Chapter 1044 1043. The Clippers Boss's Amazing Brain Circuit

He made 26 of 41 shots, 9 of 15 three-pointers, 19 of 21 free throws, and scored 80 points. After the game, basketball fans all over the world were going crazy!

Domestic forum.

"Kobe scored 80 points!"

"Are you kidding? Upstairs, I still believe Liu Mang scored 80 points. Kobe..."

"My seventh uncle! Don't believe it from those upstairs, Kobe really scored 80 points!"

"Oh my god, I actually slept in and didn't watch this game!"

"Brother upstairs, the game starts at 11:30, how long did you sleep until?"

"I think Kobe was stimulated by Liu Mang's commentary. Liu Mang was so shady. If he hadn't been an NBA star, I would have thought he was a famous troll."

"Haha, I watched it too. Liu Mang stopped talking in the end. He rolled his eyes at Weiping Bryant, which was so classic. But upstairs, does Kobe understand Chinese?"

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Compared to the game in the United States, which takes place in the evening, when people are at the peak of receiving news information, American fans receive first-hand news. Although they are shocked, they don't have much doubt. They are simply shocked.

In China, the game doesn’t start until noon, and it’s Sunday in China, so many people don’t necessarily get up until noon. When I saw the forum post, I didn’t want to believe it at first, and then... It’s a well-known sitcom that has been going viral recently. This line is flying all over the country's major basketball forums and portals.

Kobe has played more than 20 games this season and has scored 50+ points five times. This fifth time, he scored 80 points!

"Damn blacksmith!" Liu Mang looked at the posts on the Internet. There was also a post that specifically listed the single-game scoring rankings of active players. Kobe was first and Liu Mang was second. This made Liu Mang feel a little bit sad. envy.

Liu Mang made some psychological adjustments to this feeling, but it never went away...

In addition, Liu Mang was mad at Kobe Bryant in his commentary, and was constantly criticizing Kobe's commentary method, as well as Coach Zhang's tacit cooperation to disrupt the situation, which also made Liu Mang angry.

However, Liu Mang was so depressed. He felt very unhappy when he saw the posts on the Internet where he was being laughed at.

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The next day, the morning of the game between the Hawks and Clippers, the Clippers went to the training facility they rented to train.

The Clippers players were surrounded and responded helplessly that Kobe was so good.

Some stars in the league were forced to accept interviews to praise Kobe.

Young guys like James and Wade are fine, and there's nothing wrong with praising their seniors.

But Duncan, McGrady, O'Neal and others are really helpless. This is too exaggerated. It was exaggerated enough to see Liu Mang score 70 points last season, but Kobe's is even more exaggerated! O'Neal didn't even have anything to say. Why did the younger brother before become so powerful now? I didn’t think so at first! It's just that you can paddle every time you play with this guy except in the finals...

Liu Mang, on the other hand, refused to be interviewed directly, which was hurtful.

However, there is one star who is different...

“Kobe’s 80 points and Ace’s 70 points are not good role models for children.

I'm not saying that they are not good enough, but they are too good. But those who can score 70 or 80 points like them are the only two in the NBA. There is no one else, and neither can I. If you ask me to score 50 points, I can do it. , to get 70 points, I thought I couldn’t do it.

Similarly, few people in the entire history of the NBA can do it. Jordan's best year was one point short of it. As you all know, Jordan played overtime in that game and only scored 69 points in the end.

Therefore, children will not actually have many opportunities to score 70 or 80 points in the NBA in the future, but because now the two strongest outsiders can score like this, and it seems very easy. , it will make children think that basketball is played like this, but this way of playing is not a normal way of playing for most players..."

When Carter was interviewed, he actually said this very rationally.

Then, the reporter intercepted a paragraph:

"Kobe and Ace are not good role models. Their playing style is not normal and will teach bad kids..."

Carter had made similar remarks before when Liu Mang scored 70 points and 60 points in the third quarter. In this way, Carter was dubbed the representative figure of "sour grapes".

After Kobe scored 80 points, the pressure was all on Liu Mang's side.

Especially the news that was forwarded from China to the United States. When Liu Mang was interviewed by Guangdong Sports Station after the game, he boasted that he would score 81 points. This was widely forwarded by the media, and fans were waiting to see the show.

On Liu Mang's side, the pressure of 18 consecutive victories and the pressure of scoring against Kobe Bryant came together!

