Chapter 481 The Mavericks' Current Situation and Consecutive Kills!

In the early morning of January 11, 2008, as the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, Rick Carlisle came to the team early.

As the new coach of the league, the NBA's hottest Yes terminator.

Coaching the Mavericks this season is the most challenging job of his career.

This is a strong team, and it's also a broken team that needs to be rebuilt.

It is a very difficult challenge to bring out a team that was the most hacked in the league last season.

Rick Carlisle was also quite nervous when he chose to leave the Pacers and come to Dallas.

It's just that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is too sincere.

The sincerity mentioned here is not just the sincerity of money, but the kind of real sincerity, the kind of sincerity of love and dreams that would be ridiculed if mentioned in a business alliance.

It's hard to imagine that the so-called "clown" who is the most controversial in the NBA and is considered to be using the NBA to market himself is a person who truly loves basketball.

He respects Cuban's love of basketball.

But if it was just love, he would not accept such a challenge.

Beyond love, he sees challenge and ambition in Cuban's words.

It's hard for him to imagine that someone can have so many expectations for a team that just got black eight, and have so many fantastic ideals for the core of a team that just got black eight.

The kind of obsession that is willing to give everything in order to let the Mavericks win the championship is what all NBA head coaches would like to see.

This is also difficult for the current Pacers to give him.

So here he is, carrying the name of the Yes Terminator to the team that was hurt the most by Yes.

Because he led the Pacers to double-kill Yes in the regular season last year, and found the problem of the dumping system and cracked the dumping system, his status in the NBA rose sharply last season.

In one fell swoop among the ranks of marshals.

He knew very well that his fame was brought about by Yes.

The greater the fame of Yes,

The more status and value he has as a Yes Terminator.

The feeling of being respected everywhere you go is very beautiful.

Dallas has the craziest respect for him compared to the respect he has anywhere else in the country.

From the team owner, down to the team players, and the team's management, coaches, and even the team's fans, the respect and admiration for him makes Rick Carlisle sometimes doubt whether he is God.

In Dallas, he felt unprecedented authority, authority never used by an NBA head coach.

"Rick, except for Dirk, you can do anything with this team, even if I'm banned from coming to the team's stadium to watch the game!"

This is what team coach Mark Cuban said to him personally.

Rick Carlisle is well aware of what banning Mark Cuban from coming to Mavericks games at home means for Cuban.

According to Mark Cuban, as long as he doesn't think about changing the core of the team, he can even fire the boss for a short time!

He will have supreme authority in the Dallas Mavericks!

This kind of trust, this kind of treatment, is something that Rick Carlisle never thought about when he became the head coach of the NBA.

Rick Carlisle was touched by the respect the Mavericks had for him.

He also knows very well why he can get such respect from the Mavericks.

The reason is still because of Yes!

He is the Terminator of Yes, the most capable person in this world for Yes, the nemesis of Yes.

The Mavericks were the team that was hurt the most by Yes.

He has been in Dallas for the better part of a year.

In the past six months, he has also attended many gatherings of Dallas Mavericks fans.

At such a gathering, Dallas Mavericks fans and Dallas Mavericks players are still talking about Yes!

not kidding.

In Dallas, the name Yes seems like a taboo.

In Dallas, it was a man as great as God and as terrible as Satan.

The shadow of being shrouded by Yes, even he finds it inconceivable.

Heiba...

There have been more than one black eights in the history of the league.

But it has never been so black and crazy like Yes, sweeping the black eight!

With a group of cat and dog players, relying on his own strength, he swept the Black Eight and the Mavericks who had begun to imagine the championship before the start of the playoffs.

For the Dallas Mavericks, what Yes did last season seemed like a dream reality and a reality nightmare.

They can't think of any reason except that only God can do it and only the devil can do it.

Just like many people say that the acme of science is theology.

When science fails to explain a phenomenon, even the greatest scientists turn to theology.

It may sound unbelievable, but it's true, that is, in Dallas, Yes is a figure who is constantly being mythologized.

