After entering March, if the schedule in the second half of January is tribulation, and the schedule in February is purgatory, then the Eagles' schedule in March is eighteen layers of hell.

No matter how difficult the schedule is in January, it is only the second half of the month, and the schedule in February is difficult, but there is also an All-Star weekend in the middle of the game that has been delayed by a week.

But by March...... At the beginning, it was directly connected to the last day of February.

On March 1, the Hawks, who had just finished playing the Magic, immediately welcomed the Knicks back-to-back at home.

The Knicks, like the Wizards, both have a 27-30 record and are tied for 10th in the East.

As the richest big city team in the world, James Dolan, the rich second-generation who took over the Knicks in 1999, was asked by reporters in mid-January that the Knicks have no hope of entering the playoffs this season, and will they choose to completely mess up James, James Dolan said: They can be bad, but they are not allowed to be bad.

This logic is very interesting, it can be rotten, and it is not allowed to be rotten.

Dolan actually wants Bo James, looking at the art of speaking, how skillful he is, but he can't wipe his face and directly say that he wants to be bad.

Dolan just wants to retain the "dignity" of the basketball mecca, it's not that they don't work hard, it's that they lack strength.

Then the Knicks players and coaching staff took it seriously!

The Knicks players and coaching staff felt the sense of self-identity and pride that they should have as a "big team"!

The Knicks players were all motivated, they felt that their dignity had been maintained, they had the urge to "die for their confidants" for Dolan, and then in the past month or so, they played an 11-6 record and caught up with the Wizards.

This wave of outbreaks left Dolan with suffering to tell.

Why did it suddenly erupt?

Aren't they all ready to head for the penultimate east?

Climbing all the way from 10 wins to nearly 30 wins, and maybe even hitting 40 wins at the end of the season, Dolan is desperate.

There is a chance to win 40 wins, even if you get 40 wins, you can't make the playoffs!

But no matter how desperate you are, you have to swallow your broken teeth in your stomach.

No, the Knicks are going to fight the Hawks, and Dolan didn't accept interviews recently, but due to an exclusive interview with a Chinese reporter, in order to open up the Chinese market...... Because the Knicks are too easy to develop in the North American market, even if the record is the first, the ticket revenue is the first in the NBA, the Knicks' ticket prices are close to the ticket prices of NFL teams, of course, the NFL has 16 regular season games a year, and the tickets are naturally expensive, but football is open-air, with an average of about 40,000 or 50,000 people watching each game, such as the NCAA football's Los Angeles Rose Bowl and the NFL's annual Super Bowl can be watched by up to 100,000 people, plus there are more NFL teams, and it must still be more profitable than the NBA.

The Knicks are one of only two teams in the NBA that can compete with NFL teams in ticket revenue.

In North America, the Knicks' income is also among the highest among all teams in the NBA.

Because it is so easy to become one of the best teams in the NBA market, Dolan has the ambition to open up overseas markets, and the Chinese market is undoubtedly the NBA's largest overseas market candidate.

So, when I was interviewed, I couldn't control my mouth again.

In an exclusive interview with Imperial Court Television, Xu Jicheng of Xinhua News Agency asked the Knicks if they would want to compete with the Hawks for a playoff spot this year.

In order to leave the impression in the hearts of Chinese fans that the Knicks are a tough team that never gives up, Dolan replied: "No, our goal is not the playoffs, but the championship, no matter how difficult it is, even if we fail in the end, our goal is also the championship, as a professional team, don't fight for the championship, just disband." ”

Dolan responded by quoting Kobe, who was still a bench at the time, after back-to-back shots from the playoffs and being eliminated by the Jazz after back-to-back shots outside the playoffs.

Kobe Bryant was a substitute that year, in addition to his style of play and Jordan image, and the Los Angeles market was large, and he was selected as an All-Star starter in the second year, and talent was part of it, and more was that he dared to shoot in the playoffs in his rookie season, and had the courage to take responsibility after losing.

These words are quite morale-boosting, the Knicks have played for more than a month, and the morale from the last mention has almost been exhausted, and it could have been put on a good show, if the end of the season is more than 30 wins, the top three picks are unlikely, and the top five picks can still fight for a wave, and the record in the East this year is very average, and it is difficult to win 50 wins in the first place in the East, so the record of the weak team is also good.

But hearing the president's words, the players felt a "sense of mission", even if they couldn't even enter the playoffs in the end, but just like the famous coach Tomjanovic said, they can't live without a championship heart!

As a result, Dolan was expecting the Knicks, whose losing streak would begin immediately, went berserk when he played away against the Hawks.

On March 1, the Hawks, who had to play back-to-back games after just seven games in the past 11 days, faced the Knicks with a tired division, and were stunned by the team that had been in good form since mid-January.

