Chapter 1080 1079. More Shocking than Shocking
The technical station confirmed that Liu Mang first knocked the ball out of Yao Ming's hands, and then the ball hit the basket and bounced out of bounds.
The Lakers have the ball.
But fans are not concerned about this. A dunk is also a type of shot. If a shot is knocked away, it is a block!
After the technical station confirmed, Liu Mang's 10 blocks were locked!
Since David Robinson got a quadruple-double in February 1994, it has been nearly 12 years since a player got a quadruple-double again!
Liu Mang became the fifth player to get a quadruple-double since the accurate statistics of each game were available!
The Zen Master called a timeout again, and the game just entered the official timeout.
With a 14-point difference and 6 minutes left, the Zen Master thought that there was still a chance. He and his players did not want to give up just like that and let the other side get the data and win.
For the Zen Master, Liu Mang got a quadruple-double at this time, and the Lakers did not have to worry about Liu Mang's quadruple-double, because he had already got it, so he did not have to worry about who gave him the last block, but there were not so many irrelevant worries about winning or losing.
There is no need to take advantage of Liu Mang's desire to get a quadruple-double. Just now, after a trial, it was the Lakers who played too much and were taken advantage of by Liu Mang. The score difference was suddenly widened to 14 points.
The Lakers players, including Yao Ming, returned to the bench without saying a word. The Zen Master was going to start to mobilize the anger of the players.
The Zen Master has won 9 championships, tying Auerbach. Now for him, coaching is mainly about money and fun, as well as power, in addition to surpassing Auerbach's championship number, which is a professional pursuit! He likes the feeling of controlling the enthusiasm of the players.
The current situation is very suitable for the Zen Master to play.
The players of the Hawks team all surrounded Liu Mang after the timeout.
Liu Mang's performance today shocked his teammates more than the 90 points that day!
Liu Mang is the only outside player in history to get a quadruple-double of blocks! It's more shocking than the quadruple-double of steals by Elvin Robertson!
The other three players with quadruple-doubles of blocks are centers!
"Ace, tell me, what else can't you do?" Jason Terry rushed up and hung on Liu Mang's back and shouted.
This time, the reporters got permission from the technical desk to come to the court to interview Liu Mang.
Seeing the reporter coming, Jason Terry asked such a question. Liu Mang pretended to think about it, thought for two seconds, and replied: "What else can't I do? About basketball? No."
With this arrogant and domineering look, the reporter didn't know how to ask questions again, and it was like this every time!
Liu Mang always took the initiative to say what they wanted to guide them to answer questions!
The reporter began to doubt his life. He didn't know what he had learned for so many years to guide others to answer questions...
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Celebrated, but didn't celebrate like the last time after scoring 90 points. After all, there were many people today and they were afraid of being beaten.
The Hawks players returned to the bench. The Lakers didn't have to worry about whether Liu Mang would get a quadruple double, and Coach Kruger didn't have to worry about a big regret.
Next, just keep the lead and win.
To be on the safe side, Coach Kruger replaced the lineup with Liu Mang, McGrady, Prince, Josh Smith, and Rasheed Wallace.
Kwame Brown was abused by Yao Ming. Today, he only scored 6 points and 7 rebounds, while Yao Ming was about to score 20+10.
The Lakers continued to send out the starting lineup.
After the timeout, the Lakers had the ball at the baseline, and the offensive time was back to 11 seconds.
Odom went to the baseline to serve the ball to Fisher. Fisher ran out and passed it to Kobe immediately after receiving the ball. After Kobe received the ball at a 45-degree angle on the right, he shot a three-pointer against Prince's defense...
Hit!
Kobe came up and made a three-pointer!
"Oh!" Liu Mang couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw Kobe coming up and doing something powerful.
"Ding... Black Mamba's Bite Level 5 is triggered, and the angry Kobe Bryant enters the regular Kobe time."
The Zen Master's words made Kobe, who was a little skeptical about his life, very angry! Kobe's ability limit is 100, and he can no longer rely on the Black Mamba to improve his performance, but he directly entered the strongest Kobe time!
This is a very bad shot, and the 14-point advantage is not safe at all.
Fortunately, there is no combination attack like the OK momentum, otherwise Liu Mang would really feel a headache.
Liu Mang received the serve, handed it to McGrady, and ran to the frontcourt.
After arriving at the frontcourt, Liu Mang came to the left side of the free throw line and leaned on Kobe to get a position.
The Lakers players are now all very active and ready to double-team Liu Mang at any time.
However, McGrady did not pass this time!
Seeing Luke Walton actually glanced at Liu Mang from time to time, McGrady was speechless. The moment Luke Walton turned his eyes to Liu Mang again, McGrady accelerated and forced a breakthrough!
Now it is Prince who is defending Kobe! McGrady rested for half a quarter and came up to attack!
