"We can't give up! Basketball is round, as long as we work hard, there will be hope! Jamison cheered his teammates on loudly.

The Wizards are a youth army, in addition to Lakers veteran Samaki Walker, the oldest players are Antoine Jamison and Larry Hughes, who entered the NBA in 98.

Although Jamison's leadership ability is average, the Wizards' players are young and can easily be motivated.

There was one man who was desperate but desperate to break free from this miserable fear, and that man was Gilbert Arenas.

In the past, he was only beaten by Liu Mang in the regular season, but now he met Liu Mang in the playoffs, and after this encounter, there are two situations that may occur.

One is to defeat Liu Mang and break the demons; The second is to be defeated by Liu Mang and never recover......

Arenas was already depressed in the face of Liu Mang, originally this depression was that he met James in the playoffs for three consecutive years at the beginning of the 05-06 season and was beaten into depression, some fans joked that he pulled out a gun in 09 because he was beaten by James to depression, and he couldn't bear it psychologically......

Arenas is now more eager than anyone else to beat Liu Mang, as a rookie in the same class, he is neither in the same position as Liu Mang like Gasol, nor does he want to be Liu Mang's teammate like the champion he hates, and he does not have Parker's good fortune to follow Duncan to win the championship within two years of entering the NBA, Parker is the first player to win the championship in the class of 01, mainly because the Lakers did not have draft picks in 2001.

Arenas came out of the second round, and Liu Mang's fate is extremely similar, both of them began to play in their rookie season and played far beyond their own rank, however, Liu Mang is the more dazzling one, and Arenas has always been in the shadow of Liu Mang.

Arenas can only defeat Liu Mang, even if he can win one game, his inner demons can be resolved, but four years have passed, and he has not tasted a victory against Liu Mang.

Arenas doesn't want to go on like this, he wants to win!

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Watching the regular season championship flag go up, the Hawks players were excited, mainly the newcomers, including Alonzo Mourning, who had never won the regular season title.

The championship flag is embroidered with the names of every player of the Hawks, as well as members of the coaching staff and owners, including the names of Tony Allen and Ariza and Kevin Willis, who have left a small mark in the history of the NBA.

And Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Muhammad, the three players who have been on the team, are in average interest and have already won the third regular season championship flag.

If it weren't for the fact that his own team is one of the 11 teams established in the NBA, the veteran team does not have much honor, and the stadium is empty, Liu Mang wants to suggest that he hang the championship flag like the Celtics and the Lakers, but although it is a veteran team, and it is one of the only 4 teams left in the 11 teams at the beginning of the establishment, it has a longer history than the Lakers, but it has not accumulated much heritage, so it can only be hung first.

After the championship flag was raised, the pre-game activities were almost over, waiting for the perfect empire song to play, ready to prepare, and the race was about to begin.

When playing the American Imperial Song, Liu Mang looked at the strength of the Wizards' lineup.

Arenas, Ability Rating 87, Jamison, Ability Rating 86, Larry Hughes, Ability Rating 88, The trio is still so good, the others are not, Heywood Ability Rating 73, Jarvis Hayes, Ability Rating 69.

Arenas finished the regular season this season, averaging 25.5 points, 4.7 boards and 5.1 assists per game, but the best performance of the Wizards was Larry Hughes, who averaged 23 points, 6.4 boards, 4.7 assists and 2.8 steals per game.

As for Jamison, he only averaged 19 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists per game this season, his tactical status is not high, his offense is strong and his defense is weak, and his block and steal data are almost equal to 0, but he has a good attitude, at least he will not become a black hole, and his skills are called Nowitzki, who is ten centimeters shorter.

I think Jamison's statistics in the first three years of his career were much better than Nowitzki, but he was in the Warriors, and the Warriors' determination to throw away any star in Curry allowed them to let go of one first-class star or star embryo after another.

It's not for nothing that Arenas was compared to Liu Mang, the same class of players, all of whom were point guards with the first score, were second-round picks, and had the highest and second highest salaries in the class of 01.

