In the 2001-2002 season, the Mavericks only lost a total of 22 games, and the Spurs and Lakers, who have super interior lines, contributed 6 games to the Mavericks, and they lost every game. And the Mavericks' center Bradley is okay to make up for defense, but his body is too thin and his strength is insufficient, so he can't stand these two gods at all, and after Lafrentz came to the Mavericks, he squeezed Bradley to the bench. Moreover, this season's Bradley was also attacked by a minor injury, missing as many as 29 games, and after his return, his form was far worse than that year, averaging 14.3 minutes per game to create a career low in the first eight seasons.

Well, to get back to business, this season's Mavericks have sprung up, held high the offensive banner, and marched all the way, with the final third game win against the Kings and the final second game against the Jazz, the Mavericks have won 57 games this season, setting a new team history record, ranking fourth in the West, and the Mavericks' first-round opponent is the Minnesota Timberwolves.

At that time, the Timberwolves were no longer the team that would only send warmth to the Dallas, the Timberwolves in the 1995 draft, after selecting Kevin Garnett, has been unswervingly building a team around Garnett, in recent years, it can be said that it has sprung up, there is Garnett on the inside, there is a sharpshooter Szebiak on the outside, and in order to compete with Duncan and O'Neal at the center position, they have also hoarded a number of excellent centers, such as Joe Smith, the champion in 1995, Thick and strong high school forward Rassu Nesterovich, 216 cm cannon fodder center Lauren Woods, it is worth mentioning that the Mavericks veteran, Gary Trent is also in the Timberwolves at this time, but Trent is already at the end of his career, and the guard is Chauncey Billups, who has just finished his life of exile and began to shine, and Billups can become the starting guard, thanks to the team's original starting guard Trill Brandon's season reimbursement, But the Timberwolves don't have a proper shooting guard, and that's their flaw.

The first game, but also the first battle between Nowitzki and Garnett, the two legendary power forwards, in the end it was Nowitzki who won the data and took away the game, which can be described as a complete victory, scoring 30 points, 15 rebounds, 2 steals and 3 blocks on 10-of-19 shooting, while Garnett only hit 6 shots in 18 shots and scored 19 points, but grabbed 21 rebounds and handed out 6 assists, although the Timberwolves led 58-39 in rebounds, but their shooting percentage was 4 points lower than the Mavericks, The turnovers were as many as 9 more than the Mavericks, and the steals and blocks were far lower than the Mavericks, and the no-fly zone built by Lafrentz sent 5 blocks in the game, which also made the Timberwolves' two big interior linemen, Garnett and Nesterovich, only 14 of 36 shots combined.

In the second game, the Timberwolves tried to win, and the whole game actually hit 50.6% shooting, but the Timberwolves lost again, this time in the details, in terms of defensive data, the Timberwolves steals 3 times less than the Mavericks, 6 more turnovers than the Mavericks, and 9 fewer assists than the Mavericks, all these details ultimately led to the Timberwolves' total shots as many as 15 times less than the Mavericks, and more importantly, the Mavericks scored 8 more three-pointers than the Timberwolves, and finally the Mavericks, who were more excellent outside the three-point line, won the game, Nowitzki made four three-pointers, grabbed 31 points, 15 rebounds and four steals, Finley scored 28 points, and Nash delivered a double-double of 17 points and 10 assists, Van Axel on the bench scored 17 points in this game after scoring 18 points in the previous game, and Garnett's performance was 9-of-19 with 31 points and 18 rebounds, and finally the Mavericks defeated the Timberwolves 112-110 to usher in the second victory.

Although the fourth game was played on the home court of the Timberwolves, the Mavericks were like a rainbow at the beginning, playing a 40:28 attack wave, Nowitzki was like a god in the first quarter, 6 of 6 hit 17 points and 6 rebounds, and finally the Mavericks kept the score to the end, sweeping the Timberwolves in three games with 115:102!

Maverick: Your ancestors sent me warmth, and when it comes to you, I have to follow the rules, and I will kowtow three times when we meet......

