When Liu Mang arrived at the restaurant, his teammates had already arrived, but most of them still didn't seem to wake up.

However, there were two people who looked very sober, but their faces were full of sadness.

These two are the team's No. 1 and No. 2 point guards, Dean Grove and Jacqui Vaughn.

"Nazre, what's wrong with the two of them?" Liu Mang asked while sandwiching the vegetables and oil-free fried eggs from the buffet.

"They're going to play Payton tonight, and most of the team's guards are like them when they meet Payton." Muhammad answered.

Peyton.

Gary Payton!

Depend on!

Only then did Liu Mang remember that today's opponent was supersonic! That supersonic with trash-talk king Gary Peyton!

Gary Payton is not only trash talk, but also super strong, as of last season, he has been the first team of the All-Defensive Team for eight consecutive seasons, and he has been selected to the All-Defensive Team for more than eight consecutive years! He also won the Best Defensive Player! And the highest in the MVP rankings has been second!

Payton, who is 33 years old this year, is still tough, averaging 22 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists per game in the first 6 games.

This is not comparable to the likes of Francis! Even if you really want to talk about it, Iverson is not as terrible as Peyton!

Francis has already abused the Hawks' guard line to the point of death, and Iverson has beaten the Hawks half-dead just by being strong on the offensive end, and he has a Payton ......

At this time, Liu Mang saw Coach Kruger who came to lunch, and immediately put down the plate in his hand and ran over.

"Coach! Instructor! ”

Liu Mang showed a faster speed than when he triggered the blocking master and the bench bandits, which scared Coach Kruger!

"What's wrong, Ace?" Coach Krueger asked curiously.

"Coach, I've decided, I'm going to switch to playing point guard! Scoring is what I want to pursue! Liu Mang said solemnly.

The restaurant is so big, and Liu Mang's voice is not small, everyone hears it.

At first, my teammates were puzzled, how good it is to play point guard! Especially the point guard who can fire indefinitely, the Hawks are Liu Mang.

But thinking of today's opponent, everyone reacted, this rookie is really as shameless as people say!

The two point guards of Dean Grove and Jay Vaughn are even more directly sprayed, and this kind of operation?

Coach Kruger also wondered at first, why did he suddenly have to play a shooting guard? What is the difference between a point guard and a point guard in terms of Liu Mang's style of play? Isn't it just just holding the ball?

However, as the players squirted rice, Coach Kruger also reacted at once, as speechless as he wanted.

Coach Krueger helplessly touched his forehead and replied: "Yes, when you partner with Emmanuol or Jason, they play point guard, you play point guard, and the tactics remain the same." ”

Oh yes! Liu Mang didn't expect the coach to be so easy to speak...... Wait, bridge bean sack, ginseng gang Ma Ni Oh, crooked, Gaste a certain gate...... It's like...... It makes no difference whether you change your position or not!

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Think about how good it would be to hold the alliance together in the future! Most teams don't even have a decent star, and when a strong team plays a weak team, the strong team's bench can look like a superstar, which is like now, the teams that are competing for the top pick still have stars like Francis of the Rockets, Jalen Rose of the Bulls, Nick Van Exel, and Juwan Howard of the Nuggets.

Seeing the muscular Peyton, Liu Mang wanted to go up and say to him: Big brother, you'd better go to the Lakers to hug your thighs this year, otherwise you won't be able to take your thighs with you in two years, and you will have to go to the Heat to guard the water dispenser in 2006.

After the game started, Liu Mang continued to play as a substitute without any suspense, even if he was the point guard with the best performance and statistics on the team, he was still a substitute.

Whether it is Coach Kruger or Liu Mang, this point is very firm!

Looking at the mouth on the court that has not stopped, the point guard who abused the Hawks on the offensive end, and Payton who defended Jason Terry confused on the defensive end, Liu Mang really saw that both offensive and defensive ends are superstars, even if Payton is 33 years old, he is still at the tail of his peak, and there is no problem at all in being selected for the best team and the best defense team this year.

Supersonic speed is really strong!

Except for the 98-99 season, because their super power forward Wen Baker became a pig due to uncontrolled and uncontrolled drinking, which led to a shortened season and did not make the playoffs, the rest of the time was a Western Conference playoff powerhouse, and reached the Finals in the 95-96 season.

Now, although the SuperSonics are not as strong as the strongest team in the West before the shutdown, they are still a strong team, don't look at the Hawks' current record as the first in the league, and they have no advantage in fighting with the SuperSonics, but they are being spended by the SuperSonics' offense.

Brent Barry, who can fly with white people, Vladimir Radmanovich, the skier of the Lakers in the future, and Rashad Lewis, the billionaire of the Magic team.

Three tall shooters who shot more than 40 percent from three-point range sent the Hawks through the fast-shooting.

However, supersonic speed does not have the strength to crush the Eagle at once.

The Hawks and the SuperSonics are not weak, they have some strong points, but they are not the strongest teams, which is very embarrassing, and there is a feeling that everyone is open.

The supersonic outside line is fatal, the Hawks have a big advantage inside the inside, Wen Baker was a super power forward at the best team level back then, and a shutdown ruined him, and now he is squeezing and rubbing his hands to get two points, and the defensive end and rebounding end are disasters, not to mention Rashad Lewis, he has no strengths except shooting, and he doesn't know how to swipe a hand with an average of 22 points and 5 boards per game in the season of the supersonic selection of Durant in the 06-07 season, and cheated from the Magic to a 100 million yuan contract, It can only be said that the management of the Magic team is always so worthy of praise.

The Hawks frontcourt is Ratlleaf, Muhammad, and Rahim, three strong players, and Rahim is still a super swingman who averages 23 points and 10 rebounds per game, and he has blown the supersonic interior into slag.

So despite the Supersonics' surprisingly accurate outside today, they still couldn't pull the score away at the beginning, and in the eighth minute of the first quarter, the Hawks called a timeout, and the SuperSonics only led the Hawks by four points at 21-17.

For Liu Mang, this is the last thing he wants to see, anxious! In other words, the group of players who entered the NBA in the eighties and nineties will never go down!

Don't look at Gary Payton, who is 33 years old this year, but has averaged a career-high number of minutes per game this season! Playing an average of 43 minutes per game, the 32-year-old played an average of 42 minutes per game last season, and even if he reduces his playing time in the middle and late stages of the game this year, it is estimated that he will continue to break the 40-minute average playing time mark.

"Ace, you go up and cast! Stretch the space away and give Sherif a better chance to score inside! Jason, you cover Ace and take the defense away with your offensive threat......" Coach Kruger spat on the star.

Liu Mang is very painful, sure enough, the team is going to die when it encounters this kind of anxious game, so even the supersonic side is probably also dead!

"System, lottery! Rogue worth the lottery ten times!! ”