<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none\" align=left>如此说来，这里传递了一个信息，有人现在很郁闷<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /></P><P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none\" align=left><p></p> </P><P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none\" align=left>还商量什么价钱，自己看着办，只要不是JS行为就可以了，诺因JJ好像提醒过楼上，如果再弄些没有价值或是已经看过的东西来骗钱，小心被群殴<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em07.gif\" /><p></p></P>
<P>只有我一个人当人郁闷了</P><P>什么叫JS。。。我又不知道你们看过没有，冤枉啊，下雪了。。。干脆还是白给吧</P><P>您上传的文件
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忘了说，3天有效
<P>万分感谢！！支持免费！！！！我看看。。。</P>
<P align=left>啊，居然还有过期时间的<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em04.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em04.gif\" />
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<P align=left>唉，没想到是这么大的文件，看来南部你真要拿出来卖钱也是很合理的，虽然提倡无偿。其实适当收点钱也没有什么意见，反正银子留在那儿没用，又不能升值<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /></P>
<P>PS：JS就是奸商了</P>
[此贴子已经被作者于2004-10-18 16:40:55编辑过]
<P>这种行为是不是就叫做得了便宜卖乖？<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em08.gif\" /></P><P>当然有时限了，网络资源也不多嘛。。。</P><P>PS：我当然知道什么是JS了，只不过不解为什么被叫做JS<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em01.gif\" /></P>
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<P>楼上那些图是个人收藏展示？忠实的fan</P><P>开始不知道那个视频有这么大，下载花费了一些时间，所以才觉得收费也是合理的</P><P>唉，又见纳什。。。</P>
<P>这个很大嘛。。。我曾经下过几百m的东西</P><P>这个。。。以后有纳什的东西是不是都不要送了？</P>
<P>嗯，文件是不算大，不过考虑到我的破烂机器和蜗牛网速。。。</P><P>有纳什的不要了？？我没说过这句话</P>
还有人和我比机器烂嘛<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" />难道某K不是用的LAN？
<P>我是用的LAN吗？怎么感觉比拨号还郁闷，破烂机器加破烂网络，能够坚持下载实属不易</P><P> http://www.fotofinder.net/en_finder/nph-ffpic?imagesid=6314FD90E0F179ED&res=half</P><P> http://www.fotofinder.net/en_finder/nph-ffpic?imagesid=BDB720B8F692BA53&res=half</P>
<P>rpwt<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em07.gif\" /></P><P>俺的就不慢，要是在学校可能慢一点</P>
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<P>rpwt<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em16.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em16.gif\" /></P><P> http://photos.gznet.com/photos/1394418/1394418-EmLIMOg5wA.jpg</P><P> http://photos.gznet.com/photos/1394418/1394418-zcjfZzlLOo.jpg</P><P>不喜欢这张，动作太过暧昧，而且很不自然，还有一点，这个……是男球迷还是女球迷<img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em14.gif\" /></P>
<P><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /><img src=\"images/post/smile/dvbbs/em03.gif\" /></P><P>那个看身材好像不是女的啊，莫非是泰国来得？谁知道他GF什么样子</P>
<b>Leading question: Is Dirk the 1?<!--EZCODE FONT END--><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--></b><EM>By Art Garcia
Star-Telegram Staff Writer</EM><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
Dirk Nowitzki hears it all the time. How could he not?
If it\'s not being asked of him, it\'s being asked of his teammates and coaches. And those who make a living monitoring the pulse of the NBA have asked the question the past several years.
Dirk, isn\'t it time to step up and make the Mavericks your team?
\"I don\'t really like the words \'stepping up,\' \" a sweat-soaked Nowitzki said after a recent practice. \"What have I done for the last five years? I don\'t know if there\'s much to step up, but I\'ll try.
\"I will never be a vocal-type leader. I will always lead by example, go out there and play hard. I\'m going to battle and make something happen for my team.\"
There\'s little debate of Nowitzki\'s importance. He has led the Mavs in scoring and rebounding four consecutive years, earning All-NBA honors each of those seasons.
