Chapter 1104 1103. This World Is so Unfair!
Liu Mang played relatively relaxed in the previous rounds, but suddenly he became so sharp that the Raptors players felt their anuses tighten!
There was no way to stop him!
Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell called a timeout!
Seeing the players return to the bench, Sam Mitchell pushed his glasses and drew on the tactical board. He saw that the Hawks were specifically passing the ball to Kwame Brown, and he had some ideas.
On the Hawks side, Liu Mang returned to the bench and took the tactical board from Mike Woodson in a flash, and then began to arrange tactics for Kwame Brown, first replacing Horry with Iguodala. McGrady's cut-in pass just now was very good. Liu Mang now has three cut-in players: McGrady, Iguodala, and Josh Smith.
Coach Kruger also saw what the players wanted to do. He wanted to remind them not to play around, but now he couldn't stop them...
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After the timeout, the Hawks sent out Liu Mang, McGrady, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown's extreme physical lineup.
The Raptors did not make any substitutions. Their starting lineup was the strongest lineup. They only played for 3 minutes and did not need to make any substitutions.
Kwame Brown walked to the free throw line and received the ball passed by the referee. Kwame Brown tried hard to adjust, patted a few times, picked up the ball, and was going to take a free throw!
Liu Mang and Josh Smith stood in the crowd to grab rebounds.
In order to fight for the ball as much as possible, Liu Mang and Villanueva, who was more than ten centimeters taller than him, were pushing each other.
Villanueva didn't expect Liu Mang to be so strong!
As a power forward, Villanueva has weight, but he is a player who plays with a floating style. His strength of 84 is comparable to Nowitzki, but he couldn't stop Liu Mang!
Kwame Brown's free throw hit the basket, Liu Mang struggled to squeeze into the basket, jumped high... The ball hit the basket and bounced a few times before falling in.
This guy, 2+1 actually made the free throw!
Liu Mang felt like he was jumping and squeezing like a monkey for a long time, and he actually made the free throw! Isn't it usually the best to make a shot and miss the free throw!
Liu Mang complained in his heart and quickly retreated, 9 to 4, leading by 5 points!
Liu Mang retreated to the three-point line and waited for Mike James to advance. Liu Mang found that Mike James did not pass the ball to Milicic immediately, but waited for his teammates to run.
The Raptors' offense has changed. They no longer give Milicic a singles. The Hawks' fast rotation defense is very fast. Milicic is good at organizing the offense, but as a center, his passing speed is not fast. He can't deal with the Hawks' fast rotation and double-teaming, just like the Heat's difficulty against the Mavericks and the Bulls.
So Mike James started to attack with the ball.
Liu Mang waited patiently at the top of the arc. Mike James had good ball control and strong shooting ability. Liu Mang was cautious and alert.
Mike James waited for two or three seconds and started to move, moving to the right. Liu Mang immediately moved sideways. Sure enough, he was blocked!
Milicic's pick-and-roll!
Liu Mang turned around and prepared to go directly behind Milicic to block Mike James' breakthrough. If Mike James could make a three-pointer after the pick-and-roll, he would be awesome.
However, after blocking Liu Mang, Milicic stretched out his hand to make a cut-in move to get the ball, and then pushed Liu Mang, who was around the pick-and-roll, to go inside.
This little trick, a Garnett-style mobile pick-and-roll!
Kwame Brown was embarrassed at this time and chose to block Mike James. Mike James passed the ball to Milicic, who was squeezing Liu Mang one step inside the free throw line. Milicic raised the ball to hook!
Liu Mang was so angry!
What did this guy think of him! He dragged him to the free throw line!
Liu Mang pushed forward angrily, jumped up as hard as he could, and blocked Milicic. Josh Smith also blocked him.
"Ding... Hotpot Feast Level 5 trigger, Glove Level 1 trigger, this time Dako Milicic shoots the ball, the host must touch the ball."
Liu Mang's hand, which was originally a little crooked, moved a little to the left, just covering Milicic's shooting line. Milicic had already grabbed the ball and raised it. If he didn't shoot it and landed, it would be a traveling!
But!
