Raheem and Kwame Brown were also surprised when they got to their feet, and O'Neal thought of them when he ran.

However, the little boss of the team has already gone to thank him, and the two also returned to the bench to move their bodies, and half of their bodies were numb when they were hit by O'Neill just now.

After re-re-reinforcing the hoop, the referee confirmed that there was no danger and the game restarted.

The two teams did not rotate, and in the tentative opening game, Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the front court.

After Payton found his defensive feel in the final game of the Western Conference finals, although the offensive end was still not bright, the defensive end found the feeling of last season, although there is a certain gap with the best defensive team, but there is also a first-class level.

Seeing Raheem's side and Kobe Bryant in hand-to-hand combat, the little blacksmith was really attackable...... No, it can be attacked and defended, and Rahim, who is seven or eight centimeters longer than him, does not fall behind in hand-to-hand combat, and he can't expect Rahim to take advantage of the opponent's lack of a genuine small forward to burst through the interior line to add some defensive pressure to O'Neal.

Liu Mang beckoned Kwame Brown to come out to block the dismantling, Malone immediately switched defenses with O'Neal, Malone followed Kwame Brown to chase out, and O'Neal moved to the right baseline.

Malone is very good at blocking and dismantling, and the anti-blocking and dismantling is also powerful, Liu Mang blocked Payton with Kwame Brown and took a step towards the right side, seeing that Payton immediately wanted to bypass Kwame Brown, Malone also rushed up, Liu Mang stepped out of the right foot and kicked it hard, changed direction and returned to the left side of Kwame Brown, went straight to the basket from the middle, came to the free throw line, saw O'Neal rushing over, Liu Mang did not hesitate, and directly pulled up the jump shot!

O'Neal was still a step slower to return to the three-second zone from the right baseline, and when he pounced, Liu Mang's mid-range shot had already been thrown, brushed into the frame, and scored two points!

On the other side, Kwame-Brown helped Liu Mang block Payton twice in a row, and immediately cut to the basket after blocking, helping Liu Mang take away the defense.

Today's mid-pitch feel good! Liu Mang was glad that he had not slackened his training for mid-range shooting in the past three years, even if the shooting efficiency in the regular season was the lowest shooting option, but the characteristics of mid-range shooting were like this, the efficiency was average, at most the shooting rate in the early 40s, and a three-point shot of 33 percent was calculated to be higher than the scoring efficiency of a first-class mid-range pitcher under conventional circumstances.

However, in the playoffs, for players with the ball, the three-point is mainly used as a deterrent weapon to attract the opponent's defense, especially in this era, the three-point dribble shooting efficiency is terrible, and the lethality is not enough, even the future Stephen Curry, in the kind of free throw line above the defense can not touch the opponent's body with his hands, three points can not be shot, and he usually only averages three to four free throws per game in the finals, which is disastrous for the team's top scorer, once the forced three-point shot can not be scored, There is no way to counter it.

The mid-pitch is different, the characteristics of the mid-pitch master are that the regular season is also the playoffs, and the efficiency will not change significantly, the regular season looks inefficient, and when it comes to the playoffs with three points and defensive pressure under the basket, especially in the finals, the mid-range shot still has a shooting rate of more than forty percent, which will blow up the sky.

It was the Lakers' turn to attack, Payton came up and gave the Lakers versatility on the defensive end, although he couldn't prevent Liu Mang's mid-range shot, because mid-range shooting has always been an unsolvable problem, as long as it is accurate, it is strong, so failing to prevent Liu Mang's mid-range shot does not mean that Payton's role is gone, he has a good three-point defense against Liu Mang.

However, on the offensive end, the Zen master wanted to use Payton to organize the offense, and liberate Kobe Bryant's idea of suppressing the offense with the ball when facing Prince on the offensive end, but it was directly stifled.

There was no way, O'Neal could only throw his arms and come by himself, Payton hoisted the ball into O'Neal's hand, O'Neal struggled to carry Kwame Brown and smashed the ball into the basket.

