February 28, 2003 at 6:57 p.m.

Phillips Arena in Atlanta.

The Eagles and Magic team pre-game activities are over, and the final warm-up preparations before the game begins.

Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, Mohammed, and Ratliff sat on the court with their pre-game moves, and the Eagles games always made fans find interesting and different from other teams.

Liu Mang stood on the sidelines, wearing a training suit, swaying his body to the rhythm of the live music, the game was about to start, and he wanted to take a good look at how this year's Maddie was different from last year.

Maddie, for his part, is also very well prepared for today's game, and he is also very interested in defeating Liu Mang.

For example, who will be the best in the future?

Maddie jokingly said that he wanted to be Liu Mang's Pippen, but that was the impulse at the time, and indeed the kind of leadership temperament shown by Liu Mang made Maddie fascinated and wanted to follow, but if Maddie really wanted to become Maddie's Jordan willingly, at least, Liu Mang was stronger than Maddie!

Otherwise, no matter how good the relationship is, no matter how much Maddie appreciates Liu Mang, even if he comes to the Eagles, he will not be Pippen, he can only be the boss.

Because he is indeed too strong!

And then because he is not suitable for the character of being the boss, and his strength is the strongest, the team will always become different and weird.

This season's eighth place in the East is the beginning of the two testing each other.

And because of Liu Mang's existence, in addition to the Pistons, Nets, and Pacers, there is another strong team in the East, which promotes a different historical process, makes Maddie feel more pressure, and makes Maddie himself work harder and improve more.

Soon, three minutes passed, and at seven o'clock in the evening, the last national broadcast of the Hawks in February, with the time of the TV station, at seven o'clock, the game started on time!

The Hawks' top five starters remain the same, and the Magic's lineup has changed dramatically from last season, and it's a bit miserable.

Point guard, Jacqui Vaughn, the backup point guard of the Hawks last season, averaged 6 points and 3 assists per game, scoring guard, Gordon Kirisek, the leading scoring guard of the Yugoslav national team, averaged 11 points, 2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game, the small forward is Maddy, who averaged 31.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, and the power forward is Sean Kemp, a former super power forward signed by the Magic after being cut last summer, averaging 6 points and 5 rebounds per game. The center is Drew Gooden, who overlapped with Gasol with Gasol with the Grizzlies with the first three picks in the '04 draft pick, and averaged 13 points and 8 rebounds per game.

Gooden and Ratliffe come to the center circle to jump the ball.

The inside swingman is usually in good physical condition, and Gooden, who has a wild style of play, uses his speed advantage to beat Ratliff to win the jump ball.

The Magic strike first.

Maddie advances with the ball.

Here it comes!

Liu Mang looked at Maddie and wanted to see how Maddie, who was still three months away from turning 24, had improved compared to last year.

"Tracy McGrady, Ability 98, Offense 99, Defense 83, Three-Point 82, Shot 84, Layup 97, Speed 92, Power 85, Passing 85, Rebound 82......"

Maddie's defense has actually improved!

Liu Mang felt like hell!

The ability value has been increased to the second ability value in the league like Garnett and O'Neal, this Liu Mang is not surprising, the terrible thing is that Maddie's defense this year has actually increased from 75 last season to 83, that is, Maddie has actually picked up defense this year! It's true that Maddie was very good at defense that year, and both the sophomore and third grades were in the top seven for the All-Defensive Team, the sophomore guard ranked seventh, and the third-year team was fifth, and he almost squeezed into the All-Defensive Team.

But after leaving the magic after the rookie contract, Maddie's defense plummeted, and this time Liu Mang saw Maddie's defense and actually came back!

Liu Mang is right to think about it, if there is no 80 defensive ability value, Maddie's 97 ability value is probably the limit, that is, to regain defense, so that Maddie also has the opportunity to hit the full value of the ability value of the peak Kobe Bryant and James!

Liu Mang was a little scared, if he picked up the defensive Maddie, if there was no injury in two years, who would be more powerful with the little blacksmith?

It's hard to say!

Judging from the comprehensive performance this season, Kobe Bryant must be a little better, with 9 consecutive games of 40+ and 8 wins and 1 loss, second in the scoring list, and a better record than Maddie, but his personal performance is definitely better than Maddie, the MVP ranking has always been in front of Kobe, of course, the MVP ranking is unshakable, and the 21st, who laughs more obscenely than Wu Mengda, is invincible this year.

