498. Let's play well!
Liu Mang and Arenas didn't have much to do with each other, and the only time they met was at the All-Star Rookie Game a week ago.
In fact, Liu Mang helped Arenas, in that kind of game that should not have any tactical discipline, so that most of the sophomores who are still playing in the bad team, don't know what a team is, and haven't experienced what a defensive system is, feel the real team, like Kirilenko, when he joined the Jazz, the Jazz had already declined, but it was the sophomore team in the rookie game, which made him feel the feeling of playing with a group of talented defensive giants, and he played better after returning to the Jazz team.
This gave Arenas more of an urge to be a player on a strong team, and that feeling of playing with a good group of teammates fascinated Arenas.
Therefore, compared to the original Arenas in the 02-03 season after playing the best performance of the new generation of defenders, he directly said that he was the first person of the younger generation, this time Arenas is relatively low-key, saying that his goal is to become the best player in the younger generation of players.
The main thing is to be afraid of Liu Mang.
But sometimes the most annoying thing is the media, they keep asking questions, and they successfully put two young players who have nothing to do with each other on the opposite side.
It seems that the questions asked by the media are very subtle, but Liu Mang obviously feels that they want to praise Arenas, and they use their mouths to dig out some words praising Arenas as the best.
Liu Mang is not afraid of things, it seems that the media wants to advocate the duel between the two to compete for the first person of the new generation, since this is the case, then speak with strength!
Liu Mang also wants to sit firmly in his position as the first person of the new generation first, just like James in the future rookie period, he quickly established his position as the first person of the young generation in the first two years, and then attacked the first person in the league.
Liu Mang is still under a lot of pressure now, followed by Arenas at the same time, James is going to join the NBA again after playing James this year, and Wade, Anthony, Hinrich and other outside lines who are about to enter the NBA, and Paul and Delon in two years, everyone is not much different in age, and they will definitely be discussed together.
Liu Mang knows how powerful the group of people who will enter the NBA in the future are, and there is a lot of pressure to compete with them, so Liu Mang has a very important thing to do at this stage, in addition to helping the team enter the playoffs and pass Kidd, that is, this year, he will sit firmly on the first rookie of the first three draft years in the 21st century!
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Oracle Arena is bustling with a lot of Eagles away jerseys in red and dark blue.
Many Chinese fans came to watch the game.
The Eagles' best-selling jerseys are the red and blue jerseys, as well as the red and gold jerseys worn during the Christmas game, which are also very popular with fans, mainly Chinese fans and Chinese fans.
This has given the Eagles a lot of inspiration, and it is said that they have begun to develop new jerseys that cater to the colors of Chinese fans, and have begun to do research in China to see which colors domestic fans prefer.
When the players from both sides entered the court, the cheers received by the Hawks were actually on par with the Warriors.
When Jason Terry sat on the bench and Liu Mang took off his training uniform and went on the field, the cheers of the away fans on the scene were louder than the home fans!
"Liu Mang, ability value 77, three-point 83, mid-range shooting 81, layup 85, speed 92, strength 79......"
"Pretend I'm a bench trigger, 80 stats, 88 three-pointers, 83 shots, 88 layups, 94 speed, 79 power......"
After passing the last game, Liu Mang's ability value and achievements have reached the ceiling, and with the ability to play in the low position, the evaluation of the bench bandits has been directly increased by two points, because this is another new ability.
The advantage is that Liu Mang's defensive ability will not be included in the evaluation of the ability value, and the defense of the system evaluation is evaluated according to the defensive ability that others can show now, and even if Liu Mang has a defensive evaluation of 100, he is unwilling to defend, and it is useless, otherwise the comprehensive ability value will already exceed 80, which is also his advantage, and with the same ability value, he is definitely stronger than his opponent.
However, with the improvement of Liu Mang's strength, the day of breaking through 80 ability value will come sooner or later, and one day he will break through 80 ability value, and then there will be no bonus of this bench bandit, so Liu Mang needs to get talent skills even more urgently.
Liu Mang looked at the Warriors players who were silently warming up in the other half of the court, full of fighting spirit!
On the Warriors' side, Arenas, Jason Richardson, Antoine Jamison, Troy Murphy, Eric Dampier.
This lineup, if you play together all the time, it's amazing!
