The Hawks only have 14 games in November, and the schedule is quite easy, but they predicted that they would be the top four teams in the East before the start of the season, and they picked up the cheap.

Although the East is weak, at least it sounds like the top four are also strong teams, so the Eagles are also lucky, the schedule is the standard of strong teams, and most of them are weak teams except for a few opponents at the beginning.

As for the weak team, is it tight in front and loose in the back? It doesn't exist, the reason why the weak team is called a weak team is because you can't win anyone, so the schedule looks tight throughout the season.

On December 2, the Hawks host the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers.

The sadness of small cities is that they can't make money, and now is not the era when NBA revenues will skyrocket further and big city teams will give money to small city teams, and the goal of weak teams is to make the playoffs and get playoff bonuses, and because they enter the playoffs, they can sell a few more games for ticket money, and the regular season market for playoff teams will also be good.

If they can't make the playoffs and the box office won't do well, they have only one choice, which is to mess up and try to get the top pick and pick a super talent who can lead the team to victory.

The Cavaliers are like this, although Cleveland is the capital of Ohio, but it is only the twenty-eighth city in the United States, a small city in the lower 50 states of the United States, and the entire NBA, Charlotte of the Hornets and Memphis of the Grizzlies are poorer than Cleveland.

Therefore, the Cavaliers are sadly urged as one of the victims of the last NBA shutdown, and can only choose to play badly, and this year's goal is the Chinese big man who doesn't have to think about it too much, as long as he selects the team, he can make a lot of money from losing money to making a lot of money.

The main beneficiary of the Cavaliers' mess is their main point guard Andre Miller, who always holds the ball, passes out to teammates and shoots immediately, and assists fly, in fact, Andre Miller's assist ability is good, but it is far from reaching the level of the assist king, and the best years of comprehensive strength in his entire career are only six or seven points A few assists, after playing more than a dozen games this year, he averaged 16 points, 12 assists and 5 rebounds per game.

And the Cavaliers also have an amazing record, with an assist king with a 3-12 record.

The Hawks, as always, defended defensively, and the starters first defended the offensive firepower brought by Andre Miller when he brushed the assists, and then Liu Mang came up to the second team to score a wave of points to open up the difference.

It's unlucky to meet an old rascal, but when he encounters Ricky Davis, who is clamoring to choose the little emperor as his helper, Liu Mang has to fly, because this guy in front of him is more prodigal than Liu Mang, he doesn't let go of the ball, he is obsessed with data, and he doesn't care about the shooter at all on the defensive end, and is ready to rush back to the interior to grab a defensive rebound at any time.

Liu Mang got a lot of completely empty opportunities, shot 5 of 9 from outside the three-point line, and also made a three-point foul, easily scored a total of 18 points in the second and third quarters and the first few minutes at the beginning of the fourth quarter, plus in the first quarter and Andre Miller, he broke through the interior line and relied on weird inside footsteps to cause damage, a total of 25 points!

The characteristics of the second lineup of the Eagles are that Liu Mang can rush up, can rush in, and play well, Liu Mang's own offensive containment has not been enough, and he must rely on scoring more points to attract the attention of the opponent and have a chance to get an assist.

But if the opponent is a knight, it doesn't exist, Liu Mang came off the bench for 27 minutes in this game and scored 25 points and 5 assists! Both points and assists set new career highs! The previous highest score was 24 points, and the highest assist was the last game against the old hooligans, the old hooligans gave up the defense, forcing the rest of the Wizards to make up for the 4 assists sent by Liu Mang.

Cavaliers ...... Even if they don't defend, it's easier to get an assist than to play the Wizards.

97-82, the Hawks easily won the game against the fish belly team and avoided another losing streak.

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After beating the Cavaliers, the Hawks improved their record to 10-5 and held on to the precarious fourth place in the East.

Now the Pistons hold the first place in the East, with a 12-4 record and half a win ahead of the 11-4 Nets.

The NBA's win margin is when the loss is the same, and the more long games won the lead is half a win, because the side with the less wins has a chance to win the next game.

The third place in the East is not the Magic, although the Magic have almost caught up with the Hawks, but the third place is the Atlantic division leader Celtics.