What is aura!
I'm talking about Milicic!
Milicic was startled by Liu Mang's pushing and the hand that blocked him, but he responded in the air, exerted force on his fingertips, and pushed the ball down. The ball flew from Josh Smith's outstretched left arm to the bottom line. Villanueva received the ball, turned around and shot the ball to get two points!
This is all right!
Liu Mang was speechless when he saw Milicic's excitement after landing!
Speaking of talent, especially technical talent, except for Eddy Curry, Liu Mang can't see any young inside player who can be better than Milicic.
Kwame Brown has better defensive and physical talents, but Milicic is really an all-rounder!
Liu Mang couldn't figure it out. This year, so many teams are scrambling for Bargnani. How could the Pistons in the original time and space watch Milicic being wasted? There must be a lot of teams scrambling for him to trade for draft picks!
"I can score and assist myself!" Milicic yelled at Kwame Brown.
This ball was really beautiful, and Kwame Brown had nothing to say back, so he ran to the frontcourt. When Liu Mang received the serve from Josh Smith, he saw that Kwame Brown didn't continue to say back, and felt that Kwame Brown was quite self-aware. The two years with the Wizards wiped out all his arrogance as the first high school No. 1 pick in history.
Liu Mang pushed forward to the front court and was about to call Kwame Brown out for a pick-and-roll. He estimated that the opponent would definitely double-team him strictly.
But he didn't expect that the opponent had no intention of double-teaming him. Liu Mang saw that the other Raptors were all around to prevent Liu Mang from passing the ball!
Liu Mang faced Jaylen Rose and took the initiative to lean on him with his left shoulder. Jaylen Rose defended very seriously and tried his best to make physical contact with Liu Mang. Liu Mang suddenly swung the ball to the right, turned quickly, and passed Jaylen Rose!
Breaking into the inside from the left side of the top arc!
Jaylen Rose was passed cleanly and rushed forward directly, almost falling to the ground. Liu Mang rushed to the middle distance and stopped suddenly!
I thought Milicic would defend, or Mike James, who was defending Iguodala's cutting in from the baseline, would double-team him, but who knew that only Jaylen Rose would catch up. This is...
Liu Mang took off and made a mid-range jump shot without any defense!
Liu Mang was surprised! Did the opponent think he couldn't score or what?
The Raptors were also a little confused. Their head coach had just arranged the defense against Liu Mang passing the ball to the center, and they believed that Liu Mang would definitely choose to pass the ball to Kwame Brown first.
The key to the Raptors head coach's confidence in arranging such a tactic was that Liu Mang had just jumped out of the baseline to be passed by Kwame Brown.
The Raptors players also believed it, thinking that Milicic had just played a good ball, and Liu Mang would definitely help Kwame Brown regain his face.
Unexpectedly, Liu Mang shot the mid-range shot like that!
Liu Mang was even more shocked, the opponent actually let him go!
11 to 6, the Hawks continued to lead by 5 points.
The Raptors' offense still used Milicic as the axis, Mike James used his scoring threat as the ball holder, Milicic played a pick-and-roll and passed the ball to Jaylen Rose who cut in, Jaylen Rose received the ball at the baseline and made a jump shot, but it didn't go in.
However, Milicic seemed to have a big explosion in rebounding today. After passing the ball, he squeezed into the inside, judged the landing point of the rebound, grabbed the offensive rebound and tipped in two points.
6 points and 1 assist, compared with Kwame Brown's 9 points, from the system's judgment that 1 assist is equivalent to two points, Milicic is about to catch up with Kwame Brown's score!
It's quite troublesome. Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt and was thinking about how to break the Raptors' defense against Kwame Brown, but just after reaching the opponent's three-point line, he saw that the opponent's defense returned to normal!
After defending the ball just now, Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell felt that his IQ seemed to have been eaten by a dog.
Liu Mang is not Kidd a few years ago, and he is not the opponent in the finals when he was an assistant coach for the Spurs in the 02-03 season. Liu Mang can shoot. Just now, he used the defense he proposed to cut off the connection between Kidd and Kenyon Martin. It was relatively successful in the finals, but it seems that his IQ is a bit problematic to use it against the Hawks at this time.