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"Blow...blow...my pride is indulged..."

Liu Mang sang Chinese songs while shooting baskets.

The people next to him thought Liu Mang was so stimulated that he was going crazy.

Indeed, Liu Mang was really going crazy.

"God Eater: The duel between the host and the man closest to God today, Kobe Bryant, has officially begun. Starting from this scoring duel, the epic duel begins. Mission goal: The host needs to win a single game before the end of 2005. Reach 81 points. Mission reward: Special edition of Kobe Bryant’s peak star card (lasts for the whole game). Failure penalty: 250,000 superstar points will be deducted.”

Is one of Kobe Bryant’s peak star cards worth 250,000 superstar points? Liu Mang refused to accept it!

However, the duration of the whole game... This is very tempting. Although Liu Mang has already used high and low post singles well, he is also very envious of trying Kobe's skills at the peak and deepening his technical ability.

And it seems good to experience Kobe's peak in the whole game. If he meets the Spurs or Mavericks in the playoffs, these two teams... The Spurs lost more than they won against Kobe in the playoffs, and the Mavericks... At their peak, Kobe could beat them 62 to 61 in three quarters...

The task penalty is a bit harsh. If you fail, you will be back to the pre-liberation era, but the reward for completing it is very good.

Originally, Liu Mang could have tried to accomplish this task when playing against the Suns, who had poor defense but could compete with the Hawks. Just like when Kobe played against the Raptors in history, Kobe had a mediocre touch in the first half and "only" scored 26 points, the team was behind by nearly 20 points, and then he scored 55 points in the second half. Liu Mang didn't need to go through so much trouble. He could score as much as he could against the Suns, shoot more, shoot as hard as he could, shoot fifty or sixty times, and there was a chance to score more than 80 points. He was not like McGrady, Anthony, or even James, who couldn't shoot more than 30 times.

But there was no reason or logic to score against the Clippers! What if the game was messed up in three quarters like the last game a few days ago, and he still couldn't score 80 points!

The heated discussions on the Internet made Liu Mang feel like he was being forced to do something he was not prepared for.

There was no other way, so Liu Mang could only sing and shoot to vent.

Today is the morning training of the Hawks away challenge against the Clippers. Liu Mang came to the team's rented stadium in Los Angeles for training very early. When his teammates came, they had already seen Liu Mang's twitching.

When it came to the team's tactical meeting before training, a group of teammates looked at each other, and none of them wanted to call the "crazy" Liu Mang.

The teammates didn't know what to say. McGrady didn't go to the scene to watch the game yesterday. Only Liu Mang went to the Hawks yesterday. The others were tired from playing the night before, and they participated in training by themselves during the day. They didn't go to the Staples Center to join in the fun at night. The game between the Lakers and the Clippers was so jammed.

When McGrady and Jason Terry watched the game in the hotel and saw Kobe's 80 points in a single game, they knew that someone was going to be angry.

On the Hawks side, seeing Liu Mang's 70 points in a single game last year was already terrifying, and Kobe actually scored 80 points! This morning, I saw Liu Mang training in the stadium early in the morning, and I didn't dare to say anything to Liu Mang.

The two men who were praised as "the closest men to God" in the news last night were fighting each other in the air. They even refused to be interviewed outside the stadium.

McGrady felt that Kobe was a monster! Although he didn't think Kobe was that great, he envied Kobe's spirit of not admitting defeat and his magical physical fitness.

But McGrady's own team also had a player with such physical fitness.

Look, this guy has gone crazy.

McGrady went up to Liu Mang and said, "Ace, the meeting is about to start."

"Oh..." Liu Mang responded and turned to his teammates.

McGrady looked at Liu Mang's expression and didn't seem to be too irritable or depressed. He was a little puzzled. Didn't he just go crazy and sing an incomprehensible song?

Liu Mang was depressed and irritable, but what else could he do? The knife was on his neck. He could only work hard to train and adjust his condition so that he could have a good shot at night.

As for singing...Is it okay to do it on a whim...

During the team meeting, the tactics that Coach Kruger arranged today were not quite the same as the tactics that had been used for nearly a month before, and even a little different from last season. It looked like...returning to the feeling of two years ago when Liu Mang was swinging alone and four people were fighting for it!