But it seems to be all gone.
The Warriors players are very aggrieved now, and nearly half of the scene are Hawks fans!
Due to Liu Mang's choice to "provoke" and "respond" to Arenas in an interview before the game, the scalpers made a lot of money, and the large number of tickets stored by the scalpers were bought by Hawks fans, mainly Liu Mang's fans, and even many Warriors fans sold their tickets when they saw someone buying tickets at a high price, after all, the sense of belonging of the current Warriors fans is low enough.
Arenas, 80 Ability, 87 Offense, 65 Defense, 82 Three-pointers, 85 mid-range shots, 84 layups, 92 Speed, 80 Power......
Liu Mang looked at Arenas's ability value, and it had actually exceeded 80!
And Antoine Jamison's 85 ability value, these two most talented and strongest, the Warriors didn't keep any of them this summer? It seems that Jamison is still traded by themselves, this operation, Liu Mang feels that the current management of the Warriors is a cow! Without the help of the Lakers' logo after '08, the Warriors have a really good vision.
At the end of the pre-game event, at the end of the preparation time, Liu Mang took out the dice and prepared for the lottery.
This superstar value is really not enough, don't look at the physical energy potion and injury potion, it's only 100 points at a time, but I can't stand that is the amount of walking! It's just that due to the difficult schedule of the recent games, the task was not completed when playing the Lakers, and the king was an intermediate superstar value lottery, and the rest of the games playing Jazz and Rockets are level 1 tasks, and the difficulty is too low for these two games, 1000 points, and the game is only a few hundred superstar values, and now Liu Mang's superstar value is less than when he played a complete star, only 13391 points left.
I have to start saving superstar points for physical energy potions, injury potions, and skill upgrade cards again.
But today, Liu Mang actually saw it again that it was all level 5 tasks!
didn't throw the dice, Liu Mang put the dice away directly.
"Ding...... Special Quest Release: Long Quest: King of the New Generation. ”
"The king of the new generation: the king is the strongest who steps on everyone to reach the top, the first step to become a king is to stand out from the opponents of the same generation, the king of the new generation of players, is the beginning of the host to become the strongest, and the host needs to cross all the contemporaries. When the host successfully suppresses all the strongest players in the 00-05 session, 1 talent skill fragment will be rewarded. Completed: For the 00th session, the 01st session has completed most of the milling. The goal: to crush and defeat Gilbert Arenas and dominate the first man in the class of 2001. ”
This task rarely coincides with Liu Mang's thoughts!
Just him!
What's the quickest way to beat Arenas to despair? Defeat each other from the start, of course! Don't give the other party a chance to fight back!
Liu Mang took a look at the system space that is now very rich, and there are several star cards, and finally Liu Mang's attention is on one card, and then laughs darkly.
Next to Liu Mang, who was dancing a square dance and dancing happily, Prince saw Liu Mang's sneering chrysanthemum tightened......
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It's game on!
The Eagles fielded a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Boozer and Ratliff.
Relatively speaking, Jason Terry needs a big forward like Muhammad who is not afraid of hardship and tiredness to do all the dirty work, and Liu Mang and Boozer play better together.
The Warriors fielded Arenas, Jason Richardson, Jamison, Murphy, Dampier.
Ratliff and Dampier, who would future call himself the league's No. 2 center, came to the center circle to jump the ball.
The referee blew the whistle for the start of the game and threw the ball into the sky,
Ratliff won the jump ball against the bouncing Dampier, Liu Mang received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, and Arenas defended it.
The Warriors' lineup, except for Dampier who is a master of defense, is really good at defending one in the low post, and together with Ratliff, he is regarded as the best big center in the low post this season.
Everyone else is not very good defensively, so they defend their own people, Warriors head coach Eric Musleman is not a particularly good coach, it is okay to tap the potential of rookies, coaching ability is average, and winning depends on the individual ability of the players.
Liu Mang saw that it was Arenas who came up and made a gesture to fight alone!
The others immediately stretched the space huge, and Ratliff was on the right side of the three-second zone, ready to wait for Liu Mang to enter the interior and move horizontally to the other side of the three-second zone to receive the ball and score directly, or take Dampier away.
