Last summer, the Timberwolves were forced by salary pressure and did not give Billups, who played well last season, a contract for him, and the Pistons sent him a 6-year full mid-range, which can be said to be quite cold for the third contract of a flower show, Billups didn't take this transfer too seriously at first, thinking that it was just "the next stop", and he changed teams three times in the first five years of his career, and he has long regarded wandering as a habit in his life.

Mainly because he needs to play as a core and leader, but in terms of strength, he doesn't have the strength to be a core player, but he is not the kind of person who is pretentious and has no strength.

In general, Billups's strength is embarrassing, the kind that can't go up and down.

Even in his prime, he was far from the top stars, and his peak was 17 points and 8 assists, if not in the Pistons, such stats would be Reggie Jackson and Dennis Schroder's peak stats.

But it's not weak, and it can still have starting strength in most teams, such as last season at the age of 25 in the Timberwolves, playing 12+3+5 data, playing quasi-first-class in the right team, and even playing first-class star performance under Larry Brown, but that suits his team, Billups has never encountered before.

His style of play requires too much cooperation from his teammates, before he won the championship MVP, except for the Pistons, there was just such a group of people playing around him, no one on any other team dared to try to take him as the core, and when he found out that the Nuggets with him as the core could trade him, he was already 33 peak tails.

In this transfer, Billups thought he was just going to play at a transit station again, but after coming to the Pistons, hey, he really got a few teammates who were very suitable for him, Hamilton who had first-class scoring ability but didn't need to carry the ball, and Ben Wallace, who only knew defense and rebounding in his life.

The main thing is that these two fit well into Billups' rhythm! Billups has never met such a group of teammates who have the same rhythm as him, with Ben Wallace pressing the lineup, he has played the best performance of his career so far, and at the age of 26, he can continue to improve!

Billups, who has the most "rich" team change experience, became the leader of the Pistons, and he felt as if he had found home.

Ben Wallace likes such a first-class point guard, although the offensive end is not very dripping, but the defense is good, and the offense is enough.

Hamilton also likes Billups, because Billups has high passing accuracy, although there are not many assists, Billups has good control of turnovers, holds the ball for a long time, and averages only 1.8 turnovers per game this season.

Billups is too happy to be a Pistons player, but there is one thing, he doesn't like Coach Carlisle, Coach Carlisle is not bad, but like most coaches, he doesn't agree with the ridiculously slow pace of Billups and Ben Wallace, feels that the development trend of basketball is not like that, and wants to change their style of play, because Billups is not fast, but not slow, Ben Wallace is the kind of physical fitness man who is super physical in addition to height, although Billups does not have much mastery ability, The shooting percentage is ridiculously low, but he can do everything, wandering in the big society of the NBA, it's not easy, you need to know a little bit about everything, you have to contribute, otherwise no team will give him a chance, and he was not the future champion MVP before.

With a well-rounded point guard, a center that is so fast, and a great shooter, Coach Carlisle was tempted to bring the system he had envisioned into the Pistons, but the players were unwilling! Billups and Ben Wallace were on the court, and the pace of the Pistons slowed down all of a sudden, Billups's ability to control the court was resolute and displaced, making his judgment of the opponent's defense on the court and his command ability when his teammates trusted him enough, better than the head coach, if it weren't for Coach Carlisle and a defensive system to support it, this team seems to be the head coach.

Liu Mang rushed to the basket at the beginning of the game and dunked one, and Billups calmly picked up the ball and prepared to serve again, and his heart was already surging.

Saying that he is not afraid of the Eagles, how can he not be afraid! Billups wanted to curse when he saw that the Eagles didn't plan to climb up the rankings after locking up eighth, but he had already had a difficult start to his career, and he was already calm enough to know that as the leader of the team's perimeter, or even the spiritual leader of the entire team, he couldn't show fear.

Billups pushed forward as usual, not in a hurry at all.

"Ding...... Perseverance level 4 triggered, Pistons players tend to be calm, from Chauncey Billups. ”

Liu Mang watched Billups' unhurried advance speed make the Pistons' emotions that were shocked by themselves at the beginning of the game quickly stabilized, and secretly cursed that it was really a mistake to let this guy come to the Pistons! It's a pity that all the salary space last summer was occupied by the big dog, otherwise how good it would be to poach it back as a substitute, this guy definitely didn't know that he could be the core of a team at that time.