His willingness to work also is unquestioned. Off-season workouts with mentor Holger Geschwinder are as challenging as they are unusual.
Nowitzki continues to expand his perimeter-based offensive game by sprinkling in a few more moves on the block, including an improving hook shot. He\'s a better-than-average rebounder, and no one has called Nowitzki \"soft\" for years.
\"I\'m trying to be better defensively,\" Nowitzki said. \"That\'s one of my biggest goals. As a team we didn\'t get big stops last year and I was a big part of that. I have to be better in rotations, I have to be better at keeping my man in front of me, I have to be better at pick-and-roll defense, and get out there and be aggressive. Offensively, I\'m not going to get any worse.\"
Still, he\'s never going to be an above-the-rim menace like Kevin Garnett. A lock-down defender like Ben Wallace. Or a low-post machine like Tim Duncan.
Does that mean he can\'t dominate a game?
\"It\'s a different kind of dominance,\" said Michael Finley, Nowitzki\'s teammate since the German star entered the league. \"Tim and Kevin are different kinds of players. To me Dirk is a 7-foot , and he\'s able to do a lot of things are able to do in this league.
\"He might be pretty limited when it comes to being a factor on defense, but he has the skills to affect the game on the offensive end with any of the best in the league. That\'s his strength. We don\'t want to take that away from him. He\'s a prolific scorer and, if he puts all this tools together this year, he can easily be a top-five scorer.\"
True, but top-five scorers don\'t necessarily carry their teams to new heights. Of the top five last season, two -- Tracy McGrady and Paul Pierce -- played on losing teams. A third, Kobe Bryant, led to the dismantling of a dynasty.
Nowitzki, beginning his seventh season, finished ninth in scoring last season at 21.8 points per game. It did, however, represent more than a three-point drop from the year before, and his rebounding numbers (8.7) were the lowest since his second season.
Some of the statistical decline is attributed to the unbalanced nature of the 2003-04 Mavs. Nowitzki never quite adjusted to Antoine Walker and Antawn Jamison on the crowded frontline.
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<!--EZCODE FONT START-->When it comes to a leadership role, the Mavericks are hoping that Devin Harris and the rest of the Mavericks can lean more on All-Star Dirk Nowitzki.<!--EZCODE FONT END-->
They\'re both gone as part of the massive overhaul that included Nowitzki\'s best friend, point guard Steve Nash, leaving for Phoenix. Center Erick Dampier and point guard Jason Terry change the team\'s dynamic, though the burden appears to be on Nowitzki more than ever.
\"The biggest issue is whether Dirk is ready to go to the elite level and really carry a team,\" said Greg Anthony, an ESPN analyst and former player. \"When you look at the very best bigs, the ones who have proven to be the best are those who can dominate the defensive end of the floor. Duncan. Garnett. O\'Neal, both of them . Wallace, both of them .
\"Offense is not enough. He also has to make people better offensively. This is his team and teams typically take on the personality of their best player. Only time will tell.\"
TNT analyst David Aldridge isn\'t sure if the Mavs came out better after the latest round of change. Again, it comes down to Nowitzki.
\"It\'s hard for me to say the Mavericks have improved themselves,\" Aldridge said. \"Losing Nash is such a blow to the organization, on and off the court. Obviously, he had a very close relationship with Dirk, and I wonder if Dirk will play with the joy he\'s shown over the years this coming season.\"
Finley compiled a list of goals for Nowitzki this season. Though Finley isn\'t sharing the list publicly, in a nutshell, he wants Nowitzki to come out of his.
