Early in the morning of January 11, 2008, as the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, Rick Carlisle arrived early on the team.

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

Coaching the Mavericks this season has been one of the most challenging jobs of his career.

It's a strong team, it's a team that's on the verge of breaking and needs to be reshaped.

Bringing a team out of the mire from last season's No. 1 Black Eight in the league is a very difficult challenge.

When he chose to leave the Pacers for Dallas, Rick Carlisle was also quite apprehensive.

It's just that the sincerity of the Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is too much.

Sincerity here is not just monetary sincerity, but the kind of true sincerity, the sincerity of love and dreams that will be ridiculed when 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 marketing himself through the NBA, is a man who truly loves basketball.

He has a lot of respect for Cuban's love for basketball.

But if it was just love, he wouldn't have taken on such a challenge.

In addition to love, he saw challenges and ambitions in the words of the Kuban.

It's hard for him to imagine that anyone can expect so much from a team that has just been black-eight, and so many fantastic ideals for the core of a team that has just black-eight.

That obsession with giving everything to get the Mavericks a championship is what all NBA head coaches want to see.

It's also something that is hard for a current Pacer to give him.

So here he comes, with the name of Yes Terminator to the team that has been 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, he became one of the famous marshals.

He knew very well that his fame was brought 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.

Compared to the respect for him elsewhere in the country, Dallas's respect for him is definitely the insane.

From the team owner, down to the team players, and in the middle, the team's management, coaching, and even the team's fans, the respect and adoration of him makes Rick Carlisle sometimes wonder if he is God.

In Dallas, he felt an unprecedented privilege that an NBA head coach had never used.

"Rick, you can do anything on this team except Dirk, even if I am forbidden to come to the team's home stadium to watch the game!"

That's what head coach Mark Cuban said to him.

Rick Carlisle is well aware of what it means for Cuban to ban Mark Cuban from coming home to watch the Mavericks play.

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 an NBA head coach.

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

He was also well aware of the reasons for his requirement.

Again, the reason is Yes!

He is the Yes Terminator, the person who has the best way to Yes in this world, and the nemesis of Yes.

And the Mavericks are the team that has been hurt the most by Yes.

He's been in Dallas for more than half a year.

For most of the year, he has also attended many gatherings of Dallas Mavericks fans.

At such a party, the fans of the Dallas Mavericks, the players of the Dallas Mavericks, are still talking about Yes!

No kidding.

In Dallas, the name Yes feels like a taboo.

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

The shadow that was shrouded in Yes was incredible even to him.

Black Eight......

There has been more than one black eight in the history of the Alliance.

It's never been as crazy as Yes's black, sweeping the black eight!

With a group of players like cats and dogs, relying on their own strength, they swept the Mavericks, who had begun to dream of champions before the start of the playoffs.

For the Dallas Mavericks, what Yes did last season was a dreamlike reality and a nightmare in reality.

They don't think of any reason other than to think that only God can do it, only demons can do it.

Just as many people say that the ultimate in science is theology.

When science can't explain a phenomenon, even the greatest scientists begin to move toward theology.

It may seem strange to say, but it's true, and that is, in Dallas, Yes is a character who is constantly being deified.

Whether or not the people of Dallas are scaring themselves, in short, Yes is becoming more and more hideous in their minds, and the fear that Yes is hanging over them is becoming more and more intense.

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

And he, Rick Carlisle, the league's recognized expert on Yes issues, the Yes Terminator, is the only solace in the hearts of these Dallasans.

It was as if with him, their fear of Yes had been alleviated.

Being expected so much from a team is also something that Rick Carlisle never thought about.

Being used as a lifesaver by a team is truly magical in the NBA.

Even Spurs head coach Popovich wouldn't have that status in San Antonio.

With Popovich's contribution to the Spurs, the Spurs will not treat Popovich as the only straw and comfort to the soul.

And what about him?

He's in Dallas, he's in Mavericks, and he's still doing nothing.

In Dallas, he didn't win a championship and didn't bring any accolades to the team.

