The Mavericks and Knicks ended up tied 52-52 in the first half. The Mavericks made the first half of the Mavericks a reminder of how great they were, and that they didn't just have a Dirk Nowitzki, they had Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, and Sean Marion...... Although many fans think that their group of veterans no longer have the strength to become the league's first-line players, this does not mean that they do not have the ability to play the expected performance!

It turns out they are capable!

Like now, they made it to the Finals and then they played this Knicks hard.

"The strength of this Mavericks team is beyond everyone's expectations, they have what it takes to be the champion of the Finals this year, at least as things stand, I can't be sure who can win this game and who can't! That's what the Mavericks showed us with the first half! I have the highest respect for this group of veterans! ”

Kenny Smith was amazed by the Mavericks' performance in the first half, and even more admired the strength of such a team.

Most of the players in this team are players he knows, and that's why he finds it incredible.

They were able to regain such strength at the end of their careers.

"I don't know how the players of this team got together, but now it seems that they are the right choice to come together!"

The entire Madison Square audience was also surprised by the Mavericks' performance in the first half, to tell the truth, the Knicks' performance in the first half was really not bad, Yi Jianlian and Xiao Si both played their normal level, but the problem is that this team has played its normal level, but the Mavericks still caught up with the disadvantage, this tenacity makes Knicks fans feel that this team is much more powerful than the Bulls, at least if it is the Bulls, in the case of disadvantage, It's impossible for so many role players and key players to stand up, and that team is really just Derrick Rose on the offensive end!

But the Mavericks are different, originally they thought that there was only Dirk Nowitzki, but they really didn't expect the other players of this team to be so top at critical moments!

Their impression of the Mavericks has really changed!

The second half of the game begins!

The opening Mavericks played extremely aggressively. Jason Terry, who was already very hot in the first half, started directly in the third quarter, and his linkage with Tyson Chandler directly set off a bloody storm on the Knicks' interior at the beginning!

The Mavericks made three layups from the first four shots and one mid-range shot after a pick-and-roll.

The Mavericks' strategy in this quarter was as follows: Jason Terry played the ball and Tyson Chandler shot from the free-throw line.

On the Knicks' side, Yi Jianlian struggled for a while, and he felt quite bad during this time.

During this time, the Mavericks' offense basically relied on offensive and defensive transitions, as well as the cold arrows of Felton and Dragic.

By the middle of the third quarter, the Knicks were losing rebounds on the inside and getting stuck on the outside by Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry's shots

In this quarter, the Knicks fell behind 15-22.

D'Antoni let Xiao Si go off at this time, which made matters worse.

This made the New York fans uncomfortable for a while, and it seemed to them that they were going to lose this game!

Are the Mavericks so good?

Their understanding of this Mavericks has improved a lot, why is this team so good? They kind of can't figure it out.

But just when New York fans were a little lost, the Knicks set off **. On the defensive end, the Knicks defended for a while, pinched the pass route on the weak side for a while, and tried to force the Mavericks to make a jump shot or pass error, and then speed up the counterattack;

On the offensive end, in addition to counterattacking, the Knicks basically relied on Yi Jianlian's breakthrough alone.

Towards the end of the third quarter, Xiao Si returned to the court, and while the frontcourt continued to exert pressure, plus a few fixed-point three-point shots to help the team chase the score back.

During the period when Xiao Si was away, the Knicks actually played a wave of small **, which made him very hurt, but fortunately, after he came on the court, the Knicks still played very well on the court, which is a gratifying aspect for him, if it is true that as soon as he plays, the Knicks team will fall back into stagnation, then he will really fall into autism!

But it's a pity that the Knicks' lead was eliminated by the Mavericks: the Mavericks put on a three-guard line in the first half of the fourth quarter, and Jason Kidd took Jason Terry and Stevenson on the court together.

The Mavericks caught up 7-5 and returned to a stalemate.

The negative factor of the Knicks during this period is that the Mavericks would rather let Yi Jianlian and Xiao Si shoot in the middle of the shot, but also strangle the combination of Xiao Si, Yi Jianlian and Dragic. Dragic disappeared after the first four minutes, and the only breakthrough through Barria was missed, and Xiao Si couldn't find the feeling of the mid-pitcher, relying only on Yi Jianlian to support him, which really has no way!

"It's not that Xiao Si or Dragic don't work hard, but in this game they really don't seem to have the ability to give Yi enough help, this game has to rely on Yi to win, he has done this kind of thing many times, but this time, it is much more difficult than before!"

The departure of Dek Nowitzki in the first few minutes of the fourth quarter was a good opportunity for the Knicks, but Jason Kidd and Jason Terry held on to the situation.

This proves once again that this team is not just relying on Dirknowitzki, they are relying on the whole!

At the same time, the Mavericks also showed their impressive defensive ability on this end.

"How do I win the game?" Ask the same question to a former Mavericks coach, and Nelson Sr. and Johnson would give two completely different answers.

After two consecutive playoff failures, "The Little General" is gone, but his successor, Rick Carlisle, who now leads the Mavericks to a championship, is also a college coach who started out on defense. Defensive supremacy is a belief that Carlisle has never changed in his 10-year coaching career, and this view coincides with Johnson's belief and has created the championship-level Dallas Mavericks that they are today.

Now this period of time proves that Rick Carlisle's persistence is justified, any NBA team, if it wants to win, must not rely only on offense, no defense team, in the NBA simply can't go far, this has been too many teams have experimented!

Now that the Mavericks have proven once again with their defense that they were justified in winning the game, it wasn't their luck to make it to the Finals!

