In the first quarter, Liu Mang made 2 of 3 shots and scored 5 points and 7 assists.

Raheem scored 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting, and with Rasheed Wallace's four-shot defense and open cuts, the Hawks outscored the Nets 27-22 in the first quarter!

To say that the outside trio of the Nets is the Big Three, the starting lineup of the Hawks, Liu Mang and Raheem, and Rashid Wallace, can also be regarded as the Big Three, but no one thinks so, because it is not as sensational as Carter and Kidd.

However, judging from the performance of the two teams at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends in the first quarter, isn't this a battle between the Big Three and the Big Three.

It's just that the Eagles' defense is fundamental, with Liu Mang as the core of the ball, Rashid Wallace and Prince receive the ball, and if the three don't have a chance, then pass to the other two vacant players, because none of the three have a chance, it must be at least four people on the other side to defend the three of them, and there must be at least one vacant teammate.

And the Nets' Big Three, playing very singlely, Kidd is not suitable for no interior positional offense, if he runs up to play, Carter and Richard Jefferson counterattack, in his opinion, is no different from Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin's counterattack, but faster and better.

But in the position, he is a little blindsided with such a lineup.

The main reason is that the time they play together is too short, and when they play other teams, the simplest and easiest way to play is also very suitable for the three of them, which is to run and bomb, but when encountering a team like the Eagles that forcibly reduces the tempo and has extremely high offensive and defensive stability, Kidd can't control it.

It's not that Kidd doesn't have strong organizational skills, but no matter how strong the organizational skills are, there must be teammates who are suitable for him!

Nash also has to have Marion or Stoudemire to block and dismantle, not to mention Kidd, who is a personal offensive thief.

Kidd has played his best throughout his career, and the only one who has played his best with him is Kenyon Martin, and no one else.

Playing and fighting, Kidd, one of the Nets' Big Three, became a pitcher, but it was Carter and Richard Jefferson, who played the feeling of Carter and Maddy, as if the Nets had become the Raptors again, with "twin stars" plus a pitcher and two offensive sparse interior lines.

And the Hawks' offense, Liu Mang, Rashid Wallace, and Raheem, all played their current characteristics, Rashid Wallace's air cutting and opening space, Liu Mang's breakthrough shot, Rahim's mid-range shooting and impact offensive rebounds and setters, showing the Nets the correct way to open the Big Three!

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At the break, the Eagles began to make substitutions.

The Hawks' five starters all played the whole quarter, because the pace of play was very slow, Ratliff didn't have much consumption, just stand under the basket to deter, forcing the Nets to shoot in the middle and long distances, if it weren't for the Nets' big three shooting in the open position today, the difference would have been opened by the Hawks.

The Hawks made a massive rotation, with Stockton, Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, Kwame Brown on the court, and everyone except Prince, who had to defend Carter, was replaced.

Liu Mang mainly organized the offense in the first quarter, because the Nets guarded his scoring very strictly, even if he passed several assists, the opponent still defended him to score, so Raheem and Rashid Wallace had so many easy scoring opportunities.

Liu Mang's threat to his teammates is too big for the Nets! Even if Liu Mang made it clear that he wanted to attract defensive passes, the Nets had to wrap him up.

However, Liu Mang didn't think it was bad, and his 7 assists in a single quarter set a new personal record for assists in a single quarter, mainly because the team was ahead of the Nets, which was the most important.

Stockton is about to play, the cheers on the scene are ringing again, and the veteran All-Star start! The opponent was Kidd, who spoke ill of him in private, and the fans were very excited.

Similarly, several bench players with a lot of respect for Stockton and Prince, who wanted to rotate the lineup in the second quarter, were a wave for the Nets.

Seeing that Stockton had no expression and seemed to be very calm and ready to play, Liu Mang felt Stockton's hidden anger.

Liu Mang opened the system space and looked at the two "treasured" props, a high-grade manic potion, and two ordinary manic potions, now this thing is very precious, the probability of being able to draw is extremely low, although it is not as precious as the high-level separation card that has been "out of print" and can no longer be drawn, but this season Liu Mang has not drawn a manic potion, which is enough to prove the rarity of this thing.