McGrady took the first three steps from the 45-degree angle on the right side of the three-point line and directly stepped into the three-second zone!
Grabbing the ball, when Yao Ming came up to defend, he took a big leap to the left, and his long legs jumped directly from the right side of the three-second zone to the left side. He jumped up suddenly, his slender body was quite flexible, and he stretched his arms straight to the basket and scored two points.
86 to 73, a 13-point difference!
McGrady also scored 20 points!
20 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks, and 2 steals.
Although not as coquettish as Liu Mang, McGrady's performance today was equally versatile!
Kobe and Yao Ming have Odom, Liu Mang and Jason Terry also have McGrady!
Attack and defense switch, the Lakers attack.
Fisher advances to the frontcourt and passes it to Kobe. Kobe singles out Prince, dribbles a few times, and then forces a three-pointer again!
Prince pounces, Kobe leans back sharply...
Still hit!
Kobe scores 6 points in a row!
42 points!
The Lakers scored 76 points as a team, and Kobe scored 42 points alone!
10 points difference!
The scoring efficiency of the two teams suddenly increased!
The reason is that the superstars of the two teams went crazy!
Simple and rough style of play, no tactics, no excessive technical moves, just rely on touch!
McGrady continued to advance with the ball, and when he reached the frontcourt, he found that the Lakers had switched defense.
Kobe doesn't care so much now, whoever has the ball he will defend!
Kobe really hopes to have someone who can help him defend the perimeter.
McGrady saw Kobe coming and immediately passed to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang's desire to shoot was also ignited. McGrady and Kobe both started to play. How could he be missing?
Liu Mang received the ball and accelerated directly from the left side and rushed to the basket!
Liu Mang accelerated immediately after receiving the ball, triggering the strongest first step. This time, the basket was not even ready for help defense. Liu Mang took off towards Yao Ming!
"Oh my god!"
Liu Mang saw Yao Ming and pressed directly towards him!
Liu Mang was knocked over by Yao Ming!
When Yao Ming knocked Liu Mang over, he actually hugged him. He first protected Liu Mang's back with both hands, so that Liu Mang would not be knocked down and lie down. He protected Liu Mang's safety, and after holding him firmly, he put Liu Mang on the ground.
Liu Mang sat on the ground and watched Yao Ming walk to the other side of the three-second zone to grab the free throw rebound. This guy was really angry! He was so angry!
Although the score was behind and Yao Ming was fouled, the fans at the scene felt that the game was over, but seeing Liu Mang being carried by Yao Ming like a child and put on the ground, that scene...
Liu Mang heard the laughter next to the basket!
"Too much!" Liu Mang yelled at Yao Ming and walked to the free throw line.
When Yao Ming bumped into him, the referee called a foul, and the referee was scared. Fortunately, Yao Ming hugged him directly.
No one on the court could understand what Liu Mang yelled at Yao Ming except Yao Ming. The referee thought that the two Chinese were swearing at each other. He warned Liu Mang not to swear, and then confirmed with the technical desk that it was just an ordinary foul.
Liu Mang walked to the free throw line and made both free throws.
88 to 76, a 12-point difference!
The Lakers were attacking, and Liu Mang saw Fisher coming over and passing the ball to Kobe outside the three-point line. He immediately went up and double-teamed Kobe with Prince.
Kobe saw Liu Mang double-teaming him, but he didn't pass it. He moved one step to the right front, closer to the three-point line, and also moved sideways to avoid Liu Mang who was double-teaming him. He took off again from the position where he had made two consecutive three-point shots!
This shot didn't seem so wise, even if he was Kobe!
Prince's long arms forced Kobe to lean back. Kobe's leaning back was impossible for Prince to block, but for Liu Mang, Kobe's shooting point was lowered!
Liu Mang rushed up and blocked from the side, once again fanning Kobe's shot out of bounds!
Blocked 6 times!
Kobe has been blocked six times in this game!
11 blocks in a single game!
Liu Mang continued to improve the block record for outside players!
Kobe was completely angry at this time!
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Next, Kobe started to play with the ball.
Shoot, shoot, shoot!
Bang, bang, bang...
The runaway Kobe, who was double-teamed in the last quarter and was blocked twice by Liu Mang, still shot 50%. In the entire fourth quarter, Kobe made 7 of 14 shots, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 1 of 3 free throws, scoring 19 points in a single quarter.
Kobe scored 19 points in a single quarter, Yao Ming scored 6 points in a single quarter, and together they scored 25 points in the final quarter, helping the Lakers score 30 points in the final quarter, especially in the last half of the quarter, when the Lakers scored a total of 21 points.
But Liu Mang and McGrady did not watch Kobe chasing points without doing anything. When Liu Mang and McGrady encountered Kobe's defense, the other one would play singles.
