Gasol played the most intense defense in the NBA for several minutes, and was so tired that he slumped in a chair and panted like a dead dog.

In terms of consumption, Gasol's consumption is estimated to be several times that of O'Neal. It is not an easy task for even the 36-year-old O'Neal to carry O'Neal.

If O'Neal is two or three years younger and has better physical fitness, as long as Gasol is consumed, O'Neal will win, but the 36-year-old O'Neal... The Suns coach does not dare to let O'Neal continue to compete with Gasol

O'Neal's playing time cannot exceed 30 minutes. This is an arrangement made by the team doctor who the whole team trusts.

9 to 4, O'Neal was exhausted, and Liu Mang did not dare to relax.

It's true that the Suns' positional warfare is limited, but the Suns' run and gun is coming!

Even the Spurs, who were at their peak in 2005, could only use offense to compete with the Suns. The Eagles had never been able to defend the Suns in a real sense. The bloody offensive was about to begin next!

For Liu Mang, the advantage is that today the Eagles took the lead in controlling the situation on the court, and everything was in accordance with their previous tactical plan!

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Return from the timeout and the game continues.

The Hawks replaced Kwame Brown again, replaced Gasol, and McGrady was also replaced. He will soon lead the second team with Jason Terry.

In terms of rushing ability, Mason, whose physical condition is still at the end of his peak, is really better than the 28-year-old Tracy McGrady. After all, he relies solely on this to make a living.

The lineup of Rondo, Liu Mang, Mason, Marion, and Kwame Brown comes on stage.

For the Suns, the lineup of Nash, Raja Bell, Jason Richardson, Josh Smith, and Diaw took the field.

When the Suns attacked, they started running and playing just as Van Gundy expected when he deployed the defense.

After starting to run, although the Suns' defense became worse, their offensive firepower was much stronger!

The Hawks used the high-speed rotation of Liu Mang, Rondo, Mason, and Marion to try their best to pick and roll the Suns' pick-and-roll attack initiated by Nash and Josh Smith.

On Dior's side, he didn't dare to go out and stayed inside, with Kwame Brown guarding him.

Diaw averaged 13 6 6 per game last season and won the Most Improved Award. Last season when O'Neal came, he also averaged 10 4 5 per game, but this season he became a ball. The biggest impact of gaining weight is shooting and weight changes.

The impact on pitchers is huge.

However, Diaw can also play a role in containing Kwame Brown's defense in the paint. After all, he is a pseudo-center.

Laga Bell, a marksman who has averaged 2.6 three-pointers per game in the past two seasons with a three-point shooting percentage of over 40% in the past two seasons, took the ball and scored a three-pointer on his first run after returning from timeout!

7 to 9, the score difference suddenly dropped from 5 points to 2 points.

For a team like the Suns that plays on the fly, a five-point difference is nothing. Their three outside shooters are too accurate.

When the Eagles attacked, Rondo began to use Liu Mang's containment power to create opportunities for his teammates.

Liu Mang's strong restraint allowed the Eagles' outside pitchers to get many opportunities.

On the contrary, Liu Mang initially reduced his outside shooting and helped his teammates to shoot more three-pointers, but in the second quarter, his outside shooting allowed him to get more one-on-one singles opportunities!

The three-point shooter has the advantage of a three-point shooter, but if the three-point shooter takes 15 three-pointers and only hits 5 times, he is obviously far inferior to five average three-pointers who make 1-for-3 shots.

If the pitcher shoots 5 for 15, people are sure that you will not perform well today.

This is Liu Mang’s experience from watching Curry play several Finals games in his “last life”. In the 2016 Finals, the Warriors were overturned, and Curry shot 15, 13, and 14 three-pointers in the last three games.

The direct relationship is that he shot more from the outside, and his teammates naturally shot less. In the last three games, Barnes, Thompson, and Green only had a chance to shoot after Curry couldn't make the throw. But at that time, the three-pointer was cold.

The feeling has spread to the entire Warriors team.

Five shooters with a shooting percentage of 33% only made one shot, and the opponent had to defend. Everyone had a relatively good one-on-one shooting opportunity. With Curry's three-point ability, one-on-one

Shooting a three-pointer is definitely much more accurate than throwing it against two people overconfidently.

Liu Mang's plan for this season is to use himself more as a threat and let the whole team attack. Without Rondo, he plans to pass the ball more, but with Rondo, it will be easier for him to lead according to the established tactics.

Just run after the opponent.

After Raja Bell hit a three-pointer, Mason took two points with a lob in transition after receiving a pass from Rondo from Liu Mang.

Diaw's ability to change defense is indeed not as good as last season. After Kwame Brown helped Mason block Laga Bell who was changing defense, Diaw could only watch Mason dunk.

Seeing that Mason, who is almost 31 years old, can still dunk with a flat frame, all the fans at the scene cheered. Mason is indeed a representative of a waste of talent, but his style of play is really attractive to fans.