This kind of position is very skillful, the accumulation of many years of experience, if Ratliff stands on the left side from the beginning, then Dampier can move sideways to the basket at once, can be defended on both sides, but Ratliff runs from the right side to the left first, then when Dampier catches up, it must be his back to Liu Mang who rushed in, if Dampier does not turn around and follow Ratliff, his lateral movement ability can not keep up with Ratliff, Ratliff can easily catch the ball and dunk.
Prince went to the bottom left corner, Rahim was on the right baseline, and Boozer was in the middle range to pull Troy Murphy out.
At the same time, Liu Mang began to face Arenas with consecutive crotch dribbles.
Arenas's defensive ability, in fact, is okay when he is serious about defense, at least the average level will not drag back, for example, now, he is very serious about defending against Liu Mang, and his strong upper limbs are in front of Liu Mang.
Arenas is ready to use his body to suppress Liu Mang, his body is very strong in point guards, except for Baron Davis and Francis, few people can rely on his body to force him.
But Arenas waited for a few seconds, Liu Mang dribbled the ball like that, Arenas felt very strange, what are you doing? He couldn't help but stare at Liu Mang's dribbling movements, it doesn't matter if he doesn't look at it, when he looks at it, Arenas feels so familiar!
At this time, the fans at the scene also saw that something was wrong, Liu Mang was dribbled outside the three-point line for several seconds, there were 16 seconds left when he pushed it to outside the three-point line, and there were 10 seconds left!
Then the local fans, whether they were Chinese fans or the Warriors' own fans, found out that this dribble was so familiar...... Isn't this the dribbling action of Arenas, the Warriors' popular fried chicken, this year!
"Hiss......"
The fans at the scene couldn't help but gasp, this girl is actually imitating Arenas! This is no longer a provocation, it is completely playing with Arenas in the face!
Arenas also saw at this time that the other party's actions were his own actions!
Just when Arenas was shocked and angry, Liu Mang began to break through! A strong thrust towards the left!
Arenas hurriedly took a step back to the right rear, and then reacted wrongly, and hurriedly moved to the left rear, Arenas had studied this biggest enemy of the same class many times, and knew that Liu Mang was not good at breaking through on the left side.
However, just as Arenas moved half a step to the left, Liu Mang accelerated again and broke straight into the inside line from the left!
Dampier on the inside immediately turned around and stood on the arc of the reasonable collision area, blocking Ratliffe with his left hand, facing Liu Mang who was about to enter the interior head-on, and Jason Richardson, who defended Prince, also rushed from the baseline to the left edge of the three-second zone, ready to wrap Liu Mang, Arenas also rushed towards the inside line after turning around, according to his impression of Liu Mang, Liu Mang must be impacting the basket.
But......
Just when everyone thought that Liu Mang was going to attack the basket, Liu Mang pulled up at the free throw line and pushed the shot.
"The King of Emergency Stop is triggered at level 5, and the mid-pitch ability is +5."
Liu Mang hit a pull-up jump shot from the free throw line!
Pull-up jumpers?
Is it still so accurate?
The fans at the scene were not calm, they felt dazzled!
Usually they see this picture too many times, but this year they have seen it a lot of times, isn't this what Arenas is best at?
From the breakthrough move, to the breakthrough line, to the way to finish the attack, it is completely Arenas's style of play!
And faster and more accurate than Arenas!
The rhythm is better than Arenas!
The most shocked was Arenas, he couldn't believe it! Think it's just a coincidence! Even if Liu Mang wanted to imitate him, how could he imitate him better than himself?
The angry Arenas quickly advanced after receiving the serve, but unfortunately the Warriors' two big men were too slow, and the two interior combinations of more than two meters were not very physical, and the Warriors couldn't fight back, so they fell into position.
Originally, the first attack must have been handed over to the boss Jamison, but this time Arenas didn't, after Liu Mang defended Arenas, Arenas immediately chose to play singles!
Looking at Arenas's crotch dribble that was exactly the same as his own, Liu Mang was at least now, he knew Arenas' technical characteristics too well, and looking at Arenas's really great shoulder feints, Liu Mang concentrated all his attention on defense.
Arenas showed an upper body offset to the right, and slapped the ball to the right with his left hand, Liu Mang immediately judged that this was a fake action, and it was a half-truth and half-fake action, if Liu Mang did not react, Arenas would definitely directly break out on the right side, Arenas's explosion speed was very fast, and Rao was Liu Mang couldn't keep up, so Liu Mang chose the "middle plan", and raised his left foot and took a step to the left.