Liu Mang was a little confused by the Raptors, but seeing that the opponent was about to start double teaming again, then, it was time to feed the ball!
Little Kwame! Get ready to die!
Liu Mang's tactics started!
Liu Mang started the pick-and-roll with Kwame Brown. If Milicic came to double team directly, and Kwame Brown cut in quickly after the pick-and-roll, Liu Mang would pass directly to Kwame Brown.
If Milicic chose to retreat to the basket after the pick-and-roll, and any one of McGrady, Iguodala, and Josh Smith double teamed Liu Mang when their defensive target was cutting, Liu Mang would pass the ball to the open ball-handler who cut in, and the second ball-handler would rush to the basket, attract the double team and pass the ball to Kwame Brown.
Milicic tried hard to play pick-and-roll, cooperate with his teammates, and find scoring opportunities. He finally got two points or passed a good ball to his teammates. The Hawks relied on their much stronger overall strength to easily feed Kwame Brown a ball.
If Milicic doesn't block the cut-in player, or the Raptors shrink collectively, the former cut-in player directly attacks the basket without hesitation, and the latter Liu Mang pulls out from the three-point line to shoot.
Facing the Raptors, who are just beginning to rise and have not yet reached the stage where people expect a super center to lead the team to become a championship-level team, the Eagles' extreme physical lineup advantage is obvious!
Milicic feels so unfair!
He played so hard, scoring 20 points in a game. There is still more than a minute left in the first quarter today. He has already scored 12 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, and got the usual half-time data, but Kwame Brown ate the cake so easily, and he vomited when eating the cake. There were two times when he received the ball and dropped it out of bounds. Even so, before the first quarter was over, Kwame Brown had already scored 15 points with 7 of 9 shots! In addition, he made 1 of 3 free throws!
The key is that Kwame Brown only had 1 rebound, and even the rebound was grabbed by Liu Mang!
Liu Mang made 3 of 4 shots, 2 of 3 three-pointers, and got 8 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists!
The Hawks temporarily led the Raptors by 4 points, 28 to 24.
It was the Raptors' turn to attack again. After the Raptors came up with a tactical plan, Mike James got a chance to shoot from the top arc, and the three-pointer... missed!
Liu Mang threw himself into the air, and when Kwame Brown was pulled out to defend Milicic who was shooting from mid-range and long-range, he grabbed the defensive rebound over Villanueva's head and got the fourth rebound.
During the transition between offense and defense, the Raptors retreated quickly. After Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, he continued to play pick-and-roll with Kwame Brown. Milicic decisively received the basket this time, and McGrady's defender Peterson came over to flank Liu Mang. Liu Mang passed the ball to McGrady, who cut into the mid-range and rushed to the basket. Milicic, who was under the basket, was carrying Kwame Brown on the arc of the reasonable collision area and refused to let go of Kwame Brown no matter what. , at this time McGrady decisively chose to do it himself, took off in one step from the free throw line, flew into the inside, and smashed the ball into the basket through Milicic!
Even Milicic, who averages 2.6 blocks per game, currently has the highest average of blocks per game for a center, but it's useless because he was dunked by Tracy McGrady!
Not only that, when Milicic was dunked by McGrady, he subconsciously raised his arm and hit McGrady's stomach. The referee's whistle sounded and Milicic committed a pushing foul!
Third offense!
Milicic had already received two fouls on Kwame Brown. He received the second foul with more than two minutes left in the first quarter. Coach Sam Mitchell felt that time was running out. Let Milicic hold on for a while, but he didn't expect to commit three fouls now!
Seeing McGrady's playful eyes as he rubbed his belly after landing, Milicic felt why the world was so unfair!
Milicic looked at Kwame Brown and wondered why this guy who was not as good as him in rebounding had so many teammates helping him! And he is a group of teammates who point to him to organize offense and score points!
Originally, Milicic was not so dissatisfied with his teammates, but now he is very dissatisfied!
He was secretly glad that he asked Liu Mang about the contract and signed a 3+1 early contract extension...
