Chapter 863 862. Heartbroken

With Rasheed Wallace's roar, the scene became heated!

When playing against the Nets, Hawks fans are always enthusiastic. Although they have taken revenge, their hatred will not be eliminated.

Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air, further driving the fans' wild cheers, and walked onto the court.

The Hawks sent out Liu Mang, McGrady, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown as the starting lineup.

The Nets sent out Kidd, Carter, Eric Williams, Kostic, and Ratliff.

Kwame Brown did not give face to Ratliff, who had taught him a lot before, and easily won the jump ball.

Liu Mang passed the ball to McGrady immediately after receiving it, and then ran forward, wanting to take advantage of Kidd's knee injury, which had not yet fully recovered, to gain an advantage in rhythm.

Who knew that after Liu Mang dodged Eric Williams and entered the three-point line, he was immediately stuck by Kidd. Kidd used accurate prediction to judge Liu Mang's running position. Not only that, the entire Nets team seemed to have fully studied the running position of the Hawks and always appeared in the correct defensive position.

Kostic, one of the Nets' twin towers, moved very quickly and kept up with Rasheed Wallace. Carter and Eric Williams were both physically fit men. With sufficient preparation, they blocked the Hawks' opening fast break!

McGrady was forced to stop the ball by Carter at a 45-degree angle on the right. McGrady was too careless and underestimated Carter's defense. Carter, who defended seriously, was also first-class in defense.

Liu Mang retreated and came to the top arc. McGrady immediately passed the ball to Liu Mang.

It was really unexpected! Liu Mang didn't expect that Kidd, whose speed had dropped so much, could still keep up with the defense. He deserved to be a defensive master who could be selected as the first defense at the age of 33 after undergoing minimally invasive surgery. Although Kidd, who is not yet 32 ​​years old, has lost his speed and explosiveness, Kidd's offensive breakthrough and passing have become very poor, and his scoring method has become mainly open shots, but his defense has not declined too much. His awareness, defensive skills and anticipation of offense are too strong.

Liu Mang accelerated and rushed forward. Kidd always appeared in the most suitable position. His movement choices were very correct. The decline in speed made Kidd's defensive awareness better!

Liu Mang was not in a hurry. He waved to McGrady, who had opened up space, to come over for a pick-and-roll.

McGrady came up to help Liu Mang block Kidd. Liu Mang took advantage of McGrady's pick-and-roll and broke through from the right side of the top arc. Carter wanted to switch defense to block Liu Mang, but was blocked by another person!

Kwame Brown!

A very tacit and active second pick-and-roll!

Liu Mang borrowed a double pick-and-roll and broke into the basket! When he got to the three-second zone, Liu Mang slowed down and took two steps.

Ratliff was guarding the basket, waiting for Liu Mang to jump. He knew Liu Mang's attack under the basket very well, and was not fooled by Liu Mang's slow motion. He stood firmly in the most suitable position for blocking.

Liu Mang had already taken two steps. The third step could only face Ratliff, grab the ball, jump, and fly to the layup! Ratliff judged the timing, jumped, and blocked Liu Mang. As long as Liu Mang picked up the ball, Ratliff would be sure to block it!

However, Ratliff misjudged the direction of his hand! Liu Mang grabbed the ball and put it on his chest and jumped. After Ratliff seized the opportunity to jump up and stretch out his hand to block the layup route, Liu Mang took out the ball and threw it to the basket with his left hand!

Liu Mang stuck to Ratliff, bypassed Ratliff and fanned his right hand to the left, and made a low layup!

Ratliff knew Liu Mang too well. In the first three seasons of Liu Mang, Ratliff watched Liu Mang grow up. But the more he knew, the harder it was to defend Liu Mang when Liu Mang's left-hand layup was not much different!

Attack and defense switched, and it was the Nets' turn to attack.

The Nets had done a lot of research on the Hawks' offense, and the Hawks' coaching staff was also fully prepared for the Nets' offense.

The Nets' offense was really bad!

