Hamilton is not a pure shooter from the stats, and his average assists per game has always been high, averaging 3.1 per game, which is extremely high among pure scorers.

But his assists are different from others, who either break points, pass and respond, or block and dismantle.

Hamilton's assists are special and connect the offense of the entire Pistons.

Hamilton needs to rely on his own movement to get rid of the first defender, and then after receiving a pass from Billups, if the opponent has no one to cover the defense, he shoots, and if someone comes to make up the defense, then the opponent's defense is torn apart, and he can pass to his teammates who are free because of the opponent's defense.

The Pistons' record has improved year by year, and it is crucial to have Hamilton, which has been okay this season, and Stephen Jackson and Bosh, who have pointed to Hamilton on the offensive end in the first two seasons. But it's all based on Hamilton's ability to run out of open spaces.

For example, Bosh's open cut and open mid-range shot, Stephen Jackson's two-wing three-point catch-and-shoot shot, many of which Hamilton had a chance to shoot only when he tore through the defense.

But when it came to playing the Eagles, Hamilton bordered on despair every time.

Pursued by Liu Mang's expression of being as active as usual but his face was like a rabies-like mad dog, Hamilton became more and more sad the more he ran, and finally got the empty space to receive the pass under the continuous blocking and demolition of his teammates, but he almost threw a three-hundred!

The ball thrown by Hamilton will be smashed in front of the basket, and when it is lost, it will fly directly out of the bottom line by grazing the basket!

Offense and defense switched, and the Eagles attacked.

Liu Mang advanced to the front court and continued to rush to the inside, and Hamilton was passed by Liu Mang again.

Liu Mang just rushed to the free throw line and grabbed the ball to start, when the first step of the three major steps was taken, Ben Wallace immediately pounced towards Liu Mang, Liu Mang took the first step, before he landed, his right hand threw the ball behind Ben Wallace, Ben Wallace saw Liu Mang's movements, and immediately changed sharply towards Ratliff.

is worthy of being the strongest defensive center in the league, this mobility ability, Ratliff can't be compared at all, and it is completely a physical crush.

When Ben Wallace pounced on Ratliff, he realized that Ratliff had no ball in his hand at all and was exiting towards the baseline.

Ben Wallace also saw fans outside the baseline stand up and exclaim, and the cameraman from the baseline also shot the camera up.

Not good!

Ben Wallace screamed in his heart, reacted extremely quickly, understood what was happening in an instant, and continued to pounce on Ratlif without turning his head to look, as if he hadn't noticed that he had chased out of bounds.

Just when Ben Wallace pounced on Ratliffe, as if he didn't hold back the feeling of his heel rushing over his head, the creak after the "bang" behind him came, Ben Wallace turned his head to look at Liu Mang who had just fallen from the basket, and secretly praised himself, feeling that his on-the-spot reaction was too witty.

With such a mentality, it is clear that Ben Wallace is not focusing on the game and is avoiding his own disgrace.

Usually, even if he can't prevent it, Ben Wallace will turn around and press Liu Mang, but he doesn't dare to foul too much, he has already eaten a foul, but he will never give up to block.

Ben Wallace has some blocks, which are the kind of blocks that look like his height and the opponent are close to perfect dunk timing, impossible to complete, and the kind of blocks look amazing, and they can greatly improve the Pistons' defensive motivation every time.

Of course, it also makes Ben Wallace a high-frequency member of the background wall.

But today, Ben Wallace completely lost the enthusiasm to defend to the death, and after blocking Liu Mang's first wave of impact, he saw that he was in danger of being detained, and his acting skills broke out to save the bottom line.

That's how the Pistons' fighting spirit is right now.

It's the Pistons offense again, the Pistons offense, most of it was Hamilton here that started fighting, but today, Hamilton is going crazy.

Although Liu Mang has half of the chance of catching the ball and ignoring the rhythm of a wide range of running, other shots are completely useless if they run like Hamilton, and there is no second Hamilton in the league who can still run like that and shoot accurately, but Liu Mang does not have these problems on the defensive end, as long as he runs along, he runs until he is tired and runs until he follows Hamilton before he recovers, like a mad dog, his expression is more hideous than usual, and because after relieving his breath, Liu Mang's physical fitness will not be affected, When you're tired, you can take a physical potion and chase Hamilton's nerves!

