Chapter 1078 1077. The Terror of the Little Giant

Three quarters of 5 times 5 quasi-quintuple-doubles!

Liu Mang has been "slacking off" for a long time this season. No one expected that when the American people were "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new", Liu Mang started a series of big explosions, 90 points, triple-doubles, and now 5 times 5!

And it's 21+9+8+8+5!

Counting the 5 turnovers in the three quarters, it's 6 times 5, and you can even try 6 times 6...

Liu Mang reduced his deliberate attention to Yao Ming, did a better job of defense, and did a better job of restricting Yao Ming. Without deliberately assisting Yao Ming, Yao Ming did not have the opportunity to use Liu Mang's deliberate attention to commit fouls, but restricted him better.

Liu Mang is enjoying this feeling now!

Liu Mang now feels the feeling of being able to control the game both on offense and defense, and he is a little obsessed with this feeling!

Strengthen his defense!

Liu Mang really wants to have such a defense, but that's for the future. Now, Liu Mang is enjoying basketball!

The Lakers, who were beaten 26-21 by the Hawks in the third quarter, are starting to get nervous.

Kobe scored 33 points in three quarters, 12 points in the third quarter, and 32 shots!

Kobe's 33 points are more than half of the Lakers' points.

In the fourth quarter, Kobe was the only one who could score. The Lakers still lacked a point, a defensive perimeter player other than Kobe.

Compared with the Hawks' defense in the third quarter, the Lakers lacked an all-around perimeter defender.

The 5-point difference is not safe for the Hawks, but it is not impossible for the Lakers to catch up. During the intermission between the two teams, Mike Woodson and Zen Master were arranging defense for their players.

The Hawks were able to score 26 points in the third quarter, which was directly related to Liu Mang's low-post offense with 8 points and 3 assists. Liu Mang alone created 15 or 16 points for the Hawks. In addition, Jason Terry scored 4 points, and McGrady passed the ball to Iguodala and Josh Smith. The Hawks played the best offense in the third quarter and did a better job on defense. With Kobe's 5 of 11 shots, the Lakers only scored 21 points in the third quarter. If it weren't for Kobe's two-point shot at the last buzzer, the Lakers would have scored no more than 20 points in a single quarter.

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The last quarter of the game!

The players of both teams are going to fight!

Yao Ming, who started to rest after playing for 8 minutes in the third quarter, is now back on the court and ready to play the whole quarter. .

Yao Ming went to rest in the last four minutes of the third quarter, which was the key for the Hawks to widen the gap to 9 points. If Kobe and Odom hadn't scored 4 points in the last 30 seconds, the Hawks would have almost widened the gap to double digits to lock in the victory.

Odom went to rest for a while, and the Lakers sent Fisher, Kobe, Devin George, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming.

The Hawks' lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Korver, Josh Smith, and Mourning came on the court.

Kwame Brown, Rasheed Wallace, Jason Terry, and McGrady all took a break first. Today's game was very consuming on defense, so this lineup was used to hold on.

The fourth quarter began, and the Hawks attacked first.

The Zen Master looked at the Hawks' lineup and gave a blank look to the big head coach.

Coach Kruger felt that look again, so helpless, it was not him who wanted to abandon the offensive style of the third quarter.

Originally, Coach Kruger wanted McGrady or Jason Terry to help Liu Mang advance with the ball, so that Liu Mang could continue to play in the low post. The advantage had already been played.

However, Liu Mang did not play in the low post in the fourth quarter.

From the second half of the third quarter, after the official timeout, the Lakers began to adjust the defense for Liu Mang's low post, but before the adjustment was successful, it was time for Yao Ming to rest. However, Liu Mang felt that the opponent's double-teaming in the low post was becoming more and more routine in the second half.

So, Liu Mang did not play in the low post!

When Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, Devin George could only follow Prince. He was originally used to defend Liu Mang in the low post, so that Kobe could double-team. The Lakers' defensive tactics were completely disrupted!

Facing Kobe's cannibalistic defense on the outside, Liu Mang was very scared and waved to Mourning for help.

Liu Mang lowered his center of gravity and moved sideways with the help of Mourning's pick-and-roll. He looked like he was going to break through. Kobe and Wang Zhizhi, who came out with Mourning, were ready to block Liu Mang's breakthrough.

Suddenly, when Liu Mang was in a straight line with Mourning and the basket, Liu Mang jumped directly and shot a pull-up jump shot!

"Ding... The king of pull-up jump shots is triggered..."

Liu Mang didn't have the pull-up shot height brought by his height, but he jumped high!

Liu Mang jumped up suddenly, as if he jumped with all his strength. Before Kobe and Wang Zhizhi reacted and pounced on him, he shot quickly...

With standard shooting posture, Liu Mang's normal three-pointer is not as ugly as a flick shot. On the contrary, it looks more beautiful than the standard one, which makes his flick shot even uglier. There is no harm without comparison. With comparison, the flick shot looks extremely ugly.

At the same time, it also makes Liu Mang's normal shot look too beautiful!

A beautiful pull-up three-pointer shot!

69 to 61, 8 points difference!

Unlike his mid-range shot which fell below 90, which made Liu Mang afraid to shoot more, Liu Mang's three-point shot was still one of the best three-point shooters in the league even if it was reduced by two points!

