One Guard

The ten-point difference made Mark Jackson breathless. He looked at his leading guard Curry. Only a few minutes into the game, the baby-faced player was already out of breath.

Yiyang's defense was too tight, which was very difficult for Curry. Against Yiyang, Curry's physical energy was consumed several times more than against others. The team's first scoring point is blocked, which is quite fatal for a team.

Mark Jackson looked anxiously at the Mavericks bench. After the timeout, Carlisle would definitely let Gobert play. Although this is Gobert's playoff debut, Mark Jackson knows that any attempt to make a mistake against Gobert is foolish.

Attacking the basket won't work, but Curry, Thompson and Harris-Barnes will be tightly defended by the Mavericks' perimeter trident. After looking around, the only person Mark Jackson can rely on now is David Lee.

David Lee can still score 18.2 points this season and is a reliable offensive point. It's just that his shot order is behind Curry and Thompson, so his points per game don't look so scary.

Nowitzki is the Mavericks' only defensive weakness on the field. As long as David Lee can open up the situation, the Mavericks' defense will gradually collapse.

"David, in the next game, I need you to increase the number of shots." Mark Jackson said desperately. If it was not a last resort, who would leave Curry and Thompson alone?

David Lee nodded. It is not easy to challenge Dirk, who is in such a hot state today...

Sure enough, as Mark Jackson expected, after returning from the timeout, the tall French "Tower" Gobert stretched his body and then stepped onto the court.

The Frenchman bent down and Yiyang whispered something in his ear. As expected, the leader Yiyang should be telling Gobert to stay calm and not be nervous.

Mark Jackson shook his head. After all, the French had several years of experience in professional competitions, and they were more adaptable than the rookies coming out of the NCAA. Even if I'm nervous, I can't be nervous for more than a few minutes.

His appearance forced the Warriors to give up attacking the basket. Whether the Warriors can withstand the pressure and finish the first quarter depends on David Lee's performance.

After the game restarted, Curry, who was unwilling to give up, still scored a three-pointer by running without the ball and catching and shooting. But this three-pointer was still shot against Yiyang's defense. Curry himself knew that this was not a sustained and stable offensive method.

Then the Mavericks attacked, and the Warriors still adopted a double-team tactic against Nowitzki. With Dalembert on the court, you can almost ignore the Mavericks' centers on offense. But when Gobert is on the court, everything is different.

It's not that Gobert's offense is so powerful. The Frenchman wants to shoot but not shoot, and he needs post-up skills but no post-up skills. It can be said that his rough offense is the biggest reason why his draft pick was too low and he was not selected for the All-Star Rookie Game.

But with Yiyang's guidance, Gobert can score easily without having to have very good offensive skills.

After breaking into the paint, Yiyang only needs to throw the ball high, and Gobert will push it into the frame. His height was unmatched, and O'Neal could only watch Gobert's dunk with his mouth wide open, his mind filled with the shadow of himself ten years ago.

As soon as the timeout came back, the Warriors' basket was ravaged again. The Mavericks' advantage in the paint was put to good use by Yiyang.

But Mark Jackson is not in a hurry. David Lee hasn't touched a basketball since he came back from the timeout. The quality of that guy's offense will ultimately determine the Warriors' fate in the first quarter.

This time, Curry did not continue to take action, but obediently handed over the offensive power to David Lee.

David Lee seems to have returned to his New York days, when he was the team's leading scorer!

However, when David Lee held the spherical frame in the mid-range position,

He discovered that Dirk's defense was not as loose as he thought. In fact, Nowitzki's defense is not bad, but the defensive abilities of the four people around him are too strong, which creates the illusion that "Dirk is the Mavericks' defensive loophole".

David Lee made a triple-threat move with the ball, then accelerated towards Dirk's left side. But this simple and crude method cannot defeat Dirk.

With no other choice, David Lee switched to a back-to-the-basket attack, using his weight advantage to sit inside.

After stepping into the three-second zone with one foot, David Lee turned inside and shot. However, Dirk's long arms disrupted David Leary's shooting rhythm. The basketball hit the front edge of the basket and bounced outward. Gobert jumped high, giving O'Neal no chance to rebound.

David Lee is now Mark Jackson's last life-saving straw, but he seems to have had a bad start, and his attack failed as soon as he started.

David Lee missed the shot, and Yiyang would not be polite about it. During the breakthrough, he suddenly grabbed the basketball with one hand and sent it towards the inside.

