495. Ending the losing streak

Coming back from the timeout, the Hawks went on offense, sending out a lineup of Jason Terry, Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, and Ratliff.

The Kings made no substitutions and continued to field their strongest lineup.

The Eagles played the ball in the frontcourt, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and Christie defended it.

Seeing Boozer, a rookie who can shoot in the middle and shoot in the low post and block and dismantle efficiently, Christie is a little nervous, if Boozer and Liu Mang shoot one of them, it will be difficult to prevent the pick-and-roll, just like Utah Double Brake.

In the two months that Liu Mang and Boozer cooperated, due to the increase in blocking and dismantling play, they gradually gained the nickname of "Atlanta".

However, the Kings' defensive cohesion is very strong, Christie is very focused on blocking and changing defenses, Webber follows Boozer, the two are ready, and when Liu Mang and Boozer block and dismantle, others are also ready to expand and change defenses at any time.

However, just when the Kings saw the lineup sent by the Hawks and were ready to defend against Liu Mang and Boozer, who had the nickname of "Little Shuangsha", Jason Terry ran to the top arc and Liu Mang passed the ball.

The Kings are a little uncomfortable!

How is it different from what I imagined?

After Liu Mang gave the ball to Jason Terry, he took Christie to the inside line and took a step to the left sideline of the three-second zone, Jason Terry came to the left 45-degree angle to hold the ball and pulled Bibby away, Prince came to the bottom left corner and pulled Peja away, Boozer came to the middle distance of the right baseline and took Webber away, Ratliff faced the basket on the edge of the three-second zone on the other side, such a seven-foot big man, even if he has no scoring ability, but he is very tough, and standing under the basket is a threat.

Liu Mang fell low, and the others opened the space the most!

What are the Eagles going to do?

The Kings players and all the fans at the scene widened their eyes, seeing Liu Mang leaning on Christie to ask for the ball after his teammates settled down, could it be ......

Just when everyone's eyes widened, Jason Terry passed the ball to Liu Mang, who asked for the ball in the low post!

Hell yes?

Liu Mang wants to play low-post singles?

If it's regular time, it's okay, Liu Mang tried the ability that he didn't show before, and it was reasonable, after practicing his skills, wouldn't he have to use the game to test the effect, Liu Mang's sniping, step-back jumper, step-back layup, low-handed layup...... and so on, all of which are technologies that Liu Mang has gradually developed over the past year or so, and they are also Liu Mang's step by step from "no potential" to a new star with full potential.

Liu Mang's strength has improved significantly this year, his weight and muscles have increased, and his bounce has also increased a lot, so if he wants to be beaten, fans are not surprised, but this first use is actually at the critical moment when there are two minutes left and four points behind, and the fans think Liu Mang is crazy!

However, fans may not have many speakers, because Liu Mang's low-post singles rarely appear, just that once, at the end of last season, the Hawks played the Spurs, and Liu Mang ate the "soft egg man" Stephen Jackson.

Fans are not impressed by this matter, but Christie, who has carefully studied Liu Mang, is impressed! Liu Mang's explosiveness has always been very weird, when there was no bounce back then, he had to dunk the opponent, and now he is still the king of dunks, Christie is very jealous of Liu Mang's strong eating, and lowered his center of gravity, wanting to bear Liu Mang's strong eating.

After Liu Mang received the ball, he leaned sideways, leaned on Christie's left shoulder, felt the power behind him, and aimed at Christie to lower his center of gravity, Liu Mang felt that there was a play!

Liu Mang mustered the strength of the muscles of his whole body, the green tendons on his neck came out, his left shoulder left Christie's body, his left foot was bent, his body was half squatting, his right foot was raised and kicked to the ground, and his right hand slapped the ball to the ground......

Liu Mang is full of posture, a strong posture of an O'Neill-style bulldozer, Christie lowered his center of gravity as much as possible, and was ready to meet Liu Mang's brutal impact on Stephen Jackson.

But!

After Liu Mang racked the ball out, the ball bounced under the right foot raised by Liu Mang, Liu Mang kicked his right foot on the ground and threw it to the right, with his left foot as the axis, and turned right!

Christie woke up suddenly, the other party didn't want to eat it! It's playing yin!

But!