It looks easy, but O'Neal is not easy, Kwame Brown's explosiveness is beyond O'Neal's expectations, and he secretly sighs that he is worthy of being the first genius of high school students, and his physical fitness has nothing to say, except that he is too light, but he is only 22 years old, and he has been playing for three years...... O'Neill has a deep contempt for the small owner of a new team.

Liu Mang saw Kwame Brown's pitiful appearance and felt sorry for him for a second, then received Kwame Brown's serve and pushed forward to the court.

Peyton saw Liu Mang advancing over, and his heart was cold, secretly hating that he was not at his peak, otherwise how could he be afraid of this little ghost.

After Liu Mang came over, he continued to find Kwame Brown to block and increase the area that O'Neal had to defend, and with Kwame Brown's blocking, Liu Mang broke through from the left side again.

Payton and Malone really have no choice, and they can't help but block Liu Mang's three points, and they can't prevent Liu Mang's continuous blocking and dismantling in the same position, so they can only pin their hopes on O'Neal.

After Liu Mang broke through into the inside line, he saw O'Neal waving his arms and rushing over, blocking the passing space between him and Rasheed Wallace, and Malone also rushed to the bottom line to block Rashid Wallace's empty cutting route, which was really difficult! It's mainly O'Neal, this time it's obviously faster than before! Liu Mang felt that his free-throw line jumper was likely to be capped.

So, when Liu Mang stepped on the free throw line, he grabbed the ball, leaned forward, and threw the ball to the right!

Kwame Brown! He cut in on the right side after blocking the pick-and-roll, Malone went to block Rashid Wallace, Payton couldn't stop Kwame Brown and was squeezed out of the way!

O'Neal really deserves to be the most talented player in the center position in NBA history, with such a huge body, he stopped abruptly in the middle of the march, turned around to prevent Kwame Brown who just rushed to the basket from behind him, and blocked Kwame Brown!

But when O'Neal saw that Kwame Brown had no ball in his hand, he knew it was bad!

"Beep......

When the referee's whistle blew, O'Neal turned his head to see that Liu Mang was already sitting on the floor and slid out of the bottom line, the ball fell lightly from the right side of the basket into the basket, and Kobe Bryant, who was on the left side of the three-second zone, raised his hand helplessly.

The fans were cheering, and most of the players didn't see what was happening, and could only look up to watch the replay on the big screen.

In the big screen, after Liu Mang blocked and dismantled Payton, he entered the three-point line from the left side, and when it came to the free throw line, because O'Neal's blocking defense was too fierce, he chose to pass the ball to Kwame Brown who was cutting at the same time on the right side, but when O'Neal turned to defend against Kwame Brown, Liu Mang threw out the ball, which was grabbed by the big hand, and was taken back, and at the same time leaned forward and turned into a three-step layup.

This is not over, because Liu Mang broke through from the left side, Raheem was near the bottom line, and immediately ran to the 45-degree angle line, wanting to open up space for Liu Mang, but Kobe Bryant just chased Raheem to the position of the free throw line extension line, and saw Liu Mang's fake pass to deceive O'Neal, so he quickly came back to make up for the defense, and really put pressure on Liu Mang, knocked Liu Mang into it, and destroyed Liu Mang's right-handed layup.

But! When the space was blocked by the right hand layup, and the body was hit by Kobe Bryant and lost his balance and landed, Liu Mang changed the ball to his left hand and threw it to the basket with all his might.

Not only did Kobe Bryant foul, but the ball went in! Liu Mang faced the front and rear blocking of the OK combination and played 2+1!

Liu Mang got up from the ground, fortunately the ball went in, this little blacksmith, murder!

After sneering and rubbing his sore buttocks, Liu Mang walked to the free throw line.

At this time, the Lakers made a substitution, and it was Payton who was replaced.

Payton in this year's playoffs, completely exposed in addition to his old age, that is, the gap between him and those superstars of the times, he was not injured or sick, his state completely collapsed, and the average of 7 points, 3 boards and 4 assists per game throughout the playoffs is not the key, the data still looks good, but the shooting rate in the early thirties, the three-point shooting rate in the early twenties, and a total of ten free throws in the playoffs so far, compared with last season's state, it is like an avalanche.

