On the defensive end, instead of using defensive tactics, he defended himself and wrapped up under the basket, first abolished the organizer of the Spurs' positional battle, Tekoglu, and did not carry out pressing defense and zone defense, so that Tekoglu's high-post ability to respond to the situation was ineffective, and he did not attack in the area at all, and Tekoglu's passing and cutting ability could not be played at all, forcing Tekoglu's role to become a three-pointer.

Stockton defended Charlie Ward's three-pointer, Korver defended Tekoglou's three-pointer, and Boozer just had to follow Horry, whose biggest problem now is his age and slow speed.

Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace played against Ginobili together, Duncan shot with him if he wanted to shoot, and the Hawks didn't want to open up the difference at this time, they just needed to form a counterbalance.

On the offensive end, Liu Mang deliberately used a similar speed to Ginobili to give Ginobili a chance to keep up with him, constantly consuming Ginobili, and on the other side, he used Stockton and Boozer's blocking and pick-and-roll with his partners Rasheed Wallace and Korver's off-ball blocking to consume Duncan.

The Hawks can be open to this tactical play, but the Spurs can't be out of the way, they are characterized by stability, especially Duncan, who will not give up defense.

Duncan's defense was truly terrifying, keeping the Hawks' offensive efficiency extremely low, with the Hawks scoring just 19 points from the seventh minute of the first quarter to the seventh minute of the second quarter.

However, it was only halfway through the second quarter, Duncan's physical fitness encountered a serious challenge, and it was not a big problem for Duncan, who was originally at the peak of his physical fitness at the age of 28, to play the whole game, but when he played the whole game, he almost never encountered such a situation, the opponent was not rushing to open the score or fighting a defensive battle, and the purpose of the Hawks was simply to consume his physical energy!

By the way, Liu Mang's side, Ginobili consumed enough to choke, after entering the inside line from Ginobili and deducting one, Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace's pinching attack became faster and faster, Ginobili could only rush to the basket with all his strength under Liu Mang's strict defense, and then share the ball, and the physical consumption was also very large.

The scores of the two teams have been very anxious from the second half of the first quarter to the official timeout in the second quarter, and the Hawks do not play fast offense, they just grind their positions steadily, and there is no problem with low offensive efficiency, and the Spurs are not Duncan as the main point of possession, and the offensive efficiency is not high.

At the official timeout in the second quarter, the score of the Hawks and Spurs was tied at 33-31, and the Hawks still led by two points!

……

Liu Mang returned to the bench, injected a physical energy potion, and then drank Gatorade wildly.

From the second half of the first quarter to the official timeout in the second quarter, Liu Mang has been running with Ginobili, the Spurs don't dare to make substitutions, they can keep up with Liu Mang, except for Parker, only Ginobili may be able to keep up, and if Parker comes up, Liu Mang, a strange defensive player, doesn't care about Parker's mid-range shooting at all, loves to shoot or not, even if Popovich sees that the Hawks are consuming Ginobili, he doesn't dare to change easily, he can only use Ginobili to death.

Liu Mang took Ginobili to run more and more vigorously, especially after finding that Ginobili's running speed was obviously declining, Liu Mang ran harder, and took the initiative to reduce his speed so that Ginobili could keep up, and then secretly shot a physical energy potion.

Although he scored 8 points in the first seven minutes, Liu Mang only scored 5 points in the next 12 minutes, and now there are only 5 minutes left in the half, only 13 points are scored, but seeing Ginobili, who was also soaked and walked back to the bench with his head hanging and panting, Liu Mang couldn't help but laugh when he drank Gatorade, and then ...... Choked on ......

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough ......" Liu Mang was choked and coughed wildly.

Coach Kruger saw Liu Mang coughing wildly, and hurriedly came over and patted Liu Mang's back: "Ace, it's okay, are you tired?" ”

Don't look at Coach Kruger, who dislikes Liu Mang from time to time, but for this disciple, he is still very different from others, and he takes care of Liu Mang the most.

Other people were also frightened when they saw Liu Mang coughing wildly, sports athletes have an injury that is considered a disease, that is, after strenuous exercise, the intake of oxygen is not sufficient, resulting in problems with lung bubbles, crazy coughing, which can be regarded as a disease or an injury, of course, the probability of occurrence is not high, but it is still very scary for athletes, so the training of lung capacity is a very important part of athletes.

Liu Mang ran with Ginobili for so long, Rao made an amazing physical impression on his teammates with Liu Mang, and his teammates also felt that Liu Mang might be too tired.

