The entire basketball world was in shock over the Nets' formation of the "Big Three," but life went on as usual, and the season on the Hawks' side continued.

The Hawks had the first game of a back-to-back at home against the Bucks.

The Bucks have become the opponents that the top four in the East do not want to meet in the first round this year, mainly because of Reed and TJ Ford, in addition to Hamilton for the Pistons and Liu Mang for the Hawks, the other two teams in the top four in the East are very jealous of TJ Ford.

Stockton was promoted to the starting position for this game, starting alongside Prince, Raheem, Boozer and Ratliff.

The Bucks have been very good this year, and after Reed became the absolute core, he led the Bucks to play better and better, and has returned to the top eight in the East, surpassing the Hornets' record.

The Bucks' roster is just as big as his girlfriend is T.J. Ford, Reed, Desmond Mason, Van Horn and Joe Smith, who got the most tragic pick last summer.

At the beginning of the game, Stockton was tragic on the defensive end, and was continuously passed by TJ Ford, TJ Ford's speed is really speechless, and his ability to respond is not very good, so he relied on his own threat to break through the ball, as a rookie averaged almost 7 assists per game, this time facing the all-time assist king Stockton, he played quite coquettishly, and continued to break through and pass to create opportunities for teammates.

Reed showed his catch-and-shoot prowess as T.J. Ford messed up the defense and Raheem was forced to make up for it, and he and Desmond Mason got a solid catch jumper off the ball without the ball to get rid of Prince's defense.

With Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace absent today, the defensive combination of the fastest opponent on the outside is gone, the best complement defense master on the inside is gone, and the Hawks' defense in the starting stage has a big problem.

TJ Ford's speed is not something that one person can defend, and almost all teams can only use team defense to prevent him from scoring against this rookie, so that TJ Ford's organizational ability is close to 7 assists per game by breaking through points, not to mention the aging Stockton, even when he is young, he may not be able to defend against this player who may be the fastest in the league.

However, although Stockton couldn't guard against TJ Ford, he was still in the thick of the offensive end.

In the last two games, Liu Mang can't play, of course he has to take on more important tasks, and the cooperation of the two Boozer seems to be a double reappearance, Boozer showed a strong desire to attack at the beginning, and continued to cut in after blocking and dismantling, squeezing Joe Smith under the basket to score easily in a row, forcing the Bucks to pinch him at this point, and no one dared to put Stockton's mid-to-long range shots on his side, although Stockton only averaged 5 points and 4 assists per game this season, but the shooting rate was terrifyingly high, and he easily got a shooting rate of 50+44+91.

Boozer's offensive strength is not much worse than when Rasheed Wallace was in the West, but the team needs defenders, he didn't complain about his role, and was willing to support the second team with Stockton, but he was definitely one of the few big forwards in the East!

The Hawks also relied on Boozer's back-to-back open baskets to attract pinch shots, Raheem and Prince got plenty of easy shots, and the Hawks and Bucks were evenly matched in the opening game.

The Bucks' new backcourt combination and the Hawks' old-young duo have come and gone.

The star of the year is hard, and he just had a wave with Stockton and Boozer in the starting stage, and when it came to the rotation time of the official pause in the first quarter, Reed had to come up and face Jason Terry.

It has to be said that Jason Terry's height problem has limited his talent at the position of shooting guard, and Reed, who entered the NBA a year later than Jason Terry, is already better than Jason Terry.

But every time Jason Terry comes off the bench, he doesn't have to think about it as much as Reed does, just score!

The Hawks suppressed the Bucks led by Reed from the second half of the first quarter to the middle of the second quarter after Jason Terry came up, and Jason Terry had a huge interior combination of Raheem, Boozer and Kwame Brown when he rotated the lineup, and dared to throw and dare to score, and when he reached the middle of the second quarter, Jason Terry helped the Hawks take a 7-point lead, and the Hawks led 47-40.

After both sides switched back to the starting lineup, the two teams were at a stalemate again, and Stockton came back to lead the team to attack with Boozer, and the Bucks team with several teammates with mid-to-long range shooting led by TJ Ford and Reed continued the tug-of-war.

At halftime, the Hawks still held a five-point lead at 61-56.

The key turn of the game came in the third quarter, and after halftime, the game continued in the third quarter.

The Hawks, on their side, once again sent the combination of Stockton and Boozer, with Jason Terry, Prince's two big shooters and Ratliff guarding under the basket, trying to pull the score away in the third quarter by relying on positional offense.

But at this time, the head coach of the Bucks had a change of purpose, and former Trail Blazers All-Star guard and current Bucks head coach Terry Porter played the starting lineup for the entire quarter in the third quarter, and kept trying to speed up and wear down Stockton and Ratliff.

If Liu Mang and Rashid Wallace were there, not many teams in the league would dare to speed up against the Hawks.

But today Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace are not there, the Bucks' move worked, Stockton can now have 20 minutes a game to maintain the state, and when the rhythm on the court is controlled by the Hawks, it is possible to play a slow-paced positional battle offense, he has played 13 minutes in the first half, and was forced to pull the rhythm by the Bucks as soon as he came up in the second half.

Stockton was soon too tired to run, and Coach Krueger had to replace him, and Ratliff couldn't hold up in this style of play and was replaced.

Then he had to be replaced by Willie Green and Jason Terry in the backcourt, with Prince, Raheem, and Kwame Brown on the inside.

The backcourt combination of Willie Green and Jason Terry is really a few blind shots, mainly starting with Willie Green, as a "point guard", his assists are outrageous, and he has also played 30 games with the Hawks, with a total of 15 assists......

