423 3 offensive rebounds, assisting Curry to hit a 3-pointer!
423 3 offensive rebounds, assisting Curry to hit a 3-pointer!
Su Hao gestured to Curry to continue shooting from inside the paint.
Because there is less than half a minute left in the second quarter.
If Curry doesn't shoot soon, he might miss this opportunity again.
Curry understood what Su Hao meant; only a player like Su Hao would go to such lengths to feed him the ball.
Curry, holding the ball on the perimeter, dribbled with one hand, circling back and forth on the perimeter, instead of immediately taking a shot as he had done before.
"Are you going to shoot or not? Are you still hoping Su Hao will help you grab the offensive rebound again?!" Kidd looked a little impatient.
They have already wasted almost a minute in this half of the attack.
This must have been incredibly painful for them to be behind in the score.
The repeated loss of defensive rebounds has seriously affected their game rhythm.
To prevent Su Hao from grabbing offensive rebounds, four players were again stationed under the basket.
This left Su Hao, who was standing under the basket, feeling quite helpless, but he could understand the other party's actions.
After all, his rebounding ability is indeed very strong, and if no one is assigned to defend him, it is easy for him to grab the rebounds.
Even if it means completely abandoning the outside shooting, they must stop Su Hao from continuing to grab offensive rebounds.
Losing defensive rebounds repeatedly is too demoralizing.
If they continue playing like this, the Mavericks players will all develop psychological trauma.
With just three seconds left on the second possession, Curry still took a three-pointer.
This time, instead of shooting directly, he used Rasul Butler's screen to create a sliver of space for a shot.
Then he acted decisively.
As the basketball flew towards them from afar, the Mavericks players under the basket couldn't wait any longer.
Nowitzki and Marion, who were blocking Su Hao's path, had already jumped into the air, trying to grab the rebound before Su Hao could.
This time, however, there were no surprises, and the basketball landed steadily in the basket.
With Su Hao consistently feeding him the ball, Curry finally achieved a record of making ten three-pointers in the first half.
When the ball went into the basket, Curry felt a sense of relief.
He stepped forward and gave Su Hao a high-five as he walked towards him, in celebration.
"You finally made it, kid. Otherwise, I don't know how many more offensive rebounds I would have had to grab for you!" Su Hao said with a wry smile.
Curry then joked, "If this shot doesn't go in, are you planning to give up on helping me with the rebound?"
"How could that be? I'm known as a good guy." Su Hao smiled and punched Curry's chest hard. "But you finally made that three-pointer. If you hadn't made it, I would have become your personal rebounding king."
Curry smiled, his eyes radiating confidence. "Hehe, who told you to be the 'Hulk'! With you around, I can shoot three-pointers without restraint!"
After making that three-pointer, the Mavericks still had ten seconds left to attack.
The Mavericks' head coach immediately called a timeout.
After returning to the bench, he took the tactical board and started gesturing wildly.
It looks like they're setting up a three-point shooting strategy from the outside.
"We can only shoot from the outside now. We just can't get inside. Su Hao is making it impossible for us to score inside!" Marion said to his teammates and head coach.
"Not only can you not score, but you can't even get defensive rebounds! In just this one possession, how many defensive rebounds have you given up? One of you can easily grab a rebound in front of four of you...!" The Mavericks' head coach trailed off.
"We can't blame them for this. We really can't do anything about Su Hao. Besides, it's not just our team that can't do anything about him. Their opponents before them also have no way to deal with him!" Nowitzki tried to explain.
"Yes, we've watched their previous games, and Su Hao is exceptionally strong! It's just that his outside shooting isn't very effective right now. Could we use that to our advantage and find an opportunity?" The players on the bench also started to speak up.
"What opportunities are we looking for? He's already giving us enough headaches in the paint, do you expect Su Hao to go out to the perimeter and shoot?" Kidd looked a little angry.
It seems he was very dissatisfied with his teammates' performance.
Even though his own performance in the first half wasn't particularly outstanding, he still felt that his teammates hadn't given their all.
Otherwise, Su Hao wouldn't have been able to grab three offensive rebounds in a single offensive possession!
Scenes like this on a football field are not very common.
"We're down by more than twenty points now. Do you think we still have a chance to turn this around?" the Mavericks' head coach asked his players.
The Mavericks players looked at each other, and finally Kidd spoke first: "I think we still have a chance. After all, there's still half a quarter left in the game. If they can lead by more than twenty points in half a quarter, then we have a good chance to catch up or even take the lead in half a quarter!"
"It won't be easy to come back and take the lead! It might be a different story if we were playing against other teams, but this is against the Clippers! Their inside scoring is incredibly consistent. We can't contain their inside game, and we can't score inside either. We have absolutely no advantage, so how can we expect to turn the game around?" Marion said dejectedly.
He seemed to have been completely intimidated by Su Hao's aura and had completely lost confidence in his inside offense or defense.
Upon hearing this, the other players also began to whisper among themselves.
All those confident pronouncements made before the competition have now been forgotten.
"Nowitzki, do you think we should give up in the second half?" The head coach wanted to get the team's core player's opinion one last time.
After a moment's thought, Nowitzki said calmly, "Since we still have time, we can't give up on the game easily. After all, this is our home game, and we have to live up to the expectations of our fans who support us here!"
Yes! We won't give up!
"..."
Seeing that the core player had said so, the other teammates also began to express their agreement.
"Then let's keep the main force on and fight them to the end!" the head coach shouted.
The Clippers' locker room, however, was much more cheerful at the moment.
Curry missed his last shot three times in a row, and was teased by his teammates when he returned to the locker room.
"Curry, you finally made that three-pointer! Su Hao grabbed three offensive rebounds in a row on that last shot. The reason you had so many rebounds today is because you missed so many shots from the outside!" David Lee teased Curry.
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