Timberwolves: Your uncle!

Nowitzki scored an astonishing 39 points and 17 rebounds in the last game, and throughout the series, Nowitzki averaged 33.3 points and 15.7 rebounds per game, shooting 52.6% from the field, and an unbelievable 72.7% from three-point range! Averaged 3.7 shots per game and hit 2.7 goals!

Garnett's average of 24.0 points, 18.7 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.7 steals, 1.7 blocks and 4.0 turnovers in three games ended with a shooting rate of 42.9%.

In the second game, their opponent is the Saramento Kings, and this season's Kings are also the focus of the league, and the Kings rely on coach Adelman's Princeton system. played an excellent performance of 104.6 points per game, second only to the Mavericks, the boss is Chris Webb, a comprehensive and flexible power forward, the No. 1 position is the solid point guard Mike Bibby, the forward is the historical three-point shooter Peja Stojakovic, the interior partner Webber is the Lakers veteran star Verratti Divac, and the bench also sits on the scoring master Bobby Jackson and the dispatch big man Siddo Turkoglou, although the Mavericks and the Kings are excellent offensive teams, but compared to the Mavericks, the Kings' defense is better, and there is a big player on the team who is good at defense, Doug Christie, which makes the Kings lose an average of 97 points per game.2 points 20th in the league, although this position is not very good, but compared to the Mavericks, it is really not a star and a half difference.

In the first game, the Mavericks ate a slap in the door, 91:108 lost to the Kings, four quarters of the game, did not win the opponent in one quarter, the first round of the god-like Nowitzki under Webb's defense fell out of standard, 24 shots only hit 8 of them to score 23 points, Peja 22 11 hit a game-high 26 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, the first game Mavericks' shooting percentage, rebounds, steals, assists, blocks are all inferior to the Kings, but there are more turnovers and fouls than the King, It would be strange if it didn't fail miserably.

However, in the second game, Nash's sudden rise saved the face of the Mavericks, Nash hit 12 of 18 shots in the game, scored 30 points, and handed out 8 assists, while Nowitzki scored 22 points and 15 rebounds in 7 of 15, Lafrentz contributed 14 points, 10 rebounds and 5 blocks, and Van Axel on the bench scored 19 points, and the team's exceptionally excellent performance allowed the Mavericks to win the Kings by 8 points with 110:102. The shooting percentage was 7.4 percentage points higher than the Kings, but Rao did so, and the Mavericks only won by a measly eight points.

In the third game, although Finley scored a game-high 37 points, Nash handed out 15 assists, but still lost to the Kings with 20+ three-point points, plus a 19+13 Divac, Webb blew up Nowitzki, shooting 15-of-26 from the field and scoring 31 points, 15 rebounds and 3 blocks!

The fourth game can be said to be the most thrilling game played by the two teams, in the last 30 seconds of regular time, Bibby's breakthrough layup, let the two teams tie, but the Mavericks have the ball, Finley's breakthrough, was Christie's blood cap, and then the two teams entered overtime, in overtime, it was Bibby again, 12 seconds before the end, hit the key shot, so that the Mavericks swallowed a loss at home with a difference of 2 points, in this game, although Bibby only made 9 of 20 shots, but scored two key shots, Christie's play is also crucial, A total of 6 steals in the game, and many times face-to-face steals Nash, which made Nash score 24 points and 6 rebounds at the same time, but also embarrassed to score 9 turnovers, creating the highest number of turnovers in the playoffs in his career, Webb exploded Nowitzki again, although Nowitzki also got 31 points and 12 rebounds, but only 9 of 28 shots, extremely inefficient, while Webb made 15 shots, hit 12 of them, and efficiently scored 30 points and 10 rebounds.

In the last game, in Saramento, the Kings didn't give the Mavericks any chance, eliminating the Mavericks 114-101, and also leaving Nowitzki with 32 points and 12 rebounds in the final game of the season.

