Al Harrington, you're a bit sorry for the type of player you call a no-nonsense player, he's a bit more out of the way a shooting guard plays.

Generally speaking, a power forward with a guard style of play is difficult to guard, and Al Harrington's average of 14 points and 5 rebounds per game as a bench this year is one of the favorites for the best sixth man.

The opponent used the inside line to defend Al Harrington, Al Harrington and Tinsley blocked and took out to shoot three points, and the opponent used the outside defense, Al Harrington relied on the big ass to push away the opponent and then stepped back, relying on his height and very high shooting point to shoot.

Often Al Harrington can prop up the Pacers' fragile bench, so he is not mistreated by the other side in the second team, and indeed the few people they start except for Tinsley, who is still in the second year of his rookie contract, Brad Miller, Reggie Miller, and O'Neal Jr. are all players with big contracts, Artest can't stay without seven or eight million after his contract expires in the summer, and the Pacers have no room to come, and second, to avoid the luxury tax.

Luxury tax is usually 114 percent of the salary cap, and if a team's salary exceeds the luxury tax threshold, not only is it a fine, but the player's salary must also be paid to a third-party escrow for a percentage of the team's salary above the luxury tax threshold.

If a player changes to a team whose salary is less than the starting point of luxury tax next season, it will be repaid in full, and if the team continues to pay luxury tax, part of the player's salary will be reduced by 10%, and if the second year's trusteeship salary is still a team that is still paying luxury tax, the part of the salary that was deducted last season will be deducted by 65%, for more than three consecutive years, and the part of the salary that was temporarily withheld in the previous year will be directly gone.

So in addition to the championship team, generally speaking, even if they get a big contract, the player does not want to go to a team with average strength and pays luxury tax year after year.

On the one hand, the Pacers' salary has long exceeded the salary cap, and it is difficult to bring in high-quality role players, and on the other hand, they want to save money, and at the same time, there are no good role players willing to join, so they rely on Tinsley and Al Harrington to support them.

When the combination of the two was locked by Liu Mang's bizarre defensive tactics, the Pacers' second lineup collapsed!

The Eagles don't play their cards according to the routine! Pacers players say they've never seen this kind of defense!

The position is still very clear this year, except for the old Nelson's weird, no other team will play like the Eagles!

In the second half of the first quarter, except for Al Harrington who shot two three-pointers and Brad Miller made a baseline shot, the Pacers' scoring directly stalled!

The Hawks went on a 20-8 run!

At 34-22, the Hawks scored an exaggerated 34 points in the first quarter to take a 12-point lead.

Pacers fans feel that this is incredible, obviously they are the most ferocious team in the East this year, how can they fight, the Hawks have become more fierce and more defensible?

After the start of the second quarter, the two teams changed their main forces.

The main reason why Isaiah Thomas is the head coach is that he often clashes with players and affects the morale of the team, and that he is easily panicked.

No, originally they should have continued to rotate at the beginning of the second quarter, Reggie Miller and Brad Miller and Tinsley rested first, sent a pure defensive lineup to bite each other, and used Artest's main meat grinder lineup to consume the opponent's physical energy, and on the offensive end, Artest chiseled hard and Al Harrington tossed, and if they could enter, they would score, and if they didn't score, they would defend to stabilize the situation.

This is the normal way the Pacers usually play when the score is scorched and leading.

But when he saw the difference of more than a dozen points, Isaiah Thomas ignored Tinsley and Brad Miller who played the whole first quarter, and regardless of Reggie Miller's 37-year-old "advanced age" and O'Neal Jr.'s knee problems, he directly sent the starting five.

Reggie Miller's physical fitness is generally used at the beginning, at the end of the second quarter, and in the fourth quarter.

After the start of the second quarter, the Eagles' style of play was simpler, Liu Mang and Jason Terry took turns bullying their opponents who defended them, and they burst out when they took it.

Liu Mang began the road of foul making in a frenzy.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Hawks beat up all the way, and the difference in points reached more than 20 points in three or two.

Towards halftime, the Pacers finally relied on Reggie Miller to force a three-point shot.

But at this time, the score was still 67-46! The Eagles still have a 21-point lead

The last offense, with 21 seconds left, came to the Hawks offense again, Liu Mang dribbled like a juggler outside the three-point line, and the fans on the scene booed here and there for a while, and they were almost out of strength to boo, the Eagles played too fiercely today!

Tinsley wanted to cry so much, saying that the good pass was the main thing? Why did you catch me as a player from the same class and bully me? What does the coach think, change the defensive bench!

