1184. The Indifferent Eagles
Kwame Brown flicks the ball back on Foster's head.
The Eagles attacked first, and the scene immediately rang out with fierce cheers.
Fans want to give their players motivation and they need the Eagles to win this game.
Liu Mang received the ball and passed the ball to Maddie, Maddie was very positive today, the moment Kwame Brown dialed the ball, he was already rushing to the front court, Liu Mang's pass was in place in time, Maddie just reached the right sideline of the three-point line, and Liu Mang's ball just arrived.
The opponent of the Eagles has a headache for Liu Mang, because he shoots accurately and passes accurately, although the tandem offense can barely be regarded as a first-class level, but the ability to attract pinching shots, pass the ball to empty teammates in the first time, and brush assists can be regarded as one of the strongest players in the league.
The Pacers were on guard against this, ready to block the Hawks' opening fast break from the jump ball, and Anthony Johnson was the first to appear in front of Maddy.
Anthony Johnson's defense is very active, and at the age of 32, he spelled out the best performance of his career, averaging 9 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.5 steals in 22 minutes per game, and got a 4-year, 11 million contract extension from the Pacers in the middle of the season, which is basically the last contract of his career.
Anthony Johnson used his best pressing and small movements to give Maddie a chance to jump and shoot with a height difference of 10 centimeters.
Maddie was a little uncomfortable by Anthony Johnson's small actions, and didn't come hard, Maddie knew that he couldn't wave today.
Maddie dribbled towards the line and waited for Liu Mang to run over, then passed the ball to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang received the ball and made a move to break through, Artest was ready to shrink to help prevent Maddie from breaking through, and saw Liu Mang receiving the ball and accelerating when he saw Liu Mang close to the three-point line, and immediately posted it back to Liu Mang.
Not only Artest, but Anthony Johnson's attention was also attracted to Liu Mang, and the Pacers' defensive strategy was to block Liu Mang or Maddie on the front line, cut off the connection between the two as much as possible while wrapping the trap, and send the two to the inside to fight with the center.
Just when Anthony Johnson turned his head to look at Liu Mang, Maddie was facing the basket sideways, facing Liu Mang and Artest, and suddenly turned 270 degrees to the left, bypassing Anthony Johnson and cutting inside, hitting the Pacers off guard, Liu Mang received the ball and rushed two steps into the three-point line, and when he was about to dribble the racket down, he immediately turned the ball to pass, hoisted the ball to the right side of the free throw line, and led people with the ball!
When Maddie turned to the right side of the free throw line, he just received the ball and took a step to dribble towards the basket.
Just when Foster was waiting to block Maddie and other outside shots, Maddie slowed down and gave Artest a chance to quickly shrink in and block Maddy's path to the left, Anthony Johnson was very positive, and after being erased, he was not discouraged, and caught up to interfere with Maddy's emergency stop jumper, Foster clubbed under the basket, and the three formed a circle.
Maddie slowed down and waited for the opponent to come up, then jumped into the three-second zone and threw the ball right in front of the basket!
Liu Mang happened to run to the right side of the top arc at this time, and received a pass from Maddie to shoot a three-point shot!
"Ding...... Marksman level 5 triggers ......"
"Ding...... Catch & Shoot Master Level 5 trigger ......"
Fast and accurate!
Liu Mang catches the ball and hits a three-point shot!
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Liu Mang roared angrily in his heart, today is the same as the day before yesterday, the three-point hand is very good, and he hit a three-point shot on the first attack!
Liu Mang predicted Maddie's route very well, and Maddie's prediction of Liu Mang's choice of movement was not good!
It's called tacit understanding!
Liu Mang made another three-pointer at the beginning!
But this time is different from the last time, after scoring last time, the Mai Mang combination was thinking about how to play in the next round, but this time, after Liu Mang scored, the Mai Mang combination took the lead in counterattacking, and there was no action of clapping in celebration.
There's nothing to celebrate! Throwing the ball in is the way it should be.
Tinsley advanced to the frontcourt, and the Pacers started the offense clearly, hoisting the ball to O'Neal Jr., who went into the low post!
After the first game, O'Neal Auburn Hills Jr. slipped more defensively, and the offensive end was still very strong, and he played beautiful statistics in the first game of the playoffs.
But this time the Eagles changed their guards!
Kwame Brown and Rasheed Wallace switched defenses, Kwame Brown defended O'Neal Jr., and Rasheed Wallace didn't suffer under the basket and Foster at the card position.
The Hawks have studied it, and Rashid Wallace really can't stop O'Neal Jr.'s footsteps, but Kwame Brown can, and he doesn't suffer a loss when he fights, and Kwame Brown's footsteps don't suffer!
Rasheed Wallace defensively has a lot of small moves, and Kwame Brown is even more ferocious!
O'Neal Jr. played well in the last one-on-one heads-up attack and was confident today, but the assistant who turned around was reached out behind by Kwame Brown and pulled the ball out!
Rashid Wallace was quick to snatch the ball from Kwame Brown Jr. O'Neal and into the reasonable impact zone! O'Neal Jr. wanted to fight back after losing the ball, but Rashid Wallace held the ball with both hands and stretched out the bottom line, pouting with his ass to block O'Neal Jr. from stealing the ball.
Liu Mang came in to answer, O'Neal Jr. hurriedly retreated, Rashid Wallace passed the ball to Liu Mang, Liu Mang quickly advanced to the half court before the eight-second violation, and the Pacers took advantage of O'Neal Jr.'s steal to block Rasheed Wallace's opportunity to pass the guard at the first time, and the defense was very fast.
