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"Ox and horse battle" has always been a unique landscape in the NBA.Compared with the long history of the "Yellow-Green War", the "Ox-Horse War" makes fans feel more cordial, because it happened in the past 10 years.

The last time the two teams met in the playoffs was last season.In the first round of the playoffs, the two teams met. In the end, the Mavericks "gentlemanly swept" their opponents with a total score of 4:1 and advanced to the second round.

The two teams met again this season. From the outside world, there are still more optimistic about the Mavericks.After all, their regular season record is better, and the team does not have any major injuries. Silver Horn and Kidd are both healthy and in very good condition.

This is the first time in Shou Ye's career that he has played in the playoffs. From the perspective of making it to the playoffs in his rookie season, he is very lucky.But in relation to his current status, it is very difficult for him to gain any substantive game experience in this kind of playoff journey.Just watching the game closer than other spectators does not help his ability much.

In Shou Ye's rookie season, he played a total of 10 games, and all of them came off the bench.In 12.6 minutes of playing time per game, he averaged 6.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 0.4 steals, 0.6 blocks, 0.7 turnovers and 3.8 fouls, shooting 50.8% from the field and 3-pointers. 35.6 percent and 80.5 percent from the free throw line.

From the perspective of performance alone, Shou Ye's rookie season is very good.He's put up great numbers in limited playing time, and he's had a good win-loss performance on the floor as well.His shortcomings are also obvious, that is, his running and jumping ability is poor, he is not tall enough to play a center, and he is relatively slow to play a power forward.Compared with those tool guys who defend the inside, they can hold the ball inside and outside, and can also control the ball. The defense is too easy to foul, and the performance of protecting the frame and switching defense is poor.

If measured by the standard of a rookie with a total of 54 picks in the second round, Shou Ye's performance exceeded expectations.His statistics seem average, but you must know that he averaged only 12.6 minutes of playing time per game. His possession of the ball is pitiful, and his tasks on the court are mainly to do dirty work.Even in this case, he still contributed a lot of highlight moments, which is really not easy.

Before the start of the playoffs, Shou Ye redeemed his points, and he raised both speed and agility to 50.Although he is still a bit slow compared to other insiders, he is really much more flexible than he was at the beginning of the season.

Since he didn't play much in the regular season after the All-Star Game, his accumulation of points has also slowed down.Relying on the points accumulated in training alone is no match for directly playing high-level competitions.

The first playoff match between the Mavericks and the Spurs will take place on the evening of April 4 at the Mavericks' home stadium, the American Airlines Center.The Mavericks are currently getting good news that their main center Dampier has returned to health and can play in the first game of the playoffs.

This is good news for the Mavericks. You must know that the Spurs' advantage is the inside (Duncan).With Dampier and Haywood two defensive centers, Carlisle can not worry too much about manpower inside.

On the 18th, the Mavericks had the last training before the first game of the playoffs. After the training, they returned to the dormitory. Beaubois asked Shou Ye: "Tom, the playoffs are really coming!"

After putting away the sneakers, Shou Ye replied, "Yes, but are you nervous?"

Beaubois nodded: "I'm a bit, to be honest, I've played professional leagues in Europe, but it's my first playoff game in the NBA. I'm worried that if we lose, we will be 'black seven'!"

"Hei Qi is possible." Shou Ye murmured.He remembered that the final result of this round of the series in his previous life was the Spurs black seven, so if there is no butterfly effect, then this result seems difficult to change.But if there is a butterfly effect, the biggest variable is that he survives someone, but the problem is that it is almost impossible for him to enter the rotation of the Mavericks...

What Shou Ye said did not seem to be a joke, which made Beaubois a little curious. He asked: "Tom, do you think it is very likely that we will be blacked out? Our record in the regular season is much better than them!"

Of course, Shou Ye can't say that he is from 2021, he came from time travel, and knows what will happen in the future, but he has to make up a reason, otherwise this bastard roommate will definitely not believe it.

"The playoffs and the regular season are completely different games. In the regular season, coach Gregg Popovich is reducing the burden on GDP. You can see that GDP will take a break every now and then. The average playing time per game is short, and the record will definitely have an impact. The playoffs Our advantage over them in the game is only one more home court, everything else is the same."

What Shou Ye said about Bubois made sense.The Spurs do often take turns during the regular season. Sometimes it is obvious that Duncan and the others are healthy, but Popovich will still let them rest for the second back-to-back game for various reasons.On the other hand, the Mavericks even rotated 2 players in the late regular season. Carlisle took the regular season results too seriously in order to kill the main players.

On April 4, the first round of the playoffs, the Mavericks played against the Spurs at home.

In this game, the Mavericks still used an 8-man rotation.As Dampier back, so Haywood went to the bench.As a result, the original backup center Najera fell out of the rotation.

Shou Ye and Beau Bois naturally did not have the chance to enter the rotation, they watched the entire game on the bench.

The result of the game was the same as Shou Ye's previous life. The Mavericks narrowly beat their opponent at home and won the first game.

But the Mavericks did not make this victory a good starting point for the series. From the second game, GDP began to show its strength, and the Spurs strongly equalized the big score.

G3 and G4 of the series were the stage for the Spurs to show their defense. The Mavericks could not even score more than 90 points in the two games...

The Spurs won 3 games in a row, rewriting the total score of the series to 3:1.

Although the Mavericks returned to the home court and won a game, the general trend was over. In the end, they lost to their opponents in the away game in G6, and were defeated by their opponents with a big score of 4:2, completing the black seven!
In these 6 games, Shou Ye didn't play for even a second. His roommate Beau Bois played once in the fifth game of the series, which was basically a soy sauce.

After the end of G6, Boubois looked at Shou Ye with admiration and called him a "prophet".

Shou Ye also smiled wryly, he just traveled through time and knew the result.The butterfly effect didn't happen, the ending didn't change, I was a member of the Mavericks after all, and I had nothing to be proud of being black seven.

In this way, the Mavericks, No. 2 in the West, stopped in the first round.And Shou Ye's rookie season is really over.

Shou Ye's season is over, but it doesn't mean that the entire NBA season is over. The advanced teams will still play in the second round of the playoffs, and then the division finals and finals.