Chapter 1152 1151. Jason Terry, the King of the Final Quarter

If Jason Terry and Crawford were to play one-on-one, they might be equally matched, but when Jason Terry played alone, he faced Crawford, and when Crawford played alone, he faced Liu Mang!

The defenses they faced were completely different levels!

Jason Terry played against Crawford, which was like playing against air, while when Crawford played against Liu Mang, although Liu Mang could not completely restrict Crawford when he played well, he used double-teaming and blocking three-pointers under the basket, and Crawford's ability to pass to the basket was average and his vision was extremely poor. Instead of high-speed rotation defense, he used double-teaming to deal with Crawford, which was a disaster for Crawford.

In the last timeout, Mike Woodson made a new defensive arrangement. When Crawford was on the court, he defended normally. After Crawford broke through to the deep, he double-teamed. Liu Mang defended alone on the outside. If he made a mid-range jump shot, he was considered good. He was not given the opportunity to pass the ball on the outside.

On Jason Terry's side, Liu Mang and McGrady were there to protect him and open up space. He was also good at mid-range jump shots. He quickly scored 9 points with Liu Mang to overtake the score and opened up a 5-point gap!

The Mavericks couldn't defend Liu Mang's singles, and now there is Jason Terry! Focus on defending whoever else, McGrady is the most stable point, and the Mavericks dare not let him go, but they don't have as many as three best defensive lineup-level perimeter defenders like the Hawks. Their defense is good as a team, and they switch defense quickly. They can be regarded as the originator of unlimited switching defense, but facing Liu Mang and Jason Terry's sprint today, they were in a backward state from the second half of the first quarter.

After the first quarter, the Hawks scored 31 points, while the Mavericks only scored 23 points!

Crawford's mentality was a little exploded by Jason Terry.

"Substitute".

This word is really hurtful for an NBA star.

The more shots Crawford missed, the more he shot. The more shots he made, the worse his shots were. If Nowitzki hadn't scored 5 points in the second half of the first quarter, the Mavericks might have scored 18 points in seven minutes, but the final score in the quarter was less than 20. Crawford made 0 of 5 shots in the 4 minutes after the official timeout in the first quarter! From 2 of 2 to 2 of 7!

However, just like McGrady's stable average of 22+4+5 this season, Nowitzki is also mainly stable in the Mavericks. In March, he averaged 30+ and didn't score 40 points once.

In the past two years, except for the occasional three-pointer, McGrady played very steadily at other times. He passed when he should pass and shot when he should shoot. Nowitzki is very similar to McGrady. He is a stable absolute strong point. The number of times they broke out is relatively small, and stability is the main thing.

Of course, this is because their teams are strong, they don't need to break out and waste physical strength. McGrady is born with poor physical strength. Nowitzki is a seven-foot big man. Even if his playing style relies on less physical combat, he is still the Mavericks' rebounding king. Physical strength is also very important.

Nowitzki scored 8 points in the first quarter, but the Mavericks only scored 23 points!

On the Hawks side, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 2 assists, Jason Terry scored 10 points, McGrady made a three-pointer, Kwame Brown scored 4 points, plus Josh Smith's two points and one of two free throws, leading the Mavericks by 8 points in a single quarter!

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The Hawks led by 8 points in the first quarter, which brought a great psychological advantage to the subsequent games.

In the second quarter, the Mavericks were not limited to Crawford's singles. The young general Johnson's adaptability was really average. From the eighth and a half minutes to the eleventh minute of the first quarter, he didn't call a timeout for two and a half minutes. The Hawks played and widened the gap a little. It was still Nowitzki who took the initiative to ask for the ball that got 5 points.

Finally, during the intermission, the Mavericks made adjustments and it was one-on-one!

Whoever has a good opportunity and a good touch will play singles.

Facing a large number of first-class singles players of the Mavericks, the Hawks did not fall behind. Liu Mang, McGrady, and Jason Terry took turns holding the ball and playing singles. Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and McGrady played well, and they were evenly matched with the Mavericks' singles players!

Liu Mang once again felt that if a passer with relatively weak scoring ability did not have the strength of Magic, he would not be able to go far in the playoffs. Facing the Mavericks' defense, he really could not play much team cooperation. On the contrary, stars who played like Kobe had an easy time playing against the Mavericks. This season, the Spurs had 1 win and 3 losses against the Mavericks in the regular season because Duncan's one-on-one strong attack became worse.

The Hawks had three eagles, Nowitzki scored a few points in a row, McGrady or Jason Terry could play singles, and others would compete with them, and Liu Mang would compete with them, strongly one against three.

The lead was like a snowball, and the psychological pressure on Crawford was also growing like a snowball!

In the middle of the third quarter, Crawford missed a strong mid-range shot against Liu Mang's defense, and his face began to look a little desperate!

