What could be more central than a traditional center's style of play?

What could be more like the protagonist of the field than the traditional center-forward's style of play?

Although there is not much ball handling, although the running distance is limited to a two-metre radius around the three-second zone.

However, Rahim felt more refreshed than ever!

This feeling of sitting in the center and commanding the whole audience is even cooler than cutting 50 points!

The main thing is that Rahim only plays in the low post, and his usual playmaking ability has become particularly good, because he only needs to attract defensive passes, or simply score on his own.

No matter how good the center is in terms of strategy, even if it is a small forward, it is actually very average, and the center with the ability to respond often has good offensive skills, and then has the advantage of vision, and can sort out the offense well.

Raheem has a height advantage under the basket, whether he is facing Artest or Al Harrington, and he tried to hit Jonathan Bender directly, and the opponent's weight is about the same as Liu Mang.

The core style of play, which is completely different from Liu Mang, allowed Rahim to meet his needs as the main point of attack, and at the same time, he also drove his teammates, Rahim not only played well, but also let his teammates participate, allowing him to avoid worries.

"Ace, why didn't you get this tactic out sooner!" After the Pacers called a timeout, Raheem returned to the bench and hooked Liu Mang's neck and said viciously.

Everyone can see that Rahim is joking, but Coach Kruger is also very curious, why didn't Liu Mang bring up such a great tactic earlier, practice it occasionally, and maybe it will work wonders at some time.

"Oh, Sherriff, if you want to be beaten to death by Duncan and Wallace, J. O'Neal, Moving Wall, Sharks, etc., I don't mind telling the coach that you keep playing like this." Liu Mang said very seriously.

"Uh......" Rahim decisively refused: "I think I should just be a small forward, or Ace, you should be the main attacker, I am a team player, I will not hold the ball all the time and not let it out." ”

"Damn! Sharif, you mean I'm a cancer! Liu Mang hurriedly pushed the bastard away and took the tactical board from Mike Woodson, "But Sharif is going to be targeted by the other party next, let's change tactics!" Rashid, it's your turn......"

Seeing that Rahim finally didn't have the unhappiness of wanting to be hard with the other party at the beginning, and returned to normal, Liu Mang was going to adjust his tactics, and he didn't return to normal play, Liu Mang estimated that the other party would definitely guard against himself and Rahim, and instead of fighting hard with the other party, it was better to change the strategy.

Rasheed Wallace never took the initiative to ask for the ball or anything when he came to the Hawks, even if he was very unhappy with O'Neal Jr., he just wanted to prevent the opponent from dying.

Rasheed Wallace's transition from an offensive core player to a defensive role player was rather abrupt but without any complaints, and his change was the key to the Pistons' rise to the top after acquiring him.

But the Hawks' side and Larry Brown's employment is definitely different, Larry Brown can use anyone as a defensive player, and the Hawks don't want to waste so much, but the players are willing to sacrifice with the general trend of the league this year, so the Hawks have determined the style of play with Liu Mang as the core.

But if Liu Mang occasionally wants to use his teammates as the main point of attack, there are too many people to choose from! For example, when he played the Rockets before, Kwame Brown was used as the first offensive option.

Rashid Wallace didn't expect Liu Mang to call himself, but when he heard that he was going to be the main attack, he immediately ran up......

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There were no substitutions on the Hawks' side, with the lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Barnes, Raheem, and Rasheed Wallace continuing to play.

On the Pacers' side, the lineup of Jamal Tinsley, Anthony Johnson, Artest, Al Harrington, and O'Neal Jr. was replaced.

Coach Carlisle is very different from the head coaches of most Eastern teams, compared to him, he is more like the head coach of the Western team, when he encounters problems, the first thing he thinks about is to solve the problem on the offensive end, in the second quarter, he only scored 7 points in four minutes, and the opponent scored 14 points, Coach Carlisle's first thought was that his side made a mistake in the offensive decision, and was caught by the opponent.

Timeout back, Pacers possession.

Jamal Tinsley advanced to the front court, and protected the ball well in the face of Liu Mang's defense, and he was a street ball player with strong ball control, protecting the ball to the outside of the three-point line, waiting for O'Neal Jr. to fall to the low post and hoist it to O'Neal Jr.

O'Neill Jr. looked at Rasheed Wallace, the former boss behind him, and thought to himself, as the coach expected, it was not Rahim who came to defend him.