Christie lowered her center of gravity and puffed out her muscles, and stood completely dead! When Christie stood up and defended Liu Mang, Liu Mang's speed suddenly accelerated, and a big stride rushed into the three-second zone, Divac heard the exclamations of the fans at the scene, and he was fighting hard to get rid of the old and Ratliv position, he suddenly saw Ratliff withdraw from his only scoring area, which is the three-second area, Divac was very strange, turned around and looked, a big No. 1 winning face came......

Liu Mang turned around Christie and strode into the three-second zone, then jumped high, grabbed the ball with one hand, slammed it in the air, and smashed the ball into the basket!

Divac became the background!

Liu Mang's low position turned around!

The fans at the scene couldn't help but exclaim, Divac didn't expect Christie to be passed by Liu Mang in the low position, and he didn't even have a chance to make up for his defense!

Christie felt hot on her face, and she didn't guard at all at this critical moment! Especially seeing Divac's confused and somewhat complaining eyes, Christie felt that this game experience was too bad!

This guy is a monster! Genius is not enough to describe!

It's not that Christie can't defend against turning, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to turn around so quickly in a low position!

This thing can not be used well in a day or two, it takes a short time to train and actually operate in order to get better and better.

Although Christie attaches more importance to Liu Mang's back play than fans and many players, he only attaches importance to Liu Mang's irritable impact, he thought that Liu Mang was going to play a cold and strong eat, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to take the technical flow!

The swift turns, smooth articulations, and irascible dunks are as skillful as if they have been done countless times, which is like the first time they have been used in a game?

The unexpected comes easily!

Liu Mang did not celebrate after scoring the goal, and immediately turned back to defense.

He knew it was too much luck!

Liu Mang didn't expect that Christie would use such a posture to defend herself, just like a girl who struggled to resist her body being violated, clamped her muscles, and Liu Mang turned around and gave Christie over.

The key point for Liu Mang to do is to get rid of the opponent's defense, as long as he gets rid of it, everything will be easy to say.

The rush behind the turn, which is so fast that Christie can't keep up with it at all, can be triggered!

"Low post back body skill level 5: After the low post back body single successfully turns past the opponent, the speed +5, bounce +5, mid-range shot +5, and the chance of the referee blowing penalty under the basket will increase by 25%; When you fall low and step back to get rid of the opponent's defense, you will gain +5 mid-range shooting ability and +5 bounce. ”

In the training a few days ago, Liu Mang practiced some turn-over jumpers.

But this thing, it's really hard to practice, the 180-degree turn when turning over, often makes Liu Mang dizzy, so he has to practice slowly, when the head is a little dizzy, Liu Mang will change sides, come to the left side to practice turning, he wants to try to turn in the opposite direction can offset the feeling of dizziness caused by turning around just now......

However, whether there is any effect on counteracting the feeling of dizziness, Liu Mang did not find out, but relying on the opponent's turn, it is much easier than hitting the opponent's homeopathic turnover jumper.

In addition, Liu Mang's mid-to-long-range shooting did not score in the first two minutes, and Liu Mang felt a little unreliable in turning over the mid-distance jumper, for the sake of safety, he was promoted to level 5 with his low-post back body skills, not a turn-over jumper!

Liu Mang sacrificed a little bit of back play to try it, but I didn't expect the effect to be good! The other party didn't know why he made an extremely wrong choice, Liu Mang had a perfect opportunity whether he wanted to turn around or turn over for a jumper, Liu Mang chose to cut into the basket and completed the violent dunk.

Christie is desperate too! He didn't expect Liu Mang to have more than strong food in his low position.

Because Liu Mang has never used this trick! So Christie didn't think that Liu Mang would play any other tricks at all.

Because the core of the team organization that can play back, whether it is inside or outside, is very popular in any era, and the back play represents the lethality of scoring, which can attract the bag and have a good vision of the ball.

And Liu Mang, as the core of the Eagles' organization, has never used back play, so Christie naturally won't defend against the opponent's "won't" trick.

Christie had an inexplicable feeling that this kid was targeting their Kings! This kind of killer move is actually reserved for them!

The Eagles players were also extremely shocked, they didn't expect this seemingly unreliable style of play to really work!

Rahim was so shocked that he was shocked when he saw Liu Mang's explosive breakthrough after turning around faster than his most praised short-distance acceleration, and he was no longer dissatisfied with Liu Mang's substitution.

