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Joel Embiid didn't have the slightest advantage in the internal battle. Gobert's tough style surprised him. Drummond is also the top interior defender in the league, but he has nothing to do with himself. But Gobert, a Frenchman, was like a mad dog on the defensive end today, biting Embiid.

Unwilling to be reconciled, Embiid pushed back hard again. This time, Gobert took a step back slightly. But before Embiid found a chance, Gobert quickly adjusted and pressed forward again.

Gobert's motivation on the defensive end is far higher than Drummond's in the previous game. Embiid had no choice but to take a hook shot. The hook shot is the least likely to be blocked and interfered with. Even small guards like Thomas and Curry often use small hooks to score goals over the big man after breaking through.

However, Gobert did not give Embiid any space. He blocked Embiid hard and disrupted Embiid's rhythm. The hook missed the basket by a hair, but it still missed the frame.

15 points. With 2 minutes and 18 seconds left before the end of the game, Embiid has scored 15 points. Gobert promised Yiyang that he would not let Embiid score more than 15 points. In other words, from now until the end of the game, he can't let Embiid score again!

In fact, even if Gobert allows Embiid to score more than 15 points, Yiyang will not be unhappy. But Gobert himself will not allow such a thing to happen. He will not have a quarrel with Embiid, let alone a physical conflict. He wants to use basketball to respond to Embiid's provocation!

The 76ers' offense failed again, but this will no longer surprise Jaylen Rose. Since being beaten 11-0 in the opening game, the 76ers have not been playing smoothly.

In the third quarter of the game, Simmons and Embiid's fiery state allowed them to narrow the point difference to 4 points! However, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, after the Mavericks strengthened their defense again, the 76ers' offense became inefficient again.

Yiyang leisurely passed the half-time, and the performance of a young team is easily affected by emotions. When falling behind, the 76ers' defense will become restless. Now, it is simply easy for the Mavericks to break through the 76ers' defense. Therefore, Yiyang is not in a hurry at all.

He just called a pick-and-roll, drew the defense and passed the ball to Mitchell who was cutting inside. Just like that, Yiyang completed the assist and the Mavericks scored easily.

Bayless has no way to take advantage of Mitchell. This is already Mitchell's 19th point in this game. As a rookie who almost fell out of the lottery, Mitchell's performance was scary enough. Embiid and Simmons, two supernovas, were eclipsed in front of Mitchell today.

"Donovan Mitchell, another beautiful combination of passing and cutting. This guy is simply the Dwyane Wade who won two O'Brien Cups back then! He perfectly replicated Wade. Wade’s role in the Mavericks, no, he will definitely become more powerful than Wade in his twilight years!”

At this point, the 76ers have fallen behind by 14 points. Facing the Dallas Mavericks' defense, it is simply impossible to tie the game with 14 points in 2 minutes.

What's even more frightening is that even with such a big lead, the Mavericks have no intention of relaxing at all. Looking at the expression on Gobert's gritted teeth when defending, the belief that Embiid cannot be allowed to score more than 15 points has been deeply ingrained in his mind.

Hayward did a good job of keeping Simmons out of the three-second zone, and Embiid was stared at by the red-eyed Gobert. Brett Brown stopped the game at this critical moment, but after returning from the timeout, Brown found that Carlisle replaced Yiyang with Mudiay and Kuzma replaced Rudy Gay.

What does this mean? This means that Rick Carlisle has declared that he has won the game!

Facts have proved that Carlisle's early replacement of the main players was not blind arrogance. Just as he planned, as long as Embiid and Simmons are strangled, the 76ers' offense will no longer be a threat.

The last two minutes,

Kuzma and Mudiay are giving full play to their talents, while Simmons and Embiid, two talented supernovas, can only learn lessons from failure after failure.

When the electronic buzzer sounded to end the game, Embiid covered his head with his hands in disbelief. 15 points and 9 rebounds, this data is actually not bad. But compared with the 30+10 against Drummond in the last game, it was obviously not enough.