Coach Carlisle is not stupid enough to think that the Hawks will continue to use Raheem to defend the center, and O'Neal Jr. can also play center, and as he gets older, he will definitely slowly move from the power forward position to the center position.

O'Neal Jr.'s low-post singles ability can only be said to be okay, not top-notch, but in O'Neal Jr.'s opinion, as long as it is not for the two of Ratliffe and Kwame Brown, he goes to the low post, and no one on the Hawks can guard him.

Raheem's current size is short and thin compared to O'Neal Jr., Rashid Wallace, who consumed Neal and Rasheed Wallace as teammates for four years before, knows that this once his own boss defense is "not good", because Rasheed Wallace came to the Hawks and did not have any famous defensive masterpieces, almost all of them were blocked when Ratliff blocked people, or Rashid Wallace blocked people to block Ratliff, and other times, Rashid Wallace defended the pitcher and threw three-point shots, Not many people think how good Rasheed Wallace is defensively.

O'Neill Jr. is one of them, after he took the ball, he saw Rashid Wallace defending himself, and he didn't give face at all and went straight back, turned around and threw it directly! Completely dismiss Rashid Wallace.

And then......

"Smack"......

Rasheed Wallace completely anticipated O'Neal Jr.'s low-post offensive options and slapped O'Neal Jr.'s throw away!

Liu Mang and Tinsley went up to grab the ball, and Tinsley knocked the ball out of bounds in the rotation, preferring not to grab the ball than to give Liu Mang the opportunity to grab the ball and launch a fast attack.

Little O'Neal felt incredible after being hatted by Rashid Wallace, he didn't expect Rashid Wallace to be able to defend himself!

When he was once in the Trail Blazers, the offensive and defensive object of the team's training was Rashid Wallace, and the two exploded each other at most, and Rashid Wallace even if he trained in the team, his defense was surprisingly bad!

Accidentally!

It must have been an accident!

O'Neal Jr. immediately returned to defense, the Pacers emphasized offense, but defense is also the focus, Coach Carlisle dared to directly press the core of the defensive infocus on the bench, because the Pacers' record is so good, Coach Carlisle has the capital to do so.

It was the Eagles' turn to attack, and the block fast break was blocked, Liu Mang was not in a hurry, advanced to the frontcourt, and Rahim continued to go to the inside line.

Artest continued to defend behind Raheem, but instead of defending Rasheed Wallace, O'Neal Jr. received a mid-range position, ready to shrink the interior at any moment, completely ignoring Barnes' three-point shooting percentage, which was only around 30%.

Coach Carlisle's defense became very clear, the Hawks used Barnes to fight Artest hand-to-hand, and the offensive end wanted to use Raheem center to destroy their defense, he would rather let Barnes shoot and give Barnes a chance than let the Eagles succeed!

After Liu Mang advanced over, he saw the Pacers' defensive strategy, and sure enough, he hit the plan!

Liu Mang's tactics began to be executed!

Liu Mang hoisted the ball into the inside line, and O'Neal Jr. was ready to help defend the inside line at any time, but!

Liu Mang is not a low-level Rahim, but a nobody's middle distance!

Just as Liu Mang was hanging the ball, Rashid Wallace shook off Al Harrington with one arm from the right side close to the three-point line, rushed to the middle distance to catch the ball, and rushed to the basket!

At the same time, Raheem pulled Artest out from the low post to the mid-distance baseline, and as Al Harington chased up, Raheem suddenly changed direction and stepped up to block Al Harington.

O'Neal Jr. hurried back to the basket, and Rashid Wallace rushed into the basket after receiving Liu Mang's ball, one-on-one with O'Neal Jr.!

O'Neal Jr.'s defense is very strong, very strong, if it weren't for the double 21 dominance of the first defense, the second defense and an endless stream of defensive giants, such as Bowen, Clifford Robinson, Artest and so on, he would have no problem being selected to the All-Defensive Team.

But!

Rasheed Wallace was the most gorgeous scorer second only to Chris Webb when Duncan and Garnett had a hard time defending in the West!

Rasheed Wallace received the ball and stepped into the inside, turned and leaned towards O'Neal Jr., grabbed the ball with his right hand and stretched his arm straight, shook his wrist, and threw his straight arm to score easily!

