One Guard - Chapter 733
Chapter 726 : Jordan Supporter
From March 1st to April 15th, there is still a full month and a half before the regular season of the 14-15 season will end.
As always, after the All-Star Game this year, the competition in the regular season has become more intense. Especially in the west, here has always been the Colosseum where the strong teams fight.
The ranking from third in the west to seventh in the west changes almost every day. The current third-ranked Clippers have only two more wins than the seventh-ranked Pelicans. In the West, the final order of the playoffs is often not officially confirmed until the last day.
Of course, two Western teams have jumped out of this framework this year. Not only did they book the top two spots in the Western Conference early, but their advantage could hardly be shaken.
One is a 45 wins and 11 losses Warriors, compared to the Clippers and other Western Conference teams, they lead a full five wins. When the regular season is about to end in one and a half months, the gap of five wins is almost irreversible.
As for the other team that occupies the top of the Western Conference, it is the Dallas Mavericks led by Yiyang. Even if the Mavericks announced a month and a half in advance that they would enter the playoffs as the No. 1 in the Western Conference for the second year in a row, no one would object.
The Warriors’ current record of 45 wins and 11 losses is already very terrifying and has already left the bottom-ranked teams in the Western Conference unmatched. The Mavericks’ current record of 57 wins can only be described as dreams.
Although the Mavericks played five more games than the Warriors due to their tighter schedule at the beginning of the season. But even setting aside those five games, the Mavericks’ record is 52 wins, still much better than the Warriors.
It can be said that the Mavericks withdrew from the Western Conference rankings early. Everyone can grab anything, but they can’t grab the No. 1 spot in the West!
Therefore, the focus of fans on the Mavericks is no longer the Western Conference rankings, but whether they can break the single-season regular season record of 72 wins created by the legendary Jordan and his Bulls in a very good situation!
Even though the Mavericks’ record has been so good, people still think that it is indeed very difficult for the Mavericks to break the record.
Including the Bulls coach “Zen Master” Phil Jackson who personally created the myth of 72 wins back then, all believe that it is difficult for a team to win 72 wins. It is not just a matter of team strength. First of all, during the long 82 regular season games, it is a difficult issue to ensure that the main players are not injured. But now the Mavericks are doing very well. Although Dirk, Wade and Iguodala just missed the game, they are all minor injuries and have now returned. In Carlisle’s rotation plan, few people on the Mavericks will play 40 minutes. More importantly, the Mavericks players, including superstars such as Dirk and Wade, have given up personal data and regard team unity as the first.
However, these alone are not enough. Sometimes it depends on luck. No one knows what will happen when the regular season is so long. Even if there is only one and a half months left in the regular season, there are also many unexpected situations that may happen. Secondly, how to maintain the status of the players. At present, the Mavericks are indeed the best in the league, but when people are always tired, they can’t win back-to-back after double overtime every time. There will definitely be times when they have more than enough energy. At that time, the physical strength is good but the thinking is chaotic. And this kind of thing will not happen in the same game at the same time, maybe these people are tired this time, and the others will be tired in the next game. At this time, once the opponent Zhengwang loses, it is inevitable. Therefore, it is very difficult to break the 72-win record by relying on surface strength alone. It must have a variety of conditions. And some conditions are beyond the control of coaches and players.
“We really can’t control everything. After all, we are players, not God. But what we have to do is to do our best in all things we can control.” When facing the reporter interview, Yiyang looked relaxed. It seems that he has not been overwhelmed by the record of 72 wins.
It’s good to be able to break the record, but if it can’t, the Mavericks have no loss. So, why should there be pressure?
So in the first game in March, the Mavericks easily defeated the New Orleans Pelicans.
When Anthony Davis is there, the Pelicans can always cause a lot of trouble for the Mavericks. But it is a pity that today, Davis had to sit on the sidelines because of his injury.
Since entering the league, Anthony Davis, an extremely talented champion, has never played in full attendance.
Last season, Davis played only 67 games. At the beginning of December 2013, he took 7 consecutive breaks due to a broken left hand, and at the end of January 2014, he took another break due to a finger injury. He truce two games in March, respectively because of upper respiratory tract infection and left ankle discomfort. In April, the problem of back cramps caused him to be reimbursed for the season ahead of schedule and did not play the last 5 games.
This season, Davis’s personal data is even better, but he still can’t escape the curse. In December 2014, he took a break due to a chest hit. In January, he sprained his left toe and suffered soreness in his groin. He took a total of 4 games off. Last month, due to a strained right shoulder, he had 7 intermittent rests. In March, because of a sprained left ankle, he needed a truce for 2 games.
Although Davis failed to catch up with the Mavericks, the Pelicans are thankful that Davis has no season reimbursement this time, and the Pelicans still have the hope of making the playoffs.
Without Anthony Davis, the Pelicans seem to have little perseverance to win. The Mavericks once again scored in double figures with six players, and for the third time this season, the Pelicans were defeated.
With 58 wins and 5 losses, the Mavericks’ 72 wins record seems to be getting closer. But like “Zen Master” Phil Jackson said, it is not that simple to break the 72-win record.
