Generally speaking, a young player basically has to go through some wonderful battles, play amazing performances, or win some honors, or defeat some opponents who didn't think they could win at first, before they can accumulate enough self-confidence.

There are not many rookies like Jordan, Kobe, James, Iverson and others who have strong self-confidence at the beginning, of course, it is rare for Liu Mang to have confidence and not blindness, and the first four are not as "stable" as Liu Mang in their rookie season.

Why relative?

For example, like now, Liu Mang wants to eat Hamilton alive.

If there is "revenge", it will be avenged!

Liu Mang doesn't care how innocent Hamilton is, he looks like he wants to eat Hamilton, and when he sees Hamilton defending himself, he breaks through directly!

Hamilton is the kind of player who doesn't have absolute self-confidence yet, and he later developed strong self-confidence after winning the title in 2004.

Does Hamilton have self-confidence now? Of course there is, but it's also relative, as an ordinary starter, he is still confident, but he is not confident when he goes head-to-head with an All-Star opponent.

The reason is that when Hamilton was in high school, he met a guy who was a few months younger than him and would play in the NBA in the future wearing the No. 8 jersey.

The sophomore year of high school was dark for Hamilton.

After playing in high school, Hamilton was regarded as the best high school basketball player in Pennsylvania, and at that time it was thought that he would be able to play in the NBA after finishing high school.

However, in his sophomore year of high school, a certain No. 32 who returned from Italy led Raul Merrien High School to sweep Pennsylvania, with a 26-2 record, winning the Pennsylvania High School League championship, breaking Wilt Chamberlain's 40-year single-season scoring record and stealing all the limelight.

Especially in 1995, the future No. 8 who changed to No. 33 won the training with the 76ers' newly selected Tanhua Show as a high school junior, completely stealing everyone's attention, and Hamilton suddenly changed from a popular player in high school to a small role that no one cared about.

It's not that Hamilton isn't good enough, it's that the opponent is a super talent.

So, since then, Hamilton has been very low-key, and the ups and downs of life are so exciting.

Hamilton's confidence was rebuilt after defeating Kobe, the biggest enemy of his personal beliefs, in the Finals, and he really doesn't have much self-confidence now.

Hamilton looked at Liu Mang who rushed up and was startled, took a few steps back to prevent a breakthrough, Liu Mang stopped at the three-point line and pulled up a three-point shot!

Hamilton made another defensive error.

"It's not what God says!" Hamilton pounced back in despair, but Liu Mang's three points had already been thrown out.

The posture is still weird, but accurate!

Hamilton was very happy, and when he discussed with Jordan before the game how to prevent Liu Mang, Jordan said that he should pay attention to Liu Mang's breakthrough steps.

This is a matter of experience and ability, Jordan used his experience in the last one-on-one training with Liu Mang, Jordan has a height advantage over Liu Mang, speed disadvantage, Liu Mang is naturally more willing to break through the basket and rely on footsteps to solve the problem.

And Hamilton is different, the speed gap between Liu Mang and him is not particularly large, Hamilton's physical fitness is not comparable to Jordan, Liu Mang can have a strength advantage, so the best defense is to put pressure on the defense.

But even in the Pistons' prime, Hamilton just didn't make mistakes, and it looked like he should have a good physical talent to defend defensively.

That is, the body is there, the talent is there, the ball quotient on defense is not good, and the kind that needs someone to wipe the butt, but now it has just become the main force, and the emphasis on young outside people is often offense.

Liu Mang's three-point shooting has already scored 9 points, and all three three-pointers in the opening game have been thrown!

Today, I feel a few good thieves, Liu Mang feels that he can make one more shot, Chris Crawford, Raheem, and Alan Henderson are so good at rushing under the basket, and they don't worry about rebounding, the aging Leitner and the tender Heywood are not the opponents of these three.

The Wizards attack.

Without Jordan, former Dream Team cooler Kristen Leitner became the offensive core.