In fact, at the beginning, the Pistons and Hawks competed for the first place in the league, and it was only the competition between the first and fourth in the East, and the current collective bargaining agreement stipulates that the first place in the six major regions must be ranked in the top three in the East and West according to the ranking of records, and it was not until 2006 that the new version of the collective bargaining agreement had new regulations, which slightly weakened the advantage of the first place in the division.

Liu Mang worked very hard in the game against the Cavaliers, and he studied the opponent very well from the pre-game preparation, and paid more attention to it than the last time he played against the Cavaliers, because the last time it was completely crushed by strength, not to mention Raheem, Jason Terry is not something the Cavaliers can deal with, and this time he is the first scorer, and he has thoroughly studied the weaknesses of the opponent's outside defense and poor defense.

It's just a pity for the knight.

In addition to finding a punching bag for himself and avoiding consecutive defeats, another reason why Liu Mang worked so hard to beat the Cavaliers was to pick up the wind for Raheem and Jason Terry, who were about to end their bans!

After a five-game ban, Raheem and Jason Terry have finally been lifted and are back!

……

"Eh, Ace, helping you fight caused us to be banned for so long, and we were fined so much money, so you invited us to eat KFC? Looks like it's time to enforce the team rules! Jason Terry nibbled viciously on the drumstick.

If you don't like it, don't eat it! KFC doesn't need money! Liu Mang was very aggrieved: "I was also fined, you see I have been beating for a month, and the remaining money is less than 10,000 yuan." ”

Yes, pretend to be pitiful, sell cute, although the other party is a little disgusting with a few big men, but still forcibly sell cute, my brother is only 19 years old, you will go down.

A big man of more than 1.9 meters is cute, and a few guys who are nibbling on chicken leg burgers almost didn't throw up.

However, there is still such a sincere person.

"Jason, Ace is right, the sum of his two-year rookie contract is estimated to be four or five hundred thousand," Muhammad is still a good man, but the conversation suddenly changed, "Don't say that you make a lot of sense, the team rules must be enforced, by the way Jason, what are our team rules, I forgot." ”

"Ahem, I'm going to think about it," Jason Terry looked at the team rules he was thinking of: "I remember, since we started the team in the 50s, there was a rule that every rookie had to do a pole dance, come on, Ace, I know you're good at this!" ”

"Why don't you die!"

"Hahahaha......"

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After playing the Cavaliers, Jason Terry and Raheem came back, and Liu Mang also wanted to find a cheap place to invite them to dinner in Atlanta, but he only had a day off, so he went to Portland to order takeout and invite this group of big stomachs to eat.

Complaining is complaining, this group of people decisively ordered KFC with more than 200 US dollars, and Liu Mang couldn't wait to kill them.

The next game was in the faraway "Far West", playing the famous prison city Trail Blazers, and the next morning after playing the Cavaliers, they left for Portland.

Get to Portland a little earlier to get some rest, because the easy schedule in November has passed, and December will be a brutal five-game road streak in the West, including games against the SuperSonics, Kings and the Lakers, the defending champion of the two consecutive championships, which are brutal!

Seeing that the days of fighting with the OK combination are getting shorter and shorter day by day, Liu Mang is working hard to save the skill upgrade card.

In the game against Jordan, in addition to getting 5,000 superstar points because of that sentence, there were also some scattered points, and the data in the game against the knight was also very good, and there were hundreds of points, adding up to more than 6,300 days of superstar value, Liu Mang used it all to draw a lottery, and drew out 161 skill upgrade cards, 5 stealing cards, and more than 20 physical potions and more than a dozen primary primary injury potions, plus the remaining ones before, a total of 165, but it was still not enough!

There are 75 cards left to upgrade the Bench Bandit to level 5, which is a bit close!

The last game of the five-game trip was against the Lakers, and that game was broadcast live across the United States, and of course, the Hawks belonged to the one that was broadcast live.

But Liu Mang doesn't care if it's a rub or not, anyway, he wants to play well in that game! It's not just about completing the mission, it's about playing well in front of the OK duo and winning more fans!

Therefore, in the first four games, Liu Mang tried every possible way to make up the superstar value of 75 skill upgrade cards, at least 3,000 to 4,000 points were enough, and there was a long way to go!