Chapter 1192 1191. The Whole World Supports James

For several years, Liu Mang felt that the most special thing about Kidd was that the system gave him this characteristic of a genius when evaluating his ability.

Unless Kidd is given a head coach like Coach Carlisle or Coach Popovich, no matter what role Kidd plays in the team, the team will become a team that plays like Kidd.

However, Kidd is not a real head coach after all. In today's game between the Nets and the Heat, Kidd did use Carter, a top star who could not defend in his peak period and was good at shooting, to create some trouble for the Heat.

But Kidd's big brother Payton still taught him like a younger brother. Kidd took advantage of O'Neal's foul to stop the dunk by others, and used Carter as a bomb to hit O'Neal, which did put O'Neal into a foul crisis early, causing the Heat to panic for a while, especially in the third quarter, when O'Neal fouled out after playing for only a few minutes.

Without O'Neal, Ratliff played a year in the regular season, and his defense began to show its strength in the playoffs, which greatly curbed the Heat's offense. At the end of the third quarter, the Nets felt like they were going to win, and entered the intermission with a 6-point lead of 67 to 61.

But Pat Riley was regarded as the Godfather, not just a nickname. He quickly figured out Kidd's organizational routine, and let Payton, Wade, and Posey, three defensive stalwarts, and Haslem and Mark Jackson in the interior, lock down the three-pointer and the basket, and Kidd's good at supporting the two-wing attack was curbed.

In turn, Pat Riley's stroke of genius usually let Payton sit in the low post to play Kidd, taking advantage of the defect of Kidd's lack of low-post defense that Liu Mang once exposed. Now the Nets have lost Richard Jefferson, and they can't defend Payton in the low post.

The Heat relied on Wade's 29 points and 9 assists and Payton's 21 points, and the Heat led the Nets 91-85. In the last quarter, without O'Neal, the Heat limited the Nets to only 18 points.

In the last quarter, the Heat scored 30 points, 12 of which were scored by Payton in the low post, giving Wade and Haslem a lot of mid-range shooting opportunities, and reversed the Nets in the last quarter.

However, although Kidd really has many problems as a head coach, that is only when facing an old hand like Pat Riley. In the eyes of Liu Mang and Mike Woodson, it is already amazing. Except for the last quarter, Kidd's strategy in the first three quarters was even better than that of the Heat.

It's a pity that the head coach of the Nets, Lawrence Frank, is just a decoration. If he can provide Kidd with some on-the-spot tactics, the result may be different. But before meeting Kidd, Lawrence Frank had never been a head coach and had only three years of assistant coach experience. He was just a puppet. James' Mike Brown was better than him.

After watching two games with different styles, the Hawks have a clearer understanding of the strength of the Heat and the Lakers.

For Liu Mang and Mike Woodson, the latter game is more interesting, but the previous game between the Lakers and the Suns gave them new ideas for the defensive strategy they planned against the Cavaliers.

Coach Kruger and other players of the Hawks saw Liu Mang and Mike Woodson, two sinister people, laughing so strangely and discussing something. Coach Kruger believes that as long as it is an effective tactic, it is a good tactic, while others are mourning for tomorrow's opponent.

The regular season is still a temporary solution. When it comes to the playoffs, the crown prince who is proud of the first round must feel what the real playoffs are!

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The Lakers’ game of limiting the Suns made the fans feel very painful; the game between the Nets and the Heat made people feel the power of Pat Riley.

But these two series were obviously not so popular, and the limelight of the duel between Wade and Carter was stolen by Kidd and Payton.

And the duel between Wade and Carter was not as attractive as the next two series.

On May 8, two major series came.

The Spurs played against the Mavericks, and the three horses led by the Spurs played against the Mavericks led by Nowitzki.

The Hawks played against the Cavaliers, and Liu Mang and James finally faced off against the most talented young generation of stars.

The league has been promoting the competition between Liu Mang and James for the future No. 1 for two years. Finally, when James was in his third year, he successfully made it to the playoffs and the second round, and played against Liu Mang in the playoffs.

Since the Cavaliers advanced to the second round on the evening of the 6th, the battle between Liu Mang and James has been very hot.

On the day of the game, most of the news was predicting the game between the Hawks and the Cavaliers, which was even more popular than the series between the Lakers and the Mavericks.

The public opinion on the Internet generally tended to support James. In the largest basketball forum in the United States, the most lit posts were those supporting James.

"I support James. His physical talent and ability to use his body are rare in history, so I think Liu will win."