As a mature player who graduated from the eighties and nineties and entered the NBA at the age of 23, he can get 18+9+3 in his rookie year, and he is at the peak of entering the NBA like Duncan, Brand and others.

Of course, such players, except for a very few, aging also comes quickly, and in his 30s, Leitner has changed from a first-class player who averages about 178 points, 78 rebounds and 3 assists per game all year round to an average of 10 per game.

The 33-year-old Leitner can still play with the Wizards, mainly because of his playmaking ability and excellent individual skills.

Whitney pushed in and gave the ball to Leitner.

Although Leitner is the offensive core of the Wizards' second team, it is not a scoring point, and the first scoring point of the Wizards' second team is of course Hamilton.

However, Hamilton has gone from madness and sorrow to despair!

Run, run, run, Hamilton has used more runs than usual, more changes in the rhythm of the running position and around the pile, and he feels tired, but every time he turns his head, the haunted rookie All-Star puts his face in front of him every time he turns his head!

Lightner had no choice but to dribble to the three-second zone for a close-range jumper...... A dangerous hit!

Playing high and high is an aspect that the Eagles' interior line can't defend right now.

Leitner's height of two meters and one is indeed a big advantage.

To be honest, Leitner is in the shadow of the big four centers in the 90s, as well as Chris Webb, Juwan Howard and others, if you put it now, it is definitely an excellent technical stream, let alone in the future.

It's just that it looks very ordinary in comparison with these people, except for one All-Star bench, nothing has been gained.

The Hawks have long been mentally prepared for being held high on the inside, if Haywood can receive the ball on the inside, the Hawks lineup is also helpless, Leitner's skills are so good, and there is a certain threat to dribble.

But none of this can help the Wizards pull the score away! These two people, even if they are given the ball to shoot all the time, it is hell that they can score 20 points, as long as they strangle their outside scoring points, the Wizards have two double-doubles per game, that is, Jordan and Hamilton, and a Tyronn Lue who averages 9.7 points per game, and the other rotations are very average of six or seven points per game, that is, they are basically the characters who eat cake in Jordan and Leitner's points.

It was time for the Hawks to attack again, watching the Hawks who couldn't fight back fall into position, and watching the rookie All-Star, Hamilton, who viciously stared at his dribble.

Still have to be guarded against!

Although the psychological despair spreads further, and the offense can't get rid of the defense, the defense is done well! God said that defense wins championships, and that must be true!

Liu Mang was transported outside the three-point line, and it was another strong sudden action!

Hamilton was just about to subconsciously retreat, and suddenly froze, and sure enough, the No. 1 retracted the breakthrough action, and seemed to be about to shoot?

Hamilton was about to pounce back, but saw the No. 1 body lean forward again......

Hamilton is going crazy!

Why don't you just give it a good time!

You may not be able to stop your buddy from breaking through, okay!

Hamilton wanted to go sideways, so he blocked three points!

Liu Mang chose a strong burst when Hamilton blocked the position outside the three-point line, and even if Hamilton was completely out of position after hitting the three-point line, he did not choose the emergency stop jump shot that he was not good at, but went straight to the basket.

The current Liu Mang is not the hat-booster who made a stupid foul when he entered the basket at the beginning of the season and was repeatedly hatted by the opponent after being seen through and studied, his basket scoring has a very good threat, Heywood and Hamilton who chased the defense formed a bag on Liu Mang, Liu Mang looked at Alan Henderson, and his hand also made a move to pass to Alan Henderson, Hamilton and Heywood really had no tacit understanding of defense, and both of them pounced towards Alan Henderson.

But! It's a pass feint!

Liu Mang took the ball back and made an easy layup.

This action ......

ESPN's camera on the sidelines of the game was aimed at Jordan on the sidelines, and this one-handed fake facsimile shot was one of the signature moves of this master! This shameless rookie with an ugly and weird playing posture actually began to have a little bit of an elegant style of play!