Lucca and his Mavericks won seven consecutive victories. Before they set off for the West to go north, the Mavericks first defeated the Celts who came to the challenge with 95-124, and then there was a fierce battle with pelicans at home.
The game was very hard. Lucca didn’t enter any of the six points, and there were only three assists. Half of his scores were scored in the first quarter, with 11 points in total and 9 points in the second quarter. The first half seemed to imply that it would be another high-score battle. However, although Lucca played for 12 minutes in the third quarter, it was only 1 out of 8, only 3 points. At most 30 points behind the Green Army, Luca did not play in the fourth quarter.
However, the Tatum opposite was much better. He played less than 36 minutes and played his rare three double 29+14+10. This is his sixth season in NBA, and he only recorded three double matches in the 2020-21 season, which is the second time.
23 points are the lowest score since Luca scored 22 points against the Nuggets on December 6. There have been 12 games in the middle, covering nearly a month. In the past 7 consecutive wins, Luca has written one magical high score after another, including 60+21+10 rewriting history. Although no matter how magical the star is, it is impossible for him to get a 50 + high score every other game, and it is normal to make a callback, Luca faced the fiasco of the green army at home this time, but it shows the incredible crisis of the Mavericks behind his high score.
Luca has repeatedly achieved high marks for these reasons:
First, we have outstanding personal abilities and various scoring methods. This is the last thing we need to elaborate on. We met a rare talent.
Secondly, from December to January every year, it is the season for high scores to get together. Firstly, because nearly half of the games were played, many stars were familiar with the system and played more easily, the second reason is that December to January every year is the day when all stars vote, and stars have strong personal motivation.
Third, the new trend of modern basketball is characterized by fast rhythm, many rounds and three points, so it will give birth to more high scores than in the past.
As long as there is no new rule to curb, this trend will continue, and the momentum will increase without decreasing. According to statistics, the 2020-21 season produced a total of 14 50 +, and last season increased to 19. And this season has played nearly half, and there are already 14 50 +, including the seventh in history of Mitchell 71 points, Lucca’s 60 + giant triple double, enbide’s 59 points, booker’s 58 points, the letter’s 55 points, Thompson’s 54 points, etc. This momentum can continue until March, and there were 60 points between Owen and enbede in last March.
But no one like Lucca has produced high scores so intensively and massively. So far, Lucca has firmly occupied the first place in the season with 1224 points, 65 points more than the second Tatum.
There is also the fourth reason, which is Luca’s ultra-high usage rate and right to sell. The so-called usage rate refers to the proportion of the team member participating in the team when the team conducts tactical cooperation. Currently, the first one is 39.1 percent of the letters, and the second one is 38.4 percent of Lucca. However, in terms of player efficiency rating, Lucca ranks first, and yokedge ranks second. The so-called efficiency value (PER) refers to the contribution produced by a player every minute on the court, in the past two years, this is the patent of yokiki, and he has been elected MVP continuously.
Because the attack and transmission in the Mavericks were tied to Luca, his importance to the success or failure of the Mavericks reached an unprecedented level. At present, his total number of shots is 820, which is also ranked first in the league, more than 32 times in the second place of Tatum. The average number of shots Luca ranked first with 22.8 times, and the second was James’s 22.2 times.
Therefore, we can easily see the correlation between his high score and the Mavericks’s 7-game winning streak. Winning a high score is not guaranteed to win, but in the Mavericks, if Luca is prevented, it will be difficult for the Mavericks to win.
If there are few helpers and a large number of players and winning shares are concentrated on one person, the strategy formulation of the opponent is relatively simple, that is, to prevent one person from dying is equal to preventing the whole team from dying. This is the “Jordan Rule” launched by the piston for the bull that year “.
Bulls can be all very powerful, but Jordan is much more powerful than them, so Jordan’s rules apply. Luca is very good, but the people around him are not as good as the Bulls in those years, which is more applicable to Jordan’s rules.