"LeBron has made great progress this year. From the beginning, he could only rely on walking, but now he can shoot three-pointers very well, and his shooting percentage under the basket has also been greatly improved, so I bought the Hawks for 1,000 yuan to advance."

"The Cavaliers have a bright future. I think the Hawks can win..."

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James held his laptop, connected to the broadband in the lounge of the Phillips Arena, and looked at the one-sided votes and the one-sided public opinion on the Internet. He didn't know whether these fans liked him or wanted to black him.

Anyway, looking at the number of votes, a total of more than 7,300 people supported him, and only more than 1,500 people supported Liu Mang.

But the replies looked completely different from the voting results.

James has been waiting for this day for a long time, to play against Liu Mang in the playoffs.

Wanting to defeat Liu Mang, especially in the playoffs, has become James's obsession.

Unlike Bosh, who gave up the idea of ​​leading the team to defeat Liu Mang after being beaten for two consecutive years, the idea of ​​defeating Liu Mang has been lingering in James' mind. The longer the time, the more he wants to defeat Liu Mang.

Finally, in the third year of his career, James made it to the playoffs, and defeated Iverson in the second round despite being unpopular, and finally got to play against Liu Mang.

But on the afternoon of the game, he was a little confused, and then he read the news online and browsed the forums, hoping to find some news to motivate himself.

For example, the whole world did not support him to win, and everyone attacked his technical flaws, etc.

But unexpectedly, when he played against Iverson in the first round, the Internet was full of attacks on his poor skills, no mid-range shots, and not being Iverson's opponent, etc.

But when it came to playing against Liu Mang, 80% of the fans supported him, encouraged him, and expected him to beat Liu Mang.

This made James feel strange. Although he was encouraged, he felt very awkward.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, there were only two hours left before the start of the first game of the series between the Hawks and the Cavaliers. After surfing the Internet for two hours with broadband, James put away the mentality that became more and more awkward and came to the training ground to warm up.

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Liu Mang had tactical training with his teammates in the morning. Coach Kruger held a team meeting again to emphasize tactics and discipline, and then took a break in the afternoon.

After lunch, Liu Mang went home and took the three girls, his parents, two children, bodyguards, servants, etc. to the stadium. After sending them to the box to rest, he returned to the lounge to rest for a while and accepted the pre-match interview of Chaoting TV.

The game between the Hawks and the Cavaliers started at 5:30 pm. Liu Mang mourned for his compatriots who got up at 6:30 in the morning to watch the game.

Compared with the Spurs and Mavericks, which started at 10:30 in the morning in China, which was just right for lunch, the Hawks were in the East and had to start the game early.

However, the highlight of Chaoting TV was naturally the Hawks game. Although the Spurs and Mavericks game was played at noon in China, it was not certain that many people watched it. The Spurs beat the Jazz in the first round, and the game was too ugly.

Since advancing on May 1, Liu Mang has been waiting for seven days!

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After the warm-up, at 5:10, Liu Mang and his teammates came to the player channel together. There were still 20 minutes before the game started.

During the entrance ceremony, the Cavaliers players rarely received boos every time they came to play at the Hawks' home court, because... every time they came, the Hawks' win number would be +1...

After James entered the court, he felt very strange listening to the cheers of the fans on the scene, just like the feeling of overwhelming support for him online.

James suppressed that strangeness, he knew that only by playing well, the fans would truly support him.

Otherwise... he would just be a lonely dancer...

After Liu Mang came on the court, he went up and hugged James. Although James still didn't know the truth of the matter, Liu Mang had already regarded James as one of his successors in the "Dancing Forest".

Because of the appearance of James and Prince, the number of clicks on Liu Mang's square dance and pole dance videos dropped significantly, and Liu Mang was very grateful to them.

After saying hello, Liu Mang looked at the situation of the Cavaliers players after entering the playoffs.

James, 93 ability rating; Larry Hughes, 87 ability rating; Big Z, 86 ability rating, a top star with a defensive forward-guard swingman, and a 2.21-meter giant center with excellent mid-range shooting, and a lineup of role players that was assembled at a high price. Liu Mang felt that Iverson's loss to James was not unfair. The Cavaliers' salary is 10 million higher than that of the 76ers, and they still have more than 72 million salary after enjoying the rookie bonus of James and Gooden, which is almost catching up with their Hawks.

Liu Mang observed the Cavaliers and returned to his own half to practice shooting.

The game is about to start. Liu Mang is very excited now. In his eyes, James is just an experience baby. Kill him and then kill Wade, and the second talent skill will come!

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