Basketball: Man in 08, three months left before the Olympics

As the saying goes, “those who make big things are not small”.

Cuban is a capable man, otherwise he would not have been in the position of Mavericks owner.

And he is still a ruthless person, otherwise his industry would not be involved in various fields.

On the surface, he is a crazy owner who loves basketball, but in fact, he can still do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

This is the benchmark for successful businessmen, no exceptions.

For example, for the matter of poaching Dayao from the rocket team, Cuban can be described as painstaking.

He began plotting this in secret more than a month ago, hiring a large and professional public relations team to use fishing boats to create mutual suspicion between Team Rocket and Dayao.

“Dayao’s injury is likely to cause his dominance to decline.”

“The Rockets are very likely to trade Dayao for reliable chips to help Maddie hit the championship”

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Recently, articles with such titles have frequently appeared in major sports sectors in the United States.

It created the impression that the Rockets wanted to trade Dayao, and Dayao had no intention of staying with the Rockets.

Of course, if you simply use fishing boats, then of course it is impossible to break through the enemy’s interior with such a small trick.

The Rockets are also a big team, and they can also spend money on PR to calm the negative effects of fishing vessels.

However, Cuban is stronger than other players’ bosses.

Other team owners buy NBA teams just as an investment, buy them, leave them to a professional team, and leave them alone.

Cuban is different, because of his love of basketball, he is involved in almost every part of the team.

Therefore, in this link, the sophisticated Cuban found a key “internal application”.

Darrell Mo Yutian

Mo Yutian, who is the deputy of Dawson, the general manager of the Rockets, is an ambitious guy.

A graduate of Massachusetts, he is a professional digital analyst, but his thirst for power has always been his pursuit.

However, although he did not work for the rocket team, Mo Tianyu has not supported the rocket team’s decision to vigorously develop the dragon country market.

Mo Tianyu believes that the Rockets should be committed to building a team that has always been pure local culture, only in this way can the Rockets return to the peak of the 94 and 95 seasons.

However, of course, the high-level will not listen to his “crooked reasoning”, and they have already tasted the sweetness of opening the Dragon Kingdom market.

How can you give up so easily?

In this way, Mo Tianyu could not complete his “ambition” in the rocket team, and recently had the idea of jumping ship.

Cuban and his secret team decisively grasped this and began to contact Mo Tianyu privately.

Very direct quid pro quo.

Mo Tianyu helps the secret team to provoke the relationship between Rocket and Dayao, causing differences between the two, and letting Rocket Team trade Dayao’s mind.

In return, the secret team will help Mo Tianyu sit in the position of general manager of the rocket.

In addition, Kuban also promised that if Mo Tianyu could do this well, there would be additional rewards.

The tempting conditions in front of him, Mo Tianyu obviously could not refuse.

Soon, he became the “insider” of the Mavericks.

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“I told you that Dayao’s injury risk is already very large, if we don’t trade him now, his injury outbreak next year will have no trade value at all, we can’t exchange anything, we can’t exchange anything!”

“The facts have also proved that with Dayao as the cornerstone of the team, it is impossible to win the championship, whether it is Francis or McGrady, it is impossible to win the championship, this is determined by the characteristics of the players, they are those Dragon Country players, there is no fighting spirit, we need players like Kobe and Wade!”

“We need a local basketball culture, which will make our market work to the maximum, we are a port city and we deserve more fans!”

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At the high-level meeting of the rocket team, Mo Tianyu spoke generously, and his every sentence was extremely infectious, which was both an expression of his heart and a copy that the mysterious team perfected with him.

Soon, someone in the management of the rocket team began to waver, and they began to support Mo Tianyu’s idea, although not the overwhelming majority, but the signs had already begun.

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Off the court, the Mavericks are also actively building momentum.

“Dampier, the second center in the West, played a career masterpiece, and he may grow into the league’s No. 1 center?”

“Continuous double 20+ performance, Dampier turned into an inside beast!”

“Josh Howard is back in shape, he’s going back to All-Star season!”

“The Mavericks are awake, and the new Super Cowboys are going to rule the league again?”

