1369. Prologue to Madness

The inability to defend the interior is a big problem, but fortunately, Liu Mang has strong containment on the offensive end, and Maddy and Rondo can also break through to create opportunities, so that Battier, Jason Terry, Marion, and Granger, who alternately play, can have open cuts or mid-to-long-range shooting opportunities.

When these teammates really couldn't shoot, Liu Mang came by himself.

Today, Liu Mang has a good hand and ability to be like a beast, and the head coach of the Nuggets, George Carr, can only put two guns on the court for a long time, with Iverson's breakthrough and mid-range shooting, passing, coupled with Anthony's excellent basket confrontation after gaining weight, plus a group of role players who can run, jump and shoot, resist the offensive of the three eagles.

Super Attack Battle! Worse than the Hawks and the Suns.

Because both teams couldn't defend each other, and both took advantage of the holes in the opponent's defense, the scene was very hot, and the scores of both teams continued to rise.

Liu Mang scored 19 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, plus Maddy's 6 points and 3 assists, Rondo's 2 points and 2 assists, Jason Terry's 5 points, Kwame Brown's two dunks and eating cakes, and Granger, Battier, Marion and others scored without the ball, and the Hawks scored 38 points in a single quarter!

The Nuggets were not bad, with 32 points in a single quarter, and after the third quarter, relying on Liu Mang's connection with Rondo at the last moment, Rondo created an opportunity to cut in and score, and the Hawks led the Nuggets by 1 point 99-98 into the fourth quarter.

In terms of the strength of the starting lineup, the Hawks are still a lot stronger than the Nuggets, mainly because the bench lineup is quite different.

However, there is Liu Mang's perpetual motion machine!

After playing 6 minutes less in the second quarter and being beaten 33-27 by the opponent in a single quarter, Liu Mang played a full game in the third quarter and successfully returned the opponent 38-32.

Liu Mang scored 35 points in the third quarter!

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By the end of the quarter, Iverson had to start a one-one-one-one-one-

The main thing is that the role players can't run anymore!

The physical fitness of the two big centers of Canby and Nene can only be said to be average, not bad, but not excellent, if Kenyon Martin is there, they have more options, Kenyon Martin is not there, the two of them take turns to play the center and can't stand the Eagles running like this, and it's not okay if they don't run, they don't run, the Eagles will run up and fall into positional battles, their offensive efficiency is not as high as running and playing, the reason why the Nuggets are nicknamed the track and field team, in addition to good physical fitness, there is also a higher success rate when they run.

Although the Nuggets also like to run and play, but not this kind of running and playing throughout the game, generally speaking, the opponent will find a way to limit their speed, and the Hawks are different this time, how fast can the speed be raised, just Liu Mang does not move alone, and rest when he is tired in other positions, anyway, most of the time it is five small, and it is the same for anyone, and if he has physical strength, he will go up.

Maddy, who scored 19 points and 7 assists in the third quarter, ran and played 28 minutes in the third quarter, and was tired enough, and in the fourth quarter, he pointed at Liu Mang and Jason Terry.

The main thing is Liu Mang!

Anthony scored one in the middle distance, Liu Mang shot one outside the three-point line, Iverson scored one in the mid-range pull-up jumper, Liu Mang burst into the interior to attract the defense and passed to Marion under the basket to score two points, Anthony scored two points under the basket for the second offense, Liu Mang caused a foul......

In the second half, Liu Mang's hand completely exploded!

Iverson thinks that he is the kind of physical master who can toss his opponent to death, but every time he meets Liu Mang, he feels that his physical strength is not enough!

By the middle of the fourth quarter, Iverson began to gasp for breath, and Liu Mang was still rushing to the basket and making fouls.

The Nuggets can only foul, the two-person package is the limit, the advantage of a small lineup is that there are many pitchers, two-person package, three-defense and four-piece joint defense, they can also control the outside line that the Hawks have shot, and they can't let Kwame Brown or Marion cut in to score two points, Anthony and Iverson just hit back, but the outside shot by the Hawks shoots three points, then it's not a ball problem.

But......

The Nuggets' physical decline on the inside line frequently fouled when they began to make up for Liu Mang in the third minute of the fourth quarter!

In the eighth minute of the fourth quarter, Camby ate the sixth foul of the game and left the game with a full foul!

As of this time, Liu Mang has scored 20 points in a single quarter!

3 of 5 three-pointers in a single quarter, 5 of 9 shots, 7 of 9 free throws, counting the two free throws that have not yet been free-thrown, Liu Mang has made 11 free throws in a single quarter!

