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The news that the Mavericks defeated the Thunder by a very large advantage made the fans in Dallas very happy. But more people are silent in the haze.

"Nowitzki will confirm that he will not play against the Raptors, and the time for his comeback is undecided."

"Dirk suffered from injuries, and the Mavericks encountered the biggest crisis of the season."

"The time for Dirk's return from injury is undecided, and the MRI results will be announced tomorrow afternoon."

With Nowitzki injured, the news of the Mavericks winning can only be placed in a small corner of the front page. Compared with a regular season victory, the health of the Germans seems to affect people's hearts more.

After all, everyone knows how much a player's injury affects the team. Looking at the Trail Blazers, injuries almost sent the Rose Division back to the rebuilding stage. If it weren't for Aldridge's sudden rise, the Blazers might be rotten in the lottery zone by now. Look at the Houston Rockets, the injuries of Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming have made Houston no longer have a place in the West.

Everyone has a fear of injuries, even the greatest players may be destroyed by injuries. And this year, the Dallasites, who have finally seen the hope of winning the championship, naturally don't want all this to be ruined by Dirk's injury.

But for Carlisle, the team's problem is not just Dirk's injury. With the deepening of the game, various problems came one after another.

Due to back-to-back battles, the Mavericks returned to Dallas in the early morning of the second day after defeating the Thunder. They would start training at noon and then start the game at night.

Even professional athletes may not be able to bear this kind of high-intensity sports life. So, the bad news happened again on the training ground at noon.

During a tactical drill, the exhausted Puerto Rico defender Jose Barea accidentally sprained his waist. After the team doctor checked, it was also confirmed that a new name had to be added to the Mavericks' injured list.

Although after Yiyang joined the team, Barea played less and less playing time. He has changed from a starter at the beginning of the season to a backup guard after Terry and Yiyang. But with Dirk injured, Carlisle needs every player at his disposal. Barea's absence undoubtedly gave the Mavericks a blow.

In the middle of the regular season, all kinds of things can happen. Some teams may experience season headed star reimbursement, while more are like the Mavericks, unable to assemble a complete lineup.

Nowitzki's side has yet to produce results, and here Carlisle lost another general.

And the NBA game will not stop just because your team has an injury. No matter how well prepared the Mavericks are, the fact is that night's game is getting closer and closer to them.

Thinking of these troubles gave Carlisle a headache. Reality is not a game after all, and some things can be ignored. In the game, if a player is injured, he can reload the file and keep the team healthy throughout the season. But here, he doesn't have the ability to reverse reality. All the Mavericks can do is to bite the bullet and continue.

Looking at Carlisle's mental state, Kidd was a little worried for his coach. This tall guy's face was a little pale, and there were substitutes for the players, but the coach had to persist for a whole season.

In the middle of all this mess, the Mavericks' back-to-back games against the Toronto Raptors still came.

The Raptors have only won ten games so far this season. This number is less than half of the Mavericks. It can be said that the Raptors under reconstruction are definitely an out-and-out weak team.

Then today, the Raptors, who have experienced a three-game losing streak, very much hope to take away the victory over the Mavericks with an uneven lineup. The exhausted Mavericks did not have such a high fighting spirit.

After the game started, an obvious problem was that the Mavericks couldn't even find a stable scoring point!

At the beginning of the game, the Mavericks dug a big hole for themselves at home.

Fortunately, when Yiyang entered the field as the sixth man,

The situation finally changed. However, the poor state of the others made many of Yiyang's wonderful biography go to waste.

Although Yiyang himself attacked fiercely, in front of the red-eyed raptor, Yiyang was no match for four hands with one punch.

In the end, Yiyang scored a game-high 18 points and had 8 assists. But the Raptors, who scored in double figures with five players, defeated the league's No. 1 team in an away game.

Except for Yiyang, Mavericks scored the highest score with 12 points. As for the others, the audience seemed to be sleepwalking.

84 to 76, the Raptors won the game with a very low score. The Mavericks only scored 76 points in four quarters, which shows how bad their offense is today.

"Congratulations, man." After the game, Carlisle politely shook hands with Raptors coach Jane Triano. But the expression on this guy's face didn't mean to congratulate others sincerely.

Carlisle turned his head back again, looking at the dejected players. Losing to a team at the bottom of the league is indeed too demoralizing.

Although aggrieved by the loss, the league did not give the Mavericks much time to breathe. Do you still expect that someone will go to the basketball hall and use all kinds of inspiring words to comfort the wounded hearts? No, it's impossible. There's no time for bells and whistles in the league's tight schedule. There are only two themes here, either dead or alive.