Of course, the Knicks themselves have had many, many failures in detail during this period, burying the first few minutes of the fourth quarter, missing free throws, failing to rebound in the backcourt, and extremely failing to defend Jason Terry.

And Dirk also began to find his touch after returning to the court, and naturally the Mavericks began to let him block high as a containment, emptying the Knicks' interior and letting him play alone. In the second half of the fourth quarter, the Knicks' defense was too inward, and Kidd and Dirk hit back-to-back three-pointers to pull the score away.

The Knicks' counterattack in the fourth quarter during this period was still clueless, only trying to repeat Yi Jianlian's breakthrough in the first half and Xiao Si's long-range shot, the defense was unstable after consecutive misses, Barria's key three points, Terry's single made the Mavericks stable, and Dirk's finally wielded power, so that the Knicks fell back into an unfavorable situation in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Once again, the scales of victory tipped in favor of the Mavericks and Derknowitski.

In fact, Dirk played very little on the offensive end in the first half, but the Knicks couldn't grasp him on just 4-of-12 shooting. The aggressiveness of the opening game and the advantage of Xiao Si's outburst were wiped out by the Mavericks' targeted joint defense and ball breaks, they didn't expect the Mavericks' role players to be so good, and the Knicks successfully counterattacked several times after that, and also established an advantage, but they just couldn't find a chance to get up. In turn, in the first three quarters, Dirk was more of a containment presence, but the Mavericks used high-quality dribbling, long-range shooting, and clever defensive turns, avoiding a positional battle with the Knicks, and making the offense score a steady stream.

So far, the Mavericks' lead has been less of a Dallas victory than a victory for veterans, skills, long-range shots and a team victory. The Knicks' massive perimeter ball-handling and athletic compression defense have the Knicks' style of playing the ball, while the Mavericks' routine is very international. The Knicks team dropped ten clubs with one force, relying on Yi Jianlian's ability to crush the Mavericks, but the Mavericks moved thousands of pounds in four or two, and the weightlifting was light, and several counterattacks of the Knicks team were contained!

Yi Jianlian can't seem to stop such a team.

In fact, Yi Jianlian knows very well that the Mavericks played the popular "small ball tactics" later, that is, through defense and counterattack shooting, the Knicks' counterattack was wiped out.

Truth be told, this is already the most advanced tactical concept at this stage!

Yi Jianlian also learned that the current Mavericks are really terrifying after playing with them, not that LeBron James can't do it, nor that Wade can't do it, including Chris Bosh...... Well, he really can't do it!

It's that this Mavericks are terrible!

In the end, the Knicks lost the game 98-107 on their home court, and the Mavericks took home court advantage back.

Yi Jianlian got 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in this game, and his performance was not bad, but it was not outstanding, Xiao Si got 27 points and 14 rebounds in this game, and his performance was not bad!

This is also the problem, the core players of the Knicks team performed well tonight, but they lost the game, which means that it will be difficult for the Knicks to win.

This Mavericks are really hard to play!

After the game, the Dallas fans were naturally the most excited, as were reporters from major media outlets, who began to frantically praise the team for making deals in the past:

"Let's see how such a great team is formed! In 2006, the Mavericks lost to the Finals, the same year they picked a small man named Barria from a large group of undrafted rookies, and the humble Puerto Rican became the biggest surprise player in the Finals five years later.

In 2008, Cuban traded Harris for five players and two draft picks for the "triple-double" Kidd, and the Mavericks finally found a reliable partner for Nowitzki at the No. 1 spot? After the deal, the Dallas media denounced Cuban as a loser who "wants the present, not the future", but what about now? As the oldest point guard on a championship team, the 38-year-old Kidd told the hordes of reporters: "I think I can play for two more years." ”

Marion joined the Mavericks in a four-way trade in the summer of 2009, and five months later, Butler, Haywood, and Stevenson arrived, and although Butler, the most famous of the four, sat on the sidelines in suits for almost the entire season, the other three quickly integrated into the Mavericks and became the most reliable support for Nowitzki.

Yes, it was so many trades that made the Mavericks where they are now, and more importantly, so many trades didn't have much impact at the time, but the end result tells us that the Mavericks made the right trades, and they are very likely to bring the Mavericks a championship trophy! ”

There is also crazy praise for this team owner Mark Cuban:

"Cuban is not a fool, but he is like a fool when it comes to his commitment to the team. A shrewd businessman, Cuban amassed a fortune of more than $5 billion before the age of 40; But as soon as it comes to the victory on the court, Cuban gets back to the top and becomes reckless. ”

They feel that Mark Cuban is a heroic boss, and they feel that if a team wants to succeed, it must be as heroic as Mark Cuban!

They have completely forgotten how they thought Mark Cuban was just a rich fool in the first place!

"He was a pioneer in the fight against black whistles, and once received a huge $250,000 fine for reprimanding referees, the most in the league. As a businessman, Cuban always seemed unprofessional, wearing a T-shirt and sitting on the sidelines and dancing. or cheer for the team's wonderful performance, or beat their chests for the opponent's wonderful performance, and even argue with the referee and even the league from time to time. ”

They think that Mark Cuban is a warrior who dares to speak the truth and openly question the league, but they may forget that they also felt that Mark Cuban had gone too far as a boss in the first place!

"He needs to make him look more like a team owner than just a fan" was the phrase that all fans used to baash Mark Cuban.

But now that Mark Cuban's Mavericks have won Game 1 of the Finals and grabbed home-court advantage, they look so strong that everyone thinks that NBA owners should be like Mark Cuban!

"You have to be a fan before you can be a boss!"

Very righteous words!

Mark Cuban tweeted two crying and laughing emojis about this situation, and he was also helpless!