Everyone thought Yiyang was going to pass the ball to Gobert, so they hurriedly blocked it. But after the basketball was sent out, Yiyang did not let go. He grabbed the basketball with one hand, retracted his arm, and then shot directly.

This fake move made the stands scream. Whether Yiyang did it intentionally or not, the move just now was very similar to Michael Jordan's iconic one-handed fake pass.

Mark Jackson swallowed. That guy from Yiyang is now simply Michael Jordan wearing the No. 1 jersey!

Subsequently, David Lee tried his second singles against Nowitzki. The Germans were in very good shape today, so they were also quite tough on the defensive end. Judging from Dirk's current performance, anyone who calls him a "softie" is stupid. This guy is tough, tougher than anyone imagined.

David Li took three slow steps for a layup, intending to use his body to crush him into the paint. But under Dirk's close defense, David Lee felt that the soles of his feet were not stable at all. He felt like he was walking on the edge of a cliff and might fall down at any time.

The inside player's slow three-step layup requires composure, but David Lee obviously did not achieve this. With the center of gravity erratic, David Lee's layup just added another rebound to Gobert.

David Lee failed to attack twice in a row, which forced Mark Jackson to lower his head. The Warriors, who are eager to recreate the "Black Eight Miracle", have experienced the huge strength gap between the first in the Western Conference and the eighth in the Western Conference before the first quarter of the game is finished!

In the subsequent games, the Mavericks played steadily and gave the Warriors no chance to make a comeback. Curry was working hard throughout the game. It seems that No. 30 has not adapted to Yiyang's playoff-level defense.

David Lee finally made his mark in the third quarter, scoring four goals in a row, which made Nowitzki helplessly spread his hands.

But this is always just a flash in the pan. As the team's top scorer, you can't just rely on a flash in the pan to lead the team.

In the fourth quarter, Klay Thompson hit three consecutive three-pointers, which seemed to give the Warriors hope. But after Carlisle replaced Tony Allen again, Thompson immediately lost his temper.

In this way, the game came to an end. When the red light on the backboard came on, Mark Jackson felt a sense of relief. 109 to 98, the Warriors did not narrow the point difference to single digits until the end.

Not long after he gained "relief", Mark Jackson fell into deeper despair. Because this is a series, the Warriors and Mavericks have to face each other several times in a row.

The nightmare is not over, it has just begun.

"It's over. Stephen Curry only scored 14 points and his shooting percentage was 37.5%! That's right, 37.5%! This shooting percentage is a full 10 percentage points lower than Stephen's average this season! Yi's defense allowed Stephen to I have tasted the bitterness. This is the playoffs. If the Warriors want to complete the miracle of eight, the first task is to get used to this kind of defensive intensity!" Barkley looked at the statistics of this game. There may be only Yiyang in this league. Curry can be restricted to this.

On the other side, Klay Thompson's 35% shooting percentage is also very unsatisfactory. Thompson was unlucky when he met Tony Allen.

The poor performance of the Warriors' two leading guards was the main reason for the Warriors' loss. Therefore, after the game, many reporters asked Mark Jackson: "How will you deal with the Mavericks' defense in the remaining games of the series?"

Mark Jackson blinked and stared blankly at the camera. He couldn't answer!

Nonsense, if a coach can figure out tactics to deal with the Mavericks' defense in just a few dozen seconds, then the Mavericks' defense won't be so difficult.

"We have to be patient and look for space to take action, that's it." Mark Jackson finally had to deal with it. If he didn't say something, the reporter wouldn't give up.

"That is to say, you don't have a good solution, right?" As everyone knows, a local Dallas reporter with a straightforward personality pointed out Mark Jackson's embarrassment directly and to the point.

Mark Jackson looked at the reporter, said nothing, and fled the scene in embarrassment.

The local reporters in Dallas shook their heads. They really couldn't understand where others had the confidence to think that the Warriors could create a "black eight miracle" before the game started.

Yiyang had 34 points, 10 assists, 5 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocks. Nowitzki had 26 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Iguodala had 18 points and 3 steals, while Darren Collison and Nick Young also scored 10 points each on the bench. Individually and as a whole, the Mavericks were better.

"After experiencing a big victory in the first game, are you still worried about the Mavericks being beaten by the Warriors?" At the post-game press conference, reporters' topics were always related to "black eight".

Yiyang leaned forward expressionlessly and approached the microphone. "Miracles only happen with the Dallas Mavericks."