659. Vengeance Reed
Stockton's single-quarter rampage caused a sensation in the league.
Stockton's 10 points and 10 assists in a single quarter is arguably the best performance of any point guard in the regular season in NBA history.
Of course, the kind of scoring point guard who scores more than 20 points in a single quarter, such as Isaiah Thomas, is just as great, but 10 points and 10 assists, a double-double of points and assists in a single quarter, is really amazing.
This year's Utah double solo, both have a great role in the new team, Malone averaged 13 points, 9 boards, 4 assists and 1.2 steals per game, it is completely impossible to see that he is a 41-year-old veteran who will turn 41 after playing this season, although he has missed a lot of games due to injuries, but just when O'Neal shot three days and two ends of the regular season, Malone stood up to help the Lakers stand up and support the Lakers' record when Kobe's state fluctuated and O'Neal was lazy from time to time. Even after the January schedule was played, the Spurs were overtaken to finish second in the West.
Although Stockton has not become an inside pillar like Malone, his role on the bench is also indelible, the attendance rate is still higher than Malone, and he can often exceed the goals set by the coach, averaging 5.6 points and 4.3 assists in 14 minutes per game.
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Stockton's slap of Kidd in the face caused a stir in the basketball world, but the Hawks didn't have time to feel the sensation, and they had back-to-back games with the Bucks the day after the Nets.
Last month, the Bucks took advantage of Liu Mang's absence to do a wave of the Hawks, Reed took advantage of Liu Mang's absence to score 40 points in a single game, and the Hawks led for three quarters because they did not have a ball control core, and they were reversed in the crucial final quarter.
This time, not only Liu Mang is back, but Rashid Wallace is also back, and the Bucks players led by Mike Reed, who came to Phillips Arena again, saw that the Hawks players all had an expression of wanting to eat people, and they felt a sense of desolation in their hearts.
Kukochi looked at the expressions of his old club's familiar former teammates, and knew that this group of guys who were so small by Liu Mang that they were going to take revenge!
Reed saw the familiar face of his old friend Liu Mang, and the arrogant expression that made him look at people with his head half-tilted and the tip of his nose parallel, and the uneasiness in his heart hit again.
To describe Reed's current mood in one sentence is to reverse the momentary coolness......
The relationship between Reed and Liu Mang is very good, Liu Mang is the first opponent to pay attention to Reed, which makes the two usually not communicate much, but Reed has a good impression of Liu Mang, Liu Mang is not a withdrawn person, others have a good attitude towards him, and he will also return a smile.
But this does not mean that Reed is not afraid of Liu Mang, on the contrary, he has watched Liu Mang grow up from the time when Liu Mang was a pure substitute at the beginning, and became the first candidate for the scoring champion step by step.
This kind of progress, Rao is Reed has been regarded as the favorite for the fastest progress award for two consecutive years, and he also feels terrible about Liu Mang's progress!
The reason why Liu Mang did not become the favorite for the fastest improvement award in people's predictions after playing in the second year of his rookie season and this season is mainly because Liu Mang averaged 20 points per game in his rookie season, and although his regular season performance improved in the second year, he did not improve much.
This year, Liu Mang was directly included in the ranks of several MVP favorites such as Garnett, Artest, Kobe, Peja, etc., and they have directly crossed the ranks of Reed's stars and become MVP favorites!
Both of them have risen since the 2001-2002 season, and they are only one year away from entering the NBA, and Reed is still the one who entered the NBA a year earlier, but the results they have now are almost very different!
Every time Reed met Liu Mang, he felt even more desperate, and for two consecutive summers, he felt that he had improved tremendously every time, and then he was rubbed by Liu Mang.
This feeling is the feeling of many contemporaries who are regarded as opponents by Liu Mang......
Liu Mang squinted at the other party, especially Reed, who "secretly" scored 40 points while he was away!
This year, Reed's ability evaluation has reached 85, close to his peak, averaging 22 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and he is the league's second only to Peja and Ray Allen's mid-to-long-range catch-and-shoot as the main offensive means, and has entered the ranks of first-class stars.
Because the Heat, Hornets, Bucks, and Knicks are hot in the fifth to eighth teams, the record is almost the same, and they are all close to a 50% win rate, but no one can cross that hurdle.
For this team, which may be the opponent of the first round of the playoffs, everyone in the Hawks is very important today, especially since the Bucks also played the Hawks before, this revenge plus attention, the whole Hawks team is very excited!
With Rashid Wallace's roar, the Bucks were already trembling, and their fighting spirit collapsed directly!
It's true that TJ Ford's speed is really fast, no one on the Hawks' side can limit his speed after the game starts, with the experience of last time, Liu Mang can play again this time, the Eagles simply don't care about TJ Ford, Liu Mang and Raheem are fully defending Reed and Van Horn's shots, Liu Mang follows Reed, whether it is around the block or marking, they are very well restricted, Reed plays badly every time he encounters Liu Mang and Hamilton, these two can limit the catch-and-shoot too much.
Rashid Wallace and Ratliff guarded the basket, and Prince could follow TJ Ford, but if he couldn't keep up, he would help make up for the Bucks' outside blocking and pick-and-roll, guard the basket and not let TJ Ford in, nor pinch it, so that TJ Ford could run in the middle distance, and he couldn't shoot.
TJ Ford's three-point shooting percentage in his early twenties and mid-range shooting percentage in his early thirties are directly negligible!
In the last game, the Eagles went to make up for TJ Ford's mid-range shooting opportunities that he got by speed, but suffered a bigger loss, and this time he simply cut off the connection between TJ Ford and his teammates, anyway, even Liu Mang couldn't keep up with TJ Ford, so he simply ignored him.