Throughout the series, Nowitzki faced Chris Webb, a historic power forward, and his spirit disappeared in the first round, averaging 25.4 points, 11.6 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, shooting as low as 40.2%, while Chris Webb averaged 25.2 points, 10.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, shooting 54.6% from the field.

The Mavericks have a second season in a row, hating the Western Conference semifinals, and even the score is the same 1:4, after the team has many good players, this ending is not reconciled, so the Mavericks made a comeback in the 2002-2003 season, because the Mavericks' draft picks were traded away, so the team lineup is almost still the same people, 7 years and 70 million after renewing Lafrentz's contract, the team lineup has not changed much, The only small change is to improve the team's defense, the team signed little-known defender Raja Bale for a total of 1.3 million in 2 years.

Bale was drafted two years ago, his physical condition is average, and he doesn't have anything outstanding on the offensive end, but Bell, who played in the 72ers in the first two years, looks pretty good defensively, and Bell, who was only at the water cooler level in the first two seasons, was reused by the old Nelson in the weak Mavericks, although he averaged 15.6 minutes per game, he was appointed as a starter for as many as 32 games, and his purpose was to entangle the opponent's first firepower point on the outside like Adrian Griffin.

In the 2002-2003 season, the team's chief star Nowitzki's performance was still impeccable, averaging the league's sixth-highest 25.1 points, 9.9 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.4 steals per game, shooting 46.3% from the field, 37.9% from three-point range, scoring 20+ points in 65 of 80 games, scoring 30+ points in 21 games, and scoring a career-high 40 points. Unquestionably selected to the All-Star Team and All-Star Team.

Finley had an injury for the first time since switching to the Mavericks, and it was not a major injury, but he also missed 13 games, averaging 19.3 points per game and breaking a career high of 40 points this season proves that Finley is still at his peak, averaging less than 40 points per game for the first time, but also averaging 38.3 minutes per game, Nash is a full attendance in 82 games, averaging 17.7 points per game and 7.3 assists for seventh in the league, and the troika continues to output steadily.

At the beginning of the season, the Mavericks started the season with a wave of amazing 14 consecutive wins, and in the first 36 games, the Mavericks won 31 of them, ranking first in the league, and the troika went hand in hand to sweep the league! In the final season, the Mavericks averaged 103.0 points per game, ranking first in the league for two consecutive seasons, setting a record high of 60 wins and 60 wins in team history! Tied with the Spurs, who also have 60 wins, they are in first place in the West! However, the sad thing is that although the Mavericks and Spurs have the same record, because the Mavericks and the Spurs have a 1-3 record in the regular season, they can only give up the home court advantage to the Spurs, which is even more tragic, because the Mavericks and Spurs are in the same region, and the NBA has a rule that the division champion locks the top four, so the Kings of the Pacific Region have become second with a record of 59 wins, and the Mavericks can only rank third, and the first round opponent is the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers were known as the "Portland Jail" in those years, Rasheed Wallace, Bonch Wissell, Zach Randolph, Ruben Patterson, Damon Stoudemire were not good at stubble, competing with media fans, verbally abusing and threatening referees, hiding smuggling drugs, fighting with opponents, including infighting between players and players within the team, and between players and coaches are commonplace, but relatively, these players are also very talented and powerful players, all in all, This is a team that everyone doesn't want to meet, and in the end, by mistake, let the Mavericks meet, on the stage of the playoffs, sometimes, there are many more factors off the court than on the court, this time, can the Mavericks get out of the way.

