unfinished glory

Chapter 82
At the beginning of the fourth game, the Mavericks successfully jumped the ball, and Nowitzki hit a three-pointer at the top of the arc, showing a good state.

Li Chongxiao is still starting the game. He feels that he is in a very good state today. During the pre-match training, he made one shot and one shot. It seems that the effect is paid off.

He waited patiently for Parker's breakthrough, received the ball outside the three-point line, not a very good shooting spot, the top of the arc and the middle of the 45 degrees.

Based on his own defensive experience, Josh Howard let it go for a while, and Li Chongxiao shot without hesitation. The ball crossed a beautiful arc and plunged into the basket.

This was just an appetizer, and the next half of the game completely turned into a performance time for him alone.

After beating Josh Howard for a three-pointer from the front, he used Duncan's pick-and-roll, cut to the inside to complete an empty layup, and caused Dampier's thug foul.

After making the extra free throw, he completed two steals. One was double-teamed with Bowen and cut off Finley's ball. The other time he correctly judged Terry's pass to Nowitzki and intercepted it from the middle.

After breaking Terry's ball, he dribbled the ball to the frontcourt alone, and against Terry's interference, he completed a one-stop dunk.

On the next possession, he capped Josh Howard, who was defending him, and grabbed the rebound when Nowitzki missed a jumper.

After scoring 8 points, he was still not satisfied. In the next round, the facing team Dampier made a long two-pointer, and the anxious Avery Johnson yelled from the field.

But Li Chongxiao's performance was not over yet. After the Mavericks missed again, he grabbed a defensive rebound.Go to the bottom line in the offense and score another three-pointer.

After Nowitzki took the lead, Li Chongxiao played a 13:0 attack wave alone, helping the team gain a 10-point lead.

Some fans who just entered the pit even thought that this was the number one star of the Spurs.

After the timeout, the Mavericks' offense still hasn't improved much.

The "honest man" Finley, who was in a hurry, was so angry by Li Chongxiao's candy-style defense that he elbowed Li Chongxiao on the right shoulder during the breakthrough.

Li Chongxiao left the field clutching his shoulders, but for such an obvious malicious foul, even if Stern personally came to supervise the formation, the referee on duty chose to turn a blind eye, not even giving a common foul.

After being checked by the team doctor, there was no problem. Li Chongxiao stayed off the court for 2 minutes before playing again. Then he played a pick-and-roll with Duncan and made an emergency stop jumper.

Seeing that his touch was about to continue, the Mavericks replaced Marquis Daniels to mark Li Chongxiao.

Daniels, who came on the field with a mission, hooked Li Chongxiao's throat with his arm from behind when he was grabbing a rebound in the next round, and dragged him out of the air.

Li Chongxiao only felt his throat was caught by something, he stretched out his hand to break it, and then was dragged back.He hurriedly grabbed the arm that was hooking his throat with one hand, and grabbed the back of his head with the other hand. Just as he grabbed something, he fell down.

Fortunately, the self-rescue measures were proper, and he was not too heavy when he fell to the floor.At this time, his right hand hooked Daniels' right arm, and his left hand grabbed the other's headband.

Daniels was pulled by Li Chongxiao's headband, and the other end fell to the base of his ear, causing a burst of pain.Standing on Li Chongxiao's right side, he had to bend down. As soon as his right arm shook off the opponent's hand, his eyes went dark.

It wasn't Duncan's fist that arrived, but Li Chongxiao let go of the headband with his left hand, and it bounced back and hit Daniels in the eye, causing him to scream in pain.

Before the team doctors rushed over, Li Chongxiao got up abruptly, clenching his fists and about to strike.Just as Duncan breathed a sigh of relief, he had to get nervous again. He dragged Li Chongxiao to the bench.

The referee, who was supposed to persuade the fight, watched coldly for a while, and then reluctantly blew his whistle, signaling Daniels to grab a rebound and foul.

This penalty made the current Chinese audience very dissatisfied. They booed sporadically, and Stern's face turned darker.

Popovich was furious, and he gave a "machine gun" to the referee who whistled, questioning why he didn't call a malicious foul.

The referee shrugged and explained that this was a very common foul.

"Fucking common foul!" Popovich pointed to Daniels and said, "It's a chokehold. If it weren't for my boy's cleverness, he would have been sent off the game!"

Seeing that the referee was unmoved, he went on to say: "It seems that what the young man said is true, I should give you a pair of sunglasses!"

Now the referee reacted, a "T" was given out without hesitation, and the Spurs coaching staff quickly pulled Popovich back.

Before Nowitzki executed a technical foul free throw, the Spurs made substitutions. Nesterovic, Horry and Devin Brown came on and replaced Muhammad, Duncan and Li Chongxiao.

After Nowitzki made a free throw, the ball was exchanged, and Nesterovic missed a hook shot.

In the Mavericks' offensive round, Finley missed a shot, but the rebound bounced into Nowitzki's hands.

The elders on both sides were grabbing rebounds, Nowitzki got the shot space, and he shot the jumper without hesitation.

Horry tried his best to block the shot, but he was a little far away and not tall enough, so his blocking hand hit the air.But he didn't stop his hand, but landed straight on the face of the Maverick's core.

Nowitzki missed the ball, and he couldn't care less about it.At this moment, he felt his face was hot, and he bent down in pain covering his face, unable to speak.

The Mavericks players all reacted to the situation, and Daniels was the most impulsive. He pushed Horry away with one hand, and clenched his fist with the other hand to hit him.

The Spurs were not to be outdone, Devin Brown pushed the rushing Daniels somersault, then put his head on Finley, and began to talk trash.

The referee's whistle sounded urgently, struggling to get between the players of the two teams, and some calm players also held back their teammates.

After both sides calmed down, the referee watched the video just now and began to settle accounts after the fall.

Horry of the Spurs was the main offender, a first-degree malicious foul; Devin Brown pushed people during the conflict, a technical foul.

On the Mavericks side, only Daniels rushed to the forefront, and had a tendency to provoke trouble, a technical foul.

In this way, the Spurs get a technical foul free throw, and the Mavericks get a technical foul free throw, plus a two free throws.

After the on-duty referee announced the decision, he looked up and saw Stern with a livid face outside the court, feeling a little timid in his heart.He couldn't control the field and almost caused a big commotion, which made him a little nervous, so he quickly called the head coaches of both sides over and gave them stern instructions.

Relying on this wave of conflict, the Mavericks finally chased the score to 6 points.

For the rest of this quarter, both sides restrained a lot, fighting at a leisurely pace.With Ginobili's layup in 3.2 seconds, the Spurs ended the first quarter with 24:16.

(End of this chapter)