At 6:40 p.m. on November 1st, at Phillips Arena, the two sides of the battle began to enter tonight.

A rising star, who can be booed wherever he can play away, is LeBron James.

At this stage, fans who like James like it very much and protect their calves, but if they don't like it, they don't like it very much, and even disgust it.

Mainly because the treatment is too much!

is only in the third grade, has not played in the playoffs to prove himself, and the treatment he gets is better than the league's old superstars, and the league's excessive praise of James has indeed made James quickly become a popular new star in the American Sports Festival, gaining a large number of fans, but also allowing James to have a large number of black fans prematurely.

Generally speaking, a rising star in the third grade, who is not yet 21 years old, plays well, and the fans are more tolerant.

But James was caught between touting and attacking early.

Some media advocate that James is going to the top this year and surpass Liu Mang and Maddy, and this conclusion is drawn from James' average of 34 points per game in the first two games.

As soon as this argument came out, James met with a lot of criticism.

No, even the Eagles fans were offended.

Liu Mang's face didn't change when he saw James being booed, he was really a calm old man, he was good to be old, and his skin was real.

The Cavaliers started this year very well, and there has been a big improvement compared to last year, and the Hawks naturally attach great importance to it, and among the four consecutive home opponents at the beginning, the Hawks pay the most attention to the two teams not the 76ers and the Nuggets, but the Cavaliers.

This kind of rising team, I don't know how far they can rise, we can only slowly watch their performance throughout the season.

In the first game against the Cavaliers in the new season, the Hawks did tactical training yesterday morning and the afternoon before yesterday for the Cavaliers to win the Hammers Wizards, 100-77 and 23 points.

Liu Mang took a look at the strength of the Cavaliers' players in the new season.

Zaidrunas Ilgoskas, with an ability rating of 82, has a mid-range shot and has a certain ability to play in the low post.

Drew Gooden, with an ability evaluation of 79, also has a mid-range shot, has a certain ability to play singles in the face frame, and is fierce in rebounding.

Eric Snow, with an ability rating of 78, is weak offensively and strong defensively, and the defensive rating is the highlight, reaching 85.

Don Yell Marshall, with an ability rating of 77, is still a high-quality role player at the age of 32, with a three-point shooting of 87, excellent rebounding, and no passing ability.

Damon Jones, with an ability rating of 73, is good at three-point shooting, with a three-point rating of 85, but he doesn't have much other ability, and he is degrading rapidly, only 30 years old, and his strength has begun to plummet, and his ability rating has fallen from 78 last season to 73.

Andre Valejo, with an ability rating of 74, excellent rebounding and a positive style of play.

Ronald Murray, ability evaluation 78, no shooting ability, good breakthrough, the previous SuperSonics did not get the main ball handler before Francis, it is a bankrupt version of Francis, the second round pick in 2002, Francis went to the SuperSonics in the 03-04 season, the sophomore played an average of 12+3+4 data per game, but with Francis, he almost sat on the cold bench for a season last season, the SuperSonics did not want him at the end of the rookie contract, and the Cavaliers signed him with a base salary, and he performed well in the first two games of the season.

In addition to these guys, there are also forward players such as Alexander Pavlovich and Luke Jackson who can shoot.

In addition to trading Larry Hughes, a swingman with no shooting ability and taking the maximum salary, so that James and Larry Hughes have some overlap, the Cavaliers' goal is clear, to put a lot of shooters around James, and a group of defensive players to build a team around James.

At this stage, the incompatibility between Larry Hughes and James has not yet been exposed, and after looking at the Cavaliers' lineup, Liu Mang understands why the Cavaliers played so well in the first two games, mainly because...... Larry Hughes is injured.

The Wizards accepted a second-round draft pick to help Larry Hughes go to the Cavaliers, in addition to Larry Hughes being a complete free agent and trading for a little reward, the Wizards didn't want to keep this player who followed Jordan to the Wizards back then, and there was an injury, Larry Hughes had a serious injury to his right elbow joint, and he was hard enough to go to the playoffs to be treated.

Larry Hughes is not known for his shooting, which does not affect his value.

James made a big leap forward in a year; Big Z took a pay cut to renew his contract, giving the Cavaliers a chance to operate, and got Larry Hughes's bird right to the top salary extension; Ronald Murray, a former SuperSonics player who can't pick up three-point practice; Although Drew Gooden has no talent to dig into, he started almost 12+8 as a rookie, and he has always had such data, but he is stable enough; Lotto late draft pick to take Vallejo from the Eagles to make up for the lack of interior line; The full middle class won the forward who had 12 three-pointers in a single game, Don Yell Marshall, as the sixth man; Signed Damon Jones, a high-quality three-point shooter who played well in the regular season with the Heat last season, despite being a playoff player......

