Half an hour after Liu Mang attended the press conference, Liu Mang and his teammates entered the home arena of the Nets to make final preparations for the game against the Nets.

Liu Mang suddenly announced such a big event, without discussing it, which frightened his teammates.

However, while the teammates were frightened, they were more focused on the next game.

The words have been released, and the Eagles players can only accept their fate.

What's more, Liu Mang's behavior of making it difficult to create difficulty, they are used to it......

Moreover, listening to Liu Mang's words, although this goal is a little scary, but looking at his own record, it's not impossible! It's a little exciting to think about the chance to surpass the Lakers' regular season record in 2000!

In short, the Eagles players have a clear goal, starting in the new year, not a single game can be easily lost!

The Nets on the other side were already quite unhappy with the Hawks, and now they are even more unhappy!

Liu Mang wants to announce that they want to get the best record in the new century, but the Nets players actually have no opinion, they are also envious of the Hawks' record, saying that they don't care about the record is fake, if they don't care about the record, Byron Scott will not be fired.

But Liu Mang didn't announce it early or late, but announced it when he was beating them.

Coupled with the fact that they were originally very hostile to the Hawks, the two teams met twice in the regular season this year, and the Hawks won both, Kidd has not only felt the pressure of Liu Mang's future, he feels that his team's dominance in the East has been in jeopardy!

We've already lost two games in the regular season, and the Nets can't afford to lose!

Last year, he was able to rely on playoff experience and other things to beat the Hawks in the tiebreaker, and this year, Kidd has already felt the strength of the Hawks, and if he loses another game in the regular season, he really has no psychological advantage in the playoffs!

The Nets' recruitment failed again this year, although Mourning's performance when he came to the Nets was far worse than last season, but he was still a defensive threat under the basket, and the deterrent power under the basket with an average of 3.2 blocks per game in the first ten years of his career was there, but after Mourning's first month of playing, kidney disease broke out, from kidney disease to acute kidney failure, and he needed to replace his kidney.

Kidd was under a lot of pressure, very much!

At seven o'clock in the evening, the Hawks' back-to-back away games against the Nets officially began!

The Eagles sent out a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff.

If the Pacers honestly played with the Hawks in the third quarter yesterday, they might dig a big hole for the Hawks in the second game of this back-to-back, and Ratliff would definitely not be able to play back-to-back.

But the Pacers were stunned to "help" the Hawks to let Ratliff rest for a long time, only played 9 minutes in the third quarter, through the daytime massage and other physiotherapy, Ratliffe's current physical condition is not bad, although the journey is rushing, but at least there is normal physical fitness to play until the second half.

The Nets fielded a lineup of Kidd, Kittels, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, Jason Collins.

After Mourning's reimbursement, the Nets returned to the style of play of the past two years, from the lineup to the way they played, except for the addition of Richard Jefferson's ball-handling offense, there were basically no changes.

As soon as the game began, Kidd was eager to establish an advantage in the opening game, leading the team to attack, taking advantage of the poor state at the beginning of the Hawks' back-to-back plays, and playing the Hawks in the opening game.

Generally speaking, the second game of the back-to-back, especially the second game of the away back-to-back, there will be two situations, one is to play well at the beginning, and the other is to not rest well, the physical problem is not the key, the key is that you can't find the feeling at the beginning of the game, it may be because you don't sleep well, it may be because of poor physical condition, and as the game deepens, you will slowly get better and better, but it may be that the opponent has pulled away the difference when the state is not good.

In short, almost all teams in the league have a common problem in the second game of a back-to-back that they have a poor shooting hand and weak performance, so the winning rate of the second game of the back-to-back in the entire league is not high.

Kidd set the Nets' strategy at the beginning of the game as a single defense and a counterattack fast break, wanting to take advantage of the Hawks' back-to-back weakness to block the Hawks' offense with a single defense, and then counterattack to hit the opponent's lack of physical fitness and defense.

Kidd's idea is very good, however, the Eagles have Liu Mang!

