Indeed, Garnett knew that he pushed Liu Mang and pushed him several times, but his movements were not that big before.

This time I really used a lot of force and made a movement to push out with all my strength.

But as soon as Garnett met Liu Mang, Liu Mang had already flown out.

Not to mention it, he admitted that he is also a master of diving.

But what were those words that Liu Mang shouted when he fell to the ground?

Garnett has never seen such a misfortune, and even shouted out for losing money!

Garnett's originally nervous and focused mood was mostly gone. He lost his temper at all because of Liu Mang's words after he committed a foul. In the past, he often yelled after committing a foul. This season, the referee has the power of zero tolerance.

Later, he received several fouls, but today he was not in the mood to complain to the referee at all.

The word "compensate" lingered in Garnett's mind. He was very confused. Liu Mang's skillful movements and miserable screams... were too similar to some local gangsters who wanted to blackmail people after suffering a small loss.

Before Garnett played in the NBA, he was from the slums at the bottom of society. He often encountered such people when he was a child, and Liu Mang... a Chinese, with the image of Chinese people becoming more and more rich in the world in recent years, how can he be different from those people?

Can't get in touch with anyone.

On Liu Mang's side, he saw that the referee ignored him, Garnett ignored him, and his teammates were far away from each other. It was Battier who was kind-hearted and pulled him up and stopped calling him.

Anyway, I got a bargain.

In just the first round, Garnett got fouled. This is good news!

The referee signaled the Eagles to attack and urged the Eagles to serve.

The referees already had strong resistance against Liu Mang. They could stabilize their mentality no matter what Liu Mang did, but this time they were still a little overwhelmed...

Fortunately they are professionals.

Liu Mang went to receive the ball given to him by the referee, passed it to Tracy McGrady, and ran towards the frontcourt without the ball.

Even if Rondo is away, Liu Mang will still attack in the simplest way. Of course, there are many benefits without the ball. McGrady holding the ball attracts defenses.

Rondo was put on the bench, mainly because Liu Mang wanted to switch to guard Garnett himself, which was much more useful than anticipating Garnett's pass.

Unlike Gasol and Milicic, who do not take scoring as their first goal, Garnett was a first-class scorer who averaged 20 points per game for nine consecutive years before coming to the Bulls. At his peak, he averaged 24 points per game, although he did not have Gasol.

He has Milicic's ability to attack in the low post, but Garnett's independent scoring ability is much better than those two.

There was no good way for Rondo to switch to Garnett 100% of the time, but Liu Mang came up with a way!

Liu Mang wanted to take advantage of Garnett's ability to "fight while retreating".

Fighting and retreating are not just talking about Garnett's performance during the quarrel. Garnett's offense is also to avoid shooting, and his cuts are almost all air cuts. He rarely hits the inside against the defense. The defense is also to avoid fouls.

Try to avoid assisting defense as much as possible. One-on-one defense is mainly to guard against shooters. You can't guard Duncan and O'Neal directly, so you need a meat shield center to help defend the basket.

There is an old saying that "hindsight is better". After the last game, Liu Mang came up with many ways to cause Garnett to foul after the game, but the game was already lost at that time, so it was useless to think so much.

Fortunately, the NBA is still very different from life. If you lose once, there will be another match. The previous experience can be used when the match is played again later.

I used it this time. If Garnett had caused a foul at the beginning, with Garnett's cautious style of play, he had a total of six fouls and left the game twice in his more than ten years of career. His ability and habit of avoiding fouls

, will definitely cause some problems for Garnett on both offense and defense.

certainly……

This idea is a good one, but Liu Mang obviously underestimated Garnett's ability. The top favorite for the best defensive player is not given casually...

McGrady used the restraint between himself and Liu Mang to create an air-cutting opportunity for Marion. Garnett, who was rushing up, slapped him on the backboard!

It is true that the 31-year-old Garnett is at a disadvantage in jumping and jumping speed compared to the 25-year-old Kwame Brown, but that is Kwame Brown...and he is only at a disadvantage in jumping.

Kwame Brown is not as good as Garnett in terms of speed and mobility. Kwame Brown has always been better than Garnett in individual defense, but in assist defense... there is no one in the league who is better than Garnett now.