Nima, this little brother is a monster!

Raheem recalled that when Liu Mang was training two days ago, he asked himself for turning skills, and he taught him for a while, and this little brother used it at such an important and critical moment in such a critical game! And with that explosive speed and bounce, Rahim doesn't feel worse than himself! Even if the opponent's interior defense is in place, it is very likely to make a foul!

Rahim was excited and smiled wryly: who is the boss and who is assisting whom! The younger brother is almost stronger than the boss!

The Kings were frightened by Liu Mang's low-post ability, and with a sense of crisis, Bibby burst into the frontcourt and wanted to have one for himself.

Liu Mang clinged to Bibby tightly, Liu Mang, who had just dunked one, brought up the overall morale of the Eagles, fancy dunk level 5, after completing the fancy dunk in the game, the team's morale reached the highest level in this game, if the morale is already high, the morale is high and the state time is extended by one round.

Liu Mang himself is also a member of the Eagles, and his perfect turn and small windmill dunk have inspired him, and his enthusiasm has reached the highest state of the game.

Bibi was very uncomfortable by Liu Mang's oppressive cling, Liu Mang's strong physical confrontation, the referee did not blow the foul, at the critical moment, as long as it is not an obvious foul action, the referee rarely blows the whistle to affect the game, mainly because of the sixth game of the West Final last season, the Kings were blown fouls when they were close to each other, and this year's Kings game, this kind of ball is rarely blown off.

The Kings were very happy to have such a whistle this year, their defense was not clean, they were more confrontational with small movements, and they were usually very energetic against opponents, but now, Bibby hated to blow the defensive penalty for their game loosely, because he became a victim!

Bibby reluctantly passes the ball to Christie.

After Christie received the ball, his mind was full of the bad game experience just now, and he wanted to return Liu Mang.

Christie doesn't have any offensive ability with the ball, and it is difficult to hit Jason Terry with the ball, so Christie made a three-point shot directly after receiving the ball!

Jason Terry tried to interfere as much as he could, and he really managed to interfere, and Christie hit a three-pointer!

Seeing that someone made a shot, the Kings directly retreated, which was their core strategy, not allowing the Hawks to fight back, Liu Mang grabbed the fifth rebound of the game and got 30 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.

Advance to the front court again, continue to concoct the same method, pass the ball to Jason Terry, he falls to the left side of the basket in the low post, the other space is stretched, Jason Terry hits the ball to Liu Mang, Liu Mang receives the ball and leans towards Christie.

Christie has a strong sense of defense, and he sideways half of his body to block the bottom line of Liu Mang's turn just now.

Christie doesn't know if Liu Mang will make other low-post moves, but he is a good defensive player, and his colleague is a defensive player with high defensive literacy, just defend the skills that the opponent has shown, and he doesn't think so much if he hasn't shown it, because he can't predict this guy at all.

Speaking of which, for a coach, it is better for a coach to prefer a pragmatic defensive player like Christie than a player who often makes amazing and magical defenses, because players who often have magical steals and unexpected defenses tend to be caught by the opponent more often than not.

However, on the other hand, a defensive player of Christie's type often fails to attract the attention of fans.

Liu Mang looked at Christie's defensive movements, turned left decisively, and walked from the upper line, Christie stepped up one step at a time, delaying Liu Mang's movements after turning around, the explosive rush and bounce just now were too amazing, not giving Liu Mang room to start.

Seeing Liu Mang enter the basket in this position, Divac didn't have to worry about being held high by Ratliff if he was too far away from the defense, and stepped up to block Liu Mang.

The front can block Liu Mang, and the back can prevent Ratliff, and Divac's prediction is great.

At this time, Peja and Bibby were also making outside loops to Prince and Jason Terry, so that they could not have time to catch the ball.

But......

Liu Mang threw the ball to the right back, and a question mark popped up in Divac's head, who was facing Liu Mang head-on, what is this for? Passing the ball with fate?

But just then, Boozer appeared in the top corner of the right side of the free throw line and received the ball from mid-range!

"Huh"

Boozer lived up to Liu Mang's expectations and hit a jumper from the free throw line after receiving the ball!

30+5+5! Liu Mang got the data of 30+5+5!

Meanwhile, the Eagles tied the score 100-100!

The Eagles are tied!

