When pride still matters

Chapter 281 You still can’t fire this gun

Yu Fei carefully prepared for the game against the Mavericks because he remembered that the 06 Mavericks entered the finals and were eliminated by Wade with the help of averaging 16 free throws per game.

However, it may not be right to completely borrow the experience of the previous life, because his appearance has changed the pattern of the east and west.

For the current plan, all Yu Fei can do is to focus on the two known finalists, the Mavericks and the Heat.

Study them carefully and see if there are any flaws.

Dallas, American Airlines Center

Mark Cuban proudly watched the pre-game warm-up of the mighty team he had assembled.

Like the past few years, the Mavericks this season are still favored by many people.

Currently, they have 8 wins and 2 losses, ranking second in the Western Conference and second in the league, second only to the Spurs.

Then, the Bucks arrived on the scene.

Cuban doesn't like them.

Because in a way, bucks and calves are similar.

They all build their teams around a superstar, and they all seem to build their teams according to the team building ideas of NBA LIVE enthusiasts. Although Cuban refused to admit this, he admitted that he would try to form some "imaginative lineups" in NBA LIVE.

The Bucks are more extreme than the Mavericks. They place all their bets on Fly. The first player inside is Kwame Brown, a parallel import that was abandoned by the Mavericks. Then there are shooters on the outside, all relying on Fly to start.

To many people, this is unreasonable and goes against the basic laws of basketball.

But the Bucks still stubbornly went their own way.

Cuban is dissatisfied that the Bucks have already won two championships. He thinks this is the reason why the Bucks are doing scientific research on team building. They have won everything anyway, so do results matter? What really matters is to make Yu Fei happy.

The Bucks' current lineup is the most suitable for Fei. This lineup helped him average a triple-double per game. The team ranked fourth in the league and was in the limelight for a while.

Cuban's disgust reached its peak as Yu Fei caused the fans to scream with a windmill dunk.

As an owner who likes to manipulate the team, he really hates this kind of superstar who tries to put himself above everything else.

Because empowered players and strong management are incompatible.

Cuban is thankful because Dirk will never be like this.

"Mark, do you want to say a few words to everyone before the game starts?"

Mavericks coach Avery Johnson asked Cuban.

"It's not necessary," Cuban said, "but I think beating the Bucks at home would be a great Thanksgiving gift."

The Bucks did not start Danny Granger at the small-ball fourth position today as they did before.

Because George Karl fully considered that the core of the Mavericks is Dirk Nowitzki.

Granger can barely match the average No. 4 position, but to deal with Nowitzki, it is safer to play a serious No. 4 position.

Tonight, the Bucks' starting lineup is Yu Fei, Raja Bell, Kevin Martin, Robert Horry and Kwame Brown.

As usual, Yu Fei came up and gave the ball to Brown in the first round.

Today, Brown was extremely expressive.

Because he played for the Mavericks last season.

In the Mavericks, his treatment is similar to that in the first two years in Washington. He sits on the bench and only plays a few minutes in each game. But the problem is that his on-field performance and training performance are similar to Dampier, but the Mavericks Still firmly regard Dampier as the main rotation.

Because Cuban discovered in NBA LIVE that the combination of Dampier and Nowitzki is better for winning points.

Compared to being looked down upon by Jordan in his early years, this is a real shame and humiliation.

The team owner established his franchise with just one single-player game.

Unfortunately, Brown was too excited. When he saw that the Mavericks were not guarding his high post, he wanted to try a mid-range shot.

Of course it didn't work out.

The Mavericks' poor defensive counterattack immediately exposed their biggest problem.

They don't have a solid core point guard.

Jason Terry is a defender whose personal offense is far greater than organizational planning.

In this round of counterattack, although Terry pushed fast enough, he made a passing error, causing the defensive counterattack to turn into a positional battle.

The Mavericks missed the opportunity and then handed the ball to Nowitzki.

Nowitzki missed a jumper.

Yu Fei grabbed the rebound and ran to the frontcourt to grab Terry's misplacement. Before taking action, he taunted: "Where's your gun, cowboy? Is it jammed?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Fei crushed Terry like a tank, hit high, got to the basket and scored.

0 is better than 2

"Wait for me!" Terry was furious.

However, Yu Fei could not wait for a response.

Because Terry broke through to the basket and faced the double defense of Fei and Brown, he could only pass the ball to Dampier under the basket.

This kind of delicate handwork is not something Terry can understand.

Maybe he can pass a beautiful through ball to the basket during the intra-team competition, but the difficulty of the through ball under the basket in the game has increased exponentially. Just like now, the Bucks don't give you any space to pass through. If you insist on passing through, you can only lower the path of the ball. But once the path of the ball is lowered, it will be uncomfortable for a big center like Dampier to pick up the ball.

Unfortunately, Dampier also has a pair of butter hands that can be called the best in the world of butter hands with Kwame Brown. Terry's ball slipped from his hand and was picked up by Yu Fei.

