Chapter 37: The Hornless Bull

After the Mavericks-Nuggets game, Anthony's performance was surprisingly different from previous games, and there were good things in the media that stirred up the matter. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Chicago Post ran a story in the NBA section the next day titled "Liu Han: This rookie is not good."

Chicago's media and Liu Han have always had a lot of grievances, the double hair as early as 1997 had a confrontation, although Liu Han finally won the championship, but the Chicago media has always been cynical about Liu Han, and even when Liu Han left the United States, Chicago media called Liu Han fleeing the United States, which once caused Liu Han fans and Chicago media disputes.

Now Liu Han is back, but the Chicago Bulls have long been reduced to a fish belly team, last season they were only ranked twelfth in the East, it was very embarrassing to not go up or down, and last season the Bulls were slightly better, they directly ranked first in the East, and finally got a good signing spot in 02.

The Chicago media watched Liu Han join the Mavericks after the Mavericks set off a new wave, their hearts are actually all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred, how arrogant Chicago was when Jordan was there, but now they can only watch others all kinds of chic, so after Liu Han abused Anthony, the Chicago media reported like this.

Just when the Chicago media triumphantly felt that they had set up a new enemy for Liu Han, the Chicago Bulls players were full of resentment at the "unscrupulous" behavior of the local media, because their next opponent was the Dallas Mavericks, and the Bulls were playing away from home.

However, Liu Han was not actually angry because of the "rumors" of the Chicago media, after two years in London, he had already seen the "shamelessness" of the British media, and now these bad tricks of the Chicago media are still pediatric for Liu Han.

However, Wade openly stood up for Liu Han despite his rookie status, he said that Liu Han was very humble, and at the same time had the demeanor of his predecessors, which gave him a lot of help.

After an initial period of discomfort, Wade and the new Heat team gradually regained their form, and although there were still more losses than wins, the team showed a thriving state.

On November 25, 2003, the Bulls arrived in Dallas to face a growing but very tough Mavericks.

The Bulls actually have no shortage of outstanding young players, but unfortunately, the chaos of the team's management and the struggle of various factions within the team have never found the right core and future development direction.

After the glory of the Jordan era, coupled with the presence of veteran players like Pippen, it is difficult for the young players of the Bulls to get ahead.

After the game started, the Bulls attacked first, and Kendall? Gil advances with the ball, and Liu Han defends Gil in position.

The Bulls have an advantage in height compared to the Mavericks, needless to say inside, the Bulls have an absolute advantage, Tyson? Chandler and Eddie Curry are both very powerful interior players, Chandler is the eye of the list in 01, and Eddie Curry is the No. 4 pick in 01, both of them have an absolute advantage in height and weight, and Eddie Curry is nicknamed Little Shark.

With such an excellent interior player, Gill handed the ball to Pippen, who asked for the ball, and the "second gang leader" completely became the leader of the Bulls after the departure of "Boss Joe", and he still controls the team's ball at the age of nearly forty.

Pippen intended to be strong Odom, but was forced directly into a corner by Odom, and Pippen had no choice but to pass the ball to Jaylen? Rose dealt with it, and the latter's three-point line throw ended the Bulls' first offense.

Because Jaylen Rose's shot was a little lighter, so the ball bounced far away after knocking on the basket, and was directly obtained by Allen McGee on the periphery, the Mavericks launched a pass very fast, Allen McGee passed the ball to Liu Han who had run to the middle circle, Liu Han quickly rushed forward with the ball, at this time the Bulls returned to the position after Kendall Gil defended the position, but in the face of the Mavericks' three-line fast attack, Gill could only watch the ball be dunked into the basket by Jamison.

This game was destined to be paced from the beginning, the Bulls did have an advantage inside, but they lacked enough firepower on the outside, and the inside players couldn't get the ball, and the Mavericks defended the joint defense after the Bulls' offense basically relied on the second offense after grabbing the rebound or the strong attack of the interior players.

The Mavericks took advantage of the Bulls' slower speed disadvantage to start waves of unreasonable fast offense, and they may only need two or three passes to finish each offense, and Nowitzki no longer falls into the low post single, because this is to fight the opponent's advantage with their own disadvantage, and the Mavericks' entire offense is ended by peripheral shots.

The Mavericks' onslaught completely stunned the Bulls, and their frequent switchbacks wasted too much physical energy on the team, especially some older players, who simply couldn't keep up with this speed.

At the end of the first quarter, the Mavericks led the Bulls by 22 points, 43-21, which was a very rare score.

Liu Han hit three three-pointers in the first quarter and also burst into the basket to make several interior fouls, and he totaled 14 points in the first quarter, along with three rebounds and three assists.

In the second quarter, the Bulls changed their appearance after switching to the bench lineup. Crawford's core Bulls bench lineup played well, the Mavericks bench lacked a core, and Josh Howard and Xue Yuyang performed positively but couldn't find the essentials.

Six minutes into the second quarter, the Bulls cut the deficit to 15 points.

But when the Mavericks' main team returned to the court, the situation returned to the Mavericks' side.

The Bulls are still not united, and even the interior duo Chandler and Eddie Curry are not convinced by each other, and the main lineup of the Bulls is basically fighting separately.

By halftime, the Mavericks had regained the margin to more than 20 points.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Han blocked Chandler and caused the opponent to foul the Bulls to give the Bulls a dismount, and then the Mavericks used offense to gradually expand the difference to more than 30 points, and the Bulls have lost hope of winning.

The Bulls trailed the Mavericks by 37 points at the end of the third quarter, and the entire fourth quarter became garbage time.

The Mavericks' main lineup didn't play in the fourth quarter, and the Bulls' bench players did recover a lot of the score, but that was over.

In the end, the Bulls were bloodied by the Mavericks by 31 points on the road.

Liu Han didn't score a triple-double today but scored a big double-double, he scored 42 points and added 21 assists, and the Mavericks scored 130 points for the first time today, scoring 131 points, and all six players on the team scored double-doubles.