Liu Mang and Yao Ming's Chinese players vs. Biao caused a huge reaction after the game.

Needless to say in China, Yao Ming's 43 points in the third quarter, Liu Mang scored 35+12+6 in the whole game, which made domestic fans and sports media so excited.

Liu Mang's side is okay, he has already got better data, he has scored 50 points in a single game in his rookie year, and Yao Ming, as a center, scored 43 points in the second year, not only domestic fans really saw that the national team has the world's top double core inside and outside and rejoiced, American fans and media were shocked.

16 of 24 shots, 11 of 13 free throws, 43 points, 8 rebounds a bit stumbling, but in the face of Kwame Brown, who got 20 points and 14 rebounds, and Rahim, who had 9 points and 15 rebounds, it was not particularly unacceptable to only get 8 rebounds, the rebounds were not grabbed, but Yao Ming had 7 assists!

So far in Yao Ming's career, he has only averaged two assists per game, and this is the first time he has exceeded 5 assists! The main thing is that Van Gundy is not very good at using a center forward, he is an old-fashioned coach, his style of play is similar to Pat Leigh's use of Mourning, the inside line is just chiseled, and there is a lack of flexibility, this time Yao Ming sent himself ruthlessly, and played a performance that shocked American fans.

You can score, you can be a pillar under the basket, and you can pass the ball when you need to!

In addition to O'Neal, maybe Duncan is also a center, in addition to these two, after the other three of the four centers have grown old, it has been several years since I have seen other centers as dominant as Yao Ming, Yao Ming is popular in the United States this time!

It's not because of the champion show, it's not because he scored 20 points against the Lakers when O'Neal was injured and let Barkley kiss the ass of the donkey, but really relied on the performance of the ruling level to become popular in the United States!

O'Neal said that Yao Ming was his only opponent after knowing that Yao Ming played such a performance in the third quarter.

Although he is temporarily at a disadvantage in the competition for the first person in China, Yao Ming's popularity in the United States has soared!

Everybody loves a dominant center, everybody is crazy about a dominant center, and that's always been the case.

In the original history, Yao Ming also scored 40+ in the second year, and it was 41 points, 16 rebounds, 7 assists, 21 shots and 15 shots, and played 50 minutes, three overtime, and the last overtime scored 8 points.

However, like Yao Ming's physical problems in this game, it seems that Yao Ming played 50 minutes in 3 overtime, but he basically didn't play much in the second and third quarters of that game, and the first two overtimes were also paddling, relying on Francis and Mobley to bite the score, Yao Ming's physical strength recovered a little in the last overtime, and he scored 8 points in 5 minutes to help the Rockets win the game, and the physical problem was highlighted.

But despite the fitness issues, Yao Ming gave people hope for the traditional center!

O'Neal is an unconventional center, and as he says himself, he's a unique talent in NBA history, and the true traditional center is a player with low posts and shots, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Olajuwon, and now Yao Ming has shown that ability.

Controlling Yao Ming's time on the court, and having a real supergiant outside line allows him to play easily in regular time, which is definitely much higher than his original achievements.

In addition to O'Neal's first championship, he worked hard to win the scoring title and double MVP, and when he won the next two championships, he had to take a break for more than ten or twenty games every season, and the regular season was basically the first quarter of the hair, and the back was handed over to Kobe, and in the fourth quarter, there was a need to be powerful, and in the playoffs and even the entire Western Conference, unless he met Duncan and Webb, Garnett, Nowitzki, the four of them, and the rest of the time paddling, had given Yao Ming enough good learning objects.

And Yao Ming has Olajuwon often to guide the footsteps, although the physical aspect cannot be as exaggerated as O'Neal, but in the NBA it is also the number one inside killer in addition to O'Neal and Duncan, Yao Ming also has the ability to shoot in the long range, if he keeps his hands good and makes his body reach his peak, after all, he is only 23 years old now, and then find a reasonable way to use his physical energy, the future is promising!

There is a big center with shooting and a low post, and his career life is very long, the best example is Sabonis, who injured both legs like that, and played until he was 39 years old before retiring.

In the same way, the next opponents of the Rocket team have a way to deal with the Rocket team, which is to consume Yao Ming!

