After the start of the second half, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, and Ratliff came on the field.

On the supersonic side, the average playing time per game this year is still as high as 40 minutes, especially when he came to the Bucks, and Peyton, who has played up to 44 minutes in more than a dozen games and is at the end of his prime, continues to play, Reed, Desmond Mason, Anthony Mason Jr., and Alvin Johnson play.

The Bucks' second lineup is also very good, all thanks to the help of the Hawks and the SuperSonics, one to help make space and the other to give people away.

Liu Mang felt like a cheap laborer who did the most work, and watched Payton push in and hand the ball to Reed, Liu Mang defended Reed.

"Michael Reed, 79 Ability, 86 Offense, 71 Defense, 85 Threes, 84 Shots, 87...... Layups"

Looking at Reed, whose strength was basically the same as his own, Liu Mang felt depressed, irritable, and unhappy...... Liu Mang did not suppress these emotions, it was better to have emotions when defending, he only had one foul in the first half, so he was not afraid of big moves.

In fact, Liu Mang and Reed are very excited in their hearts, this is a real evenly matched opponent, but he likes to be unhappy when defending, not saving a little face for the other party, and killing the other party.

Liu Mang bullied and pressed towards Reed, for this kind of left-handed general, you can't let the opponent get up, otherwise the opponent's ball path is too elusive from most people, even if you are prepared, you will often be unable to defeat the defensive habits.

"Big waves, long time no see." Liu Mang greeted Reed 'cordially', comforting Peyton's waist with his hands, not giving the other party a chance to start.

Reed is also very excited to play against Liu Mang, but every time he encounters it, he loses, and he is a type of player who mainly runs and blocks and dismantles emergency stop jump shots, and it is really embarrassing to meet Liu Mang before he is outrageous!

However, after fighting Liu Mang more times now, Reed knows that he must avoid having conversations with Liu Mang in the game, otherwise it will affect his emotions too much.

That's the way it was in the first half, playing and playing, Payton was taken into the ditch.

Taking people as a reference, you can know the gains and losses, Reed saw that the two former bosses and current bosses, Ray Allen and Payton, were made to lose their previous calm by Liu Mang, and then looked at the eternal second-in-command Kassel who smiled no matter what Liu Mang said, Reed quickly made a judgment that Kassel was in a better mood to keep himself "happy to play basketball" as always, no matter what others said.

It's just that Reed's "happy playing basketball" doesn't have any expression.

George Karl used Reed to hold the ball to attract Liu's defense, which was successful, Reed pulled Liu Mang outside the three-point line, and then passed the ball to Payton, who was leaning on Prince for the ball.

After about 20 minutes of halftime, Payton recovered a little bit of strength, and Coach George Karl's idea was that Liu Mang's defense was too torturous of Payton's physical fitness, and pulled Liu Mang away to let Payton play other people to attract the bag.

Payton has an obvious height disadvantage in the face of Prince, but the strength advantage is greater than when facing Liu Mang, Payton slapped the ball hard, turned around and cut in from the bottom line, even if Prince judged it, but he couldn't stop the thin rookie at all.

Boozer, who was already ready to wrap up, interpreted what is a sad effort, yelling and pounced back from Anthony Mason Jr. on the right side of the free throw line, Payton didn't choose to come by himself at this time, Boozer's empty effort was too good to have no skill and awareness of the defense to fly in a flash, Payton chose to save physical strength, and gave the ball to Anthony Mason Jr. in the middle distance, Jason Terry made up for Anthony Mason Jr., Anthony Mason Jr. showed his excellent passing ability and slapped the ball to the ground, Desmond Mason, who cut in the air, just received the ball and cut to the basket to score two points.

Payton's signature high-low pass! Brought to the bucks!

Not to mention, George Karl's team is really the most suitable for Payton, which is said to be integrated, and the tactics are flying!

And George Karl's team has very similar characteristics to the Eagles, whether they score goals or not, they can defend quickly! And with no rebounding advantage, faster than the Hawks!

