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Chapter 175 Only Magic Can Beat Magic

After a 47-point victory, the Knicks finally ushered in the first back-to-back game of the season after the Thunder, a team less than a year old, had a particularly difficult start.

Their opponent is the Dallas Mavericks from Texas.

As the only atypical strong team in the league, the story of the Mavericks is full of twists and turns. No one in the league can match it. From 2006 to 2012, for a full 6 years, the experience of the Mavericks is enough to fill a whole book. A basketball novel, or the one with at least 300 million unfilled.

In 06, the Mavericks, who finally achieved their strength, finally passed the defending champion Spurs in the playoffs, making it all the way to the finals and taking a 2-0 lead.

However, facing Tianhu's start, they were defeated by the desire to win and in front of the referee. They lost four games in a row, fulfilling the glory of Wade and O'Pang.

The Mavericks made a comeback in the second year, and this time they were even stronger. They swept the Spurs in the regular season, smashed the Suns, won 67 wins, and successfully reached the finals with the first place in the league. Everyone thought that this time the Dallas people were going to realize their dreams.

C debut, the O'Brien Cup, Bai Fumei, is in front of him, as if it is at his fingertips.

The old drivers who just won the MVP of the regular season said in high spirits that their opponent is only themselves!

Everyone thought they were on the fifth floor, but who knew Mavericks was on the first floor!

After six games, the Mavericks became the third team in history to be hacked. It also has the strongest sense of presence and is the most classic. It is so classic that it will never be forgotten no matter what time it is. Every holiday and playoffs Sometimes I have to pull it out to whip the corpse...

Dirk Nowitzki also became the first man in history to wear a suit to receive the regular season MVP trophy…

The old driver, who averaged only 6 points per game in 19.7 games and shot as low as 38.3%, was ridiculed as the worst regular season MVP in history.

The Mavericks are also the first team to be blacked out in a 7-game 4-win system-the longer the series, the better for the stronger team, because they have more opportunities to comeback, but even so , the Mavericks still only won 2 of them.

Not only that, the Mavericks are also different from the other teams that were hacked. Their lineup is healthy. In the regular season, the injured team of Ewing and Sprewell would drop to eighth, and in 1999 it was a shortened season. The No. 1999 Heat only won 6 games more than the No. 25 Knicks-comparison The gap between the Mavericks and the Warriors is a full [-] wins.

So the Mavericks fans can't even find an excuse, it's the real guns but they can't fight the opponent. In the three home games, the Warriors averaged 15.6 points per game against the Mavericks...

The most embarrassing thing is that the Warriors entered the playoffs because of the Mavericks' last game of the regular season.

So what is this?

Who did I kill and who killed me?

If you count the grievances between the head coach of the Warriors, Nelson, and the Mavericks...

Ah, the show is full of effects.

Naturally, he couldn't slow down in the following season. He was out of the first round of the playoffs again, and Johnson was sadly dismissed from get out of class.

In the original history, the Mavericks still haven't slowed down in the regular season this season. They are still sixth in the regular season and one place better than last season, but they counterattacked the Spurs in the first round of the playoffs. The Nuggets were eliminated in the second round, but people seem to see the dawn of their rise again.

In the 09-10 season, the Mavericks rose again in the regular season, second only to the defending champion Lakers in the West, and entered the playoffs with the second record in the regular season. ?

The smug Dirk once again said that they would join the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, and then they were easily defeated by the Spurs 4-2 in the first round... fulfilling the Spurs' black seven miracle.

Zuo Li: "..." It was quite sudden.

In four years, he has experienced black eight and black seven successively, and has a unique history.

What's even more amazing is that in just one season, the Mavericks, who are still the biggest fake team in history, miraculously killed the Trail Blazers in succession. The giants won the first championship trophy in history.

It's still considered a single-core, and it was the Big Three that defeated the Heat, which directly made this championship worthless.

In terms of surprising people, the Mavericks never surprise people.

Then the next year they fell at the speed of light and became the eighth defending champion in history to be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs...

Zuo Li is familiar with this period of history, and he remembers all the details very clearly, because it is too classic.

So during the appearance ceremony, when watching the old driver Dike appear on the stage, Zuo Li unconsciously dubbed him the voice in his mind:

6 years, do you know how I spent 6 years!

Bring yourself in, if Zuo Li is replaced to Dirk's position, he may not necessarily do better than the old driver.

Therefore, Zuo Li still respects this veteran player who was persistent and finally succeeded.

Oh, maybe Dirk isn't quite a veteran right now.

But this is not important, what is important is that Lu Xun once said that the best way to show respect to a player is to beat him on the field.

So Zuo Li decided to do it!

So Zuo Li became a power forward in this game. This was Zuo Li's first contact with this position, and Randolph replaced Zuo Li as a center forward.

"Hey Dirk, I really like the way you play, so I'm here to beat you!" Zuo Li took the initiative to greet Dirk as soon as he came up.

The Deke people are all stupid, are young people nowadays so contradictory when they speak...

But Dirk is still a little puzzled, is he going to directly confront this recently popular rookie tonight?

Will Zuo Li also play power forward?

This arrangement looks bold, but it is suitable for confrontation with the Mavericks, because of Dirk's equally atypical power forward.

With nimble footwork, a height of 2 meters, and an extremely soft shooting touch, he can control his body very well in the confrontation, and his fadeaway shooting technique is applied more like a shooting guard. Few people dare to say that it is more accurate than him.

Dirk changed the game, changed the definition of the position, he was an outlier, a great outlier, the way he played really changed the game of basketball, and in the future 7-foot big men will imitate his way of playing, It also changed the definition of the power forward position in basketball.

Therefore, he always has an advantage on the offensive end when facing traditional power forwards, because he is flexible, can dribble, and has a range covering the entire three-point line, but he also has disadvantages on the defensive end. His rebounding ability and confrontation ability are his short board.

So in the face of such an outlier, one should let an outlier like Zuo Li defend.

Because a famous magician once said: Only magic can defeat magic!