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Yiyang failed to win the game and watched LeBron James take away the victory from the American Airlines Center Arena. Facing James' defense on the last ball, Yiyang was helpless. The defeat in this game also allowed the Heat to defeat the Dallas Mavericks twice this season and achieve a complete victory over the Mavericks in the regular season.

The Mavericks have only lost 6 games so far this season, and being able to defeat such a team twice shows how terrifying the Miamians are.

After the game, Yiyang refused interviews from all reporters and did not attend the press conference. Because his mistake caused the team to lose to an opponent that they least deserved to lose, Yiyang was in a very low mood. If this were in the finals, the Mavericks would already be 2-0 behind. What does it mean to be 2-0 behind? It means that the Heat have touched the O'Brien Cup with one hand!

As for the Heat, James is in a very good mood. The experience of two consecutive games in the regular season tells him that as long as everyone is willing to work hard, defeating the Mavericks will not be a problem. Only one win over the Mavericks could just be a coincidence. But winning against the Mavericks twice in a row is enough to illustrate the gap in strength between the two sides.

Now, even if the Heat really run into the Mavericks in the Finals, they won't be afraid. On the contrary, it is the San Antonio Spurs who seem to be giving James more headaches.

They lost right after the All-Star break, which made everyone on the Mavericks very uncomfortable.

Yiyang feels aggrieved now. If you lose a game in the playoffs, you will soon get a chance for revenge. No matter how unwilling you are, you can vent it out immediately.

But if you lose a game in the regular season, this aggrieved mood may follow you for a long time. Yiyang now really wants to play in a strong team to prove himself and the strength of himself and the team.

But the NBA regular season schedule will not change according to your temper. For several days in a row, the Mavericks' opponents were just inferior teams.

The 76ers, Pistons and New York Knicks, the last three teams in the Eastern Conference, all came to Dallas to "send warmth" to the Mavericks. The Mavericks ruthlessly took away three consecutive victories, and the number of wins officially exceeded the 50 mark.

But the victories in these games did not bring Yiyang the slightest sense of accomplishment. These opponents, the Miami Heat and LeBron James can also be easily defeated. Defeating them is a matter of course and does not prove oneself.

Therefore, even though he has won three games, Yiyang is still feeling aggrieved. This guy seems to be really at odds with James.

In the remaining two games in February, the Mavericks defeated the Bobcats and Bulls respectively, and they were able to win five consecutive games.

But at the press conference after the game, when reporters asked Yiyang: "What do you think of the team's excellent performance since the All-Star Game?" Yiyang was speechless.

Excellent performance? Their defeat of these five opponents can only be described as normal performance, far from being excellent. Yiyang is still waiting for a chance, a chance to prove himself, a chance to make up for his failure in the final.

At this moment, the NBA regular season entered the penultimate month, and the Mavericks' first opponent in March was quite important-the San Antonio Spurs!

After waiting for so long, Yiyang finally found a strong enemy who could prove his strength. The Spurs are definitely a strong enough opponent. If they can win like the previous two times, at least Yiyang himself can overcome the hurdle in his heart.

The Mavericks want to win, and so do the Spurs and Popovich. The Spurs lost both times they met during the regular season this season, and Popovich felt as aggrieved as Yiyang.

So today, the Spurs played in an almost flawless state. The three GDP players teamed up to score 68 points. It seemed like they all became five years younger overnight.

Looking back at the Mavericks, the poor performance of the bench players made the game very passive. In this game, the Spurs' bench scored a full 20 points more than the Mavericks' bench.

This huge gap made Yiyang frantically chasing points throughout the game. But in the end, he still couldn't catch up.

In the end, the Dallas Mavericks lost at the ATTC Center. This was originally a good opportunity for Yiyang to untie the knot in his heart, but unexpectedly, it only added to Yiyang's heart.

Having lost two consecutive games against evenly matched opponents, the media once again pushed the Mavericks to the forefront.

The label of "pseudo-strong team" is beginning to be applied more and more to the Mavericks. They believe that the Mavericks have been able to achieve a good record of 53 wins and 7 losses this season solely because of the weak teams that "give away their heads". As soon as they encounter a strong opponent, the Mavericks will immediately misfire!

Yiyang felt quite angry about this. He was already panicking, but the reporters added fuel to the fire, which made Yiyang very irritable during the last period of the regular season.

In the next month of games, it was as if God was playing a joke on the Mavericks. They can still win most games naturally, but once they encounter a strong team, the results are often disastrous.

