With a full month and a half to go from March 1 to April 15, the regular season of the 14-15 season will be over.

As usual, this year's regular season competition has become more intense after the All-Star break. Especially in the west, it has always been a colosseum where strong teams fight.

The rankings, from third to seventh in the West, change almost every day. The Clippers, who are currently in third place, are just two wins more than the Pelicans, who are in seventh place. In the West, the final order of the playoffs is often not officially confirmed until the last day.

Of course, there are two Western Conference teams that have jumped out of that frame this year. Not only did they book a top-two spot in the West early, but the advantage was almost unshakeable.

One is the 45-11 Warriors, who have a full five wins ahead of the Clippers and other teams in the West. With a month and a half to go before the end of the regular season, the difference of five wins is almost irreversible.

As for the other team that occupies the top spot in the West, it is the Dallas Mavericks led by Yiyang. Even if the Mavericks announced a month and a half in advance that they would be the first in the West for the second year in a row, there would be no objection.

The Warriors' current record of 45-11 is already terrifying, and it has left the teams at the bottom of the Western Conference in the dust. The Mavericks' current record of 57 wins can only be described as a dream.

Although due to the Mavericks' more intensive schedule in the early part of the season, they played five more games than the Warriors. But even those five games aside, the Mavericks' record is 52 wins, which is still much better than the Warriors.

It's fair to say that the Mavericks dropped out of the race for the Western Conference standings early. Everyone can grab anything, but they can't grab the first position in the west!

Therefore, the focus of fans on the Mavericks is no longer on the ranking of the West, but on whether they can break the record of 72 wins in the regular season set by the legendary Jordan and his Bulls in a good situation!

Even with the Mavericks' record now so good, people still think that it will be very difficult for the Mavericks to break the record.

Including the Bulls coach "Zen Master" Phil, who personally created the myth of 72 wins that year. Jackson thinks so that it's hard for a team to win 72, and it's not just a matter of team quality. First of all, the long 82-game regular season is a difficult task to ensure that the main players are not troubled by injuries. But now the Mavericks are doing well, and although Dirk, Wade and Iguodala are just out, they are all minor injuries and are now all back. In Carlisle's rotation plan, the Mavericks rarely play 40 minutes. What's more, the Mavericks' players, including superstars like Dirk and Wade, have ditched their stats and put team unity first.

However, this is not enough, sometimes it depends on a bit of luck, and no one knows what will happen after such a long regular season. Even with only a month and a half left in the regular season, there are still a lot of surprises that can happen. Secondly, how to maintain the form of the players. For now, the Mavericks are indeed the best in the league, but there are always times when people are tired, they can't win back-to-back after double overtime every time, there will definitely be times when the heart is more than enough and the strength is insufficient, and sometimes the physical strength is good but the mind is messed up. And this kind of thing doesn't happen in one game at the same time, maybe these people are tired this time, and the others are tired in the next game, and it is inevitable that they will lose once they meet the opponent. Therefore, it is difficult to break the 72-win record on the surface alone, and it must have a variety of conditions. And there are some conditions that the coach and players can't control.

'We really can't control everything, after all, we are players, not God. But what we have to do is to do everything we can control, to do our best. When interviewed by reporters, Yiyang looked relaxed and did not seem to be crushed by the record of 72 wins at all.

It's nice to break the record, but if they can't, the Mavericks have nothing to lose. So, why stress?

So in the first game of March, the Mavericks easily defeated the New Orleans Pelicans.

There's Anthony. When Davis was around, the Pelicans were always able to cause big problems for the Mavericks. But it's a pity that today, Davis had to watch from the sidelines because of his injury.

Since entering the league, Anthony . Davis, a very talented champion, has never played in full attendance.

Last season, Davis played in just 67 games. At the beginning of December 2013, he rested seven games in a row due to a fracture in his left hand, and at the end of January 2014, he rested for one more game due to a finger injury. He was out for two games in March, one due to an upper respiratory tract infection and a left ankle discomfort. In April, back cramps cost him the season ahead of schedule and he didn't play his last five games.

This season, Davis's stats have been even better, but he still can't escape the spell of stop-and-go. In December 2014, he rested for one game due to a chest blow, and in January, he sprained his left toe and had a sore groin, and he took four games off. Last month, he suffered a right shoulder strain and rested seven games on and off. In March, he had to rest for two games due to a sprained left ankle.

Although Davis didn't make it to the game against the Mavericks, the Pelicans are thankful that Davis is not reimbursed for the season this time, and the Pelicans still have hope of making the playoffs.

No Anthony. Davis, the Pelicans don't seem to have the perseverance to win. The Mavericks once again hit a six-man double-double to knock the Pelicans off for the third time this season.

With 58 wins and 5 losses, the Mavericks seem to be getting closer and closer to a 72-win record. But just like the "Zen Master" Phil. Jackson said that it is not so simple to break the 72-win record.