On December 30, the Mavericks will play their last game of 2010 at home. But it was indeed too inopportune to meet this opponent at this period.

The San Antonio Spurs with a complete lineup met the incomplete Dallas Mavericks. Even if the stone-like man didn't care, Popovich would never allow the Spurs to lose such a "free" victory.

The bull-horse battle really aroused the enthusiasm of the Mavericks players, and their performance today is also very good. But under the indiscriminate bombardment of GDP, the Mavericks, who lack star players, can only swallow the defeat.

Yiyang tried his best in this game, scoring 25 points, tying his career high scoring record. Kidd's triple-double of 12 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds also surprised him.

But after the lack of Nowitzki, the gap in hard power between the two sides still allowed the Spurs to rely on Duncan's singles at the last moment to establish the victory.

98 to 93, the Spurs only relied on Duncan's consecutive goals at the last moment to win by a slight advantage of 5 points. Popovich was furious after the game. He couldn't believe that he almost failed to win the game against the Mavericks and Spurs.

Looking at the very unwilling team, Popovich felt that he was not at all happy to win.

After losing this game, the San Antonio Spurs also officially surpassed the Dallas Mavericks and took the No. 1 throne in the Western Conference. And this is also the second time the Mavericks have experienced a losing streak so far this season.

Fortunately, after this game, Nowitzki and Barea's comeback time has also been confirmed.

The German's knee is only moderately sprained and he is fine. He is expected to be back in mid-January. Barea has a torn muscle in his lower back, but he will be back in mid-January if he recovers properly.

These two news are undoubtedly the most exciting news that Carlisle has heard in the past few days. As long as the Mavericks survive this half month, they can get back on track.

But after looking at the half-month schedule, Carlisle felt that things were not as easy as he imagined.

Thunder, Magic, Trail Blazers, Spurs, Grizzlies... In the past half month, the Mavericks will meet several strong teams. And these guys who are eager to improve their record will not show mercy to the Mavericks with an uneven lineup.

It is obviously impossible to eat them all like before. What Carlisle can do now is to try his best to win the games that can be won, and strive to prevent the team from falling too far behind before Dirk and the others come back.

With such a goal, the Mavericks continued on the road. What is their record this year, this half month has undoubtedly become one of the most critical periods.

January 1, New Year's Day. Yiyang can't spend the festive season with her mother, because the Mavericks will play away against the Bucks in Milwaukee today. In Carlisle's plan, the ball is undoubtedly within the scope of the Mavericks' ability to win.

However, with the explosive 29 points of Australian No. 1 pick Bogut, the Bucks, who had been suppressed for the entire game, completed a go-ahead in the last minute and ended the game.

97 to 99, Carlisle couldn't even believe what happened on the court in the last minute. However, the fact is that the Mavericks lost again, a three-game losing streak. Yiyang scored 20 points, 9 assists, 5 rebounds and 3 steals today, but he still couldn't stop the team's losing streak.

At the last minute, without a star in charge, Bogut launched a fierce attack. And so, once again, the Mavericks lost on the "no final call" point.

After a three-game losing streak, the Mavericks didn't even have time to return to Dallas, instead flying straight to Cleveland to prepare for the upcoming back-to-back games.

Fortunately, facing the Cavaliers who were beaten back "before liberation" after James left, the Mavericks finally won the victory and ended the losing streak.

This game is actually a win-win situation for both sides. It is said that the Cavaliers have already targeted Duke University's talented guard Kyrie Irving. The more they lose now, the greater their chances of getting Irving.

Yiyang scored 18 points and 11 assists, and scored a double-double. Only today, his efforts were not wasted in vain.

So far, the two weakest opponents in the past two weeks, the Bucks and Cavaliers, and the Mavericks have finished playing. The next few games will be the real test for Mavericks and Yiyang.

The next game is against the Portland Trail Blazers, which Carlisle doesn't classify as a "must win." After all, the Trail Blazers with a record of 18 wins and 16 losses are not a weak team. The last time the two sides met, in the case of Dirk, the Mavericks were almost overturned.

Carlisle thinks so, but Yiyang doesn't think so. With the progress of these few games, Yiyang has become more and more used to the feeling of playing without Dirk.

In the next game against the Trail Blazers, many people are not optimistic about the Mavericks. But why couldn't that game be the start of another winning streak?

Carlisle doesn't know yet, a huge surprise is waiting for him...