Chapter 972 971.20 Minutes of Jordan? I Am Jordan!
The Hawks sent out a rotation lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Josh Smith, and Mourning.
On the Spurs side, Parker was replaced because he was too much of a drag, and he was far from the peak version of the French sports car that could outrun James and win the Finals MVP two years later.
The Spurs sent out a lineup of Benno Udrih, Brent Barry, Ginobili, Bonzi Wells, and Duncan.
Popovich still decided to play a big and four small. When Nesterovic was there, the basket was defended. Duncan suppressed the rhythm better after having a meat shield center, but it was too difficult to defend Liu Mang from the outside.
Now the Spurs with peak Ginobili and Duncan can be regarded as a weakened version of the OK combination, but there is also an extra Bonzi Wells. The defense depends on the team, and it is not impossible to fight the OK combination in the three consecutive championships.
"System boss, use Jordan's star card!"
Directly come hard!
"Ding... Host uses Michael Jordan 1986-1987 version, ability rating 99, offense 100, defense 93, three-pointer 50, mid-range shot 95, layup 105, speed 93, strength 89... Talent skills: Jordan Law Level 4. Compatibility 75%, time limit: 10 minutes of game time, matching bonus in progress..."
Liu Mang's strength improvement allows him to use Jordan's star card with a higher matching degree. When the strength rating was 81 before, the matching degree was only 60%. Now that the strength rating has been increased to 87, the matching degree has increased to 75%!
According to the system's introduction, if the height and weight are closer, it is possible to further improve the matching degree.
"Ding... Host's temporary ability rating is 96, three-pointer is 92, mid-range shot is 93, layup is 99, speed is 94, strength is 87... The confrontation is temporarily greatly improved, and the temporary talent skill: Jordan's Law Level 3. The duration is 10 minutes of game time."
Liu Mang went to the referee to borrow the ball and tried to lay up. He felt different. When he jumped up and threw the ball, he felt that the combination of his hands and the ball was better when he pulled the lever in the air!
After the timeout, the Spurs have the ball.
Liu Mang excitedly waited for Ginobili to advance. To defend Ginobili, Liu Mang knew that he would definitely not be able to defend him. He was sure of this.
But Prince and McGrady couldn't defend him, so Liu Mang had to come.
Instead of letting McGrady defend Ginobili and wasting his energy, Liu Mang felt that it would be better for him to come.
"Ding... Talent skill: Jordan's Law Level 3 Trigger: The host is in a psychological and momentum advantage when facing any opponent."
Here it comes! Just go! When the system carded Jordan's invincible characteristics of his peak period into a skill for Liu Mang, it digitized it and gave Liu Mang that ability in a direct way!
After Ginobili advanced to the frontcourt, he looked at Liu Mang's excitement and felt an inexplicable pressure. This pressure made him very uncomfortable, and this feeling made Ginobili more focused.
"Ding... Characteristics: Demon Sword Level 5 is triggered, fearless of any opponent, fearless of any challenge, from Manu Ginobili."
Listening to the system's interpretation of Ginobili's personality and playing style, Ginobili's current mental changes, Liu Mang expected that even if Jordan came to defend Ginobili, he would not be able to suppress this guy in terms of momentum. This was the year of this guy's peak and the year of his most confident self-confidence. At the same time, Liu Mang felt Ginobili's desire to defeat him, and he would definitely not be suppressed by this.
Ginobili dribbled with his left hand on the perimeter. Liu Mang can also be considered a left-handed person. Facing Ginobili's weird dribbling posture compared to most players, Liu Mang used an equally weird stance to defend.
Ginobili wanted to break through Liu Mang with rhythm, but found that the opponent kept up with the rhythm. Then he remembered that this bastard had imitated him to attack with his left hand, and then developed his left hand!
This kind of monster must be shot while he is still young!
