Chapter Seventy-Two: If You Fail, Find a Way to Succeed

On January 16, 2004, at Pepsi Center Arena in Denver, with less than three minutes left in the game, the Nuggets led the Mavericks by one point 83-82. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the host of CCTV's "famous" sports program surnamed Han, many friends who have just turned on the "washing machine" will probably be very surprised (who can provide some classic quotations from Lao Han?). Today's Mavericks actually scored just over 80 points with 3 minutes left in the game, you must know that they often score more than 60 or even 70 points in the half.

Without Liu Han, the Mavericks completely changed their style of play in this away game, Nowitzki and the re-starting Bradley focused on the interior, and the Mavericks and the home team Nuggets began a difficult "iron" game.

The Mavericks players are very strange why today's game is so hard, the pace of the game slows down is their own initiative, but the smooth feel of the past is gone, and even sometimes the empty shots will feel very sticky, Nowitzki's strong attack in the low post is even more tightly blocked by ** and Camby, as for Bradley, his role is just to grab a rebound and find an opportunity to play a secondary offense.

As for the Nuggets, Anthony's condition is also very bad, and he has recently hit the rookie wall, and his shooting percentage has inexplicably plummeted.

But even so, the Nuggets still suppressed the Mavericks to the death, and the Mavericks' starting point guard today, Travis? Best was taken by Nuggets point guard Andre? Miller completely exploded, although this Miller three-point shooting rate is very low, but he is very keen to grasp the shortcomings of Best's short height and light weight, a strong back body single Best, if the Mavericks wrap him, he will pass the ball to his interior teammates, making the Mavericks miserable.

In the last two minutes and 40 seconds of the game, the Nuggets' Andre? Miller pouted again and hit the Mavericks inside causing a foul from Josh Howard and scoring a goal, and the Nuggets extended the margin to four points, which was a dangerous thing for the Mavericks.

At the critical moment, Nowitzki is still worth believing, he did not attack on the inside, but pulled to the outside and used the defect of being short in height to hit three points against the opponent's defense, and continued the "life" for the Mavericks.

But in the following games, the Nuggets started Woshan? Leonard burst onto the ball, hitting two three-pointers in quick succession on two of the Nuggets' offenses to help the Nuggets almost seal the win with less than a minute left in the game.

The Mavericks fought back in the final moments, and Nowitzki hit another three-pointer to no avail, and finally the Nuggets won 94-90 at home to end the opponent's 16-game winning streak.

The Mavericks suffered a defeat in the first game without Liu Han, and the team shot less than 40% of the entire game.

There was no time to discuss why the team's performance in this game was so poor, and the Mavericks left Denver for Portland in a hurry, and they had to go back-to-back on the road.

In this game, the Mavericks returned to traditional tactics, Odom also took over the team's possession, and Nelson is still very bold to experiment with the team's various tactics, but because he wants to hide the true situation of Liu Han from the players, Nelson also showed a pair of acting skills, with a bitter and bitter face, often saying that people are old and good, and Nelson does have a "goblin" flavor now.

The Mavericks, who have returned to the "run-and-gun" tactics, have been trying to bring the pace of the game up in this game, but unfortunately Odom is not Liu Han, and Josh Howard is still a stunned young man.

The Trail Blazers have stabilized a lot after sending off Bunch Wells, and the "old flying squirrel" Damon? Although Stoudemire's form has declined due to injury problems and he still has to control his playing time, the Trail Blazers have a lot of strength on the inside.

Zack? Although Randolph is grumpy, he has to admit that his strength on the interior is outstanding, and Rasheed Wallace, as he gets older, Rasheed Wallace's straight-arm shooting is becoming more and more accurate, these two alone have made the Mavericks very difficult, they hold the basket, the perimeter allows outside players to entangle, and the Mavericks' low shooting rate gives them both a lot of rebounding opportunities.

Although the Mavericks' physical strength is not a problem, the team's rhythm has not been raised, and the players also want to run with all their might, but they have found that they have never been able to find the "locomotive" that drives them to run, and Odom is still inexperienced although he has stable ball control.

The final result did not surprise everyone, as the Mavericks lost by 96-105 to the Trail Blazers by 9 points in their second back-to-back on the road, which was the first time this season that they have scored less than 100 points in two consecutive games, and they can now be the most attacking team in the league, averaging a staggering 118.9 points per game, which is a very staggering number.

The two consecutive defeats made the Dallas media anxious, and at the same time made other media gloat, the Mavericks' record this season was so good that many people thought that Liu Han was going to lead the team to the league's best regular season results again, so in fact, there were many people looking forward to the Mavericks' defeat.

After two straight losses, the Mavericks finally had time to pause and take stock of the experience of those two games.

In Nelson's view, his experiment was successful, although the two losses exposed a lot of problems of the team, but now the exposure is much better than in the playoffs, for the team's exposure of unstable rhythm, lack of offensive confidence, blind running and other problems, Nelson specially communicated with the players one-on-one, especially Nowitzki, the Germans thought that after Liu Han arrived, he completely lost his core position, but Nelson now tells him that he is still the core of the team, in Nelson's statement, The current trend in the league is for teams to downplay the concept of the core, or that everyone in the whole team is the core, and sharing the ball on the field is the key.

Just when Nelson was talking bitterly with the various players of the Mavericks one by one, Liu Han stayed at home and Anna was tired, he couldn't go out because of the reservation with Nelson, so he played video game consoles with Anna at home, Anna had never played much of this before, most of her childhood time was occupied by training, and now two people who have never had much childhood are playing games in the room like two children, and the others are looking at each other with a look of surprise, they won't be doing "strange" things, right? That's what most people think.