"Ace, are you okay?" Coach Krueger asked worriedly.

If Liu Mang is tired and can't play in the fourth quarter, the blow to the Eagles will be huge, and Carter plus the old version of Olajuwon can play such a role, which is indeed unexpected.

Ratliff must have rested at the beginning of the fourth quarter, such a big man, when he acts as the core of the defense, and Olajuwon only needs to defend in tandem, Ratliff relies on his hard power to block all enemy opponents who invade the interior line, and the consumption of centers who cannot bring their own defensive system is often much greater than those who have their own defensive system.

You don't see Garnett supporting the Nets' defensive system at the age of 37, Duncan is still the defensive core of the Spurs when he is almost 40, and many defensive cores that only rely on physical fitness to defend have collapsed when they are over 30 years old.

So the fourth quarter must have been the main offense at the beginning! If Liu Mang is not there, the speed will not be of much use!

"Of course!" Liu Mang fired another physical energy potion, "How can a man say no!" ”

Liu Mang continued to drink water after speaking, it would be better if there was a hamburger, although there were physical energy medicines, but the water consumption was large, the stomach was empty, the physical energy medicine restored physical fitness, and the water and stomach were consumed to recover, and it was estimated that what was consumed now was fat, which brought huge benefits to reducing body fat......

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

Just when Liu Mang was thinking nonsense and Coach Kruger went to emphasize tactics to Newbell and Alan Henderson, who replaced Muhammad and Ratliff, Raheem and Jason Terry came up and grabbed Liu Mang's back of the neck and hit an electric drill on Liu Mang's head with a fist, almost choking Liu Mang to death.

"What is a man, how can you say no? Just now, our brothers are not men after half a break? ”

……

……

Olajuwon seems to dream of returning to the top!

Of course, the explosive scoring ability and flying blocks are gone, but the basket deterrence has reached a new high since 2000! That focus is the first time he has been in trouble last season since the Rockets and Alexander failed to ask for a contract extension!

Olajuwon didn't rest in the fourth quarter, he felt okay and decided to keep playing!

This year is different from the future when the core of a team only plays more than 30 minutes, and the main force in the fourth quarter of the critical moment in the future can not even be played if the physical fitness is insufficient, because the average level of role players has been greatly improved with the development of the times, and many role players will be able to get an annual salary of 20 million in the future.

But now it's different, the gap between the current role players and starters is usually very large, like the Hawks, there are only 9 people in rotation at most, and the 8-man rotation in the general tight game is the sky, and the team with 8.9 people in the rotation will be the core executioner in the future!

The Raptors' Dale Davis and Alvin Williams are in the backcourt, and Carter, Antonio Davis, and Olajuwon are in the frontcourt.

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang, Jason Terry and Raheem are back in the field, and Newbell and Alan Henderson are partnering in the frontcourt.

At the beginning of the final quarter of the game, the Hawks possessed the ball, the first ball Liu Mang passed to Rahim, Carter put it in front of Rahim, the entire Raptors defense was completely up in the third quarter, Raheem faced Carter and dribbled under the mid-range crotch, and then lifted his shoulder, instantly put away the left side, moved a back to the basket, and hit the basket for a layup! Raheem is really strong in singles, he plays singles, Olajuwon's role is not so big, Raheem pulls the rod to avoid Carter, who is chasing back, and Olajuwon, who is making up for defense, makes a layup.

84 to 78, the margin came to 7 points.

Raheem scored 30 points!

The Hawks returned quickly, but the Raptors didn't want to play fast-breaking, and Dele Curry slowly pushed over to Carter, and the ball was delivered to Olajuwon as soon as possible.

When playing Ratlleaf, Olajuwon was still a little struggling, but playing Alan Henderson, Olajuwon was not worried at all, the height difference was huge! Static power is even more crushing opponents!

Olajuwon turns and carries Alan Henderson for a layup!

"Hakim be careful!"

Olajuwang saw that Liu Mang had sneaked in without knowing when he had slapped his palm on the ball!

Liu Mang shrinks the defense and blocks Olajuwon!

Counterattack!

Olajuwon did not lose his mind again, hugged Liu Mang, and used a foul to stop the Eagles' fast attack.

What a clever little ghost!

Olajuwon figured it out at once, it turned out that Alvin Williams, who was defending Dell Curry and doing a no-ball block, was in the middle distance that he was not good at, and immediately took advantage of his visual blind spot to sneak behind Alan Henderson and gave himself a block!

Not only is it smart, but it also has a good sense of cutting the ball!

As a veteran who has played for seventeen or eighteen years, Olajuwang admires Liu Mang very much, but unfortunately he is too thin to jump, and he seems to be a little anxious to go to the basket, otherwise he can consider opening a training camp and earn tens of thousands of yuan......

