129-112, the Hawks beat the Mavericks to win four in a row.

didn't see the Mavericks just to the end, Liu Mang also felt a little regretful, the west of this time and space is very different from the original time and space, and Liu Mang can't predict what the result will be on the west side.

The Spurs, who didn't win the championship and didn't have a sense of slackness, Kobe Bryant, who got a super center at his peak, and the Mavericks, which of the three teams can have the last laugh, anyway, the last ten games of the Hawks and two of the three teams will definitely be the last meeting of the season.

However, the Mavericks gave up strategically, and Liu Mang had already expected it after he stretched the difference to 21 points.

The Mavericks' strategic abandonment is understandable, the coaches brought out by the old Nelson are relatively utilitarian and very finely calculated, Popovich and the little general Johnson are both considered from the perspective of the team's playoffs, if it does not affect their playoff rankings, they will even take the initiative to lose, such as the original 06-07 season in the Mavericks finally released water to put the Warriors into the playoffs and did not want to play the Clippers in the "peak" of those two years......

Revenge on the Mavericks, the Hawks have won 4 in a row.

The day after the game, the Eagles flew to San Antonio, where they will rest for the night before taking on the Spurs on the 31st.

With a 66-7 record, 73 games played, and nine games to go to the playoffs, the Hawks are getting more and more playoff vibes.

In the afternoon of San Antonio, the four main ball handlers of Liu Mang, Maddie, Calderón and Iguodala were called to the hotel conference room by the coaching staff to discuss the playoffs with the coaching staff.

The Hawks have locked up the first place in the league, although there is still a small goal in the regular season, but the focus is on the playoffs, once there is something wrong at the end of the regular season, the Hawks coaching staff will decisively abandon the goal of breaking the historical record and focus on the playoffs.

The start of the Hawks' playoffs has been confirmed, and on April 21, the Hawks will play the league's first playoff game of the season against the eighth-eighth team in the East as the playoff opener.

As for the eighth opponent, the Eagles don't particularly care, focusing on the opponent in the second round and the Eastern Finals.

The opponent in the Eastern Conference is most likely the Heat, and the Pistons are now purely relying on a strong roster and still rooted in the third place in the East, and it looks difficult to win against the Heat, who were massively reinforced last summer.

And the opponent in the second round, it's really hard to say.

The main reason is that Liu Mang thinks that the Cavaliers playoffs will not be too bad, and the 76ers and the Nets, no matter who ends up in fourth place in the East, Liu Mang does not feel that they are sure of winning.

Liu Mang was very impressed by James in the original time and space, that is, he had never been eliminated in the first round, and the first time he played the playoffs in his career, he knocked Arenas into a psychological disorder, and Arenas had already led the team to the second round in the 04-05 season in the original time and space.

However, the 76ers and the Nets are not Wizards, Iverson and Kidd are not so fragile psychologically, plus the change of Iverson's style of play and Webber, who averages 20+9+3 per game at the peak tail, Kidd also has an injury-free Carter.

Even if James usually performs better in the playoffs than in the regular season, Liu Mang can't predict what the Cavaliers will do when they meet both teams.

The Hawks coaching staff didn't want to guess the goal of the playoffs in a simple meeting, and the NBA is not without upsets.

There will be a lot of meetings like this, and they will definitely come once every three or five times, and it will be determined at the end of the regular season, and if anything changes in the playoffs, it will be adjusted according to the changes immediately.

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On the last day of March, the Hawks came to the ATT Center to prepare for the game against the Spurs after a night's rest in San Antonio.

On the Spurs' side, the end-of-season schedule is not so friendly, and when the Hawks came to San Antonio yesterday, they just went to New Orleans to play the Hornets, and they won the game, and the win improved to 55 wins, further consolidating the first place in the West, but today they will return to their home court and face the challenge of the Hawks.

By the end of the season, the Eagles had finally enjoyed the feeling of having an early season when their opponents had a miserable schedule.

The schedule of the first loose middle and the second loose has survived the most difficult stage, and then the sea and the sky are free for birds to fly!

Popovich felt very incomprehensible about Liu Mang's continuous evolution year after year.

How can anyone improve all the time?

Liu Mang's rookie season, Popovich wanted to include him in the team, originally wanted to use the Wizards to poach Arenas, but in the summer of 03, the Hawks announced that they had extended Liu Mang's rookie contract for one year, which was the first time in NBA history that no team was willing to sacrifice its wallet like that.

Even the initial offer given to Yao Ming by the Rockets was not a maximum salary, and until Yao Ming's showdown negotiations, the Rockets were still expecting Yao Ming not to renew his contract with the maximum salary......

The Eagles would rather let Liu Mang get the top salary from the beginning of the fourth grade, and it is a long-term contract with the top salary, and would rather give Liu Mang more contracts like Arenas in the second contract, which is similar to Arenas that other teams can give, and give Liu Mang almost 50% more salary than the salary that Liu Mang can get in other teams every year, and keep Liu Mang, Popovich knows that it is impossible to get Liu Mang.

Now Popovich feels that he still underestimated his original expectations for Liu Mang.