When Kidd was there, they would point to Kidd to command the run in the positional battle. When Kidd was not there, they would point to Carter to play singles. They were a team that won by defense.

Carter did not take the ball to attack at the beginning of the game, but ran to try to tear open the Hawks' defense.

However, the outside defense of Liu Mang, McGrady, and Prince rotated too quickly. In the end, Carter had to receive Kidd's pass and shoot against McGrady's block...

It didn't hit!

The ball was poked out of bounds by Ratliff, leaving no chance for the Hawks to counterattack.

The Hawks have too much advantage against the Nets now. They can't play fast breakbacks. Liu Mang and McGrady take turns to play singles or pick-and-rolls, and there is no big problem in scoring.

The Nets defended the Hawks' fast attack very well, but facing Liu Mang and McGrady who are in very good shape today, the Nets can't defend Liu Mang's pick-and-roll or McGrady's singles.

The Hawks quickly played a wave of 12 to 4, leading by 8 points at the start, and the Nets called a timeout.

The Nets head coach Lawrence Frank's defensive strategy is very good, blocking the Hawks' small ball tactics, but I didn't expect Liu Mang and McGrady to have such a good touch today! At the beginning, the two of them made 5 of 5 shots, and once passed to Kwame Brown, causing Kostic, who was defending, to foul. Kwame Brown made both free throws. At the beginning, the Hawks didn't miss a single shot and scored 12 points in a row.

After the timeout, the Nets' tempo-controlled play became more obvious, continuing to slow down their offense and suppress the Hawks' offensive rhythm on the defensive end.

The effect was pretty good. The Nets kept pressing the pace, which slowed down the Hawks a lot, and they continued to enter a situation where Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady took turns playing singles.

What a team that relies solely on defense to win needs most is patience. The Nets have no shortage of patience, but they are so exhausted that the shooting percentages of Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady begin to decline.

The offensive end of the Nets was once again in the hands of Carter. Carter came back from the timeout and scored all the Nets' points. Carter's shooting range was too wide and his breakthroughs were powerful. Prince defended very well, but he couldn't completely Carter has basically no blind spots when it comes to shooting inside and outside the three-point line. In particular, Carter can also use the pick-and-roll to receive Kidd's pass and shoot directly. This season, Carter's mid-range and long-range shooting percentage is 43%. The three-point rate is 42.5%. Although he does not take many three-pointers, he only takes 4 three-pointers per game and only takes 7 mid-range shots per game, but he is so accurate!

At the sixth minute and 30 seconds of the first quarter, the Nets patiently maintained the point difference and did not let the point difference be opened to more than 10 points.

When the official timeout entered, the score between the two teams was 17 to 10, with the Eagles leading the Nets by 7 points.

…

The Nets are still very good! If Kidd hadn't had minimally invasive surgery and hadn't fully recovered, the Nets would have been a really terrible team.

However, Kidd has not fully recovered at this stage. Even if Carter is cured of his foot injury by Liu Mang and has improved to the level closest to a superstar, he still cannot compare with Liu Mang or Tracy McGrady in scoring. The same goes for German passes.

In this way, Liu Mang continued to grind out singles attacks. Liu Mang did not have much pressure to win, and to Liu Mang's expectation, there was not much pressure on rebounds. Liu Mang had already grabbed two rebounds after half a quarter. McGrady Also got one, while Kidd and Carter were the only ones who got a rebound.

Liu Mang originally planned to use the bowling boy's star card to grab rebounds, but he didn't expect to use it.

Because Liu Mang never expected that the biggest statistical difference between them and the Nets backcourt duo was not in rebounds, but in assists!

The Nets scored 10 points, 6 of which were assists. Carter scored 8 points in the first half of the quarter. Two of the shots were made by Kidd. Carter caught the ball and cut inside to attract Kwame Brown and Liu. A reckless double attack gave Ratliff a layup.

The Nets got 3 assists in half a quarter!

As for the Eagles, the only opportunity for an assist was passed to Kwame Brown, but it was ruined by a foul by Kostic!