However, Adelman stood on the sidelines and roared again, but the Kings had no timeout! Otherwise, Adelman attaches so much importance to the offense, and called a timeout as early as when the scoring was drought, mainly because the Hawks changed their tactics in the first three and a half quarters of today's game, which made Adelman and Thibodeau call a lot of timeouts to adjust their defense, and finally found out that the other party was a big liar!

There are 57 seconds left!

The Kings attacked, this time Bibi and Peja came to an outside block, and gave the ball to Peja, Liu Mang switched defenses and clinged to Peja, and Peja made a three-point shot!

However, when it came time for the Hawks to attack, Prince didn't shoot for too long, and Prince, who received the ball when Peja went up to cover Liu Mang, who was playing in the low post, didn't score a three-point shot.

The Kings are a group of people who are not good at playing key shots, and there is only one person.

At the critical moment, it is only up to him - Mike Bibby!

After Bibby came over, he saw that Webber was almost impressable, after all, he was 30 years old, Peja was stuck to death by Prince's lanky rookie, Christie was in an impulsive state again, and Bibby decided to come by himself!

The whole team of the Kings pulled away, Bibby was not afraid of Liu Mang's defense, and after taking a strong step, he stepped back and made a jumper!

The critical moment is still Bibby!

With 18 seconds left, Bibby stepped back after breaking through Liu Mang and stepped on a long-range shot from the three-point line, and the Kings led by two points!

The Eagles called the last timeout!

After Coach Kruger called a timeout for the first time, Liu Mang looked at Bibi, who might have hit a quasi-lore, without extra excitement, and sorted out the hair belt and returned to the bench, he really felt that this Kings team may be the strongest Webber, the team tactics can be diversified by Peja and Divac, and the defensive core is Divac and Christie.

But the guy who was the most overlooked, hit countless key shots, never made it to the All-Star team, but was the most gorgeous team in history, the Kings' Five Tigers who persevered until the last to leave, may be the real soul of this Kings team, the toughest player.

Never steal the limelight, if it was Peja, this goal scored, definitely showing their Yugoslav heroism, maybe they would dance, but Bibi just tidied up his headband, just like every lore in the past, he celebrated with actions that are difficult for others to discover, and silently enjoyed a person's carnival, the carnival of his heart.

However, people now don't find that Bibi's celebration is an "inadvertent" hairband, but Liu Mang knows!

This begins to celebrate the lore?

Liu Mang is really unhappy! 18 seconds to go!

Liu Mang returned to the bench and snatched the tactical board again.

Coach Kruger has no choice now, very suddenly, Liu Mang has a new ability, in all the tactics he has planned, there is no point guard in the low post single, so now he simply gives the command to Liu Mang.

"Sherif you replace Carlos, Sherif you bottom line, I break through you and run back, ready to catch the ball and dunk or rush to grab the rebound, Jason, Tyshawn, you open up the space and are ready to catch and shoot at any time, Theo, you go to the basket and get stuck ......" Liu Mang drew the tactical board with a mess, but the players were used to it, the only thing that was strange was why they suddenly didn't play low again? Did you just play well in the low post?

And Rahim burst into tears in his heart, and sure enough, the younger brother still remembered that he was the boss, and he replaced himself when he was killed.

On the other side, the Kings bench.

"Pay attention to the bag, that Liu to the low post, Peja you go over to the bag, Mike and the rest of the rotation should be fast, Prince should pay attention to the change of defense when he is empty......" Adelman emphasized the pinch, and began to arrange the possible killer ball, because they did not have a timeout, so they could only arrange together at this time: "If you prevent it, protect the rebound, if you don't prevent it, give the ball to Peja when you pass......"

Sure enough, at the critical moment, Adelman still gave the chance to kill Peja, who played the best game for the Kings in the regular season this year, instead of Bibi, who just made a key shot.

Bibby was silent and didn't speak, he's the white tough guy any coach would love, but he's also the one that's most easily overlooked.

……

After the timeout, Jason Terry advanced to the frontcourt, dribbling on the outside to kill time, and Liu Mang continued to fall to the left low post of the basket.

Everything was no different from the first two attacks.

With 10 seconds left, Jason Terry moved to a 45-degree angle to the left from beyond the three-point line, and the Kings were immediately alerted, and Peja was ready to go to the pack.

