1086. The Strange Wolf King

Garnett has a lot of black spots, a bad personality, a lot of small moves to play, and an unclean mouth, when the salary cap was only more than 20 million in the 90s, he took a salary of more than 15 million, which caused the team to be unable to renew Marbury's contract, and because he couldn't directly sign Joe Smith, the Timberwolves could only play private promises, resulting in a 5-year penalty in the first round, and it collapsed......

But in terms of strength, Garnett is strong!

Very strong!

In the original time and space, Garnett, who won the regular season MVP in the first year after Cassell and Sprewell, although his strength has never reached the first in the league, he has been the top three players in the league and the top five in the league for many years.

It's just that in this time and space, Garnett is even more recognized, and the only MVP has not been robbed by Liu Mang.

The current Garnett has been compared with Rashid Wallace, the key is in the hearts of fans, Garnett is not as good as Rashid Wallace, who took the initiative to play and took the initiative to reduce his salary and renew his contract.

Weakness is the original sin, Garnett played ten years with the Timberwolves, only won two series, and the team's weakness became Garnett's original sin.

But in terms of personal performance, Garnett does not lose to Duncan and O'Neal, and the data is also the most gorgeous among the league's interior players.

Garnett went crazy from the start of the game today.

No one knows how much Garnett wants to prove himself, and he can't wait to see Duncan, Kobe, Raheem, Rasheed-Wallace, and Maddy, several players who entered the NBA at the same time, and have won championships one after another!

Especially the Hawks and Spurs are in full swing, dominating the East and West, and it doesn't look like a recession at all, the Lakers and Mavericks, and the Suns are also entering better times or recovering one after another, Garnett can't wait, and in five months, he will be 30 years old.

So every time Garnett played a strong team this season, he was furious, but he played a weak team and didn't play much good data.

It was the same today, Garnett scored 7 points and 4 points in the first quarter, 10 points and 3 assists in the second quarter, and 8 points and 3 assists in the third quarter.

On the Hawks' side, whether it's Rashid Wallace or Josh Smith, they were all beaten by Garnett......

As Rasheed Wallace gets older and weighers, he can adjust from counterattacking the basket to following up with three-point shots when he plays counterattacks on the offensive end, but the defense has gradually become more suitable for defending Duncan and Gasol's center-style power forwards.

The Hawks scored very poorly today, the whole team was in a slump, and the game was dominated by the Timberwolves from the beginning.

Under Garnett's pressure, the Timberwolves have been playing hard this season, and they must fight regardless of whether they win or not.

Today, the Hawks' defensive rotation was not timely, and they were still in the adjustment of the long flight overnight, and Kwame Brown was so able to jump today, but he was soft and squatted under the basket and couldn't come out.

Thereupon......

The game was spent......

It's not that the Timberwolves were beaten by the 29-1 Hawks with the first win rate in history, it's that the Hawks were beaten by the Timberwolves!

Liu Mang scored 31 points in the third quarter on 10-of-24 shooting, and the Hawks only scored 59 points in the third quarter, with Liu Mang scoring more than half......

The point is that you can't prevent it!

Garnett had 24 points and 10 assists in the third quarter, and the Timberwolves exploded today! The Hawks' lazy defense allowed the opponent to score 81 points in the third quarter, and the Timberwolves scored more than 80 points in the third quarter for the first time this season.

Garnett was efficient singles, shooting 8-of-17 and making more free throws.

Garnett's illegal blocking between fouls and non-fouls when he doesn't hold the ball allows the rest of the Timberwolves to have a lot of space when they break through with the ball, and the Hawks have no enthusiasm to change defenses today, falling behind from the beginning of the game, scoring only 59 points in three quarters, an average of less than 20 points in a quarter!

After the Timberwolves took the lead from the beginning, they played more and more actively, suddenly became more fierce, shot more decisively, and desperately pinched Liu Mang if they didn't score.

On the Hawks' side, the players may be thinking: if you are behind, you should be behind, and there is a boss anyway.

But the boss said he couldn't take it!

When the other three are sandwiched, Liu Mang has no choice, and the third person outside the bag is Garnett!

He scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists on 10-of-24 shooting, which was Liu Mang's fewest assists since December 2004.

In the fourth quarter, Coach Kruger saw the team's 21-of-57 shooting rate today, and saw the sluggish appearance of the players who really couldn't lift their state, so think about it, forget it, 21 points behind in the third quarter, that's it.

It's just a regular season game, and then we have to play the Pistons and Cavaliers away, and those two opponents are the key.

Liu Mang still wants to go up and play a dozen at the end of the season, not to mention winning or losing, the data is not up to standard! The scoring is just 31 points per game, and the assists are also miserable.

But for the sake of the big picture, Coach Krueger replaced the main players and let Calderon, Barry, Granger, Horry, and David Lee go up to play garbage time.

Liu Mang sat on the bench and complained to the male No. 3 in the suit who squinted behind the bench and disliked his teammates' performance today: "It's all your fault for stimulating him, 24 points, 9 boards, 10 assists and 4 blocks in the third quarter!" Look at the good things you've done! ”

Maddie is depressed too! He just wanted to get revenge on Garnett, a long time ago, before Maddie went to the Magic, when Garnett adopted his first child, he invited Maddie and Kobe, two high school players, to be guests, and Garnett took out his 99-00 double-team trophy to show off, and Maddie didn't have anything at that time.

Later, Maddie also had a while, but Garnett was a double one.

Now that Maddie finally has a championship ring that looks like Garnett is 108,000 miles away, of course she has to show off.

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Garnett played half a quarter in garbage time in the fourth quarter, brushing his data to 27 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, and after completely sealing the win, Garnett went down.

In the end, the Hawks won 83-106 and swallowed their second loss of the season.

The Hawks' carelessness on the enemy, poor rest, poor hand feeling, random shooting, poor coach on-the-spot response, and carelessness yesterday made the main team have to return to the court in the fourth quarter and delay the rest...... Coach Krueger found a lot of reasons to explain to the players and took the blame on himself.

Garnett had a great performance today, with a triple-double, 3 steals and 4 blocks, and played very well, and he played against a strong team again.

Garnett has a total of 4 40+ times in his career so far, two of which he has won this season, and he has had four triple-doubles in more than 30 games, which is quite good.

Garnett's title of "loyalty" began with this season's madness against strong teams.

After the game, Liu Mang couldn't help it, if he lost, he lost, but he kept winning this season, which felt a little weird.

Just as Liu Mang and Maddie were arguing and preparing to walk to the players' tunnel, they suddenly heard a roar.

Garnett grabbed the microphone during the interview and roared at Liu Mang: "Ace-Liu! Tracy McGrady, I'm no worse than you guys! I can do better than you guys! ”

Liu Mang Garnett's loud voice was taken aback, just like Rashid Wallace!

Liu Mang didn't know what Garnett meant, he won the first place in the league once, and he was crazy with joy?

After Garnett finished yelling, he threw the microphone directly away, turned around and walked to the home team's players' tunnel.

Liu Mang and his teammates were confused, this guy, what do you mean?

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The next morning, the Hawks players, who had a good night's sleep, finally felt the discomfort of losing to the Timberwolves after recovering their spirits.

Liu Mang has always wondered what Garnett meant by what he said last night, just to show off how well he played in yesterday's game?

That's stupid, it's just a regular season game, and the Timberwolves are now third from the bottom in the West, only slightly better than the Trail Blazers and Warriors, showing off a regular-season victory......

Liu Mang always felt that something was wrong.

But I couldn't figure it out for a while.

Confused, Liu Mang boarded the plane at 10 a.m. with his teammates, flew to Detroit, and after a night's rest, on January 6, he continued to play his fourth consecutive away game.

Playing the Pistons, the Hawks are ready to give the Motor City team a hard blow with the unhappiness of losing to the Timberwolves in the last game.

The Pistons' record this season is not bad, playing 35 games, 22-13, ranking third in the East, not much behind the 24-11 Heat, still firmly pressing the Cavaliers and Bulls, and pressing the two teams outside the top four.

However, at this time last season, the Pistons lost only seven games, a world of difference.