Ginobili was very serious and focused in this finals. He knew that if he didn't win this time, he would have no chance to beat Liu Mang in the future. Maybe the Spurs will have a chance to beat Liu Mang's team in the finals in the future, but he himself is not good enough. He will be 28 years old in the summer, and his technical and physical condition are in the best year. The opponent is only 23 in the summer. The age gap is too big. Even if he can maintain his condition until more than 30, he can't be stronger than now. He will only become weaker, and the opponent can become stronger.
Ginobili suddenly chose to speed up and break through from Liu Mang's left side. The defensive prediction brought by Liu Mang's passive defense skill of Blocker Level 5 allowed him to accurately predict Ginobili's breakthrough action and immediately pressed forward.
"Ding... Pressure defense level 5 is triggered, and the host's stealing ability is greatly improved."
Liu Mang pressed forward and tried to reach out to steal, but Ginobili had already expected it, and suddenly took a big step and stepped towards the free throw line.
Liu Mang was wiped out!
Too hard to defend!
Liu Mang turned around and chased him, Ginobili's second step had already taken out, and the speed was very fast. Before Mourning under the basket could react, he took two steps and flew to throw.
Too awesome!
Ginobili passed Liu Mang in one step, and took the European step directly from a distance of one meter inside the three-point line, making the Hawks' inside and outside defenses go around in circles!
Ginobili made good use of Liu Mang's characteristic of being good at pressure defense outside, and used cleverness to outsmart him when he was outmatched in strength!
The Spurs retreated quickly and scored a good goal, and the next step was to focus on defense.
Liu Mang glanced at Coach Kruger on the sidelines. Coach Kruger closed his eyes. Liu Mang felt that the boast he made a minute ago... was a bit embarrassing!
45 to 48, the Spurs continued to close the score.
Attack and defense changed, the Hawks attacked.
After Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, Jason Terry saw that Liu Mang had no intention of passing the ball, so he went to open up the space. The threat of his three-pointer was no less than that of Liu Mang and McGrady. Compared with the young Korver and veteran Persson, Jason Terry and McGrady could open up the space better in the finals. After experiencing high-intensity confrontation, they could also maintain their touch. Therefore, Coach Kruger used McGrady, Jason Terry or Liu Mang to open up the space, which was extravagant and enviable to Popovich, and the other person played singles.
When Liu Mang reached the three-point line, Ginobili still chose to defend his three-pointer and let him break through. He would rather let Liu Mang shoot from the distance. Of course, he would try his best to put pressure on Liu Mang when shooting. As long as it was not as accurate as Kobe, the Spurs would not be afraid!
Just as Ginobili expected, Liu Mang used his strength and speed to squeeze Ginobili and rushed into the three-point line.
Brent Barry let go of Prince to defend the mid-range shot, and Ginobili immediately rotated to Prince to block Liu Mang's passing route, forcing Liu Mang to shoot from mid-range.
But...
Liu Mang did not choose to avoid the defense and make a quick stop jump shot because Brent Barry came to defend, but rushed straight to the inside!
It was too sudden!
In the first 20 minutes of the game, Liu Mang rarely attacked the basket, and he took advantage of the Spurs' mid-range defense to shoot. It was very accurate, but the Spurs were waiting, waiting for Liu Mang's mid-range shooting feeling to start declining, but this time such a good mid-range shot opportunity, he didn't shoot!
Duncan quickly made up for it.
Liu Mang was fearless, facing Duncan's defense and jumped up, and pulled up beautifully in the air, not avoiding Duncan's arm, but using the feeling of the player's connection when pulling the lever, and took the initiative to put his hand under Duncan's arm and bumped into it!
"Beep..."
The referee blew the whistle, Duncan clamped his arm and destroyed the ball, but it was a foul!
Duncan committed his second foul in this game. He did a good job of protecting himself from fouls. In the finals, he only committed one foul in a quarter. If Liu Mang hadn't taken the initiative to commit a foul, Duncan might not have committed any fouls in this quarter.
Liu Mang got two free throws. Liu Mang wiped the sweat on his arm on Duncan with disdain. This paralyzed man clamped his hand with his armpit!