Jason Terry scored continuously from the beginning, first scoring 10 points in 5 minutes in the first quarter, and 12 points in 8 minutes in the second quarter. In the first six minutes of the third quarter, Jason Terry continued to come up and scored another 9 points. Before the end of the third quarter, he had already scored 31 points with 10 of 17 shots!

Crawford's mid-range shot was also missed. He took 17 shots, but only 5 of 17 shots, and only scored 14 points!

Liu Mang saw the despair in Crawford's eyes, received the ball and rushed to the front court quickly, and took the initiative to find Crawford who was retreating. Crawford was not picky about defense. He would go if there was a chance to assist and switch defense, but the effect was always average. He was okay in blocking open shots, but was very poor in single defense.

Liu Mang faced Crawford and learned Crawford's continuous cross-leg dribbling.

The improvement in limbs and joints made Liu Mang learn this kind of thing very quickly, mainly because he was good at dribbling.

Crawford felt his scalp tingling when he saw Liu Mang dribbling the ball continuously with the same coquettish style as himself!

Liu Mang said to Crawford while dribbling: "Your idea is right. You are just a substitute for Jason, and you are still a defective product."

After Liu Mang finished speaking, he suddenly made an Iverson-style large-scale lateral move and took a big step. Crawford was hit by Liu Mang's words and was thrown away at once.

Liu Mang accelerated the breakthrough!

After breaking into the inside, Liu Mang was double-teamed and did not pass the ball, but switched the ball to his left hand. The Mavericks' Dampier and Josh Howard felt very strange when they retreated to double-team. Liu Mang jumped slowly from the right side of the three-second zone to the left side, and suddenly jumped back to the basket, and made a left-handed reverse layup!

Ginobili's magic sword steps!

It's still very useful to use it occasionally.

85 to 64, only halfway through the third quarter, the Hawks have already scored 85 points!

Jason Terry completely beat Crawford, broke Crawford's mentality, and led the Hawks to a 21-point lead before the end of the third quarter!

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Jason Terry proved himself in this battle!

Jason Terry, who was excited, didn't want to leave the court later, so Coach Kruger kept him on the court to continue to play.

Coach Kruger has always been very tolerant and apologetic towards Jason Terry. Although some teams have started to put the team's best outside players on the bench, public opinion did not particularly support this approach at first. It was because Jason Terry played like this that other teams began to imitate him and the term "sacrifice" came into being.

Jason Terry was the Eagle King at the beginning, then became the second after Rahim came, then the third, and now... the sixth?

So even though Keison Terry had some troubles off the court and often bullied rookies like Granger and David Lee, and Iguodala and Josh Smith were also bullied last season, Coach Kruger just asked the good guy Rasheed Wallace to comfort the rookies. He was very tolerant of Jason Terry's big mouth and troublemaker personality, and was also tolerant of Jason Terry's uncalm playing style on the court.

Moreover, Jason Terry played really well today. Before garbage time, he scored 31 points with 17 shots in 20 minutes. If he didn't score 40 points, Coach Kruger would think it was a waste.

In the middle of the third quarter, after the score difference was pulled to 21 points, the Mavericks stopped struggling. Crawford, the team's second-best scorer, played so badly that he couldn't play. If Crawford played well, he could compete with Jason Terry. Their scoring ability was not inferior to that of the Hawks, but Crawford was so bad that Nowitzki couldn't do anything with 28 points in three quarters.

Coincidentally, during the halftime break, General Johnson saw the game between the Suns and the Heat, which started two hours earlier than the Mavericks and the Hawks. The Suns lost and were now 21 points behind. The opponent Liu Mang scored 22 points and 6 assists in three quarters, Jason Terry scored 31 points in three quarters, and McGrady scored 16 points in three quarters. The three of them were in hot form, and it was too difficult to turn the game around, so the Mavericks announced their surrender.

Next, the Mavericks had back-to-back home games against the Nuggets and Lakers on the 31st and 1st. While still sitting in the third place in the Western Conference, the Mavericks chose to give up strategically.

So...

In garbage time, Jason Terry explained to McGrady what the real "king of the last quarter" is!

In the second half of the third quarter, Jason Terry led a pure bench lineup and mainly passed the ball, but in the fourth quarter, he suddenly rushed for so long, 4 of 6 shots and scored 11 points, raising the score to 42 points...

Jason Terry scored in garbage time, and he scored in garbage time when he was leading by a large score. The Mavericks were ready to take action.

But at this time, Jason Terry decisively asked to leave the court...

When the bench of the Hawks heard Jason Terry say that he wanted to rest, they all started booing.

Teammate booing teammates!

This guy is really shameless. The Mavericks thought he was just holding the court, but who knew that he suddenly threw 6 in a row, two of which were second attacks from Josh Smith's offensive rebounds, and he scored 11 points in 3 minutes.

Crawford already hated Jason Terry to the core, and now the Mavericks hate Jason Terry, and by the way... the Hawks also hate him!