66 points in the last three battles! Scoring more points than Irving, the Mavericks traded garbage contracts for top-tier 3D, 3 for 1 too profitable

Achenggao

2024-05-12 07:17Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

On May 12th, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and today the Mavericks sat at home to usher in the challenge of the Thunder, before this game, the two sides played 1-1 at the home of the Thunder, this battle is also a small battle of Tianwang Mountain, who can win is one step closer to promotion, and finally the Mavericks at home did not let the accident happen, they narrowly defeated the Thunder 105-101, defending their home court.

We won't go into detail about the process of this game, just talk about the key moments: in the last two minutes, Alexander made two free throws to help the Thunder chase down to only 3 points, and then the two sides fell into a stalemate many times, Irving hit a key throw in the last 39 seconds to help the team lead by 5 points, Alexander offensive foul, Doncic was wrapped up and stealed, Holmgren counterattacked and made two fouls, and then Doncic hit one of two free throws, Jewi hit a key three-point iron, and finally the Thunder lost.

The two teams are evenly matched, with a win or loss of 1-2 rounds, and the Thunder showed their lack of youth and inexperience, while Irving also showed his old spiciness, and consistency. Judging from the past three games, the Thunder have been figured out by the Mavericks, and they have not yet had a good way to change their moves, and if there are no other uncontrollable factors such as injuries in this series, the Mavericks will most likely be able to advance.

Although the Thunder team is four less, but the top star is only Alexander, Alexander did his best, scored 31 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 blocks in the whole game, Chet scored 13 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks, Jay Wei got 16 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, Giddey was abandoned after only 13 minutes, got 9 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, the quality of their stars is not as good as the Mavericks, if it weren't for Doncic playing with an injury, the Thunder might be more passive.

In this game, Irving shot 10 of 17 from the field, 2 of 6 from three-point range, got 22 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, Irving, a star who has played in the Finals, in the face of a group of inexperienced rookies, he is simply a dimensionality reduction blow, knows when to do something, and his ability to control the court is too good, and the Mavericks can dominate in this series, not by Doncic, but by Irving. Doncic also played well, scoring 22 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists on 7-of-17 shooting.

Doncic should be honest and give Irving more balls, he is injured, his state is not stable, and his experience and control are obviously inferior to Irving, and the mistakes at key moments almost ruined the good game. Just now we talked about the fact that the Thunder has been figured out by the Mavericks, and the reason why we say this is because the Mavericks have found the flaws of the Thunder, and their shortcomings are the front, and the reason why they have no way to change the formation is that the Thunder does not have a qualified forward at all.

Because of the lineup defects, the Thunder will choose to let Giddey play the No. 3 position, but Giddey is born in the No. 1 position and lacks confrontation ability, so he can't defend the opponent's forward, and Giddey has been abandoned in the past two games. Hayward was expected to be able to play this role, but Hayward has not been able to score at all in the playoffs so far, playing 7 games with a total of 0 points, and he is 4 to 5 on the offensive end, which is not expected at all.

Therefore, the Thunder can only go to the twin towers more often, but this also gives the Mavericks' forward Washington more opportunities, he punished the Thunder's defense with stable projection and excellent breakthrough ability, it can be said that the Mavericks can lead 2-1 in the series, Washington is the third most important player in addition to the double core, he shot 11 of 23 from the field, 5 of 12 from three-point range, and got 27 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists.

So far in the series, Washington has scored a total of 66 points and 23 rebounds, more points than Irving, and Washington is also responsible for defending Alexander on the defensive end, although he did not completely limit Alexander, but he gave the duo more time to rest, which is very good. At the beginning of the playoffs, Washington was still a playoff rookie and inexperienced, but he was confident enough to defend top scorers such as Harden and Alexander, so he grew quickly.

Before the playoffs began, Washington was not a top 3D, but now he is different, he has metamorphosed to this level, averaging 14.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.3 steals and 0.9 blocks per game so far in the playoffs, shooting 47.6% from the field, 41.4% from three-point range, and averaging 2.7 three-pointers per game, which is very good. As it stands, the Mavericks definitely earned it when they got him at the trade deadline.

At the trade deadline, the Mavericks used Gwee and Seth Curry, a first-round pick to get Washington, Gwee was the Mavericks in the offseason first signed and then traded for 3D, but he was too short and athletic, completely inconsistent with the Mavericks' system, so it was also a garbage contract, and finally the Mavericks chose to dump him to complete the deal, and Washington was very young, he was able to stay with Doncic for a long time.

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