1124. A comforting hug

On one side is the Eagles, who are desperate for revenge, and Liu Mang, who frantically delivers cannonballs to his teammates and uses the opponent's undisciplined defense to bring up his teammates' attacks.

On the other side are the Pacers, who only know the singles of the three first-class stars, and the three leading stars are ready to leave.

There is no TV station to broadcast this Eagles revenge match, which seems normal.

Just as the Hawks coaching staff expected, they were playing on the opposite side.

The Pacers are not not fighting, they are desperately brushing the data.

Artest wanted to press the steal, Stephen Jackson only dared to use his height to face Liu Mang and force three points, and O'Neal Jr. was brushing points and blocks, with a shooting rate of more than 30 percent, and he was stunned to get 20 points and 4 blocks.

But don't look at O'Neal Jr.'s as many as 4 blocks in three and a half quarters, but basically there is no substantial interference with the Hawks' offense.

Usually, Liu Mang organizes the attack, and rarely holds the ball in his hand like a player who is obsessed with sewers and waits for his teammates to have a direct chance to score before passing it out, but today Liu Mang did that!

Because as long as teammates run more and use more off-ball blocking, it is easy to get the opportunity to directly attack the basket or shoot in the open position, Liu Mang played 37 minutes and held the ball for 14 minutes! That is, in the time when Liu Mang was on the court, the Eagles held the ball for nearly 20 minutes, and Liu Mang's ball holding rate exceeded 70 percent......

It's more than a triple-double king!

Liu Mang made very few shots today, played 37 minutes in the whole game, only shot 11 times, shot 4 of 11, scored all three-point shots, and couldn't shoot inside shots to the point where he couldn't pass the ball, 4 of 6 three-point shots, 4 of 6 free throws, and scored 16 points.

But there were 21 assists!

did not hide his behavior of brushing assists, and brushed 21 assists on the head of the Pacers!

In the fourth minute of the fourth quarter, the Hawks stretched the score to 107-85, a 22-point deficit, and the Pacers surrendered.

Coach Carlisle didn't want to call a timeout in the second half, and it was useless to call, but Coach Carlisle was indeed a good coach, knowing that the player needed data in order to be traded by the team to a better new team, and he didn't replace the player in anger, and silently suffered losses, which may be the reason why he will be able to work with Cuban, who is known for his human touch, for more than ten years in the future.

In this game, Artest scored 23 points, O'Neal Jr. scored 20 points, and Stephen Jackson scored 18 points and made 5 three-pointers, which is more than Liu Mang.

It looks like the "Big Three" have scored 61 points, which is very good.

However, Artest was 7-of-17, O'Neal Jr. was 7-of-19, and Stephen Jackson was 6-of-16 and 5-of-14 from three-point range......

Liu Mang holds the ball and doesn't let go of the assists, and his appearance is not as ugly as this brother.

Even the news about the Eagles' seven-game winning streak after the game did not mention that Liu Mang's assists were brushed, and people always need to rely on their peers......

Liu Mang played 37 minutes and got 16 points, 21 assists and 3 rebounds, increasing his average assists per game to 11.5, surpassing Steve Nash's 11.3 assists!

Maddie had 12 points, 7 rebounds, 3 blocks and 3 steals, Iguodala 11 points and 1 block, Kwame Brown 13 points, 16 rebounds and 3 blocks, David Lee 16 points, Jason Terry 12 points, Korver 11 points, Josh Smith 20 points and 6 boards......

The Hawks scored double-doubles with seven players, with a 120-99, 21-point difference, and easily took revenge on the Pacers!

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After the game, Artest looked at this arena, he knew that the time to play in this stadium was getting less and less day by day, the game was over, there were fans on the sidelines booing at him, and there was abuse, Artest was used to it.

Artest stayed on the pitch after every home game this season to watch the stadium that had allowed him to play at his peak, knowing that from that fight, there was no going back.

Pacers management needs to give fans an explanation, Larry Bird's current ruthlessness is to make the team satisfied, and Artest is actually very delicate.

There are no teammates to communicate with Artest, and now the Pacers' bad situation is because Artest, at the beginning of the season last season, the opening 6 consecutive games, Artest, Stephen Jackson, O'Neal Jr., looks like the perfect future for the Pacers, and now the three have not communicated for almost a year.

Moreover, because of Artest's label of "violent", there are not many opponents who ignore him, except for Marbury and Odom...... These are also New York-born players who entered the NBA at the same time.