Coach Kruger read the news and knew that although Liu Mang didn't say anything, he must be planning something to respond to Kobe's 80. Instead of Liu Mang's random shots causing his teammates to be in a mess during the game, it would be better to be more proactive.

Moreover, Coach Kruger not only arranged the tactics for Liu Mang to take more shots, and Liu Mang looked quite calm, but Coach Kruger also arranged the tactics for the second offensive choice, which was the tactics for nearly a month recently, allowing Liu Mang to choose freely.

The team meeting ended at 9:30, and the Hawks players returned to the training ground to prepare for two training sessions starting at 10 o'clock. They had to rest in the afternoon, eat at 5 o'clock, warm up at 6 o'clock, and the game would start at 8 o'clock.

After the meeting, when Liu Mang returned to the training ground to warm up again, his phone on the shelf on the side rang.

Liu Mang went over and picked up the phone. It was Schwartz who called.

"Jeff, what's up?" Liu Mang asked.

"Ace..." Schwartz's tone was a little depressed: "I'll tell you something. You should stay calm after hearing it..."

Hearing Schwartz's words, Liu Mang thought that a major crisis had occurred.

But in fact, it was a small matter, but... it was indeed something that made people unable to calm down!

"Ace, Donald Sterling didn't give us tickets..."

The Clippers took back the tickets they gave them and kept the seats for them, but the ticket price for a sideline seat in the Clippers' home game against the Hawks was 15,000 US dollars, and the money for a box, which Liu Mang had to pay for himself.

"Sterling said he was worried that Kobe would be dissatisfied with them..."

Schwartz explained that it was because of what Kobe said after the game. Kobe said that he was angry because he gave Liu Mang's family tickets but didn't give his wife and children. Sterling believed it, so he didn't give Liu Mang's family tickets this time, and let Liu Mang buy them himself. He kept the tickets for Liu Mang.

Although Sterling really didn't remember Kobe asking him for tickets, he did ask his secretary to cut off his phone after giving Liu Mang's family five tickets, and refused everyone to ask for tickets. He believed that Kobe was angry because he didn't give his wife tickets.

Schwartz thought this reason was simply ridiculous.

However, Schwartz could only believe this reason, otherwise there would be no reason!

The Clippers have been a younger brother in Los Angeles, making money quietly. Although they can't make as much money as the Knicks, Lakers, or even the Bulls and 76ers, the Clippers made about the same amount of money as the Rockets last season.

In the big city market, even if it is a bad team, or a bad team in the shadow of the Lakers, the income is not comparable to other teams.

Of course, this is only the income from broadcasting, tickets, advertising, etc.

Like the Cavaliers, who made a lot of signings after James, although there was no particularly good effect and they started to lose money every year, there are many nightclubs and casinos in Cleveland owned by the Cavaliers' owner. Relying on the popularity of the team brought by James, the Cavaliers made a lot of money around the team, but it will not be counted in the team and NBA income.

The Heat's yacht owner is the same. As long as he does not lose money, the Heat's owner does not care whether the team makes money or not.

"Ace, I will go and discuss with them again. I should be able to get the tickets." Schwartz explained.

"This interesting owner of the Clippers is afraid of Kobe but not me? He actually didn't give me the tickets!" Liu Mang gritted his teeth and said, "Jeff, pay!"

"Ah? I will discuss it again? One hundred and twenty thousand dollars is not a small amount." Even Schwartz, who now has an annual income of about 4 million US dollars, felt pain for Liu Mang.

"No need, Sterling gave Kobe tickets but not me? If you leak this to the media, I will make them pay the price!" Liu Mang said bitterly.

Liu Mang hung up the phone after he finished speaking. Liu Mang yelled the last two sentences.

That’s right, he yelled to his teammates to let them know what he was going to do next.

It’s not nice to tell his teammates about scoring points directly, but now is the chance!

And Liu Mang is really angry!

This new hatred, plus the “old hatred” that the Clippers failed to stop Kobe’s 80 points, Liu Mang is going to go crazy!

The teammates are warming up, and the coaching staff is also preparing for the tactical training that will start at 10 o’clock. They heard Liu Mang’s last sentence.

OK!

Needless to say, Coach Kruger once again adjusted the proportion of tactical selections, increasing the proportion of Liu Mang’s singles and the proportion of teammates creating opportunities for Liu Mang to 100% in tactical training. As for Liu Mang’s pass... is it still important now?