40-21 and only 21 games left in the regular season. ◢ With * dream * small ◢ say щЩш.

The Trail Blazers are now ahead of many people's expectations at the start of the season, and theoretically they only need to maintain a 50 win rate to make the playoffs, of course, the Trail Blazers are not aiming for the playoffs, their goal is to win the championship.

The regular season is over in just over 50 days, eight weeks, almost three games a week.

At the end of the season, on the premise of guaranteed results, you can also take a rotational break.

This is good news for Xue Ding, who averages more than 40 minutes per game.

The bosses are often forced to take turns with injuries, and their little brother plays hard, dragging the team to this result, and sometimes it is indeed hard.

It's not that Xue Ding doesn't love the game, it's just that he feels that if he continues to play for such a long time, he will have a strong risk of injury.

The small injury in February made Xue Ding himself startled, he is not an iron man, so he should pay attention.

Before the game, the media revealed a surprising news.

Nowitzki has a cold, so he won't play in this game.

Xue Ding looked at the record rankings, the Mavericks are now ranked 05 wins ahead of the Trail Blazers in the West, if they lose this game, the two teams will be in different positions, and as an imaginary enemy in the playoffs, if they don't want to be psychologically weak when they meet in the playoffs, both teams will definitely win for such a key battle.

If both sides can survive the first round according to the current rankings, then they will meet in the second round.

……

After that, Xue Ding also saw the report of Nowitzki's 40+16 rebounds in the last game.

Therefore, Xue Ding judged that this news was Carlisle's smoke bomb, and there was no doubt about it.

Nowitzki should be in action.

Carlisle has become accustomed to setting off smoke bombs before games.

Xue Ding has begun to adapt to the various strange tricks of this so-called famous marshal.

Carlisle loves pre-match poisoned milk.

Not only Carlisle, but also Vicky, Nelson Sr., etc., have also been roughly clear.

The reason for the rotation is even more bizarre, what stomach pain, old age, hip tension and the like are all excuses.

Yaya also came to the scene for this game, her life in Portland is not too busy, occasionally returning to China to cope with work, as long as she is not busy, she will come to the Rose Garden Stadium to watch Xue Ding's game.

In this game, Xue Ding also promised her to redesign the dance to ensure that what she taught would be displayed.

Sure enough, after the pre-game appearance ceremony, when there were two minutes before the start of the game, Xue Ding pulled the cockscomb man Webster to dance.

Blacks are almost all born with a penchant for twisting around, giving them music, and not giving them food...

Xue Ding must be right to find Webster to cooperate, and he definitely steals the camera.

This level is not very good, but I just like to jump.

The two of them writhed wildly.

"Wow, Xue, your movements have improved."

"Haha, this is a brand new set of moves, what do you think?"

"Yes, you see, the cameras are pointed at us."

"That's right, that's the latest way to steal the show."

"Cool! Xue, you are so smart. ”

"Click!!"

The camera quickly focused on the two men, and the screen above them also played the action of the two of them entering the ceremony!!

The fans at the scene were also amused by the two.

Xue Ding seems to like to play.

Seeing Xue Ding's dance ceremony, Yaya nodded with satisfaction.

Xue Ding's flexibility has improved somewhat.

…

The game was about to start, and Xue Ding saw Nowitzki on the field smiling and shaking hands with him.

Paralysis, sure enough, smoke bombs.

Pritchard really devised a set of tactics that Nowitzki didn't fight! Many people on the Trail Blazers team thought they wouldn't be so tired tonight, but most of them were fooled.

Carlisle has so much off-field experience that a small trick that catches you off guard can cost you more useless work.

The Mavericks' away game against the Trail Blazers started at 11:30 a.m. Beijing time, and the actual jump time was 11:40.

The Mavericks have just made a big trade, and they have made a change from the previous two teams.

Stevenson and Butler became.

On the Trail Blazers' side, except for Oden's position being replaced by Tyson Chandler and Miller's position being replaced by Xue Ding, the other three were at the beginning of the season.

The Trail Blazers are more feared today than they were at the beginning of the season.

Batum and Roy's form is as consistent as last season, with the growth of Xue Ding, the addition of Chandler, and the underrated Ade.

In the power rankings assessed by ESPN, the Trail Blazers are also at the same level as the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers.

After All-Star Weekend, when new signings arrived, the Mavericks won a six-game winning streak until they met the Lakers.

After the defeat to the Lakers, the Mavericks started another winning streak, winning nine of their last 10 games.

The Mavericks trade was also rated as the most cost-effective trade of the year, and the addition of Butler and Stevenson greatly made up for the Mavericks' roster shortcomings.

The current Mavericks are known as a jumper team, led by Nowitzki, and their defense is mainly based on overall enthusiasm and experience.

The physical talents are average.

Now that Nowitzki is playing, their lineup has also changed, and the tactics used by the Trail Blazers in this game are a little different from when they played the Mavericks before.

The Trail Blazers tactical focus tightened the limit on Nowitzki.

I'd rather let someone else open than let Nowitzki open.

The Mavericks' new signings are still at a demoralizing stage, and it's best to let them go on offense and cut them off from the rest of the Mavericks.

The strategy was very good at the beginning, wrapping Nowitzki, letting him pass the ball to the new signings, and letting the new signings attack, but I didn't expect Butler to feel very good after the game started, and he came up to cut 10 points in a row.

On the Trail Blazers' side, Batum and Roy helped the Trail Blazers not fall behind by more than 10 points at the beginning.

The Mavericks went on a 12-4 run in the opening game, and after three minutes of play, Coach Pritchard called a timeout.

Xue Ding kept wiping his sweat off the court, playing Mavericks is obviously different from playing other teams, they have too many veterans, almost all of them have rich experience.

And then the level of hunger for championships and competitions is very high among these veterans.

Although they are not very talented, they show great teamwork skills.

Their defensive positioning was so good that the Trail Blazers' players barely had a few open shots, and almost all of them were barely shooting.

Xue Ding was glad that Chandler was brought over by himself.

……

After the pause, the sound of cheering rang out from the scene, and they were cheering for the home team! Portland fans are resilient too.

After the pause, the Trail Blazers had no adjustments to the lineup, it was still the same five, and it was not yet time to rotate, and the game had just begun.