569. The Avengers
On October 31, the Lakers' opening game, Kobe Bryant arrived at the scene less than 15 minutes before the start of the game, and he didn't have time to warm up, so he went up and beat the Nets with the ball, scoring 33 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists on 13-of-22 shooting, leading the Lakers to a 102-80 victory over the Nets by 22 points.
Kobe Bryant's famous rush rule came at the beginning of the new season, and I don't know who will be unlucky at the next court session.
After the three-day opening game, the three key games, the Spurs vs. the Timberwolves, the Hawks vs. the Magic, and the Lakers vs. the Nets, all three games ended, and the Timberwolves and Hawks and the Lakers came out on top.
It's also a sign that the first month of competition is about to begin.
The Timberwolves and Lakers showed super strength to be expected, and the Hawks, who have been criticized for their summer signings, were surprised to be able to play like this.
But on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the Hawks were on their way from Atlanta to Philadelphia, and there was a game that started at 1:30 p.m., and people didn't know what to say about the Eagles' first brutal performance.
After being slaughtered by the Hawks in their opener, the Magic returned to Orlando for a day of rest for the Miami Heat.
The Heat were so bad last season that even Mourning is gone, and the Magic players and fans are all ready to find comfort in the Heat.
Then, Lamar Odom had 30 points, 19 rebounds and 11 assists, and he was 30+20+10 short of one rebound, plus Dwynne Wade scored 15 points against Maddy for the first time, Caron Butler scored 20 points, and Eddie Jones scored 15 points, and the Heat's four new and old stars combined for 80 points, and the Heat slaughtered the Magic 113-73 by 40 points......
Moreover, the Heat are back-to-back, having just lost at home to the New York Knicks in the opener game on October 31 the day before......
This is embarrassing for the Eagles!
The Hawks didn't win the Magic by as much as the Heat won the Magic.
In particular, Juwan Howard, who was defended by Rasheed Wallace and scored 1 of 15 points and only scored 5 points, was defended by Odom 1 of 18, and it seems that Rasheed Wallace's defense just looks fierce, because Odom is notoriously unfocused in defense, and he defended Juwan Howard 1 of 18 with one murder.
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When the Hawks arrived in Philadelphia, they saw the news that the Magic were slaughtered by back-to-back Heat.
Liu Mang felt that his team had been hit by an arrow in the knee, and Rasheed Wallace, who desperately wanted to show his defensive ability, felt that he was not only hit by an arrow, but also felt like a thousand arrows pierced his heart.
I'd like to call Maddie and ask what does your team mean? As soon as he lost to us, he went to be slaughtered by the Heat with a bigger point difference.
This gives people the feeling that beating the Magic is not that the Hawks are playing well, and it has nothing to do with the efforts of the Hawks players, or that the Hawks have worked hard for a long time, and the performance they have played is not as good as the Heat.
But Liu Mang Lakers remembered that it seemed that the Magic team was going to create a losing streak in their own team's history this year, as if there was nothing wrong with people thinking so.
This made Liu Mang speechless.
Liu Mang knows how good it is for Rashid Wallace to be serious and defensively, and he was indeed serious in the last game, but the reality is a bit cruel, Zhu Wan Howard was originally the type of opponent who was tough and tough, but Zhu Wan Howard returned to the east where the iron-blooded atmosphere was rebounding, and most of the games were played with Eastern teams.
The public opinion was so friendly to the Hawks before, mainly because the Magic team looked like a strong lineup, at least it looked much stronger than last season, and the Magic team started so well last season, so the Eagles bloodied the Magic, and people felt that the Eagles were right to strengthen this time.
But now the Heat have also come to bloodied the Magic.
Although those fans who don't like the Hawks and Liu Mang's black fans can't say that the Eagles' recruitment failed, the people on the Internet who have begun to praise Rasheed Wallace's defense, as well as the fans who have already recognized the Eagles' recruitment, have returned to maintaining skepticism about the Eagles again under the drive of black fans.
This is very embarrassing, Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace, who watched the news together because most of the news mentioned him, glanced at each other, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.
"Rashid, you don't doubt your defense because of this, do you?" Liu Mang asked worriedly.
"How is that possible! I tried my best to defend Howard, Ace, you may not know Odom, I am an old friend with him, he is no worse than me when he is serious, Howard is not difficult to defend, Odom is serious and can defend Howard so badly, it is normal. Rasheed Wallace shrugged his shoulders indifferently and looked down on Juwan Howard, just like other top players in the 90s, and was unhappy with Juwan Howard's kind of player who never proved himself to be the first player to get a 20 million contract, and of course, the feeling of being doubted by the media and fans still made him uncomfortable.
Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, Rashid Wallace is a smart person and has a clear understanding of his own strength, if it is Kwame Brown who encounters this storm of public opinion, it is estimated that his mentality will explode, so hard to play a game, he is actually said to be worthless by people who are suspicious.
Watching Rashid Wallace go to Rahim to go to see the opera with the tickets booked tonight, Philadelphia is richer than Atlanta, and the Philadelphia Opera is quite famous in the art world they love, and they are still angry when they leave, Liu Mang feels that sometimes, this information and communication is too developed, and it is not necessarily a good thing.
But Liu Mang thought about it in a blink of an eye, and it wasn't necessarily all bad!
The media is so suspicious, the fans are so suspicious, these players who suspect their own Eagles can see it, and the opponent can see it!
Isn't this just satisfying the idea that you want to develop obscenely!
Liu Mang felt that this matter didn't seem to be so uncomfortable, so let's do it! Anyway, Rashid Wallace has self-confidence, otherwise he wouldn't have been in the Trail Blazers and didn't sell for so long, and then went to the Pistons and helped the Pistons win the championship.
It's just that poor Rashid Wallace just worked so hard, but he didn't make any mistakes, and he was beaten by the Magic team behind his back, and it wasn't the Magic team who took the initiative to beat him...... It's even more pitiful.
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January 2, 2003, was the day of the away game against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The game was not broadcast live, and most of the interviews were reporters from Atlanta, local reporters and Chinese reporters, and the major TV stations and media showed no interest in the game.
Because the goal of the 76ers this year is to be rotten, because Iverson had surgery early and announced that he would not return until February at the earliest, the 76ers got rid of the long-term contract of the powerful man Van Horn, and the intention of the rotten was already obvious, before Iverson's comeback, the 76ers did not have a live broadcast in the United States in the first three months except for the opening game.
Similarly, the Hawks did not pay much attention to the game of the 76ers.
Although it is said that there is no weak team in the NBA, no team can be taken lightly, but since the beginning of the offseason, the 76ers announced that Iverson will be out for at least eight months, and then even Van Horn was traded away, and there were no players who could significantly improve the strength of this team in the summer, and the 76ers were ranked twenty-three in the power rankings, and they were given this position only after Iverson would return in the second half of the season.
This is called a strong team, how can it not despise the 76ers?
Even if the Eagles say that they will not despise it, how can they not despise it, they may want to break down the opponent quickly and rest in the game, and they will be serious in the game, but they can't really be serious in preparing for the game.
Last year, when the 76ers still had Van Horn and Iverson, the Hawks easily eliminated each other from the playoffs 4-1, and the psychological advantage was too great.
And it's not just the players who can't pay attention to it, the coaching staff can't pay attention to it, yesterday and the day before yesterday, the Hawks' two-day rest training was just an ordinary team practice, and there was no special training for the 76ers at all.
The 76ers have been ignored from the beginning of this year, and it is difficult for their players to be on the national newspaper or TV news because it makes no sense, except for Iverson's injury, what the rest of the 76ers team has done, what happened, no other fans care at all, the cost of news is not as low as it will be in the future, how can national newspapers and TV stations waste resources on the 76ers, and the fans really don't care about the 76ers other things besides Iverson.
Just like Liu Mang, he completely forgot that the 76ers' current "star player" is the big dog Glenn Robinson!
It wasn't until the team's regular pre-game meeting at noon that Coach Krueger felt that the players were too loose, so he played a video of this morning's Pennsylvania TV sports news, and Liu Mang saw the shaved beard facing the fierce man Glenn Robinson in the picture, and he remembered this stubble!
Glenn Robinson's final year contract was dumped by the Spurs to the 76ers!
In the projector, a reporter is asking Glenn Robinson, the current "star of the game" of the 76ers, what he thinks about playing against the Hawks, and whether Glenn Robinson is confident that he can beat the Hawks.
I saw Glenn Robinson's expression become very disdainful, and his answer was full of hostility: "I will prove that what they did last year was wrong, when the Hawks were already about to find a way to turn the situation around, I was already going to integrate into the Hawks, but they had a domineering new core, he was unhappy with me as the team's scoring champion, so he let the Hawks throw me in the garbage, if I was there, the Hawks would not have lost to the Nets in the playoffs, their reinforcements this year are definitely a real mistake, I'm going to make them look good in this game! ”
Glenn Robinson deserves to be a top student at Purdue University, a top academic university, and this remark not only hacked Liu Mang, not only the Eagles, but even the newcomer Rashid Wallace!
The Eagles players were suddenly shocked, fuck it!
Just when Liu Mang laughed angrily, the voice of the system sounded in his head.
"Ding...... System Missions Released, Season Succession: Avengers. ”