\"He\'s a great player who leads by example, but it\'s time for him to go more into a vocal leadership role,\" Finley said. \"As far as having that mean streak in him, all great players have it. I know Dirk has it in him. For him to show it not only will be beneficial for him, but the team as well.\"
Nowitzki understands Finley\'s plea, but he\'s not going to be something he\'s not. For all the talk of not being vocal, Nowitzki lets his teammates and coaches know of his displeasure on the court, whether it\'s practice or before 20,000 fans. And it\'s not with a whisper.
\"I\'ll do whatever it takes to lead this team,\" Nowitzki said.
When asked about Nowitzki early in training camp, Mavs coach Don Nelson said leadership couldn\'t be forced. It has to come naturally.
\"All I ask a guy to do is give his best effort,\" Nelson said.
Team insiders do see a difference in Nowitzki. The loss of Nash hurt, but Nowitzki hasn\'t withdrawn because of it. Lashing out at the organization was another option.
Instead, he admitted it was time for him to \"grow up.\"
Remember, Nowitzki is only 26. In an NBA life span, he\'s just entering his prime.
\"To Dirk\'s credit,\" Mavs owner Mark Cuban said, \"he wants to be the guy. He doesn\'t need a sidekick.\"
It\'s time to fly solo.
<P><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/dirk_wurzburg.JPG\">Dirk Werner Nowitzki was born on June 19, 1978, in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. His father, Jörg, was a successful handball player with TG Würzburg, and his mother, Helga, played on the Women\'s National Basketball Team. Growing up with athletic parents, it was no surprise that young Dirk took to sport in a big way, excelling in handball, gymnastics, and particularly tennis. He had not yet reached his teens when bitten by the \"basketball bug\". With a poster of idol Scottie Pippen on his wall to inspire him, Dirk, along with his older sister Silke, played basketball for their local Bundesliga team, DJK Würzburg (the X-Rays). When basketball, rather than handball, proved Dirk\'s true passion, there was a momentary disappointment on the part of the elder Nowitzki, but it soon faded. While in his early teens, Dirk suffered a fever during which he experienced a notable \"growth spurt.\" He asked his parents how tall they thought he would eventually be, and they took him to a doctor, who measured Dirk\'s wrists and informed his parents that their son would surpass two meters in height. His destiny seemed certain. <P><TABLE width=8 align=right border=0><TR><TD><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/Images/dirk_holger.JPG\">
Holger and his protege </TD></TR></TABLE></P><DIV class=Small1>When Dirk was 15, he met his mentor, former national player Holger Geschwindner, whose unconventional, think-outside-the-box approach to training not only refined Dirk\'s rough talent but expanded it, utilizing such other areas of learning as music, fencing, chess and ballet to improve his skills. <P>Dirk graduated from the Röntgen-gymnasium school, and spent nearly a year in the German Army, where he would later say he learned what it was he wanted in life. In 1998, he played in the Nike Hoop Summit, where NBA talent scouts would be impressed by the multi-talented young player, and that same year he entered the NBA draft. <P>Chosen 9th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks, Dirk was immediately traded to the Dallas Mavericks, with coach/general manager Don Nelson predicting Dirk would be Rookie of the Year. It wasn\'t to be that simple for the young immigrant. First, the season had been abbreviated by a labor dispute and lockout which delayed the beginning of the season until early 1999. Dirk struggled during this short first season, at an average of only 8.2 points per game in 18 games played. He also was facing a strange country, the NBA \"culture shock\", a new language, and thousands of miles distance from his family and friends. <P><TABLE width=8 align=left border=0><TR><TD><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/DIRKROOK.JPG\">
