The Eagles are always a breath of fresh air in the playoffs.

The Lakers beat the Suns, the Lakers are grinding defense, the Suns are desperately attacking, the Lakers seem to have a great advantage, but the point difference is always untenable, because they are easy to get used to arrogance, and they will be caught up by the opponent after a little slackness.

The Heat played the Nets, and the tactics were against Biao.

Next, the next game of the Spurs against the Mavericks, the battle between Duncan and Nowitzki, the strength of the Spurs and the Mavericks is not far apart, it must be a game like Mars hitting the earth, although the process may be ugly because of the relationship between the Spurs, but the showdown between Nowitzki and Duncan is still very attractive, and it will definitely be very intense.

But the Hawks played the Cavaliers.

At first glance, James had 12 points and 4 boards in the half, and 25 points, 8 boards and 4 assists in the game, which looked very good.

However, James shot 8-of-29......

It took a lot of hard work to get 25 points, and in the end, he had no choice but to shoot one step across the three-point line, and he really got two ultra-long three-pointers, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to score 20 points.

In the first game between the Hawks and the Cavaliers, David Stern watched the first half and felt like he was going to be depressed......

West Spurs, East Hawks, it's going crazy!

The Eagles, in particular, are both loved and hated.

I thought there was nothing to watch in the first round, but the Hawks made a big upset in the first round, allowing the Pacers to win one game, making the ratings of the next four games very good.

But in the second round, this high-profile series, the Hawks gave full play to their dominance, tactical versatility, and star characteristics, and did not give the Cavaliers a chance at all!

Prince's defense of shooting, Maddy's defense of breakaways, Liu Mang's pinch and defensive ability, rebounding, and the Hawks' mobility under the basket......

Liu Mang scored 23 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block on 8-of-17 shooting, and Maddie scored 25 points, 3 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 blocks on 9-of-20 shooting, and the two led the Hawks to 107 points in a single game.

On the Cavaliers' side, they only scored 83 points, the Hawks scored 107-83, and the Cavaliers didn't know how to play in the first game!

James is also very good, no matter how he plays, since the second grade, every game is almost more than 20 points, seven or eight rebounds and several assists.

But today James was sleepwalking all over the court, hesitating on the dribble, bursting two or three times before he hit once, and he didn't dare to pass to the outside line when he broke in, and only Larry Hughes or Newbell were teammates who had no shooting ability, and those who had shooting ability were stared at by Liu Mang or Korver and Iguodala, who were good opponents who helped defend and supplement.

Just as Popovich exposed the weaknesses of James during the Heat Big Three, but James couldn't make a response, and now James is in the same situation, and it's even worse!

James's four-step layup under the basket is not easy to make, Liu Mang and Mike Woodson discussed the defense, the outside is mainly based on Popovich's Spurs system defense, and on the inside, Rasheed Wallace used the Celtics' Big Three to deal with James The same way to deal with James, although James still scored 8 goals, James missed 21!

James during the period of the Heat's Big Three was just a mid-range shot, and his three-point shot was first-class.

Although the current James has greatly improved his three-point shooting, he is also just 80 The quasi-first-class edge level of three-point evaluation is still far from the most accurate one with a 43-point shooting rate during the future Heat Big Three.

Anyone watching the game could tell that James was doubting life.

Just like the Hawks coaching staff's worries about premature promotion, James is very confident, since it was determined that the playoffs will enter the playoffs in fifth place, he has been studying how to deal with the Hawks, and has thought of a lot of ways, how to deal with Liu Mang, how to deal with Maddie, and after discussing with Mike Brown, Big Z instructed Big Z to study more about how Yao Ming can deal with the Hawks' interior line, James did not doubt whether he could make it to the second round in the first round, so while thinking about how to deal with the 76ers, I'm also figuring out how to deal with the Eagles.

But in the game, James found that the methods he thought of to deal with Liu Mang were all in vain, and the preparation was more thorough, more targeted, and more perfect!

Moreover, he grabbed his biggest weakness and magnified it infinitely, except for him holding the ball and chiseling it under the basket and using the good feel of the basket to score, he had almost no solution!

The game became garbage time in the fourth quarter, and when James was replaced, the fans at the scene felt that this third-grader was too pitiful...... I couldn't help but send him a call of encouragement......

