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After the second game, because both sides need to move the battlefield. Therefore, the NBA officially left the players with a two-day break. If there is always a game every other day, the pressure on the players is indeed too great.

The league also doesn't want players to be injured. A final without a star is an incomplete final. The best way to avoid star injuries is to reduce the density of the game.

Although there were two days off, Carlisle and the Mavericks set off for Dallas early the next morning after the game. They don't want to delay any training time. The team will start training in Dallas at noon in the afternoon. As for the Miami Heat, who lost a home game, they set off immediately after the Mavericks.

Due to the special format of the finals, the Mavericks will have three consecutive home games! For the Heat, this is undoubtedly a huge blow. Originally, they wanted to fly to Dallas with a score of 2 to 0. Unexpectedly, the last game was turned around by Nowitzki and Yiyang.

Three consecutive away games are not good news for any team. But Wade is not afraid. 5 years ago, he won the championship and FMVP on the Mavericks. With a stronger lineup and helpers this year, Wade has no reason to lose in the same place!

Both teams can't wait to continue to fight again, the Heat are desperately eager to win back a city, and the Mavericks hope to give the Big Three a taste at home.

Feeling tired? Maybe in the regular season, the players will feel tired. But the game has been played so far, with the last two teams left, and people can't perceive anything other than the yearning for the championship.

The Mavericks arrived at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport at 12:30, and the players appeared in the locker room on time at 5:30 in the afternoon. When Carlisle pushed open the locker room door with two dark circles under his eyes, the players had already begun to change their equipment.

In the last game, Nowitzki was in a very good state. But in today's shooting training, Dirk's shooting percentage is not satisfactory.

People joked that Dirk didn't know how to shoot without Bosh.

But soon, Nowitzki found the reason for his inaccurate shooting. The protective gear on his finger made him very uncomfortable today.

"I still want to touch the ball with my left middle finger, so I don't want to put a thick bandage on the finger. Can we find something that can protect the finger from the back of the hand so that I can feel the ball!" After several consecutive missed shots, Nowitzki approached Carlisle and the team doctor and expressed his feelings.

The team doctor immediately figured out a way and took out several finger protectors for Nowitzki to try.

After repeated screenings and attempts, Nowitzki finally replaced it with a hard splint that was fixed and protected from the flanks of the fingers, and part of the fingers and fingertips were exposed. In Nowitzki's view, the front of the fingers cannot be wrapped too tightly, so that he doesn't have any sense of the ball.

The effect of changing the protective gear is immediate. After that, Nowitzki's shooting percentage in training soared. This also made Yiyang realize that the original protective gear has such a huge impact on the players.

Thinking of this, Yiyang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Should I change this band-aid?

In fact, there is no need to think about Yiyang, the team doctor has already thought of this for Yiyang.

Yiyang's wound has just been stitched up, and it is deep and long. In the next game, if he is accidentally beaten and bleeds, Yiyang will have to go off the court again for treatment. This is undoubtedly a great disturbance to the Mavericks' game process.

Halfway through training, when Carlisle announced a half-hour break. The Mavericks team doctor took a thing onto the court and handed it to Yiyang. This thing is more attractive than Nowitzki's finger splint.

"This is..." Yiyang looked at what was in his hand, and then at the team doctor wearing short sleeves.

"As you can see, the mask!"

"Look, our rookie is going to be a superhero!" Terry naturally would not let go of this opportunity to booze, because the mask given to Yiyang by the team doctor is so special. Normally, the masks worn by NBA players are transparent, but what Yiyang holds is a charcoal black mask!

"Try it, if it doesn't fit, I'll adjust it for you."

Yiyang looked at the mask in his hand, then looked at the eyes of everyone expecting. Gradually he covered it on his face, and then the team doctor tightened the straps from behind.

In order to protect Yiyang’s eyebrows, the opening of the mask’s eyes is not large, and the entire eyebrows are included.

Compared with ordinary basketball masks, this one of Yiyang is not too big, the forehead only covers half of it, and the bottom only covers the position flush with the nose, and does not include the cheeks. The reason for this design is to reduce the contact area between the face and the face, so that the entire face of the player will not be covered in the mask after sweating, which will be very uncomfortable.

After wearing it, Yiyang raised his head. The teammates who originally wanted to see Yiyang's jokes all showed a surprised look.

"Wow, that's cool, man!" Terry walked to Yiyang and looked at it carefully. He originally thought Yiyang would look very funny after wearing the mask, but unexpectedly, it fits unexpectedly.

"What does this mask look like? Zorro!" Nowitzki touched his chin, thinking about who Yiyang looks like after putting on the mask. Now he has the answer.

"Hey, get me a mask like this too." Terry patted the doctor on the chest and joked.

"Come on Jett, you don't look like Zorro when you put on the mask, but like a Frankenstein."

"Hahahahahaha, that's right!"

The crowd made a fuss, and the atmosphere on the training ground became a little more relaxed. Carlisle also smiled slightly off the court. The Mavericks can only win if the players have such a mentality!

At the end of the half-hour break, Nowitzki got a handy protective gear. And Yiyang doesn't have to worry about the wound on the corner of his eyebrow.

At the beginning, Carlisle also worried that the small eye openings of the mask would affect Yiyang's shooting. But the facts proved that the opening of the mask could not weaken Yiyang's vision.

In adversarial training, whether it is organizing offense or shooting by himself, Yiyang has done very well. This mask gave Yiyang the best protection and also minimized interference.

Nowitzki was still impeccable throughout the training, and Yiyang's passing was still just right. After yesterday's shocking reversal, the morale and state of the players have remained very good.

Looking at the players' performance on the training ground, Carlisle even had a bold idea in his mind.

"Man, what do you think of their competitive state?" Carlisle turned his head to speak to his assistant coach Stotts, he asked knowingly.

"The boys are in great condition. Fortunately, Dirk and Yi's injuries did not affect us much." Stotts answered truthfully.

"Hey, I think so too, they are in great form! So, I'm thinking, can we kill the Miami people in three games in Dallas!"

After Carlisle finished speaking, Stotts' eyes widened. It's not that the assistant coach has no confidence in his team, but that he wants to defeat the Heat's Big Three in three consecutive games. It sounds like an extremely crazy thing.

"You know what you are talking about? Rick!"

"Of course I know! Look, Dirk scored again! God, I don't even know what else can stop him from scoring. No one can prevent him except Dirk himself. Look at it again, then The kid is so energetic, even Wade can’t do anything about him~www.novelmtl.com~ let alone we still have Jeter, Sean, Jason, Peja... you know what buddy, Sometimes, I even think our lineup is not much worse than the Heat!"

If Carlisle said in a press conference that the Mavericks' lineup is not much worse than the Heat, the reporters will definitely roar in laughter and yell at Carlisle as a fool who was stunned by a victory.

But on the training ground, watching the players' performance, Stotts had to admit that Carlisle's self-confidence was not groundless!

"I'm afraid the Big Three won't agree to you so easily." Terry Stotts looked at Carlisle with a serious face and couldn't help but smile.

"I didn't expect them to agree, victory, we will grab it ourselves!"

The players who were training on the court did not hear the crazy plan in the head of the coach.

But they may not know that the inspiration for the head coach's crazy plan comes from their crazier performance on the court.

Did you win the Miami Heat in three games? It seems that the trip to Texas of the Big Three is destined to be insulated from the word pleasure.