The Nets chose to defend in a man-to-man manner, Liu Mang came up and threw the ball with him, and one person threw four people to grab, and played directly in the fourth quarter in the way that everyone's physical fitness declined.

Kidd's side made a play that wanted to target the Hawks' lack of fitness, and Coach Kruger had long expected the Nets to do this, so he made a strange move from the beginning!

After the departure of Byron Scott, the Nets' new head coach Lawrence Frank is a complete puppet, and everything on the court is Kidd's shoulder.

Kidd's coaching attributes on the field are very strong and powerful, but he is just a player after all, too much to take for granted!

Liu Mang threw 6 three-pointers in a row at the beginning, 3 of 6 shots, two of which were shots that did not go into teammates to grab offensive rebounds, and Liu Mang shot again, Liu Mang did not shoot three times, three teammates grabbed offensive rebounds, and once Raheem made a basket and flew, that is, 5 rounds, the Hawks had three starts with three games, and they were all three-pointers, and they came up and beat the Nets 9-4!

Because Liu Mang can shoot, when he can't shoot, because the Nets' single-defense strategy is not enough to shrink inside, the Hawks continuously hit the offensive rebounds, they failed to fight back, and when grinding the position, the Hawks are already familiar with the Nets' offensive routines, the Nets only scored twice in 5 attacks, and the Hawks laid a 5-point lead at the beginning.

With Liu Mang's third three-pointer hit, the Nets were beaten 9-4 by the Hawks after only three minutes of play in the opening game, and the Nets had to call a timeout.

Watching Liu Mang's confident shot, seeing the pertinence of the Eagles' defense, and completely seeing through the offense on his side by the Eagles, Kidd seemed to see the ending of the first two encounters again!

The Eagles already know them too well!

With the same lineup and not much change in the style of play, Kidd has clearly felt that other strong teams are becoming less and less afraid of them this season, and they already know them too well, but they have not been able to make any substantial additions in the summer, and no big-name players are willing to come to the Nets, even if they have reached the Finals for two consecutive years.

And the opponents have strengthened one by one, and most of the opponents' playing styles have changed greatly this year, especially the Eagles, which have become completely different from last season's style of play!

During the timeout, the Nets did not make too good adjustments, although Byron Scott's on-the-spot command ability is average, but when he has a super point guard, he always leads the team with many highlights, such as being steady and good at using the advantages of super point guards to avoid disadvantages, and fully exerting the strength of super point guards.

And Lawrence Frank was far behind, he saw that the Hawks obviously put Kidd to block other people's defenses, so that Kidd hit 2 of 3 shots in the opening game, and chose to let Kidd attack!

If it were Byron Scott, he would have chosen to suppress Kidd's desire to shoot and let Kidd use the offensive threat he played at the beginning to play team offense, but now, after Kidd had a good start, he had the idea of wanting to shoot more, and after getting the coach's affirmation, that psychological hint made his desire to shoot more!

After a timeout, the Nets attacked.

Liu Mang was supposed to guard against Kidd's organizational offense, sticking to Kidd to interfere with Kidd's passing space, but he didn't expect Kidd to come up and shoot directly by blocking and dismantling!

Kidd's mid-range shooting and open three-point shooting after blocking and dismantling are good, but it's just good, if it is used as an auxiliary offensive means, as a terminal point in tactics, it is okay to score 167 or 7 points in a game, maintain a 378 percent shooting rate and a three-point shooting rate of about 33 percent, but as the first offensive option, then it is a big problem!

After Kidd came back from a timeout, he made a fiery shot, and when he and Kenyon Martin blocked the first ball, Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace did not switch in time and were thrown one, but then after the Hawks paid attention to Kidd's defense, Kidd began to hit the iron continuously.

And the Hawks started a team play, after Liu Mang's outside threat came out, Kidd's defense of Liu Mang became a close defense, and it was very tight, Liu Mang's hot hand at the beginning messed up the Nets' defense!

Taking advantage of Kidd's defense, Liu Mang attracted the Nets' pinching after continuous breakthroughs, and the single-defense strategy at the beginning was different, after the Nets scored three three-pointers in the opening game, the Nets' defensive center of gravity was attracted by Liu Mang, and Liu Mang took the ball and the Nets' attention was all on him.

