The atmosphere of the Hawks is tense, losing to the Nets for two consecutive years, they are going to be magical, and this time they all want to kill the Nets and prove themselves.

However, it is not only Liu Mang who feels that the Nets are stronger this year than last year, but the Nets are recognized by the league that they are stronger this year than last year.

Only the team that wins to the end may slack off, not knowing where to make up for it, because they win to the end, and even if they are runners-up, they are losers, and they will work hard to become stronger for the new season, and try to make up for their shortcomings, this year's progress of Richard Jefferson is favorable evidence that the Nets have become stronger, and the Nets' already deep rotation lineup, and Mourning.

But the more this happens, the stronger the Hawks' desire to beat the Nets!

Especially Liu Mang, the eyes staring at the opposing players were about to breathe fire.

"Ace Liu's hatred: Jason Kidd has become the host's mortal enemy, the season task, the host has a head-to-head advantage against the Nets in the four meetings in the regular season, if the host leads the team to the Nets to achieve a three-to-one record advantage, you will get Jason Kidd 03-04 season star card, if the host leads the team to sweep the Nets in the regular season, you will get the strongest point guard random star card in each era."

The revenge of the playoffs and the task, Liu Mang's fighting spirit has exploded!

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“. T Sports TV brings you a live game of the Atlanta Hawks playing against the New Jersey Nets on the road, and I'm your old friend Kenny Smith, and I'm ...... today."

Before Kenny Smith finished speaking, Barkley disliked Kenny Smith's introduction and introduced himself: "I am the great Sir Buckley. ”

Kenny Smith was speechless about this shameless man, Barkley was just very good in college and was called "sir" by people, but after Barkley became popular in the NBA, he forcibly upgraded the word "sir" and called himself "Jazz".

Every time Kenny Smith hears Barkley say that Liu Mang is shameless, he wants to say a few words.

Ignoring Barkley's narcissism, Kenny Smith asked, "Charles, which team do you think will win this game?" ”

Barkley glared at Kenny Smith dissatisfied: "Kenny, it's Sir Buckley!" This game? Of course the Nets can win, the Nets have been winning for the last two years, the Hawks are just regular season teams, they have never proven themselves in the playoffs, and the Nets are different, they have proven that they can win in the playoffs......"

The Hawks will play the Nets on the road, and then return to the home court to play the Nets again, two consecutive games against the Nets, the schedule is the same as last year's playoffs, the two games of the Hawks and the Nets, originally used by the league to attract the attention of fans, want to detonate the Hawks' ratings.

Now the ratings for this game are okay, but there is only a slight surprise, that is, the Hawks are not favored to win against the Nets at all right now, because they have just been reversed by the Celtics.

Sometimes people's opinions are so strange, the Hawks are 6-1 and are not favored, and the Nets, who are not difficult to start the game, are 4-4 and are actually favored.

. T TV is still at odds with the Eagles.

However, as Barkley said, the Hawks have really not proven themselves in the playoffs, a loser is a loser, a strong team has never broken out of the division, after all, it is just a loser, such as the Kings, who were very popular in the previous two years, and this year is no longer popular, and the Mavericks are even labeled as a soft egg team, and the Hawks are not immune.

Now the consensus of the league is that the Lakers, Spurs, and Nets, the three teams that have reached the Finals in the past two years and retained the core lineup or even strengthened, and the Timberwolves, which form the three-headed monster, are the only four teams that are at the championship level.

This trend of public opinion is also one of the key reasons for the Eagles' fighting spirit, no one wants to be flattened, although Liu Mang will comfort himself that he can develop obscenely, but he also doesn't like to be flattened!

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With the TV media touting the Nets, here on the scene, the game is about to begin.

The Eagles sent out a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff.

The Nets' roster is still the same, and after Mutombo left, Jason Collins' starting position became more solid, with Kidd, Kittels, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, and Jason Collins starting the game.