At this time, Arenas saw Liu Mang's "middle plan", and immediately took a large stride to the left, and his body invaded in front of the left! The right hand accurately received the ball that just bounced out with the left hand, and after catching the ball, he slapped the ball out in the direction of the body......
"Bang"
The muffled sound of the two people sprinting at full speed came into the ears of the two parties, Arenas was completely unprepared, he leaned forward, a dog ate and fell to the ground, and the ball shot out was caught by the other party! Then the opponent has already sprinted towards his own half!
Arenas looked up and saw the first thing that caught his eye was the red and blue No. 1 jersey!
It's actually Liu Mang!
Arenas thought that he was knocked over by someone who made up for the defense, but he didn't expect it to be Liu Mang!
Wasn't this guy already shaken off by himself just now?
Arenas felt a sense of horror all over his body, how could this be!
Seeing Liu Mang rushing to the front court with a fast three-step low-handed layup, this action is the same as his choice to counterattack most of the time, Arenas is going crazy!
The other party is still imitating himself!
Moreover, he was just prevented, that is, the other party completely saw through his own style of play!
Just as Arenas thought, just now Liu Mang lifted up from his left foot, he was deceiving Arenas, making Arenas think that he had deceived his opponent, and sure enough, Arenas, who was full of confidence, immediately chose to change direction and break through from the left side, and Liu Mang stepped out with his left foot and kicked the ground and bounced out to the right, colliding with Arenas head-on, and Liu Mang was fully prepared, Arenas was completely unprepared, and the weight and strength of the two were almost the same, so Liu Mang stood firm, and when Arenas collided together, his body leaned forward, The backward force is exerted on the forefoot of the cushion to accelerate, and it directly slips and falls a!
After Arenas got up, he saw Liu Mang walking back to defend, and he was a little frightened in his heart.
The Warriors continued to attack, and just now Arenas failed one, and Jamison certainly wasn't going to give up the offensive opportunity and come to the low post to ask for the ball alone.
The Warriors' power forward is a three-point shooter, and as the No. 14 pick in the first round of '01, Troy Murphy didn't have much of a chance to perform in his rookie year, but he averaged 11 points per game this season, and he was an excellent big man three-point shooter.
Jamison fell to the low post to hit Rahim, and he really couldn't move! Jamison is good at playing misposition, he goes to play small forward, small forward guards him, he can rely on strength to eat, power forward to defend him, he can rely on speed to pass.
Jamison's best half-hook throw after receiving the ball in the back basket and moving laterally is completely unplayable in the face of Rahim, who is the best of the non-trivial types of players, and Jamison's throw is completely interfered with by Rahim.
Rebound!
The Warriors rebounded well, averaging more than three rebounds per game on both guards and seven or more rebounds in all three frontcourts, with Boozer and Murphy, Ratliff and Dampier, Raheem and Jamison all pushing and shoving under the basket.
That's when Arenas swoops in, ready to steal a rebound, which is what he does best.
Arenas' rebounding anticipation is also very good, and when this kind of inside rebounding is evenly matched, that's when he picks up leaks.
Arenas was doomed to tragedy today, as he just entered the free throw line and tried to slip in to the spot he judged to be the rebound, but was stopped by an arm.
"Rock solid level 1 trigger."
Liu Mang had long expected that Arenas was going to come in and rush for offensive rebounds, as a point guard with an average of 1 offensive rebound per game, Arenas is very powerful, Liu Mang has long been on guard, and blocking a point guard is enough to be as solid as a rock level 1!
In the end, the rebounding scramble was still won by Rahim, who is now the most powerful rebounder on the court, he was closest to Jamison, and the ball hit the neck of the basket and bounced to him and Jamison's forwards, Rahim pressed Jamison to get the defensive rebound.
Raheem subconsciously almost threw it to the front court to counterattack, but saw that after Arenas failed to grab the rebound, he was delaying Liu Mang's speed, and he didn't throw it out blindly.
Arenas waited for the two big men to run back to the half court before letting go of Liu Mang's retreat.