After Madiga made a free throw to turn the score into 31-24, the Raptors missed a long three-pointer on their final attack. Milicic looked at the excited Kwame Brown and helped Kwame Brown with pointers. This time Liu Mang's timing was not good enough, Milicic's resentment became deeper and deeper: Why is it always me who gets hurt!
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In the second quarter, Milicic was put on the bench. Coach Sam Mitchell did not dare to replace Milicic for a while. If another foul was committed, it would be over!
Without the restrictions of Milicic and the defense supported by Milicic, the Raptors replaced Matt Bonner, a pitcher-type inside, and the Raptors' inside defense immediately turned into a cash machine.
After Jason Terry came on the court, he was also very interested in helping Kwame Brown score points. The rotation of Calderon, Jason Terry, Korver, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown came up.
Kwame Brown started a gluttonous feast where you can eat and vomit as much as you want!
Kwame Brown scored directly from various catches. After scoring 15 points in the first quarter, Kwame Brown scored 13 points in the second quarter.
The Hawks are not just thinking about passing the ball to Kwame Brown, but Kwame Brown, the scoring leader, has become a weapon to contain the opponent's defense. The Raptors all know that once Kwame Brown is empty , so many players in the Eagles who can hold the ball and pass the ball will definitely pass it to Kwame Brown, so they dare not let go of Kwame Brown easily, and then the rest of the Eagles start to score.
When the rest of the Hawks started to score consecutively, the Raptors had to let go of Kwame Brown to double attack. Especially in the second half of the second quarter, when Liu Mang paired up with Jason Terry and McGrady, the Hawks The offense was even more violent. Milicic was away and without a powerful defender in the three-second zone. The Eagles scored 37 points in the second quarter!
Kwame Brown's 13 points was a lot, but others scored 24 points!
However, the Eagles' lineup defense was slightly worse in the second quarter, and the Raptors scored 31 points.
But even so, the Eagles turned the score into 68-55, leading by 13 points!
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The 13-point difference was not big. In the third quarter, the Raptors replaced Milicic after he took a rest due to a foul crisis.
The Eagles naturally replaced the three starting starters Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, and Kwame Brown, and Korver and David Lee stepped up as pitchers to open up space.
Kwame Brown has scored 28 points at halftime, and the Eagles are ready to harvest the game.
But the Raptors didn't give up so easily!
Back from the intermission, the Raptors took the lead. After Milicic reached the frontcourt, he leaned on Kwame Brown in the high post to receive the ball. He turned beautifully and passed Kwame Brown before cutting towards the basket.
Kwame Brown reacted quickly and quickly caught up. Milicic turned around and made a breakthrough throw... His arm was hit by Kwame Brown who was defending, but the ball still went in!
Milicic hit Kwame Brown with a 2+1!
However... at this time, one of the NBA's biggest unsolved mysteries: why Duncan, Tracy McGrady, and Milicic are so accurate in mid-range free throws are here again!
Milicic missed the penalty!
Milicic came up and scored, and Kwame Brown began to enjoy the "services" of Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady again!
Feed the cake to your mouth!
Kwame Brown continues to score points!
In the third quarter, Kwame Brown scored 13 points, and the Eagles scored 26 points in the third quarter. At the end of the three quarters, the Eagles led 94 to 79, leading by 15 points. Kwame Brown scored 41 points and 5 rebounds. 2 blocks and 3 fouls!
Milicic scored 23 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in the three quarters. He has tried his best!
Milicic feels even more crazy about Kwame Brown's good fortune!
Milicic still wanted to fight in the fourth quarter, but the Raptors still refused to give up. So, the Raptors encountered a tragedy...
In the fourth quarter, Kwame Brown became aggressive. The opponent began to guard him tightly and did not give him a chance to receive the ball. The Hawks began to shoot from the outside. Kwame Brown relied on his courage to fight and grabbed 4 offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter!
In the fourth quarter, Kwame Brown only ate two cakes, but he grabbed 4 offensive rebounds and made three of them, scoring 10 points in a single quarter!
51 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 4 fouls!
Kwame Brown scored 51 points in a single game!
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