The main thing is that Liu Mang saw Mike Brown, the head coach of the Cavaliers, who served as a defensive assistant coach to Rick Carlisle last season......

When Liu Mang saw this coach, he knew that James's era of breakthrough points had begun.

Mike Brown's coaching ability Liu Mang doesn't know how to describe it, but his presence has really helped James develop his own style.

James' team is a bit like this, can it meet in the playoffs this year?

Liu Mang felt that he was getting more and more excited, and quickly suppressed his excitement: Why is the young master more and more going to Los Angeles, no, you have to calm down......

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"Andre, how about playing with LeBron?" Liu Mang and Vallejo hugged and asked.

After the players from both teams entered, the Hawks' veteran players from last season hugged and greeted Vallejo of the Cavaliers.

Although the fans at the scene were upset with the Cavaliers and James, they also gave Vallejo some applause.

"LeBron is a good teammate, he's the same as Tracy, and I'll pass the ball to me when I get the chance." Vallejo says he's doing well.

Vallejo arrived at the Cavaliers, who were relatively weak inside, and had stable playing time, the first two games played more than 15 minutes, and he was the first substitute for Big Z, James likes to pass, Vallejo is also one of the beneficiaries, the first two games are 8 points and 4 boards, a game of 6 points and 6 boards, and the scores are all cakes.

Although Vallejo didn't play much in the Hawks last season, Maddy still passed him a lot of balls last season, and there was not much change in his style of play.

Liu Mang saw that his old teammates were doing well, and he was also happy, although compared with the feelings of his original old teammates, he must be far behind Valejo, but after playing a season and winning the championship together, it is better than the usual feelings of playing for a season.

"It's good, it's good to have playing time, we have too many people in the team, you have won the championship, go out and play well to train yourself...... Wait," Liu Mang also wanted to encourage Valejo like a senior, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said angrily: "Andre, what do you mean?" Tracy will pass the ball to you, didn't I pass it? ”

Vallejo is so embarrassed, what impressed him the most last season was Maddy's passing, the king of assists!

That's when Jason Terry came up: "Ace, I remember I looked at the analysis of our team's coordination last season, and Andre didn't receive any of your assists, not once. ”

"......" was so embarrassing, Liu Mang forcibly changed the topic: "Andre, come on, come on, look, the boss is here, your championship ring ......"

After some pleasantries, Hawks owner Price took out the championship ring engraved with Vallejo's name, and Liu Mang helped Vallejo put the championship ring on.

When Liu Mang put a ring on Valejo, he felt a gaze, and turned his head to see that it was James.

Liu Mang gestured with his left hand to James, which seemed to be a greeting, but James understood!

That's what two championship rings mean!

The game hasn't started yet, and the smoke has already risen!

At this time, Vallejo ran directly to the away team's locker room, and everyone handed over the ring to the team staff to put it in the closet......

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With Rashid Wallace's roar, Liu Mang was just about to scatter magnesium powder into the air when he saw that after the lights came on, James and Prince were fighting!

James really didn't expect a good opening move, it was better to dance, recently the United States popular "NBA court dance", James met the "NBA court dance ambassador" Prince, and danced together.

Liu Mang looked at the magnesium powder in his hand, and felt that he had forced James to a dead end!

After thinking about it, Liu Mang still sprinkled magnesium powder into the air and played!

When James and Prince finished dancing, they looked at each other, and they both wrote in their eyes: Sure enough, they are masters.

Then separated, today the two were in position, and the smoke of the game began with the fighting dance.

The Hawks sent a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Maddy, Prince, Rashid Wallace, and Kwame Brown, and it was a very consistent starter.

On the Cavaliers' side, Larry Hughes won't be back until January at the earliest, with Eric Snow, Damon Jones, LeBron James, Drew Gooden, and Big Z starting.

Although it was back-to-back on the Cavaliers' side, the season had just begun, and the first back-to-back of the season didn't have much impact, and the Cavaliers' side also wanted to win!

It's been two years, and I haven't won against the Eagles once, and of course I want to win.

However, the Hawks won the first game in the opening game, Kwame Brown easily won the jump ball from the big Z head, and the Hawks attacked first.

Liu Mang received the jump ball, immediately passed it to Maddie, and quickly ran towards the front court.

Fight fast!