The Pistons couldn't attack, Hamilton was chased by Liu Mang at the beginning of this game with a 5 in 1, he really couldn't shoot, it was relatively good before, but today, Liu Mang's positive attitude of not running to the point of having no strength even if he was blocked and dismantled, he had to squeeze over or bypass and continue to chase desperately, Hamilton already had no fighting spirit, and now his shooting is soft.

The Pistons had no choice but to swap for Billups, Stephen Jackson, and Bosh taking turns playing singles.

The defenders Billups met were Prince, Stephen Jackson against Raheem......

Prince almost perfectly suppressed a prodigal pitcher like Billups, and Prince was not at all afraid of Billups' ability to make fouls, his team practiced most of the time to defend a certain No. 1, and that No. 1 would play shamelessly even when he played fiercely in practice.

Stephen Jackson, he is not fast, mainly relies on height and rhythm, strength to play, and as long as he is not a speed-type opponent, Raheem can defend well, he is fully committed to the defensive end, and Stephen Jackson pairs, locking a key single point for the Pistons.

Ben Wallace just ignored it, and the Hawks wished the Pistons passed the ball to him.

As a result, the Pistons' most efficient singles was actually Bosh ......

With Bosh going 3-of-7 in the first quarter, Rasheed Wallace singled out the Pistons' best performance.

However, apart from Bosh's 3-of-7 shooting with 6 points, Hamilton with 2 points on 1-of-5 shooting, Billups Lang scored a 3-pointer, and Stephen Jackson caused Raheem to score two points with a foul, and no one else on the Pistons scored!

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang scored 12 points alone in the first quarter, as well as 4 assists, constantly sudden, shooting when he had the opportunity, and shooting if he didn't have the opportunity.

But even so, the Hawks were 25-13 and led the Pistons by 12 points in the first quarter!

Larry Brown was already in a rage, calling several timeouts in the first quarter, pointing at the player's nose and cursing at each timeout.

In the first quarter, both teams did not make substitutions, and the Pistons kept using the starters to carry it deadly, which is the characteristic of Larry Brown's coaching, and the Hawks did not make substitutions, so they had to use the strongest lineup to prevent the opponent from lying down.

Leading by 12 points in the first quarter and limiting the opponent to only 13 points, the Hawks completely locked up the Pistons at the beginning.

What surprised the fans the most was Liu Mang's style of play, breaking through or breaking through, high-frequency impact baskets, the usual style of play is completely different, the usual breakthrough is not so sharp, the Pistons' interior defense is the strongest in their entire defense, there is Ben Wallace to defend, but Liu Mang just wants to break through, in the case that Stephen Jackson and Bosh are watching the show, Ben Wallace can't do anything with this kind of player who rushes in directly!

Ben Wallace made up for it, and Liu Mang passed the ball, and in Ben Wallace's opinion, what was even more excessive was that Liu Mang also played a passing feint.

Ben Wallace has the impression that there is no second person in this way of playing among active players!

The sharp breakthrough is the characteristic of Liu Mang who relies on Kobe Bryant's star card, similar to Maddie's passing feint, because of the big hand, and on the basis of Kobe's style of play, passing feints and shooting feints are also added, so that the opponent is unguardable!

After the first quarter, Liu Mang heard the cheers on the scene that were even more fanatical than before, and finally understood why the blacksmith brother didn't deliberately do anything, didn't deliberately maintain his idol image, and even played in the Colorostate court, there are still so many fans.

This style of play is so appealing to the fans!

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At the break, the Eagles began to make substitutions, with Stockton and Jason Terry going up and bringing Prince, Boozer, and Kwame Brown on the court.

Liu Mang frantically drank Gatorade on the sidelines to replenish water and electrolytes, his scoring efficiency in the first quarter was actually not particularly high, 4 of 9, and the shooting efficiency of his teammates was average, the scoring efficiency of the Hawks was not very high, although the Pistons had no fighting spirit, but the defense at least had the first or even the second defense, but it didn't have the strength that usually locks the opponent in layers like other teams, 25 points in 12 minutes, the Eagles' offensive efficiency can only be said to be decent, of course, That's relative to the Hawks' own offensive efficiency.

Liu Mang's consumption is also very large, after the first quarter of the game, he played two physical fitness potions, usually chasing Hamilton, while maintaining offensive efficiency, a quarter of the game is not the time to use physical fitness drugs, usually in the second half of the game will only use two physical energy potions, but today continuous breakthroughs, an average of one breakthrough per minute, the consumption is really large!

Stockton went up with Boozer and Jason Terry, and the defense was indeed many notches weaker, and the Pistons' offense was at least back to normal, scoring 13 points in just over half a quarter.

