Chapter 116: The Stars of the Aviation Center

On January 6, 13, the Hornets came to the U.S. Route Center Arena to challenge the Dallas Mavericks.

After Yang Yi used three points to defeat the Raptors, Bobcats, Hawks and Rockets, he rushed to the Mavericks' home court with a monstrous momentum, which can be described as menacing. Coupled with the recovery of Lopez's injury and the regrouping of the Hornets and Tigers, the Mavericks felt a little pressure up and down. Even Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki is no exception.

As a superstar who has played in the league for many years, the veteran driver's self-confidence is unquestionable. As one of the league's top stars, he's not afraid of the Hornets.

But the Mavericks are in a much worse position than the Hornets this year, and the schedule is close to half, and the Mavericks' win rate is only less than half. Of course, the most important reason is injury. Last season's schedule left the Mavericks with a raft of injury concerns, including older players including Nowitzki.

This season, the Mavericks' players have been injured frequently, which has made it difficult for their lineup to make up the real starting five, and many times it is three or four main players with rotation players playing, so the winning rate has become a big problem.

Now the situation is a little better, and the first five tigers have finally been put together. But Yang Yi's performance made them all frightened, and once that unreasonable three-point was played, the Mavericks would definitely be shot into a sieve.

And now the Mavericks are no longer the super team that stood at the top of the league and won the championship. The 11-year championship player is old and old, and the superstar is only Nowitzki, and even the old driver is already thirty-four years old.

Of course, if you count the UFO, the Mavericks still have two superstars, but Carter is no longer as brave as he used to be. Now at the age of thirty-five, although he can still dunk casually, he plays more by experience.

The U.S. Route Center Arena hasn't seen a significant drop in fans due to the team's poor record, and the enthusiasm of the Western Cowboys is still alive. Moreover, Yang Yi came to the Mavericks' home court for the first time, and Dallas fans also wanted to see the true face of Lushan, a fat man who has recently relied on three-point shooting to beat the world.

Although the Hornets and Mavericks are in the same Southwest Division, this is indeed their first confrontation in the new season, so the highlights are quite enough. The confrontation between the German anti-aircraft artillery and the alliance demon star, the mutual competition between the tall three-point and the short three-pointer, makes people's blood boil when they think about it.

The match began with the uproar of the fans at the scene.

This match was Lopez's first game back from injury, and with the fight for the ball against the aging captain Chris Carman, Lopez was very confident in fighting for the ball.

Karman is only 30 years old, but his form has declined dramatically, and since he was traded to the Hornets last year, he has moved to Dallas to become the main center in Dallas.

Both sides jumped in the middle circle, and Lopez and Carman were both on the lookout to get the kick-off for their teams. However, the already slightly bloated Carman is far from Lopez in terms of reaction and speed, and Lopez won the kick-off for the Hornets at a palm's height above Carman, which is also a good sign.

In the past, Lopez jumped the ball as a foil seven or eight times out of ten, but now he has to fight for breath with the old guy Karman, and most importantly, he did it and laid a good start for his comeback.

Yang Yi held the ball and advanced to the front court, and in front of him was O.J. Mayo, the pride of the sky that year. Now the twenty-four-year-old Mayo no longer has the vigor of the past, and the whole person is slightly decadent.

He wasn't like that back then. As a superstar who debuted alongside Derrick Rose, the talented Mayo was given great expectations.

In high school, he was a national basketball superstar with Rose, but when it came time to choose a college team, Rose chose the University of Memphis, which was in full swing at the time, while Mayo chose USC, a basketball underdog, to prove that he was more talented than Rose. Of course, in the end, he failed, and Ross led the University of Memphis further in the NCAA; Mayo fell silent and fell silent. In the NCAA's round of 64 to the round of 32, Mayo's USC was eliminated by Michael Beasley's Kansas State University.

As a result, Rose became the top pick in the draft the following year, and Mayo, who was similar to him, only got the Tanhua.

However, Yang Yi did not underestimate Mayo because of this, a player who can fight against Rose is not something he can underestimate, he has tasted enough of Rose's power at the beginning, and he can't prevent that kind of devastating attack at all, although Mayo's progress is not as fast as Rose, but it should not be much different.

The fat man holds the ball and walks inside with Mayo. Although Mayo entered the league five years earlier than Yang Yi, and his body and consciousness have been greatly improved, he can't do anything when he encounters the monster of the fat man.

Yang Yi is worse than Mayo in terms of physical fitness, except for speed and jumping, he crushes him in all other aspects. And the awareness is also much higher than Mayo, he is a fusion of top point guard awareness, although the fusion level has not reached half of it so far, but it should be enough to deal with Mayo.

As soon as Yang exerted his strength, Mayo went all out, and both sides showed all their strength. It's just that Mayo was resisted by the fat man and had no choice, the difference in physical fitness between the two was too great, plus the fat man's support was already full value, and there was no problem in beating James, not to mention a little Mayo!

Carter saw that Mayo couldn't stop the fat man, so he hurriedly abandoned Gordon and prepared to wrap it.

Yang Yi has always played the first ball of the opening game by himself, and Carter was sure that the fat man would not pass the ball, so he stepped forward boldly to cover the fat man.

It's just that he miscalculated this time, Yang Yi is now trying his best to get glory points, and he can get at least 2 glory points if he wins a game, although he has the right to fire wirelessly in the Wasp, but he won't waste casually when he should be careful.

Old Carter was already a little fat, his body looked fatter than the aerial bomber of the year, and his speed had slowed down, so by the time he arrived in front of the fat man, the fat man had already passed the ball.

Gordon took advantage of Carter's ability to run to the basket when he went to trap Young, and he knew that Carter and Mayo couldn't stop the fat man. What the peak Northern Dragon King and the Flash didn't do at the beginning, how could the aging Carter and the silent Mayo do it!

Sure enough, the fat man's ball came over after he cut to the basket, and at this point the basket was empty, and the Mavericks' main players were pulled away because they wanted to contain the other players of the Hornets. Gordon hit an easy board shot after receiving a nanny-style assist from Yang Yi to score two points for the Hornets.

At 2:0, Gordon's goal gave the Hornets the lead.