Looking at the strength of the main force of the Wizards, there are only three stars, role players except for Haywood and Antonio Daniels on the bench, there is not a single player with the average level of starting strength, the main reason is that the team is reluctant to spend money, their salary of 49 million has not yet reached the salary cap, except for Jamison and Arenas who have an annual salary of 10 million, Larry Hughes has a middle class, and the player with the highest salary is the 03 No. 10 pick Jarvis Hayes with 2.48 million US dollars.

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At the end of the pre-match preparation time, the lights dimmed and the scene fell silent, accompanied by Prince's dance and Kwame Brown's slap of magnesium powder flying in the air.

Rashid Wallace's rough face appeared on the big screen, and with a roar, the arena, which was extremely quiet just now, detonated at once!

Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air and walked onto the court with Maddie, who had discussed with the referee about a ball that was a little less breathy.

"Ding...... The Hawks Devils set off at home, and the morale of the Washington Wizards was greatly reduced, from Rashid Wallace and Phillips Arena fans. ”

"Ding...... Gilbert Arenas is in a back-to-back form, and this series ignores any outside distractions to offset the Hawks Devils' home pressure. ”

Liu Mang didn't expect to hear this prompt!

"Hey, is this guy going to eat people?" Only then did Liu Mang notice the look in Arena's eyes when he looked at him.

Arenas was also a top-level star at his peak, and at that time, Arenas, Liu Mang felt that he could give a little threat, but now Arenas ......

Beat him!

Arenas is now judged by the system to be in a state of fighting against the water, but Liu Mang has little fear, Liu Mang's current idea is to do it!

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang, Maddy, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown all started the game.

On the Wizards' side, Arenas, Larry Hughes, Antoine Jamison, Jarvis Hayes, and Brand Haywood started the lineup.

"Tyshawn, are you going to defend against Arenas or am I coming?" Liu Mang asked Prince.

"Everything." Prince replied.

The main thing is that Arenas and Larry Hughes are about the same strength, Maddy's side needs to defend Jamison, Liu Mang and Prince who defends Arenas or Larry Hughes are the same.

"Then I'll defend against Arenas!" Liu Mang wants to play against Arenas, and these two are the best on the outside of first-class stars anyway.

"Okay."

Prince is cool like an emotionless killer.

Who's the boss! Liu Mang felt seriously frustrated, and he thought about whether he should be cooler?

After seeing Liu Mang glance at himself, he began to wander, and the energy that Arenas was holding back was ignited, wanting to win!

Kwame Brown and Heywood, the two "old enemies" came to the middle circle, of course, the old enemy is Heywood's perspective, and now Kwame Brown has not taken the grudge with Heywood to heart, after the vision is high, the previous dirty things, I don't care so much, Kwame Brown's view of Heywood is to deal with this guy well, this guy's blocking and blocking ability is very good.

The referee came to the center circle, pointed to the sides, blew the whistle for the start of the game, and threw the ball into the air.

Heywood struggled to jump, but as a player in the same class, they are all physical fitness men, and the reason why Champion Lang is a champion is because his physical fitness is better than other physical fitness men in the same class!

Kwame Brown threw the racket backwards with a small palm, and Liu Mang received the ball and passed it to Maddie, who ran to the front court himself.

As soon as Liu Mang crossed the halfway line, he was posted by Larry Hughes.

Liu Mang's continuous lateral movement, rapid acceleration, deceleration and running, did not get rid of Larry Hughes, Larry Hughes focused on defending Liu Mang, the consciousness is too good!

And the Wizards' defense is very good, Liu Mang ran to the inside line and wanted to borrow the block, and the opponent used the method of blocking people in advance, and in the playoffs, the referee blew the penalty scale and became looser, and this kind of physical confrontation against the referee did not blow the whistle.

He is the best defensive player on the perimeter this season! Liu Mang sighed secretly Larry Hughes used his awareness, physicality and the defense of his teammates to run to the left 45-degree angle, which is the best two wings at 45-degree angles, to open up space outside the three-point line.

