In the past three years, the Cavaliers and the Hawks have played each other 12 times in the regular season, James has participated in 10 of them, and the Cavaliers have faced the Hawks on a 12-game losing streak, plus the 02-03 season, a total of 14 consecutive defeats, and the last time the Cavaliers beat the Hawks was when the Hawks were in civil unrest.

The Cavaliers never won against the Hawks since...... In fact, with the exception of the Cavaliers, many teams have not won against the Hawks since the 03-04 season.

The number of wins in three consecutive seasons of 70-68-73 is there.

This is one of them.

The second is that every time Liu Mang fights with James, he tries his best to bully James.

Coupled with the long-planned and repeated defense of James, the Cavaliers are at a loss......

The words of ESPN's beautiful writer gave James a lot of encouragement and led public opinion.

Fans have always been very tolerant of young players, especially for a third-year player like James, who is only 21 years old and can already lead the team to the playoffs and has played 30+7+7.

is only 21 years old, and there are too few people who can play James's performance, and Jordan has not yet entered the NBA at this time.

Compared with Kobe Bryant's 21-year-old two-team and one-defense, James can barely be compared.

The only person who can perform better than Liu Mang at the age of 21 is Magic Johnson, who won the championship MVP almost a year earlier than Liu Mang.

ESPN forcibly brought a wave of rhythm and guided the direction of public opinion.

Not many people thought the Cavaliers had a chance to win, so it was easy to steer the way.

The difference is that when there is no one to guide public opinion, James can't see those words that comfort him, and his little heart will be even more unbearable, but now that someone is guided, he can see those words that comfort him.

The news on the night of the game and the content of what the fans said were all saying that James and Liu Mang were far apart and would never be able to catch up.

Although after the change of public opinion, the fans still say the same thing, but the tone is different, and the senses of the people watching it are very different.

Anyone likes encouragement, not ridicule.

James saw that the whole world was encouraging him, and although he felt strange when he saw Liu Mang's words, he thought of some unknown things and more confusion, but his mentality was much better.

It was May 9, Game 2 of the Hawks-Cavaliers series.

James seemed very energetic from the beginning of the game, and he really fought hard!

However, the effect is still average, James's technical shortcomings will not get better overnight because of more hard work and encouragement from more people, and the places that the Eagles can use still exist.

In the second game, Liu Mang scored 30 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists, Maddie scored 17 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists, Jason Terry scored 14 points, Josh Smith 13 points and 6 boards, Korver scored 13 points, Kwame Brown scored 8 points and 11 boards, and the Hawks won 115-91, beating the Cavaliers to win two consecutive victories and lead 2-0.

James had 23 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on 7-of-26 shooting in this game......

James's data is more and more similar to Liu Mang's impression of James who was swept by the Spurs in the 06-07 season finals, and it is even worse......

played very hard, but in the face of the Eagles' more and more proficient defensive strategy, James's effect was not as good as the first game, and the Eagles typed into a good situation!

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On the 12th, after two days of rest, the Hawks played their third game against the Cavaliers in Cleveland.

Big Z, who only scored 10 points in the first two games combined, broke out a little today, scoring 26 points and 12 boards, and beat Kwame Brown, mainly because the mid-range shot was very accurate.

However, it did not change much for the Cavaliers, and the Hawks held the Cavaliers firmly in check.

And Big Z exerted more power on the offensive end, and his physical fitness on the defensive end began to decline, and he was scored 20 points and 8 boards by Kwame Brown, and the rebounding Kwame Brown did not do very well today, but Kwame Brown on the offensive end offset the 22 points that Big Z worked hard to get.

Although James returned to the home court and got the first 30+ in the second round, he scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists on 12-of-27 shooting from the field, playing the most efficient game, but the number of assists is getting fewer and fewer.

The mentality of the Cavaliers players has collapsed!

Liu Mang scored 25 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and Kwame Brown's 20 points, Maddy's 17 points and 7 assists, Jason Terry's 19 points, the Hawks scored double-doubles, and maintained a solid lead at 97-89 on the road.

3-0, the Eagles did not have an accident in the second round, and won the match point 3-0 steadily!

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When that report came out, although it gave comfort and hope to Cavaliers fans and James comfort and hope, it was actually equivalent to sounding the death knell for most of the Cavaliers' players.

No one believed that they could win, and they themselves didn't believe it, and the third game seemed to be a little more difficult for the Hawks to win, only winning by 8 points, but that was the big Z and James who refused to give up spelling, the Cavaliers had a total of 89 points, James and Big Z got 57 of them, counting Larry Hughes's 13 points, all three of them scored 70 points, and the others combined for only 19 points.

The Cavaliers' lineup of more than 70 million is already the salary of the lineup of a championship-level team at this time, and the Hawks' salary of more than 70 million this season, if the Hawks win the championship this season, it is already the highest-paid championship in NBA history so far.

But the Cavaliers' lineup of more than 70 million, most of the players, are poached from other teams' expiring contracts, that is, they are poached players who perform well in the contract year, and they collapse after taking a big contract.

James "wasted teammates" real hammer......

After the argument of "James pays tuition" appeared in the first game, although the game between the Hawks and the Cavaliers was highly rated, the fans watched it calmly and calmly.

The fans of the other three series were relatively not so calm and noisy.