Little O'Neill knows Rashid Wallace well, and similarly, Rashid Wallace knows Little O'Neal well!

After scoring the goal, Rashid Wallace couldn't control it and yelled at little O'Neal: "** cub, you are a little brother, and you will always be a little brother!" ”

Rasheed Wallace finally found an opportunity to vent his frustration at seeing O'Neal Jr. call himself the No. 1 forward in the East before the game.

Liu Mang was very excited when he saw that he hung the ball and received an assist, and easily broke the Pacers' defense.

Although Liu Mang is using future tactics, knowing future tactics and using them in line with the actual situation are two different things, Liu Mang has a strong application ability to do this, otherwise he can only be a tactic provider, not control the team.

However, after getting the assist, Liu Mang covered his head in pain when he heard Rashid Wallace bullying O'Neal Jr. in black slang.

Really!

The referee's big knife has long been hungry and thirsty!

It's been a long time since a Rasheed Wallace technical foul has been blown! It's just that this guy really learned to be well-behaved, I heard that he joined China's Taoism and cultivated his sentiments, but he didn't roar anymore, and the referee couldn't find a chance to blow Rashid Wallace's technical foul.

Finally! Rashid Wallace yelled, and the referee immediately gave a technical foul.

Rashid Wallace saw that he was blown for a technical offense just by yelling, and his head suddenly couldn't be controlled, and he immediately turned his head to stare at the referee, seeing that a death second roar was about to be sent, Liu Mang immediately rushed over to cover Rashid Wallace's mouth, and dragged Rashid Wallace away.

Because the Hawks obviously came up, and the Pacers wanted to play tricky, but they lost their usual normal rhythm, and completely fell into the rhythm of the Hawks, the game of the two teams competing for the first place in the league was broadcast live in the United States, and the referee naturally wanted the game to be more intense, which was instructed by the league, and the referee's whistle was stuffed into his mouth, seeing Liu Mang directly covering Rasheed Wallace and pulling it away, I felt empty in my heart, and I felt so lonely, but I couldn't help it, people just took a look, If you commit a technical offense at a glance, even if it is to make the game more intense and balanced, the referee estimates that he will be banned for a few games.

Like the players, the referee is paid for the game where the penalty is blown.

Rashid Wallace was dragged away by Liu Mang with his throat and mouth, and finally calmed down, but not because of self-blame......

Finally broke free from Liu Mang's poisonous hand of directly locking his throat with iron elbow skills, Rashid Wallace was two or three meters away from Liu Mang and shouted: "Ace! Are you going to kill me? ”

"If you get sent out, I'll kill you!" Liu Mang yelled at Rashid Wallace domineeringly.

"......" Rashid Wallace felt unreasonable, wondering if it was a wrong choice for him to follow Liu Mang, who not only tortured his opponent enough every time, but also suffered from "death threats" when he was a teammate.

However, Rashid Wallace still calmed down, it was impossible to bully Liu Mang, and he also pointed to Liu Mang to take him to win the championship, so Rashid Wallace waited for his Tianzun Eye and looked fiercely at Little O'Neill who came over.

O'Neal Jr. tilted his head slightly and walked to the free throw line.

Reggie Miller rested off the court and made a technical foul for the free-throw ...... O'Neill Jr.

After being yelled at by Rashid Wallace in slang for a ** cub, little O'Neill was not too angry, but was frightened!

His personality is already on the soft side, and he usually plays quite tough, all because of the two tough guys Reggie Miller and Artest pushing behind, and there is Larry Bird, a venomous man behind him, but now, in the face of Rasheed Wallace, who seems to be going berserk, O'Neal Jr. doesn't dare to fight back at all!

As a substitute for Rashid Wallace's former bench, O'Neal Jr. knows how strong Rashid Wallace is! Being able to face O'Neal's playoff and Lakers in the West to tie-break, and can also become the second-highest scoring star in the series with a shooting rate of 50%, Rasheed Wallace was once more popular in the West than Chris Webb and Nowitzki, but he was sent out with two technical fouls in three days and two heads, which did not please the league, so he was not praised.

O'Neal Jr. was a little panicked, seeing Raheem and Rashid Wallace break out in a row, and was "intimidated" by Rashid Wallace, and didn't even score a technical foul free throw.

How panicked was little O'Neal?

