The 2005-2006 playoffs were destined to be an extraordinary season for the Mavericks, who defeated the San Antonio Spurs 4-3 in the second round after eliminating the Grizzlies in the first round.

Last year, the fear of being dominated by Nash was still vivid, but this year's Suns lost a big player, the team's center Stoudemire announced left knee surgery at the beginning of the season, the season was reimbursed, and only played 3 games throughout the season, but although there was no Stoudemire, the Suns still showed strong competitiveness, Boris Dior, Kurt Thomas replaced the position of Xiaosi, and had a good performance, when the Mavericks' pawn Ragabel achieved excellent development in the Suns and became the team's defensive gate on the outside, Brazilian Lightning, Leandro Barbosa became the team's killer on the bench, Marion was selected as an All-Star and All-Star for the third time this season with his excellent performance, and it is worth mentioning Steve Nash, who won the regular season MVP and assist king for two consecutive years, and he led the Suns all the way forward, winning 54 wins in the regular season, ranking second in the West, defeating the Lakers with Kobe Bryant in the first round, and another tie-break in the second round, defeating Elton Brand, Sam Cassel, Corey Margety's three-shot musket clippers stand in front of the Mavericks, and this time, will the Mavericks repeat the mistakes of the past, or will they walk away with their whole body?

Here, I want to focus on a player of the Suns, his name is Boris Dior, 203 cm tall, 113 kg in weight, the No. 21 rookie in the first round in 2003, this season is his third season, the rookie played in the Hawks in the first two years, but there was no outstanding performance, he only averaged 4 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and then the Hawks wanted to get the Suns' scoring guard Joe Johnson, and sent Dio to the Suns, Of course, the Suns also took two first-round picks in 2006 and 2008 (which eventually became Rajon Rondo and Robin Lopez), which was Joe Johnson's desire to leave, and the price reduction and the team's previous signing gave the Hawks a lower leverage.

Interestingly, when Dio was drafted, the Eagles trained Dio as an outside player, Dio's skills are extremely comprehensive, three-point, and back play are very good, but after coming to the Suns, Suns coach D'Antoni told Dio in the first game, because Stoudemire was injured, you go to play center, although Dio is fat, but very flexible, not clumsy at all, and what is unknown is that Dio also has a very experienced physical fitness, it is said that there was such a paragraph back then, Dior, who had just come to the sun, wore slippers and big pants one day, drinking coffee (Dior loves to drink coffee even if he is away from home, he also carries his own coffee machine) and slipped to the training ground, looking at the staff loading the shelf, Dior asked what he was doing, the staff said that Xiao Si broke the team history of the high record, and he was training newcomers with high equipment, Dior said, I will try, so, put down the coffee, took off the slippers, barefoot, jumped, fingertips have exceeded Xiao Si's record, Dior while wearing slippers, muttered -

"It's not that hard."

Is there a feeling of being a master in the world, in fact, his whole career has given people this feeling, he has the ability, but he just doesn't play well, Dio doesn't like to score, doesn't like to shoot, likes to pass, and especially doesn't like to train, and the maintenance of the body is not so in place, he loves sweets, when Dior got serious, he was a completely different person!

He played like a fish in water under D'Antoni this season, averaging 13.3 points and 6.9 rebounds per game to win the best sixth man of the season, which is still half of his whole season to play well and half to play casually, but when he met a strong team like the Mavericks, Dio began to play hard! Feel the horror of being dominated by Dior!

In the first game, Dio played as the starting power forward, if Duncan is steel, he stabbed the Mavericks' interior defense, then Dio is an oil rat, so that Dampier and Diop such inside strong men can never catch him, although he is not tall, but almost everywhere, his ball breakthrough, basket footsteps, various distances of mid-range shots and coquettish moves, the Mavericks' inner Hum Ha two generals are about to cry, and the Mavericks' side is fighting back Devin Harris, Harris shows strong assault skills, The game scored 30 points on 12-of-17 shooting, and when the Mavericks had three and a half minutes left in the game, Harris forced Dior to play two plus one, and the Mavericks held a nine-point lead, and the game seemed to be stable, but ...... Why do I say but? It's Nash again...... Why do I say it again......

