At seven o'clock in the evening on December 16, the second meeting between the Hawks and the Raptors this season officially began.

On the Hawks' side, the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Maddy, Prince, Marion, and Kwame Brown appeared.

On the Raptors' side, the starting lineup of Ford, Joe Johnson, Richard Jefferson, Bargnani, and Milicic came on.

Kwame Brown wins the jump ball and the Hawks attack first.

After Liu Mang advanced to the front court, he handed the ball to Maddie and cut inside himself.

After Maddie receives the ball, Marion runs out from the right baseline to block for Maddie.

Maddie used Marion's block to dismantle Joe Johnson into the middle, Banjani switched the defense like a wooden stake, TJ Ford was too late to make up for the defense so quickly, Maddy entered the three-second zone and dropped the ball to Kwame Brown, Kwame Brown received the ball behind Milicic who was defending, and easily dunked to score two points.

Maddie and Marion's pick-and-roll was the Eagles' main offensive approach in the game's presence with Banyani.

Using Liu Mang's first cut, the opponent's defense was compressed to the basket, and Marion came to the top arc from the baseline at the same time, at this time Marion pulled out, and Liu Mang's containment was still there, so the vacant position went to Kwame Brown.

After Marion was able to draw the defense after scoring two straight cuts in the last game against the Cavaliers and helping Granger make a three-pointer, the Hawks played the Raptors today with Milicic and Richard Jefferson, two defensive masters, and the Hawks continued to take advantage of that.

Gradually, the characteristics of each player are fine-tuned in the direction that the team needs, and of course, the team's tactics are also fine-tuned.

On the offensive end, he played well, taking advantage of TJ Ford's lack of speed and passion but no good team defensive awareness and Banyani's poor defense to break down and disrupt the inside and outside defense of Richard Jefferson and Milicic.

Liu Mang has become a containment point, of course, after scoring more inside points, his side and Maddie's two big outside scores will also become easier.

After Liu Mang saw Kwame Brown's successful eating of cakes, he immediately retreated, and the focus was still on defense.

This season, the Raptors have averaged 105 points per game in positional battles, which is quite like the Kings of that year, and they have stronger offensive ability, with Joe Johnson, a guy who can score 20 points per game by relying on singles.

Milicic arrived up front and immediately moved to the high post.

If you go inside, Milicic will definitely score a lot higher, and it is not a big problem to score 20 points per game, but he is not willing to do that, just low singles and points, can not fully play his organizational ability, after all, the opponent is Kwame Brown, he can score a few, but the opponent will definitely not be covered.

It is still necessary to play high and play the open three-point ability of Joe Johnson when he is not alone, the open mid-range shooting ability of Bangnani, and the open cutting ability of TJ Ford and Richard Jefferson.

Milicic got to the top of the post and received a pass from TJ Ford, and sure enough, Milicic saw Kwame Brown blocking his left-hand side and the right-hand defence gave him a chance to break through.

That's not the point, the point is that Milicic saw that TJ Ford just ran to the right side of the basket, that is, Liu Mang was also on the right side of the basket, and he broke into it and was bound to enter Liu Mang's basket to help defend the area, while TJ Ford had almost no shooting ability.

However, the Raptors still have an off-ball pick-and-roll!

Richard Jefferson cut inside and was stuck by Prince and didn't get a chance to attack the basket, but his purpose was not to score for himself, but to rush in to help TJ Ford block Liu Mang!

TJ Ford took a step forward with the help of Richard Jefferson's pick-and-roll, and was ready to shoot, and normally, at this time, he just needs to catch the ball and put it in the basket!

Milicic took advantage of the time difference between TJ Ford and Richard Jefferson after the off-ball block, and was about to pass the ball out, when he suddenly stopped, because Kwame Brown let him go and took it in early to pinch TJ Ford!

This...... Let him vote?

Milicic pushed out the ball quickly with Kwame Brown's enviable big hand, retracted the ball, and made a jumper from the free throw line......

Liu Mang had already rushed to Milicic and jumped up!

Because Liu Mang's action was relatively large, he didn't let TJ Ford get close to the bottom line, Richard Jefferson was blocking and dismantling from the line, and TJ Ford didn't cut into the space from the bottom line, so the distance between Milicic's pass and TJ Ford's catch was too small!

