Basketball: Man in 08, three months left before the Olympics

The Eastern Conference finals ended G4 early, and the Magic, who had no home court advantage, instead relied on the inside play to lead the Cavaliers led by James Jr. 3-1.

However, both fans and the media have been unanimous in their disapproval of teams in the East this year.

They don’t think they will pose any threat to teams in the West, no matter who makes it to the Finals.

So, aside from the Cavaliers and Magic fans, the Eastern Conference finals are hardly noticed.

The eyes of fans around the world will be on Staples in Los Angeles tonight to witness the G4 of the Lakers and Mavericks.

Whether the Lakers will take back a city or the Mavericks will continue to work hard, everyone will wait and see!

Before the game, the Lakers finally adjusted their roster, and Zen master Phil Jackson abandoned the twin towers he had been using.

Bringing Bynum out of the starting lineup and instead bringing their Super Sixth Man Odom up from the bench.

After a long period of enlightenment, Phil Jackson found that he still could not help the baby shark get out of “homophobia”.

Since he can’t prevent Dayao, it doesn’t make much sense to let him continue to be in the starting lineup, it’s better to let him come off the bench and stagger with Dayao, but can play his role.

Lamar Odom, one of the few all-rounders in the league, can in some sense defend from the No. 1 to No. 5 position, but that doesn’t mean he can defend a top center like Dayao.

In the end, the difference in height makes no center in the league able to prevent Dayao, which is not only Phil Jackson’s problem, this is the problem of the whole league!

The Mavericks’ lineup has not changed, it remains: Pei Yun, Gerard Green, UAE United, Nowitzki and Dayao.

After the visitors’ spectacular appearance ceremony, both sides bounced in the middle circle.

At the beginning of the game, Dayao won the first wave of the ball for the Mavericks.

Pei Yun controlled the ball to the front court, Kobe was waiting at the top of the three-point arc, while waiting for Pei Yun to arrive, he did not forget to remind his teammates of their defensive position, and his eyes were full of perseverance!

Dayao came to the basket card position to ask, defending his Odom was nearly 20 cm more than him, but he defended it extra hard, and all kinds of front card positions made Dayao very uncomfortable.

Beep!

The referee’s whistle sounded.

Whistled Odom for a foul.

In previous games, when Shark Bynum defended Dayao, such a situation would never have happened.

Dayao can easily get into position, get the ball, and then use his advantage to single the Sharks.

However, Odom’s fighting spirit is obviously very strong.

This also shows that this game is not destined to be good.

The Mavericks sent a sideline ball, and Pei Yun finally got the ball under Kobe’s close hangout.

Inside Odom and Dayao squeezed together again, Pei Yun could not get the ball in smoothly, and the Mavericks began to adopt a second offensive plan.

Nowitzki pulled to the high position to block Pei Yun.

Pei Yun held the ball and passed, Kobe observed the form, and chose to squeeze through the block.

But it hit the “wall” built by Nowitzki, and the person turned on his back.

Beep!

The referee’s whistle sounded again.

Blow Novetsky for covering foul!

Lakers backcourt ball.

Neither Nowitzki nor the Mavericks’ players were convinced, especially Novitsky himself, who believed that the block was clean and there was no foul at all.

He asked the referee to theorize a few words, but the referee still upheld the penalty.

No, I had to shake my head and retreat to my own half.

Discerning people can see that Novitsky’s block is very standardized, it is a good blocker, and Kobe Bryant hit it himself.

The referee gave the Lakers the ball, and rightly so, because this is the home of the Lakers.

A home whistle is inevitable.

Some bad memories began to flood Novitsky’s mind.

In the ’06 Finals, it was Novitsky’s Mavericks who defeated the Heat in the first two home games, and went to Miami with a 2-0 score to play away, thinking they could win the first championship in their own and team history.

Unexpectedly, from G3 onwards, the referee dominated the game.

The home whistle undoubtedly highlighted in that series, with their three consecutive losses and morale demoralized to the extreme.

By the time he returned home, the momentum was no longer on the Mavericks’ side.

In the end, the Mavericks lost the ’06 Finals 2-4.

This became the beginning of Novitsky’s “nightmare”.

Next, with 67 wins in the league and a regular season MVP black eight, he became a “soft egg” in people’s mouths.

In the season since, the super-scorer, who once beat Duncan and was known as the league’s number one forward, began to slide.

It was Pei Yun’s outbreak that made the Mavericks rise again!

Now, they are once again aiming for the championship.

In the G4 finals, they once again face the dilemma that almost all NBA teams face, that is, when you play away from home, you have to face the home whistle!

The Lakers attacked, and the nimble Odom began to pull outside the three-point line to swim, which also brought Nowitzki out.

On the inside, Pau Gasol also has a fairly wide attack area, which creates some pressure on Dayao’s defense.

The ball was given to Gasol, who was actively running, and his shooting feint caused Dayao’s foul!

It was also a highly controversial decision, and the Mavericks players are appealing to the referee that such a defense should not be whistled.

But apparently, the referee doesn’t think so.

On the sidelines, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson was touching his beard, smiling.

The situation was exactly the same as he said with the players before the game.

The Western Conference Finals between the Mavericks and the Lakers were as wonderful as Mars hitting the earth, with new highs in ratings, and the extremely high-value Lakers live viewing tickets were speculated to “sky-high prices”.

Under such circumstances, every game is a huge wealth income.

The NBA is a commercial league, and making money is their primary purpose.

This is a game that can create great value, and the league certainly wants to be able to play a tiebreaker.

Therefore, when one side is in the upper hand, of course, the league will intervene from some “reasonable” places to achieve the purpose of “controlling” the game.

In this information age, no one can play “match-fixing” anymore.

So, refereeing became the only way.

Through the designation of various rules, NBA referees have supreme power on the court, and they can even send players or coaches who are disrespectful to them directly off the court.

And some ambiguous penalty scale is the key to their ability to influence the game.

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The game began to get intense, and on the field, the whistle kept sounding.

There were fouls by Mavericks players and, of course, fouls by Lakers players.

Perhaps because of the backwater battle, the Lakers players played extra hard today, sometimes even if they paid for fouls, but also organized the Mavericks to score easily!