However, the pick-and-roll offense of Stockton and Boozer, the Hawks were not defended by the Pistons, and also scored 13 points, and by the official timeout in the second quarter, the Hawks still led by 12 points, 38-26.

Seeing that Liu Mang was about to exhaust the team, Coach Kruger hurriedly replaced Liu Mang, wanting to establish a bigger lead before halftime.

Coach Kruger is not too satisfied with Liu Mang, Liu Mang's style of play today is completely beyond everyone's expectations, who would have expected him to use this sharp breakthrough as the first offensive option? This kind of aggressive play, the Pistons did not expect it at all, and their defensive confidence collapsed today, so that the Hawks can still lead the Pistons by 12 points when the defensive scale is very large today.

The two teams have played a quarter and a half of games, and the free throws are pitiful, except for Liu Mang's 5 free throws in the first quarter, the rest of the Hawks have so far, 19 minutes of game time have passed, a total of 7 free throws, and the Pistons have only 4 free throws.

Coach Krueger predicted the opposing defense and kept Stockton on the field......

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On the other side, on the Pistons bench, Larry Brown was cursing again, and the Pistons players were holding back their anger.

The reason why Larry Brown was fired when he was so compatible with Billups and Ben Wallace, the two interior and exterior cores of the Pistons, in terms of playing style, and at the same time led the team to the Finals for two consecutive years and won a championship, the reason is very simple, even Ben Wallace and Billups don't like him, and even dislike and hate him.

It's just that the Pistons kept winning, won the championship, and reached the Finals in '05, and they have been winning for nearly two seasons, but once they didn't win and lost the Finals, he was fired immediately.

Larry Brown has been characterized throughout his coaching career by relying on the fact that he can only hold on to his position while still winning, and once he starts to lose, his position becomes shaky.

The Pistons players are still able to hold their breath because they really didn't play well themselves.

Usually Larry Brown's scolding will stimulate the combat effectiveness of the Pistons players on the defensive end, but Larry Brown's various swearing this time did not stimulate the players, only hatred, because the Pistons players themselves don't think they can win.

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Coming back from a timeout, the Hawks possessed the ball.

Playing ball, you still have to play hard, although the Pistons players don't have much fighting spirit, but they still have professionalism, seeing the players from the Hawks, Stockton, Liu Mang, Raheem, Boozer, Rasheed Wallace, judged that the Hawks are going to play blocking.

The Pistons did not make substitutions and continued to start stubbornly, Larry Brown is indeed a capable coach, and it is very simple to judge that as long as there are substitutions, even one of the five strongest players is likely to collapse directly.

Liu Mang advanced to the front court after receiving the serve, it was strange that the Pistons did not shrink their defense, and the Pistons' defensive center of gravity did not seem to be with him.

I don't understand why, but this opportunity is really good!

Liu Mang came to the three-point line and saw the Pistons' wide open defense, and immediately chose to break through!

Hamilton's attention was still on Stockton and Boozer, and he was estimating the Eagles' running and passing routes for a while, preparing where to cut off Liu Mang and others, he thought that Liu Mang would hand over the ball to Stockton to deal with, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to shoot directly, and Hamilton didn't even have a chance to go inside with Liu Mang.

Liu Mang rushed into the basket with the three-second zone on the right side, Ben Wallace and Bosh reacted quickly and sandwiched over, when Liu Mang stepped into the three-second zone, the rhythm suddenly changed, became very slow, and then suddenly jumped up sharply, jumped out from the bottom line, turned 180 degrees in the air, and threw backwards!

The change in rhythm, Bosh was the first to fly out, Liu Mang jumped directly in the second step, Ben Wallace reacted, but he couldn't do anything about Liu Mang's back, Liu Mang's waist strength was simply amazing, and he could still lean back after turning in the air!

Liu Mang broke through the bottom line of the emergency stop and changed direction under the basket, turned around and pulled the rod and threw it backwards, cutting the already fragile little hearts of the Pistons players like a sharp blade.

The only thing the Pistons players have now is that they can't prevent it at all, the opponent will score immediately after scoring, they can't play, and basketball is too difficult to play......

This goal, so that the Pistons did not dare not block Liu Mang's breakthrough, must be from Liu Mang over the half of the focus on dealing with him, Liu Mang saw the Pistons this kind of defense, immediately gave the ball to Stockton to play without the ball, when the opponent paid attention to Stockton and Boozer, Liu Mang broke through again.