Originally, the Zen master was looking forward to decompressing Kobe Bryant on the defensive end, but he couldn't do it, and he didn't have Kobe's mad dog-like biting enthusiasm at all.

Payton walked to the bench without saying a word after being replaced, the battle between him and Fisher's main point guard has intensified in the regular season, but Mr. Chairman is cunning and has a good relationship with everyone, even if he wants to get the other party's things, before he gets it, he will still not let the other party be hostile, and even if he gets it, he will let the other party send blessings, so this point is a healthy competition between the two, and whoever plays well will have more time.

Liu Mang saw that Peyton's face was obviously dissatisfied but didn't say it, thinking of all kinds of gossip news coming out of the giant team, he could only sigh that the noble team is the noble team, and the grievances and hatreds of this giant family are incomprehensible...... However, Liu Mang saw that the guy who was replaced was Luke Wharton, the second generation of stars? In addition to Kobe, O'Neal, Ma Long, Wang Zhizhi, Fisher, and a few middle-class players who are almost rotten contracts, there is really no one available for the Lakers!

Devin Brown was 0-of-5 from three-point range in the last game, and was suddenly robbed of playing time by a rookie.

After receiving the ball thrown by the referee, Liu Mang concentrated his thoughts and steadily hit the penalty.

7 to 4, 3 points ahead!

It's the Lakers offense again, this time ...... It's Kobe Bryant who pushes it! And when Kobe Bryant got to the frontcourt, he handed the ball to Luke Wharton!

Liu Mang followed Fisher to the bottom corner on the right side of the basket, and Fisher stopped running and waited there.

Liu Mang returned to observe the opponent's offense, Malone went to the left mid-range, O'Neal was outside the three-second zone on the left side of the basket, and Kobe Bryant came to the right mid-range to lean against Prince...... In this position, the triangle offensive is back?

After Payton and Malone joined the Lakers, the Lakers didn't play a triangle offense almost the entire season, there are Big Four, what kind of triangle offense do they play, mainly because Malone has a good range but no three points, and his movement ability is average, even if he is willing to sacrifice, he can't play triangle offense.

Moreover, the most important thing is that there is no player who can pass and shoot in the position of small forward, the future movie superstar is completely old and can't play, Horry can play small forward and can shoot and pass, in the 01-02 season when Rick Fox was seriously aging, In the playoffs, he averaged a career-high 3.1 assists per game and shot 38 percent from three-point range, supporting the small forward as a response point, and the Lakers' triangle offense could be played, but Horry has been sent away as the backer of the Lakers' second-round elimination last season, and the Lakers haven't played a triangle offense for a long time.

Wharton waited until his teammates were in position, then hit the ground and passed the ball to Kobe Bryant, who leaned on Prince, who was leaning his back to Prince, turned around sharply, and suddenly pulled Prince's card to the side and pulled up the shot!

Raheem made up for the first time, Kobe Bryant jumped up and passed the ball back to the top arc, and Luke Wharton hit a three-point shot at the top arc!

Although Luke Wharton did not inherit his father's physical fitness, he inherited the ball quotient perfectly, and he can do anything, shooting, breaking through, and organizing offense, in addition to his physical fitness, he is also very accurate in the open position, and he is not stage frightened as a rookie, and he scored a three-point when he came up on the stage of the finals for the first time!

This guy, where did he come out!

Raheem didn't expect this guy to come up and score a three-pointer!

7-7 draw.

Liu Mang felt that something was wrong, the person who responded to the top arc could score three points, and the Lakers' triangle offense was going to blow up! Moreover, Liu Mang just saw that it was not Kobe, not O'Neal, not Malone or even Fisher who commanded the run, but the rookie Wharton! Little Wharton, who is called the best coach on the field, is really high! The first thing to do when I came up was not to play the triangle attack, but to put O'Neal in the position where he was waiting to be picked up in the triangle attack, so that O'Neal could get a break while still maintaining the offensive threat.