Duncan looked down at Liu Mang's movements and said nothing. After Liu Mang wiped the sweat off his hand, Duncan silently walked to the right side of the three-second zone and prepared to grab the free throw rebound.
"..."The referee wanted to call a technical foul when he saw Liu Mang's movements, fearing that something would happen, but the bosses of these two teams...one is stranger than the other!
One is "clean freak", and the other tolerates the clean freak of the other...
You are opponents!
The referee blew the whistle and threw the ball to Liu Mang who walked to the free throw line.
There was no big problem. This time Liu Mang made both free throws steadily.
50 to 45, still a 5-point difference.
The Spurs attacked, Liu Mang defended Ginobili's breakthrough more strictly, not so closely, Ginobili took advantage of the threat of breakthrough and shot a jump shot from outside the three-point line...
The rhythm was very good, but unfortunately it missed.
Mourning had enough weight to block Duncan. Duncan saw that the ball was not where he was standing, so he did not rush to grab it and quickly retreated.
Still so stable, the natural king Duncan's stability is too good, and the Spurs also played very calmly because of Duncan's character. Even when they were attacking against each other before, the Spurs' offense was not chaotic, and the defense retreated quickly. It was just that objective conditions hindered their stability on the defensive end.
Josh Smith guarded the defensive rebound and passed it to Liu Mang. Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and Ginobili stepped on the three-point line to defend.
Liu Mang was ready to be fierce! More than one meter away from the three-point line, Liu Mang's leg muscles tightened and accelerated suddenly!
"Ding... The strongest first step is triggered, and the speed of this breakthrough is +5 within two seconds."
No need for pick-and-roll, just speed up!
Liu Mang accelerated suddenly, and Ginobili subconsciously reached out to pull, but missed!
Brent Barry's help defense was not in time, and Liu Mang had already rushed to the free throw line!
Too fast!
Duncan felt a breath called background coming, and went up to hug Liu Mang directly. Liu Mang reacted quickly. When Duncan hugged him, his big hand played a role, caught the bouncing ball and turned his body. When being hugged by Duncan, he threw the ball out with a hook in his right hand.
Ginobili did not follow in, and Brent Barry did not continue to defend. The ball that Liu Mang hooked from his waist fell into the basket like that.
The referee whistled, the goal was valid, and there was a penalty!
52 to 45, Liu Mang still had a chance to shoot free throws!
Dwyane Wade's strongest first step, plus Michael Jordan's strongest outside layup ability in history! He also used the hook trick he learned from Magic Johnson's card.
Liu Mang, whose confrontation ability was greatly improved by using Jordan's card, combined these three things together in a way that he himself did not expect!
Unfortunately, there were only 10 minutes... Liu Mang felt a little regretful while rubbing the sweat on his left arm on Duncan.
However, he must seize these ten minutes!
Once again, Liu Mang rubbed his sweat, or that of Duncan, onto Duncan's jersey under the silent gaze of fans, teammates, opponents, referees, and TV viewers.
Duncan had one thing that made Liu Mang very satisfied. In order to protect his body, Duncan wore something similar to a pressure suit inside his jersey, which could buffer the muscle pressure caused by the confrontation. Of course, it was not as strong as a pressure suit, but it did not affect his movements. It was also made of sweat-absorbent material, so the jersey outside would not get wet so quickly.
Liu Mang went to the free throw line and made the free throw. The Hawks played a 5-2 wave, further expanding the score difference to 8 points!
The Spurs called a timeout, replaced Duncan who had three fouls, and rearranged the defense, mainly because it was time for Duncan to rest.
The Hawks emphasized defense, and Liu Mang was the only one who could take the offensive end.
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After the timeout, the Hawks did not make any substitutions. Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Josh Smith, and Mourning continued to play.
On the Spurs side, Udrih, Brent Barry, Ginobili, Bonzi Wells, and Nesterovic played.