The New Texan</TD></TR></TABLE>Enter teammate Steve Nash, acquired by Dallas in a trade with Phoenix at the same time Dirk had arrived. Steve saw a shy, desperately homesick young man who needed a friend, and invited Dirk over to watch soccer on TV and share some pizza. The two clicked immediately and have been the best of friends ever since. <P>It was a good thing for both of them that they had the strong bond of their friendship to get through their first couple of years in Dallas. Steve was underachieving by his own and everyone else\'s standards, and faced regular boos and criticism, but he stood strong, not only knowing that he would improve, but finding ways to get Dirk more \"in the game\" and increase his confidence. And Dirk\'s second season was an improvement, certainly, finishing with 17.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game and finishing second in the voting for Most Improved Player-but it was only an inkling of what was to come.. <TABLE width=8 align=right border=0><TR><TD><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/2002allstars5.JPG\">
Steve and Dirk, 2002 All-Stars </TD></TR></TABLE><P>Dirk improved his stats to 21.8 points and 9.2 Rebounds per game in 2000 - 2001, and to an impressive 23.4 points and 8.1 rebounds per game during the Mavericks\' short-lived playoff stint that season. He had also placed second in the All-Star Weekend Three-Point Challenge in 2001. <P>The 2001 - 2002 season would bring yet more accolades. He was selected to the All-Star team for the Western Conference for the first time along with Steve, and would again improve his seasonal performance, to 23.8 points and 9.9 rebounds per game (8th overall in the NBA in both categories that year). Again, the Mavericks made it into the playoffs, making it as far as the second round before falling to the Sacramento Kings. Dirk\'s playoff numbers had reached 28.4 points and 13.1 rebounds average. Not bad for a 23-year-old; nor was his selection to the All-NBA Second Team. <P>The summer of 2002 was an eventful one for Dirk. Upon the end of the Mavs\' season, he had surgery on his ankle to remove bone spurs. With his usual determination, he got back into playing form and led the German Men\'s National Team to their first ever medal, a bronze, in the World Championships in Indianapolis that September. Dirk himself was also awarded the Most Valuable Player trophy for the tournament. He had averaged 28.4 points per game. <TABLE width=8 align=left border=0><TR><TD><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/0810dirk.JPG\">
2002 World MVP</TD></TR></TABLE><P>Fourteen consecutive victories got the Mavericks\' juggernaut 2002 - 2003 season off to a roaring start. Again, Dirk and Steve (who had now also proven himself a truly great player) made the All-Star team; again, the Mavs made it into the postseason. Dirk started the playoffs with a bang, racking up a career-high 46 points in the first game against the Portland Trailblazers. The Mavs made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals this time. An NBA Championship seemed within their grasp, until Game 3 of the series against the San Antonio Spurs, when in the fourth quarter, a Spurs player collided with Dirk\'s left leg, resulting in a sprain that ended his season-and the Mavericks\' championship hopes-prematurely. Despite that heartbreaking disappointment, Dirk could be proud of his achievements nonetheless, having improved his seasonal performance to 25.1 points (6th in the NBA) and 9.9 rebounds per game, and his abbreviated postseason ended at 25.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. He had also, again, been named to the All-NBA Second Team. <P>Dirk dedicated most of the summer of 2003 to working out and playing with the German national team, in hopes of their obtaining a berth in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and thereby fulfilling a great dream of his. Despite an ankle sprain suffered in a rough game against France in the Supercup two weeks before the Eurobasket tournament began, Dirk played well, showing no more signs of either his knee or ankle injuries by the time Team Deutschland reached Sweden. Despite a couple of \"wobbles\", things started out well, until a demoralizing loss to Lithuania, followed by a close--but unsuccessful--elimination game against two-time Euro champs Italy, eliminated the Germans from the tournament, dealing a painful setback to yet another great goal of Dirk\'s. <P>The Mavs\' 2003 - 2004 season proved to be a heartbreaking anomaly; for himself, Dirk would refer to it as a \"lost year\". It was expected that they would trade for a \"big man\" center and possibly more defensive muscle. Such muscle they obtained in Danny Fortson, and a reliable gunner in Antawn Jamison, both from Golden State (a trade that cost them, among others, \'03 hero Nick Van Exel). But in an even more