Luke Wharton, though, plays small forward...... Sure enough, after Liu Mang advanced to the front court, he saw that it was Kobe Bryant...... So the question arises, what exactly is the Triangle Offensive?

For example, the teammates who are now standing in the designated position under the command of Liu Mang have fought many times, but they have never understood this problem.

Liu Mang commanded his teammates to settle in the top arc, and Kwame Brown took a big step outside the three-second zone on the right side of the basket and was ready to hit the basket at any time.

Rasheed Wallace to the bottom left corner, Prince to the right 45-degree angle, Raheem took a step outside the three-second zone on the left side of the basket and leaned on Luke Wharton for the ball!

"What is this?" Kobe Bryant looked at Liu Mang in surprise.

Liu Mang squeezed his eyebrows at Kobe Bryant and hoisted the ball to Rahim.

Stretch the space away, stand in a position suitable for air cutting and shooting three-pointers, and have a direct connection space with the singles point, so that the singles point has a perfect singles opportunity, and at the same time let the singles point and the basket receiver form a triangle position with the top arc response point, which is the simplest triangle offense!

After Raheem received the ball, he crashed directly into Luke Wharton, Luke Wharton couldn't carry a single step, Raheem took advantage of Luke Wharton to be knocked back and unsteady, turned around and bullied up, dribbled to press Luke Wharton next to him, and faced the basket!

O'Neal immediately made up for it from the right side of the basket, Raheem stepped into the three-second zone, waited for O'Neal to arrive, threw the ball to the right side of the basket at O'Neal's waist, and Kwame Brown received the ball and stepped forward with both hands to jump and dunk!

But O'Neal's defense under the basket was too strong, and now he is very active, turning and jumping, Kwame Brown felt that his head was completely covered, and quickly changed from a dunk to a layup, but ...... The hand slipped...... The ball landed on Kwame-Brown's own leg and bounced out of bounds.

“……”

“……”

“……”

Kwame Brown felt a hint of embarrassment, and the fans, Lakers, and Hawks were speechless.

Liu Mang covered his face and turned around and ran back, and the referee gave the Lakers baseline ball......

This small-handed man, the characteristics of hand slipping are too exaggerated!

However, the connection between Raheem and Kwame Brown forced O'Neal to quickly change his defense, and he had to turn around and jump in a hurry, which consumed O'Neal's physical energy.

……

Just like Liu Mang forcibly said that he would not lose, the task of O'Neal's defense was aggravated, and sure enough, O'Neal's offensive opportunities became less, Luke Wharton came up to mobilize the offense in the high position, O'Neal became the player who responded, the Lakers' offense shifted from the inside to the outside, Kobe Bryant's singles as the offensive starting point, the efficiency was definitely much worse than O'Neal's singles when he was physically fit, but when the triangle offense was played, Kobe Bryant had a perfect single opportunity, the Lakers' offensive efficiency was still very strong.

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang and Rahim, one played blocking and dismantling, the other played low, in the case of the Lakers' offensive efficiency declining, although the offensive efficiency of the Hawks also declined, but it was not much of a problem, and when the official timeout reached the seventh minute, the Hawks only trailed by 1 point at 16-17.

At the beginning, both teams wanted to change their thinking to play and wanted to deal with the opposing defense, but they didn't expect the other party to think the same, so the two teams started to play an offensive match!

When it came time to rotate, the Hawks put Stockton, Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, and Ratlleaf.

After the Lakers lost the first game on the road, the second game was actually not as urgent as the Hawks, because they had three consecutive home games waiting in the back, and O'Neal came off the game to send Payton, Kobe, Devin George, Ma Long, and Wang Zhizhi.

As expected by the Hawks, the Lakers are about to start opposing joint defense again!

