804. Five consecutive wins in the opening game
Kobe Bryant had 46 points, 7 boards and 11 assists, and was defeated by Liu Mang's 43 points, 4 boards and 4 assists and Maddy's 30 points, 7 boards and 12 assists, which caused a huge response after the game.
The impact of superstars on a team is multifaceted, they may not feel it themselves, like Maddie, he himself is trying hard to integrate into the team by defense, and the team is also trying to integrate Maddie into the team's defense, but in the process of integration, the influence of superstars is too strong, and Maddy's style of play is also changing the Eagles.
After the combination of Maddie's temperament and the temperament of the Eagles, it brought a new temperament, chic without losing obscenity, and a little unrestrained in obscenity, turning the Eagles from a hard-blooded team grinding defense to a more unrestrained team.
In the past, the unrestrained of the Eagles was mainly Liu Mang, but now the unrestrained of the Eagles is that after Maddie joined, the whole team began to be unrestrained...... The type of influence that an organizational core and a scorer bring to the team is completely different, Liu Mang is to let the whole team cooperate for him, while Maddie is to sort out the playing style of his teammates, to lead his teammates with himself, and to bring his temperament to his teammates!
can still score, can also organize offense, liberate Liu Mang to score easily, the key is to be able to score by himself at the same time, there is not much impact on Liu Mang's score, although Maddie did make Liu Mang's shooting power reduced, but made Liu Mang more efficient!
After seeing Maddie arrive at the Hawks, he was like an upstart, taking rebounds and assists casually, and scoring if he wanted to, and it didn't affect Liu Mang's score!
It was said that the Heat and the Wizards were the biggest winners in the summer trade, and now it looks like the Hawks are not losing to these two teams!
Swapping a top-10 superstar in the league for a top-3 superstar in the league is no worse for the Hawks than Rahim!
Even if it weren't for the fact that the Magic cleared Juwan Howard's garbage contract and sent away Barnes and Ratliff, just saying that Raheem was replaced by Maddie, the deal was a big profit, and Ratliff and Barnes left, and the talented Josh Smith was selected, without special earnings, it was also a perfect deal.
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Playing the Lakers was the beginning of the Hawks' four-game losing streak.
After beating the Lakers, the Hawks take on the Trail Blazers and Kings on the road on Nov. 4 and 5.
The old flying squirrels Damon Stoudemire and Van Exel, who have lost Antoine Walker, can only play small forward with Derrick Anderson, who is also in his prime, and the only star is Zach Randolph who is a big brush, and the center is Joel Pulzbilla.
With such a lineup, who would have thought that the Portland local tyrant team, which was still flourishing three or four years ago, would suddenly become a garbage contract concentration camp?
After Randolph got 20+10 in the third year last season, although he was not recognized by the media and fans, the owner of the Trail Blazers immediately gave a 3-year 36 million early contract extension, because Randolph said that he would apply for a trade if he did not renew the contract.
36 million in 3 years, renewing a 20+10 forward who is only 23 years old, no matter how you look at it, the Trailblazers didn't think much about it, and immediately renewed the contract.
Who knows, just after the contract was renewed, Randolph gained more than a dozen pounds in the new season, and his data declined in all directions, points, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, shooting percentage, and playing time...... All of them fell, only the number of turnovers and fouls, technical fouls skyrocketed, and there was a six-foul exit in the first four games, and two technical fouls were also eaten......
This is not the most terrible thing for the Trail Blazers, even if they get a big contract, they are slack, Randolph is also a big forward with an average of 15+8 per game, and he barely has a 3-year 36 million contract extension plus one year of rookie contract, that is, 4 years and 38 million, which does not seem to be a loss.
The scariest thing for the Trail Blazers is the team atmosphere!
Randolph's relationship with the gangsters and the temptation of rookie teammates to smoke illegal drugs were discovered by Derek Anderson, a master's student at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine, and then two factions were formed within the Trail Blazers, one was the bad boys led by Randolph and the other was the righteous people led by Derek Anderson.
After the police were involved in the investigation, the name of the Trail Blazers prison team started in the summer just this past year, how can the prison team only have prisoners, in addition to Derek Anderson, who may be the future doctor, the Trail Blazers also have a god man - Ruben Patterson, who called himself Kobe Bryant's terminator, who was dug up and is a top graduate of justice at the University of Cincinnati...... The future Mr. Superintendent may become Mr. Superintendent......
The Portland Jails are known for this......
Don't work hard to play the Trailblazers, no one can get used to anyone in a group of people on the other side, Liu Mang will throw it when he goes up, Maddie organizes an attack, Liu Mang throws it more happily than before, the key is to play the Trailblazers, the other party is too old and too slow and too tacit understanding, Liu Mang has a lot of vacant seats, Maddie is sudden, he is empty here, and he easily scored 28 points in the third quarter and went to rest.
Before the start of the game, when I was reading the scouting report with Rashid Wallace, I heard Rashid Wallace's introduction, and Liu Mang knew that among the older generation of NBA players who entered the NBA after finishing college, there were so many gods!
97-84, relying on Liu Mang's 28 points in the third quarter and Maddie in the town to score 17 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, the Hawks easily defeated the Trail Blazers and won four consecutive victories.
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By Nov. 5, the Hawks had flown from Portland to Sacramento, the capital of California, early in the morning.
The league gave the Hawks four relatively easy games to get used to the start of the new season, and then immediately gave the Hawks a tough game, playing the Kings away in the third All-American live game of the season.
