592. It's a massacre!
With a roar from Rashid Wallace, the game begins!
Rasheed Wallace won the jump ball from Jason Collins strongly.
The Eagles attacked first, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and Kidd defended it.
There is no choice to attack hard, and it is not a good choice to sit in the low post, and now the Nets have Jason Collins, a person who can resist Rasheed Wallace in the low post, and the Nets have found a way to rotate the defense of Liu Mang and Rahim in the high and low positions in the last game, so Liu Mang arranged tactics according to the pre-game coaching staff, beckoning Rasheed Wallace to come out to block and dismantle.
Rasheed Wallace took Kenyon Martin out to block Kidd, Kidd immediately stuck Rashid Wallace, and handed over the task of changing Liu Mang to Kenyon Martin, first blocking the passing route between Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace, Kenyon Martin also pressed up, and the cooperation of Kidd and Kenyon Martin was ready to block the Hawks in the top arc and compress the forward space after Liu Mang's blocking.
Kidd, who is probably the most pick-and-roll point guard, and Kenyon Martin, who is very good at pick-and-roll defense at power forward, have a clearer way to deal with the Hawks' pick-and-roll offense after the last game.
This came a little violently, Liu Mang didn't bypass Rashid Wallace, Kidd immediately blocked back, bypassed, Kenyon Martin blocked behind Rashid Wallace, and Rashid Wallace couldn't move!
At this moment, Liu Mang had a flash of inspiration, stuffed the ball into the hands of Rashid Wallace, and then cut into the basket empty-handed, leaving Kidd behind him at once, Rashid Wallace reacted quickly, and immediately hoisted the ball into the inside, Liu Mang got rid of the defense and received the ball and rushed into the basket, Ratliff clamped Jason Collins, and Liu Mang easily made a layup to score two points.
After Rashid Wallace came to the Eagles, he learned a lot of blocking skills with Boozer, a junior who has a natural sense of blocking and dislosing, and may not have Boozer's innate sense of dismantling and dismantling, but Rasheed Wallace is willing to study and understand a lot of Liu Mang's habits.
Without Boozer's pick-and-roll talent, but Rasheed Wallace worked hard enough, it seemed that Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace's first pick-and-roll cooperation in the game in the real sense, and the judgment made was improvised, which looked good.
Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace high-fived and celebrated, and immediately returned to the defense.
Kidd watched the Hawks play a different offensive routine again, playing the one that Stockton and Boozer had on the bench, and reluctantly went to get Jason Collins' serve and pushed it through.
Unlike the Hawks' endless tactical changes, the Nets, more than two years, are still the same, Kidd holds the ball at the top of the arc, and faces Prince's single defense to command his teammates to run.
Rasheed Wallace and Raheem went to block Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin's off-ball pick-and-roll, Jason Collins went to block Kittles, Liu Mang just chased Kittles, Jason Collins pulled out, and Ratliff completely ignored it, just going in and out of the three-second zone, still guarding against Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin's defense.
The offensive routines of the Nets, the Hawks have long studied thoroughly, and after the experience of directly defeating the Nets head-on in the last game, this time the defense is more decisive.
The last to cut into the basket was Jason Collins, Kidd passed the ball out, Jason Collins rushed into the basket and flew to dunk, Ratliff slapped and dribbled the ball to press Jason Collins' dunk down!
Liu Mang grabbed the ball and did not rush to counterattack, but stabilized the rhythm and lowered the rhythm!
Defending, grinding positions, playing success rates, and preventing the Nets from counterattacking with both wings flying together are the strategies that the Hawks have continued to deal with the Nets' starters in the last game.
Liu Mang pushed forward and wanted to continue to block and dismantle, but Kidd's side seemed to be ready to deal with it, Kenyon Martin did not choose to go up again after following Rashid Wallace, but went forward and back with Kidd, obviously planning to defend Liu Mang, and Rashid Wallace wanted to let Rashid Wallace shoot on the outside, prevent Liu Mang, defend rebounds, and play counterattacks.
Kidd really has a set, the defensive goal is very clear, although Rashid Wallace is accurate, it is still far from Liu Mang's accuracy, a very steady defensive choice, and a very conventional strategy to let Liu Mang take the initiative to fall into the trap.
