Almighty legend life

Chapter 697
Every year after entering March, the ratings of the NBA will have a significant decline. This has been the practice over the years. Compared with the more utilitarian NBA games, ordinary Americans’ love for college basketball comes from their own experience. However, "regional confrontation" often makes ordinary people more impulsive.

After the NCAA enters March, it will be a cruel top 64 game. Every college team pays great attention to the single elimination game. After all, there is no "replay" here. Although young people do not fail, young people often do not accept failure. .

In "March Madness", some NBA games will deliberately give way to NCAA games. This is the benefit of the NBA's reserve base. After all, only the best players in the NCAA can join the NBA league.

Liu Han’s alma mater, UCLA, had a poor record in recent years. After George Clent left, UCLA originally planned to invite Li Rui to be their first Asian coach, but it was a pity that it ended without a problem due to some people’s opposition and discrimination. Li Rui later returned to China to serve as the assistant coach of the national team. Since then, UCLA has never regained its former glory.

UCLA stumbled into the final tournament this year, but they are obviously not favored by others. The popular teams to win this year are still Duke, North Carolina and some other traditional giants, as well as Ray Allen's alma mater, University of Connecticut. Be optimistic, after all, they have Okafor, the best inside player in the NCAA.

The entire NBA game in March was carried out tepidly. The Mavericks were not worried about their playoff berth, and even the number one position in the league was extremely stable, so their games more followed Nelson's arrangement The continuous rotation has affected their performance to a certain extent, but now no one cares about the performance of the Mavericks. Now many people know that with Liu Han, any team will be a strong team in the playoffs.

The Mavericks' schedule in the first half of March will be more difficult. They will play five games in 10 days, including two consecutive back-to-back away games. The Kings and other Western Conference teams will face off.

On March 3, the Mavericks beat the Supersonics 2-109 at home. Ray Allen and Rashad Lewis' outside combination obviously did not match the inside and outside combination of Liu Han and Nowitzki. Liu Han and Nowitzki joined forces Scoring 91 points, the Supersonics have completely lost the perimeter defensive ability of the Payton era. Facing the running and bombing of the Mavericks, they were beaten by the Mavericks with rhythm throughout the game.

Liu Han once again gave a triple-double performance in this game. This season, his scoring, rebounding and assists are all at the forefront of the league's major lists, and his scoring average of 29.7 points per game topped the list. According to this situation, he is very likely to average a triple-double in a single season.

After the end of the game with the Sonics, the Mavericks rushed to Minnesota overnight, and they had to play back-to-back away games against the Timberwolves.

In order to avoid being swept away by the season, the Timberwolves played an extremely efficient performance in this home game. Garnett completely beat Nowitzki in offense, and also made Nowitzki depressed in defense. to vomiting blood.

However, even though six members of the Timberwolves team scored in double figures and three of them scored 20 at the same time, they still failed to stop Liu Han from scoring.

When the whole team was passive, Liu Han started the scoring mode. In this game, he broke the personal single-game scoring record of a player this season, and his 69 points ranked among the top ten in the entire league history. , The 14 three-pointers scored in the game also tied the record for the number of three-pointers made in a single game created by him during the Lakers period.

In the end, relying on Liu Han's super performance, the Mavericks narrowly beat the Timberwolves by 133 to 129 in this scoring battle.

This game can be regarded as the most exciting game in the entire league after entering March. The duel between the two emerging western powerhouses, as well as the confrontation between the best of the 95th rookie and the best of the 96th rookie.

A difficult duel also made the players of the Mavericks feel a lot of fatigue, although Liu Han played the leading role alone throughout the game.

A day after the news, the Mavericks challenged the Spurs away again.

After the tough battle with Timberwolves in the last game, the Mavericks players were obviously out of shape in the game against the Spurs, and Liu Han was rotated by Nelson in this game, so when the Mavericks faced the Spurs, where Duncan was also rotated at a disadvantage.

In this Spurs game, Tony Parker finally played his own characteristics. Although his outside shots were still not very accurate, Parker relied on his own speed to mess up the Mavericks' defense, and the Spurs also had Manu Ginobili on the bench. The Mavericks failed to lead the Spurs in the whole game, and were finally defeated by the Spurs 113-100.

The Mavericks couldn't relax after their 11th loss of the season. They set off overnight for Houston, where they will face the Rockets at home and desperately need a victory to secure their top eight spot in the Western Conference.

Liu Han returned to the starting position after taking a game off, but Nowitzki was rested by Nelson in this game, and Bradley returned to the starting lineup.

Considering that the Mavericks players were a bit tired from three consecutive away games, Nelson did not arrange for the team to bombard the team in this game, but played a positional battle with the Rockets in a strict manner, which was a blessing for Yao Min.

In this game, Yao Min played a performance that surprised the entire league. He made all his first ten shots, made 15 of 12 shots and 10 of 10 free throws. He scored a game-high 34 points and With 15 rebounds, such an efficient and dominant performance made Bradley, who scored only 11 points in the game, pale in comparison.

不过火箭队除了姚敏之外其他人的表现就有些不怎么样了，弗朗西斯三分球六投零中，仅仅拿到16分和8次助攻，莫布里全场14投4中仅仅得到13分和9个篮板。

On the other hand, for the Mavericks, although Liu Han did not score as high as Yao Min, he still scored 29 points. In addition, he had 19 assists and 13 rebounds. Six of the Mavericks scored in double figures, and three of them scored double-doubles. Rebounds alone The Mavericks grabbed 6 more balls than the Rockets, including six offensive rebounds.

This comparison is enough to see the gap between the two teams. The Mavericks finally beat the Rockets 106 to 99.

After two consecutive back-to-back away games, the Mavericks finally returned to Dallas on March 3. They beat the Suns 10 to 123 at home.

Nash finally starts the game but encounters Liu Han's poor defensive performance. The Suns' style of play is not suitable for Nash's performance. They need a coach who can better play the advantages of players to coach. The rebuilding of the Suns is imminent.

On the second day after Liu Han returned to Dallas, his alma mater was eliminated by the University of Washington in the NCAA tournament. The team only reached the top 32, but it was already the best result in recent years.

(End of this chapter)