With a roar from Rashid Wallace, Liu Mang and Boozer hugged and walked onto the court.

On the Hawks' side, the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Rahim, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff played.

Liu Mang looked at the opposite side, Marbury and Hardaway, Shanton Anderson, Kurt Thomas, and Diebaken Mutombo played.

"Stephen Marbury, Ability Rating 90 (Peak), Offense 92, Defense 71, Passing 91......"

Liu Mang knows that this season is Marbury's peak moment, of course, the second day after the peak, it is the moment of decline, even if this moment is stronger than any moment in his previous career, but Marbury has reached the strongest year.

Through the pre-game data observation of Marbury, Liu Mang found that more than a month before Marbury was sold to the Knicks by the Suns, that is, from early January to mid-February, the period when he brought the Knicks to the top eight ranks in the East was the best period of Marbury's performance, averaging 22 points and 11.5 assists per game in more than 20 games, allowing him to remain in the top two in the league in terms of assists per game, and even higher than Kidd's assists at one time, relying on this time, but not so stable.

In addition to Marbury, the strongest Knicks are Kurt Thomas, with an ability rating of 81 and the strength of averaging double-doubles per game, and no one else has exceeded 80, Hardaway has an ability rating of 75, Shanton Anderson has an ability rating of 71, and Mutombo has an ability rating of 69.

However, Ou Qian's Knicks team also has Wen Baker, Tim Thomas, Charlie Ward, DeMar Johnson and others on the bench.

Seeing the lineup that the other party replaced, Liu Mang knew what the other party was thinking, and in the playoffs, they still pinned their hopes on Mutombo, hoping that this veteran could pick up in the playoffs, with a salary of 17.69 million, which is 960,000 US dollars higher than Alan Houston's salary this year, and the most important thing is that there is still one year left in this contract......

The Knicks obviously want to play defense, Shanton Anderson is a defensive iron man, produced by the peak Jazz, and it is not easy to earn 40 million in this era by relying on defense.

In addition to being tough on rebounds and solid in mid-range shooting, Kurt Thomas is also known for being tough on the defensive end, and Dirty Kurt is his best label, he is very similar to the future Draymond Green, and he is good at provoking opponents.

Mutombo, one of the representatives of the Iron Elbow faction.

Liu Mang saw that the Knicks sent such a frontcourt trio, and the purpose was obvious......

Want to recreate the dark horse posture of 99? Rely on fierce physical confrontation to deal with them?

It's fun!

Feeling Liu Mang's playful looks, Marbury came to the court with a wave of anger, sticking to Liu Mang, and pressed his body before the game started.

Liu Mang was looking at the strength of the Knicks players and guessing the tactical style of play, Marbury suddenly came up and put his arm against Liu Mang, and Liu Mang was pushed back a step.

"Huh?"

Liu Mang's temper, his left elbow immediately swung back, so that he couldn't die, and the iron elbow skill that was usually ineffective happened to come this time and put an elbow on Marbury's right chest, and Marbury was almost suffocated by the elbow!

Marbury immediately pushed Liu Mang, and Liu Mang was pushed.

The referee had long noticed the physical contact between Liu Mang and Marbury, and originally thought it was just a regular pre-game provocation, who knew that Marbury's reaction was so big, when Marbury's right elbow pushed Liu Mang, Liu Mang just returned an elbow, Marbury was pushed up, and there was a direct fight!

The game hadn't started yet, and the foul of the game couldn't be blown, but in order to suppress the emotions of both sides, the referee still blew the whistle!

When Liu Mang heard the whistle, he didn't continue to fight back, and immediately showed an innocent expression, raised his hands, and wrote on his face the meaning of "referee he pushed me".

Clash at the start? The fans at the scene had just gotten into trouble because of Rashid Wallace's heavenly roar, and now they saw Marbury pushing Liu Mang and throwing all the dirty words at Marbury.

The players of the two teams who were originally going to jump the ball also gathered together, this is the home court of the Eagles, the referee did not commit public anger, gave Marbury a technical foul, and then came up to warn Liu Mang and Marbury.

Seeing that he was just being blown off, Marbury, who had just recovered his breath, was so aggrieved!

Obviously he was beaten even worse, how could he be blown off? Why didn't this kid foul?

Coach Lenny Wilkens on the sidelines looked at Marbury with a disgruntled face, his head was big, this player has good skills, but his brain is not good, you a point guard runs to the opponent's half of the court and bumps into the opposing point guard, there is a problem with his head!

