Chapter 62: It's Not That Powerful!

Dallas 3J refers to three Dallas Mavericks players with J in their names: Jason Kidd, Jimmy Jackson, and Jamal Mashburn. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

These three players are seen as symbols of the Dallas Mavericks, as they were all drafted by the Mavericks in their rookie seasons rather than in a transfer trade.

The first to land on the Dallas Mavericks was Jackson, who was selected by the Mavericks in the fourth round of the '92 draft, and averaged 16.3 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game in his rookie season.

In the 93 draft, the Mavericks selected Mashburn with the fourth pick, and after Mashburn joined the Mavericks, he averaged 19.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game in his rookie season, and this year, Jackson, a sophomore on the same team, also averaged 19.2 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.

In the '94 draft, the Mavericks drafted Jason Kidd with a first-round pick, and Kidd averaged 11.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game in his rookie season, becoming the backcourt engine. In the same year, third-year Jackson averaged 25.7 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, and second-year Marshburn averaged 24.1 points, 4 points, 1 rebound and 3.7 assists per game.

Before the Mavericks acquired Jackson, Dallas had a 22-60 record in the '91-92 season, and after the three-big pick, the Mavericks' record improved to 36-46 in the '94-95 season, which is a significant improvement.

Now that the media has seen Dallas as a title contender for years to come, starting with last season's performances, Jackson and Mashburn both played All-Star performances, and if Kidd improves this year, the Mavericks' backcourt will be unimaginably strong.

This is very similar to the later Thunder Sanshao, who now have good chemistry in the eyes of the media and a harmonious atmosphere in the team, and maybe they can become a team that will influence the situation in the West this season.

But in the first preseason game of the new season, the Dallas trio, who had high hopes from the media, overturned in Los Angeles, and the opponent was still the Lakers, who were not favored by the media.

The Lakers got a promising rookie this season, which is Zhang Qi.

The American media has now changed its attitude towards Zhang Fu, initially blindly looking down, and now it has changed, and all the media have begun to be optimistic about Zhang Fu's potential, believing that he will become another brilliant stroke for the Lakers in selecting rookies.

But all the media, including Los Angeles, also believe that Zhang Mao will take at least two years to play, and they are not optimistic that the Lakers can make the playoffs this season, and even the best prediction of the Los Angeles Times for the Lakers is ninth in the West.

This can't be helped, now this Lakers team doesn't even have a serious center, what can they do to fight a lot of strong teams in the West?

Is it just an 18-year-old high school student?

Now even Lakers fans have become realistic, and they think the Lakers will have to wait for the transfer market next summer for them to make a difference.

The only task this season is to adjust the team lineup, and at the same time let Zhang Mao grow as quickly as possible, or it is a good idea to spend a year on the.

Today, the Lakers have to face the Dallas Trio who have grown up, and everyone thinks that Zhang Yi will definitely be tragic.

Because he is facing Mashburn, who is faintly becoming the No. 1 small forward in the West, today he will not be abused even if he performs well.

Marsh himself is 203cm tall and weighs 225 pounds, the two are about the same height, and the physical confrontation is not a bit advantageous, and the physical fitness he relies on for a living may fall behind today, and Marshburn is also a small forward with super-first-class athleticism.

Zhang is better in terms of physical talent, but he is too young, and against a mature opponent at 23, the 18-year-old could be suppressed miserably.

That's right, Zhang Zhen really couldn't find a way to defend against Mashburn in the game, who scored 18 points in the first half, and he was even knocked down by Mashburn head-on once in the game, which was the first time he couldn't take advantage of the physical confrontation.

But what everyone, including Zhang Wei himself, didn't expect was that he actually played well on the offensive end.

Marshburn scored 18 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, playing the style of the so-called No. 1 small forward in the West.

In the first quarter, Zhang Mao may have been a little restrained on the court because of nervousness, but he still scored 4 points, handed out 3 assists, and grabbed 2 rebounds.

Lakers fans quickly discovered that Zhang Mao's data doesn't seem to be ashamed at all.

Zhang Wei also felt that although he couldn't prevent Mashburn, he was far less powerful on the defensive end than he was on the offensive end, and he still had a lot of opportunities to score and assist, and he didn't seem to be eaten to death.

"He's great, but he's not as good as he thought he would be."

After Zhang Zhu finished the first quarter, he secretly thought about it when he returned to the bench.

Van Exel was very uncomfortable and today he was deprived of the ball.