After the pause came back, the Lakers started the time when Malone and Kobe Bryant took turns to play singles, and the Hawks started Stockton and Boozer's blocking and dismantling offense, the offensive efficiency of both teams declined sharply, and the offense on both sides was not very moving, and the confrontation became extremely much, and the outside shooting could not be scored, and could only burst to the inside or the inside frame single, and the Lakers were on the back of the basket because of the existence of Ratledge, and it was very difficult to play back under the basket, and the only back point of the Hawks was Boozer, and it was not easy to meet Malone.

From the offensive confrontation between the two teams that turned the whole court to the inefficient offense of the two teams blocking and dismantling, singles and shooting, it was as simple as a substitution.

And that continued into the middle of the second quarter.

After the official timeout in the second quarter, when the two teams changed to the starting lineups, the Lakers' O'Neal began to chisel and O'Neal chiseled two, and then began to play a triangle offense.

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang's shooting hand felt good today, forcing the Lakers to have to change to an offensive lineup, and it was useless for Payton to strengthen the defense, he was no longer the best defensive player he once was, and the Lakers had to doubt their lives when they encountered a fast explosion.

Through the first game, both teams have an understanding of each other's regular playing style, and both teams want to play different styles of play, but both teams can't defend each other, the main lineup can only fight offense, the second team can only defend stubbornly, the Lakers can only rely on Kobe Bryant's strong shot and Malone's strong chisel, the Hawks can only rely on Boozer and Stockton's blocking and Jason Terry's strong shot, and both teams have a bad scoring performance.

This scorching situation has not changed until the third quarter.

The scores of the two teams staggered up, and they didn't have a chance to completely open up the difference, just leading by two points, one accidentally fell behind by one point, and the game started until there were three minutes left in the third quarter, and the Lakers called a timeout.

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69 to 65, the advantage of the depth of the Eagles' lineup, as the game entered a tug-of-war, gradually began to show its advantage in this regard, and in the case of no way to suppress the opponent's head, the advantage of the Eagles is obviously a little bigger! Before the two rounds just now, the two teams were tied at 65, but in the two rounds just now, the Lakers did not score, and the Hawks scored two goals in a row, and the Lakers hurriedly called a timeout.

After returning from the timeout, Liu Mang continued to play, except for a 10-minute break from the first quarter to the second quarter, after which Liu Mang has been on the court, and the other four teammates are Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, and Ratliff.

On the Lakers' side, Fisher, Kobe, Luke Wharton, Wang Zhizhi, and O'Neal played.

O'Neal has scored 9 points in the third quarter, 29 points in the third quarter, and 10 points in almost every quarter, but he has consumed enough to face the rotation of Kwame Brown and Ostertag, and now he doesn't dare to continue to play alone, just rely on his body to contain Ratliff's defense on the inside.

Liu Mang wants to stabilize the difference of a few points at this time, and then win in the fourth quarter.

But as soon as he got on the court, Kobe Bryant's side broke out!

Liu Mang heard the system prompt when he came on the field!

"Ding...... Black Mamba's Eater triggers at level 4, Kobe Time triggers at level 4, from Kobe Bryant. ”

Kobe's Kobe time is directly on!

When Kobe Bryant came up, he relied on Prince to turn around and shoot a jumper, ignoring Liu Mang, who was defending the past, and hit a mid-range shot.

Liu Mang gritted his teeth and fought hard with the superstar, and after blocking and dismantling with Ratliff, he threw off Wang Zhizhi and rushed to the basket, O'Neal could only stretch out his hand, and Liu Mang scored two points on a layup.

But when it came time for the Lakers to attack, Kobe dribbled to the frontcourt and shot three points!

Two goals in a row!

The combination of stubbornness and Kobe time is perfect and terrifying!

In the last three minutes of the third quarter, Kobe Bryant hit 5 shots in a row and scored 13 points in three minutes! Two three-pointers, one mid-range shot, two breakthrough layups, even fouls are useless, and Kobe Bryant also played a 2+1!

Kobe Bryant, who only scored 13 points in most of the first three quarters, scored the same score as in the first 33 minutes in these three minutes!

Although Liu Mang tried his best to score 7 points in the last 3 minutes, with an efficiency of 3 of 5 shots, Kobe Bryant scored 13 points in a row! It's a monster!

