Chapter 1035 1034. The Beginning of Felton’s Nightmare

The next day, November 21, the Hawks welcomed the tenth game of the season, the home game against the Bobcats.

In the morning, Liu Mang and his teammates continued to train their own tactics of holding the ball and organizing offense, and then watched the video. In the afternoon, Liu Mang took a good nap to relieve the excessive use of his brain in the past two days.

At 4 o'clock, the warm-up began. At 5:40, 20 minutes before the start of the game, the players of both teams entered the court.

The atmosphere at the scene was very warm, nine consecutive wins! The fans are happy to win. Although there were minor problems in the last half of the game, the fans believe that the team will recover.

As for Liu Mang's post-match statement that he was brushing assists, it was written out by the media, but the fans did not believe it. Even if there was a video, they thought it was a deliberately edited video by the media. The fans thought that there must be a video in the front that the media "forced" Liu Mang to get angry and talk nonsense.

Even those who are not fans of the Hawks do not believe the video released by the media. It's too ridiculous.

That reporter was about to cry, he only interviewed Liu Mang for two sentences!

To be honest, no one believes it these days! That reporter really wants to go back to school to be retrained...

Liu Mang was the last to enter the court, and the scene was full of cheers.

After entering the court, Liu Mang looked at the ability evaluation of the opposing players.

"Emeka Okafor, ability evaluation 81 (peak), offense 75, defense 87, three-pointer 36, mid-range shot 65, layup 88, speed 79, strength 90..."

Compared with last season... the best rookie has regressed! Okafor's rookie season played like the top center in the 1980s and 1990s, but he was at his peak as a rookie. This season, his data has declined, averaging 13 points and 11 rebounds per game.

Liu Mang was not surprised that Okafor was at his peak as a rookie. Liu Mang has never seen anyone else with an ability evaluation of 80 in recent years, except James. And Okafor is the only one who has an ability evaluation of 80 at the beginning of the rookie season and still 80 after the rookie season.

As the second season began, the Bobcats no longer gave all the ball rights to Okafor to brush up his stats. With the opponent's targeting and the Bobcats aiming for the playoffs, it was normal for his scoring to decline.

"Raymond Felton, ability rating 76, offense 77, defense 75, three-pointer 79, mid-range 72, layup 81, speed 89, strength 86..."

Short and strong point guard, relatively balanced offense and defense, nothing outstanding, 76 ability rating is worthy of the second place, Kwame Brown and Howard just entered the NBA with an ability rating of 75, Milicic, Wade, Bosh and others are similar.

"Gerald Wallace, ability rating 85, offense 83, defense 89, three-pointer 62, mid-range 78, layup 91, speed 90, strength 87..."

The most unexpected is Gerald Wallace!

Liu Mang knew that Gerald Wallace was a top player in his prime, and was selected to the All-Star and All-Defensive Teams, but he didn't expect that he had made such great progress in the first two years after joining the Bobcats. He was already one of the best first-class defensive players, and he also took into account both offense and rebounding. McGrady gave up rebounding and had to choose between organizing offense and scoring to have such defense.

Liu Mang felt that the owner of the Kings, whose defense is terrible now, probably wanted to cry.

Apart from these three, the others are not very good. Brevin Knight's ability rating is 73. Except for his passing of 95 and speed of 93, he has no other advantages. He is a standard data brush.

Brezek is a good white tall man who eats cakes. His height of 2.18 meters allows him to eat cakes easily, but he will be exhausted when he encounters a team with strong defense.

Sean May is not bad. He has good talent and good combat power, but his weight is a problem. Similar to Eddy Curry, he can't control his weight at all. His ability rating of 74 is excellent. After all, he is a player at the end of the lottery zone, but he can only play for 20 minutes a game, which is far from enough to be a main player.

Jumaine Jones, Kareem Rush, Keith Bogans and other important signings in the summer did not work, and the data was worse than when they were in other teams.

But there was no way, the Bobcats' salary was only 33 million US dollars.

After looking at the opponent's ability evaluation, Liu Mang went to practice shooting.

Liu Mang didn't know whether to pass more or shoot more. He thought about it and decided to do it. Winning was the first goal. The new tactics took time. He didn't want to prove that he could pass as much as in the last game. There was no need.

