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The ten point difference made Mark Jackson breathless. He looked at his head defender Curry, and the baby face was already out of breath just a few minutes after the game started.

Yiyang's defense is too tight, which makes Curry very overwhelmed. Against Yiyang, Curry's physical stamina was several times that of fighting against others. The team's first scoring point is stuck, which is quite fatal for a team.

Mark Jackson looked anxiously at the Mavericks bench. After the timeout, the guy Carlisle would definitely let Gobert play. Although this is Gobert's playoff debut, Mark Jackson knows that any attempt to hit Gobert's head is stupid.

Attacking the basket is not enough, but Curry, Thompson and Harris Barnes will suffer from the Mavericks' outside Trident. After looking around, the only thing Mark Jackson can rely on now is David Lee.

David Lee is still able to score 18.2 points this season and is a reliable offensive point. It's just that his order of shots is behind Curry and Thompson, so the points per game don't seem so bluffing.

Nowitzki is the only defensive weakness of the Mavericks. As long as David Lee can open up the situation, the Mavericks defense will gradually collapse.

"David, in the next game, I need you to increase the number of shots." Mark Jackson said desperately. If it were not a last resort, who would leave Curry and Thompson not?

David Lee nodded, it is not easy to challenge Dirk, who is in such a hot state today...

Sure enough, as Mark Jackson had expected, after returning from the timeout, the tall French "Tower of God" Gobert moved his bones and stepped onto the court.

The Frenchman bent down, and Yiyang whispered something in his ear. Unsurprisingly, the leader of Yiyang should be keeping Gobert calm and not nervous.

Mark Jackson shook his head. The French are also someone who has had several years of professional game experience. Compared with the rookies out of the NCAA, they are more adaptable. Even if you are nervous, you can't be nervous for a few minutes.

His appearance forced the Warriors to give up offense at the basket. Whether the Warriors can sustain the pressure and finish the first quarter depends on David Lee's performance.

After the game restarted, Curry, who was unwilling to give up, scored a three-pointer by running without the ball, catching the ball and shooting. But this three-pointer is still shot against Yiyang's defense, and Curry himself knows that this is not a continuous and stable offensive method.

Then the Mavericks attacked, and the Warriors still double-teamed Nowitzki. When Dalemport is on the court, you can almost ignore the Mavericks center on the offensive end. But when Gobert was there, everything was different.

It's not that Gobert's offense is so powerful. The French have to shoot but not shoot, and have back skills and no back skills. It can be said that his rough offense is the biggest reason why his draft pick is too low and he has not been selected for the All-Star rookie game in the end.

But with Yiyang's needle threading, Gobert doesn't need very good offensive skills, and he can score easily.

After breaking into the inside, Yiyang only needs to throw the ball high, and Gobert will push it into the box. His height is unmatched. Little O'Neal can only watch Gobert dunk vigorously with his mouth open, his mind is full of his own shadow ten years ago.

As soon as the timeout came back, the Warriors' basket was raged again. The advantage of the Mavericks in the paint was put to good use by Yiyang.

But Mark Jackson is not in a hurry. David Lee hasn't touched a basketball since he came back from a timeout. The quality of that guy's offense will ultimately determine the fate of the Warriors in the first quarter.

This time, Curry did not continue to shoot, but obediently handed over the offensive power to David Lee.

David Lee seems to have returned to the New York era, when he was the team's top scorer!

However, when David Lee held the ball at the mid-range position, he discovered that Dirk's defense was not as loose as he thought. In fact, Nowitzki's defense is not bad, but the defensive abilities of the four people around him are too strong, which creates the illusion that "Dirk is a Mavericks defensive loophole".

David Lee made a three-threat maneuver with the ball, and then accelerated to Dirk's left hand. But this simple and rude way naturally cannot defeat Dirk.

There was no way, David Lee turned into a back-to-basket attack, using his weight advantage to sit inside.

After a foot stepped into the three-second zone, David Lee turned inside to shoot. However, Dirk's long arms disrupted David Lee's shooting rhythm. The basketball knocked to the front of the basket and bounced out. Gobert leaped high and didn't give O'Neal a chance to grab a rebound.

David Lee is now the last straw for Mark Jackson, but he seems to be at a disadvantage and fails the attack as soon as he comes up.

David Lee missed a shot here, so Yiyang won't be polite. During the breakthrough, he suddenly grabbed the basketball with one hand and sent it to the inside.