The Eagles had 0 assists in half a quarter, which is a huge difference from the Eagles' average of 24.5 assists per game in the past month, which averaged at least 6 assists per quarter!

Seeing McGrady put on his training clothes, Liu Mang knew that McGrady was going to go down to rest. Since it was a singles game, he would let the most promiscuous Jason Terry come up. This was Liu Mang's understanding of Coach Kruger's substitution.

But if McGrady goes down, how can he still provide assists?

Liu Mang's eyes suddenly lit up as he watched Calderon help Jason Terry pass the training clothes he took off to the staff.

Don’t you happen to have Calderon’s peak star card?

For positional battles, using Calderon star cards is perfect!

Today, let McGrady be responsible for soaring points while grabbing rebounds and assists?

Liu Mang thinks it’s very feasible! McGrady had already scored 8 points just now, while Liu Mang only scored 5 points. It was precisely because the Nets were stricter on his defense, and it was basically Carter's one-on-one defense against McGrady.

"System boss, use the Calderon star card!" He was so decisive. Anyway, if you use a Calderon star card, you can use it.

"Ding... The host uses the peak star card of Jose Calderon in the 2011-2012 season, the ability evaluation is 75-84, the time limit for this game is 81 offense, 72 defense, 95 three-pointers, 93 passing... Features: Floor flow Rhythm Master, matching degree is 75%, matching bonus is in progress..."

Seeing Calderon's ability evaluation, Liu Mang found that this guy was quite powerful at his peak! He didn't take Calderon's star card to heart at all before. He didn't notice Calderon at his peak. He was almost at the level of a first-class star... It was just that his ability fluctuated from 75-84. Liu Mang saw Calderon. characteristics, and you immediately understand why.

"Floor flow rhythm master: Jose Calderon is proficient in slow-paced offense under FIBA ​​rules. The same is true in the NBA. When the game is slow, Jose Calderon, who is proficient in floor flow play, will enter the best The status and ability evaluation have reached their peak.”

In other words, Calderon can only show his strongest strength in a slow-paced team. On the edge of a first-class star, in most teams, in his peak period, he was just a decent starting point guard in the starting lineup, relying on passing Ball accuracy and shooting percentage are important.

Calderon's three-pointers are truly amazing, and even Liu Mang feels jealous. He is indeed a top three-pointer who will have a season three-point shooting rate of 46% in the future and a career three-point shooting rate of over 40%. The three-point rating that year actually reached 95!

Even if it's mainly shooting without the ball, it's amazing!

Liu Mang feels that Calderon's only regret in shooting is that his physical fitness is too average. In addition to slowly grinding in positions and relying on the opportunity to shoot in position battles, Calderon's shooting is so accurate, but due to limited physical fitness, he cannot Such a good three-point shooting is fully utilized, because he cannot complete strong shots or stray shots, and can only rely on pick-and-roll shooting and catch-and-shoot shooting to fully utilize his shooting ability.

But this is exactly in line with the current game, isn’t it!

"Ding... the matching bonus is completed, the host's three-point shooting evaluation is temporarily increased to 92, and the temporary feature is obtained: floor flow rhythm master. When the game enters a slow-paced positional battle, the host passes the ball to teammates, and teammates can catch and shoot in all directions. Shooting ability +3.”

What a great feature!

For Calderon himself, his ability judged as a characteristic by the system is his ability to control the rhythm of positional battles and control the movements of his teammates. The bonus given to Liu Mang by the system is the direct response of his teammates after Liu Mang passes the ball. Get the improvement in shooting efficiency that is only possible with Calderon's organized offense!

The official timeout was about to end, and Jason Terry was pulled aside by Liu Mang just as he was about to come on.

Jason Terry saw the "insidious" expression on Liu Mang's face and became wary: "Ace, don't drag me along to play around. The coach will scold me, not you."

"Am I that kind of person?" Liu Mang said unhappily, and without giving Jason Terry a chance to feel heartbroken, Liu Mang continued: "Jason, do you want to try throwing a ball into the air?"

"ah?"

…

The Eagles replaced Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Josh Smith, and Mourning.