But there was one thing that was strange. Liu Mang saw that the Bobcats players seemed to be very motivated and motivated.

Liu Mang was very puzzled. What were these people so excited about? And why did the little fat guy look at him with "provocation" in his eyes?

"Ding... Because Raymond Felton wants to defeat the host and become famous, the temporary task: The Beginning of Nightmare is triggered."

"The Beginning of Nightmare: Let Raymond Felton feel the fear of the NBA. Task Reward: Raymond Felton's Peak Star Card. Failure Penalty: Deduct 10,000 Star Points. After completing the task, there will be a follow-up task to trigger."

This reward is too cheap! Liu Mang feels so painful. After his strength is improved, it is useless to take Felton's star card, which basically has no characteristics and no outstanding advantages!

But there is a follow-up task to abuse Felton?

This makes Liu Mang pay attention to this task.

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The Bobcats players are now carrying a lot of pressure.

For this game, the pressure comes from the title of "Hawks Terminator".

They feel like hell, why don't the fans who don't like the Hawks, and some Hawks fans who are self-deprecating, regard them as the "candidates" to defeat the Hawks.

They are now second to last in the Eastern Conference! Except for the Knicks' 11-game losing streak at the start, they have the worst record.

In addition, it is the team's record pressure, which is what makes them breathless.

2 wins and 10 losses, the Bobcats started this season, and the double No. 2 combination did not lead the team to victory as expected by fans and the media.

After the Bobcats got Raymond Felton, Boss Joe told reporters: "We will not miss the playoffs. We now have three excellent core players. We will not miss the playoffs again."

After getting Felton, Boss Joe was very confident. With the best rookie Okafor, Brevin Knight, a passer who ranked fourth in assists per game, and Gerald Wallace, an excellent role player, and Primoz Brezec, who almost won the Most Improved Award after the Bobcats selected him from the Pacers last season, his average score soared from 1 point per game to 13+7 per game. The Bobcats looked like they were going to rise in the second season.

But the reality is cruel.

Felton is not bad either. His performance is not bad. Among the top four picks, except for Chris Paul who performed too well, averaging 15+5+8 per game at the beginning of the season, playing the rookie season performance of Liu Mang, James, Anthony and others, the other two point guards are worthy of their ranking.

Felton averaged 12 points, 3.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, and Deron Williams averaged 10 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists per game. Both of them performed well.

Felton is very stable. He has played very steadily since he entered the NBA. On the defensive end, except for his lack of height, he is mobile and oppressive. He does not have the problem of gambling on steals and missing people like Iverson and Baron Davis. He is a very good second pick.

But just being good and not watery is obviously not enough. It is far from the description that Jordan has high hopes for entering the NBA and must open the whole court!

Felton can steadily get ten points, five or six assists, and three or four rebounds in a game, but that's it, not more or less. If he wants to play a decisive role, he is still a little far away.

The Bobcats players may be under too much pressure and their heads are a little confused. They take what the media and fans say seriously. They are very confident in playing against the Hawks today!

Boss Joe did not come to the away game today. Playing against the Hawks, Boss Joe thinks that he can probably win the league's first place if he doesn't watch the game.

The players also want to grasp the life-saving straw. They really thought they were going to rise at the beginning of the season. Now they have 2 wins and 10 losses, and they lost so badly. They urgently need a morale-boosting victory. Playing against the Hawks is of course the best choice.

Last season, only three teams "did not lose" to the Hawks. Three of them were the Suns, Supersonics, and Nuggets, which tied with the Hawks 1:1. The Bobcats were the only team that tied with the Hawks 2:2.

Sometimes there is no other way, so you can only believe in fate!

The Bobcats players feel that they are destined to win against the Hawks!

Moreover, without Boss Joe, who lost the game when watching the game live, they are more confident!

Especially Felton. After he won the NCAA championship, the fans were shouting "Everyone loves Raymond" and even compared him with Liu Mang. Now that he met Liu Mang, Felton wanted to prove himself.

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With the whistle of Rasheed Wallace, Liu Mang received the prompt that the devil's home court was turned on, sprinkled magnesium powder in the air, and went on the court!

Felton, who was thinking about taking a shot at Liu Mang just now, was frightened by the sudden cheers from the scene.

This was the first time he encountered such a fanatical atmosphere on the scene, even crazier than when he played in the NCAA finals!