Gobert walked off the court sweating profusely and kept asking Carlisle to let him play until the end. The Frenchman kept his promise and did his best to limit Embiid's score to 15 points. You know, before this, Embiid averaged 22.9 points per game. Moreover, he also controlled Embiid's shooting percentage to 42.3%. For this inside player, such a shooting rate is definitely not high.

Embiid thought he could make a big splash in the American Airlines Center Arena like he bullied Drummond. Unfortunately, he encountered a "Tower of Suffocation" who had a stronger desire to win than himself!

"Good job Rudy, you are our MVP tonight." Yiyang happily took the initiative to high-five Gobert. This guy said that he would not let Embiid score more than 15, but Yiyang was not too relaxed at first. In the heart. Unexpectedly, he would work so hard for his promise.

What about Simmons? 13 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds, still close to a triple-double. Yiyang's worry is not unreasonable. Even if Hayward has done his best defense today and even if the Mavericks have deliberately blocked Simmons' pass today, he still scored a "quasi-triple-double" data.

Simmons is different from Embiid. After losing, he just left silently and did not stay long. But Yiyang saw that the joints of the guy's palms had turned white from clenching his fist so hard!

Embiid and Simmons left a deep impression on Yiyang, and they may indeed make the 76ers the future league hegemon. But, as long as I haven’t retired, you should stop daydreaming like this!

"Joel, how do you evaluate Rudy Gobert's defense against you today?" Embiid was about to walk into the player tunnel, but his way was blocked by a Chinese reporter. Of course he didn't know that the person in front of him was Yiyang's loyal supporter, Mu Ran.

"He committed several fouls, but the referee turned a blind eye to them. To be honest, he played too dirty. And all those who play dirty are softies in my opinion!" Embiid's face was not red and his heart was not beating. He answered Mu Ran politely, thinking that this reporter was just as easy to fool as everyone else.

"Even if he only committed three fouls in this game, do you think Gobert played uncleanly?"

Embiid obviously didn't expect Mu Ran to ask further questions, and naturally there was no way to justify his nonsense. "I said, the referee turned a blind eye to this, so he didn't foul. Next time we meet, I will make the French pay the price!"

After Embiid finished speaking, he stormed off. This was the first time I met the "Great Emperor" who refused to let reporters step down.

It is precisely because of his successful defense of Embiid that Gobert, the unsung hero who has been silently protecting Yiyang, has become a favorite among reporters today.

The reporters were really surprised when they were used to seeing "The Great" wreaking havoc in the league, and someone suddenly stepped forward to restrain Embiid. Even if the best player today is Yiyang, even if Yiyang scored 29 points, 11 assists and 3 steals today. But everyone has become accustomed to Yiyang's performance. But Gobert's positivity shocked people.

"If Rudy can maintain such a defensive state, it will not be surprising that he will win the best defensive player award this year!" After the game, Jaylen Rose even gave Gobert such an evaluation.

At the press conference, Mourin "secretly" told Gobert what Embiid had said, just to get Gobert to respond harshly to Embiid in front of the media.

But before Gobert could speak, Yiyang, who was sitting on the stage, took the rare initiative to take the right to speak.

"Playing dirty? With all due respect, if Rudy was dirty, that guy Embiid wouldn't even be able to score 10 points!"

"Pfft!" Simmons, who was watching the live press conference on the team bus, almost laughed. If Embiid hadn't glared at Simmons, he probably couldn't hold it in anymore.

"It won't be like this next time I return to the home court! Damn it!" Embiid looked out the bus window at the appearance of the American Airlines Center Arena. This place is really a hell!

So far this season, the 76ers' record has become 5 losses and 1 win. But there was no game where Embiid felt so desperate to lose. It seemed that the outcome was doomed from the moment Yiyang hit that cold-blooded long-distance three-pointer that widened the point difference to 11 points.

Yiyang killed the game with his most stable skills, and then responded to his opponent's provocation with the most vicious words without any curse words.

Not long after Embiid entered the league, he has already made countless enemies. But most of the time, the arrogant Embiid has the last laugh.

Only this time, what he touched was the tiger's butt.

Defeating the talented 76ers, the Mavericks started the season with a seventh consecutive victory. Cuban has a hunch that this will be the beginning of another great season for the Mavericks.