Without Prince and Rashid Wallace, as long as Stephen Jackson and Bosh, their defense is still a lot worse than the original Five Tigers, and the new version of the Five Tigers is still a lot worse, although it is also the top three defensive teams in the league, second only to the Hawks and the Pacers, but it is far from the original Five Tigers' defense that exceeds the league!

In addition, the mentality of the Pistons players has collapsed, and in the third quarter of the game, the point difference was finally completely opened!

When it came to the official timeout in the third quarter, the Hawks were 67-47, leading the Pistons by 20 points!

Liu Mang drank a lot of Gatorade at halftime, and now he continues to drink, so drunk that the staff preparing Gatorade next to him began to slander.

Liu Mang knows why some people like to drink sweat, this style of play is too expensive, and he also feels exaggerated about the physical fitness of a certain player!

Liu Mang remembers that when he was competing with that guy, he never seemed to see him tired......

Just when Liu Mang was drinking a drink and thinking about it, there was a sudden exclamation at the scene, and there was a commotion from the Pistons.

Liu Mang and his teammates looked at the Pistons bench curiously and found that there was a quarrel on the Pistons' side!

Larry Brown is arguing with a Pistons player.

Billups and Ben Wallace certainly can't, both of them have been wandering for many years and have managed to get their feet, not arguing with the manager, not wanting to ruin their reputation.

Hamilton is Larry Brown's favorite player, Larry Brown rarely scolds him alone, and the relationship between the two is not good, but it is not bad either.

Bosh is still a rookie egg.

It was Stephen Jackson who got into a fight with Larry Brown......

Stephen Jackson's temper tantrum endured more than half the game, and when it came to the official timeout, he was scolded again, and Larry Brown pointed to his nose and "forced-cub", Stephen Jackson didn't make a move, but immediately replied: "You're far worse than Popovich." ”

This touched Larry Brown's taboo, he hated hearing people say that he was inferior to Popovich, and he hated being told that Popovich had won the championship again, and he was unhappy with his disciple winning the championship before him.

Then, the two of them became more and more arguing.

Larry Brown finally threw down the phrase: "Get out!" As long as I'm the head coach of this team, you don't want to play! ”

"As long as you're the head coach of the Pistons, I'm not going to play as a Pistons player!"

Stephen Jackson tore the Pistons jersey directly from the neckline, threw it on the ground, walked to the player tunnel with his bare upper body, and the camera also swept it, after Stephen Jackson entered the player tunnel, he even ripped off his pants and threw them away!

The last conversation between the two just now was too loud, and the fans at the scene tried hard to hear what they said, and the scene became very quiet, and the Eagles bench heard the content of the last two sentences clearly.

The fans around the Pistons bench heard it clearly, passing ten times and passing hundreds of ...... There was an uproar at the scene!

Then it was unknown who took the lead, and the scene began to chant: "I-love-you-Larry......"

Liu Mang had the expression of a melon-eating crowd, watching the Pistons fall silent, no one spoke, only the staff on the scene picked up the torn jerseys......

This scene is all too familiar, and it was also this kind of conversation when Larry Brown and Iverson had a conflict before!

Stephen Jackson's temper was even more explosive than Iverson, and he directly tore his jersey and announced that he would not play for the Pistons!

This can't even come back after the game!

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There was no desire to play at all, they were already behind by 20 points, and there was infighting, and the Pistons players didn't have the heart to play at all.

The Hawks didn't keep their hands, especially Liu Mang, as long as the main force of the Pistons didn't go down, he just couldn't go down, and he didn't want to give the Pistons a little hope of chasing points, so he continued to go up to press the formation.

On Larry Brown's side, there were no other substitutions except for Michael Curry replacing Stephen Jackson in the first few minutes of the third quarter, and the other four main players of the Pistons played the first three quarters alive, and the defense was completely gone, and they didn't bother to reach out when they saw Liu Mang rushing in.

Liu Mang scored 7 points in the last 5 minutes of the third quarter, brushing his personal score to 30 points, and the Hawks played a wave of 14-3!

Looking at the 31-point difference, Liu Mang was finally willing to play, and was scolded by Jason Terry...... Delaying Jason Terry's scoring in garbage time, in Jason Terry's eyes, is all a one-man ......

In the end, relying on Liu Mang's three-quarter performance of 30 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists, the Hawks slaughtered the Pistons with a score difference of 98-71, close to 30 points!

This game not only allowed Liu Mang to complete the potentially threatening task brought about by his own death, but also had an unexpected joy, but I didn't expect the Pistons to have infighting!