Although Rasheed Wallace has just joined the Eagles, since he is an Eagles and has renewed his contract, at least for the short term, Rasheed Wallace empathizes with the team's hatred and is excited to come to the center circle and jump with Jason Collins.

As the referee's whistle blew, Rashid Wallace won the jump ball from Jason Collins by sheer dominance, and Liu Mang received the ball and advanced quickly.

The Nets guarded Liu Mang's jump-ball fast break, and except for Jason Collins who jumped, the other four were ready to defend at the beginning.

Liu Mang pursed his lips, stabilized his speed, and slowly advanced and waited for his teammates to settle down.

The first attack at the beginning has been fixed to Liu Mang.

Raheem has long been prepared for this year's defense and passing, scoring and open shots, and has already touched his ceiling in the first two years, knowing that he is not the kind of player who can play on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends and still maintain the whole game.

Rasheed Wallace has learned the lessons from the last game and is now decisively putting all his energy on the defensive end, and he has nothing to do to block himself.

After Liu Mang advanced to the front court, he quickly observed the Nets' defense, and the stronger his own strength, the more he could see how strong the opponent was!

Although Richard Jefferson is not famous, he is very similar to Liu Mang, a big stride a year, the rookie season will only be empty, the sophomore defense will get up, and he has become a good defensive counterattack player, in the third year, he already has the level of outside defense, and the most important thing is that he can be on the stage of the NBA Finals when he is a rookie, and the defensive self-confidence and experience brought are huge, especially now facing opponents who have won twice in the playoffs, which makes Richard Jefferson more confident.

The outside defensive circle composed of Kidd, Kittels, and Richard Jefferson of the Nets made Liu Mang feel a sense of airtightness, and after observing for two seconds, Liu Mang decisively let Raheem come out to catch the ball.

Rahim saw Liu Mang beckoning, did not hesitate, and immediately ran to the top arc, Liu Mang handed the ball to Rahim, and took Kidd into the inside line empty-handed.

Kidd had a bad feeling when he saw this scene, and followed Liu Mang into the inner line, and sure enough, when Liu Mang reached the right edge of the three-second zone, Kidd's bad feeling came true!

Liu Mang wants to fall into the low singles!

Liu Mang leaned on Kidd to ask for the ball, Kidd wanted to go around the front to defend Liu Mang, Liu Mang waved his arm back, hit Kidd's arm, became more and more proficient, and there was already a level 1 iron elbow skill, and Kidd who wanted to bully the front pressed back!

Seeing that Liu Mang was stuck in the position, Rahim immediately hoisted the ball to Liu Mang, and felt a little envious in his heart: this little brother's wings are getting harder and harder, and the gap between him and his boss is getting smaller and smaller, and he will surpass himself in less than two years......

After Liu Mang received the ball, Kidd resisted Liu Mang with all his might, he tried to withdraw the chair last season, but Liu Mang's reaction made him no longer dare to withdraw the chair from Liu Mang.

Feeling the power coming from behind, Liu Mang first moved forward gently, looking like he was going to break away from Kidd's defense, Kidd immediately pressed it again, I have to say that Kidd really has no experience in defending the low position, and it is not as good as the emperor nemesis Baria, Liu Mang felt the power blocked by Kidd, and immediately turned to the left side, leaned Kidd's left shoulder with his left shoulder, and turned around and rushed into the basket with the power that Kidd pressed up!

Kidd was so strong by Liu Mang's strength and the force that he pressed on him that he almost fell to the ground!

Liu Mang turned around and cut into the basket, kicked his left foot heavily on the ground half a step into the three-second zone, and jumped!

Jason Collins was already ready to make up for the defense, raising his arm high to block Liu Mang's passing route, he believed that Liu Mang would definitely pass the ball, but Liu Mang opened Jason Collins' arm 90 degrees to the left side in the air, and did not pass to Ratliffe, who can now pass out on the other side of the three-second zone, but stretched out his right hand, threw the ball to the basket from the bottom up, and the ball hit the rebound and bounced into the basket!

