88. Big Ben Field
The Hawks replaced Dean Grove with Liu Mang, and the lineup on the court became Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Mohammed, and Ratlleaf.
The Pistons made no substitutions and continued to field Chaki Atkins, Stackhouse, Michael Curry, Clifford Robinson, Ben Wallace.
"Welcome to Big Ben!"
After Liu Mang came on the field, he decisively heard the prompt from the system.
Ben Wallace, 86 stats, 50 offensively, 97 defensively.
This is alive, relying on the strongest defense in the league, and forcibly raising the comprehensive ability value to 86 at the first-class star level! In terms of defense alone, there is no doubt that the active team is the first!
"Big Ben: There are always days when you break the rules, and Ben Wallace is a super defensive genius who breaks the rules on the defensive end. Big Ben's Level 3 Effect: Reduces the tempo of the field in all aspects, blocking the run-and-gun tactics (whether you are friend or foe). Consistent Effect: When Ben Wallace is on the court, the opposing team's shooting ability in the three-second zone is reduced by 10, the blocking ability of the partner's interior teammates is +5, and the steal ability in the three-second zone is +5, and the defensive enthusiasm of teammates is greatly improved. ”
"Big Ben's domain characteristics: 1. It will quickly reach level 5 within a year or two and enter its personal heyday; Characteristics 2. It will decline rapidly after reaching level 5 and return to mediocrity within two or three years; It will reduce its offensive ability rating by 5 points for each level of Big Ben's field, and the personal offensive ability will be 40 at full level, ranking first in the NBA league."
What an exaggeration!
As soon as he came back from the pause, Liu Mang got the ball and started to advance, and he heard the system's prompt, the guy who has won the best defense 4 times in the past 5 years is really terrifying on the defensive end!
Liu Mang advanced to the front, and Starkerhouse rushed up and led the defense at half time!
It is true that Stackhouse defended Jason Terry very actively before, but it was definitely not as active as Liu Mang now.
Obviously, Liu Mang said before that Stackhouse was abused by Kobe Bryant in high school and was traded by the 76ers, and Stackhouse began to target Liu Mang.
Stackhouse's defensive skills are average, but his physical fitness is really good! The 28-year-old Stackhouse is at the peak of his physical fitness, and his aggressiveness and confrontation make it difficult for Liu Mang to fight against him, and he has to return the ball to Jason Terry.
Jason Terry's opponent changed from Stackhouse to Michael Curry, it was easy, a change of direction rushed Michael Curry into the interior, and just as Jason Terry flew to throw, veteran Clifford Robinson pounced and slapped the ball away!
The three-second zone is a no-fly zone! Without the height and arm length advantage of Raheem, he can't rush in at all!
Clifford Robinson is a rookie in the 80s, 35 years old, but old and strong!
As a player who plays as a power forward or even an occasional center, Clifford Robinson's career-high annual average of only six rebounds per game is obviously not up to par, but he completely relied on an average of 20+ points per game in his early years, and won the best sixth man ten years ago, and suddenly changed his style of play after turning 30 and became a defensive player, and he has been selected for the second team of the All-Defensive Team in the past two years, and has formed the most terrifying no-fly zone in the league with Ben Wallace!
As for the fact that he can't grab rebounds, Ben Wallace has averaged more than 13 rebounds per game since he came to the Pistons last year, which doesn't exist!
Stackhouse grabbed Jason Terry's blocked ball, picked up the ball and counterattacked, and Liu Mang hurriedly posted it.
Strange things happened, according to Liu Mang's understanding of Stackhouse, if this guy has a chance to counterattack, he will throw it to the front court no matter what, but Stackhouse did not attack the basket directly in the front court because he was following someone around him this time, but waited for Atkins to come over and pass the ball.
The Hawks were quick to return to defense, and by the time the Pistons were in formation, the Hawks' defense was already in place.
A good coach pays attention to details, such as Coach Krieger, he knows that coaching Liu Mang needs to break the routine, so he does not arrange tactics here with Liu Mang, but cooperates with Liu Mang's style of play to arrange tactics for others, whether it is Jason Terry and Raheem's off-ball blocking, or Muhammad or Raheem running to pull the defense away when Liu Mang blocks and dismantles, it is all about details.