Because Liu Mang saw that Billups, who was 26 years old and came to the Pistons, had a personal ability evaluation of 82, Liu Mang estimated that even if Billups entered his peak under Larry Brown, his ability value would be in his early 85s, except for 82 evaluations for three-point shooting, 87 evaluations for passing, and 88 evaluations for speed, and Billups' other abilities are rarely even more than 80.

Billups held down an eight-second dribble across the halfcourt, then directed a quick run.

The Pistons are slow-paced, but the speed of coordination when playing tactics is not slow, Hamilton began to run and run, all kinds of runs, running everywhere inside the three-point line, although he did not have the excellent ability to actively find cover like Alan Houston, but he was more able to run, younger, more physical, and took Prince everywhere inside the three-point line.

Billups dribbled on the outside for a while, Liu Mang didn't stick it, Liu Mang knows Billups very well, this guy is good at not only three points, but also making fouls!

This year, Billups has made more free throws than Liu Mang for fouls, averaging 5.1 per game, except for Iverson, Francis, and Marbury, a few point guards, who have the strongest ability to make fouls than Billups, and the means are very similar to Liu Mang, it can be said that he was the early porcelain master of the NBA.

Hamilton will be known as the best running pitcher in the future, in fact, most of it does not rely on running skills, but on running to death the opponent, and when the opponent is tired, he can run out of the open position, often in the first quarter or even the first half, there are not many opportunities to run out of the open position.

Billups saw that Hamilton couldn't get Prince tired in one or two rounds, so he was ready to come by himself, and Liu Mang didn't post it, so he took the initiative to press it up and break through!

Seeing that Billups took the initiative to squeeze up, Liu Mang was not afraid, took half a step to the left, and got stuck on Billups's breakthrough route, but it was not blocked.

This kind of defensive strategy makes it very difficult for a player with a very high ball IQ like Billups!

Unlike many players who are strong in offense but difficult to see even superstars in this kind of detail, Billups guessed Liu Mang's thoughts, and wanted to press him to break through from the bottom line and send him into the inside bag circle, Billups judged the intention, and this is still a trap that is difficult to judge for most anxious stars! At this time, for the attacking Billups, there is no room to change direction, Liu Mang only took half a step, Billups is now the left half of his body on Liu Mang's chest, and there is a breakthrough route in front.

Billups judged all this the moment Liu Mang made a defensive move, and wanted to exit the three-point line and shoot three points directly, anyway, it doesn't matter if he doesn't score or not, just defend next.

So Billups stopped breaking through, and was just about to retreat, Liu Mang immediately pressed up, and Billups was ecstatic when he saw Liu Mang pressing up! crashed into Liu Mang's body, and his arm hit Liu Mang's hand!

Make a foul! Billups is the strongest offensive means in addition to three-point shooting!

Just when Billups grabbed the ball with both hands excitedly and went up to Liu Mang's arm, suddenly, Liu Mang stretched his hands back and put his hands behind his back! Billups's action of colliding in front of him was too big, his body hit Liu Mang directly, and the ball that went out flew out of his hand, the Pistons and Hawks players didn't expect this scene to appear, no one was ready to catch the ball or steal, and the ball flew out of the bottom line!

The referee didn't give a foul, gave a out of bounds!

When Billups hit it, his head hit Liu Mang's chest first, and after standing firmly, he didn't hear the whistle of a shooting foul, but only a short whistle, which is a mistake!

Billups was surprised, why didn't he blow the foul? He slapped his hand several times at the referee and signaled that the opponent was beating.

The referee ignored it, leaving Billups with a look that made him haunted.

Billups feels like he's met a black whistle!

What made Billups even more puzzled was that the fans at the scene did not react much to the "foul" that was not blown this time, and most of the fans looked at each other except for the boos of the overly paranoid diehards.

What a shame!

Just now, Billups plunged into Liu Mang's arms first, his vision was completely blocked, and he didn't notice that his hand didn't hit anything at all, but the fans saw it!

It's not impossible to make fouls, for home fans, no matter what way, if you can get points, it's a good offense.

But Liu Mang's backhand action, and Billups didn't realize that he was being tricked and ran to the referee to ask for a free throw, so that most Pistons fans didn't know how to react, so they chose to be silent!

Liu Mang watched Billups run back to the backcourt dissatisfied, and "cut", wanting to foul the master?