last-minute trade, the Mavs brought in Tony Delk and - controversially - Antoine Walker. The move relegated Jamison to the bench (where he subsequently earned Sixth Man of the Year honors), but Walker never meshed with the team\'s style. Their record suffered, the Big Three\'s stats suffered, and Dirk suffered...in silence. For the first time since his rookie year, Dirk\'s points per game had retrogressed (to 21.8, ninth in the NBA), as did other stats (his rebounds fell to 8.7 per game), and his three-point shot in particular seemed to have abandoned him. Discouraged and frustrated, he relied on Geschwindner\'s guidance and Nash\'s friendship through a rough season. The silence ended at last in March, when, reacting in part to Walker\'s public complaint about lack of playing time, Dirk made a rather public statement of his own, calling out the Mavericks from owner to benchwarmer, taking his own share of the responsibility, and exposing the team\'s inner dysfunctions. The outburst cost him a fine from the team, but it proved well worth the expense, earning the praise of teammates and the action of Coach Nelson, who changed the team strategy to a nearly undefendable \"small ball\" approach that won 8 of their last 10 regular season games. During one week, Dirk averaged 32 points per game and won the league\'s Western Conference Player of the Week award. <P>The seedings for the Western Conference playoffs were not decided until literally the final buzzer of the last regular season game, and the Mavs, in fifth place, drew the slumping <TABLE width=157 align=left border=0><TR><TD class=Prime height=267><P><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/Images/DNAS04sm.JPG\">
2004 - All-Star and now an emerging leader, despite a \"lost year\"</P></TD></TR></TABLE><P>fourth-place Sacramento Kings. In any normal year, the two teams bring out the best in one another, but this time, as some German sport sites put it, the Mavs seemed only to \"awaken a monster\" in the Kings. Ironically, Dirk proved to be the only Mav in the series whose three-point shot average exceeded his regular field goal percentage (.467 to .450) and he played his heart out, averaging 26.6 points and 11.8 rebounds in over 42 minutes per game. Losing the first two in the California capitol, the Mavs bounced back with a resounding win in Game Three at home...then lost the fourth, leaving the team - particularly Dirk - stunned and \"in mourning\". They started the fifth game with a huge lead, but that dwindled, and in a cruel twist of fate, the final play went through Dirk, who had been plagued with insomnia for days and had played the entire 48 minutes. Despite a valiant game on his part, the end came down to a forced shot through an uncalled foul, and a miss. An ending all wrong for an athlete whose efficiency rankings had risen to elite status in the season - fifth in league efficiency ranking, and an impressive third place in total efficiency points with 1861. And in the harshest irony, his points per game average stood as the highest among all 2004 playoff participants.</P><P>Dirk\'s 2004 \"summer season\" started with a punch to the gut - his constant friend, Steve Nash, had moved on to the Phoenix Suns in free agency when the Mavs declined to match the Suns\' generous offer. Putting that aside, Dirk trained hard and took place in three exhibition games with the German national team. After trouncing Estonia, Team Deutschland took a measure of revenge on eventual Olympic silver medallists Italy (who had eliminated them in Sweden a year before) with an impressive win. On August 4th <TABLE height=525 width=283 align=right border=0><TR><TD class=Prime height=515><P>
<img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/Images/DN080404a.jpg\"></P><P align=center>Dirk put Team Deutschland back on the world radar</P></TD></TR></TABLE>came the hot ticket event - Team Deutschland vs Team USA. While many expected a USA blowout, it was a close game throughout, Dirk tying it up with a three with a couple seconds to go, and the USA winning literally at the final buzzer on an Allen Iverson three. While no-one had expected an upset, the close loss was nearly as good as a win in that it seemed to put Germany back on the world hoops radar. The frustration of watching the Athens Olympics from a distance must have spurred Dirk\'s determination in August, because he continued to train hard and then returned to the German national team in September for the qualifying