In this game, he became the second point of attack in the team's new system, and even possession of the ball depended on Zhang Mao's face, as long as this little kid beckoned, he would hand over the ball.

The two of them had a big feud, although he had the heart to reconcile, but Zhang Mao never gave face.

A few days ago, Zhang Wei even accepted Malik's invitation to a nightclub, but he just didn't talk to him, making it clear that he was hostile.

But to the relief of the team's hierarchy, Zhang did not deliberately not pass the ball to Van Exel during the game, which he did to the satisfaction of West and Harris.

Harris and West are most afraid that Zhang Yi will not be able to distinguish between public and private, and if they continue to fight against Van Exel, it will be to use the team's results to make trouble, which is equivalent to forcing the team to trade Van Exel immediately.

Even if the Lakers finally do it in order to appease Zhang Yi, they will leave a layer of separation in their hearts, after all, no one likes this kind of selfish player who doesn't care about the overall situation.

It's not that Zhang Qi didn't think so in his heart, if it was him a few months ago, he wouldn't have done it.

But when he thought of the Lakers' care for him, he couldn't do anything that would harm the team's interests.

Of course, he is not a good person, but if the other party is genuinely good to him, he will reciprocate.

Zhang Mao didn't want to cause trouble for the team, so he played very selflessly on the court, and passed a lot of balls to Fan Maniac in the first quarter, and it was not at all obvious that he didn't talk to Van Exel off the court at all.

This is not too unusual, and many fans may not know that Pippen and Rodman of the Bulls never speak off the court.

A lot of teams are in a similar situation, but as long as the two sides don't bring personal vendetta to the field, then there will be no problem.

Van Exel originally wanted to reconcile with Zhang Fu, since the other party is not doing things on the field, although he is unhappy that he has been robbed of the ball, he will not be ignorant.

The Magic can sit on the court, and now there is no one in the Lakers who doesn't know that although Zhang Zhu does not have a formal master-apprentice relationship with the Magic, the two are basically a pair of master and apprentice.

The magician taught Zhang Qi in the training camp, and he really didn't hide it at all, and I don't know how many people were blushing about it.

In the first quarter of the game, Zhang Fu found confidence, so in the second quarter, he naturally broke out on the court!

Van Exel played a role in this process, with his sharp breaks, mastery of the ball, and mastery of all offensive means, which can be said to be a comprehensive enhancement of Jason Terry, that is, the power and potential should not be underestimated.

If the Lakers really want to trade him, they can definitely trade for a Divac-level center.

The Mavericks strengthened their defense against Zhang Qi in the second quarter, but they didn't expect Van Exel's side to have a convulsion, and this person continued to ignore Kidd's defense and kill the big kill!

Zhang Yu did not have a hard anal with Marshburn during this period, and he found that he could not take advantage of playing head-on, but could get more opportunities by playing without the ball.

Although this Marshburn is in good health, his follow-up defense and positioning skills are very poor, and he often can't even keep up with his off-ball movements.

Van Exel had four assists in the second quarter, two of which were assists, and he got the ball back.

In the first half, these two people played a picture of reciprocating on the court, who wants to say that they tore their faces off the court, I'm afraid even Lakers fans don't believe it!

Zhang used his talent for reading the game, as well as his natural off-ball movement and cutting awareness, to play a bit like Ceballos in the second quarter.

In addition, there is a real baseline mouse on the Lakers' side, the Mavericks' backdoor was stabbed by the Lakers' two outside lines, and there was a breakthrough output of Fan Maniac on the front, and the result was that the so-called Dallas Three Jays were stunned in only one first half.

With a score of 64:51, the Lakers sat at home and led the Mavericks by 13 points in the first half.

The entire Great Western Forum Arena has long been plunged into a sea of joy, Lakers fans never expected that their team's combat effectiveness would be so strong, especially Zhang Zhu's performance is too mature, look at his reverse running and cutting, he doesn't look like an 18-year-old high school student at all.

The Lakers' No. 1 fan, Nicholson, came to watch the game for the first time today.

The original clown deliberately wore a No. 14 jersey today, and whenever Zhang Qi scored, he would point to the number on his jersey.

Needless to say, the number one Lakers fan who came to watch the game for the first time in the new season was obviously conquered by Zhang Mao's performance early on.

Zhang Qian also did not live up to the expectations of fans, cutting 13 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in the first half, and 9 points in a single quarter in the second quarter, such a performance is not inferior to Mashburn, not to mention that the Lakers are still leading by a large score.