Even whether or not they can lead the Mavericks to the playoffs this year is a huge question.

The situation in the West right now is that the Rockets and Suns are destined to be in the top two, and the two teams are fighting for a crucial home-court advantage in the playoffs.

With the strength shown by the Rockets and Suns this season, home-court advantage in the playoffs will be crucial.

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

The third echelon is equally solid, and the Lakers, Spurs, Nuggets, and Grizzlies are now in a mess for the fourth place in the West.

In this year's West, there are no more than seven spots in the playoffs.

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

The Mavericks, the Thunder and the Jazz Warriors are battling for the eighth spot in the West.

It's hard to imagine that the best team in the league last season is now fighting for a playoff spot under his leadership.

And the likely result is that even if they work hard, they will probably not make the playoffs in the end.

With his achievements in coaching the Mavericks this season, except for everyone up and down this team who is crazy, otherwise, it is impossible to give him such a high status.

It's just that only the insiders of the Mavericks know how difficult it was for him to bring the Mavericks to the current eighth position in the West.

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

The hard power of this team is really strong, the strongest team last season, the historic team.

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

When he took over as head coach of the Mavericks, team owner Mark Cuban asked him very much this season, as long as he got the soul of the team back, he completed the task, the playoffs or championships and other honors, which are not so important to the Mavericks at this stage.

Even people as arrogant as Mark Cuban say so.

It can be seen how critical the calf was at the beginning, and how much it was hurt by Yes.

Bringing last season's historic Mavericks to the brink of the playoffs in eighth place in the West is not his huge failure, it's his huge success.

Under his leadership, the calf has completed the beginning of the rebuilding of the soul in just half a year.

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

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

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

Except for Nowitzki, the boss of this team.

It was also a great surprise to him, as the most injured Novitzki in the historic event of being swept into the Black Eight, he was actually the most courageous one of the Mavericks.

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

In the face of that kind of malice, anyone who can stand is worthy of respect.

It's amazing that Nowitzki was not only able to stand, but also to be able to keep going against the wind and waves.

The player, who has been dubbed the biggest softie of all time, has an incredible quality of tenacity.

And that's a big part of why he can rebuild the Mavericks into success in less than half a season.

With the prestige of his Yes finisher 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 happy with the current state of the Mavericks.

This gave him hope for the calf to be reborn.

At the same time, it also made him see that these players of the Mavericks are players who can be expected to be reborn.

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

"The Seattle SuperSonics are coming!"

Rick Carlisle looked at the faces of the players in the Mavericks' training gym right now, and the atmosphere on the team had become quite strange.

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

The demon that terrifies the entire city of Dallas, the revered God, is here with his army of angels or demons!

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

In Dallas, he was always like a god.

Being so respected, so revered, and so courteous, why?

Isn't it because of his great performance in the face of Yes?

The results he brought in the face of Yes were the source of his status in Dallas.

He's done well in Dallas this season, but no matter how good he is, can he be as good as former Mavericks head coach Johnson?

Johnson, the young general, led this team to the finals.

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

So, from the first day he accepted the Dallas Mavericks, Rick Carlisle was working on Yes.

For most of his time at the Mavericks, he re-watched all of last season's Yes games, and also studied all of this season's Yes games.

In the end, there was no change in the results.

There are still no loopholes in this player.

This is a player with no shortcomings.

And not an ordinary player without shortcomings.

An ordinary player with no shortcomings, even if they are all a little, there are strengths and weaknesses in the points.

Just like Kobe, three-point shooting is not Kobe's weakness, Kobe can also shoot up to 12 three-pointers in a game, and this season Kobe can still maintain a shooting rate of more than 37% while averaging more than 7 three-point shots per game.

But compared to Kobe's ball-handling singles or mid-range shooting, his three-point shooting is really not too good.

There are no disadvantages like Kobe, but it is the most normal thing that there are advantages and disadvantages.

But Yes is completely different, this is a player who has no advantages or weaknesses!

In the past, the whole world said that Yes with the ball is the strongest Yes, but he firmly believes that Yes is the strongest without the ball.

