutes left in the second quarter, Nelson Sr. replaced the main lineup.

Steve Nash, Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki, Wang Zhi, River LaFrentz.

The lineup that fans are familiar with is also a lineup that reassures them.

"It's finally changed, let's do it!"

"Hey, the defense and rotation of the Mavericks lineup is really hard to describe. There are loopholes everywhere in the game. If you want to win the championship, Cuban needs to strengthen it in the offseason.

"That's right, the team's salary space is so abundant, make up two defensive players, and expand the depth of the bench, isn't that a championship team!"

Indeed, the Mavericks this season have huge salary space.

michael finley, steve nash and dirk nowitzki are still on a long-term contract, when they signed this long-term contract two years ago, they were not at the level they are today

So the salary of the contract is not high.

Finley and Nowitzki are both 10 million, Van Exel is also 10 million, Nash is only 5 million, and Wang Zhi is even more cabbage price, 3.5 million.

Last season's salary black hole, 20 million Juwan Howard has left the Mavericks this season, so they have released a huge salary space.

The contracts of the Troika and Wang Zhi both expire next year for Xia Tian, ​​which means that next season, the Mavericks will still have a salary bonus.

Judging from the current performance of these players, almost all of them are of great value. In this way, even the fans know that crazy reinforcements next season are more likely to hit the championship. Of course, the team will not understand!

Of course, the Mavericks still have hope of winning the championship this season, but in terms of performance on the field, the overall strength and performance of the entire team is really worse than that of a first-class team like the Spurs .

The offensive end is indeed strong, but the defensive end is also very hip. Once the offense fluctuates, the entire team will be suppressed.

The game continued and the Mavericks attacked.

The good news is that Dirk Nowitzki finally found his touch as soon as he came up. After receiving the ball, he faced Stephen Jackson's defense. After a tentative step, he directly pulled out the middle distance on Jackson's head and made a hit!

But the Spurs immediately retaliated. Duncan wanted to get to the basket, attacked LaFrentz and then grabbed the offensive rebound toughly, scored and caused a foul!

Although Duncan missed the extra penalty, his tough style has already reminded the Mavericks!

In the Mavericks round, Nash dribbled the ball through the frontcourt, and then played a pick-and-roll with Nowitzki, but this time, Nowitzki, who got the ball after the pick-and-roll, turned around and shot, but missed.

Just made a shot, but couldn't make it again. It seems that the top scorer in Dallas still hasn't found his touch.

Such a situation made the fans of Dalas more and more anxious.

You know, in the series against the Trail Blazers in the first round of the playoffs, Dirk Nowitzki was the most incomprehensible existence, averaging 34 points per game!

But since he was double-teamed by the Kings in the second round, his scoring began to plummet. He had two good performances against the Spurs, but there were ups and downs, and he didn't have the explosive touch he had when he played against the Blazers.

Fans naturally have questions: Dirk, what happened?

In fact, Nowitzki himself is also very helpless. In the past two years, his progress has been rapid, and every year in the playoffs has benefited him a lot.

This year's playoffs, after finishing the first round, I thought it would be another year of take-off.

But somehow, that abnormally accurate projection feel is gone.

The good news is that Finley and Nash stepped up.

After the two Dallas pitchers frantically hit the iron in the first quarter, they finally found their touch at this moment, hit consecutive three-pointers, and instantly overtook the score.

Finally, the Mavericks began to hit consecutive three-pointers!

For the Spurs, this is clearly not what they want to see.

In this way, they had to expand their defense. When Duncan was defending the Mavericks' high pick-and-roll, he had to delay out to interfere with Nash, who hit two consecutive three-pointers.

In this way, the Spurs had a chance at the basket, Wang Zhi went to that area very smartly, and then made two consecutive shots at the basket like in the first quarter!

The strategic game on the field seems to have returned to the mode at the beginning.

And the Mavericks also turned from a disadvantaged situation to an advantage in an instant!

After halftime, the Mavericks at home led by three points 59:56.

Wang Zhi scored 6 points in the second quarter, which is not much, or even a little less, compared to the terrifying 23 points in the first quarter.

But even so, Wang Zhi still scored a game-high 29 points in the half, which was more than twice as high as the second place Duncan's 14 points.

Of course, the fact that Wang Zhi scored less is not necessarily a bad thing. This shows that the other players of the Mavericks have opened up. No, in the second quarter, they came from behind and won another 2 points from their opponents.

With a three-point lead, the Mavericks returned to the locker room talking and laughing. After making some adjustments, they continued to meet the challenges of the second half.

Obviously, even if the scene is very intense, most of the Mavericks players seem very relaxed.

But on the other side, the atmosphere of the Spurs is a bit dignified.

The Spurs' season goal is the championship.

And defeating the defending champion Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals gave them great confidence, almost half of the championship.

Later, they heard that the Kings crashed unexpectedly and the Mavericks entered the Western Conference Finals. They even thought that the championship was a sure thing!

Single line, the Mavericks, known as the weakest of the Western Conference Finals, actually led them in the Western Conference Finals!

For the Spurs, if they lose this game and fall behind by a big score of 1:3, this situation is completely unacceptable.

In the (aedb) locker room, Popovich was already furious.

"I said, defend, defend, give the opponent too many chances... You, Tony, make too many turnovers, too many turnovers, we can't make so many turnovers... and You, Manu, don't always think about gambling steals and flops. You can use these things once, but you can't use them all the time. This is their home field, and you won't be allowed to succeed all the time... You, Dee Tom, don't think you'll be fine, you've got to fight your desires, we're going to get points..."