Liu Mang once again exposed Yao Ming's weaknesses in advance, and after Liu Mang saw the posts or newspaper news of Yao Ming's various analyses by the media, he said that he deserved to call this little giant to rob his first person in China...... No, it's sad and relieved for Yao Ming, this is honing his national team partner! Let Yao Ming understand his physical fitness problems as soon as possible, learn how to allocate physical fitness as soon as possible, communicate with the team as soon as possible, and make choices that are more beneficial to him as soon as possible.

This is for Yao Ming's good!

Liu Mang felt that he was too considerate of his compatriots.

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After playing the Rockets, the Hawks did not leave Houston immediately because the next game was played on the 13th, and the Hawks had three days off.

It's an embarrassing time, let's go back to Atalanta, it's too short, go to San Antonio, that exotic place in San Antonio, whether the players can control their legs is a very serious problem.

In this trip to Texas, the Hawks coaching staff and Liu Mang, as well as core players such as Raheem, Jason Terry, and Rasheed Wallace, as well as the veteran Stockton, discussed that the last game of the four-game game against the Spurs is very crucial!

The Texas Top Three, since the mid-to-late 90s, has inexplicably become a dead away trip to the rest of the league, because the three teams are in the same state, all the teams in the league will come here almost every year for a three-game trip, the weird thing is that no matter what the record of these three teams is, every time other teams come here to play a three-game trip, the mad scientist Nelson Sr., the fancy grass Duncan's Popovich, and Tom Janovic's undead little strong Rockets with a championship heart, Maybe it won't work at other times, but inexplicably, as long as the opponent plays Texas three consecutive visitors, they are as fierce as a tiger.

In addition to the 80s to the present, more than 20 years, the Rockets, Spurs, Mavericks, the three teams have reached the top one by one, the first two teams have won the championship in the past ten years, and the Mavericks have also become the favorite team to compete for the championship, and this year is the top three Texas collectively ranked in the playoffs, and the Texas road trip of other teams has officially become a death road trip.

If the Hawks lose the first two games of this trip to Texas, the third game against the Spurs will not be so critical, but it is precisely because the first two games have been won, and the last game against the Spurs has become particularly critical.

In the past three years, no team has won all three games in a row with Texas, the last time it did so was with the Lakers in the 1999-2000 season.

The Eagles now have a chance to do just that!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Mang wants to let the team really lay the momentum of the championship favorite! For Liu Mang, this is the key to completely making the team have the heart of a truly strong team!

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On the evening of the 10th, he went out with Yao Ming for a small gathering, and after returning to the hotel, Liu Mang looked at the latest scouting report, about the Spurs, but his attention was focused on the record of his own team.

17-4.

Before you know it, the Eagles have opened up a gap with other teams.

The Pacers, who are second in the league, are 15-7, and the Timberwolves, who are third, are 14-8, and the Hawks are gradually getting the feeling of coming out on top in the regular season.

It is true that this start can only rank ninth in NBA history, which is a little worse than the Lakers' 20-4 start in the 1999-2000 season, and compared with the future Big Three Celtics, the running Suns, and the N Big Universe Universe, there is a significant gap between the 20s and even 30s and even the 30s and 23 wins.

However, this is the best start in franchise history for the Eagles, who have never played such a good start before.

Similarly, it was Liu Mang's best start in the NBA three years ago.

Moreover, judging the strength of the team by comparing the record, it should be compared in the same season, and the Hawks are now the team with the best record in the league!

However, it is not enough for Liu Mang, it may be that the first two consecutive playoffs lost to the Nets, and the Hawks have been playing with a humble attitude.

Of course, there is no problem with this, even a good mentality, maintain pressure and motivation, and respond with a humble attitude, so as to avoid often encountering upsets in the abuse of vegetables, and playing a strong team can also better play their strength.

But humility alone is not enough! Liu Mang hopes that his team can have that kind of confidence!

In his own team, Liu Mang always felt that something was missing.

After losing to the Celtics, Liu Mang thought about this problem from time to time, although he didn't want to think too much at first, and played one game at a time with a humble attitude, and his record slowly opened up with other teams, ranking first in the league, but he still felt that something was missing.

Until this trip to Texas, when the Spurs were about to be played, I saw Popovich say that he didn't care who was the first in the regular season, they were the defending champions.

Liu Mang felt that he might have found something missing.

