Chapter 1162 1161. Crazy Ironmaking
After Odom grabbed the rebound, he retreated to the fast break. The Hawks quickly retreated. McGrady was very aware and pressed Odom to block him near the center circle, forcing Odom to slow down and change direction. He was almost rushed by the fast break combination of Odom and Kobe.
Odom's body is taller than Josh Smith and James, and he is very powerful when he rushes.
Odom controlled the ball well in the face of McGrady's defense and waited for his teammates to get into position.
Liu Mang followed Kobe who was fast, and Prince blocked Luke Walton, who averaged 1.2 three-pointers and had a 37% hit rate after Fisher returned to the Lakers this season. Rasheed Wallace was close to Yao Ming who entered the basket and went around to defend. McGrady did a good job of defending Odom's breakthrough space. At this time, Odom found a mismatch!
Odom passed the ball to Fisher, and Fisher singled out Kwame Brown!
The guild chairman was very confident and broke through after receiving the ball!
Kwame Brown was very focused, and he actually blocked Fisher's breakthrough. His footwork speed and excellent awareness of timely physical contact blocked Fisher in the middle distance.
Fisher never lacked confidence. He did not pass Kwame Brown, but directly faced Kwame Brown and made a fadeaway jump shot...
Fisher's cannon shot avoided Kwame Brown's blocking hand, but was only two or three centimeters away, and Fisher dodged it.
It was difficult to judge whether this cannon shot would go in or not, Yao Ming was already fighting with Rasheed Wallace.
Fisher's shot was very beautiful, but it was a pity that it didn't go in!
It was difficult to distinguish the cannon shot when it fell from the air, and it bounced very high when it hit the basket. Yao Ming had played in Los Angeles for almost a season, and it had formed a natural reaction. He occupied a favorable space under the basket and grabbed the offensive rebound!
Rasheed Wallace tried his best to interfere with Yao Ming's second attack. Yao Ming pushed Rasheed Wallace away and jumped to dunk!
Just as Yao Ming pushed Rasheed Wallace away and jumped to throw the ball into the basket, a familiar slap hit the ball raised in Yao Ming's right hand!
This hand is about the same size as an ordinary center. It is not Kwame Brown, but Liu Mang who retreated into the inside line immediately after Fisher shot but did not grab the rebound!
When Yao Ming dunked the ball, Liu Mang flew up, and the feature: Giant Killer was triggered. Liu Mang just had the opportunity to jump and reach the ball. He accurately captured Yao Ming's dunk route and slapped Yao Ming's dunk with his right hand!
The ball was slapped by Liu Mang to the basket and bounced onto Yao Ming's shoulder, and was knocked out of bounds by Yao Ming!
Yao Ming was scared this time!
Still coming?
He seemed to see the nightmare when Liu Mang got 10+ blocks last time!
The biggest difference between Yao Ming and O'Neal in singles under the basket is that O'Neal has stronger explosive power and can directly jump up and dunk, while Yao Ming is a little worse and needs to exert force, and Liu Mang caught the right time!
The game was only played for more than a minute, and the fans at the scene were going crazy! They didn't see Liu Mang's quadruple-double last time. At the beginning of this home game, Liu Mang gave the opponent a big block! And it was Yao Ming!
Both teams started with two shots and zero!
The Lakers are very afraid of Liu Mang's blocks. Liu Mang has now increased his average blocks per game to 1.1. Putting aside Liu Mang's average of 0.5 blocks per game in the first two months of the season, Liu Mang has averaged 1.7 blocks per game since January. In addition to Liu Mang's excellent mobility, just from the three-second zone defense ability of outside players, he is second only to Kirilenko and Jason Kidd in the league's outside players. In terms of the success rate of three-second zone defense for outside players, Liu Mang is better than Wade and Iguodala!
Liu Mang shook his hands after blocking the shot. Yao Ming had just put all his strength into the dunk after knocking away Rasheed Wallace. The force was so strong that he slapped him and felt his hand numb.
Fortunately, the Lakers had experienced Liu Mang's quadruple-double, so Yao Ming was mentally prepared and quickly suppressed his anxiety and continued to play positional defense.
Liu Mang shook his hands and shook hands with Rasheed Wallace. Rasheed Wallace stepped out of bounds, received the ball handed to him by the referee, and passed it to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang pushed forward to the frontcourt, and the Lakers' positional defense formation was already in place.
Liu Mang reached the three-point line, and Kobe did not rush in. Liu Mang observed the opponent's defense formation.
Liu Mang had to admit that in addition to the ability to reconcile superstar conflicts and the illusory triangle offense, the Zen Master's defense was really amazing! Just replacing Smush Parker, whose defense is equal to zero, with Fisher, who is barely at an average level now, the Lakers' defense actually feels airtight. Thinking of Fisher becoming a black hole in the future, when the Lakers won two consecutive championships in the original time and space, they were still the top three defensive teams in the league. This is really amazing.
Seeing that Luke Walton mainly defended McGrady's pull-up three-pointers and mid-range jumpers in the last round, and Yao Ming, a center who has strong dominance in the three-second zone when he is physically fit, was helping to defend under the basket, Liu Mang did not continue to give the ball to McGrady, but asked McGrady to pick and roll.