Kobe broke through and missed, and Liu Mang hit a shot to return the favor.
Kobe made a pull-up shot, Liu Mang broke through to the basket and passed the ball to Josh Smith, who made a layup, Kobe scored a 2+1 on McGrady, but missed the free throw. McGrady caused a foul and got two free throws, and then gave Kobe a free throw...
When both teams were hot, Liu Mang and McGrady got into a fight with the rampaging Kobe.
And the score difference was too big! The Hawks led by 14 points before the start of the second half!
The Hawks scored 13 points in the second half of the final quarter. Although the Lakers chased them by 8 points, the Hawks still maintained a lead of more than 5 points when the whistle sounded at the end of the game!
After the Lakers committed a tactical foul, Fisher missed the key shot when he was 6 points behind. There were 9 seconds left, and the Lakers did not commit a tactical foul. If Fisher had made the key open three-pointer, there would still be a little hope. However, Fisher had just returned to the Lakers today, and he went from playing the Warriors' sixth man for 25 or 6 minutes per game to playing the entire game. It was really too tiring.
After Fisher missed the last shot, Liu Mang, who grabbed the 15th rebound of the game, stopped playing and used up the last 9 seconds!
In the end, with Liu Mang's 33 points, 15 rebounds, 13 assists, 11 blocks, 6 steals and 8 turnovers, and McGrady's 25 points and Jason Terry's 24 points, the Hawks' three eagles scored 82 points in total. The Hawks beat the Lakers away with a score of 97 to 91, keeping the lead until the end!
After the game, the Hawks players surrounded Liu Mang and went to be interviewed together to show their faces.
Kobe and Yao Ming were next to each other, warming each other up.
In this game, they lost and were abused by Liu Mang, but their relationship became better.
I don't know if it's a good thing for Kobe and Yao Ming. After this game, their relationship has taken a step further.
It's easier to find resonance when you suffer together than when you are rich together...
Yao Ming made 7 of 15 shots, 6 of 6 free throws, 20 points, 12 rebounds, 2 of 4 blocks, and 5 fouls.
If the Hawks hadn't scored half a quarter in the first half of the fourth quarter and the Lakers hadn't scored half a quarter in the second half, and both teams had raised their scores to more than 90 points, Yao Ming's performance could be said to be phenomenal, and he single-handedly blew up the entire Hawks' inside line.
Kobe scored 52 points. When the Lakers only scored 61 points in the first three quarters, Kobe scored 33 points in the first three quarters, supporting the team's offense.
But they lost, and the fans and the media saw their poor performance.
For example, Yao Ming committed too many fouls, and the most important thing was that Kobe broke the record today!
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After Liu Mang finished the interview and boasted with his teammates, he went to the box with his father, two girls and bodyguards, took his family to the lounge of the Staples Center, and then returned to the locker room. While doing physical therapy, he admired his own data.
His teammates were still interviewing outside the locker room, so Liu Mang didn't compete for the limelight. He just played the data himself and let his teammates enjoy the joy of being interviewed.
Looking at his own data, 33+15+13+11+6... only 8 turnovers are a bit eye-catching.
However, this is definitely one of the two best data in the history of the Hawks. The other is naturally Liu Mang's 90 points.
However, Liu Mang's eyes immediately fell on another set of data. There is an even more eye-catching data in the opponent's data!
16 of 47 shots, 8 of 17 three-pointers, 12 of 16 free throws, a total of 52 points.
Liu Mang started thinking about winning the game from the second half, guarding the inside line, and building a no-fly zone with two inside players. Unexpectedly, Kobe threw 47 times!
In this game, Liu Mang's feeling about Kobe is that in the first three quarters, whenever he wanted to lead the team to open up the score, Kobe would either cause a foul or make a shot.
Unexpectedly, he shot so much!
52 points with 16 of 47 shots!
Liu Mang remembered that Kobe scored 80 points with only 40 shots!
Kobe broke his own record of 30 misses in a single game, which was 17 of 47 shots, and improved to 31 times, which was difficult for Liu Mang to reach!
Liu Mang looked at himself, 11 of 33 shots, and 22 misses, which was scary enough.
But the 31 misses in front of him, the number of misses was almost catching up with Liu Mang's number of shots!
Liu Mang said that he could not break this record...
"Wait..."
Liu Mang calculated, 16 divided by 47, 11 divided by 33...
Liu Mang was horrified to find that Kobe's hit rate was even higher than his!
When Liu Mang opened the system to see how much rogue value had increased, and whether there was a chance to break 100 million, he saw something even more terrifying.
"The encounter between the mission and the drug-taking combination, goal 1: defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in the New Year's game, has been achieved, congratulations to the host for obtaining the feature: Giant Founder. Mission goal 2: Limit Kobe's score to less than his average score so far, 52/36, mission failed..."