Tinsley originally felt that he had improved this year, especially when he abused the Hawks once, that time he played quite coquettishly, scoring 22 points and 14 assists, but this time he was beaten by Liu Mang and almost cried!

Liu Mang looked at it with only eight seconds left, and he was about to do it!

Liu Mang jumped lightly on the ground with both feet, and Tinsley hurriedly took a few steps back, but Liu Mang didn't move! just jumped on the spot, Tinsley quickly pounced back, and Liu Mang smashed the ball to the ground......

Not again!

Liu Mang's crotch is outstanding! The ball grazed between Tinsley's wide-open legs, and Tinsley only felt a chill before he knew he was being teased again...... Watching Liu Mang pass by him, Tinsley missed his mother so much......

Liu Mang swept Tinsley to receive the ball and continued to break through, Raheem stubbornly entangled Artest who was about to step forward to make up for the defense, O'Neal Jr. was pulled to the middle distance by Boozer who came up in rotation, and only Brad Miller was left under the basket!

Ratliff watched Liu Mang rush in and hurriedly walked away!

The rookie is coming!

Just when the Hawks players were looking forward to it, and the Pacers fans at the scene were desperate, they expressed their interest in what Liu Mang, the former rookie who didn't dunk or dunked, was going to do next, Liu Mang sprinted and watched Brad Miller's weird defensive moves under the basket, and Liu Mang braked sharply in the free throw line!

At the moment when Liu Mang stopped, Brad Miller fell backwards as if he had been hit by an invisible truck, and not only that, but also slid out of the bottom line, almost hitting his head on the sponge on the basket.

“……”

“……”

“……”

The Hawks players, Pacers players, and fans at the scene were silent, and Liu Mang was also stunned.

This performance is so sad!

The other players of the Pacers were stunned, watching Liu Mang in the three-second zone and no one stepped forward to make up for it, Liu Mang said that he wanted to use a dunk to cheer for him, jumped up and put the ball in the basket, and then said "three grams of oil" to Brad Miller, who fell to the ground and did not want to get up......

This time, the future Kings actor is embarrassed and embarrassed!

The fans at the scene continued to be silent, and the Pacers players also continued to be silent, should you step forward and pull your teammates up?

You have to fake a fall, so you can see it clearly! You fell before they even bumped into it!

Brad Miller even wants to find a hole to get into, it's too embarrassing!

He didn't expect that his action of wanting to kick the ground and fall backwards was discovered by Liu Mang!

In fact, Liu Mang didn't think that the other party's foot pad action was to fake a fall at first, and he thought that the other party was going to pad his own feet!

Although there is an injury medicine, but the ghost knows how many injuries will be if he is padded to his feet, Liu Mang forcibly stopped at that time, and almost overturned himself, but he didn't expect the other party to fake that action?

Eldest brother!

The acting is so bad! Would it be nice to learn more from South American players?

Normally, with Artest as a tough guy and Reggie Miller as a veteran, even if they fall behind by more than 20 points at halftime, even if the coach is really spicy, they will choose to fight in the second half, at least not so badly.

But Brad Miller's lame performance lost the motivation of the Pacers to mobilize their emotions at halftime and fight for a wave in the second half!

The game is completely out of suspense! After the start of the second half, the Eagles began a slaughter!

At the end of the third quarter, the Hawks led the Pacers by 33 points, 103-70!

The final quarter of the game went into garbage time.

Liu Mang sat on the sidelines, and when Raheem and Artest struggled and didn't have time to score, he scored 35 points, 4 assists, and made 7 three-pointers today, almost double that of Al Harrington, who had the most three-pointers on the Pacers' side, who made 4 three-pointers and Reggie Miller 3-pointers, both of whom were out of the game.

Looking at the starters on the Pacers bench, even if Artest is not yet at his peak, these five people are still the absolute main force in most teams! Just look at the lineup, can attack and defend, and there is Mr. Key, even if the bench is almost there, there is also Al Harrington.

Liu Mang feels that this is 100% the head coach's problem!

It's not just Liu Mang who thinks so, the fans on the scene also think so, and laymen can see that the head coach wants to have one or two tactics, and the substitutions are so unorganized, although they have been in the playoffs in the past two years, but the Pacers lineup is talented in the East, and they can also lead the team to the playoffs!

As the last quarter went on, the fans began to shout:

“Isaiah-Fire”

“Isaiah-Fire”

“……”

At first, it was just one or two fans, and it slowly spread, and finally every time a Pacers player got the ball, the fans in the stadium began to chant for the dismissal of Isaiah Thomas!