Liu Mang's cavalry tactics borrowed from D'Antoni's run-and-bomb, Steve Cole's small-ball tactics and George Carr's track and field team play, which is why they are so similar.

Muhammad picked up the ball and handed it to Liu Mang, Liu Mang looked at Coach Kruger, pointed above and below, and Coach Kruger spread his palm and pressed it down.

Liu Mang understood and fell into position.

Hold back the tempo, and now the Hawks are 44-49 behind by 5 points, and the point difference is not too big to rush.

When both teams run, it becomes a fighting feeling, and they are both running and bombarding teams.

And the Eagles have an advantage!

Liu Mang slowly advanced to the frontcourt, and after his teammates settled into position, he advanced beyond the three-point line, and found that the defender had become small forward Desmond Mason.

That's what you want!

After all, Peyton is almost 35, and if he wants to defend against a young man like Liu Mang for a whole game, he can still carry it out.

"Desmond Mason, Ability 74, Offense 76, Defense 72, Three-Point 69, Shooting 61, Layup 89, Speed 88, Power 82......"

As a rookie in 2000, Desmond Mason, who almost won the Most Improved Award last season, averaged 14+6+2 per game in his third year this year.

What did Liu Mang work so hard to consume Payton in the first half? It's for this moment!

Seeing that Desmond Mason seemed to be nervous, Liu Mang laughed "hey, hey, hey", and Desmond Mason was laughed horribly: You vote! You're breaking through! What are you scary!

As a third-year player who saw Liu Mang's strength face-to-face in last year's All-Star Game, Desmond Mason has no doubts that Liu Mang is the leader of their generation of young players.

After Liu Mang finished laughing, the cat lowered his waist and prepared to fake to shake off Desmond Mason's defense, a player with this kind of physical fitness, flying at one point.

However, as soon as Liu Mang bent over, Desmond Mason took a big step back......

Liu Mang was confused, what is this doing? Nima is here again!

Liu Mang remembered that it seemed to be this last time, and the other party was so frightened that he retreated as soon as he made his moves, and the last time he encountered such an exaggerated reaction, Liu Mang, a scary person, was scared.

Fortunately, he had an experience, and this time Liu Mang was not so frightened, so he grabbed the ball and threw it out!

This time he didn't miss like last time, Liu Mang's sniper fell straight to the basket and hit a three-point shot!

At 47-49, the margin became two points.

The offense and defense switched, the Bucks attacked, Liu Mang saw Payton advancing over, and began a shameless defensive strategy, going around the outside line!

Liu Mang frantically defended Reid when Reed hadn't received the ball, Reed bypassed Anthony Mason Jr. who came up to block without the ball, and Liu Mang directly squeezed up and stretched his hand out from Reed's armpit, interfering with Reed's possible receiving route.

Looking at Liu Mang's mad dog-like no-ball defense, Payton really didn't dare to pass to Reed!

Peyton looked at Liu Mang's mad dog spirit of playing the regular season as the last game, and actually had a bit of a shadow of his youth, which made Peyton hate Liu Mang even more.

The MVP was robbed by Jordan, the championship was robbed by Jordan, and now the fighting spirit on the defensive end that is most praised by people has a disciple of Jordan who wants to grab it!

There is no reason for it!

Peyton didn't look at Liu Mang, looked angry, and put a vicious gaze on Prince.

Payton is very confident now, with 22 points and 6 assists in the first half, which makes him feel in excellent shape today, and he has recovered a little strength after halftime and does not feel tired now.

Seeing Prince defending Payton alone, Payton was going to play alone, Muhammad was ready to make up for it under the basket, and Boozer, who was defending Anthony Mason Jr., was also ready to come over and wrap up.

However, Prince seemed to have eyes behind his back, or he knew everything about the team's defense, and waved his hand to the back, signaling that he didn't need to make up the defense, and he wanted to defend alone!