The Cavaliers twin towers move slowly, but the position is well defended, and the Hawks don't want to be dragged into their rhythm by the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers, who only scored 100 points in a big win like winning by 23 points, have become very good defensively after getting Mike Brown this season, mainly because James studied with Eric Snow for a year, and practiced as Maddy's heads-up opponent for more than a month, and the defense has improved a lot, and they are close to the first-class.

Although Snow is old and his statistics have plummeted, his defensive efficiency has not declined, mainly because his offensive statistics have fallen and he has no ball in his hands.

Snow's 85 defensive evaluation, James's 84 defensive evaluation, is one less Larry Hughes, otherwise it is one of the best teams in the NBA's 30 teams with the best outside defense.

Playing such a team, you can't be dragged into a positional battle by them and grind slowly.

Liu Mang quickly rushed to the frontcourt, and when he was about to approach the three-point line, Eric Snow slammed towards Liu Mang, and retreated with a touch, Liu Mang wanted to move sideways to find a vacancy, but was forced to stop all of a sudden!

Maddie was ready to lead the pass with the ball, but thanks to his big hand, he grabbed the ball, but also stopped the ball more than a meter away from the three-point line on the right side.

Rasheed Wallace came out to pick up Maddie, Liu Mang saw that the referee didn't blow it, and Eric Snow's small movements were too fast.

Liu Mang saw that the Knights expected them to fight fast, so they forced them to fall into a positional battle.

This Cavaliers team is completely different from the Cavaliers in the previous two years, with Mike Brown, the defensive end has a prototype, that is, there is a basic system framework, and it is no longer the team that James used to fool around.

Liu Mang was not in a hurry, slowed down, and slowly moved to the top arc to respond, Rasheed Wallace sideways to block the chasing Gooden, passed the ball to Liu Mang, and immediately stood up to block the chasing Eric Snow.

At this time, Liu Mang suddenly started to speed up, and borrowed Rashid Wallace to block Snow and accelerate the breakthrough!

"Ding...... Triggered by the Demolition Master at level 5, the host's speed is +8 within two seconds of this breakthrough......"

Instantly accelerated, and soared to the limit, Gu Deng wanted to pull Liu Mang too late! In addition, he wanted to steal Rashid Wallace just now to defend the three-point line, and Liu Mang was empty in front of him!

Liu Mang rushed to the free throw line, Da Z pounced, and was rushed in like this, Da Z didn't dare to stay under the basket, this is the rhythm of being dunked, and would rather be passed by Liu Mang to Kwame Brown.

Liu Mang threw the ball into the air, and Kwame Brown jumped high and scored two points with an empty dunk.

Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace high-fived, and the ball relied on Rashid Wallace's tacit understanding to block and dismantle, so that the opponent's team defense could not play.

It's mainly thanks to Rashid Wallace who can pass three points!

This style of play is very similar to Olajuwon's strategy play in the peak of the Rockets, except that it is more outside, and it is all to the top arc.

The Cavaliers attacked, James advanced with his own serve, and another playmaker was born.

James arrived in the frontcourt, Liu Mang defended Snow, ready to assist in defense at any time, and James was on Prince's side.

It's impossible to shoot from the outside, and James knows very well that he will accelerate to break through immediately outside the three-point line!

The Cavaliers have both interior lines pulled apart, and both have shooting ability.

Prince couldn't bear it, except for Artest and a few others in the league, no one could stop James' breakthrough, so Prince was ready for a long time, trying to press James to the right side, not giving James a chance to hit the basket head-on.

After James ran over Prince and rushed to the free throw line, Maddie let go of Damon Jones to pinch James, and Liu Mang was also ready to pounce on Damon Jones, trying to play a high-speed rotation defense.

However, James didn't pass, and in the face of the two-person bag, he took three strong steps!

Maddie and Prince did a good job of defending, blocking the space for James to shoot, James one, two, three, James's shooting space during the three steps was blocked by the two, as long as it was thrown, Maddie had the confidence to give a big hat, Maddie practiced with his knees bent, ready to come to a nail board at any time.

Just as James jumped up on the third step, and Maddie also jumped up to block, James took the third step and landed, bounced on the ground, and threw ......

James made a three-step layup to dodge the defense and hit a throw.

This...... Did I count wrong? Maddie and Prince were a little confused and looked at each other, or did the referee not see it?

The Cavaliers have stepped back, and Maddie and Prince haven't said anything.

The Eagles attacked, Liu Mang received the serve and passed to Maddie, after Maddie advanced to the frontcourt, he saw James coming up, and Maddie signaled Liu Mang to go to the middle distance.

Relatively speaking, Liu Mang played Eric Snow more easily than Maddie beat James, James is young and driven, and his defensive effect is better than Snow.

Liu Mang received instructions to come to the left side of the free throw line and lean on Eric Snow to ask for the ball.

