Super Basketball Manager

Chapter 354 Cheer up my brother!
Once again embarking on an impending road trip, inside the bus of the Dallas Mavericks, the whole team was terribly quiet...

It's an unspoken silence, and sometimes, you just don't want to take it easy...

Yes, counting the past years, no matter the desperate road to Miami in the finals in 06, the confusion in San Francisco after being blacked out by the Warriors in 07, or the home defeat after 1:3 last year, they are like in the classic western movie "Golden Three Whores", who are good at keeping bullets to fight the wind, but they also kill the cowboy gangsters who are not heavily surrounded at the end of the day...

Everyone is regretting and blaming themselves...

Still thinking about the fifth final of the Western Conference, known as the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain".

Yeah, it's actually quite unfair to lose...

After Cousins ​​was troubled by fouls, Houston, who was forced to play a senior and a junior, had already stepped into the abyss with one foot, but they did not withstand at the last moment. The Ascension Fist of the Angel of Aerospace City Paul George...

25 points, 8 rebounds, 12 assists, this kind of miraculous data that even James does not often hand in, was done by a first-year student. This is undoubtedly an indelible shadow that hangs over the hearts of the Dallas Cowboys...

too horizontal...

They have Shaquille O'Neal, Iverson, and McGrady. These veterans are infinitely equal to their peak in the playoffs. No one can tell which game they will go crazy. Then there are Yao Ming, Harden, Cousins ​​and others who are in their prime. In the end, there is a super kid who you don't look carefully and think it is a young McGrady...

Even though Nuo Tianwang has been embedding BUG in every game of Houston in this series, averaging 35 points and 8 rebounds, but they still give up home court advantage and match point...

It's hard to get another chance...

Kidd’s player contract options for next season, Haywood, Chandler and other one-shot insider contracts expire, plus Caron Butler, Stevenson, who originally hoped to earn some "retirement guarantee" to support his family at the end of his career, and Peja, who had already informed the management and retired next season, Mark Cuban.

Yeah, maybe this is the last game for this Dallas Mavericks team...

Terry leaned against the window and sighed endlessly...

Sean Marion was brooding over how he called in to prevent George from being ignored at the last minute yesterday...

Nuo Tianwang didn't speak. He didn't like to communicate very much. In fact, maybe the Mavericks are not good at playing against the wind, and it has something to do with Nuo Tianwang's personality that is not good at exaggerating the atmosphere...

There is no N giant in Dallas, not even a second real star, only Dirk Nowitzki...

If even he can't lead the team...

Perhaps waiting for them is doomed to be a big defeat that can't even regain their dignity...

He can even only complain in a complaining tone and chatter, and Cuban complains that he can't find a way to really motivate players: "If, I mean, if Wade and James think of me as another person when they want to build a giant team, then imagine it, the three of us, almost locked in the championship combination, this is really tempting."

Dirk Nowitzki disappeared from the player channel after being blacked out by the Spurs in the first round last year. One of the most powerful teams in the NBA, led by the theoretically greatest purely overseas player in the NBA, failed in the first round three times in four years. For the first time in 12 years, the German hesitated whether to continue to wear the denim jersey, and even played peek-a-boo with the world's number one driver, Cuban, who was arresting him for signing contracts.So when the dust settles on the contract renewal, when Dirk tells you that he actually waited for the call of Wade and James, and was as obsessive as Fei Yuqing and other Jay Chou supporters, but was rejected thousands of miles away by the kid, things really seemed a little... not right.

Shaq, Duncan, Garnett, Dirk, Kobe, Nash—the best players born in the 70s, winners of 8 annual MVPs, and owners of 11 championship trophies, but in front of the latter, Dirk and Nash are inseparable losers.

Regardless of the Dallas Mavericks or the Phoenix Suns, the dependence on the two is like an addiction, which goes deep into the bone marrow.In the past six and a half seasons, Nash's absence from the Suns has a winning rate of less than 20%. Dirk Nowitzki, who rarely hangs up his boots, has nine games in a row in a season. The Mavericks have 2 wins and 7 losses.Attending on the 41st, Dallas had 46 wins and 10 losses, winning 1 of 3 games from late January to early March.

It also includes the 34-game winning streak that personally defeated the Rockets, and the rare smile in front of the media after the Dirk Nowitzki game...

It's like something I didn't dare to look forward to for a long time, but it finally got close to that expectation, and it became more and more realistic...

When facing the Rockets again in the Western Conference Finals this time, he even had a kind of pride that did not match his low-key personality: "...you don't have to face Gasol Jr., and Randolph, maybe playing the Rockets is the only correct choice..."

One player cannot represent the entirety of a team, but without him, the team is immediately paralyzed—the Bulls won 1993 wins in the 94-55 season—such extreme cases are rare in NBA history. The latest vivid example is probably the Cleveland Cavaliers.