But the manic potion of this thing, it doesn't seem to have much effect on Liu Mang himself, the main effect of this thing is to make the target enter a manic state in a short period of time, mainly to improve physical fitness, and the side effects are very large, Liu Mang does not have physical problems, and he does not need to be manic, he himself is already quite manic, and he needs to be calm.

So although this thing is very precious and looks like a great effect, for Liu Mang himself, it is quite chicken.

"Advanced manic potion: consumes a lot of physical energy, the subject enters the physical energy and enters a manic state for a short time, if the subject is strong-willed, the mind will be less affected, and the physical energy reaches the peak state, the duration and side effects depend on the physical condition. (Note: Not for use on hostile targets.) ）”

Much stronger than regular manic potions! Ordinary manic drugs are not controlled in the head, and the advanced ones are powerful, and there is less of a great negative effect.

"System boss", Liu Mang asked, "How long can Stockton have an effect with this?" How big are the side effects? ”

"Ding...... John Stockton's fitness status was calculated to be much better than that of his peers, and his physical condition was excellent, with the use of advanced manic drugs lasting half an hour, and the side effect was a state of weakness within 5 days after the race. ”

The side effects are much stronger than the ordinary manic pills that are seriously weak, and the side effects of 5 days are also lower than the side effects of normal players for a week, and Stockton's physical condition is really well maintained, and Liu Mang has to admire it.

Overdraft 5 days of physical fitness, and half an hour is almost the peak performance of a game?

Liu Mang knows how powerful Stockton is, and what has affected his strength in recent years is not injuries and technical declines, but mainly physical fitness!

Anyway, the next two back-to-backs in a row, 4 games in 5 days, Stockton is very likely not to play the next few games, it will take a long time!

"My dear teacher, although you don't send you a car to give you a perfect, kind, righteous and good apprentice who is rare in a century, the apprentice still loves you very much, go ahead, Pikachu, kill Kidd!"

Liu Mang silently finished reading these words in his heart, and said to the system: "Use the advanced manic advanced, target Stockton!" ”

Stockton felt a fiery gaze staring at him, and couldn't help but look for the guy who was staring at him, turned his head and saw that it was the big apprentice who was a little shameless, seeing the hopeful gaze in the big apprentice's eyes, Stockton felt very warm, nodded towards Liu Mang, and then walked on the field and took a deep breath...... The old man is going to die!

He didn't say anything, and he didn't have any expression on his face, but he was angrier than anyone else!

A rookie of the Suns team who was played by him back then actually stepped on his head!

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At the end of the break, the two teams rotated their lineups.

Stockton brought in sixth man Jason Terry, defensive sapper three-point pickup Prince, poor man's version of Marlon Boozer, and resuscitating champion Kwame Brown who was willing to do all the dirty work.

On the Nets' side, those who are still behind, the top stars have to do as much work as they get this year, and the three of the Big Three have an average playing time of around 40 minutes per game, especially Richard Jefferson, who has averaged 42 minutes per game this season.

Except for Richard Jefferson, who was tired from playing in the first quarter and had to run around and cut and defend Liu Mang, Kidd and Carter continued to play, bringing Kitels, Aaron Williams and future human victory cigar Brian Scala Bryan to the court.

Kenyon Martin, the physical freak, was traded, the Nets' interior rotation was completely destroyed, and Scala Bryan was on the regular rotation.

The difference is only 5 points, Kidd wants to catch up with the difference when rotating the lineup, it is best to overtake, although their starting lineup was suppressed by the Hawks, but it was not pressed too badly, the offensive firepower of the three outside lines is still very sufficient, especially today, Kidd feels good, Kidd feels that there is a chance to compete with the Hawks' starters, the key is the time of the opponent's rotation lineup, if you don't even grasp this stage, this game will be explained here.

In the second quarter, the Nets took the lead in attacking, and Kidd advanced to the frontcourt with firm belief, wanting to take advantage of the opponent's lack of ability to press the rhythm and seize this opportunity to beat the Hawks fiercely.

But as soon as Kidd advanced beyond the three-point line, he saw the old man on the opposite side who "grabbed" his All-Star starting position and rushed up to defend it menacingly!

