Malone has averaged 37 minutes per game so far this season, and Stockton has averaged 34 minutes per game.

Come back from the pause, Liu Mang appears!

Liu Mang's popularity is getting hotter and hotter! The scene was originally pressed and beaten by two old men, and the atmosphere was a little sluggish, and it was instantly high!

"Cut." Ma Long was very unhappy when he looked at Liu Mang's popularity, and he said that he hated all the popular guards.

Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the front court.

The regular rotation lineup on the Hawks' side, in addition to Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Newbell, and Mohammed.

On the Jazz side, giants Ostertag and Brian Russell were replaced with AK47 Andrei Kirillenko and rookie center Jeron Collins.

The Jazz team has begun to have plans to be younger, as a rookie in 1999 but only entered the NBA this year, Kirilenko has begun to take on important responsibilities, Liu Mang pushed over, thinking that he would encounter Stockton's defense, but he didn't expect to appear in front of him Kirilenko!

Kirilenko is not yet an all-round warrior in the future, averaging only 6 points per game, but the defense has begun to take on the shadow of the best defensive team in the future, as a rookie, although there is no ranking on the rookie list, 6 points and 4 boards are really not good, but the defensive end averages 1.5 steals and 1.9 blocks per game, so strong that you don't want to, but the rookie ranking focuses on scores, followed by rebounds.

After all, he was selected by the NBA in 1999, and he trained in CSKA Moscow for another two years, and he is already a mature professional player.

As soon as Liu Mang arrived outside the three-point line, Kirilenko came up and carried out a pressing defense, his skills were not as good as Payton's, and his body was not as strong as Kobe's, but this was full of Russians' iron-blooded style of lifeless defense, Liu Mang didn't adapt to it all of a sudden, and he was almost stealed!

Liu Mang hurriedly guarded the ball, and at this time, Jason Terry saw that Liu Mang had a problem, and immediately came over to answer it, Liu Mang immediately sent it out, and then ran towards the bottom corner to open up the space.

"System, Kirilenko attributes!"

"Ding...... Andrei Kirilenko, height 206 cm, weight 94 kg, ability value 73, offense 61, defense 85, speed 89, strength 81, steals 80, blocks 91......"

Wipe! Liu Mang looked at Kirilenko's ability value, if he added a little more weight, he could compete for the best defensive player!

It seems that this thing really almost snatched the best defensive player from Ben Wallace in 2006! And he also won the king of blocks!

It's a bit tricky to deal with!

Jason Terry's side singled Stockton, relatively easy to play, Stockton is old and strong, but after all, old, the offense is okay, it's okay to maintain the state, but the defense can't do it, and the speed decline is the biggest problem.

Jason Terry shifted his direction and stepped forward with his right foot, and Stockton's first instinct was to move to the left back, but he held back.

Sure enough, Jason Terry feintmed, and the foot that stepped out was immediately retracted and changed direction to the left, and Stockton turned and moved to the right.

At this time, Liu Mang came up to block Stockton! Completed Terry's job when he usually played small guard!

If it was the Jazz's starting veterans Brian Russell, Liu Mang and Jason Terry's outside blocking would have been successful, but now the Jazz's small forward is Andrei Kirilenko! He quickly switched into place and blocked Jason Terry's cut!

Change the guard!

When Liu Mang opened up the space again, it became Jason Terry vs. Kirilenko, Jason Terry finally understood why Liu Mang was so uncomfortable just now, this guy has a lot of physical confrontation, and there are a lot of small movements in his hands, this time it was Liu Mang's turn to come up to answer, Jason Terry passed the ball to Liu Mang, saying that the buddy couldn't stand it.

When Liu Mang received the ball, there were only more than four seconds left, and there was no time to waste, so he took a strong step and stepped back to shoot!

Stockton's reaction was very alert, Liu Mang's sniper fire has been all over the basketball circle in the past two days, and Stockton has long been on guard and pounced directly.

Liu Mang's three-point shot missed!

Malone grabs a defensive rebound!

The Hawks quickly retreated, the small lineup was fast, and the defense was quickly put in place, and the light lineup that the Jazz changed to did not play fast-breaking.

Stockton advanced over, Liu Mang defended, the Jazz's offense was still blocked, all offenses were launched from the block, Liu Mang was blocked by Ma Long, before Malone scored 4 goals in a row, the first quarter has been 8 points, the defense of the Newbell defensive center is completely here in Ma Long, Stockton burst to the free throw line mid-range jumper hit!

21 to 16, the difference came to 5 points!

What a morale boost!

The two "old men" who are almost not confused have beaten a group of young people in their early 20s on their side!

Liu Mang received the serve and pushed to the frontcourt, feeling that he had to raise the speed!

This is not in line with the coach's arrangement, but Liu Mang feels that it should be speeded up!