Maddie came to the three-point line and Prince stepped up.

It wasn't Raheem who came to defend, Maddie was a little upset, thinking that the Eagles were underestimating him! Although Prince played a very good performance and his defense was praised by experts and media, the Hawks' best single defense is undoubtedly Liu Mang, Rahim, and Ratliff, and the one who can play against Maddie is, of course, Rahim.

Chewing on the braces, Maddie stood up straight and began to dribble under her crotch with a very high center of gravity.

Prince was very calm when he saw this scene, Liu Mang had reminded him before that Maddie's action that seemed to be the beginning of the wave could not be taken lightly! You must not rush to reach out and steal.

Maddie was a little surprised that this rookie didn't fall for it! And the small broken steps are extremely good, and the height is enough, Maddie dry pulling is not a good choice.

It's a little interesting, Maddie Cat bends down, and her eyes begin to become foggy......

Seeing Maddie's eyes, Prince immediately pasted on Maddie, and what the boss said, Maddie's expression was going to complain...... No, it's powerful!

Prince wanted to rely on agility to deal with Maddy, a tall small forward, and leaned against Maddie in an attempt to disrupt Maddy's rhythm.

Maddie dribbled the ball with his left hand, leaned sideways and leaned against Prince with his right shoulder, Prince was very tight, in terms of speed and flexibility, Prince was not afraid of Maddie at all.

Suddenly, Maddie turned his body back and pushed the racket to the right with his left hand, and Prince accurately predicted that Maddie was about to break through, and immediately took a step back to the left.

Accurate prediction! The action of stepping back is fast!

But! Maddie's first step is faster! Rao is Prince is completely ready, and he also took a step back in advance, but after Maddie's exaggerated first step, two big strides in a row, Prince couldn't keep up at all!

Maddie took three steps into the free throw line and continued to rush inside, Kemp immediately ran away, Ratliff saw the menacing Maddie, and he couldn't control Kemp, Muhammad had already been pulled out of the interior by Gooden, only Ratliff was alone to guard the basket, and Ratliff felt that he was enough! Himself is the best defensive player!

Ratliff stepped out of the joint collision zone, the timing was very good, and he blocked Maddie's path first, as long as Maddie bumped into it, it was definitely an offensive foul, and if Maddie made a one-step pull-up jump shot inside the free throw line, Ratliff could also interfere.

Very perfect defensive prediction and movement, Rutliff's defense couldn't be more perfect, but the most perfect defense is only the best that can be done in theory, Maddie made a sharp stop before making contact with Latlleaf, and at the same time bent his knees, the whole person bounced up on the ground, grabbed the ball with his right hand and threw it to the basket! Ratliff jumped up and tried to block Maddie's close-range dry pull.

But Maddie only bounced on the ground, just a small step with a lot of amplitude, and the ball was thrown to the basket but not a shot!

Maddie turned around Ratliff and got into the basket Maddie jumped on the spot, jumped high in the air to catch the ball that bounced off the rebound and pressed it into the basket!

The fans at the scene let out a startled sound, and then it was terrifyingly quiet!

"Your uncle!" Liu Mang looked stupid! He didn't expect this scene to happen in front of his eyes! Just a few meters away!

When Ratliff's defense was in place just now, Liu Mang thought that Maddie's ball was going to be deflated, and he wanted to watch a good show, but he didn't expect Maddie to score such a goal in the actual game!

Throw and grab a two-handed dunk!

It's not a self-throw, Maddie wants to shoot against Ratliff...... Even if he is Maddie, it is very difficult to do this when Ratliff's defense is in place, and he is not as big as Kobe's heart, so he was ready to grab the ball and dunk by himself from the beginning, and that "throw" was just a rebound "dribble".

But from another point of view, it's even more terrifying! If you can't shoot and grab an offensive rebound and then dunk it, it's not a big deal.

But in the first place, Maddie was ready to do it, and it would be terrible!

What confidence and imagination that is!

And this physical fitness and execution, it's just terrible!

Liu Mang wants to play! I want to play against Maddie!

But a few starters on the Hawks field, especially the two Kitty Eagles Galatliffe, the eyes of the three of them completely changed!