Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 644 - 222: Everyone Praises Qin, Most Dominant! (Two-in-One - )

The loss in the first game made Mavericks coach Mike Woodson fully realize that Qin Yue is currently an uncontainable player on the court.

What does it mean to be an uncontainable player?

Simply put, Qin Yue's performance right now depends solely on his own state during the game, not on the opponent's defensive strategy or level of defense.

In the long history of the NBA, the last uncontainable player was Michael Jordan during his prime in the 1990s.

However, compared to Jordan back then...

Due to the vision, defense, and other fundamentals brought by Qin Yue's model, his baseline is determined to be higher than Jordan's, which is why Marion said that Qin Yue is currently at least fifty times better than Jordan back then after the first game.

Although Marion's statement clearly has a hint of exaggeration for Qin Yue.

But it is undeniable...

In the playoffs where Qin Yue is bound to give his all, even if the Mavericks can execute their pre-game strategy the best, they still have to hope that Qin Yue doesn't perform too well on the night of the game.

"We are trying to defeat, arguably, the most dominant player in the history of basketball."

At the post-game press conference after the first game, Woodson said: "To beat him, we are bound to need some luck."

Two days later, the second game of the Western Conference Finals between the Mavericks and Warriors continued at Oracle Arena.

On this night, as the Mavericks players strived to perfect every detail on the court, they got the "good luck" they had hoped for in their pre-game expectations.

The main referee for this game, James Williams, is a young referee who still needs big-game experience.

The result...

Lacking experience and having received hints from league officials to give the Mavericks some appropriate favor before the game, Williams's officiating criteria showed evident problems from the start.

Firstly...

Aside from the customary reverse-star calls against Qin Yue, Williams called Qin Yue for two defensive fouls in the first half of the first quarter alone.

These were two typical calls that could go either way.

But in his panic, Williams chose to call them both.

This led Warriors fans in Oracle Arena to immediately start chanting "Sham call, sham call."

Despite the pressure, Williams indeed issued many balancing calls to the home team Warriors in the subsequent game.

However, when Williams's attempts to balance for the sake of balance caused the criteria of his officiating in the second game to become fragmented, both the home team Warriors and visiting Mavericks were hugely affected by such standards.

Among them, the Warriors were clearly more impacted than the Mavericks.

Because when the Warriors' fierce offensive was disrupted repeatedly by the referee, combined with the hot-headed Williams calling Qin Yue for two defensive fouls in the second half, putting Qin Yue in early foul trouble, the situation of this entirely unwatchable second game quickly tilted in favor of the veteran-filled Mavericks in the second half.

To the extent that during the game, Marion was jokingly confident with Qin Yue: "You definitely fouled Dirk just now, because I saw you hit Dirk's body hair."

After a pause, Marion added: "You know, German people tend to have long body hair, so it's quite reasonable."

Seeing this, Qin Yue, bewildered, couldn't say much.

Looking at James Williams, drenched in sweat and overwhelmed during the second half, Qin Yue didn't even choose to complain about the criteria of this young referee.

As a veteran who has fought in the NBA for years, Qin Yue knew that Williams wasn't intentionally making sham calls that night.

In his attempts to balance back and forth, the young referee had long lost himself on the court.

Moreover, with the number of championships the Warriors will win in the future increasing, Qin Yue knows better than anyone that the league choosing to call reverse-star calls for the entire Warriors team is destined to be only a matter of time.

Therefore, before standing on the moral high ground to criticize the league after the game, Qin Yue constantly approached the match with a regular mindset.

Final score, 120 to 116.

With Nowitzki earning a total of 25 free throws and making all 25, the Mavericks shocked the Oracle Arena in an upset on the road.

In fact, if you only look at the free throws, the Warriors team had 38 free throws that night, just one less than the Mavericks' 39.

However, Kwame Brown, who managed to get balancing calls from Williams throughout the second game, shot a dreadful 16-for-6 free throw percentage.

After the game, Woodson and the Mavericks team became huge admirers of Qin Yue, acknowledging that this game was won by outside factors, not by truly overpowering the Warriors.

Before the start of this Western Conference Finals series, Woodson had reviewed past playoff failures of the Mavericks.

Among these lessons learned, Woodson discovered that since the "Donaghy Incident," a major reason why the Mavericks were often targeted by the league in terms of officiating criteria was because of the Mavericks Owner Matt Cuban, someone who always profited and then complained.

As a team owner who often complained about referees' criteria in public, even if the referees were already sufficiently favoring the Mavericks in some games, Cuban would often gripe post-game about how the referees were making sham calls.

In Woodson's opinion, over time, even if the referees didn't want to target the Mavericks, they would.