438. One-man show
"Welcome...... Charles, what are you doing here? Kenny Smith was doing a regular game introduction when he suddenly saw a spicy-eyed object sitting next to him, and he forgot to keep his commentary professional.
"Oh, Kenny, are your eyes old and flowery? Don't see this the jersey of Vince Carter, the biggest dunker in history, a UFO, and a demigod? Charles Barkley tidied up his spilled flesh and shook his body, not to mention, this support, No. 15 became particularly conspicuous.
Kenny Smith endured the tumbling stomach acid and asked with a black line on his face, "I mean, you don't know how to buy a Gaga Gaga Ga...... The number of jerseys? ”
Kenny Smith watched Barkley wearing a normal-sized Carter jersey, which was even hotter than when O'Neal wore Kobe's No. 8, O'Neal was only 30 years old at the time, not particularly fat, and Barkley was like a ball of flowing fat stuffed into it.
"It's good to be able to buy this one, Carter's jersey is selling so well, and I almost got into a fight with a strong guy to get this last one." Barkley also had a bit of a sore egg.
"I don't think that strong man will dare to fight with you no matter how strong he is."
"Haha, don't look at who I am, I'm Sir Buckley!" Barkley smirked.
"I mean, normal men are afraid of sticking to their hands." Kenny Smith complained.
"Kenny, I'm going to duel you!" Barkley immediately became furious, saying that fat people generally hate people who say that he is fat.
"Stop," Kenny Smith couldn't stand the living treasure anymore and asked seriously, "Charles, what are you doing in a Carter jersey?" Don't you dislike any player who plays well? ”
"Phew, when did I not like a player who played handsomely?" Barkley flatly denied: "I play so handsomely myself, how can I not like to play handsome!" ”
Kenny Smith has a 'you're happy' expression, and such a shameless person is used to seeing it.
"Charles, you're a Carter fan again today?" Kenny Smith asked, speechless.
"Of course, Carter is the best dunker in history, and that Chinese kid wants to challenge Carter, and it's really laughing at me......," Barkley fired at Liu Mang again.
"Charles, you have a point," Kenny Smith agreed with Barkley's claim, but continued: "But Charles, you've become a Carter fan, so it's hard to say if Carter can win." ”
"Why?" Barkley asked curiously, holding back the awkwardness of the trumpet jersey.
"Because you've never won, you haven't had a ring, and I'm happily hugging Hakim's thigh, and you came and we almost didn't make the playoffs." Kenny Smith couldn't help but laugh.
"Kenny! I'm going to duel with you! Barkley was furious again, "I bet Carter will have more of today's top five than that nasty Chinese kid!" ”
Kenny Smith showed a wicked smile, the fat man really fell for the trick again, Buck used Liu Mang and Carter to bet, lose or win, and Kenny Smith has nothing to do with half a dime, who doesn't love to watch the excitement?
Kenny Smith forced a serious face, like a referee: "Charles, what would you do if Liu defeated Carter in the top five goals?" ”
"If hell I lose, I'm going to find that kid to dance on the NBA court at the start of All-Star Weekend!" Barkley said angrily.
"NONONONO, PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY WIN AND JUMP WITH YOU." Kenny Smith digs the pit deeper and deeper.
"Then I'll get that old man David Stern to dance with!"
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On the court, the pre-game activities have ended, the players have begun the final warm-up, Liu Mang is trying to watch LaVine and Carter's dunk bags, to see which actions are cooler and easier to get on the top five.
Now that Carter has just come back, Liu Mang estimates that Carter will not dare to fly as wantonly as in previous seasons for a while, although Carter also has the will to fight, but Liu Mang knows that Carter cherishes his body very much, from the fact that he is still fighting hard in the NBA at the age of 41, it can be seen that except for a few times when he was reimbursed for the season, Carter's health has been maintained very well at other times, but he can't beat the black feet.
Now what Liu Mang wants is to seek stability and find a few gorgeous dunks to dominate today's top five balls.
It's not very difficult to win today's game, the rare place is mainly that the Raptors have a huge home court advantage in the winter, and players in other places are not used to the weather here, so the Raptors have always had a good record from December to February, but the Raptors seem to be bent on messing up this year, wanting to form a combination of Carter and that high school student, so Liu Mang feels that it may not be a big problem to beat the Raptors.
Soon, the final warm-up before the game ended, and both teams made their debuts.
Liu Mang chose to start today, replacing Prince, ready to strike first!
The Eagles' starters are Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff.