At the end of the third quarter, O'Neal scored 29 points, Kobe Bryant scored 26 points, Malone scored 9 points, and the Lakers overtook the Hawks by two points at the end of the third quarter, 78-76!

O'Neal and Kobe Bryant scored more than 70% of the Lakers' points!

With O'Neal playing seriously, the Lakers scored more easily, and with Kobe's sudden outburst, the Lakers overtook at the end of the third quarter!

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang scored 28 points and 6 assists in the third quarter, and only scored 28 points by scoring 7 points in a row against Kobe Bryant in the end.

Watching Kobe return to the bench, O'Neal took a towel from the water cooler administrator Brian Cook and threw it at Kobe, Liu Mang felt that the two were simply unpredictable!

If you say go violent, you go berserk!

At the end of the crucial third quarter, Kobe Bryant scored 13 points in a row to overtake the score, which was too much of a morale blow to the Hawks!

The intermission was less than three minutes, plus some miscellaneous time, adding up to 200 seconds at most, the morale of the Lakers was obviously up, and Liu Mang felt that his teammates were a little low.

I can't help it! One O'Neal can't deal with it, Kobe Bryant actually broke out without saying a word, and when O'Neal rested, Kobe was still so accurate, it looked like the game was going to have no way to play!

No way!

Liu Mang didn't dare to guarantee that now that O'Neal is playing seriously, Kobe and O'Neal are also making good use of each other's containment, the Lakers will return to their home court after winning one away game, and they will play three away games in a row with a score of 1-1, what kind of situation will occur, it's really hard to say!

Looking at the low morale of his teammates, Liu Mang knew that the beginning of the fourth quarter was the key, if he could start to play well in the fourth quarter, the morale would come back, and if he was still suppressed by the other party, it would be over.

You can only throw the ultimate!

Liu Mang walked onto the court with the ball in his arms, and while shooting to maintain his hand, he opened the board of the star card on the system panel, Marbury and the young version of the big cousin...... Forget it, the superstar point guard of the times...... It seems that the superstar point guards of the era before the 21st century didn't shoot well, and it would be good if they got Isaiah Thomas, but if they changed to a playmaker, the morale of their teammates was low, and I don't know if it would be good or not.

Let's use those two!

Kobe Bryant or Iverson.

In the end, Liu Mang decided to leave Iverson to play away as a small blacksmith, so ......

"System boss, use Kobe Bryant's star card!"

"Ding...... The host uses Kobe Bryant's 03-04 season star card, with a time limit of 10 minutes, an ability rating of 95, 82 three-pointers, 91 shots, and 96 layups...... Power 87, Speed 91...... Talent Skill Black Mamba Devouring Level 4, Trait: Kobe Time Level 4, Trait: Stubborn Level 5...... The matching degree is 75%, and the ability bonus calculation is ......"

"Ding...... After the host bonus, the ability evaluation is 93, the mid-range shot is increased to 89, the layup is increased to 93, the waist and abdominal strength is greatly improved, and the temporary talent skill: Black Mamba's Devouring Level 3, Temporary Trait: Kobe Time Level 3, Temporary Trait: Stubborn Level 5 ......"

The matching degree is so high, Liu Mang feels that it is really enough, does he have such a high matching degree with this little Milan blacksmith?

Moreover, the most important point, why are all other skills down one level because of 75% of the matching degree, but this stubbornness is still at full level?

The key thing is that Liu Mang is holding the ball now, and he just wants to throw it at the basket!

Kobe Bryant's own playing personality made him keen on shooting, and Liu Mang was because the system systematized Kobe's character trait into a characteristic, so that Liu Mang was also affected!

Liu Mang felt his desire to throw and throw, and felt that he was dying......

……

Kobe Bryant just scored 13 points in a row, looked at Liu Mang and wanted to find a chance to provoke, and finally had the opportunity to be angry with the other party, and suddenly saw Liu Mang turning his head to look at him, and he was holding a jersey!