The last time they met, Liu Mang's miraculous three-point shot made Popovich feel like he was going to be killed in 39 seconds every time he played against Liu Mang......

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At half past six in the evening, the game between the Hawks and the Spurs officially began.

This time, it was finally the Hawks' turn to play as a more prepared team, with the Spurs playing back-to-back and little time to prepare.

After the start of the game, the Spurs were afraid of Liu Mang's three-point shooting, and the defense was very tight, and Liu Mang used his three-point threat to get a lot of opportunities to break through to the mid-range jumper, forcing the Spurs to start pinching him in the middle range.

If you just let Liu Mang go to the three-point position that he is not particularly good at, Liu Mang is not like he was worried about efficiency before playing against the Spurs, and he was forced to shoot three points that he was not particularly good at! If you enter, you win, if you don't go into defense, you just need to win.

Playing spurs, Liu Mang is playing more and more!

The Spurs were forced to enter the same mode as they met Nowitzki and Kobe, either being killed by a mid-range pinch or being killed by Liu Mang at a mid-range.

After All-Star Weekend, Liu Mang's shooting got better and better, and his condition became better and better, partly because of the physical talent that has been strengthened, although the training in the middle of the season has not improved his mid-range shooting, but it has made his mid-range shooting stability better.

In addition to Liu Mang, Jason Terry, who is in good shape, also threw up today, and there is a grudge that Duncan did not go to the Magic, and Tracy McGrady, who faced the Spurs with 7 consecutive losses and one winless game during the Magic period, and now plays the Spurs, is also mad today.

Liu Mang barely got a three-point opportunity, but there were many opportunities to shoot in the middle, passing the ball when he was sandwiched, and he was decisive in one-on-one mid-distance singles without clipping, shooting 11 of 21 in the game, making 7 mid-range shots and 1 three-pointer, 3 layups, 5 of 6 free throws, and scoring 28 points in the game, in addition to 12 assists!

Maddie has more three-point opportunities on his side, with an obvious height advantage, and when he wants to wave, any position is a three-point opportunity, and he scored 23 points on 5-of-11 three-pointers and 8-of-16 shooting.

Jason Terry also scored 21 points, and the Mitakas combined for 72 points!

The three eagles shot accurately in the middle and long distance, and the Spurs' defensive focus was mainly on the defense of the outside line, Liu Mang passed a lot of balls to Kwame Brown, Josh Smith, and Iguodala who cut in, and the Hawks took advantage of the Spurs' weakness to press the Spurs from the beginning.

On the Spurs' side, although Duncan's smile is still warm, but Ginobili, who is in poor physical condition, played very badly in this game, although it was a super nerve knife, but it was still a nerve knife after all, and there were often times when he played badly, Ginobili only scored 2 of 9 in this game against Prince, and only scored 5 points.

Rao was Duncan's steady 27 points and 12 rebounds, while he also had six assists, while Sprewell and Finley both scored 15 points and couldn't save the game.

Parker scored 6 points on 2-of-7 and Ginobili scored 5 points on 2-of-9, which was too hurtful for the Spurs, no matter how good the role players were, but two of the three cores combined to score 11 points, and the rest of the Spurs couldn't help it, the opposing role players also performed very well, and the three main scorers all scored 20 points!

109-91, the Hawks beat the Spurs and won five in a row.

67-7 with 8 games left!

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The Mavericks and Spurs were pressed and rubbed by the Hawks one after another, which made fans who had high expectations for these two teams to beat the Hawks feel a little overwhelmed!

The Eagles have won 67!

The Hawks only need to win 5 of their next eight games to tie the Bulls' record, and 6 games to break the record!

The media naturally found Boss Joe, who was wholeheartedly taking advantage of the team's weakness to reduce the price and want to buy most of the Bobcats' shares.

Boss Qiao's face was not very good when he was interviewed, but he still squeezed out a smile: "Records are always broken, my six championships, two triple championships, and six Finals MVPs will be broken one day, so I don't feel worried at all, but I hope to see this scene, and my six Finals MVPs hope to be broken one day." ”

After playing the Spurs, Liu Mang returned to Atlanta the day after playing, and Liu Mang was finally able to rest for two days, and the No. 3 played the last game against the Cavaliers in the regular season this season.

So Liu Mang saw Boss Qiao crazy hinting at his six finals MVPs when he was drinking afternoon tea......

Boss Qiao is like that, normal people can see that Boss Qiao is very angry.

But Liu Mang can't care about this teacher's thoughts, the strongest challenge is the coolest.

Next there are games with the Cavaliers, 76ers, Suns, and Lakers, 4 games in 11 days, and the schedule of Meizizi.

Liu Mang finally had enough time to study his opponent and have enough time to prepare.

On April 1st, Liu Mang returned to Atlanta and rejected ESPN's invitation to record a live show, this year he really didn't have the heart to care about that, 73 wins mattered!

Boss Qiao's 95-96 star card, thinking of Liu Mang, wanted to drool.

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On April 2, the day before the Hawks and Cavaliers met for the fourth time this season, James and his teammates arrived in the sad city.

With the Hawks coming up again, James feels like a delicate flower that has been weathered......