The Raptors did everything they could to play badly, and they didn't have a bad master as the head coach, so they changed the way, that is, no matter who had even a little injury, they would take a break and pay them a salary to watch the game on the sidelines in a suit, if it weren't for Carter's football market being too important, they even wanted Carter to rest this season and recuperate from his injury.
Carter had just returned from injury today and was put on the bench.
Although Carter has the idea of dunking with Liu Mang in this game, he also knows that he has just returned from injury, and it is not suitable to play too long, so he needs to try the feeling of his body, and the two are in the same east, and there is a chance to play in the regular season this year, and everything is adapted in April, so he accepted the matter of playing as a substitute in the first game of his comeback.
Raptors starters: Ralph Alston, Wozen Leonard, Maurice Peterson, Jerome Williams, Gerani McCoy.
Liu Mang looked at the data of the Raptors' starters on the big screen and couldn't help but think of the 76ers who were all development league players more than ten years later......
The Raptors are simply terrible, averaging 89 points per game and ranking fourth from the bottom in the league, which is really not something that can be achieved casually, how strong a heart it takes to send such a starting lineup.
Their record has indeed "climbed" to the second-to-last in the league, and there is no one with a 9-30 record, but the Cavaliers are too tough, and they are only 6-32 when they get to this point.
"Gelani McCoy, 60 Ability, 50 Threes, 67 Shots, 71 Layups, 70 Speed, 76 Power......"
Liu Mang looked at the Raptors' starting center who was actually the water cooler administrator who averaged 1.2 points and 1.2 boards per game for the Lakers last season, and felt that the Raptors were crazy in order to get the man with no hairline who told others not to wear No. 23 and dressed happily.
Gelani McCoy, who started more than a dozen games with Antonio Davis' injury and was suspended, usually averaged 6 points and 3 rebounds per game, 22 minutes, and averaged 6 points and 3 rebounds per game......
However, such a center forward who is only two meters and eight meters and has such a strong bounce, Liu Mang immediately ran to Ratliff and whispered a few words.
When Ratliff heard Liu Mang's words, he thought about it for a while, and felt that he should be able to do it, so he agreed, and then went to the opposite side of the technical table and began to yell at the fans.
Raheem started sprinkling magnesium powder, Jason Terry ran to the opposing basket and pull-ups, and Mohammed began to flex his muscles.
Liu Mang went to the sidelines to play a dice magic trick, drew a level 1 task, and scored 10 points in a single game......
This is really not to despise the Raptors, it is really too much for the Raptors...
After the Eagles started the opening game, the referee urged the players to hurry on.
Ratliffe and McCoy stood in the center circle, Liu Mang and Muhammad stood on one side of the middle line near the side of the Hawks' basket, Liu Mang's position was originally Raheem's position, and Raheem and Jason Terry stood in the guard position.
The position is a bit weird, but no one notices this, Liu Mang is also a tall point guard, 1.93 meters, and some small forwards are one or two centimeters taller than him.
No one saw that when Liu Mang bent over and leaned against the opponent's small forward Peterson, his leg strength was already tight......
The referee blows the whistle for the start of the game and throws the ball into the sky.
Jumping ball, when Antonio Davis was away, Raptors fans no longer counted on this short center who jumped up to ten centimeters off the ground, and watched as Ratliff touched the ball first with almost an arm's advantage...... Hey?
The fans at the scene saw that Ratliff didn't know if it was a scoop, and actually stabbed the ball to the Raptors backcourt!
The Raptors players were also surprised, standing in front of the right side of the Raptors basket, the street ball king Alston looked at the ball flying towards him, feeling really surprised and surprised, took two steps back and prepared to catch the ball, at this moment, a figure jumped in front of Alstom, first took the ball to catch, and then rushed into the three-point line!
Alstom looked at the No. 1 wearing a white base and a dark blue jersey, his face was full of question marks, why did this product suddenly pop up?
Liu Mang grabbed the ball from in front of Alstom and rushed into the three-point line, and rode alone at level 5 to trigger! Except for Ratliff, who obeyed his orders, no one else reacted, watching Liu Mang open a fast attack!
After getting rid of all defenders, gain +5 speed and +5 bounce!
"Ding...... Fancy dunk triggering, waist and abdominal strength enhancement, shoulder strength enhancement...... The host chooses to dunk for the spin back dunk......"
Liu Mang rushed to the left side of the three-second zone and jumped two steps high, turning 360 degrees in the air on the way forward, flat frame! So Liu Mang 'had to' bend his abdomen in the air to 'dodge' the basket, just after the turn just slipped under the basket, and when he was about to fly under the basket, he put the ball into the basket from the lower abdomen position with both hands!
