1094. It's time to start the waves!
The video of Rashid Wallace's roar detonated Phillips Arena, and Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air and started alongside Iguodala, Prince, Horry and Kwame Brown.
Liu Mang felt that this lineup was enough, and in order to take care of the emotions of the veteran, Coach Kruger had already agreed to let Horrido play as the starter during the three months of rotation.
So in the first two months, Horry only played 15 of the 28 games, and almost all of them were in garbage time, and he didn't complain, just because it was negotiated from the beginning.
Compared with Brent Barry, who doesn't want money or face but wants a crown, although Horry also has a desire to win, face is still very important.
However, although Horry's eyesight is a little worse now, his attitude is fine, and his teammates are watching it, so no one has come forward to express his dissatisfaction, and he is a veteran role player with five championships in hand.
The Nets, on their side, are confident that they have the Hawks' current lineup, mainly because they beat this lineup less than ten days ago.
The Nets fielded starting lineups of Kidd, Jeff McGinnis, Carter, Kostic, and Ratlleaf.
Kwame Brown goes face-to-face with his first teacher, Ratliff, who actually taught him things!
Without giving the old master face, Kwame Brown easily won the jump ball from Ratliff's head.
Liu Mang received the ball and handed it to Iguodala to advance.
With Iguodala here, Liu Mang can also enjoy the feeling of having fish.
Iguodala advanced to the front court and handed it to Liu Mang, Liu Mang received the ball, and in the face of Kidd's defense, the moment he received the ball, he immediately accelerated towards the basket!
That's how decisive it is!
Kidd reacted quickly, and at the beginning, he was on guard against Liu Mang's strange moves and hurried to follow, and Carter, who was defending Iguodala, also immediately flanked over.
The Nets are fast!
In order to increase the point of possession, Iguodala was dispatched, Liu Mang's breakthrough space suddenly became a lot more crowded, and the Nets were also very strategic.
Liu Mang has been paying attention to the movements of his teammates and opponents during the breakthrough, and seeing this situation, Liu Mang immediately chose to stop and jump when Carter's pinch attack had not yet fully formed......
The moment he shot, Liu Mang knew that he felt good today, and after landing, he turned around and ran towards the backcourt.
Hit!
The start was good, and Liu Mang hit the first shot.
In this case, Kidd and Carter can't help it, people's hands are just easy to use, and they ran back when they saw Liu Mang throw it out, and they were both helpless.
Offense and defense transition, Nets offense.
After Kidd advanced to the frontcourt, he handed the ball to Kostic who pulled it high up, Kostic passed the ball to Carter who ran out to answer, Prince followed Carter to defend it, in order to avoid being clinged to Prince, Carter bypassed Kostic and accelerated from the left side of the top arc, Kostic passed the ball and blocked Prince, Carter burst inside!
Liu Mang let go of McGinnis and struck at Carter, McGinnis cut in the air, Carter distributed the ball to McGinnis, but Horry had already retracted the path that Liu Mang vacated McGinnis when Carter broke through and was caught by Liu Mang and Prince.
McGinnis gives the ball to Kostic who is at the free throw line!
Even though the Hawks' defense rotated quickly and consciously, they were given a shot by the Nets' quick-moving ball, and Kostic hit a shot after entering the three-second zone.
The Nets are still so sharp in their small-scale cooperation.
Carter and McGinnis both had 4 assists, Kidd had 8 assists, and all three were too good passers.
After losing Radmanovic last summer, his internal strength plummeted, and he was still able to beat the strong team repeatedly, relying on the fact that the three outside players were very good at passing.
Offense and defense switched, and the Eagles attacked.
This time Kidd didn't give Liu Mang space, Liu Mang just passed the half, Kidd stuck it up, Liu Mang wanted to use his arms to separate Kidd, and he couldn't get a little space to make a strong shot, Kidd's defense was really strong!
Liu Mang couldn't speed up if he wanted to, so he could only move away from the top arc and move from both sides under Kidd's close adhesion.
Liu Mang was squeezed to the left side of the top arc at a position close to a 45-degree angle, but it was far away from the area on the right side where Carter was sitting with Iguodala and the bottom right corner where Horry and Kostic were located, but Liu Mang's breakthrough in this position was not good, McGinnis defended Prince in the left bottom corner, as long as Liu Mang burst from the left side, he would be immediately pinched, and he would burst into the depths, and Ratliff was there.
It was not as easy as the first attack to get the opportunity to accelerate, this time Liu Mang was forced into a dead corner by Kidd, who is very likely to be selected as the best defensive first team again this year! Breaking through or shooting is not a good choice.
Playing and dismantling Horry can't play the role of opening up space, and Kostic is about to retreat to the three-second zone.
At this time, Liu Mang saw that Kwame Brown was facing the crazy card position that the master didn't give any face, and under the strong static power of Ratliff, he stuck the low position on the left side of the three-second zone, and Liu Mang passed the ball towards Kwame Brown, expecting Kwame Brown to do something.
Kwame Brown received the ball and immediately threw it high......
Decisive miss.