Everyone thought Yiyang was going to pass the ball to Gobert, so he hurriedly blocked it. But after the basketball was sent out, he didn't let go. Yiyang grabbed the basketball with one hand and retracted his arm, and then shot the ball directly.

This fake action made the stands exclaimed. Whether Yiyang intentionally or accidentally, the action just now resembled Michael Jordan's iconic one-handed pass to catch the ball.

Mark Jackson swallowed. The Yiyang guy is now a Michael Jordan wearing the No. 1 jersey!

Later, David Lee tried the second singles Nowitzki. The Germans are in very good form today, so they are also quite tough on the defensive end. Judging from Dirk's current performance, anyone who ridicules him as a "soft guy" is stupid. This guy is tough, tougher than everyone imagined.

David Lee made a three-step layup, intending to use his body to crush into the inside. But under Dirk's defense, David Lee felt that the soles of his feet were not stable at all, and he felt like walking on the edge of a cliff, and he might fall down at any time.

The inside player's slow three-step layup is all about calmness, but David Lee obviously didn't do it. With the center of gravity erratic, David Lee's layup just added another rebound to Gobert.

David Lee failed two consecutive offenses, which forced Mark Jackson to lower his head. The Warriors, who are eager to reproduce the "Black Eight Miracle", experienced the huge power gap between No. 1 in the West and No. 8 in the West before they even finished the first quarter!

After the game, the Mavericks played steadily all the way, and did not give the Warriors any chance to comeback. Curry went crazy throughout the game. It seems that this No. 30 has not yet adapted to Yiyang's playoff-level defense.

David Lee finally made a difference in the third quarter, even hitting four goals, and Nowitzki had no choice but to open his hands.

But this is always just a flash in the pan. As the team's number one scorer, you can't just rely on a flash in performance to lead the team.

In the fourth quarter, Klay Thompson made three consecutive three-pointers, which seemed to give the Warriors hope. But after Carlisle replaced Tony Allen again, Thompson was instantly dumb.

In this way, the game came to the end. When the red light on the backboard came on, Mark Jackson actually felt a sense of relief. 109 to 98, the Warriors did not reduce the point difference to single digits until the end.

Not long after gaining "liberation", Mark Jackson fell into a deeper despair. Because this is a series, the Warriors and Mavericks have to run into each other for several consecutive games.

The nightmare is not over, it is just beginning.

"It's over. Stephen Curry scored only 14 points and shot 37.5% from the field! That's right, 37.5%! This shooting rate is a full 10% lower than Stephen's average this season! Also defensively, Steven I have tasted the bitterness. This is the playoffs. The Warriors want to complete the black eight miracle, the first task is to get used to this defensive intensity!" Barkley looked at the statistics of this game, there may only be Yiyang in this league. Can limit Curry to this.

On the other hand, Klay Thompson's 35% shooting rate is also very unsatisfactory ~ www.novelmtl.com~ and Tony Allen is out of luck.

The poor performance of the two guards of the Warriors is the main reason why the Warriors lose. Therefore, after the game, many reporters asked Mark Jackson: "How will you deal with the Mavericks defense for the rest of the series?"

Mark Jackson blinked and looked at the camera blankly. He couldn't answer!

Nonsense, if a coach can figure out how to deal with the Mavericks defense in a few tens of seconds, then the Mavericks defense will not be so difficult.

"We have to be more patient to find space for shooting, that's it." Mark Jackson finally had to perfunctory. If he didn't say anything, the reporter would not give up.

"That is to say, you don't have a great way, right?" As everyone knows, a straight-forward Dallas local reporter directly hit the mark of Mark Jackson's embarrassment.

Mark Jackson looked at the reporter, said nothing, and fled the scene embarrassedly.

The local reporters in Dallas shook their heads, really wondering where the others came from before the game started, believing that the Warriors could create a "Black Eight Miracle."

Yiyang had 34 points, 10 assists, 5 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocked shots. Nowitzki had 26 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Iguodala had 18 points and 3 steals. Darren Collison and Nick Young on the bench also scored 10 points each. From the individual to the overall, the Mavericks are even better.

"After a big victory in the first game, do you still worry that the Mavericks will suffer the Warriors' black eight?" In the press conference after the game, the topic of reporters is always inseparable from the "black eight".

Yiyang leaned forward with no expression and moved closer to the microphone. "A miracle will only appear on the Dallas Mavericks."