Every time Yiyang plays against a strong team, his calm and steady style of play disappears. Instead, there were crazy shots and scores.

He wanted to win so much. He didn't want the Mavericks to suffer a complete defeat every time they met a strong opponent. The strong desire overwhelmed Yiyang's mind and made him extremely obsessed with scoring.

However, doing so is not the best choice for the team. Carlisle couldn't help but shook his head. If Yiyang couldn't let go of the fact that he failed to kill James, his mood would not return to normal.

The regular season continued like this until April. Although the Mavericks lost a lot during this period, their record was still very good.

On April 12, five days before the start of the playoffs, the Mavericks defeated the Phoenix Suns at home with a score of 111-98, casting a shadow over the latter's playoff prospects.

At this point, the Mavericks' record this season has become 68 wins and 13 losses. The 68 wins also broke the record set by the Mavericks in the 2007 season and became the highest number of wins in a single season in team history. You know, even the all-powerful Big Three of the Heat last year only achieved 66 wins.

After the game, everyone was very happy. Breaking the record in team history and ranking fifth in the record for most wins in NBA history, these are huge honors for the players.

But facing the reporters' cameras, Yiyang had a gloomy face and was speechless. Compared with the glorious 68 wins, Yiyang is more concerned about the 13 losses after this number.

Since the All-Star break, the Mavericks have lost more games in the past two months than in the previous six months combined! This huge gap made Yiyang really unable to laugh.

From October 2013 to mid-February 2014, the Mavericks lost only five games. But since mid-February to mid-April now, the Mavericks have lost eight games!

Among these eight losses, there are many opponents such as the Heat, Spurs and Clippers.

Why? Why can't the Mavericks defeat strong opponents so far in the season? The huge shadow of LeBron James seems to be lingering in Yiyang's heart. It's just that Yiyang himself hasn't noticed it yet.

Until April 16, the last day of the NBA regular season. The Mavericks narrowly defeated the Grizzlies by one point on the road, which fixed their regular season record at 69 wins and 13 losses.

69 wins and 13 losses, this is definitely a great result. This record allows the Mavericks to surpass the 76ers with Zhang Dashuai in the 6667 season, and the Los Angeles Lakers with West and Chamberlain in the 7172 season, and tie for second place in the single-season win record in the league's history! The only thing still weighing on the Mavericks is the incredible 72-win Bulls!

Last season, people were still amazed by the Heat's 66 wins. After all, since the 21st century, only three teams have been able to achieve more than 65 wins. They are last year's Heat, the Cavaliers in the 0809 season and the Mavericks in the 2007 season.

Little did they know that after just one season, the Mavericks smashed their 69 wins in front of everyone. There is no doubt that this result also gives Yiyang a huge advantage in the competition for MVP!

If any other team had achieved an astonishing record of 69 wins, the entire league would definitely explode. But when the Mavericks got this result, the media's reaction was very different.

Rather than admiring, most media views the Mavericks' 69-win record with skepticism. First, the Mavericks' performance in the past two months has not been as impressive as before, leaving a less than stellar impression on people.

Secondly, it’s not like the Mavericks have never played well in the regular season, but then fell apart in the playoffs.

The most famous one was undoubtedly the year when the Mavericks won 67 games. They dominated the regular season. If they hadn't had a bye in the last few games of the regular season, the Mavericks' record that year might have been even better than 67 wins.

But such a team that shocked the world during the regular season was eliminated by the eighth-ranked Warriors in the Western Conference in the first round of the playoffs. This "black eight" incident is a dark history that the Mavericks will never forget.

With the lessons learned from the 2007 season, it makes sense for the media not to be optimistic about the Mavericks.

Another 60+ win, and God knows if they will be knocked back to their original form once they reach the playoffs.

The media is preparing to write a bunch of reasons why the Mavericks are destined to not go far in the playoffs. But an hour later, the result of a game made the Mavericks' fate even more uneasy, and made all reporters throw away their manuscripts. Because now, they have even more exciting content available!

At the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Golden State Warriors lost to the Denver Nuggets with a score of 112 to 116.

Logically speaking, this game has nothing to do with the Mavericks. But after the Warriors lost this game, it meant that they would be overtaken by the Memphis Grizzlies, falling from seventh in the Western Conference to eighth in the Western Conference!

The 60-win Mavericks, No. 1 in the Western Conference, faced off against the Warriors, No. 8 in the Western Conference. History is always strikingly similar.