Maddie passes the ball to Liu Mang, who hits Eric Snow with his back in the high post.

After Liu Mang received the ball, he grabbed the ball with one hand and pushed Eric Snow sideways, Eric Snow has good toughness, and he used to be the best defensive team player, and he has proper awareness.

Liu Mang used his right foot as the axis and half-turned to the right, and Eric Snow felt a little awkward...... Shouldn't the average person use the left foot as the axis?

Liu Mang handed the ball to his left hand, slapped it violently, and bounced it to the right, just when Liu Mang slapped the ball, Snow subconsciously pounced to the right, thinking that Liu Mang was going to break through from the left side, and was completely shaken away!

Liu Mang moves sideways and jumps to the front of the free throw line!

In the eyes of onlookers, Snow's defense was completely misjudged and could not understand what Snow was thinking.

But on Snow's side, it feels too awkward, and Liu Mang's style of play is too weird and unreasonable!

The weirdness at the beginning, Snow could see that Liu Mang was a left-handed standing, but the left-hander was playing high on the left side of the basket, and he still turned around like that, which made him feel more awkward.

But what is even more awkward is that Liu Mang suddenly switched to a right-handed style of play, and Eric Snow was dizzy.

Easily scored two points again, Liu Mang didn't go head-to-head with the Cavaliers' defense, and didn't give the other party a chance to play team defense, so he played a difficult one.

Moreover, it is a difficult attack that only he can complete.

Offense and defense switch, Cavaliers offense.

James continued to break through with the ball, the defensive strategy of the Hawks did not change, Prince defended, Maddie wrapped, forced James to pass the ball to Damon Jones and then Liu Mang took the first step to make up the defense in place, luring Damon Jones to share the ball to Snow, and Maddie defended again, such a defensive intention was to try to get the Cavaliers' ball into the hands of Snow, their player with the worst single ability on the court.

However, James still chose to come on his own!

Prince was very close, Maddy's defense was also timely, James still didn't pass and continued to make a three-step layup.

Another extra jump, after landing, he threw it, the ball hit the rebound, bounced off the basket, and fell into it.

This time Maddie counted well, and it was indeed one more step!

And this time the bottom line referee is in front of him, and he didn't blow it!

The Cavaliers immediately stepped back and scored, so they didn't give the Hawks a chance to fight back.

"His layup just now, that's a walk, right?" Maddie went up and spoke to the referee.

"My blowing penalty is blowing what I see, I don't see there being a walk." The referee answered and motioned for the Eagles to attack.

What he said is too infuriating, and the referee's meaning is too obvious!

"Are your eyes broken? So obvious steps. Maddie couldn't help but say angrily, the referee's words were too infuriating.

"Beep......" The referee's whistle blows and gives Maddie a technical foul!

Maddie was blown as a technical offender!

Without hesitation, I gave it directly to the technical criminal!

Seeing that Maddie was about to squirt again, to his surprise, Rashid Wallace came up and pulled Maddie away, dragging Maddie back to the bench.

A few years of moral tracing have not been in vain, and Rasheed Wallace had only seven technical fouls last season, only one-sixth of his peak.

Coach Kruger immediately called a timeout, threw the tactical board directly to Liu Mang, and ran to find the referee's theory, sometimes there is a disciple who likes to grab the tactical board, and it is really useful when encountering things, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to take care of both ends.

Coach Kruger went to argue with the referee.

The Cavaliers make technical foul free throws, the player's technical fouls, the Cavaliers head coach can designate his own players to make free throws, the Cavaliers and the Lakers are a little similar, the most stable free throws are ...... Center.

Big Z hit a steady free throw, and the Cavaliers beat the Hawks by one point 5-4!

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Liu Mang knows that James will use the league's favoritism to make himself play better, otherwise he doesn't have a very good shot, and his strength is about the same as Wade last season, and he won't say that he will be close to the supergiant soon, because the whistle is mainly a whistle that doesn't blow his steps, and he relies on the referee very little for free throws, mainly because he doesn't blow his steps, which makes him go to the basket with a great "improvement".

But Maddie is the first time to encounter it, there was an occasional one last season, but the number of times is small, not so blatantly not blown, Maddie feels that he is a top five superstar in the league, and he was actually blown a star whistle, of course he has to complain, and then the referee said that, and suddenly he exploded.

Maddie is not angry with James, but the referee's blowing, not the referee blowing like that, and James won't play like that.

Maddie sat there and ignored anyone, and Liu Mang didn't comfort him, what is there to comfort him, it's just a loss!