Milicic shook a shot, broke through from Liu Mang's left side, Marion caught in, Liu Mang landed and came to the left side of the free throw line, Milicic feint to shoot and break through, Liu Mang jumped up and blocked the direction of Milicic's pass to Bangani.

Liu Mang's mobility and bounce bring a great steal threat, Milicic faces Kwame Brown and Marion's sandwich, and there are three people on the inside, TJ Ford, Prince, and Richard Jefferson, which is very crowded.

When Milicic wanted to go back and find someone, Banjani had been pasted outside the three-point line by Liu Mang, and Joe Johnson was also pasted to death by Maddy, facing this opponent who had scored consecutive goals on his head, Maddie was very serious about defending today!

Milicic had no choice but to attack for three seconds, leaning on his right shoulder against Kwame Brown, facing the rebound sideways, the cat got up, and his left hand tried his best to reach for the rebound and force a shot......

Milicic had a good hand, forced a throw and hit the basket and fell in.

Milicic's goal caused a burst of exclamations from the scene, and the ball was thrown!

Kwame Brown really can't help it, this ball is put to the limit, the shooting posture and the shooting method that smashes it directly are obviously unconventional shots, and the opponent can't help it.

Although the opponent scored, the Eagles had a good mentality, this kind of ball went to the top of the sky one or two, they have forced Milicic to the point where they have no choice but to make a strong shot, and the defense is successful.

Liu Mang's buff of the heart of the strong allows the Eagles to have confidence in the situation that the players have a mediocre record so far this season!

Kwame Brown and Milicic each scored a goal to give both teams one apiece to start the game.

It's the Hawks offense again, it's still Maddie and Marion's blocking, this time the Raptors are faster, TJ Ford lets Prince shrink in, Maddie passes the ball to the right, but not to Prince, because Prince is moving, and the direction of the pass is the sideline at a 45-degree angle on the right!

Mistaken? Fans see no one there!

Just as the ball was about to go out of bounds, a number 24 caught the ball!

Just when TJ Ford went to pinch Maddie, Liu Mang and Richard Jefferson ran in the direction not the bottom corner of the left and the 45-degree angle on the left, which he is best at, but the right side!

Prince, who was let out, came up to block Richard Jefferson, and Liu Mang ran to the right sideline just in time to receive a pass from Maddie!

Take a deep breath and jump at the same time, when you jump, the air is poured into Liu Mang's mouth, and the three-point shot in the standard shooting posture after reaching the apex......

While Liu Mang called out the ball while landing on the ground, the ball fell into the basket and hit it hollowly!

After catching and shooting around the block, Liu Mang scored three points!

Can't prevent it!

The Raptors are so poor at switching defenses, and Bargnani and TJ Ford know that if they have an average level of defensive awareness, and they have two defensive stalwarts of Milicic and Richard Jefferson, they can build a good defense, but with these two players at the bottom of the defense, their head coach Sam Mitchell can't do it.

The Raptors are averaging 106 points per game, which is well above the NBA average of 98.1 points per game, but they are also averaging 101 points per game, which is also well above the NBA average of 98.1 points per game.

Playing a team that doesn't have so many stars, the Raptors defense is actually okay, but when they encounter an opponent with a strong offense, they can only attack.

The Raptors attacked, Liu Mang was following the advancing TJ Ford to defend, and when he reached the three-point line, Milicic came up to block him without any cover!

When Milicic arrived in the frontcourt, he didn't go to the high post to ask for the ball, but chose to block with TJ Ford!

There was no feint, and it was clear that the Eagles would quickly change their defense.

Milicic was not frustrated, his mind was clear, and they could see it on the first offense, the Hawks wanted to force him into a pinch shot, the opponent moved fast, and the speed of changing defenses ranked in the top three in the league, and he didn't have the confidence to do it again with that kind of ball just now, not everyone wore No. 24.

TJ Ford took advantage of Milicic's pick-and-roll and broke through with Kwame Brown from the right side of the top arc.

Kwame Brown also had a good sense of defense, not sticking up, but stepping back, and TJ Ford missed the shot.

After Milicic blocked Liu Mang, he cut in from the middle and asked for the ball from TJ-Ford, facing Liu Mang who quickly retreated down the line, Milicic didn't care at all, just received the ball and ran it in.