Liu Mang walked to the free throw line, one of the two free throws, and was directly photographed by Camby, Liu Mang's free throws were also affected to a certain extent, and the first free throw was not scored.

But by this time, the Hawks had a five-point lead at 126-121!

Liu Mang's personal score has also increased to 56 points!

The Golden Twin Guns have scored 71 points so far, which is quite coquettish, but Liu Mang in the Three Eagles scored 56 points, Maddie scored 24 points, Jason Terry scored 16 points, and the Three Eagles scored 96 points!

At the critical moment, the Nuggets called a timeout!

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After returning from the timeout, the Eagles fielded the strongest lineup of Three Eagles + Marion + Kwame Brown.

On the Nuggets side, Iverson, JR Smith, Anthony, Reggie Evans, and Nene have the strongest available lineup.

Relying on Anthony to shoot a three-pointer, the Nuggets narrowed the gap to two points and eased the crisis.

When the Hawks attacked, after Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, Iverson and JR-Smith began to wrap Liu Mang in advance.

Liu Mang shot one-on-one against the defense, all of which had a higher shooting rate than others, and he had already made 19 of 33 shots in the whole game, and they would rather give the Eagles a vacant position than dare to continue to let Liu Mang hold the ball one-on-one alone.

At this time, Liu Mang didn't think about getting 60 points, and he didn't take it, he had already won 60+ 6 times, not counting Kobe, and the other active players didn't necessarily add up to Liu Mang's 60+ times, and he was not as persistent about this as before.

Now Liu Mang is in a state of high concentration, and immediately switched to the mode of organizing the offense and sent the ball to Maddie, who was on the court together.

Maddie was a pitcher for most of the fourth quarter, regained his strength, rushed inside, pulled up a layup without Camby, and scored two points on the inside head of the defender.

When it came to the Nuggets' offense, Anthony had the spirit of Mamba, and immediately shot the second one after throwing one, completely ignoring his three-point shooting percentage of 1 of 5 today, and he was iron!

Kwame Brown protected the defensive rebound and immediately passed it to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang rushed up, a group of people from the Nuggets team chased him, Liu Mang slowed down a little, waited for Marion to rush into the three-point line, and distributed the ball, Marion counterattacked and received the ball and scored two points!

130 to 124, the difference has come to 6 points!

The Nuggets started to panic, Iverson broke through and missed the ball and was stealed by Jason Terry!

Liu Mang rushed to the front court first, but Jason Terry ignored Liu Mang in the counterattack and made a three-point shot to chase him......

When Liu Mang's XXX was about to squirt out, Jason Terry hit a key three-point shot!

133-124, relying on Jason Terry's key three-pointer, the Hawks stretched the difference to 9 points!

At the critical moment, Jason Terry Lang this time, not only Liu Mang, but also the fans and the rest of the Hawks twitched in their hearts, but they entered!

When the Nuggets called a timeout again, the Hawks players immediately surrounded Jason Terry......

Waves are the last word!

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After the timeout, the Nuggets' first offense still didn't score, and Iverson's pull-up jump shot was broken, only to the front of the basket.

Liu Mang grabbed the rebound and pressed the rhythm to advance to the frontcourt.

There are still 4 points left to 60+, Liu Mang saw Iverson and JR-Smith coming up, JR-Smith stuck to Liu Mang, Liu Mang wanted to throw it directly at this time...... What is important in the big picture, and what is not important...... I still want it......

"Steady, don't throw around!"

At this time, Liu Mang heard a shout and missed the best opportunity to pull out the waves, and Iverson was already in place.

Liu Mang passed the ball to Jason Terry, and wanted to break Jason Terry's ear and ask him: Who started the wave?

Jason Terry received the ball, took a step to dribble under the mid-range crotch, and when Nene came out, Jason Terry made a mid-range pull-up jumper against Nene to block it......

Two point hit!

135-124, the Hawks have an 11-point lead!

Liu Mang is about to vomit blood!

What about the good steady?

But they're in!

Liu Mang looked at Jason Terry with resentment and hurriedly returned to defense.

Anthony made a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line...... didn't go in, but fortunately, it was Nene who scored two points with a basket.

There is 1 minute and 47 seconds left!

For the Nuggets, the 9-point difference is nothing, there is only 1 minute and 47 seconds left, and it is not a big problem, if they can play a wave of counterattacks, there is still a chance, the key is that Iverson, who has played more than 46 minutes, has begun to have problems with his physical strength!