Liu Mang is not in a hurry, of course it is good to be able to fight back, even if he can't fight back, he has to take advantage of the first quarter to abuse Arenas and let him know that the position of "first person" is not what you want!
Liu Mang's unhurried speed advanced to the frontcourt, just like the rhythm of the Warriors' unfast and slow pace after they had three major lineups this year.
Liu Mang came to the three-point line, and began to dribble under the waist and crotch again, still the same action as Arenas, with the cat waist and face facing the opponent, the expression on his face was very calm, but his eyebrows were slightly frowned.
And Arenas, who would have had such a calm expression, couldn't calm down.
Arenas had only one thought in his mind: "No, do you want to come?" Shall we play well? ”
Liu Mang and Arenas have no grievances and no hatred, and they didn't have the idea of beating Arenas to collapse, but who called Arenas a stumbling block on the road to becoming the strongest player, the road to becoming a "king" will definitely be stained with "blood", it may be the blood in his heart, and Liu Mang never wants the blood in his heart to become a part of these bloods, so he can only become a "king"!
There are 9 seconds left, and Liu Mang has begun to break through again!
Arenas was shaken again, but this time Arenas rarely didn't give up defense, chased after Liu Mang, rushed to the middle range and tried to interfere or block Liu Mang's emergency stop jump shot.
But! This time Arenas misjudged again, Liu Mang rushed directly to the basket and left Arenas behind! Jason Richardson, who also rushed to the mid-range pack, almost knocked out Arenas who rushed in full force!
Liu Mang rushed into the basket and stepped on the left edge of the three-second zone to jump, Ratliff immediately exited the three-second zone, and Dampier threw himself at Liu Mang with a roar, trying to give Liu Mang a big hat.
But the ball that Liu Mang had originally lifted suddenly received from his waist, turned slightly sideways in the air, hit his left shoulder into the chest of Dampier who pounced, fished the ball from the bottom to the top with his right hand, and threw it to the basket with a small hook hand!
With the sound of the referee's whistle and the muffled hum of Liu Mang being knocked to the ground, the ball hit the rebound and fell into the basket!
2+1!
Liu Mang scored 6 points in a row, and there is still a chance to add penalties!
Liu Mang came up and beat the Warriors alone with a 6-0 chance plus a penalty!
This performance is explosive enough, but it is not the most crazy place for the fans on the scene and the fans who are watching the live broadcast, because Liu Mang has had 50+ in a single game, or twice, although this performance is explosive, but it is expected.
The key is that Liu Mang's style of play today is not his own style of play at all, but the style of play of the opponent's Arenas!
In particular, the layup just now is exactly the same as Arenas's most talked-about balance ability when fighting under the basket, and the choice of shot is exactly the same! It's so unreasonable, but it's just that you can get in!
The scene was going crazy, Liu Mang's fans didn't talk about it, this time even the Warriors fans couldn't help cheering for Liu Mang.
It's horrible!
The Warriors have been rotten for many years, although there are championships, but there is no so-called strong team tradition, most of their stars are traded in a fight, there is no star like Duncan, Nowitzki, Lakers, Celtics who have retired for life in their own team and have a long career, their best star in team history Chamberlain has been traded, so in front of the Splash Brothers, there are really not many die-hard fans of the Warriors, and they defected at the beginning!
Everyone can see the gap between Liu Mang and Arenas.
The data of the two is about the same, but Arenas is now capable of only getting 18+4+6, and Liu Mang's data is about the same now, because the team only needs him to play such data, and Liu Mang's rookie season data is better than Arenas's current data!
Liu Mang is a 20+ all-time rookie in the rookie season who is regarded as Jordan's successor after the rookie year!
Liu Mang was slapped on the ground by Dampier, the pain stimulated his nerves, and he was also excited, today, he is going to get dry!
Looking at the Arenas peak star card with 9 minutes and 57 seconds left, this top star card with only one section of effect, Liu Mang spent so much "price", how could he not play well.
Beat Arenas to the point of losing the courage to face himself! This is Liu Mang's goal today!
Just like Lebon James treated DeMar DeRozan, he will fight to the death when he encounters it, and when this guy becomes stronger in the future, he will not be able to have the courage to fight against himself!
Seeing Liu Mang's eyes, Arenas felt like he was going to cry: Brother! You're a brother! Let's play well!