But Liu Mang was very unconventional, just beckoned Rashid Wallace out, waved his hand to let Rashid Wallace go back, and then made a C with his left hand.
Every time I saw Liu Mang's gesture, the Eagles players were very excited, although the previous tactical class did not have this, but it was not once or twice to copy the opponent's tactics, Rasheed Wallace immediately went to the bottom corner on the right side and Prince to block and dismantle, Kenyon Martin ran over to chase Rashid Wallace, blocked the bottom line to block Prince's air cut, and Ratlif on the other side went to the left middle distance to help Raheem block Richard Jefferson, Jason Collins just wanted to step out, and saw Liu Mang squeezing Kidd from the right side. Although Kidd suppressed Liu Mang, he couldn't stop Liu Mang, so he could only stick to Liu Mang and let Liu Mang rush in and fall into the bag.
However, the inner line has been emptied!
Liu Mang rushed into the interior with Kidd, Jason Collins had to come over to make up for the defense, Richard Jefferson on the left side of the basket struggled to bypass Ratliff to keep up with Rahim, but, Ratliff ran back to the basket and no one cared, Liu Mang threw the ball to the left side of the basket, and Ratliff scored two points with an empty basket!
When it comes to the Nets' offense, the Nets did not let Richard Jefferson, the starting strong point of holding the ball, go to singles, unlike the Hawks, who have been quite mature for more than two years to create the most suitable singles opportunities, the Nets' singles are singles for the sake of singles, but Richard Jefferson is not easy to make whether he is a single Raheem or a single Prince, especially Prince, there are few outside players in the league who can play, regardless of non-basketball actions, Maybe the Pacers' Artest can compare with Prince's ability to defend the outside line, and the effect of Richard Jefferson's singles is not as good as Rodney Rodgers who dares to shoot, Rodney Rodgers dares to throw when he encounters defense, Richard Jefferson can't, he doesn't have the mentality of being a sixth man.
The Nets' offense is still the same old routine, although they have sufficient pre-game preparation, but they are mainly defensive, and they have reached the Finals in two years, and the offensive routines they can sacrifice have long been sacrificed, and there is no draft for a long time, and the Hawks' research on the Nets has long been thoroughly studied.
In fact, in the playoffs last season, the Hawks had this awareness, but they had no choice but to lack strength, one was Ratliff's physical problems, and the other was that Mohammed was very good, but not good enough, his advantage was that he was driven, desperate, and passionate, but the NBA was very cruel, before the Hawks officially took the championship as their first goal, Muhammad was enough, and the Hawks were enough to dominate the regular season.
But when it came time to play in the playoffs, it was a little bit closer.
Of course, a player like Muhammad will not complain because of less playing time, and will always be passionate, just like just now, after the Eagles defended, Muhammad was the first to get up and wave a towel, for such a player, even if the Eagles gave him 5 million to let him wave the towel, as the fourth and fifth inside line to play rotation time, the Eagles are happy, and even many teams want it, but now Muhammad is not so able to meet the needs of the Eagles, and the offense can't do as well as Boozer, The defense wasn't as good as Rashid Wallace.
But now that the Hawks have Rasheed Wallace, this time to focus on defense, maybe they can have a big forward with O'Neal Jr., Garnett, and Duncan, and everything is solved.
And today, Liu Mang's goal is very clear, leave the defense to his teammates, chase Kitels, an opponent who has been reduced to a 3D player, and hand over the other difficult defenses to his teammates, and make targeted offensive choices for each defense of the Nets, and focus on offense!
The Nets did have a targeted study of the Hawks, but they couldn't stand Liu Mang's ever-changing style of play and being too familiar with the Nets' defense, and repeatedly found ways to target.
On the contrary, the Nets' offense was limited by the Hawks, and at the beginning, Liu Mang scored 4 points and 2 assists, helping the Hawks play a wave of 9-0 in the opening game!
Finally, the Nets relied on Kenyon Martin's dunk to press Richard Jefferson's mid-range shot back to the basket when Raheem interfered with it, and the Nets broke the embarrassment of 0 points when the game was already in the fourth minute.