tournament for the 2005 European Championships. (The pre-Olympic exhibitions and the first four games of the qualification tournament were all that were covered in Dirk\'s insurance package.) Under new coach Dirk Bauermann, the German team, full of young, new players in the absence of several key injured players, performed like a powerful unit. The first four games, against the Ukraine (twice), Belgium and Hungary, were all German victories led by either Dirk or fellow star Ademola Okulaja. Four games, four wins, and Germany had their slot for \'05 - but it wasn\'t enough for Dirk, who made arrangements to play in Game 5 in Charleroi, Belgium, leading the Germans to another win and the best possible seeding position for the next year. (Germany, minus Dirk or Okulaja, would also win the sixth and final game.) <P>At this writing, Dirk, 26, is starting a new season with almost a new team, with the Mavericks having many new faces due to trades and free agency. There will be changes, adjustments, challenges, and for the first time in his NBA career, a few hundred miles between him and his compadre Steve Nash. But he has always risen to challenges, adapted to change, and valued true friendship. The coming season provides an opportunity for Dirk not only to survive, but to flourish. The details have only to be written. <P>Stay tuned. <P>
SOME OTHER FACTS… <P>Dirk stands an even 7\'0\" tall and weighs 240 lbs. <P>He is an avid reader, and a musician as well (guitar and saxophone). He and Steve (also a guitarist) \"jam\" from time to time! <P>Silke Nowitzki, Dirk\'s sister, works for NBA-TV in the United States. <P>Dirk was sporting a very short haircut in early 2002…using his celebrity to aid a worthy cause, Dirk had the shorn hair auctioned, and donated the proceeds from the auction toward breast cancer research. <P>Before the 1998 NBA Draft, Dirk and Holger hiked the Grand Canyon. When Dirk made the 40 km ascending trek from the Colorado River without asking to stop, Holger said he knew his protégé was ready for the NBA.</P></DIV>
晕，又从二人转变成独角戏了
<P>\"I kind of stand between the worlds\"
</P>By Stephan Draf and Christian Ewers /Stern online <P>Würzburg is his homeland, Dallas his home. He is a shy boy, who has to be the finisher on the playing field. Basketballer Dirk Nowitzki about his life in the USA and surviving in the NBA, the hardest professional league of his sport. </P><P align=center><img src=\"http://www.dirknowitzkiofr.com/Images/sternint.jpg\"></P><P>- Mr. Nowitzki, on Tuesday the new NBA season begins. Do you still have desire? </P><P>DN: Of course. Why do you ask? </P><P>- The past season was disappointing for you. With your team, the Dallas Mavericks, you were knocked out early in the championship. And you had to play the stopgap - at positions that were completely new for you. </P><P>DN: I agree, I had to play directly under the basket, there are dudes there who weigh 20 to 30 kilos more than I do. But we got stronger and also changed well tactically - these arrangements might relieve me. We got stronger as a team.</P><P>- But the biggest pressure still rests on you. Your coach Don Nelson already announced: \"We\'ll run all the plays through Dirk.\" </P><P>DN: I also hadn\'t counted on being able to rest on the bench. </P><P>- Then take us into the game with you: Two defenders hang on your arm, game time runs off, and you\'re still in a bad shooting position. And then...... </P><P>DN: ...and then the ball goes straight or not. </P><P>- And if not? </P><P>DN: Then it\'s awful. But if it goes right, that\'s a great feeling, that I sometimes draw from for days. The nicest part of it is the confidence of your teammates. A pass to me in the final seconds means: We all believe in you, you\'ll do it. If it works out then, it\'s wonderful. Then I can give something back to the team.</P><P>- Are you a leader by nature? </P><P>DN: No, I\'m rather reserved. Maybe even shy. I\'ve only grown by achievement into the role of the finisher. And if I\'m having a bad day, I\'m perfectly at ease that someone take the responsibility from me. </P><P>- There are basketballers who hit nothing up until the last minute, but then demand the ball and convert the shot. </P><P>DN: I lack that kind of self-confidence. I\'m still not a superstar yet. Players like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Kobe Bryant simply stand above me. But I don\'t despair, because you can also practice this coolness like a shooting technique.