Maddie saw that Liu Mang had no chance, and when Liu Mang took Larry Hughes from the inside to a 45-degree angle on the left side, he immediately chose to make a strong break, easily left Jamison behind, and rushed to the inside line to score two points.

The opponent's inside and outside line work together to defend Liu Mang, Maddie only needs to pass the defender from the other side, and it is too easy to score on the inside!

Offense and defense transitioned, and the Wizards attacked.

Seeing Arenas advancing over, Liu Mang guarded outside the three-point line, and this season, Arenas ranked eighth in the league in average three-point shots per game, averaging 2.6 per game, with a 36 percent shooting rate, which is also a very accurate three-point shot.

What Arenas loves most from fans, and what makes him unpopular with Wizards head coach Eddie Jordan, is his trademark three-point shot.

Arenas passed the half, seeing Liu Mang's expectant expression, Arenas tried to suppress the indignation in his heart and the fear of never winning against Liu Mang, and observed Liu Mang's defense.

Arenas knows Liu Mang's defense very well, Liu Mang's defense of technical and speed singles players is very good, unless the technique is as good as Ginobili, or like Kobe, Wade, and Francis deliberately rely on the body to eat directly, otherwise it is very difficult to single Liu Mang.

Arenas took his breath and beckoned to block the demolition.

Heywood came out to block Liu Mang, Liu Mang was afraid of Arenas' breakthrough emergency stop jumper, and did not bypass the block from the front, but leaned on Heywood to quickly bypass the block and block the route towards Arenas, but Liu Mang saw that Arenas only moved sideways one step after bypassing the block!

Arenas was in a straight line with Haywood and the basket, and he pulled up a three-point shot from the three-point line!

"Bang"

"Huh"

Vote very positively! The three-pointer on the front hits the small rectangle of the rebound and bounces into the basket!

Arenas came up and made a three-pointer!

How dare you throw it!

Kwame Brown defended Arenas for three points after the block, and Liu Mang broke through after the Arenas block, but Arenas saw the Eagles' defensive intentions, and directly forced a three-point throw and went in!

Offense and defense switched, the Hawks attacked, after Liu Mang arrived in the frontcourt, he immediately attracted most of the Wizards' defense, Maddie took advantage of Liu Mang's containment to break into the interior again, this time Jarvis Hayes let go of Rashid Wallace to block Maddy, and together with Jamison, he sandwiched Maddie on the right side of the three-second zone.

Rashid Wallace cut in, Maddie gave the ball to Rashid Wallace, and Haywood, who had just helped Larry Hughes block Liu Mang, turned around and went to block Rashid Wallace.

At this time, Liu Mang, who had just run out, cut in again, Kwame Brown helped Liu Mang block Larry Hughes for the second time, Liu Mang cut into the basket from the left side of the basket, Rasheed Wallace was blocked by Haywood and threw the ball to the left side of the basket, Liu Mang rushed into the inside line and jumped, held the ball in the air, and the ball bounced into the basket on the rebound!

4-3, the Eagles scored two goals in a row.

The Hawks quickly retreated, and Liu Mang said a few words to Prince and Kwame Brown and adjusted their defensive strategy.

It's time for the Wizards to attack again, Liu Mang waited for Arenas to advance over, and sure enough, as soon as Arenas came over, he looked for Haywood to block and dismantle again, but this time Kwame Brown didn't come out, and continued to stay in and out of the three-second zone, Prince let go of Larry Hughes, who didn't have the ability to shoot from mid-range and long-range, and let Kwame Brown stay under the basket to prevent Arenas from blocking and dismantling the offense.

Arenas took advantage of the threat of blocking and breaking through to throw Liu Mang away, but Prince directly defended in front of him!

Arenas saw Prince's long arms and legs, and he didn't dare to say a word in his throat!

As for it? Prevent me from using two single defense masters? Arenas immediately passed the ball to Larry Hughes, who didn't play a role in opening up space at all on the right baseline.

