Being able to play 5+5+5+5+5+5 in the playoffs is a very awesome thing, and he is still a rookie player.

With such a performance, Sun Xiaotian has also become the first person in team history since 1985, and even the god of basketball has never done it.

After the game, Barkley, who has always been poisonous, also had to admire Sun Xiaotian's performance.

"I'll admit that I misjudged him, he has a unique temperament, this temperament is a leader, he is only 19 years old, but he is unusually mature, and some of the previous scouting reports now seem to be a bunch of **** !!"

There have been 14 5x5 hits in NBA history since 1985, with seven players completing them, namely Olajuwon, Kirilenko, Tinsley, David Robinson, Divac, Derrick Coleman, Camby, and Sun Xiaotian was fortunate enough to be the 8th man.

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The Hawks fell behind 0-2, in addition to the excellent performance of Sun Xiaotian of the Bulls, it was also related to the abnormal performance of Louis Williams, the best sixth man in the mainland.

In the two games, except for the first game of 12, the second game simply disappeared, and only 3 points were scored. In both games, Louis Williams averaged just 7.5 points per game, shooting less than 30 percent from the field.

In the regular season, he averaged 14.1 per game, and whenever the team's offense was not going well, he relied on his scoring streak to save the team from danger. Now maybe it's because of the bad feeling, or maybe it's under the defense of Li, Butler, and Sun Xiaotian, and he is completely locked up.

However, back at Atlanta's home court, Williams ended the play-and-death pattern, coming off the bench for 36 minutes in Game 3, scoring 35 points on his own, and hitting a game-winning 3-pointer in the final minute to lead the Hawks to a 106-100 victory over the Bulls to make it 1-2.

When Williams moved to Atlanta from Philadelphia, Larry Drew valued his firepower from the bench.

A low-pick, high school player, Williams spent seven seasons in Philadelphia, starting just 38 of those seven seasons, all of which were off the bench, and improving significantly with each season.

Williams' well-timed burst in Game 3 also proved how happy it was to have a Ginobili-esque role player on the bench (even though he didn't have Ginobili's influence yet). When the starters came off the break, there was no one on the bench to provide firepower to continue, which was a great injury to the team, as evidenced by the first two games, the performance of the Hawks bench in the first two games was simply miserable, with a total of 36 points in the two games, which was more blossoming than the Bulls, who scored a total of 96 points in the first two games.

And in each game, one or two substitutes will shine, the first with Gibson and Butler, the second with Nate and Lee, and the third with Radmanovic.

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In today's league, the benchmark of a strong team is to have two or three star players in the starter, at least a strong player, and there must be an atypical "role player" on the bench who continues the offensive firepower.

And when it comes to such a configuration, Ginobili is a benchmark figure.

When it comes to the Manu effect, I believe many people are no strangers to it, that is, in a professional basketball game, a very strong player is put on the bench to lead the team's second-tier members to play and continue the team's offensive strength. Since this condition first appeared in Ginobili, it is customary to call it the "Manu effect".

In early 2007, Popovich removed Ginobili from the starting position and played as the sixth man, a personnel change that Popovich made to the Spurs' lineup and Ginobili's characteristics. It proved to be a successful attempt, as the Spurs won the championship that year and Ginobili set a new career high.

Since then, there have been many teams that have imitated the Spurs' approach, most notably the Jazz and Lakers.

In the 2008~2009 season, Sloan, who was the Jazz coach at the time, took Kirilyenko to the bench. Of course, the direct cause of this change is that the Jazz's main bench player, Halprin, is out due to injury, and the bench lineup has been hit hard. Putting Kirilenko on the bench not only makes up for the lack of bench depth, but Kirilenko has a strong ability to connect the team and can fit into the rhythm of the game without taking up a lot of opportunities. That season, Kirilenko played in 67 games for the Jazz, 57 of them off the bench, averaging 11.6 points per game. Compared to last season, the average points per game increased by 0.5 points while the playing time was reduced by 3 minutes, which can be regarded as a good effect. But for the team, the drop to eighth in the West was not an ideal result. In the following season, Kirilenko gradually returned to the starting position.

But compared to Jazz's unsatisfactory formation, the Zen master's change of formation can be said to have received the same effect as the spurs.

Also in the 2008~2009 season, the Zen master also began to take Odom to the bench position. This change of formation also laid the foundation for the Lakers' two consecutive championships. Although Odom, who became a substitute, has decreased in playing time and personal data compared to the starter, and has not achieved a career-high like Ginobili, Odom's contribution to the Lakers team is self-evident. As a knife player on the bench, Odom has skyrocketed the depth of the Lakers' bench lineup, and has made the team's style of play more diverse, providing ample firepower for the team. In the 2010-11 season, Odom, who averaged 14.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3 assists per game, was named Sixth Man of the Year.

Including the Mavericks' Terry, who also helped the team more after becoming a substitute for the team. But the reason why he can't be called a continuation of the "Manu effect" is because Terry's substitution is determined by age and form, and the original intention is not to change the team's lineup.

For the team, starting is still an affirmation of strength and a symbol of status. The sacrifice of the players themselves under the "Manu effect" is self-evident, because even if he is working hard, he is more of a green leaf character. Generally speaking, players who can play the starting line-up are reluctant to play the role of sixth man on the team. And the biggest determining factor for the players to agree is not only the players themselves, but also the personal charm of the coach.

The Eagles won, and the crowd will be happy not to pull one back in the third game, but to rediscover the winning feeling the team has done, as they did for most of the regular season. The first two games felt terrible, and they were flattened by the Bulls.

Although the Bulls lost the third game, Sun Xiaotian's performance is still reassuring, and the double-double data of 23 points and 10 rebounds still can't be faulted. In the final moments of the third game, Sun Xiaotian hesitated between passing and shooting, allowing Williams to steal and come back from a timeout to shoot the winning three-pointer.

After the game, when the reporter asked about this mistake, Sun Xiaotian took the initiative to take responsibility and left a sentence: "After the next game, we don't have to come back!" ”