Liu Mang almost choked himself to death with a sip of water, but after relieving himself, he said: "It's okay coach, I just drank water too quickly and choked." ”

“……”

“……”

The Eagles bench fell silent.

Coach Kruger chose to ignore this idiot, really, how did he not choke to death? Coach Krueger took the tactical board, ignored Liu Mang, and called out the players he wanted to replace: "Jason, Matt, Nazr, Kwame, you play, Jason, you and Ace handle the ball together, we have to play fast!" Bring the rhythm up! ”

Liu Mang felt neglected, he had to do something!

Seeing Ostertag in a training uniform, Liu Mang's eyes rolled, and the bad idea came again......

……

On the other side, on the Spurs bench, it's not that Popovich didn't see the Hawks' attrition tactics, but that there was nothing he could do about this kind of "conspiracy".

The Hawks' double-bad style of play is powerful, especially the Hawks gave up the regional joint defense and sent Liu Mang, Stockton, Korver, Rasheed Wallace four three-pointers, plus a lineup of Boozer who is domineering in the air and accurate in the middle of the shot, the offensive firepower is definitely one of the strongest lineups in the league, and it is also the strongest lineup of the Hawks' offensive firepower, Popovich can't be unguarded, Duncan is here, he can still suppress the Hawks' offense, if Duncan rests, the point difference will definitely be pulled away by the Hawks, their offense, if there is no Duncan, Definitely the bottom or second team in the league.

In the face of the Hawks' scheme, Popovich could only know that it was a pit and had to jump.

Now for Popovich, the most troublesome thing is that he can't defend Liu Mang and Stockton or Jason Terry's guard line at the same time, Malik Rose is the murderer, but he used to play power forward, it's not impossible to play small forward, and it's okay to defend the shooting guard, but it's a bit too much for him to defend and defend the guard.

Moreover, Popovich also had a headache with the Eagles' irregular substitutions and tactical changes, and in the last few minutes, he didn't even know how the Eagles were going to rotate, and he couldn't guess at all! Most of the team's substitutions are traceable, and the Hawks actually dared to send Stockton, Korver, Boozer three of the Hawks' worst defensive players on the court at the same time, this substitution, Popovich feels that the door to a new world has been opened, and it has a great impact on his personal coaching philosophy, which has a great impact on him, but it is useless to have a big impact at this stage.

Popovich looked at the Hawks bench and his eyes lit up!

He saw Ostertag take off his training uniform and move his body around the field, jumping, twisting his waist, and running on the spot.

"This guy with a big forehead wants to take advantage of Tim's tiredness to fight at high altitudes!" Popovich immediately 'understood' the Eagles' tactical strategy!

……

Popovich couldn't help but stand on the sidelines with his hands on his chest, and began to have a white-haired Popovich, whose hair fluttered when the air conditioning wind just swept across the Spurs bench, as did Ginobili.

Popovich fielded an all-starting lineup of Parker, Ginobili, Marik Rose, Duncan, and Nesterovic to continue to use the troika to death.

If you play a big lineup to grind the position, Popovich is not worried about physical problems, and Duncan has been attacking in the first seven minutes of the first quarter, but the attrition is very small, because the Spurs' positional battle is too slow-paced and the offense and defense are too strong.

Now that the Hawks have a big squad and a big player to play again, Popovich is less worried about Duncan and Ginobili's fitness.

Merely...... This is Popovich's personal guess......

When the five players on the Hawks came out, Popovich once again had a mouthful of old blood in his throat.

Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Barnes, Mohammed, Kwame Brown!

The Hawks fielded five of the most run-and-offensive rebounding players on the current roster!

Seeing Ostertag put his training uniform back on and sat back on the bench after running and jumping, and it was Popovich who saw Ostertag wearing a training uniform with the naked eye, Popovich was almost angry!

It's so treacherous!

Don't be so shameless!

So many tricks for changing people? Change everyone to play yin?

Popovich felt that it was insidious enough for him to acquiesce to Bowen doing bad things, but he didn't expect that a mountain would be a mountain high!

Popovich's teeth were bared, staring at Coach Kruger on the Hawks bench, Coach Kruger felt murderous, looked at the source of the murderous energy, it was Popovich, and was puzzled, the guy with one of the most notorious coaches in the league, he didn't seem to provoke him, right?

Popovich's reputation now is not bad, mainly because Bowen, Coach Kruger and Popovich have a very average relationship, there is no hostility, but there is not much communication.

Watching Popovich grit his teeth, Coach Kruger was confused......

……

The timeout ends, and the Hawks have the ball.

It's running!

Unlike the previous 19 minutes, when the Eagles were grinding and playing positional battles, this time the Eagles really ran!

