122. Battle Maverick 3

Liu Ren has always felt regretful, if Carter was given a shark, if Maddy hadn't left the Raptors that year, if Carter had gone to the Magic earlier......

There are too many ifs that make Carter's career, like Maddie, have dazzling brilliance, but they become ordinary early. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Just like Liu Ren's other regrets, what will happen to Yao Ming if he joins forces with Kobe Bryant after the end of his rookie contract? You must know that Yao Ming is a rookie between 98 and 04, this wave of rookies is not like the later rookies, who can leave freely after the rookie contract ends!

It wasn't until the collective bargaining agreement was reached in '06 that new rules were introduced for rookie teams after '05 to have the right to be matched first by their parent team, as well as various provisions for early contract renewal.

Therefore, James, Anthony, Wade, Bosh, Paul and others can only renew their contracts for three years when they renew their contracts early, and the early renewals during the rookie contract period are all five-year contracts.

However, most of the rookies at the beginning of the century were still relatively loyal, and few rookies who were trained as core players left the team after playing their rookie contracts, and their contracts were usually renewed.

So Yao Ming rejected the Lakers' pursuit and signed a five-year contract with the Rockets, which was also the last contract.

Liu Ren occasionally thinks that if Yao Ming went to the Lakers at that time, there was a guard like Kobe who was good at partnering with super insiders, and with Kupchak's ability, he would definitely be able to bring one of Garnett or Gasol, and Yao Ming would retire due to overwork and injury?

You must know that what Zen Master is best at is to preserve the physical strength of players, if he sees that Yao Ming is too tired in the regular season, maybe he will directly give Yao Ming a holiday, let him rest casually in the regular season like O'Neal, and come back in the playoffs.

Will Yao Ming retire so early? Maybe they're still stirring up trouble in the alliance now.

There are also Kobe Bryant and Maddy, Kobe and James, how reasonable these two combinations are, they are both a scoring maniac and a good organization combination, and the defense is strong, can it surpass Jordan Pippen's achievements?

It's a pity that all this can only exist in regret.

Carter entered the league two years later than Kobe, but he is a year older than Kobe, and at 37 years old, he is no longer as strong as he used to be, and can only play the sixth man in the Mavericks, averaging 12 points per game.

I have to say that Carlisle is really amazing, and the five players he sent were stunned by him.

After a few consecutive wins on the Lakers' side, the stinky problems began to show up again, and the defensive end began to slacken, giving the Mavericks a lot of scoring opportunities.

Although there is Whiteside to make up for the defense on the inside, a few young people on the outside have not learned, and they have learned Kobe's traffic command defense last season, and they started playing when they were ahead.

Fortunately, Nick Young was really accurate, and Whiteside snatched Blair and Crowder in terms of rebounding, and the score was not forced to close.

The second lineup played more than six minutes, and Carter scored 10 points on a 4-of-7 shooting in a low flight, hitting a three-pointer before the official timeout to help the Mavericks close the deficit to 11 points.

The score became 39-50.

After the timeout, both sides changed to the strongest lineup, and the Lakers replaced Antetokounmpo, Nick Young, Liu Ren, Gasol, and Whiteside.

The Mavericks were replaced by Calderon, Carter, Marion, Nowitzki, and Dalham Porter.

The Lakers want to extend their advantage before halftime, and the Mavericks want to narrow the score before halftime, otherwise the pressure on them will be too much in the third quarter.

However, the Lakers have always had a bad problem, which had not appeared at the beginning of the season, especially after a series of losses after a wide range of injuries, they played very focused one by one.

But I've been winning a little too much lately, and this mistake has started to happen again, and there have been some signs since the last game against the Nuggets.

Start surfing when you're ahead!

Including Liu Ren.

After returning from the timeout, Liu Ren wanted to return the three points before Carter's timeout just now, and pull out three points against Marion's defense!

I can't say what it feels like, sometimes it's gone.

Liu Ren's three-point shot was very off.

In the end, Carter hit Nick Young and made both free throws for the latter's defensive foul, and the margin became nine points.

Then Nick Young wanted to return Carter again, and after consecutive crotch dribbles from the outside, he still missed a three-point shot.

Whiteside grabbed an offensive rebound and missed a second offensive throw, and was scrambled by Durham Porter to grab a defensive rebound.

Mavericks fight back!

Novitzki's mid-range hit in the follow-up!

Seven points difference!

At this time, the Lakers didn't feel nervous at all, each of them thought that it would be easy to beat the Mavericks, they were all confident, and they felt that it was easy to open up the difference.

The Lakers are right, even if their previous game is very anxious, but as long as they are nervous, they will hit each other in waves with a small high-tide of more than a dozen to a few casually.

But this time things seem a little different.

The whole Lakers team suddenly fell to the freezing point!

And on the Mavericks' side, Carter and Nowitzki, two 36-year-old men, broke out today! Consecutive shots.

By halftime, the Mavericks managed to overtake the score!

61-60, Carter scored 20 points in a single quarter, Nowitzki scored 11 points in a single quarter, and the two old men scored 21 points in 6 minutes in the second half of the quarter!

The Lakers only scored 10 points in the second half of the quarter!

But no one in the Lakers from top to bottom was nervous, and they all felt that as long as they worked hard, they could overtake and pull the score apart with three or two hits.

In the third quarter, the Lakers' Marshall, McCollum, Wesley Johnson, Antetokounmpo, and Carman's lineup was hit by the Mavericks after a wave of 21-2 starts, and the difference was stretched to 20 points.

D'Antoni hurriedly replaced Nash, Nick Young, Liu Ren, Gasol, and Whiteside, trying to chase it back in one go.

However, the Lakers' outside touch did not recover for a long time, and the difference remained at about 20 points until the end of the third quarter.

75-93, the Lakers trailed the Mavericks by 18 points after the third quarter!

"Mavericks played beautifully in these two quarters! I really didn't expect to force the Lakers to this point. Barkley said.

"The Lakers were too careless, and I think they're going to fight back in the fourth quarter, and 18 points isn't too much of a problem for them." O'Neal is blindly optimistic about the Lakers, after all, the Lakers have been a strong team for the past six or seven years, and this year's record is not bad, second in the West.

"That's right, it's not difficult for the Lakers to win more than ten points in a single quarter, but their current feel is a big problem, the outside shooting is not accurate, the Mavericks can rest assured to play joint defense, and the Lakers have no offensive strength on the inside, Gasol has been a suppressed role in the face of Nowitzki over the years, this game is really hard to say, maybe the Lakers will be planted in Dallas." Kenny Smith is always the most objective one.

Liu Ren was very annoyed, he didn't care before the Mavericks stretched the difference to 20 points, and even after being pulled to 20 points, he was still not in a hurry, thinking that he could catch it back in two or three clicks.

But it turns out that it's not like that!

The feel is gone all of a sudden, Liu Ren's outside line is 0 in 5 in a single section, and the rare feel is extremely poor!

The two old men on the opposite side, Nowitzki and Carter, combined for 70 points in the third quarter, and three-quarters of the Mavericks' scores were scored by these two old men.

"Inside!" Liu Ren's eyes flashed, there was only this breakthrough point!