Liu Mang was not in a hurry after half the court, waiting for his teammates to fall into a good position, and then accelerating to outside the three-point line, the Hawks immediately launched offensive tactics, Rashid Wallace came out to help Liu Mang block Artest, Liu Mang broke through around the block!
The Pacers were well prepared defensively, and after winning the last game, this defense was very active, and O'Neal Jr. quickly came up to stop Liu Mang.
But Liu Mang was too fast, O'Neal Jr. was positive, and although the prediction was also very good, he was still accelerated by Liu Mang, and Liu Mang triggered the speed of the pick-and-roll master to make O'Neal Jr. desperate!
Liu Mang entered the free throw line, at this time Maddie tacitly cut towards the three-second area, bringing Anthony Johnson to a position where he could make up for Liu Mang, Anthony Johnson came up to pinch Liu Mang as expected by the Maimang combination, Liu Mang passed the ball to Maddie who rushed to the right side of the three-second area, Maddie received the ball and entered Foster's defensive range, Maddie did not have a street ball, slapped the ball with the back of his hand, and the ball flew under Foster's crotch on the right side of the three-second zone and bounced on the floor.
Kwame Brown receives the bouncing ball and the street ball puts his hands on the basket to score two points!
Smooth cooperation!
Especially Maddy's last pass, like a stroke of genius, if it is to receive the ball and then pass, it gives Foster the opportunity to turn around and block Kwame Brown, to avoid Kwame Brown being blocked by O'Neal Jr., who chased back the inside, from Liu Mang's pass to Maddy's assist pass, the Hawks have very little space to cooperate, but Maddy's pass this time was not expected by the Pacers, it can almost be seen as Liu Mang's pass, and Kwame Brown directly put the basket on the street ball.
The fans at the scene and the fans in front of the TV didn't react at the first time, only seeing Liu Mang pass it out, I don't know how it got to Kwame Brown behind Foster, and watched the slow-motion replay before he began to exclaim.
Maddie's passing, more and more imaginative! I often make this kind of fame!
But this time, the fans felt a different face of the Hawks, and this season's regular season has never shown the focus on such a team with a winning rate of less than 50% except for those few fierce opponents!
Maddie made such a beautiful pass, and the Hawks players didn't celebrate, after Kwame Brown hit the basket, he immediately pointed at Liu Mang and asked Liu Mang to retreat, Anthony Johnson was about to go down at this time, Liu Mang immediately went to block, Maddy and Kwame Brown also quickly sprinted all over the court and returned to the halfcourt, not giving the Pacers, a faster lineup on the outside, a chance to counterattack, even if there was only a chance at all!
O'Neal Jr. rushed in to pick up the ball and wanted to serve a fast break serve, but unfortunately he couldn't do it, and he played this kind of half-court service match twice with Anthony Johnson in the last game.
O'Neal Jr. fed the ball to Tinsley, who advanced to the frontcourt.
O'Neal Jr., who plays well, is one of the best power forwards in the East, O'Neal Jr. is now playing well and analyzing the opponent well, and knows very well that he wants to single Kwame Brown It is a loss, the opponent's body and physical fitness are better than him, and the single defense is quite good.
O'Neal Jr. didn't continue to go to the low post to ask for the ball, but pulled away to the left mid-range, used his mid-range shot to contain the defense under the basket, and left his physical strength on the defensive end, returning to the style of play in the penultimate season of Thunderstrike-Miller.
When Tinsley saw O'Neal Jr.'s style of play, he immediately knew what to do, let Anthony Johnson and Artest open up space, he wanted to break through!
Although it hurts for Tinsley, the Liu Mang he faces is, in the eyes of people, already the Hawks' relatively worst outside defense.
Liu Mang defended in front of Tinsley, watching Tinsley's streetball movements, and did not shake.
One of the characteristics of the streetball players is that they are not so physical, just like Tinsley.
In the past, Liu Mang would want to start because of Tinsley's feints, and he was passed a few times in the last game, but this time Liu Mang stood still, he was confident, and when Tinsley really broke through, even if he lost a little position, he could keep up!
Tinsley was lucky for a few seconds, but he was a little dizzy, why didn't the other party move?
Tinsley has never faced such a defender! No matter what he did, Liu Mang just watched like that, except when he moved sideways, Liu Mang moved sideways, and at other times Liu Mang looked like that, and he definitely didn't use his strength to pounce.
This defense doesn't make sense!
Tinsley showed off his fancy passing by himself, showed off for a long time, and when there were 7 seconds left, he could only force a breakthrough, Liu Mang used a faster movement to press up, only lost half of his body, and pressed Tinsley's shooting line with his arm span.
Tinsley felt like he was covered in a net, and he just had to make a move...... Even as long as he grabbed the ball, he could be photographed by Liu Mang, and he only occupied the advantage of half of his body, and he could not directly break into the three-second area, and was forced to the bottom line on the right side by Liu Mang!
Tinsley had no choice but to throw the ball to Artest, who missed a three-point shot under Maddie's sticker!
The defense is targeted, aggressive, organized, and not in a hurry......
On the offensive end, Liu Mang and Maddie cooperate in pairs, either organizing the offense, or scoring by themselves, mainly to be stable.
The Hawks showed a very different kind of momentum today, which made the Pacers a little flustered.
After the Eagles got serious and didn't play blindly, the feeling of playing completely changed!