"Icephobia"

This new word that appeared this season once again swept the world basketball circle after the start of the series between the Hawks and Pistons.

Just like the two generations of dragon-slaying warriors in history, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, the Pistons are now crowned with the title of "ice phobia", and they are confirmed!

It's all been beaten to infighting!

The Hawks' easy win over the Pistons in the first game of the playoffs was not unexpected by fans, and everyone felt normal.

Although fans have predicted that the Pistons may break out, and they don't think the Pistons can win on the road, the Hawks' home games this season are as stable as the scales, and the fans think that the Pistons will break out, but the Pistons can set off a storm on the road, create some trouble for the Hawks, and will not lose as badly as the playoffs in the past two years.

Liu Mang's task is to win the Pistons by at least 15 points, and the fans' expectation is that the Pistons can lose by less than 15 points.

But if the Hawks still abuse the Pistons, fans also feel normal, after all, the difference in strength between the two teams is not only the difference in lineup and tactics, but also confidence.

If you really want to talk about it, the real strength of the Pistons will not be so much weaker than the Hawks, and they are not so weak that they have no strength to fight back.

This season's NBA is the best era and the worst era, young stars are on the top or about to be on the top one by one, except for a very few teams, the vast majority of teams in the league play very balanced basketball, and some role players also shine through this; There are also many veterans who have faded away.

This season's NBA, the overall strength can be said to be the history of the NBA, as of this season, the strongest year, there is no season, there are eight championship contenders, the top four in the East and West, and the overall record is very balanced.

The Pistons, Nets, and Pacers in the East are almost equal in strength, and any two teams of the three teams play against each other, which is a fierce battle, although the Nets only have 44 wins, they will not be worse than the Pistons and Pacers, and even because of the experience of reaching the Finals for two consecutive years, they have a slight advantage.

These teams are not weak enough to be powerless when they encounter the Eagles, and if all psychological factors are put aside, at least they can create problems for the Eagles.

For example, if the Pistons can play the kind of exuberant performance against the Hornets, it is not impossible to win one or two games.

And the Hawks can get 70 wins, it can be said that the luck is too good, when they played a third of the season, no team would have thought that the Hawks would have the hope of hitting 70 wins, nor did they expect the Hawks to do that, because at the beginning of the season, the strong teams found out that this year's NBA situation is very second.

When Liu Mang shouted that he wanted to win 68 wins, people still ridiculed a lot, but when the other teams really reacted that the Eagles were going to play really, it was too late to stop it.

The Eagles are extremely stable, and they are not intimidated to play strong teams, and their strength is strong, in the league is this kind of situation where everyone feels that the strength of the strong team is very "balanced", the time and place are favorable, and they all occupy it, and they get 70 wins.

The Pistons were crushed by the Hawks, mainly because their confidence was shattered.

But whatever the reason, after the first game, fans didn't feel much of a surprise when they didn't see the Pistons' revenge on the Hawks and cause some trouble for the Hawks.

The topic that fans are most concerned about now is not the victory or defeat of this series, but the infighting of the Pistons!

Stephen Jackson and Larry Brown's final scolding, because of the first game of a series in the playoffs, will almost be broadcast live in the United States, on the domestic side, after Yao Ming was out in the first round, the live broadcast was mainly the Lakers with the OK combination and Wang Zhizhi and the Hawks with Liu Mang, and that scene has been heard by fans in China and the United States......

Although most of the domestic fans couldn't understand it, the interpreter made a translator.

How did the Larry Brown and Stephen Jackson confrontation end, and fans are interested in this!

The scolding between the two is more difficult to end than the scolding between Larry Brown and Iverson last time, and they are both directly reluctant to cooperate with each other, to the extent that you don't have me.

The point is that Stephen Jackson is no longer on the Pistons' salary, and even when he finishes the first round and advances to the second round, the bonuses have already been paid, and there is no salary in the playoffs, and Stephen Jackson is unlikely to exercise the player option for next season, and the performance he has played this season cannot be kept with a salary of two or three million.

Therefore, the more passive is not Stephen Jackson, he has taken advantage of the overall strength of the Pistons and the lack of small forwards, and has played worthy, without worries, although the incident with the head coach will affect his reputation, but his reputation is not good...... And he is a championship small forward, and he said directly to reporters after the game: "I have won the championship, what has he won?" ”

Now it's Larry Brown!

But Larry Brown is a very conceited person, in his opinion, he is the head coach who led the team to the Finals, and the Pistons, who are black-eight, can't win if they don't listen to him, and they don't feel that they have anything wrong with them.

Both of them held on, and neither of them would give in.

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A day off is clearly not enough for the Pistons to solve the problem of infighting.

International May Day, this year Liu Mang can finally take a day off on this day.

