Chapter 1130 1129. The Path to Dominance!

It seems that the Heat's offense is continuing with Wade, but Wade's passing has become less and less!

Wade feels that he can suppress his anxiety only by scoring, and he has been scoring. The anxiety is really suppressed. The more he does this, the more he wants to score, and the more comfortable he feels.

On the Hawks side, Prince didn't score on his first shot, but in this kind of wide open space, Prince, who has been working hard to practice open shots, started to score after shooting two more shots.

As long as Prince starts to shoot, the Heat will not dare to keep leaving him open, and Liu Mang will have more choices.

On the Hawks side, seeing that Wade suddenly became stubborn and wanted to score by himself, he took the initiative to lead Wade to the ditch, assisted in cutting off Wade's connection with his teammates, and let Wade shoot more.

Pat Riley did not expect such a situation. His coaching ability ranks among the top in NBA history, but no matter how good the coach is, no matter how good the calculation is, he can't control people's hearts.

At the end of the first quarter, the Hawks led by 7 points, 28 to 21.

Wade scored 9 points in the first quarter, but only had 1 assist.

O'Neal felt something was wrong while playing. Sometimes he had fought hard to get the space to dunk directly, but Wade didn't pass!

O'Neal had several opportunities to dunk directly when Kwame Brown, Rasheed Wallace, Mourning and even David Lee came up to fight. Wade threw them away. Fortunately, O'Neal got the offensive rebound by himself and grabbed some shooting opportunities by himself with his familiar style of play.

And there is a trend that is getting worse and worse. Wade plays harder when he can score a goal or cause a foul after two or three shots.

It seems that he is working hard, but the effect is average.

It feels like one person can carry a team, but the Heat has so many stars now, and there is also Antoine Walker on the bench. There is no need for one person to carry a team.

Liu Mang felt that Wade was a little crazy. Although he didn't know why, it was a good thing for Liu Mang.

Liu Mang led the team to steadily widen the score gap. The opponent had O'Neal under the basket. The Hawks' lethality under the basket was not that strong, and there were always times when outside shots missed.

The Hawks missed a shot, and Wade immediately missed another shot on the Heat side. Liu Mang had more time to slowly widen the score.

At the end of the first half, Wade, who played the entire first half, made 6 of 14 shots and 8 of 11 free throws in the first half. He scored 20 points and 2 assists in the first half, but the Heat only scored 40 points!

The Heat only scored 19 points in the second quarter!

On the Hawks side, Liu Mang was a little sloppy at the beginning, but suddenly the rhythm became very reasonable later!

The sudden change in play made it difficult for the Heat to defend. Although the Hawks' outside shooting percentage was average today, and they could only make one out of three three-pointers, there was a clear gap with the Hawks' 40% three-point shooting percentage this season.

The Hawks only scored 53 points in the first half, which was much lower than the season average, but the Heat only scored 40 points in the first half, and the Hawks led by 13 points at halftime, 53 to 40!

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At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and McGrady all played, and Josh Smith and Kwame Brown were sent to the inside.

On the Heat side, Pat Riley saw that O'Neal was almost exhausted, so he had to replace him. In the first half, O'Neal played the entire second quarter except for the last two minutes of the first quarter.

There was no way. Once O'Neal went down, rebounds were no longer guaranteed. In the first half of the second quarter, relying on O'Neal's offensive rebounds and Wade's fouls, as well as the Hawks' average touch, the Heat were only 3 points behind at 19-22 in the tenth minute. However, in the last two minutes, the Hawks suddenly played a 6-2 wave, and O'Neal had to hold on in the second quarter.

O'Neal played 22 minutes in the first half, 6 shots and 4 free throws, scoring 12 points and 9 rebounds, which was O'Neal's most ruthless half-time rebounding performance this season.

After the start of the second half, Wade continued his self-consolation style of play. Pat Riley talked about his problems during the halftime break, but he didn't care. He couldn't let himself lose confidence.

Only scoring can make Wade feel a little comforted.

Because he played like that, he scored as many points as Liu Mang in the first half!

Liu Mang only scored 5 points in the first 10 minutes after the first quarter, and only 7 points in the second quarter, but with the 8 points he scored at the beginning, he still scored 20 points in the first half. In addition, Liu Mang had 5 assists in the first half!

And when Jason Terry came on in the second quarter, Liu Mang rested for half a quarter. Jason Terry, Iguodala and Prince held on for half a quarter, and Liu Mang scored 20 points and 5 assists. Liu Mang scored 7 points and 1 assist in more than 5 minutes in the second quarter.

Even the scoring he is best at can't beat Liu Mang. Wade doesn't think about other things for the time being, just to compete with Liu Mang for points!

On the defensive end, Wade took the initiative to call his teammates to double-team Liu Mang.

But Liu Mang didn't compete with Wade. He just passed the ball when he should, and assists were important!

Although he is already 0.2 assists ahead of Nash, Nash also attaches great importance to the assist king this season, and Liu Mang wants to widen the gap a little bit.

Taking advantage of the opponent's crazy, Liu Mang passed the ball more in the third quarter than in the second quarter. When O'Neal was not under the basket, Kwame Brown started to fly and play, cutting in and positioning very excitedly. Kwame Brown helped Liu Mang get 3 assists in the third quarter. Liu Mang got 3 points and 6 assists in a single quarter!

