![]() Turns out nine good fingers were plenty for Dirk to form a mighty fist Thursday night, and to hit the Heat where it really hurts.Audio MIDI Sequencer (DAW) (Download) Update from older Motu Digital Performer versions to Digital Performer 11. That would make the Mavs as tough to beat as Miami is with its trio of transcendent stars. What happens if Dirk actually scores 40 points some night, the way he has previously in this post-season? He's going to have to play a solid all-around game, which he did tonight." He's going to have to fight through periods where the ball isn't necessarily going into the basket, which he did tonight. ![]() "Dirk knows for us to win this series, he's going to have to play all-around basketball. You've got to play, and you've got to be a warrior. You make yourself numb so you don't feel pain. "Guys like that don't feel pain right now. "Look, I played with (Larry) Bird for three years when he was the best player in the world," Carlisle said. Suddenly Big D, as in Big Dirk, is on a roll. Suddenly there's a chance for that to happen. There's nothing he hasn't seen."Īnd there's nothing the 2007 NBA Most Valuable Player hasn't done except win a league championship. I've seen times where people throw three guys at him. "There are going to be a lot of situations where he's going to be a playmaker because teams commit two guys to him. "Dirk didn't start out shooting particularly well," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. The guy's averaging nearly 30 points this post-season, so good luck with that. "I think I went a little earlier thinking they might foul and make us take it out of bounds, but I was able to get by Bosh and make a layup.īig enough to make a series of this thing, and to make Miami go back to the drawing board on figuring out how to stop Dirk. "They actually had a foul to give," said Dirk, who with his late flurry made 10 of 22 shots on the night. That's how it came down to Dirk, who got the ball for a one-on-one move that everybody knew was coming but the Heat was unable to stop.Ĭhris Bosh had Nowitzki covered, or so he thought, as the Mavs took the ball in with the score tied 93-93 and 24 seconds to play. Miami collapsed in this one, with Dwyane Wade and LeBron James and everybody else missing shots down the stretch. That was desperation in motion, all right, for the Mavs trailed 88-73 with a little more than seven minutes to play.Īgainst Oklahoma City in the Western Conference finals, Dallas pulled off a couple of these turnarounds, including a 17-2 run at the end of regulation to force overtime and an eventual win in Game 4 against the Thunder. ![]() "Defensively, we really got up and got into them and pressured them full court," Nowitzki said. Instead, Dirk took over in the fourth quarter, scoring nine of his 24 points and providing the finishing kick on a wild 22-5 Dallas run. Only a Texas-sized miracle would have saved Dallas then as the Finals head west for the next three games. Had it stayed like that, it would have been No-Win-Ski for the Mavs and a 2-0 series lead for the Heat. ![]() Wearing a splint and lots of tape, Nowitzki got off to a slow start, scoring just nine points by halftime on 3-for-10 shooting. He scored the final nine points for the Mavs, including a killer three-ball in the final minute, to negate what had been a sore subject, namely a torn tendon on the middle finger of his non-shooting hand. This is how legends are made, and big Dirk might just be getting started with two games gone in these nutty NBA Finals. Dirk Nowitzki's left hand seemed just fine at crunch time Thursday night, for that was the one he used to score the spinning, winning layup in a stunning 95-93 comeback victory for the Dallas Mavericks.
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