Liu Mang, as a melon-eating crowd, opens a small account from time to time to reply to various posts in the forums of major websites, all kinds of infernal black, and adds Pistons fans...... and when I saw comments praising myself, I liked them...... Some forums have a new feature that allows you to add a fixed little tail to the back of your reply.

Liu Mang's little tail is: My male god Ace-Liu ......

On this day, last night's big game between Webb and Garnett was ignored, and the Lakers and Spurs played 2-0 and the Pacers and Nets played 1-1 in the evening.

The Pistons have never received so much attention except during the Bad Boy Corps period.

By May 2, the Pistons still couldn't finish the game, and in the afternoon, Larry Brown announced to the media that Stephen Jackson had been suspended for one game because he refused to participate in yesterday's team practice.

This is a big deal, when there are two games in three days away, there is basically very little training, especially in the playoffs, which are all running tactics on the day of the game, and even if you prepare for the game at other times, you are mainly watching videos and studying tactics, physical fitness is a very critical issue in the playoffs, and the Pistons team originally loved to use the five starters to death, and they should rest.

Larry Brown's training plan has been criticized, and now he has banned the team's strongest forward!

Of course, Stephen Jackson has also been criticized, as a professional player, refusing to participate in training, no matter what the reason, will have a great negative impact, O'Neal is so strong and has been criticized for not liking training, let alone Stephen Jackson.

As soon as there is a farce, what do the Pistons players in the midst of civil unrest have to play?

When it came to the evening game, the Pistons players were still playing with professional ethics, but it was obvious that they were all going up and consuming time, and they couldn't shoot offensively or defend.

Tonight was the easiest time for Liu Mang against the Pistons, although he has won the Pistons many times and the statistics are good, but he has not played easily, because the opponent's defensive pressure is always on him, and he needs to concentrate on watching his teammates pass the ball while continuing to maintain his threat.

Tonight is different, Liu Mang dares to go to the low post to turn over and jump shot!

The Pistons' defense is too lax! Liu Mang has never played the Pistons so easily.

In the last game, he shot 24 times and scored 30 points, but in this game, Liu Mang only shot 19 times and scored 33 points on 11 of 19!

95-79, the Hawks won two consecutive home games without blood!

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"The mountains are edgeless, the heavens and the earth are harmonious, but dare to ...... with the king" An evil uncle tried to raise his head as much as possible, and enlarged his nostrils as much as possible.

"The sea can be dry, the stone can be rotten, and the relationship cannot be broken!" Little Lori opened her eyes, her eyes didn't move, her head swayed blindly, as if she couldn't see anyone, waving her hands blindly.

"Crape Myrtle ......"

"Erkang!"

"Crape Myrtle ......"

"Erkang!"

"Hmm...... Dinah is so cute...... Can I hug it? ”

"Don't give it to uncle! In the past, Dinah wanted to hug Uncle Dinah and disliked Dinah, but now she has no way to hug her...... Yes...... Uncle Badass! Dinah didn't promise to give her uncle a hug......"

In the end, Little Lori was defeated by the evil uncle and was eaten with tofu again......

Seeing Liu Mang and Dina who came out like this in the bridge section of the Chinese costume film, the two girls next to him who are basically no problem listening to Chinese are full of black lines.

"Ace, go to the airport, don't miss the plane, Dinah, don't keep pestering your uncle, it's the playoffs, it's very important." Levia reluctantly took Dinah away from Liu Mang's arms, "Ace, be careful on the road." ”

"Ziwei ......" Liu Mang once again reluctantly stretched out his hand to Dinah.

"Erkang ......" Dinah also entered the role again...... Became blind.

Seeing that the two drama spirits are about to start bewitching again, Levia and Alexia are so speechless, how did they find such a second-class man!

Levia is still a little sad and angry, her lively and lovely daughter has also become a second goods!

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After the two home games were played, on the afternoon of May 3, Liu Mang and the little Lori who grew up and couldn't hug and kiss the high in the future came to an inexplicable performance at the garage door, and then set off for the airport, and at three o'clock on the plane, the Hawks went to Detroit to prepare for the next two away games.

You have to get used to the away atmosphere in Detroit, where the fans are very real, they support the team when it's strong, and it's fanatical.

As the Hawks expected, they had just arrived in Detroit and had just left the airport when they saw a group of Pistons fans who had come to demonstrate.

The Pistons' side collapsed, but their fans were not nervous, and the Pistons fans still had great hopes, hoping that they could scare the Hawks and that their team could bounce back with their support.

However, everything in the world is often the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

By the time the Hawks arrived at Auburn Hills Palace on May 5, the Pistons' infighting problem had not been resolved.

Contradiction is such a thing, and there must be an existing person to bow his head, but who is Stephen Jackson? A bastard, he wouldn't have thought about it so much, but now he doesn't lack the market, the team wants him, he doesn't care so much at all, and he doesn't have the idea of bowing his head at all.