Originally, the players of the Knicks hated the Hawks, and Alan Houston hated Liu Mang even more, and he broke out today!

Alan Houston has a feeling of "returning to the light" this year, and actually played the strongest season of his career, averaging 22+3+2 data per game, and a new career high in points, if it weren't for the Knicks' 97 million salary, nearly half of which is the "former star" of retirement, layoffs, and DNP, the Knicks' record is a little better, and this year is Alan Houston's career masterpiece.

The Knicks seemed to have regained the iron-blooded defense of the Pat Riley era today, with strong physical confrontation and accurate mid-range shooting, and beat the Hawks to a 45-34 lead at halftime.

Most of the Eagles' players are weak, not because they want to work hard, but because they are tired.

In the third quarter, Liu Mang took Prince, Chris Crawford, Newbell, and Boozer, who were still in good physical condition, to fight for a wave and try to overtake the score.

Indeed, the third quarter was the best quarter of the game for the Hawks, with 28 points in a single quarter, Liu Mang scored 13 points and 5 assists in a single quarter, but the Knicks scored 31 points!

The Hawks had a good offense, but in addition to the two guards, the three frontcourt were beaten into a sieve, and the fork was not only not narrowed, but was pulled away by the Knicks to 14 points, 62-76 in the third quarter.

In the last quarter, Liu Mang took Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, and Muhammad to continue to fight on the court, and after three quarters, Jason Terry and Muhammad also eased up, and their consumption was not as great as Raheem and Latliff, and the overall situation of the Hawks began to pick up in the final quarter.

But the Knicks were not careless, they had a rare chance to win the Hawks, how could they be careless, Alan Houston, who scored 20 points in the first three quarters, broke out in the final quarter, scoring 22 points in a single quarter, even if Liu Mang went up his fingers were about to poke into Alan Houston's eyes, today's Alan Houston was stunned and did not flinch, and stood up bravely, when the Hawks found a sense of counterattack in the final quarter, Alan Houston came to a personal scoring shockwave, relying on 22 points in a single quarter to carry the performance of the entire Hawks in a single quarter of 35 points, Combined with the six points that others scored after Allan Houston attracted the defense, the Knicks withstood the Hawks' late comeback!

Liu Mang had 36 points and 8 assists today, but lost to Alan Houston's 42 points.

In the end, the Knicks defeated the Hawks 104-97 away, "fighting for a breath" for Knicks owner Dolan's belief in "never say die"!

Knicks owner Dolan came to watch the game away from home, and saw that the Knicks were really playing like a championship today, and a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out.

Why didn't I see you like this at the beginning of the season, and this is only the possibility of the playoffs, or is it a very low probability that you will explode?

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With a 30-26 record, the Hawks suffered a loss in the second game of a back-to-back across the month.

This kind of thing was expected by the Hawks coaching staff, so in late January and February, the Hawks wanted to win so much to accumulate a few wins in case that situation arises.

Seven games were played in the last 11 days of late February, and the schedule was brutal, and March was basically the same schedule, so the Eagles had to have some wins as a cushion when they had to lose.

For example, next, after playing the Knicks, the Hawks only had a day off on the 2nd, and then started on the 3rd, and it was another 7-day 5-game, first three consecutive home games, No. 3 against the Celtics, No. 5 and No. 6 back-to-back home games against the Warriors and Hornets, and then No. 8 and No. 9 away back-to-back challenges against the Hornets and the Heat.

Fortunately, they are all playing at home or against teams in the East and West South Divisions, and Atlanta is less than a short time away, but even so, the Hawks players want to take Gatlin to New York to bomb the NBA headquarters.

NBA officials said they were also helpless!

Yes, they were trying to open up the Chinese market and treat the Hawks like cattle, but they gave the Hawks a very relaxed schedule in November and December and the first half of January, arguably the easiest start in the entire history of the NBA.

But the Hawks couldn't stand up to their own death, and they wasted the schedule of only 28 games in the first two months.

Originally, David Stern thought that the Hawks had the best record in the league in the first two and a half months, with the Hawks' record last season, and the players are all young, there will definitely be progress this year, and it is not difficult to win the regular season halfway championship with that kind of schedule, and then as the NBA regular season halfway champion, in China's Spring Festival and more than a month after the Spring Festival, to warm up for the playoffs.

The plan was perfect, but things often didn't work out the way it happened, and the Eagles were still struggling for a playoff spot in March.

David Stern is also bitter in his heart!

