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

When playing against the Nets, Hawks fans will never lack enthusiasm. Although they have taken revenge, their hatred will not disappear.

Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air, further inspiring the fans to cheer wildly and walk onto the court.

The Hawks sent out a lineup of Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown.

The Nets sent Kidd, Carter, Eric Williams, Krstic, and Ratliff.

Kwame Brown easily won the jump ball without giving face to Ratliff, who had taught him a lot before.

After receiving the ball, Liu Mang immediately passed it to Tracy McGrady, and then ran forward, trying to take advantage of Kidd's knee injury before he fully recovered and gain a rhythm advantage.

Who would have known that after Liu Mang dodged Eric Williams and entered the three-point line, he was immediately stuck by Kidd. Kidd used accurate predictions to judge Liu Mang's movement. Not only that, the Nets

The entire team seems to have fully studied the Eagles' movement and is always in the right defensive position.

Krstic, one of the Nets' twin towers, moves very quickly and can keep up with Rasheed Wallace. Carter and Eric Williams are both physically fit men. With sufficient preparation,

Blocked the Eagles' opening fast break!

McGrady was forced to stop the ball by Carter at a 45-degree angle on the right side. McGrady was too careless and underestimated Carter's defense. Carter, who defends seriously, has a first-class defensive effect.

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

What a surprise! Liu Mang didn’t expect that Kidd, whose speed had dropped so much, could still keep up with the defense. He is indeed a defensive master who can be selected as a first-defense master at the age of 33 after undergoing minimally invasive surgery. He is not yet 32 ​​years old.

Although Kidd has lost his speed and explosive power, Kidd's offensive breakthrough points have become very poor, and his scoring methods have become mainly open shots, but his defense has not declined too much.

The anticipation of the attack is too good.

Liu Mang accelerated and made a sudden thrust. Kidd always appeared in the most suitable position, and his movement choices were very correct. The decrease in speed allowed Kidd to improve his defensive awareness!

Liu Mang was not in a hurry and waved to McGrady, who was opening up the space, to come over and pick and roll.

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

Kwame Brown!

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

Liu Mang borrowed a double pick-and-roll and drove to the basket! In the three-second zone, Liu Mang slowed down and took two steps in a row.

Ratliff was guarding the basket, waiting for Liu Mang to take off. He knew Liu Mang's offense at the basket very well and was not fooled by Liu Mang's slow-motion steps. He firmly guarded the most suitable position to block the shot.

Liu Mang had already taken two steps, and he could only take the third step towards Ratliff, grab the ball, and fly for a layup! Ratliff judged the moment, took off, and blocked the shot towards Liu Mang. As long as Liu Mang passed the ball

Pick it up, and Ratliff is sure to cover it up!

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

It's the left hand!

Liu Mang stayed close to Ratliff, bypassed Ratliff and slapped his right hand to the left, and made a layup with an underhand shot!

Ratliff knows Liu Mang too well. Ratliff watched Liu Mang grow up in Liu Mang's first three seasons, but the more he knows him, the harder it becomes to guard him when there is not much difference between Liu Mang's left and right hand layups.

Liu Mang!

Offense and defense transition, it's time for the Nets to attack.

The Nets have fully studied the Hawks' offense, and the Eagles' coaching staff has also fully prepared for the Nets' offense.

The Nets' offense is really bad!

When Kidd is here, he points to Kidd's positional battles and directs movement. When Kidd is not there, he points to Carter's singles. This is a team that relies on defense to win.

Carter did not attack with the ball at the beginning, but ran to try to open up the Eagles defense.

However, Liu Mang, McGrady, and Prince's perimeter defense rotation was too fast. In the end, Carter had to receive a pass from Kidd and hit McGrady's block shot...

Missed!

The ball was kicked out of bounds by Ratliff, giving the Eagles no chance to counterattack.

Against the current Nets, the Hawks have too much of an advantage. They can't counterattack on fast breaks. Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady take turns playing singles or pick-and-roll offense in the backcourt, and there isn't much of a problem in terms of scoring.

The Nets defended the Hawks' quick offense very well, but facing Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady who were in very good shape today, the Nets couldn't defend them either from Liu Mang's pick-and-roll offense or McGrady's singles.

live.

The Hawks quickly went on a 12-4 run, leading by 8 points at the start, and the Nets called a timeout.

Nets head coach Lawrence Frank's defensive strategy was very good, blocking the Hawks' small-ball tactics, but I didn't expect Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady to feel so good today! In the beginning, the two made 5 of 5 shots together.

A pass to Kwame Brown caused a foul on Kostic who was covering up the defense. Kwame Brown made both free throws. The Eagles didn't miss a single shot at the start and scored 12 points in a row.

After returning from the timeout, the Nets' tempo-pressing style of play became more obvious, continuing to slow down the offensive speed and suppress the Eagles' offensive tempo 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.

A team that relies purely on defense to win needs the most 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 a 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, who is locked in shooting inside and outside the three-point line, has basically no blind spots. Especially Carter can 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 shots, he only takes 4 three-pointers per game and only takes 7 mid-range shots per game, but he is so accurate!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! 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.

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The Nets are still very good! If Kidd had not undergone minimally invasive surgery and has not fully recovered, the Nets would really be a 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

He also got one rebound. Among Kidd and Carter, only Carter got a rebound.

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

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

The Nets scored 10 points, 6 of which were assists. Carter scored 8 points in the first half. 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, Calderon star cards are perfect!

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

Liu Mang thought it was very feasible! McGrady had already scored 8 points just now, but Liu Mang only scored 5 points. It was precisely because the Nets defended him more strictly, and Carter basically defended McGrady alone.

"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 Jose Calderon's 2011-2012 season peak star card, ability evaluation 75-84, time limit for this game, offense 81, defense 72, three-pointer 95, passing 93... 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 pretty good at his peak! Before, he didn't take Calderon's star card to heart at all. He didn't notice that Calderon was at his peak, and he almost reached it.

He was at the level of a first-class star... but his ability fluctuated from 75-84. Liu Mang saw Calderon's characteristics and immediately understood 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 an okay point guard, relying on accurate passing.

degrees and shooting percentage.

Calderon's three-pointers are truly amazing. Liu Mang even 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%. He is at his peak.

That year’s three-point rating 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 ability is fully utilized because he cannot complete strong shots or wasteful shots. He 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.
To be continued...