Chapter 605: The Trajectory of History
Yiyang failed to kill and watched LeBron with his own eyes. James took the victory away from the American Route Center arena. In the face of James' defense in the last ball, Yiyang was helpless. And the loss of this game also allowed the Heat to defeat the Dallas Mavericks twice this season and achieve a complete victory over the Mavericks in the regular season.
The Mavericks have lost just six games so far this season, and being able to crush them twice against such a team shows just how terrifying the Miamins can be.
After the game, Yiyang refused all interviews with reporters and did not attend the press conference in the end. Because of his own miss, the team lost to an opponent who should not lose the most, and Yiyang's mood was very low. If this were in the Finals, the Mavericks would have fallen behind 2-0. What does it mean to be 2-0 down? It means that the Heat have touched the O'Brien Cup with one hand!
On the Heat side, James is in a very good mood. The experience of two consecutive games in the regular season taught him that as long as everyone is willing to work hard, beating the Mavericks is not a problem. Only one win over the Mavericks, and maybe it's just a coincidence. But winning the Mavericks twice in a row is enough to illustrate the difference in strength between the two sides.
Now, even if the Heat really meet the Mavericks in the Finals, they won't be afraid. On the contrary, it is the San Antonio Spurs, which seems to be giving James more headaches......
Coming back after All-Star Weekend and losing, it made everyone on the Mavericks very uncomfortable.
Yiyang is very aggrieved now, if you lose a game in the playoffs, then you will soon get a chance for revenge. No matter how unwilling you are, you can vent it immediately.
But if you lose a game in the regular season, this feeling of aggrief may follow you for a long time. Yiyang now very much wants to play a strong team again to prove himself and prove the strength of himself and the team.
But the NBA regular season schedule doesn't change your temperament, and for the next few days, the Mavericks will be playing against teams that don't fit the bill.
The 76ers, the Pistons and the New York Knicks, who are at the bottom of the East, all came to Dallas to "send warmth" to the Mavericks. The Mavericks mercilessly led away three straight wins, and the victory officially broke the 50 mark.
But the victories in these games did not bring Yiyang the slightest sense of achievement. These opponents, Miami Heat and LeBron. James was also able to take it easily. Defeating them is a matter of course, and it doesn't prove itself.
Therefore, even though he has won 3 games, Yiyang is still aggrieved. This guy seems to have really fallen in touch with James.
In the remaining two games in February, the Mavericks defeated the Bobcats and the Bulls, respectively, to make a five-game winning streak.
But at the post-game press conference, when reporters asked Yiyang, "What do you think of the team's excellent performance since the All-Star break?" When this question was asked, Yiyang was speechless.
Excellent performance? Their defeat of these five opponents can only be described as normal performance, far from excellent. Yiyang is still waiting for an opportunity, a chance to prove himself, a chance to make up for his lore failure.
At this time, the NBA regular season entered its penultimate month, and the Mavericks' first opponent in March was quite weighty - the San Antonio Spurs!
Yiyang has waited for so long, and finally waited for a strong opponent who can prove his strength. The Spurs are definitely a strong enough opponent, and if they can win like the previous two times, at least Yiyang himself will be able to get over the hurdle in his heart.
The Mavericks want to win, and so do the Spurs and Popovich. The Spurs lost both of their meetings in the regular season this season, and Popovich felt as aggrieved as Yiyang.
So today, the DP trio teamed up to score 68 points, and it seems that overnight they are all five years younger.
On the other hand, the poor performance of the Mavericks and the bench players has kept the game very passive. In this game, the Spurs scored a full 20 more points on the bench than the Mavericks. This is not a small gap, so Yiyang is crazy to chase points throughout the game. But in the end, I still didn't catch up.
In the end, the Dallas Mavericks lost the ATT Center. This was originally a good opportunity for Yiyang to unravel the knots in his heart, but he didn't expect it, but it added to Yiyang's heart.
Losing two games in a row against evenly matched opponents also allowed the media to push the Mavericks to the forefront once again.
Labels like "pseudo-strong teams" began to be more and more attached to the Mavericks, who believed that the Mavericks' 53-7 record so far this season was entirely because of the weak team to "give away". As soon as he encounters a strong opponent, the Maverick will immediately be dumbfounded!
In this regard, Yiyang felt quite angry. was already panicked, and the reporters added fuel to the fire, which made Yiyang very irritable in the final period of the regular season.