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What can be seen is that the media’s reports on Mavericks in the past few days are no longer monotonous and crazy blowing Pei Yun.

Dampier and Josh Howard became their main objects of praise.

This was of course thanks to the fact that Cuban threw money at the PR team.

With the data and publicity, soon the attention of these two players in the market gradually increased.

It was in such an environment that the long-awaited “Dragon Country Derby” and “Red and Blue War” of Dragon Country fans began.

Heading into late November, the weather starts to get colder, but in Houston, a port city on the Gulf of Mexico, the skies are clear and warm.

Many upper-class people choose to come here for vacation, and in the evening, they may choose to watch a tense NBA game.

In the eyes of Texas locals, this is also a Texas derby.

As we all know, in the NBA, since the new century, the Texas top three Spurs, Mavericks and Rockets have been the traditional powerhouses of the West, which they are very proud of.

The three teams are also defined by each other as “brother teams”.

So even after so many years of “bull and horse war”, or the Mavericks of the Rockets’ nemesis, there has never been hatred between these three teams.

Today’s Maverick visits the Toyota Center, the distinction between host and guest, to less serious.

In the stands of the Rockets’ home stadium, you can also see wearing Blue Mavericks No. 7 and No. 41-style fan suits, and even if the fans of the two teams are mixed together, there will be no quarrels.

In the warm-up session before the game, the players from both sides greeted each other warmly on the court.

Nowitzki, Terry, Kidd and the core players of the Rockets are old rivals.

And Pei Yun, UAE Lian and Dayao are teammates of the Dragon Kingdom national team, and the three of them even played a triangle attack in the Olympic Games and sank the Galaxy battleship Dream Eight team.

The Rockets have returned from injury this season, Maddie’s recovery is also very gratifying, and with the help of Scola, Battier, Alstom and other powerful role players, their team is also full of hope.

It’s just that some recent rumors have made the team look a little turbulent.

“Brother Yao, is it true, the media said that Team Rocket wants to trade you?” The simple Arab League communicated with Dayao with some concern before the game.

“There is nothing to do, the media has nothing to find a topic to get eyeballs, and the Rockets will not let me go.” Dayao explained, and at the same time there was some melancholy in his eyes.

This is, Pei Yun knows it, and he is also very aware of those undercurrents.

But he didn’t say that this guy of the Arab League, in case he couldn’t hide it, it would be difficult to expose it.

Cuban told Pei Yun the detailed plan, not to respect the core of the team, but in this plan, Pei Yun also played an extremely important role.

His task is to “feed” Dampier in today’s game.

No matter how you look at it, it is like helping “outsiders” pit their own compatriots.

But in fact, the root of this plan is to release the Rockets and successfully trade Dayao to the Mavericks.

Of course, this is also Pei Yun’s will, so he is happy to complete this task.

Of course, Cuban also told him that if he did this, it might or might not happen.

In short, it is still the saying: do everything to your fate.

Cheering on from the fans, the game began.

Rockets roster: Alstom, Maddie, Battier, Scola, Dayao

Mavericks lineup: Pei Yun, Terry, Howard, Nowitzki, Dampier

Recently, because the Mavericks needed Howard and Dampier to play numbers and value, Coach Carlisle put UAE United on the bench.

It seems that the three-person match that Dragon Country fans are expecting will not happen at the beginning.

Both sides jump in the middle circle.

Dayao got the first wave of offensive rights for the Rockets.

In this first round, it seems that the “first center in the West” won the “second center in the west”.

This can’t be done, who makes Dayao so much taller than Dampier.

The rockets attacked, and the street ball king Alstom was a dazzling dribbling according to Pei Yun.

This kind of dribbling seemed very ornamental, and the Rockets fans applauded at the scene.

But for Pei Yun, it was completely useless and superfluous, and he stood in front of Alstom, not moving.

Faced with Pei Yun’s height and defensive area, after Alston lucky, he still picked up the ball and handed it to Maddie, who came out of his pocket, and let Maddie handle it.

Maddie singles Josh Howard.