Nash forced Devin Harris to cause the latter to foul, hit both free throws, and the audience booed when the replay was played, because Harris stood straight, it was a good defense, Harris also bit his shirt and protested silently, but the referee did not change the decision, and then Nowitzki held the ball at the top of the arc, Harris cut inside, smashed the ball on the basket with almost no one defending, grabbed the rebound, and then lost it under the interference of Dio, grabbed the rebound in the front court, and lost it to Nowitzki, who was under Marion's single defense, The mid-range shot was lost, Nash received the ball and ran wildly all the way, his teammates were not in place, and outside the left three-point line, he directly pulled out a three-point shot against Nowitzki! With 4 points left, Terry's breakthrough caused Thomas to foul, hit both free throws, or Nash, and ate Nowitzki outside the three-point line in the middle, rushed all the way to the basket, hit the board high, and sent the ball in! Then Adrian Griffin held the ball unsteadily, and Thomas squeezed the ball out with his crotch, or Nash! How is it always Nash! In almost the same position last time, he faced Nowitzki and threw in a three-pointer again! Nash scored 10 points in a row, and the Mavericks' advantage was only 1 point in an instant!

At the critical moment, Devin Harris was judged to have committed an offensive foul, Nash regained control of the ball, and after blocking Marion, Nash quickly gave the ball to Marion, who soared into the sky and dunked it! Mavericks are 1 point behind! However, in the last 4.8 seconds of the game, Harris received a big cross pass from Starkerhouse, met the flying Nash, and shot in the right rib corner! Mavericks lead by 1 point! The entire American Airlines Center suddenly roared with a tsunami! There are only 4.8 seconds left! D'Antoni calls a timeout!

Now the head coach of the Warriors, Steve Kerr was only a commentator at that time, and he was still sitting on the anchor stage at ***, talking eloquently. In the tsunami of the entire American Airlines Center, the Suns players came on the court, and the other players were all heavy-faced, especially Nash, with a gloomy face, as if the Mavericks owed him 200 yuan, but in the Suns, there was a player with a smile on his face, the kind of youthful, uninhibited smile, that person was Boris Dior (this is not an exaggeration, it was he who really laughed, as for why he laughed at that time, I don't know).

Then you know why Dio laughed, Thomas sent the sideline ball, Harris died with Nash, Nash had no chance, Thomas gave the ball to the right rib line and pressed Stackhouse's Dio with his strong body, only to see that after Dio got the ball, he immediately turned forward, calmly shook a shot, knocked Stackhouse away, and then sacrificed a picturesque backward jumper!

"Huh!"

The ball is hollowed into the net with precision!

Dior 0.5 seconds, quasi-lore Maverick!

The Sun's teammates were all crazy, and they all gathered around Dio to meet him to celebrate, but Dio was still indifferent, just like the worldly masters in martial arts novels! Throughout the game, Dio became a hurdle that the Mavericks couldn't get around, and in the whole game, Dior scored 34 points and 6 rebounds on 13-of-23 shooting, and blew up the Mavericks' interior line with his own strength! Nash scored 27 points and handed out 16 assists, Marion scored 24 points and 13 rebounds, and the Mavericks' Harris almost became a savior, scoring 30 points and 5 steals, but still losing to Dio's quasi-kill, Nowitzki played poorly and scored 25 points on 8-of-18 shooting to grab 19 rebounds and 8 rebounds, Terry scored 15 points on 6-of-17 shooting, and Stackhouse scored 16 points on 7-of-13 shooting. The team's No. 3 scorer, Josh Howard, accidentally sprained his ankle just seven minutes into the game and failed to play in this game. The Suns' defensive stalwart Ragabel also limped off the court for treatment after 35 minutes of calf strain, and failed to play in the second game.

It is worth one thing that D'Antoni back then, speaking is really not a character, because in the first game both teams had players injured, the reporter asked the head coaches of the two teams how to see the injury of the players, the little general Johnson spoke very well, saying that the injury is also what everyone does not want to see, I hope all the players are healthy Brabra Bra said a lot of blessings, and when I came to D'Antoni's side, the style of painting was completely different - Josh Howard can't play is an opportunity for us, I hope Nowitzki is sick tomorrow too and won't be able to play...... Although D'Antoni said this jokingly, who in the NBA would joke about a player's injury......

D'Antoni gave the Suns a loss of character, and in the second game, Josh Howard returned full of blood, 10 of 19 chopped melons and vegetables, chopped his playoff scoring high 29 points, Nowitzki shot 12 of 21 and shot 30 points, including no one in the fourth quarter, 12 points in a single quarter, led the team to defeat the Suns 105-98, Dio scored 25 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, Marion scored 19 points and 19 rebounds, Tim Thomas also scored 20 points, and even worse, The Suns only have a 7-man rotation (the 7-man rotation is D'Antoni's usual urine) The playing time of the starting five tigers is 39 minutes, 39 minutes, 40 minutes, 42 minutes, 43 minutes, Eddie House played 14 minutes, James Jones played 23 minutes, and the other players did not let go for a minute, the 7-man rotation is a suicide attack in the series, only for particularly important games, once it fails, the impact on the team's physical fitness is huge, don't look at the difference is only ten eight minutes, But every minute in the NBA is filled with a lot of muscle confrontation, and the physical consumption of players is very huge!