It was a bit of a surprise, but it was immediately clear that Prince was still consuming Payton! Boozer and Mohammed immediately returned to their defensive positions, holding on to their defenders.

As a result, Payton started the singles mode again, and for three consecutive rounds he turned around in the middle range and forced Prince to the basket to avoid the catch-up Prince who was catching up behind him and hit a layup.

But despite Payton's consecutive singles, the Hawks still didn't choose to pack and help defend, the first shot, Payton felt that the opponent was not ready, and the second time made Payton quite confused, but it was good to score.

But when Payton hit three times in a row, each time he was a little out of breath and hit his third layup with a lot of physical contact from Prince, Payton sensed something was wrong!

The game turned into a positional battle!

If you shoot well when attacking, even if you don't defend when defending, you can score on your side right away, and it's hard to feel that something is wrong.

Just like now, Payton scored three goals in a row, and it looks like the Bucks have no problem at all, and they are playing well on the court.

However, when Payton scored three goals in a row and felt that his physical strength that he had finally recovered at halftime was made out of breath by the rookie of the opponent's No. 22 jersey, Payton realized that something was wrong and looked up at the score on the big screen.

55 to 52!

There are only three points left! And next up is the Eagles offense!

Liu Mang's three points just now, and then a breakthrough to attract a three-point shot to Prince after the bag, Boozer's low-post single, scored 8 points.

In the case of both teams scoring in positional battles, the players on the field usually don't feel that they have fallen into the disadvantage inexplicably, because they are all scoring.

But after feeling that something was wrong, Payton saw the scoreboard, and finally understood that the reason why the Hawks had been defending him from the first quarter was to consume him!

It's time for the Hawks to attack again, Liu Mang holds the ball and advances to the frontcourt, Desmond-Mason defends Liu Mang three times in a row, but he didn't succeed once, and Reed switched up.

Although both of them are half-pounded and half-hearted in defense, Reed is stronger in his heart and will not be frightened by Liu Mang.

Liu Mang observed the opponent's defensive intentions, and saw that because he scored or passed the ball in the first three attacks, the opponent was already ready to attack, and saw that Reed was defending so far ahead, and it was clear that he was not defending against throwing, Liu Mang was not so stupid to fall into the bag and pass the ball again, it was too easy to make mistakes, and when he saw Payton defending Jason Terry, Liu Mang immediately beckoned Jason Terry to come over to block and dismantle!

Jason Terry is a real guy, not like a pretentious player who doesn't want to block pick-and-rolls, even if he's short, and he has a sideways look on his face to stop Reid.

Jason Terry's 1.88 meters small arms and calves have little effect, but a little effect is enough, Liu Mang took advantage of that moment of opportunity to accelerate away from Reed, and rushed towards the right side of Payton, who was switching defenses.

Peyton's first reaction was to block Liu Mang, but he suddenly reacted, and the opponent wanted to pass the ball! Sure enough, Liu Mang's threat was extremely huge in the minds of rookies after 2000, and Reed also caught up and formed a circle with Payton!

Peyton secretly screamed badly, let go of Liu Mang and chased after Jason Terry.

If it was Payton two or three years ago, he immediately went to defend Jason Terry, there was no big problem, but the years were not forgiving, Payton had not yet pounced, and he saw the ball fall from above him to Jason Terry's hands who ran to the top arc, and the accurate pass landing point made Payton can't help but want to praise, and then watched Jason Terry catch the three-point shot...... Hit!

55 flat!

The Hawks played the third minute of the third quarter and tied the score!

Looking at Peyton, who could no longer keep up with the pace, Liu Mang knew that today's plan was successful!

Although Payton seemed to "return to the light" in the third quarter, he generally played four times in a row, scoring three times at a time, but after all, he was older, and although he recovered some physical strength in the 20 minutes of halftime, it would decline quickly!