With Ginobili outside and Bonzi Wells inside, the Spurs' offensive threat was still sufficient.
Ginobili pushed forward to the frontcourt. Liu Mang knew that he could not defend. Prince came over immediately, and the Hawks directly adopted an outside double team attack!
Ginobili immediately passed the ball to Brent Barry. When Liu Mang and Prince went to double team Ginobili, Jason Terry rushed towards Brent Barry. Brent Barry quickly passed the ball to Udrih outside the three-point line on the left side of the basket. Liu Mang had already rushed towards Udrih, and the Hawks began to quickly press the defense!
As a rookie, Udrih can have a stable playing time, which is inseparable from his maturity!
Udrih received the ball and saw Liu Mang rushing over quickly. He did not rush to shoot, nor was he scared to pass the ball. Instead, he broke through the inside and rushed past Liu Mang. Liu Mang kicked his left foot, stopped and turned, and rushed towards Udrih.
At this time, the short and strong man Bonchi Wells came up very timely to block Liu Mang. Udri attracted Josh Smith's switch defense, passed the ball back to Bonchi Wells, and then ran to the left corner with Josh Smith.
"..." Liu Mang didn't know what happened. Why did he become the one defending this stick?
It was going to kill him!
Just as Liu Mang expected, the opponent ran directly towards him! Liu Mang couldn't stop him at all, so he could only stick to him as much as possible and was squeezed into the three-second zone!
Bonchi Wells pushed Liu Mang into the three-second zone, and Mourning's defense was very timely, and he also blocked Bonchi Wells' connection with the inside line.
Bonchi Wells was very good at passing the ball in the low post, but there was a flaw, he was short and couldn't pass it inside.
Bonchi Wells turned around facing the double-team of Liu Mang and Mourning, avoided Mourning's defense, ignored Liu Mang who was shorter than him, turned around and shot...
"Ding... Hotpot Feast Level 5 triggered..."
The skill that could not be triggered in eight of the ten games was triggered at this time! Liu Mang accurately predicted the direction in which Bonzi Wells turned and shot the ball when Bonzi Wells raised it up!
Mourning didn't expect Liu Mang to block Bonzi Wells! Bonzi Wells himself didn't expect this. Liu Mang reacted the fastest. He rushed to the floor and hugged the ball that he had hit to the free throw line. Then, like Voldemort, he quickly dribbled the ball and rushed forward.
Ginobili and Udrih reacted quickly and retreated immediately.
After Liu Mang rushed to the basket, Udrih decisively hugged Liu Mang first, and Ginobili jumped up to block Liu Mang's shot. Liu Mang stabilized his core strength, pulled the rod to avoid Ginobili's hand and threw the ball out...
Hit it again!
The referee whistled, and Udrih committed a defensive foul!
Liu Mang scored 7 points in a row and had a chance to shoot free throws!
This ball was so lucky, purely based on the touch, because Ginobili and Udrih retreated quickly, Liu Mang did not trigger the single rider, but relying on the layup touch brought by the Jordan star card, Liu Mang forced the throw and scored!
The free throw was also made!
Liu Mang scored 8 points in a row! The defensive counterattack with the block! If there was no Liu Mang's block, with the touch of Bonzi Wells, he would definitely score if he got such an opportunity, which means that Liu Mang got a total of "5 points" inside and outside.
56 to 45, 11 points difference, the Hawks beat Popovich again and called a timeout!
More than two minutes, the opponent scored 8 points, Popovich felt like he saw a ghost!
The Hawks played a small climax of 8 to 2 in two minutes and 17 seconds!
Or, it was Liu Mang who played a wave of 8 to 2!
The Spurs were a little panicked. They were like this every time they encountered an explosive player, and they were panicked.
Popovich did not change players, emphasizing the defense of Liu Mang's breakthrough.
The Hawks did not make any substitutions, allowing Liu Mang to continue playing singles and strengthen the defense against Bonzi Wells. Ginobili was enough, and they could not let Bonzi Wells, who seemed to be in a bad state after a quarter of rest and was blocked by Liu Mang, play well.