Liu Mang sent the ball to Prince, and after Liu Mang entered, Prince passed back to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang advanced to the front court.

Unlike Liu Mang, who didn't dare to stick too tightly when he defended, Billups immediately pressed towards Liu Mang.

When Billups was advancing in Liu Mang, he suddenly "figured it out", not that he encountered a "black whistle", but that today's blowing penalty scale is loose! Because this is their home field, it's no problem to fight!

Billups still doesn't know what happened when he tried to foul him, and sometimes, a mistake in judgment can have a serious ripple effect.

Liu Mang was still thinking about how to break down the defense built by Billups plus Ben Wallace and Clifford Robinson, although this trio was not as good as the turtle shell defense of the Larry Brown era, but at least it was an iron bucket, but I didn't expect Billups to stick it like that!

Billups' strength was excellent in the entire back line, trying to press Liu Mang for a pressing steal, Liu Mang reacted immediately and began to show his real skills!

Liu Mang grabbed the ball with his right hand, and unlike Billups who was stunned and hit forward, Liu Mang slammed from the bottom to the top and hit Billups's arm, and the whole person bounced up, as if he was about to be pulled down by Billups with his arm on the hand when he was going to jump and shoot!

At the same time, Liu Mang let out a "ah......" sound, as if he couldn't control his body, and took a step forward and crashed into Billups's arms.

Billups was taken aback by Liu Mang's action of making a foul, but he was only startled, thinking that the referee would definitely not blow the whistle, and he didn't blow the foul just now.

And then...... The referee blows the whistle and Billups is fouled with three points!

This is called acting, this is called making fouls! After the referee watched a lame foul performance, he saw Liu Mang's foul, and the referee used to think that Liu Mang was shameless in making fouls, but this time he felt refreshed, and watched Billups run over to explain that he was not a hitter, and the referee was speechless.

Ignoring Billups, the referee made a gesture toward the technical table and was fouled on a three-pointer.

There has been no zero tolerance these days, and when you complain, if you don't swear too much, the referee won't pay attention to it most of the time.

Billups doesn't know what's going on, is this still home?

Seeing Billups' rare anxious expression, Liu Mang decided to add to the fire.

"Chauncey, watch more videos of me playing, you are too weak, and the weak are not qualified to make free throws."

After speaking, Liu Mang turned around and walked onto the free throw line to prepare for a free throw.

The Billups mentality is going to blow up!

There must be something shady!

Liu Mang didn't know that when Billups attacked in the last round, he didn't notice that he didn't cause a foul, thinking that Billups was just complaining to the referee regularly, he didn't expect Billups to not notice that he made a joke, Liu Mang's trash talk wanted to express that Billups hadn't learned to make a real foul.

And what Billups understands means: Liu Mang is a football star and has a star whistle, but he is not a star and has no whistle.

Liu Mang hit all three free throws steadily, and the free throws were very stable.

Offense and defense transition, Pistons offense.

After Billups pushed over, he dribbled for a while, and couldn't wait for Hamilton to slowly drain Prince's physical energy, and when there were 10 seconds left, he shot at Liu Mang's defensive three-pointer!

The reason why Billups, who used to have a hit rate of more than 30 percent every year, was called a parallel import, mainly because he was too iron! And there are too many waves, and this three-point shot hit the basket with a "bang" without suspense!

Rebound!

Ratliff held Ben Wallace to the back and Muhammad easily cleared Clifford Robinson for a defensive rebound.

The Hawks have an absolute advantage over the Pistons, and that is rebounding!

Although the Pistons have Ben Wallace, the rebounding king who averages 15 rebounds per game, however, the Pistons rank fourth from the bottom in the league in rebounding, except for the Celtics, Wizards, and Knicks, no team is worse than the Pistons team's rebounds, the Pistons average just 40 rebounds per game in the regular season, because in addition to Ben Wallace, the Pistons have no players who average 5+ rebounds per game, such as starting power forward Clifford Robinson, Averaging 3.9 rebounds per game, it's spicy, and the second most rebounding for the Pistons is their backup Turkish center Memet Oku, who is also averaging 4.7 per game.

The Eagles' advantage is all-encompassing! What Liu Mang has to do is to break the Pistons' strongest control this year because of the addition of Billups and Ben Wallace, and break the strongest joint control of the two, the easiest and most direct way is to break Billups!