On the Spurs' side, because the Hawks have been "fake fast attack" for more than a quarter in the first quarter, they have always made a posture of fast attack counterattack and then reduced their speed, and now the Spurs players are a little slack on the defense of fast offense.

Especially the Eagles' speed is really fast, Liu Mang and Jason Terry who served both rushed to the frontcourt, Parker and Ginobili failed to block it at the first time, Liu Mang advanced to the three-point line at full speed, stepped into the three-point line, Parker and Ginobili were blocked, and Liu Mang immediately passed to Jason Terry.

Jason Terry receives the ball and bursts from outside the three-point line on the left side of the basket.

At this time, Parker and Ginobili, who found that the defense was conflicting, were "synchronized" again, both of them thought that they were going to make up for it, and they both pounced on Jason Terry, Liu Mang took advantage of the situation to cut from the middle, Jason Terry immediately distributed it to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang entered the three-second zone in the middle.

Duncan is going to scold his mother!

Those two bastards on the outside, how the hell is this prevented!

Seeing Liu Mang burst in, Duncan had to take a step forward to make up for the defense, Liu Mang received the ball and shot it at a fixed point, and the Spurs didn't dare to let go.

Liu Mang saw Duncan come up and jumped to the right side, and Nestrovic also took a step ahead, and he had a good sense of defensive defense in positional battles, and stuck Liu Mang wanted to change direction and return to the route under the basket.

But! Liu Mang didn't want to score by himself, after attracting Duncan and Nesterovich's defensive actions, he threw the ball into the air, flew from Duncan and Nesterovich's heads to the left side of the basket, Kwame Brown burst out on the spot, his head was about to hit the rebound, and he received the ball in the air and fell with the potential energy that fell, and smashed it into the basket!

After the buckle, the Eagles did not retreat quickly, but directly started to fight around the front!

The whole audience of five people is pressing!

Kwame Brown clings to Duncan who runs to the frontcourt, Muhammad blocks in front of Nesterovic and interferes with Nesterovic who picks up the ball to serve, Liu Mang sticks to Ginobili and interferes with Ginobili receiving the ball, Jason Terry and Barnes go to block Parker receiving the ball.

Parker and Ginobili couldn't pass well, and Nesterovic was in a hurry, and finally, seeing the vacant Marik Rose, saw that it was going to be a five-second violation, and hurriedly threw it out.

Marrick Rose's scalp is about to blow up when he receives the ball, he is a swingman who used to play power forward!

Seeing Ginobili and Parker being stuck to each other, Marik Rose could only push cautiously.

As soon as Malik Rose was outside the three-point line and was about to find his teammates, he saw Barnes block up.

Keep sticking to the guard!

The Eagles use speed to mark the five!

In the face of Barnes's defensive pressure that is more fierce than himself, Malik Rose is about to explode, and seeing Ginobili, who was stuck to Liu Mang, pushing Liu Mang away and running to the middle, Marik Rose passed out.

However, Liu Mang is too fast! was pushed away by half a step, immediately pressed back, and in the moment before Ginobili received the ball, he stretched out his long arm and poked the ball out!

Jason Terginobili and Parker both chased after Liu Mang, Jason Terry grabbed the ball and immediately counterattacked, and when Liu Mang attracted Parker and Ginobili to chase the defense, he dribbled and accelerated to the frontcourt, and chased a three-point shot before Duncan rushed up to block......

"Bang ......"

Iron......

But that's okay!

Liu Mang's back slammed into Parker's body, his left arm pressed Ginobili, Tie Shan's and Iron Elbow Gong played a miraculous effect at this time, Liu Mang took off the offensive rebound with his right hand, and threw the ball into the basket with a throw!

After Parker was pushed away by Liu Mang, he pulled Liu Mang's waist, and Ginobili, who was pressed by Liu Mang on the other side, also pulled Liu Mang's left arm, and the moment Liu Mang grabbed the offensive rebound and threw the ball out, the referee burned the whistle!

The goal is valid, and the penalty must be added!

This time the foul was counted on Parker, and Parker's action was more obvious.

The fans at the scene saw this scene and saw the Eagles score 4 points in a row, and they were all going crazy!

Liu Mang first gave Kwame Brown an empty catch, then steals Ginobili, and finally grabbed an offensive rebound with a one-on-two and scored easily!

Moreover, it's still a 2 plus 1!

After Liu Mang threw the ball in, he saw Ginobili and Parker who were shocked, and patted the arm that was pulled by Ginobili just now and the jersey on the waist that was pulled by Pakla.

Liu Mang actually has such a sense of grabbing rebounds, and he is so stable!