</P><P>- What goes on inside you, if you get the ball ten seconds before the end? </P><P>DN: There\'s no room for feelings. I\'m busy with totally practical problems: How do I pass my opponent? Slowly, to provoke a foul and get free throws? Or would I do better to score directly? I have to make this decision in a fraction of a second. </P><P>- But you\'ve been obsessing with free throws for a long time...... </P><P>DN: The pressure then is completely different. The whole arena is shouting against you, you don\'t understand your own words, the people wag plastic tubes to irritate you. In situations like that I always set on the same procedure: I tip the ball up three times, inhale again deeply, that\'s stabilizing. Often I also hum my favorite song, \"Mr. Jones\" by the Counting Crows. So I can sing myself out of the arena, home into the armchair, or even into the bar where I heard the song for the first time.</P><P>- Sounds like something from a psych counselor. </P><P>DN: I know, internally I resist such prefabricated behavior. I\'m only 26, basketball shouldn\'t be assembly line work. Basketball is the opposite of routine, basketball always re-invents itself. </P><P>- And the coaching changes. The Mavericks have for some years provided a mental coach - can he help you? </P><P>DN: He has even written a book for our team. Generally, in America a lot of importance is attached to mental fitness. I learned here how important freedom is in the mind. Not all thoughts can be orange like a basketball.</P><P>- Then you\'re definitely a fan of Jürgen Klinsmann, who wants to hire a mental coach for the national football (soccer) team. </P><P>DN: Klinsmann is on the right path. In Germany, psychological support was laughed at a lot for a long time - as if it was just something for athletes with roof damage. The new national team coach has affected a lot within a short time. Now you can talk about psychology in sport, without people looking at you funny. </P><P>- What burdens you the most mentally? </P><P>DN: Thanks for the inquiry, it\'s going great for me. Sometimes the hype about my character gets on my nerves. This summer, when I traveled around Europe with the national team, I noticed that I was really in the middle everywhere. In the European Championship qualification game against Belgium, our opponent\'s assistant coach got an autograph from me - during the game, when I was on the bench for a minute. Fortunately, in the USA people are somewhat calmer.</P><P>- Would you rather live in America than in Germany? </P><P>DN: I\'m torn between here and there. Würzburg is my home, my parents and my friends live there. I like the narrow streets of the city, the tranquillity and my mother\'s Kohlrouladen (stuffed cabbage leaves). Dallas is the counterpoint to Würzburg. And I\'m happy to live there. To dive in, to be able to glide around in such a glamorous town with millions of inhabitants, is also fun. </P><P>- Could you imagine yourself staying in the USA after your career? </P><P>DN: That depends on the wife that I have then. If she\'s American and wants to live in the states, I\'ll stay. Otherwise, I\'ll go back to Europe.</P><P>- Were there moments in which you felt strange in the USA? So much that you wanted to quit the job? </P><P>DN: The beginning was really hard. I came along as an absolute nobody, 19 years old, with a little school English. Fortunately I soon got to know Steve Nash, he came straight from Canada and also experienced a culture shock. We talked a lot about our alienation, went out drinking and played guitar together. If this friendship hadn\'t happened, my NBA adventure could have been very quick to end. </P><P>- Steve Nash left the team and now plays for the Phoenix Suns. </P><P>DN: Yes, that\'s sad. After the deal, Steve\'s father wrote me a letter that I\'m always welcome in the family. And that I\'m like a second son to him. That touched me.</P><P>- Are such friendships usual in the NBA? </P><P>DN: No, because the business is too hard and too much defined by competition. But with us on the team, sometimes we go out to eat privately, we stick together well. Generally, Americans are really somewhat more non-committal; friendships, as I know them from Germany, are hard to break up. On the other hand, it strikes Americans in Europe that nobody says hello and everyone goes around grouchy. Right now I can understand both sides. I kind of stand between the worlds.
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