For the next month, God was playing a joke on the Mavericks. They can still win most games naturally, but when they come up against a strong team, the result is often more than lucky.
Every time Yiyang plays a strong team, his calm and calm style of play will disappear. Instead, there was a frantic shooting and scoring.
He wanted to win so badly, and he didn't want the Mavericks to lose every time they came up against a strong opponent. The intense desire overwhelmed Yiyang's mind, making him extremely obsessed with scoring,
However, this is not the best option for the team. Carlisle couldn't help but shake his head, Yiyang couldn't let go of the fact that James failed to kill for a day, and his mood would not return to normal for a day.
The regular season continued into April, and although the Mavericks lost a lot of games during that period, they still had a very good record.
On April 12, five days before the playoffs, the Mavericks defeated the Phoenix Suns 111-98 at home, casting a shadow over the latter's playoff prospects.
At this point, the Mavericks' record this season has become 68-13. The 68-win record also broke the record set by the Mavericks in the 06-07 season and became a new high for the number of wins in a single season in team history. You know, even the all-powerful Heat triumvirate last year only won 66 wins.
After the game, everyone was very happy. Breaking the all-time franchise record and finishing fifth in the NBA all-time record for most wins is a huge honor for the players.
But in the face of the cameras, Yiyang's face was gloomy and speechless. Compared with the glorious 68 wins, Yiyang is more concerned about the 13 losses after this number.
Since the All-Star break, the Mavericks have lost more in two months than in the previous six months combined! This huge gap made Yiyang really unable to laugh.
Between October 2013 and mid-February 2014, the Mavericks lost just five games. But since mid-February to mid-April, the Mavericks have lost eight games!
Among those eight losses, there is no shortage of opponents such as the Heat, Spurs and Clippers.
Why? Why can't the Mavericks beat a strong opponent so far this season? LeBron. James's huge shadow seems to have been lingering in Yiyang's heart. It's just that Yiyang himself hasn't noticed it yet.
Until April 16, the last day of the NBA regular season. The Mavericks narrowly beat the Grizzlies by one point on the road, which put their regular season record at 69-13.
69-13, which is definitely a great result. This record allowed the Mavericks to surpass the 76ers with Zhang Dashuai in the 66-67 season, and the Los Angeles Lakers with West and Chamberlain in the 71-72 season, tied for the second place in the league's all-time single-season win record! The only thing still on the head of the Mavericks is the incredible 72-win Bulls!
Last season, people were still marveling at the Heat's 66-win record. After all, since the beginning of the 21st century, only three teams have achieved more than 65 wins. They were last year's Heat, the '08-09 Cavaliers, and the '06-07 Mavericks.
As everyone knows, just one season later, the Mavericks smashed their 69 wins in front of everyone. There is no doubt that this achievement also gives Yiyang a huge advantage in the MVP competition!
If any other team had a staggering 69 wins, the whole league would have exploded. But when Mavericks got this result, the reaction of the media was very different.
Most of the media is more skeptical about the Mavericks' 69-win record than admiration. For one, the Mavericks' performance in the last two months has not been as impressive as before, leaving people with a less impressive impression.
Second, it is not without the Mavericks that they played well in the regular season and overturned in the playoffs.
The most famous of these was undoubtedly the year the Mavericks won 67. They went all over the place in the regular season, and if they hadn't been rested for the final games of the regular season, the Mavericks would have had a better record than 67 wins that year.
But it was such a team that shook the world in the regular season stage, but it was eliminated by the Warriors, who were eighth in the West, in the first round of the playoffs. This "Black Eight" past is the black history that the Mavericks will never forget.
With the "lessons from the past" of the 06-07 season, it is reasonable that the media is not optimistic about the Mavericks.
Another 60+ win, and God knows if they'll be beaten back to square one again as soon as they get to the playoffs.
The media is gearing up to write a bunch of reasons why the Mavericks aren't destined to go far in the playoffs. But an hour later, the result of a game made the fate of the Mavericks even more worried, and also made all reporters throw away their manuscripts. Because now, they have even more exciting content available!
At the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Golden State Warriors lost 112-116 to the Denver Nuggets.
It stands to reason that this game has nothing to do with the Mavericks, and the eight poles can't hit a piece. But the Warriors' loss of this game means that they will be overtaken by the Memphis Grizzlies, falling from seventh in the West to eighth in the West!
The 60-win Mavericks in the first place in the West vs. the Warriors in the eighth place in the West have always been strikingly similar......