It's like after doing high-intensity exercise, after exerting one's physical energy, after resting for a while, the breath is no longer panting, the sweat is not flowing, it looks like it has recovered, and it is okay to have another group immediately, but as you do it, you will find that the physical energy consumption is so fast!

And a 35-year-old veteran like Payton, who is close to middle age, is even more so, the wrong judgment of the head makes Payton feel that he has recovered his strength and scored very well, but after a few high-intensity confrontation shots, that feeling of weakness comes!

This made Liu Mang have to admire Prince's defensive awareness, if he really wrapped and assisted Payton in defense, let Payton drive the Bucks team offense like the first single Prince, Payton may be playing, and take off with the Bucks, and the organization of offense after attracting defense is like a breeze for Payton.

Prince accurately judged Payton's condition, so he continued the defensive strategy of the first half of several rounds, and finally, completely consumed Payton's physical energy!

It's the Bucks' offense again, after Payton came over, he didn't single again, but let Anthony Mason Jr. come up to block and dismantle, with Anthony Mason Jr.'s blocking, Payton burst to the mid-range and gave the ball to Anthony Mason Jr., the moment Anthony Mason Jr. received the ball, a through ball was thrown to the basket, Tim Thomas almost didn't receive it, and he didn't expect the ball to pass over.

This is what Anthony Mason Jr. loves and hates at the same time, he loves to organize offenses too much, and the passing master is unimaginable, and if he doesn't enter the opponent, his teammates can't think of it most of the time, so Anthony Mason Jr.'s passing data this year is an average of 3 assists and 2.5 turnovers per game, which is almost 1 to 1 assist-to-turnover.

Fortunately, Tim Thomas still held it steady and scored two points with a low-handed layup under the basket.

However, this time, the Eagles didn't have a tight rhythm, and at the moment when Anthony Mason Jr. passed, Liu Mang and Jason Terry were already down regardless of each other's mistakes or scores!

Tim Thomas hit a layup and Boozer picked up the ball and sent a long ball to the frontcourt, where Jason Terry received the ball on the halfway line.

Peyton's reaction was quick and chased after Jason Terry, but he found that he really couldn't keep up with his footsteps, and he couldn't catch up with his desperate efforts!

Fortunately, Reed also caught up, but Reed's defense is fierce and fierce, and the effect is not good! Payton was expecting Reed to block Jason Terry and then go up to finish the bag himself.

At this moment, Jason Terry suddenly stopped outside the three-point line, and Payton and Reed were surprised. No matter how you look at this choice, it's not reliable! However, both Reed and Payton slowed down to avoid rushing over their heads and being chased by Jason Terry.

Just as Payton and Reed stopped and caught their feet on either side of Jason Terry, suddenly, a figure rushed in from the left side of the three-point line!

Jason Terry threw the ball to the left side of the basket and slid through the air wearing the No. 1 Hawks away jersey embroidered on the back and pressed the ball into the basket!

Liu Mang!

Liu Mang slowed down when Jason Terry received the ball, wanting to be the one who followed up and shot three points, which is one of the tactics of the cavalry, who knew that Jason Terry suddenly stopped.

Fortunately, the tacit understanding between the two was enough, Liu Mang slowed down a little and then accelerated suddenly, and when Reed and Payton were stopped by Jason Terry, Liu Mang rushed in and scored two points with an empty dunk.

57-57, the Eagles tied the score again!

It's time for the Bucks to attack again, and finally, Anthony Mason Jr., who got an open mid-range opportunity this time, missed a shot, and the Hawks counterattacked again, this time Payton and Reed, Desmond Mason, the three fast ones all quickly returned to defense, Payton was a little slower to block the follow-up Liu Mang, and Desmond Mason and Reed blocked Jason Terry from the free throw line together.

However, Prince followed up with a third cut to the basket! Jason Terry is addicted to passing, and Prince's gibbon-style air-catching split dunk is successful!

59-57, the Hawks took the lead for the first time in this game, except for Rahim's singles at the beginning! After being led for nearly two and a half quarters, he completed the comeback for the first time!