The big bird with an iron face next to the player's tunnel also wanted to do this, but the assassin was his friend in the 80s, and the relationship was very iron, and now there is really no good coach for him to bring in, originally he wanted to poach Stan Van Gundy, the assistant coach of the Heat team, in the summer, but Pat Riley, who was broken last season but still did not succeed, learned from the pain, and felt that he was not suitable for the rot, because the swing was not complete, so he asked his disciple to come up.

Stan Van Gundy, of course, wanted to follow his mentor more, and he was a hardcore enthusiast, so he turned down Big Bird to stay with the Heat as head coach and led the Heat to start a complete mess.

Although Isaiah Thomas is poor, he can still teach Artest and O'Neal Jr. to defend, and Big Bird can only continue to endure.

In the end, the Hawks slaughtered the Pacers with a score difference of 129-91, 38 points, and won four in a row!

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The Eagles won four in a row after the trade, and basketball fans other than the Eagles fans chanted "wolf!"

With 9 wins and 18 losses, the Hawks' winning rate has reached one-third, surpassing the Heat and Raptors, who are aiming to play badly.

Raptors and Heat management chanted "Long live the Hawks" as they finally moved closer to the bottom of the East.

The Raptors because Carter predicted that they would not return until mid-January, because LeBron James announced that he would skip college and enter the NBA after graduating from high school at the end of his senior year, so the Raptors decisively chose to swing badly, Carter can't play, what are they busy with, it is better to choose James to come back and reorganize the double star!

Now that the Raptors regretted letting Maddy go, they wanted to jump off the building, so they could pick a player who looked similar to Maddie in high school and start over.

It's just that the Cavaliers are firmly in the bottom of the table, not to mention, they didn't expect the Hawks to come and steal their jobs.

To say that before the Hawks get back on track, the most anticipated recovery of the Hawks is not actually the Hawks fans, but the Heat and the Raptors......

The day after the Pacers, the Hawks went to the Imperial Capital with high morale, and after arriving at the Imperial Capital, they challenged the Wizards back-to-back away games.

The Wizards have played well this year, temporarily overtaking the Hornets to sit in eighth place in the East.

In the summer, because Old Man Joe did not have a high pick, he had an unusually clear mind, first traded Hamilton to get Stark House, the former star of the Pistons, with a second ball-holding scoring point, and then took the defensive titan Larry Hughes with a middle-class contract, and then had a defensive gate, and used the first-round 11th pick to select interior defense expert Jarred Jeffries, with a supplement defense master, Kwame Brown Although he lost the opportunity to develop on the offensive end because he lost his attention, he defended up, The ability to defend himself began to show, averaging 7 points and 5 rebounds per game, and the interior defense became a bit powerful.

And Jordan has started to play as a substitute occasionally this year! The point is that he has fully adapted to the NBA this year, maintained a good use of his body, did not rest for two months, the injury prevention is very good, and the Wizards have the ability to impact the playoffs.

But......

When they saw that the Hawks, who were even abusing the Hornets, Bucks, and Pacers who were stronger than their own team, were murderous and came to take revenge, Old Man Qiao really wanted to hold down Liu Mang and tell Liu Mang to calm down.

But I can't hold it!

Although Jordan is healthier than last year this year, he is a year older, and his strength has declined a little seriously, and his average score per game will be 20 points.

The main thing is that although the Wizards are a lot stronger than last year, the Hawks are stronger!

In the final game of 2002, the Hawks won five straight games with a bloodless 107-85 win over the Wizards.

After the game, Liu Mang went to find Old Man Qiao to catch up, and Old Man Qiao turned around and walked directly to the locker room, ignoring him.

Liu Mang yelled at Jordan loudly: "Stingy." ”

Jordan was so angry that he left the scene faster, this stinky disciple forgot his master after learning kung fu! It's okay to give some face! actually abused more than 20 points!

Liu Mang looked at Jordan, who had the same urine as Kobe Bryant after losing, and felt that Kobe was really the guy who was the most like Jordan, and his personality was almost the same.

Liu Mang turned around and was about to leave, when he saw a big man who was still being booed by the Wizards fans when he walked towards the players' tunnel.

"Hello, Kwamei." Liu Mang said hello.

Kwame-Brown didn't expect Liu Mang to call him, and his mouth was a little slippery: "Ha...... Hello, Ace. ”

Looking at Kwame Brown, who was completely unconfident, Liu Mang showed a weird smile in Kwame Brown's creepy situation......