That's when something completely different from the Kings' expected defensive situation happened! Prince in the bottom corner of the left side of the basket ran around the bottom line to the other bottom corner, Peja hurriedly ran after Prince, and at the same time, when he was about to make contact with Prince, Liu Mang stretched out from the low post and ran to the top arc, Christie hurriedly followed, but was blocked by Raheem who stepped over!

Fortunately, the Kings changed their defense very quickly, Peja immediately gave up chasing Prince to chase Liu Mang, Christie immediately gave up chasing Liu Mang to chase Prince, and at this time, Raheem, who blocked Liu Mang without the ball, took Divac away through Ratliff's blocking, and Ratliff came to the left edge of the basket.

Liu Mang ran to the top arc, Jason Terry passed to Liu Mang and then went to the left bottom corner, Prince took Christie to the right bottom corner, Raheem took Divac to the right baseline mid-range, Ratliff took Webb to the edge of the three-second zone on the left side of the basket, Liu Mang held the ball in the top arc to face Peja!

Tactics achieved! Point guards play small forwards!

Eight seconds left!

Liu Mang did not hesitate and continued to dribble under his crotch.

Peja swallowed her saliva, not daring to get too close or too far away, the other party can throw and break through!

After Liu Mang continued to dribble in advance and change direction, he suddenly took a probe step to the right, and Peja immediately took a step sideways to the left, but! Liu Mang kicked his right foot and made a big stride on the left side!

Marbury's signature body change of direction! It's just that Marbury is really far from the free throw line, and Liu Mang is outside the three-point line!

Peja panicked, and rushed towards Liu Mang with his teeth and claws, Liu Mang grabbed the ball, did not dodge, and bumped into Peja, and the hand holding the ball hit under Peja's outstretched arm......

Touch the porcelain master level 5 trigger, a one-in-one chance, the opponent is suspected of foul action referee will blow the penalty!

Although the referee blows the key ball of the Kings on a large scale, it is not an obvious foul and rarely blows the whistle, but this ball is too obvious!

"Beep......

Liu Mang was lying on the floor, heard the referee's whistle, turned over, and saw the referee's gesture of three free throws, and couldn't help but pound the floor and scream "Wow, wow, wow, ......".

Jason Terry and Raheem, the two best relations, also immediately ran over to pull Liu Mang up, although Liu Mang just said that none of the promises to give them two breakthrough points were completed, but he made a three-point foul at the critical moment, which was enough!

Rather than getting two or three points yourself, winning is the key!

Yes, when Liu Mang arranged the tactics just now, he deceived his teammates, and after they completed the first step to create a misalignment for Liu Mang, they continued to run, taking away the attention of the Kings' defense, so that Liu Mang did not fall into a state of being trapped, so that Liu Mang had the opportunity to make fouls in Peja.

Liu Mang's tactics are two points, creating dislocation, teammates taking away the defense, and playing alone.

It's such a simple and straightforward tactic, it's done!

Peja is going crazy! I was played by that hateful Chinese kid from beginning to end today!

Liu Mang stood on the free throw line, hit all three free throws, and with 5 seconds left, Liu Mang relied on 3 free throws to overtake one point!

The Kings didn't take a timeout, Webber sent the ball to Bibi, Peja and Christie ran to the front court for the first time, Bibi waited for Peja to rush to the frontcourt, and an excellent lob passed to Peja, Bibi didn't have many assists during the Kings period, averaging about 5 per game, because he didn't have the ball, he passed the ball no worse than Webb, only better, and averaged 8 assists per game in his sophomore year.

Bibi's long pass was very good, Peja received the ball in the half and dribbled it outside the three-point line, just about to shoot, Prince pasted it towards Peja, and at the critical moment, Peja softened! Pass the ball to Christie!

Christie was pushing and shoving with Jason Terry, Jason Terry didn't let Christie go to the basket, Christie didn't expect Peja to pass the ball at this time, and the ball flew directly past his head......

Peja passes out of bounds at critical moment!

0.9 seconds left!

The Hawks just sent the ball out in the backcourt, didn't give the Kings a chance to foul, and the Kings didn't have any idea of fouling.

What a loss today! The whole game was teased!

The Hawks end a nine-game losing streak against the Kings!

Liu Mang scored 33 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, helping the Hawks win 103-102, and it was a free throw shoot!