Watch the NBA | The slow Mavericks' style has changed! The Lakers reversed the Bucks, and luck was only part of it

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The Mavericks won the Kings by 36 points. Although the fourth quarter won more than the third, the wave of the third quarter basically laid the victory. The content of the game is not complicated, Xiao Sa does not have many ways to encounter the height of the Mavericks' full frontcourt, and the two forwards of Murray and Barnes are also highly restricted. Fox didn't have a presence in the third quarter, and I almost forgot what he did. The king couldn't open a single point, so the defensive formation was not changed, resulting in the paralysis of the offense across the board. In turn, the Mavericks have a fast attack, a hard solution, Irving shoots smoothly, the upper score flies, and the game is quickly played.

Why does Xiao Sa work so well on thick eyebrows, but he can't beat Gafford and Lively?

The Kings guard is so fast, why didn't he catch Doncic for punishment?

It doesn't matter. In the end, the above questions are all in the regular season encounters, and there is no need to delve into them, and they are not the problems to be solved in an article called "Broken Thoughts".

Importantly, the Mavericks aren't the same team they have been for the past two years. A month ago, or even more than half a month ago, we were criticizing Kidd's hiring on a daily basis, pointing out that he had made mistakes in the "big and small" line, but in the last 20 days, Gafford and Lively have eaten up the No. 5 spot as much as possible. With Jones Jr. back in the starting lineup, the Mavericks' three frontcourt starters with both type and athleticism continued to be reused. Doncic, Irving, Jones, PJ Washington, Gafford the five, the five-man team used 102 minutes, outscored their opponents by 24.7 points per 100 possessions, and won 10 of their 11 games. Under small samples, the effect is outstanding.

In fact, it is not difficult to see that the frontcourt space of this three-striker lineup is problematic. While he made 6-of-10 three-pointers against the Kings, Washington and Jones combined today, PJ Washington shot just 27.8 percent from three-point range in 20 games with the Mavericks. Jones has never been seen as a point of space, having failed to score three points in four straight games before today. If you encounter a more explosive basket protection team in the playoffs, this lineup will have to be tested.

But this is already a relatively high-end topic.

Before you can spell out a flawless lineup with beautiful offensive and defensive logic, you still have to find a relatively more complete winning pattern. The Mavericks have the strongest ball-handling shooting ability this season, and Doncic and Irving can be the perimeter, which is one of their strengths to control the three tall frontcourts.

The other thing is that the Mavericks' ability to handle this defensive lineup is not unrelated to their improved fast break this season. For many years, the Mavericks were the league's most famous slow-paced team that didn't play fast-break, and this season they're averaging 5th in fast-break points per game. Better athleticism gives the Mavericks the ability to push back and a sense of quick initiation, which also allows them to ignore the impact of a part of the space. For example, in the next round, when Irving started the breakaway, the Kings didn't think about the defense at all.

The style of the Lone Ranger has really changed.

Defense, size, athleticism, fast-pacedness, that's not the kind of label you could find in them in the past, and it's kind of interesting now.

I don't know what that change will look like in the playoffs, but one thing is certain:

They are two of the most dangerous beings in the lower half.

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The Lakers are another one.

The Lakers also took down the Bucks by a narrow point advantage in James' absence.

The Lakers' accumulation of a group of main attackers with passing control and projection to help James carry the burden has finally paid off this season. The abundant and high-spirited fighting spirit of the initiator point is the capital that they still do not give up after 19 points behind.

Where did the Bucks lose?

The impact of several key defenses on the Bucks' main attackers was very fatal, but Lillard, Middleton and Alphabet from the middle of the fourth quarter did not have anything to do with humanity, and some balls are what they are good at, at least not so outrageous. Their state plummeted, as if they had been snatched away in an instant, and they had fallen into the walking dead.

The buck may have really fallen under some wonderful curse, after all, the BUFF in our old ......

After the first 2 minutes of the fourth quarter, no matter what, you can't see the signs of the Bucks losing, they completely occupy the initiative on both offensive and defensive ends, and the Lakers, who have rested James in turn, will play back-to-back, if they fall too far behind when entering the critical stage, it may not be an unending attitude.

Hamm called a timeout, and when he came back, he raised his eyebrows. The game changed direction from then on, and the thick eyebrows started to break the Bucks bench at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, giving everyone a sample.

Alphabet and López came back 3 minutes later than Bushy Eyebrows. The Lakers chased 6 points in these 3 minutes.

What's so great about a 6 points?

Isn't there still a gap of more than a dozen points?

Alphabet and Lopez also played a mess?

That is true.

But the momentum of the game is not something you can control at will, your own state is not tight, and the opponent's state is not pressed if you want. After that, the thick eyebrows made two three-pointers, and Reeves scored a three-pointer from a long distance, which didn't make any sense. But the thick eyebrows are only three points inaccurate, not that they can't be shot. Reeves's three points are far from exaggerating, but he usually practices this hand, and it may not work every day, and if it works, you won't have a temper.

There's luck here, and it's not all luck. The Lakers in the latter part of the fourth quarter have an aura of 2.8 meters, and they really want to win - the last game was that Wu Zhan won against you Bucks, why can't this one?

That pause and the force of the thick eyebrows made the two sides run towards the speed of light in opposite psychological hints.

The bucks panicked, and the whole team was soft, with a sense of déjà vu that Lao Li had led the team for 10 years.

When the opponent has a player who is very difficult to handle in the position, it may take a bit of urgency to rotate. Thick eyebrows played 41 minutes of regular time, 5 minutes more than Alphabet, 12 minutes more than Da Lo, and in the fourth quarter, the turning point of the Lakers' comeback was also the 3 minutes when he returned to the court early.

Of course, the Bucks can afford to lose. Rivers waited for these 3 minutes, and the Bucks' regular season situation would most likely not be affected.

And some teams may be just 1~2 games away.