The Godfather of Basketball

In fact, Tang Tian had already used this set of tactics during the regular season and the Celtics, and now he is using the Mavericks to upgrade.

Carlisle had nothing to do in the end, and the Rockets overturned the Mavericks 108-93 away, leading 3-0.

Yao Ming had 27 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists, Tracy McGrady had 30 points and 6 rebounds, Artest had 15 points, Yi Jianlian had 14 points, Billups had 12 points and 12 assists... The Rockets are still blooming.

For the Mavericks, Nowitzki played the whole game, scored 41 points and 7 rebounds, unable to recover.

No team has ever achieved a comeback from a 0-3 deficit in history, let alone the Rockets led by Tang Tian.

The Rockets' advancement is basically a certainty.

After a two-day break in Dallas, the fourth game of the series continued at the American Airlines Center.

The fans in Dallas were unabated, and team owner Mark Cuban was on the sidelines as usual, wearing the wildest denim clothes.

But all of this is more like knowing that this is the last curtain call of the team's season, and they want to be crazy for the last time.

At the end of the opening ceremony, the starting players of both sides appeared one after another.

The Rockets' starting lineup has not changed, with Billups plus McGrady on the outside, Shane Battier plus Yi Jianlian on the front line, and Yao Ming on the inside.

But the Mavericks here is a big change.

Dampier was removed from the starting lineup, replaced by Sean Williams, who has a three-point shooting ability and has never played in this round of the series.

Sean Williams is only 2.08 meters tall, and he mainly plays small forwards, which means that the Mavericks actually played the fifth position and became Nowitzki.

More than that, Howard was also removed from the starting lineup by Carlisle and replaced by Barea.

The average height of this lineup is surprisingly short, and defense will definitely be a big problem.

But obviously, Carlisle knew that no matter how normal he played, he would lose.

At the start of the game, Yi Jianlian jumped and beat Nowitzki, and the Rockets took the lead in getting the chance to attack.

Yao Ming responded from the free throw line, McGrady made an air cut and made a second pass.

"Snapped!"

Barea showed his speed again, rushing from the other side of the half-court to steal the ball hard.

The Mavericks played a fast break, Barea went all the way, attracted the defense and gave the ball to Terry who followed up, who scored an easy layup.

The Rockets attacked, Yao Ming asked for the ball at the basket, McGrady's pass was intercepted by Sean Williams who rushed over, the Mavericks played a fast break again, Nowitzki followed up and scored from the middle.

4 to 0!

The scene cheered loudly.

Carlisle's strange formation had an effect from the very beginning!

Tang Tian stood up from the bench, but he didn't turn around to call Artest, but directly signaled to the team a tactical gesture to play the fourth position.

Billups pushed the ball into the frontcourt, signaled for everyone else to pull away, and then lobbed the ball to the low post Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian looked back and saw that the Mavericks were not double-teaming. After turning to the left and pressing Williams, his center of gravity sank to the left, and then turned back and made a fallback jumper.

His shot is very decisive, and the receding range is also very large. Williams can't reach it if he turns around and wants to interfere.

"Shua!"

Yi Jianlian's fallback made a steady hit, finally breaking the Rockets' scoring drought.

The Mavericks' offense, Nowitzki pulled Yao Ming to the three-point line, Kidd gave the ball to Terry and then signaled Sean Williams to put on the pick-and-roll.

After dismantling the ball, Williams went to the right three-point line, and Terry took the ball and went straight to the basket against Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian is very smart, he backed up while reaching out, and always maintained a defensive position.

Yi Jianlian struggled to save Terry's emergency stop throw.

"boom!"

The shot under Terry's interference did not make it.

Yi Jianlian turned around and took the defensive rebound to Billups.

After Billups advanced to the frontcourt, he still traded the ball to Jianlian for low singles.

At this time, the other points of the Rockets on the court were wide open. Fearing the Rockets' accurate three-pointers, the Mavericks did not dare to double-team.

Yi Jianlian continued to hit Williams with his back, this time with his back.

Although Williams is 2.08 meters tall, he weighs only about 105 kilograms, which is 10 kilograms less than Yi Jianlian. Moreover, even in the regular season, he rarely has the opportunity to play in the Mavericks, and the confrontation is very average.

After a few hard chisels, Yi Jianlian successfully squeezed to the basket. After deceiving Williams with a fake turn to the left, he turned to the right and squeezed past. He took the ball with both hands and dunked directly.

There was a commotion at the scene.

Yi Jianlian was able to PK past Scola and Landry, and even Artest became the Rockets' starting power forward, relying on hard power.

Carlisle was stunned for a moment at this moment, and then there was some helplessness in his eyes.

This strange formation is most afraid of being so hard-hitting. The Rockets have a high offensive success rate, and the Mavericks have no chance to speed up.

The Mavericks attacked, and Barea and Williams broke through the basket after the pick-and-roll. His speed was faster than that of Terry, and he accelerated past Yi Jianlian and scored a layup.

Looking back, Billups also traded the ball to Jianlian for a low-post singles. Yi Jianlian made a fake move that tricked Williams into exerting his strength. Score.

The fans at the scene couldn't sit still.

Williams won the National Championship MVP when he was in college, and was selected by the Pacers with the 17th overall pick in 2006. However, after arriving in the NBA, his nondescript positioning made him rarely have the chance to play. First appearance.

Facts have proved that he still can't play this level of game, because he was ravaged to death by Yi Jianlian on the opposite side.

The Mavericks' offense, Barea broke out again, the Rockets double-teamed and contracted this time, Barea distributed the ball to Williams on the outside.

Williams made a three-pointer.

"boom!"

The ball was out of the way and hit the right back edge directly. Yao Ming pressed Nowitzki to receive the defensive rebound.

Without a decent center, don't count on the Mavericks' frontcourt board.

What made the fans even more depressing was that Billups handed the ball to Yi Jianlian after reaching the frontcourt with the ball!

Four times in a row!

Williams behind him felt a little helpless, not because he didn't work hard to defend, but because Yi Jianlian couldn't defend now...

Terry recovered the basket, Yi Jianlian reacted quickly, and directly gave the ball to Battier outside.

Battier catches the ball and makes a three-pointer directly.

"Shua!"

With a crisp sound, Battier made a steady three-pointer from the bottom corner.

"beep!"

There was a timeout from the sidelines, and Carlisle shook his head helplessly.

The Rockets played a wave of 9-2 attacks in the past. Yi Jianlian sent 6 points and 1 assist in this wave of attacks. This really deserved the title of some fans and became the "Chinese Nowitzki".

Back from the timeout, the Mavericks made substitution adjustments, and Williams and Barea were replaced by Dampier and Howard.

Carlisle's substitution also showed that the strange array he tried had failed.