The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

Chapter 340 These Newcomers Are All Monsters
After the first half of the game, Anthony scored 31 points lightly, and then he didn't want to appear on the court.

He is also afraid that the shot will be too hard, and the Knicks fans will not buy it.

After all, I still have to return to the Knicks.

If there is unlimited fire tonight, with the Mavericks' lineup configuration, as long as Anthony's hand feeling is not too bad, scoring [-] points is not a problem at all.

But if so many points are scored, Knicks fans will have something to say.

You Anthony has only played [-] games once in your entire career.

After playing for the Knicks for four years, he only scored 62 points in one game, but now the Mavericks scored 60+ in the first game. What do you mean by Anthony?
Anthony gives the impression that he has super scoring ability, and he also gives people the impression of playing selfishly.

But this impression of playing selfishly is actually a misunderstanding.

Anthony has not had that kind of crazy overshooting game throughout his career. He is a bit like Nowitzki. He usually doesn't take too many shots in each game, but he doesn't take too few shots either.

After halftime, the game has already entered garbage time.

They had already led by 36 points in the first quarter. After the second quarter, the point difference came directly to 52 points.

This is still the second quarter of the game, and Carlisle has reduced the playing time of the main lineup as much as possible.

If it is still the full main lineup, the difference between the two sides may have reached a terrifying point now.

This is the gap between the top giants and the super belly of the Knicks.

The current Mavericks can no longer be described as a top giant. They have a powerful combat power that surpasses any team in history.

Even compared to the previous Pistons, which had won all seasons, Li Xun felt that the Mavericks might be stronger.

In the second half of the game, the team's main players simply didn't play much.

All are played by rookies, and these rookies in the Mavericks also cherish this hard-won opportunity.

They all played very hard.

But the best performer is Antetokounmpo.

After a year of polishing in Kidd's hands, Antetokounmpo is now quite capable.

At least in Li Xun's view, if Antetokounmpo plays the third position now, his combat power will not be worse than that of Jiba last season.

Antetokounmpo played three and 10 minutes tonight and scored 24 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists.

Anthony looked amazed, he found that the Mavericks and the newcomers seemed to be not simple.

He is now a veteran who has played in the league for more than ten years and has seen countless rookies.

Of course he has seen rookies who are stronger than the Mavs.

But every rookie of the Mavericks is very strong, which makes him very difficult to understand.

Can Li Xun's luck really be this good?Every newcomer selected is a malleable talent?
Nukic played 22 minutes tonight, and his performance was quite outstanding, scoring 17 points and 9 rebounds.

If this is converted into 36 minutes, it is a 25+15 data, which is too scary.

Now Anthony is more pleasing to the eye the more he looks at Nukic, he just feels as if he has found the son of destiny.

He firmly believes that if he can take Nukic away when he leaves the Mavericks, the Knicks will definitely rise next season.

The Eastern Conference is currently weak, and Anthony even feels that the Knicks have a chance to reach the Finals next season.

The only headache is that the Knicks have to find another first-class star, and it must be a free agent, which is more difficult.

Early the next morning, the match made headlines.

The combat power shown by the Mavericks is really frightening. Now everyone is wondering whether there is any team in this league that can stop the Mavericks.

The Warriors are seen as the only team with any hope of competing against the Mavericks.

However, judging from the performance of the Mavericks last night, it is estimated that the Warriors will find it difficult to resist the Mavericks' offensive.

After playing the Knicks, the Mavericks continued their road trip.

Every year when the game starts, Li Xun usually has to start an away trip first. There is no way, who makes their Dallas ball market not as big as New York or Los Angeles.

The second game was against the Indiana Pacers.

Last season, the Pacers were No. [-] in the Eastern Conference. Although they failed to enter the Finals, they must be considered one of the Eastern Conference powerhouses.

But this season, with Pickle's serious injury and reimbursement, the Pacers' combat power has declined quite sharply.

Li Xun remembers that the Pacers didn't even make the playoffs this season.

This is the value of a top star to the team. With him, the team can achieve the No. [-] record in the Eastern Conference. Without him, the team can't even make it to the playoffs.