The series between the Nets and the Heat has been very anxious, as long as Kidd can enter the playoffs, they are very competitive, the first four games, the Nets and the Heat team played a 2-2 draw, especially in the fourth game, the Heat team had to lock up the win at the last moment, and finally was connected by Kidd and Carter, Carter 0.6 seconds to catch the kill, and the Nets pulled the big score to a 2-2 draw.

On the Lakers' side, leading the Suns 3-1, Liu Mang saw the Lakers leading the Suns 3-1 in the 2006 playoffs, and began to cheer for the Suns silently...... The 1-3 reversal of the Lakers is Nash's standard reversal!

Merely...... Facing the Lakers with Yao Ming, the Suns are a bit miserable.

Not to mention Yao Ming going to the Lakers, when Yao Ming was in the Rockets, the Suns couldn't take Yao Ming, the Suns were so amazing last season, but they were 3-1 by the Rockets in the regular season.

The most fierce is the matchup between the Mavericks and the Spurs' super power forward, the Spurs actually lost the first game, 87-89, and was blown up by Nowitzki, who scored 35 points and 15 boards, and Nowitzki's rebounds in the playoffs simply exploded.

However, in the second game, Duncan returned Nowitzki with 30 points and 20 rebounds, and the Spurs beat the Mavericks 92-77.

After the third game between the Hawks and the Cavaliers, the Mavericks returned to their home court to play the third game against the Spurs, and the Mavericks sent back the home-court advantage they had grabbed, and Ginobili beat the Mavericks with three points, and the Spurs tied the score at 2-1 106-104.

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The other three group series are all very interesting, the Suns and the Lakers series are all interesting, the Suns have a high score of 122 points and won the Lakers by 24 points, if it can continue to break out, there is still suspense.

And on May 14, Game 4 of the series between the Hawks and Cavaliers has been regarded by fans as the end stop of James' first playoff journey.

And it is.

In the first three games, Liu Mang was still playing on the offensive end, I don't know why Maddie was very excited in the playoffs this year, playing hard, attacking and defending very hard, Liu Mang was also happy to give the ball, shoot by himself, and defend according to the established defensive strategy.

But in the fourth game, seeing that he was about to sweep the Cavaliers, Liu Mang couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and it broke out in the first quarter!

18 points in a single quarter!

Liu Mang scored two three-pointers in the first quarter of this game, and then used James to defend tightly, broke through to the basket, and dared to be tough in the face of Big Z, or went to the inside line to make a layup or caused a foul after a successful shot, Liu Mang shot 6 of 10 in the first quarter, 3 of 5 three-pointers, 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 18 points in a single quarter!

The Cavaliers' side has completely collapsed, James is still fighting, after all, he is a young top star with a heart, he is unwilling to give up, but James's best helper Larry Hughes has a poor performance without the ball, and Big Z fought all his life in the last game, and today it is soft.

At the end of the half, Liu Mang scored 30 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, and the Hawks were already 71-44, leading by 27 points.

71 points in the half, which is also a new high for the Hawks to score in the Cavaliers' half, the Cavaliers are very strong defensively, but they did a good job in the first three games, and the fourth game is gone.

The game was thrown into garbage time at half-time!

In the third quarter, the Cavaliers struggled a bit, and after the margin was stretched to 30 points, they raised the white flag!

After Liu Mang scored 11 points in the third quarter, he was also replaced.

41 points, 6 boards and 2 assists, Liu Mang 40+ for the first time in this year's playoffs!

Unlike Miami, the Cleveland fans didn't leave the stadium until the end of the game, and they knew from the first game that they were going to lose, but they still didn't leave.

James finished the third quarter, got 15 points and 4 assists and was replaced, due to some off-court factors, his current mentality is very peaceful, but the whole person is at a loss.

There's no room for struggle!

To make a comparison, it's like James excitedly reached the finals in 2007 and was bald by the other party.

James averaged 24 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game in this series, which looked pretty good, but he shot 34 percent from the field......

James felt like he couldn't do anything......

James never thought that he could become Liu Mang's type of player, he has one thing that he firmly believes, that is, he believes in his physical fitness, he and Liu Mang are not the same type of player, Liu Mang needs more skills to have such strength, to play such data, and he James does not need to, he can easily maintain an average of 27+7+7 data per game by relying on his body.

But now, James thoroughly feels the importance of technology, when the body flow style of play is restrained by the opponent, as long as there is such a proficient ability, or three-pointers, or mid-range shots, or footsteps under the basket, the situation is not like this, and it will not be suppressed so badly.

However, James thought that Liu Mang was the first in the history of three points, and his skills were getting better and better year by year, and it was the kind of progress that was visible to the naked eye, and it was getting to the point where the offensive technology was 360 degrees without dead ends.

James thought to himself...... I am at a loss, and my technology seems to be a 360-degree blind spot......

Finally, the series is over! The Hawks beat the Cavaliers by 131-95, 36 points, and swept 4-0!

After the game, Liu Mang came to the court, and James also followed, the two teams had no hatred, and there was no way to sweep, the difference in strength was too big.

Liu Mang went up to hug James and said: "LeBron, you have to believe that sadness is always inevitable, you will inevitably feel very depressed now, and even begin to doubt life, but it doesn't matter, the future is yours." ”

After Liu Mang hugged the dazed James, he turned around and left in a dashing manner.

James was encouraged to see Liu Mang, who comforted him like a "warm big brother" after the game.

"The future is mine...... Wait, Ace seems to be only 16 months older than me? ”