But D'Antoni, turned the suicide attack that others don't usually use into his regular weapon, in the third game, the Suns are still his rotation, Marion played almost the whole court without rest, the three All-Stars who have no independent offensive ability, mainly rely on running positions were dragged to almost no physical fitness to run, and the offensive performance was extremely poor, only 4 of 12 shots in the third game scored 10 points, grabbed 18 rebounds, the Suns had 12 turnovers in the whole game, the number of steals was 0, and the Mavericks were 8 steals, With five turnovers, the Mavericks' Nowitzki, Terry, and Howard combined for 69 points to lead the Mavericks to a 95-88 victory over the Suns again.

Seeing that the Suns were about to be taken into the ditch by D'Antoni, at this time the team owner Robert Salvi stood up and communicated with D'Antoni, Salvi is known as "the NBA's favorite boss who interferes in basketball decisions", what general manager, deputy general manager and president, in front of him, is the decoration, he likes to make decisions about anything on the team, and even personally look at the player information of the rookie conference, of course, he also does this with this love for basketball, but he is not the same as Kupan, Unless he meets a major issue like Nash or Finley, he will make his own decisions, and he also convenes a discussion with the team's top management, Salvi is dictatorial, and the consequences of this can be good and bad, the good side, of course, is that this season, he communicates with D'Antoni.

Salvi: Dede, Xiao Si is injured.

D'Antoni: Yes.

Salvi: Ragabel was also injured.

D'Antoni: Yes.

Salvi: Next, I think, let Marion get hurt, the last game should be tired......

D'Antoni: If you have something to say, you don't need to beat around the bush......

So in the fourth game, the eleven players of the Suns team came to the game, except for the three who were less than ten minutes old, a total of eight players rotated on the court, and the pressure seemed to be reduced a lot, but if you look closely, Ragabel's comeback in this game is actually still a seven-person rotation......

However, the Suns still won the fourth game, the Brazilian Lightning Barbossa, who barely performed in the first few games, contributed 24 points in 10 of 13 in the fourth game, becoming the hero of the team's victory, and the Mavericks were no longer in shape throughout the game, 86:106 defeated the Suns, Josh Howard scored a team-high 16 points, Nowitzki was entangled by Marion, although Marion is not as tall as Nowitzki, but he can't stand the length of his arm, and with a wave of his long arm, Nowitzki can't see the basket, Nowitzki can't play with his back to the singles, so he can only run desperately to create shooting opportunities, but he can't stand Marion's ability to run against Nowitzki, and as a result, Nowitzki only scored 11 points on 3-of-13 from the field.

The fifth battle of Tianwang Mountain, the achievement of Nowitzki, this game Novitzki felt bursting, the first three quarters shot down 28 points, led the Mavericks to 82:81 lead the Suns by 1 point, but in the last quarter, Nowitzki God descended to earth, no matter how to shoot, there is, the posture doesn't matter, as long as the ball is thrown, you can go in, the basket is as wide as the sea! 6 of 7 in the single quarter scored the highest 22 points in a single quarter in the history of the Mavericks! In the fourth quarter, the Mavericks hit a 35-20 super attack wave, and Nowitzki scored a playoff high 50 points on 14-of-26 shooting!

In front of such Novitsky, all bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods have to rely on the side to fight!

In the last game, D'Antoni sacrificed a desperate seven-man rotation, but like the previous two seven-man rotations, the Suns basically couldn't survive if they made a big move, although the Suns won the Mavericks by 15 points in the first quarter by relying on Dior's performance of 4 in 4 to score 10 points in a single quarter, but in the last quarter, the Suns players with almost no physical fitness could only watch Stackhouse and Jason Terry throw the ball into the basket again and again, the two of them combined to score 23 points in the fourth quarter, and finally in the fourth quarter, the Mavericks played a wave of 40: 27 attack wave, the sun in the final quarter in an almost devastating way by the mavericks lost their armor, the big score of 4:2 the mavericks avenged last year's arrow!

The Mavericks have been around for 26 years and are finally standing on the stage of the Finals, and this time, their opponent is the Miami Heat, who are in full swing!