Although The Times have changed and the trend style has changed, the Celts still use Jordan’s rules to deal with Luca. For the Celtics, it was on defense to reach the finals last season. This year, the coach was changed. The attack was strong, but the defense retreated. The last game of Thunder actually lost 150 points, the defeat in the First World War prompted all to pay attention to it and decided to lock Luca with Jordan rules.
It is impossible to prevent Luca from dying. There is only a limit to let him score as low as possible. Popovich baby joked that their strategy was not to let Luca get 50 +, but Luca got 51 points. The Green Army should have no specific limit on scoring goals, but the lower the score, the better.
The simplest and roughest way to limit a star is to attack, but Luca can pass the ball, and the attack is likely to cause the calf to break out three points, so they seldom attack.
The Celtics’s approach is to conduct relieve a garrison and rotation defense in layers and regions, so that Lucca has people in front of each shot.
As one of several important forward-oriented teams in the league (see who will end the long streak first, basketable nets or Guangdong Southern Tigers?), Each Celtics can easily relieve a garrison, including Horford, Tatum and Grant Williams, and Xiao Bai, Brown and broghton. Relieve a Garrison is a big man, Luca is very difficult, relieve a Garrison is a small man, Luca will encounter semi-cooperative defense if he wants to eat alone-it is the kind of person who wants to prevent and jump to try. Once Luca successfully squeezed into the basket, there would be a pinch. In fact, it was not called a pinch at that time, but a containment. The Green Army will only attack when Lucca is at the far end, such as the bottom corner or the farthest distance of 45 degrees. In this way, even if he struggles to pass the ball to the weak side, there is a high risk of mistakes.
The Celtics used the strength of the playoffs. He scored 11 points in the first quarter and 20 points in the first two quarters. However, in the third quarter, the strength was further improved. Luca 8 was 1, and he really couldn’t play. He only assists three times in this game. The Mavericks scored 7 points, 16 green troops, and the three-point comparison was once 4 to 14.
On the contrary, the Celtics played an excellent team basketball. They didn’t stick to their hands, kept shifting and patient, as if they were playing a key playoff game, with 29 assists and 15 Mavericks.
The Celtics can play in this way, because almost everyone in the team can shoot, and their three-point shots are second only to the Warriors League, with the eighth hit rate. The Mavericks ranked third on average, but the hit rate was only in the middle, and now they are short of people. Forward Josh Green, center cliff and forward Finney Smith are all injured. In the starting line they sent, Brock was not allowed to score three points and was always released, which aggravated the pressure of semi-defense, and the rotating players sent nirikina who could not shoot.
After the three important players in the front line were injured, the Mavericks mainly played the offensive lineup. Center wood and Luca actually played the organization forward. The outside line was Ding Weidi and little Hadavi, and then Bullock was added. During the 7-game winning streak, this offensive lineup did not receive much test. Among them, the three-game rockets, the first world war Spurs, were slightly stronger than the New York Nick.
In the playoffs, the Mavericks still have both attack and defense. Apart from Lucca and Bronson, Powell, Finney Smith and Brock are all stronger than defense. Now the nature has changed.
In the playoffs, there will not always be a good thing that the sun will lose 60 points in two games. If the Mavericks think that the pie will fall for the second time in the sky, it will be a big mistake.
We don’t know what Cuban thinks. On the one hand, he plays the most passionate and devoted boss in the league-perhaps Ballmer doesn’t agree and thinks he has a fight-on the other hand, he watched Luca doing high-consumption work everyday without feeling distressed, only enjoying his high score.
Luca was the cash cow of Cuban. He brought the Mavericks from the 10th in the West to the fourth place. He used one high score after another to make the Mavericks the third place in the league. But today’s battle against the Green Army showed that, once the opponent uses Jordan’s rules to deal with him, the Mavericks will be defeated miserably.
Have you seen the cupping jar mark on his shoulders? Last time it was one shoulder, now it is two shoulders, both front and back, that is the risk tip.