The difference is still 6 points!

The game continued, and the Eagles tried to play a defensive counter-attack, but were repeatedly disrupted by Olajuwon.

The Hawks and Raptors missed a couple of shots each, and it wasn't until Liu Mang and Raheem scored four points on two layups that the scores continued.

When the official timeout reached the fourth quarter, the score of the two sides became 96-92, and the Hawks had only 4 points left in the lead!

The official timeout came back, at this time, the Raptors began to counterattack, Carter saw that Olajuwon was about to lose his ability, and decided to come himself, after a few tentative steps, passed by Raheem's shoulder, played a time difference, passed Ratliff to the basket directly below, and the three Hawks immediately shrank in and surrounded the inside!

Carter's bounce and explosiveness are really tough! Stunned, he jumped up in the crowd and passed to Olajuwon, who was at the free-throw line at this time and hit a jumper from the free-throw line!

There are 4 minutes and 51 seconds left, and there are only two minutes left!

The Eagles call a timeout!

From the second half, the focused Carter was completely focused on how to win, how to rely on himself and Olajuwon's two-line cooperation to break down the Hawks' defense, worthy of a superstar-level player, really terrifying!

That's strength!

Liu Mang thought of what Carter said at the end of the intermission, this is a game where strength is king!

Can't let Carter be so focused anymore!

But Liu Mang couldn't think of anything that could distract Carter's concentration, a three-point battle? The other party has long seen through his own little tricks, and it is precisely because of this that Carter is forced to focus.

For this Raptors, Liu Mang is actually not so worried about what they can do in terms of record, Olajuwon can't play so well in every game, not every coach is Popovich, who can play a champion for 20 years.

After the timeout, the Eagles brought on Ratliffe and Mohammed, and the Eagles' five strongest players came on!

Last Stand!

The Raptors, too, were the last stand, with Keon Clarke, Carter, Morris Peterson, Antonio Davis, and Olajuwon on the court.

With less than five minutes left, the Eagles possessed the ball.

It's still a positional war.

Liu Mang holds the ball on the outside, Jason Terry goes to the bottom corner to open up space, Raheem is a little tired from playing, his personal offense is basically hard chisel, this is his characteristic, excellent interior scoring ability, is bound to have greater consumption.

The eldest and second can only play the role of pulling away from the defense now, so Coach Kruger is worried that Liu Mang will not be able to play.

Defending Liu Mang is Keane Clark, who sticks very tightly, 71 ability value, 90 speed, 72 strength, Keane Clark can't shoot, but the impact, speed, and strength are very good, so he can beat Curry and his father to play the starter.

The singles were a little difficult, Liu Mang beckoned Muhammad to come out to block and dismantle, and cut into the inside line!

Pick-and-Roll Master Trigger!

Iverson's rampaging speed of breaking 100 Keane Clarke can't catch up at all!

Liu Mang rushed into the inner line.

Ratliff turned around and blocked Carter, who was going to make up for the defense, Rahim had a certain middle distance, Olajuwon had already committed 4 fouls, and it was really laborious to fight against Liu Mang's strange footsteps, so he pulled out to prevent Raheem from shooting, and Liu Mang faced the empty basket!

Layups?

No!

A strange idea suddenly popped up in Liu Mang's head!

Taking advantage of the effect of the last second of the blocking master, Liu Mang jumped with all his might! Slam dunk!

Dunk! Unstoppable!

Just when Liu Mang was taking the ball in the air and was about to dunk it towards the basket, a strange feeling suddenly came......

"Ding...... Fancy dunk level 1 trigger, according to the current host's physical fitness and on-the-spot situation, the waist and abdomen strength is strengthened, and the 180-degree rotation dunk ......"

Liu Mang didn't hear what the system said, and there was an impulse in his heart! Turn 180 degrees in the air with both hands buckled!

Somewhat reluctantly! But it was still buckled!

"Ding...... Fancy dunk success! The morale of the team soared, triggering the morale surge to start the ......"

After landing, Liu Mang couldn't help but look up to the sky and howl!

The fans at the scene were cheering loudly because Liu Mang rushed in and looked like he was going to dunk a dunk, and he was barely dunking! But Liu Mang actually turned around in the air! 180-degree swivel back buckle!

If you want to say how beautiful this dunk is, it's really not likely, there are too many players who can do it, and Emmanuol can jump on the spot to complete it.

But this is Liu Mang's dunk!

This dunk is a clumsy trick to dunk a bouncing weak chicken that can be used as Christmas!

This weak chicken actually completed a fancy dunk in front of Carter!

The cheers of the fans at the scene were about to pierce the eardrums!

"Vince, not only are you not as good at three-point shooting as me, but I don't think you're as good at dunking, you haven't dunked today, right? I deducted one! Liu Mang turned on the taunt mode towards Carter!