And the Pistons have won most of the time this season, playing the Cavaliers and Bulls without their previous advantages, and it is even more difficult to find a win against the six strongest teams in the league.

The atmosphere on their team, after four consecutive playoff defeats to the Hawks, has lost its former harmony.

Again, the focus is on salary.

Billups' early contract extension was not negotiated, Ben Wallace's contract extension amount was very different, Ben Wallace wanted a 10 million contract, and the Pistons were unwilling to give it.

However, only Bosh and Hamilton got a contract extension, Bosh got a 3+1 salary extension in advance, effective from the summer of 2007, and Hamilton got a 6-year 66 million high-salary extension, effective from next season.

The attitude of the Pistons management is obvious, there is still a month to turn 28 years old and the pitcher Hamilton who is in his prime, and Bosh, who is only in the third year of his rookie contract, have renewed their contracts, and Billups and Ben Wallace, who are over 30 years old, have not received the desired contract extension offer, Billups' contract ends after the 06-07 season, and Ben Wallace's contract expires after this season.

The current Pistons team has a feeling of fighting on its own, and there is no feeling of fighting again after having a new coach and a new system last season.

The current Pistons have worn out the motivation to win against the Hawks, and Billups and Ben Wallace, who are the core, are no longer the same as they were four or three years ago, they can't afford to wait, either take a lot of money or ...... If you change a team and get a lot of money, maybe you can still have a championship hope if you change teams.

Now the feeling of the Pistons is to play their own, Ben Wallace is desperately grabbing the boards, his teammates are grabbing the rebounds, Billups is a prodigal, and now he is shooting more, and they all want to get good statistics and get big contracts.

Last season, the Pistons relied on passing and blocking to play a smooth offense, but this season is all gone, the only commendable thing is the defense that is so grinding again, averaging 93 points per game and conceding 90 points per game, and the Pistons' offensive efficiency is back to before Coach Sanders came here.

If the team's contract renewal issue is not resolved for a day, even Coach Sanders will not be able to make any major changes.

Billups and Ben Wallace, with the attitude of not wanting to lose a penny, made it clear that they would either give money or leave.

In this game, Liu Mang's style of play is simple, breaking through the score and Biao three points, just these two ways of playing.

Simple and crude!

When playing the Hornets, Liu Mang made three key three-pointers in a row, and now he is obsessed with that feeling, and he also wants to find that feeling at that time, and then become familiar with that feeling.

Liu Mang felt that he was about to touch the feeling of doing whatever he wanted, but it was almost, just a little bit......

The feeling that is more accurate than the current alliance is right in front of me, but it feels ethereal and untouchable.

Therefore, Liu Mang increased his outside shots, and the breakthrough or landing of the low post and the high back were mainly to attract the pass of the defense, and if he didn't come over one-on-one, he would shoot himself.

9 of 21 shots, including 6 of 14 three-pointers and 3 of 4 free throws, Liu Mang played 38 minutes in this game, scoring 27 points, 4 rebounds and 11 assists, helping the Hawks easily defeat the Pistons in the late stage of "ice phobia" 101-87.

Seeing Ben Wallace 3 points and 14 rebounds, Bosh scored 21 points and only had 3 rebounds, and he shot 8 of 23 from Loops, more than Liu Mang scored.

The people of Estelle began to shout "MVP" when Liu Mang walked to the free throw line.

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Having avoided a losing streak, the Hawks continued to break NBA history as the fastest team to reach 30 wins.

30-2, the day after the Hawks finished playing the Pistons, they came to Cleveland, and the No. 8 will play the last game of a five-game road trip with the Cavaliers to challenge the Cavaliers.

It's too unpleasant to play the Pistons, after the opponent fell behind by ten points at the beginning of the third quarter, he really didn't have any fighting spirit at all, and the Hawks led by 21 points 74-53 in the third quarter, or the Hawks sent a pure substitute in the last quarter, and the Pistons dared to fight in garbage time to chase a little point.

Next opponent, Liu Mang became excited.

At this time, a certain No. 23 player, who was blowing in the cold wind outside the Eagles' lower tower hotel, couldn't help but sneeze, quickly wrapped his coat tightly, and had to say hello to the boss of the younger generation.