It's even more impossible for Larry Brown to be so conceited, after returning to Detroit, even if Stephen Jackson participated in practice, and the management also talked to him about the team's current difficulties, now the Pistons are asking Stephen Jackson to stay, but Larry Brown is just saying that as long as Stephen Jackson does not apologize, he will not let Stephen Jackson play, and continue to ban Stephen Jackson.

If it is a regular season, the ban of the head coach's personal grudges, the players' union will intervene, because this kind of thing is very different from not being able to play, if you can't play, you won't lose your salary, and the ban will deduct the salary of that game.

Whether it is a team ban or a league ban, there is no salary, in order to protect the rights and interests of players, the players' union will definitely complain to the league, and the league will deal with this kind of thing.

But this is the playoffs, there is no salary, Larry Brown could have put Stephen Jackson on the inactive list, but directly treated Stephen Jackson with a suspension, simply not to save face for Stephen Jackson.

It's a rush to Stephen Jackson away!

Larry Brown knew management definitely wanted to keep Stephen Jackson, but he didn't want to keep this guy, so he did it!

Originally, it was not particularly difficult for the Hawks to win against the Pistons, and the Pistons had long since lost the courage to go against the Hawks, and now there is still one less Stephen Jackson, and it is almost certain that in the next two games, Stephen Jackson will not be able to play, which further deepens the mentality of the Pistons players......

In the two games on the road, despite the increasingly strong boos from the visiting fans, the Hawks played more and more easily, and the players on the Pistons' side have no attachment to this year's playoffs......

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In the third game of the series, Liu Mang scored 23 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists on 7-of-21 shooting, and the Hawks won the first away game 94-85.

After leading 3-0, the Hawks had no pressure at all, and in the fourth game, the Hawks scored 111 points in the series, and the first time in the series they scored more than 100, defeating the Pistons with a score difference of 111-90 and 21 points, and swept the Pistons 4-0!

In both games, the Pistons didn't look like they were going to win, just to waste time, just like they wanted to escape Atlanta in the second game, and now the Pistons players want to escape Auburn Hills......

Liu Mang only got 15 points, 6 assists and 2 rebounds in the last game, and the Pistons returned to the home court as always, regardless of anything else, that is, to defend Liu Mang to death, and the rest of the Hawks took the opportunity to score, Liu Mang had tears in his heart, looking at his double attack outside the three-point line and three or four people blocking up inside, he could only hand over the ball to Stockton or Jason Terry to control, and Liu Mang was only 6 of 20 in the fourth game, and he could only watch his teammates wave.

After Game 4, the Pistons left the arena in a hurry, throwing Larry Brown and the players straight away.

In the past few days in Pistons Detroit, the Pistons players have been scolded even worse by Larry Brown, but Stephen Jackson is in front of him, no one is going to fight against Larry Brown, but no one is nostalgic for Larry Brown's coaching.

After the Hawks won, there was nothing to do, the Pistons left directly, and they didn't do anything in the game, and the Hawks also gave the other side a face and went back to the locker room to celebrate.

Reaching the Eastern Conference finals for the third year in a row, continuing to break the Eagles' own team history record.

Back in the locker room, everyone on the Hawks was happy to reach the divisional finals for the third year in a row, at least, they had equaled last season's results, and then they could face the next opponent without any worries.

The goal of the guaranteed East Finals, that is, the minimum requirements given by the fans, has been completed, and even if they will face stronger opponents, it will be easier.

Seeing that his teammates are cheering, Kevin Willis, who is old and middle-aged, and has new flowers, he really can't make much contribution in the game, and after having Ostertag, Kevin Willis really can't get a second of playing time, but he is not useless, his kind of positive spirit is very similar to Muhammad, if it weren't for his contract of 3 million a year, it would be a huge burden for the Spurs, a team that is already clumsy, and the Spurs don't want to trade him.

Liu Mang had a smile on his face and tears in his heart, looking at his average score of 31.5 points per game in the first two games of the series, and after playing two games on the road, he was pulled down to an average of 25 points per game, and his average score per game in the playoffs also dropped to 31.625 points......

Liu Mang could only comfort himself: "Handsome, MVP, this difficult situation, only I bear it silently, if I can't score points, I can't score points, just win, nothing is more important than winning, Xiao Ye is such a selfless person, always thinking and contributing to his teammates, a selfless person like Xiao Ye can only be described as great...... No, no, no, greatness is not enough to describe my old Liu, the master is so good, silently working for his teammates behind his back......"

After comforting himself, Liu Mang adjusted his sad mentality and celebrated with his teammates, the next opponent, whether it is the Nets or the Pacers, must win!