An unexpected three-pointer at the beginning of the final quarter gave the Lakers a head-on blow.

After Kobe got the ball in the frontcourt, he was a little anxious. He rushed to the mid-range, but he didn't get rid of Prince. He forced a shot under Prince's defense...

"Bang..."

Kobe's mid-range shot missed!

The main job of Mourning was to block Yao Ming. Yao Ming, like Kobe, was also dealt with by the three inside players of the Hawks. After playing for a few minutes in the second quarter, Mourning rested for a long time and came back to fight Yao Ming. Josh Smith turned around and blocked Wang Zhizhi. Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming quickly chose to retreat. Liu Mang relied on Devin George to grab the defensive rebound.

24 points and 10 rebounds!

Double-double achieved!

Liu Mang pushed forward to the frontcourt by himself. The Lakers' attention was all on Liu Mang. The three-pointer Liu Mang just made could almost determine the direction of this game.

Liu Mang was outside the three-point line, facing Kobe who was standing on the free throw line, dribbling the ball. It seemed like he was wasting time. Suddenly, Liu Mang threw the ball directly out.

Yao Ming was staring at Liu Mang, and Wang Zhizhi was preparing to go out to defend Liu Mang's pick-and-roll. When he saw Liu Mang suddenly throw the ball out, he immediately reacted.

But when the two turned around and prepared to jump up to grab the ball, Josh Smith had already jumped from the left sideline of the three-second zone and touched the ball in the air!

Liu Mang and Josh Smith's air connection!

71 to 61!

The score difference came to 10 points!

Liu Mang made good use of the opponent's inside defense this time and completed an easy cooperation with Josh Smith.

Kobe and Yao Ming didn't expect that they would be beaten 5 to 0 at the beginning of the fourth quarter!

From the moment Liu Mang didn't fall to the low post, the Lakers felt very awkward!

The Lakers attacked, Yao Ming fell, his big butt sticking up, and stuck Mourning behind him.

Kobe saw Yao Ming asking for the ball and passed the ball to Yao Ming. With such a big man, Kobe still cherished it very much, and his attitude was much better than that of O'Neal.

Yao Ming received the ball and knocked Mourning away. Liu Mang immediately double-teamed him and jumped to block the shot. Yao Ming grabbed the ball and stretched it out from under the basket. It was a very special pull-up shot, a pull-up shot that could not be passed by anyone, and a magical reverse layup to score two points.

Mourning and Liu Mang looked at Yao Ming, who shook his big butt and returned to defense after clenching his fists and punching Kobe, and could only smile bitterly. Is this a pull-up shot?

Yao Ming just stood on tiptoe and completed such a god-like pull-up layup.

Yao Ming's strong play helped the Lakers stop the bleeding.

Mourning averaged 11 minutes per game this season. Although he had 1.5 blocks, which was impressive, he did not do as well as last season against Yao Ming. On the one hand, Yao Ming was more powerful, and on the other hand, Mourning's performance declined seriously. After winning the championship, except for teaching Kwame Brown how to defend, his defense is not as good as last season.

However, it is still possible to consume Yao Ming by blocking. Mourning ran to the front court and reached the three-second zone to continue fighting with Yao Ming.

Liu Mang pushed forward to the front court, took a big step across the three-point line, and shot a three-pointer directly!

The sudden shot really scared Kobe, but it didn't go in.

Liu Mang retreated regretfully. Although the three-point rating of 92 and 94 was only two points apart, the difference was a thousand miles away. From Liu Mang's feeling, the ball just now was going to go in, but it was a little off, hitting the right inner edge of the basket and bouncing to the left. The rebound was taken by Wang Zhizhi.

When the Lakers attacked, Yao Ming once again played a low-post singles, one against two, and this time it was more fierce, smashing the ball into the basket with his left hand through Mourning.

Mourning was helpless. Except for those big white bears over two meters and one, who could stop Yao Ming!

Yao Ming, who was gradually entering his peak period, was invincible with physical strength!

The Hawks called a 20-second timeout and replaced Kwame Brown first. Mourning basically had no ability to go around the front, so Kwame Brown was better.

There was not much arrangement, just a simple substitution.

71 to 65, Yao Ming scored 4 points in a row, raising his personal score to 18 points, helping the Lakers to close the gap.

Fans in front of the TV in China saw that Liu Mang was almost a quadruple-double today, saw Yao Ming with 18 points, 9 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 assists, and saw that Wang Zhizhi was the third inside player of the Lakers, and they wanted to cry! In addition, the camera of the court TV occasionally gave Yi Jianlian who was chatting with Liu Mang's father on the sidelines. They were all imagining the scene of these four people together in the World Championships in Japan in the summer!

After the timeout, the game continued, and the Hawks had the ball in the frontcourt.

Liu Mang received the ball and came to the top arc one step, dribbling, and finding the rhythm.

Kobe saw that Liu Mang was still a big step away from the three-point line at the top arc, and he stepped on the three-point line but did not press up. Liu Mang's shot at that position just now was already missed.

Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi under the basket are now active, focusing on guarding against everyone who is going to enter the basket.

Suddenly, Kobe felt something was wrong. The opponent was not the kind of person who would not shoot if he missed a position!