Iverson is the best physical player on the Nuggets, and his physical strength is in trouble, let alone the others.

Although Iverson still wants to fight, the rest of the Nuggets are now only thinking about not letting Liu Mang get the first 60+ of the season on their heads.

Liu Mang must be able to get 60+, the Nuggets players are very sure that many of their players entered the NBA after Liu Mang, and they have seen Liu Mang's crazy career start, except for the rookie season, Liu Mang has 60+ performances every season after that, but they don't want to be Liu Mang's first 60+ ghost this season.

Nuggets players began to hit Liu Mang's serve!

This is obviously not the defense set up by George Karl, but it is effective in containing Liu Mang from scoring, and they simply don't let Liu Mang receive the ball.

Marion received the ball and rushed to the front court, only JR Smith chased after him, and Marion scored two points with an easy dunk.

In the last minute or so, the point difference hovered around 10 points, and the Nuggets couldn't prevent it from scoring Liu Mang, and the Hawks actually couldn't prevent it, but Anthony obviously had a strange three-point difference this year, and in the fourth quarter, he didn't go to the inside line, and he was floating in the middle and long distance, and Nene scored 7 points in a row at the last moment under the fatigue of Kwame Brown, 3 of 3 shots, plus 2 free throws and 1 of 2, but failed to help the Nuggets turn the tables.

In the end, the Hawks defeated the Nuggets by 8 points 139-131 and got their first victory in mid-January!

The two teams shot like crazy in this game, with the Hawks taking 98 shots and the Nuggets ...... After 110 shots, Anthony scored 41 points and 13 rebounds and made eight offensive rebounds...... Shoot a lot, score a lot, and the Hawks' overall shooting percentage reached 45 percent with such a high shot, which is quite good, that is, the Hawks alone contributed more than 50 rebounds.

The two teams combined for a total of 110 rebounds!

Liu Mang looked at his 56 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 6 blocks, 1 steal and 4 turnovers...... 19-of-34 shooting, 7-of-9 three-pointers and 11-of-15 free throws...... In addition to the free throw shooting rate because of the low confrontation in this era, Liu Mang seems to have seen the data of the king 13 years later......

This game is a bit like the game under the rules of the alliance to contain defense and encourage offense ten years later.

I had a lot of fun because I won.

However, Liu Mang reviewed the game after the game...... I feel like I'm missing a lot of things, and I'm scoring a lot, but I don't feel like I've been able to fully use my skills!

Especially the defense, there is a kind of boring feeling, it feels like the feeling of the saint mode after watching Ozawa's movie, cool is cool, but there is nothing to reminisce.

Although he scored 56 points, there are many fewer things to remember than losing against the Lakers and getting 40+......

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Liu Mang entered the sage mode and began to worry about whether he would be able to get used to it after the big changes in the rules in the future.

But after thinking about it for a while, Liu Mang didn't want to think about it, it was all seven or eight years later, maybe because of his relationship a little earlier, but it was definitely after the next labor negotiation, there would be no big changes in five or six years, maybe he would have gotten used to it by then.

People, it will always change with the change of the surrounding environment, Liu Mang is still a little looking forward to the defensive rules of fouling when touched in the future, in addition to the king, there is also a strange man who chooses the most difficult path, can anyone adapt to that rule better than him?

Liu Mang was thinking about it here, and in other people's places, this night gave many team management headaches.

The Hawks lost a defensive slate, lost the league's best pitcher, and lost a key backup center, and at this stage of the game, yes, but ...... Unleashed a beast!

Although the gap between the strength of the Eagles and the first group has become a little bigger, it has also become more uncontrollable!

Liu Mang's average of 38.1 points per game was terrifying that season, just two years ago, and now Liu Mang has "grown up" two years old and his personal ability has become stronger.

Originally, when the Hawks didn't trade and needed to share more playing time on the bench, some teams in order to compete for a ranking or compete for a playoff spot, it was relatively easy to win against the Hawks, and the main Hawks would play less because there were a lot of young players who needed to be trained.

But now it's different, without Korver and Prince, Rondo and Granger will have a stable playing time, and the Hawks' main team will play longer!

It's not a good thing for the Eagles to alleviate the fitness problems of the players, and it's not a good thing for the opponents!

Liu Mang's current simple and crude score-based style of play does sometimes give the opponent a chance to take advantage of Liu Mang's poor hand.

But once Liu Mang gets up......