Regardless of whether the people in Dallas were scaring themselves, in short, Yes became more and more hideous in their minds, and the fear that Yes shrouded them became more and more intense.

Even though they haven't met Yes in the NBA for more than half a year, their fear still hasn't diminished in the slightest.

And he, Rick Carlisle, the league's recognized Yes expert, the Yes terminator, is the only spiritual comfort for these Dallas people.

It seemed that with him, their fear of Yes was eased.

Being placed with such high expectations by a team is also something Rick Carlisle has never thought about.

Being treated as a life-saving straw by a team is indeed magical in the NBA.

Not even Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich would have that status in San Antonio.

With Popovich's contribution to the Spurs, the Spurs will not regard Popovich as the only life-saving straw and spiritual comfort.

And him?

He's in Dallas, he's in Dallas, he hasn't done anything yet.

In Dallas, he didn't have a championship, nor did he bring any honor to the team.

Whether he can even lead the Mavericks to the playoffs this year is a huge question.

The current situation in the West is that the Rockets and the Suns are destined to be the top two, and the two teams are desperately fighting for the key home court advantage in the playoffs.

Based on the strength shown by the Rockets and Suns this season, the home court advantage in the playoffs will be very critical.

The Seattle SuperSonics led by Yes are alone in the second echelon.

The third echelon is also stable. The Lakers, Spurs, Nuggets, and Grizzlies are now fighting for the fourth place in the Western Conference.

In this year's Western Conference, there are already seven spots left in the playoffs.

Rockets, Suns, Sonics, Lakers, Spurs, Nuggets, Grizzlies, these seven teams have almost no suspense in the playoffs.

The Mavericks, the Thunder and the Jazz Warriors are competing for the eighth place in the Western Conference.

It's hard to imagine that the strongest team in the league last season, now under his leadership, can only work hard for a place in the playoffs.

And the very likely result is that even if they work hard, they may still not make it to the playoffs in the end.

As far as his achievements in coaching the Mavericks this season, everyone except this team is crazy, otherwise, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to give him such a high status.

However, only the insiders of the Mavericks know how difficult it is for him to bring the Mavericks to the eighth position in the Western Conference.

When he came to Dallas, it really was a team that lost all its support.

The hard power of this team is indeed very strong, the strongest team last season, a historical team.

But when a team loses its soul, no matter how strong the hard power of the team is, it is still an empty shell.

When he took over as the head coach of the Mavericks, team owner Mark Cuban asked him very simple this season. As long as he got the soul of the team back, he will complete the task, playoffs or championships and other honors , for the Mavericks at this stage, it's not that important.

Even people as arrogant as Mark Cuban have said so.

It can be seen how critical the Mavericks were at the beginning, and how much they were hurt by Yes.

Bringing last season's historical team, the Mavericks, to the eighth place in the Western Conference playoffs, is not his huge failure, but his huge success.

Under his leadership, the Mavericks have completed the initial reconstruction of their souls in just half a year.

Rick Carlisle doesn't know when the Mavericks will find the confidence they had as the No. 1 and all-time powerhouse last season.

At least, the current Mavericks dare to fight against any team in the league, including Yes.

When he first came to this team, Rick Carlisle didn't think most players on this team had such courage.

Except for Nowitzki, the boss of this team.

To put it bluntly, he was extremely surprised. As Nowitzki who was hurt the most in the historic event of being swept away by the Black Eight, he was actually the most courageous one in the Mavericks.

You know, before Durant appeared, Nowitzki was the one who carried the malice of the whole world.

In the face of such malice, anyone who can stand up is worthy of respect.

Nowitzki can not only stand, but also can go forward against the wind and waves, which is amazing.

The player who has been called the biggest softie in history has incredible tenacity.

And this is also an important reason why he can reshape the Mavericks successfully in less than half a season.

With the prestige of his Yes terminator and Nowitzki's tenacity, the Mavericks are now ranked eighth in the West, but they are in a very thriving state.

Rick Carlisle is very satisfied with the current state of the Mavericks.

This made him see the hope of the calf's rebirth.