This is also the reason why top stars can get the maximum salary.

Of course, not every top-paid player has this kind of influence.

Maybe the team has the same record without him, or even better without him.

"How's Paul doing?"

Before the start of the game, Li Xun approached George Hill and asked about the current situation of Pickled Pepper.

Hill and Li Xun are rookies in the same class. The two have chatted every time they play games over the years, and they can be regarded as friends.

Hill sighed, "It may be difficult to play this season, and I can only hope to play next season."

Li Xun also sighed, pickled peppers are indeed unlucky enough, to be seriously injured in the training match.

The Pacers management is estimated to be scared to death now.

Because of Pickle's injury, the possibility of being crippled is very high. Even if he comes back, there is a high probability that he will not be able to recover to his previous level.

And this offseason, before Pickle was injured, the Pacers just signed a maximum salary contract with Pickle.

If pickled peppers are completely abolished, the Pacers really have no place to cry.

Although there is insurance to compensate part of the compensation, this maximum salary actually occupies the salary space.

Without salary space, the Pacers have no way to sign up, and they will remain an underdog for at least four years.

Some teams are quiet weak chickens, but it doesn’t matter, because there are no other basketball teams in their home cities, and fans can only watch their games if they want to enter the stadium.

The Pacers are different. Indiana is considered one of the states with the best basketball atmosphere in the United States, and there are so many teams in the state.

There are several top NCAA teams. Once the Pacers become weak, fans who want to watch will definitely go to NCAA games.

The key is that the problem facing the Pacers now is not just the reimbursement of pickled peppers.

David West is getting older, and his combat power has shown a geometric decline year by year.

Center Gao Yuanyuan is not sure if his mind is flooded, and he is playing more and more absent-minded on the field.

After Li Xun chatted with Hill for a while, the game officially started.

No one was unexpectedly upset, and the Mavericks beat the Pacers from the beginning.

Hill is currently the main offensive point of the Pacers, but he was strangled by Clay's defense and couldn't attack at all.

I can't even attack the main attack point, and I certainly can't count on the old West or Gao Yuanyuan who is under the basket.

It was halftime again, and the game entered garbage time.

Carlisle wanted to cry but had no tears, what the hell is this?
Like other team coaches, I have to worry about how to line up.

It's just that other coaches worry about how to line up to win the game, while their own worries about how to win less.

"It's really distressing."

"It's too tortured to be a coach like this."

"You can't play lightly. Every time at halftime, I have to worry about how to make substitutions."

During the intermission, Carlisle said helplessly to the generals.

The generals also shrugged helplessly, what can they do, the opponent is really too weak.

In the second half, the Mavericks put on a pure substitute lineup.

Rookie Joe Harris was replaced.

Li Xun sat on the sidelines and chatted with Anthony, but it turned out that the two were separated for less than 2 minutes.

Harris on the field directly hit four consecutive three-pointers, which almost didn't kill Carlisle.

Li Xun and Anthony are the top stars in their playing years, but how can a new melon egg with no hair grow so cruel?
In less than 2 minutes, there was a three-pointer, four for four?

The Pacers fans at the scene were also speechless. They knew that the Pacers must not be the opponent of the Mavericks, after all, there is one less big master.

But now what they are thinking in their hearts is, even if Pickled Pepper is not injured, will this Pacers be the opponent of the Mavericks?
It seems that it is impossible to be an opponent, and it will not be any better than it is now.

Li Xun was in charge of strangling pickled peppers. Isn't the situation the same as now?
When everyone was speechless, Harris on the court made a shot, so he kept asking his teammates for the ball.

If it is left on another team, the ball holder may directly ignore Harris' request for the ball.

But in the Mavericks team, this kind of situation cannot happen. Li Xun has warned the rookies more than once that when someone with a hot touch asks for the ball, he must give it.

Of course, if you feel good enough, you can also take the initiative to ask for the ball.

How dare the rookies disobey Li Xun's words.