Liu Mang is more comprehensive than Curry, so when he uses himself to attract firepower, it is not only as simple as attracting outside firepower, but he can also attract defenses in the mid-range and short range. Rondo, the playmaker, has more options.

Liu Mang's "offensive transfer station" feature allows him to have the ability to transfer passes like Tracy McGrady and Gasol, which is very good at assisting Rondo in organizing the offense!

However, Diaw's role was beyond the expectations of the Eagles. His setter was even better than Liu Mang's!

After all, Liu Mang relies on his prediction of characteristics and his precise passing. Diaw is really good at this. In addition, after gaining weight, he has enough tonnage to be able to pass the ball to Kwame Brown. I guess the Suns did not expect it.

Judging from Diaw's performance, his offensive performance was even better than expected.

The two teams started to play against each other. After the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 4 points and 4 assists. On the contrary, the Eagles' offensive organizer Rondo only got 1 assist, but he had 6 points and 2 rebounds!

From the data, it seems that Liu Mang is the player who organizes the offense.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, Steve Nash, the core of the Suns, feels like he is competing with a young second-year guy!

Rondo amazed Nash last season. Nash knew that Rondo had a bright future, but he didn't expect that just one year later, the Eagles would feel relieved to hand over the responsibility of leading the lineup to a second-year player!

After seeing the opponent's coaching staff lay out the tactics during the break, five already-famous veteran stars, Jason Terry, Tracy McGrady, Grant Hill, O'Neal Jr., and Brad Miller, actually surrounded Rondo and listened.

Say more...

Nash thought about how it took him four years to get his position, and eight years to become the core of the team... Comparing people to each other is infuriating!

Nash believes that when he was a rookie, except for defense and rebounding, he was far better than Rondo in other aspects.

Nash shook his head and put away those unpleasant memories: "I will be 34 years old soon. There is no use recalling those things. The game is more important..."

After the first quarter, the Eagles led 31 to 27 by 4 points. The problem for the Suns was that they only scored 4 points in the first 4 minutes. They had a very strong game and could not catch up, because the Eagles also had a very strong game.

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Fortunately for Nash, their side was so fierce in the first quarter that all the Hawks' main players except McGrady ran for 8 minutes and had to go down to rest. Liu Mang also put on training clothes.

The rotation phase is their chance!

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The Suns replaced Laga Bell with Dudley. After all, Laga Bell was over 30 years old and his physical strength began to decline, so Dudley was sent in as a rookie.

"Jared Dudley, ability evaluation 71... 84 three-pointers? The Suns are also very good at selecting role players, not losing to Popovich..."

Liu Mang drank Gatorade and looked at Dudley, whom the Suns replaced. He was a rookie selected by the Suns at the end of the first round and seemed to be a very good role player.

The Suns did not make any substitutions in other positions. Diaw's weight gain actually had the effect of being fatter. Gentry didn't expect that, but Diaw's adaptability to this transfer passing style is undoubtedly a good thing for the Suns.

Except for Raja Bell, the Suns did not change anyone else.

Liu Mang chatted with the painter easily. Anyway, the rotation time was left to his teammates. Even if his teammates didn't play well at the beginning, Liu Mang didn't want to take over everything. When he won three consecutive championships, his teammates could do what he wanted.

Most of the things that have been done, I have never had this concept. It was only last season that I realized the importance of role players maintaining their own characteristics.

After the start of the second quarter, it turned out that the Eagles were at a disadvantage. Compared with the preseason, the intensity of the regular season was much higher. The point is that except for the Magic, the Suns were comparable to the other opponents of the Eagles in the preseason.

The teams are too far apart.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Eagles were constantly overwhelmed by the opponent's offensive firepower.

The adjustment process is always full of ups and downs.

But after the official timeout in the second quarter, the Suns replaced O'Neal. The Hawks saw O'Neal taking off his training clothes and immediately replaced him with Gasol.

It's not that the Suns didn't know O'Neal was restrained, but the star must be given so much playing time.

Moreover, the current Suns are different from the previous D'Antoni era. In the D'Antoni era, it was true that they were purely running and gunning, but they were not running with all their strength. There would always be times when they needed to slow down and rest. In the Gentry era, running was

When bombing, run and bomb with all your strength without leaving any room, because they have the card shark combination to fight positional warfare.

Previously, the Suns were defeated by the Spurs on offense because they needed a certain buffer time and had no defense, but now they have a stuck combination and strong positional warfare.

The seamless switching between the two tactics was what Gentry planned to use against the Spurs from the beginning, and it was successful in last year's playoffs.

But today I happened to meet Gasol!

Would any other team dare to replace the team's best big man with a fat rookie after playing 37 seconds?

The Eagles dare!

O'Neal was so angry that he wanted to compete with Gasol to see who was fatter. Calderon felt so bad... He felt the evil power from his old club...

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