Larry Hughes received the ball and rushed to the basket, and Kwame Brown defended to the right outside the three-second zone.

Good physical fitness means that you can do whatever you want, Kwame Brown is so good at moving sideways, she is ready to switch to Larry Hughes, and she blocks Larry Hughes outside the three-second zone!

Larry Hughes stopped in the three-second zone, constantly changing direction left and right to shake off Kwame Brown, but Kwame Brown just didn't move, Kwame Brown's defensive talent is really nothing to say, over the past two seasons, the defense has become stronger and stronger, and he knows the outside line well under the basket, and the important thing is not to move at will and not jump at will.

Larry Hughes was out of luck, he didn't expect Kwame Brown to move so quickly and predict so accurately, and he blocked him all at once, seeing that he was here for seven or eight seconds, and he could only find his teammates.

Jamison was rounded by Maddy, Haywood, who cut in, was blocked by Prince, and Larry Hughes could only pass to Arenas on the move.

Arenas received the ball, Liu Mang blocked in front of him like a shadow, Arenas took a strong step after receiving the ball, and shot a one-step stop-and-jump shot in the three-point line!

Liu Mang's anticipation ability of the blocker level 5 is very good, when Arenas jumped, Liu Mang jumped up at the same time, a little higher than Arenas jumped, reached out to block, Arenas fell back sharply in the air, and came to a Steve-Nash super back......

The ball flew a few centimeters above Liu Mang's fingertips and fell into the basket again!

Return in!

Seeing that Arenas landed on the ground, he didn't stand firmly, took a few steps back, sat on the ground, and then got up and quickly retreated.

Wizards head coach Eddie Jordan was once an assistant coach to Byron Scott, and he is good at defense and triangle offense that he may not know much about himself.

Looking at Arenas, who scored two difficult shots in a row, it was really ...... It's a big deal! Liu Mang was shocked by Arenas's singles!

In fact, this is the normal performance of Arenas when he plays other teams, but Liu Mang pressed Arenas too badly, and it was difficult for Arenas to play a normal performance in the face of Liu Mang.

And this time Arenas met Liu Mang in the playoffs, and it really came to the edge of the cliff!

The Hawks attacked, Maddie continued to use Liu Mang's threat to create opportunities for teammates or have a chance to score, and in the playoffs, scoring is king, Liu Mang and Maddy don't care who scores and who gets the assist.

Moreover, even if Liu Mang is a threat point to contain the defense, Liu Mang has a lot of scoring opportunities, more than two months of tactical running practice and running-in with teammates on the court, Liu Mang's running ability is stronger than in the first half of the regular season, playing a team like the Wizards that has no defensive enthusiasm but no good defensive system, Liu Mang only needs a few more off-ball blocks, and can have scoring opportunities after the threat from other teammates, the Wizards can defend Haywood and Larry Hughes, and everyone else is scum.

When the official timeout reached the first quarter, Liu Mang easily scored 6 points, Maddie scored 5 points and 3 assists, and the Hawks scored 16 points in 7 minutes, with high offensive efficiency.

However, the Wizards also scored 16 points!

Arenas has exploded! 10 points and 2 assists in more than half a quarter!

It's not that Liu Mang didn't defend well, or that Prince didn't attack quickly enough, but Arenas was too accurate! 4 of 6 shots in the opening game! They all played the Hawks' side, and Arenas scored 10 points and got two assists!

The Hawks focus on tactical coordination, the Wizards team is Arenas singles, the fans at the scene are very happy, all of them are cheering, both teams play a very good set of offense and defense, the Hawks use tactical cooperation to mobilize the opponent's defense, use team defense to defend Arenas, all play very well.

But after playing for seven minutes, the fans who had been watching the excitement saw the score enlarged on the big screen after the official pause, and the scores of the two teams were actually equal!

It's incredible! Is this still the Wizards? Or is it the Arenas who is afraid of the cold to death?