At the same time, this also allowed him to see that these players of the Mavericks are all players who can be expected to be reborn from the ashes.

It's just that the Mavericks' excellent state was interrupted today.

"The Seattle Supersonics are coming!"

Rick Carlisle looked at the looks on the faces of the players in the Mavericks training facility. The atmosphere in the team has become quite strange now.

Silence, endless silence, shadows hang on everyone's faces, and black clouds hang over everyone's heads!

The demon that makes the whole city of Dallas feared, the god of reverence, with his army of angels or demons, is here!

Rick Carlisle has been preparing for this game against the Sonics for a long, long time.

In Dallas, he's been like a god.

Being so respected, revered, and treated with such courtesy, why?

Isn't it because of his great performance against Yes?

His performance against Yes is the source of his status in Dallas.

He has done a good job in Dallas this season, but no matter how good he does, can he be as good as former Mavericks head coach Jr. Johnson?

Little General Johnson led this team to the finals.

For him, only his performance in the face of Yes is his greatest value.

So, from Day 1 of taking on the Dallas Mavericks, Rick Carlisle has been working on Yes.

During the first half of the year in the Mavericks, he re-watched all the games of Yes last season, and also studied all the games of Yes this season.

The final results of the study did not change.

This player still has no holes.

This is a player without flaws.

And not an ordinary player without flaws.

An ordinary player with no flaws, even if they all have a little bit, a little bit has its advantages and disadvantages.

Just like Kobe, three-pointers are not Kobe’s weakness. Kobe can also make a maximum of 12 three-pointers in a game. This season, Kobe can maintain more than 37% of his three-pointers when he averages more than 7 three-pointers per game. Rate.

But compared with Kobe's singles with the ball or mid-range shots, his three-point shooting is really not very good.

There are no disadvantages like Kobe, but the advantages are long and short is the most normal thing.

But Yes is completely different, this is a player with no advantages or disadvantages!

The whole world used to say that Yes with the ball is the strongest Yes, but he firmly believes that Yes without the ball is the strongest.

Off the ball Yes is the best off ball player ever.

Can Yes be the best in history with the ball?

It wasn't until Yes showed one of his strongest ball handling and best passing in his history that Rick Carlisle realized that he was really wrong and the media who seemed to be touting Yes were right.

They are not touting Yes, they are just stating a fact.

Yes, there are really no shortcomings, nor any shortcomings. Just like what the media said, he may not be as strong as Jordan, but he is more perfect and comprehensive than Jordan.

Yes is the most perfect player in history, so he can have the most powerful team leadership ability in history, because what the team needs, he can provide what a game needs, what he can produce, what an opponent needs What kind of tricks can be defeated, what kind of tricks he can come up with.

That's why Yes can lead such a weak team to continuous victories.

Yes is a perfect player who won't be targeted by any team, any tactic, any player.

At the same time, he is also a perfect player who can target any team, any tactic, any player.

It would be really strange if such a player's ability to lead the team can be poor.

It is also strange that such a player can be defeated so easily.

As the league's No. 1 Yes finisher, Rick Carlisle never thought he was much better than Popovich or other Yes masters.

And never thought he knew Yes better than these people.

He just respects Yes more than these people.

These people really want to be the terminator of Yes.

These guys really wanted to choke that hurricane from Garfield, the miracle in Seattle.

And he never thought of being the terminator of Yes, and he never thought of killing the hurricane and miracle of Yes.

He has always been very clear that he is not ending Yes, he is ending Yes' teammates, he is ending the Seattle SuperSonics!

He has never studied how to defeat Yes in the past half a year, all he has studied is how to defeat the Supersonics!

And this is the most important reason why he can be the Yes terminator.

Now the Seattle SuperSonics are the third team in the Western Conference and the third in the league.

The Dallas Mavericks are eighth in the Western Conference and tenth in the league.

The records of the two teams are very different, but in this game, he is confident that he can give the Sonics a head-on blow!

"As long as this game doesn't allow Yes to continue to shine in Dallas, as long as this game doesn't allow Yes to play a very good game, then the Mavericks can really come out of Yes' shadow."

