315. The hardest hour has arrived

Mourning is angry, furious!

Of course, this is out of the self-esteem of a super center, and he is very angry when he is detained.

But after that, it's over, but I really appreciate Liu Mang's sharp look!

This kind of cheap idea is common for a basketball player, who seems to be abused and thinks the other party is good, not to mention the strength, this is the respect for an opponent with a strong heart.

Liu Mang walked to the free throw line and hit.

He really didn't roar, after having the previous experience of playing the Knicks, Liu Mang found a small problem, most of the time there is no problem, that is, when the two defensive teams play positions, if the referee's whistle is not strict, it can prompt them to tighten the whistle.

Just like now, both teams used to be a tactical competition, you speed up, I contain, you fall to the ground to grind, and I change defense.

So after being overturned by Mo Ning, Liu Mang took the initiative to provoke contradictions.

Because he was the one who was beaten, he just sprayed, at most a technical foul, and if the other party did it, it would not be him who was punished.

Sure enough, after that, the referee blew a lot tighter penalties, for fear that the rookie would be fouled by the opponent and would fight.

Originally, a rookie didn't have so many bad things, he blew it, and he was banned from the game, and this rookie is the first rookie in the 2001 class of the league to be praised now, and the referee has to take care of his whistle.

When the whistle is tightened, the Hawks have the advantage, Liu Mang is a master of making fouls, Jason Terry is okay, Rahim's style of play has so much physical contact, originally most of the time, because Rahim is like James and Anthony has too much physical advantage in the small forward position, and he is not a popular player, so many opponents' small actions The referee will not blow the penalty, that is, the type of free throws that is only made by playing bleeding in the legend, and Rahim is used to it, playing very hard, and the more he does not give the whistle, the more difficult it is to shoot, he chiseled in and hit the basket, still maintaining a high efficiency, very different from a player about the same size who was 5 centimeters taller than him, and he was not iron-blooded at all.

Liu Mang's amazing dunk will bring the atmosphere of the game up, the Hawks are as strong as the Hawks, Liu Mang's breakthrough, Jason Terry's strong shot, Raheem's low-post singles, and the power of the Hawks' three killers can still be brought into play.

Playing cavalry tactics is to maximize the shooting ability, and give full play to the advantages of the Eagles' own short interior line without many big centers but with a lot of outstanding physical fitness, which is the characteristic of running and bombing and future small-ball tactics, giving full play to the power of role players, and relying on the strength of superstars to fall into the position, which is also the reason why more and more traditional positional battles will be abandoned by various teams in the future.

Coach Kruger's change of formation poked at the weakness of the Heat's current attackers, and after Liu Mang pressed the referee's whistle, the initiative of the game was completely controlled by the Hawks.

With the sense of crisis of being seized by Rod Strickland for the first time to hit a ball, the Hawks' defense also tightened, and there was no more opportunity for Rod Strickland to break through easily, so the Heat's offense could only be solved by Jim Jackson and cutting, Brian Grant's blocking, Eddie Jones' mid-range shot, and Mourning's low-post singles, and these Hawks all had ways to defuse.

Raheem's individual defense is getting better and better, his help defense is also top-notch, his physicality is there, and he has learned a lot from Garnett.

Liu Mang pressed Eddie Jones' shot very tightly, Ratliff defended the basket and ate strongly, except for O'Neal and Duncan, other centers in the league really wanted to eat the block king at the peak of their peak one-on-one.

Toward the end of the third quarter, the Hawks turned the score to 69-55 and led by 14 points.

Pat Riley pouted, couldn't do it, and then happily replaced all the main players and announced that he would not play the game.

In the fourth quarter, Coach Kruger sent Liu Mang up to run with Emmanuol, Chris Crawford, Alan Henderson, and Mark Strickland for a few minutes, stretching the difference to 20 points, and after scoring the game in garbage time to lock in the win, he also replaced the main team.

In the end, the Hawks beat the Heat 94-83 to win three in a row!

Liu Mang scored a game-high 25 points plus five assists.

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48-18, the night after the Heat, the Hawks flew to Miami, slept most of the next morning, and got up in the afternoon to run the whole team tactics, they were very tired, and they didn't do any big training.

Also very tired is the Heat, and there are many more veterans of the Heat than the Hawks.

By the time of Game 24 in the evening, the Heat withered, without the slightest bit of momentum in yesterday's half-court game with the Hawks.