Kwame Brown was replaced and rested. Coach Kruger wanted Mourning to run in with his teammates early in the game. After all, Mourning has not experienced the team's long-term tactical training and game running-in. It is key for Mourning to integrate into the team early.

The Nets also made substitutions, replacing Ratliff and Eric Williams. The former had physical and injury issues, while the latter really didn't make much contribution.

The Nets replaced Kidd with Rodney Buford, Carter, Radmanovic and Kostic, who is very impactful and averaged 13 minutes, 7 points and 3 rebounds per game.

After the timeout, the Nets attack first.

Seeing the Hawks replace the "old, young, sick and disabled" inside duo, Kidd immediately had an idea.

After Kidd advanced to the frontcourt, he encountered Liu Mang's defense and waved Radmanovic to come out for a pick-and-roll. Radmanovic came out to block Liu Mang. Kidd did the pick-and-roll, and Radmanovic blocked Liu Mang. Mang immediately pulled away, and Liu Mang had to chase Radmanovic. In addition to skiing, this guy is very good at three-pointers.

After Liu Mang was taken away, Kidd's speed was not as fast as that of Josh Smith, but he relied on changes in rhythm to deceive the young Josh Smith and break into the paint. Mourning did not come out and did not care about Kidd at all. Kidd did not shoot directly because of the close shot with his feet, but plunged into the basket.

At this time, Mourning has to defend, and he still has to defend the layup under the basket.

After Kidd attracted Mourning's movement, he passed the ball to Krstic in the middle distance on the right side of the three-second zone. Krstic rushed to the basket with one step. Krstic was very excited and wanted to dunk Mourning.

However, when Mourning was attracted by Kidd, he turned around, jumped up, and slapped the ball raised by Kostic!

Mourning jumped up on the spot, dribbling the ball and flipping Kostic's hat to the ground!

The ball was slapped on the floor by Mourning and popped out of bounds!

The cooperative partners of Kidd and Krstic were both fooled!

Kostic fell to the floor, looking at Mourning, who was only 2.08 meters tall, still so old, had a kidney transplant, and had a slight gray beard. He was completely unprepared for this situation!

The fans at the scene immediately started cheering crazily for Mourning, it was amazing!

It was the Nets' attack again. Krstic didn't believe in evil and carried Mourning for the ball in singles. He held it for a long time and couldn't move. Time was running out. He directly raised the ball high and shot. Mourning blocked it again. It was a 24-second offensive violation. !

Kidd almost vomited blood when he saw that Kostic was blocked by Mourning no matter whether he was catching the ball and hitting the basket or hitting it high. He was blocked twice in a row!

Why wasn't Mourning so powerful when he was there? He became so powerful when he arrived at the Eagles!

Then something even more heartbreaking for Kidd happened. After Liu Mang moved to the frontcourt, Kidd was just about to guard Liu Mang. He already made a gesture to let his teammates be ready to cut off the passing route of Liu Mang and his teammates. Who would have thought that as soon as Liu Mang arrived in the frontcourt, he immediately threw it to Jason Terry. What's even more beautiful was that Jason Terry received the ball and threw it away before Carter could react!

He didn't care about the rhythm at all, he didn't care about his inside teammates not occupying a good rebounding position, he just threw it away!

What's more important is that the goal was scored directly!

Carter is very good at three-pointers, averaging 1.7 per game and shooting 42.5% from the field, but Jason Terry is not bad either, his shooting percentage is not as high as Carter's, and his three-point shooting percentage is 40%. One, but he averaged 2.5 three-pointers per game! And he achieved such a performance with such a ridiculous shooting method!

Liu Mang's goal now is very clear. When Jason Terry is there, he will use Jason Terry to assist. After passing the ball to Jason Terry, he will grab the rebound and let Jason Terry keep throwing.

It's the same when McGrady comes up, and he can score, rebound, and assist at the same time!

Before 1 o'clock in the next chapter, I will try my best to write as many chapters as possible. Although it took me so long today, I still try my best to update it with 10,000 words!