Usually Stockton rarely sticks to the defense like this, and physical fitness is a big problem, but today he feels full of energy, and there is an emotion in his mind, which magnifies his hatred of Kidd infinitely, and when he sees Kidd pushing over, he can't help it anymore and defends Kidd!

Stockton has a lot of small moves, and he is very good at avoiding the referee's sight, and all kinds of small moves are used on Kidd.

Stockton's insidious style of play made Kidd feel like he was back in the years when he played in the West and met Stockton.

When Stockton met Kidd in those years, he was extremely targeted because Kidd was holding a nine-year, 60 million rookie contract, which was a full double the salary of Stockton throughout his career at the time.

Kidd suddenly, as if he saw Stockton at that time!

In a moment of carelessness, Kidd was picked up by Stockton, and Stockton stole Kidd!

Kidd made a mistake! Only then did he come back to his senses and quickly retreated, Stockton was not in a hurry, he was strong-willed and suppressed the desire to counterattack at this moment, grabbed the ball and controlled the ball, steadily advanced to the frontcourt, and waited for his teammates to settle down.

Kidd was very annoyed that he had just been robbed, he had fled the West for so many years, this old man was almost 42 years old, and he still wanted to bully him like before?

Stockton is no longer the Stockton of the past, and without Malone, he Kidd is not the Kidd of the past, he is the No. 1 point guard in the league!

Kidd is very angry, he wants to blow up Stockton and prove that Stockton is not worthy of an All-Star starter, he is worthy!

Watching Kidd press up, Stockton pouted his ass to protect the ball, he felt that his physical condition was unexpectedly good, but the 42-year-old's physical fitness was a big problem, and it was unreliable to rush Kidd or defend against Kidd, so according to the tactics, take a step back and break through to the left!

Kidd predicted the direction of Stockton's breakthrough and moved sideways to the right side at the first time, but! Boozer blocked Kidd!

Stockton took advantage of Boozer's blocking, and before Aaron Williams switched defenses, Stockton made a three-point shot directly!

Boozer, who was very resolute and resolute to block with him, didn't expect it, because Stockton often used his shooting threats to create opportunities for his teammates, but he didn't expect Stockton to shoot directly!

There was no interference at all, and Stockton hit a three-point shot that was almost empty!

Stockton hit a three-pointer and high-fived Boozer, and the Eagles quickly returned to defense.

Boozer's blocking and dismantling, there is no need to deliberately block and dismantle him to come, he is given a very high degree of freedom on the offensive end, and he feels that when the opportunity comes, he can block and dismantle, and sometimes the people who defend him don't notice that he goes to block and dismantle, giving the Hawks a chance to play two and one on the outside, of course, as Boozer's blocking and dismantling becomes more and more famous, no one notices that his situation is much less than last season.

If the team's tacit understanding is not enough, he may affect the team's offense, such as Stockton and Liu Mang were not in those two games, he did nothing except singles and rebounding, but played a lot of side effects, and he was originally in the Cavaliers at the beginning of the training direction according to the frame of the single player, he was trained according to the type of blocker at the beginning of the Hawks.

But Stockton and Liu Mang are both very good at blocking and dismantling, as long as the two of them can do it, his blocking and dismantling will have a positive effect!

Kidd suddenly seemed to see the feeling of Utah double shaking!

No way! Kidd doesn't believe that Stockton still has the strength he used to have, and in his opinion, the double scars are already a thing of the past!

But then, Stockton, who was at the peak of his physical strength for half an hour, made Kidd seem to "dream back" to Phoenix......

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At the beginning of the second quarter, Stockton first made a steal, then threw a three-pointer after a pick-and-roll, and then Kidd, although bullying Kwame Brown's youth and inexperience, completed a wonderful empty dunk with Carter inside, and Carter completed a domineering air catch across Kwame Brown.

The Eagles' defensive pressure has weakened, and Kidd's two-winged play can be used again.

But then Stockton and Boozer broke inside after blocking and dismantling, using their own offensive threat to hoist the ball to Kwame Brown, who also completed the empty catch and dunk, and returned the color!

Kidd created an open three-point opportunity for Kittels, who just came up and felt good, quite aggressive, hitting a three-point catch.

