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

Carlisle wasn’t anxious, he tried to keep himself as calm as he could.

However, no matter how calm he was, he could not think of a way to solve the situation.

At the crucial moment, the assistant told him that Mark Cuban told him to hold on to the first half no matter what, and not let the score gap be too large.

After getting the “order”, Carlisle was no longer confused, he only thought for a while, and immediately adjusted the lineup.

Switch back to the main players and tell them: “Play normally, leave the rest alone!” ”

At the end of the first half, the Mavericks trailed by 16 points at 39:55.

The score was not pulled to 20 points, but, for this, the Mavericks paid a lot of money.

Dayao, UAE and Pei Yun all received 4 fouls, and Novitsky 3.

The cumulative number of fouls in the team was quite high, and on several occasions, Novitsky, who has always had a good temper, almost got on the referee.

Fortunately, Pei Yun and others pulled him and were not sent off for eating too many technical fouls.

At halftime, the Mavericks players returned to the locker room with frustration.

……

In the NBA, a game is usually staffed by a referee team of three referees, who also have a dedicated lounge for adjustments and discussions at halftime.

NBA commissioner David Stern’s visit surprised today’s refereeing team.

Generally speaking, except for the award of MVP, FMVP or championships, NBA executives will be on the court, and they will not come to the game for the rest of the game.

David Stern didn’t talk nonsense, he directly warned the three referees that if they continued to blow the game in a “favoritistic” way, it would not be just that the league would deal with it.

David Stern will prosecute them on behalf of the NBA league, and they will be charged with multiple crimes.

Soon, the frightened referee team confessed that Adam Xiaohua coerced them to do so.

They began to beg for mercy.

Stern immediately regained his kind smile and said: “You can blow normally in the second half, I will not pursue you.” ”

The referee team nodded repeatedly.

After this was settled, Stern went to the top box again and told Cuban: “Okay, this game will be fair again, my business is done, I will leave first.” ”

At the same time that Cuban sent Stern away, he immediately sent someone to inform Carlisle of the good news.

When he got the news, Carlisle was very excited.

“Listen, lads, rest assured in the second half, we have to show our strength, victory is not far away!”

……

At the start of the second half, things really improved.

The referees are no longer harsh on the Mavericks, they treat them equally and blow penalties according to standard rules.

Without restraints, Pei Yun is like a fish in water, leading the Mavericks to chase points strongly!

……

Kobe Bryant didn’t like what happened in the first half of the G4 and G5.

He can clearly sense the referee’s tilt towards their penalty scale.

He is one of the best players in the NBA today, and he is talented, but he is also hardworking.

Kobe feels that it is every sweat he sheds to defeat his opponent, not the tilt of the penalty scale.

He is unruly, but not blindly confident.

He’s never afraid, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t appreciate good players.

As early as the Dragon City Olympics, Kobe admired Pei Yun very much.

Since Dayao joined the Mavericks, Kobe also understood that the Lakers’ configuration is worse than the Mavericks, so when G1 won the Mavericks by strength, Kobe was very happy.

But by G4, when the referees started to favor them, everything went awry.

He began to think about some problems on the field, but he lost the fighting spirit of those crucial moments.

After the G4 game, Kobe Bryant once secretly found Jenny Bass, and he said unceremoniously: “You don’t need to use those crooked ways, I can handle the game, and you have affected my performance by doing this!” ”

Bryant told the truth, in the final quarter of G4, when he witnessed the frequent injustices suffered by the Mavericks players, he began to think of himself in those years.

Once upon a time, when he entered the alliance and first appeared, he also encountered some targets like Pei Yun.

Among them, what impressed him the most was the referee’s targeting.

Empathetically, Kobe Bryant couldn’t raise the will to fight.

Although Jenny Buss said at the time: “We are not looking for any crooked ways, the situation on the field may be the need of the league top, you know, every time they play, they earn more.” ”

Bryant almost believed it.

It wasn’t until today’s game started that he understood that things were far from that simple.

But in the second half, things got better again.

Pei Yun led the Mavericks to play a wave of attacks.

Kobe Bryant suddenly came to passion and began to lead the team to fight back!

……

Jenny Bass, who was sitting firmly on the sidelines, was a little unhappy, and the sudden change in the situation made her feel that the game was unstable again.

She pretended to leave and went to the garage to call Xiao Hua, who was far away in Los Angeles, and asked him what was going on.

However, when the call is dialed, it prompts a busy line.

At this time, Xiao Hua was arguing with Stern on the phone.

“Adam, how many times have I told you, don’t manipulate the game, don’t manipulate the game, there is no impermeable wall in the world!”

“I know what you mean, David, but we’re a business league, and we have an obligation to make the league more profitable, and every extra playoff game we play, our gains are very substantial.”

“Adam, you are a wizard, this is undeniable, but sometimes your thinking is too extreme, well, you can increase the length of some games appropriately, but these must be within reasonable categories, such as today’s practice, what a system!” On the phone, Stern’s tone was a little heavy.

“President, big things are not informal, our league belongs to the mainland, we don’t need to make a non-American star popular, we have our own superstars, Kobe, James, Auden, Durant…”

“Adam, you can’t just look at the moment, our alliance faces many challenging opponents, and we must go to the world to continue the life of this alliance.”

“No, no, David, I think you think too much, our league is thriving, we are one of the most profitable leagues in the world, what we have to do now is to maintain the local market, not let those outsiders become the face of the league, so that we will lose a lot of local fans…”

“…… Adam, I now order you, in my capacity as president, to return to the New York headquarters for a meeting immediately, we have important things to decide! ”