Special assist defense ability is stronger!

The opening foul did not affect Garnett's enthusiasm and decisiveness in assisting in defense and blocking shots at all.

Liu Mang's prediction was wrong this time. Garnett has always maintained a strong style of avoiding fouls. Liu Mang thought that Garnett would be afraid of fouling again after the opening foul. However, Garnett's side was the most self-defeating.

After that, he had great confidence in avoiding fouls. He was not sloppy on the defensive end at all, and did not form a favorable situation on the offensive end that Liu Mang wanted.

The most critical point is that there are Ben Wallace and Kwame Brown stuck in the basket. Ben Wallace is also a master of assist defense...

On the contrary... when the Bulls were on offense, Liu Mang had previously committed a foul on Garnett, which made Garnett a little timid offensively.

Garnett continued to pick and roll with Hinrich. After Liu Mang switched defense to Garnett, Garnett cut directly into the basket!

Liu Mang looked at the group of people under the basket. Hinrich was guarded by Marion to the mid-range. Hinrich did not continue to break through. Liu Mang, Garnett, Kwame Brown, and Ben Wallace were crowded together.

Basket!

Hinrich defended a mid-range jumper against Marion...

Missed!

Ben Wallace grabbed the offensive rebound and started again...

"Snapped"

Liu Mang jumped up from the basket and slapped away Ben Wallace's forced layup. Marion turned around and grabbed the defensive rebound that Liu Mang sent out.

Almost at the same time that Marion grabbed the ball, the Bulls retreated immediately. Ben Wallace was getting old and could not jump anymore, but his speed did not drop too much. The Bulls retreated quickly, leaving nothing to the Eagles.

Any chance of counterattack.

The Hawks have to continue their positional battle with the Bulls.

At the beginning, the two teams seemed to have a lid on the basket. Although Liu Mang failed to make Garnett perform abnormally on the defensive end as expected, he unexpectedly prevented Garnett's mid-range jumper.

Garnett's mid-range shot is crucial to the Bulls. It is very important for him to be able to pull it out and create opportunities for Ben Wallace or Big Z, who comes off the bench, to catch the ball and directly attack the basket.

But Garnett's ability to avoid Liu Mang and draw offensive fouls caused the Bulls' entire offense to stall!

Garnett averaged 18 points, 9 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 3.6 blocks per game this season. His assists are a career high. He serves as the Bulls' high-post relay, and his high-post scoring is very important to the Bulls' offense.

However... the Eagles' offensive performance was also very poor. Except for Liu Manglang's three-pointer, McGrady's mid-range pull-up, and Kwame Brown's tip-in, the Eagles only scored 8 points in the entire half of the game.

point!

The Bulls only scored 9 points in half a quarter!

When the official timeout entered, the Eagles were one point behind 8-9, but they were not at a disadvantage. After the Bulls made the last ball before the official timeout, the Eagles called the timeout, and the time just ran out.

Six minutes and twelve seconds.

In this half of the game, the two teams each called a timeout, but the offensive end of the two teams has been very poor.

The key is that the two shot-blocking masters interfered with the shots under the basket to the extreme when both teams blocked the perimeter!

Liu Mang and Garnett, one is the outside shot leader this season, and the other is the league block leader this season.

Liu Mang averaged 2.3 blocks per game, breaking the NBA's historical guard block record. It was his teammate Tracy McGrady who broke the guard block record of 1.9 blocks per game.

On Garnett's side, he averaged 3.6 blocks per game, beating Marcus Camby's 3.4 blocks per game, ranking first in the league.

In terms of shot-blocking ability under the basket, Garnett is actually not as good as Liu Mang, but the threats of both are there, and they can both block the shot. As long as they block it once, the opponent will be wary of it, and their finishing ability under the basket is very good.

Easily influenced, and both of them successfully affected the opponent's offense at the basket, so that the two teams' defense of three-pointers became better. In terms of mid-range shooting, the Hawks had Liu Mang to "threaten" Garnett.

The Bulls have two mid-range help defenders in Garnett and Ben Wallace...
Chapter completed!