The Spurs players have big heads, and Popovich is notorious for his bad temper. At this time, they can only listen to him scolding.

Bruce Bowen may be a lucky one, he was not named by Popovich, of course, he actually completed his work in the first half.

Being well-behaved, he even chose the corner position as soon as he arrived in the locker room, where Popovich is the farthest and least likely to be affected by his bad temper.

At this time, Popovich has finished his anger and is planning the countermeasures for the second half.

Karlaxton, the third-year player of the Spurs, did not get any chance to play in the playoffs. This kind of game that he can only watch but not play makes him very excited.

But in fact, what he can't stay idle on the court is his mouth.

During the game, he shouted desperately to his teammates, and when he arrived in the locker room, he liked to joke and say something.

At this time, he happened to be sitting next to Bowen, and suddenly he asked, "Bruce, Coach Greg said he should focus on marking Wang Zhi, why didn't he let you in, you are the core of our team's perimeter defense. "

Bo Wen raised his eyebrows and said, "That kid is in great shape. In this state, no one can guard against him in singles!"

Clarkston rolled his eyes, thought of a bad idea, and said, "Bruce, then give him a kick, make him like Vince Carter, and he won't be arrogant!"

These words surprised Bo Wen, and at the same time, the expression on his face was very unnatural.

Obviously, Clarkston is definitely a child who is not very good at talking, and he can't open the pot and lift the lid.

As we all know, Bowen is already notorious in the NBA.

The reason why his reputation is bad, the biggest problem lies in the black feet.

Among them, what made him famous is the continuous black feet against Vince Carter, one of the top four players, since 2000.

At one point on the court, Vince Carter chased him to play.

Regarding this kind of question, Bowen said in a positive manner: "Listen, brother

,Let me first declare that those things you heard are definitely accidents, and I don't know how it can be such a coincidence, Vince Carter has been injured so many times...I am not a dirty defense Man! Besides, you probably don't understand Coach Greg. He doesn't like to play games against Nelson and the Mavericks. He always tells us to win with dignity and calls the Mavericks 'Brothers in Texas.'

Hearing this, young Clarkston nodded thoughtfully.

For the fans of the Mavericks, this first half was still very good after all.

Leading by 3 points at halftime, this advantage is negligible.

But after all, there is no lag behind, and the hope is very long.

If they win the home game tonight with a big score of 3:1, the Mavericks will get three match points in the entire series. This advantage is too great!

And the most important thing is that Wang Zhi scored 29 points in the half. His strong performance tonight made the Spurs completely helpless. The new trick of frequently going to the basket and scoring with his footsteps in this game was a huge surprise.

In this way, Wang Zhi now has become a super all-around player who can shoot suddenly, inside and out.

Driven by the organization and discipline at the scene, they began to shout slogans and looked forward to the performance of the Mavericks and Wang Zhi in the second half.

And in the distant Dragon Kingdom, the fans of the Dragon Kingdom have already woken up this morning!

Wang Zhi's performance amazed them once again!

As early as the end of the first quarter, when they saw Wang Zhi who scored 23 points in a single quarter, they were shocked!

"Oh my god, he hit another explosive score, that's awesome!"

"To be honest, Wang Zhi in the second grade has really reborn, he played well, and I hope Dayao can also perform like this in the future.

"I just can't believe that our players from the Dragon Kingdom can actually play such superstar-level statistics on the stage of the NBA Western Conference Finals."

"Ma Dan, I want to review and apologize for my behavior of hacking Wang Zhi in the past!"

"Will Wang Zhi score 50 points tonight?"

The better Wang Zhi looks, to be honest, the more anxious the big leaders of the Basketball Association will be.

Especially when he witnessed Wang Zhi's all kinds of arrogant performances in the first quarter through the live broadcast, which completely ignited his home performance, he was even more helpless.

He knew exactly how popular a Wang Zhi of this kind would be in the United States.

In this case, perhaps the "beauty trick" he strongly advocated to be performed by the two beautiful girls sent over may not have played a key role.

He knows that kid Wang Zhi's temper!

A young man who dared to directly refuse to return to the team just because he wanted to take the blame, would never compromise in his bones.

Wang Zhi is not like Dayao at all, with his temper, he must be very vengeful and has a lot of revenge.

If you think about it, you know that Wang Zhi will definitely hold a grudge when he led the incident of expulsion of Wang Zhi and the banning of the domestic media.

The last situation that the leaders of the Basketball Association would like to have is to humbly beg Wang Zhi to return to the team.

In that case, he would be too embarrassing.

But right now, if the situation continues to develop like this, this situation will have to appear.

Because Wang Zhi played so well, it attracted the greatest attention from the General Administration of Sports!

The task naturally fell to him.

If he can't complete the task, he can't bear it either.

Dallas, American Airlines Center, the 15 minutes of halftime always go by so quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the second half of the game is about to begin.

The lineups of the two sides in the second half have not changed much compared to tonight's starting lineups.

The Spurs still use Mali Cross to start.

And when the Mavericks players returned to the court, the fans found that Wang Zhi was at the forefront!

And, once again, he raised his hands high, signaling the fans to make a bigger noise.

In an instant, the entire American Airlines Center was boiling again. .