After the timeout, the Spurs strengthened their offensive impact. Ginobili rushed to the basket, causing Josh Smith to foul and get two free throws.
Ginobili was also very stable in free throws, making both free throws and finally breaking the scoring drought.
47 to 56, the score difference returned to within 10 points.
When the Hawks attacked, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt and saw Ginobili retreat to the three-point line to prevent a breakthrough. Liu Mang took two steps outside the three-point line to accelerate and actually rushed two steps. Ginobili quickly retreated, and Brent Barry was ready to block Liu Mang's inside attack. However, Liu Mang's foot just stepped into the three-point line and he retracted it, stepping back and shooting!
The Spurs forgot Liu Mang's biggest killer move - three-pointers!
Ginobili rushed back to defend, but it was too late!
"Ding... Step-back shooting skill level 5 is triggered. The host will step back and jump to prevent shooting interference this time."
Liu Mang made good use of the breakthrough threat just now and stepped back and shot a three-pointer!
59 to 47, 12 points difference!
Liu Mang scored 11 points in a row and scored 20 points in a single quarter!
The Spurs attacked again. Ginobili was anxious. After changing directions outside the three-point line, he shot a three-pointer against Liu Mang's defense...
The demon sword is a demon sword, and he managed to score.
However, it was the Hawks' turn to attack next. After Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, Ginobili and Udrih chose to double-team in advance. Liu Mang passed the ball to Jason Terry, who received the ball and dribbled twice to defend Liu Mang's assist and then shot a three-pointer...
This shot, which others saw as a random dribble and a random throw, Jason Terry scored!
62 to 50, the Hawks still led by 12 points!
It was the Spurs' turn to attack again. Ginobili wanted to shoot a three-pointer again. The score difference was 12 points. Duncan was not there, so he was a little panicked.
But this time Liu Mang made a good judgment and interfered a lot. Ginobili missed the three-pointer with a fadeaway!
However, after Liu Mang was double-teamed by Udrih and Ginobili, Jason Terry's mid-range jump shot also failed.
The two teams missed several shots in a row, and there was not much time left in the second quarter. With 17 seconds left, Liu Mang grabbed the rebound of Bonzi Wells's mid-range jump shot, pressed the time and pushed forward to the frontcourt.
In the last attack, the Spurs wanted to double-team, but Liu Mang passed the ball so decisively, and Jason Terry was a reckless person who dared to shoot and score, so Udrih did not dare to double-team in advance.
The 12-point difference is okay, but 15 points is a psychological difference.
Brent Barry did not dare to double-team in advance. Prince's threat of empty cutting was greater than Jason Terry's threat of empty cutting. They could use rotation defense to let Prince go, but they did not dare to let him go directly.
Liu Mang dribbled the ball outside the three-point line to kill time, and Ginobili kept wiping the sweat from his forehead to prevent the sweat from flowing into his eyes.
With 6 seconds left, Liu Mang took a step back. Ginobili thought Liu Mang was going to throw a long three-pointer, which was what these singles masters loved to do at critical moments, so he rushed over immediately.
However, Liu Mang did not shoot a three-pointer, but continued to break through!
Liu Mang himself did not expect to pass Ginobili so easily. He rushed to the inside and looked at Nesterovic under the basket, and then went directly to the basket and made a layup!
Nesterovic could not defend against such an impact at all! He also pushed Liu Mang, and Liu Mang made another layup, and also caused Nesterovic to foul!
The third 2+1 in this quarter!
Popovich cursed on the sidelines! Ginobili suddenly jumped, and Popovich wanted to pry open this guy's head to see what was growing inside?
The characteristic of Ginobili's demon sword is that he likes to take things for granted. Liu Mang wanted to take a step back and use his strongest first step, but who knew that the opponent suddenly jumped up...
There were 2.9 seconds left, and the Spurs theoretically had another attack.