Although Billups, who is the core of the team for the first time, is already very calm, he is not as experienced as Liu Mang as the core of the ball, not to mention, Liu Mang also knows how Kidd played Billups to death in the East Final of this year's playoffs.

Liu Mang didn't choose to speed up, Billups and Ben Wallace pressed the formation, it was basically impossible for the Eagles to speed up, but Liu Mang didn't plan to speed up, just kill Billups!

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When Billups joined the Pistons, Billups became the barometer of the Pistons, and it is true that he didn't score as much as Hamilton, rebounded, and only 3.8 assists, not as much as Clifford Robinson's 3.9, but he was the best point guard in the Big Ben field that strengthened Ben Wallace.

When Billups is beaten to the point where he loses his cool, the chances of the Pistons collapsing are high!

It is difficult for the Hawks to tear apart the Pistons' defense by running and tactics, Ben Wallace sits on the inside, Clifford Robinson can't rebound, but he can't rebound, and other aspects are still very strong, the defensive efficiency of this season's regular season and last season's selection of the best defensive team is almost the same, and this year is still the favorite for the second team of the best defensive team, as well as Hamilton, who is a very good defensive shooter, and the point guard is also Billups, who has the strength of the best defensive team, and the Pistons are very strong in blocking and dismantling.

The Hawks are favored by the Black Eight because their players have strong individual ability and are also very good defensively, and people expect the two teams to fight defensively, and the Hawks rely on the offensive end to be stronger and beat the Pistons.

The Eagles' tactics were prepared in the same way at the beginning, creating as many misplaced singles as possible.

But Liu Mang found that Billups's mentality seemed to be a little broken, and he immediately decided to start by defeating Billups!

At the beginning of the game, after Liu Mang beat the Pistons to a 5-0 start, Billups's mentality began to explode, and he couldn't control his desire to score and hit Liu Mang's face, and started a wave of wave shots.

Billups's wave is not the kind of wave like Liu Mang and Jason Terry, it's a pure wave, the kind of wave that requires the league's strongest defense to wipe his ass, and he averaged 10 shots per game with a 34 percent shooting rate in his rookie season, the kind of wave that is known as a parallel import.

Originally, after coming to the Pistons, Billups had no problem at all, as long as he scored one occasionally, and if he didn't enter the defense, he didn't have any other scorers in the entire Pistons team except for Hamilton, and if he wanted to play Billups' ability to control the court and defend, he had to accept his wave.

At first, Coach Carlisle was uncomfortable, but most of the players liked Billups, so Coach Carlisle was forced to develop a team system that he didn't like.

The Pistons' current system is simple and crude: Billups has a lot of balls, Hamilton keeps running with the players who defend him, if the opponent can't keep up, Billups will pass to him, his 42 percent shooting rate is very efficient, if Hamilton is tightly pressed at the beginning, he will run the opponent tired, before running tired of the opponent, Billups wants to shoot, wants to pass to the Clifford-Robinson organization, the offensive end doesn't care if it is bad, anyway, the defense can be defended.

But Billups not only waved this time, but also panicked, and didn't give Hamilton a chance to tire the opponent out, Hamilton just started to run with the opponent, and Billups shot!

That's it, it's just that the offense is a little worse, the defense needs to do a little more, and the Pistons haven't played games where the belligerents combined for less than 150 points and still won.

The key is that Billups' mentality exploded, he was too active on the defensive end, and was directly broken by Liu Mang several times, and he was saddled with two fouls in the sixth minute of the first quarter! Caught in a foul crisis!

Billups was replaced, and the Pistons had to replace their starting point guard from last season, that is, Chaggie Atkins, who was blown up by Liu Mang in the playoffs last year.

From the beginning of the first quarter, the Pistons collapsed!

When Billups made two fouls in the first quarter, Pistons head coach Carlisle and Hawks head coach Krueger didn't have much reaction and sat silently on the sidelines.

Coach Carlisle has nothing to say, and now he doesn't control the Pistons as well as Billups, which is why he not only won the first place in the East in the regular season this season but also made it to the Eastern Conference finals, but was still fired at the end of the season.

Coach Kruger doesn't know what to say, what to say about playing according to tactics? Why did you suddenly start doing it yourself again? The key is that this kid actually succeeded in killing the "absolutely calm" former parallel scout flower in the other party's scouting report!