Liu Mang, Iguodala, and Prince quickly retreated, and just when Kwame Brown made a move, the Nets' Carter and McGinnis were already about to fall!
Ratliff slapped the ball into Kidd's hand, Kidd received the ball and threw it to the front court, Carter received the ball at the free throw line, took a step and took off directly, Liu Mang could only watch Carter fly and dunk to score two points.
Carter rushed up like this, and there was no other way but to foul.
It's time for the Eagles to attack again, after Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, he didn't want to break through or cooperate with the inside, but he couldn't cooperate, the defense of the opponent's twin towers was really good, and it was not easy to block and dismantle.
Liu Mang handed the ball to Iguodala, played without the ball himself, cut in from the middle, went around the basket, and ran towards a 45-degree angle on the left side, Kwame Brown helped Liu Mang block Kidd under the basket, Kidd was careless for a while, and was blocked by Kwame Brown and his teammate Ratliff together to block the route around the block, Ratliff hurriedly chased Liu Mang, Carter also pounced towards Liu Mang, afraid that Liu Mang received the ball for three points.
That's when Iguodala saw an opportunity! Cut to the basket with the ball, there are only Kidd and Kostic under the basket, Kostic receives the inside line and goes to top Kwame Brown, Iguodala rushes into the free throw line and takes a dunk!
Kidd, who was a slow beat, really couldn't block Iguodala's jump, and he couldn't stop it, but he was quick with his hands, and when Iguodala grabbed the ball and jumped and lifted it above his head, he quickly cut to the ball!
The ball hits Iguodala's knee and bounces out of bounds!
The experience was so bad!
If it's Kwame Brown, at this time he definitely holds the ball with both hands, and Kwame Brown sees Iguodala grabbing the ball with one hand, and he is quite contemptuous, and he can do whatever he wants with a big hand? It's not the same as being cut.
Fortunately, the ball went out of bounds and did not give the Nets a chance to fight back.
Same as the previous game, when Maddie didn't play and Jason Terry didn't play, if Liu Mang encountered this kind of highly targeted defense, others would not have a good effect with the ball, either they were too young, or they didn't have the ability to attack with the ball.
However, this lineup is much stronger than when Korver was there.
After Kidd advanced through the half, he met Liu Mang's defense and passed the ball to Carter, this time Iguodala stuck to Carter very closely, and Prince also followed McGinnis without the ball.
Kostic came out to help Carter block the pick-and-roll, and the Hawks quickly switched defenses and did not shrink like the last time they encountered the pick-and-roll, Horry blocked in front of Carter, and Iguodala went to cut in with Kostic.
The Hawks used Iguodala to defend Carter just to prevent Prince from being overwhelmed by Kostic.
The role of the Hawks in defending the pick-and-roll is reflected!
Carter didn't get a good space to break through, and at this time, he was sure that he would be attacked by three or four people.
Then the outside singles!
Carter dribbled his foot off the three-point line, Horry saw this action and immediately pounced, Carter really dribbled a few times to exit the three-point line, and then pulled up a three-point shot......
Horry had a good sense of defense and defended well, but Carter's three-point score still went in!
7 to 2!
The Nets opened the game with a 7-2 run!
Carter scored 5 points in a row!
Liu Mang is also helpless, he has already defended to the limit, but people rely on their personal ability to score goals.
"Rely on strength to pitch hard, right? Who's afraid of whom! ”
Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the front court, Kwame Brown took the initiative to block and dismantle, Liu Mang saw that when Kwame Brown came out of the inside, he had received Kostic on the right sideline of the three-second zone, and Ratliff, who was guarding the free throw line and did not completely follow up, Liu Mang waved his hand to let Kwame Brown go back to the basket and block a fart! Ratliff has seen through all the blocking and dismantling here.
Kwame Brown saw Liu Mang's gesture and immediately closed inside.
At this moment, Liu Mang faced Kidd's defense, and when he was already half a step away from the three-point line, he suddenly grabbed the ball and stepped back, and threw out his snipe coldly!
Kidd was still sticking to Liu Mang to see the gestures of Liu Mang and his teammates, thinking that Liu Mang was going to play something, but he only saw Kwame Brown pull it out and take it back, and suddenly the person who was sticking to it retreated, and before Kidd could react, Liu Mang had already shot more than a meter away from the three-point line on the left side of the top arc!
"Bang"
"Huh"
Kidd turned his head and saw that the ball bounced off the basket and landed in the basket!
That's a lot of luck, isn't it?
Kidd looked at Liu Mang and wanted to say a trash talk and complain about Liu Mang's luck, but saw Liu Mang pointing a gun and blowing the non-existent gunsmoke.
Liu Mang's meaning is obvious, he didn't regard this ball as luck at all, but as strength!
Kidd feels ...... Why are you so shameless?
In the cheers of the audience, Liu Mang retreated, in his opinion, entering is entering!
In order to avoid falling behind by 10 points in a single quarter during the last encounter, which led to the situation that the whole game was restricted, Liu Mang thought sideways and was ready to start waves!