Wade scored 12 points and 3 assists in a single quarter. The Heat played well in the third quarter, scoring 26 points in a single quarter, while the Hawks only scored 28 points in a single quarter. After three quarters, the Hawks led by 15 points, 81 to 66.

The Heat are really strong. Wade dominated the ball. Antoine Walker also scored 10 points in the third quarter, helping the Heat to hold on to the score and not be further pulled away.

But in the fourth quarter, Wade played three quarters like that, and his efficiency began to decline. He could maintain a 40% hit rate before, and continued to have free throws, but in the fourth quarter, his state began to collapse. He made 0 of 4 shots in the first 5 minutes, and only got two points by free throws.

Liu Mang played steadily, passed when he should, and waved when he should. In half a quarter, he got 5 points and 2 assists, helping the Hawks to play a wave of 12 to 6, turning the score to 93 to 72, leading by 21 points!

Pat Riley reluctantly replaced the main players and announced his surrender. He felt that he had to give Wade psychological counseling.

Pat Riley felt that it was not his problem, but Wade's problem. He completely ignored the fact that he had been telling Wade every few days, "This year is our best opportunity in the next few years. If we don't beat Ace, we will waste these few years." "Dwyane, you have to train hard and win hard. We traded back O'Neal just to make you the strongest player of the 03 generation and win the championship first." "Dwyane, Ace got XXX data again..."

The reason why Wade wanted to beat Liu Mang so much was that in addition to the 03 generation never raising their heads in front of Liu Mang, there was also pressure from the surrounding environment.

Although Wade and Liu Mang were in the same company, Schwartz and Wade had a very good relationship and a pleasant cooperation, the one who had more contact with Wade was Pat Riley, the general manager of the team. Now Pat Riley is the general manager and head coach. Wade sees Pat Riley almost every day, and the pressure is getting greater and greater.

After Wade was replaced, he covered his head with a towel. He made 10 of 26 shots and 14 of 18 free throws, scoring 34 points. He finally felt a little better.

However, he felt better because the team was behind by a large margin.

Wade thought of O'Neal's current age and felt that if he could not defeat Liu Mang in the playoffs this season, he might not have a chance to defeat Liu Mang for many years in the future!

Wade felt that he had to fight to the end of his rope!

The two teams played against each other twice in the regular season this season. Wade lost twice, falling behind 0-2. In the next two times, Wade was more uneasy, but he knew that he had to fight harder, because the next two games were in March, and it was hard to say whether O'Neal would play or not!

Wade should not have taken the responsibility for the 03 class's fight with Liu Mang, but Pat Riley kept putting pressure on him. He aggressively gave up Odom and Butler, two All-Star players who represented the future, and traded back O'Neal's peak for two years. He had to bear this pressure.

Because he got the chance to win the championship, which is the chance that all the other players in the top five of the 03 generation dreamed of, except for Bosh who was lucky enough to go to the Pistons.

Wade and Pat Riley, this is a willing fight...

9 of 19 shots, 4 of 9 three-pointers, 6 of 7 free throws, 28 points, 3 rebounds and 13 assists! Liu Mang led the team to easily beat the Heat with a score of 108 to 93, a difference of 15 points.

Liu Mang did not ask about Wade's abnormal performance in this game, he couldn't care so much now.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Liu Mang heard the system prompt, so he couldn't care about Wade.

He couldn't care about Wade in the first place. He said it many times, but Wade was still destroying himself. Liu Mang didn't say it now. It was Wade's own choice. Even Schwartz, the agent, didn't say anything.

Liu Mang was more concerned about the system prompt when the whistle sounded at the end of the game!

"Ding... The first mission goal of the third phase of the King's Landing series of tasks: Pioneer of the Era: 11 consecutive wins have been achieved. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Stephen Curry's Splash Brothers version of the star card."

"Ding... Because the host led the team to surpass the Bulls' lowest loss record of 5 losses before the All-Star Weekend in the 1995-1996 season, the third phase of the King's Landing series of tasks: King's Domination is triggered."

"King's Domination: The host needs to lead the team to surpass the Bulls' historical record of 72 wins in the 1995-1996 season. Mission reward: Michael Jordan's 1995-1996 version of the second peak star card. Failure penalty: deduct 500,000 superstar value."

Liu Mang was very excited to get the Curry star card!

But when he heard the following tasks, he almost vomited blood.

500,000 superstar value!

It's even more "expensive" than Kobe's star card with a superstar value of 300,000!

Liu Mang looked at his 710,000-plus superstar points. He had originally thought that after the regular season, if he won the MVP and assist king honors, plus the 2,000 to 3,000 superstar points accumulated per game in the second half of the season, minus the 600 to 700 superstar points consumed per game, he would probably be able to collect 1 million superstar points to draw attribute fruits at the end of the regular season. If he failed a task, he would lose 500,000!

And it was such a difficult task!

But...

Seeing Jordan's star card... Liu Mang knew why it was so expensive...

"Michael Jordan 1995-1996 version, ability rating 105..."