In the following time, Harris shot three-pointers one after another. Li Xun and Clay looked at each other in dismay, seeing the shooting percentage of the three-pointers. This guy's three-pointers are a bit too good to be true, right?
The reason why Li Xun chose Harris was precisely because he knew that Harris's three-pointers were good, but he didn't expect it to be this good.

After all, is the man who can beat Curry in the three-point contest.

In half a quarter, Harris has taken 9 three-pointers and scored 7 of them!
If he is allowed to continue shooting like this, he may not only break the record for three-pointers made in a single quarter, but may be able to break the record for three-pointers made in a single quarter.

Anthony was even more frightened by Huarong's face. What kind of monsters are the newcomers like Mavericks.

In the half quarter, he made 9 three-pointers frantically, and then scored 7 of them.

Not to mention the sky-defying shooting percentage, just 9 three-pointers in half a quarter, which is abnormal enough.

Anthony has never seen such a daring player in more than ten years.

For a moment, Anthony couldn't help but look at Li Xun. Perhaps only in Li Xun's team could such a fearless rookie appear.

The Pacers have already begun to guard Harris strictly.

They were single defense before, but now they simply start double-teaming.

Harris' firepower was immediately limited.

After all, he is not Curry. Although his shooting speed is fast enough compared to ordinary players, he is still not as fast as Curry.

In addition, his athletic ability is not as good as Curry.

However, Li Xun himself didn't plan to let him start, but only planned to let him act as a point-grabber on the team's bench.

From this point of view, Harris is too competent to be the point grabber.

When the referee announced the end of the game, Harris played for 22 minutes, scored a total of 11 three-pointers, and scored 33 points.

That's right, all three-pointers were scored, not a single two-pointer or free throw.

Harris' performance has doubled the pressure on many rookies in the team.

Originally, players like LaVine didn't think much of Harris. After all, this is a white shooting guard, which is really nothing special.

With no breakthrough ability and poor defense, LaVine and others couldn't even figure out why Li Xun chose him.

Now they understand that this guy's three-pointer is indeed something.

The Mavericks played a random second-round pick tonight, and they played an explosive performance tonight, which raised the Mavericks' reputation to a higher position.

There is absolutely no team in the entire league that dares to compare itself with the Mavericks.

After the game, Li Xun was in the locker room preparing to return to the hotel, but was stopped by the Pacers staff.

Said that Pacers president Larry Bird wanted to chat with Li Xun.

If it were someone else, Li Xun probably wouldn't be that interested, so you just chat?

But Bird is different after all, and the face of this super celebrity still has to be given.

Under the leadership of the staff, Li Xun came to an office at the Pacers' home court.

Walking into the office, Bird was the only one in it.

"Lee, sit down."

"I didn't even hold out hope that you'd come over and have a chat with me."

It can be seen that Byrd is very haggard now, and the matter of pickling peppers really put him under a lot of pressure.

As the team president, he was the one who gave Pickle the contract.

Now that something like this happened to Pickled Pepper, if it was really abolished, he, the president, would also bear the blame.

"Larry, are you still worried about Paul?"

"Actually, it's not necessary. I believe he will be able to come back in perfect condition next season."

Li Xun said.

Bird smiled and waved his hands, "You don't need to comfort me, such a serious injury, how could it be possible in one season."

"Now this alliance belongs to your era."

"This is also the second era in NBA history dedicated to one player."

"The last time was the Jordan era."

"But I think you are stronger than Jordan, and you will definitely achieve higher achievements than Jordan in the future."

Bird was full of praise for Li Xun.

Many NBA stars are always remembering the era they lived in, thinking that their era is much better than the later era.

Or a certain player couldn't play at all in their era.

Bird is not such a celebrity. He admits that basketball has been developing, and he believes that NBA players are getting better and better.

"Larry, you don't just want to compliment me, do you?"

"Let me guess, you want to trade with Mavericks?"

Li Xun asked with a smile.

This is completely obvious. Now that the Pacers are in a bad situation, Bird must have thought of trading after seeing so many talented newcomers in the Mavericks.

(End of this chapter)