If the Hawks have an accident and can't enter the playoffs, David Stern is estimated to vomit blood, if the Hawks and the Rockets can't enter the playoffs, he probably wants to cut himself, this year's Chinese market is hot, especially the court is very "champion", and even predicts the finals of the Hawks and the Rockets...... There are already domestic "experts who understand the ball" who have begun to analyze the odds of black eight, and the word black eight has become popular in the domestic basketball circle recently.

Although David Stern knows that it is something that cannot be dreamed of, both teams have made the playoffs, which makes Chinese fans a little hopeful, no matter how miserable it is, at least one team must make the playoffs.

But now, with both the Rockets and Hawks teetering in eighth place in their respective divisions, David Stern worries every time he sees the Hawks and Rockets lose.

But at this point, the Eagles players can only complain privately, and they still want to say that they don't care about the schedule and just want to win.

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On March 2nd, a day off, what is enough time for a day?

Enough to go to the supermarket.

In this kind of difficult time, Liu Mang got up in the morning and finished training, and did not continue to focus on basketball in the afternoon.

After getting up in the morning and training, waiting for Dina to finish her homework at noon, Liu Mang took Xiao Lori to the supermarket to buy some wooden boards, screws, mini electric drills or something, as well as plastic baffles with high transparency close to glass transparency or something, after buying, go home in the afternoon and make your own honor display cabinet.

Dinah used his plastic storage boxes, cardboard boxes and other things to put those trophies, but Dinah always felt that it was too "dignified", so she wanted to make her own honor display case.

Workers please?

Forget it, it's too expensive, Dinah's own pocket money is a little insufficient, so she took Liu Mang to buy a wooden board and make it herself.

Liu Mang was worried that he had nothing to do, and he was annoyed to play games, so he happily agreed.

I can't do it, but I can learn it!

Do some carpentry to divert your attention, and study how to make a beautiful display cabinet with little Lori, although it is not very beautiful in the end, but at least it is a cabinet, and then brush vegetable paint together, put it in the yard to dry, because vegetable paint does not have too many chemical components, it can be used when it is dry.

In the evening, looking at the honor display cabinet that he and Dina had worked together all afternoon, full of his own trophies, Liu Mang still felt a little sense of accomplishment.

People are so easy to be satisfied, sometimes when the pressure like Mount Tai hits, instead of sighing, feeling sorry for yourself or complaining about others, it is better to find something else to do, find some small goals, and the kind of small achievements that have been completed are also good.

Liu Mang did carpentry work with Dinah today, and it really released a lot of pressure, and now Liu Mang is very happy, not thinking about those heavy things for the time being, and cheering with Dinah for completing the goal.

Watching Dina ignore the sawdust on her head, she excitedly asked her uncle to put those "honor notes" that had been written long ago in front of each trophy, Liu Mang couldn't stop smiling on his face, this little Lori, although she occasionally makes herself half angry, but when it's time to be cute, it's so cute!

According to Dinah's instructions, one by one put in front of each trophy, and then picked up Dinah and hugged it to her chest, Dinah looked at the honor cabinet she had made with her own hands, the position she wanted to place, and the honor note she wrote, and cheered excitedly......

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After a busy afternoon with Dinah yesterday, Liu Mang was in a much better mood.

The next day, the Eagles ushered in the next seven-day five-game schedule.

First up is the Boston Celtics at home.

In addition to the top five in the East, from sixth to ninth, the difference in record is not very large, although it is difficult for the Hawks and Magic to surpass the seventh or sixth, but that is based on the current record gap between the Bucks and Celtics and the Hawks and Magic.

The Hawks are 30-26 and the Celtics are 33-25, with the Hawks winning 53 percent and the Celtics winning 57 percent.

If the Celtics had maintained a 567 percent win rate, it would have been impossible for the Hawks to catch up with the Celtics, given the difficult schedule.

But it's hard to say, if the Celtics themselves lose a few games in a row, they will really have to fight for eighth place in the East with the Hawks and Magic.

The Celtics themselves know this, and in March, the last two game months, they take it very seriously and don't take the Hawks lightly in the slightest.

On the Hawks' side, the situation is not very good, the house leak happened to rain overnight, although Ratliff has been saving, but he is a big center, not a grumpy muscular type, but a tonnage type, although it is saved, but in the past two months, it has not fallen, and the schedule is cruel, and in the pre-game inspection, there is muscle fatigue.

Thanks to the fact that there were no injuries, Coach Krueger hastened to put Ratliff on the injury list.

Raheem is really injured, he twists his ankle and needs to rest for three to five days.

On top of that, both Prince and Boozer have had varying degrees of fatigue and injuries, and the two rookies have suddenly taken on important roles for the team since the end of December, and of course, the two have done well and have become recognized as the Hawks' treasures in the draft, but they are rookies after all.