However, when TJ Ford was about to pass the ball to Milicic, Liu Mang ran to the bottom line, and Marion had already switched to Milicic!

Banyani cut into the basket at this time, collided with Liu Mang, immediately turned around, and leaned sideways against Liu Mang to ask for the ball.

TJ Ford couldn't pass the ball to Milicic, but he grabbed the ball again, he stopped the ball in this position, and in front of him was Kwame Brown, there was no way at all!

Fortunately, the left side of the basket became an absolute weak side, and Banyani leaned on Liu Mang to ask for the ball, and TJ Ford hurriedly hoisted the ball to the left side of the basket.

The ball did not go through Milicic's hands!

The Eagles' strategy worked off the ground running!

Just when Marion switched to Milicic and Liu Mang blocked Banjani and Banjani colliding together, the system prompt came!

"Ding...... The host succeeded in containing Milicic's high-level strategy, and congratulated the host for obtaining the innate skill: Lian Zhu's first trait: Horse rejection. Talent Skill: Combo, upgrade to level 2. ”

What does it take to be a successful containment?

This is a question that Liu Mang has been thinking about for a long time, and he has been obsessed with guarding against Milicic before.

But in discussions with the coaching staff, Mike Woodson suggested that it is not necessary to guard against Milicic in the high position.

Do you really want to lock up a big center who may be one of the top three talents in the league?

This is unlikely.

So what exactly is the high-level strategy to limit Milicic?

This is too difficult, and the reason why it is difficult to defend is because of his versatility, especially Milicic, a high-level player with a mid-range shot, in addition to being a little less experienced, his awareness is not worse than Duncan, Garnett, Gasol, Webb and Divac back then!

The task is to prevent Milicic from grasping the timing of the weakness, Liu Mang has studied for a long time, and what he is preparing for the experiment today is to make Milicic uncomfortable, let him go to singles, or simply not receive the ball.

Liu Mang also wants to complete this task today, but the difficulty is too great, it is more difficult than imagined to upgrade the talent skill, the talent skill of fighting left and right has been activated for so long, and now it is only level 3, and the shooting ability of the left hand is still far from the right hand, and there is no way to really use the left and right hands to produce a strange effect.

So Liu Mang just tried it, but he didn't expect that the effect was better than he imagined!

Or rather, the Raptors team's lineup problem is bigger than expected!

TJ Ford has a basket but no outside line, and Banjani has an outside line but no basket, but he is a seven-foot power forward, and his ability to attack the basket has a relatively large limitation on the Raptors' offense.

So, Liu Mang's strategy succeeded!

In terms of system decision, this defensive strategy succeeded!

This method is estimated to have an effect on the Raptors in teams with extremely high response stars, and it is estimated that Liu Mang will not have such a good effect on the Spurs, Lakers, and Bulls with a more complete lineup...... It's not even likely to have an effect, which was specifically designed against Milicic.

But in addition to this method, Liu Mang really can't think of any way to prevent Milicic's high position, without defending for three seconds, Milicic's performance is no worse than in the international arena, and his international arena has enhanced his long-range shooting ability and defensive ability.

"Rejection Level 1: When the opponent has a player to respond in the high position, the host has a 10% chance of accurately predicting the opponent's one-pass selection."

Others are defensive prediction consciousness, Liu Mang is direct prediction! Direct hints from the feature!

But...... Liu Mang couldn't be happy about getting the new traits for a while, and he didn't even care about being promoted to level 2.

After Liu Mang heard the prompt, he saw the ball fly from above to Baniani's hand, and saw Bani Bani, who received TJ-Ford's pass, pouting his ass and slamming towards him......

Big trouble is coming!

Blocking Milicic's high pass curbs Milicic's blocking and dismantling cooperation, but this kind of defense is bound to allow Liu Mang to face Bagnani or Richard Jefferson in the low post!

Richard Jefferson is fine, with a height difference of only 10 centimeters, but Banyani ...... That's a full 20 centimeters short! The rest of the Raptors pulled away as soon as Bunjani received the ball, and TJ Ford also held Kwame Brown at bay from the baseline.

Banyani met a defender in the low post, so excited, his Italian cannon was about to start crushing! Banyani pouted and sat inside.

Seeing Banyani pouting his ass and bumping into him, Liu Mang had no choice but to stiffen Banyani's ass and push up his waist!