It's just that when James heard this cry of comfort, he doubted life even more......

Even the opposing fans felt pitiful for him, and James felt too bleak......

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Full preparation, excellent execution brought by the tacit understanding cultivated in two years, and the fact that Liu Mang and Maddie are both stronger than James now, and now the East is about to be defeated by Liu Mang...... and other factors, Liu Mang made James explode on the spot in the first game.

Liu Mang has been preparing for how to play when he meets Zhan Wei in the playoffs a long time ago, and according to the current time and space, the technical changes of the two are constantly fine-tuning.

It's not just about using the known methods of defending them, after all, it's just like that, Liu Mang has been discussing with Mike Woodson, the top three in the league and maybe even the best defensive assistant coach at the moment, Liu Mang used the concepts he knew, plus Mike Woodson's defensive knowledge, plus some new methods proposed by Liu Mang after learning technical and tactical knowledge, after a long period of planning and improvement, and then planning and improvement......

After repeated deliberation and pondering, until last night to see how the Lakers dealt with the Suns, they were still strengthening the tactics of defending James.

James has done a good job, but compared to Liu Mang, a scheming rogue, James's preparations look like a child's game strategy......

After the game, ESPN made a good comment on the first playoff matchup between the two two Chinese and American stars that their TV station praised.

ESPN reporter and NBA columnist Cassidy Haboth wrote a long post after the game, and the core of his long essay was this:

"The Hawks and Cavaliers playoffs have lost suspense from the first game, Ace has taken advantage of all of LeBron's weaknesses with two more years of college basketball and two more years of experience in the NBA, LeBron exposed all his weaknesses in this game, he is not good at shooting, he is not good at how to adjust when he encounters difficulties, he is not good at how to solve problems when he can't take advantage of the extra footsteps under the basket, he is still too young.

Ace has been playing with adults for seven years, LeBron is only in his third year, and there's no denying that Ace is much better than LeBron, who is the greatest regular season MVP of all time, but LeBron still has a long way to go.

LeBron and Ace This series, fans don't have to look forward to a very special result in this series with the mentality that LeBron can beat Ace, LeBron needs to pay tuition, he can see his weaknesses in this series, and then improve, just like Ace, Ace will only shoot three-pointers and fouls at first, and now Ace is already one of the best technical players in the league.

The strength of the Hawks against the Cavaliers is undoubtedly crushing, Ace plays so seriously, he treats LeBron as a true friend, and wants to teach LeBron, the playoffs are not so simple, just using the referee is not enough, LeBron has improved a lot this year, but it still needs to improve, I think this is the reason why Ace is so serious.

I'm looking forward to the next time LeBron is back on the playoff stage, and he'll be a big step forward." ”

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ESPN reporters wrote a long article specifically for the series, and on May 8, the day after the Hawks and Cavaliers series, the news came out and caused a lot of reaction.

ESPN's rare very neutral article, even if the reporter is a die-hard James fan, is very neutral in terms of words and tone.

After all, both of them are ESPN's highly praised stars.

Not only is it neutral, but the advice is also very pertinent.

When Liu Mang saw this article, he felt weird, he just wanted to kill James, but he didn't expect that the reading comprehension ability of American imperialist reporters was comparable to that of Chinese teachers! It was even seen that he had an idea that he wanted to guide James that he didn't know about......

Thereupon...... At noon, Liu Mang rested at home in the morning, and when he went to the stadium to eat a nutritious meal at noon to prepare for the afternoon training, when he was surrounded by reporters for an interview, Liu Mang said: "LeBron and I are brothers, we train together every summer, he asked me when we met in Indiana before, what should he improve, I didn't answer at the time, we were impacting the historical record at that time, and now I told him what he should improve." ”

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James looked at the morning and evening newspapers in front of him, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.

After yesterday's loss to the Hawks, his mentality was about to collapse.

Today, I was in a mess all day long, and I didn't even dare to read the news.

But James is a post-80s kid who likes to surf the Internet, likes to be exposed to the news, and is easily influenced by public opinion, and he finally saw the two newspapers, and they saw them together.

I saw ESPN's column, as well as Liu Mang's interview......

James is very emotionally complicated now, and he is eager to ask Liu Mang: "What happened that night in Indianapolis!" ”