Yes is the best player without the ball in history.

Can a Yes ball be the best ever?

It wasn't until Yes showed one of his strongest ball-playing possession of all time and his best passing that Rick Carlisle realized that he was really wrong, and that the media that looked like they were touting Yes were right.

They're not touting Yes, they're just stating a fact.

Yes, there really aren't any shortcomings, there's no shortcomings, just like those media say, he may not be as good as Jordan, but he's more perfect and well-rounded than Jordan.

Yes is the most perfect player in history, so he can have the strongest ability to lead the team in history, because what the team needs, he can provide, what a game needs, he can come up with anything, what kind of tricks an opponent needs to beat, what kind of tricks he can come up with.

That's why Yes can lead such a weak team to keep winning.

Yes is a perfect player who will not 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 could be poor.

It's no wonder that such a player can be beaten so easily.

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

I never thought he knew yes better than these people.

He just respects Yes more than these people.

These people really want to be the terminators of Yes.

These people really want to choke that hurricane from Garfield, the miracle of Seattle.

And he never wanted to be the terminator of Yes, nor did he want to snuff out the hurricanes and miracles of Yes.

He always knew that he didn't finish Yes, he finished Yes's teammates, he finished Seattle SuperSonics!

He has never studied how to beat Yes for most of the past half a year, he has always studied how to beat the supersound!

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

Now the Seattle SuperSonics are the third team in the West and the third in the league.

The Dallas Mavericks, on the other hand, are eighth in the West and 10th in the league.

There is a huge difference in the records of the two teams, but in this game, he is confident that he can give the SuperSonics 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 get out of the shadow of Yes."

In the minds of the Mavericks, Yes is a god-like, demon-like player, so as long as these people in Dallas, Yes is just an ordinary person like them, then they can naturally get out of the shadow of Yes.

He can't end Yes, but turning Yes from an immortal to an ordinary person is what he is good at.

Who makes Yes the most unselfish player in history.

Whoever makes Yes the most perfect person will only make the most correct decisions.

Twice last season, Yes's stats weren't that explosive.

As long as he replicates last season's two performances against Yes, he will be a complete success in Dallas this season.

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

What a lore Wizards, what a lore Nets, what an unprecedented streak in history, these shining moments of Yes can be terminated today.

This game is just an ordinary game!

Rick Carlisle looked at those preoccupied Maverick players, and his heart was full of confidence!

He has the ability.

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Jan. 11, 2008, American Airlines Center, Dallas.

More than 20,000 Dallas Mavericks fans were nervously watching this game that made them feel incredible.

Facing this game against the SuperSonics, Mavericks fans were pessimistic before the game began.

Even if Yes now carries a team whose supersonic speed is considered weaker than last season's superSonic, they are not confident of beating this team.

Last season's Mavericks were so strong, they were torn apart by Yes.

The supersonic speed is weaker this season, will the Mavericks become stronger?

The calf is of course even weaker!

For Maverick fans, the 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 very beginning of this game, the Mavericks and the supersonics, who are incredibly powerful for them, were inseparable.

And that fairy-like Yes's performance in this game can be described as unbelievably 'ordinary' for them!

The game was almost over, and Yes still scored 18 points on 5-of-7 shooting and 4-of-4 free throws.

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

This statistic, put on any player in the league, is a very good performance.

However, for Yes, especially for Yes in their minds, this data and performance are really too ordinary, and they can't live up to Yes's identity!

"Yes, too, mortal!"

"We might win this game!"

As the game drew to a close, Mavericks fans who had been abused with the Mavericks were already cheering for the team.

Cheer on the team in front of Yes!

Listening to the incredible sound of the scene, Maverick boss Mark Cuban danced excitedly on the sidelines.

"A Yes Terminator is a Yes Terminator!"

Mark Cuban is now throwing himself into the five-body that head coach Rick Carlisle already admires.

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

But TM's, Rick Carlisle can do it!

In this game, Yes's shots were pitiful, and Yes's scores were pitiful.