But immediately Stockton came over and threw it directly to Jason Terry, and Jason Terry faced Carter's defensive wave and scored more three-point shots!

Stockton and Kidd began to blow each other up!

Although the Hawks are left with only Prince because of the three major defensive gates on the outside, Stockton can at most defend Kidd's individual offense, and he can't prevent blocking and pick-and-roll, and Jason Terry's defensive hole can't prevent the Nets' other outside trio.

However, the lineup led by Stockton not only did not narrow the gap with the Nets led by Kidd, but slowly opened the difference!

The point is that Stockton has a more comprehensive approach to scoring than Kidd!

After gradually finding a sense of defense, Stockton commanded his teammates not to pinch Kidd as much as possible, and Kidd's personal offense is mainly based on blocking and dismantling shots and open three-point shots, all of which are open shots, and the shooting rate of mid-range shots and three-point shots is about 37 percent, while the overall shooting rate is only 38 percent, and the shooting rate of layups and defensive shots is extremely low!

Slowly, Stockton, who found his feelings, actually had an advantage in the contest with Kidd, who was at the peak of his 31-year-old life!

The main reason is that when Stockton wanted to bully this rookie contract that was twice as high as his salary in 1999, that is, in 15 years of his career, Kidd had a full study of Kidd, Kidd's style of play has not changed much, but the open position shooting is more accurate, the mid-range shooting and three-point shooting rate actually have a 40 percent shooting rate, which is the top in the league, and Kidd's 37 percent mid-range shooting and open shooting rate are 37 percent, which is already a first-class pitcher.

But Kidd's style of play hasn't changed much, and after Stockton found a defensive feel, he began to limit Kidd!

The difference was stretched from Kidd to eight points, then chased to six points, then pulled to eight points, and then chased to five points, and after a few rounds of wandering in this point difference, Stockton, who was back at his peak in terms of fitness, began to suppress Kidd! Halfway through the second quarter, the difference began to be widened!

Stockton's Hawks outscored the Nets 17-11 in seven minutes! By the time of the official timeout in the second quarter, the Hawks led the Nets by 11 points, 44-33!

Kidd wanted to close the gap, but Stockton pulled the gap away!

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Compared with the morale of the Jazz, Stockton, now he is under less pressure, the team does not need him to play very steady, how well the offense is organized, as long as he maintains the situation on the court, the point difference should not be pulled away when he is behind, and the score should not be overtaken when he is ahead, the Hawks have so many requirements for the backup point guard, but he often plays very steadily and can often complete the task beyond expectations.

But today, Stockton faced Kidd, and he was happy, not hesitating to defend physically, as well as a very active individual offense on the offensive end, he had a better passing opportunity, and got 7 points and 4 assists in seven minutes, relying on his teammates' excellent open shooting ability and excellent physical fitness, Stockton beat Kidd with only 2 points and 3 assists in these minutes!

What restricts Stockton has never been his physical fitness, after he turned 30, his speed has declined significantly, but his efficiency has not changed much, but his physical fitness is getting worse and his playing time is getting less and less, so his statistics have begun to decline.

During this period, the Hawks have not made any substitutions, and this lineup allows Stockton to play his best, while on the Nets' side, except for Kidd and Carter, the frontcourt three have changed several times, but they are all useless!

When it was time for the official timeout, the crowd gave Stockton a round of applause and cheers!

Coach Krueger didn't expect Stockton, a veteran, to play like this!

From the first goal, Coach Kruger stood up and applauded, which was the only way he could cheer up his players, and although he was often complained about being too outdated, he always enjoyed it.

"John, how's it going, can you still fight?" Coach Krueger has always held the veterans who are not a few years younger than him with the highest respect, and now that Stockton is in good shape, Coach Kruger is of course happy to let him play a little longer.

Stockton felt that he had endless strength now, and he didn't know why, but he was very excited, thinking that this was the power brought by "hatred" and "support from his apprentices"!

"I can still fight!" Stockton doesn't want to miss the opportunity to be in such good shape, and he needs to prove that he still has gas in the tank!