On the 5th and 6th, the Mavericks will face the Trail Blazers first, and then fly to Oakland to challenge the Warriors. However, the back-to-back results of this group cast a shadow over the Mavericks’ goal of 72 wins.
In the game against the Trail Blazers, although the Trail Blazers played at home, they did not perform as expected. Aldrie made only 7 of 16 shots and only 17 points were accounted for. The Frenchman Batum 15 points and Lillard 14 points. Under Yiyang’s defense, the number zero guard’s shooting percentage almost fell below 30%.
The results of it? As a result, the Trail Blazers won the game with a dazed look at home.
“We didn’t play well. This is a problem that everyone must pay attention to. The reason why we won today is because the Mavericks’ performance is too abnormal.” After the game, Carlisle’s assistant and current Blazers coach special Li Stotts said frankly that the Trail Blazers can win, not because they do better, but the Mavericks do worse.
To use one word to describe the performance of the Mavericks today is inexplicable.
20 inexplicable turnovers, inexplicable strikes, inexplicable omissions. Among the starting five, only Gobert, the center, has a hit rate of more than 50%. Even Yiyang voted for a season’s lowest 38% today.
The Mavericks made 36% of their field goal percentages and only 12% of their three-pointers. If the Trail Blazers can’t win it like this, it’s just too unreasonable.
The players collectively have no status, which is the kind of situation that Carlisle could not predict. And this is why the “Zen Master” thinks that 72 wins are difficult to break.
“We lost this game. We are very helpless. We will play the Warriors back to back in the next game. I hope we can get over it.” After the game, Yiyang, who only scored 20 points and 8 assists, shook his head, 82 games. In the regular season, there is always a convulsion in one or two games.
The next day, March 7, the Mavericks met the Warriors again. As the two most shocking teams in the West this year, the Mavericks and the Warriors are destined to produce fierce sparks every time they meet.
Today, the Mavericks’ performance is normal. But Curry and Thompson both shot a bad breath from beyond the three-point line. Last month, Yiyang snatched the title of “Splash Brothers” three-pointer in the three-point contest. Today, Curry and Thompson used 62% and 44% of their three-pointers in return.
The Mavericks performed normally, but the Warriors performed exceptionally. In the last two minutes of the game, the Warriors made four consecutive three-pointers. This wave of offensive allowed the Warriors to finally win the game.
Although Yiyang bravely chased for eight points in the last moment, Cole sat down the court and was startled to sweat. But in the end, the Warriors retained their most precious four-point advantage to the end.
100 to 104, the Mavericks lost two back-to-back games. Although Yiyang scored 28 points and 11 assists, the Mavericks still failed to withstand the pressure in front of the Warriors’ three-pointer offensive.
3>2, this is a simple mathematical relationship. Even authors at the math level of kindergarten level can’t make a mistake.
A week ago, the Mavericks had considerable hopes to break the record of 72 wins in a single season held by the Bulls. But in the past two games, the Mavericks have lost two games, and the state they showed is worrying.
After losing these two planned victories, the Mavericks have lost 7 games this season. They must ensure that they lose no more than two games in the last month of the regular season to break the 72-win record. Only if you lose more than three games can you tie the record. There is no doubt that the difficulty has suddenly increased a lot.
However, after this month, the Mavericks games are not easy. The Cavaliers, Clippers, Thunder, Grizzlies… all opponents are not easy to provoke. So, the 72-win record is indeed one of the most difficult records in the league to break.
The day after the Mavericks lost to the Warriors, the Chicago Tribune published a Sam Smith column. Of course, the content is not meant to say good things about the Mavericks.
“From the beginning of the season to the All-Star weekend, the players at this stage are often energetic and high-spirited. During the first three weeks of the All-Star , most players will have a certain slack. After the All-Star game, the players It will regain energy, but this will probably only last for 1-3 weeks. After that, the players will become a little lazy again by the end of the regular season. They will not regain their energy until the start of the playoffs. So, stop talking about the ridiculous thing that the Mavericks can break the 72-win record, because it’s impossible. Now the Mavericks have slackened.”
The wording of the article is sharp, and it does not look like a gibberish.
After all, Sam Smith is already a 68-year-old old school basketball reporter. His level is still higher than those cats and dogs. After Jordan was selected by the Bulls and came to Chicago in 1984, the story between Smith and Jordan began. Just as Mouran did to Yiyang, Sam Smith was Jordan’s queen reporter at the time, and Jordan’s spear against the media.
Two books about Jordan, “The Law of Jordan” and “The Second Return”, were both written by Sam Smith with a rafter. Such a guy naturally wants to maintain Jordan’s record and status very much. And what he said has a certain weight in the basketball circle.
So the next day, during the media opening hours during the training, naturally many reporters asked Yiyang what he thought of Sam Smith’s article.
Facing this problem, facing this highly respected reporter, Yiyang, instead of being nervous, shrugged.
“He is just a penman, and he can’t send a jersey to stop me personally, so why should I listen to his unrealistic nonsense?”
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