Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA

Half-time ended, 40 to 74.

Regardless of past or present, the Mavericks led by Johnson are the infamous backdrop of tragedies in the NBA.

Besides Kobe's "60+" performance in three quarters last season, Qin Yue clearly remembers that early in the 06/07 season, the Mavericks suffered a devastating defeat to the Rockets, led by "Yao and McGrady," with a score of 76 to 107.

Why does Qin Yue remember the score of this game so clearly?

Because in that match, Tracy McGrady, who was in poor form, scored only 8 points.③

(③: In that game, Yao Ming made 12 of 16 field goals and 12 of 12 free throws, scoring 36 points and grabbing 6 rebounds.)

In summary...

With the Mavericks' extremely solid foundation, Johnson genuinely squandered it by employing a more balanced offense and defense, leading the Mavericks to achieve an outstanding regular season record during his tenure.

But in stark contrast to the regular season, Johnson's career playoff win percentage is only 48.9%.

Once the game encounters unexpected situations...

Johnson would personally send the Mavericks spiraling down into an abyss with his "mysterious tricks."

Yes, the unexpected tragic losses they suffered in the regular season were exactly because Johnson would inexplicably mess up on certain nights.

In the third quarter, before the half-time ended with a triple-double totaling 15 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 blocks, 1 steal, Qin Yue... has actually been indifferent to the real-time task named [Qin Yue's Dual Life] issued by the system from the start of the game until now.

After all, in basketball games...

Sometimes the more you want to defeat an opponent by a big margin, the more you can't win.

On this night, Qin Yue was simply filling his technical stats panel with a calm mindset.

As a result, Oracle Arena...

Before the third quarter was even over, the Dallas Mavericks replaced all their main players.

Because when they withdrew their main players, the scoreboard showed that the point difference had already reached 51 to 91.

On the court, at the moment Dirk Nowitzki was substituted by his teammates, as he recalled the pre-game flag raising ceremony and Qin Yue wearing the ring—his eyes stared blankly at the scoreboard one last time; no one knew what thoughts were passing through Dirk Nowitzki's mind at that time.

But it's certain that Nowitzki's heart must have started aching again.

"Soft Dirk" returned to the bench with an extremely dejected look.

Then watched in despair as the Warriors' substitutes came on the court... to continue thrashing the Mavericks' substitutes.

On this flag raising night, the Warriors' brutal beating of the Mavericks' players continued into the later part of the fourth quarter.

In the match, the collapse of the Mavericks' players had long rendered the score meaningless.

In the NBA, does the score represent everything?

The answer is yes and no.

The reason it does is that as the ultimate display of a team's performance, the score can tell you who the winner is.

The reason it doesn't is that in the NBA, where everyone has a chance to beat the other, an overly lopsided score often only proves that one side got "knocked out" by the opponent on a particular night.

Final score, 68 to 126.

The Mavericks, completely "knocked out" by the Warriors, suffered an embarrassing defeat on the road by an unbelievable 58-point margin...

This was the largest single-game regular-season loss margin in the history of the Dallas Mavericks since the team's founding.

Before the regular season began, Avery Johnson boldly claimed that given one more chance, defeating the Warriors would be easy, yet he personally nailed the Mavericks and himself onto the pillar of shame.

But this was absolutely an unfair disgrace for the Mavericks players...

Because after the game, when Johnson actively shifted the blame onto Nowitzki... both reporters and fans rushed to ridicule "Soft Dirk."

Online, the photo of Nowitzki sitting on the bench with a dull expression has already become a world-famous painting for fans to showcase everywhere.

Should Mavericks players and Nowitzki bear the blame for the "58 tragedy" destined to be passed down through history?

Of course, because this is the outcome they themselves produced.

But if this shame is only attributed to poor player performance...

Then in Qin Yue's eyes, it appears somewhat unreasonable.

After the game, before accepting interviews, Qin Yue gladly received the task rewards from [Qin Yue's Dual Life] and successively opened the two legendary defense and technique random attribute packages.

"Congratulations to the host for an increase of 2 in lateral movement potential and 2 in steal potential."

"Congratulations to the host for an increase of 5 in dribbling potential."

Again... again and again, damn it, it's dribbling?

Qin Yue feels that he is destined to become a 211cm Kyrie Irving in this life.

After obtaining these 5 dribbling potential points, his dribbling potential has already risen to an astonishing 91.

Why was Qin Yue's personal ball-handling offense last season increasingly difficult to guard in the playoffs——because compared to his career debut, his dribbling attribute had already increased from 81 to 86 at that time.

From sophomore, junior, and then rookie season, through completing tasks one by one, Qin Yue gradually accumulated... the dribbling talent that this body should not have possessed.

And in last season's regular season, thanks to the tactical freedom and ball possession granted by the Warriors, his dribbling attribute underwent a qualitative change.

Qin Yue is well aware that after the dribbling attribute exceeded 80, each subsequent increase in dribbling attribute has given him what kind of changes.

Qin Yue had legendary trainer Tim Grover evaluate his dribbling skills at different stages of his career.

Sophomore year.

As Qin Yue's dribbling attribute surpassed 75, Grover evaluated him by saying: "You now possess the dribbling ability of an NBA starting small forward... I think once you create a mismatch in college basketball, your opponents will find it very difficult to stop you from initiating offense from the perimeter."