Seeing that Payton really couldn't defend and couldn't attack, and his old appearance was fully revealed, George Karl quickly called a timeout and replaced Payton with Cassell......

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The Hawks took the lead for the first time in the fourth minute of the third quarter, after which the Bucks couldn't stop the Hawks.

As the core of this Bucks, Payton's role is very different from others, even if he is almost 35, George Karl's tactics are all around him, and the average playing time of 44 minutes per game in the past ten games interprets this, it can be said that Payton is the most suitable point guard for George Karl's tactics, and the aliens can't make up for Payton's lack of physical decline.

And the aliens are not very happy to play under George Karl, except for the 2001 playoffs to reach the Eastern Conference finals, the rest of the time Kassel is not so happy, really to say, Kassel is 29 to 33 years old in the peak of the years, wasted in the Bucks, nothing, you must know that he is a rookie year to win the championship, 34 years old to Garnett as an assistant can enter the second team of the best team, before retirement can also help the Celtics win the championship.

In the team with Big Dog and Ray Allen before and now with Payton, Cassel played like a pitcher, he didn't work hard, but the more he played, the more he played, the ball was back to the three Musketeers era, and there was no ball again, and Reed grew into a great sixth man.

This made Cassel suddenly asked to come up and start to organize the offense when Payton was short of physical strength, and the Bucks played more than a dozen games under Payton's core style of play, and they were used to the kind of offense with Payton as the way to unfold.

In the middle of the third quarter, when Coach George Karl replaced Payton with Kassel, Coach Krueger accurately seized the opportunity and replaced Boozer with Rahim, sending Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince three shots from the outside, Rahim and Muhammad two rebounding masters and the heavy cavalry who counterattacked and followed up the offensive rebounds, starting a defensive counterattack frenzy!

To say that the biggest problem of the Bucks is that they really don't even have an interior line with strong playing ability, except for Payton's low-post singles, they can only shoot outside or break through to the basket, there is no big tall man, this style of play is too efficient, and the Hawks hit wave after wave of counterattacks in the middle of the third quarter.

By the time the third quarter was over, Payton had almost rested, had stored some physical energy, had the physical strength to play in the fourth quarter, and was ready to suppress the scoring impulse and organize the offense, the Hawks had a 14-point lead at 78-64!

In the fourth quarter, the Hawks changed to a big lineup, with Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Boozer, and Ratliff on the court, dragging the rhythm to death.

Although Payton tried hard to speed up, he didn't think about the determination today, and the pressure on the team's record did not give Liu Mang the kind of impulse to face up, Liu Mang didn't care whether the Bucks scored or not, and steadily lowered the tempo after the start of the fourth quarter.

On the offensive end, Boozer opened up the space, or Raheem and Ratliff caught the ball under the basket and played high, or Liu Mang and Prince shot three-pointers, or Boozer made a mid-range shot, and the style of play was quite clear.

On the defensive end, Ratliff guarded the basket, Liu Mang chased Reed or Kassel's three-pointer, Rahim blocked Desmond Mason's air cut, and if the Bucks failed to fight back, the positional battle would not have done much in the case that Payton could not continue to play an efficient single against Prince's defense.

In the end, the Hawks maintained their 10-plus-point lead until the end after Payton couldn't hold back a ruthless wave of attacks that failed to turn the Bucks around.

When the final whistle blew, the score was 100-92, and the Hawks won back-to-back games! Win a total of 4 in a row! The record became 17-19!

Although Liu Mang only scored 21 points and 7 assists, which is far from Payton's 36 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds, winning is the last word!

Although the game between the Hawks and the Bucks was not broadcast live in the United States, Liu Mang's sentence "You have no money and can only go to a nightclub to find a woman" spread out somehow, and suddenly Payton had another stalk and was ridiculed by the rookie.

People seem to hear hearty laughter from the capital of American imperialism......