This surprised Parker and Ginobili, because their rebounding efficiency is much higher than Liu Mang's! Ginobili played an average of 29 minutes per game, averaging 4.4 boards per game, and Parker played an average of 33 minutes per game and averaged 3.3 boards per game, both of which were stronger than Liu Mang, who averaged 38 minutes per game and 3.7 boards per game.

Seeing Liu Mang's pretending appearance, Parker and Ginobili were deflated.

You can't fight offensively, you can't fight defense, you can't even fight for rebounding!

Liu Mang walked to the free throw line with a smug face, just to be angry with the opponent!

Today, Liu Mang's mid-shot feel is really good, and the free throw is a steady hollow hit.

After the timeout came back, the Eagles went on a 5-0 run!

38-31, the Hawks lead by 7 points!

Popovich exploded on the sidelines and yelled at the referee: "That guy grabbed the rebound and fouled!" ”

Fortunately, there is no zero tolerance yet, otherwise Popovich is definitely the head coach who eats the most technical fouls in the league.

Popovich yelled for a long time, and the referee ignored it.

After Liu Mang hit a free throw, the Spurs attacked, Duncan received the ball from the referee, and quickly sent the ball out before the Hawks defended the serve to form a pinch shot, and after Parker received the serve, Jason Terry pressed up, and Parker had to push quickly.

If you want to bring the opponent's rhythm, pressing the defense all over the court is undoubtedly the best way.

Of course, this approach requires a lineup that is fast enough and defensively good enough, and it just so happens that the Hawks have it all!

The Spurs were originally one of the two teams with the best rhythm, except for the Pistons, there is no team that can compete with the Spurs to press the rhythm, and the current Heat is not good.

However, there is a very important key to the Spurs' pressure on the rhythm, which is that Duncan can have enough defensive containment, but just a full 12 minutes can be counted as an all-out defense for the entire game, and now the physical decline is terrible, and the Hawks only use Kwame Brown to defend on the inside! And it's still the kind of hand-to-hand combat that consumes Duncan's physical energy.

At least in the past few minutes, before Duncan rested, the Spurs' offense was greatly challenged, and they were not strong on the offensive end, but when they encountered the Hawks' pressing defensive counterattack play, the Spurs were fighting and messing up!

The Hawks couldn't stop the Spurs from serving to two guards, so they began to shrink the defense and pinch the Ginobili shot.

In the next period of time, Popovich saw Ginobili trying to get into the basket after being hit by Liu Mang and Barnes, Parker and Marrick Rose wanted to get into the basket after being hit by Liu Mang and Barnes, but a bunch of people under the basket couldn't get in at all, the Spurs twin towers were already enough to occupy the position, Jason Terry, Muhammad, and Kwame Brown were all included, and the two of you love to shoot or not, only defend Ginobili's posture.

Ginobili was caught between Liu Mang and Barnes and was completely lost in the increasingly frenetic atmosphere of the away game......

……

Popovich couldn't help it, it was useless to yell for a long time, five minutes after the second quarter, the Spurs only scored 4 points, this is not impossible, the Spurs can accept that they only scored more than 10 points in a single quarter, but the Hawks, who also scored more than 10 points in a single quarter, only scored 13 points in the first seven minutes of the second quarter, and played a 13-4 climax in the next five minutes!

At 46-35, the Hawks led by 11 points at halftime!

Popovich can't help it, he really can't help it, although he is very good now, he can play the strength of a star to the limit, maximize the role of a star, he is already a very good coach, plus the vision of the draft, and he has won two championships in 5 years, he can't be better.

But the current Popovich, firstly, there is still a gap between the "first coach of the league" and the more experienced "first coach in the league" in the future, and secondly, the Spurs are now a team that plays superstar basketball, mainly to play Duncan, Duncan was played bad by the Hawks, and he has no physical strength, these few minutes, Popovich has no choice, and he does not dare to change people, and now the Spurs' starting lineup is their best defensive lineup, and it will become difficult to even limit the Hawks if they replace anyone!

The main reason is that Duncan consumes too much, the defense is not so oppressive, and the offensive stability is not so strong, which leads to a vicious circle and worse defense!

One wrong move, the whole world collapses!

The turning point of the game was when the Hawks consumed Duncan and Ginobili, and Popovich didn't have a good strategy to deal with it.

At the beginning of the second half, Popovich had to let Duncan rest for a while, originally this disciple's foot was injured, but it was not serious and not to the extent that it affected the game, a little inflammation, within a controllable range, but this kind of fatigue game, if you don't rest well and continue to fight tiredly, a small injury may become a big injury, just a regular season game, Popovich is eager to beat the Hawks, but he is worried about the psychological pressure in the finals, if the regular season is swept by the Hawks, the psychological pressure of the Hawks in the finals will be great.