The fans at the scene couldn't help but exclaim when they saw this scene!
Even though they are Raptors fans, they saw someone playing 360-degree swivel back dunk in actual combat games!
This dunk may be in the early 40s at most in the dunk contest, and when training or performing a dunk, this kind of dunk that can be easily completed by black players as long as it bounces enough rarely appears in actual combat games! The first is that the guard is easy to make mistakes when playing this kind of back dunk, and he accidentally dunks away, and the second is to play a 360-degree rotating dunk in actual combat games, which is rare, and there are only a few times a season.
This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is how Liu Mang predicted this so accurately when the center jumped the ball "mistake"?
So, all of a sudden, it was obvious that this was the opening dunk designed by Liu Mang!
At the pre-game press conference two hours ago, Liu Mang and Carter's dunk declaration had already excited the fans, but Carter had just come back, and the fans didn't want to see Carter play too tired to avoid getting injured again, so the expectations were not so high, I didn't expect Liu Mang to come to such a game at the beginning!
After playing for nearly three months, Raptors fans also know the team's plan, wanting to select another core player to make up for the loss of Maddy's departure in this once-in-a-decade draft year, so they are used to losing, and they are not so repulsive to the Hawks, plus Liu Mang and Carter have a good relationship, which is reported on the news.
So seeing Liu Mang's dunk like this, the scene was shocked and then exclaimed, and then couldn't help cheering.
“UFO……”
“UFO……”
“UFO……”
The fans at the scene began to chant Carter's nickname, and the big screen at the scene also gave Carter a close-up.
Carter really didn't expect this guy to come as he said he would, and it came so suddenly.
The point is, this guy does look good when he dunks! It makes Carter's fighting spirit even hotter.
Liu Mang's original 92 bounce, after triggering the single riding +5 bounce, 97 bounce, although not as terrifying as Carter's full value of 100 bounce, but the visual impact is quite amazing! Carter couldn't help but applaud it.
Everyone in the audience was surprised and surprised, including the players, but only one person sat calmly on the sidelines, and that man was Eagles head coach Mr. Ron Krueger.
"It's here again, it's okay to save some heart, it's okay to save some strength, there will be back-to-back ...... tomorrow" Coach Kruger felt that the stronger this disciple became, the more uneasy he became, but he thought about it, as if this disciple didn't let him worry about it when he was still a rookie......
The Eagles' opening attack came suddenly, but the technical desk staff in the league in this game was a little more professional than the staff when Liu Mang started the lightning attack last time, pinching the table in time, 2.6 seconds, and the Eagles completed the opening attack in 2.6 seconds.
The Raptors attacked, and Alston was the most shocked one just now, because he was the closest.
But the streetball player is always bold, and he wants to return one! Seeing Liu Mang coming up, Alstom decided to fight alone!
Liu Mang saw that it was Alstom who was attacking with the ball, and decisively took a step back, which made Alstom, who was holding his breath to break through Liu Mang, feel so aggrieved and bullied the king of the street for not shooting!
I knew it and practiced three points well!
The reason why Alston broke through so well, even passed more this year, and had nearly 4 assists, but he didn't have any opportunities to play this season, and his attendance rate was less than half, because he didn't shoot, and after he got a few double-doubles at the beginning of the season, the opponent only blocked him from breaking through the ball, and simply put him two or three meters to avoid being rushed into the interior by him.
Alston had no choice but to pass the ball to Peterson for a single, and then made up his mind to practice three points!
Originally, Alston was in the second half of next season after arriving at the Heat, and after meeting a center who stood on the outside of the basket and everyone pulled away from the head coach Stan Van Gundy, he developed three points in the second half of next season, and next season in the second half of the Heat, he was close to averaging 3 three-pointers per game, but now after being stimulated by Liu Mang's dunk, he is determined to start practicing three points!
Liu Mang's side, seeing Peterson singled Raheem on the outside, was ready to counterattack, and suddenly received an unexpected news.
"Ding...... Alstom, under the influence of the host, began to develop the three-point shot in advance, and the host was rewarded with 1,000 superstar points. This time, because Alstom had the opportunity to develop a three-point shot, there was no match. ”
What an accident, why did you affect Alstom? But it doesn't seem to have a big impact, it's only 1000 points, and Liu Mang doesn't care, but it's a little happy, no matter how small the mosquito is, it's meat.