The most affected players in the devil's home court are the rookies. Even if the veterans are weak in character, they at least have experience. But the rookies feel terrible when they encounter it for the first time!

"Calm down, I have to calm down! We are the nemesis of the Eagles, we can win!" Felton stood on the free throw line to cheer himself up.

Suddenly, Felton felt a malicious gaze, and following the gaze, Felton saw Liu Mang's unreserved malicious eyes!

Felton couldn't help but look away because of being stared at.

The Eagles sent out the regular starting lineup of Liu Mang, McGrady, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown.

The Bobcats sent out the starting lineup of Felton, Keith Bogans, Gerald Wallace, Okafor, and Rebrash.

Seeing the opponent's starting lineup, Liu Mang felt that this was a very good defensive lineup in positional warfare, but the offense... was it relying on Gerald Wallace?

It seems that Gerald Wallace is really the Bobcats' scoring leader.

Kwame Brown and the 2.18-meter-tall Rebrash came to the center circle for a jump ball.

This water cooler center who basically couldn't play in the first three years of the Pacers is really tall, much taller than Kwame Brown.

Kwame Brown was very motivated when he saw this center who was taller than him. He felt a special sense of satisfaction when he won the jump ball over such an opponent.

The referee came to the center circle, blew the whistle to start the game, and threw the ball into the air.

Kwame Brown made up for his height and small hands with his obvious speed advantage and easily won the jump ball.

Liu Mang received the ball, and the Eagles attacked first!

The Bobcats retreated well, and their head coach Bernie Bickerstaff is an excellent defensive coach.

Liu Mang reached the three-point line, and Felton immediately came up to him.

Felton wanted to use his strong body to defend Liu Mang.

But he came up to Liu Mang just after he passed the center circle. Such an obvious action gave Liu Mang too much space to break through and the opportunity to predict the defense in advance!

Liu Mang spread his feet and accelerated to the right!

Felton was still pressing forward, and Liu Mang, who was extremely fast, rushed to the same position as him!

Felton hurriedly retreated, he felt that he could not keep up, but unexpectedly he actually caught up!

Mainly because Liu Mang slowed down his pace after he and Felton were parallel to the backboard, and broke through to the basket by following Felton.

Felton kept up with the pace, and was always between Liu Mang and the basket, so the other Bobcats did not come to double-team. Felton's defense was still very good. Although he weighed as much as 93 kilograms, he was first-class in speed and had a good defensive attitude.

Liu Mang reached the low post on the right side of the three-second zone and leaned against Felton. At this time, the other Bobcats dared not to double-team him. Except for Rebrash standing in the three-second zone, the other Bobcats were following Rasheed Wallace, Prince, and McGrady in mid- and long-distance running.

Liu Mang created an opportunity for himself to play a single low-post game!

Liu Mang wanted to force a low-post game, but was afraid of Rebrash's height, so Liu Mang waved to Kwame Brown who was pulling to the left side of the three-second zone.

Kwame Brown saw Liu Mang's move and immediately squeezed from the right side of the three-second zone to the basket. Rebrash quickly moved over to block Kwame Brown.

At this time, Liu Mang turned right, dribbled one step, grabbed the ball, jumped into the three-second zone, and Felton quickly moved in front of Liu Mang and stretched out his hand to block him.

Felton, before he got fat, had good defensive awareness and footwork.

However, in the short half second when Felton moved to block Liu Mang, there was a certain distance of space, and Rebrash was brought to the left side of the three-second zone, and Liu Mang had space!

"Ding... The strongest first step is triggered, the host's attack strength under the basket is +5..."

When Felton came up, Liu Mang carried Felton's strong body, jumped on the spot, and slammed the ball into the basket through Felton! Felton pressed forward and was hit by the rebound force and the force that Liu Mang hung on him when he jumped.

Felton didn't expect that there was a point guard who could carry him and dunk like this!

Felton had no problem with defense. He could defend against Wade with such a defense. There was also a tall guy under the basket. Wade didn't dare to force a shot when he met Felton and Reblasha in the low post against the Bobcats.

But Liu Mang actually dunked like that!

After landing, Liu Mang looked at Felton who was sitting on the ground with a panicked face and said: "Little devil, the nightmare has begun!"

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