McGrady came over to block Kobe, and Liu Mang broke through with the pick and roll!
"Ding... Pick and roll master triggered, host's speed +8 in two seconds of this attack..."
The Lakers switched defense quickly, and Luke Walton was ready to switch defense when McGrady went to pick and roll.
But when Smush Parker was replaced by Fisher, Luke Walton's defense, which didn't seem that bad, was infinitely magnified. He became a black hole in the Zen Master's defense system, that is, Fisher's black hole identity in the original time and space fell to Luke Walton.
Luke Walton knew how to defend, but his body didn't obey!
But Luke Walton tried his best to interfere with Liu Mang's possible pull-up jump shot. Liu Mang broke through to the right side of the three-second zone. Yao Ming had already pressed up in advance and was dunked by Liu Mang many times. Yao Ming didn't give Liu Mang space to jump under the basket.
Luke Walton couldn't keep up with the players who broke through, but his awareness was amazing. After Yao Ming pressed up, Luke Walton followed Liu Mang into the inside and went directly around Kwame Brown.
Liu Mang rushed to the right side of the three-second zone and stopped, but didn't stop moving. He grabbed the ball and stretched his hand towards the baseline to lick the basket...
Yao Ming quickly jumped to the left and stretched out his hand to block the shot, but! Liu Mang's feet did not leave the ground, and he retracted his outstretched hands. With his left foot as the axis, he turned right and both feet left the ground at the same time, and jumped up for a layup!
Beautiful dream footwork!
Just as Liu Mang jumped up and lifted the ball to the basket with his right hand, he felt a sense of danger. He temporarily switched the ball to his left hand in the air. Sure enough, a black arm stretched out, and Odom blocked it!
Although Liu Mang avoided the block, he changed his hands too hastily to make a layup, and the ball hit the neck of the basket. Odom jumped again and grabbed the defensive rebound!
Liu Mang saw Odom grab the rebound and then slowly pushed forward, and quickly retreated.
Liu Mang's sense of crisis was not because he had eyes behind him, but because he heard the system prompt!
"Lamar Odom has entered a state of concentration, and his ability rating is 95..."
Odom was neither holding the ball nor a defender. The system suddenly prompted him that Odom was serious, and Liu Mang certainly knew what happened.
Liu Mang saw Kobe's ability rating of 100, Yao Ming's ability rating of 94, Odom's ability rating of 95... Why is this uncle-in-law of the Kardashian family so excited?
Odom's scoring ability is not top-notch, and it is difficult for him to score 40+ points even if he plays seriously, but his other abilities, whether it is organizing offense, rebounding, or defense, are top-notch, very comprehensive, and all-round. He is not the kind of person who can do everything and is not proficient in anything. He is a genius like Magic Johnson, who can be a top star or even a superstar if he really wants to play any position, provided that... he can always stay focused.
Liu Mang has always felt that if we only consider physical talent and learning talent, Odom is like James and McGrady combined, a 2.08-meter-tall point guard with a true center body, who looks more exaggerated than Magic Johnson. This season, he averaged 13.3 points, 10.6 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1 steal and 1.1 blocks per game, and only 2.5 turnovers, which seems exaggerated for a power forward with his style of play, while Yao Ming averaged 3 turnovers per game. Odom has a new girlfriend this season, and he plays more seriously. If the Lakers' record before the All-Star Weekend was not so different from that of the Spurs, Odom might have replaced Parker or Ginobili in the All-Star Game.
If Odom can continue to focus, and Yao Ming, who is still five months away from turning 26, reaches his peak one or two years older, plus Kobe, who is now at his peak, this core trio is simply invincible.
However, there is no such perfect thing in this world. Yao Ming is two years younger than Kobe, and their peak times are staggered. Odom is absent-minded in 9:30 of the ten games, so the Lakers basically can't see the peak of this trio together.
Odom pushed forward to the frontcourt. This time the Hawks' defensive formation was set. Kwame Brown went to defend Odom, and Rasheed Wallace went around Yao Ming.
The Hawks' strongest perimeter defense trio in the league did a good job of defending Kobe, Fisher, and Luke Walton. Odom saw that his teammates had no chance and prepared to play alone.
Kwame Brown did a really good job of "big defending small" today. Kwame Brown was a little frustrated today. The Hawks coaching staff didn't let him defend Yao Ming. Rasheed Wallace did a better job of going around and helping defend under the basket. Kwame Brown was used to defend the power forward.
I have to say that this change was done correctly. Helping Kwame Brown was average, but single defense and defending Odom's singles were all OK!
Odom was afraid of Liu Mang's excellent defensive ability to shrink under the basket, so he chose to make a quick stop jump shot from the free throw line!
Kwame Brown interfered well, Odom missed the mid-range shot, and Liu Mang did let go of Fisher and shrunk to the inside, first jumping up and throwing himself into the air, relying on Yao Ming not daring to push him down in the air, and grabbed the defensive rebound!
Both teams started the game with crazy iron shots!