"OK," Coach Kruger didn't hesitate and let Stockton continue to play, but the other positions were about to start rotating, "Ace replaces Jason, you go to deal with Carter, Matt replaces Tyshawn, and guard Jefferson!" It doesn't matter if you foul, you can't let him score easily, Carlos and Rashid are ...... inside."

Prince has been playing a quarter and a half in a row, it's time to take a break and prepare for the third quarter, and the effect of Prince's anti-Carter defense is also half, Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson decided to use Liu Mang to defend after discussion, no matter how good the defensive coach is, he can't defend himself, Mike Woodson knows how to limit Carter, but the key is that this level of stars, breakthroughs and shots are the top in the league, theoretically can be defended, but in reality there is no one who can defend alone.

Carter's inability to prevent it is expected, and the second quarter can be limited entirely because Kidd controls the ball, Carter without the ball plays average, but it is to defend Richard Jefferson, which is the most difficult for the Hawks to defend, Raheem's speed suffers, and Prince suffers physically, so Mike Woodson replaced the fans.

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Coming back from a timeout, the Nets possessed the ball.

The Eagles fielded a lineup of Stockton, Liu Mang, Barnes, Boozer, and Rasheed Wallace.

The Nets reintroduced their starting lineup, Kidd, Carter, Richard Jefferson, Clifford Robinson, Jason Collins.

Kidd saw Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace come back and knew it was time to fall into a positional battle again, so he handed the ball to Carter.

Liu Mang is very active in the defense, up to the Carter stick, of course, it is impossible to prevent Carter, but on the other side, Barnes came up and began close contact with Richard Jefferson, regardless of anything, just physically confronted Richard Jefferson, Barnes is now playing more actively, because of the four-game ban, after his comeback, obviously because of Coach Kruger's worries, the playing time has decreased, and he needs to prove that he can control his temper under the irritable defense! So the defense is harder.

Stockton, for their part, knew a lot about Kidd's off-ball running, and he followed it to the death, and Carter could only fall into a singles situation!

Carter is powerful, but Liu Mang's defense is not vegetarian, it has been one-on-one, and Carter's efficiency has begun to decline.

On the offensive end, Liu Mang was frightened to see that once Stockton had peak physical fitness, he was so strong, he was worthy of being the 34-year-old who could still get the assist king, and the 35-year-old was still the second in the assist list! As he expected, the only thing that restricts Stockton is the decline in physical fitness brought about by age!

Liu Mang was willing to let Stockton finish the remaining minutes of the game when it might be difficult to have a second chance to break out, and by halftime, the effect of the half-hour manic potion was almost gone, and Liu Mang began to run actively.

However, when Liu Mang plays without the ball, it is not a simple individual run, Stockton and Boozer are cooperating with each other in blocking and dismantling, Barnes is also actively learning from the example, blocking and dismantling Liu Mang, Liu Mang's speed is fast, even if Barnes is a little poor in blocking and dismantling, he often runs out of opportunities, Stockton teammates have the opportunity to pass, Liu Mang also got a lot of opportunities to play without the ball, which is really a surprise for Liu Mang!

Originally, Liu Mang was ready to be a green leaf, and when Stockton scored more, but he didn't expect Stockton to look like Lao Tzu was going to shoot, but whenever Liu Mang had a chance, the ball had already been passed to Liu Mang.

The observation of the teammate's movement, the confidence of passing, the grasp of the timing at that time, and the most critical passing accuracy, deserve to be the all-time assist king! It is worthy of being the strongest assist king in history who has set an assist-to-turnover ratio of nearly 5 to 1!

Liu Mang didn't expect that he would be able to wave out of the sky without a ball! After the official timeout came back, Liu Mang attacked four times in a row and got an open shot, hitting three of four three-point shots, and scoring 9 points in a row.

After the Nets began to pinch Liu Mang's off-ball run, Stockton's passing began to have more options, and the Hawks' offense began to explode!

Liu Mang's running catch-and-shoot shot, Boozer's pick-and-roll mid-range shooting and cut-in threat, Stockton's pick-and-roll shot and the organization of the offense after the block-and-break break seem to reproduce the Jazz's two-time Finals Stockton, Malone's double-brake combination and Jeff Hornacek's Big Three lineup!

Once again, the Hawks have shown the Nets that the Big Three are the right way to open!