136. Complacency is not a good thing
A woman's intuition is really too accurate!
Liu Mang just said that people were drunk and came to borrow a piece of clothing, and they could all guess that it must have come at night, and Liu Mang's character was very clear to the two of them, and they guessed everything!
Sadly bearing the laughter of the big and small beauties, Liu Mang went to play the game sadly.
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The Nuggets, who only comfortably beat them on the road just a week ago, are coming to the road this time and of course want to pull one back.
It's one thing to win or not to win, and the Nuggets' goal this year is to mess up, but the players have to get back on the court.
For example, the veteran superstar Tim Hardaway, who taught Liu Mang a lesson last time, wanted to teach Liu Mang a lesson this time, but suddenly found that this rookie had actually improved again!
When he played the Nuggets before, Liu Mang's personal ability was close to the starting after the bench bandits' bonus, but his comprehensive strength has not yet reached the starter, and now after the 5-level bench bandit bonus, his personal ability has reached the NBA starting average level of 70 points.
Although the difference between 68 and 70 is not as great as the qualitative difference from top stars to superstars like 94 to 95, the change is also obvious.
There wasn't much suspense in this game, and the Eagles, who had been well-rested after a back-to-back away game, were all out from the start to try to get the game out there quickly and earn a little more rest for the second game of the back-to-back.
Raheem and Jason Terry started the game on a rampage, scoring 25 points in the first quarter and winning 29-11 in the first quarter with the team's excellent defense.
Liu Mang didn't play much time in this game, and soon entered garbage time, scoring 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting in 19 minutes.
The Eagles easily won the game 103-89.
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The record became 15-6, and the Hawks unknowingly had the same record as the Pistons!
Now the first place in the East is the Nets, and there is not much gap with the Hawks, the Nets are 16-5 and ranked first in the East, largely because of the easy schedule.
The Hawks and Pistons are now fourth and second, which really surprised fans, both of them are 15-6, and the Hawks were forced to shoot fourth because of the win-loss relationship between the two sides, but the record is much better than the third-place Celtics.
Especially on the Hawks' side, the five consecutive away games in the West actually got a 4-1 record, if it weren't for the three consecutive defeats due to the ban, it is very likely to dominate the first place in the East!
Speaking of the Celtics, they didn't expect that they would be third in the East lying down, and they were still stable, the 76ers were struggling to play quite hard, and now the winning rate has just reached 50%, 11-11, and the Celtics' 13-9 record actually won the first place in the region and the third place in the East!
Of course, the difference between the East and the West is still quite large, and the Kings have won 11 in a row, with a 19-2 record leading the way, and this rhythm is running for 60 wins.
Sometimes the record is too good, which is not a very good thing for a young team, such as the current Hawks, after beating the Lakers, coming back and defeating the Nuggets, after winning five of the last six games, there is an inexplicable atmosphere of impetuousness and arrogance.
On December 14, the Hawks hosted back-to-back games against the Knicks for the second time of the season.
The last time the Hawks beat the Knicks at home, and it was quite easy to win, the Knicks' strongest Alan Houston was forced to death by Liu Mang.
This time, the Hawks didn't think the Knicks would be their opponent, and they felt that they could easily win the game, and everyone was easy.
The Hawks are easy to face, but the crazy Sprewell and Alan Houston are not easy, but they are desperate! I want to take revenge for the last time.
If you really want to talk about it, the gap between the teams in the East is not as big as imagined, the teams on the edge of the playoffs are not very different from the playoff teams, the lineup is not particularly strong overall, and the superstars in the East are very rare, most of them have been beaten to the West by Jordan in the past ten years, but most teams have one or two first-class players or top stars, and the difference in strength is not so big from the perspective of the core lineup.
The difference between Eastern Conference teams is the coach, the team's goals, and the team's alignment.
The Eagles are playing so well this year, many experts analyze that they have changed their new coaches, and they are lucky enough to blow up the glue of Liu Mang's team, Liu Mang's deepest impression is that he played a performance that completely surpassed his seemingly talent, the Eagles used a better team defense, more special and more novel offensive routines, and was very stable when playing against weak teams, with a lot of seriousness and hard work beyond the opponent, so there is the current record.
But the young team is really too young, and they are actually starting to be arrogant!
At seven o'clock in the evening, the game officially began.
After the start of the game, both teams entered the state quickly, the Hawks felt hot on their side, and played a wave of 17-11 at the beginning, in terms of hard power, the Hawks are now in good shape, excellent running-in, better tactical discipline, and indeed better than the Knicks.
But after taking a little lead, I saw that the other party was such a weak team that could choke enough to enter the playoffs, and I began to be careless.
In the second half of the first quarter, the Hawks actually slackened their defense for survival! The Knicks seized the opportunity, and the madman and the mid-range king fought back in succession, hitting a wave of 7-0 to take a 26-25 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Immediately after Liu Mang, who stood up on the bench, he came up and scored some points by making fouls and biting the score, but the atmosphere of this team is contagious, Liu Mang also followed other teammates to relax on the defensive end after coming up, he felt good and caused the opponent to foul when he was able to take the second team to bite the score tightly, but once his scoring efficiency declined, it would be time for the Knicks to perform.
Alan Houston was ready to fight Liu Mang, a shameless man, and played quite actively, and the continuous catch-and-shoot after the cover was quite decisive, and after Liu Mang's hand felt a little cooler in the second half of the second quarter, Alan Houston scored consecutive points and completely suppressed Liu Mang.
At halftime, the Knicks managed to overtake the score, leading the Hawks by five points at 52-47.
At this point, the Knicks can't hold it down!
After the start of the second half, the situation of the Hawks can be described as a collapse, and the third quarter collapsed!
The Hawks always want to rely on offense to chase the score back, and the mentality of despising the opponent makes them explode on the defensive end, and when there is no defensive counterattack, the outside shooting is not so accurate, and the Hawks offensive end collapses!
The Knicks pulled the score away in the third quarter! At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks led the Hawks by 18 points, 81-63!
The Eagles struggled a bit in the final quarter, but the front has been loose, and it is too difficult to tighten up at critical moments! The Hawks are not a ridiculously strong super team like the Lakers and Kings, and they have no chance to pull the point difference in.
In the end, the Hawks swallowed the bitter fruit at home, and 89-102 were successfully avenged by the Knicks at home!
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"Bang"
Liu Mang smashed his fist on the locker cabinet in the locker room, thinking of the arrogant celebration of the Knicks after the game, he almost wanted to hit someone!
Yes, losing is your own problem, the other party feels good, and you are not serious, you deserve to lose, but you are still angry!
Liu Mang knows that how can he not lose in the NBA? The invincible Bulls have lost ten regular season games, and the future vice president Lakers will also wash the league's first place once a year for the New Year, and the Hawks are not a super team, so there will definitely be no fewer games to lose.
As a rookie, I'm still not so used to it.
I don't want to lose!
"Ding...... Due to the host's inner desire, the system releases a mission: revenge for Madison. ”
"Revenge Madison: The next away game against the Knicks, lead the team to a bloody Madison, mission reward: an intermediate stealing card, mission failure reward: square dance in Times Square."
"Intermediate Steal Card: 20% chance of copying the target skill, double the success rate of the level 5 skill."
"......" Liu Mang's expression suddenly became sluggish.
Eh, eh! Dude is angry, what to do!