593. This nickname is really true!
"Ace, you look at these news, you're going to be angry! I'm so angry that I want to jump off the plane! "Jason Terry has been complaining to his teammates since he arrived at the airport at noon to meet up, and finally arrived at Liu Mang.
The previous teammates all gave Jason Terry a very satisfied reaction, and they all held grievances on their side, but Jason Terry was still not satisfied, so they came to Liu Mang's poisonous tongue and scolded those reporters.
But...... Liu Mang is so different.
Liu Mang pointed to the big cabinet under the chair and in front of the cabin: "The life jacket is here, our charter plane is equipped with a parachute, in that cabinet, please use it." ”
"......" Jason Terry almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, "Ace! Aren't you angry? You're second in the scoreboard! They still can't get used to you! ”
"It's good to get used to it, and I can't always be second in the scoring charts, so we mainly focus on team basketball." Liu Mang was very open-minded.
In 9 games, Liu Mang has been 40+ twice!
For any star, this is a great performance, Liu Mang's average points per game has also risen to an average of 28 points per game, but in the last few games, it seems that he has shot a little too much, the shooting rate is a bit low, and the average shot per game has increased to 25 times......
This is very unreasonable and unscientific, so the media's praise for Liu Mang is not as fierce as Liu Mang's occasional 40+ in the first two years, or it may be that Liu Mang has made people think that it is not difficult for him to score 40 points, after all, he is a rare scorer in NBA history who can score 50 points in his rookie season.
On the contrary, if Liu Mang continues to maintain such a high-shot and high-scoring performance, it is likely that he will be crowned with a scoring brush.
However, overall, people are still very satisfied with Liu Mang's energetic performance at the beginning, except for more shots, the shooting rate of only 44% of the average 25 shots per game is too low for Liu Mang, who was quite efficient in the previous two years.
The most indignant thing for the Hawks is that they have beaten the Nets in two consecutive games, and people are not talking about how strong the Hawks have become, but about thinking that the Nets have declined this year!
The main reason is that on the night after the Nets were killed by the Hawks in two consecutive games, Kidd and Byron Scott had a fierce argument in the locker room, and then the next day Byron Scott had not returned to New Jersey, and the Nets held a press conference early in the morning to appease Kidd.
A head coach who has led the team to the Finals for the past two consecutive years was fired after just 10 games in the new season, which is more sensational than the Magic's firing of Doug Rivers, the best coach who hasn't proven himself in the playoffs.
Then people subconsciously thought that the Hawks' victory over the Nets was taken out by the Hawks because of the team's stars and head coaches' infighting.
The Eagles players watched their hard work win two games, but they didn't get much positive praise, and they couldn't argue, and they fired the head coach, so they could only silently draw circles and curse the media.
Of course, to say that Liu Mang is not depressed? Certainly not be, but he has something happier now.
"Roar of the Heavens: The Hawks' home team is high, the players' excitement is increased, and the morale of the away team is suppressed, trigger conditions: Hawks play at home, Rasheed Wallace starts."
Your own team is also the home of the devil! The addition of Rashid Wallace has not only given the Hawks one more of the league's top defensive interior lines, but also brought something better, Liu Mang's excitement is not to mention, and now he is happy, the media's evaluation is a trivial matter, and the game does not rely on the media's mouth.
Liu Mang was of course unhappy when his own team and himself played a good performance, but after being offset, Liu Mang was very calm.
Calm down to think rationally, the Hawks' performance in the playoffs in the first two years was really disappointing, the East failed to rush out, when the Hawks' core lineup has not changed, and the introduced Rasheed Wallace data is generally not recognized, it is normal for their own team to be flattened.
Just like the original Pistons team, they were swept by the Celtics and the Nets in the first two years, and the Celtics who swept the Pistons in the 01-02 season were easily defeated by the Nets, which means that the Pistons were not the opponents of the Nets in the first two years, and in the 03-04 season, the Pistons were not favored except for the first round, the second round of the Nets were not favored, the East Finals against the Pacers were not favored, and the Finals against the Lakers were not favored, even if they played the third best record in the East since the new century with 54 wins in the regular season, It's so much better than the Nets' record in the previous two years, but it's still not favored.
The Eagles are going to work hard! The Eagles are going to slap those media in the face!
After playing the Nets, the Hawks had no time to rest, and flew to Indianapolis at noon the next day, ushering in the second and last back-to-back of the month, No. 17 and No. 18 back-to-back, playing the Pacers and Hornets successively.
The Eagles went on the road back-to-back with the mentality of going to sweep everything and prove themselves, and then ...... Knocked to the ground.
Beat the Pacers, lost 89-93, beat the Hornets, and was slashed by Mashburn 48 points, although Liu Mang also scored 30 points, and the Hawks played very well overall, but they couldn't stand the Hornets team is Gundam, and the two teams played a super high score of 121-139.
The Eagles just wanted to slap the media in the face to prove themselves, but they immediately suffered a wave of two consecutive defeats.
It's too radical and sometimes it's not good, the two games have a common feature, that is, the Hawks' mentality is to win the opponent, and the Hawks are fighting with the Nets in two consecutive games, so that the Hawks consume a lot, it seems that the first game is not difficult to win, and the second game is a big victory, but the Hawks may be excited after winning, and they haven't noticed that the physical consumption in the two games is more serious, the first game fought for a whole game, and the second game also relied on desperate defense to pull the score away in the half, It was only in the second half that the Nets were brought apart, and the physical consumption was a bit great, and when they played the Pacers and the Hornets, the defensive end became a little lax.
Especially when playing the Pacers, the offense also played badly, and when it came time to play the Hornets, they were completely fighting with the Hornets to attack, and then the Hornets attacked as fiercely as the Hawks, and suffered two consecutive defeats.
The Eagles, who went away with the idea of a big win, were instead seized by both teams and gave the Eagles a head-on blow.
The Hawks' record went from 8-1 to 8-3 all of a sudden.
This slap in the face did not succeed, but instead gave the media a mouthful.
Fortunately, after the Hawks returned to their home court, their mentality finally stabilized, first 101-80, Liu Mang at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends of the Arenas, who finally got a big contract and forced the league to modify the second-round draft salary rules, abused Arenas, who scored 25 points and 9 assists, and only scored 14 points and 4 assists in 5 of 17, and the Hawks beat the Wizards at home to avoid three consecutive defeats.
Immediately after the loss of Payton and Cassel, the young version of the Bucks led by Michael Reed alone, Liu Mang once again suppressed the opponent, and the offensive end kept the Hawks' offense tightly organized, scoring 15 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists, Prince defended Reed to only 9 points, and the Hawks easily defeated the Bucks 97-83 at home to win two consecutive victories, overtaking the Pacers again, and ranking first in the league with a 10-3 record.
Although he returned to the first place in the league, the Eagles' title of "vegetable madman" seems to be true......