But now, Popovich has to give Duncan more rest, a regular season game, what compares to Duncan's health?

After Popovich was furious, he calmed down and sat on the sidelines without saying a word, he looked at Parker, who was played by Liu Mang on the court, and Ginobili, who was guarded by Prince and Barnes, and was helpless.

Both are geniuses, yes, Ginobili is okay and quickly enters his peak, but Parker does need too long a growth period......

……

Even Duncan didn't go up, Liu Mang's tiger body was shocked, and the middle distance began to wave out of the sky!

The Spurs are really good at defending three-point points, and they are also good at defending baskets, and after Duncan went down, Nesterovic and Malik Rose, who returned to the power forward position, also defended well under the basket.

But Duncan stopped playing, and the Spurs had no one who could block Liu Mang's shot!

Even Duncan, who can't jump physically down, has a great defensive threat, Duncan goes, Liu Mang seems to have broken free from the shackles, and starts to shoot continuously, three points are blocked, and he can only pass the ball when he rushes in under the basket.

And the passing ......

Duncan is not here, what kind of ball is passed, and the guy on the inside grabs the rebound! If you want to score, grab rebounds and shoot!

In the third quarter, when Duncan was absent for a few minutes, Liu Mang made 4 of 9 mid-range shots, plus two free throws that caused a foul by Malik Rose on the inside of a butcher's knife, Liu Mang scored 10 points in half a quarter!

Scoring 10 points is not the most critical, the key is that Liu Mang throws too much and can throw in, and the Spurs have to expand their defense.

So, Kwame Brown turned into a monster under the basket and dunked continuously.

At half-quarter, the Hawks went on an 18-10 scoring blaster.

At this time, Duncan was rested and could come back, but the score had become 64-45, a difference of 19 points!

Come back, it doesn't have much effect, Duncan's characteristic is stability, he can stabilize the score, but he lacks the ability to chase the big score behind!

The influence of the core players on the team is huge, Duncan's characteristics are the characteristics of the Spurs, and now the Spurs are Duncan's team alone, not the future Spurs system, that is, Popovich's team, and the Spurs in the two periods are not the same.

Duncan is the kind of person who either suppresses the opponent for a whole game, suppresses it from beginning to end and easily wins, or is anxious to the end and is killed by the opponent.

Now this game with the Hawks is the third situation, after falling behind by a big score, you can't catch up anymore......

But the Spurs can't give up, so they can only change to the starting lineup.

And the Hawks, seeing Duncan back, also switched back to the starting lineup, with the twin-tower lineup of Rasheed Wallace and Ostertag against Duncan and Nesterovich.

Continuing to grind, the Eagles began to take the initiative to grind the rhythm.

"Despicable and shameless!" Popovich gritted his teeth and looked at Coach Kruger again.

Popovich saw that Duncan was desperate, and he couldn't completely narrow the difference, the difference has been hovering between 12 and 20 points, every time Duncan fights for his life, the Hawks can immediately stabilize again, that is, grinding the position to drag out time, relying on defense and the Spurs to consume time second by second.

And in the end, the Spurs couldn't close the difference.

With just over 30 seconds left, the Hawks led the Spurs by 12 points, 89-77.

Popovich had no choice, clapped his hands, and stopped fighting!

How do you spell this? Even if the Hawks don't score a point, it will take more than 30 seconds to score 13 points, and Popovich wants to scold his mother! The other party is too shameless, not to mention the wheel war against Duncan, but also to use insidious and cunning tactics to deal with Duncan.

The Spurs stopped attacking, Ginobili threw the ball to the basket before the end of 24 seconds, iron, and Liu Mang didn't attack after grabbing the rebound, consuming the time.

In the end, the Hawks beat the Spurs by 89-77, a 12-point difference!

Liu Mang played a full 48 minutes, made 15 of 32 shots, and got 36 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, especially in this game, he made 10 shots, and the shooting rate of 10 of 19 was the key to defeating the Spurs!

I am very happy with my own data, but Liu Mang is most happy that he defended Ginobili from 3 of 16 in the game and only scored 12 points!

Ginobili's Star Card of the Year!

Although there is a gap with the star card of the 04-05 season used last time, Liu Mang is still very surprised!

Just when Liu Mang and his teammates high-fived to celebrate the victory, the system prompt came.

"Ding...... Legendary Quest Trigger: The Future Is Mine. ”