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In the end, missing Dirk Nowitzki and champion Dallas Mavericks for a second and a defender for sharpshooter Kevin Durant: A spell cast of NBA Allstars from the Oklahoma City Thunder made an end to all hopes of the "Mavs" on the first win of the season in the North American professional basketball league and brought the defending champion at the deserved reward.
Unlike the first two games of the season with some shockingly poor performance in Dallas, presented at 102:104 improved before 18 203 spectators in Oklahoma City and was 1.4 seconds before the final siren after a triple by Vince Carter, even with one point lead. Then came the star second of Kevin Durant: The 23-year-old grabbed the last throw of the game, screwed into Michael Jordan-style non-urgent for a good eight feet into the air and sank beneath the frenzied cheers of the fans the game-winning three-point litter.
"As a child you dreamed of in the NBA times to achieve the crucial winning goal," said Durant, the pieces with this had already succeeded twice in his career: "That was a crazy way of things. When two strong teams meet, it all depends on the last second. "It would have Durant art contactors can also be a big loser. As Nowitzki began in the last attack of the Mavs lurking at the three-point line Vince Carter, Durant had uncovered this criminal.
Nowitzki, who pointed a double-double (29 points and 10 rebounds) in a strong performance, rushed after the third season broke angry at the referee, was cursing like a fishwife, but then unusually taciturn. Not even on his Twitter account could otherwise stimulate the 33-year-old's frustration.
His coach Rick Carlisle was however clear by saying, "make progress or be the team what you have to be in the moment, are two different things." After the humiliation against the star-studded the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets made the gripping performance against " The Thunder "with 15 lead changes, but still hope for improvement. "We have to stop us excited about other things and just go out and make our game," said Nowitzki's teammate Shawn Marion.
Club-owner Mark cubane had before the game all the speculation we've abgeschenkt the season already rejected:! "This is absolutely ridiculous," the billionaire said: "We are a team and play as a team. And so we can do it this way, it takes time to practice. "Cubane left before the season half a dozen players out of the championship team.
Could additionally encourage Nowitzki and the Mavericks take a look at the statistics: There was a 0:3 series to start it for the Mavs last season in 2006/07, when there were even four defeats at the start. At the end of Dallas but moved as the best team with Nowitzki as a "werstvollstem players" in the play-offs.