Yesterday it was a defensive war, but today it has become a big war against bombardment, and it is no longer defensive.

Mainly led by the Heat, the Hawks are still very cautious, after all, it is a rare fish belly team in the remaining 16 games, as the league's number one abuse expert in addition to the Spurs, the Hawks seek stability, and there must be no more accidents.

But Pat Riley seems to have figured it out a little, maybe he feels that the pressure on the players is too much, anyway, at the end of the season, it can't be rotten, and it's a bit humane for the players to start brushing the data, so the tactics are let go.

As Pat Riley expected, they started to attack, and the Hawks didn't have a desperate defense, and the two teams were very harmonious.

The Hawks' offensive firepower is at the forefront of the league, averaging 107 points per game and third in the league, second only to the Kings and Mavericks, and the Heat are the last in the league.

Sometimes some teams really give them a chance to brush, but they can't score points......

To the boos of the sparse fans at the American Airlines Center, the Hawks beat the Heat 115-97 back-to-back to make it four wins in a row and take their win to 49.

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March 19th.

The 30-day countdown to the end of the season is underway.

The Hawks' final game of the season is April 17 against the Charlotte Hornets, which is the final 30 days.

With 15 games remaining, the schedule is easy, but the opponents are a bit irritable.

Two games against the Mavericks, one Timberwolves, and a home game against the Kings, in addition to these four deadly opponents, there are also five opponents: Pacers, Trail Blazers, Nets, Bucks, and Hornets.

Fortunately, although the Hornets are ranked ninth in the East, the core is reimbursed, but half of the opponents are tough battles, especially the next four games of the Mavericks, the Kings, the Timberwolves, and the Trail Blazers at home.

So despite 49 wins, it will be difficult for the Hawks to tie the all-time record or even higher with 57 wins.

As we get to the end of the season, teams that are on the verge of the playoffs and are already in the top eight but are shaky will not be able to let up.

Among the top teams, it is the top team in the West, the Hawks in the East have led the Nets by 7 wins, the Nets have just ended a 5-game losing streak, only 42 wins, and it will be the top of the sky to get 50 wins, of course, even if there is no rise of the Hawks, Liu Mang has the impression that the only time in the history of the Nets is the first place in the East is only 50 wins.

The battle for records between the top teams in the West is also brutal, and the Spurs don't know when they have taken first place in the West and knocked out the Kings.

The Spurs are a magical team, very few have heard of how awesome they are in the regular season, take a closer look, they are the first in the first decade of the 21st century, won the first place in the Western regular season, from 2000 to 2009, four times in the Western Conference regular season in ten years, it is estimated that before Liu Mang crossed the past, the Spurs were still the first......

The Lakers were stuck in fourth place in the West, and the plot is still familiar, and the Lakers and Kings are very likely to still meet in the West.

The Mavericks were unwittingly overtaken by the SuperSonics and fell to sixth in the West, and Garnett had to kneel in the first round again because they were going to meet the Mavericks, and the Timberwolves would be hammered to death by the Mavericks nine times out of ten, and they were in third purely because they were the first in the Northwest Division......

It's still the familiar West, so several teams in the West want to win more, and of course some want to lose a little bit, such as the Spurs, and don't want to meet the Lakers so early.

For this chaotic situation, it is largely because of the division system, otherwise the Lakers would definitely have the third record in the West.

There have been many complaints from fans and pundits, as well as many teams, and the league has also said that the playoff system will be greatly adjusted at the beginning of next season.

Therefore, after hearing the news, Liu Mang thought about it, Maddie is expected to be unlucky in the playoffs next season.

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On the plane from Miami to Dallas, Liu Mang has been watching the video of this strong team that met for the first time in his career, and it is also the game video of the top team in the league for the next ten years.

Seeing the Mavericks' game, Liu Mang had only one thought - the singles mad demon team......

Originally, there were three singles masters of Michael Finley, Nowitzki, and Steve Nash, and they also traded former Kobe Bryant's starter Nick Van Exel and Heat's Tim Hardaway before the All-Star weekend.

The original Dallas singles team has taken shape.

This was the Mavericks' routine before they got Coach Carlisle, and Liu Mang said it was normal.

The guy he felt most affectionate about the Mavericks lineup was the guy with the same skin color and the same eyes......