And when you sit on the sofa and watch the series of ugly losses of the Mavericks to the Raptors, Bucks, and Pacers when Dirk is absent, weird ideas that subvert your basic understanding of the NBA will keep popping out of your mind: Is Cuban a smarter boss than Gilbert?Is Carlisle really a better coach than Scott?Was Terry really a better shooter than Mo Williams?Is Chandler really more effective than Varejao?Is Marion really more suitable to play the 4th position than Jamison?Kidd really has more influence on the outcome of the game than Gibson? ...Of course, the premise of all doubts is that if there is no Dirk.

It seems that the Germans do not have the personal dominance of LeBron James, but in terms of team building ideas, the Mavericks are no different from the former Cavaliers. A group of sloppy guards and blue-collar centers, the perpetually twisted No. 2 position and dubious hackers and Jamison, all kinds of mix and match of roles, all established because of the bonding of a superstar.In the era when the Spurs and the Celtics were separated, and the Lakers and Heat descended from heaven, the hidden dangers of this 1+11 teaming model are obvious.In the past five years, there have been no regular season generals and playoff jokers worse than the Mavericks and Cavaliers.No way, the regular season is a stage to show their advantages, and the playoffs are a prank to expose each other's weaknesses.

Fans who often watch Mavericks games will know that Carlisle pursues a very unique star rotation method. The first time Dirk was replaced was not at the end of the first quarter, but the first official timeout after the opening. On the 41st, he took a breath and came back after the official timeout 2 minutes before the end of the first quarter.He should not only serve as the main attacking point of the starting five (none of the other four have more than two scoring methods), but also form a check in the alternate periods between the two quarters when the bench gangsters are firing wildly. Without Dirk's cover support, Terry and Barea's floating shot accuracy, Marion's singles creativity, and the offensive efficiency of the entire team are often maddeningly bad.

So in a sense, Dirk Nowitzki is Dallas' super sixth man.The task of leading the second echelon, Manu and LeBron, only do it from time to time, only Dirk is obliged to play two roles every night, leading both the starter and the substitute.

This is the reason why the Rockets were beaten black and blue in the first two games, and the reason why some uncles and old people in Houston were highlighted in the last two games, and they were beaten back...

This is the case, Dallas has no N giants, not even a second real star.

When Houston broke out collectively, Dallas must think it was unlucky, but if the veterans are really at their peak, Houston can even beat the Lakers in 00 and Chicago, which has won six consecutive championships, let alone the Mavericks?
Yes, the facts are in front of you, so even if they lose two away games, of course they are not in a hurry...

Cuban: "O'Neill, you are awesome, you have the ability to be so awesome..."

If that's the case, it's not awesome, it's crazy...

In this regard, the Dallas Mavericks, who have played lineup surgery for ten years, are approaching the best state of chemical reaction.

Carlisle had tears in his eyes, "We don't need a trade, look at those guys in the locker room, how united and friendly they are."

Tears welled up in Nelson's eyes, "No more deals, we've waited ten years for this chemical reaction."

With tears in Cuban's eyes, "Unless someone trades an All-Star to me for a second-round pick, all trades are out of the question."

Yes, that's it, the proud Mavs believed in their pace until that damn G5...

That's right, it was the G5 game that almost overturned all their sources of confidence and motivation...

At this point in the series, even the uninitiated can see what the trump card that Aerospace City is really holding in its hands...

Of course, the four veterans - O'Neal's spade K, McGrady's heart K, Iverson's club K, Battier's diamond K, there is no doubt about it, they can shine in a few games, there is nothing wrong with it; Yao Ming is an ACE... There is no doubt about it, and it is also a role that Dallas people must strangle to death...

It was only after the end of the fifth game in the series that everyone really saw the real trump card of the Houstonians...and it was the big and small kings-the first-year supernova, DeMarcus Cousins ​​and Paul George...

They're sometimes the glue between the ACE and the K's... paired with carrying the banner of the team's functioning in the first and second units...

At the critical moment, you suddenly come to the runaway mode, and a game will kill you...

Cousins ​​in the first half, George in the second...

The Dallas people completely lost their confidence before the start of the series. Even Carlisle could only look at the sky silently, his mind was muddled...

confused…

helpless…

Everyone showed a kind of exhaustion similar to that of a lost dog...

It was just a sudden thunder explosion out of thin air, completely turning the Dallasites back from the edge of the cliff...

"Cheer up, brother, or get out! Don't go to the Toyota Center to embarrass yourself!!" Chandler clenched his fists furiously and punched the bus chair heavily...

In an instant, the deformed chair and the bloody fist regained Dallas' spirit as a Texas cowboy...

In the past ten years, the temperament of the blue cowboys has been wild and fragile. They have a dashing offense and a plump lineup, but they have always lacked a blue bone.So now, things are starting to change?

Before the G6 game, the situation changed suddenly!
　"Cheer up brother, or get out! Don't go to the Toyota Center to embarrass yourself!!"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)