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

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

But because of Durant's crazy undercover play, the Mavericks don't see any weakness in the score at all.

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

Mark Cuban felt his palms sweat.

This game is really exciting for the people who are up and down the Mavericks!

Of course, in addition to the people up and down the calves, the people on the sidelines commentary seats are equally exciting.

Barkley and Kenny Smith didn't expect this match to be so intense.

It stands to reason that with the psychological advantage of supersonic over the Mavericks, supersonic should crush the Mavericks in this game.

But now, there is any crushing feeling in this.

Could it be that Rick Carlisle is really that amazing?

Barkley wasn't convinced.

But this game was clearly placed in front of him.

It's normal for any team in the league to play so hard with the SuperSonics.

Supersonic speed is not strong in the first place.

But if this team is a Maverick, it is not normal!

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

Barkley couldn't have imagined what the consequences would be.

Carlisle will fight to become a god.

And Yes will face endless ridicule!

As the game time dwindled, Barkley felt like his little heart was pounding.

"With 38 seconds left in the game, the Seattle SuperSonics are attacking, Yes is still not attacking in the face of Devin Harris's defense, and Yes is still looking for Durant!"

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

"The side pass after the beautiful block, Yes's pass is so good, Durant's movement is a bit cumbersome, Eric Dampier and Josh Howard have both blocked!"

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

Durant's previous 34 shots, many of which were much simpler than this shot, were constantly hitting the iron.

With the defense that Durant is facing right now with Dampier and Josh Howard, it would be strange if this ball could go in.

It's a goal that can't be scored for any reason!

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

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

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

Mavericks fans felt that way, so their cheers became even crazier.

Rick Carlisle felt that way, so he was even more excited to dance on the sidelines.

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

He was still terrible on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, he gave everything.

He wants to see his hard work turn into a win!

He knows all too well what a win in this game means for 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 everyone's focus at the American Airlines Center is on the basketball that flies in the air.

The same is true of Rick Carlisle.

Victory, already so close!

His success with the Dallas Mavericks is already so close!

No matter how good Rick Carlisle's Qi cultivation kung fu is, he can't hide his excitement at this time.

He's ready to put his hands up in the air!

Nowitzki, on the field, was ready to jump high.

Maverick fans on the sidelines are ready to roar out the biggest cheers.

Brush it up!

The American Airlines Center, which was about to explode, fell silent in an instant!

Entered?!

Durant played iron all night, and in the face of the most difficult shot in this game, he actually scored?!

Barkley, who was already going to cover his eyes, was stupid.

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

Durant went from 13-of-34 shooting to 14-of-35.

14 of 35?!

Another 40% hit rate?!

Was it an accident or a coincidence?

That's amazing, isn't it?

Barkley was stunned as much as the Mavericks fans.

It's just that soon, Barkley couldn't stop standing still.

"The Dallas Mavericks didn't ask for a timeout!"

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

"Rick Carlisle didn't give the SuperSonics a chance to bring on Tucker and Millsap at a critical moment!"

"Mavericks are looking for Nowitzki!"

"Nowitzki is stuck in position, and he's going to hold the ball, but what's behind him?!"

"Behind Nowitzki is Yes!"

"This is a showdown that sweeps the Black Eight again!"

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

Once again, the team's chances of victory were in his hands.

He's going to wait for his chance!

"Nowitzki moved!"

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

Bang!

"Nowitzki's movements are too slow, Nowitzki is cut by Yes!"

Nowitzki, who is still independent of the golden rooster, looks at the supersonic nine that has galloped away like a statue, and his face is full of horror.

Looking at the supersonic No. 9 who had just jumped outside the Mavericks' three-point line, many Mavericks fans who were still expecting victory just now had closed their eyes in pain as if they had accepted God's judgment.

Brush it up!

At the same time as the sound of the basketball falling to the net, Mark Cuban fell into his seat.

"Unbelievable lore!"

"Yes has played in the NBA for three consecutive games!"

"It's a miraculous record!"

Barkley is going crazy.

Rick Carlisle's eyes widened, and he couldn't say a word.