In the minds of the Mavericks, Yes is a player who is like a god and a demon, so as long as these people in Dallas, Yes is just an ordinary person like them, then they will naturally be able to escape from Yes' shadow.

He can't end Yes, but turning Yes from a god into an ordinary person is what he is good at.

Who makes Yes the most selfless player in history.

Who made Yes the most perfect person, the one who would only make the most correct decisions.

Facing Yes twice last season, Yes's statistics were not so explosive.

As long as he replicates what he did against Yes twice last season, he'll be a complete success in Dallas this season.

"In this game, Yes can't shine in front of me!"

What lore is the Wizards, the lore is the Nets, what is the unprecedented consecutive lore in history, these shining moments of Yes can be terminated today.

This game is just an ordinary game!

Rick Carlisle looked at those preoccupied Mavericks players, full of confidence in his heart!

He has this ability.

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On the night of January 11, 2008, Dallas, American Airlines Center.

More than 20,000 Dallas Mavericks fans watched this incredible game nervously.

Facing this game against the Sonics, Mavericks fans were pessimistic before the game started.

Even if the Sonics that Yes is carrying now is considered to be a weaker team than last season's Sonics, they don't have the confidence to beat this team.

The Mavericks were so strong last season, they were torn apart by Yes.

The Sonics are weaker this season, so is the Mavericks stronger?

Of course the Mavericks are even weaker!

For the Mavericks fans in this game, their purpose of coming to watch this game is very simple, not to win, nor to resist the ravages of Yes, a player like God and Satan.

They came here just to be ravaged by Yes with the team.

But what they never expected was that.

From the beginning of this game, the Mavericks and the Sonics, who are extremely powerful for them, were inseparable.

And the performance of the god-like Yes in this game can be described as "ordinary" that made them feel incredible!

The game was almost over, and Yes still only made 5 of 7 shots and 4 of 4 free throws and scored 18 points.

Of course, in addition to 18 points, there are 16 assists and 7 rebounds.

This data, placed on any player in the league, is a very good performance.

However, for Yes, especially for the Yes in their minds, this data and performance are really too ordinary, so sorry for Yes' identity!

"Yes is mortal too!"

"Maybe we can win this game!"

When the game was getting closer and closer to the end, the Mavericks fans who had come here to be abused with the Mavericks had already begun to cheer for the team.

Cheer for the team in front of Yes!

Listening to the incredible sound at the scene, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban danced excitedly on the sidelines.

"Yes Terminator is Yes Terminator!"

Mark Cuban now has a five-body throw that team coach Rick Carlisle already admires.

He really didn't know how Rick Carlisle could limit Yes so well.

But damn, Rick Carlisle can do it!

In this game, Yes took very few shots, and Yes scored very few points.

A large number of Seattle SuperSonics' shooting rights were taken away by Durant, the Seattle Iron God.

Because Tucker and Millsap did a good job of restricting Dirk in this game, the Mavericks have always been at a disadvantage.

But because of Durant's crazy undercover attack, the Mavericks couldn't see any weakness in the score.

"We can win, we will definitely win this game!"

Mark Cuban felt his palms sweat.

This game is really exciting for the Mavericks!

Of course, in addition to the people on and off the Mavericks, the people on the sidelines were equally excited.

Barkley and Kenny Smith did not expect this game to be so intense.

Logically speaking, with the psychological advantage of the Sonics over the Mavericks, the Sonics should crush the Mavericks in this game.

But now, there is no feeling of crushing here.

Is Rick Carlisle really that amazing?

Barkley didn't believe it.

But this game was clearly placed in front of him.

It's normal for any team in the league to play so hard against the Sonics.

Supersonic is not strong in hard power.

But if this team is the Mavericks, it is not normal!

If the Mavericks really beat the Sonics in this game? !

Barkley couldn't even imagine what the consequences would be like.

Carlisle will fight to become a god.

And Yes will face endless teasing!

As the game time continued to decrease, Barkley felt that his little heart was thumping wildly.