Liu Mang walked up to the free throw line and watched Popovich angrily scold Ginobili. Liu Mang wanted to tell the coach whose hair had already turned white: Don't get angry in a hurry, it's not good for your health. If you play against the Mavericks in a decisive match one day, you will be even more angry.
Liu Mang scored 22 points in a single quarter! The free throws made it 23 points in a single quarter, and the score difference was widened to 64 to 50, a 14-point difference. The fans at the scene have already started to shout MVP!
Liu Mang suppressed his excitement and made the free throws steadily.
23 points in a single quarter! Surpassed Elgin Baylor's 22 points in a single quarter, second only to Isaiah Thomas' 25 points in a single quarter!
Is the purpose of using Jordan's star card to defend Ginobili?
No, it's good to be able to defend, but it doesn't matter if you can't defend. What Liu Mang has to do is to create damage in the interior!
The Hawks only had 7 free throws from the first half to the official timeout in the second quarter. With such a high score, only 7 free throws are too few! Duncan's dominance in the defense under the basket was too strong. He alone supported the defense under the basket of the Spurs.
The most important thing was rebounding. Kwame Brown was so blocked that Duncan grabbed the defensive rebound from his head. The Hawks had almost no second offense.
But because of Duncan, the Hawks' offense was all mid-range and long-range shots. There were many opportunities for offensive rebounds, but they couldn't grab them.
Jordan couldn't defend Ginobili... Liu Mang also expected this. Ginobili in this season's finals was just like another Jordan. He was called Jordan for 20 minutes, a nervous knife who could output steadily. The Ginobili who went crazy in this finals was a superstar in this finals.
Liu Mang could also use high-post mid-range face-to-frame or singles, which was more accurate than breakthrough jump shots, but it couldn't cause damage. If it was against Duncan in the previous twin towers era, the effect would be very good. At that time, the Spurs basically pointed to Duncan's offense, but now the Spurs have three major scorers and a bunch of shooters, and they dare not double-team.
So, Liu Mang rushed towards Duncan first, and when Duncan was not prepared, he fouled Duncan. At this time, Duncan reacted, even if his physical strength was not a problem, he had to be replaced. Then the Spurs' defense under the basket was far worse.
Liu Mang was playing a gap in consciousness. He knew that his lethality under the basket had become stronger, but Duncan had not realized it yet. When Duncan realized it, Duncan had already committed three fouls. Then Liu Mang could take advantage of the opponent's weaker defense under the basket, and the opponent blocked him from breaking through this point and got an outside shot opportunity!
This one-step-ahead consciousness allowed Liu Mang to take the initiative, and then he scored 14 points in 5 minutes!
The Spurs sent the ball out, and Brent received the ball in the midline and dribbled two steps before missing a long three-pointer.
At the end of the half, the Hawks led the Spurs by 15 points 65 to 50!
Popovich's head was a little exploded! Another explosive team! And it was the Hawks again, why are they always the ones who suffer?
What Kobe averaged 33 points in the Western Conference Finals and earned the title of the King of the Western Conference Finals? What kind of Maimang moment is always encountered by them?
At the beginning of today's game, it was not what Popovich expected, but Duncan was steady and there were no problems when playing offense and defense, which made Popovich bear it.
What Popovich thought was that since the situation was like this, he would slowly grind and try to rely on stability to play the key moments. With Ginobili and Duncan, they were not inferior to the Hawks at the critical moment. As long as the Hawks didn't play that kind of 17 points in 39 seconds, everything would be fine. Popovich didn't think the Hawks could do such a miracle again.
But I didn't expect that Liu Mang scored 23 points in a single quarter in the finals!
What a hammer!
Have dinner and take a bath, there is another chapter tonight. The great god is the great god, it doesn't matter if I can't catch up. Xiaofeng writes more and it has nothing to do with the monthly ticket. Today is 14,500 words. Please comfort me with the recommendation votes. I will write another chapter later. I will write as much as I can before going to bed~