Artest glanced at Reggie Miller's retired jersey hanging on the court in the boos of his own fans, he himself knew that he was sorry for this big brother, but there was no way, things were already like this, Reggie Miller refused to accept the Spurs, Lakers, Hawks, and Heat, the four favorite teams to win the championship, insisted on retiring, and never won the championship.

"Ron."

Artest was about to leave when he heard someone calling him.

Artest turned his head and saw that it was Liu Mang, and asked in surprise: "Ace, is there something wrong?" ”

"It's okay, I haven't hugged you today, come, brother will give you a hug." Liu Mang opened his arms towards Artest.

"Stinky boy, you, don't you! I'm a terrorist who fights and is banned for a season! Artest scolded with a smile and came up and hugged Liu Mang.

There wasn't much communication, Liu Mang and Artest hugged and left.

Liu Mang didn't comfort Artest, but just gave a hug.

At the risk of being hated by Pacers fans, Liu Mang also did this, and he felt that Artest might need this now, and Liu Mang might need Artest in the future.

Liu Mang knows that the NBA in the future will be very different from the current and past NBAs, and it is always not wrong to have a good relationship with stars.

Artest's strength is there, and the most important thing is that Artest is very cheap and a player who is also very persistent about winning.

Artest watched Liu Mang turn around and walk towards the players' tunnel amid the boos of the fans who had not left the scene, and watched for a long time, until Liu Mang's figure disappeared into the players' tunnel, he turned around and left.

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Liu Mang's ball holding rate exceeded 70%, and it was not written as news by the media, but Liu Mang's hug with Artest after the game was in the news.

Liu Mang looked at the hooligan value brought by the hatred of the 100,000 Indiana fans he obtained, and felt that the Indiana fans really hated Artest!

Liu Mang didn't care too much about the Indiana media's criticism of him, so he didn't care about that.

Before the All-Star Weekend, the Hawks still have four games, and Liu Mang is busy.

Moreover, after being criticized, Indiana fans responded that ESPN, a media that has a good relationship with Liu Mang, wrote a completely different content, writing Liu Mang's hug with Artest after the game as close to caring for mentally handicapped children......

The biggest news about this game is that Liu Mang averaged 11.5 assists per game!

Liu Mang's average score per game fell below 30 points, Liu Mang's score was not high in recent times, and his average score per game dropped to 29.5 points, Maddie's side stabilized an average of 20+ points per game, Liu Mang's assists increased, Maddie's assists remained at an average of 6 per game, Maddie averaged 22 points, 5 boards and 6 assists per game, and Liu Mang averaged 29.5 points, 11.5 assists and 6.9 rebounds per game.

The name of the duo's strongest defender combination in history has become even louder!

The combination of defenders who take turns to win the king of assists is unique!

Many fans are beginning to feel sorry for Nash, who averages 11 assists per game, and it seems that he may not have a chance with the assist king!

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The day after the Pacers, the Hawks came to Milwaukee, where the Bucks, the last opponent of the four-game road trip, were located.

After a night's rest, on Feb. 5, the Hawks' away game against the Bucks is just around the corner.

There's not much time to prepare, just do it!

Compared to the Pacers beating the Hawks once, the Hawks coaching staff also studied how to deal with the Pacers.

The Bucks really didn't have much to look out for, the Bulls lost Eddie Curry, the Pacers played so badly, the Bucks still couldn't do these two teams, and they were squeezed into ninth place in the East.

Andrew Bogut, who describes himself as a level of Tim Duncan, has become a common target for all of the league's interior players.

It's so arrogant!

Andrew Bogut actually sees himself as Duncan's kind of superstar who squeezed Grant Hill and Scott Pippen into the second team in his rookie season!

Originally, the champion was easy to target, and Bogut was targeted even worse, averaging 8 points and 7 rebounds per game so far...... A feeling of wanting water but not water permeated Bogut's body.

Today, Kwame Brown and Mourning are all powerful, Kwame Brown played 30 minutes and got 22 points and 10 boards, Mourning played 13 minutes and got 11 points, 4 rebounds and 4 blocks...... Played 19 minutes and got 3 points and 2 boards, and then never played again.

Reed watched Liu Mang play 27 minutes and get 30 points and 8 assists, so he went down to rest, feeling envious of someone!

This season, Reed played an average of 25 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game and entered his personal peak, but the team said that he would choose a super powerful center, Reed looked at Bogut who was 1 of 6 and got 3 points and 2 boards, which can actually be called Australian Duncan?

Even if Reed plays 40 minutes per game, the Bucks' record is only 22-25, the level of a lottery champion.

In this game, Reed has worked hard to shoot 10 of 23 in the third quarter, and got 30 points and 6 rebounds, but the Bucks only scored 55 points in the first three quarters!