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The small episode at the beginning made the atmosphere of the scene more hot, and the game between the two teams had not even started, and there was already a strong smell of gunpowder.

Rashid Wallace and Mutombo came to the center circle to jump and start again, and Mutombo was so excited that he actually won in the jump ball!

The Hawks immediately retreated to the basket, Liu Mang went to defend Anfernee Hardaway, and the most difficult Marbury was of course handed over to Prince to deal with.

To Liu Mang's surprise, after Marbury dribbled in, he didn't come by himself, but passed the ball to Anfernee Hardaway!

Liu Mang's defense is also very good, but there is still a bit of a gap compared to Prince, the Knicks' tactical choice is who Liu Mang defends and who holds the ball, although this is not a good choice, but Marbury will be defended by Prince in the regular season and vomit blood.

It was completely unexpected by Liu Mang, looking at the former handsome young man commanding his teammates to stand, Liu Mang immediately posted it to press the defense! In the face of the old pennies who suffered a serious decline in physical fitness and basically relied on breaking through the scoring with continuous major injuries, Liu Mang did not give the opponent a face, and chose to press and defend.

Liu Mang was careless!

At the moment when Liu Mang pressed up, Anfernee Hardaway, who had already been prepared, commanded his teammates to run before, all of which were fakes! Suddenly, the speed starts to break through to the left, and the acceleration breaks!

Liu Mang reacted immediately, quickly retreated, and pasted towards Anfernee Hardaway, and also prevented Anfernee Hardaway's breakthrough from going deeper, but he had already burst to the free throw line!

After Anfernee Hardaway was resisted, he immediately turned around and leaned on Liu Mang, and singled with his back in a high position!

Anfernee Hardaway is like a restless child, swaying left and right continuously, the whole body is full of feints, Liu Mang is in the wrong position when he defends a foot, and Anfernee Hardaway seized the opportunity, turned around beautifully and stuck Liu Mang on his side, smart and light small jump into the basket, attracting Ratliff's supplemental defense, Ratliff's supplementary defense is in place, and it is pasted to block the corner of Anfernee Hardaway's right hand, but Anfernee Hardaway grabbed the ball with his left hand and threw the ball into the air. Mutombo dunks the ball into the basket in the air!

Liu Mang was shown off in a fancy way!

With this low footwork, this timing of turns, and this passing ability, who said that Anfernee Hardaway would only break through?

Anfernee Hardaway and Mutombo had a wonderful air catch!

But the most exciting thing is that the three-point line forcibly bursts to the free throw line and then hits Liu Mang's high post with his back to the single, that foot, Atlanta's old fans can't help but exclaim!

When the Magic team reached the Finals, especially in the series that eliminated the Bulls, O'Neal's strength was certainly the most critical reason, but it was also important for Anfernee Hardaway to attract Jordan and Pippen to the two of them, making the inside and outside defense of the Bulls tandem by Pippen collapse.

Anfernee Hardaway pouted and puffed as she ran back to her left hand that had just passed the ball in circles in the air.

It's like seeing that penny from the Magic team back then! The idol of the cousin who picks the door!

It is said that pennies have a kind of aura, what is aura? That is, when others think that the ball must either be forced or passed, pennies can always find the killing opportunity through their feet and rhythm.

Seeing Anfernee Hardaway's proud look after giving a good assist, Liu Mang was not angry, but felt that he had learned something!

Back hit, you can also play like this!

Compared to Kojo's catch-and-back play after getting stuck in position, Anfernee Hardaway's style of play may not be so lethal, but it is more unguardable!

Offense and defense switched, and the Eagles attacked.

Liu Mang advanced after receiving the serve, and when he was interested, he saw the defense of Shanton Anderson, who was a steel muscle man and nicknamed Iron Man from 97 to the present, and did not fall in seven years, and chose to make a strong breakthrough!

The choice was not good, and Shanton Anderson stuck in the first time and blocked Liu Mang's start.

Liu Mang doesn't care, he just wants to break through, he was squeezed to the side by Shandon Anderson, and when he was about to reach the bottom line, he was still as far away from the free throw line as the basket!

Suddenly, Liu Mang turned his back against Shanton-Anderson, and Tie Shan leaned towards Shanton-Anderson and slammed into it.