At this point, the Mavericks had no other idea but to retreat.

Yu Fei, on the other hand, controlled the rhythm of the defensive counterattack, constantly giving signs to Brown, waiting for him to pass, and then sent a silky lob pass.

This pass was so comfortable that Karl on the side exclaimed: "Fry should publish a book specifically explaining how to pass the ball to players like Kwame!"

Brown caught the ball and dunked, 0-4.

"Let me sit on the bench all day long!" Brown said blindly in the direction of Cuban, "Am I worse than that bastard, you idiot!"

Mavericks are a little confused.

Because Nowitzki is out of shape tonight.

In the next offensive round, Nowitzki followed the tactics to catch the ball in the low post, turned around beautifully and swung Horry behind him, stepped into the basket for a backhand layup.

As a result, he missed a ball that he would never miss.

Brown grabbed the defensive rebound domineeringly, "Who else?!"

Yu Fei couldn't stand him anymore. His mouth and face looked like this, which was not elegant at all.

Kwame Brown's pretentious behavior has become a landscape that must be appreciated in Bucks games. It is like an abstraction in the live broadcast industry. It is uncomfortable at first, but the more you watch it, the more addictive it becomes.

This is why Yu Fei decided to continue feeding Brown cakes.

Moreover, this game is very important to Brown.

He wants to prove himself in front of his old teammates.

So giving Brown the ball is killing two birds with one stone.

It's just that Yu Fei didn't expect that Brown would yell trash every time he scored.

This kind of behavior is tolerable when it comes to Garnett, but the referee will not allow a parallel import number one pick to be so arrogant.

After Brown ate the fifth piece of cake fed by Master Yu, he shouted at Nowitzki who fouled him: "There is no one who can hit, you guys need me so damn much!"

Nowitzki's face was full of questions. He didn't know what the arrogance of this former teammate who knew nothing but eating cakes and picking up leaks was.

The referee couldn't bear it and gave Brown a T.

"T? Are you kidding me? You actually gave me a T?" Brown shouted in disbelief.

Just when Brown was about to set the referee on fire, Yu Fei stepped forward and stopped him, "Okay, let's get back to the game."

"No!" Brown said, "The referee is obviously jealous of my talent. Otherwise, why would he give me a T for no reason?"

You are an ordinary starting player, and you are grinning like this at someone else's home court. If the referee can tolerate it until now, he has already recovered.

But Yu Fei and Brown couldn't explain this clearly, so they gave Karl a look.

Carl knew what to do.

Subsequently, the Bucks replaced Kwame Brown with Udonis Haslem.

Brown is undoubtedly the Bucks' most eye-catching player since the start of the game. He is fluent in eating cakes and plays excellent defense. He scored 11 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block in six minutes.

Moreover, Brown's activity indirectly exposed another fatal problem of the Mavericks.

This problem has been around for a long time.

That is to say, the strength of the fifth position is insufficient.

Although shooting teams like the Mavericks do not rely heavily on the five position, the Bucks also need Brown and Mutombo to fill the strength of the five position, and the Mavericks bet on Dampier last summer. on the body.

Nowitzki focuses more on offense than defense, and the Mavericks need a strong basketball leader who can wipe his butt to protect Nowitzki. As a result, Brown is unwilling to accept the qualifying offer, and the Mavericks do not want to spend money on him, and then try to Cleveland tried to poach Big Z to no avail, so it could only look to Dampier.

If Dampier plays at the level of the 2003-04 season this season (12 points, 12.2 rebounds), then the interior problems plaguing them will be solved.

However, what the Mavericks got is neither the contract-year version of Dampier, nor the degraded Dampier from last season (averaging 9 points and 8.5 rebounds per game), but a new version of the ship that is even worse than last season: So far this season Averaged 4 points and 7 rebounds.

At this level, he can only serve as a substitute, but his salary this year is close to 900 million. The Mavericks obviously cannot let such a valuable center serve as a substitute. They can only continue to use him and pray that his condition will improve, not to mention returning to the contract year. level, returning to last season’s level shouldn’t be a luxury, right?

It was not too much of an expectation, and then, Kwame Brown shattered the Dallasites' fantasy about Dampier.

Your substitutes last season were all sitting on your head, so what else is there to say?

Mark Cuban's face is getting uglier and uglier.

Brown was slapped on the spot, and he was asked by the surrounding home fans why he gave up Steve Nash for such a waste.

Nowitzki, who was in poor condition, made it difficult for the Mavericks to fight back in front of the Bucks who were blossoming inside and outside.

After halftime, the Bucks led the Mavericks by 64 points 49 to 15.

Yu Fei continued his previous hot form, scoring 12 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, setting a new half-time triple-double.

"I just want to ask Jason Terry a question." Karl responded on behalf of the team during the midfield interview, "Can you still fire the gun? If you don't fire, you will lose."

(End of this chapter)