1198. The Battle of the Strongest!
Suppressing James, who is still in the seedling stage, Liu Mang is nine out of ten, with strength suppression, tactical suppression, and all-round advantage.
But playing the Heat team, Liu Mang, his teammates and the coaching staff are doing their best to prepare and train very seriously.
It's time to play against the second-best team in the league's East, and the Hawks are excited.
In the first two rounds, the two superstars of the Heat broke out a series by themselves, especially after six games with the Nets, the Heat team was in a hot state, and even Payton, who had a terrible offense in the regular season, got his form back.
On the afternoon of May 21, the Heat arrived in Atlanta, and although Miami is close to Atlanta, they still came to Atlanta the day before to soak up the atmosphere and avoid a tiring journey until tomorrow's game.
After Wade arrived in Miami, he walked the streets with Haslem to relieve stress.
It's finally time to fight Liu Mang, and Wade is now excited and a little scared.
There was a reason before, it was just the regular season, but now it is a playoff competition, and if you lose again, you will have no chance to compare with Liu Mang in the early stage of your career, and the gap will be completely widened.
In the original time and space, Wade was compared with Kobe Bryant for a long time when he only had two firsts, and he beat Maddy and Carter as scoring guards, just because he had a championship.
Pat Riley wants to take advantage of O'Neal's peak tail to fight for a wave, and Wade certainly wants to take advantage of this opportunity to challenge for the championship.
There are too many talented stars who have never had a chance to come close to a championship in their entire careers, and there is no chance to partner with O'Neal even O'Neal, who is the tail of his peak, and Wade wants to seize this opportunity.
He's not stupid, and if it weren't for the opportunity to train to the death that Pat Riley gave him in the summer, there's no reason for him to fight like that.
Since his rookie season, Wade's strength has been far ahead of the 03 generation, and he has the strength of a superstar in the third year, which is stronger than Kobe Bryant and even Liu Mang at the same age, just for now.
Crossed Liu Mang and won the championship!
Wade looked at the posters of some shopping malls in Atlanta and the slogans of the Hawks posted on the phone booths on the side of the road, all of which read "three consecutive championships", and the Atlantans have already regarded this year's championship as a bag.
Wade saw that there was nothing humiliating about the idea that I was going to them, he felt that this was too normal, the Hawks had that strength, he was a challenger to challenge the current NBA kingship, if anyone else was not optimistic about them, he would feel that others looked down on them and were humiliated, but the more the Hawks were favored, the more motivated he was.
Last season, the Hawks went 68-14 and successfully defended the championship, Pat Riley felt that the Hawks would slack off if they won two consecutive championships, and Wade said the same, saying that this season is Wade's chance to hit the MVP and championship.
At that time, Kobe Bryant's condition was relatively average, and Wade's performance in the 04-05 season was already better than Kobe's performance when his physical strength collapsed, his defense declined, and he led the team alone.
Nash's 04-05 season was a phenomenal performance, and it was difficult to replicate, and Liu Mang's side has won two consecutive championships, and it really looks like Pat Riley said.
Wade also felt that it was really like that at the time, according to history, it was indeed like that, even if it was the Bulls dynasty of Pippen and Jordan, the third championship was full of ups and downs, teammates began to slack off, injuries increased, and Jordan won the championship by himself.
Although Liu Mang is strong, in Wade's opinion, there is still a gap between Liu Mang and Jordan.
Pat Riley has spent a lot of money in the summer, Wade has been training frantically for a summer, and the mid-range shooting has reached a first-class level, O'Neal has maintained the status of the league's top two centers, and this year's Heat team is aiming to replace the Hawks as the best in the league.
However, they ignore that Maddy, Iguodala, Josh Smith and others only won the first championship last season, although they joined the dynasty halfway, but if they win the championship, they will still be the founders of the fourth dynasty in NBA history after the Lakers dynasty, the Celtics dynasty, and the Bulls dynasty.
Moreover, Iguodala, Josh Smith and other talents are in the second year, Korver is only in the third year and has just become the main rotation, Iguodala and Josh Smith need to start talking about early contract renewal when they reach the third year of the 06-07 season, and the performance of this season is very critical, whether it is to sit on the main bench position, or for the future, it is easy to be mobilized by Liu Mang.
Liu Mang took the initiative to give up the ball, the number of shots was greatly reduced, and the average score per game fell below 30, which gave his teammates a lot of motivation.
Then, contrary to the Heat's expectations, the Hawks played their strongest regular season performance in history, winning eight straight games after losing the first game of the playoffs.
Wade and Haslem, fellow rookies of the same class, took a feel for the frenetic and ecstatic atmosphere that Atlanta is now experiencing, returning to the hotel to watch videos of the Eagles' games and work hard to study the Eagles.