A pull-up layup with a low turn!

Jason Collins' eyes widened, his eyes seemed to burst out, Liu Mang's speed was too fast! He can take the first step to block Liu Mang's passing route and throwing route, which is already the limit!

A display of Liu Mang's new tricks!

The low-post back-to-back skill level 5 was triggered when Liu Mang turned around and wiped Kidd, and the effects of bounce +5, speed +5, and layup +5 played a crucial role!

In the first seven games, Liu Mang did not show some of his new tricks, the first six games were all victories or even big wins, and he didn't need to use too many difficult methods to win the game, and in the seventh game, even in the last few minutes, the Celtics failed to defend against the Hawks, but the Celtics offense was too good.

And this low-post back is not what Liu Mang is best at, but he must give the Nets a powerful look at the beginning, Liu Mang did not hesitate to play one in the low post, Kidd's low-post defense is average, not as good as Pierce, Liu Mang is very confident that he can at least make a foul.

Of course, if you can throw, you will be more handsome, Liu Mang feels that this time you will definitely be able to score today's top five goals!

After landing, Liu Mang looked at his hands with a surprised expression, and ran to his own half of the court.

It was a really beautiful goal, and Jason Collins was stunned for a moment before picking up the ball, slamming it on the ground and going out of the baseline to Kidd.

Kidd's face was gloomy, and Liu Mang's sassy appearance really made him angry!

In the playoffs, Kidd could still forcibly restrain his anger at Liu Mang, and he restrained it well, but in this regular season, Kidd didn't care about the regular season record at all, even if he disliked the top three teams in the East who said that they had 50 wins but were running for 60 wins, but he still didn't care so much about the regular season record, and he had to vent his unhappiness first.

Kidd pushed forward, generally speaking, if he fell into a positional battle at the beginning, he would give the ball to Kittels a dozen, such as the 01-02 season, last season after Kittels did not degenerate into a pure 3D player, last season even canceled this link, and the position was sharpened to play defense, but this year, Richard Jefferson has become one of the only two single points of the Nets, the other is Rodney Rodgers on the bench, this year the Nets have a new single point, and it is stronger than Kittels.

But instead of handing the ball to Richard Jefferson today, Kidd beckoned Kenyon Martin to come out and block it!

Kittels and Richard Jefferson's two-shot three-point guns obediently pulled to the bottom corners of both sides, Kidd is bigger than the Nets, and even Coach Byron Scott can't control Kidd this year.

Kenyon Martin brought Rashid Wallace up to block Liu Mang for Kidd, Liu Mang did not choose to change defenses, but planned from the beginning like a loach to block Kidd's mid-range shot, Kidd's other offensive skills have not improved much in the past two years, and they are probably set, but the blocking and dismantling mid-range shots and three-point shots are getting better and better.

Kidd's side originally planned to shoot after blocking and dismantling, but when he saw Liu Mang rushing over, he immediately gave up his plan to score, paused and started again, and it was at this moment that Liu Mang chased behind Kidd.

On the other side, Liu Mang didn't block Kenyon Martin, Kenyon Martin immediately cut in from the middle, a few steps slower than Kidd into the free throw line, Rasheed Wallace was a little bit confused by Liu Mang's defense this time, and could only follow Kenyon Martin in a position parallel to the Nets to enter the three-second zone, and he couldn't prevent it.

Kidd was ready to get close to the three-second zone and was ready to pass to Kenyon Martin, but! Liu Mang didn't chase Kidd excessively, let his teammates under the basket defend, and turned around to help Rashid Wallace block Kenyon Martin who cut in the air!

You don't have to defend Kidd from making a move, bring Kidd to the defensive range of his own center Ratliffe, Kidd throws him well, Kidd has to pull out and shoot again, Liu Mang has time to defend it, Kidd's shooting area is very fixed!

Liu Mang's biggest improvement now is that he will be more willing to do less things and give more to his teammates, otherwise what will so many teammates do!

