The Dallas Mavericks should not actually be called the Mavericks. The Mavericks are marked with a majestic tall horse. Dallas is located in the southwest of the United States. Horses and cowboys riding horses are symbols of the American West. Therefore, Dallas people regard horses as the team logo of their city. The translation of "Mavericks" is just misinterpreted because the English meaning of mavericks is "unbranded Mavericks and other livestock". They forgot that mavericks have another meaning: people who succeed because of mavericks. The real translation should be the Dallas Cowboys.

The Dallas Mavericks in the 1990s have always been a super bad guy in the NBA. They have been having problems and have not made it to the NBA playoffs for ten years since 1988.

But in 1997 they welcomed a thousand-win coach, Donald Alved Nelson, who we often call Old Nelson. In the subsequent pre-season draft of 1998-1999, Old Nelson made perhaps the most brilliant deal in his life. He exchanged the Bucks for Pat Garritti and the German player Dirk Nowitzki, who was unknown at the time, and exchanged the exchange for Pat Garritti and the Suns for young player Steve Nash. Overnight, the Mavericks' later skeleton was already formed.

Starting from 1999 to 2000, the Mavericks, led by the Three Musketeers, began to soar. In the following four years, the Mavericks all won more than 50. At this time, the Mavericks also began to propose his most controversial tactic - the hacking tactic (hack-a-shaq), which means that for players with low free throw shooting percentage, they can control their scoring by fouling them. After this theory was proposed, various teams in the league used this tactic to deal with Shaq O'Neal, so they got the name. As soon as this tactic was released, academic coaches such as Larry Brown firmly expressed their opposition, and O'Neal even pointed out that the old Nelson's despicable moves were completely a clown's behavior. However, it is undeniable that this tactic is indeed effective.

On the bus, Doug Collins has been discussing the upcoming game with Michael Jordan. Old Nelson's insidiousness and non-conventional playing cards made Doug Collins nervous. A person who invented the concept of a ball-handling striker, maintained the attack-style tactics of running and bombing, and created the controversial "shark-cutting tactics". The head coach who has won the title of best coach in the league three times, you never know how many trump cards he has in his hands. Perhaps his nickname "mad scientist" can prove how great he is.

The tactics were finally determined. Dirk Nowitzki and I were completely consistent with Dirk Nowitzki in the game. When he got on, I got on, and when he got off, I got off. In the game, we both had a 1-on-1 close-fitting single-handed German tank. At present, our styles were too similar. Both of us were big men who could shoot from the outside, and both were strong men who could cause misalignment defense. It was obviously a good choice for us to redeem both. Jenhdi White and Christian Letterner were on the inside to maintain the pressure on the inside. After all, the Mavericks' inside strength was really good and a bit too much. Michael Jordan played point guard on the outside, and Richard Hamilton played small forwards.

After changing clothes in the locker room, Doug Collins waved his hand and punished him. His teammates walked out of the locker room to prepare for warm-up before the game.

"Kaome, wait a moment!" Jordan suddenly shouted.

I was a little confused. Christian Letterner, the old fried dough stick behind me, shrugged at me, made a face, spread his hands to express his helplessness, this is his old habit.

I was the only one left in the locker room, Michael Jordan and Doug Collins, and even the assistant coach was out.

Michael Jordan stared at me with a cold look for a full minute, and I felt a little scared when I was stared at by him.

"Are you proud? Well?" Michael Jordan said in a disdainful tone.

"Ah?!" I was surprised, I didn't know how to come about this pride.

"Look at your last game, there were only 8 rebounds, and only 1 of these 8 rebounds was in the frontcourt rebound. He was distracted with Christian at the beginning. Christian won two NCAA championships and was selected into the "Dream Team" when he was in college. What about you? There were 5 mistakes in the whole game. Do you think you are at a high level? Ah? Did you think you just scored 29 points? Is there anything to be proud of! NBA has countless players who scored 40 every day.

How big are you achieving? This year's rookie rankings, you are only ranked fourth now. Jason Richardson and Paul Gasol are all ranked ahead of you. Your name has never appeared in the All-Star nomination. What are you proud of? What are you proud of? What honors have you achieved? Have you won the regular season MVP? Is the final MVP? Bullshit! ** is a rookie, what big shots are you serving as..."

Jordan's words were even more unpleasant than the other, but what he said was really right. I was really proud after the game against the Spurs. I lost my way with the long and rumored praises from the reporters. In the game against the Rockets, due to the weak inside strength of the opponent, I was really a little lazy.

"Please pay attention to me yourself, don't just make a fucking achievement and tell you that you can grab a lot of NBAs at this level. If you don't work hard, you will be the second Olavokandy!" Michael Jordan kept roaring.

"Michael, it's also for your own good. Brown, you're really a little proud. You have to pay attention! Go out and warm up first!" head coach Doug Collins said slowly.

One sings the red face, the other sings the white face, which is old-fashioned.

I agreed and turned around and walked out.

"Am I a little too strict with him, Doug?"

"well enough!"

"I hope it didn't hurt his enthusiasm!"

"Haha, probably not. Although this kid is usually shy and doesn't like to talk much, he is still quite capable of resisting strikes!"

"Yes, if you don't have strong ability to resist strikes, you won't abuse yourself badly for two months after fighting with the Pacers last time."

"Yes, his training is so hard, there is no reason if he doesn't succeed."

"Now I have to keep ringing his alarm bell and hitting him so that he can keep improving!"

"Yeah! I really look forward to seeing him reach his career peak!"

"It shouldn't be far!"

I hurried to the court, my teammates were already warming up, I took a basketball and started to find my own feel.

"What's wrong? What did Michael say?" Christian Letterner asked from the side.

"It's okay, just tell me to pay attention to Dirk Nowitzki's move!" I didn't tell Christian Letterner about Michael Jordan's roar just now, but instead told a small lie, maybe for the sake of face, maybe for the sake of something else, but I really don't want to tell Christian about this, everyone has their own **.

"That guy is really hard to deal with!" Christian Letterner said, shaking his head.

This is a bit nonsense. Dirk Nowitzki is the top ten power forward in the NBA history. Nowitzki feels extremely soft and has a variety of scoring methods. The scoring range covers the entire half, mid-range shots, breakthroughs, three-pointers, and a good low-post offense. With a height of 212 cm, he can even be competent for the big center. He is a hero of Dallas and a business card that Dallas has remained unchanged for the next decade.

Today this great power forward will be my opponent.

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Chapter completed!