Carter really wants to say that the dunk is really good-looking, and it is very powerful, and there are a lot of dunk highlights.

But Carter has never had more than 100 dunks in a season, or even more than 80 times in a single season, even in 00-02, when he was at the peak of his dunking, he did not break 100, and when he retired, his entire career was less than 1,000 dunks.

In the first half today, Carter was flying three points, and in the second half, the two teams focused on defense, and the interior was crowded, and he had no chance to dunk.

You can say anything, but you can't say dunk!

Carter saw Liu Mang's dunk, coupled with the cheers of the fans at the scene and the video of Liu Mang when he studied Liu Mang before, plus what Liu Mang said, Carter was very sure that Liu Mang was provoking!

Of course, this is true.

But!

It doesn't matter if Carter doesn't do anything, only dunks!

Only this, Carter must not let go!

"Ding...... Vince Carter's Focus perk effect is removed. ”

Really!

If you want to anger the current Carter, you can only use this!

Offense and defense switched, Keane Clark advanced over and handed it to Carter, Rahim was going to go up to defend, but Liu Mang defended it, and pointed to the three-second zone by the way, Rahim understood in seconds! Run to follow Keane Clarke, who is empty.

Carter looked at Liu Mang's eyes and was on fire: "Ace, you me off, you stuffed the ball into the basket like that and called it a dunk?" I'm here to call you what a real dunk is! ”

"Oh, I'm looking forward to it." Liu Mang clinged to it, and now Carter's demigod power has been reduced to level 3, even if Carter triggers the demigod, the explosion speed is about the same as that of Liu Mang who triggered the bench bandits, and Liu Mang can stick to Carter well without being thrown off!

Carter, who has a strength of more than 80, naturally doesn't care about Liu Mang's strength, and rushes into the inner line with Liu Mang!

But! Liu Mang was not thrown away! According to the previous "discussion", Raheem ignored Keane-Clark and shrank back as soon as possible to resist Carter's impact!

Carter jumps up and wants a spack! But it was blocked by Rahim, and the death shack could not be triggered! Ratliff slapped the ball in Carter's hand with precision from behind Raheem!

Cover dunk!

Liu Mang turned around and grabbed the ball, and went straight down! Keon Clarke and Maurice Peterson were on the outside, and the defense was fast, Liu Mang dragged the two behind him straight into the basket, jumped up and passed back to the top arc!

Jason Terry catches the ball and makes a three-point shot!

In Liu Mang's heart, roaring and praying that he must enter, Jason Terry chased down and hit a three-point shot!

101 to 94! The difference is 7 points!

With the cheers of the fans at the scene, the Raptors called a timeout!

Coach Wilkins sprayed loudly at Carter, and the good situation was ruined by a "response ball" dunk!

Carter came to his senses again, and was calculated by the damn Ace again!

"Ding...... Vince Carter's Focus Effect triggers ......"

Liu Mang was high-fived his teammates on the bench when he heard this voice, but it didn't matter anymore, just once! Carter seems to see him as a worthy opponent, and he will probably be very focused when he faces him at least in the future.

But enough for this ball!

7 points difference!

The next thing is to defend, and the offensive end is to play steadily! No need to rack your brains to play a counterattack three!

……

As Liu Mang expected, although Carter regained his focus and played well, the Hawks' interior three highs were indeed not covered defensively, and they couldn't deal with Duncan and O'Neal, and it was more than enough to deal with the Raptors when the three highs were together, and the Raptors could only shoot from a long distance, Liu Mang and Jason Terry were very close to each other, not giving a chance to vacancy, and the Raptors began to decline in physical fitness at the last moment, and the scoring efficiency was not high.

Although the Hawks were also inefficient in scoring, Raheem and Jason Terry both played more than 40 minutes and only had a five-minute break in the third quarter.

But!

The Eagles' seven-point lead was a guarantee of victory!

A hard-fought tug-of-war finally came to an end at the referee's whistle!

Liu Mang scored 21 points, 1 rebound, 6 assists and 1 block, Raheem 34 points and 14 rebounds, Jason Terry 25 points, 5 assists and 3 rebounds, and the Hawks "three less" combined for 80 points to lead the team to a narrow 109-105 home victory over the Raptors!

After the game, Liu Mang and Carter came to a parting reminiscence, yes, it is Carter's favorite reminiscence, it seems that Maddie also likes it, and the cousins' hobbies are really similar.

"Ace, you're more interesting than you think, I won't be so easily fooled next time! My showdown with you isn't over yet! Next time I'll be sure to teach you how to dunk! Carter said as he hugged him.

"Forehead......" Liu Mang is a little painful, this Carter, why does he love duel so much?