Liu Mang was caught by Kenyon Martin or Kittels and Richard Jefferson in the middle distance, so he gave Rasheed Wallace, Raheem, and Prince mid-range shots, and burst to the basket to be defended by Jason Collins, and was given to Ratliff to play high.

When the Nets didn't dare to continue to wrap up, Liu Mang began his own offensive performance!

The hot feeling of the beginning continued, with three-pointers, mid-range shots, weird footsteps under the basket, fouls or layups!

In the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 21 points and 4 assists on 7-of-11 shooting, leading the Hawks to a super high score of 33 points!

On the other hand, on the Nets' side, Coach Lawrence Frank took over the Nets too early, if he is now in the Nets has gone through the opening pains, accepted that the top three in the East are much higher than their opening record, and began to settle down to play There are signs of recovery, he will not be a complete puppet coach like now, his coaching has a characteristic that he played very well in the second half of the schedule, and his playoff coaching ability is very good, of course, this is the original history, He took over the Nets in mid-January this season and played a great future coaching record, and he is still just a rookie coach who has just moved from assistant coach to head coach, inexperienced, panicked, taken for granted, and his teammates don't take him seriously and only listen to Kidd.

Liu Mang's appearance has a greater and greater impact on the league, and the most obvious manifestation is naturally the Nets team that intersects the most with Liu Mang's Hawks, because the Hawks beat the Nets in the first two games of the season, and the Nets' Byron Scott was sacked in advance, and the Nets fell into a series of mistakes!

After Coach Lawrence Frank made a misjudgment at the beginning, the situation was out of control.

Kidd was under a lot of pressure, and he was very unhappy with Liu Mang's "targeting him everywhere", and he couldn't stop with 3 of the 4 shots in the opening game, especially seeing Liu Mang's wanton scoring, Kidd rarely couldn't control his desire to shoot, and Liu Mang fought against him!

In the first quarter, Kidd shot 75 percent from the beginning of the four shots, and only 5 of 12 by the end of the first quarter, and the shooting rate fell below 40%, scoring 11 points and 2 assists, all the scoring assists were suppressed by Liu Mang, and the Nets only scored 16 points!

The Hawks led by 17 points at 33-16 in the first quarter!

After the start of the second quarter, Stockton, who had basically not played in the last game except for garbage time in the fourth quarter, came up with Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, Kwame Brown and Rodney Rodgers, Richard Jefferson, Aaron Williams, and Kenyon Martin with Kidd.

Kidd was obviously a little panicked, he was just annoyed and a little unwilling to the pressure brought by Liu Mang before this game, but now he saw that his side was scored 33 points by the Hawks in a single quarter, and he faced Stockton, the rival in the West that year, and played more panicked, not at all like him before, in the face of Stockton's defense with a lot of small moves and the judgment of the same passing master on Kidd's pass, Kidd and Kenyon Martin made several mistakes in the cooperation, Kidd became more and more panicked, and the Nets obviously had a strength advantage in the rotation stage, instead of narrowing the point difference, the Nets fell into a 5-minute scoring drought in the second quarter, and they didn't score a single goal in the athletic battle!

And Stockton and Boozer's blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, although the scoring efficiency is not very high because of the Nets' defense, but they also scored 9 points in 5 minutes!

The Nets were called a timeout again, 42-16, and the Hawks came up in the second quarter to stretch the difference to 26 points!

The Nets played 17 minutes and scored just 16 points!

This defense is simply earth-shattering!

The Nets' home court was completely quiet, and there were almost no boos or cheers from the fans except for the voices of the players on the court!

Stockton returned to the bench surrounded by Hawks players and got two more assists, although not much, but got one one, Magic Johnson has retired, Mark Jackson is almost out of play this year, Stockton is happy to get an assist! One more is one! He seems to see that when he lies in bed in a few decades and is about to die, he will still rank first in the NBA's all-time assist list, and he is far ahead!