Iron Mountain's first-level power is not so great that Liu Mang can hit Shanton-Anderson, a defensive iron man with a strength of 87, a height of 1.98 meters, and a weight of 100 kilograms, but Shanton-Anderson is going all out in order to press and defend Liu Mang, and his speed of 88 can only keep up with Liu Mang, who has not been able to fully start, when Liu Mang collides, Shanton-Anderson has not yet stood firm, and was hit by Liu Mang!

Liu Mang immediately took the opportunity to slap the ball to the ground, turned around and passed Shanton Anderson, and rushed inside! Kurt Thomas's defense was very fast, and he immediately made up in front of Liu Mang, he was ready, Liu Mang wanted to play with his feet, and he tripped directly with one leg!

What Kurt Thomas didn't expect was that Liu Mang rushed up and turned around and leaned on him again!

Kurt Thomas saw Liu Mang with his back against him, and was puzzled, this guy wants to be beaten back?

Kurt Thomas immediately pressed on Liu Mang, wanting to directly force Liu Mang to stop the ball, and Shanton Anderson, who immediately turned around and hit back, could form the most perfect pinch with him.

However, as soon as Kurt Thomas pressed up, Liu Mang turned around again!

Turning around twice in a row, Liu Mang spun half a circle like a whirlwind spinning top and stepped into the three-second zone!

Merely......

Looks like he turned his head!

Continuously turning in circles, Liu Mang's head was a little dizzy, and this time he turned 540 degrees! I'm starting to mix garlic under my feet! When he turned around and stopped, he had his back to the basket!

Liu Mang, who was a little dizzy, spun around in a big circle and threw the ball into the air casually!

It's not going to the basket at all, it's just a few handfuls of throwing around!

When the fans saw Liu Mang turn around twice in a row, they were all shocked!

This is a response to Anfernee Hardaway's breakthrough back-to-back hit, anser-ball!

Especially when Liu Mang turned around and played Kurt Thomas, who was making up the defense, the cheers at the scene were about to pierce the ceiling, but they saw Liu Mang turn his head......

In an instant, the cheers of the scene came to an abrupt end......

Such a beautiful turn, actually turned his head! The ball that was thrown into the air, straight up and down, was thrown very high, and it couldn't have grazed the edge of the basket!

Just when the fans felt a black line, saw Mutombo ready to jump up to grab the ball, and felt that Liu Mang had made a big mistake, a vigorous figure rushed in, and when the ball fell and was about to fall into the hands of Mutombo, who jumped up, this figure catapulted out like a cannonball, grabbed the ball in the air, and smashed the ball into the basket through Mutombo!

The fans who had just shown the disappointed "Oh ......" sound at the scene immediately screamed again!

Sharif Rahim!

Liu Mang's mistake ball was turned into an assist by Rahim!

Liu Mang came back to his senses in a daze, heard the cheers of the scene, and saw Rahim fall from the basket through Mutombo's hand, ran to himself and gave him a thumbs up and said: "Ace's pass is awesome!" ”

Liu Mang's tiger body was shocked!

In other words, one more assist for yourself?

No mistakes!

This feeling is good! Liu Mang shuddered again, running back towards Anfernee Hardaway as if he were demonstrating, pointing his right hand to the sky and spinning in circles.

Anfernee Hardaway is okay, he has been hit hard enough by injuries, he has long been distracted from these things, and he no longer knows how many young players have taken pleasure in beating him and succeeded.

But Marbury is so upset, this guy is so shameless!

Who can't see that the ball is all about Rahim?

And Liu Mang doesn't care at all, as long as he doesn't make a mistake, as for the face...... Is it worth the money?

Offense and defense switched, it was the Knicks' turn to attack, Marbury pushed in, and was just about to pass to Anfernee Hardaway, finding that the defender had changed!

Liu Mang defended in front of Marbury, and it was too difficult to prevent pennies who would go all out repeatedly in the playoffs regardless of injuries! Penny's three-pointers are magical, they are average in the regular season, but they are shot a lot and accurately in the playoffs! As of the 2000 playoffs, Anfernee Hardaway averaged 4.5 three-pointers per game in the playoffs, hitting 1.9 of them, a 40 percent shooting percentage! That's 10 percentage points higher than the regular season average, and the number of hits is more than doubled! Therefore, Liu Mang chose to stick to the defense in the last round, which is also the reason why Anfernee Hardaway broke through in the playoffs.

Such a difficult opponent, let's leave it to Prince, and I feel better when I defend against Marbury and Liu Mang!

Marbury is angry! Liu Mang's meaning, how could he not understand? It was treated as a soft persimmon by the other party!