Peterson singled Raheem was very uncomfortable, he never thought that he would become the team's top scorer before this season, and his career high of 16 points per game was indeed beautiful, but he used the best defensive players to defend him when he played against the opponent this season.
Peterson is two meters and one meters tall, 99 kilograms and weighs 82 speed, and the standard non-three-and-four-way play, facing Rahim, who is taller than him, stronger than him, and faster than him, Peterson spent seven or eight seconds and threw directly!
Raheem's interference was in place, and Peterson had to lean back in the air and throw a three-no-dip!
Ratliff slammed his arm and blocked McCoy and Mad Dog Jerome Williams, and Muhammad grabbed the defensive rebound!
Muhammad passed the ball to Liu Mang at the top of the three-point line, Liu Mang received the ball and slapped it heavily, shook off Alstom, who wanted to steal, and rushed to the frontcourt!
If Alstom uses his body to block Liu Mang, he can delay it, but if he has that defensive awareness, he will not be sold in the future peak of 12+4+7 data per game, Liu Mang got rid of Alston and rode alone again, even Alstom has a top speed of 92, but he was also left behind by Liu Mang, and finally Alstom gave up and watched Liu Mang rush to the front.
After rushing through the middle line, Liu Mang looked at the person behind him and no one caught up, looking at the basket, there was an inexplicable feeling of blood boiling, rushing!
Liu Mang rushed into the three-point line and stepped into the solid arc outside the free throw line, the impulse in his heart couldn't be suppressed, he stepped out with his left foot, stepped on the free throw line with his heel, and used all his strength to jump!
"Watts?"
Everyone at the scene saw Liu Mang stepping on the three-point line to grab the ball, jumping directly, and couldn't help but exclaim!
Then, I watched Liu Mang rise into the air, and his head definitely exceeded the basket at the highest time!
In just over a second, when Liu Mang landed, he dunked the ball into the basket with one hand!
There are no fancy moves, but this kind of simple and direct dunk is even more shocking!
Is this the regular season or the slam dunk contest?
This sophomore-year Chinese player is crazy!
Liu Mang also felt a little scared after landing, because it was a temporary action, although the bounce was theoretically enough, but he was not prepared, he had not tried, and he almost didn't buckle in!
If it fails, Liu Mang really doesn't know where to put his face, but he deducts it! He himself thought it was incredible! This is the game, Nima used to complain when watching the game, some people made two mistakes in their brains and made some strange moves, but now I find that sometimes the blood in the head comes up, and I can't control the two!
Fortunately, it was buckled!
Is this the first free-throw line dunk in NBA history?
Looking at Carter, who had already stood up in shock on the sidelines, Liu Mang was still a little proud.
Carter was really shocked, this guy is simply crazy!
Who would dunk at the free-throw line in a game? It's really ...... Interesting!
Carter looked at Coach Wilkens, eagerly, expectantly...... Coach, I want to play!
However, as if he didn't see it, Coach Wilkens made a tactical gesture and wrapped up Liu Mang!
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The first two times were almost 100% booked for today's top five and this week's top 10, and even the free-throw line dunk could be booked for one of the best dunks of the season, but Liu Mang had fewer dunks behind him, and there were almost no dunk opportunities.
The Raptors don't care if they win or lose, and for them, winning or losing doesn't matter.
But don't lose face!
Watching Liu Mang and his teammates celebrate wildly, as well as the crazy celebrations of Barnes and Boozer, two rookies on the side of the Hawks, they all began to dance, and the Raptors players were very unhappy and wanted to lock Liu Mang to death!
Liu Mang tried the feeling of being caught without the ball for the first time, and for a long time, he didn't get a chance to dunk, and there were not many scoring opportunities, but a bunch of passing opportunities, until the end of the third quarter, he got 14 points and 8 assists, and he didn't dunk again.
The Raptors players were not given a chance to counterattack, and the Raptors players would rather let Jason Terry rush over and make a quick stop, and they all wanted to clamp Liu Mang.
Only booked two top five goals, Liu Mang was worried at first, but found that Carter's face was gloomy on the sidelines, but he didn't play a minute in the first three quarters, and he sat on the sidelines all the time.
The gap between the strength of the Hawks and the Raptors is huge, plus the Raptors completely collapsed on the defensive end today, Alston and Woshan-Leonard have been wrapping up Liu Mang, and the rest of the Hawks scored too easily, scoring 82 points in the third quarter, while the Raptors only scored 55 points after the third quarter, and the Hawks led by 27 points in the third quarter.
The game entered garbage time, Liu Mang played 29 minutes in the first three quarters, and was replaced without waiting for Carter to play.