Then it was time for the Pacers to attack, and seeing Rashid Wallace's ferocious defense, O'Neal Jr. directly withdrew from the low post and went to open up space.

Tinsley's side can't beat Liu Mang, so he can only give the ball to Artest or Al Harrington, and Anthony Johnson doesn't dare to give it, this guy has a superstar's style of play but not a superstar's life.

Al Harrington was prevented by Raheem from receiving the ball, so he had to give Artest a strong beat to Barnes.

The Pacers, for their part, were forced into an Artest single-handedness situation!

In turn, Liu Mang controlled the overall situation, mobilized Raheem or Rasheed Wallace to attack the Pacers' defense, and when O'Neal Jr. was completely suppressed by Rasheed Wallace, when the official timeout reached the second quarter, the Hawks successfully overtook the score 45-44!

Coach Carlisle wanted to use routines to deal with the Eagles, but was countered by Liu Mang's serial routines!

The Pacers' own rhythm collapsed, and the official timeout in the second quarter after Coach Carlisle reintroduced Reggie Miller did not work very well, and their rhythm was out of order!

The main thing is O'Neal Jr., who was completely suppressed by Rashid Wallace, just like O'Neal Jr. every time he meets Garnett, how much cowardice he has to be, he is too soft, and he averages less than 7 points per game when facing Garnett!

And Rashid Wallace, who now feels like another Garnett to O'Neal Jr.!

At the end of the half, with Liu Mang in control, the Hawks played a wave of 15-6 scoring climax at the end of the second quarter, helping the Hawks lead by 10 points 60-50!

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Liu Mang gave Rahim and Rasheed Wallace a sense of being in control.

But in fact, it was Liu Mang who really controlled the game!

With this style of playing in control of the overall situation, Liu Mang scored 9 points and 7 assists in the half, and he felt that this style of play had a different and comfortable feeling.

It's just that this kind of opportunity is rare, that is, when you meet Jim Carrey, a young coach with a lot of ideas, you have the opportunity to play a wave against each other.

In the third quarter, the two teams returned to their regular style of play, and Coach Carlisle felt that his self-confidence was hit, looking at Coach Kruger, who was sitting like a scale on the opponent's bench without any emotion, Coach Carlisle felt that he had met his biggest nemesis!

Even meeting Larry Brown and Popovich and Phil Jackson didn't make him feel so depressed.

By the time it came to the second half, Coach Carlisle had to give up his caution and play normally with the Eagles.

On the Eagles' side, at halftime, Liu Mang also returned the tactical board to Coach Kruger, and after Coach Kruger arranged the tactics, he sat on the bench and watched Liu Mang start to wave.

It is true that the Pacers are quite powerful, and after returning to normal play in the second half, Artest, Tinsley, Harrington, and Reggie Miller's team offense played well, and the double-wave combination of Liu Mang and Jason Terry on the Hawks' side was on par.

However, O'Neal, the strongest on the offensive end of the Pacers' side, was soft and did not contribute much, while Reggie Miller was limited in physical fitness, and he could only have about 20 minutes of full physical strength in a game, after all, he was almost 40.

Liu Mang returned to scoring mode in the third quarter, and together with Jason Terry, he held a 10-point deficit in the third quarter, and the Hawks still led by 10 points at 89-79 after the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, after Reggie Miller, who had played the third quarter and had little physical fitness, was replaced, the Pacers collapsed!

Rasheed Wallace bullied his former little brother like a vicious dog, O'Neal Jr. except for 3 shots in the first quarter, and then did not score a single goal, only 2 of 5 free throws in the second three quarters, and only scored 8 points in the game, after Reggie Miller went off the court, the Pacers had one less containment point, and even O'Neal Jr., the strongest containment point, Artest and Al Harrington began to be targeted, and the Hawks opened Liu Mang's one-man shooting of four defenses in the fourth quarter, playing a single-quarter score of 23-15.

Liu Mang got a double-double performance of 29 points and 11 assists, Rahim got 22 points and 10 rebounds, and Rashid Wallace had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks.

Coach Carlisle watched the celebration after the Hawks' turnaround, and saw that O'Neal Jr. was abused so much that he only got 8 points and 8 rebounds, he didn't expect O'Neal Jr. to be yelled at!

Losing to the Eagles again, Coach Carlisle feels so powerless!

In the battle for the first place in the league, the Eagles have opened the gap again!