On the 5th and 6th, the Mavericks will face the Trail Blazers on the road before flying to Oakland to challenge the Warriors. However, the back-to-back results of this set cast a shadow over the Mavericks' goal of 72 wins.

In that game with the Trail Blazers, although the Trail Blazers were playing at home, they did not play as well as they wanted. Aldrie made just 7 of 16 shots and scored just 17 points. Frenchman Batum scored 15 points, Lillard scored 14 points, and under Yiyang's defense, the zero guard's shooting percentage almost fell below 30%.

The result? As a result, the Trail Blazers won the game at home in a daze.

'We didn't play well and that's something that everyone has to look out for. The reason why we won today was because the Mavericks played so badly. After the game, Carlisle's former assistant and current Trail Blazers coach Terry Brown. Stotts admitted that the Trail Blazers could win, not because they did better, but because the Mavericks did worse.

To describe Mavericks' performance today in one word, it's inexplicable.

Inexplicable 20 mistakes, inexplicable iron, inexplicable leakage. Of the starting five, only Gobert, the center, shot more than 50 percent from the field. Even Yiyang voted a season-low 38% today.

The Mavericks shot 36 percent from the field and 12 percent from three-point range. If the Trail Blazers can't win it like this, it's too much to say.

The players are collectively out of form and that's the kind of situation Carlisle couldn't have predicted. And this is also the reason why the "Zen master" thinks that 72 wins is difficult to break.

"We were very helpless to lose this game. The next back-to-back games against the Warriors on the road, hopefully we can relax. After the game, Yiyang, who only scored 20 points and 8 assists, shook his head, and in the 82 regular season games, there were always one or two games that had to be pumped.

The next day, March 7, the Mavericks met the Warriors again. As two of the most shocking teams in the West this year, the Mavericks and Warriors are destined to spark fierce sparks every time they meet.

Today, the Mavericks were on track. But Curry and Thompson shot a bad breath from outside the three-point line. Last month, Yiyang snatched the title of "Splash Brothers" from the three-point contest, and today, Curry and Thompson hit 62% and 44% from three-point range, respectively.

The Mavericks are doing normal, but the Warriors are playing exceptional. In the final two minutes of the game, the Warriors made four three-pointers in a row. This wave of offense allowed the Warriors to finally win the game.

Although at the last moment, Yiyang bravely chased eight points in a row, and shocked Cole who was sitting on the court into a sweat. But in the end, the Warriors still maintained their most valuable four-point advantage until the end.

100-104, the Mavericks lost back-to-back games. Although Yiyang scored 28 points and 11 assists, the Mavericks still couldn't withstand the pressure in the face of the Warriors' three-point attack.

3>2, this is the simplest mathematical relationship. Even the authors of the kindergarten level of mathematics will not be mistaken.

A week ago, the Mavericks had considerable hope of breaking the Bulls' record of 72 wins in a single season. But the Mavericks have lost two of their last two games, and the form they have shown is worrying.

After dropping those two planned wins, the Mavericks have lost seven games this season. They must have no more than two losses in the final month of the regular season to break their 72-win record. Don't lose more than three games to tie the record. Undoubtedly, the difficulty has increased dramatically.

However, after this month, the Mavericks' games have not been easy. Cavaliers, Clippers, Thunder, Grizzlies.,.... None of the opponents are easy to mess with. Therefore, the 72-win record is one of the most difficult records in this league to break.

The day after the Mavericks' loss to the Warriors, the Chicago Tribune published an article in the Chicago Tribune. Smith's op-ed. Of course, the content is not meant to say good things about the Mavericks.

"From the start of the season to All-Star Weekend, players tend to be in high spirits and motivated. During the first three weeks of the All-Star break, most players will have some slack. After the All-Star break, the players will regain their energy, but this will only last for 1-3 weeks. After that, until the end of the regular season, the players will become a little lazy again. They won't get back on their spirits until the playoffs begin. So, stop saying anything ridiculous that the Mavericks can break the 72-win record, because it's simply not possible. Now the Mavericks have slackened. ”

The article is sharply worded, and it doesn't seem to be a nonsense.

Sam after all. Smith is already a 68-year-old old-school basketball reporter. His level is still higher than those cats and dogs. The story between Smith and Jordan began in 1984 when Jordan was drafted by the Bulls to come to Chicago. Just as Mougins is to Yiyang, Sam. Smith was Jordan's royal reporter at the time, and he was also Jordan's spear against the media.

Two books about Jordan, "Jordan's Law" and "The Second Return", are written by Sam. Smith rafter pen writing. Such a guy naturally wants to maintain Jordan's record and status very much. And what he said also has a certain weight in basketball circles.

So the next day, during the media opening session in the middle of the training, naturally there were many reporters, all of whom asked Yiyang about Sam. What does Smith's article think.

Faced with this question, in the face of this respected reporter, Yiyang was not nervous, but shrugged his shoulders.

"He's just a penman, and he can't teleport the jersey to stop me personally, so why should I listen to his unrealistic nonsense?"