Seeing Carter, who only played in garbage time in the fourth quarter, Liu Mang was a little confused, what is the situation?
And Carter, who saw that Liu Mang had already left the court, had no desire to dunk, threw three points, and hot hands, and did not think of the idea of brushing up on dunks in garbage time.
Raptors head coach Lenny Wilkens was afraid that Carter would be stimulated by Liu Mang to come up and dunk, you must know that Carter's injury was just right, as a head coach, how dare he let Carter go up and fool around, so when Liu Mang was still on the court in the first three quarters, Coach Wilkens was stunned to press Carter for three quarters, and it was not until garbage time in the fourth quarter that Carter was allowed to come on the court to find the feeling of the game.
What's more, if Carter is on, then he has to play hard, which is too bad for the swing, because with a dunk who can respond to Liu Mang, Coach Wilkens can't use Liu Mang to force this game out of suspense.
And the Hawks, who originally wanted to solve the Raptors as soon as possible, let the main team rest more, and play the Bucks' difficult bones back-to-back tomorrow.
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In the end, the Hawks were 107-80, and it didn't take much effort to kill the Raptors in the first game of a back-to-back.
Liu Mang wondered, this dunk duel is not even a tiger's tail! It's a one-man show!
Just when Liu Mang was happy because he was about to get Carter's random skill card after winning this dunk duel, but he was disappointed because he didn't get the real chance to matchup, Carter came to find Liu Mang after the game.
"Ace, I'm sorry, I wasn't able to come up and fight you." Carter's tone was a little resentful, but his mild-mannered personality did not become angry because of his unpleasantness.
Liu Mang didn't expect Carter to apologize for this, he also figured it out, Carter had just made a comeback, and the opposing coach saw his provocation again, how could he let Carter come up and take risks.
Liu Mang smiled: "It's not your fault, Vince, Coach Lanny is also for your good." ”
In fact, Liu Mang was still a little happy about this, and he completed the task of winning the dunk duel so easily.
Carter played in garbage time, or the side that lost miserably, there could be no best shots, Liu Mang didn't have to doubt that his top five goals definitely won.
"I understand," Kart nodded, but the battle intent in his eyes was stronger, "next time!" We will do it again next time! It's ...... Slam Dunk Contest! ”
Carter thought of a time when no one would interfere and that the world was watching, and he stretched out his right hand.
The Raptors have one more chance to play the Hawks this season, on the road in early April, but Carter can't wait, he doesn't want to wait that long.
"Ah......?" Liu Mang didn't expect Carter to make another appointment.
He remembered that after Carter came back from this injury for almost half a season, his desire for this "matchup" decreased a lot, and he began to have a desire to win, so he left the Raptors and Kidd, Mourning and other giants, and failed, but then Carter became more and more eager to win, and until he was 41 years old, he was still looking for a chance to win the championship.
Liu Mang felt that he had hurt Carter by helping him heal his ankle? Or did you help him?
No, Liu Mang is very sure that he helped this friend who originally recognized him as an opponent in the NBA, and a healthy Carter must be better than Carter, who has become weaker due to injury and bounce.
It's just an inner thing, and Liu Mang knows that he can't control it.
Just when Liu Mang was hesitating to accept it, the system prompt came.
"Ding...... The King of the Five Balls quest has been completed, and thanks to Vince Carter's challenge again, this quest can be advanced to the strongest dunk king. ”
"Strongest Slam Dunk King: The host needs to beat Vince Carter in the 2003 Atlanta All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest. Reward: Vince Carter's skill Death Shack. Failure Penalty: Failure penalty is not available because the host has completed the previous task. Do you want to upgrade tasks? ”
Liu Mang saw that the task had advanced, and Carter was full of fighting spirit and expectation.
Liu Mang couldn't help laughing, he had a duel with the strongest general in history! Why not?
"Then I'll accept the challenge of your defeated men!" Liu Mang smiled and stretched out his right hand.
When Carter and the inside knuckle held hands together, he couldn't help but laugh when he heard Liu Mang's words: "Haha, Ace, you are the first person who dares to say that I am a loser in terms of dunking, and you don't have such a chance to win me in the dunk contest!" ”
"No, no, no, your time has passed, and the person who dunks the best now is me!" Liu Mang strongly expressed his desire to win!
The two competed with each other and didn't notice the reporter who had been filming next to them, originally the reporter wanted to interview why Carter didn't play, but he didn't expect to shoot big news! Carter is going to a slam dunk contest!