Yes, it's what was lost, the kind of desperation of the Hawks in Liu Mang's rookie season, Lao Tzu is the kind of energy that is the first in the East.

Although the loss to the Nets in the first year was a bit miserable, at that time, the Hawks counterattacked all the way to the Eastern Conference finals, and at the beginning they relied on the kind of barefoot posture that was not afraid to wear shoes.

And now the Eagles are always worried about being surpassed by this and being surpassed by that, and they lack that fearless temperament.

Of course, the current Hawks must not be able to hold a barefoot posture that is not afraid of wearing shoes, Liu Mang feels that his own lineup is not worse than the Lakers, but that feeling is about the same, Liu Mang feels that his team is now missing a kind of pride and self-confidence as the strongest team!

Just like the OK combination, it is domineering that runs through everything.

Or like the Spurs, they don't talk much, but when they hear their names, they know that they are a championship team, and they also have such confidence.

No matter how bad it is, it has to be like the Nets, after losing the Finals, the opponent recruited, and Kidd bluntly said that he was only 8 points away from winning the championship, because there were two games in the Finals where the Nets lost by only 6 points, and Kidd had great desire and confidence to say that kind of thing.

But this kind of self-confidence is not to say that there is, the Lakers are the first dynasty team in the new century, and the Spurs are also two championships in the past five years, even the Nets, are the only team that has reached the Finals two consecutive years since the 80s, in addition to the Lakers, Celtics, Pistons, Bulls, Rockets, Bulls, Lakers, Jazz, although the Nets did not win the championship like the previous teams, but this is enough to support Kidd's pride in winning the championship by only 8 points.

Although the Hawks are the veteran team of the NBA, the team history is not too deep, and the core lineup is also young people who have just risen.

Humility is not impossible, but the strong can be described by the word humility!

A humble posture can keep the Hawks from being too careless when dealing with weak teams, but a posture of being extremely confident in themselves, and even a little bit of the arrogance of the Lakers and Spurs, is the posture that a real championship team should have!

What's the use of losing a few games to a weak team in the regular season? If you really want to talk about it, there is no use for fart.

The Spurs have only won 5 championships in 20 years, and the Lakers have won 5 championships in 11 years, of course, Liu Mang knows that this can't be generalized, but Liu Mang feels that this makes sense, after Duncan's failure to win the championship in 13 years, the regular season in the second year obviously exerted more force on strong teams, and before the finals, Duncan even said that he would not mess up again this time, and said with a very arrogant attitude that he would go home with the championship, which very well illustrates the importance of absolute confidence in his own strength!

The humble posture maintains the focus on the game, and the arrogant posture allows the team to show the momentum that a strong team should have, and when encountering other strong teams, don't be overwhelmed by the opponent in terms of morale, Liu Mang doesn't know if this idea is too extreme, but it will definitely not be wrong.

And this trip to Texas, Liu Mang feels that it is the best opportunity to lay the proud capital of his team!

As the core of the team, Liu Mang is ready to take on the responsibility he should have as a core, and the team does not have the arrogance in this regard, so he needs to stimulate the arrogance in this regard!

Duncan's Spurs are undoubtedly the best opponent to lay the team's mental advantage, whether it is the last game of the Texas three-game in a row, as long as they can beat the defending champion Spurs, they can give the Hawks a huge psychological advantage, and it happens to be the last game of the Texas three-in-a-row, and the two are superimposed, it is even more perfect!

Duncan, undoubtedly the best and most natural backdrop!

Liu Mang made up his mind excitedly, and was just about to go to his teammates to prepare to start a wave of the power of the Führer, when the system task came.

"Ding...... System mission released, the heart of the strong in Atlanta. ”

"Atlanta's Strongheart: Because the host has gained his own understanding of how to compete for the championship from the perspective of personal understanding, special reward: Trait: Cold-blooded. At the same time, because of the host's ambitions, a special mission is opened, the heart of the strong in Atlanta. The host needs to announce the team's goal - championship with teammates and the media before the next game against the Spurs, show the host's understanding of how to win the championship, and lead the team to defeat the defending champion Spurs who are going all out because of the host's rhetoric in the next game. ”

The sudden critical attack, Liu Mang was stunned for a long time and then screamed miserably: "...... Your sister! Master is just thinking about it! ”