Willie Green came up with the ball, and then the Hawks' offense became Willie Green, Jason Terry, and Raheem.

Jason Terry is the waveliest gun, Raheem is the most consistent gun, and Willie Green, it's good to be confident as a rookie, but he doesn't have that ability.

In this trio, Jason Terry plays the role of Liu Mang, although it is a little weakened, but it is enough, Rahim is still the one who can score five or six points in every quarter of every game as long as he focuses on the offensive end, but his characteristic is stability, and he rarely breaks out, especially now after being defensive.

Neither of these is a problem, the biggest problem is that Willie Green, who plays the Jason Terry position, has become a part of the Hawks' collapse.

Jason Terry can be said to have exploded in this game, playing 37 minutes and scoring 41 points on 16-of-33 shooting, but in the second half of the fourth quarter, he really couldn't shoot, and he didn't know how Liu Mang threw more than 40 times in a game.

Raheem's side, after losing weight, it was more difficult to eat hard inside, relying on air cutting and mid-distance singles also got 20 points and 14 boards, but it could not play a role in deciding the outcome of the game, Boozer also got 20+10, but the Eagles except for these three, no one scored doubles.

In the Bucks, 6 people scored double-doubles, TJ Ford relied on his youth and vigor in the contest with Stockton, got 17 points and 15 assists, Reed flew up in Liu Mang's absence, and also scored 40 points, shooting 17 of 28 from the field, no one could prevent him, Prince was strong in single defense, and he really couldn't prevent the catch shot after blocking and dismantling without the ball.

In the end, the Hawks were pulled away by Reed and the Bucks, who may have been faster than Iverson TJ Ford, and the Hawks lost 103-110 to the Bucks, ending their six-game winning streak.

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For the Eagles, after the brawl, the most difficult thing was not that the core player Liu Mang was banned, but that the two games were back-to-back.

If the Bucks took out the Hawks with Team Basketball led by Reed and T.J. Ford, the next game against the Magic is to face a true superstar.

After Rivers was fired, the Magic team's record is still very difficult, only 6-28 until now, but it has finally begun to win, and although the recent 6-9 record is bad, it at least has the strength to fight.

Maybe Maddie has little motivation to play other teams in this situation, he is not the kind of person who is particularly motivated, but Maddie is very energetic every time he plays the Eagles!

The Hawks and Bucks had less than 24 hours of rest after a last-minute gamble before head-to-back home games against the Magic.

Stockton was tired enough yesterday and had to rest today, and it was too hard to defend against TJ Ford.

As a result, the Hawks had no choice but to put Jason Terry in the starting position.

may be used to playing as a substitute, and it is difficult to adapt to the defense of Maddie directly when he comes up, and he is desperate to be defended by Maddie, and Maddie's side played the Hawks today, and it completely broke out, and he got 11 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists in the first quarter, which revitalized the Magic team.

On the Hawks' side, Jason Terry was killed by Maddy, and although Raheem scored 10 points in a single quarter, he was only 3 of 9, completely slamming his body into Juwan Howard to fight for 10 points in a single quarter.

Liu Mang was suspended, Stockton couldn't play, Calderon Taicai, and Willie Green were 4 of 14 yesterday, which means that there was no point guard who could use it, Jason Terry really couldn't organize the offense, and he couldn't play much in the block, and Boozer could only go to the low post to make fouls like Rahim.

The Hawks were outnumbered 27-17 by the Magic in the first quarter, trailing by 10 points in the quarter.

After that, Maddy began to show scoring and assists, scoring 20 points, 8 rebounds and 12 assists in the first three quarters, leading the Magic to a 14-point lead over the Hawks in the third quarter, and the Magic led by a score of 83-69.

In the fourth quarter, Jason Terry and Raheem still wanted to try to turn the tables, but the rampaging Maddy seemed to want to use scoring to meet the Hawks again two days later, and wanted to use the score to stimulate Liu Mang, and in the fourth quarter, he scored 15 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, stretching the difference to 22 points in one fell swoop, and the Magic led the Hawks 100-78.

After Maddy played the first three quarters, he continued to go wild in the fourth quarter, and has a big triple-double of 35 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists.

The Eagles' side was completely out of line, Liu Mang, Stockton, and Rashid Wallace were not there, and they were overturned by the rampaging Maddie, and Coach Kruger could only replace the main force and announce his surrender.

This is the first time for the Eagles this season!

In the end, the Hawks were slaughtered by the Magic 92-115.

After two consecutive defeats, the record fell to 27-7 all at once.

Liu Mang could only watch the game at home for two consecutive days, and he also saw the efforts of his teammates, but it is true that this lineup was built for him, without him, it was okay to have Stockton in the first game, but when it came time to play the Magic team, it was completely scattered.

Watching the end of the game, his players could only return to the locker room with a blushing face, Liu Mang felt very uncomfortable, it was all his own fault!

Mcgrady......

Liu Mang watched Time Warner's live TV broadcasts in Georgia and Florida as Maddie was invited to participate in a post-game news interview after he smashed a big triple-double to lead the Magic to an upset win over her own team.

Maddie has a rare fighting spirit this season, and said in an interview: "I just watched it, it seems that my average points per game have returned to 29.3 points, and Ace, just in the next game Ace is going to come back, we and the Hawks will continue to play each other in the next game, I really want to see if I am stronger or Ace is stronger, this game should be to welcome Ace's comeback!" ”

Liu Mang didn't expect that he was still struggling with how to announce the competition for the scoring champion after two consecutive defeats, but he didn't expect Maddie to challenge him first!