After changing careers, I ruled an era in the NBA

At the American Airlines Center Arena, the enthusiasm of the fans at the scene remained undiminished. Although the team had just experienced three consecutive losses, they believed that this was only temporary.

After the team's new generation leader Su Jiuyun regains his form, the Mavericks can prepare for the playoffs again.

It can be said that the Mavericks' home games this season are basically full, and the attendance rate is one of the best teams. This is due to Su Jiuyun and others bringing a different style to the Mavericks, bringing a long-lost youth storm.

When Su Jiuyun came out to warm up, he was still the most popular player in the audience, tied with Nowitzki, and the cheers could not be faked.

Lillard looked at the cheers for Su Jiuyun and the numerous No. 14 jerseys in the stands, and he still felt a little jealous.

Although his performance this year is among the best among rookies in history and he is also the team's No. 2 scorer, in the Trail Blazers, Aldridge is the real team leader.

Although Lillard is grateful to Aldridge for taking care of him, why doesn't he want to be the team leader himself?

After Su Jiuyun shot baskets for a while, he walked carelessly to the Trail Blazers half, and then under Lillard's stunned eyes, he put his arm around his shoulders and said:

"Damian, do you want to steal my Rookie of the Year award? Hey, are you ready to get beaten up?

Tsk tsk tsk, there will definitely be a label for me in the league from now on, that is: eat, sleep, and beat Damian Lillard!

Hahaha! "

After finishing speaking, Lillard ran away without waiting for Lillard to explode. The laughter came, making Lillard, who originally wanted to catch up, give up.

Mad, I have never seen such a person, and I thought I came here to express goodwill and have a dinner together after the game.

Who would have thought that this guy would actually come over and give him a message saying that he should beat himself up while eating and sleeping.

The more Lillard thought about it, the angrier he became, but seeing that Su Jiuyun's mentality was not affected by the outside world, he knew that this game would be difficult to win.

In the home team's locker room, Carlisle was arranging the final tactics.

In this game, Carlisle decided to change the lineup. After half a season of running-in, the original starting lineup had certain problems on offense and defense.

In the past few days, he has talked to relevant players one by one, and also conducted targeted tactical drills during training.

Officially put OJ Mayo on the bench, put Carter back at the shooting guard position, and Marion returned to the small forward position.

In this case, the defensive ability of this lineup will be greatly improved.

Because Nowitzki plays the 5th position, his current movement speed is not enough to be mobilized from the outside to defend small guards.

Therefore, Su Jiuyun's unintentional words in front of Carlisle one time also woke Carlisle up.

That is to let Nowitzki squat in the paint as much as possible to protect the basket, or just defend the opponent's inside.

Although he was said to be a softie in the past, in the era when monsters were rampant in the interior, although his single defense ability was not excellent, it was still above average.

But now in the era of declining centers, his ability to protect the basket has become excellent and he can defend against big men. With his height of 2 meters and decent movement speed, he can also be very good when facing small men attacking the basket. Protect the rim.

And letting the two strikers Claude and Marion perform the task of sweeping and assisting defense is what they are good at.

Su Jiuyun and Carter have excellent defensive abilities in the back line and can tear into the opponent's back line.

Then the entire Mavericks defensive system will take shape.

On the offensive end, although there is one less reliable three-point shooter, Marion provides more functions of cutting to the basket and stable mid-range shooting ability.

Moreover, he and Crowder were asked by Carlisle to strengthen their offensive rebounding.

Although OJ Mayo preferred to start, after Nowitzki returned, he ranked third among the starting players.

His scoring average has dropped from 18.8 points per game to 15.2 points per game since Nowitzki's return.

And Carlisle promised him to let him be the offensive core of the second team, just like Crawford of the Clippers, focusing on scoring.

This is barely acceptable for OJ Mayo, who wants to play good data.

When all the TV commentators got the Mavericks' starting lineup, they were a little surprised. This starting lineup should be the oldest in the league.

35-year-old Nowitzki, 36-year-old Vince Carter, 35-year-old Marion, 22-year-old Crowder, 19-year-old Su Jiuyun, the average age is 29.4 years old.

The old one is very old, and the young one is just a first-year rookie!

When the starting players of the two teams came on the court, Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts looked at the Mavericks' starting lineup, frowned, then relaxed, and thought to himself:

"The defensive ability of this lineup has improved compared to the original. OJ Mayo cannot exploit this weakness. Let's see if Nowitzki's movement can keep up with Lillard's footsteps.

Rick, you are not the only one with a super rookie guard. Although Damian is a bit worse than Su, it is enough to deal with the 35-year-old Nowitzki. "

The entire Trail Blazers team is striving to win this game, because they have won three consecutive games in the past, with a record of 25 wins and 23 losses, ranking 9th in the Western Conference.

If they win this game, they will surpass the Rockets and become eighth in the Western Conference and enter the playoff zone.

The Mavericks have lost three games in a row, and head coach Su Jiuyun is in poor condition. He seems to have hit the rookie wall. This is a good opportunity for the Trail Blazers.

The Mavericks starting lineup: Point guard: Su Jiuyun, shooting guard: Vince Carter, small forward: Shawn Marion, power forward: Jae Crowder, center: Dirk Nowitzki.

Trail Blazers starting lineup: Point guard: Damian Lillard, shooting guard: Wesley Matthews, small forward: Nicolas Batum, power forward: LaMarcus Aldridge, center: JJ Hickson .

Lillard still remembered that Su Jiuyun teased him just now. When he was with Su Jiuyun, he took his hand away as soon as he touched it. Su Jiuyun was stunned for a moment. When he looked at Lillard, he found that this guy had left with his head held high. .

Uh......

Is this serious? How can a future All-Star feel like a child, still waiting for him here?

Su Jiuyun suddenly laughed, smiling very happily. He liked Lillard with such a stiff neck.

As the whistle sounded, the game officially began, and Aldridge grabbed the ball.

Lillard slowly controlled the ball past halftime, and Su Jiuyun had already taken a defensive posture.

"Su, it's useless. You can't stop me, because I won't fight with you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he started directly to the left. As soon as Su Jiuyun moved laterally, he saw Hickson coming up to pick and roll from the corner of his eye.

Sure enough, Su Jiuyun was blocked and he chose to bypass the cover and pursue the defense.

Lillard, who used the cover to get rid of Su Jiuyun, thought Nowitzki changed defense, but his eyes were empty and Nowitzki didn't follow him at all.

Good opportunity, he was about to pull up and shoot, making the Mavericks pay the price for not guarding him.

Just when he wanted to take action, he saw Marion coming to help defend, and he quickly changed his technical moves to protect the ball.

But at this time, Su Jiuyun had already chased him and stood in front of him again, while Marion stepped back again.

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