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At 7:10 p.m. on May 22, after more than two days of preparation, Liu Mang and his teammates stepped into the familiar court, and the game with the Heat team was about to start in 20 minutes.
When the Heat players entered, the fans in the stadium gave the Heat players the loudest boos in the playoffs this season.
The opponents in the first two rounds were okay, even if they lost the first game in the first round, they were fine, but the Heat made the Hawks fans feel threatened, and this sense of threat made the Hawks fans boo the Heat frantically.
When the Eagles started the game, Masan turned into cheers and fans cheered on their players.
After Liu Mang entered, he came to the technical table and waited for the final pre-game activities on the field.
Wade also came to the technical desk to apply magnesium powder.
"Ace, it's finally time for this day!" Wade was full of fighting spirit.
Liu Mang looked at Wade, he saw the news yesterday and knew that Wade had come to Atlanta, but he didn't come to talk to him.
Liu Mang and Wade have a very good relationship, and the two are still in the same company, even if they have been abused before, they will get together with Liu Mang before the game, but not this time.
From this point, Liu Mang knew that Wade was very serious this time.
If you want to answer something, Liu Mang thought for a while and said to Wade: "Are you so anxious to see me enter the finals with your own eyes?" Don't be in such a hurry, you can wait two more years. ”
Every time Wade talks to Liu Mang in a game, he feels like he wants to beat this bastard!
That's what Wade is worried about, Liu Mang is a few months younger than him!
Unlike James, who can still expect Liu Mang, who is more than two years older than him, to decline first one day, Wade can't afford to wait! So with O'Neal, with Pat Riley building for him the best roster in Heat team history, Wade had to seize that opportunity.
Fortunately, he has been used to it for three years, Wade wiped the magnesium powder, deliberately clapped his hands, let the magnesium powder disperse, and didn't say anything to Liu Mang, turned around and left.
Liu Mang was almost choked by Wade's sudden slap of magnesium powder, looking at Wade's back, Liu Mang wanted to sprinkle a handful of magnesium powder over it.
is still in the stage of moving, this bastard actually did it directly!
Vile!
On the other hand, O'Neal, who "humiliated" Kwame Brown in the last time he played against the Hawks, is still looking for an opportunity to fix Kwame Brown this time, but Kwame Brown doesn't stir up the atmosphere, but learns to dance with Prince......
Prince is a judge a year, endorsing some street-style clothes and other goods, and endorsing dance studios, earning seven or eight million a year, James earns even more, and Kwame Brown also joins in the fun, even if he doesn't dance so well, but after all, he is an All-Star starter, and his popularity is high, so maybe he can get one or two endorsements.
Mainly because of the fear of O'Neill, the fat man......
The two teams have been going toe-to-toe since before the game, but this-for-tat is just the point...... It's kind of weird......
Liu Mang wiped the magnesium powder, asked his teammates for a ball, went to practice shooting and waited for the game to start.
By the way, I looked at the strength of the Heat's players, Wade has an ability rating of 97 (peak), O'Neal has an ability rating of 96 (peak), Antoine Walker has an ability rating of 83, Jason Williams has an ability rating of 82, and Posey has an ability rating of 79.
Because it is the East Finals, the live broadcast of major TV stations has begun half an hour in advance, and the TV commentator analyzed the starters of the two teams and found that in addition to Liu Mang, the comparison of the other four positions of the Hawks starters and the Heat starters is a slight advantage!
Mainly judging from the performance of this season's playoffs, the Heat team is far inferior to Liu Mang in the other four positions, except for the point guard, the performance of the other four positions is not worse than the Hawks!
In the past, not many people found out about this in the regular season, but now the two teams are going to play a series, and there are only two series in the East and West.
The Hawks, for their part, have also identified this problem, with Posey not being as consistent defensively as Prince in the long term, but he has been no worse defensively than Prince in the playoffs this season.
Wade is a combination of offense and defense, because he has no three-pointers, so his performance from the middle distance and under the basket is better than Maddy's, O'Neal's performance is similar to that of the Western giant's Yao Ming, and Antoine Walker has also played well in the playoffs this season for the championship.
Rashid Wallace and Antoine Walker are probably better teammates, he can play the role of an interior pillar in most teams, and he also has a certain ability to play high posts and three-point openings.
However, Antoine Walker can attack well, can go from one to five, a jack-of-all-trades player.
Liu Mang learned in the team meeting that he was the key point!
At 7:28, the game was about to start, and the referee signaled what to do on the Eagles' side to hurry up.
Prince "warmed up" and began to writhe in a sexy dance, the fans at the scene rested for a while, and began to cheer in the dance of Priss swaying with the dimming of the German light, and the East Decisive began!