"With 38 seconds left in the game, the Seattle SuperSonics are attacking, and Yes is still looking for Durant!"

"Durant's previous data is 13 of 34 shots, and the shooting percentage is quite bad, but Yes still trusts Durant!"

"Beautiful side pass after the pick-and-roll, Yes's pass is too good, Durant's movements are a bit cumbersome, Eric Dampier and Josh Howard have already blocked it!"

Seeing Durant's shot, Barkley was even ready to cover his face.

Of Durant's previous 34 shots, many were much simpler than this shot, and they were constantly hitting the iron.

Now that Durant is facing the defense of Dampier and Josh Howard, it would be strange if this ball can be scored.

This is a shot that can be shot for no reason!

It's not just Barkley who thinks so, but the Mavericks fans at the scene feel this way even more.

If Durant didn't score this goal, then with less than 40 seconds left in the game, the Mavericks still have a two-point advantage, so the chances of victory are too great!

It should be said that as long as Durant doesn't hit the ball, coupled with the state of Yes facing the Yes Terminator Carlisle in this game, the Mavericks will basically win this game!

Mavericks fans think so, so their cheers become even crazier.

Rick Carlisle thinks so, so his dancing on the sidelines is even more exciting.

Even the Mavericks players on the court felt the same way, so Nowitzki had already firmly stuck Milicic behind him.

He still performed poorly on the offensive end in this game, but on the defensive end, he has given everything.

He wants to see his efforts in this game turned into a victory!

He is too aware of what the victory of this game means to the Mavericks.

With this rebound, he won't give Milicic behind him any chance!

Even if his current physical talent is not as comprehensive as Milicic behind him, he will not back down half a step!

Now the focus of everyone in the American Airlines Center is on the basketball flying in the air.

Same goes for Rick Carlisle.

Victory is so close!

His success with the Dallas Mavericks is so close!

No matter how good Rick Carlisle's energy-raising skills were, he couldn't hide his excitement at this moment.

He is ready to raise his hands high!

Nowitzki on the field is also ready to jump high.

The Mavericks fans on the sidelines are ready to shout out the biggest cheers.

Swipe!

The American Airlines Center, which was about to explode, suddenly fell silent!

in? !

Durant has been playing iron all night, facing the most difficult goal of the game, and actually scored? !

Barkley, who was about to cover his eyes, was dumbfounded.

Could it be that Yes' trust in Durant moved God? !

Durant, who was originally 13 of 34 shots, became 14 of 35 shots.

14 for 35? !

Another 40% hit rate? !

Is this an accident or a coincidence?

This is too amazing, right?

Barkley was as stunned as Mavericks fans.

But soon, Barkley could no longer be stunned.

"The Dallas Mavericks did not ask for a timeout!"

"Rick Carlisle didn't ask for a timeout after 116-116 draw!"

"Rick Carlisle didn't give the Sonics a chance to bring in Tucker and Millsap at critical moments!"

"The Mavericks are looking for Nowitzki!"

"Nowitzki got stuck and was about to hold the ball, but who's behind him?!"

"Behind Nowitzki is Yes!"

"This is a duel that sweeps Hei Ba again!"

Nowitzki didn't make any moves, and this nightmare picture came again!

The team's chance of victory was once again in his hands.

He has to wait for the opportunity!

"Nowitzki moved!"

Turn around, lean back, jump on one foot...

snap!

"Nowitzki's movement is too slow, Nowitzki was cut by Yes!"

Nowitzki, who was still standing alone like a statue, looked at the Supersonic Nine that had already galloped away, his face full of horror.

Looking at No. 9 of the Sonic who had just jumped outside the Mavericks three-point line, many Mavericks fans who were still looking forward to victory just now closed their eyes in pain as if accepting God's judgment.

Swipe!

When the sound of the basketball being caught sounded, Mark Cuban fell to his seat.

"Unbelievable lore!"

"Yes, three games in a row in the NBA lore!"

"It's a miraculous record!"

Barkley is crazy.

Rick Carlisle stared wide-eyed, unable to speak a word.