Although the Trail Blazers have a good strength, they have a fatal flaw, that is, the player in the third position, Bunch Wells is not tall enough, only 196 cm, the old Nelson seized this defect, and the playoffs discharged Bradley, Lafrentz, Nowitzki's forward, that is to say, Nowitzki's main No. 3 position, Nowitzki's height is 213 cm, when Nowitzki pulls up the frame to shoot, Wells can't reach Nowitzki's face (let the 213 cm player play small forward, this is what old Nelson can do, And not only that, Nelson Sr. even wanted Nowitzki to play at back, but this crazy idea was stopped by Kupan, who was still sane...... ）。

But no one could have imagined that Nowitzki, who returned to the small forward position, scored 46 points in 16 of 27 shots in the first game of the series, creating his career playoff record, leading the Mavericks to defeat the Trail Blazers 96-86, and humiliating Wells, but the latter is not good at stubble, and it turned out that Wells is the kind of player Nowitzki is most afraid of, although he is not tall, but his body is strong and his strength is very good, typical thick and hard, and he doesn't play with you outside. When you get the ball, you go in, either you pay a foul and pull me down, or let me score 2 points steadily, and the second game happened to be full of Wells' hand, throwing in 16 of 24 shots, and scoring 45 points in the whole game! Breaking a new playoff high in his career, Wells' outburst still didn't save the Trail Blazers, as the Mavericks' Nash scored 28 points on 10-of-14 shooting and hit a game-winning three-pointer in the final 30 seconds of the game!

Back on Portland's home court in Game 3, Nowitzki dominated the Rose Arena, shooting 16 points on 6-of-6 shooting in the final quarter, including 3 three-pointers, leading the Mavericks to beat the Trail Blazers, and Nowitzki scored 42 points on 15-of-20 shooting, leading the Mavericks to beat the Trail Blazers for the third time 115-103! The big score is 3:0 ahead, in the history of the NBA, no team has been able to reverse from a big score of 0:3, the Mavericks seem to have stepped into the second round of the playoffs, but the Mavericks think the Trail Blazers are simple.

Although the Trail Blazers lost all the first three games, the biggest advantage of this group of unscrupulous players is that they do not admit defeat, Trail Blazers coach Morris Cheeks took the initiative to change the formation in order to contain Nowitzki, and took the guard Antonio Daniels, Wells played the second position, and the third position, played the second-year rookie Zach Randolph, who averaged less than 20 minutes per game in the first three games.

Randolph is 206 cm tall, this season is the second season of his career, in terms of ball style, he is basically the big Bunch Wells, although the physical fitness is average, but the body is thick and strong, take the ball and do it inside, and after the penalty area, the hand is good, all kinds of offensive means are at hand, especially a small throw is simply ****.

The change worked wonders, Randolph played 41 minutes, 25 points and 15 rebounds on 9-of-17 shooting, Rashid Wallace scored 23 points on 8-of-14 shooting, and the Mavericks Novitzki scored 26 points on 10-of-20 shooting, which was a decent amount, Nick Van Axel scored 18 points, and no one else scored in double figures, and the Mavericks lost 79-98 to the Trail Blazers.

In the fifth game, the old Nelson used a 7-man rotation, and the Mavericks also led the Trail Blazers by 8 points at 94:86 in the first three quarters, and then, the Trail Blazers' group of dead men began to play, Rasheed Wallace scored consecutive inside shots, and then a three-point on the left, Wells scored another three-point on the right, and the veteran Scott Pippen scored another three-pointer in the front, and in the last 1 minute of the game, Rasheed Wallace scored another desperate three-point to overtake the game, and finally the Trail Blazers narrowly beat the Mavericks by 4 points, and Rasheed Wallace scored 14 points in the game, But he scored 10 points in the fourth quarter, Randolph scored 22 points and nine rebounds on 7-of-12 shooting, Nowitzki scored 35 points and 11 rebounds on 12-of-20 shooting, and Van Axel scored 25 points.

In the sixth game, the Mavericks only lost by 3 points in the first quarter 24:27, but in the second quarter, Wells overturned the river on the inside, scoring 10 points in a single quarter, Wallace hit two three-pointers and scored 9 points, Ruben Patterson scored 8 points, and the Mavericks seemed to be blinded, and the Trail Blazers played a 14:37 super attack wave in the first quarter, and finally the Mavericks lost 105:125, and the Trail Blazers scored 6 points on a double.

After the Mavericks won three games in a row, they were reversed by the Trail Blazers for 3 games, and after 6 games, the big score became a 3:3 draw.

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