Although Prince and Boozer are fine, and they don't even have the obvious symptoms of Ratliff, in order to protect the two, plus Ratliff has already rested, rest two more...... How big is that......

Then, the Eagles' starting lineup changed to Dean Grove, Jason Terry, Chris Crawford, Muhammad, Kevin Wesley.

It's been a long time since the Eagles have been so star-like!

The entire starting lineup didn't have a single All-Star this season!

Then, the Eagles suffered a heavy defeat at home......

It's not that Liu Mang and Jason Terry don't play well, but the two play very well, Liu Mang 33 points, Jason Terry 27 points and 5 assists, both of them are desperately playing their best, but they can't stand the Celtics' defense is really powerful, because no one can chisel Antoine Walker, the Celtics' defense has become very balanced, "no" obvious loopholes, Liu Mang and Jason Terry can't be prevented, but others are deadly defended.

And without Raheem's restrictions, Pierce played so coquettishly that no one could stop him, even if Antoine Walker squandered a 4-of-12 three-point shooting percentage, Pierce could lead it.

In the final quarter, the Celtics made efforts to wrap Liu Mang and Jason Terry, guarding the basket and letting others, due to the absence of Prince, a three-point shooter and Boozer, a good mid-range shot, the outside line could not be shot, the inside line was blocked, and the backcourt double wave was sandwiched, and the Hawks only scored 13 points in the final quarter, and the Celtics who had a 7-point lead in the third quarter opened the point difference in one fell swoop.

In the end, even if Liu Mang scored 33 points and Jason Terry scored 27 points, the two combined for 60 points and 10 assists, they could not prevent the team from losing streak, and Pierce played 32 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists to lead the Celtics to a 103-92 victory over the Hawks.

After the loss to the Celtics, the Hawks only had one more day off.

Two consecutive defeats, Liu Mang is angry!

The record became 30-27, but fortunately, the Magic team did not win, and Maddy continued his empty slashing journey, getting a triple-double of 30+11+13, but was beaten to death by the Kings, and the Hawks had a chance to breathe.

After a day of rest, the Eagles continued their schedule and were about to start a back-to-back back.

First, on March 5, the Hawks continued to play at home for the second and final time of the season against the Oakland Warriors.

After losing two games in a row, Liu Mang has fire in his heart!

Although I know that during the team meeting, the coaching staff also comforted and comforted the players not to lose their normalcy because of a two-game defeat, the team's goal is to have a whole season, not one or two games, and when the team has a difficult schedule, don't be unbalanced because of one or two games.

But Liu Mang still has a fire in his heart!

If there is a fire, it must be extinguished!

It's a coincidence that the Warriors are here!

Beat the warriors to dissipate their anger!

On March 5, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, the Hawks host the Warriors.

The game is about to start, and Liu Mang chose to start today! Playing with Jason Terry, Chris Crawford, Mohammed, Kevin Wesley.

On the Warriors' side, Arenas brought Jason Richardson, Jamison, Murphy, and Dampier to the court.

If you really want to talk about strength, the lineup of the Warriors, and the current lineup of the Hawks, may be that the Warriors are a little stronger, the Hawks win because they have a clear core, tactics and defensive system, and the Warriors have stronger individual strength.

However, just a week ago, the Warriors players had just experienced the worst game of their respective careers, and they had been beaten by Liu Mang!

Arenas looked at Liu Mang, who seemed to have flames in his eyes, clamped his muscles, and shouted in his heart: "Brother Ace! Don't......"

But will Liu Mang miss the opportunity for the other party to step on the other party further after he is frightened?

Apparently not!

Since Raheem is not there, Liu Mang and Jason Terry simply let their nature fly!

After the opening, Liu Mang faced Arenas, who was still in fear of the last encounter, and completely gave up on the defensive end.

This is the most criticized point of Arenas at his peak, especially when he was eliminated by James in the playoffs for three consecutive years, Arenas reached the last time he played James in the playoffs, and completely lost his fighting spirit, Arenas last played against James in 6 games, averaging only 10 points per game, if it weren't for Butler and Jamison combined to average 40 points and 18 rebounds per game, it was difficult to hold on to two home courts, and they were all narrow wins, They may not be swept away because Arenas lost their fighting spirit in the face of James.

The Arenas who fought against James was Arenas after he had become a top star, so James spent two years abusing him to the point of losing his heart to fight.

Now Arenas is only in the second grade, and he doesn't need Liu Mang to spend too much effort, and he directly beats Arenas to the point that he wants to become the first person in the same class.

The more Arenas gave up defense, the better Liu Mang played, Liu Mang came up in the first quarter and scored four three-pointers in a row, and Arenas had no fighting spirit to defend!

Eat and sleep and fight the general! Liu Mang's evil rule over the younger generation has begun!