194. Away vs. Iverson
Iverson, Philadelphia.
I don't know when, Liu Mang's impression of the Philadelphia 76ers is deeply engraved with the name Iverson, even if there are Ben Simmons and Embiid with better talent in the future, Ben Simmons averaged 17+8+7 per game in his rookie season, just looking at the data comparable to Magic, Embiid is also a talented player, and the first year of cooperation between the two has brought endless shock to fans.
But none of these are as good as one person – Aaron Iverson.
Generally speaking, players of the same class, and players of the same class who have been in the league for five or six years and have not been eliminated, will come up to say hello when they play each other, at least to say hello.
But Iverson just doesn't!
In terms of dealing with opponents, Iverson is the same as Kobe Bryant, the standard type of player of the nineties.
After playing the Celtics on the 25th, the Hawks flew to Philadelphia that night, and the 76ers on the 26th.
The 76ers, Raptors, and Pacers are in full swing for sixth to eighth in the East, and the 76ers are not willing to lose a game.
It can be said that Iverson has an eccentric personality, and it can be said that he has a unique shooting style, but it cannot be denied that he is competitive!
When his strength is at its peak, if the team's lineup and style of play match him, he proves that he can win the MVP and reach the Finals.
Such an opponent can never be taken lightly!
Rahim, in particular, is now unbeatable in his desire to beat his peers!
"Ace, Jason, let's him!" Raheem also wants to have the same three-man bag as he did the last time he played Iverson.
Jason Terry is also ready to move, and this face is the proud Iverson of the MVP, which makes him very unhappy as a small man.
"Come on, let's fight hard, don't use those crooked brains, you two, you only know how to think about those unreliable methods all day long, don't you know how to use your strength to fight each other?" Liu Mang won't tell them that the two of them gambled last time by taking advantage of the effect of the discord card and that he was not an important part of the team at that time, and now the situation of the 76ers has obviously stabilized, although it is completely incomparable with last season, but it is also a playoff team, how can it be so blind.
Don't use your brain? Thinking of unreliable methods all day long?
Raheem and Jason Terry glanced at each other when Liu Mang was talking about brainless pretense, and began to abuse rookies again......
"Chimo Chicken...... You two bastards...... Jamaica fell ......"
The 76ers fans behind the Hawks bench looked enviously at the Hawks' three cores who were fighting, this harmonious atmosphere, the 76ers have not seen it this year!
However, there are also fans who are well-versed in Japanese movies who look at the trio with strange eyes......
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At eight o'clock in the evening on the 26th, the last game in the East today, the Hawks also have the treatment of a hot team! ESPN is streaming an Eagles game live for the first time this season, and it's still an addendum! And it could become a regular decision to air the Eagles' popular game every dozen or so!
It sounds like it's really rare to broadcast more than a dozen games, but the Lakers and 76ers have only 14 live broadcasts on ESPN this season, 36 live Lakers in the United States, 31 live broadcasts for the 76ers, 28 times for the Knicks, 25 times for the Raptors, and 23 times for the Wizards, which are the most! The Magic have only 16 All-American live broadcasts all season
. T, Time Warner and ABC TV's national live broadcasts, they can always choose to broadcast Hawks games, counting more than 40 games left, and there are seventeen or eighteen national live broadcasts throughout the season, all of which can rank in the top 10 of the league's 29 teams!
The Hawks just came to Philadelphia in the first game of a back-to-back, and this game will not be so easy relatively speaking, mainly because there is no time to prepare for the game, which is the most painful and difficult part of the second game of the back-to-back.
At half past eight o'clock last night, the game ended, and at ten o'clock I finished all kinds of post-game maintenance and media things, mainly in the media, after the team became popular, the media interview link that I was envious of before gradually became a burden, and I was delayed for more than half an hour, I arrived at the airport at twelve o'clock, and arrived at the Sonystar Tenhouse Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia at nearly four o'clock, and then the players were sleepy, and they fell asleep again at dawn, and when it was afternoon, there was not much time to prepare.
Relatively speaking, although the 76ers also played the visiting San Antonio Spurs yesterday and were beaten 97-70, they are at least sitting at home to wait for work, and the strength advantage of the Hawks is not much.
Liu Mang, who was ravaged by bad teammates, "cursed" Jason Terry and Raheem to be tortured to death by Iverson, and then went to save the world himself...... Of course, it's just thinking about it, he still expects the two of them to play an advantage and go to harvest the game by themselves.
At the beginning of the season, everyone must have worked hard, but the regular season was too long, and there was back-to-back pressure, and they all wanted to settle the opponent in three or two and then rest.
The pre-game event is over and the competition has officially begun!
Mutombo beat Ratliff to win the jump ball, and the 76ers took the lead.
The 76ers sent Eric Snow and Iverson, two very strong defensive backcourt combinations, Matt Halprin in the frontcourt, Derrick Coleman, and Mutombo, this lineup except for Derrick Coleman, everyone is built for Iverson's play, point guards and small forwards are the types of 3D players that will be called in the future, and the center is the best defensive player.
However, Derrick Coleman's replacement of the 76ers' blue-collar power forward Teiran Hill last season ruined this one-man four-man defense, catch-and-shoot play.
At the beginning of the season, Iverson always wanted to show his "selflessness", thinking about giving Coleman the ball and letting him play, resulting in both people playing awkwardly, and the 76ers could not play a role in opening up space, his inside singles were packed every time, Iverson was a little miserable without the ball, and his off-ball power was not as strong as when the Nuggets had two guns, and both of them played awkwardly.
As the season progressed, the 76ers' style of play was decided, and Coleman was the 3-and-D power forward, shooting three-pointers and air cuts.
In this way, although Coleman's data is far from his peak average of 21+11.2+3.6 per game, only averaging 15 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists per game, the 76ers' style of play is unified and gradually on the right track.
Snow grabbed the ball and pushed it to the front court, where it was handed to Iverson.
Coleman and Halplin, two players with a 35 percent three-point shooting rate this season, stood in the bottom corner, Snow cut to disrupt the Hawks' defense, the space was wide open, Jason Terry and Muhammad guarded a bottom corner and didn't dare to let go, these two guys had a career three-point shooting rate of 34 percent, I really didn't dare to let go, Snow was fast, Jacqui Vaughan couldn't let go of him, he had a strong impact.
Raheem took a big step to defend against Iverson on the line, his palms sweating.
There was a lively chat before the game, but when it was time to really play Iverson, I was still nervous!
This is the first star of the same class now!
Iverson really can't look down on any of the players in the same class at this stage, except for Kobe! Direct acceleration breakthrough, without feints.
The normal speed of 97 is too exaggerated! Raheem is not without training in the team to defend against Liu Mang and Jason Terry, one 94 speed, one 91 speed, not as exaggerated as Iverson's starting acceleration of 100 and the average speed of 70!
Raheem retreated again and again, but still couldn't interfere with Iverson, caressing the mid-range throw that jumped to the bottom line!
Ratliff couldn't catch up with the save, Rahim's defense didn't play too much of a limit, and Iverson hit the throw with full speed!