Last year, or maybe two years ago, this set of matchups was very good-looking.

Josh Howard is also an All-Star flank level, and the Mavericks play the Rockets, and the two can often get on top.

You burst me, I burst you, you defended it, I defended it.

This happens all the time.

It is no exaggeration to say that peak Josh Howard may not be as good as Maddie in offensive attainment, but in terms of comprehensive strength, it will definitely not be much worse.

But now it’s different, and this year’s Josh Howard has slipped a bit harder.

Maddie took the ball, a three-threat feint and a straight jump shot from the three-point line.

Rise!

Hit!

0:3

Maddie’s dry jumper is very floating, but his shooting trajectory is somewhat flat and the parabola is not high.

This also makes it difficult for his goals to appear hollow balls like nets, but will hit the neck of the basket.

Such a dull goal sound, although not as pleasant as the sound of brushing the net, gives people another solid audio-visual.

Rockets fans are used to enjoying the sound of goals.

The Mavericks attacked, today’s Pei Yun played slowly, he was not like before, he first used to use the block outside the three-point line to try the feeling.

If you feel good, throw a few crazy, feel bad, and then find a way to drive your teammates.

Today, as soon as it came up, the Mavericks opened the formation and asked Dampier to block Pei Yun from outside the three-point line.

In the past, most of this cooperation was done by Novitsky and Pei Yun.

Nowitzki can shoot suddenly, and after blocking, he can either go down or pull outside the three-point line to prepare for a catch-and-shoot.

Its blocking threat is naturally not comparable to Dampier.

But today’s Mavericks’ tactical thinking is so persistent.

Dampier blocks and hangs Alstom, Dayao will not be completely pressed out.

Of course, Pei Yun will not shoot the three-point shot directly, he needs to break through in depth, and when Dayao is in either defense or retreat, he will accurately pass the ball to the lower Shun Dampier.

The latter scores directly after receiving the cake.

2:3

This is the NBA’s most commonly used two-man block-and-break tactic and applies to any era.

It’s simple and efficient, but it doesn’t work every time.

For example, Dayao does not defend Pei Yun at all but goes to find Dampier, then Pei Yun must shoot from medium and long distance.

And if the two resolutely wrapped Pei Yun after blocking, it would also be necessary for Pei Yun to be able to quickly pass the ball into the air.

All in all, it has to do with the defensive strategy choices of the defenders.

This season, the Rockets have changed their head coach, no longer Van Gundy, who advocated defense before.

New coach Adelman is better at high-speed offense, so he brought in point guards like Alstom and a more mobile No. 4 like Scola.

On this basis, with Yao Mai as the core of the team, a new rocket team will be created.

In the playoffs last season, Dayao was absent due to injury, and the Rockets unfortunately lost to archrival Jazz, and this season, Adelman intends to make a comeback!

However, the Rockets probably don’t think about it, thinking that this is just an ordinary regular season game.

In fact, on the calf’s side, a big hole has been buried for them.

They were not alerted in the slightest.

And behind them, there is already an undercurrent.

What the rocket team will not know is that the reason why all this is hidden so well depends on Mo Yutian, the internal “enemy” of his own internal “enemy”.

At this time, Mo Yutian was following General Manager Dawson to watch the game in the high-rise box.

Dawson has recently been shaken by the elite fat man who graduated from the world’s top universities.

Watching Dampier on the court constantly scoring on the inside of the Rockets, Dawson actually asked: “Darrell, you said why did Eric Dampier suddenly break out and play so well?” ”

For Dawson to ask this question, Mo Yutian laughed and scolded in his heart: “Stupid, a general manager of your level should have given way to me a long time ago.” ”

But on the surface, Mo Yutian still returned very respectfully: “Mr. Dawson, in fact, Dampier has always had such ability, his ‘second center in the West’ is not ignorant boasting, in the past, his data was sluggish with the Mavericks, because that system was not suitable for him, if you play around him, he is what you see today.” ”

Dawson looked at Pei Yun and Dampier’s blocking, and suddenly began to imagine what it would be like for Maddie and Dampier to block and dismantle.