The same Carlisle coach has an equally good attention to detail, and last year Stackhouse averaged 29.8 points per game and was undoubtedly one of the league's leading scorers, with a huge threat on the offensive end.
Generally speaking, there is such a top scorer who almost breaks 30 per game, and the team should focus on arranging offensive tactics for him, but it was Coach Carlisle who did the opposite, using Starkhouse's containment to let Starhouse block his teammates and take the defense away, so that Atkins has a better chance to score.
Coach Carlisle understands very well that Stackhouse's scoring efficiency is really average, and it would be better to use Stackhouse as a containment point.
As Coach Carlisle expected, the Hawks' defensive focus on the Pistons was on Stackhouse, Stackhouse and Atkins blocked, Liu Mang and Jason Terry defended towards Stackhouse, Atkins rushed inside, and at the same time as the outside block, Clifford Robinson blocked Muhammad who was ready to help defend, forcing Ratliff to make up for it, Atkins threw the ball in the direction of the rebound, Ben Wallace smashed the ball into the basket in the air.
One offense and defense failed, and the margin was stretched to 7 points.
Liu Mang is a little anxious, if he still can't score next time, the score difference may be stretched to more than ten points!
This time, Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the middle line, and Stackhouse came up again, wanting to force Liu Mang to pass.
When Liu Mang passed the ball out, he cut off Liu Mang's receiving route, and didn't even give Liu Mang a chance to play, this is what Stackhouse thought, he was very unhappy with Liu Mang, very unhappy.
Liu Mang saw the opponent's thoughts, don't think about coming back if the ball is passed, Jason Terry will definitely fall into the same situation as Rahim, the probability of success in the single is not high, and the connection with others is broken.
This was the key to the Mavericks' defense in the 2011 playoffs all the way to the championship! When Coach Carlisle was well staffed, this trick was tried and tested!
Liu Mang was anxious, and raised his arm to push Stackhouse away, but he didn't have much expectations, because Stackhouse's muscles and strength were stronger than him at a glance.
But unexpectedly, Liu Mang felt the strength of his arm increase suddenly, and he actually squeezed the other party away a little at once!
Iron elbow work!
Liu Mang didn't expect that the iron elbow skill that he thought was used for fighting, or when he was making a layup in the air, he could still use the iron elbow skill like Ma Long to open the way here!
Stackhouse was startled when he felt the strength of Liu Mang's elbow, where did this skinny rookie get such strong strength?
Liu Mang didn't hesitate, there were already too many magical events that happened to him, so he hurriedly rushed forward and was in a parallel position with Starhouse all of a sudden!
The biggest problem with full-court pressing or half-time pressing is that it's easy to get out of position! Liu Mang increased his speed to the fastest and rushed to the three-point line! Stackhouse hurried to catch up, but couldn't return to the best position, Liu Mang triggered the bench bandits' 94 speed dribble, and the speed of Starhouse sprinting with his bare hands was on par with the speed of Stackhouse!
But Stackhouse is not in a hurry, because he has been beside Liu Mang, and did not give Liu Mang a chance to make a quick stop jump shot, Liu Mang rushed all the way into the interior, Stackhouse is not in a hurry, others have cut off the connection between Liu Mang and his teammates, Liu Mang can only kill under the basket, and there is Ben Wallace under the basket! Stackhouse is not worried about Liu Mang attacking the basket at all, Ben Wallace's ability to defend the basket has been the first in the league since he came to the Pistons last season!
When Liu Mang picked up the ball and wanted to go to the basket, Starkerhouse seemed to have seen Ben Wallace help him resist Liu Mang and go up to give out the hat himself!
As Stackhouse expected, Ben Wallace blocked in front of Liu Mang when he covered the route of Liu Mang's cross!
Just as Stackhouse was about to pounce on the block, Liu Mang seemed to stop a step, and then took a step diagonally, bypassing Ben Wallace when he came up!
At this time, Starhouse had already pounced, and Liu Mang took another step to the other side! Starhouse flew past Liu Mang!
No disturbances at all! Liu Mang made a layup with a low hand......
"Smack......
Clifford-Robinson rushed over and slapped Liu Mang on the arm, there was no way, Clifford-Robinson, who rushed over, could only choose to foul and not let Liu Mang directly attack the basket!