The Kings, who almost toppled the Timberwolves in the second round last season, have recovered Webb this year, the Lakers have collapsed, and the Spurs have had a poor playoff performance last year, and the Kings should have deservedly become the second seed in the West after the Timberwolves.
Liu Mang led his teammates and prepared to take advantage of the strength of the four-game winning streak to deal with the Kings.
Who knows, the gorgeous Kings, this season completely collapsed......
The Kings are seen as the second strongest team in the West behind the Timberwolves, however, the Timberwolves started the game with a four-game losing streak......
On the Kings' side, there was only 1 win and 3 losses at the beginning, mainly because the defense collapsed!
Doug Christie's aging came too suddenly, last season was still the second defense, and he was squeezed into the second defense by Kobe and Kidd, and even Duncan was squeezed into the second defense together, it looks like he is at his peak, and it is not a physical style of play, they all thought that he would be old and strong, who knows whether he should be old or old at the beginning of this season, and his empty three-point shooting rate at the beginning of this season has dropped from 39.5 percent last season to 6.7 percent!
In the first four games, Doug Christie only shot 1 of 15 three-pointers!
That's not the most critical thing, Doug Christie was the Kings' outside defense gate last season, and this year, anyone can surprise him, causing the Kings' outside defense to collapse.
On the offensive end, Bibby and Webber still cooperate tacitly, but when the ball reaches Doug Christie, the offense stalls all of a sudden, and the more Doug Christie can't shoot, the more no one rotates to defend him, he doesn't have the opportunity to pass the ball to his open teammates, and Princeton can't function.
Princeton is like this, focusing on five in one, when Webber is injured, Divac can barely support the team, but Doug Christie, no one else in the Kings can make up for his loss here!
There is no second blue-collar point guard in the league who doesn't possess the ball, has three-point play, can be selected as a first-defense or second-defense defense, and can also rely on his understanding of the system to deliver 4 assists per game when he doesn't have much possession.
In other words, the Kings Five Tigers, this one, there is almost no possibility of replication!
At the beginning of the season, they were actively looking for a trade, probably the Kings, which is also a matter of no choice, the owner has no money, the government does not give the new arena to be repaired, they can only ensure the team's income if they remain competitive, Princeton is gorgeous, yes, but the players are expensive, the cheapest Doug Christie, is 8 million a year.
In fact, it doesn't matter, you can't find a perfect fit, just find a barely enough one, Divac is on the verge of retirement in the past two years, isn't it just to find a Brad Miller to make do.
Just find one that makes do with it, like Gerard Wallace......
A player who played more and more last season and averaged 2 points and 2 rebounds per game, this season to the new team Bobcats, started 13+5+3...... This data is almost the same as Doug Christie's data in previous seasons, and the most important thing is that in addition to the lack of experience in defense, Gerald Wallace has learned Doug Christie's defense a lot......
If Doug Christie just collapsed defensively, the key is that his offense also collapsed.
Although Bibby and Webber have cooperated well this season, it can be clearly seen that Webber's defense has degenerated into scum, Bibby is short and the defense is not good, not to mention Peja, who is known for his negative defense, Brad Miller is good at defense, but he can't play a role alone, the Kings can only rely on offense, Doug Christie's offense has also collapsed, and the Kings can't play at all at the beginning.
Adelman is not a person who thinks a lot about players, he is similar to Pat Riley, but he does not think about the future of players, and if he is strong, he will squeeze it to death, and if he is not good, he will abandon it.
The Kings have been working together for so many years, and the relationship is quite good, and Brad Miller quickly integrated into the circle of the Five Tigers, because Adelman sought to trade Doug Christie and Webber, and the Kings also had infighting when their strength was already declining!
It was already a bad game, and now it's even worse.
Originally, Liu Mang and others thought that it would be very difficult to fight, and they were ready to go all out for this back-to-back, who knows, the 24-kilogram gold sledgehammer was sacrificed, but they didn't expect that before they could use their strength, the king team fell by itself!
113 to 91, five straight wins came too easily!
Liu Mang didn't expect to get five consecutive victories so easily: Could it be that Xiao Ye worked hard to bring this group of teammates who grabbed the right to shoot more and more powerful, and it was too hard to see that Xiao Ye was taking this group of selfish teammates, so he sent Xiao Ye to win in a row?
In the 2003-2004 season, most of the stars of the new, middle and old generations were at their peak or at the tail of their peak or had begun to show their superstar demeanor, and there were as many as eight or nine teams that looked like they could compete for the championship, which can be called a prosperous era.
It is the so-called boom and bust, especially after the boom, there are changes in the rules that shake the order of the alliance.
27 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, Liu Mang played 35 minutes, 9 of 17 shots, 2 of 4 three-pointers, 7 of 9 free throws, easily won the comprehensive data, Liu Mang originally wanted to shoot a little more, but what made Liu Mang very angry was that when there was only one person defending him, Maddie actually passed the ball to Josh Smith and Kwame Brown! Let these two dunk!
Liu Mang looked at the three annoying high school students with resentment: Pass the ball to the master, the master shoots, if you don't score, you can still grab the rebound! It's three points when you shoot, but if you don't shoot, you get two points and a rebound, how good!
Liu Mang frantically despised the three high school students.
However, I am still very happy to get five consecutive wins, and I thought that it would be difficult to play against the Kings, but I didn't expect that the other party was really about to disband.
Liu Mang has nothing to regret about this, his current target is the next opponent: Boss Qiao, let's die!
Fighting a bobcat, Liu Mang said that he was going to abuse vegetables!