And Kidd was so close to the basket, the two outside pitchers were stared at to death, Kenyon Martin was blocked, Jason Collins was behind the four people under the basket, Kidd could only come by himself, forced the shot, and was covered by a big hot pot by Ratliff!

Successfully defended!

Kittels and Prince in the bottom left corner pounced on the ball to grab the ball, neither of them grabbed it, the ball didn't know who hit the bottom line, the referee on the bottom line and the referee on the sideline had their own words, and they could only look back at the defense.

The match stalled, and Liu Mang and Ratliff high-fived and praised Ratliff's help defense.

The defensive strategy of believing in your teammates and reducing the pressure on your own defense has worked!

After Liu Mang started this season, he was very unaccustomed to the relaxed defensive position that the team had prepared for him, and he still felt that he should do everything.

But slowly, I found that I didn't have that need, although my physical strength can be said to be endless, but it still takes time to recover, and energy drinks, I have to pant for breath after running for a few rounds in a row to slowly recover my physical functions, although as long as I am relieved, I will not have a lower physical limit like others, but if I really encounter a game that continues to be anxious throughout the game, there will always be such and such problems, such as last season's East Finals.

Therefore, playing the Nets today, this enemy who is still the biggest opponent of his own team, Liu Mang wants to try it and hand over his back to his teammates!

Now it seems that the effect is very good, the team's third-highest-paid Ratliffe, and the highest-paid Latliff in the league's defensive center, are not used to do this!

For Liu Mang to give his back to himself with confidence, Ratliff not only did not complain, but felt happier because of the trust of his teammates!

The players on both sides waited for a while, and the referee watched the replay from several angles, and finally determined that Kittels stepped on the sideline for the first time when he fell to the ground, and the Nets went out of bounds and the Hawks had the ball.

Not to mention that Kidd has a big heart, he was beaten by his wife for five or six years before he dared to go to court, how small can his heart be? After being capped, he found that the ball was not on his side, so he turned around and defended himself without saying a word, for fear that Liu Mang would mock him, and he couldn't help but want to fight again.

The Hawks offense, landing positions, are the Hawks' favorite to play the Nets.

Liu Mang pushed over and found that the Nets had made a substitution to defend him, in order to avoid being played by Liu Mang in the low post again, Kidd asked Richard Jefferson to defend Liu Mang, speed, weight, strength, Richard Jefferson is not afraid of Liu Mang now, the speed used to keep up, but the strength can't keep up, Richard Jefferson increased his weight to 106 kg in the past summer, which is heavier than the current Rahim, and it is also the reason why Raheem can't beat Richard Jefferson in the low post.

Liu Mang looked at Richard Jefferson, who was stronger than Rahim, and glanced at Kidd, who just looked at Liu Mang with a provocative eye, which probably meant: You go to the low position again!

Go for it! Liu Mang glared back at Kidd and gestured at Rahim.

This gesture has not appeared once this year, Rahim is still a little nostalgic, sighed why he has changed so much in the past two years, and then looked at Kidd next to him, and decisively walked to a low position to press Kidd to ask for the ball!

If Kidd is Chinese, his current mood can directly spray out his innermost emotions with the nickname of love given by the Chinese to the alpaca, so that the domestic imperial capital satellite TV, which is also broadcasting this game, will be transmitted to the ears of thousands of households.

Liu Mang glared at Kidd and hoisted the ball to Rahim.

Raheem's low-post singles and Liu Mang are not the same type, he is raw, and it is also the reason why he no longer goes to the low post after losing weight this year, but now it is Kidd! Raheem's brutal three steps directly crushed Kidd into the three-second zone, scared Jason Collins to take a step back, and Raheem smashed the ball into the basket with his right hand!

Kidd was beaten by Liu Mang, a shameless man, and he was already angry, and he was even more angry at this time.

Liu Mang shouted to Rahim: "Sharif, hurry up!" That's all because I don't have an assist! ”