"Tracy, come here, let's change the defensive strategy......" Liu Mang is very direct, when he encounters a problem, he will find a way to solve it.

Liu Mang held the tactical board, and he didn't draw it, mainly to arrange the defensive strategy he knew, Liu Mang didn't make any substitutions, and the offense and defense were very good, this was an unexpected situation, it was too blatant!

In that case, them! With a more ferocious attack, just blast them!

It just so happens that Liu Mang knows how to deal with this, there are 10,000 ways to deal with the three giants of Kaizi in the original time and space......

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After the pause, the Eagles attacked, and Maddie took the initiative to ask Liu Mang for the ball.

Seeing Maddie's rare seriousness, Liu Mang handed the ball to Maddie after receiving the serve, Maddie advanced to the front court, and Liu Mang went to the left-hand 45-degree angle to open up the space at the best fixed-point three-point position.

Prince got to the bottom left corner, Rashid Wallace was mid-range on the right baseline, and Kwame Brown was on the left side of the three-second zone.

The space was wide open, and Maddie squinted at James on the dribble.

Looks old, skinny, James didn't feel embarrassed, this is the good treatment he gets, why not take advantage of it.

James focuses on defense, ready to make Maddy's super-fast first three steps, as long as Maddie breaks through, he will use his body to carry it, this is his defensive strategy, as long as he holds it and doesn't let Maddie rush directly into it, he can pinch it when he gets to the inside.

However, Maddie dribbled, suddenly grabbed the ball, bent his waist straightened all of a sudden, lifted the ball like a knife, and pulled out a three-point shot......

"Whoa......

Maddie, who looked for a few seconds of rhythm, hit a three-point shot!

7-5, the Hawks regained a two-point lead!

After Maddie scored, he whistled lightly, glanced at James, and ran back towards the backcourt with disdain in his eyes.

This look ...... Same look in the eyes as two years ago! That kind of playful look at a talented player!

James was angry, and after receiving the ball, he pushed towards the front court and continued to break through!

The Eagles' defense has changed a little, and when James squeezed Prince to break through, he found that Liu Mang was the one who made up the defense!

It came at the right time! James continues to take three steps, and he wants to score on Liu Mang's head!

One-step, two-step, three-step...... After jumping up in the third step, it became a jump, and after James jumped, he saw that he "shook off" Liu Mang and Prince, jumped up and threw ......

"Smack"

"Bang"

James, who was excited to score on Liu Mang's head, didn't notice that someone rushed in from behind, and Maddie seemed to be going to make up for Damon Jones, and turned around and rushed into the three-second zone while running, and the pegboard hat!

It's a very simple defense, just let the rest of the Cavaliers and pinch James, but it's not a direct pinch, but a skillful pinch!

James can take one more step to make a layup, and he can turn the third step into a jump step, which is a foregone conclusion, and Liu Mang knows that this will be changed by the league to become a play within the rules in the future.

But the Celtics found a defense against James' style of play, and it spread across the league, and James himself had to give up this style of play in the future...... Maybe it has something to do with face, but now James doesn't have face.

Maddie grabbed the ball straight away, much to the envy of Kwame Brown, who was watching from the left behind.

Maddie grabbed the ball with one hand and looked at James, who was only 21 years old, the two performed similarly when they were 21 years old, and the season of Maddie's Most Improved Award in the 00-01 season was also 21 years old, and they were all a drop away from superstars.

The two most talented outside players in history are now on the bar, and there is no friendship in training together in the summer.

James didn't want to steal, he immediately retreated, he didn't feel that he played wrong, and he didn't feel that he was despicable, because it was the referee who gave him the right to jump.

It's just that...... Maddie now, it's horrible!

Maddie advanced to the frontcourt, went beyond the three-point line, and shot directly at James' defensive three-pointers......

Return!

Two three-pointers in a row!

In the original time and space, Maddie and James during the Rockets played against each other, a total of four years, 8 times, Maddie 6-2, and Maddie was still troubled by a back injury at that time.

Although James is now better than last season, he is still a cut away from his peak.

Met a healthy and angry Maddie, James seemed to see his rookie year, the Magic Mai who scored 8 three-pointers in a row on his head!

Even if it is another year, the gap between James and Liu Mang and Maddie this season will not be so big, but now, if James goes head-to-head one, there is a clear gap with the two.

"Go ahead." Maddie turned back to defend after speaking.

Watch Maddie and James soar!

A player whose physical condition and learning speed are the best talent in history, a player who has one of the best physical qualities in history, a player with a high ball IQ and hard work, and the two most talented strikers in history!

It's just that Liu Mang feels ...... How can someone steal the limelight again!