Immediately after the Hawks attacked, Liu Mang advanced over, saw the Nets blocking the line, guarding against the Hawks' two wings of the empty cut, Liu Mang once again let Rashid Wallace come out to block and dismantle, Kidd and Kenyon Martin still had to block Liu Mang's entry route, this time Liu Mang was ruthless, just to wave!
Step behind Rashid Wallace, treat Rashid Wallace like a gun rack, and shoot straight out three-pointers!
In these two games, Liu Mang played very steadily, and suddenly this wave rose, Kidd didn't react, Liu Mang felt hot at the beginning, and hit a three-point shot across the three-point line!
12-2, the Hawks opened the game with a wave of 12-2 scoring shockwaves!
With 7 points and 2 assists in the opening game, all the Eagles' scores are directly related to Liu Mang!
The fans at the scene were already going crazy, the Nets finally couldn't sit still, and Byron Scott wanted to continue to learn from his teacher, Zen master Phil Jackson, to hand over the court to the players, but now, Kidd is facing the Hawks, and there is no way.
The frenetic atmosphere made the Nets' side even more irritated when they were behind, and both Kidd and Kenyon Martin were complaining to each other that the opposing defense wasn't in place.
After the timeout came back, the Hawks replaced Ratliff and Prince with Kwame Brown and Barnes, and Coach Krueger saw that Liu Mang was hot today, and decisively arranged the shooting tactics for Liu Mang.
The Nets, for their part, put Mourning and Kenyon Martin on to enhance their interior mobility and try to defend against the Hawks' offensive tactics.
Their set-up, of course, is still defense, and the Nets' offense has always been handled by Kidd.
However, the Hawks stopped playing tactics, letting Liu Mang play alone on the outside, and others rushed to grab rebounds, and then turned back to the dead defense, making the rhythm as slow as possible.
The Eagles made the same choice as they did in the last game! Playing the Nets has already had a successful experience!
However, Liu Mang's hand feeling in this game is excellent, Liu Mang, who is fully committed to the offensive end, is not afraid of Kidd's defense, and he just does it with the ball!
At the end of the first quarter, the Hawks were 25-11, leading the Nets by 14 points!
Liu Mang scored 14 points and 3 assists in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Stockton brought Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, and Muhammad up, and fought with the Nets for half a quarter of offense, slowing down the rhythm, and when the official timeout came, the Hawks tied with the Nets for more than half a quarter, playing a 16-16 half-quarter score, and the two teams reached a 41-27 tie.
But then, the Hawks replaced Liu Mang's singles again, and the other four people defended and grabbed rebounds, and suddenly tightened the rhythm, and the Nets had no good way to deal with it, and Coach Byron Scott could only change to the defensive lineup and fight with the Hawks to defend, but Liu Mang's singles today were a little too accurate, slashing 15 points in five minutes, leading the Hawks to play a wave of 18-8 climax before halftime, and the Hawks pulled the score to 59-35 at halftime! Leading by 24 points at halftime!
At halftime, there seemed to be something wrong with the locker room on the Nets' side, and at the beginning of the second half, Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin both broke out, while the Hawks' side, with a halftime lead of more than 20 points, inevitably had some slackness in defense, and the Nets beat the Hawks 8-0 at the beginning of the third quarter, and it seemed to have a sense of momentum.
But Liu Mang and Jason Terry immediately responded with four three-pointers, three of which were made by Jason Terryson, a bloody disgrace in the last game, and after the Nets went on an 8-0 run, they responded with a 12-6 run, which allowed Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin to explode, but only narrowed the gap by two points in the first half.
After the Hawks stabilized the situation, Liu Mang and Jason Terry began to wave more and more, and when both teams' defenses began to relax in the third quarter, Liu Mang and Jason Terry combined for 26 points in a single quarter to withstand the Nets' counterattack.
Liu Mang scored 37 points in the third quarter!
In the final quarter, the Hawks stubbornly held on to the point difference and had no possibility of turning the Nets around, Stockton came up to press the lineup, and brought Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, and Kwame Brown to give the Nets the final crit, and the Nets collapsed in the final quarter!
Liu Mang made 17 of 34 shots, slashed 45 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds, leading the Hawks to a 107-77 home slaughter of the Nets!