TJ Ford is so fast, it can even be said that he is the fastest in the league, but even in the future, he has not been able to become a star, and even the key reason why he is 108,000 miles away from his template Iverson is because his shooting ability is too poor!
Iverson still has a 31 percent three-point shooting rate in his career, and his mid-range shooting rate is as high as 38 percent of the league's top mid-range shooters, and he still plays with efficiency in crazy shots.
Not all of them are fast enough to be compared to Iverson.
After suffering a loss once, the Eagles will not be fooled a second time!
The Bucks felt that they were going to be cold, and as soon as they were defended by the Hawks at the beginning, TJ Ford couldn't resist the pressure, and after he shot a few irons, he didn't dare to hold the ball, and handed the ball to Reed in the half.
Reed tragically started a one-on-one single against Liu Mang, in the face of Liu Mang's defense, Reed's single efficiency was a bit miserable, and Liu Mang was defended by Liu Mang in the first quarter with a 3-of-8 shooting, and the shooting rate was less than 40%.
And the Hawks' offense has a clear core, which is completely different from the last time the Bucks played against the Nets!
Liu Mang finished his three-point shot, and hit a dozen in the low post after the middle shot, after the Bucks began to wrap up, Liu Mang began to pass the ball, and everyone in the Hawks team was very positive, although today the Hawks were not good because of their back-to-back shooting rate, but just grab the rebounds, Joe Smith and Tim Thomas of the Bucks combined only averaged 12 rebounds per game, while Raheem alone averaged 13 rebounds per game, which is not at the same level at all.
And if you can't shoot the Eagles, you can defend it! Bully the bucks with excellent iron-striking experience!
After the first quarter, Liu Mang's shooting rate was not very good, with 12 points and 3 assists on 4-of-10 shooting, and the Hawks only scored 24 points, but the Bucks were even worse, except for Reed's 10 points in a single quarter, other people's offense came to a standstill! The Bucks only scored 14 points in a single quarter!
The Eagles are like this, and they can still lead by 10 points in a single quarter!
In the second quarter, the Hawks began to rotate on a large scale, Jason Terry, Barnes, Boozer, and Kwame Brown were replaced, and Stockton originally didn't play back-to-back, and today he continued to be weak, yawning while sitting behind the bench in a suit, and he had to use his pestle to support his chin on his thigh so that he wouldn't fall, so Liu Mang continued to play!
Although the Hawks' defense has become weaker in this lineup, the efficiency of the two teams has risen in the first quarter, and the feel of both teams has dropped to the freezing point.
The Bucks were in an amazingly iron situation in the first quarter, and there was no improvement in the second quarter, and they continued to play iron, and they hesitated to shoot in the back.
On the Hawks' side, it is also iron, but Liu Mang and Jason Terry rushed to shoot as if they were going to fight, and when both sides had no touch because of defense or physical fitness, the person who dared to stand up and shoot was the so-called big heart player.
Only if you dare to make a move, it is possible to enter! The Bucks passed the pass, passed for a long time, and couldn't run out of position, because they didn't dare to shoot against the defense because of their bad hand, and passed several 24-second violations, although Reed is also a big-hearted player, but he was suppressed by Liu Mang year after year, and he was already afraid of playing against Liu Mang, his absolute calmness was effective in other games, only playing Liu Mang had no effect at all.
And on the Hawks' side, there are such big-hearted players, and it's two!
Liu Mang's cold-blooded characteristics, Jason Terry's king of substitute characteristics, the two of them are happy to shoot with Boozer in this situation, Barnes and Kwame Brown can grab offensive rebounds and grab, and if they can't grab it, they will return to defense, and they cooperate with the two big tumors quite tacitly.
In the second quarter, Liu Mang scored 9 points on 3-of-8 shooting, Jason Terry scored 8 points on 3-of-10 shooting, and the Hawks scored 5 points on offensive rebounds by relying on the frontcourt trio, and the Hawks only scored 22 points in a single quarter.
The Bucks, on the other hand, continued to be miserable, scoring only 15 points in a single quarter.
46-29, the Hawks stretched the margin to 17 points!
After the start of the second half of the game, Liu Mang, who had been strictly guarded, finally had a chance to score easily, and after playing the first half, Liu Mang continued to play in the third quarter, and the outside line of the Bucks, who had been defending Liu Mang in a wheel battle, couldn't hold it back!
The biggest gap between the top teams and the teams that can't play is the performance in the third quarter!
After Liu Mang's defense began to collapse, he burst to the basket in the third quarter and scored 8 points and 5 assists in a single quarter, and the Hawks opened the gap to 24 points after the third quarter, and the Hawks led 69-45 in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, although Liu Mang still played, it was mainly to press the formation, Jason Terry, Korver, Boozer, Kwame Brown and several people followed, Liu Mang played 6 minutes in the final quarter to score 3 points, and when the situation was completely closed, Liu Mang was off.
Liu Mang played a full 42 minutes in the whole game, shot less in the fourth quarter, went up and scored a three-pointer and then didn't shoot, just 12 of 30 shots in the game, just relying on that three-pointer, the shooting rate increased to 40%, got 32 points and 8 assists, and maintained an average of 32 points per game.
The Hawks eventually got revenge on the Bucks with a 93-65 margin, nearly 30 points.
After beating the Bucks, the Hawks are on a 12-game winning streak!
With 39 wins and 7 losses, it is about to become the fastest team to get 40 wins since the new century!
Relying on a wave of 12 consecutive wins, the Hawks finally surpassed the start of the 99-00 season of the Lakers again, and when the Lakers got 40 wins, they had already lost 8 games, and the Hawks have only lost 7 games so far!
One more win and the Eagles will be the fastest team to reach 40 wins in the new century!