During the pre-game tactical discussion, because the Jazz won both games this season in the game against the Mavericks, a team that also played light tactics! Especially when the Mavericks were running and bombing, they were played to death by Stockton's various subtle long passes.

But Liu Mang felt that if he fought like this, he would have to be played to death by these two old men! It's better to do something that your own lineup is good at!

After Liu Mang passed the half, he clapped his hands to attract the attention of his teammates, made gestures, and speeded up!

The teammates first looked at the coach, and Coach Kruger also saw Liu Mang's gesture, and did not nod or shake his head.

That's the default!

The Eagles began to run aggressively, Raheem ran out when Liu Mang began to accelerate from the middle line, and Liu Mang rushed two or three steps outside the three-point line to change direction sharply to the right front.

got rid of Kirilenko, Liu Mang broke into the three-point line, and Tang Yell Marshall blocked in front of Liu Mang, however, Liu Mang accelerated to sprint to the three-second area, and after the addition of the master of blocking, Liu Mang broke through the speed of 100 at the speed of Tang Yell Marshall, and the barometer could not keep up! After Liu Mang burst into the inner line, the rhythm changed suddenly, and the word speed suddenly changed to extremely slow, and Tang Yeer-Marshall, who was startled by Liu Mang and rushed to the inside line, rushed over his head and rushed directly into the reasonable collision area!

Liu Mang stepped on the right sideline of the three-second zone and threw the ball into the basket to score two points!

Without thinking, if you have the opportunity to hold the ball, you just do it!

From the midline breakout to the toss, it only took two seconds!

This goal is not only the credit of Raheem who blocked and broke through Liu Mang, but also the strongest muscular man on Muhammad's side who has carried the best defensive lineup many times, Newbell and Jason Terry's off-ball blocking and dismantling brought Jeron Collins out of the three-second zone, Liu Mang can have such a good scoring opportunity, and Rahim is also pestering Kirilenko to prevent this guy from chasing back to the inside defense.

But this kind of running position also made the Hawks almost all of them stuck in the three-point line, and the defensive formation was chaotic!

The Jazz start to fight back!

Kirilenko, Tangyère-Marshall, and Malone are down! Stockton received a direct long pass from the serve, and the Eagles' defensive attention was all on Malone, a historic scorer, and Kirilenko, a small forward who was not as fast as a two-meter-and-six-meter-tall small forward, and Stockton's pass landed outside the three-point line! Completely anticipating the Eagles' defense!

Don Yell Marshall catches the ball from beyond the three-point line!

Hit!

It hurts a little!

He scored two points, and the other party immediately returned a three-point! The score went from 21-16 to 24-18, and the Jazz pulled the score away.

However, Liu Mang did not hesitate, after the opponent threw in, he immediately turned around and ran towards the front court, seeing Liu Mang go down quickly, Rahim, who was chasing Malone back, did not hesitate to pick up the ball and immediately make a long pass, Liu Mang received the ball over the middle line, continued to rush to the opponent's basket, and did not look back into the sandwich of Stockton and Jeron Collins, and then passed back to Jason Terry who ran leisurely.

It's so comfortable! Jason Terry catches the ball and hits a three-point shot!

The speed is brought up! Stockton received serve and ran forward quickly, trying to take advantage of the Eagles' inability to land in defensive positions to play an easy attack.

Marlon, Kirilenko, who had just come back, began to turn back and run......

In the last two minutes of the first quarter, the two teams began a battle of back and forth, and no one could defend well.

In more than two minutes, the two teams played an astonishing score of 14-12! The Jazz relied on Stockton and Don Yell Marshall, two god-accurate shooters, as well as Malone and Kirilenko's air cuts, to score 14 points in just over two minutes!

Let's not talk about Stockton, after Don Yell Marshall scored two three-pointers in a row, Liu Mang recalled that this guy is the single-game three-point shooting record setter who will shoot 12 three-pointers in a single game in the future!

After the first quarter, the Eagles' side was stretched to 8 points by the opponent! It seems that the cavalry tactics failed when they encountered Stockton, who could always pass the ball to any position, and 30-38, was cut by the Jazz to a super-high 38 points in a single quarter.

The fans roared loudly in the fast break, but at the end of the first quarter, looking at the score, they were a little deflated, as if our side was suppressed!

It seems that the tactics did not work, but were used by the opponent to play countless counterattacks, because there was a precedent for the Jazz team to play the Mavericks before, before this Hawks vs. Jazz game, some experts and the media said that the Hawks could not use their cavalry tactics, and the opponent would seize the opportunity to score easily.

It seems that the Hawks' tactics have really been used by the Jazz, they also have a light lineup, Malone has always been a very fast moving player in the power forward, very suitable for playing fast offense, but because of the blocking tactics, the Jazz mainly play positional battles.

But!

Liu Mang saw Ma Long's sweat flowing into his eyes and constantly rubbing his teeth and sweating, and felt that there was nothing wrong with this tactic!